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To discuss, we’re joined by five guests — scholars, journalists, and activists with different perspectives on Jerusalem and the peace process.
Issam Nassar, a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Illinois State University and co-editor of Jerusalem Quarterly, discusses why Jerusalem is important in the region’s modern history.
Eugene Kontorovich, professor of law at Northwestern University and researcher for the Kohelet Forum, discusses why the move won’t make a meaningful difference in the peace process.
Amir Tsarfati, founder of Behold Israel, and a “born-again” Christian convert from Judaism, discusses how Rapture Theology led many evangelical Christians to support President Trump’s Jerusalem move.
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, discusses the decision from a one-state Palestinian perspective.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, a self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace organization, discusses his objection to Trump’s Jerusalem decision and where there could be compromise.
UK residents made 12.9 million visits abroad in the first three months of this year, a year-on-year jump of 9.8%.
Visits to North America saw the largest increase of 15% to 7 million, while visits to Europe also increased by 13.3%.
However, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, visits to 'other countries' fell by 2.9%.
Holiday visits rose 10.1% to 7.2 million holidays, but visits to friends or relatives showed the biggest increase (11.4%) while business visits increased by 6.3%.
During the period, Brits spent 133.2 million nights abroad, an increase of 6% compared with 2015.
The rise in visits to North America is reflected in the increase in nights spent in North America by UK residents, which increased 2.5%.
The number of nights spent in Europe saw an increase of 10.3% while nights spent in 'other countries' saw an increase of just 1.5%.
UK residents spent £7.6 billion during visits abroad, up 8.4% compared with £7 billion spent in the same period in 2015.
Expenditure in Europe rose by 13.8%, and spending in North America increased by 9.7% reflecting the increase in visits to this region.
Meanwhile, visits to the UK by overseas residents also continued to rise in the first quarter of 2016.
An estimated 7.5 million visits were made in the first three months, an increase of 7.7% on the 6.9 million visits made during the same period in 2015.
Visits to friends or relatives was the most popular reason for overseas residents visits to the UK, rising by 13.1% to 2.5 million visits.
Holiday visits recorded the largest increase, of 6.5%, from a year earlier while business visits increased by 4.7%.
Total visits from residents of Europe and North America rose by 9.8% and 5.7% respectively while 'other countries' fell by 2.5% to 9 million.
Overall, an estimated total of 50.5 million nights were spent in the UK by overseas residents this quarter, an increase of 5.9%.
The number of nights spent in the UK by overseas visitors from North America increased by 7.6% and those from residents of Europe increased by 9.4% while the number of nights spent by residents of 'other countries' fell by 2.7%.
Overnight visits to London increased by 7.1% to 3.8 million, as did overnight visits to the rest of England, which saw an increase of 9%.
Overnight visits to both Scotland and Wales also rose, up 26.9% and 5.4% respectively.
But despite the rise in visitors, estimated earnings from all visits to the UK fell by 2.2% from £3.8 billion to £3.7 billion.
Spending by residents of 'other countries' during their visits to the UK saw the biggest decrease in, falling by 16% to £1.1 billion.
Spending by residents of Europe and North America increased by 5.2% and 2.7% respectively.
The restaurant, which also did catering, was named for McBride's grandmother. It's unclear if catering services will continue.
A call to the restaurant was not immediately returned.
CARLSBAD -- The trial for a former Carlsbad middle school teacher began Monday.
CARLSBAD -- The trial of a former Carlsbad middle school teacher accused of inappropriately touching female students began Monday at the Eddy County Courthouse.
Kenneth Groves, 48, is facing three counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor in the third degree following accusations from three students that Groves allegedly groped their buttocks while they were students at P.R. Leyva Middle School. As a person in authority over the students, Groves faces third-degree felony charges rather than fourth-degree.
State prosecutors put the three young women on the stand Monday, where each testified that the "uncomfortable" behavior occurred between November 2013 and January 2014.
Much of the testimony from the teenagers focused on a photograph taken by one of the students of the alleged inappropriate conduct. The photo allegedly depicts Grove's hand on the buttocks of a female student inside his classroom at the school.
Former P.R. Leyva Principal Mark McCallister testified that teachers received training on appropriate conduct toward students and that the school had a policy that discouraged physical contact between students and teachers.
Groves' defense attorney, Doug Jones-Witt, cross examined the girls regarding their motives for reporting the image and about contradictory statements regarding the allegations against Groves. Witt implied that the allegations were made by one girl in response to disciplinary action from Groves and by another because she was embarrassed when the photo became public. The students reported the incident to school authorities in March 2014.
One student said she had failed to report the behavior when it first began because she "thought it would go away," while another testified that she saw similar behavior and treatment from Groves directed at other female students.
The trial, presided over by Judge Jane Shuler-Gray, will continue Tuesday at the Eddy County Courthouse.
The debutant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has pinned hopes on its yet to be formed government in the capital and the anti-corruption plank to provide it the launching pad for the Lok Sabha elections.
The AAP leadership has decided to take the risk of forming a minority government with the outside support of the Congress, despite its pre-election promise of not doing so, in a bid to prove that the party is a serious political player and is not afraid to accept the challenge of governance.
Despite a divided opinion within its political affairs committee and also among its 28 MLAs, many of AAP’s senior leaders argued that a repoll along with the Lok Sabha elections would force the party to confine itself to the capital.
This was reflected in a series of public meetings addressed by the party leader Arvind Kejriwal. “You have created history and proved that when aam aadmi stands up big kingdoms fall. It is now time to do it across the nation,” he said.
Kejriwal and his colleagues appear to be working on a plan to identify those promises in the manifesto which can be implemented at the earliest, and at the same time continue tough language against the Congress in the public.
The party will concentrate on the National Capital Region, Haryana, Rajasthan and parts of Uttar Pradesh, where the impact of its performance in the capital is expected to be the maximum. It will also contest Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, for which it will organise various events, awareness drives, door-to-door meetings and rallies across the state in the coming months.
Brandon Boykin went 80 yards for a touchdown on his one and only offensive play Saturday, putting him one spot ahead of Florida’s Chris Rainey in the conference statistics for yards rushing per game.
Some fans wanted Boykin to get more offensive touches after his first career rushing attempt.
Boykin figures he got about 80 snaps, 10 more than his normal amount of playing time.
It was Boykin’s fifth career touchdown. The other four came on kickoff returns.
Georgia inside linebacker Christian Robinson is giving up Twitter.
At least for this week after he said some fans — some that Robinson said have “the G on their picture”— directed some rather blunt messages his way on the social media platform after Georgia’s 35-21 loss to Boise State on Saturday.
Robinson is one of the team’s most prolific tweeters, but he was moved to block “four or five,” of his followers after the game. He said he’s never been one “really go after” others on Twitter.
Dallas Lee said he is preparing to start Saturday at offensive left guard.
Lee filled in when Kenarious Gates sustained an ankle injury Saturday.
Richt said on his call-in show won’t practice today and he doubts that Gates would go on Wednesday.
A tornado warning was issued for Clarke County late Monday afternoon while Georgia practiced in the rain.
Georgia got special teams work done outside before lightning chased them inside to their new multipurpose room for the second half of the session.
The team split up into offense and defense with one working in the indoor area and the other holding meetings and then switching.
"We didn’t plan on doing a lot of full speed stuff anyway," Richt said. "We were just in shorts and hats, and this indoor area was really good for us."
Tickets at $45 each remain for Georgia home games against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 17 and New Mexico State on Nov. 5. They are available after those opponents returned tickets. The Nov. 19 home game against Kentucky is now sold out. Tickets for those other games can be purchased online at Georgiadogs.com or by calling 1-877-542-1231. …ESPN’s broadcast crew Saturday is Sean McDonough, Matt Millen and Heather Cox. …Boise State QB Kellen Moore is Mountain West offensive player of the week. He had an efficiency rating of 170.07 against Georgia Saturday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese online food-delivery service company Ele.me has raised $1.25 billion from Alibaba Group Holding and its Internet finance arm Ant Financial, Ele.me and Alibaba said in separate statements on Wednesday.
Alibaba has invested $900 million while Ant Financial has invested $350 million, Ele.me said in a statement on its official Weibo microblog. Alibaba confirmed the investment in an emailed statement to Reuters.
The investments will help bolster Ele.me’s position in a fiercely competitive online food delivery market, where it faces deep-pocketed rivals including Baidu Inc, Meituan-Dianping and Alibaba’s own platform Koubei.
Neither Ele.me nor Alibaba gave further details on the deal or said what stakes Alibaba and Ant Financial would receive.
Leading business weekly Caixin reported in December that Alibaba had agreed to invest $1.25 billion in the food-delivery firm for a 27.7 percent stake.
Broader-focused Meituan-Dianping said in January it had raised over $3.3 billion from investors including Alibaba-rival Tencent Holdings Ltd, an amount that valued the firm at more than $18 billion.
Soha Ali Khan was spotted wearing an orange coloured shirt, paired with blue denim and white sneakers.
Inaaya Naumi Kemmu looked as cute as a button in her white baby dress, paired with white baby shoes. Her shades to keep away from the scorching heat were simply adorable.
Taimur Ali Khan was also spotted before he could take his horse ride like any other day. The tiny tot was seen waving at the paparazzi as he arrived for his royal ride.
Taimur Ali Khan looked no less than an orange candy in this outfit. Junior Nawab was seen wearing a bright orange polo-neck t-shirt, paired with blue baby shorts and sneakers.
Son of Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan, the two-year-old toddler, Taimur Ali Khan is social media's favourite.
The netizens love to see Taimur enjoying his horse ride, playing football, basketball and learning some fixing skills with the hammer.
Now, according to Filmfare, Taimur Ali Khan will soon be seen in a Bollywood film. He will make an appearance in Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar's film, Good News.
SpaceX's Dragon 9 cargo capsule blasted off to the International Space Station at Cape Canaveral on April 18, 2014.
SpaceX's audacious plan to return a rocket to Earth after a space launch today (April 18) may not have gone perfectly, but the company's founder still considers it a success — one that could help lay the foundation for fully reusable rockets in the future.
SpaceX tried to guide the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth in an ocean splashdown today during the launch of the company's unmanned Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station. It's still unclear if the rocket stage — outfitted with landing legs — touched down softly as hoped, but billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk thinks the odds aren't good.
Still, there were some notable successes regardless of what ultimately happened to the rocket stage.
"I would consider it a success in the sense that we were able to control the boost stage to a zero roll rate, which is previously what has destroyed the stage — an uncontrolled roll," Musk said.
One day, SpaceX hopes to land rocket stages back on Earth in order to use them again on other spaceflights. Reusable rockets have the potential to save a lot of money for spaceflight companies and space agencies in the future, experts say.
Standard Falcon 9 rocket launches cost somewhere between $50 million and $60 million now, according to the SpaceX website. However, Musk said in 2011 that a reusable rocket program could reduce capital costs of the rocket to $50,000 if it is reused 1,000 times.
Today's reusability test could help make that dream a reality, Musk said today.
"Even though we probably won't get the stage back, I think we're really starting to connect the dots of what's needed," he said. "There are just only a few more steps that need to be there to have it all work. I think that we've got a decent chance of bringing a stage back this year, which would be wonderful. I think what we've done thus far is evolutionary improvements, but that holds the potential for something more significant."
Earlier SpaceX attempts to bring a rocket stage back to Earth in a controlled fashion failed because the rocket's thrusters were unable to overcome its rolling, Musk said. This time, however, the SpaceX team added more powerful thrusters and more propellant to try to handle that problem, and it seems to have worked somewhat.
The Falcon 9's re-entry burn went well, and when the last data came in, the rocket wasn't rolling much at all, according to Musk. A SpaceX plane was also collecting data as the rocket stage made its way back toward Earth. Once that data comes in, SpaceX representatives will have a better sense of what happened with the test.
This launch also helped SpaceX engineers and representatives demonstrate that the landing legs attached to the Falcon 9 didn't have any negative impact during the ascent phase of the flight, Musk said.
Dragon's mission, meanwhile, is going according to plan. The cargo capsule is expected to arrive at the space station at 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 GMT) Sunday (April 20); you can watch the docking live on Space.com via NASA TV.
SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to fly 12 cargo missions to the International Space Station using the company's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule. Today's launch marks the third official supply run under that contract.
Gene therapy can be performed safely in the human salivary gland, according to scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health.
This finding comes from the first-ever safety, or Phase I, clinical study of gene therapy in a human salivary gland. Its results, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also show that the transferred gene, Aquaporin-1, has great potential to help head and neck cancer survivors who battle with chronic dry mouth. Aquaporin-1 encodes a protein that naturally forms pore-like water channels in the membranes of cells to help move fluid, such as occurs when salivary gland cells secrete saliva into the mouth.
These initial results clear the way for additional gene therapy studies in the salivary glands. Although sometimes overlooked, salivary glands present an ideal target for gene therapy. They are easily accessible and, once a gene is introduced, it has no obvious escape route into the bloodstream, where it can have unintended consequences.
Baum’s interest in helping head and neck cancer survivors dates to the early 1980s. While attending to patients in the NIDCR’s Dry Mouth Clinic, Baum encountered numerous people with head and neck cancer who had received radiation therapy to shrink their tumors. The radiation, while effective in treating cancer, had inadvertently damaged nearby salivary glands, compromising their ability to secrete saliva into the mouth.
Baum said he was thoroughly frustrated at the time because he had no effective moisture-restoring treatments to offer most patients. They had beaten cancer, but the radiation had left them with a permanent parched sensation in their mouths that diminished their quality of life and often led to chronic oral problems, such as difficulty swallowing, inflammation, infection, bad breath, and pain.
In the early 1990s, as the first gene-therapy studies entered research clinics, Baum saw an opportunity to make a difference. An initial napkin sketch of the procedure and 15 years of research later, Baum and his colleagues had assembled a compelling scientific case in animal studies that the transferred Aquaporin-1 gene, once expressed, will create new water channels in the impermeable salivary gland cells and allow water to flow through them. After rigorous reviews by NIH and the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, the Phase I protocol was launched and the first patients treated in 2008.
The scientists gave 11 head and neck cancer survivors a single-dose injection of the Aquaporin-1 gene directly into one of their two parotid salivary glands, the largest of the major salivary glands. The gene was packaged in a disabled, non-replicating adenovirus, the cause of the common cold when intact but incapable of causing a cold in this case. As is standard in gene therapy studies, the virus served as the vector, or Trojan horse, to deliver the gene into the cells lining the salivary gland.
The scientists found that five participants had increased levels of saliva secretion, as well as a renewed sense of moisture and lubrication in their mouths, within the study’s first 42 days, the period covered in this report. Of the six who didn’t benefit from gene therapy, none had serious side effects. The most common side effect was a transient and relatively minor immune response against the disabled adenovirus.
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is the Nation’s leading funder of research on oral, dental, and craniofacial health. For more information about NIDCR and its programs, visit http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/.
It’s that time of year again. Google has updated its Zeitgeist site for 2012, looking at the most popular search trends of the year. The company has been doing this for 12 years.
Google has added some bells and whistles to the site that weren’t available in previous years. There is an interactive map showing search spike locations and times, for example.
Google is also launching Zeitgeist Android and iOS apps. The Android app will be available today, the company says, but does not specify when the iOS version will be ready.
Google says it has seen 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages.
He also notes that web users took “a serious interest” in threats to the open Internet like SOPA and ACTA, which both appeared on many countries’ lists.