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At least 18 people were killed in an outbreak of explosions and at least one shootout in Paris Friday, according to police. It was unclear if the events were linked.(NBCNews)
Police in Paris told NBC News that several people had been shot at a restaurant in the 10th arrondissement in Paris, and The Associated Press reported that there were fatalities at the Bataclan theater, where hostages were being held.
The AP reported that two explosions were heard outside of the Stade de France north of Paris. France's football team was playing Germany's at the Stade de France at the time of the explosion.
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Robin Camp sat on Alberta provincial court when he asked, 'Couldn't you just keep your knees together?' The Canadian Judicial Council is reviewing the conduct of a Federal Court judge who questioned the efforts of a sexual assault complainant to fend off her attacker. The council announced Monday it will review the behaviour of Robin Camp during a 2014 case he adjudicated while serving as an Alberta Provincial Court judge. The case involved the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman by a Calgary man, whom she accused of sexually assaulting her over a bathroom sink during a house party. The review comes after a complaint from four law professors at Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary who described Camp as "dismissive, if not contemptuous" toward sexual assault laws and the rules of evidence. |
Norman Lloyd got his start in the theater decades ago before making the move to motion pictures, working along the way with such iconic figures as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Charlie Chaplin.(Interview at AVClub via Mentalfloss, which is also worth reading (short))
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This year, Lloyd became Hollywood’s oldest working actor when he appeared in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, which is now available on home video. Given that he was less than a month away from his 101st birthday when he spoke to The A.V. Club, it seems fair to say that Lloyd is also the oldest actor ever interviewed for Random Roles.
Apple’s recently announced oversize iPad Pro was announced last month, but only just got its official sale date – November 11.(TheNextWeb)
The company says that it might take a few additional days to make it into its retail stores, but that online sales begin on Wednesday.
Alongside the 12.9-inch Retina display, 64-bit A9x chipset and claimed 10-hour battery life is a range of accessories that include the Apple Pencil and the Smart Keyboard, which Apple claims turns the device into a real productivity powerhouse.
Chronicle Herald news editor Christine Soucie Madill visits Flanders Fields and other battlegrounds of Belgium and France, where thousands of brave Canadians are buried and commemorated(Read more at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald)
It was a stirring moment during a recent four-day tour of First World War sites in Flanders, Belgium, and northern France. On our final day, at the Army Museum in Brussels, our guide opened a notebook and, in a reverent tone recited John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields, in English and in Flemish, a translation he had written himself.
McCrae’s name was uttered with the utmost respect by many of the Belgians I met. They honour the former poet and army doctor at Essex Farm, a memorial site and cemetery, and In Flanders Fields is the name of the museum in Ypres.
It is not surprising that the name McCrae would resonate in Belgium. After all, Flanders Fields are their fields.
One hundred years later, these fields are farmland and there are many small picture-perfect towns. But there are ghosts and constant reminders; it is not possible to drive more than several kilometres through the countryside without seeing memorials and cemeteries.
The National Geographic Society of Washington will lay off about 180 of its 2,000 employees in a cost-cutting move that follows the sale of its famous magazine and other assets to a company controlled by Rupert Murdoch.(WashingtonPost)
The reduction, the largest in the organization’s 127-year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in 1888.
The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday
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Though Wall St. didn’t seem terribly impressed, Apple last week delivered yet another stellar earnings report. Riding on the back of strong iPhone sales, Apple posted revenue of $51.5 billion and a quarterly profit of $11.1 billion. As Tim Cook noted, “fiscal 2015 was Apple’s most successful year ever.” By the time Apple’s October quarter came to a close, the company found itself sitting on a cash hoard worth $206 billion, a figure that’s higher than the GDP of many countries. With $206 billion, Apple could theoretically afford to give every single person in the United States (assuming a population of 318.8 million) $646, effectively the cost of a brand new iPhone. Even more interesting is that Apple has enough cash to buy every single team from every major sports league in the world. Here’s how the calculations all break down. |
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Over the weekend, somebody claimed the $1 million bounty set by the new startup Zerodium, according to its founder Chaouki Bekrar, a notorious merchant of unknown, or zero-day, vulnerabilities. The challenge consisted of finding a way to remotely jailbreak a new iPhone or iPad running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system iOS (in this case iOS 9.1 and 9.2b), allowing the attacker to install any app he or she wants with full privileges. The initial exploit, according to the terms of the challenge, had to come through Safari, Chrome, or a text or multimedia message. |
