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Self-Driving Cars, Explained
Are self-driving cars safe? Watch this video to see Matthias Schmid, Ph.D. — who builds fully self-driving vehicles that can traverse roads autonomously and even move through forests where paths don’t even exist — answer the question in an unexpected way. Transcript 00:00:00 - [Reporter] More than 2000 self-driving cars are on the road in California. - We have new details of the dangers they may pose. - Wild, but not there just yet. - My life is in this car's hands. - Fully self-driving is happening.
Comcast is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace and its digital equity programs Original
Updated 9/17/2023 11:26 AM • Project UP is Comcast's 10-year, $1 billion commitment to making digital equity a reality. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B) are part of Comcast's DNA. These principles play a crucial role in everything from the company's workplace environment and the content on its Xfinity video platforms to its supplier diversity programs and community-focused digital equity initiatives. Comcast believes everyone should have unlimited possibilities.
The Power of Our Example
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Feb. 20, 2021 Every new president faces a daunting array of problems, but 2021 will go down in the history books: Our country is under siege from a virus that has killed 485,000 Americans; Congress is locked in partisan struggles over the election, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and another stimulus bill; and our people are deeply divided. These domestic challenges would have been plenty for President Biden to tackle.
Rethinking the World Come January
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Dec. 5, 2020 On Dec. 14, each state’s electors will cast their vote, and on Jan. 6, 2021, Congress will name Joe Biden president of the United States. End of story. Over the next weeks, the Biden transition team will develop its first policies aimed at addressing our most urgent crises. There are many — all shaped by actions taken, and not taken, by the outgoing Trump administration. The highest priority is, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. As of Nov.
Gabriel Farms & Winery’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Cider
Bottoms Up By Eric Cox | Oct. 17, 2020 So, summer has faded amid the death song of insects and the rustle of changing leaves. Please know, gentle reader, that a warming dose of the temperate season lives on in Gabriel Farms & Winery’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Cider (5% ABV, $7/pint). Each sip of this blush-colored, effervescent compote hearkens to Northern Michigan's once-cloudless, blue-sky mornings.
The Queen of Underground Country Returns
5 years after the birth of her son, then the death of her father, Lovells' Rachel Brooke emerges with a new old-country album we can't stop spinning. By Craig Manning | Oct. 17, 2020 The last time Rachel Brooke released a full-length solo album, things looked very different — both in the northern Michigan country songwriter’s personal life and in the world at large. That album, titled A Killer’s Dream, dropped on Dec. 4, 2012.
The Long Goodbye
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Oct. 17, 2020 Last week, President Trump sowed confusion within his government — and amongst our allies — by tweeting that “We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas.” In other words, our long goodbye to Afghanistan will be completed this year, 2020. Or will it?
Patience Required
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | Oct. 17, 2020 It's going to be a very long election night. Voter fraud will have nothing to do with it. Every state has some form of early, mail-in voting this year, and only Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Indiana still require a reason to request a mail-in ballot. The other 45 states and Washington, D.C. provided early voting options on request, and about half those states sent early ballot applications to all registered voters.
Voter Suppression in Bingham Township, 1866
A story for our times. By Mark Smith | Oct. 17, 2020 There’s an old aphorism about remembering history: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Generally credited to Spanish-born philosopher and poet George Santayana and often tweaked in the retelling (the most common variation, “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it,” tends to be the best-known variant), the old saying’s meaning continues to ring true.
Fresh Coast’s Boar’s Head Dill Pickle Pizza
Tastemaker Oct. 17, 2020 We know what you’re thinking: “A pickle pizza? Ew.” Well, stop that; we suspect even people who don’t like pickles will like this pizza. It’s that good. Officially known as the Boar’s Head Dill Pickle Pizza, this stone-baked creation — available at Fresh Coast Market — spreads extra-large but thinly sliced Boar’s Head dill pickles and a dotting of Boar’s Head ham atop what feels like the creamiest cream cheese and gooiest mozzarella to ever have met your mouth.
The Ancient Wine Wizardry of Nathaniel Rose's Reds
One for the Ages By Patrick Sullivan | Oct. 17, 2020 There is a paradox that confronts you when you turn into the dirt driveway of Nathaniel Rose Wines, north of Suttons Bay. Rose, a 35-year-old winemaker who grew up in Leland and three years ago won a double gold at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition for a five-year-old red, has a degree in biochemistry from Western Michigan University.
A New Nuclear Arms Race: It’s Not Too Late
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Aug. 15, 2020 The memory of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago is fading as the last survivors die off. The global anti-nuclear movement of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s that used to bring massive crowds into the streets is long forgotten. Most people today do not even give a thought to the existential threat that nuclear weapons pose.
Tongue Acupuncture for Depression Effective
Tongue acupuncture is effective for the treatment of depression. Researchers measured the synergistic effects of tongue acupuncture combined with traditional body style acupuncture. They concluded that tongue acupuncture is an effective application modality for the treatment of depression and demonstrated significantly reduced anxiety levels and improved heart rate scores. Electrocardiographic (ECG) biosignal recordings also confirmed improvements in HRV, heart rate variability.
Jack Segal: COVID-19: Rethinking expenditures
With tens of millions of Americans out of work, including many of our neighbors, it’s time local governments tighten their belts.
Don’t Worry About Ellie Goulding
Modern Rock By Kristi Kates | April 4, 2020 Ellie Goulding has just produced a new music video in collaboration with musician and music producer Matthew Tyler Musto, aka blackbear, for her single “Worry About Me.” blackbear actually appears in the video as a set of twins, cavorting with Goulding in the woods alongside some Middle America scenery and a flock of chickens. The song is an “independently minded” single about Goulding rejecting a guy who only wanted to date her at his convenience.
Managing Expectations
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | April 4, 2020 By the time you read this, the world may have changed yet again. What had begun as a far-off problem in China has exploded across the entire planet. Early suggestions that the Coronavirus would be contained or would not be a major threat to the U.S. have proven wrong. The president’s musing that he would “love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter” (April 12) sounds extremely naive.
The Pre-Wedding Prep Couples Actually Need
Advice from two couples counselors and one divorce attorney. By Craig Manning | April 4, 2020 Five-hundred twenty-eight. That’s the number of hours that the average American couple spends planning their wedding, according to a 2019 study conducted by the artist-and-designer marketplace Minted. That’s 22 entire days spent on everything from wedding dress shopping to creating and stamping invites to planning seating charts and selecting flower arrangements.
Dress Dreams
What we're loving this season. By Sophie Boyce and Lynda Wheatley | April 4, 2020 Note to readers: To see an image of each dress, please visit page 13 of our digital issue. Of-the-moment styles heading down the North’s wedding aisles: According to local retailers, beachy dresses are taking a backseat to boho, while poofy, sparkly princess gowns are giving way to simpler, sleeker styles that up the drama by way of fabric and cut.
Forever Yours
Eternity has a nice ring to it. By Sophie Boyce and Lynda Wheatley | April 4, 2020 Note to readers: To see images of all of the rings described here, please turn to page 9 of our digital issue. The thing about weddings? They’re about love. About hope. And about the promise to keep on keeping on together, come what may. At a time when the commitment we make to take care of one another means more than ever, the “forever” that engagement rings and wedding bands symbolize seems especially significant.
We're on Our Own
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | April 4, 2020 It's moving that everyday citizens here are doing so much to help the medical community fight COVID-19. People making masks on their home sewing machines, autobody repair shops donating masks, manufacturers using 3-D printers to make parts for face shields, and now, auto manufacturers trying to make ventilators. It would be downright inspiring if it wasn't so pathetic.
Potter’s Wedding Cookies
Tastemaker By Lynda Wheatley | April 4, 2020 Wedding cakes are wonderful, sure, but serving something different — even if it’s just dessert — helps your wedding stand apart from the standard celebration. If we had to do it all over again, we’d skip the cake and take-home gift for wedding guests, and instead slip these pretty, glittery cookies atop each plate for a sweet and inexpensive to-go treat. From what we hear, to-go is totally trending these days.
TC Elderberry Syrup
Bottoms Up By Lynda Wheatley | April 4, 2020 Handmade weekly in small batches, not canned or pasteurized, and full of organic elderberries, raw honey from Beulah’s Champion Hill Farm, plus a dash of organic ginger, organic cinnamon, and organic whole cloves, TC Elderberry Syrup — the only FDA-registered elderberry syrup company in the state — has a long line of devotees who buy it for its uncommonly delicious taste and its purported immune-boosting properties.
Despite Virus, Soon-to-be Wedded Couples Are Marching On
The latest on the North's massive wedding industry — and the couples only weeks out from their big day. By Craig Manning | April 4, 2020 Each year, roughly 2.3 million weddings take place in the United States, with approximately 60 percent of them occurring between May and October. But as fears over COVID-19 (Coronavirus) continue to infect virtually every aspect of day-to-day life, it’s time to ask an important question: Could the summer of 2020 be the summer without weddings?
Dealing with Iran
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Jan. 25, 2020 What is U.S. policy toward Iran? Since the Jan. 3 killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), we’ve seen a war of words between President Trump and Ayatollah Khamenei, missile strikes by both sides, and the murder of 176 innocent passengers on a Ukrainian airliner.
Why Ukraine Matters
Guest Column By Jack Segal | Dec. 7, 2019 Amidst the clamor of the House impeachment hearings, an unexpected group of heroes emerged. State Department Foreign Service Officers (FSO) and White House experts demonstrated the quality of people who anonymously manage our foreign policy in Washington and who represent our country in more than 160 diplomatic missions.
Afghanistan’s Agony
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | Oct. 12, 2019 When I made my 40th — and final — trip to Afghanistan in 2010, I thought the end of our Afghan nightmare was in sight. I was wrong. Now, eight-plus years later, we still cling to the same goals for that country that we defined at the beginning, when we established the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002: “to establish a broad-based, gender sensitive, multi-ethnic and fully representative government.” Really.
What Putin Wants
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | June 8, 2019 The 22-month investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election has wrapped up with indictments against multiple Russian officials, a Russian “troll farm,” two shell companies, 13 Russian civilians, and 12 Russian military intelligence officers. The Russian attacks included hiring Internet hackers in third-world countries to carry out phishing attacks.
Must-have Items for Spring
Northern boutiques weigh in on what styles are selling now. By Ross Boissoneau | April 13, 2019 It’s spring (some days, anyway), and rumor has it summer is right behind. Once stripped of our bulky parkas, hats, and boots, what will we need to stay in step with the styles and update ourselves in accordance with the warmer weather? We asked several stores across the region to pick one must-have item from among the hundreds they have in their shops and tell us why it’s required spring or summer wear.
Trombonist Billy Gauthier Started a Jazz Band in 1978.
He — and it — haven’t stopped since. By Ross Boissoneau | April 13, 2019 Over the course of its 40 years of existence, Northwestern Michigan College’s Big Band has seen conductors come and go (and sometimes come again). Scores of musicians have passed through its ranks. It’s even spawned another big band, while performing music by a host of the genre’s most acclaimed writers and arrangers.
Our Bee Colonies Aren’t Collapsing - Yet
A new project will add wildflowers to local farms. Are wildflowers enough? By Patrick Sullivan | April 13, 2019 If the Farmland Pollinator Protection Project is successful, it will offer some of the region’s fields two benefits for the price of one. It will bolster habitat for bees, a population that’s been under stress lately, while at the same time create acres of dazzling wildflowers that bloom throughout the spring and summer.
China’s Second Great Leap Forward - Over the U.S.?
Guest Opinion By Jack Segal | April 13, 2019 President Xi Jinping says it is time for China to “take center stage in the world.” While President Trump has focused on forcing near-term changes to China’s behavior, China has a much longer-term strategic vision that aims to returning it to the position of global influence it held prior to the 19thcentury. In a lifetime, China has gone from a “Third World” country to the second largest economy in the world, with nine of the world’s top 20 companies.
The Cooks' House
Elevated cuisine, artfully presented in Traverse City By Janice Binkert | April 13, 2019 It’s a paradox: For two cooks whose cuisine speaks volumes, they prefer not to. They just want to cook. Eric Patterson and Jen Blakeslee, chef-owners of The Cooks’ House in Traverse City, celebrated the 11th anniversary of the restaurant on April 1 – not with champagne corks popping and revelry, but by going to work and continuing to do what they do so well.
Let the Sculpture Challenge Begin!
You. A stroll. Some selfies. And a great way to add art to your April. By Ross Boissoneau | April 13, 2019 If the budding trees and increasingly blue skies don’t inspire you to head out for a spring stroll, maybe this will: April 27 is International Sculpture Day, a singular day the International Sculpture Center created to get people seeing sculptures and thinking about the artform and its unique contributions to society.
Cuba: Time for New Thinking
Guest Column By Jack Segal & Karen Puschel | March 16, 2019 The message from a trip that we just took to Havana is that revolutionary Cuba is at a tipping point, second only to the economic collapse that occurred in Cuba after the Soviet Union ended its support in 1990. Then, Cuba’s GDP dropped 35 percent in three years. That led the Castro regime to adopt some reforms (termed a “necessary evil”), which were later walked back as economic conditions improved.
Trump, Putin, and Xi Ponder Nuclear Strategy
On October 20, the President announced our withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty after the required six-month warning period. That move could either spell the beginning of an arms race or a sea change in global security. The INF Treaty banned for the first time an entire category of nuclear-armed weapons.
Scarlet Ribbons/When Sunny Gets Blue: Steyn's Songs of the Week #337
We have a brace of musical centenaries for you this weekend at SteynOnline. Our latest edition of On the Town celebrates Bobby Troup with "Girl Talk", "Route 66", "The Girl Can't Help It" and much more, including live performances by Tal Bachman, Manhattan Transfer's Cheryl Bentyne and yours truly. Bobby Troup was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on October 18th 1918.
A Time for Reflection
On Sept. 9, Jews worldwide began celebrating the Jewish New Year (“Rosh Hashanah”). Observant Jews believe that this occasion marks when God sits in judgment of the world’s inhabitants, decides who will live another year, and decides whether the believers will enjoy happiness and success. Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — follows on Sept. 18 and 19.
The View from Moscow
The first Putin-Trump Summit on July 16, coming on the heels of a NATO Summit, has a deep historical foundation dating long before President Trump’s tenure. For Vladimir Putin, the build-up to this summit began in East Germany, where he served as a KGB operative during the collapse of the Soviet empire. On June 12, 1987, President Reagan gave his historic — “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall …” — speech.
A Friend’s Passing
Dennis Sandole, Ph.D., passed away on May 4. He was professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University, and so much more. I first met Dennis and his lifelong partner and wife, Ingrid Staroste, in Frankfurt, Germany. Dennis was a young professor from the University of Southern California’s Graduate School. He was teaching courses to part-time students like me while completing his first book. Publications in neat stacks served as the décor of their high-ceilinged apartment.
Go to Your Room | Opinion | Northern Express
I spent years working to reduce the threat of nuclear war and, while we are far from what I had hoped for, there is a stable equilibrium among the globe’s nuclear powers. That stability is now challenged by taunts that would get a child sent to their room for a time out. On Jan.
Defusing North Korea
Kim Jong-Un wants to survive. Donald Trump wants to reaffirm what he already knows: that he’s a great President. Xi Jinping is riding a wave of power just handed to him by China’s 90 million Communist Party members, and Xi now wants to assert China’s role as the pre-eminent regional power. In other words, the three key players in the drama of North Korea’s nuclear weapons are basically on the same page.
Forum: Addressing academic emergencies worldwide
Allan Goodman, tonight’s International Affairs Forum (IAF) guest speaker at Milliken Auditorium, is dedicated to doubling the number of American students who study abroad.
Colton Dixon - Identity - Capitol
Stacking blocks of electronica and pop upon his established base of spiritual alternative rock, Dixon’s latest pulls together sympathetic mental ponderings, encouraging anthems, and conceptual explorations in an ambitious undertaking that mostly works, thanks to the common thread of his hook-writing abilities and sure-footed vocals.
Microbrew and Music Celebrates a Decade
The annual Traverse City Summer Microbrew and Music Festival is turning 10 years old this August. One of TC’s premier summertime events, the festival heads back to the front lawn of the Village at Grand Traverse Commons August 11 and 12. Here’s what you can expect: 100+ MUSICAL ACTS The man behind Microbrew and Music, Sam Porter, has packed both days with a lineup of more than 100 acts.
Autumn’s Essential Accessories
Looking for a chic and cheap way to update your fall wardrobe? We shopped the fall 2017 runways to bring you the quintessential quartet of accessories — all available at Up North boutiques — that’ll easily up your autumn style ante without emptying your wallet. FLOPPY, WIDE-BRIM HAT Gaylord’s own Lauren Duski helped debut this trend early this year, donning several during her appearance on NBC-TV’s The Voice.
Aloe Blacc Seeks America’s Musical Treasures
Singer and hip-hop artist Aloe Blacc, so far best known for his collaboration with Avicii on the hit single “Wake Me Up,” will host a new 3-D documentary called America’s Treasures, which will explore American culture through its music. In the film, Blacc will tour locations like New York City, New Orleans, Chicago, and Detroit, highlighting the stories of such artists as Louis Armstrong, Ramsey Lewis, Gloria Estefan, and more.
Gaylord's Farm Fest Returns
Farm Fest, the music event that happens every August, is likely the only concert that bills itself as a “Moooosical Magical Happening.” And probably the only one where you might also see cows.
The Difference | Opinion | Northern Express
When the ACA passed in 2010, Democrats controlled the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives. Republicans now control the White House, Senate, and House. The ACA discussion played out over several months, including input from all stakeholders, moving through three committees in the House and two in the Senate. There were nearly 80 public hearings, 130 amendments offered, and 79 roll-call votes. The Senate alone debated the measure for 25 straight days.
Traverse City National Writers Series Announces Season Lineup
Whether you’re a fan of nonfiction, novels, film, poetry or all the above, the just-announced National Writers Series lineup offers plenty of genres and intriguing topics to keep your mind stimulated this fall.
Managing Foreign Policy
With even FOX’s Chris Wallace citing “tremendous disarray” in the Trump White House, maybe I should explain why I’m still hoping that order might yet emerge from the chaos. Chief of Staff General John Kelly has joined Lt. General H.R. McMaster in an effort to impose order on the President’s front office. Both have spent enough time in combat and in Washington — two similar environments — to realize that they need to take charge … if Donald Trump will let them.
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