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Because only about 12 percent of UBS shares are listed in the United States, the bank's exposure would be limited if shareholders brought a class-action case over the trading scandal, said Hannah Buxbaum, a professor at Indiana University's law school. |
"It's a relatively small number of plaintiffs' claims that would survive a Morrison review," she said. |
Could Allston get a cool new community space this summer? |
Skate park? Check. Vintage market? Check. Bicycle co-op? Check. On Monday, Mayor Marty Walsh will announce the opening of POP Allston, a new community center that will house all of the above and more. |
During the public announcement at the space at 89 Brighton Ave. in Allston, the mayor will detail the center, which is “a pop-up community space in Allston Village that will feature an indoor skate park sponsored by Converse, a Vintage Market and a Pop Up DIY Bike Shop,’’ according to the venue’s new website. |
The center is anticipated to open sometime this summer. The skate park will be designed and managed by Orchard Skate Shop and be called the Orchard Conservatory Skatepark. It’s one of the world’s first free, public indoor skate parks and will be “… spread across the second and third floors of the building, nearly 10,00... |
Oliver Best Markets will be a vintage market from Justin E. Pomerleau, Allston resident and founder of Vivant Vintage, a popular store in lower Allston. The bicycle co-op will be run by CommonWheels, a non-profit, volunteer-run collective. |
In my trade you are often enough searching for a story idea to meet the deadline. I was lucky this morning in that two ideas came together with the coffee. |
One was a lovely gentle memory about being required as a schoolboy to go out a-hunting yellow frogs for a farming aunt. She needed them badly for a particular purpose. The other idea had to do with our ongoing presidential election. |
I'd much prefer to write the yellow frogs story for ye to be dead honest. However, since I occasionally dip my toes into your political world over there, (especially in relation to Madam Palin RIPP!), I suppose it would be amiss of me not to go the other road. |
Our own Niall O’Dowd made a powerful point in our paper recently. In synopsis, when dealing with the arrival among the nominations of Martin McGuinness, and the subsequent attacks on him for having been an IRA leader, Niall observed that most of our former Irish leaders such as de Valera and Collins and Sean McBride al... |
Our first president, Sean T. O'Kelly, was an active member of the GPO garrison in 1916. McGuinness, now a canny peacemaker and politician, is walking along a well-trodden and indeed honorable Irish path, and Niall was quite correct in reflecting that the media and especially Fine Gael attacks on his background have bee... |
I once closely observed McGuinness at prayer on a powerful occasion in Armagh Cathedral. Church and state were burying the popular Cardinal Tomas O'Fiach with all the pomp and solemnity that goes with that. |
McGuinness and Gerry Adams were kneeling side by side beneath all the red hats of the Irish cardinals of the past. They are suspended from the dome. Some are so gossamered by age that, when the organ thundered and the choir sang, you could actually see visible dust falling from them through the stained glass sunlight. ... |
Below I was watching McGuinness, only a few yards away. He was sunk as deeply in prayer, quite obviously, as any monk at Matins. |
Both Adams and himself received Communion too. A significant number of the other politicians in the congregation did not. |
I was working on the day and I notice things, matterless enough things, like that. And I wondered who had the gunman been praying for. |
I'm sure that, just like de Valera and Collins and MacBride and all the old IRA warriors, that there is a kind of Nightmare Room inside McGuinness’s head. |
You can't keep the doors of such places locked all the time. |
It is certain that in the past, in a different Ulster, he has done things and maybe caused things to be done that he now regrets. War is a dirty and painful business, especially guerrilla war. That is a fact. |
I've spoken with old survivors of several wars in my time. The honest ones all said, in so many words, that the regrets and nightmares are never far away from them. |
But, as with Sean MacBride especially, probably a man should be judged more on what path he took when the war was over than on the shots he fired during it. |
On that basis, given his record in the conciliation process, and his part in the political process since then, it is my view that McGuinness is today well entitled to run for the presidency and, if elected, would serve this nation well. |
What was it that the British intelligence officer once said? "You underestimate McGuinness at your peril." Our pollsters should bear this in mind during the next fortnight! |
The campaign to date has been a predictable thing. David Norris has been destroyed by just one negative headline too many, and anyway has a kind of arrogant, elitist campaigning style which is not going down well. |
The independent Sean Gallagher is putting in as good a show as Dana's is poor. Michael D. Higgins of Labor is leading the field, playing his cards cannily, and Gay Mitchell of Fine Gael, quite remarkably, has been a damp squib from Day One. |
Mary Davis will poll respectably, but no more than that. |
I said here a month ago, before the advent of McGuinness, that I would vote for Higgins even though I never voted for him before. He would -- and probably will -- make a fine president of Ireland. |
But he is now getting my number two vote instead of the top one which I will give to McGuinness. He's a fellow Ulsterman, he has become one of the peacekeepers that matter on a daily basis, he has walked a hard road to date and kept going in the right direction. One has to respect that. |
I would have preferred to have written about the yellow frogs, but sure that one can hold until we have a new president. |
Server shipments and revenue grew for the first time since 2011 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a trend likely to continue in the second half of the year, according Gartner. |
Server shipments in the region increased 0.8 percent in the second quarter of 2014, the first increase after 11 consecutive quarters of declines, research firm Gartner said Wednesday. Revenue also got its first boost after shrinking in the 10 previous quarters, reaching US$3.2 billion, a 3.8 percent year-over-year incr... |
While the results are positive, they’re more indicative of the end of a slump in the market, so server providers should focus on sustaining the growth, according to Gartner. |
HP topped the revenue and shipment charts in the region. While its shipments declined 5.2 percent to 210,570 units compared to the second quarter of last year, the company still holds a market share of almost 38 percent. Despite the decline in shipments, HP’s revenue grew 7.3 percent to about $1.1 billion, as the compa... |
IBM ranked second in revenue and third in shipments, growing its sales of x86 servers, a business it’s exiting from, but experienced weakness in its mainframe and RISC systems business. |
Dell landed in third place in revenue, which grew 13.5 percent, and second in shipments, which grew 5.5 percent. |
Overall, revenue of x86 servers was especially strong in the region, growing 12.7 percent. However, there were double digit declines in the RISC and Itanium Unix segments as well as in the “other CPU” segment, Gartner said. |
The firm expects continued improvements for the second half of the year as demand increases but it warned that picky IT buyers stressing over cost and technology choices could slow down sales. |
Gartner’s figures are consistent with an IDC report that came out Tuesday and showed a modest 2.5 percent server revenue growth worldwide. IDC also noted that sales of x86 servers have been strong for a while as companies like Google and Facebook buy them to build out their massive data center infrastructures. |
The Dominion leads today with a report that the Government has gone ahead with a tough new "home invasion" law despite Justice Ministry advice saying the law would not deter offenders and would increase the prison population at a cost of up to $7 million a year. |
The front-page photo shows Black Caps Adam Parore and Roger Twose celebrating the win over India in the World Cup Cricket in England. |
- a report that Auckland Healthcare has begun an investigation into how a mentally ill man fell from a fifth floor window to his death yesterday. |
As a failed businessman, saved by business bankruptcies which he called a “competitive advantage,” Donald Trump believed in chaos as a strategy. Unfortunately, chaos and foreign policy don’t mix. Chaos may bring war. And tragically, military aggression can explosively boomerang back to the U.S. mainland. |
Being deliberately unpredictable and keeping your adversary off balance may work for real estate deals in New York, but for potentates and armed groups it is a formula for fast accelerating uncontrollable disasters. |
This flailing approach—implying the use of military violence—may please super war-hawk, madman John Bolton—Trump’s unconfirmed National Security Advisor yet to receive a top secret security clearance from the FBI—but it appalls many retired military, national security, and diplomatic officials who served in high positi... |
Why don’t more ex-officials speak up? It is simple patriotism to forewarn the American people about the gathering storms of military interventions. We are fortunate that a few patriots — such as retired colonels Larry Wilkerson and Andrew Bacevich— stand tall and speak out about the unwarranted or unwise use of militar... |
There is a strange tradition in our country of former public officials shutting up when they shouldn’t. |
I call this tradition an indulgence America cannot afford. Our country needs former public officials to stand up and speak out. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the dozens of former cabinet and sub-cabinet Senate confirmed government officials need to publicly challenge Trump’s autocratic attacks on proven practices benefi... |
Recently, several former EPA heads from previous Republican and Democratic Administrations have protested against EPA marauder Scott Pruitt’s unleashing toxic pollutants into the bodies of America’s children, women, and men. |
Recently David Shulkin, the fired head of the Veterans Administration, took Trump to task on TV and in an op-ed in the New York Times. There have been other modest displays of resistance to some of Trump’s depredations by some ex-officials. By and large, however, the widespread silence among them is shameful. Former le... |
I call on them—mostly well-off with available time—to return to the fray and band together on the matters related to their knowhow and knowwho. Taxpayers have invested much in their shelved expertise and judgment. |
Call them ex-Obamaites and reformed ex-Trumpsters. They can raise funds to open full-time advocacy offices in Washington that reach out to the country. Trump is wreaking havoc on the American people as workers, consumers, buyers of medicine, breathers of air and drinkers of water, as taxpayers against waste and spreadi... |
This entreaty is to people who need no mind-changing about the Trump regime. They know what is happening, where the destructive trajectories are heading, and dislike it intensely. I’ve heard enough about their expressions of private dread to urge former public servants to stand up for their country’s well-being—nothing... |
If any retired high officials wish to discuss the above plea on my weekly radio show, please use the contact sheet provided on the website. |
Following his out-of-this-world postseason performance last fall, Giants ace Madison Bumgarner has come back to earth in 2015—so far. In two starts this year, the reigning World Series MVP has posted a 1–1 record with a more human-like 5.40 ERA, while allowing six earned runs and a league-worst 16 hits in 10 innings. |
That includes his performance in Saturday’s loss to the Padres, where the big lefty allowed five earned runs and 10 hits in three innings. |
Compare that to last October when the 6-foot-5 ace allowed a total of six earned runs in 52.7 innings (good for an ERA of 1.03), spread over seven games and four series while nearly single-handedly winning the World Series for San Francisco. |
Naturally his numbers in two 2015 starts are a drop in the bucket compared to a full season, as he’ll likely start more than 30 games this year, but it’s still surprising to see the once-untouchable, touchable again. |
But he should be fine. |
Adrian Gonzalez Homers Again: How Far Will He Go? |
Other stars have suffered similar drops in performance after an outstanding performance on the highest stage, and they rebounded back to their normally stellar output. |
The buzzer-beater capped maybe the most amazing single-game performance since the NCAA expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The senior forward was perfect both from the field (10 for 10, including a three-pointer) and from the line (10 for 10 as well)—to finish with 31 points and 7 rebounds. And the Blue Devils needed all of ... |
He came a ways down from that high, though, hitting just two of eight shots and finishing with an un-Laettner-like eight points in his next outing (the Final Four), while looking completely out of sorts in Duke’s narrow win over Indiana. For the record, though, he rebounded in the title to the tune of 6 for 13 shooting... |
Looking to a more recent example, take Michael Phelps. He had the most perfect Olympics ever in winning eight gold medals—in eight events—at the 2008 Games. Instead of carrying the momentum of four years earlier into 2012, though, he started out with a fourth-place finish (his first non-medal Olympic run since 2000) an... |
So, while it’s a little strange to see Bumgarner struggle, even the best have to come down at some point. |
MLB Trade News, Rumors: Gio Gonzalez to Yankees? Cole Hamels to Dodgers? |
Adrian Gonzalez has five home runs in three games. Could he challenge Bonds' mark of 73 in the post-steriod era? |
Alejandro Martinez Domingo, 72, of Wailuku, a retired laborer in the construction industry, died. He was born in Pangasinan, Philippines. He is survived by son Alex Kealoha, daughters Darlyn Cimini and Rhodalyn Domingo, brother Eufresino, mother of his children Beverly P. and numerous grandchildren. Visitation: 9 a.m. ... |
Brush my teeth and have a shower. |
Living alone for nine years in five different countries. |
How important nutrition is in football. |
My parents because they dedicated all their life for me. |
Living abroad on my own. |
I think I’d go into politics. |
person, dead or alive, who would it be? |
Álvaro Morte from Money Heist. |
Andrea Bocelli’s ‘Con Te Partiro’. |
Playing football with my dad. |
During my sister’s wedding. I felt emotional. |
Pep Guardiola. I admire his football philosophy. |
The 1530s when Malta was ruled by the Order of Saint John. |
Edward C. Banfield’s ‘The Moral Basis of a Backward Society’. |
I’d like to coach the national team of Malta. |
I don’t sing or listen to any music while I work out or in the shower. |
If you could play for anyone in the world, what team would you choose? |
If I could play for anyone, I’d choose to play for Associazione Sportiva Roma. |
What has been the hardest part of living away from home for long periods? |
Adapting to new environments and cultures. I’ve been living abroad for nine years now, and I’ve lived in five different countries. |
What advice do you have for young players who seek to become international footballers? |
If you want to succeed get out of your comfort zone. |
Samsung's new behemoth Android handset range has now been announced officially. Coming in two screen sizes, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 will both launch in May around Europe and Russia, with a more global reach planned for later. |
Sitting between the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2, the Mega duo are phablets in every sense. Samsung claims they "combine the portability and convenience of a smartphone with the power, multitasking capabilities and extensive viewing experience of a tablet". However, they don't come with an intelligent stylus, like the N... |
Both handsets come with Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) from the get go, but differ in several key areas. Not only in screen size, but specifications. |
The Galaxy Mega 6.3 has a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, 3,200mAh battery, can be bought with either 8GB or 16GB of internal storage, and has 4G LTE data connectivity. The Galaxy Mega 5.8 comes with a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 2,600mAh battery, is available only with 8GB of on-board storage, and is HSPA+ only. |
They both have the same 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.9-megapixel front. And they offer 1,5GB of RAM and the ability to upgrade storage by a further 64GB through microSD. |
Plus, of course, they share the standard Samsung Touchwiz user interace and several key software features, including the recently announced S Translator, to be found on the Samsung Galaxy S4. |
We're currently investigating whether "Europe" includes the UK in the rollout of the devices and will get back to you when we know more. |
UPDATE: Samsung UK has confirmed to Pocket-lint that the Galaxy Mega 6.3 will be coming to the UK mid-May. It won't, however, be releasing the Mega 5.8 over here. |
The unemployment rate in Los Angeles might be at a whopping 12.5% right now, but the prognosis is good for jobs in the second quarter of the year, according to a survey released Tuesday. |
About 17% of local employers plan to hire in the three-month period ending in June, according to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, while 11% say they'll reduce their payrolls and 66% will maintain their current staffing levels. |
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