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Just reduce the amount – maybe by 10 percent a year, pleads Hood. Wal-Mart could become a true American hero by promoting “made in America” on its wares and restoring U.S. manufacturing jobs, he said.
While returning to the days of smiling Sam Walton waving an American flag sounds like a rosy idea, one need only read Orville Schell’s article, “How Wal-Mart Is Changing China” in the December, 2011 edition of Atlantic magazine, to know that it’s too late for that. The two giants are joined at the hip.
Wal-Mart has a major stake in China – not just the 20,000 to 30,000 suppliers (estimates vary) that make all those low-priced items found in U.S. stores – but Wal-Mart stores in China, itself. Schell points out that while today China makes up only 2 percent of the Wal-Mart’s global sales, that share is growing—fast.
According to Bloomberg News, Wal-Mart’s retail sales in China are expected to grow by 14.5 percent a year.
Loved Letterman’s line a while back…. a woman was arrested for cooking meth in a van at a WAL-MART parking lot. Letterman said that was the first thing made in America on WAL-MART property in YEARS !!
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Leighton Buzzard’s hopes of taking the Cherwell League Division 2 crown were dealt a hammer blow on Saturday as they were soundly beaten by title rivals Challow and Childrey.
The 104 run defeat sees them tumble not only from top spot, but also from the promotion places, now sitting third with just two games remaining of the season.
Such is the nature of the division though, there are just 20 points separating Leighton and leaders Buckingham, while there are only eight points between Town and Challow, who leapfrog them into second place.
Captain Jack Kempster won the toss and invited the hosts to bat first and soon Town struck as Dan Scott trapped name LBW without scoring.
This was a good as it got for Town as opposing captain and danger man Gordon came to the wicket and in partnership with Bryan (44) steadied the ship. Together the pair put on over 100 runs in partnership to put the hosts into a position of strength.
Spinner Lee Selfe aided by some excellent catching then gave Town a glimmer of getting back into the game with three quick wickets, but was unable to dismiss captain Gordon who soon reached his century.
Town struggled to contain the Challow batmen in the last 10 overs of the innings and thanks to some big hitting propelled the score to an imposing 259 off their allotted overs.
Gordon ending with a magnificent 131 not out, leaving Leighton with an uphill task to get a positive result from the game.
But Town’s reply never really got off the ground as they lost wickets at regular intervals and never looked like getting anywhere the victory target.
Only Greg Proudfoot showed any resistance as the number three batsman struck a confident 58.
There was also a good lower partnership from Selfe (44) and Anthony Francis (16) who managed to take the score to a respectable 148, still well short of the Challow total.
The defeat means that promotion has now been taken out of Town’s hands and they need to win both of their remaining matches and rely on other results to go their way if they are to secure an immediate return to Division 1.
Jack Cowley took 4-37 from just seven overs as Leighton Buzzard 2nds moved up to fourth in Division 5, beating Cropredy 2nds by 33 runs.
Batting first Town posted a competitive 224 for 9 thanks mainly to an excellent innings of 105 not out from Riaan Krynauw.
His knock spanning 139 balls with nine fours and one maximum.
The visitors never looked likely like getting anywhere near Town’s total as wickets fell regularly and they were dismissed for 172.
Pick of the bowlers was Cowley who put in fantastic spell of bowling to end with figures of 4-37 off his seven overs.
Next Saturday, Leighton face a tough test against Abingdon Vale 2nds, who sit joint top of the Division 5 table with Cumnor 2nds.
Arndt's Lutheran Church, Arndt Road and Bushkill Drive, Forks Township, seeks vendors for its annual Yankee Peddler Day to be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 at the church.
New vendors may reserve a 15-foot by 15-foot space for $20. Returning vendors can reserve a space for $17. Spaces purchased after Aug. 15 (if available) will be $25.
Vendors should bring their own tables and tents. The outdoor event, held rain or shine, features antiques, crafts and collectibles. Food will be served 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Parking and admission is free.
To reserve space, contact Rich Siegfried at 610-252-0586; richsiegfried6642@gmail.com.
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Yale economics professor and Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller says he’s not a tough grader. But when it comes to US president Donald Trump’s first year in office, he told BBC World Service that he would give the former real estate tycoon a one or two out of 10 when it comes to economic policies.
Trump inherited an economy that had been growing since the Great Recession, and unemployment had been declining steadily for years during his predecessor’s administration. And while the stock market is booming, important considerations like trade balance and wage growth have barely budged, according to a Quartz analysis of key economic data.
Trump’s biggest achievement is a sweeping overhaul of the US tax code, which lowered rates for individuals and corporations, helping drive stock markets even higher. Trump has said the economy could expand even faster thanks to recent tax cuts, with growth of as much as 6%. Gross domestic product increased 3.2% in third quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The problem with the tax cuts is they don’t address the budget deficit and are “heavily biased” toward people who have higher incomes, Shiller said. He thinks the ability of faster growth through tax cuts to reduce deficits is exaggerated.
Economists, meanwhile, say the US economy is already at or near full employment, meaning the highest level possible without sparking undue price and wage inflation. Getting it to perform even better would require things like technological progress to make the economy more productive, Shiller said.
To that end, policies should help boost scientific research and attract the most talented minds, which Shiller says is not what Trump has done so far. The travel ban on immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries has imperilled the livelihoods of many technology workers and researchers from those places. Nearly half of US universities recently reported a drop in international student applications.
Trade is another signature issue for Trump, and support for his presidency has highlighted that not everyone benefits from free trade and globalization. While the president has focused on that problem by pulling out of (and criticizing) trade agreements, Shiller suggested that other measures like wage insurance could be used to help workers who are harmed. He said the US should have policies to help these workers and hasn’t done enough for them.
But there’s at least one positive for Trump and the coal miners who voted for him—the number of jobs in that industry has ticked up recently. That could be because the Interior Department lifted a ban on new coal leasing on federal land last year. Shiller was skeptical such measures would have a sustained impact on workers in that industry, but admitted Trump at least has spirit.
“It’s a good sign that we have a president who is worried about them,” he said.
Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month around the world, and September the Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, two major events in Cairo – one yet to take place on 27 October – will shed light on the various types of cancer mostly affecting women.
October in Egypt has over the years become synonymous with hope for cancer victims undergoing treatment. An instantly-successful tradition begun some years ago aiming to spread awareness, highlight accounts of bravery and share success stories, has seen October host a plethora of events and campaigns focussing on breast cancer.
Breast cancer – which, according to the National Cancer Institute, accounts for up to 38 percent of all cancer cases in Egypt – enjoys the lion's share of media highlight, although it is but one of the different cancers that hit women.
Under the leadership of its chairman Dr Mohamed Shaalan, the BCFE decided this year to shed light on the less common, though nonetheless serious, types of cancer that women suffer from, and to do so by adding doses of fun to its awareness-raising activities.
This year, an early start of events was scheduled on 28 September.
Zumba professional instructors rocked the ladies-only audience of their "Third Party for the Cure" held in Zamalek's Marriott Hotel, with the participation of enthusiasts and prominent figures as in previous years. Raffles and an interactive awareness session were also part of the programme.
On the same day, a walk and a run were held under the title "Globeathon Egypt: the walk to end women's cancers" in participation with Cairo Runners.
At the Equestrian Club, also in Zamalek, a horse jumping show and a live music performance were also included in the event. One of the highlights of the day was the participation of star comedian Samir Ghanem and singer Salma Sabbahi.
On 27 October, BCFE will collaborate with the Arab Contractors Rowing Club to host "Pink on the Nile," the sequel to last year's successful event by the same title.
Last year's crowd, joined by singer Samo Zein and presenter Maha Bahnasi, witnessed the first "Row for the Cure." This year's event will raise public attention by including a sailing boat smoothly floating across the Nile throughout the day with pink ribbons on its large sail. Forty rowers will then compete in a race.
"Row for the Cure" has been held yearly in Germany and the United States since 1994, following rower Kathy Fredrick's idea of a method by means of which the rowing community can extend support and solidarity, as well as raise funds, for breast cancer patients.
The BCFE's Shaalan believes that everyone has the capacity to join the fight, and show solidarity -- either by spreading knowledge about the disease, encouraging others for early screening, or helping underprivileged women through donations that can allow them, too, to obtain screening and treatment.
Werk that baby bump, girl! Kourtney Kardashian had nothing to hide on Saturday, Aug. 9, when she hit the red carpet at the Women's Health Party Under the Stars in Bridgehampton, N.Y. with longtime boyfriend Scott Disick.
The pregnant reality star, 35, rocked a skintight cream-colored Made for Pearl's Baron lace romper with a plunging neckline to the event, flaunting her growing baby bump and plenty of cleavage in the revealing ensemble.
Disick stood proudly by her side in a flannel shirt and black fitted jeans. The couple has spent the summer in the Hamptons, filming Kourtney & Khloe Take the Hamptons.
Already parents to son Mason, 4, and daughter Penelope, 2, Kardashian and Disick are looking forward to welcoming their third child. In fact, the entrepreneur and former party animal has made a serious commitment during the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star's pregnancy.
"He stopped drinking cold turkey—and promised he won't drink again until after Kourtney gives birth," a source tells Us Weekly after Disick was sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning in June. "Scott knew he had hit rock bottom."
Brands are often the road to success in mobile games, and Jam City knows that. The Los Angeles mobile game company is revealing its newest bubble shooter game Snoopy Pop, based on the Peanuts brand.
That’s a pretty powerful brand, but Los Angeles-based Jam City has grown pretty big, with more than 50 million players a month and more than 500 employees working on mobile titles like Cookie Jam, Panda Pop, and Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff.
Fans can now pre-register for Snoopy Pop, a bubble shooter game starring the beloved Peanuts characters and Snoopy alter-egos from the classic comic by Charles M. Schulz. Fans can now sign up to be notified when the new game launches and receive a Snoopy-licious in-game gift. Pre-registration for the Google Play version is here and the iOS version is here.
Chris DeWolfe, CEO of Jam City, said the game was created in close partnership with the artists, animators, and storytellers at Peanuts Worldwide. The free-to-play game is expected to officially launch in early summer 2017.
DeWolfe said the title is one of six major launches that the company is doing this year. In each of the previous two years, the company launched only one game in each year. But the company’s growth has been great, as its games have been downloaded more than 800 million times and are played by more than 50 million people a month. DeWolfe said the company did more than $300 million in revenue in 2016, and that growth is targeted at $450 million in 2017.
“About half of our games, moving forward, will use third-party IP,” DeWolfe said.
Snoopy Pop gameplay features include a variety of puzzles, lots of levels, characters, worlds, and events. It has collections of character game pieces, boosters, and unique-character power-ups, like Charlie Brown’s kite. You can play different game modes as Snoopy’s alter egos such as The Flying Ace and Masked Marvel. The events are based on classic storylines and holiday specials. And the original music is licensed from Peanuts holiday specials.
The Peanuts characters and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide, a joint venture owned 80 percent by Iconix Brand Group and 20 percent by members of the Charles M. Schulz family.
Jam City has six of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the U.S. DeWolfe founded the company in 2010 with former MySpace co-founder Aber Whitcomb and former Twentieth Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. In 2015, South Korea’s Netmarble invested $130 million in Jam City, formerly known as SGN.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--James S. Tisch, Chairman of WNET.ORG’s Board of Trustees, and his wife, Merryl H. Tisch, have announced a historic gift of $15 million dollars to name the new WNET.ORG studios at Lincoln Center and to provide critical funding to support innovative public television programming. WNET.ORG, parent company of public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21, officially opened its state-of-the-art studios at 66th street and Broadway in Manhattan with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 13. The Tisch gift represents the single largest donation from an individual to WNET in its nearly 50-year history.
Mr. Tisch became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of WNET.ORG (then called Educational Broadcasting Corporation) in 2007. A major philanthropist and supporter of the arts, culture and humanity in New York City, Tisch serves on the boards of some of New York’s leading not-for-profit institutions, including Mount Sinai Medical Center and The New York Public Library. His wife, Merryl H. Tisch, serves as Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents.
Located on the southwest corner of 66th Street and Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, WNET.ORG’s new studios are part of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall building. The newly named studios are the home of Need to Know, the new multi-platform news program hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning author and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and Peabody-winning television and radio anchor, Alison Stewart. Need to Know premieres May 7 on PBS. The two-story studio space will also be the location for such acclaimed WNET.ORG programs as Sunday Arts and Reel 13 as well as other programming currently in development.
In addition to the production and broadcast of regular programs, the studios can accommodate lectures, screenings and intimate concerts or performances. With their floor-to-ceiling glass windows and a glass fin curtain wall system, the studios feature outstanding transparency from the street, allowing passers-by to watch the production process as it happens. In addition, the entire facility, including common areas, is designed to be “TV Ready” with pre-installed lighting positions. There are 14 video screens in the facility, the largest being the 103” plasma screen on the Broadway façade and the 65” screen in the donor waiting area, both visible from the street.
The entire facility has a fiber optic connection to WNET.ORG’s main offices and control rooms at 450 W. 33rd Street, allowing for remote control of robotic cameras and audio mixing as well as video feeds to and from the Lincoln Center studios. The studio scenery is build around LED and rear-projection technology so the “set” change for the various programs can be managed from the West 33rd Street control room or on location in the studio.
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Need to Know, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Miffy and Friends and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal — to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org.
In May 2016 delegates concluding the first U.N. World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, produced what has been called the Grand Bargain on the treatment of the world’s refugees. Just a few months later at the U.N. General Assembly 2016 in New York, the New York Declaration expressed the renewed commitment of world leaders to save lives and to share responsibility for people put to flight by calamity or conflict.
Like a number of other international reappraisals on the status of refugees issued last year, the declaration and the Grand Bargain augured a new approach toward a coordinated and equitable humanitarian response to various refugee crises, with an emphasis on information and resource sharing, social integration, rapid and sustained assistance to host nations, transparency, and the inclusion of the refugees themselves in the decisions that would affect their lives.
Last year it was possible to be optimistic that the international community could indeed step up to that reinvigorated commitment to share the burden of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis—66 million people displaced around the world.
But even as thousands of new refugees clamor to escape the killing in Iraq and Syria or flee famine, poverty and violence in Africa or Central America, nativist sentiment in both the United States and Europe is on the rise, and an abrupt turnabout on refugees and immigrants since the election of President Donald Trump has changed the political landscape in Washington. This year the Grand Bargain seems increasingly fragile even as some practical changes in strategies and protocols in the camps and settlements where IDPs and refugees have fled for safety and assistance take form.
This year the Grand Bargain on refugees seems increasingly fragile.
Speaking at a side event in New York as world leaders gathered nearby for the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 21, Bill O’Keefe, vice president for government relations and advocacy at Catholic Relief Services, insisted that C.R.S. and other refugee advocates were making adjustments to the new reality in Washington. “We will be doing a huge amount of engagement in response to the change of tone and policy” in Washington, he said. The refugee reassessment panel was sponsored by Caritas Internationalis, the church’s umbrella agency for international relief and development work, and its U.S. member Catholic Relief Services.
According to Mr. O’Keefe, the acute need for a more aggressive engagement with the public had accelerated an effort among humanitarian relief agencies across the board to better coordinate their outreach and advocacy. In the Catholic relief and development world, that public relations and spiritual offensive will begin on Sept. 27, when Caritas Internationalis launches its “Share the Journey” Migration Campaign, an effort to raise awareness and change the prevailing narrative on refugees.
Mr. O’Keefe wants to get the message out that “refugees are not the problem. The people they are running away from are the problem.” He says the United States and other world powers “have a responsibility to respond” when lives are at risk because of conflict or other crises that force migration. Mr. O’Keefe is confident that renewed outreach would be quickly rewarded by a return to a “more welcoming attitude” toward refugees.
He will have his work cut out for him. President Trump has made containing migration, whether from the Middle East or Central America, the centerpiece of his policy agenda.
In 2016 the United States accepted 85,000 refugees, and former President Barack Obama had hoped that number would rise to 110,000 in 2017, but President Trump reduced the annual quota for refugee resettlement in the United States to 50,000. He is expected to seek further reductions in the refugee quota for the next fiscal year—to about 40,000 in 2018.
These are incredibly small numbers when the enormity of the global refugee crisis is understood. In 2016 there were 17.2 million refugees—7 percent more than in 2015, according to the the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Turkey, for the third straight year, hosted the most refugees, at 2.9 million, followed by Pakistan with 1.4 million and Lebanon with 1 million. Turkey and Germany were the only Group of 20 nations among the top 10 host countries. Germany hosted 670,000 refugees.
A co-panelist with Mr. O’Keefe, Brooke Lauten from the Norwegian Refugee Council, suggests that the growing resistance to “secondary movement”—that is, of refugees from a initial host state to a permanent resettlement state—“is fundamentally an obstacle to the responsibility sharing” envisioned by the Grand Bargain.
More than 14.5 million refugees—84 percent of the world’s total—are hosted in often precarious conditions in developing nations, the states often least able to shoulder to the burden. In Kenya, more 450,000 Somali and Sudanese refugees live in vast camps, some since 1991.
Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school than non-refugee children.
When returning home is no longer a safe option, refugees may wait years before they can be resettled or integrated into their host nations, partly because of resistance to third-party resettlement in Europe and the United States. Children are growing up in camps and because of their status are often cut off from normal educational opportunities in host states. Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school than non-refugee children, according to the United Nations.
That gap has been a special interest of the Jesuit Refugee Service. Joining Mr. O’Keefe on the Caritas panel was Giulia McPherson, J.R.S. director of advocacy and operations. In keeping with the Jesuits’ historic interest in education, J.R.S. has been on a mission to restore educational access to refugee children all over the world.
Whether they will be finding a way to build a new life (integrating into their host societies or resettling in a third-party state) or returning home, where they will have to rebuild their societies, education is a “life-saving intervention” for refugee children, Ms. McPherson argues.
Advocates and relief workers say their focus on improving educational access and other aspects of the 2016 Grand Bargain—reforming fundraising and information sharing, seeking improved social integration for refugees in hosting societies and equalizing burden-sharing—will continue this year even as the global refugee crisis shows no sign of abating. Keenly on the minds of the experts gathered by Caritas was an entirely new challenge last week as some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims fled over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape an apparent campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Taco night turned out to be a lucky meal for a Virginia woman who had to make a trip to the store for supplies and won a $150,000 lottery jackpot.
Linda Barnes told Virginia Lottery officials she agreed to make tacos for her granddaughter, but she discovered she was lacking some of the necessary ingredients so she took a trip to the Food Lion store in Virginia Beach to buy supplies.
Barnes said the new Royal Riches Scratcher lottery ticker caught her eye while she was at the store, so she bought one along with her groceries.
Taco night turned out to be her lucky night, as the ticket turned out to be a $150,000 top prize winner.
"This can't be," Barnes recalled thinking.
WATCH:New hope in Iraq as prime minister Nouri Al Maliki agrees to step aside and the international community commits more support to help halt ISIS militants. Eric Sorensen reports.
OTTAWA – Two of Canada’s military cargo planes will soon be ferrying weapons to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq – and the Harper government sounds prepared to do even more to counter the “barbarous attacks” of hard-line Islamic militants.
A CC-177 Globemaster and a CC-130J Hercules transport will begin shuttling arms provided by allies to the Iraqi city of Irbil over the next few days, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.
And a least one defence analyst says Canada should be prepared to follow Britain’s lead and dispatch CH-147F Chinook helicopters to further help allied nations deliver relief supplies or facilitate humanitarian evacuations.
The cargo flights, which include some 30 air force personnel from Canadian Forces Base Trenton, east of Toronto, will continue as long as there is equipment and supplies to move.
The U.S. and France are already sending weapons, while Britain has indicated it is also prepared to help arm the Kurdish forces fighting militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Germany is also preparing to send military aid.

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