Torontos Eric McCormack changes things up in Netflix scifi thriller
After the successful run of “Will & Grace,” Eric McCormack could have parlayed his Emmy-winning success into a string of repeats, say, “According to Eric” or even “Eric Can Wait.” But the Canadian actor went against the broadcast-television grain to try out different roles.In his most recent series, TNT’s “Perception,” he played a neuropsychiatrist and part-time crime solver. In his newest outing, “Travelers,” he is an FBI agent who becomes a “host” for a visitor from another century. Facebook Advertisement Part science fiction and part espionage, the series, created by Brad Wright of the “Stargate” franchise, transports humans from the future into the present time. They assume the lives of random people, while performing missions in order to save humanity from the bleak future they already know.McCormack, 53, stars as Grant MacLaren, and plays a pivotal if cryptic role in the first two episodes. He spoke to The Post from New York’s London hotel about “Travelers” and the rumored revival of “Will & Grace.”Would you say you’re playing against type in this new series?I’m an actor. I can’t afford to have a type. I love to mix it up. I haven’t had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. LEAVE A REPLY Cancel replyLog in to leave a comment Advertisement Login/Register With: Advertisement Twitter
BRUSSELS – Belgium’s airspace was closed off for landings and departures for about two hours on Thursday afternoon because of a technical glitch in the data system of the air safety control centre.Belgocontrol spokesman Dominque Dehaene said the control centre had to execute a “clear sky” operation until the issue was fixed. He couldn’t immediately provide details of the technical difficulties.Dehaene said it was “a very specific problem” that created a risk that some information on flights might not be correct. Flights resumed by 6 p.m. (1600 GMT; 12 p.m. EDT).About 15 flights were cancelled and many more delayed at Brussels international airport, which handles around 650 flights a day. Charleroi airport handles about 140. By comparison, Heathrow, which is Europe’s busiest airport, operates 1,299 daily flights.
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee’s lawyer on Saturday wrote a strong letter to Narendra Modi for making derogatory remarks about his client during his recent rally in Diamond Harbour.Banerjee’s lawyer has also sought an unconditional apology from Modi for his derogatory comments. The letter also said that if Modi does not tender his apology to Banerjee within 36 hours, the latter will be constrained to initiate appropriate proceedings against him in accordance with law of the land. Abhishek, a sitting MP from Diamond Harbour, is contesting from the same seat in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Also Read – Bengal family worships Muslim girl as Goddess Durga in Kumari PujaDuring an election rally in Diamond Harbour on May 15, Modi allegedly passed some remarks which Abhishek found highly defamatory in nature. The letter to Modi reads: “…My client (Abhishek Banerjee) would have been inclined to welcome legitimate criticism against his name as any politician should, especially to serve his constituents better in pursuance of a robust electoral mandate. However, the malice with which you chose to invoke certain unverified, sensationalist and patently inaccurate information, ostensibly at the behest of your party members, even while knowing such information to be incorrect, has compelled my client to address you vide this letter. In effect, Also Read – Bengal civic volunteer dies in road mishap on national highwayyou made certain wildly fabricated allegations against my client with the sole intent to mislead the people you were addressing in order to besmirch my client’s well-earned reputation.” The letter further mentions: “…Your speech, punctuated by false, malicious, and defamatory content, was an embodiment of political calculation and mischievous intent. Your imputations were deliberate and mala fide, perpetrated through thinly-veiled references of bhatija (nephew) and didi while being fully aware that Mamata Banerjee is referred to as Didi and my client himself is the only nephew of Banerjee who is involved in public life and is the sitting MP from Diamond Harbour.” “In your speech, you referred to my client as a gunda or “goon”. Such statements, other than being attempts to deceive the public through rhetoric, are hardly appropriate for a person holding your position. My client denies all your claims and challenges you to provide proof of such deliberate misstatements,” stated the letter from Abhishek’s lawyer.
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Something for the weekend: Do you have stealth-like moves, a way with people and a talent for acrobatics? If you do, then you might make the cut as a modern-day ninja.The local government body in the Aichi Prefecture in Japan is recruiting six ninjas to help promote tourism in the region.Successful candidates must be capable of performing handsprings, dance moves and skill with traditional weapons. While Japanese language skills are preferred, men and women of all nationalities may apply for the role.Ninjas will receive a monthly salary of 180,000 Yuan and undergo a month-long training programme.Once qualified, ninjas will be expected to discuss the region’s heritage with tourists, perform and pose for photographs while also maintaining a secretive ninja-like air.At Employee Benefits, we are practicing our ninja moves and brushing up on our Japanese…
Share Intercontinental Terminals CompanyThe clean-up process continues on the Houston Ship Channel as part of the recovery efforts from the March 17 massive fire that occurred at ITC’s petrochemical facility in Deer Park, TX.The clean-up process continues at the Deer Park petrochemical storage facility that caught fire on March 17. Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC), the company that owns the facility, says response crews are still working on removing product from the tank farm. The incident has restricted traffic on a section of the Houston Ship Channel and the U.S. Coast Guard doesn’t know at this point when the restrictions will be lifted.ITC Executive Brent Weber said at a news conference held on Monday morning that the tank farm is secured. “The level on the tank farm is basically dry now with a very light layer of foam,” he said.“We have crews that are going to enter the tank farm area today,” Weber added, “to begin a little further remediation on the residual product in the tank farm.” The tanks that are still being cleaned up contain naphtha, which is highly flammable, and gasoline blend stock.Weber also said that the dike containment wall that sustained a partial breach during the aftermath of the fire has been patched with temporary repairs.The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has launched a new section of its website with information, including sampling locations, maps and photos, about the incident.Multiple agencies, including the TCEQ, along with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harris County and ITC, continue monitoring air quality. Harris County is also posting updated information online about air quality.EPA Spokesman Adam Adams said there was an elevated benzene reading over the weekend but it just lasted a short period of time.Responders found one deceased dolphin and another one that was stranded also during the weekend. Adams said members of the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network examined them and determined that it didn’t appear the dolphins were impacted by the incident.The organization is “monitoring a dolphin pod that’s well south of Morgan’s Point,” according to Adams. He added ten birds have been rescued and responders hadn’t found any new fish or wildlife impacted as of Monday morning.There are still pockets of oil on sections of the Houston Ship Channel, with heavier concentrations on Tucker’s Bayou. U.S. Coast Guard Captain Rich Howes there isn’t a “firm timeline” on full reopening of the ship channel. The section of the channel with restricted traffic goes from Tucker Bayou to Light 116, and only operates during daylight hours. ITC has received approximately 3,000 inquiries about claims and 800 claims related to the fire and chemical spill.The company has posted a video on YouTube that shows recovery efforts along the Houston Ship Channel.
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Talk to Spotify, and the company will claim that Apple is trying to strong-arm the service and push the agenda of its own streaming service, Apple Music, by blocking Spotify from releasing a new version of its app.Talk to Apple, and the story is a bit different. No, the company isn’t trying to unfairly punish Spotify for competing against Apple. It’s simply enforcing App Store submission guidelines that Spotify — according to Apple, at leat — is violating. (And Apple also seems a bit irked that Spotify seems to be fighting its battle in the press.) Spotify fired off its initial salvo against Apple in the form of a letter Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez sent to Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell a few days ago. In it, as Recode reported, Gutierrez argued that Apple was “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by rejecting the company’s latest app update.”This latest episode raises serious concerns under both U.S. and EU competition law. It continues a troubling pattern of behavior by Apple to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify on iOS and as a rival to Apple Music, particularly when seen against the backdrop of Apple’s previous anticompetitive conduct aimed at Spotify — we cannot stand by as Apple uses the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors,” Gutierrez wrote.Apple’s Sewell has since fired back a retort, claiming that Spotify has itself to blame for Apple rejecting its app’s latest update. The primary issue revolves around in-app purchases — specifically, that Apple reserves the right to make a commission from those made, and that developers can’t just replace in-app purchases with other systems meant to cut Apple out of the deal entirely.”Shortly after Spotify submitted its app on May 26, our team identified a number of issues, including that the in-app purchase feature had been removed and replaced with an account sign-up feature clearly intended to circumvent Apple’s in-app purchase rules. That feature exists only for the purpose of avoiding having to pay Apple for your use of the App Store by emailing customers within hours, directing them to subscribe to Spotify on its website. A clear violation of the terms every other developer adheres to,” Sewell wrote, as reported by Buzzfeed. “During a number of discussions between our team and Spotify, we explained why this sign-up feature did not comply with our guidelines and requested you resubmit a compliant version of the app. On June 10, Spotify submitted another version of the app which again incorporated the sign-up feature directing App Store customers to submit an email address so they could be contacted directly by Spotify in a continued attempt to get around our guidelines. Spotify’s app was again rejected for attempting to circumvent in-app purchase rules, and not, as you claim, because Spotify was simply seeking to communicate with its customers.”Spotify has yet to respond to Apple’s response, and we don’t yet know just what Spotify is planning to do with its proposed app update. We sense the company will have to capitulate to Apple, lest it find itself unable to launch any new Spotify features for iOS users — not a great way to generate goodwill among Apple’s user base.According to Sewell, Apple is happy to expedite Spotify’s update through the review and approval process “as soon as you provide us with something that is compliant with the App Store’s rules.”
Man arrested after car ramming at Lyon airport Monday, September 10, 2018 Tags: Crime, Lyon Tweet By: The Associated Press PARIS — Pursued by police vehicles, a man smashed his car Monday into security barriers at two airports in Lyon, southeast France, and then crashed through two glass doors of a busy terminal and sped onto the runway, before being arrested.In scenes captured on amateur video, the car was seen hitting a bump, then going airborne and landing in a cloud of dust at Lyon’s international Saint-Exupery airport. The driver then jumped out while the vehicle was still rolling and sprinted off on foot, pursued by a police van.Other police vehicles and officers on foot then tried to cut off his escape until one of them managed to catch up with the suspect and wrestle him to the ground, the video showed.The man’s motives were unknown and nothing was being ruled out, regional government press officer Christelle Monteagudo said.The man was first spotted driving the wrong way on the A43 highway that links Lyon to the Alps. Highway police and a police helicopter laid chase, the regional government said in a statement.More news: Apply now for AQSC’s agent cruise ratesThe man then rammed into security barriers at Lyon’s Bron airport used for business flights, before driving to the nearby, larger Saint-Exupery airport, where flights were quickly suspended.There, the man rammed through more security barriers. Still chased by police, he then crashed through two glass doors at the airport’s Terminal 1 to drive onto the runways, authorities said.All air traffic at the airport was halted. There were no casualties, authorities said.The Lyon prosecutors’ office is investigating. << Previous PostNext Post >>
By Evie AndreouThe announcement this week that the government intends to pay mothers of large families an allowance for their grown-up children could easily be dismissed as a classic example of how Cypriot mums cling to their children long after they’ve reached adulthood.As always, the truth is a bit more complex.The allowance, announced by President Nicos Anastasiades, applies to mothers with four of more children who are too old to receive child benefit.The one-off annual payment will depend on family income with the highest pay-out being €300 for those earning below €15,500 a year. The new allowance is considerably less than the around €70 per month such families received until 2012 when it was discontinued due to cutbacks.Unemployment among the young has meant more adult children living at homeThe news was welcomed by the organisation of large families (POP) that argues that children need their parents’ support well after they reach 18.“Just because a child turns 18, does not mean they are not dependent on their parents. They go off to study, they rely on their parents for a number of years. And it is not the same sending four children to study as it is one,” the head of POP, Ntinos Olympios, told the Sunday Mail.A mother’s needs do not go away even after her children become adults, Olympios said. “There are debts to pay off, mortgages, they need support. The income of large families go up in smoke a lot faster than those with fewer children.”The allowance also honours those mothers for contributing to Cypriot society, he argues.“They have sent their sons to serve in the National Guard, they gave society tax-paying citizens. The more the children, the bigger the contribution,” Olympios said.For 58-year-old Niki Vasiliou, the mother of four grown up children aged between 38 and 24, the allowance will help with practical matters.“We had received a loan from the POP cooperative bank to help some of our children when they were younger and the allowance I used to get until 2012 was going to the payment of that loan. After it was discontinued, it upset the balance as I was relying on it,” she said.The €300 per year will hardly solve her financial issues, but it is a recognition of what she has offered so far.“I hope everyone realises that when you have more than one or two children, expenses are much higher. There is no tuition but you still need a lot of money on uniforms, afternoon classes, school transport, etc,” she said.She added that the family, when her children were minors, used to receive an allowance – around CY£50 (€85) per child per month – which was discontinued as soon as they reached 18.Vasiliou is still working hard to support herself and pay her loans. “Any savings we may have had were easily gone. You can only dream of having savings when you have four children who need your help.”The widespread perception that Cypriots, like other southern Europeans, tend to leave home later than northern Europeans is reflected in a recent Eurostat study.Ntinos Olympios, the head of the large family associationIn 2016 the average age of young Cypriots leaving the parental household was 27.1, compared to Swedes who leave home at 20, Germans at 23.7 and the British at 24.3.But Cypriots are by no means the worst at being reluctant to cut the apron strings. They are only a year above the EU average at leaving home and are positively independent compared to Malta where offspring don’t tend to leave home until they are 31.8 or Italy at 30.1.Significantly too, the average age that Cypriots leave home has actually risen since 2000 when it was 25.3.This may have been partly because Cypriots used to marry younger back then and most certainly because the economic situation was better.The financial crisis of 2013 has had an obvious impact on the numbers of adult children still living at home. Vasiliou has a 30-year-old son at home because his salary is too low for him to live alone.“I don’t mind him still living in the house but at some point, he has to move out. I know that at the moment he can’t afford to. He does occasionally help pay utility bills or bring home groceries,” she said.“There is high unemployment, how is one to take the plunge and get married and start a family?” said Olympios from POP.But for Birgit, a no nonsense German mother, who has been living in Cyprus for 30 years, the economic crisis can’t hide a fundamental difference in approach to parenting that makes Cypriots more likely to say at home.“I taught my children to iron and wash clothes and I don’t make their beds. I heard Cypriot mothers who do these for their grown-up children,” she said.And then there’s the economic aspect. “In other countries children who stay with their parents are forced to contribute to the expenses or pay rent.”But British mother Eileen Kelly, who has also lived in Cyprus for 30 years, admits Cypriot parenting skills have rubbed off on her to sometimes absurd extremes.She once ordered a Domino’s pizza in London from Nicosia, and had it delivered to her 30-year-old son.“My son is not known for managing his money very well. At some point – he was still paying off a college loan while he was working – and he miscalculated and ended up with nothing to eat,” she said.“So, I ended up calling Domino’s pizza in London from Cyprus and ordered a pizza for my son who lived down the road from them,” Kelly said.She acknowledges that there has to be a balance.“Some Cypriot parents go so far that they spoil their children, not being able to stand on their own two feet, but at the same time I understand why they do it,” she said.“I wouldn’t take money from my own children but if they were earning more than me, then yes why shouldn’t they pay towards the electricity, etc?”Psychologist Thekla Petridou sees an unhealthy element to the longevity of Cypriot childhood.The parent-child co-dependence evident in Cyprus is, she says, a form of “emotional incest” whereby a parent looks to their child for the emotional support that would be normally provided by another adult.“it is clearly a matter of culture in Cypriot society that parents must care for their children in terms of their financial support and even provide shelter and food when they are adults,” she said.This attitude is found in closed, traditional societies like Cyprus, where family bonds are very strong and there is strong prejudice around the freedom of a woman or man when they become parents as to their private lives.“Parents don’t realise they are doing this and should ask themselves if, children aside, they have a happy life, have hobbies, relations with other adults in their lives.”But whatever the psychology of the matter, poor finances remain a major disincentive to independence.Those on low incomes who decide to leave home, get an apartment and make it on their own, are faced with time-consuming red tape when filing for state aid.Nearly nine months ago Marilena and Alexandros – both 24 and on low incomes – applied for the rent allowance given to refugees and their children.“We filed last August, it took them eight months to examine our application, and they sent us a letter last month which arrived just two days before the deadline they had set to submit additional documents they had requested,” Marilena told the Sunday Mail.“We were finally told we had been approved a few days ago.”You May LikeFigLeaf Beta AppTake Online Privacy on a whole New levelFigLeaf Beta AppUndoThrone: Free Online GamesPlay This Game For 1 Minute and See why Everyone is Addicted!Throne: Free Online GamesUndoGundry MD PrebioThrive Probiotic SupplementCardiologist: This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Eat GlutenGundry MD PrebioThrive Probiotic SupplementUndo Concern over falling tourism numbersUndoAuthorities release five of 12 Israeli rape suspects, seven due in court FridayUndoPensioner dies after crash on Paphos-Polis roadUndoby Taboolaby Taboola
Some 252 social care programmes received financial support, under the State Aid Scheme, totalling €6.9m last year, said Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou.Addressing an event organised by the volunteers’ council of the community of Shia, on Saturday, Emilianidou said her ministry recognised the important work done by volunteers. The ministry had established through the Social Welfare Services ongoing co-operation with non-governmental organisations “with remarkable results”.Through the State Aid Scheme, individual needs were supported in the provision of social care. “I would like to point out that 252 programmes are currently operating and subsidised island-wide, which received in 2016, financial support totalling €6.9m to cover part of their operating expenses and other needs,” Emilianidou said.These programmes, she said, concerned initiatives on providing care for the elderly, day-care for children to allow parents to work, shelter to people with disabilities and accommodation to unaccompanied minors among other things. You May LikeFigLeaf Beta AppHow to Become Fully Anonymous Online in Less Than 3 Minutes? Better safe than sorryFigLeaf Beta AppUndoClassmates.comLook For Any High School Yearbook, It’s FreeClassmates.comUndoTruthFinder People Search SubscriptionOne Thing All Liars Have in Common, Brace YourselfTruthFinder People Search SubscriptionUndo Pensioner dies after crash on Paphos-Polis roadUndoTurkish Cypriot actions in Varosha ‘a clear violation’ of UN resolutions, Nicosia saysUndoRemand for pair in alleged property fraud (Updated)Undoby Taboolaby Taboola
The use of seatbelts, in the front and the back will be the focus of the police force’s first road safety campaign of the year, which will start on Monday and run until January 28.According to a police statement, the campaign is part of efforts to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents on the island.For the duration of the campaign special attention will be given to the use of seat belts in the back seats as their use in the back is much lower than in front seats, the police said. Checks will also be made to ensure small children are in baby seats.You May LikeCrossovers | Search AdsBest New Compact Crossovers for Under 20kCrossovers | Search AdsUndoPopularEverythingColorado Mom Adopted Two Children, Months Later She Learned Who They Really ArePopularEverythingUndoTotal Battle – Online Strategy GameIf You’re PC User This Strategy Game Is A Must-Have!Total Battle – Online Strategy GameUndo Turkish Cypriot actions in Varosha ‘a clear violation’ of UN resolutions, Nicosia saysUndoConcern over falling tourism numbersUndoPensioner dies after crash on Paphos-Polis roadUndoby Taboolaby Taboola