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Aside from Koch’s AOL account, Guccifer also gained access to the accounts of close Bush family friends, including CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz. Former first lady Barbara Bush’s brother and her husband’s sister-in-law also had their accounts hacked, according to The Smoking Gun.
One of the messages in Koch’s AOL account included a “Report On Dad,” from her brother Neil Bush about the health of her father.
George H.W. Bush’s health took a turn for the worse and the former president was in intensive care last month.
She added that the message falls “under the broadening category of things NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER,” The Smoking Gun reported.
George W. Bush wrote in a Dec. 26 email to his brothers and sisters that he was “thinking about eulogy” for his father and asked for stories that he could include for his father’s funeral service.
“Hopefully I’m jumping the gun,” he wrote.
Besides the messages, a number of private family photos were accessed by Guccifer, including George W. Bush’s paintings, a picture of George H.W. Bush in the hospital and former President Bill Clinton posing with George W. Bush at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
The hacker said he did not fear a federal investigation.
“I have an old game with the f------ bastards inside, this is just another chapter in the game,” he wrote.
The asylum game was broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday, 23 July, 2003 at 21:00 BST.
For six months a Panorama reporter has been on a journey through Britain's asylum system.
Her task was to find out why so many people seek asylum in the UK and why the system cannot cope.
In January Panorama's reporter turned up at a Channel port police station, seeking asylum. Posing as Mihaela Cornea, a Moldovan national fleeing a violent boyfriend, she told her story.
It was flawed and the authorities appeared not to believe it but they gave her papers to stay for six months and she was released. Within hours they had lost track of her.
Once free, Mihaela faced a dilemma encountered by many asylum seekers: her asylum application would take months to process but she was not allowed to work. Refused benefits and accommodation, she had little alternative but to enter the world of illegal employment.
Within days she obtained the false documents she needed to work and hooked up with criminal gangs - themselves asylum seekers - who ply a lucrative trade in forging documents for others.
Mihaela discovers this is not a fluke encounter. She meets crooks who are able to make a fortune out of a system groaning under pressure and wide open to abuse. The genuine asylum seekers she meets are also victims of the system, kept in limbo for months waiting for their cases to be adjudicated.
Britain's asylum system is based on the principle of providing a safe haven to victims of persecution but it is in chaos because it cannot speedily distinguish between the refugee and the economic migrant.
When her six month permission to stay runs out, Mihaela puts the asylum system to one final test. Earlier this year, Home Secretary David Blunkett introduced fingerprinting of all asylum seekers to root out fraud and multiple applications.
Our reporter was fingerprinted at the time of her first application. Now, her first asylum request turned down, she adopts a different name, and makes another application. Panorama will reveal if Mr Blunkett's new detection system is up to the job.
PARIS (Reuters) - Gucci, the Italian fashion label driving revenue growth at French luxury group Kering (PRTP.PA), will branch into high end jewelry with a collection in June or July, Kering boss Francois-Henri Pinault said in a newspaper interview on Friday.
Jewelry has been one of the best performing corners of the luxury industry in 2018, according to consultancy Bain & Co, which forecast that comparable sales in the 18 billion euro global market were set to progress 7 percent this year.
That puts growth on a par with footwear, and above high-margin categories like handbags where fashion groups such as Gucci tend to make most of their money.
Most labels produce earrings and other accessories but high-end jewelry is a more rarefied world, occupied by the likes of Switzerland’s Chopard, or Boucheron, a label owned by Kering into which it is also plowing resources.
“The two hundred pieces, with many colored gemstones, will be made in Italy,” Kering’s Chairman and CEO Pinault said in an interview with France’s Le Figaro.
Kering confirmed the launch at Gucci but did not immediately provide further details.
Gucci has been one of the fastest growing luxury brands in recent years, thanks to a flamboyant makeover under designer Alessandro Michele. That has raised questions over how long its boom can last, and the brand has already been beefing up new lines in homeware and beauty products.
Overall revenue at Kering reached 3.4 billion euros ($3.90 billion) in the third quarter, up a better-than-expected 27.5 percent on a comparable basis thanks largely to the thriving sales at Gucci.
Pinault also said in the interview that Kering aimed to use ethically-sourced gold for all its jewels in two years’ time, up from 70 percent now.
The voters at the town hall in Waverly turned their heads as the self-described atheist stood up with a camera to challenge Marco Rubio about his faith. Justin Scott, a voter from Waterloo, asked the Catholic Republican presidential hopeful how his faith would impact his own belief in the absence of a higher power. The candidate was ready.
The exchange was swiftly posted by the questioner, and then reposted by Rubio’s campaign to the candidate’s YouTube channel. Barely five hours later, the exchange had already made it into Rubio’s stump speech. “America does not make sense unless we believe in a creator,” Rubio told a crowd of about 250 near Iowa City, referencing the question.
For Rubio, the moment couldn’t have been scripted better, providing a window he wanted to highlight his faith as he courts this state’s passionate evangelical Christian voters. In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas’ Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state’s conservative strain of evangelical Christianity. Cruz’s father is a popular pastor who has traveled the state and the country preaching and boosting his son’s candidacy. Now, two weeks before Iowa caucuses, Rubio is looking to eat into Cruz’s lead, recognizing there may only be room for one senator in the race if the nominating fight is prolonged.
In recent weeks, Rubio has sought to spin his positions in a fashion more appealing to the state’s conservatives, leaning rightward as the moderate lane remains deeply divided. Nowhere has that been clearer than on immigration, with Rubio releasing an ad last week in Iowa declaring he was against “amnesty,” the phrase used by Cruz in criticizing the Gang of Eight legislation Rubio co-authored.
Earlier Monday, he declined to state whether he still supported a path to citizenship for those in the U.S. illegally. “It’s not a yes or no answer,” he told a questioner in Ottumwa, adding he felt that way because “because there’s no unanimity in America.” He later didn’t rule out a pathway to citizenship to reporters, but said it shouldn’t stop meaningful reform from taking place.
Serial killings of women in Ghana: The flip side.
Managing the Economy with Change Management in Mind.
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Martin signed a reserve/future contract with the Giants on Monday, GiantsWire reports.
Analysis: Martin initially was able to crack the Giants' 53-man roster in September but was waived prior to Week 1. The undrafted free agent out of Rutgers faced long odds to earn a roster spot last season and will likely have a similar situation in 2019.
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MetLife architect Pamela Abalu sees the office buildings of the future.
"I'm so sorry I'm late," Pamela Abalu exclaims as she walks in the MetLife headquarters cafeteria with a beaming smile. She's younger-looking than one might expect of the person who oversees all building projects for the insurance giant's global empire of offices. And she's impossibly tall thanks to the platform stiletto pumps that peek out beneath her white trousers. She apologizes for getting held up in a meeting then sits next to me at the lunch table with rapt attention.
Abalu has the sort of magnetism that transforms a room, and as one of less than 300 female African- American licensed architects in the United States, she's used to catching people off guard.
"There's not a lot of people like me in the industry," she notes. "I come in and a lot of people don't expect it. It's kind of like stepping outside the box." Fortuitously, she says, convincing people to embrace the unexpected is part of her job. She serves as the company's representative in new building projects. Abalu acts as liaison between executives and architects -- she oversees the designers and makes their plans clear to MetLife's leaders. But she's also there to challenge her bosses' notions of what an office building should look like.
"Don't go with the status quo because it's the easy thing to do," she says of her mission. "We should really think about the people who are going to really be here in 10 years. What are they going to be doing?"
Abalu says she imagines employees born in 2001 when she considers a workplace under construction today. But how do you know what they'll want? I ask her.
"We know," she answers quickly with a grin.
"I think the whole concept of an office and a workstation is going away," she says. She wants to establish workplaces where people can work from any location throughout the building. Abalu highlights touches like raised floor systems that allow outlets to be moved to various locations throughout the room and movable glass-panel walls that permit easy re-partitioning of space.
"Let's be sure," she says of her future office denizens, "if they choose to work in a garden adjacent to the building, that there's WiFi capability and comfortable informal seating. If they choose to work at the cafe, that they have USB ports there. If they choose to work in a conference room versus an office, that there's no restriction if they want to get up and write something really quickly on a wall."
Abalu became head of global design and construction at MetLife two years ago after representing corporate clients in construction projects at Perkins+Will, a global architecture firm.
"What I've been very successful at doing," she acknowledges, "is communicating to [executives] that it's not about me or my idea, it's about you. It's about saving money, flexibility, adaptability and doing the right thing for your business."
Abalu credits her nomadic childhood for her ability to drop in to any situation and win people over. As the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, she and her family moved countries nearly every two years. "I am one of those people with no childhood friends," she says. "And I didn't really enjoy it growing up. But [now I see] it was really a gift. Because I grew up everywhere, I can really fit in everywhere."
She particularly remembers frustration over her curriculum options as an 11-year-old student in a Nigerian boarding school.
"What happened was if you got really good grades you would be put in a science class. You were supposed to become an engineer or a doctor, that's just how it worked. And if you got like medium grades or bad grades you were put in an art class. And I was kind of like, 'I am not okay with this! I want to do science and I want to do art.'"
Do I sense that she was a rebellious child? "No," she laughs. "I was actually a nerd, I still am. But I would be like, 'But I don't understand, it doesn't make sense to me.' And I just kept asking all these questions. And other people started asking questions. And ultimately they let us take our science and art classes."
Soon after, Abalu discovered the field of architecture, which also allowed her to incorporate art and science. She finished her education in boarding schools in Ethiopia and London while penciling floor plans in her sketchbooks. At Iowa State, her father's alma mater, she received her bachelor's degree in architecture.
After stints as an architect in a civil engineering firm and as a project manager at Callison, another large architecture firm, Abalu says she had no qualms moving away from the drawing pad and into the more client-oriented, real estate-focused side of architecture she's done for Perkins+Will and MetLife.
"I'm not getting to do the grunt work," she says, "but I'm directing the work. At the end of the day, I have a vision and I'm trying to direct it for others to put it together. It allows me to work on two dozen projects at once versus dedicating two years to one building."
Abalu's work now takes her from Mexico City to Seoul, to Dubai, to Riyadh, to Dublin. And while she admits she's become a bit travel-weary, she says she enjoys arriving at new places with her colleagues. Given the prevalence of men of a certain color and a certain age in corporate real estate, her team at MetLife bucks that norm. "You have this African girl," she says referencing herself, "you have this Indian girl, this woman in her 50s, this guy from Brazil. It's such an unexpected group, and I have to tell you, it's so exciting.
"I always say to my team," she says, "we want people to walk into a workplace and say, 'I love coming here.' That's the goal. It's not about building it and leaving, it's about having the inhabitants of the space enjoy it."
"I try not to take myself seriously," she says. "And with my profession and what I do I feel like I've been called to serve. It's kind of like, how can I make your life better by building a better space for you? And that keeps me grounded. Because it's not about me or a space for me. I'm here to serve you so I need to make sure I have everything I need to serve you."
The fact that she gets to do this all around the globe provides another reference to her multinational childhood, she says. "It's come full circle," she says, nodding triumphantly.
AS IF bookstore shelves weren’t groaning enough under the weight of books revealing the differences between men and women, Donald Pfaff has recently added another to the pile. Ask why he felt compelled to throw yet another volume into this vast library and he will tell you that he was fed up with reading popular but “science-lite” accounts. Authors who pretend that we are all alike annoy him as much as those who claim that men and women inhabit separate planets. Both are guilty of over-simplification, he fumes, and of treating the brain “like a lump of jello” lacking the diversity we need to run modern societies.
In November last year, Pfaff, a professor of neurobiology from Rockefeller University in New York, was a keynote speaker at a conference titled The Difference Between the Sexes, held at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. This was the latest in the annual Science and Society conference series, which aims to bring topical, cutting-edge biology to public attention – and it clearly hit the mark. This is a hot area of research but Pfaff was not alone in expressing frustration at how the findings are sometimes portrayed. Several other speakers noted that while we are happy to accept that men and women differ physically, when it comes to behaviour or the way we think, sexual politics quickly muddy the picture.
Sunderland defender Bryan Oviedo looked set to move to West Brom last month.
Sunderland defender Bryan Oviedo has opened up on his failed move to West Brom on transfer deadline day.
The Costa Rica defender travelled to the West Midlands to complete his move to the Hawthorns, before the deal collapsed at the the eleventh hour.
Speaking to media in Costa Rica, Oviedo said: “I was notified at 6pm, I travelled about 3 hours from my house, I did the medical tests and I signed, but in the end it was 11.05pm and I saw that something was strange.
Sunderland owner Stewart Donald has denied reports the Black Cats were to blame for the deal falling through.
Speaking to the Roker Rapport podcast, Donald said: “We left it to Bryan and West Brom and the paperwork never arrived. Why that didn’t happen is down to West Brom and Bryan, not Sunderland.
Understandably, Oviedo didn't feature in the matchday squad as Sunderland overcame AFC Wimbledon 1-0 on Saturday afternoon.
The defender could return when Sunderland travel to Oxford next weekend but midfielder Lee Cattermole remains a doubt.
Cattermole missed the Wimbledon win after picking up an ankle injury during training last week.
And Sunderland boss Jack Ross believes the clash with Oxford will come too soon for the midfielder.
Ross also hopes new signing Will Grigg will return to full training in the middle of this week after suffering an ankle injury while playing for Wigan last month.
The tight margin predicted in Florida is proving to be true.
Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were within one percentage point of each other in the state, according to election results. If the margin continues to be razor thin, Florida officials could be forced into an automatic recount.
Florida law has an automatic recount trigger if the margin is within 0.5 percent of the vote. Colorado has a similar trigger if the margin falls within 0.5 percent of the total vote.
Politico was reporting that some voters in Miami were waiting six hours to cast their vote.
Batlle said she got into line at 1:10 p.m. and didn’t cast her vote until nearly 7 p.m.
Most political pundits believe Florida is a critical state to ensure Romney’s path to the necessary 270 electoral votes. Those pundits believe an Obama victory in Florida could complicate Romney’s chances to win.
Both candidates have campaigned heavily in the state in the hopes of securing its 29 electoral votes.
Of course, this isn’t the first time that the presidential contest has hung in the balance of the Sunshine State.
George W. Bush and Al Gore tangled over Florida during the 2000 election for weeks before the race was finally settled in court.
The family of a 77-year-old Cleburne, Texas, woman arrested during a traffic stop says a formal apology and anger management training for the officer are needed to make things right.
Lynn Bedford's videotaped arrest has gone viral, sparking opinions across the country. The video shows Sgt. Gene Geheb pulling Bedford from her sport utility vehicle after she did not hand over her license and refused to get out of the vehicle.
"There was 19 seconds from when he first initially asked her for her driver's license to when he laid his hands on her — 19 seconds," she said.
Lynn Bedford's granddaughter Aubrey McQue and Bedford's attorney Clay Graham talk about the grandmother's arrest.
NBC 5 Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.
ETHEL B. SCHAEFER, 87, Fort Smith Boulevard, Deltona, died Saturday, April 17. Mrs. Schaefer was a homemaker. Born in Pitcairn, Pa., she moved to Deltona from Winter Park in 1987. She was a charter member of Tuscawilla Presbyterian Church, Winter Park. Survivors: sons, George A., Pittsburgh, David W., Deltona; daughter, Cora McClean, Pittsburgh; brothers, Carl R. Anderson, Zellwood, Glenn T. Anderson, Altamonte Springs, Harold T. Anderson, Monroeville, Pa.; sister, Ruth Yurek, Zellwood; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren. Volusia County Cremation Service, Daytona Beach.
Before we bring in the federal government, let's give the market a chance.
Two stumbling blocks typically thwart good health policy.
#ad#The first is the pervasive belief that the focus of health policy should be to ensure that all individuals have health coverage. A more useful focus would be creating a vibrant, competitive medical marketplace that puts constant downward pressure on prices while striving to improve quality. Such a marketplace would be a better guarantor of quality, affordable health care (and coverage) than anything likely to emerge from focusing solely on expanding coverage. The second stumbling block is the tendency of many who avoid the first to argue nonetheless that for markets to work, government must grow.
Healthy, Wealthy & Wise, a new book by economists John Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel Kessler, is rumored to be influencing President Bush’s State of the Union address. The Los Angeles Times reports that the administration has recruited Hubbard for a nationwide speaking tour. If the rumors prove true, it will be a mixed blessing. While Cogan & Co. deftly avoid the first stumbling block, they regrettably succumb to the second.
Here the authors stumble. Rather than rein in a federal government that has caused so much mischief, they propose four reforms that would increase federal power over health-care markets and a fifth whose effect on federal power would be mixed.
The fifth reform entails reducing the harmful price distortions within the tax code. The authors advocate allowing people to deduct from their income taxes the cost of individually purchased health insurance premiums. That would provide some equity to those without employer-sponsored coverage. However, they also propose deductibility for all out-of-pocket medical expenditures. That move would likely lead to increased health-care consumption, with troubling implications for the price of medical care and insurance.
The other tax-based proposals are also a mixed bag. The authors would allow health savings accounts (HSAs) to be paired with any type of health insurance, instead of only catastrophic insurance. This is the best proposal in the book. However, another proposal would essentially increase taxes on every HSA holder who today fully funds his account.
The remaining reforms are straight increases in federal power over the health-care sector.
First, the authors propose having the federal government regulate even more of the health insurance market than it does today. They dismiss concerns that federal regulation would likely become as onerous as state regulation–and much tougher to dislodge–despite Congress’s manifest willingness to over-regulate in this area. They also give short shrift to a reform endorsed by President Bush that would put permanent downward pressure on unnecessary regulatory costs: namely, to allow individuals and employers the freedom to purchase insurance from out-of-state carriers. A similar model already exists in corporate chartering.
Second, the authors advocate imposing federal malpractice reforms on the states. Their preferred rules may have merit, but they do not discuss why it should be Congress that enacts those rules. Not only does the Constitution not grant Congress such power, but states are already experimenting with such reforms, and federal rules would prevent states from learning from each other’s experiments and competing to offer more efficient rules.