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The RPA, which is very critical of the authorities, is seen as the voice of the opposition. |
"They (the police) want to implicate RPA in MSD business and by extension in things to do with the fledgling rebellion," Ndimurukundo went on, insisting "RPA has nothing to do with the MSD". |
"The truth is the authorities want to close down RPA because they accuse us of reporting on embarrassing issues such as corruption and bad governance." A senior police officer however told AFP the investigations are part of "an in-depth inquiry linked to a criminal case" and added "we have a very damning file on RPA, w... |
The authorities suspect that the MSD and the former rebels of the National Liberation Forces are behind the latest unrest in the country that has left more than 30 people dead in two weeks. |
Burundi is emerging from 13 years of civil war that left more than 300 000 people dead. |
PV Sindhu has been chosen as the flag bearer for the Indian contingent at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast starting on April 4. |
PV Sindhu, silver medallist at the Rio Olympics, was on Saturday chosen as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Sindhu will lead Indian badminton's charge in the quest for glory at the 2018 CWG. The Indian badminton star and World No.... |
With Japan and China not part of the Commonwealth, Sindhu should have little problem in her bid to win a medal in Gold Coast. And depending on the draw, Sindhu's stiffest test could be against compatriot Saina Nehwal. |
Sindhu will also be key for India in the mixed team event. The mixed team event will be held for the first five days of badminton competition, with medals decided on April 9. |
Sindhu beat one of her most fiercest rivals in Nozomi Okuhara to reach the semi-finals at the All England Championships. However, she lost her semi-final match to Okuhara's compatriot and World No.2 Akane Yamaguchi in an epic match lasting an hour and 19 minutes. |
Sindhu had earlier won a bronze medal bronze in the 2014 edition of the multi-sport event. |
Sindhu had also bagged a silver medal at last year's Badminton World Championships. |
India will see participation of 222 athletes from 15 different sports including Aquatics, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Hockey, Lawn bowls, Shooting, Squash, Table Tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling and Para Sports in the quadrennial sport. |
Facebook spent $20 million on its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security last year — four times more than what he received for security in 2016. |
In a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, Facebook said it spent $2.6 million on private plane costs — up from $1.5 million a year before, CNET reported. |
The aircraft expenses went to charter companies and included “passenger fees, fuel, crew, and catering costs”. |
Zuckerberg takes $1 as salary each year but his total compensation was $22.6 million in 2018 — more than double since 2017 when he made $9.1 million in total compensation. |
“Because of the high visibility of our company, our compensation and governance committee has authorised an ‘overall security programme’ for Zuckerberg to address safety concerns due to specific threats to his safety arising directly as a result of his position as our founder, CEO, Chairman, and controlling stockholder... |
Email groups are an important part of business life, yet Apple's iOS offers no support for them. |
So what happens if you want to send a message to, say, everyone in the marketing department, or a select batch of customers? If you're using an iPhone or iPad, you have little choice but to manually select their email addresses, one after another. |
Until Apple corrects this glaring oversight (and perhaps even after), look no further than MailShot. |
This ingenious app lets you build email distribution groups, then adds those groups to your address book, where they’re accessible from all other apps. It’s even Siri-friendly. |
The app is a breeze to use. First, you create a group (Sales Team, for example), then choose the contacts you want to add to that group. |
You can pull names from your contact list (either one at a time or using a checklist) or enter addresses manually via the Import option. |
When you’re done, MailShot adds that group to your Contacts app. When the time comes to compose an email, you simply start typing the name of that group or choose it from the contacts list, same as you would an individual address. |
It’s precisely because MailShot leverages the Contacts app that it works with Siri. So if you have a group called, say, Creative Team, you can tell Siri to "send an email to Creative Team," and she’ll set one up that’s addressed to that group. Sweet. |
The free version of MailShot lets you create up to three groups, each with up to five contacts. Spring for the Pro version, which costs all of $3.99, and the group limit rises to 100, each with 100 or more contacts. (The developer rightly notes that some ISPs limit the maximum number of recipients for any given e-mail)... |
I think that's four bucks incredibly well spent. |
The newly released 2.0 version adds support for Exchange address books, increased control over which address book is used, Retina support for the new iPad, and other helpful tweaks. |
It’s pretty ridiculous that even in version 5, iOS lacks support for something as simple -- and valuable -- as email distribution groups. Thankfully, there’s an app for that, and it's awesome. |
Like this? Be sure to check out Business Center's other App Spotlights. |
My general areas of study are United States and Latin American history, but my field of focus is the history of the US as an imperial power. After graduation, I see myself teaching at a liberal arts college. |
My favorite experiences as a UB history student have been in the classroom. In addition to the atmosphere of comradery, the graduate program provides various opportunities for students to teach, either as teaching assistants or as instructors during the summer and winter sessions. |
What advice would you have for a prospective UB History graduate student? |
My advice for prospective UB history graduate students is to choose dissertation topics that stimulate intellectual excitement. The process of researching and writing a dissertation is long and arduous, so do whatever you can to make the situation better. |
My favorite historic site in the greater Buffalo area is Forest Lawn Cemetery. It is the final resting place of such notable individuals as President Millard Fillmore, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, Seneca Chieftain Red Jacket, and musical artist Rick James. |
If I could have dinner with one person from history, I would want to dine with President Franklin Roosevelt because he preserved American democracy during the Great Depression (a period when democracy was not particularly popular) and led the American war effort that, in conjunction with the other Allies, defeated the ... |
When the Tree of life shooting happened I was overcome with emotions. I was angry. I was terrified. I was grieving. I was shaken to my core. |
But I wasn’t surprised. In fact, I was furious at those outside the Jewish community who were. Despite our continuous calls for people to recognize the growing threat to our community, we had been ignored. I could only hope that the bloodshed would focus Americans to understand what we had desperately been trying to te... |
After the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, I know I am the one who should have been listening. I should have been doing more. |
I think about my college roommate, who after tremendous struggles early in life, found peace and joy in her conversion to Islam and in putting on her hijab. Many of our friends struggled to understand, but I understood her completely. Faith has been a source of peace for me, too. I think about colleagues from across my... |
I am proud to see Jewish institutions like the RAC, the ADL, AJC, HIAS, Zioness, T’ruah, and many, many more standing with Muslim communities to fight hate, combat various extremist threats both from inside and outside our communities, and improve relationships between the communities. As hate crimes have risen against... |
Still, I know Islamophobia is still present among us. I have experienced it within the Jewish community. It crosses my screen regularly, with messages on social media that are steeped in xenophobia, anger, bigotry, and overwhelming fear—messages from accounts that are furious at me for supporting refugees and other imm... |
I understand their fear—our fear. Fear is our inheritance. But this response to fear—to hate—is untenable, and it is unjust. I take a deep breath and I write back to the hateful messengers. You do not have an ally in me. These are not Jewish values. Block. Block. Block. I try to make it go away. But it’s still there. |
I remember, even 20 years later, hearing Islamophobic comments from one of my Hebrew school teachers at synagogue. There was a racist joke that one Muslim in the Mediterranean was pollution, but 1 million would be a solution. She told us the Muslim kids at school weren’t really our friends and we shouldn’t hang out wit... |
I also remember being targeted by Stop the Islamization of America in 2012, because I was organizing Shabbat dinner events in support of Obama for America. My home address and those of several volunteers were posted on their website, an act attempting to intimidate and silence. I was called a kapo and a Nazi. I am deep... |
I have experienced Islamophobia in my community as a child and as an adult. After the unbearable tragedy of Christchurch, in which 50 people lost their lives, I am asking myself, and all of us, to do more. |
First, we must have a zero tolerance policy in our homes, our community spaces and our own minds. We must never allow hate speech to fester in our holy places or our kitchen tables. That doesn’t mean that we shun offenders—it means we talk to them about it. We talk about how easy it is to slip into hateful language and... |
We need to talk to our kids about what to do when they encounter Islamophobia. They are going to encounter it. Maybe it will be at Passover with a relative. Maybe it will be in the bunk at Jewish summer camp. It is inevitable, and we must discuss it just like we discuss promiscuity, drugs, or bullying. We must tell our... |
Secondly, we need to understand that we have a dangerous common enemy—the white supremacist domestic terrorist. From Pittsburgh to Christchurch, the white supremacist domestic terrorist is both of our communities No. 1 security concern. Seventy-six percent of extremist murders in the past 10 years in the U.S. were by w... |
Thirdly, we must be honest. There are real community tensions. They are driven by war. They are driven by history, from Tunisia to Iraq. Some of it is ancient and some of it is unfolding before our eyes. There is justifiable anger from Mizrahi Jewish refugees, who were stripped of their land, their possessions, their c... |
Islamic extremists are a real threat to our global community. We must tell ourselves and our children a hard truth. There ARE Muslims who wish us harm, and Muslims who share an ideology of hate. There are extremists in the world. This is also true of some Christians. This is also true of those with no faith. The overwh... |
Islamophobia is bad for Judaism and our community. If you care about Jewish continuity you should fight for inclusivity. We should never let the specter of anti-Semitism change who we are. Even in our hardest moments, even when we face hate, we cannot allow hate to change us. That is an existential threat, not just to ... |
We can choose to weaken extremists by creating partnerships. We can join spaces where people seek understanding and partnership, like Salaam Shalom or the Muslim Jewish Advisory Council. Regardless of tensions and community disagreements, we can make a choice not to give in to blind hatred. We can set a standard for ou... |
Carly Pildis is a political organizer and advocacy professional based in Washington, D.C. Her Twitter feed is @carlypildis. |
bym się kłóciła. Na pewno Twój blog może liczyć na uznanie. |
Sorry, the facts don’t coordinate with Carly Pildis’ rendering of them. |
“ISLAMOPHOBIA” the word she uses interminably, was concocted by either The Muslim Brotherhood &/or C.A.I.R. both doctrinaire Islamist groups, as a handy way to shut off any talk they didn’t like about Islam or Islamic law or Islamic practices (clitorectomy anyone?) that are questioned. It is meant to shut YOU UP MR & M... |
Oh, and to clear my name of any Islamophobia the Muslims I know I rather like. Am I close friends with any? Hey, I’m happy just to be close to family members. So no Islamophobia on me, and I con’t care what Islamists like MB and C.A.I.R. would say. Nor in fact what Carly would say. |
She seems a nice enough person to me, if in fact a bit too trusting. And again her facts are incorrect. |
She states for example that “76% of extremist murders in the past 10 years in the U.S. were by white supremacists.” Here I stop for a second because there are many Muslims in the U.S. that are nice and good people. And yes they get caught in the swirl of events that they had no part of. But is Ms. Pildis asking us to b... |
He has written extensively in column after column how Western Europe is not only suffering from Islamism but is giving in to it. Why? Ideas abound. Afraid of being called Islamophobic? Afraid of the bomb and the knife? Stabbings are up in Great Britain, did you know. And it isn’t from the Great Britians Hells Angels ei... |
There are standards. Glad to see Carly has friends of diverse backgrounds. This is wonderful. She is a good writer. But how saccharine can she be. Remind everyone at all times of Islamophobia – around the Passover Table, around the house, around the schoolyard, etc. Yeah we should all nice to each other, but there is n... |
My big wish for the day would be to make a trade, trade Carly’s column from here to the Jerusalem Post, for Melanie Phillips’ column, “Jews on the Wrong Side of the West’s Lethal Culture Wars.” Ms. Phillips talks glowingly of some Muslim reformers who are trying to take on those who would do harm to Christians, Jews, a... |
Growth in online display advertising has been slow, in comparison with search and classified advertising, for quite some time. As we now enter a period of recession after the protracted upturn, there are reports that online advertising spend as a whole, will plummet to an all-time low in 2009. |
Never before has it been more important for marketers and advertisers to garner demonstrable ROI from their campaigns and many will be asking themselves what the most lucrative forms of online advertising are. |
The truth is that online display advertising; just like traditional display advertising has always lacked a consumer-pull model and accurate means of measurement. |
Display advertising was born as a way of generating awareness for a given brand, product or service and brands that invest in it are famous for claiming that they know that half of their advertising works, they just don’t know which half. The click-through rate (CPM) model employed in the online world also sheds little... |
Search campaigns, on the other hand, can be easily measured using a simple pay-per-click (PPC) model. |
Couple this with the fact that search campaigns are based on a model of consumer-pull and the case for search over display is a compelling one. |
Take for example a consumer searching Google for cinema times for Quantum of Solace. The user will get sponsored and organic search results relating to cinemas showing the film, film reviews, movie merchandise, other related films. |
The problem with search campaigns, is that they only reach consumers that are actively looking for a specific result. If a consumer isn’t aware that Quantum of Solace is now playing in a cinema near them than the search campaign has no way of reaching them. |
This is where the case for display advertising grows stronger once more. If display advertising incorporated a greater element of pull, like search advertising, then marketers would soon find it far easier to protect their diminishing advertising budgets. |
Over the past 10-15 years, the internet has developed into an application-rich environment but online advertising remains essentially the same: benign banners beg for our attention on a crowded page and are increasingly ignored. |
However, if a banner, video or widget served anywhere on the web could give consumers direct access to useful information about your brand, and even the opportunity to purchase your products or services there and then, online advertising could then be transformed from a passive experience into a useful, relevant one, w... |
Returning to the movies for a moment, imagine if that potential consumer was watching a trailer for Quantum of Solace; be it on IMDB.com or on 007.com, and could simply click on it to view real-time cinema listings and buy tickets for their local cinema. |
What better way to measure the efficacy of your online display efforts, and relate them back to the bottom line, than to track ticket sales directly through individual units? |
Warner Brothers recently trialled such a model on trailers for its ‘Gotham Knight’ animated movie and saw interaction rates of 12.2 per cent. |
If you start to think about your online display campaign as a series of endless distributed e-commerce applications, or real tools for consumers to accomplish tasks at hand, then it becomes a ‘lean-in’ experience. In this way, online display advertising becomes a viable alternative, or addition, to a search campaign an... |
Buying interests, particularly in the banking and real estate sectors, on Wednesday lifted the Qatar Stock Exchange by about 25 points but failed to surpass 10,300 levels. |
Foreign institutions were increasingly bullish as the 20-stock Qatar Index gained 0.24% to 10,292.82 points. |
However, there was higher selling pressure from local retail investors and domestic funds on the market, which is up 20.76% year-to-date. |
Market capitalisation rose about QR3bn or 0.48% to QR581.73bn, mainly on account of large cap equities. |
Islamic equities were seen gaining slower than the other indices on the market, where non-Qatari individuals turned bearish. |
Trade turnover and volumes were on the decline on the bourse, where banking and real estate sectors together accounted for more than 65% of the total volume. |
The Total Return Index gained 0.24% to 18,134.81 points, All Share Index by 0.42% to 3,062.03 points and Al Rayan Islamic Index (Price) by 0.01% to 2,400.27 points. |
The banks and financial services index soared 1.26% and realty (0.48%); while insurance declined 1.55%, consumer goods (0.62%), telecom (0.39%), consumer goods (0.17%) and transport (0.01%). |
About 59% of the traded stocks extended gains with major gainers being QNB, Doha Bank, Qatar Islamic bank, Qatar Electricity and Water, Ezdan and Vodafone Qatar; whereas Industries Qatar, Gulf International Services, Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding, Qatar Insurance and Ooredoo were among the losers. |
Non-Qatari institutions’ net buying increased significantly to QR60.76mn compared to QR4.46mn on Tuesday. |
The Gulf individuals’ net selling weakened marginally to QR0.02mn against QR0.1mn the previous day. |
However, local individuals’ net selling strengthened influentially to QR37.05mn compared to QR1.69mn on November 20. |
Domestic institutions’ net profit booking also grew considerably to QR21.05mn against QR8.62mn on Tuesday. |
Non-Qatari individuals turned net profit takers to the extent of QR2.2mn compared with net buyers of QR1.39mn the previous day. |
Total trade volume fell 15% to 4.17mn shares, value by 14% to QR168.12mn and transactions by 7% to 3,593. |
The banks and financial services sector saw 42% plunge in trade volume to 1.5mn equities, 22% in value to QR91.42mn and 11% in deals to 1,537. |
The transport sector’s trade volume plummeted 38% to 0.05mn stocks, value by 39% to QR1.73mn and transactions by 37% to 82. |
However, the insurance sector’s trade volume more than doubled to 0.13mn shares and value also more than doubled to QR3.6mn on 26% jump in deals to 88. |
There was 31% surge in the real estate sector’s trade volume to 1.22mn equities and 86% in value to QR33.95mn but on 2% fall in transactions to 716. |
The consumer goods sector’s trade volume soared 20% to 0.18mn stocks, while value declined 46% to QR8.19mn and deals by 24% to 284. |
The telecom sector reported 2% growth in trade volume to 0.58mn shares but on 66% shrinkage in value to QR6.36mn and 24% in transactions to 186. |
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