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Buffett's Deputies Drive Bets On Apple And Airlines

... capacities. That is essential, he said, because having too many seats forces airlines to slash prices and “go broke over time.”. Weschler also told a German magazine last year that cloud computing and apps had made customers. more loyal to Apple. Buffett echoed that thinking on Monday, saying that he warmed to the i Phone maker because its products have become indispensable for lots of consumers. ‘Sticky Product’. “Apple strikes me as having quite a sticky product and an enormously useful product to people that use it, not that I do,” Buffett said, praising Tim Cook, the technology company’s CEO. “He’s been very intelligent about capital deployment.”. Not so long ago Apple was looking like its star was fading. The company last year reported its. first annual sales decline in more than a decade as i Phone updates failed to attract enough new buyers. Cook’s response was to push more services, such as Apple Music, the App Store and i Cloud. These businesses are more profitable than i Phones and i Pads, and they increase the chances customers will buy future Apple gadgets because users’ apps and ...

2017 Jeep Compass Latitude First Drive Review

... replaced with a second-generation 2017 Jeep Compass aimed at taking a larger share of pie from competitors. The 2017 Compass is based on a stretched version of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ small-wide 4×4 architecture that also underpins the Jeep Renegade. With a wheelbase and overall length of 103.8 and 173 inches, respectively, the new Compass sits smack dab in between the Renegade and the Cherokee. Under the hood is a carbon copy of the Renegade’s powertrain—a 2.4-liter I-4 that also makes 180 hp and 175 lb-ft of torque. Front-drive versions come standard with a six-speed manual transmission or an optional six-speed auto, and the Compass 4×4 is paired with a nine-speed automatic. Jeep is offering the 2017 Compass in four trim levels—Sport, Latitude, Limited, and the off-road ready Trailhawk. The ...

How Politics Could Drive A Wedge Between Gold And Gold Stocks

... 2017 USGS Mineral Commodity Summary for gold, total U. S. production for gold from 2012 through 2015 was 889 metric tons, while imports for consumption totaled 1,214 metric tons. While "in recent years, the United States has been a net exporter [of gold]," the difference between imports and current production is significant. Furthermore, 28% of those imports comes from Mexico alone. Protectionist Tax Policy. As I mentioned in " State of the Market ," a border adjustment tax is one of many ideas being thrown around by Congress and the White House. In addition, back in December, Trump threatened "retribution" against companies with overseas operations. Trump has since mellowed his rhetoric a bit. But, congress still wants a 20% general BAT. And while there is disagreement on the specifics, both seem willing to look to some kind of tax on imports and penalties for businesses with overseas operations. Furthermore, since roughly 28% of all gold imports come from ...

Man With Serious Illness Gets Wish Granted To Drive Convertible

... I won a contest.”. At 68 years old, Correira, who is better known to his friends as “J-Lucky,” has a zest for life that's hard to match. “Since I was a little girl, he used to take me to the Providence Center and we used to go and watch the car shows,” said his daughter, Jody Roy. Correira was diagnosed with congestive heart failure several years ago and had been in the hospital since September. On Monday, he was released home for Hospice care. “I have a good sense of humor and I think that carries me through,” Correira said. “I was almost gone 10 times - 10 times.”. Roy knows time with her dad is limited. She isn't wasting any bit of it. “I didn't have any time with my mom. And I have all this time with my dad,” she said. Roy lost her mom unexpectedly several years ago from a brain aneurysm and considers ...

Uber’s Self-driving Cars Ran Through 6 Stoplights In California, Ny Times Says

... to human error: “This is why we believe so much in making the roads safer by building self-driving Ubers.”. But the unnamed sources provided The New York Times with company documents noting that, “In this case, the car went through a red light,” and it did so on five other occasions. "All told, the mapping programs used by Uber’s cars failed to recognize six traffic lights in the San Francisco area," the Times wrote. According to NYT, Kohler clarified on Friday: “Our self-driving technology required human intervention. The vehicle operator had time to intervene, but failed to take over before crossing the stop line and manually proceeded through the protected crosswalk.”. Ars contacted Uber for additional information, but the company has not responded. Ars also contacted the Arizona DMV on the status of Uber’s pilot program within the state. The public information office responded with the statement: "ADOT ...

Your Long Runs Could Be Killing Your Sex Drive

... hormone associated with libido,” says Dr. Anthony Hackney, the study's lead researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to the survey results compiled and analyzed by Hackney’s research team, men who racked up more than 10 hours of training per week, and those whose training intensities were self-reported as greater than 70 percent of their VO 2 max , were most likely to be categorized as having a low sex drive. But before you swear off exercise completely (because, who could blame you, really?), the good news is that low to moderate levels of endurance exercise don’t appear to negatively impact sexual health — at least to a noticeable degree. And if you’re more of a strength-focused athlete, you could be completely in the clear. “Strength-trained athletes work very hard, but the nature of ...

For Syrian Refugees In Lebanon, A Drive To Build Community Amid Pressing Challenges

... of Education $600 per child to assist in the cost.  Some children may be enrolled in private schools, according to officials, though the remaining are still not in school, including those who work to bring in income for their families, and, in the case of girls, those who are married off as young as 14 or 15. How much do you know about the Islamic State. Writing plays and tutoring in French. A difficulty for Syrian school children is language; Lebanese schools teach in French or English in addition to Arabic. One 12-year-old girl dressed in black headscarf practiced French with a local volunteer in a homework support group. The girl has been living in Lebanon for 3-1/2 years.  She was in fifth grade when she left Syria, but she’s lost years of schooling, and because she doesn’t know French, she is now placed in third grade. She is friends with some of the Syrian children in her school, but with few Lebanese children. “They don’t like to talk about the same things,” she said. “What do you like to talk about?” I asked. “I want to talk about the war.”. A Syrian girl practices her French ...

Meet The Self-driving Star Of The World’s First Human-free Car Race

... include five lidars, two radars, and six cameras. The brain is provided by Nvidia, with its Drive PX 2 AI chip. Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Delivers 50,000 Beers. Fans got a first glimpse of what an autonomous race could look like when Roborace sent two cars out onto the track in Buenos Aires a couple of weekends ago, ahead of the Formula E race there. With space for a human inside, the prototypes don’t look nearly as cool as the car shown here, but hey—they staged an autonomous race. Both cars dodged a dog that ran onto the track, but then one crashed into a wall. But there’s a silver lining there: “We don’t learn as much when we do perfect runs,” Cooke says. In fact the dog incident gave the team a few ideas. The eventual races could be more like challenges than just loops around the track, with obstacles introduced to keep things thrilling, and reduce the importance of sheer speed. The bigger hope for robo racing is that the innovations testing on the track eventually make their way into road cars. Developing autonomous systems robust enough for racing should help push ...

15th Annual Valley Has A Heart Food Drive To Benefit Spooner House

... Pay Pal by clicking on the “donate” button at the bottom of the ACT Spooner House home page online. Agamy said Dworken, Hillman, La Morte and Sterczala, P. C. will serve as site sponsor for the food drives in Ansonia and Shelton, and Hairy Dog Garage, located in Southbury, will serve as site sponsor of the Seymour drive for the fifth consecutive year. Volunteer groups, including the Church of the Assumption Youth Group and Holy Rosary’s confirmation class, will assist with the food drive at the Ansonia location, while in Seymour, Seymour United Methodist Church congregants and the Young Emerging Professionals of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce will be on hand. In Shelton, the Shelton High School National Honor Society and the Youth Service Bureau’s “Youth 2 Youth” Peer Advocates will lend a helping hand. According to Agamy, the Spooner House, operated by Area ...

Drunk Drive Suspect Who Injured 28 Blew 3 Times The Limit, Cops Say

... said Gino Ascani, a New Orleans firefighter who was at the scene. "When he sped up people were just bouncing off the hood of his car like bowling pins," Ascani told NBC News. "And they were scattered everywhere. There were dozens.". Police said Neilson was tested at the scene at registered a blood alcohol level of 0.232 percent — just barely below three times the legal limit. Police arrest a man after a pickup truck slammed into the crowd Saturday at the Endymion parade during Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans. Scott Threlkeld / The Advocate. "It appears that it's a subject who was highly intoxicated who struck a number of vehicles and then veered off, hitting a whole bunch of innocent people," Harrison said. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the crash was the second instance of people being hurt in poor decisions around parades ...