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Along with LG, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, the alliance includes 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone. |
In February, the alliance committed to achieving a common worldwide charger by 2012. |
Many synagogues close for Shabbat as the storm is predicted to rage during that time while some temples urge their congregation to take precautionary measures. |
Jewish institutions in Florida braced for the worst as officials issued dire warnings about Hurricane Matthew, which approached the state’s Atlantic coast Thursday evening and was to move up the coast over the next 24 hours. |
The National Hurricane Center called Matthew, which wreaked havoc through Cuba and Haiti, extremely dangerous. The storm was downgraded from Category 4 to Category 3 early Friday, NBC reported. |
The 550,000 Jews of South Florida joined their neighbors in hanging hurricane shutters to shield windows from flying objects as well staying home from work and school. In many cases the weather is preventing communal religious gatherings because of the dangers of braving 100-mile-per-hour winds predicted during landfal... |
Many synagogues are shuttering for Shabbat as the storm is predicted to rage during that time and could potentially leave a dangerous mess in its aftermath. The entire state is practically in lockdown and many are being told to evacuate coastal areas. |
The proprietor of Zak the Baker kosher restaurant in the hip Wynnwood section of Miami posted a Facebook photo of staff boarding up the storefront on Thursday morning. The Miami Jewish Federation rescheduled a Thursday night Community Memorial Service honoring former President Shimon Peres organized together with the C... |
In Miami, the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center and Tauber Academy announced closures on Thursday and Friday. It affected their daily minyan in the morning and afternoon. An announcement on their web page said the leadership would continue to monitor the storm and its aftermath and promised to advise the congregation vi... |
Temple Israel of Greater Miami on the mainland and Temple Beth Sholom on Miami Beach closed during the week, also telling their congregants they would open for services Friday and Saturday weather permitting. |
Farther south, Congregation Bet Shira in Pinecrest erred on the side of caution telling congregants through social media there would be no Friday evening Shabbat services but Saturday morning Shabbat services would take place as usual, providing the synagogue has electrical power. Central and northern coastal areas wer... |
Evacuation orders were given for those residing in coastal areas starting around the Palm Beach area as well as counties to the north. |
“This storm will kill you,” Gov. Rick Scott said at a Thursday news conference, urging Floridians to take the storm seriously. |
With the danger of a storm surge, the egalitarian Temple Emanuel, located on the barrier islands of Palm Beach, cancelled Friday night and Shabbat morning services. The Conservative Temple B’nai Jacob of Wellington in the western suburbs of Palm Beach County urged congregants through their Facebook page to make sure th... |
CBS 4 newscasters on Thursday afternoon warned viewers of the post-storm dangers, specifically the possibility of downed power lines. |
Temple Beth Kodesh in Boynton Beach in Palm Beach County, Temple Beit HeYam in Stuart, Temple Beth El in Port St. Lucie and Temple Beth in Jupiter are also shuttered until Monday. |
“Uvacharta BaChaim You must choose life,” Temple Beth Am’s message read. |
Farther north, the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando closed its operations, as did the Maitland Jewish Community Campus through Monday. The Jacksonville Jewish Center also announced its closing this week, moving the Conservative synagogue’s annual cemetery memorial with another synagogue indoors on Sunday to the Jac... |
By far, the most creative message explaining the series of cancellations through Monday caused by weather was a YouTube video posted by the clergy at Temple Judea of Palm Beach Gardens. Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik and Cantor Alicia Stillman sang the traditional Shalom Aleichem Shabbat song in front of the temple’s ark. |
“’Yehi ratzon lefanecha Adonai elohenu velohei avotenu,’ may it be your will Adonai, God of our ancestors, that we all remain safe and dry. Amen,” Kapitulnik ended the video. |
When Gov. Rick Perry emerged from back surgery on July 1, he tweeted that his “little procedure” had gone “as advertised.” The possible presidential contender didn’t reveal that he’d undergone an experimental injection of his own stem cells. |
The possible presidential contender didn’t reveal that he’d undergone an experimental injection of his own stem cells, a therapy that isn’t FDA approved, has mixed evidence of success and can cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars. |
The governor’s procedure did not involve embryonic stem cells, which he and many other conservatives ardently oppose using for medical research on both religious and moral grounds. His treatment involved removing his own adult stem cells from healthy tissue and injecting them back into his body at the time of surgery, ... |
While some doctors and biomedical engineers swear by the benefits of this relatively new science and offer the therapy to patients with everything from slipped discs to cardiac disease, stem cell experts say there’s still little clinical evidence — aside from research on animals and small-scale human studies — that it’... |
The FDA, which is in litigation over its authority to regulate new stem cell clinics, has not approved the use of adult stem cells for anything other than bone marrow transplants, which have been used for decades to treat cancer and sickle cell anemia patients. This has largely kept doctors from openly advertising thes... |
It also hasn’t stopped Perry from pushing for adult stem cell research and industry in Texas. During the governor’s 2009 State of the State address, he called on state leaders to invest in adult stem cell companies. Later that year, his Emerging Technology Fund awarded a $5 million grant to the Texas A&M Health Science... |
In the weeks since the procedure, the governor has traded his cowboy boots for orthopedic shoes and donned a back brace, raising questions that his recovery may be slow-going. Still, he has traveled extensively; in an interview with The Associated Press last week, Perry said he felt 80 percent recovered and was swimmin... |
As for the high cost of such stem cell injections, Miner said that whatever state health insurance didn’t pay for, “Perry did.” By rule, the state's Employees Retirement System would not confirm or deny whether Perry is on the health plan. But officials said the state health plan does not cover experimental treatments ... |
In Perry's procedure, his doctor, Houston orthopedic spine surgeon Stanley Jones, said he pulled stem cells from fatty tissue in the governor's hip, left the cells to expand in culture for several weeks at a Sugar Land lab, then injected the cells back into the governor during his back surgery, into the spine and into ... |
In May 2010, Jones made a high-profile trip to Kyoto, Japan, to get infused with his own stem cells to treat autoimmune arthritis. A January press release from RNL BIO, the South Korea-based stem cell company that treated him, reported that he had a complete recovery within five months. |
The infusion of adult stem cells to repair tissue and organ damage is highly controversial. For every Bartolo Colon, the New York Yankees pitcher whose near-miraculous comeback is being attributed to the procedure, researchers say there are botched jobs and patients who spend tens of thousands of dollars with no result... |
The biomedical engineers and spinal clinics developing stem cell products and performing the procedure say they’re seeing terrific results. |
But researchers say that despite the great potential adult stem cells may have, so far they’ve seen nothing more definitive than the so-called “placebo effect” — patients who convince themselves they’re feeling better simply by nature of having had the procedure. In some lab tests, stem cells that have been effectively... |
Harold E. Pewick, 80, born and raised in Iowa but lived last 22 years in Evanston. Survived by Son Roger and Daughter Tammera. He was retired from the Air Force, served in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. Very active in helping with the Boy Scouts. Often quoted, "It is better to build a boy than to mend a man." Wanted to help... |
Meek Mill pulls his weight in the video for “Flexing on ‘Em,” a single off his DJ Drama-hosted mixtape Dreamchasers 2. Rick Ross’ 25-year-old protégé stunts in a white Rolls-Royce and Ferrari while cruising the city, gets it in with some fine females, and flexes with some Ciroc bottles. Next up, the MMG rapper will rel... |
Idaho State Highway 46 runs through the center of the Gooding Police Department patch, as it does the city of Gooding itself. The century-old Gooding Hotel is depicted on the right side of the patch, while the left side depicts the Little Wood River that runs through the city, shadowed by the railroad tracks of the Uni... |
Here are the best movies to look forward to. |
At this point, the entire year is summer blockbuster season. Black Panther, which was released in February, was already one of the biggest box office successes of all time. And Marvel will do it again only a few months later, moving Avengers: Infinity War forward to April to kick off the summer very early. From there, ... |
Hey, it wouldn't be summer without about 35 superheroes in one movie. |
Have you seen how jacked Josh Brolin got for this movie? Plus, even the early promotion for this movie has been entertaining enough. |
Hopefully we finally get to see our boy Han make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs (especially since a parsec is a unit of astronomical distance, not time). |
Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, with Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter. Enough said. |
People are already calling it the scariest movie of the year. Start preparing now. |
I could watch two hours of just this baby stumbling around with laser vision. |
Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are back, fighting the drug cartels on what looks to be a much bigger scale. |
This near future satirical comedy stars Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Get Out) as a telemarketer who discovers he can use a white voice to become the most successful man in his company. |
Look, I doubt you'll find many people who say Ant-Man is their favorite Marvel hero, but Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly combined will make this one fun as hell. |
Hey, being a teen is hard enough, but middle school is especially horrible. Writer and director Bo Burnham makes this all too real with a coming of age story starring Elsie Fisher. |
In which 55-year-old Tom Cruise is still mountain climbing without ropes. |
When Audrey (Mila Kunis) finds out her boyfriend (Justin Theroux) is a spy, she and her friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon) get caught up in an international conspiracy/misadventure. |
Based on the 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians stars Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, who joins her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) on a trip to Singapore where she learns he comes from one of the wealthiest family's in the country. The problem, however, is that the family matriarch isn't exactly approving of... |
A sci-fi movie that might actually explain Keanu Reeves's key to immortality, as he plays a scientist working to bring his family back from the dead. |
In the last three years she's become a bona fide Edinburgh Festival legend and after the opening night of her month-long residency at London's Apollo Theatre, sultry Irish cabaret star Camille O'Sullivan looks set to put the capital under her spell. |
Blending the decadence of the 1920s Berlin and Parisian nightclub scene with the glamour of 1940s Hollywood and the best of Nick Cave, Tom Waits, David Bowie and Bob Dylan, the enigmatic former Dublin architect succeeds in taking cabaret to a new place. |
At the end of a 90-minute show in which she'd laughed, cried, dressed and undressed, drunk copious red wine and even got the audience miaowing like an alley full of stray cats, Camille walked out through the stalls to a standing ovation. She had taken us on a dark, sensuous journey, on which we'd been seduced by her ch... |
The clip above shows Camille performing live on Later with Jools Holland, who she recently toured with. It will give you a taste - but nothing more - of what you can expect in the flesh. |
Liberty Counsel, the Religious Right hate group, has once again released its annual “Naughty and Nice” list (a.k.a. the “Friend or Foe” list), telling Christians where they ought to shop over the winter. |
To put that another way, the “Naughty” stores are the ones that acknowledge the existence of Jews and Muslims and atheists in their holiday marketing campaigns and use language that’s inclusive of everybody, while the “Nice” stores are rewarded by LC for treating Christians as the special snowflakes they can be. |
Texas Man Screams at Protesters Outside Confederate Monument: Jesus "Hates You"! |
The new data show that the four states that have experienced the most subprime loan problems — California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada — also account for more than half the increase in new foreclosures on prime mortgages. Nearly half of all first quarter foreclosure starts, 46 percent, also were in those states. |
"What appears to be happening (is that) while the effects of the recession are being felt everywhere, in those states where there have already been the biggest price drops, that's where problems are translating immediately into foreclosures," said Jay Brinkmann, the chief economist for the mortgage bankers group. |
Brinkmann said that the number of prime mortgages going into foreclosure would only increase because the U.S. economy is expected to continue shedding jobs well into next year, although the recession is expected to end by the last three months of 2009. |
"What is the outlook going forward? Well, delinquencies are very much tied to employment," he said. Most mainstream economists think that the unemployment rate, now 8.9 percent, will peak at more than 10 percent by the middle of next year. |
The bankers group found that 8.22 percent of all mortgages were at least one payment late during the first quarter, the highest first-quarter level since the industry group began keeping records in 1972. Additionally, 3.85 percent of all mortgages were in foreclosure at the end of the quarter. |
Taken together, that means that more than 12 out of every 100 mortgages in the U.S. was delinquent or in foreclosure in January and March. |
The national foreclosure rate was 1.37 percent after the first quarter, while the start rate in the four most problematic states was almost double that, at 2.45 percent. |
Including all loan types, the states with the highest overall delinquency rates were Nevada (11.75 percent), Mississippi (11.7 percent) and Florida (10.67 percent). The states with the largest percentages of homes in foreclosure included Florida (10.56 percent), Nevada (7.83 percent) and Arizona (5.56 percent). Topping... |
Carson Pirie Scott & Co. saw fiscal first-quarter earnings plunge 95 percent as the Chicago firm`s operating profits were nearly wiped out by acquisition-related costs. |
Peter S. Willmott, chairman and chief executive of the retailing, food service, lodging and distribution firm, said Carsons still anticipates full-year results will exceed the record earnings, before unusual items, of $18.4 million, or $3.76 a share, in fiscal 1984. |
In the quarter ended May 4, net income dropped to $107,000, or 2 cents a share, from $2.1 million, or 43 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Sales climbed 30 percent, to $287.5 million from $220.6 million. |
Willmott said first-period operating profits rose from the year-earlier level. However, net income was depressed by interest costs and other expenses associated with two acquisitions last year. |
In the fiscal 1984 second quarter, Carsons acquired the County Seat specialty store chain and the MacDonald Cos. direct mail firm, now known as CPS Direct Marketing. |
In the latest quarter, the retail group`s operating earnings dropped 79 percent to $743,000. However, sales jumped 77 percent, primarily because of the inclusion of the newly acquired companies. |
Willmott said Carsons` retail results suffered from a comparison with the record level of a year earlier. He said the two acquired firms posted first-period losses, as is their seasonal pattern, and that department store operating earnings were off 24 percent from a year earlier. |
Food service and lodging earnings climbed 42 percent to $7.2 million. The segment`s sales increased only 4 percent, to $106.3 million, reflecting the sale of two hotel properties on Jan. 30. |
Distribution group earnings fell 71 percent to $204,000 as sales declined 2 percent to $34.4 million. |
Airport and airline employees will soon face tougher security measures being implemented by the TSA, CBS New York reports. |
Homeland Security made the announcement just weeks after a gun-smuggling operation in which a bag handler and ramp agent were involved. |
Among the potential security measures could be airline-employee screenings, additional TSA patrols and random security checks. |
The Aviation Security Advisory Committee is responsible for reviewing airport safety nationwide. |
Posted: 1/9/15 at 9:28 AM under News Story. |
TRIBUNE - Two years have passed since an elevator debacle in this small west-central Kansas county left three dozen farmers without a paycheck despite a year of bumper crops and high commodity prices. |
"We still have no explanation, no apology, no nothing," said Duane Schneider, a Tribune farmer who will lose thousands of dollars from the foreclosure and bankruptcy of Sunbelt Grain. |
The possibility of receiving pennies on the dollar for what he lost "means very little," he said. |
The case unraveled more on Monday, when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ordered case Trustee Steven Speth to pay Security State Bank of Scott City, the elevator's lender, $2.6 million to satisfy the bank's secured claim in the case. |
That leaves about $400,000 - without subtracting administrative and attorneys' fees - for unsecured creditors like Schneider, Speth said. He estimated more than $100,000 would go toward fees. |
Thus, farmers would receive little of the nearly $2 million in claims. |
"That's just 7 cents on the dollar," Speth said, noting half the remaining funds will likely go to Whitham Farms Feedyard, a Wichita County operation that has an appeal pending in federal district court regarding the payment to the bank and they money owners say they're owed. |
A few facts about what happened came out in court documents this year. |
According to a document filed regarding Whitham's appeal, Kathy Shafer, who owned Sunbelt Grain with her husband, Jim, contacted Security State Bank President James Arnold on Dec. 6, 2007, requesting a prompt meeting. |
She told Arnold that Sunbelt had suffered considerable monetary losses because of its hedging practices. Arnold told the court in an affidavit this was the first time he learned Sunbelt was "out of position." |
The bank closed the elevator's line of credit the next day and then foreclosed on Sunbelt Grain Dec. 14, claiming the Shafers were in default on a $4.9 million loan the couple used to purchase the facilities in 2006. The bank, along with two farmer creditors, then forced the group into bankruptcy. |
In a separate case filed Feb. 13, the bank alleged the Shafers and Shafer Farms owed another $3.43 million that the couple borrowed between 2006 and 2007. |
The bank was allowed assets from the sale of machinery, Sunbelt's elevators and some of the land to offset the liabilities. The sale of the elevator's grain, which netted $3.785 million, has been the biggest center of debate. |
Security State Bank claimed it should receive about $3.2 million from the sale of the grain. Owners of Whitham Farms Feedyard sought $2.2 million for 524,000 bushels of grain it paid for in November 2007 but never received. |
Meanwhile, 33 farms who deferred payments of their 2007 crop into 2008 are owed $2 million. |
In August 2008, a bankruptcy court judge awarded the bank $1.1 million toward its bill. |
The Whitham family contends, Speth said, that the bank shut down Sunbelt only after the feedlot's $2.2 million payment cleared. |
On Nov. 1, Whitham Farms Feedyard prepaid Sunbelt roughly $2.1 million for delivery of corn in future months. The Shafers deposited the check into its operating account at the bank, which had a balance of about $2.7 million. Immediately after that deposit, the bank swept Sunbelt's account and applied it against Sunbelt... |
On Nov. 19, the Whithams purchased another 80,000 bushels of corn, paying $326,400 on Nov. 20. |
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