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Even though Gallup could not ask questions about several negative attributes in Iran and Egypt, the poll findings show that those who say Sharia should be at least a source of legislation are less likely to make negative associations with Sharia compliance. But 69% of Egyptians say they associate Sharia with the promot... |
While 28% of respondents in Iran associate Sharia with giving government unlimited power, they are more likely (46%) to view it as limiting the powers of rulers. In neighboring Turkey, about one in five respondents associate religious law with giving unlimited power to government and curbing the power of rulers. In Egy... |
Additionally, about one-third of respondents in Egypt (35%) and Turkey (32%) who say Sharia should be a source of legislation associate religious law with limiting personal freedom. But Egyptians (4%) are far less likely than Turks are (26%) to associate Sharia with being an obstacle to scientific advancement. Views ab... |
For the populations who say that Sharia must be a source of legislation (either the only source or one of the sources): Results are based on face-to-faced interviews with 771 adults, aged 15 and older, in Iran in June-July 2007. In Egypt, results are based on face-to-faced interviews with 900 adults, aged 15 and older,... |
For the populations who have an opinion about the role of Sharia in legislation (those who say Sharia must be the only source of legislation, one of the sources or should not be a source): Results are based on face-to-face interviews with 898 adults, aged 15 and older, in Iran in June-July 2007. In Egypt, results are b... |
Gallup Polls conducted in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey offer three contrasting views of the role of Sharia in national law. About two-thirds of Egyptians think Sharia must be the only source of legislation, compared with 14% of Iranians and fewer than 1 in 10 Turks who say the same. |
What Do Muslim Women Want? |
The authors of the book Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think discuss findings that contrast the perception that Muslim women have been conditioned to accept second-class status. |
Tanya Cordrey is a non-executive director of Schibsted and the former chief digital officer of Guardian News & Media. |
Cordrey, Tanya. "Let users personalize their experience." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Dec. 2015. Web. 23 Apr. 2019. |
Cordrey, Tanya. "Let users personalize their experience." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 16, 2015. Accessed April 23, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/let-users-personalize-their-experience/. |
Four federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former University of Texas at Brownsville student who alleges that the university unlawfully terminated his foreign student status resulting in a negative domino effect on his life, court documents show. |
The student, only known as John Doe, is a native of the Republic of India and sued Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna; USCIS Harlingen District Director Mario Ortiz; USCIS Field Office Director Norma A. Limon; the University of ... |
The federal settlement does not apply to the UTRGV defendants. |
Doe’s identity is not revealed in the litigation because it could result in adverse immigration against the man, according to court documents. |
The Android version of the Facebook app grows more like its iPhone sibling with two highly requested features. |
The official Facebook application for Android took a major step forward yesterday with the integration of two key features. The latest release (v1.5) now offers chat and push notifications, making the native app considerably more appealing to users. These features come on the heels of last month's addition of Places an... |
Since its debut, the Android version of the mobile app has been playing catch-up with its iPhone counterpart. Yet, considering the Apple iteration is in version 3.0 already, the Android app isn't doing too bad for itself. Indeed, the differences between the two are getting less noticeable with each release. |
What features would you like to see added to the Facebook for Android application next? |
State Sen. Joe Schiavoni challenges Ohio's claim that a state takeover is the solution. |
Ohio's school superintendent will soon be choosing three members of the five-person Academic Distress Commission that will choose a CEO and run Youngstown City Schools. Two state senators who oppose the state takeover are hoping to influence how that commission operates by taking a closer look at how schools work. Stat... |
Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni is trying to stop the Youngstown takeover in court. But H.B. 70 is the law now and he says he can’t wait for a possible Ohio Supreme Court ruling to overturn it. Schiavoni has introduced his own bill to restrict the extraordinary power the new CEO would wield as the law now stands. |
Schiavoni and another Democrat, Akron Sen. Tom Sawyer, visited Sawyer’s alma mater, Buchtel Community Learning Center in Akron looking for success stories that might work in Youngstown. |
They asked teachers and students about project-based learning, standardized tests and how the inner-city school took a low graduation rate up to nearly 88 percent. Student Samir Nahali said the difference was changing the mode of teaching from dictating to motivating. |
The Buchtel principal said her teachers work a lot of extra time, even weekends. Schiavoni and Sawyer also visited a school in Columbus and plan to go to Cleveland and Toledo next. |
"It was surreal just to be out there in the first place," Booker told Suns.com after the game. "That's been your dream growing up. Everything you want to say is, 'I want to be in the NBA.' That's my first real NBA action. Unbelievable feeling." |
Suns coach Jeff Hornacek appreciated Booker's aggressive offense, but the youngster has a lot to learn about NBA defense. |
"I think he got back-doored on one and that's when a veteran says, `I got a rookie and I'm going to pick on him,'" Hornacek told The Associated Press. "That's how you learn. Overall, for the first game, I thought he played pretty well." |
Booker is also a three-time Sun Herald basketball player of the year and McDonald's All-American. |
Former Biloxi standout Isaiah Canaan had a solid debut as the Philadelphia 76ers starting point guard. Canaan shot 6 of 14 from the field and 4 of 10 from 3 to score 18 points, second on the team behind star rookie Jahlil Okafor's 26-point effort. Canaan also had seven rebounds, two assists and a steal in nearly 37 min... |
"I'm excited," Canaan told NBA.com prior to the 112-95 loss to Boston. "It's the beginning of the new year. We've been having a lot of different line-ups throughout the pre-season. Now, we can find a core chemistry, and get it all together." |
Several industry folk dropped in at Salman Khan's Bandra home, Galaxy Apartments, after he was acquitted by the Bombay High Court in the 2002 hit-and-run case on Thursday. |
Among those spotted were Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah, David Dhawan, Ramesh Taurani, Anu Malik and Puneet Issar. |
Sallu's ex Sangeeta Bijlani was spotted arriving with Nikhil Dwivedi. |
There was a steady stream of visitors till the wee hours. |
Several of his fans also crowded outside the house to catch a glimpse of their matinee idol. |
Over 50? Never Been an Expat, But Would Like to Try Living Abroad? Why Not Volunteer? |
Having worked in human resources over three decades, Barbara Jue never had the chance to live and work abroad for any length of time. When she retired in 2010, Ms. Jue decided she wanted to have that expat experience and, having known a number of people—including her ex-husband—who had served in the Peace Corps, she de... |
The idea of taxing the rich is gaining ground. The conservative-leaning Financial Times writes about taxing the American rich almost every week. U.S Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call to raise the top marginal income tax rate to 70 percent has a surprising amount of polling support, and Senator Elizabeth Wa... |
But higher taxes aren’t just supported by the poor and middle class. In fact, some of the world’s wealthiest people say they aren’t paying enough taxes. Bill Gates—the second-wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth over $90 billion—has paid over $10 billion in taxes so far. His view? Bill Gates says,... |
Of course, we shouldn’t overstate the super-wealthy’s support for higher taxes. When the Trump tax cuts were being debated by Congress, many billionaires sent large financial contributions to Republican legislators. |
Still, as an economist, I find it a bit surprising that these wealthy people can reconcile their desire for status and wealth with wanting to pay more in taxes. The latter desire evidently comes from two beliefs: paying higher taxes would be fair, and more tax revenue would reduce the deficit. |
First, on fairness: Those with the very highest incomes have benefited disproportionately from tax cuts, and that lost revenue is driving the federal deficit ever higher. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that since 2001, “significant federal tax changes have reduced revenue by $5.1 trillion, with... |
Second, lost federal revenue means higher annual deficits and a growing cumulative debt burden. To date, the cumulative impact of tax cuts since 2001 is $5.9 trillion. ITEP estimates that it will reach $13.6 trillion by 2025, from lost revenues and increased interest payments on the debt. So for some, more revenues are... |
So here is the Financial Times and (at least some) prominent super-rich people indirectly legitimating the economics of the Democratic Party’s progressive left wing. The old maxim that “politics makes strange bedfellows” is truly illustrated when a first-term Democratic Socialist member of Congress and the second-wealt... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration blacklisted two North Korean-controlled information technology companies based in China and Russia on Thursday as it pushed for progress by Kim Jong Un’s government on denuclearization. |
The Treasury Department announced it was designating China Silver Star, its North Korean CEO Jong Song Hwa and its Russia-based sister company, Volasys Silver Star. |
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the sanctions were intended to stop the flow of illicit revenue to North Korea from overseas IT workers hiding behind front companies and aliases. The designation blocks any property those targeted may have in the U.S. and prohibits Americans from doing business with them. |
North Korea sells a range of IT services and products abroad, including website and app development, security software and biometric identification software that have military and law enforcement applications, Treasury says. |
The U.S. said that the companies targeted are also linked to the organizations involved in North’s weapons program. China Silver Star, also known as Yanbian Silverstar Network Technology Co., is associated with the Munitions Industry Department of North Korea’s ruling party, which oversees the nation’s ballistic missil... |
As of mid-2018, China Silver Star had earned millions of dollars from collaborative projects with Chinese and other companies, and the Russia-based Volasys Silver Star, established in early 2017, had earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in under a year, the Treasury said. Both companies are managed by North Koreans. |
Although virtually all North Koreans lack access to the internet, the U.S. says that IT is not only a source of revenue for its authoritarian government but used by the North for theft and intimidation. |
Last week, U.S. federal prosecutors charged a North Korean computer programmer with devastating cyberattacks that hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment and unleashed the WannaCry ransomware virus that infected computers in 150 countries and crippled parts of the British health care system. U.S. officials believe the Sony ... |
The Trump administration has kept up sanctions pressure on the North, despite the historic summit between President Donald Trump and Kim in June that dialed down nuclear tensions between the adversaries. |
That meeting, the first ever between leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, has been followed by a diplomatic impasse over how to achieve the agreed-upon goal of denuclearization. Still, the White House said Monday that Trump has received a request from Kim for a second summit, and planning is in motion to make it happen... |
Also Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it has approved the potential sale to South Korea of six P-8A maritime patrol aircraft for an estimated cost of $2.1 billion and 64 Patriot missiles for missile defense for an estimated $500 million. South Korea, a close U.S. ally, said in February that it would procure... |
Metro Bancorp, Inc. (“Metro” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ Global Select Market Symbol: METR), parent company of Metro Bank, today confirmed that is has received notice on behalf of the PL Capital Group, which has disclosed beneficial ownership of approximately 8.8% of the outstanding shares of Metro, that it intends to su... |
We welcome open communication with our shareholders and value their input toward the goal of enhancing shareholder value. We will continue to take actions that we believe enable us to achieve this objective. |
As demonstrated by our recently announced initiatives to enhance shareholder returns and earnings, Metro’s Board and management team continue to work to increase shareholder returns, improve the Company’s profitability and grow the value of the Metro franchise. |
Metro’s Board is composed of eleven highly qualified directors, ten of whom are independent, and all of whom are highly experienced professionals with expertise across a wide range of disciplines and relevant industries critical to the Company’s businesses. Three new directors – Douglas Berry, Jessica Meyers and Thomas... |
The Metro Board will consider these nominations in due course after they are formally submitted. The Board will present its formal recommendation regarding director nominees in Metro’s definitive proxy statement and other materials, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and mailed to all shareholders ... |
The Company intends to file a proxy statement on Schedule 14A and other relevant documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in connection with the solicitation of proxies for its 2015 annual meeting of stockholders. STOCKHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ THE COMPANY’S 2015 PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDI... |
The Company, its directors, its executive officers and its nominees for election as director may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with the matters to be considered at the Company’s 2015 annual meeting of stockholders. Information regarding the persons who may, under ... |
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NEW YORK -- The Lighthouse Project, Alex Ovechkin and six-time Stanley Cup champion Kevin Lowe were just a few of the many topics discussed on Thursday during NHL Hour With Commissioner Gary Bettman on SIRIUS XM Radio. |
Lowe, who currently serves as the President of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton Oilers, was a guest of Bettman's and co-host Bill Clement. The first-ever draft choice of the Oilers (in 1979) won six Stanley Cups with two different teams during his 19-season NHL career that began 30 years ago Saturday. Lowe actually s... |
"It's not a tough goal to remember," Lowe told Bettman. "It was at Chicago Stadium and it was nerve-racking because the organ was a pretty amazing piece they had in that building -- it scared you. We got a power-play and Wayne (Gretzky) sent me a pass and I put it over Tony Esposito's glove. That was also Wayne's first... |
Lowe admitted those Oiler teams, which included Gretzky, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, never considered themselves a dominant group at the time of their winning five Stanley Cup titles in seven seasons. They just had a lot of fun. |
"I don't think we knew it at the time because we had a lot to learn in the early days and the New York Islanders taught us a lot about winning in the early '80s. But, really, we were having lots of fun and doing our jobs. We just had a lot of pride and never thought we were great, nor did we ever think we had two of th... |
Bettman also asked Lowe to comment on the "Battle of Alberta" and how the matchup between Edmonton and Calgary is one of the best rivalries in hockey. |
"Unfortunately, those fans being in the Eastern time zone don't get to really feel the battle so I don't think people in North America have a true appreciation for the rivalry," Lowe said. "But this rivalry goes beyond hockey, it involves politics, families and business. It's an amazing rivalry and the excitement that ... |
Bettman was also asked about the current state of the Lighthouse Project on Long Island. The Lighthouse Project, first introduced by New York Islanders owner Charles Wang, is the proposed transformation of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and its surrounding area. If approved the project would take 8-to-10 years to be... |
"I don't think there's anyone who disputes the fact the Isles belong on Long Island and Charles Wong doesn't want to sell the club or move the club," Bettman said. "Charles Wong couldn't imagine eight years ago that he'd be trying to figure out where this team would be playing in the future. It's time for town of Hemps... |
Clement and Bettman also touched upon the wizardry of Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin and his 5 goals in three games to open the season. |
"At this rate, he's liable to score 240 points by the end of the season," laughed Bettman. "I think he might be able to crack 70 this year." |
"And his hot start has also helped linemate Nicklas Backstrom too," Clement said. "Really, though, I thought the Flyers did a good job on Ovechkin (on Tuesday) but he still managed 2 goals and 1 assist." |
Bettman also confirmed that the lottery to win an opportunity to purchase tickets to the 2010 Bridgestone Winter Classic at Fenway Park in Boston in January included a record 307,000 registrants. Last year, there were 250,000 registrants entered for an opportunity to purchase tickets. |
Distraction-free writing apps have become a huge trend over the past year — particularly for Mac users — and we’re seeing more and more contenders in the space all the time. If you’ve decided its time to give it a try but haven’t followed this rather niche category’s rise to fame, you might not know where to start. Her... |
WriteRoom was the original distraction-free writing app, the one that kicked off the craze that has since seen the development of a myriad of competing apps. Made by Hog Bay Software, the company behind other popular Mac apps such as TaskPaper and PlainText, WriteRoom costs $24.99. |
WriteRoom’s aesthetic is most appealing to those who love the retro 80s hacker aesthetic — green, monospaced text on a black background. WriteRoom has Dropbox integration to keep your documents synced between computers and iOS devices. |
OmmWriter is a popular choice because it goes beyond simply excluding the presence of distractions and tries to provide a more focus-conducive environment. Whether womb sounds really do enhance your focus or purple-pink animated backgrounds make you more creative is someone else’s call, but people seem to like it. |
One of the app’s biggest draws is that there’s a completely free version available, minus a few of the backgrounds and sounds. It’s surprising to many that in today’s app market these distraction-free apps tend to have such high prices for fewer features, and if you’re one of these people this may be the app for you. |
iA’s Writer for Mac is an evolution of their original iPad version which garnered a lot of attention when it came out — iA did a top-notch job creating an interface better suited to the iPad and its limitations than any competitor. |
Writer costs $17.99 and comes with several innovative features, including Focus Mode which takes distraction-free to a whole new level by forcing you to look at only the sentence you’re working on. There’s also auto Markdown formatting and a reading time counter. |
Clean Writer is on the cheap end at only $2.99. Clean Writer has Lion full-screen support on a window-by-window basis as well as autosave and versioning support. It has an interface somewhere between OmmWriter’s and WriteRoom’s — less to click on than OmmWriter but a bit more elegant than WriteRoom’s default retro look... |
There’s not a lot to say about Clean Writer in comparison with apps like WriteRoom — they are after all pretty much the same by design — except for the significant saving. Unless you’ve got a specific feature you’re after in another app, like OmmWriter’s ‘atmospheric’ options, Clean Writer represents your best value fo... |
Byword is a lesser known app, but is actually pretty excellent if you want a little more control over formatting while keeping most other distractions at bay. A small formatting tool palette follows the selection, sort of like the Artsy Editor plugin for WordPress. |
Byword also has Markdown support and saves to a variety of formats, including PDF, HTML, Word, RTF and LaTeX. |
Byword costs $9.99, and despite bigger deals such as Clean Writer’s $2.99 price point, that’s still a pretty reasonable price in this category. |
Which app should you use? |
Each of these apps have their strong points, and in a category where lack of features is actually a feature, the bottom line is more a matter of personal taste. Price is the biggest differentiator among these apps, and for that reason I became an Ommwriter user (though I ended up paying more than I would have on Clean ... |
If paying less isn’t your motivator then iA Writer is a crowd favorite. It’s hard to beat the app’s Focus Mode if distraction-free writing is truly what you’re after. At the end of the day, take a look at the app’s screenshots. What you see is what you’ll get (and all that you’ll get), and the most important thing is t... |
Those who have followed us for at least six months know how well we’ve identified major turning points in the U.S. stock market. |
When the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.88% broke below 2,880 points in the fall, I noted that I thought the downside risk outweighed any further upside potential. And, as we now know, that breakdown opened the door to the correction to the 2,345 level. |
As the S&P 500 dropped below 2,800, we set up a bottoming target between 2,250 and 2,335 for what I viewed as the initial phase of this larger-degree correction. That is what we have labeled as our a-wave on our 60-minute and daily S&P 500 charts. |
As we also know, the market bottomed within our target region (in the futures), but did not provide us with a clear five-wave structure into that bottoming region. However, even before we bottomed, I was highlighting my expectations for the “corrective” rally I expected once that a-wave was completed. |
And, for those who followed us closely, you would remember that my minimum target for this rally off the 2,350 region was 2,800, with the potential to even rally as high as the 3,011-3,040 region. At this point, the only change I may make to this potential is raise that target to the 2,900 region up to as high as the 3... |
Elliott Wave analysis subdivides this corrective rally I have been expecting (which is labeled as a b-wave) with an [a]-[b]-[c] sub-structure. While I had placed my target for the [a] wave on our chart even before we bottomed, the market rallied 50 points higher than my ideal target region for this initial rally off th... |
At this point, it seems likely that the market has topped in the [a] wave, and we are now within the throes of the [b] wave pullback. And I generally expect that [b] wave to subdivide as I have outlined on the attached five-minute chart. |
The question with which we will grapple in the coming months is how high this b-wave rally will travel. The answer will depend on two things. First, we need to confirm where the bottom of the [b] wave pullback will form. My minimum target for that is in the 2,600 region at this time, with the potential to drop as deep ... |
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