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With the exception of Ciaran Hinds’ (Munich) lip-smacking Herod, the acting is stiff to the point of ossification, and unintentionally amusing in the offhand manner in which the characters accept their fates, especially Castle-Hughes, who boasts about one and a half expressions in the entire film. Even so, that’s half ... |
Palestinian Legislative Council MP with PFLP indicted for 12 security crimes, including inciting for abduction to free jailed terrorists. |
An indictment was submitted at the military criminal court at Ofer Prison located north of Jerusalem on Wednesday against Khalida Jarrar, an MP on the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), who was charged with 12 counts of security-related crimes. |
Jarrar is a senior member of the Socialist Palestinian Arab terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). |
Last August, she was served an order banning her from her home in Ramallah over security threats, but she disobeyed the order and was arrested on April 1. An administrative detention order was placed on her for six months, in parallel to her ongoing investigation. |
The indictment attributes 12 security crimes to her, including being a member of the banned PFLP terrorist group, holding an administrative post in the PFLP, as well as conducting a series of public activities for the PFLP. |
It also accused her of inciting to abduct IDF soldiers so as to negotiate the release of jailed Arab terrorists. |
Among the terrorists she sought to free was Ahmad Sa'adat, the leader of PFLP, who was sentenced to 30 years in jail in 2008 for heading the terrorist group. |
Sa'adat was accused of planning the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi, which was committed by four PFLP terrorists in Jerusalem; the Palestinian Authority (PA) has lauded Sa'adat on numerous occasions for the murder. |
The military prosecutor will ask to keep Jarrar in jail until the end of legal proceedings. |
The PFLP, founded by Dr. George Habash, used to specialize in plane hijackings. |
Its most infamous attack was the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane, diverting the flight to Entebbe, Uganda. The passengers were later rescued in a daring IDF raid, in which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's brother Yonatan was killed while commanding the elite operation. |
The Senate health care bill would raise premiums for older and lower-income Americans on exchanges compared to current law, much like the House bill, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Some younger people would pay less in premiums, but deductibles would likely rise across the board. |
Changes the benchmark plan — the one that's linked to the subsidies. Under the Affordable Care Act, subsidies are tied to "silver" plans that cover 70 percent of an enrollee's health care costs. Under the Senate bill, they're tied to plans that only cover 58 percent of the costs. This means subsidies will be smaller. |
Changes the required income percentages enrollees must pay towards their premiums. Younger people would generally have to pay less of their income, but older people would have to pay more. |
Allows older people to be charged premiums five times higher than younger people, compared to three times higher under current law. |
Rewrites the eligibility rules. People would be eligible for subsidies if their incomes are below 350 percent of the federal poverty line, rather than between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line under the ACA. |
Why this matters: Premiums for silver plans would at worst become unaffordable for some people, while others would see their costs go up. This may make some people switch into bronze plans, but these plans have substantially higher deductibles. The bottom line is most Americans will pay more out of pocket for their hea... |
SAN FRANCISCO – Business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT) said on Saturday that its board again rejected Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL) $9.2 billion tender offer, remaining defiant a day after most of its shares were tendered to Oracle. |
"PeopleSoft's Board of Directors has met and considered the results of Oracle's unsolicited tender offer and unanimously reaffirmed its previous conclusion that Oracle's latest offer is inadequate," the company said in a statement. |
The board decision, hours after it was determined 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares were tendered to Oracle, is likely to mean the two California-based business software makers will return on Wednesday to Delaware Chancery Court. |
The companies, which have been locked in a testy takeover battle for 17 months, have been scheduled to appear at the Delaware court to address PeopleSoft's shareholder rights' plan, known as a "poison pill." |
Oracle believes Friday's tender result is a mandate that should prompt Vice Chancellor Leo Strine to remove the pill, which is the last hurdle to Oracle clinching a deal. PeopleSoft's board has refused to lift the pill. |
Strine could rule the tender result was decisive and deliver a coup de grace by throwing out PeopleSoft's poison pill. That would likely allow Oracle to move forward with closing the deal, which could result in layoffs between 6,000 and 10,000 PeopleSoft employees. |
Strine, however, could also uphold the poison pill in the face of a unanimous board holding out for a higher price for shareholders, leaving Oracle with an option of mounting a proxy fight early next year by nominating new PeopleSoft board members who might be more favorable to a buy-out. |
Four of PeopleSoft's seven board members will be up for re-election in the Spring at the company's annual shareholder meeting. Oracle, a tiny PeopleSoft shareholder, has until the end of this coming week to submit nominations for new board members, an Oracle spokesman said. |
PeopleSoft spokesman Steve Swasey said it was the fifth time the board had rejected Oracle's hostile takeover offer. |
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison reiterated on Friday that the company's $24 per-share offer was final and "fully valued." |
Oracle had no reaction to the board's decision and said the board had not contacted Oracle since Friday's tender result to discuss its offer, launched in June 2003. |
PeopleSoft said many stockholders who tendered their shares and many who did not tender their stock believed Oracle's all cash, $24 per-share offer was not enough. |
"Based on the numerous conversations we have had with our largest stockholders ... the Board believes that a majority of our stockholders agree that Oracle's $24 offer is inadequate and does not reflect PeopleSoft's real value," said A. George Battle, chairman of the Transaction Committee of independent direc... |
Some analysts said they were surprised by the board's decision after 228.7 million PeopleSoft shares were tendered to Oracle out of 376 million total PeopleSoft shares. |
"It's surprising to me they are prepared to go into an battle after having been rebuked by 61 percent of their shareholders," said Greg Taxin, chief executive of Glass Lewis & Co., a shareholder advisory firm. |
Some analysts have also said PeopleSoft's board could try to drag out the takeover saga to a proxy fight to allow the company to post two fiscal quarters of earnings results that could persuade shareholders the company's future is bright. |
PeopleSoft recently forecast a rosy 2005 earnings outlook, but many Wall Street analysts said it was too optimistic. |
A spear phisher managed to reel in a prize catch last year with a single hook when media giant Condé Nast took the bait and wired $8 million to his bank account after he posed as a legitimate business, according to a news account. |
The alleged swindler failed to withdraw any funds before federal authorities intervened and froze the money, but the case highlights how little effort a scammer needs to invest in order to get a big payday. |
A Condé Nast representative said the company could not comment on a pending investigation. Condé Nast publishes Wired magazine and Wired.com, as well as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and Glamour. |
Information about the scam appeared in a forfeiture lawsuit filed March 30 in Manhattan by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York in an attempt to retrieve the money for Condé Nast. It was first reported by Forbes. |
The filing seeks the funds for forfeiture on grounds that they are allegedly proceeds from wire fraud and money laundering crimes. |
According to the court document, last November Condé Nast's accounts payable department received an e-mail (.pdf) that purported to come from Quad/Graphics, the company that prints Condé Nast magazines. |
The e-mail instructed Condé Nast to send payments for its Quad/Graphics account to a bank account number provided in the e-mail, and included an electronic payments authorization form. The e-mail indicated the account was for Quad Graph, a name similar to the real printer's name. |
Someone at Condé Nast apparently signed the form and sent it back to a fax number listed in the e-mail, then began making electronic transfer payments to the bank account specified by the scammer. |
Between Nov. 17 and Dec. 30, the company wired $8 million to the Quad Graph account before a query around Dec. 30 from the real printer, Quad/Graphics, asking about outstanding bills, prompted Condé Nast to investigate the matter. The company was apparently able to reverse at least one transfer of about $36,000 back to... |
According to the court filing, a man named Andy Surface allegedly opened the scam bank account last September at a branch of BBVA Compass Bank in Alvin, Texas. Surface had allegedly incorporated his business name with the county clerk's office before opening the bank account, identifying his home address in Alvin as th... |
During December, about $84,000 of the $8 million was transferred from the Quad Graph account into another account bearing Surface's own name, but no money was withdrawn from either account before federal authorities got wind of the operation. They obtained a federal seizure warrant on Jan. 10 to freeze the funds until ... |
Yes, time for the latest instalment in the long-running "David Reeves tells the press things he wishes he hadn't" series! This week, the SCEE boss sits down with Kiwi site Buttonmashers, and - amidst the din of what's obviously the SCEE's PAL-only party at E3 - proceeds to say a bunch of stuff. Like...when asked about ... |
We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do [localisation] properly, you can wait for it and you can have it in good quality. You know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, it's up to you. |
If you're still here this time next year complaining about delays, PAL users, don't say David Reeves never gave you an out. |
A solar fuel that could change the aviation industry’s greenhouse gas footprint is in development. But it’s got a long way to go before it can fly. |
In the future, airplanes might start running on CO2 that is sucked from the air and transformed into jet fuel using nothing but sunshine and water. |
Researchers at the EU-funded SOLAR-JET project recently proved that at least the second part of the process is possible: A super-hot solar reactor can convert CO2 into synthetic gas, and then the gas can be turned into kerosene to fly a plane. |
The machines could actually use CO2 from any source, like the emissions captured from a power plant. But the researchers think the best source might be the air. |
The researchers’ solar-powered process could eventually be used to make renewable forms of other types of fuel, like diesel or gasoline, and even plastics. But they’re especially interested in what the technology could mean for the future of flight. |
The resulting “solar” fuel would work exactly like a non-renewable version made from natural gas, so it’s already proven to be safe. Unlike some alternative fuels, which would require redesigning aircraft, it can be used as it is. And unlike electric planes, which have the challenge of carrying heavy batteries, it woul... |
The technology might be ready to use in a decade or so. It will require that the researchers improve the efficiency of the process, and the viability will ultimately also depend on the source of the CO2. Other research teams are working on ways to efficiently capture CO2 from the air. |
Ultimately, if it’s used, the technology would make flying carbon neutral–the plane would still emit CO2, but then the same amount of CO2 would be taken from the air to power the next flight. |
Local children got the chance to enjoy a Victorian tea party at the Hayes Center on Saturday. |
FREMONT - One lump or two? Or... maybe three or four? |
On Saturday, children got the chance to enjoy a historically themed Victorian tea party — sugar cubes and all — as part of the “Kids Days @ Hayes” series of events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. |
The kids also dressed the part for a tea party and got to take part in games while learning about real tea time and etiquette during President Rutherford and First Lady Lucy Hayes’ era. Hayes was president from 1877 to 1881. |
The Victorian tea party was sponsored by Pamela and Joy at Billy’s Restaurant. |
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Experts have said this estimate is "preliminary" and costs will go up in the coming days. |
"It (the cost) is going to go up. This is an expensive event for California," the Los Angeles Times quoted Humboldt Earthquake Education Centre director Lori Dengler as saying. |
The two ports in the state that were hit hardest were Crescent City and Santa Cruz. |
At the Santa Cruz port, damage is estimated at USD 17 million, the report said, adding that 17 ships were sunk and up to 50 others were damaged. |
In Santa Barbara, waves turned the harbour into a tidal pool, "sweeping away a barge that was used for the city's commercial fishing operation and nearly destroying a 200-tonne crane barge that became unmoored in the tumult," the report said. |
"The whole harbour entrance was kind of chaotic for about five hours," said Santa Barbara Patrol Officer Ryan Kelly. |
He said several boats were damaged when they collided with barges or other vessels. |
In other places, a city sailing dock broke off and a boat was lost at sea. |
The National Weather Service had cancelled its tsunami warning yesterday but warned that strong currents remain in Crescent City and in Santa Monica Bay. |
A 25-year-old man had died in the Del Norte County after being swept into the Pacific Ocean as he and his friend were taking photographs of the incoming tsunami waves. |
Friday's massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan left more than 1,000 dead and at least 10,000 missing. |
It’s possible that you are an incredibly organized person who remembers everything important from your meetings, and you’re part of an incredibly organized team where every post-meeting task is communicated clearly. But … maybe not. Maybe stuff slips through the cracks. That’s where Retrace, an app that just launched a... |
Co-founder and CEO Austin Marusco told me that Retrace is “the best way to remember and organize everything about the meetings you have.” It’s an iPhone app that integrates with your Google Calendar or Calendars, creating a shared workspace around each meeting where participants can share notes, photos and tasks. It al... |
For example, during my interview with Marusco and his co-founder/CTO Kenan Pulak, they created a task for later — sharing their screenshots of Retrace with me. |
During their on-stage presentation, Marusco and Pulak walked through the entire meeting process and showed how Retrace can help. Beforehand, users can set up meetings, invite others, view profiles, and save the location to find directions later on. During the meeting, or right afterwards, someone could create a meeting... |
To a large extent, Retrace is aimed at replacing the notes that people take during meetings and the follow-up emails that they send afterwards. That’s a system I’ve become quite used to, and one that more or less works. Marusco pointed out, however, that the notes you take are often only useful to yourself, and that em... |
Oh, and if you’re meeting with people who aren’t already Retrace users, the app should still be useful because you can store information for yourself, or share the content in the app with other people via email. |
I was a little surprised to see Marusco and Pulak, who only recently graduated from Virginia Tech, working on this type of problem. It seems like this idea would come more naturally from an experienced sales type. And while they do expect salespeople (along with anyone else who has a lot of meetings) to be early adopte... |
This is the pair’s second trip to Disrupt, having participated in the Startup Alley last year with their previous company, Roundpop. Marusco said that he and Pulak didn’t go to bars for a year beforehand in order to save the money to attend. |
As for Retrace, they’ve been working on it since June. Pulak said it was initially more of a contact-sharing product, but they decided that meetings were a bigger opportunity. And naturally, they’re heavy users of the app themselves — Marusco said that a few minutes after each meeting, the app reminds him to upload not... |
Retrace is launching today in a limited beta that you can sign-up for on the Retrace website. For now, it’s limited to an iPhone app, a decision that Marusco justified by arguing that fewer and fewer people are bringing their laptops to meetings. That said, the company does plan to launch eventually on other platforms,... |
The business plan is to keep the basic app free, but to charge for premium features like profile customization and integration with other services like Salesforce. |
Nicole Glaros: It sounds like you’re making this for someone who’s super-disorganized. How are you going to convince them to change their behavior? |
Marusco: A lot of enterprise tools are terrible, whereas Retrace “spent a ton of time making sure that every interaction we do is as seamless as possible” — for example the automatic syncing with Google Calendar. |
Matt Brezina: Have you guys done enough customer development to figure out who the target user for whom you’re filling a real need? |
Marusco: Agreed, but there is already specific interest from VCs and salespeople. |
Glaros: We should be able to record the meeting and Retrace transcribes the notes. |
Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises. |
Former transport secretary Justine Greening was informed there were "small but non-critical errors" in the franchise competition before she was reshuffled to the Department for International Development last month, the Times newspaper reported. |
Theresa Villiers, who is now the Northern Ireland secretary, was the rail minister responsible at the time. She remains in the Cabinet while three unnamed civil servants, thought to be relatively junior, have been sacked. |
Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons' public administration select committee, told the Standard newspaper: "At first glance, this does appear to be a civil service blunder and not a problem of policy that is down to ministers." |
Gus O'Donnell, the former head of the civil service, conceded on the Today programme this morning: "We are suffering in some areas where there are skills shortages." |
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