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Earlier this week Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that Amazon was looking to buy CloudEndure for $200 million. |
Established in 2012, CloudEndure has raised over $18 million from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, VMware, Mitsui, Infosys and Magma Venture Partners. |
Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime education advocate and philanthropist, is slated to testify before the Senate education committee today. In some quarters—in quite a few, actually—her nomination has been portrayed as a horrific development. |
Just days after DeVos's nomination was announced, the New York Times ran an op-ed attacking her as anti-science because . . . she supports a less regulated version of charter schooling than did the op-ed's author. The New Yorker wrung its hands at the sinister threat posed by DeVos having attended a religious high scho... |
I'll be clear. I think DeVos is a solid pick. I think she's smart, thoughtful, and committed to doing what she thinks best (full disclosure: DeVos sits on the board of the American Enterprise Institute, where I'm director of education policy. So take my view for what you will). I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life i... |
But I understand that reasonable people can see things differently. I've got no quarrel with those who oppose her. For many of us, the fact that she doesn't have experience managing bureaucracies and would like to see Washington's role shrink is a plus. For others, these things are red flags. Okay, I get it. Some oppos... |
I have a big problem, though, with those who can't leave it at that; who feel compelled to cast her as a malicious force or launch vitriolic attacks based on where she sent her kids to school. This feels like a natural but unfortunate extension of the overheated rhetoric around things like the Common Core and teacher a... |
This Manichean divide swallows any sense of proportion. It crowds out serious debate. It makes it impossible to solve problems or seek common ground. And that's not good for anyone. |
Umphrey's McGee recorded their new album in 12 hours at London's Abbey Road Studios. |
His band got to use it. Twelve hours after their arrival, shortly before midnight, Umphrey’s McGee left Abbey Road with a new album of their own. The London Session, to be released on April 7th by the band’s label, Nothing Too Fancy Music, features nine of the group’s original songs cut live in Studio Two – a mix of ne... |
Founded in 1997 in South Bend, Indiana, on the campus of Notre Dame University, Umphrey’s McGee have made eight studio albums and are one of the most successful touring acts to emerge from the so-called “jam band” scene, playing over a hundred shows each year. That genre distinction was never big enough for what Umphre... |
On February 11th, 1963, the Beatles recorded 10 of the 14 tracks on their debut album, Please Please Me, in just over 12 hours. The result was an authentic portrait, live in the studio, of the group’s club act in Liverpool – a shot soon heard ’round the world. |
“Bad Friday” was next, a new jolt of cutting-jangle funk debuted live in Denver at the previous New Year’s Eve. “Comma Later” – smooth R&B menace with Wired-style lead guitar – was another recent original. But “Glory,” “Eat” and “Out of Order” were all set-list regulars that had never been on a studio release. The last... |
The London Session can be pre-ordered here. |
When the husband was informed that his childhood friend had relocated to Dubai, we invited them home on the weekend, following their arrival. Half an hour past our meeting, the friends had retreaded to basking under the glow of their smart phones after ‘catching up’ while the friend’s wife — Shalini, and I had gravitat... |
Fast forward one year, I have a wonderful friend who has settled into her new home enough to have explored places that I have only heard of and has been an active participant in many events organised for the residents, often leaving me guilty for having spent my weekend on the couch with a book with the television blar... |
When we went to meet her parents, who were visiting, her father, who had travelled to several countries, explained that he found it difficult to believe that a desert could be transformed into a luxurious and futuristic city that is culturally rich and diverse and yet still feels like home. |
His words reminded me of that day when I had left the comforts and warmth of home, parents and all the familiar faces and places — my insides a turmoil of excitement and anguish of what awaited me on the other side of the solitary journey that I was about to make. As the flight took off, I had watched the familiarity o... |
Change is often unsettling and even in change we are often left seeking frantically for a piece of familiarity that we can grab on to while we wade across the new and unfamiliar waters. Luckily for me, that was not even necessary for as soon as I was willing to look beyond the dull ache that the thought of my loved one... |
With the country celebrating 47 years of unity and its remarkable progress and success, I hope you have made your plans to make most of the wonderful weather and festive spirit or like me, you could have no plan charted out and instead trust your impromptu decision-making skills and still have a wonderful time for ther... |
Pranitha Menon is a freelance writer based in Dubai. |
Colorado legislator Tambor Williams of Greeley said her greatest challenge will be to strike a balance in her new post as executive director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies. |
Gov. Bill Owens appointed Williams, 63, to the position responsible for regulation of more than 450,000 licensed professionals and business entities in Colorado. The term-limited Colorado House representative will begin in August. |
The goal is to protect the public while, leaving businesses as independent as possible, Williams said. Owens said her experience as a legislator and attorney make her especially well suited to do that. |
“She understands and is committed to the department’s mission of protecting our citizens while streamlining regulatory processes,” Owens said. |
Williams has been a representative since 1997 and is Speaker Pro Tem. She chairs both the House Business Affairs and Legislative Audit committees and is a member of the House Appropriations committee. |
insurance, employer practices and contracts. She earned a law degree from the University of Colorado, a master’s degree from Western State College and a bachelor’s from Queens College in New York. |
Williams will succeed Rick O’Donnell who was appointed by the governor to be executive director of the Department of Higher Education. Jason Hopfer, the agency’s deputy director and legislative liaison, will be acting executive director in the interim. |
During their meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt in 2009, then PM Yousuf Raza Gilani handed over a dossier of RAW’s involvement in terrorist activities to his counterpart, PM Manmohan Singh. The dossier highlighted just how India’s security and intelligence agencies had been using Afghanistan’s soil to train and fund t... |
Using the Hindi phrase ‘kante se kantanikalna’, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar recently inadvertently blurted out what has been a home truth for nearly five decades, India’s penchant for employing terrorists to catch or kill terrorists, for covert action against neighbours, “We should do it. Why does my soldi... |
Pakistan’s breakup in 1971, was the successful execution of this type of warfare by India. On Jan 30, 1971 we fell for an India-staged hijacking of an Indian Airlines Fokker-27 named “Ganga” to Lahore, supposedly carried out by Kashmiri separatists, one of them was actually a RAW operative. Taken out of service by Indi... |
The Pakistan Naval Station Mehran was attacked in May 2011,by heavily armed gunmen targeting the P-3C Orion aircraft hangars, two aircrafts were destroyed while another was damaged. Has anyone ever really questioned why the terrorists walked past dozens of modern, expensive warplanes on the tarmac to focus on the P3C-O... |
The Chief of Afghan NDSI Nabil, incidentally educated in Pakistan as a refugee during the Soviet occupation, candidly justified in a New York Times interview using Tehrik-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP) against Pakistan in line with Chanakhya’s tenet, “an enemy of an enemy is a friend”. Training and administering NDSI perso... |
Balochistan has been the primary target of Indian ‘Hybrid Warfare’ for decades. RAW agent Lt Comd Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving Indian Navy officer, entered Chabahar with a visa stamped on a fake passport and was arrested inside Balochistan in Mashkel near the border region of Chaman on 3 March 2016 during a counterinte... |
The virulent anti-CPEC campaign unleashed by hostile elements, particularly India, aims to deprive Pakistan of its benefits by sowing doubts and creating controversies and mistrust, particularly among the local residents of Balochistan. Propaganda alleges that Chinese military bases are planned in the coastal belt and ... |
Israel in close collaboration with India has been pursuing over the years a media and psychological war through internet-based disinformation about the vulnerability of nuclear assets of Pakistan falling into the hands of terrorists create a dichotomy among the general public. Israel’s extreme discomfort is understanda... |
Last year, Indian hackers made an attempt to hack the Karachi International Airport as well as the Multan, Islamabad and Peshawar airports’ websites. They also infected government systems and locked the computer data making it inaccessible to recover. Indian cyber-attacks have aimed to dismantle high profile websites, ... |
When the nature of the game changes in a fast and aggressive manner, what has to be done is to adapt to the new rules to avoid isolation, demoralisation and eventual loss. Just as our military leadership has acknowledged the presence and impact of hybrid warfare on the country, it is important for not only political an... |
(Newser) – Country singer Justin Carter was killed in an accidental shooting just as his career was starting to take off. The 35-year-old died after a gun being used as a prop in a music video went off, according to Mark Atherton at Triple Threat Management. The gun "went off and caught my son in the corner of his eye,... |
Guns don't "just go off"--Idiots Cause them to "go off". |
As others have noted, there are more questions than answers in this article. |
He shot himself on camera!? The piece was in his pocket? His eye? What poor reportage. And why was a prop unsaftied, loaded, chambered, or anywhere near someone so careless? I don't mean to lessen the sadness when we see Human pain, but, with details of how such a thing could happen, his sacrifice might save another so... |
Published: March 27, 2012 10:00 pm Updated: March 27, 2012 10:47 p.m. |
Voters wait in line to cast their votes outside tents erected to serve as polling stations, in the Guediawaye neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal Sunday, March 25, 2012. |
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal's new president won the runoff election in a landslide, garnering nearly twice as many votes as the incumbent of 12 years, according to provisional results released Tuesday. |
Senegalese officials announced that Macky Sall had won 65.80 percent of ballots cast in Sunday's runoff ballot, benefiting from a united opposition in the second round of voting. |
Incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade won 34.20 percent of the vote — slightly less than his percentage in the first round last month. It marked a sharp drop-off from the last presidential race in 2007, when he easily won the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff. |
"It's a landslide victory for President Macky Sall," said Mbaye Ndiaye, who represents the opposition coalition that supported Sall in the runoff. |
Wade conceded defeat to his opponent within hours of polls closing, and world leaders and observers have applauded Senegal for holding a peaceful and transparent vote. |
Wade's popularity has fallen amid rising costs of living and high unemployment in this country on Africa's western coast. Many voters spoke simply of change Sunday, rather than of Sall's specific credentials. |
State media announced that Wade planned to hand over to Sall next Monday, and said the 85-year-old incumbent was next headed to Saudi Arabia for a religious pilgrimage. |
Wade had been considered among the rare African leaders committed to democracy in a neighborhood better known for rule by strongmen. However, his decision to seek a third term in office was fiercely criticized by many Senegalese, and violent protests during the election season left at least six people dead. |
His image also suffered after he began giving an increasing share of power to his son Karim, who was derisively called "the Minister of the Sky and the Earth" after he was handed control of multiple ministries including infrastructure and energy. |
Wade also tried to rush a law through parliament that would have reduced the percentage a candidate needed to win on the first round from 50 to around 25 percent. He was forced to scrap the proposal after riots immobilized the capital. |
Associated Press writer Tomas Faye contributed to this report. |
A federal judge has put on hold a lawsuit related to Hillary Clinton's private email server, rejecting both the Justice Department's bid to resolve the case in the government's favor and a conservative group's demand to force the State Department to turn over more information about the issue. |
In staying the Freedom of Information Act suit Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton cited ongoing discovery in two other cases filed by the watchdog group Judicial Watch. In one of those cases, several top aides to Clinton have given depositions or are scheduled to give depositions before the end of this mo... |
In the suit Walton halted Tuesday, Judicial Watch had sought details on why Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy and former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh corresponded with Clinton at her private address, but apparently did not ensure her emails were searched in response to pending FOIA req... |
The judge didn't rule out allowing the group to inquire into that issue via written questions or depositions of State officials, but he said it appeared those questions were within the ambit of the fact-finding process already underway in other litigation. |
"To avoid duplicative discovery and unnecessary expenditure of public funds, the Court will stay this case pending the completion of discovery in those other cases," Walton wrote in a three- page order. |
The judge also noted that a federal appeals court is currently considering a separate lawsuit that tests the government's obligation to search a private email account maintained by an agency head, in that case the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. |
At arguments in that appeal in January, the judges seemed to be leaning toward a ruling that emails kept in a personal account could sometimes be subject to FOIA. However, no decision has yet been issued. |
Walton, an appointee of President George W. Bush, said it was "wise" to wait for that ruling and he instructed the parties to the lawsuit in his court to "follow" whatever ruling the D.C. Circuit produces in that appeal. |
The FOIA lawsuit before Walton sought information about a video of President Barack Obama and Clinton the State Department arranged to air in Pakistan. The video was released in September 2012 in the wake of the Benghazi attack and unrest about an anti-Muslim movie trailer posted on YouTube. |
Most of the dozens of other FOIA suits filed by critics of the presumptive Democratic nominee and by news organizations were brought after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state in February 2013. |
However, the case before Walton was filed in December 2012, so could be better positioned than others to explore the State Department's obligations to search Clinton's private account while she was in office and was regularly using it for official business. |
Freerice.com , the online game that allows players to improve their vocabulary while fighting global hunger by making donations to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has crossed another milestone this week as it reached one million registered players. |
“When one million people each do their small part, the collective effect is beyond impressive – it’s extraordinary,” said Nancy Roman, WFP’s Director of Communications, Public Policy and Private Partnerships. |
On Freerice.com, players face increasingly difficult vocabulary questions and for every correct answer, they earn 10 grains of rice, which is donated to WFP and paid for by sponsored banners on the site. |
The online game also allows players to choose from 45,000 questions in various subjects, including flags of the world and literature, and in six languages – English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Korean. |
“Beyond the remarkable benefits for those most in need, this is a significant milestone for WFP in our mission to engage millions of people online in the fight against hunger,” Ms. Roman added. |
The game reaches an estimated 1.3 million players per month and has raised almost 100 billion grains of rice, enough to feed five million people for a day in countries in need of food aid. |
Originally launched in English in 2007, Freerice.com had within a month raised enough rice to feed over 50,000 people for a day. It was also named one of the best charity sites of 2011 by Netted, the online publication of the Webbys – an international award honouring excellence on the Internet. |
Having cast his vote at 11am, PN leader Simon Busuttil is spending the day touring the 13 districts urging the electorate to vote. |
With his team posting videos on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, Busuttil this morning visited Zurrieq, Marsaskala, Marsaxlokk, Fgura, Rahal il-Gdid and Mosta. Accompanied by his deputy leaders Beppe Fenech Adami and Mario de Marco, Busuttil made his way to Gozo where he descended on Rabat, Sannat and Xag... |
Back in Malta, the trail continued from Mellieha and St Paul’s Bay to Naxxar, amongst other localities. |
In one video filmed in his car, Busuttil said that citizens have the right and duty to vote, as the decision is in their hands. “Encourage everyone you know to vote too,” Busuttil said in one of the video messages. |
Speaking at the party’s clubs in the various localities, he said it was imperative to bring out every vote. |
As millions of Americans approach retirement age, many are concerned about how they'll be able to fund their existing lifestyles during their golden years. Dividend growth stocks can help you achieve financial independence, but what if you're looking for a purer income play? |
For those seeking secure, high-yield investments that still offer moderate income-growth opportunities, I'd like to introduce you to three of my favorite high-yield investments. |
The glory of triple net lease REITSReal estate investment trusts, or REITs, are businesses that generate income from leasing space in real estate properties. REITs pay no taxes so long as they pay 90% of their income as dividends. Thus these securities are beloved by income investors for their high yields. |
Among REITs, the triple net lease business model is my favorite. That's because the customer pays not only rent, but also the taxes, insurance, and maintenance for the properties. This means triple net lease REITs like Realty Income , National Retail Properties , and W.P. Careyoften have lower overhead costs. |
Lower costs mean more money for dividends and, better yet, hopefully faster dividend growth. That not only helps you boost your retirement income today but also helps your income grow, hopefully fast enough to offset inflation. |
Why these three REITs?When it comes to choosing income investments, the three most important things retired investors must consider are: dividend security, yield, and dividend growth prospects. The adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO, payout ratio tells us what percentage of the cash left over after covering expens... |
You should also compare a REIT's historical dividend growth rate to analysts' projected dividend growth rate to maximize the chances that your income will grow at least as fast as inflation, which has been 2.26% on a compound annual basis over the last decade. |
Sources: Yahoo Finance, Fastgraphs, investor presentations, S&P Capital IQ, company 10Qs. |
As this table shows, all three REITs have yields far higher than the market's. More importantly, these dividends are well covered by each REIT's funds from operations. In addition, they have good track records of growing their payouts over time, and Wall Street currently expects each to continue growing its d... |
Industry-leading occupancy rates further provide income securityThe key to these REITs' ability to provide high, steady, and growing income is their industry-leading occupancy rates and broad diversification of quality tenants across multiple industries and regions, with rents secured through long-term, inflation-... |
Sources: Company investor presentations, 10Qs. |
As this table shows, all three REITs own a large amount of property. This property is highly diversified across America's different regions and almost all available square footage available for leasing is currently generating rental income. The reason that diversification across region, or country is important is ... |
For example, W.P Carey gets 68% of its rental income from U.S. properties but also has a diverse international portfolio spanning nations like Germany, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, and Japan. Meanwhile, Realty Income gets its rental income from 211 tenants in 49 states and Puerto Rico, and no single customer represents mo... |
With each REIT's rental income secured by long-term leases with annual rent increases built in, investors can be secure in the knowledge that their dividends are backed not only by secure cash flow, but also a quality and diverse customer base that spans the entire breadth of the U.S. economy ( Realty Income has c... |
Risks to know aboutAs wonderful as I believe these REITs to be, there is one major risk that I think potential and current investors need to consider -- that of rising interest rates. |
With the U.S. economy growing at 4.6% and 5% over the last two quarters, respectively, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to start raising interest rates by mid-2015.REITs are dependent on low interest rates to be able to borrow and acquire new properties that allow them to grow funds from operations per share and ... |
Luckily for investors in these REITs, management only targets properties with high capitalization rates -- i.e., the rate of return on real estate investments -- and all three have investment grade credit ratings, which help them borrow cheaply. For example, the capitalization rates for National Retail Properties'... |
That 3.73% difference between capitalization rate and borrowing costs represents potential profit and is high enough to allow interest rates to increase substantially before the REIT is unable to continue growing both the size of its business and its dividend through acquisitions. |
Safe, high, and growing income is what you need for a prosperous retirementRealty Income, National Retail Properties, and W.P. Carey offer the trifecta of high-yield retirement investments. This high yield is secured by some of the highest occupancy rates in the industry, long-term contracts with annual rent increases ... |
The article 3 of My Favorite High-Yield Retirement Stocks originally appeared on Fool.com. |
Ecommerce is taking the place of the trip to the store. Or is it? |
“This trend will continue for the foreseeable future and may even accelerate,” Hayne said. |
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