Thursday, May 4, 2017
Trumpian pressure bears more fruit.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced today that the iPhone maker will be putting $1 billion of its roughly $256 billion cash hoard into a US advanced manufacturing fund.
The news, which Cook disclosed in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, indicates that Apple’s executive leadership is intent on heading off any potential conflicts between the company and President Trump, who has promised to bring jobs back and pressure corporations to invest more domestically.
Well, a billion is a start, but good news no matter. Next, let's see if we can draw some of that manufacturing back from overseas.
The news, which Cook disclosed in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, indicates that Apple’s executive leadership is intent on heading off any potential conflicts between the company and President Trump, who has promised to bring jobs back and pressure corporations to invest more domestically.
Well, a billion is a start, but good news no matter. Next, let's see if we can draw some of that manufacturing back from overseas.
Hard to believe that such a big oaf of a plane could ever get airborne.
Short Shetland (one of two made) taking off from the water (1944)
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Bannon's "to-do" list revealed in a tweet
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a Jewish writer, visited the White House on Tuesday to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day and posted photos of him posing with Bannon in front of a white board containing a laundry list of campaign promises.
Bannon has compiled two columns under headings that include “pledges on ObamaCare,” “pledges on tax reform” and “pledges on immigration” with check marks by some of the items.
The only listing under ObamaCare is “repeal and replace ObamaCare.” There is no check next to it.
But under immigration, Bannon ticked off “suspend the Syrian Refugee Program,” “end ‘catch-and-release,” “triple the number of ICE agents” and “implement new extreme vetting techniques.”
Ludgar the War Wolf
During his campaign to subjugate Scotland, Edward had cornered a group of Scottish rebels inside the walls of Stirling Castle. He sent a messenger not to parley with the Scots rebels but to give them a blunt ultimatum: give up or die. The Scottish commander, William Oliphant, politely refused.
"Well," Edward supposedly scoffed, "If he thinks it will be better for him to defend the castle than yield it, he will see." Opening his royal checkbook, the king told his engineers to get to work creating a phalanx of thirteen huge trebuchets just outside the walls of Stirling castle.
The scale of the catapult project was simply enormous. Entire sections of oak and beech forests were cut down to procure enough wood for the job. Edward ordered the lead roofs from churches as far away as St. Andrews and Perth removed and melted down to provide counterweights for the trebuchets' throwing arms.
Wagons had to haul all this material through the muddy fens and glens of the Scotch lowland to an assembly point just beyond bowshot range on the plain below the castle wall. There, a hundred royal carpenters spent months erecting the machines under the anxious gaze of the Scots garrison inside.
As the machines were finished, they were christened with names such as Kyngstone, Belfry, Segrave, Toulemonde, Gloucester, and Lincoln. Edward called the biggest of all "Loup–de-guerre," which is French for "wolf of war". A French name for an English king's war engine is not surprising, since English kings spoke French, not English, until a century later. But a name such as Loup-de-guerre would have been quite a mouthful for English speaking soldiers. Soon the big catapult's moniker was bowdlerized into the much more Anglo-Saxony "Ludgar."
Turtlenecks. I love a woman in a turtleneck.
Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine, May 1953.
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