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“We see the market share of notebooks doubling up in the next 12 months to 10 percent in the overall personal computers (PCs) sales and sustaining the growth due to faster penetration, adoption and increasing use by government organisations,” Tripathy noted.
As a business unit of the $7-billion global software major, Wipro Infotech also markets its range of hardware and software products in the Gulf region and Africa.
At the time, it seemed like Donald Trump might have done something important. A week after rescinding the DACA policy that extended protections to nearly 1 million Dreamers, the president appeared to reach an agreement with Congress’ top two Democrats – Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi – to protect the young immigrants.
Almost immediately, Trump received a round of positive press; his approval rating started improving; and there was chatter about his impressive “independent” streak. The president had every incentive to follow through on the agreement he reached with Schumer and Pelosi.
A month later, Trump is nevertheless headed in a regressive direction.
[T]he policies outlined by the White House on Sunday night are likely to push Democrats away from the negotiating table. Some of the toughest proposals include removing protections for unaccompanied minor immigrants, allowing state and local police to investigate immigration status more broadly and limiting visas given...
The list of demands also includes money for his proposed border wall, though the list didn’t specify how much money the White House expects to see for the project in exchange for DACA protections.
In other words, the terms of a fairly straightforward agreement were reached in September – a shield for Dreamers in exchange for increased border security measures – only to see Trump change the terms in October.
If you thought the president was becoming more pragmatic and responsible a month ago, I have some very bad news for you. The White House knows Dems will never accept these terms, which is probably why Trump World made the demands in the first place.
This should, of course, surprise no one, but it touches on an important aspect of dealing with this White House: whoever has access to Trump’s ear last wins. When Trump met with Democratic leaders, he liked what he heard and shook hands on a bipartisan agreement. When Trump then spoke to Stephen Miller, he also liked w...
This makes negotiations with the president all but impossible. Since he doesn’t understand the substantive details of any issue, policymakers are better off dealing directly with White House aides – since they’re the ones who ultimately tell Trump what to think anyway.
DACA is a classic example of a president who can’t seem to make up his mind. Before the election, Trump vowed to scrap protections for Dreamers, only to say after the election that the young immigrants can “rest easy.” He then reversed course, rescinding the protections, only to announce soon after that he might be inc...
Then he struck a deal with Dems, asking the nation, “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military?” Now Trump is gutting that deal, putting Dreamers’ futures at risk.
This incoherence obviously matters in the immigration debate, but it’s also a reminder of why trying to work with Trump in any debate is almost certain to fail.
Update: In a joint written statement issued late yesterday, Pelosi and Schumer said, “The Administration can’t be serious about compromise or helping the Dreamers if they begin with a list that is anathema to the Dreamers, to the immigrant community and to the vast majority of Americans.
RIYADH: The British Council wants to broaden the horizons of young Saudis by adding art to their education, the head of the organization told Arab News Sunday.
Sir Ciaran Devane, the council’s chief executive, said the body wants to give young people in the Kingdom different opportunities and turn STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, math) into STEAM with the introduction of art.
He was speaking at the Creative Futures Forum in Riyadh, where delegates debated how best to support the creative sector, notably through arts and culture education and the development of soft and technical skills for the next generation.
The forum, which ends Monday, is also aimed at helping people to understand the challenges and opportunities related to developing a creative sector workforce in the region.
Promoting culture and entertainment is part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 reform plan.
Recent months have seen a boom in entertainment and cultural activities in Saudi Arabia, including pop concerts and sporting events.
He said the current conversation was about ensuring students had a variety of opportunities.
The Kingdom’s General Culture Authority, in collaboration with the council, would work on shifting students’ focus from STEM to STEAM.
Ahmad Al-Maziad, CEO of the General Cultural Authority, said the forum was a place for decision makers and industry players to exchange ideas and present their vision for the future of creative industries.
“We are delighted to collaborate with the British Council and look forward to witnessing how this forum will lead to some clear recommendations that can help shape and develop the visions and plans for the cultural sector in Saudi Arabia and in other Gulf countries,” he said in his opening remarks.
Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Zamil is the new chairman of the board of directors of Gulf International Bank (GIB) Saudi Arabia. He was appointed on March 31, 2019.
Al-Zamil has extensive experience in the private sector. He served as the CEO and a board member of Al-Zamil Group, where he began his professional career in 1987, and was promoted to his latest position as CEO in 2009.
He began as an industrial engineer at Zamil Air Conditioners and subsequently became vice president for sales and marketing and purchasing and materials management. He served as senior vice president and COO of Zamil Industrial Investment Co.
He was awarded his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle, US in 1987. In 1992, he obtained his MBA in finance from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Zamil is a board member of several regional companies, including the General Authority of Civil Aviation, VIVA Bahrain, the Human Resources Development Fund, Gulf International Bank in the UK, and Zamil Steel Industries in Egypt, Vietnam and India.
He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Saudi Global Ports, LLC (SGP).
GIB announced on Sunday that it has successfully completed the conversion of its existing branches in Saudi Arabia to a locally incorporated bank.
This makes GIB the first foreign bank in the Kingdom to be locally incorporated.
“The establishment of GIB Saudi Arabia is an important milestone in the implementation of the bank’s strategy, which remains focused on the expansion of its service offering and position as a leading digital bank and is expected to contribute positively to enhanced performance and profitability,” Al-Zamil said.
He said that the public investment fund’s contribution and partnership with GIB will enable the bank to accelerate the growth of its operations and customer base in the Kingdom as well as in other Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
This would make an awesome office space or retail spot. Conveniently located on the corner of Main Street across from the Public Library in Hamlet. Large spacious rooms with hardwood floors.
The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation proposed by five D.C. Council members.
The bill — which would also enhance the city’s green building standards and authorize the mayor to enter regional agreements with Virginia and Maryland to cut greenhouse gas emissions — comes at a moment of international reckoning with the problem of climate change.
A report released this week by the world’s top scientific panel studying global warming warned that time has almost run out for governments to prevent catastrophic changes to the environment. The report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that “there is no documented historic precedent” for gov...
Those findings arrive at a time when enthusiasm in the federal government for aggressive policies to combat climate change is at a low ebb. President Trump said last year that he would withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate accord, and he has consistently allied himself with the coal industry, whose...
But if the outlook for an effective international response to climate change is dim, D.C. officials should still do what they can to reduce emissions at the local level, said council member Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3), who drafted the bill and heads the council’s committee on transportation and the environment.
More than 80 witnesses were scheduled to testify on the bill Tuesday at an initial public hearing by the transportation and environment committee. The bill must also pass through the committee on business and economic development before going before the full council, which supporters hope could happen this year.
Along with Cheh, the bill’s introducers were Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and members Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) and Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8).
Many of the witnesses expressed support for the bill’s core tenets at the hearing, the result of what Cheh said was a long process of discussion and debate with activists and businesses. Some supporters noted that the District could be directly harmed by climate change, experiencing dangerously hot summers and floods f...
Sandra Mattavous-Frye, who heads the D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel — which represents the interests of utility customers in the District — said that while her office “supports the bill’s clean-energy goals,” those targets should be balanced with the “equally important public policy goal of affordability” for cons...
The bill includes an increase in across-the-board fees on electricity and natural gas consumption that Cheh’s office estimates would add $2.10 to D.C. residents’ average monthly gas bills and less than $1 to their average monthly electricity bills. About 20 percent of the money generated from those fees would be used t...
Other states and cities have adopted ambitious goals for using cleaner power, though many are not as aggressive as those in Cheh’s bill.
California is working to supply 50 percent of residents’ electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Beginning in 2019, San Francisco will offer consumers the option of receiving electricity from renewable sources but does not require it.
Virginia’s renewable energy goal, adopted in 2007, aims for 15 percent renewable sources by 2025. It’s a voluntary goal, intended to encourage utilities to switch to renewables.
In 2016, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation requiring the state to obtain 25 percent of its energy from wind, solar and other renewable sources by 2020.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) vetoed the bill, saying it would lead to rate increases, but the Democratic-controlled legislature overrode his veto last year.
Gregory S. Schneider and Ovetta Wiggins contributed to this report.
AYALA Center Cebu has partnered with the home of kids’ favorite cartoons, Cartoon Network to bring to being a whole festival of treats this month of October.
Children enjoyed the giant Cartoon Network-themed inflatables at The Terraces and got to meet Cartoon Network characters Jake and Finn of “Adventure Time” last weekend. This Oct. 28, prepare for more treats! One just needs to dress up as his favorite Cartoon Network character and join the mall-wide Trick or Treat at 2,...
Nicotine and smoke stick to interior walls, screens, curtains, air conditioning ducts, linens, pillows, rugs and tablecloths. You can minimize the effect by frequently opening all windows to air out the house and, of course by cleaning, de-cluttering and deodorizing it. Be aware that bacteria lives and grows in damp pl...
I certainly understand the temptation to be home when buyers come for showings, but most prefer that the seller not be present when viewing a property. If it is not possible for you to leave the home, it is best to stay out of sight or in an area that will be less important to the buyers, such as the patio or family ro...
Need another reason to “vacate the premises?” Buyers often feel awkward and uncomfortable commenting on the home or asking questions of their Realtor when the seller is present. Statistics show that professional Realtors can show the home much better than the seller. The Realtor is prepared and unbiased, and can demons...
Selling a South Florida home is competitive enough without putting yourself at such avoidable disadvantages. In this real-estate wilderness, be the well-fed bobcat — not the delicious shark.
Realtors may submit columns for Broker’s View of 700 words to businesseditor@MiamiHerald.com. questions, email rclarke@MiamiHerald.com. This column is primarily for brokers of residential real estate, but from time to time, we will publish columns about commercial real estate.
Researchers studied how certain aromas affected spending at a home-décor store in Switzerland. Three scent patterns were used: orange (simple); orange-basil-green tea blend (complex); and no scent.
Source: The Power of Simplicity: Processing Fluency and the Effects of Olfactory Cues on Retail Sales in the March Journal of Retailing.
Lourdes Dominguez is a residential real estate agent with RE/MAX Advance Realty.
A new book charts the rise and resilience of Black Lives Matter.
To many, the Black Lives Matter movement started in August 2014, when protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. But while the movement coalesced around the street marches in Ferguson and then spread to places like Baltimore, Cleveland, and Chicago, t...
On the day of Zimmerman’s acquittal, a Bay Area activist by the name of Alicia Garza took to Facebook. “I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter,” she wrote. “And I will continue that. [S]top giving up on black life.” The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson may have been the national tipping point, th...
In his new book “They Can’t Kill Us All,” Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery sets out not only to track the latest developments in Black Lives Matter, but also to search for the movement’s deeper roots. For Lowery, although BLM protests originated with the recent police killings in the United States—his book takes ...
The persistence of police violence against young black people, and the often-racist backlash that followed Obama’s election, initiated this new generation into a cycle that has characterized America’s fraught racial history: A period of optimism born out of a spectacular political moment—the Emancipation Proclamation; ...
Wesley Lowery began his career on the metro beat at The Boston Globe. He mostly covered murders and street crime and also reported on the Boston Marathon bombings. But his ambition was to cover national politics, and when he moved to The Washington Post, he set his sights on the 2016 presidential race.
“They Can’t Kill Us All” is the outcome of Lowery’s past two years covering this anguish. He spends the first three-quarters of his book focused on several high-profile police killings: Brown in Ferguson; Tamir Rice in Cleveland; Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina; and Freddie Gray in Baltimore. But while...
Lowery insists that the story of Black Lives Matter’s roots and intentions is often misunderstood at best and, at worst, purposefully muddied in order to discredit the movement and its leaders. Conservative talking heads have likened BLM and the young black people protesting police brutality to the Ku Klux Klan, arguin...
Lowery’s book therefore tries to offer a corrective: Movements often have many different origin stories, and his careful behind-the-scenes reporting offers insight into how the various grassroots campaigns converged into what is now often referred to as a single protest movement. He also wants us to discard whatever pr...
Lowery also takes the media to task for overstating the importance of their role in social movements. It’s true that without journalists covering the civil-rights movement, many Americans might not have been persuaded of the justness of its cause. But Lowery believes that reporters often exaggerate their influence on t...
One can hear a bit of self-criticism here as well. After all, Lowery is himself a journalist who hopes that his reporting may help provide a fairer and more accurate account of Black Lives Matter. In this way, these critical asides come not from a frustrated outsider, but from a respected mainstream journalist attempti...
The book tells a bleak story, but Lowery concludes on a relatively optimistic note. Although the nation’s future looks uncertain and there is much work left to do, in the end, he insists, both the rallying cry and the activism of Black Lives Matter will endure. (Of course, Lowery wrote his book before the election of D...
But the police killings of unarmed black Americans continue. Each new shooting has seemed like a turning point to activists, an incident far too egregious to be ignored. But almost all of the high-profile police killings have led neither to prison sentences nor reforms. In South Carolina, Michael Slager, the white cop ...
More cases in which justice will be delayed or denied are certainly on the horizon; for each gain in police reform, there will be another glaring example of why more is needed. The cycle between hope and despair today seems to be in overdrive; each morning we awake to a country that is simultaneously more disheartening...
In this way, the new era for America’s racial-justice movement seems not unlike previous ones. In the 1960s, while black Americans often protested injustice and police brutality with rallies and marches, white Americans terrorized these mostly peaceful protests with threats and acts of vigilante violence that went igno...
Because he’s a reporter first, Lowery writes much of “They Can’t Kill Us All” in the evenhanded and straightforward register that one expects of contemporary reporting. But hints of emotion nonetheless break through. At one point, Lowery confesses that he was close to crying when he was assigned to fly out to North Cha...
Nathalie BaptisteNathalie Baptiste (@nhbaptiste) is a journalist based in Washington, DC, who writes about criminal justice, policing reform, and politics. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect and Mother Jones.
As the topic of sexual harassment bubbles to the surface inside California state government, and lawmakers promise reforms, former workers who say they experienced such treatment paint a grim picture of how their cases were handled.
Plaintiffs who have sued the state over sexual harassment describe a kind of David-and-Goliath ordeal that, in hindsight, wasn’t altogether worth the lost sleep, strained marriages, health problems, broken work relationships, harrowing interviews and fractured careers.
Fields, Finnigan and Sims all received settlements, at least two of them in the six figures. Yet in all three cases, the key individuals accused of harassment and other misconduct remained on the state payroll, while those making the allegations were out the door – nudged, pushed or simply worn down. Much of their sett...
Employment attorneys contend that the state is notorious for dragging out sexual harassment investigations and lawsuits for years, driving up legal costs for plaintiffs and taxpayers alike – with little regard for the validity of the claims.
“It’s not their money, so they can afford to stretch these out as long as they can,” said attorney Andrea Rosa, who settled Fields’ case against the CHP. “They can afford to conduct as many depositions as they want.
In hindsight, Sims says she wishes she had had the patience and fortitude to press her case harder, even though she obtained a settlement.
She lost her job in the process.
Sims was 27 when she filed suit in December 1987 against the California State Assembly and Willie L. Pelote Sr., then the assistant sergeant-at-arms, and Charles E. Bell, the chief sergeant-at-arms. Sims, who began work as a sergeant-at-arms in 1982, accused Pelote of making “sexual suggestions and advances” toward her...
At one point, the lawsuit states, he “exposed himself” to her and “repeatedly made lewd and obscene references to her.” He denied the allegations.
Sims told The Bee she believed she was not allowed to discuss specifics of her case under the settlement terms.
As of Friday, the Assembly Rules Committee had not responded to The Bee’s Nov. 8 Legislative Open Records Act request seeking details about the settlement, including the amount. Sacramento Superior Court records show that a settlement was reached in Sims’ case in 1990.
“People say you can’t sue City Hall. I had no choice,” she said. “My mother raised me and my siblings to not take mess from anybody. … She taught me to defend myself.
Pelote went on to become a prominent player in Democratic state politics, serving as consultant to former California Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown from 1987 to 1995. Over the next 20 years, he was the political and legislative director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Then, in 2015, he was back on the state’s payroll. Pelote landed a lucrative job in the state Assembly in July 2015 and was paid $150,000 annually, among the highest of the entire Assembly staff, according to a state-issued salary list from August 2015.
According to Transparent California, a public pay and pension database, Pelote retired in July 2016 with 16.55 years of service and an annual benefit package estimated at $57,081.
Pelote, who now runs a consulting and advocacy firm, Pelote Strategic, said he had been told in the late 1980s that allegations of sexual harassment had been made against him and that an internal investigation would be conducted.
He wasn’t terminated, and he said he knew nothing about any lawsuit filed in Superior Court until The Bee inquired about it last week.
Pelote said he returned to the Assembly in 2015 and stayed a year because he wanted to work in the governor’s special session on transportation. He served as a consultant for former California Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, now a congressman.
Sims expressed anger over how the scenario played out after she left.
Sims now works as an independent contractor, helping senior citizens get their affairs in order.
Wendy Musell, a Bay Area employment lawyer, said staying on the job often isn’t a realistic option for workers who file harassment claims.

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