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Ganor has been arrested and questioned by police following his dramatic retraction and will appear in the Rishon Lezion Magistrates Court later this morning for a request to extend his remand.
Case 3000 relates to the procurement of three Dolphin submarines and four Saar 6 naval vessels from German company Thyssenkrupp between 2009 and 2017. Ganor acted as an agent for Thyssenkrupp in Israel and allegedly paid huge bribes to a range of senior defense officials, many of them close to Netanyahu, to award the contracts to the German shipbuilder, in what is considered one of the worst bribery scandals in Israel's history.
All suspects in Case 3000 are only suspected of the offenses reltated to them and are innocent until proven guilty.
Here's an easy family meal that you'll definitely want to add to your dinner rotation -- slow cooker barbecue ribs. They have all of the flavor of ribs cooked over an open flame, but the beauty of these is that you can make them in advance in your Crock-Pot. Then come dinnertime, the house smells heavenly, and you have a meal the whole family will love.
They're hearty and filling with a sauce that has a little bit of kick. You can adjust the heat by adding more or less hot sauce. Serve these up with a salad and some baked beans, and a delicious dinner is done.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Season ribs with salt and pepper. Place in a shallow baking pan. Brown in oven 15 minutes. Turn over, and brown another 15 minutes; drain fat.
In a medium bowl, mix together the ketchup, chili sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, oregano, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and salt and pepper. Place ribs in slow cooker. Pour sauce over ribs, and turn to coat.
Cover and cook on Low 6 to 8 hours, or until ribs are tender.
ASPEN, Colo.—”The Simpsons” writer and producer Mike Reiss will be among the jurors for the 20th anniversary Aspen Shortsfest from April 10-15.
Organizers say jurors also will include “Whip It” author and screenwriter Shauna Cross, “How To Lose Friends & Alienate People” director Robert Weide, and comedy writer Elias Davis, who has written for “The Carol Burnett Show,” “Mary Tyler Moore,” “M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H” and others.
The 2012 festival of short films will feature 79 films representing 30 countries. Some of the winners could be eligible for Academy Award consideration.
Oscar-nominated director Alexander Payne is scheduled to speak during the festival on a comedy screenwriting panel.
A new office park in Nazareth for Arab tech companies is a symbol of thwarted ambitions. Less than 1 percent of government research grants for tech firms go to Arab entrepreneurs.
Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks to journalists after visiting the Forbidden City in Beijing, April 9, 2014. Nearly a year ago, Peres inaugurated a technology office park at the edge of Nazareth, with the vision of luring technology companies and hundreds of software engineers to Israel’s largest Arab city.
Amid much fanfare nearly a year ago, Israeli President Shimon Peres inaugurated a technology office park at the edge of Nazareth with the vision of luring technology companies and hundreds of software engineers to Israel’s largest Arab city.
But today, save for a handful of tenants, the office suites are still mostly vacant, underscoring the yawning digital business gap between Jews and Arabs, who are largely excluded from Israel’s start-up success. This is not simply a matter of access to capital and networks, but also cultural omissions, both within the Arab community and in Israeli society.
Mr. Swidan was speaking on the sidelines of a recent government-run half-day conference in Nazareth for Arab tech entrepreneurs. Behind such initiatives is the idea that if Israel doesn’t empower its highly educated Arab youth, the economy will be the loser.
The figures are sobering: Arab citizens of Israel, who make up one-fifth of the population, account for only 3 percent of the technology workforce. According to the Office of the Chief Scientist – a division of the Economy Ministry that funds and trains tech companies – less than one percent of its annual budget of $450 million in business research grants goes to Arab-run businesses.
The Nazareth office park was intended to boost that figure and to bring tech jobs closer to Arab communities. Israel’s government has also begun offering more flexible grants and subsidies to Arab entrepreneurs for business consulting and market surveys.
"For Arabs it is harder in studies, harder to get accepted for jobs. You have to be three times better than a Jew. I’m not debating this," Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told the conference. "Arab high tech is at a tipping point. If we work wisely in the next five years, and we give the correct push, you won’t need our help."
In theory, Arab Israeli tech entrepreneurs are situated in a sweet spot: they can access Israeli tech know-how and venture capital, and use that to seed start-ups in the rapidly growing Arabic-language Internet.
This is the thinking behind Al Bawader, which was set up four years ago with backing from the government and from Pitango, a veteran investment company set up by Mr. Peres’ son Chemi. Al Bawader has so far raised over $50 million and made investments in seven companies.
But the challenges facing Arab Israeli techies remain formidable. They include discrimination by Jewish employers, a culture not accustomed to the high-risk world of venture capital; and the sheer distance between Arab and Jewish business circles.
Tally Zingher, a lawyer who has advised Arab Israeli entrepreneurs, said the gap is so big that one of her clients turned to a Jordanian investor instead of those at home.
Another factor: Jewish techies get to tinker with cutting-edge technology while serving in Israel’s military; and establish social connections that pave their way in business after they leave.
An Arab entrepreneur who graduated from Israel’s prestigious Technion Institute points out that certain military technology units and defense industry companies are essentially off limits to Arab Israelis.
Then there’s bank financing. Rabei Ibrahim, the founder and CEO of BRF Engineering Ltd, one of the few tenants of Nazareth’s new office park, says banks in Nazareth aren’t used to lending to start-ups. And banks in main Israeli cities are not used to handling Arab entrepreneurs.
For Israel’s government, another line of attack is to encourage Israeli technology firms to hire Arab tech engineers and to prepare Arab candidates for interviews. This has had limited success so far.
But cultivating Arab entrepreneurs requires something extra: the stomach for risk taking.
That’s a relatively daunting proposition for a population that’s accustomed to small family-run businesses in traditional service and manufacturing industries. Developing a hi-tech entrepreneurial tradition doesn’t happen overnight, says Johnny Ghattas, an Arab telecom expert who mentors start-up entrepreneurs.
Former President Jimmy Carter's plans to meet this week with a major Hamas leader run counter to the principle of not negotiating with terrorists, and they may well undermine Middle East peace efforts.
U.S. policy does not preclude contacts and talks with terrorists. But the bottom line has been that terrorists should not be rewarded for their criminal actions.
Mr. Carter, of course, is no longer in a position to officially negotiate for the U.S. government. Indeed, the State Department has advised him publicly against the planned meeting in Damascus with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. In an ABC television interview Sunday, the former president said he was "quite at ease" with his planned meeting despite the criticism. Mr. Carter said his goal was to "support fully the peace efforts in the Middle East."
But Hamas is a terrorist organization that conducts premeditated, politically motivated violence deliberately targeted against noncombatants. Furthermore, despite repeated public and behind-the-scenes efforts to persuade the group to change its stance, Hamas refuses to renounce terrorism, and its policy calls for Israel's destruction. Its media continue their incitement against Jews as "pigs" and "monkeys."
Hamas has engaged in an extensive military campaign of firing rockets and mortars from Gaza at civilian targets in Israel even though Israel has withdrawn from Gaza. It continues to smuggle long-range Iranian missiles through tunnels originating in Egypt. There is every reason to believe that Hamas would use a cease-fire to continue increasing its arsenal in an effort to provoke an even bloodier conflict.
For a high-profile person such as Mr. Carter to put the gloss on Hamas and publicly meet with its leader at this stage only encourages Hamas to believe that if it remains steadfast in its "resistance" and rejectionist rhetoric, the West will try to make deals or concessions without Hamas having to end terrorism and its opposition to Israel's existence.
Mr. Carter tried to justify his plans by saying that he has met with Hamas before. But relatively low-profile meetings before Hamas staged its coup against the Palestinian Authority and launched the recent large-scale rocket attacks against Israel are in a separate category. Mr. Carter notes that some Western pundits and even some Israelis believe that eventually they will have to talk to Hamas. But this is irrelevant to Mr. Carter's meeting. Cautious, private, low-key talks through intermediaries are not the same as a high-profile visit by a former Nobel Peace Prize winner that will provide a propaganda platform for the leader of the major Palestinian terrorist movement.
Mr. Carter's well-publicized meeting plans amount to rewarding terrorists in advance without any negotiations. They are reminiscent of the European Union's actions in pumping hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars into Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization "to help the poor Palestinians" without insisting on strict accountability to minimize the PLO and Fatah's notorious corruption.
The widespread corruption in Fatah, fed in part by the EU money, was a major reason that Hamas won the parliamentary elections in January 2005. Thus, well-meaning but foolishly indulgent attitudes helped lead to the situation that Gaza is in today.
Despite Mr. Carter's pious statements, his meeting with the Hamas commander in chief for death and destruction in the Israel-Palestinian conflict is more likely to prolong and exacerbate that conflict than to help end it.
Michael B. Kraft, a counterterrorism consultant, is a former senior adviser in the State Department's Counterterrorism Office and co-editor of "The Evolution of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy."
It is now more than ten years since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada. In the decade of suffering that has followed, the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been held in the grip of an extended humanitarian crisis caused by successive rounds of violent conflict, longstanding restrictions on movement and the repeated destruction of homes and infrastructure. The impact on the Palestine refugees has been to drive hundreds of thousands of families into poverty; erode their coping mechanisms while limiting their access to essential public services; rob them of rights and human dignity; and expose them to widespread trauma.
The last year has seen some small improvements in conditions in the West Bank and a merciful lessening of the extreme violence faced by Gazans as compared with 2009. The limited improvements in the West Bank are largely the result of an easing of closures between Palestinian communities on the eastern side of the Barrier and the large in-flows of aid to the Palestinian Authority. A small increase in the number of Palestinians able to earn salaries working in the Israeli labour market has also had an impact, but this source of income remains hostage to the vagaries of the conflict and the closure regime. Palestine refugees have benefited less than non-refugees from new sources of employment; unemployment rates among West Bank refugees remain extremely high, resulting in poverty and food insecurity levels that are higher for refugees than for non-refugees. Communities in Area C of the West Bank, between the barrier and the Green Line and in East Jerusalem remain subject to tight restrictions on their freedom of movement and in many cases vulnerable to house demolitions and increasing incidents of violence from Israeli settlers.
The evolution in the pattern of the crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has compelled UNRWA to build on the measures it has introduced over the last two years to better target its relief assistance to the most needy refugee families. In both fields, poverty benchmarking assessments have been introduced to ensure that it is the food insecure and abject poor who benefit from its food aid, cash assistance and job creation programmes. The Agency has also taken steps to ensure its relief assistance better accounts for the specific needs of individual groups, such as female-headed households, herders in the West Bank, youth and children. This targeted, multilevel support will, for instance, see around 200,000 child refugees in Gaza provided with additional food as a form of livelihood support, and with back-to-school assistance. This is part of the Agency’s efforts in to mitigate the negative impact of the crisis on refugees’ access to basic health and sanitation services in both fields, and to provide shelter, including transitional shelter, as well as emergency assistance, to those whose homes are destroyed or damaged by conflict.
The rights to which Palestinian refugees are entitled under international humanitarian law continue to be regularly violated or ignored with impunity. Under its emergency operations during 2011, UNRWA plans to enhance its monitoring, reporting and advocacy activities in respect of refugee rights as well as providing mental health services – at both an individual and community level – to ameliorate the distress caused by violence, closures, loss of dignity and extreme hardship. It will also provide mobile outreach services to those in isolated communities or those exposed to particular insecurity around the Barrier, in Area C and in East Jerusalem. UNRWA is also seeking the funds to allow it to maintain a modicum of additional staff and resources at the field and HQ level required to implement its emergency operations without depleting the quality and reach of its core human development and assistance programmes. The Agency will seek to improve its capacity for the coordination and management of its emergency responses while investing in the programme planning tools and systems that allow it to adapt to the changing nature of the humanitarian crisis.
1 The Gaza war refers to the three-week armed conflict that took place in the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel during the winter of 2008–2009.
Special Publication Summer in Port Fairy is your essential seasonal guide of things to see and do in this beautiful coastal town. There’s an overview of summer festivals such as the Moyneyana Festival and Port Fairy Jazz Festival, plus a look ahead to festivals you need to plan for during the coming months, such as Music in the Vines and the iconic Port Fairy Folk Festival. Enjoy being a tourist in your own backyard, with a list of interesting places to visit in Port Fairy and a handy calendar of events and retail shopping guide. You can also discover how some locals will be spending the season and ideas for entertaining the kids. There’s also information on summer fashion, books, movies, art, day trips, a festive recipe to try, and a fun puzzle page. Click here to read Summer in Port Fairy magazine online. Enjoy your summer!
Summer in Port Fairy is your essential seasonal guide of things to see and do in this beautiful coastal town.
There’s an overview of summer festivals such as the Moyneyana Festival and Port Fairy Jazz Festival, plus a look ahead to festivals you need to plan for during the coming months, such as Music in the Vines and the iconic Port Fairy Folk Festival.
Enjoy being a tourist in your own backyard, with a list of interesting places to visit in Port Fairy and a handy calendar of events and retail shopping guide. You can also discover how some locals will be spending the season and ideas for entertaining the kids.
There’s also information on summer fashion, books, movies, art, day trips, a festive recipe to try, and a fun puzzle page.
Click here to read Summer in Port Fairy magazine online. Enjoy your summer!
The Rise of Video Is Making 2016 a Weird Year to Be a Digital PublisherIt’s video all the way down.
Here’s What That New Tronc Video Is Actually SayingWe translated tronc into human-speak.
The Tribune Publishing Company Is Now Called ‘Tronc’ — I’m Sorry, ‘tronc’Tronc is in the building.
Rahul Banerjee and Sandipta Sen’s latest picture has set the gossip round mill in motion one again. Has the pair officially confirmed their relationship with this picture? The cozy photo of Rahul and Sandipta with close friends at a Lakshmi Puja celebration has set the internet on fire as we all know a picture is worth a thousand words. However, when we reached out to the ‘Byomkesh Gowtro’ actor he said the relationship between him and Sandipta is nothing but a good friendship.
“I am surprised to hear all these gossips. There are pictures of me and Ritwick Chakraborty as well. So what does it mean? I have always been straight forward. I don’t like to hide anything. Everybody knew about my earlier relationship. Even, when I was in a live in I didn’t hide. Similarly, when I will be involved in a relationship I will announce myself. Sandipta and I share a good friendship between us and nothing more. Frankly speaking, I don’t care about these rumours,” said the actor who has earned accolades for portraying Ajit in Arindam Sil’s latest ‘Byomkesh Gowtro’.
While wild rumours are doing rounds regarding Rahul’s alleged relationship with Sandipta, his ex-wife Priyanka Sarkar too seems to be in a happy zone as the actress has been spotted with a photographer friend on many occasions. Priyanka has already sought divorce from Rahul and right now the proceedings are underway.
Let’s leave it to the time and wait if any official announcement comes!
San Pedro. A much-lauded documentary film program at San Pedro High School was recently the focus of a short video funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The program, “Docs Rock,” is a 12-year-old multimedia and critical studies course taught by Tony Saavedra.
In the class, students study documentary form and create short films. In addition to having access to an artist-in-residence who participates in the program, students are visited by speakers who are professionals in the entertainment industry.
“Docs Rock” is a joint project of LAUSD, the International Documentary Association and the Los Angeles city Department of Cultural Affairs.
It was featured in one of eight UCLA student films on public education funded by the Gates Foundation. The “Docs Rock” video can be viewed at documentary.org/node/19462.
In the film, students from last year’s class praise the course, saying it helped them get into college and taught them teamwork, confidence, creative writing expression and leadership skills.
Will Jerry, 13, of Cabot fishes at Wells Lake on Wednesday. Will was kayaking and fishing at the Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center with a relative, Jim Files of Fort Smith. Will is the son of Terry and Beth Jerry.
Jim Files of Fort Smith fishes at Wells Lake on Wednesday as temperatures rose into the 90s. Files was kayaking and fishing at the Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature Center with relative, Will Jerry, 13, of Cabot.
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Laverne Cox Shares Stories Of Personal Strife, The Dangers She Faced, And Suicide.
There is no way to come up with statistics about the percent of us in the LGBTQ+ community have thought of suicide, thought of it more than once, and how many of us have attempted leaving this world. I myself if asked would add to the tall as 1 / 1 / 0 .
Recently, one of the most prominent individuals of the transgender community, Laverne Cox, shared with People.com that she had thought about suicide in the past.
The power of sharing your story, Laverne, cannot be measured. But it needs to be shared and heard by others. Laverne Cox is a great example of "It Gets Better" for not just transgender individuals, but for anyone in the LGBTQ+ community or EVERYONE, especially those that have felt threatened because of who they are.
The People.com piece was in conjunction with her appearance Wednesday in Boston when she was campaigning on behalf of the supporters of Yes on Question 3. The Massachusetts ballot question will determine whether the law passed in 2016 that protects transgender people from discrimination in public places like restaurants, shops, and movie theaters will be upheld. Cox was also interviewed on the Greater Boston program in relation to "transgender laws."
Blessed the day when our numbers would be 0 / 0 / 0 . Imagine if LGBTQ+ people has no need to think of suicide ever, not even once.
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Notre Dame’s Vince Hinostroza helped the defending champion United States wrap up a spot in the playoff round in the world junior hockey tournament, scoring twice and adding two assists in an 8-0 victory over Germany on Sunday.
Boston University’s Matt Grzelcyk had a goal and two assists. The United States (3-0-0) will finish Group A play Tuesday against Canada (1-0-1).
The United States had six power-play goals, four in the second period. Minnesota’s Hudson Fasching, Wisconsin’s Nic Kerdiles and Will Butcher, Miami of Ohio’s Riley Barber and Boston College’s Steve Santini also scored, and Anthony Stolarz — the Edison, N.J., goalie who plays for the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League — stopped all 15 shots he faced.
In Group B, Andre Burakowsky had three goals in Sweden’s 10-0 victory over Norway. Sweden improved to 3-0-0, and Norway dropped to 0-3-0.
The resolution of the five permanent members asks the IAEA to refer the nuclear issue to the Security Council.
The United Nation Security Council's five permanent members have agreed on a resolution to ask the UN nuclear watchdog agency to report Iran to the top world body over its nuclear programme.
The resolution asks the International Atomic Energy Agency's governing board to agree at a crisis meeting on Thursday to convey to the Security Council IAEA's reports raising doubts about the nature of Iran's nuclear work.
The draft calls on Iran to re-establish a freeze on uranium enrichment and related activities.
It also asks Iran to stop construction of a heavy water reactor that could be the source of plutonium for weapons.
Iran will also have to formally ratify an agreement allowing the IAEA greater inspecting authority.
Apart from that, Iran will have to give the IAEA additional power in its investigation of its nuclear program. This would include access to individuals for interviews and documentation on its black market nuclear purchases.
The IAEA also seeks to have a check on the sale and purchase of equipment that could be used for nuclear and non-nuclear purposes.
The draft resolution 'requests the Director General to report to the Security Council' on the steps Iran needs to take to dispel fears that it might want to make nuclear arms.
The text is likely to undergo some changes before being formally submitted for approval on Thursday.
Britain, France and Germany, who authored the draft for the European Union, are unlikely to agree to substantive modifications, according to a European diplomat.
The diplomat said that most board members, if not all, were expected to approve reporting Iran to the Security Council.
Although China and Russia are long-time allies and trading partners of Iran, they agreed to a statement that calls on the IAEA to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council. The developments were a boost to the United States, the main proponent of referral.
A musician and family friend of Danny Johnston is running a music concert tomorrow to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Adam Turner said support so far for the event at Newtown Social Club in Bognor had been ‘amazing’ with fellow musicians from around the county stepping in to perform for free, with all proceeds from the night to go to to the Danny Johnston Foundation.
Adam will be the headline performer on the night from 7pm-11pm, called ‘Mental Health Matters’.
He said ‘something had to be done’ to improve the provision of mental health support.
He said the community had been very supportive and his event and special thanks went to the social club for providing the venue free of charge.
Acts due to perform on the night include Ife&Mister Smith, Kayncee, Spraza, Marshall Mandiango, Reuben and a DJ set from Nelson Navarro.
Tickets will be £2 on the door, with the venue in Greencourt Drive open from 7pm.
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