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Credit Agricole fell as much as 2.7 per cent after French newspaper Les Echos said its private banking unit Indosuez was among the banks named in a report about a money laundering network alleged to have channelled billions of euro from Russia. A Credit Agricole spokeswoman said Indosuez had “fulfilled all its obligati...
US stocks were lower in mid-afternoon trading as investors stayed on the sidelines following a strong rally this year, awaiting fresh developments on trade.
The S&P 500 has risen about 11 per cent so far this year on optimism that the US and China will soon end their bitter trade row and the Federal Reserve will be less aggressive in raising interest rates.
General Electric shares tumbled, extending losses from a day earlier, after it warned of a negative net cash flow from its industrial businesses this year.
Exxon Mobil’s stock dropped after the company said it planned to increase capital spending next year to restore flagging oil and gas production.
Aon advanced 5.74 per cent after the company said it had scrapped plans to pursue a merger with rival insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson. Willis Towers tumbled 6.08 per cent.
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A basketball hoop currently stands at the end of Miller Drive in Sunbury. Plans are to extend the drive and construct the entrance to a high school and elementary school for Big Walnut Local Schools.
Pictured is the future site of the new Big Walnut High School and Big Walnut Elementary. The recently purchased land is located east of Carters Corner Road, west of state Route 61, and north of U.S. Route 36/state Route 37 in Sunbury.
Four people complained about Miller Drive being used by the Big Walnut Local School District during the public comment portion of the Sunbury Village Council meeting on July 18.
“We want to know what your concerns are,” said Mayor Tommy Hatfield. “That road is stubbed — it’s going to go somewhere.” He said that land could have been developed in another way, such as hundreds of homes, which would also increase travel on Miller Drive.
Hatfield went on to say that he lived along a road near a school, and while there were times it was inconvenient, it was outweighed by the positives.
In June, the school district ratified a contract to buy 97 acres of land within the village of Sunbury in order to build the schools on the same farm land. “The purchase price includes the access easement and utility easement” of two other parcels of land with the intent of extending Miller Drive and constructing a dri...
The property doesn’t have a street address, but it is at the northern edge of Sunbury, roughly between the Vineyard Church of Delaware County and the Sunbury Water Tower (located north of both). It is also just above Vision Concept Technology, 690 Kintner Parkway. Kintner could be a potential secondary access for bus t...
One of the speakers wondered why the schools were going to be behind an industrial park and weren’t going to be along a prominent road.
BOE President Andy Wecker said the district wanted a property that was within the growing village. Director of Facilities Doug Swartz and Wecker said the elementary school would be built first. Swartz said community input would be sought for what belongs at the schools.
The residents were told that the school district would have to come to the village with proposed development plans that would need to go before zoning first and then to council for approval. The village council has a three-reading process for legislation. The district doesn’t appear on the agenda for the zoning meeting...
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The Mello Music Group project arrives on Friday (April 19).
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Last week news broke that famous and well-off parents had been paying bribes to prominent universities across the country to get their children into college. Those bribes ranged from replacing entrance test scores, having someone talk their children through entrance tests while they took the exam, or having them accept...
Actress Felicity Huffman is one of the 50 people who have been brought up on charges as a result of their involvement in the scam. While Huffman was set to appear in court alongside fellow actress Lori Loughlin and others on March 29, ABC News reports she has been granted a stay of execution of sorts.
According to the publication, Huffman’s court date has been pushed back to April 3 at the request of her legal counsel, who has stated he will be out of town on the previously set date of March 29. The judge was prepared to grant Huffman a later court date as a result of the request.
The Desperate Housewives actress has been accused of paying $15,000 to allow her daughter to cheat on her college entrance exam. The payment was disguised as a “charitable donation” to cover her tracks.
According to the Intelligencer, it’s thought that Huffman’s daughter did not know at the time that her mother had bribed her way into the university, as Huffman’s cheating scheme was to have her daughter’s answers corrected after she had taken the SAT exams. Huffman further made sure that her daughter was able to take ...
It was only Huffman’s elder daughter whose scores were manipulated, as the actress felt her younger daughter would want to take the test twice regardless of the scores that she got from the first test.
It would also appear that Huffman’s husband, William H. Macy, might have been unaware of what his wife was doing to ensure their daughter’s admission to college. Macy himself has not been brought up on charges in the scandal, per a previous report by The Inquisitr, and the sudden strain on their marriage might indicate...
Macy had previously praised his wife as being “by far one of the smartest people he’s ever known,” but this scandal has rocked the family. The actor is particularly concerned with how the scandal will affect both his and his wife’s careers once the dust settles.
A new art and poetry collaboration between a celebrated contemporary Blackpool artist and a top Preston based poet is in the running for a national award.
The Deerhart exhibition is shortlisted for Best Wildcard award at the Saboteur Indie literature awards. The result is down to public vote, by Tuesday, with results announced on May 27.
Deerhart is a creative partnership between acclaimed Preston ecopoet Yvonne Reddick and Blackpool based multimedia artist and curator Diana Zwibach who use art and poetry to take viewers on a journey into wild nature and our own nature.
The exhibition toured Cambridge and Preston.
Why sell off the Postal Service if it’s still making money?
Our reporting last week on a Brookings Institution study advocating that part of the U.S. Postal Service be sold off drew angry and passionate responses from postal employees, unions and liberal bloggers.
Elaine Kamarck, a former Clinton administration official, joined conservatives in arguing in her Brookings report that a money-losing post office cannot survive as a government entity in the Internet age, which has sapped its First Class mail business.
Karmack says the best path forward for the Postal Service requires breaking it in two. One arm would continue to deliver the mail five days a week. The other would stake out new business with no encumbrances.
The two largest postal unions, fearful that thousands of jobs would be lost through privatization, have said for a long time that the Postal Service’s multibillion-dollar deficits are artificial. The agency’s eight consecutive annual losses, totaling more than $52 billion, are largely due to its obligation (imposed in ...
Yes, the volume of First Class mail — the Postal Service’s most profitable product — is in a downward spiral, union leaders acknowledge. Yes, the recession brought still steeper losses.
But if not for the pre-funding mandate, required by no other public or private entities, they argue, the post office would be making money today, with the recession over and its package business booming.
“She jumped to incorrect conclusions about what’s driving the losses,” Jim Sauber, chief of staff for the National Association of Letter Carriers, the largest postal union, said of Kamarck’s report.
The agency’s finances have stabilized in the past two years, with revenue more than covering expenses by about $1.2 billion during the first three quarters of this year. That’s without the pre-funding payment, which postal officials have now defaulted on multiple times, or long-term obligations to workmen’s compensatio...
Numerous bills in Congress have called for eliminating the retiree payment, a budget maneuver at the time that most postal observers agree more than covers the agency’s obligations to future retirees. However, Congress has so far shown little appetite for fixing postal finances.
But even without the pre-funding mandate, experts say the post office is not in a healthy financial position long-term. It remains on the Government Accountability Office’s high-risk list, with auditors characterizing its short-and long-term outlook as a “serious financial crisis” earlier this year.
Workmen’s compensation debts, $15 billion owed to the U.S. Treasury, lagging investment in new vehicles, equipment and maintenance — these are persistent weaknesses. And most of a 3-cent rate increase that postal officials were able to count on for hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue since 2013 is set to exp...
Still, the unions don’t buy the assumption that the Postal Service is in such free fall that the best option is to sell it. They also don’t buy the claim that taking its most profitable arm, its package business, private would come close to covering the expenses of its unprofitable arm, universal delivery of the regula...
Sauber and Dimondstein say their commitment to saving jobs for their members goes hand in hand with their concern that private companies would simply cherry-pick the most profitable mail routes.
Nintendo announced today that its Switch console has now sold 17.79 million systems as of March 31. Nintendo released the information as part of its fiscal year report. Nintendo had forecast that it would sell 14 million consoles, a target that it easily passed.
The Switch came out on March 3, 2017, and has been a huge hit. The portable/home console hybrid had reached sales of 14.86 million as of December 31, so it has managed almost another 3 million sold since then. Nintendo is estimating that it will ship another 20 million units this fiscal year.
Super Mario Odyssey, the 3D platformer that we scored 100/100, is the console’s best-selling game. It has moved 10.41 million copies. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe follows with 9.22 million sold, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (which we also scored 100/00) is in third with 8.48 million games sold.
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IF THE Financial System Inquiry is to achieve its aim of helping to promote growth and productivity in the Australian economy it will need to focus strongly on electronic payments.
Submissions to the inquiry will be officially released today, offering several pieces of advice for FSI chairman David Murray on how to promote competition in the system and how technology is affecting and changing it.
Electronic payments is one area where both increases in productivity and promotion of competition could be achieved via the FSI, but to do so Murray will need to guide the sector towards true competitive neutrality.
The increased use of electronic payments and consequent reduction in the use of cash facilitates economic growth, according to recent research from Melbourne University. This is because electronic payments are less costly then non-electronic payments, and this applies for all participants in the payments value chain in...
This Australian research is reinforced by similar studies conducted in Canada, Germany, South Africa and the US, which all underline the costs of cash in both developed and emerging economies and highlight the positive role that electronic payments play, in both increasing economic activity and heightening levels of co...
Daniel Mminele, deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank has claimed that every 1% increase in payment card use would increase consumption by 0.06% and GDP by 0.03%, as this would mobilise household savings and hence productive opportunities.
In Australia the Reserve Bank has encouraged the development of a real-time payments infrastructure, which will be the banking equivalent of the National Broadband Network in that it will allow fast electronic payments for both consumers and business and hence more immediate availability of funds.
It has been described as the "rail tracks" which will provide the infrastructure upon which instant payments can be made. It is also designed to lower the network barriers to entry, opening up competition in payment services, particularly for new payment startups. These could include Apple and Google, who could use the...
The possible entry of new players into the financial services market has the industry debating the regulatory framework under which all participants, both new and existing, will have to operate.
The Funding Australia's Future Project, released in July 2013 by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), considered the appropriate balance between stability and efficiency within the Australian financial sector. It concluded that "regulation should not impede competition and the efficiency of markets", tha...
In their submissions to the FSI, Australia's regional banks and non-bank lenders have called for a "level playing field", to reduce the advantages that the big banks have gained from the regulators' focus on stability in the system.
They also argue that consumers should be empowered to switch deposit accounts and mortgages more easily between providers. The Consumer Owned Banking Association (COBA), which represents credit unions and building societies in Australia, has also argued for "competitive neutrality" and has described regulation of the f...
One example of this inconsistency is in the payments system market where the regulator, the Reserve Bank of Australia, has intervened extensively since 2002. These interventions have been largely focused on the payment card acceptance marques of MasterCard and Visa and they are described in detail in a paper, Regulator...
Other payment card acceptance marques, such as American Express and Diners Club have received far less regulatory attention and this has led to distortions in the market, which it could be argued have driven up the costs of paying by payment cards for consumers.
An additional aspect of this absence of competitive neutrality is the lack of any meaningful regulation of new and emerging entrants into the payments market. As an example, PayPal now competes against the traditional payment card players and yet it is not regulated as regards the fees that it charges, nor does it have...
The FSI therefore represents a good opportunity to achieve competitive neutrality in all the financial services markets, and achieve the economic growth and productivity gains that are embedded in its terms of reference and which would benefit all sectors of Australian society.
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Friday (Nov 23) that he was quite happy with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's performance, after The Wall Street Journal reported that the President was dissatisfied with Mr Mnuchin.
"I am extremely happy and proud of the job being done by #USTreasury Secretary @stevenmnuchin1," Mr Trump said in a tweet.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr Trump blames Mr Mnuchin for the appointment of Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, who has been steadily raising US interest rates.
Mr Trump is concerned that higher rates could undercut economic gains ahead of his 2020 re-election bid, the newspaper reported.
Quoting unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal said Mr Trump has also expressed displeasure with Mr Mnuchin over stock market turbulence and the Treasury Secretary's scepticism about the White House trade actions against China.
"The FAKE NEWS likes to write stories to the contrary, quoting phoney sources or jealous people, but they aren't true. They never like to ask me for a quote b/c it would kill their story," Mr Trump said on Twitter.
I am extremely happy and proud of the job being done by @USTreasury Secretary @StevenMnuchin1. The FAKE NEWS likes to write stories to the contrary, quoting phony sources or jealous people, but they aren’t true. They never like to ask me for a quote b/c it would kill their story.
The exterior of the Department of Justice building in Washington, DC.
The Department of Justice has unsealed indictments against eight persons allegedly behind two separate massive digital advertising scams, 3ve and the charmingly named Methbot, the Verge reported on Tuesday.
According to a DOJ press release, six of the defendants were identified as Russian nationals (one held dual Russian-Ukrainian status), while the remaining two were from Kazakhstan. The DOJ said they recently arrested Kazakh nationals Sergey Ovsyannikov and Yevgeniy Timchenko in Malaysia and Estonia respectively, as wel...
An infographic explaining the 3ve attacks posted by Google.
The spoofed outlets include a who’s who of the web: video-laden sites like Fox News and CBS Sports, large news organizations like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, major content platforms like Facebook and Yahoo, and niche sites like Allrecipes.com and AccuWeather. Although the main targets were in the Un...
As the Verge noted, White Ops claimed Methbot could be bringing in $3 to $5 million a day, which may have been a bit of a stretch considering the (admittedly not exactly negligible) $7 million number cited by the DOJ. 3ve was much more successful, raking in an alleged $29 million.
AdWeek pointed out that while prosecutors said Methbot shut down in December 2016, right around the time of White Ops’ disclosure, they said 3ve continued running until October 2018.
Viewed from afar it looks like something magical: A fairy tale village, a group of dwarf houses, or a tiny music festival. But in reality, this cluster of five hilltop teepees in Japan's eastern Shizuoka prefecture, 115 miles (185 kilometers) from the capital of Tokyo, is actually a private retirement home.
Dubbed Jikka, meaning "parents home" in Japanese, it belongs to Nobuko Suma and Sachiko Fujioka, two women in their 60s who decided to build their dream retirement home.
"We were worried that in the future someone would have to take care of us," Suma tells CNN.
"Considering we were like-minded and had worked together in the past, we started talking about how our two families could help each other out and care for the elderly." In 2014, they commissioned Nobuko's son, the Tokyo-based architect Issei Suma, to build them a multi-purpose home, with architectural quirks to help th...
Suma and Fujioka met 25 years ago, and for a decade worked together in the welfare sector in Tokyo, where they made and delivered lunch boxes to handicapped people.
While taking a drive in the Shizuoka area 15 years ago they came across a plot of land that was up for sale. They had already been thinking about building a retirement home outside the city.
"Our intuition told us that 'this is it', so we decided it had to be here," Nobuko says.
Shizuoka is famously home to Mount Fuji, and renowned for its tea production. In the 1980s and 90s it became a sought-after retreat for city-dwellers looking to escape Tokyo, while more recently it's also proven to be a popular retirement spot for the baby boomer generation.
There are a lot of aspects about this place that charmed us.
"It's warm, the air is fresh, the water is delicious and there are plenty of vegetables," Nobuko says. "The land is old, but there are a lot of people who emigrated here so there are a lot of aspects about this place that charmed us."
Construction of Jikka began in 2014. The complex covered 20,451 square feet (1,900 square meters) and cost $535,000. Work was completed the following year.
The design took into account their residents' future: there are no stairs in the property, while the spiral-shaped bath was built with a ramp for wheelchair access.

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