1 month ago
The click-clack of the bygone era of typewriters are making an ****** og comeback in the hyper-digital world. At Gramercy Typewriter in New York City, the old machines are finding a new audience of people young and old, poets and typewriter enthusiasts as well as tourists from around the globe. NBC's Christine Romans reports in this week's Sunday Spotlight.
#gramercy #christine
#gramercy #christine
2 months ago
MADRID, July 23 (Reuters) - Spanish former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Thursday that €1.3 million ($1.5 million) of jewellery seized by police as part of an investigation was a personal gift he received years ago and was never intended for financial gain.
Zapatero, who was prime minister from 2004 to 2011 and remains an influential figure in the governing Socialist Party, is under investigation over alleged influence-peddling, accusations he denies. The case is one of a series of corruption scandals affecting the party and piling political pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government.
In his first interview since being placed under investigation two months ago, Zapatero told Spanish public broadcaster TVE that the jewels found during a search of his office were "a personal courtesy gift" that had been stored for years with other family valuables.
The jewels were unrelated to his political activities and their origin and handling would be fully explained before a judge, he said. He rejected suggestions they reflected any attempt at personal enrichment.
Investigating Judge Jose Luis Calama opened a separate probe into the jewellery, whose origin remains undocumented, according to investigators. An auction house provisionally valued them at about €1.3 million ($1.5 million), though Zapatero disputes that estimate.
#investigation #personal
Zapatero, who was prime minister from 2004 to 2011 and remains an influential figure in the governing Socialist Party, is under investigation over alleged influence-peddling, accusations he denies. The case is one of a series of corruption scandals affecting the party and piling political pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government.
In his first interview since being placed under investigation two months ago, Zapatero told Spanish public broadcaster TVE that the jewels found during a search of his office were "a personal courtesy gift" that had been stored for years with other family valuables.
The jewels were unrelated to his political activities and their origin and handling would be fully explained before a judge, he said. He rejected suggestions they reflected any attempt at personal enrichment.
Investigating Judge Jose Luis Calama opened a separate probe into the jewellery, whose origin remains undocumented, according to investigators. An auction house provisionally valued them at about €1.3 million ($1.5 million), though Zapatero disputes that estimate.
#investigation #personal
2 months ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marcus L. Martin felt instant trepidation Sunday when he saw five adults wading thigh- and waist-deep in the Scioto River. A frequent boater on the Ohio waterway, the Baptist pastor knew the area where they were standing to be treacherous. He believes the people he captured in a photo to be the ill-fated group that drowned that day.
"I just remember being taught that area was kind of dangerous, in the sense of there being steep slopes" and a quick drop-off into the river, he told The ***** ociated Press. A few years earlier, Martin had warned a pair of young people playing in the water at that same spot to "be very careful."
He saw five adults in the water and two children playing on the grassy bank nearby, tracking the description of the group provided by Delaware County authorities after the drownings.
Martin and his family floated away to enjoy a beautiful summer evening. But when they returned past the spot about two hours later and saw the group still wading in the river, Martin thought to snap a photo.
"I don't know what it was. I said, I just need to capture this picture," he said.
#group
"I just remember being taught that area was kind of dangerous, in the sense of there being steep slopes" and a quick drop-off into the river, he told The ***** ociated Press. A few years earlier, Martin had warned a pair of young people playing in the water at that same spot to "be very careful."
He saw five adults in the water and two children playing on the grassy bank nearby, tracking the description of the group provided by Delaware County authorities after the drownings.
Martin and his family floated away to enjoy a beautiful summer evening. But when they returned past the spot about two hours later and saw the group still wading in the river, Martin thought to snap a photo.
"I don't know what it was. I said, I just need to capture this picture," he said.
#group
