. That acquisition prompted concerns from the Pentagon about consolidation in the industrial base, which some said could lead to a lack of competition and innovation.
But Hewson pushed back against that Tuesday, saying she “wholeheartedly disagrees” that consolidation is a bad thing.
On Tuesday, the State Department cleared the way for Lockheed to sell four Littoral Combat Ships to Saudi Arabia in a deal that could be worth $11.25 billion.
The company also hopes to hear this year about the outcome of another major contract, which could have a significant impact on its bottom line: the Long Range Strike Bomber. Lockheed has teamed up with Boeing on the bid, and the pair are competing against Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract worth up to $55 billion to build as many as 100 stealthy bombers.
Earlier this year, Lockheed lost out on one of the Army’s biggest contracts in years – a $30 billion competition to build 55,000 vehicles known as the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. But Lockheed has protested the award to Oshkosh Defense, and the Government Accountability Office is expected to rule on the protest by the end of the year.
I am off to give a talk called “Participant observation for solidarity scholarship: opportunities, challenges, results” today on a panel called “Food Power, Food Sovereignty, and Food Security as part of the SOAS Anthropology of Food Professionalisization Event.
Special shout out to Josh Brem-WIlson for chatting through some of these ideas with me last year and for sharing a great paper he has just written on the topic.
NEW YORK (AP) — In the three years that Donald Trump rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech and an enemy of free expression. It has published studies, organized petitions and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund.
Now the literary and human rights organization, which includes thousands of authors and journalists, is taking a more direct step: PEN is suing the president.
In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the center, also known as PEN America, alleges that “official acts” by Trump have “violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.” PEN cites such examples as reports that Trump was meddling in the proposed merger of AT&T and CNN, a frequent target of Trump’s anger (The Justice Department has sought to block the merger).
The suit also notes Trump’s comments on Washington Post owner and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Trump, unhappy with the Post’s coverage, has threatened antitrust action against Amazon and suggested raising its shipping costs. According to the Post, he has pressured U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rates. (Last week, the United States Postal Service proposed some hikes for 2019, among them increases which would affect Amazon. Shipping costs have been raised several times over the past decade).
An email sent to a White House spokeswoman shortly before the suit was filed was not immediately returned.
“There is widespread concern that the president is actually extracting reprisals on the media for coverage he considers unfavorable,” she said.
Trump has been sued thousands of times over past the few decades, and shortly before taking office agreed to pay $25 million in a settlement over fraud allegations against the now-defunct Trump University. He also has been sued as president, including on First Amendment grounds.
Last month, a federal court in Cincinnati ruled that protesters at a Trump rally in March 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky, could not sue him for inciting violence, finding nothing incriminating in his remarks. Earlier this year, the Knight First Amendment Institute sued Trump and his communications team for blocking several people from the president’s Twitter account. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where PEN’s suit was filed Tuesday, ruled in May that blocking Twitter critics violated the First Amendment.
Nossel added that PEN was not yet “actively asking” Bezos or CNN or other media outlets to join the lawsuit.Varanasi is located around 1525 KM away from Mumbai via bus route. Varanasi to Mumbai travel time by bus in the concerned bus route may take around 30 hours and 30.5 minutes apporximately when your bus travels at an average speed of fifty kilometers per hour. The bus ticket fare may cost around 2288.1285 if the bus charges is 1.5 per kilometer.
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First guest in these storied places: Mark Handforth.
Between Pop Art and Minimalism, the artist invests the space from October 17 to 30 with his monumental works around the theme of light. Produced in collaboration with exhibition curator Timothée Chaillou and in partnership with the New York gallery Gavin Brown, “DROP SHADOW” comes just at the right time since it is part of the FIAC’s VIP course. Watch your eyes!
He drove in eleven Formula One Grand Prix races between 1952 and 1956, the era when the cars and tracks were so dangerous that just surviving from one season to the next was a victory. Teamed with fellow Belgian Olivier Gendebien, he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Ferrari in 1960. He had an influence on three generations of automotive writers and, along with other luminaries like Ken Purdy, Denis Jenkinson and David E Davis, Jr defined both the role and the style that would come to represent the prototypical automotive journalist. He was Paul Frère and he died in 2009 at the age of 91.
Frére was born in Le Harve, France on January 30, 1917. His father was a Belgian diplomat and as Paul grew up, the family lived in many of Europe’s capitals, no doubt a reason for Paul Frère’s renowned air of sophistication and polish. He was educated in Brussels as a commercial engineer, but in 1946 discovered motorsports, winning his class in the first motorcycle race he entered on a prewar 500-cc Triumph twin. Two years later he switched to automobiles and he entered the 24-Hour Race at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium in a 1938 ex-Le Mans MG PB Special. In 1950, he won his class in that race in an 850-cc Dyna Panhard and repeated the performance in 1951.
In his book Frère tells us the story that in the early 1950’s, he was working as the service manager for Belgium’s Jaguar importer when a customer who had entered his sports car in a race at the Spa circuit came to the service department and complained that his car wasn’t quick enough. Frère, the service manager took the car out onto the circuit and in 3 laps put in the fastest qualifying time of the day.
In 1952 Frère made his Formula One debut at the Belgium circuit and made five starts that season. He never ran a full Grand Prix season and his best results were 4th in 1955 and 2nd in 1956, both results racing at the Spa circuit and both times driving for Ferrari.
Frère could drive just about anything, witness his first overall at the Spa 24-hour race in 1952 in an Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and his class win at the 1953 Mille Miglia in Italy driving a 1953 Chrysler Saratoga Coupe. And yet, throughout his autobiography, he never brags about his accomplishments, preferring instead to give us insights behind the headlines and telling us the real story.
Long Distance events were a specialty for Frère; he raced eight times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing six of those races. In 1955 he was 2nd overall, driving with Peter Collins in an Aston Martin DB3S. In 1957, he was 4th overall in a Jaguar D-Type with fellow Belgian Freddy Rousselle and in 1958 he got another 4th overall with Edgar Barth in a Porsche RSK. He was on the podium in 1959, driving with Maurice Trintingent in an Aston Martin DBR1. He and Olivier Gendebien won the event in 1960 in a Ferrari after leading for 22 hours.
It is noteworthy that each of the drivers that he was paired with over these years was a top-ranked sport scar racer; Frère was never merely journalist baggage, but a real racer with proven abilities to race with the big boys. To top off his season in 1960, he also won the non-championship South African Grand Prix, driving a Cooper Formula One machine.
Frère retired from racing after that year at the age of 43 and pursued his career as an automotive journalist and writer. We are lucky that he did so. In 1963 he wrote Sports Car and Competition Driving, a slim 156 page book that sold tens of thousands of copies and that was the starting point for thousands of would-be racers