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The dollar index stood at 90.39, after having risen to 90.446 on Tuesday, its highest in almost three weeks.
Still, broadly speaking, the index has been in a holding pattern between 90.934 and 89.399 so far this month.
One key focus for the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is whether policy makers will forecast four rate hikes this year, instead of the median three hikes seen in December’s quarterly forecast.
“Markets have taken a very hawkish turn with respect to the FOMC in recent days. One big tell is that 2-year yields and expected rates in fed funds futures markets went up yesterday despite the absence of economic data and a seriously downbeat equity market,” wrote Steven Englander, head of research at Rafiki Capital M...
The two-year yield jumped to 9 1/2-year high of 2.349 percent on Tuesday.
As the U.S. currency firmed, the euro traded at $1.2247, having fallen 0.78 percent on Tuesday and hitting a near three-week low of $1.2240.
The Swiss franc also hit a two-month low of 0.9570 franc to the dollar.
Against the yen, the dollar stood at 106.53 yen, after Tuesday’s gains of 0.41 percent, though trading was slow due to a public holiday in Tokyo.
The British pound was off Monday’s one-month peak after UK inflation slowed more than forecast in February, the first of several sets of data in a week when the Bank of England is expected to signal interest rates will rise as early as May.
The pound traded at $1.4000, having slipped 0.18 percent on Tuesday and off further from Monday’s high of $1.4088.
The Hong Kong dollar hit a 33-year low of 7.8452 per dollar early on Wednesday morning, inching closer to the lower end of the monetary authority’s targeted trading band, as the interest rate gap between the U.S. and Hong Kong benchmarks widened further.
The Australian dollar hit a three-month low of $0.7679 on Tuesday and last stood at $0.7686, having fallen 2.4 percent in the past week.
“Having spent most of this month quietly strengthening (thanks in part to the promise that Australia would be spared U.S. steel and aluminium tariffs) the last three days has seen the AUD come under pressure as investors have considered Australia’s exposure to Asian markets in general and China in particular,” said Sim...
News items related to interior design and lighting as issued by the Send2Press Newswire service on behalf of the noted news source.
CARPINTERIA, Calif., Feb. 26 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Holland Scott Gallery today announces the debut of the Environmentally Responsible Green Energy Fine Art Lamps. These lamps combine energy-efficiency technology with fine-art design.
CINCINNATI – Ultimately, Mike Cameron wanted to make sure he was there for the season, not just yesterday’s game.
So Cameron, the Mets’ right fielder, sat out Opening Day with left wrist tendinitis. He was replaced by Eric Valent, who went 0-for-3 with a walk in the Mets’ crushing 7-6 loss to the Reds.
For the second straight year, Kazuo Matsui homered in his first at-bat of the season. Last year, as a leadoff hitter, Matsui slammed Russ Ortiz‘s first pitch over the center-field wall. This year, as the No. 2 man, Matsui turned on a 3-2 pitch from Paul Wilsonand crushed it into the right-field bullpen.
Probably safe to wager a Matsui homer to left to kick off 2006.
The last player to homer in his first at-bat of the year two straight seasons was Bobby Estalella, who did it in 2003-04. The last Met to do it was Darryl Strawberry in 1987-88.
Martinez’s 12 strikeouts were the most by a Mets starter in his debut and the most in Mets Opening Day history.
Randolph chuckled when asked about the fact that he didn’t lose many games like this – i.e., where the closer blows a lead – with the Yankees.
Said the manager, “I’m not with the Yankees anymore. That’s past, man . . . It doesn’t feel too good, but there’s not many Mariano Riveras around, that’s for sure.” . . . Mets put Bartolome Fortunato on the DL with lower back pain and designated first baseman Craig Brazell for assignment.
A man is accused of trying to poison an infant with antifreeze.
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — A Brainerd man is accused of trying to poison an infant with antifreeze.
Twenty-three-year-old Jeffrey Thomas is charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault. A criminal complaint alleges Thomas tried to poison the 4-month-old girl after his wife because upset that he may have fathered the child with another woman. A paternity test has not been completed, but Thomas says he's not ...
The Star Tribune says the baby was placed with Thomas shortly after she was born following a child protection proceeding in Carlton County. The complaint says Thomas and his wife took the infant to the hospital after she became sick Jan. 18. Authorities say hospital tests showed the baby had ingested ethylene glycol, c...
Thomas is in the Crow Wing County Jail on $750,000 bond.
Nothing gives a more revealing clue to the J&K tangle than the unique unanimity with which Kashmiris hailed Salahuddin's call for ceasefire, writes AG Noorani.
Nothing provides a more revealing clue to the Kashmir tangle than the unique unanimity with which Kashmiris hailed the call by the leader of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Syed Salahuddin, for a ceasefire on August 17. That includes two former chief ministers, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and Farooq Abdullah; presidents of two u...
The LeT and the Jaish are not members of the 13-member United Jehad Council (UJC) that Salahuddin heads. Last April, the HM censured in the weekly Chattan the Jamiatul Mujahideen’s use of hand grenades as a breach of the UJC’s code of conduct. It opposed the LeT and the Jaish’s ban on TV channels and any disruption of ...
The August 17 offer must be read in the context of the HM’s failed ceasefire in 2000, opposition by other militants and the diplomatic setting. It conveys two messages: the HM is ready to perform in the political field and it will not be bypassed.
The offers began to be made recently, even as talks on Kashmir between India and Pakistan were resumed in earnest. On December 10, 2004, Salahuddin said that he was ready to provide “any and every kind of help which would lead to a desired solution of the Kashmir issue”. But “until and unless India does not display its...
His commander, Abdul Majeed Dar, had declared a unilateral ceasefire on July 24, 2000, but it was called off on August 8. The record shows why that was done. On July 25, the very next day, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee said that the talks would be held “within the framework of the Constitution”. No such precondition was...
Salahuddin said the same on July 25. Two days later, he rejected Vajpayee’s stipulation and threatened to end the ceasefire. “The ceasefire has been announced for a permanent settlement of the Kashmir dispute… India must, therefore, start a meaningful dialogue with the Government of Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership...
On July 31, he accused India of lack of earnest and asked it to “agree to tripartite dialogue which should comprise Kashmiris, Pakistan and India… It now depends on India. We have not given up the armed struggle”. He nominated a Hurriyat member, Fazlul Haq Qureshi, as his pointsman.
Vajpayee did not call off the scheduled talks despite the massacre of nearly a hundred persons at Pahalgam on August 2. But he ruled out, at Srinagar the next day, any tripartite talks on Kashmir involving Pakistan even in the near future. President Clinton called him that day to urge talks with Pakistan. But the PMO d...
The tactics employed by officials were unprecedented in such talks anywhere in the world. They were designed to expose to the public the HM’s men so that they would have no option but to surrender. Arrangements were in place to photograph and film them. “Don’t shoot us. Our lives are in danger,” one of them pleaded. Th...
Masood had said on August 3 that “Pakistan would be included at a later stage… without Pakistan no talks could be held”. The HM’s Supreme Council met that day. It declared that “the ceasefire would be called off on August 8 if India did not agree to include Pakistan in the talks”. On August 5, when the talks were to be...
Not surprisingly, the HM ended the ceasefire on August 8. The myth of “sabotage of the peace process by Pakistan” implies that the HM was prepared to surrender despite its insistence on political talks, with Pakistan’s eventual participation.
Salahuddin left the door ajar even after the ceasefire ended. He said on September 17, “Let India and Pakistan start. They can involve Kashmiris later. Alternatively, Kashmiris and Delhi can start the dialogue”, provided the three “meet during the decisive phase of the dialogue”. He renewed his offer recently against t...
The August 17 offer has the usual stipulations with a clear hint that the HM is prepared to negotiate. Salahuddin’s hint on August 7, 2005, is very significant. If President Pervez Musharraf were to assure him that India would, indeed, fulfil his conditions and negotiate, he would declare a ceasefire.
In 2000, there was no Indo-Pak dialogue on Kashmir. Now there is. The HM has declared its readiness to contest the polls if their fairness is guaranteed. Add to it assurances of respect for human lives and civil liberties and give the HM a firm basis for a ceasefire.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A shared love for vintage cars shifts Rick “Opie” Willis and his wife, Sue, into overdrive every summer, but it is two charities that take the checkered flag.
Sue spearheads the group that organizes the Ault Park Concours d’Elegance on June 12, which benefits juvenile arthritis. Opie — whose boyhood freckles and red hair earned him the name of Ron Howard’s “Andy Griffith Show” character — collects buckets of money for the Middletown chapter of the Wounded Warrior Project at ...
Both have been moved to give back, Sue said, by “heart-wrenching” encounters they have had with many victims of arthritis and war.
Aside from using vintage cars for philanthropy, however, the couple’s two summer events couldn’t be any different. The 39th Concours takes place in a beautifully groomed city park nestled between two of Cincinnati’s most-desired neighborhoods: Hyde Park and Mount Lookout. It features 200 collectible cars like Ferraris ...
Opie’s party centers around a couple of large garages and open country that used to be part of a dairy farm on the border of Middletown and Monroe Township. It features fried chicken and pulled pork, margaritas, American flag-waving parachutists, patriotic music by live bands, split the pot, a fireworks shows run by Op...
The Concours gives out awards to car owners in about 50 categories. Opie gives out thanks to those car owners who drop a few bucks in his Wounded Warrior buckets. He charges $20 for every car that parks on his property and insists that people bring a covered dish. If they come empty-handed, he makes them turn around an...
The Willises, both 59 this year and married nearly 28 years, come from different backgrounds. She grew up in Mount Healthy, attended McAuley High School and graduated from Edgecliff College with a degree in art. She had a successful career in retail and worked 13 years for General Electric.
He went to school in Dayton, buying his first car, a 1964 Chevrolet Corvair, at age 16 for $50. He enlisted in the Army out of high school and served four years as a welder in Germany. Back home, he got into classic cars and went on to become a salesman for Phillips Medical Supplies .
“I like cars, too, but I don’t claim to have any knowledge of them,” Sue said.
The Willises’ now-common concern for charity began with Opie, according to Sue. He started volunteering as a beverage pourer at the Concours in the early 2000s and became chairman of the souvenirs committee. Opie eventually invited Sue to help out.
“I asked him how I could get involved, and he said, ‘Consider yourself involved,’ ” said Sue, whose professional experience included planning events, managing operations and, generally, running a business.
By 2008, she was directing the car show as the second executive director of the Cincinnati Concours d’Elegance Foundation, which took it over from the Arthritis Foundation in 2007.
“There were all these things: soliciting sponsors, ad sales, managing people, preparing budgets, logistics, working with the city, state and police … It kind of felt natural, but it was still baptism by fire,” Sue said.
Opie used to drive one of his muscle cars — he has 14 now, in addition to four daily drivers — down to a “cars and coffee” gathering at Fuel Coffee https://stopforfuel.wordpress.com/ in Columbia Tusculum. And, he said, he had given to the Wounded Warrior Project for years.
The couple attended the Middletown WWP chapters special weekend of events in 2014 and decided to funnel their money directly to it. Opie then put his interests together and started hosting a cars, coffee and doughnuts gathering for charity on the first Saturday of the month.
The Fourth of July party has been a tradition of the Willises for years. It grew to be a logistical burden when they held at their home in Liberty Township, however, so two years ago the couple moved it to their weekend getaway (there’s a three-bedroom house attached to one of the garages).
“Over here,” Opie said, gesturing to the open field behind his compound, “I own all this land. It’s 26 acres. We can do whatever we want, and nobody messes with us. It works out real good.
He said his events have raised $40,000 over the past two years and $4,000 already this year. He will add to that the $10,000 or more he expects to collect on the Fourth of July and present it at the Warrior Weekend to Remember that continues until June 12 in Middletown.
He said the feedback he gets from veterans who benefit from all that he does can be overwhelming.
With a Daft Punk tour rumoured for 2017, we look back at the stunning live performances that have made them top of every fan’s live wishlist. From sweaty clubs in the ’90s to festival headlining slots in 2007, the French electronic duo have wowed fans across the globe with their sporadic live performances.
Before they put on the helmets, the pair undertook their ‘Daftendirektour’, which saw them air cuts from their debut album ‘Homework’. The 70-show club extravaganza saw them play intimate shows in Europe, before hitting up North America, Asia and beyond in the year-long tour.
In 2001, the shows were immortalised on the live CD ‘Alive ‘97’. The set used for the release was from the Que Club in Birmingham which they said was their favourite from the tour. Live video footage from the shows is still incredibly rare, though.
Five years later, the group announced their first shows in almost a decade, kicking off with a headline set at California's Coachella Festival in April 2006. It was here that they debuted the gigantic LED pyramid structure that they would perform from.
The group followed up their return with a handful of summer shows in Europe, their first being a show at Eurockeennes Music Festival in their native France. Thomas Bangalter of the duo initially said that fans would be able to see the giant structure on a live DVD, though later backtracked saying amateur footage was "m...
After a handful of shows the year prior, The Robots took their Pyramid on an extensive world tour at arenas and a few festivals across the globe in 2007. Their June 14 show in Paris at the Palais Omnisport De Bercy was their first in the city in almost a decade, and material from the show was used on the live CD ‘Alive...
Days later, the group landed in the UK for a pair of gigs at Wireless Festival in London and Leeds. The shows were the last time they performed in the UK.
Parts of the show were broadcast on British television, providing fans with the only official footage from the mammoth tour. The clips were later uploaded to the group's official YouTube channel.
Later that summer, they took the formidable live show to North America, including a show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. The setlist for the tour often opened with a mashup of ‘Robot Rock’ from ‘Human After All’ and ‘Oh Yeah’ from their debut album ‘Homework’.
The French DJs also played Lollapalooza in August 2007. In 2016, an artist page set up for Daft Punk on the festival's website resulted in rumours surrounding the group making a return to the Chicago event in 2017.
On the tour, the Robots would often mix 'Homework’s ‘Around The World’ with ‘Discovery’ hit ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ before finishing on a medley of 'Humans After All', 'Together' and 'One More Time'.
The tour's setlist - which remained largely unchanged throughout - also saw them incorporate elements of Busta Rhymes’ ‘Touch It’ as well as R&B singer Gabrielle’s ‘Forget About The World’.
The tour wrapped up with a handful of shows in Australia in December 2007, with the final performance coming at Sydney Showground Arena. Reviewing the tour, NME would describe the mammoth structure and the show as ‘a robotic spectacular’.
Live performances have since been few and far between. In 2008, the pair performed at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles alongside Kanye West. Clad in special glow in the dark suits, they teamed up with Yeezy for a rendition of his song ‘Stronger’, which was built around a sample from Daft Punk’s 'Harder Better Faster St...
In 2009, the pair would return to the Grammys to pick up the award for Best Dance/Electronic Album for ‘Alive 2007’, the live album from their most recent tour.
The group returned to The Grammys in 2014 and brought an all-star band. It was here that they recruited Nile Rodgers, Pharrell and Stevie Wonder and performed ‘Get Lucky’, ‘Another Star’ and ‘Around The World’ with the band.
Their 2013 album ‘Random Access Memories’ won Album Of The Year and Record Of The Year at the Awards, though the band performed no full live concerts in promotion for the album.
Since withdrawing from the live circuit, various bands have employed imposters to act as Daft Punk on stage. In 2014, Arcade Fire brought out a fake pair of Robots during their Coachella headline set.
OnePlus introduced its Face Unlock feature with the OnePlus 5T and many expected that the company would bring this feature to the predecessor as well. OnePlus was likely going to bundle the feature with the Oreo update for the OnePlus 5. The company’s co-founder Carl Pei confirmed last month that based on feedback from...
The reason why OnePlus is able to bring this feature to the predecessor with just a simple software update is because it doesn’t need complex sensors or facial recognition technology like the iPhone X. The Face Unlock feature only uses the front-facing camera for facial recognition. There were no hardware limitations p...
OnePlus started rolling out the Android 8.0 Oreo-based Oxygen OS 5.0 for the OnePlus 5 about two weeks ago. This feature wasn’t included in the initial release. The company has now released a beta of Oxygen OS 5.0 which brings the Face Unlock feature for the OnePlus 5.
The beta firmware can now be downloaded from the company’s website. Weighing in at 1.58GB, it brings the Face Unlock feature, the December security patch, and fixes some minor issues as well.
WASHINGTON -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
The spokesman said it could take about two years to "to have all the kinks worked out."
The agency already has a special system to register and draft health care personnel ages 20 to 44 in more than 60 specialties if necessary in a crisis. According to Flahavan, the agency will expand this system to be able to rapidly register and draft computer specialists and linguists, should the need ever arise. But h...
Congress, which would have to authorize a draft, has shown no interest in taking such a step.
Kathleen Long, a spokeswoman for Sen. Carl Levin, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said a draft has little support among lawmakers.
A spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, agreed. "There are massive operations under way to retrain soldiers" for more pressing duties and to recruit specialties in demand such as language experts, said Harald Stavenas, Hunter's spokesman.
The military draft ended in 1973 as the U.S. commitment in Vietnam waned, beginning the era of the all-volunteer force. Mandatory registration for the draft was suspended in 1975 but resumed in 1980 by President Carter after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. About 13.5 million men, ages 18 to 25, are currently registere...
The military has had particular difficulty attracting and retaining language experts, especially people knowledgeable about Arabic and various Afghan dialects. To address this need, the Army has a new pilot program under way to recruit Arabic speakers into the service's Ready Reserves. The service has signed up about 1...
A Pentagon official familiar with personnel issues stressed that the armed forces are against any form of conscription but acknowledged that the groundwork is already under way at the Selective Service System.
On Capitol Hill, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has introduced a bill that would reinstate the draft. The legislation has minimal support with only 13 House lawmakers signing on as co-sponsors. A corresponding bill in the Senate introduced by Sen. Fritz Hollings, the outgoing South Carolina Democrat, has no co-sponsors.
Ulster take an unbeaten start to the season on the road for the first time, Port Elizabeth the destination as they look to sustain momentum gleaned from narrow victories over the Scarlets (15-13) and Edinburgh (30-29) in Belfast.
Head coach Dan McFarland retains the backline en masse while there are three alterations to the pack, one in each row of the scrum. Tom O’Toole comes in at tighthead prop having recovered from the concussion he sustained against the Scarlets.
Despite being ruled out through injury and not being able to take part in the Under-20 World Cup last season, there is no doubting his quality, evident in the age-grade Six Nations and also in a white shirt. Alan O’Connor deputises for Iain Henderson in the second row, while Sean Reidy joins Marcell Coetzee and Nick Ti...
McFarland will be hoping that he doesn’t have to rely quite so heavily on the boot of John Cooney, the scrumhalf’s place-kicking process and sangfroid in the dying embers of previous games helping his team to a couple of hard-fought victories.
Will Addison, who trained with Ireland in Australia for a week during the summer, has already offered evidence of his quality, the fullback breaking an Ulster and tournament record for the most carries in a match (28) in last week’s win over Edinburgh.
Craig Gilroy looks very sharp while Stuart McCloskey and Henry Speight should ensure positive gainlines. They key for Ulster will be providing a platform up front, especially in the absence of some senior figures.

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