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Insiders have speculated that Bronfman would merge Warner Music's East Coast-based labels, Atlantic and Elektra -- a move that has been rumored for years -- to balance against its main West Coast division and biggest label, Warner Bros. Records.
Bronfman also is hoping to be buoyed by sustained sales at the company's Warner-Chappell music publishing arm, which owns an estimated 1 million song copyrights, including songs by Elton John and Led Zeppelin.
Although royalties from songs released on CDs have steadily declined along with the slump in album sales, Warner-Chappell continues to generate a fortune from licensing songs to film and TV. This year Bear Stearns estimates the unit will generate about $105 million in EBITDA on $450 million in sales.
Palestinian police are working overtime enforcing Shariah law’s fast during Ramadan on Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
At least four people, including Christians, have been arrested so far for eating in public before sunset since last week when the monthlong Muslim holy days began.
The West Bank, which has a mixed population of Muslims and Christians, has traditionally been more relaxed during Ramadan and Christian-owned restaurants and businesses remain open in cities such as Ramallah and Bethlehem.
But last week Palestinian Authority prosecutor Alaa Tamimi announced that anyone breaking the fast could face a month in prison. Palestinian law, amended in 2011 but which dates back to Jordanian rule in the 1960s, dictates that those caught breaking the fast are to be jailed for a month, or fined $21.
Q. What are the roles in a Scrum project, and how do teams work under Scrum?
Typically, there are three roles in a Scrum-driven project: Product owner, ScrumMaster, and the Scrum team. The product owner is the key stakeholder of the project, usually involved in the marketing or management of the product.
A Scrum-driven project proceeds as a series of sprints. Each sprint begins with a meeting where a list of tasks for that sprint is decided upon. Meetings called 'daily scrums' reorient and refocus the team as appropriate. When a sprint comes to a close, team members demonstrate, in an informal context, what has and has not been accomplished in that period.
The ScrumMaster acts as facilitator and coordinator, addressing issues that might bring down the team's productivity. Traditional software development roles do not figure on a Scrum team. Members decide among themselves, and with the help of the ScrumMaster, who will complete what work during a sprint.
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Source: E17 Release Manager's blog It appears that a stable release of the E17 desktop interface may finally be on its way, despite having been beaten to release by Duke Nukem Forever. According to a blog posting by Jeff Hoogland, developer of the Enlightenment-based Bodhi Linux, the developers of the E desktop environment are apparently preparing for a major stable release.
Hoogland notes that an un-named acting E17 release manager has set up a blog to track progress. The Enlightenment developers have, to date, never released an official version of the desktop environment but it has been in development for years. In practice though, others have been able to use E17 for a long time; around six years ago Yellow Dog Linux started using it as the desktop environment on its first generation of Linux for the PlayStation 3.
The "E17 Release Manager" is calling for testing of E17 and asks for error reports. He also mentions that version 1.7 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) is in preparation. The library for creating graphical user interface elements is not only used in E17 but also as a component of the successor to MeeGo and Limo, Tizen.
Have you ever wanted to own a vineyard? Or live on a hobby farm with horses?
You can do both at a double-the-pleasure ranch and vineyard spread across nearly 11 acres in River Falls, Wis.
Owners Ken Tice and Sara Sweetser sold their home in Woodbury and moved to country acreage to follow their dreams. They bought the property, which includes a five-bedroom sprawling farmhouse, in 2009.
Sweetser and her daughters rode in state competitions and now she had a place to ride and board her two horses.
Tice, a wine collector and connoisseur, built a climate-controlled 4,000-bottle wine cellar with a tasting table in the basement. He also planted an irrigated vineyard filled with Marquette and Brianna grapes developed at the University of Minnesota.
This $1.35 million ranch is on the market, and it includes a vineyard.
After moving in, Tice’s long list of improvements include new fencing and two horse paddocks with heated water stations. He renovated the indoor riding arena and added competition grade footings of ground-up Nike tennis shoes and sand. Tice also installed a geothermal heating and cooling system that delivers in-floor heat. Cosmetic updates were completed inside the farmhouse.
In spring, 62 crabapple trees they planted are bursting with pink blooms and fill the air with perfume, along the long curving driveway.
But now that their children have left the nest, Tice and Sweetser are retiring at their lake cottage. He’s done mowing the vast lawn and tending the vineyard. It’s time for a young family to take over, he said.
“It has everything you need to manage a horse ranch and grow grapes,” said Tice.
• The 6,200-square-foot farmhouse, built in 2002, has five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
• Finished full walkout basement with a recreation room.
• Wine drinking spot by a fireplace outside the wine cellar.
• Indoor riding arena and four heated stalls.
• Backyard gardens and pond, patio with a fire pit, outdoor kitchen and gazebo.
• The ranch is near the Kinnickinnic State Park, and Hudson and River Falls.
Robert Speer, of Edina Realty, has the listing.
Study Warns Of Autism Risk For Children Of Obese Mothers : Shots - Health News Half of the mothers in the study had a child with an autism spectrum disorder, while the rest had a child with a developmental delay unrelated to autism, or no developmental problem. But an author of the study says it's not clear whether there's any connection between rising obesity rates and the increasing number of children diagnosed with autism.
Scientists have found one more reason that pregnancy and obesity can be a bad combination.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests that moms who are obese or have diabetes are more likely to have a child with autism or another developmental problem.
The finding is "worrisome in light of this rather striking epidemic of obesity" in the U.S., says Irva Hertz-Picciotto from the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, one of the study's authors.
But it's not clear whether there's any connection between rising obesity rates and the increasing number of children diagnosed with autism, she says.
The new study looked at about 1,000 mothers. Half of them had a child with an autism spectrum disorder, while the rest had a child with a developmental delay unrelated to autism, or no developmental problem.
Researchers wanted to know whether autism was more likely if a woman was obese, diabetic or had high blood pressure during pregnancy.
"We found that if women had one of these three conditions, the increased risk for her child was about 60 percent," Hertz-Picciotto says, though the overall risk was still relatively small.
These conditions also more than doubled the chance that a child would have some other developmental delay.
Obesity was the most common risk factor, affecting more than 20 percent of mothers with an autistic child. Also, obesity increases the risk that a woman will have diabetes during pregnancy, and can also increase the risk for high blood pressure.
"Obesity really affects the mother's physiology aside from the fact that she's carrying around a lot of extra weight," Hertz-Picciotto says.
The results also suggest that both obesity and diabetes are affecting early brain development, she says.
That could be because these conditions are associated with inflammation in developing tissues, including those in the brain, she says.
Another possibility is that obesity and diabetes are reducing the nutrients reaching the fetus by reducing the body's ability to use insulin, she says.
"We're talking about a fetal brain that could be suffering from a lack of oxygen," she says.
In the U.S., about one-third of women of child-bearing age are obese, and one child in 88 now has an autism spectrum disorder, according to government statistics.
So it's clearly a good idea for women who are overweight or obese to try to slim down before becoming pregnant, Hertz-Picciotto says. But she says people shouldn't assume that any particular child developed autism because of his or her mother's weight.
The Karnataka High Court has asked a senior official from the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services to be present before the court at the next hearing.
A division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice L Narayana Swamy was hearing a public interest litigation petition filed by Compassion Unlimited Plus Action, an animal welfare organisation that has challenged the failure of the BBMP and the Animal Husbandry Department to reconstitute the State Animal Welfare Board.
The court has called upon the official to inform the court regarding the constitution of the SAWB and the mechanism adopted for licensing/registration of pets.
The petitioner has also challenged the non-implementation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (pet shop) Rules 2018 and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog breeding and Marketing) Rules, 2017.
The petitioner has sought directions to BBMP and the Animal Husbandry Department to reconstitute the State Animal Welfare Board to address the issue of illegal breeders and pet shop owners in Bengaluru.
On the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, transgender activist Janet Mock explains why we need to rethink our definition of what it is to be a woman.
Virginia Woolf famously called for a A Room of One's Own, setting out the need to make space for women in a man's world.
More than 80 years later, another woman is making a similar argument. But this time, rather than claiming a space to write and think, it is still more basic.
Toilets are proving a crucial battleground - quite literally, in some cases - for those whose identity doesn't match the gender label assigned them, according to Janet Mock.
"Where are you going to use the bathroom?" she asks. "If you go into a women's space, people get very hostile to you. Young [trans] women get beat up for using a women’s bathroom - or trying to."
Janet would know. Born a boy, the 29-year-old had gender reassignment surgery more than a decade ago.
The answer, she suggests, can be as simple as providing single-occupancy stalls, which do not require you to implicitly declare if you are male or female before entering.
But the frequent absence of such facilties, everywhere from schools to parks, highlights the hidden difficulties that transgender, or "trans", people have to navigate every day.
While it may seem trivial, the consequences of what Janet calls a "fight for basic resources" - from healthcare, to jobs, to homes - are not. Tuesday 20th November marks the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, set up to memorialise those who have been killed because of hatred and prejudice.
Janet is among those who are fighting for change. Key to this, she believes, is allowing some "shades of grey" in how we view people.
"People can't really be put into boxes," she says. "We need to get away from just category, and we have to allow people who were in one to move into the next category, [to] respect their right to self-determine."
That also means, she adds, allowing those who have no need to identify as either male or female to be "fine to be somewhere in the middle of the spectrum".
"I'm very female, whatever that means. But I respect someone who is not and needs to draw outside of the lines a little bit."
Hers is still a provocative message to many, including those who might be expected to be more sympathetic to a group arguing for its rights. In recent years, Germaine Greer, the feminist writer, came under heavy criticism for calling trans women "ghastly parodies" in the grip of a "delusion".
For Janet, there are echoes of the experiences of other groups seen in the past as excluded from the women's movement, such as working-class women or women of colour. And it is equally obvious to her that you should not have to have been born female to be recognised as a woman.
"It’s not so much, 'what is within our pants'," she says bluntly. "What's in someone pants, it's like, how is that even relevant to how they even live their lives?
"Feminism and women’s rights have always been about autonomy and what you want to do with your body. One of the things you should always be able to do is to self-determine who you are.
"I think people have become more aware, but I hope that this awareness grows to progress – and progress becomes inclusiveness."
Until this year working as journalist at US celebrity website People.com, with a boyfriend and life in New York, becoming a high-profile advocate for trans people's rights was not the obvious path for Janet.
After all, she hadn't even told her colleagues that she had been born a boy until she decided to go public with her experiences last year, moved by the rash of stories about children who had killed themselves over their own secrets.
There were no half measures about her coming out as trans. Growing up in Hawaii, at 18 she had an operation to make her body match "who I was inside", she revealed in a US magazine, Marie Claire, as well as in a video for the It Gets Better Project to support struggling teens.
From there, she's become a full-time writer and activist, writing a memoir to be published next year, launching a #girlslikeus Twitter campaign and speaking at colleges across America to raise awareness of the issues and obstacles facing trans people.
The cynic might argue that her undoubted good looks and glamorous background have helped raise her profile. Certainly Janet, enjoying, as Marie Claire put it, an "enviable career, a supportive man, and a fabulous head of hair", will no doubt be demolishing quite a few people's preconceptions about what life as a trans woman has to be like.
But there is no doubting her passion for removing the stigma around people who may less neatly fit our expectations of what a man or woman should look like - whether or not they "pass".
Education is crucial, she says, citing a programme in Washington DC "that is trying to educate the public on what a transgender person looks like. It kind of helps diminish the fear of what a person looks like. Maybe you won't be so hysterical when you see them in a club, and don’t want to hurt them."
She's also trying to broaden the ways in which trans women and men are represented in the media, impatient with hoary cliches like "trapped in the wrong body" and "born a man".
"You're born a baby," she says, "you are classed as a girl or boy and then you grow up to become a man or a woman." In fact she herself was never a man, given that she started her transition through hormone therapy as a young teenager.
"[But] as I grew older, I understood I needed to unpick that a little bit. It doesn’t apply to everyone. Trans people are very diverse. Not everyone feels like they need to have surgery, or any kind of hormones."
On a personal level, her own story doesn't quite match the received narrative of isolation and gloom. As a child in Hawaii, she grew up around other trans people and her best friend was also trans gender. ("She's still my best friend").
There is also a lot to celebrate, she says, pointing to the introduction of a bill of trans rights in Argentina - "a pretty big deal" - and the lifting of a ban on a transgender woman from entering the Miss Universe competition.
"It was such a frivolous thing, but it helps a lot of people to know what a trans woman is," she says. "It was a huge story and we won that battle. Our womanhood is valid.
"There's a wide array of stories we can be telling," she adds, "and not just gawking and staring."
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Jay Rosen argues that news evolved to tell people about important events that happened in places they weren’t. But time can create distance as powerfully as space can.
In this excerpt from his new book Rebuilding the News, he uses the Philadelphia media ecosystem as a lens on what’s happened to local journalism since 2000.
The structure of newsrooms reflects how journalists think about their work. As those conceptions change, it makes sense that the structures would change with them.
The Jekyll and Hyde problem: What are journalists, and their institutions, for?
Behind Dean Starkman’s “future of news” consensus lurk unanswered questions.
The tech-industry news site forces journalists to think about concepts of objectivity, transparency, audience, and why they do what they do.
Anderson, C.W.. "Information’s triumph? Three ways TechCrunch challenges ideas of journalism." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Sep. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2019.