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He has pleaded not guilty, and will appear in court on 4 September, 2019 to face the charges. |
But, despite being locked up, Tekashi managed to find the time to take care of his girlfriend, Jade, on her 22nd birthday. |
Taking to Twitter, she shared a snap of herself posing with a flashy Rolex on a night out, thanking her beau for the extravagant gift. |
Almost two weeks have passed since the Swedish people for the first time realized the real threat of radical terrorism reaching their country as well as their northern neighbors. “A Christmas gift” for “Sweden and Swedish people” was sent by a 28-year old Swedish citizen with an Iraqi background, Taymour Abdelwahab, wh... |
Despite the fact that no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, the Swedish newspaper “Aftonbladet” quoted a terrorism expert saying that Abdulwahab didn’t act alone and had allies – likely in Iraq, who supplied him with explosive materials and training for the attack. The Swedish security po... |
The Swedish approach towards Muslims and Islamic countries in particular is now exposed. Scrolling through European countries’ policies towards Muslims, Sweden deserves to be much higher up the list in comparison with her Danish neighbor or numerous other Western European countries for its relations with followers of t... |
Like many others, Imam Khalfi does not see the justification the suicide bomber talked about in his voice message to “Sweden and Swedish people” sent to the central news agency TT and security police twenty minutes before the blasts. First, the bomber cited the presence of the Swedish military contingent within the ISA... |
Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, argued that his country was in Afghanistan not for the purpose of winning the war, but to help peace building efforts on the basis of the UN mandate. To him it seemed strange that Swedish soldiers’ presence in Afghanistan was a cause of irritation for extremists considering Swedish... |
Second, the issue of revenge for the publication of caricatures humiliating the Prophet Mohamed by famous Swedish caricaturist Lars Vilks was cited by the bomber. As a democratic country, Sweden holds freedom of speech dearly. As a country open to every religion and belief, this freedom is a fundamental principle – and... |
The terrorist attack has set up an important dilemma for the Swedish government – on how to proceed with an immigration policy for the future. Xenophobic Swedish government officials and others are calling for a revision of the national immigration policy. Some have gone to the extent of stating that the event “proved”... |
According to SÄPO’s latest report, there are around 200 religious extremists linked to extremist organization in the Middle East who have lived in Sweden since 2009. According to authorities, a whopping 70-80 percent of them are ready to take radical actions on the orders of several well-known terrorist networks that p... |
The explosions in Stockholm have shocked not only the Scandinavian people but all of Europe – Abdelwahab lived and studied in Britain for ten years for example. According to his friends and relatives, he was able to get in touch with religious extremists on a regular basis. The recent attack and its associated facts su... |
Following an explosive New Yorker report published Friday, in which six women accused CEO of CBS Corporation Les Moonves of sexual harassment, the network's board of directors announced next steps. |
The CBS Board of Directors announced Wednesday it selected two law firms to conduct an independent investigation of CEO Leslie Moonves, following a New Yorker report in which six women accused Moonves of sexual harassment. |
The firms, Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton, have each named women (Nancy Kestenbaum and Mary Jo White, respectively) to lead the probe, and "Moonves will have no role in the investigation and is entirely recused from it," the board said in a statement. "The Board took no further action at this meeting pend... |
Earlier, the board postponed CBS' annual meeting of stockholders, scheduled for Aug. 10. |
The board had issued a statement hours before the New Yorker story was published, promising to investigate the claims fully, "review the findings and take appropriate actions." |
The New Yorker article, penned by Ronan Farrow, contained the accounts of a half-dozen women who had professional dealings with Moonves from the 1980s to the late 2000s. Four described forcible touching or kissing during business meetings; the other two claimed Moonves physically intimidated them or threatened to derai... |
A public champion of the #MeToo movement, Moonves strongly denied accusations in a statement to USA TODAY. |
Farrow, whose reporting on Harvey Weinstein earned him a Pulitzer, pushed back against the notion that the allegations were all decades old during an interview on CNN's "New Day." |
"Our reporting is not that this was decades ago. The most recent of these cases was in the 2000s," Farrow told host Alisyn Camerota. "I'll let his statements speak for themselves, but the article, I think, also speaks for itself." |
"Obviously, I feel for any family member going through the repercussions of allegations like this, and I think in the minds of the sources in this story, the goal here was not to take down Leslie Moonves," Farrow said. "The goal here is to air stories that were buried — sometimes for a long time, because these women we... |
He concluded, "I think what these sources want is accountability. This is not about tearing down an individual, and of course, that's painful for a family and for someone like Julie Chen." |
Chen made her own brief remarks on Monday's episode of CBS' daytime program "The Talk," which she co-hosts. |
"Now, some of you may be aware of what’s been going on in my life for the last few days," Chen told the audience. "I issued the one and only statement I will ever make on this topic on Twitter, and I will stand by that statement today, tomorrow, forever." |
"Bucknell will not stand for sexual misconduct – on campus or beyond," Bucknell president John Bravman said in a note to the university community explaining the reason for the action. |
Bucknell was not the only university to react to the allegations. The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism moved to temporarily suspend use of its media center’s name – The Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center – at the couple's own behest, The Associated Press reports. |
Per the AP, Dean Willow Bay said in a statement Wednesday: "In recognition of the sensitivities surrounding recent allegations against Mr. Moonves, he and Ms. Chen have requested that USC Annenberg temporarily suspend use of the media center's name until the investigation concludes." |
The media center was named after Chen, Moonves and the network in 2015, following a gift from the couple. Chen received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and English from the school in 1991. |
A woman has died in hospital today following a flat fire in Birmingham almost two months ago. |
31-year-old Nazia Akhtar suffered extensive burns at the property on Fox Hollies Road and died today as a result of her injuries. A post mortem examination is due to be carried out. |
A 30-year-old man also received burn injuries and following hospital treatment was charged with murder. Muhammad Hammad, of Fox Hollies Road, is due before Birmingham Magistrates Court tomorrow. |
An investigation is on-going to determine what caused the fire which is being treated as arson. |
ALBANY — Federal funds to reimburse local police departments for the cost of bulletproof vests have fallen significantly in recent years — a trend that U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is urging Congress to reverse. |
The New York Democrat called on Congress on Wednesday to pass legislation that would increase funding for bulletproof vests from $21.5 million this year to $30 million in future years, the same level of funding as in 2010. |
The vests can cost as much as $850 each. The federal grant program once paid for as much as half of the costs of the vests but now covers about a third. Schumer said the reduction in funding has meant that New York received nearly 9,000 fewer vests last year than it did in 2010. |
The legislation increasing the funding could get a vote in the Senate as early as next week, Schumer said. |
China's trade surplus with the United States widened last year, data showed Monday, while the country's imports and exports fell in December as the long-running trade war begins to bite in the world's number two economy. |
The surplus with the US is a major source of anger within the Trump administration, which imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods last year and has warned of more to come. |
Despite the levies, exports to the United States grew 11.3 per cent last year while imports rose 0.7 per cent, expanding the surplus to $323.3 billion from $275.8 billion in 2017, customs data show. |
However, in a sign that the White House's measures are having an impact, China's exports to the US sank last month. |
The figures come after a US delegation held three days of talks in Beijing last week in the first face-to-face meeting since Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in December pledged a 90-day truce to resolve the crisis. |
Trump wants Beijing to buy more American goods to narrow the yawning trade gap and allow foreign players better access and protection in the Chinese market. |
Traditionally China imports vast quantities of American soybeans in the second half of the year, long making it the most valuable import from the US. |
But the buying fell off last year after China imposed a 25 per cent retaliatory tariff on the commodity in the summer. Total imports of soybeans fell 7.9 per cent last year to 88 million tonnes, the customs data showed. |
"The overall development of China-US trade in 2018 was still relatively normal, but the trade surplus did expand slightly," said Li Kuiwen, spokesman for the customs administration. |
"We believe this is because China and the US are in different stages of development and it also reflects the highly complementarity nature of the economies," Li said. |
The country's commerce minister told state media on Friday that China will work to straighten out trade frictions with the US this year. |
China's exports to the world fell 4.4 per cent in December from a year earlier, while imports dropped 7.6 per cent, reflecting sluggish demand at home and abroad. |
"With global growth set to cool further this year, exports will remain weak even if China can clinch a trade deal that rows back Trump's tariffs," said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics. |
"With policy easing unlikely to put a floor beneath domestic economic activity until the second half of this year, import growth is likely to remain subdued," he said. |
China's global trade volume rose last year but its surplus with the world fell 16.2 per cent to $351.76 billion in 2018, as imports rose 15.8 per cent while exports gained 9.9 per cent. |
The customs administration will work to "improve the country's business environment and expand foreign trade... in order to keep employment, the financial sector, foreign trade, foreign investment" stable, Li said, adding there are some "hidden concerns" and "uncertain external factors" for development. |
With US tariffs in place, the gloomy export picture has reinforced the need for Beijing to rely on its legion of consumers to grow its economy. |
But a slew of bad data has added to concerns about China's economy, which is expected to have grown around 6.5 per cent in 2018, down from 6.9 per cent in 2017 and the weakest rate in almost three decades. |
China's annual passenger car sales fell last year for the first time in more than 20 years, as the trade war with the US rocked consumer confidence and Beijing reined in car financing channels. |
The cost of producing goods in China's factories slowed sharply in December, a sign demand remains weak, while consumer inflation also flagged. |
Official data showed the manufacturing sector contracted in December for the first time in more than two years. |
A unique workout hailed by Meghan Markle as “the best thing for your body” is now available in Leeds. |
Love Lagree, which has just opened in the city, is the only UK studio outside London offering the distinctive classes. |
The training was created by Los Angeles-based fitness expert Sebastien Lagree. It uses the patented M3 Megaformer which delivers strength, endurance, cardiovascular fitness, balance, flexibility and core development in every move. |
The Duchess of Sussex credits the training, “as having changed her body”. |
For U.S. shale drillers who have seen prices climb almost 50 percent in six months, it's been largely a rig-less recovery, a conundrum for traders seeking to forecast the future. |
Normally, you'd expect the rigs to return to the field in significant numbers as producers flush with added cash looked to boost output. But the weekly Baker Hughes tally has stayed remarkably still. |
The reason: explorers are doing more with less, forcing traders to use a bigger toolbox of stats, metrics and gauges to track U.S. production that's expected to top 10 million barrels a day as the year progresses. That includes everything from producer spending surveys to oilfield hiring reports, and even demand for th... |
"A well that comes online in U.S. onshore today is dramatically different than one that came on five or 10 years ago," Leo Mariani, an analyst who covers explorers and producers at NatAlliance Securities, said in a phone interview. "It's just a different animal." |
For the market, that means the country that's become the world's swing producer and a thorn in OPEC's side is becoming a whole lot harder to read. |
The number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. - from the Gulf of Mexico to the Permian Basin in Texas to the Bakken shale in North Dakota - is less than half the count in the middle of 2014, when the crude market crash began. And yet, America is set to rival Saudi Arabia and Russia, with production expected to top 10... |
How? The combination of faster and faster horizontal drilling and more intense fracking has allowed production to explode even as the number of rigs drop. Up until about four years ago, it was safe enough to use the rig count to track activity because the industry was more reliant on single vertical wells. |
"You've got different levers to pull to get increasingly efficient," James Wicklund, an analyst at Credit Suisse in Dallas, said in a phone interview. "There is not one clear acknowledged reporting source for the metrics that we use. It makes it a little bit murkier." |
Brad Handler and other analysts at Jefferies cobbled together a chart of nine other metrics besides the rig count in a note to investors this month. For example, the number of frack stages in a well are expected to increase 14 percent this year to an average of 28.5, more than double what explorers were able to do in 2... |
Chesapeake Energy Corp. heralded in the arrival of the monster frack a little more than a year ago, declaring what it called "propageddon" on one gas well in Louisiana with more than 25,000 tons of sand pumped into it. |
After switching from the old standby rig count to closely watching the well count a few years back, the latest shift about a year and a half ago is to track how long the wells are drilled sideways under ground and how many frack stages are in each of those wells, Wicklund said. |
At 7,500 feet, the average lateral length of a well is 50 percent longer compared to three years ago. And a rig can drill 25 wells a year, compared to 15 just two years ago, he said. But those are stats mainly gathered from third-party data providers such as Drillinginfo Inc. and IHS Markit Inc. |
On the free side, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports monthly the backlog of wells that have been drilled but not completed. As of November, the latest month available, that's 7,354 drilled but uncompleted wells, or DUCs. |
And the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that service providers are back to hiring again, with jobs up 21 percent since oilfield employment hit rock bottom in October 2016. But Mariani said it's also important to know the specific workforce constraints to get a better picture. |
"You started to re-hire aggressively, but we've seen multiple reports of just not having enough truck drivers, guys not able to get enough frack crews and the quality of those frack crews that are coming in there," Mariani said. "That stuff makes it difficult, adds another wrinkle to any kind of prediction people want ... |
Construction on the Dh800 million Mina Al Fajer Resort in Fujairah is progressing well, said Hussein Fakih, CEO at Mina Al Fajer Real Estate yesterday. The first unit deliveries are on-schedule for the fourth quarter of 2009, he said. |
"While many projects similar in scope were forced to slow down, construction on our site has not broken pace and is progressing smoothly," said Fakih. "The marina is completed, and progress on the apartments as well as the solarium and mountain villas has been swift." The apartment blocks have reached three floors and ... |
Meanwhile, construction has started on the five-star hotel, which will be managed by Fairmont Hotels and is the next priority, said the developer. |
Municipal candidate filing in six Pottawatomie County municipalities continued for a second day Tuesday and concludes on Wednesday. |
Jeannie Stover, Secretary of the Pottawatomie County Election Board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Feb. 6. Declarations of Candidacy are being accepted at the County Election Board office. |
Three Trustees, 4 year terms: James Tomlinson, Kenny Taylor and Dock Perry Jr. |
Clerk/Treasurer term expired April 2023: Stephanie Lynn Bennett. |
Mayor term expires 2023: Russell W. Dillow and DeCarla Wallgen. |
Three (3) Trustees — 4 year term ending 2023: Nathan Gregory, Michael Andrew Heltcel, Gail Crawford and Heather J. Cox. |
SCIENCE, like any walk of life, has its share of bad apples. Scientists are under pressure to produce results and for some the temptation to massage data or make it up is too much to resist. But the rotters are rare: scientific fraud is sufficiently unusual and shocking to make headline news when uncovered. |
Science cannot afford to be complacent. Over the past few years there has been a creeping realisation that while bad apples are few and far between, there is a deeper problem. The barrel itself may be rotten. |
Those at the scientific coalface strive for objectivity, but like all of us they have unconscious biases that can lead them astray. And the scientific method is not robust enough to catch all the errors – statistics in particular can be used to prise a significant result out of almost any data set, a practice known as ... |
These weaknesses have troubling consequences for the reliability of our knowledge base. One analysis has claimed that more than half of published research is wrong. A widely reported study published in the journal Science last year found that of 100 important psychology experiments, more than 60 couldn’t be replicated.... |
That sounds like a crisis in the making, not just for our ability to discover things but for the reputation of scientists and science. One leading psychologist has compared it to the sub-prime mortgage crisis which did so much to disgrace the bankers. There are some signs that he is right. A UK poll carried out at the ... |
Nonetheless, 79 per cent of people polled still said they trust scientists to tell the truth. That is down from 83 per cent a year ago, but it hardly constitutes a crisis. Bankers scored 37 per cent and politicians 21 per cent. |
What about the problem of reliable knowledge? On this front, things might also not be as bad as they seem. Last month, Science published a follow-up to the reproducibility paper arguing – ironically – that it used flawed statistics. Correct for these, and almost all 100 studies were reproducible, its authors claimed. |
That, of course, may be just another case of torturing the data; the authors of the original paper have accused those of the new one of selectively interpreting the numbers. And it doesn’t absolve other problematic branches of science. |
But it does demonstrate science’s willingness to face its own problems. In fact, we wouldn’t know about them at all were it not for scientists turning their tools on themselves. Metascience – the science of science – is a growing field that is increasingly discovering the loopholes in the system and closing them. |
For that, science should be congratulated. Which other field of human endeavour would scrutinise itself so publicly, find itself wanting, and then set about putting its house in order? |
If there is a sub-prime problem in science, then scientists are doing their best to fix it before it brings the whole edifice down. Unlike those politicians or bankers, they are not turning a blind eye, covering their own backsides or simply hoping to get away with it. |
JOSE MOURINHO is more important to Manchester United than Paul Pogba – and could prove it by bringing Cesc Fabregas in to replace him. |
Chelsea star Fabregas would give you more than Pogba is right now and he wouldn’t cost a fortune. |
Pogba is a good player but you can’t keep blaming the manager when it’s not going well. That’s what he’s doing by criticising the tactics. |
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