The CEO of Qatar Airlines, has apologized for calling U.S. flight attendants “grandmothers” during a speech in Ireland last week.
Akbar Al Baker bragged that the average age of Qatar Airways’ cabin crew is just 26, while passengers on U.S airlines are “always being served by grandmothers.”
“Competition among air carriers is robust. This is healthy, especially for our passengers, but our competition must remain respectful,” he wrote in a letter to the Association of Flight Attendants. “For the cabin crew serving aboard all air carriers, professionalism, skill and dedication are the qualities that matter. I was wrong to imply that other factors,...
Akbar Al Baker bragged that the average age of Qatar Airways’ cabin crew is just 26, while passengers on U.S airlines are “always being served by grandmothers.”
“Competition among air carriers is robust. This is healthy, especially for our passengers, but our competition must remain respectful,” he wrote in a letter to the Association of Flight Attendants. “For the cabin crew serving aboard all air carriers, professionalism, skill and dedication are the qualities that matter. I was wrong to imply that other factors,...
- 7/14/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
10:10 Pm Pt -- Cops say one person has died and at least 8 were injured in the attack. One person has been arrested.A number of people have been seriously injured after a van plowed into groups of pedestrians near a notorious Muslim mosque. The incident occurred just after midnight. London police say there are a number of casualties. The Muslim Council of Britain says the van ran over a number of worshipers as they left the mosque.
- 6/19/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Before VH1′s I Love the 2000s special began on June 17, I polled my roommates (whom I forced to watch with me) about their favorite pop culture moments from the year 2000. For about three minutes, everyone was stumped—what’s actually from the year 2000, instead of just under the umbrella term “the 2000s”? It turns out that remembering specific years is a lot harder than you think.
That’s why there’s a saving grace to VH1′s nostalgia-bait series, a 10-part anthology spread out over five days this week. It’s hugely entertaining to hear no-name comedians praise specific...
That’s why there’s a saving grace to VH1′s nostalgia-bait series, a 10-part anthology spread out over five days this week. It’s hugely entertaining to hear no-name comedians praise specific...
- 6/18/2014
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chicago – Kathryn Bigelow opens her stunning “Zero Dark Thirty” with a date and a series of voice mail recordings. The date is, of course, September 11, 2001 and the recordings are the ghosts of the people who died that day, perfectly setting the stakes for the story to come – the hunt for and capture of Osama Bin Laden. Over the next two-and-a-half hours, the Oscar-winning director and the screenwriter she worked with on “The Hurt Locker,” Mark Boal, methodically chronicle the twists and turns of the last decade in the life of the most infamous terrorist in the world. They brilliantly weave in the elements we know (or think we do) like waterboarding, Abu Ghraib, Richard Reid, and the Marriott bombing with information that will be new to most viewers and they place one stunning actress right in the middle of it all as Jessica Chastain serves as our fascinating guide through this CIA procedural.
- 12/10/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
On Tuesday night's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell again devoted his "Rewrite" segment to "blood-drenched lobbyist" Wayne Lapierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, and to "defenders of movie theater mass murderers' right to use 100-round ammunition clips on their assault rifles." Part of his essay, however, was devoted to a comparison of our reaction to "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, which is illustrative in a number of ways.
- 7/25/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
During a heated debate over supposed "scare tactics" over the debt ceiling standoff Wednesday, The Five's Eric Bolling got an attack of Giuliamnesia™, telling Fox colleague Bob Beckel that he didn't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil between 2000 and 2008. Like the former Mayor of America, Bolling is forgetting, not only 9/11, but several other Bush-era domestic attacks like "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, the DC Sniper attacks, and the anthrax killings.
- 7/14/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
DVD Playhouse June 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Kiss Me Deadly (Criterion) Robert Aldrich’s 1955 reinvention of the film noir detective story is one of cinema’s great genre mash-ups: part hardboiled noir; part cold war paranoid thriller; and part science- fiction. Ralph Meeker plays Mickey Spillane’s fascist detective Mike Hammer as a narcissistic simian thug, a sadist who would rather smash a suspect’s fingers than make love to the bevvy of beautiful dames that cross his path. In fact, the only time you see a smile cross Meeker’s sneering mug is when he’s doling out pain, with a vengeance. When a terrified young woman (Cloris Leachman, film debut) literally crossed Hammer’s path one night, and later turns up dead, he vows to get to the bottom of her brutal demise. One of the most influential films ever made, and perhaps the most-cited film by the architects...
By
Allen Gardner
Kiss Me Deadly (Criterion) Robert Aldrich’s 1955 reinvention of the film noir detective story is one of cinema’s great genre mash-ups: part hardboiled noir; part cold war paranoid thriller; and part science- fiction. Ralph Meeker plays Mickey Spillane’s fascist detective Mike Hammer as a narcissistic simian thug, a sadist who would rather smash a suspect’s fingers than make love to the bevvy of beautiful dames that cross his path. In fact, the only time you see a smile cross Meeker’s sneering mug is when he’s doling out pain, with a vengeance. When a terrified young woman (Cloris Leachman, film debut) literally crossed Hammer’s path one night, and later turns up dead, he vows to get to the bottom of her brutal demise. One of the most influential films ever made, and perhaps the most-cited film by the architects...
- 6/11/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
It's not shocking that Osama bin Laden was found in a comfortable Pakistan mansion-what's shocking is that the U.S. pretends the country isn't a harbor for terrorists. Plus, full coverage of bin Laden's death.
To me, as an American Muslim, it's significant that bin Laden is dead. American-Muslim groups zipped out statements through the night after news of his death: Muslims for Progressive Values said it "expresses great relief" at the death, saying, "Osama Bin Laden has singularly disgraced Islam and dragged our faith through the mud..." Islamic Information Center called him "one of the greatest enemies of Islam, if not the entire world." American Islamic Forum for Democracy said it "applauds" the news.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Hunt for Osama's Son Hamza Bin laden
Photos: Inside Osama bin Laden's Hideout
For me, what's as important, however, is where bin Laden was killed: the hill-station town of Abbottabad,...
To me, as an American Muslim, it's significant that bin Laden is dead. American-Muslim groups zipped out statements through the night after news of his death: Muslims for Progressive Values said it "expresses great relief" at the death, saying, "Osama Bin Laden has singularly disgraced Islam and dragged our faith through the mud..." Islamic Information Center called him "one of the greatest enemies of Islam, if not the entire world." American Islamic Forum for Democracy said it "applauds" the news.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Hunt for Osama's Son Hamza Bin laden
Photos: Inside Osama bin Laden's Hideout
For me, what's as important, however, is where bin Laden was killed: the hill-station town of Abbottabad,...
- 5/2/2011
- by Asra Q. Nomani
- The Daily Beast
A breakthrough nanotech material has two properties that will appeal to forces facing Ied bombers as well as airport security types: It rapidly changes color if exposed to peroxide-based explosives (like the shoe bomber had) and can actually neutralize them too.
The invention has been perfected by Allen Apblett of Oklahoma State University, and its uses are "anywhere terrorist explosives are used, including battlefields, airports and subways," according to Apblett. The system is capable of detecting minuscule amounts of peroxide-based bomb chemicals, which would've been handy in the infamous case of the airline shoebomber Richard Reid, who tried to ignite a peroxide-based explosive concealed in the sole of his sneakers. Peroxide-based bombs are relatively cheap and easy to construct, and the chemicals are pretty readily available--making them very dangerous.
Apblett's system uses an "ink" made of nanoparticles that include a compound of molybdenum, a heavy silvery metal that's used industrially in high-pressure,...
The invention has been perfected by Allen Apblett of Oklahoma State University, and its uses are "anywhere terrorist explosives are used, including battlefields, airports and subways," according to Apblett. The system is capable of detecting minuscule amounts of peroxide-based bomb chemicals, which would've been handy in the infamous case of the airline shoebomber Richard Reid, who tried to ignite a peroxide-based explosive concealed in the sole of his sneakers. Peroxide-based bombs are relatively cheap and easy to construct, and the chemicals are pretty readily available--making them very dangerous.
Apblett's system uses an "ink" made of nanoparticles that include a compound of molybdenum, a heavy silvery metal that's used industrially in high-pressure,...
- 4/1/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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