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Cecilia Ibru, the former head of Oceanic Bank, is sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud.
The former head of a Nigerian bank has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud.
Cecilia Ibru has also been ordered to hand over more than $1b in cash and assets after she pleaded guilty to three of 25 accounts of fraud.
Her conviction is the first in a string of ongoing prosecutions over the near-collapse of nine banks in 2009.
A 34-year-old Taunton man was charged with drunken driving Sunday night after leading local and state police on a chase from Route 138 onto Route 24 and off again, finally stopping at Manley Street in West Bridgewater.
State police deployed “stop sticks” on Route 24 near Route 106 and flattened the front tires of the driver’s pickup truck, but the vehicle still did not stop, police said.
When the truck came to rest on Manley Street in West Bridgewater, the driver, Kevin Fisher of 12 Cooper St., Taunton, refused to get out of the vehicle, Easton police said. He took a drink from a can of beer, locked his doors and told officers to “come get me,” Easton police said.
Police said Fisher was subdued by state police and Easton Officer Christopher Aker. He was charged with operating while under the influence of alcohol, operating to endanger, failure to stop for police, resisting arrest and speeding.
The chase began at 11:30 p.m. Sunday when Aker, who was at Routes 138 and 106, saw a pickup truck speeding north through a red light at the intersection, almost striking another vehicle heading west on Route 106.
Police said the driver refused to stop for Aker. It continued up Turnpike Street onto Belmont Street and then onto Route 24 south. State police joined Aker in the chase.
Police said the truck got off Route 24 at Route 104, then back on to Route 24 north. After the truck’s tires were flattened, it continued to Manley Street in West Bridgewater before being forced to stop.
Fisher was to be arraigned Monday in Taunton District Court.
A developer and the mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, have unveiled plans for a $50-million complex of apartments, offices and shops steps from the T.F. Green Airport train station.
A developer and Warwick, Rhode Island, Mayor Scott Avedisian have unveiled plans for a $50-million complex of apartments, offices and shops steps from the T.F. Green Airport train station.
The plan unveiled on Monday does not include a mill city leaders tried to save. It's already in the early stages of being torn down to make way for the new mixed-use development.
Developer Michael Integlia Jr. said he intended to preserve the brick building, but saving the building, its façade and four-story tower were not economically feasible. He says the building is "somewhat structurally unstable."
Integlia said he's started to salvage materials such as bricks and cast-iron stairs to be incorporated into the new design.
Details such as the number of apartments and how much space will be used for offices have not been worked out.
This home is one of a kind! It features an open floor plan and plenty of living space. The modern kitchen has stainless steel appliances and ample cabinet space. The inviting living room has a cozy fireplace. The master bathroom includes a garden tub and dual sinks. This home won t last long!
Join Benk Machine, a leading plastic extrusion equipment manufacturer, as they test two sets of 12-63mm PVC pipe machines on Nov. 25 before they are shipped to two of their overseas clients.
Benk has customized the machine strictly as per the client’s requirements.
Both machines will manufacture PVC pipes with similar dimensions, however, they differ in the specifications of the extruder and vacuum tank.
For the first machine: Benk adopted a Siemens touch screen and PLC device for the conical twin screw extruder. While PLC and touchscreen are a little bit more expensive, the client will easily control the extruder from the touch-input screen.
The line’s vacuum tank is 4 meters long, and Benk adopted a separate vacuum tank which is more simple to operate. Not only will this save time for the staff, but the cooling efficiency is also better than the previous design.
Then, the downstream machine required is the stacker, which collects the finished PVC pipes. Based on the factory’s location, it will need 380V, 3-phase power.
Benk can also provide special voltage (220V, 3-phase) for clients with a short delivery time.
For the second PVC pipe machine: The vacuum tank is 6 meters long and the socketing pipe machine was requested by the customer to replace the stacker. The line requires a 220V 3-phase.
To power the machines, Benk will use the transformer at the plant with Benk machinery.
We welcome all our valued clients to visit the Benk factory. Those in attendance will have the rare chance to see the PVC pipe manufacturing process in action. It is also an opportunity for all questions to be addressed by the professional team of engineers and technicians on site.
What’s more, Benk has different types of plastic pipe manufacturing machines including plastic corrugated pipe extrusion machine, PP-R pipe extrusion machine and HDPE pipe extrusion machine. All welcomed guests will also see them and discuss their details with Benk’s team.
High-quality parts and well-known electric parts are used in Benk plastic extrusion machines. For instance, ABB inverters Omron temperature controllers, Siemens motors, Schneider contactors and LS air switches.
Benk Machine is a manufacturer of plastic pipe-making machines, plastic profiles extrusion lines, plastic sheet extrusion machines, plastic board extrusion machines and plastic recycling machines. They have an in-house R&D technology team with over 10 years of experience. All products are customized for clients and the...
The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to circumvent a longstanding court agreement that governs how children are treated in immigration custody, in part to detain families longer as a way to deter migrants from crossing the Southwestern border illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security announced proposed regulations that would terminate the so-called Flores agreement that requires the government to keep children in the least-restricted setting and required their release generally after 20 days in detention.
The 1997 case that spawned the agreement will almost certainly land back in court. U.S. District Court Judge Dolly M. Gee rejected a request by administration lawyers this summer to allow for longer family detention.
The agreement became an issue during a "zero-tolerance" policy enforced at the border to criminally prosecute anyone caught crossing illegally.
More than 2,900 children were separated from their parents, prompting international outrage and scathing criticism over what many said was inhumane treatment of migrants. Officials said children couldn't be in criminal custody with their parents, and were limited in how long they could detain families because of the ag...
The DOJ has attempted to petition the courts to remove the 20-day limit on detaining immigrant families together, but has, as of yet, been unsuccessful.
The government currently has three operational family detention centers, but most are at capacity.
However, DHS asked for space to house 12,000 beds for families, plus space to house 20,000 unaccompanied minors. That process is moving forward; the Defense Department has completed legal and environmental requirements needed but they're still working on the legal framework for the use of Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas ...
The rules proposed Thursday would allow the government to hold families until their immigration cases were completed, a move that government officials contend makes cases go much faster than if families are released.
"Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country," said DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. "This rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal gove...
As of last week, hundreds of children were still separated from their parents at the border.
Family separations became one of the most controversial actions of the Trump administration in recent months. Trump daughter and top aide Ivanka Trump called the separations a "low point" for her. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, recently mentioned the "zero-tolerance" policy when asked if there was any credible ...
Immigrant advocates have opposed any effort to detain children longer than the agreement allows, and responded immediately to the proposed rule Thursday.
"By eroding the limited protections against mistreatment that detained children have through the Flores Settlement Agreement, we can expect even more children to be subjected to drastically worse detention conditions and our society as a whole will suffer from the long-term consequences of the trauma that our governmen...
"Both family separation and the detention of children have been condemned by leading medical professionals and the American Academy of Pediatrics as having the potential to cause negative health effects that can last a lifetime. The Trump administration's decision to exacerbate the suffering of kids, by imposing the cr...
The animals lie in neat circles around the pond that was supposed to sustain them as spring temperature rose and water became harder to find.
Instead, they collapsed in the mud, exhausted and weakened from drought.
Almost 200 feral horses have been found dead around a pond in Navajo land in northern Arizona, according to tribal leaders, the victims of overpopulation and dwindling water resources.
Jonathan Nez, vice president of Navajo Nation, said the deaths were an annual problem that had been getting worse.
“These horses weren’t shot or maliciously killed by an individual,” he said. “These animals were searching for water to stay alive.
Photographs show the carcases of dozens of horses were they had fallen around the stock pond in Gray Mountain.
Tribal officials say they are struggling to cope with a feral population that has grown to as many as 70,000 feral horses on the Navajo Nation.
Animals were once accustomed to finding water at the stock pond, but locals say it has dried up more quickly in recent years.
This time around a particularly dry winter has made conditions even worse. In California it made for a season of extreme wildfires while New Mexico and Arizona are still struggling with intense water shortages.
“This tragic incident exemplifies the problem the Navajo Nation faces in an overpopulation of feral horses,” said President Russell Begaye.
Federal and tribal officials have begun the gruesome business of disposing of their remains, spreading hydrated lime over the animals before burying them.
In all, they counted 191 carcases.
The plan is to cover over the pond completely, redirecting its meagre water flows elsewhere.
Daniel Schnyder’s opera about the death and life of Charlie Parker was first performed in Philadelphia in 2015, then seen in Chicago and Harlem, before it transferred to London in this co-production between English National Opera and Hackney Empire. It was commissioned for the American tenor Lawrence Brownlee, a noted ...
Schnyder and his librettist, Bridgette Wimberley, tell Parker’s story in a sequence of oblique flashbacks, starting at the end. Parker, who admired Bartók and Stravinsky, had thoughts during his life of writing a classical-jazz fusion of his own. In Yardbird, while his body lies unidentified in a New York morgue, his g...
His patroness, Nica de Koenigswarter (Julie Miller), in whose room in a segregated hotel he died at the age of 34, calmly considers how to deal with the resulting scandal. We see his early life with his fretful mother, Addie (Angela Brown), and his put-upon first wife, Rebecca (Chrystal E Williams). Dizzy Gillespie (Wi...
Schnyder’s score is ambitiously beautiful. Bluesy rhythms, underpinned by Stravinskyan dissonance, propel us forward, while oscillating Bartókian nocturnes provide moments of pause. Brownlee sustains long, ecstatic vocal lines, the shapes of which cannily link jazz to bel canto, although he is given less bebop coloratu...
Yet for all its beauty and anger, there are flaws. The opera is predicated on prior knowledge of Parker’s work and acceptance of its greatness. “We love you, we hear you, we know your great mind,” the characters sing as they contemplate his corpse, briefly putting aside their individual claims on his life. Ironically, ...
Directed with unobtrusive simplicity by Ron Daniels, and featuring an instrumental ensemble drawn from ENO’s orchestra persuasively conducted by Clark Rundell, it is, for the most part, superbly done. Brownlee gives a performance of remarkable vocal and dramatic integrity in a taxing central role that rarely takes him ...
For all its flaws, it compels respect and admiration, though to make full sense of it, revisit Parker’s own, breathtaking recordings before you hear it.
• At Hackney Empire, London, until 17 June. Box office: 020-8985 2424.
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I leave the country and mere days later, Keith Olbermann announces he’s leaving MSNBC and that Countdown is going off the air. Can this be coincidence? I think not. Clearly, Keith felt his show was simply not worth doing if I wasn’t there to watch it.
Seriously, though: Is it time to be scared yet? Comcast takes over NBC — yet another instance of the American media getting more and more consolidated into fewer and fewer corporate hands — and Olbermann gets the boot. Olbermann’s last signoff on Friday night was apparently a shock even to guests who were on the progra...
'If you're having trouble getting over your fear of sommeliers, here are a few tips on how to make him think you are cool...ask him to recommend a German Riesling...Your sommelier knows that German Riesling in its semidry form currently represents the best white wine value and that it's the most food-friendly wine on t...
-- Jay McInerney, "How to Impress Your Sommelier, Part One," in A Hedonist in the Cellar.
Case in point: Damon Goldstein and his wife Sabrina Bochen opened Truly Fine Wine, an import/distribution/retail operation specializing in German wines, back in December of '06. After their grand opening, they celebrated by repairing to the 3rd Corner for dinner. Recalls Damon, "One of their wine buyers came up and sat...
The trick is making sure everybody else knows as well. Damon is enamored enough of his product that he's able to ask, "How can there not be a market for this?" but sensible enough to admit that "the big unknown for us going into this was how the public, the wine-drinking community, was going to perceive us." Still, he ...
"I met my wife in 1998 -- a 'love at first sight' kind of thing. She's German, and she was here in San Diego for three weeks. Two weeks later, I was in Germany. I was graduating college, and I said, 'I am in love and I am going to see this girl.' I spent two weeks over there -- got to meet her family -- and she took me...
Damon had been running a restaurant franchise company with his brother -- six Cold Stone Creameries and two Quizno's -- and he was burnt out. "You have to know your food cost, or you're subject to 'shrinkage'" -- the mysterious disappearance of delicious inventory. "I was working 100-hour weeks, and we had the gamut of...
Selling the company bought Damon time, which is what he needed to make a startup work. To gain a toehold in an already-niche market, "We wanted to work with lesser-known estates, ones that weren't yet exported to the U.S." That meant research outside of the usual (read: English-language) channels -- a job made easier b...
During their visit, they narrowed the 200 wines to 65. Then they asked for samples to be sent here. "We went through everything, over and over again -- we had neighbors come over, we had wine people come over, we had people who knew nothing about wine come over. We'd do a 15-Kabinett tasting, narrow it down to 8, then ...
Initial feedback has been positive. "My wife worked with Sieman's, and one of their VPs was this amazing German guy. He came in with his wife -- they're German to the core -- and they tried the Blees-Ferber Sp...tlese Trocken and this Hans Lang Sp...tburgunder. They looked at each other, and this huge smile came cross ...
Cable operators and broadcasters in 14 states are learning first hand how it feels to be tossed into the seismic waves triggered by another accounting-related corporate bankruptcy.
Corban Communications recently informed such companies as Cable One Inc.'s Idaho systems that it could no longer transport analog video signals from distant broadcasters, thanks to the financial and legal troubles engulfing Pinnacle Towers Inc., which leases towers to the microwave carrier.
As such, Cable One's Idaho Falls system is looking for a substitute transport mechanism for two stations it imports from Salt Lake City, public broadcaster KBYU and NBC affiliate KSL. Idaho Falls already carries another NBC station, but local cable subscribers want KSL, too, said Cable One eastern Idaho general ma...
In August, Jones received a letter from Corban, serving notice that analog service would end Sept. 1. Since then, the deadline has been extended to give the operator more time to find alternative transportation.
But Jones is not alone in his scramble for alternate transport. Plano, Texas-based Corban, which operates 400 wireless sites in 30 states as well as 100 million circuit miles, told analog customers in 41 markets that it can no longer carry their feeds. President Hal Thomas said the change in business was prompted by th...
According to papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Pinnacle said the Securities and Exchange Commission questioned the way the company accounted for assets it purchased from Motorola Inc.
Sarasota, Fla.-based Pinnacle negotiated with the federal agency for a restatement of earnings without admitting to any irregularities alleged by the SEC. However, its officers are now the target of a class-action securities fraud lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, according to the bankr...
Those legal troubles, plus a downturn in the telecom sector that caused "tenant churn" at "higher than expected levels," caused Pinnacle to file a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in May. The venture is still negotiating its emergence from that bankruptcy.
In the wake of those proceedings, Thomas found his 25-year tower leases in jeopardy and was ordered to take his equipment down, he said. Thomas said Corban is one of the prime examples of what has happened to midsized companies as a result of the misdeeds of the "Global Crossings and WorldComs of the world."
"The cable operators' business plans didn't fail, ours didn't either, yet we're in a position of impossibility," he said.
Cable One Northwest division president Mitch Bland said the operator is negotiating with a Salt Lake City-based satellite carrier to uplink the broadcasters' signals to its distant cable systems. The switch will not cost much more than the company now pays for microwave service, he said.
And the operator has gotten a bit of breathing room, as Corban has extended the deadline to Oct. 13.
Jones is confident his operation will find an alternative before that date. "Our goal is to make the switch transparent to customers," he said.
As for Corban, Thomas is uncertain about whether it can reconstruct an analog network to replace the microwave towers. He also doesn't expect any assistance from the Federal Communications Commission in maintaining a dying technology.
"How can you argue it's in the public interest to save one of the last remaining analog distribution systems when the FCC has been pushing digital since 1996?" he asked.
If customers decide that now is the time to convert to digital, Corban can help them with satellite or Internet-protocol transport at present, Thomas said. But with 41 different markets to convert, there's a potential for service impairment, he said.
Over the two centuries preceding the February Revolution in 1917, the Russian Empire expanded to cover an area of approximately 8.5 million square miles, encompassing hundreds of groups with distinct languages, customs, and politics. Ruled by a series of autocratic tsars, the Russian government attempted to achieve tot...
Amassing knowledge about the people and environment of the Kazak steppe became part of an attempt to consolidate power over the region. While knowledge may have ostensibly contributed to Russian authority on the steppe, the weak, overextended tsarist state relied on imperial subjects to rule effectively. Their purpose ...
By the late nineteenth century, the relationship between Kazak intermediaries and tsarist officials had begun to deteriorate. Russia’s interest in knowledge-gathering and maintaining regional stability on the steppe gave way to a conservative, Russo-centric political culture increasingly unwilling to work with Kazaks. ...
The resettlement of the steppe by outsiders significantly affected the Kazak way of life, economically and otherwise. The primary conflict between Kazaks and tsarist officials rested upon conflicting visions of how the steppe should be utilized. As nomadic pastoralists, Kazaks required large areas of land and mobility ...

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