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Carl is on to something here. A long/short ETF where you buy unhealthy companies and sell healthy ones. Ticker symbol FAT?
Is your favorite restaurant about to get taken over?
We have a lot of water sequences. I spent my last two days of shooting in a tank, and that was my 16th total day being fully drenched or submerged in the water. ... For one action scene, we used the London venue for Olympic rafting. They threw me down that river --- with my hands tied --- about 50 times. I didn't need ...
She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits, but we've stripped away all of her experience. She hasn't gone on an adventure just yet. She thought he was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information. This is the beginning.
That confirms that the 2018 Tomb Raider movie is an origin story -- a Batman Begins for Lara Croft, so to speak. The official plot synopsis says that the death of Lara's father sends her on a quest to unlock a mystery surrounding the loss... a quest that takes her to a dangerous island off the coast of Japan. But we're...
Stay tuned for next week's Warner Bros. San Diego Comic-Con panel, where we expect the studio to drop its first footage from the 2018 Tomb Raider movie, which we hope will be online shortly after.
November 7 to 18 will see the troop perform the Swiss premiere of the Tony Award-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, one of the most praised and awarded Broadway plays of recent years.
Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the farmhouse where they grew up. Their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister, Masha, returns with her hot young boyfriend, Spike amid threats to sell the house.
Add sassy maid Cassandra, who can predict the future, and lovely young aspiring actress, Nina, whose presence irritates the bossy Masha. A weekend of rivalry, regret and raucousness begins! If you long to see a classic stage comedy with a twist of Durang-style absurdist humour, you will definitely enjoy spending an eve...
Wednesday, November 7th to Saturday, November 18th.
Tickets are on pre-sale through Ticket Corner. There is also a theatre box office for sales on the night, subject to availability. The box office opens one hour before each performance. See Zurich Comedy Club for more.
Billed as “The Home of English-speaking Theatre in Zurich since 1954”, the Zurich Comedy Club (ZCC) is a 100% amateur, 100% self-funded group performing all kinds of theatre - predominantly, but by no means exclusively, comedy. The ZCC perform at least two public productions for two weeks a year, in May and November, i...
Throughout its history, the Club has remained self-financing with no outside support or sponsorship. Over the years the ZCC has donated over CHF350,000 to charities, much of this over the last 20 years.
Quiz: Can You Name the Fast-Food Chains Behind These Failed Products?
Not every idea can hit it big—a fact learned time and again by America's fast-food restaurants.
Product development is a never-ending, uphill battle for brands. Consumers constantly say they want more menu variety, then complain when their favorite items are nixed.
Some ideas, like Burger King's Chicken Fries, are clearly winners. Others (we're looking at you and your Onion Nuggets, McDonald's) don't quite make the grade. Regardless, it's fun to go back and reminisce about the past, and wonder what in the world a chain was thinking when it decided to put that on the menu.
AMMAN, JORDAN—Professional associations in Jordan with about half a million members have staged a warning strike to press demands that the government scrap a planned tax increase.
After the half-day walkout on Wednesday, hundreds of activists chanted anti-government slogans outside a union office in the capital of Amman.
The Council of Professional Associations had organized a first strike a week ago, providing the spark for nightly street protests that eventually forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has since appointed a leading reformer, outgoing Education Minister Omar Razzaz, as the new prime minister and has promised to review the tax bill.
Jordan’s trade union federation says it will suspend protests to give the Razzaz government a chance to address the country’s economic problems.
Who Will Win Election 2012 and Lead America Over the Next Four Years?
By 2016, Mitt Romney may be sighing in relief that he lost Tuesday. The economic landscape for the next four years is likely to be filled with crises, and the president in office will be blamed for most of them, whatever his policies.
Now that U.S. President Barack Obama has secured a second term, how will his win affect your investments?
In terms of monetary policy, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's "grand experiment" with quantitative easing will continue at least until Bernanke's second term expires in 2014. We can expect the Fed to continue to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases-primarily mortgage backed bonds- and to keep ov...
The Fed currently expects GDP growth of 3% in 2013. Unemployment is expected to continue to decline through 2013 but the unemployment rate may move in fits and starts as more discouraged workers move back into the labor force as conditions improve.
Unless there is an unexpected improvement in the employment situation and housing prices, investors can expect quantitative easing and zero interest rates to remain in place through 2013.
Here are the other ways a President Obama win will affect your investments.
Now that Nov. 6 is here, it is tempting to look at what might happen to gold prices if the incumbent - U.S. President Barack Obama - wins Election 2012.
Leading into Election Day, traders are the most bullish they have been in 10 weeks. Eighteen of 27 gold analysts contacted by Bloomberg News were expecting higher gold prices in the short-term, while only five of the analysts were bearish.
Holdings in gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reached a record 2,588.4 metric tons on Nov. 1, which was valued at $140 billion. According to Bloomberg data, holdings in gold ETFs in the past three months have enjoyed their best run since August 2011.
Of course, the rise in bullishness regarding gold is not only due to the presidential election, but also to continued loose monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Gold did rise 70% as the Fed bought $2.3 trillion of debt during the first two rounds of quantitative easing.
So should gold investors expect anything to change if President Obama wins re-election?
The stock market today is trading higher as investors await the results of Election 2012. By the end of tonight, barring legal battles that could delay a winner, the uncertainty surrounding the election will be over.
But there's more than the election that's affecting markets today.
As voters head to the polls, it's only fitting that the one economic report released today is on jobs.
Job openings continue sluggish trend- How Americans view the job market and what they expect it to be like under each candidate will be one of the deciding factors in this election. The Labor Department reported on Tuesday that job openings in the U.S. hit a five-month low in September, indicating that the recent drop ...
In what can only be described as a madcap dash for votes in key battleground states, President Barack Obama and Candidate Mitt Romney worked the crowds late into the night.
As well they should. Almost every Election 2012 poll I've seen has the candidates in a neck-and-neck race headed into today's finish line.
CNN's survey has them in a dead heat at 49% to 49%.
Pew Research shows Candidate Romney behind President Obama by a 50% to 47% margin.
The Politico/George Washington University survey reflects a tie at 48%.
And the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal numbers show President Obama pulling ahead with 48% compared to Candidate Romney at 47%.
On the other hand, Intrade, which is the world's leading predictions market, shows a 67.2% probability that Obama will win. What's interesting about that is that Intrade also shows a 22.5% chance that the winner of the Electoral College will actually lose the popular vote.
Given these mismatches, I can only hope we're not left counting chads or something equally ridiculous tonight when the polls finally close. The markets really wouldn't like that.
As it is, all the major averages are on hold. Not literally mind you, but figuratively. Nearly every trader and institutional manager I know is treading lightly at the moment.
Because they know that by Wednesday morning half of them will be wrong. That means they'll have to adjust both their outlooks and their portfolios.
In the financial scheme of things, though, the election is a sideshow. The far bigger issue when it comes to your money is the fiscal cliff. And I am not alone in my thinking, either.
A recent CNN poll suggests that 60% of market professionals are far more concerned about what's going to happen when spending cuts and tax increases hit January 1 than they are about who's in the White House.
Gold is expected to continue its rise in 2013, reaching up to the $2,000 mark - or higher.
"Agora" is a historical epic with an impressive pedigree. It misses some emotional connections and has pacing problems but covers a fascinating, overlooked period while depicting the eternal struggle between science and ideology.
Alejandro Amenábar's film is set during Alexandria's transition from center of enlightenment to crumbling outpost on the edge of the Dark Ages. Chief among the storied figures driving the drama is the celebrated mathematician and astronomer Hypatia ( Rachel Weisz); an isosceles love triangle forms as one of her student...
Weisz is persuasive as the perpetually searching scholar and Ashraf Barhom ("The Kingdom") is charismatic and menacing as a zealot. There are memorable moments, as when a onetime minority's switch from oppressed to oppressor is conveyed in a single scene involving firewalking and public humiliation. It's particularly p...
Amenábar ("The Sea Inside," "The Others") is a skilled director, but in his first film of this scale he loses subtleties that made his other works so potent. The subject is absorbing, but the lack of differentiation in dramatic levels makes the film feel longer than its 126 minutes (15 shorter than its Cannes version).
Last year's highest-grossing film in Amenábar's native Spain, "Agora" has drawn criticism from Catholic organizations for perceived slights against Christians, but its lack of condemnation of specific dogma makes the film's target seem to be fundamentalism in general. "Agora" is about many things, including Hypatia's p...
"Agora." MPAA rating: Unrated. Running time: 2 hours, 6 minutes. At the Landmark, West L.A.
(CNN) – After a monster storm slammed the region, the threat of intense waters bringing more mudslides is one of the biggest fear right now in California.
Areas once scorched by wildfires now have nothing to hold back debris.
Where is the main concern, and how are officials getting people out of harm's way from these potential mudslides?
Mark Ghilarducci, with the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, tackles that question and more in the video above.
4media group has appointed Edelman's former finance director Iain Pratt as group CFO as it completes the transition of merging 4media relations into the group.
Pratt led Edelman’s commercial finance team from July 2016 and previously spent nine years working as finance director for Ogilvy, where he led commercial relationships with clients including Land Rover, BT, British Gas, British Airways and Public Health England.
4media group, an integrated communications agency with offices in the UK and US, has also promoted Ian Jenkins to group head of strategy, insight and intelligence, overseeing the growth and development of the group’s market research and insight offer.
Jenkins worked alongside 4media group from 2015, heading up Intrinsic Insight, the qualitative research arm of the group.
He has more than 20 years of insight experience into consumer behaviour, communication and brand development, including 12 years as co-founding partner in Prescient and a board director at Loewy Group.
"Over the next several years we will continue to build on our core strengths as an agency group whilst becoming a fully integrated agency, offering a full spectrum of media, PR and market research services for all our clients," 4media Group CEO Edward Cyster said.
"Iain is a brilliant addition to the team; his experience speaks for itself and we are delighted to have Ian Jenkins join our executive team. The group has benefited greatly from what we are able to do with Intrinsic Insight onboard, so we are pleased to develop that relationship."
Located within the Under Secretary for Political Affairs for the US Department of State, the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is charged with combating the worldwide drug trade and other major crimes through programs involving other federal agencies and national governments. Despite i...
The federal government’s efforts to combat illicit drugs began in the wake of the 1960s when recreational drug use became popular among Baby Boomers. In 1968, the administration of Lyndon Johnson consolidated the mission of several federal offices into the newly established Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD...
A year later Customs took the extraordinary step of subjecting every car trying to enter the US from Mexico to a three-minute inspection in order to curb marijuana smuggling. Dubbed Operation Intercept, the action essentially closed the Mexican border. The operation lasted two weeks, caused economic havoc on both sides...
In 1970 the Narcotics Treatment Administration was founded to fund a methadone program in Washington, DC, run by Dr. Robert DuPont. The program sparked controversy because some believed methadone was nothing more than a substitute for heroin, while other critics felt there were racial undertones behind the effort. Neve...
That same year, Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, consolidating previous drug laws and reducing penalties for marijuana possession. The legislation included the Controlled Substances Act, which established five categories, or “schedules,” for regulating drugs based on their medici...
In 1971 President Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one in the United States” and announced the creation of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), headed by Dr. Jerome Jaffe, a leading methadone treatment specialist. For a brief time during the Nixon era, the majority of federal anti...
The Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) established joint federal/local task forces to fight the drug trade at the street level, followed by the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973. DEA was set up to handle all aspects of the drug problem, consolidating anti-drug operations by BNDD, C...
When President Jimmy Carter first came into office, his administration was not seriously concerned about cracking down on drug users. In fact, Carter campaigned in favor of relinquishing federal criminal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. Later, Carter’s drug czar, Dr. Peter Bourne, said neither ...
INM helped fund anti-drug operations in Latin America during the 1980s to stem the drug tide into the US. With the launching of the “war on drugs” by President Ronald Reagan, and first lady Nancy, INM worked unsuccessfully to end the flow of cocaine from Colombia, where drug lords lead by Pablo Escobar earned fortunes ...
By the 1990s operations involving the DEA, US Special Forces and Colombian law enforcement managed to destroy the two major drug cartels based in Colombia. With the election of President Bill Clinton, the federal government placed less emphasis on international drug busts. In 1993 President Clinton signed Presidential ...
Located within the domain of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs for the US Department of State, the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is charged with combating the worldwide drug trade and other major crimes through programs involving other federal agencies and national governme...
In spite of INL’s efforts, poppy cultivation rose in Afghanistan in 2006 due to a “deteriorating security situation primarily in southern Afghanistan,” according to the bureau. Things were still troubling in 2007 as Afghanistan’s “elimination/eradication program still faces many challenges in achieving long-term succes...
In addition to program advising, INL has leased aircraft and Huey helicopters to transport poppy elimination teams. Interdiction efforts involve DEA agents working closely with the Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan. In 2006 the first ever arrest warrant was authorized under the new Afghanistan Drug Law, and Haji B...
As INL notes, combating the drug trade in Afghanistan is critical to the mission of creating stability in the country, as is strengthening the borders of its neighboring states. Sharing a rugged 1,500-mile border with Afghanistan, Pakistan has been a safe haven for traffickers attempting to move arms, persons and narco...
INL considers its drug programs in Asia and Latin America “core targets” where the strategy focuses on strengthening a country’s abilities to fight international drugs and crime. “It is a long-term approach to create competent and honest counternarcotics and anticrime forces in countries where laws and institutions are...
INL's counter-narcotics and criminal justice building programs are focused on Afghanistan and on the Andean Region in South America, the world's primary source of the heroin and cocaine, respectively. INL targets criminal gangs from Central America and Mexico, and it is also giving increased attention the entry of synt...
INL’s $725 million Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI) is the single largest program in the bureau’s budget. In 2006, the bureau claims that seven ACI countries “made good progress against drug trafficking.” The government of Colombia set new records in eradication and interdiction, shutdown one of the country’s three ...
More information on ACI countries can be found here.
Other anti-drug activities by INL include the Narcotics Certification Process. As required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2002-2003, the President must submit a report annually to Congress identifying all major illicit drug producing and drug-transit countries (the Majors list) and designate those countr...
In addition to publishing the Majors list, INL produces the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, a country-by-country two volume report that describes the efforts to attack all aspects of the international drug trade, chemical control, money laundering and financial crimes.
INL operates several programs designed to bolster law enforcement operations in other countries. Through its International Civilian Police Program (CivPol), the bureau recruits US police officers from all over the country to participate in international civilian police activities and local police development programs i...
INL has helped rebuild the national police force of Afghanistan by providing training to more than 60,000 police including nearly 6,000 border police at the Central Training Center in Kabul and seven Regional Training Centers. The bureau has deployed approximately 100 US law enforcement officers to train and mentor loc...
In Iraq, INL is managing a billion dollar program to rebuild the Iraqi police force. It has deployed 750 police advisers and trainers and trained over 35,000 Iraqi police. It should be noted, however, that 12,000 Iraqi police have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, many from terrorist attacks targeting new recr...
In addition to Jordan, INL has created five International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEAs) in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, New Mexico and El Salvador that have trained over 28,000 officials from over 75 countries, including over 2,700 officials trained in 2006. ILEAs teach law enforcement personnel in ways to combat t...
INL currently deploys more than 1,000 police and corrections advisors and justice experts in eight countries, including over 300 uniformed and armed US police, to conduct law enforcement operations in UN peacekeeping missions in Kosovo and Haiti, and unarmed missions in Haiti, Liberia and Sudan. INL continues to implem...
Out of its billion-dollar annual budget, INL spends approximately $14 million to support efforts against money laundering, corruption, alien smuggling, border security and various intellectual property theft and cyber-related threats. Border security programs include bolstering the counterterrorism staff of the Organiz...
Programs aimed at financial crimes and money laundering have had an increasing emphasis on terrorist financing. INL has assisted in the development of Trade Transparency Units (TTUs) to detect trade-based money laundering and customs fraud in Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. INL also supports the multilateral Financial ...
INL’s Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center brings together federal officials from different agencies to thwart alien smuggling, trafficking in persons and criminal support of clandestine terrorist travel.
It also works to counter international insurance fraud, such as that involving international car-theft rings operating in the United States. Often cars stolen are leased vehicles, and the owner, rather than turn in the car and pay a large fee for driving it too many miles, arranges to have it stolen, and collects the i...
INL has issued warnings against advance fee-business-scams, many of which originate in Nigeria and other parts of west Africa and that typically involve a fax or e-mail requesting assistance in transferring a large amount of money. In another advisory, INL counseled Americans traveling abroad never to get involved in d...
Like the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, INL relies on private security contractors to help carry out the bureau’s mission. One of the largest recipients of INL funds is DynCorp International, which has made substantial contributions to the Republican Party. Formed in 1946 to provide support and servi...
DynCorp also has been hired by INL to assist with the training of Palestinian security forces. The company was responsible for providing training manuals which were late in arriving. This gaffe was just one among many blunders by DynCorp that received media scrutiny (see Controversies).

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