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WASHINGTON – Citing the high number of cross–border tunnels that pop up in Arizona and California, a House committee Tuesday passed a bill toughe | ning laws against the use of tunnels for smuggling underneath the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012 said there has been “a dramatic increase” in tunnels discovered on the Southwest border in recent years. That is particularly true in Arizona and California, where authorities have found 74 and 40 tunnels, respectively, since fiscal 2006.
“This legislation is vital to the country and my home state of Arizona to combat these cross–border tunnels that are used by ruthless criminal organizations,” said Rep. Ben Quayle, R-Phoenix, a co–sponsor of the measure.
The bill would broaden the current law against tunnel smugglers by also making it a crime to conspire to build, use or finance a border tunnel. Currently the law only allows prosecution of suspects who actually engage in such activity or anyone who “recklessly disregards” tunnel construction or use.
The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee by a voice vote following about |
Researchers in Europe have concluded that passionate kisses can involve a lot more than just emotion. They can also include upwards of 80 million bacteria being exchanged between | two people.
The findings, published in the journal Microbiome, originated in the Netherlands, where researchers asked 21 couples visiting the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam to have their mouths swabbed.
“To our surprise, we found that those people that are intimately related... share much more of that bacteria on their tongue than unrelated individuals,” Remco Kort, a microbiologist at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in Amsterdam and lead author of the study, told National Public Radio.
A single kiss didn’t change the bacteria count significantly, which Kort attributed to the habit couples have of sharing things such as toothpaste and cigarettes. When couples were asked to kiss again after drinking yogurt containing a marker bacteria, researchers were able to pin down how many organisms move from mouth to mouth.
The participants also answered questions about their kissing habits, which revealed men tend to exaggerate how often they kiss, particularly French kiss, their partners. Men said they kissed |
Launched in August 2016, Mission Bhagiratha, Telangana’s ambitious project to supply drinking water to every household outside municipal | corporation limits, is nearing its March 31, 2019 deadline.
In the first week of December, residents of the Gothikoya tribal village in Bhadradri Kothagudem district, around 600 km southwest of Hyderabad, gathered for an unusual celebration — to garland the new drinking water taps in front of their huts. Days later, four new taps came up in Nagasala village of Mahbubnagar district, a couple of hours by road from the state capital, where residents had to earlier trek for nearly a kilometre to access clean water.
Launched in August 2016, Mission Bhagiratha, Telangana’s ambitious project to supply drinking water to every household outside municipal corporation limits, is nearing its March 31, 2019 deadline. And government officials say 1,00,200 km of the 1,04,749-km network of pipelines — around two-and-a-half times the Earth’s circumference — has been |
The forum is free and open to the public. Attendees can register at http://hsri.ucmerced.edu/form/val | ley-fever-meeting-registration, or contact Erin Gaab at (209) 228-4803 or egaab@ucmerced.edu for more information.
Presentations from researchers, clinicians, advocates and community members are intended to spark discussions and lead to a plan to improve health care, research and community interventions. This forum represents the first step in an action plan being developed by a consortium including UC Merced; UCSF Fresno; CSU, Fresno; Community Medical Centers; Children’s Hospital Central California; the public health departments in the eight counties that make up the San Joaquin Valley; and community organizations serving or working with people most at risk for valley fever.
A dozen UC Merced undergraduates will gain an edge in their journey toward a career in biomedical and behavioral research, courtesy of five years of funding from the National Institutes of Health.
The campus recently received a Minority Access to Research Careers grant from the National Institute of General Medical |
I gave a warning last year, didn’t I? We start the new year off fresh with an old favorite of mine, Sorcery | 101 by Kel McDonald. As a customary reminder, I mentioned last week that they’re trying to run a kickstarter to publish their first omnibus for the comic. It’s in its last week, so if you’re interested, please please please check it out here. They’re still painfully short of their goal.
It doesn’t always happen, but with the season I managed to devour the entire backlog of pages (roughly 1300) in roughly two days. The joy of this particular series was, in returning to these pages – I had read a few chapters in around the start of the series in early college – was that it wasn’t a chore to slog through the backlog, so to speak. The pacing of the story is well enough done that reading through parts of it was a breeze. I could go into a completely separate article about webcomic artists going back and fixing up their initial chapters (speaking from an artist standpoint |
Pipe Dream Archives Former Binghamton goalkeeper Robert Moewes was drafted No. 52 overall in the MLS SuperDraft.
After spending 16 | years at the helm of the Binghamton men’s soccer team, head coach Paul Marco knows how good competition in the NCAA can be. Robert Moewes, who played two seasons under Marco as the Bearcats’ starting goalkeeper, left Marco in awe.
It came as no surprise, then, when Toronto FC, a Major League Soccer (MLS) soccer club, selected Moewes with the eighth pick in the third round of MLS SuperDraft last Tuesday. According to Marco, Moewes still wasn’t drafted high enough — he was the fifth goalkeeper picked in the draft.
Moewes is the first BU soccer player to be selected in the MLS SuperDraft, and the highest-drafted BU athlete in any sport. Prior to last season, Moewes transferred to Duke as a graduate student after spending three years at BU — the first of which he was forced to sit out due to NCAA regulations.
Moewes was named America East |
Buying your first home can be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life, but it can also be a scary and stressful process | . To ensure you have a smooth transaction from start to finish, familiarize yourself with the home-buying process, note the tools and resources available to you, and get all your ducks in order. To get you started, here’s a list of the top three ways to set yourself up for success.
Before starting your search, make a list of must-have and nice-to-have features for your home and neighborhood. This will help you narrow down your search early on and prevent the hunt from becoming overwhelming.
When starting the home-buying process, ensure your finances are in order by reviewing your credit score and taking steps to boost it, saving for a down payment, and avoiding any major purchases. Then select a lender that is right for you, talk to him or her about your loan options, and get pre-approved for a mortgage. Once you know your budget, you can more effectively find the right home for you.
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The Boys & Girls Club of Easton is gearing up for one of its biggest fundraisers of the year.
Organizers again this year will | hold a weekend Play for Kids fundraiser with activities that start Thursday, Oct. 22, and run through Saturday, Oct. 24.
The fundraiser is capped Saturday with a basketball mini-marathon and the Kiss-a-Cow contest.
Play for Kids includes sports and games, live music, tours, food, a diversity forum and a tribute to the Easton Police Department. It is held at the club at 210 Jones Houston Way on South Side Easton.
The public is invited to sit in on festivities, tour the club and participate in some of the activities with kids.
A basketball mini-marathon made up of corporate and small business teams is set for 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. Organizers are still accepting teams to participate.
"Corporations, small businesses and teams from the Lehigh Valley community can buy playing time and challenge one another," said Dean Young, the club's executive director said. "Our |
I recently spent a week in a mental hospital. There. I said it.
Family life had been a bit stressful, work was going well | , and my side business was growing. Oh, and I was editing a new book about mental illness. But for the better part of a week, I realized I was not okay in my head.
I had suicidal thoughts, and I wasn’t safe to be left alone at my house. A psychiatric ward was the best place for me to recuperate and return to my normal frame of mind.
While I was there, I learned a lot about myself, and how fragile my soul really is. I was truly awestruck by the kindness of the nurses and techs in the ward. And I realized how much my perception of personal freedom was shaped by everyday choices we take for granted—like choosing my own food and schedule.
I also learned a lot about the American church.
Most of the people in my wing of the hospital were either literal widows and orphans, or members of a similarly ignored part of society: a grandma forgotten by her family, a young |
JB Hi-Fi has lifted first-half profit 5.5 per cent to $160.1 million despite volatile trading in electronics and home entertainment | over Christmas and January.
JB Hi-Fi has lifted first-half profit 5.5 per cent to $160.1 million despite volatile holiday trading for the electronics and home entertainment retailer.
Revenue for the six months to December 31 rose 4.2 per cent to $3.84 billion, with comparable sales in Australia, New Zealand and at The Good Guys - the white goods business it bought in 2016 - all going up.
Communications, games hardware, audio, fitness and connected technology drove a 3.0 per cent increase in comparable sales from JB Hi-Fi Australia, while comparable sales rose 12.6 per cent in NZ and 1.5 per cent at The Good Guys.
The retailer said on Monday it expects full-year profit to rise as much as 5.1 per cent, but struck a cautious note after comparable sales growth slowed across the board in January.
"The company continues to see positive sales growth, however in the Christmas quarter and January |
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company | : Zodiaque 34 -- Celebration Rising at 8 p.m. on Feb. 22, 23, 28, 29 and March 1 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 24 and March 2 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
Zodiaque Dance Company, which celebrates its 34th year in 2007-08, embraces a diversity of styles in both dance and dancers. Zodiaque serves as a professional training ground for emerging dancers and student choreographers to evolve into intelligent and resourceful working artists.
Two guest artists will set works on the Zodiaque Company this spring. Mark Santilliano will create a new work: "Off the Deep End." This is his first time working with the Zodiaque Company. Santilliano, a former member of the famed Pilobulus Dance Company, also teaches at Mercyhurst College and has his own company.
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Mr. Yeo Yong-boon (George) is no longer as an Executive Chairman of the Board of Kerry Logistics Network Limited. Effective | May 31, 2019. He has been our Executive Director since 25November 2013 and has been the Chairman of ourCompany since August 2012. Mr.Yeo is also deputy chairman and a director of KGL. From 1988 to 2011, Mr. Yeo served for 23 years in the SingaporeGovernment, as Minister of State for Finance, then as Minister for Information and the Arts, Health,Trade and Industry, and Foreign Affairs. Prior to 1988, Mr.Yeo served in various capacities in the Singapore Armed Forces, Republic of Singapore Air Force and Defence Ministry, including Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry, attaining the rank of Brigadier-General. Mr. Yeo is a member of the Foundation Board of theWorld Economic Forum, the Berggruen Institute onGovernance, the Asia-PacificAdvisory Board of Harvard Business School, the International Advisory Board of IESE Business School and Economic Development Commission, Hong Kong |
It’s official: Atlantic City’s former Trump Taj Mahal casino now belongs to Hard Rock International.
The sale of the | shuttered casino opened in 1990 by President Donald Trump was finalized Friday.
The Florida-based Hard Rock, which manages gambling and resort operations for the Seminole Indian tribe, bought the casino March 1 from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
Icahn is a close friend and adviser to the president. He acquired the Taj Mahal last year from bankruptcy court after Trump was no longer involved with it, aside from a 10 percent ownership stake in its parent company in return for the use of his name.
Icahn closed it in October after a devastating strike by union workers seeking the restoration of health insurance and pension benefits that the casino’s owner before Icahn, Trump Entertainment Resorts, got a bankruptcy court judge to eliminate in 2014.
Hard Rock plans a press conference Wednesday to unveil its plans for the casino, which it wants to reopen next spring. The purchase price has not been revealed, but CEO James Allen has said the purchase and extensive renovations will together cost about $300 |
Dubai: The 600-page new Brexit deal has added more confusion to the future of economic relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union ( | EU), according to reports.
The Brexit deal is only hours old, but disagreements between UK and EU officials over what it means have already begun. Buried among the hundreds of pages published on Wednesday, there’s reference to the two sides pursuing comprehensive arrangements in their future relationship, ‘building on the single customs territory’ set out in the draft divorce treaty.
According to a Guardian report the UK was understood to have agreed that an independent arbitration committee will judge when a UK-wide customs backstop could be terminated, comprised of an equal number of British and EU representatives plus an independent element.
Ministers were expected to study the Northern Ireland specific elements in the backstop deal. A Guardian report quoting UK government sources said the region would not be treated differently in customs terms, although Brussels sources said Northern Ireland would have special status in the backstop in terms of the customs union and single market.
According to the available information, the British negotiating team won a victory in persu |
The Edmonton Police Service William Nixon Training Centre in northeast Edmonton, were an off-duty officer was accidentally shot on Sunday, April 1, 2018. |
An Alberta sheriff was rushed to hospital Sunday morning after she accidentally shot herself during a training exercise at a police gun range in northeast Edmonton.
The shooting happened Sunday morning, at the Constable William Nixon Memorial Training Centre just off 129 Avenue and 9 Street NE.
Edmonton police said at around 11:30 a.m., an accidental discharge happened during a sheriff training session. The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries to her lower body.
Officers shut down several northside roads while a police-escorted ambulance took the officer to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Edmonton Police Service spokesperson Carolin Maran said the officer is reportedly part of a group of Alberta sheriffs who booked the EPS facility for training. No one else was injured during the training exercise.
This is the second time an officer has accidentally shot themselves at the same gun range this year.
In April, an off-duty Edmonton police officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while at weekend event. The officer was |
TIM PALMER: After 24 hours of political ping-pong, the issue over how to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme appears to | be settled, for now at least.
The Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has offered conditional support for increasing the Medicare levy, prompting the Prime Minister Julia Gillard to bring that legislation forward. But Mr Abbott doesn't want the increased levy funding it to become permanent, and is vowing to repeal it once the budget returns to strong surplus.
From Canberra, Simon Cullen reports.
SIMON CULLEN: Just yesterday the Prime Minister was gearing up for an election campaign fight over how to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
JULIA GILLARD: Australians will have an opportunity to make a choice in September this year.
SIMON CULLEN: But it now appears the matter will be settled well before voters go to the polls.
JULIA GILLARD: I will bring to the Parliament the legislation to increase the Medicare levy by half a per cent.
SIMON CULLEN: Julia Gillard initially said she'd wait until the next parliament to bring |
The pan-European STOXX 600 index closes almost 0.4% higher, with most major bourses and sectors in positive territory.
| Zalando jumps to the top of the European benchmark, gaining nearly 11% after saying it expects to post an operating profit for the first quarter.
Earnings from several U.S. firms beat analyst expectations Tuesday, while German data helped mitigate concerns of a global economic downturn.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed provisionally almost 0.4% higher, with most major bourses and sectors in positive territory.
Looking at individual stocks, shares of German online retailer Zalando rose to the top of the European benchmark, gaining nearly 11% after the firm said it expected to post an operating profit for the first quarter.
UniCredit also rose following a $1.3 billion settlement with U.S. authorities over alleged sanctions violations. Shares of the Italian bank were up nearly 3%.
At the other end of the scale, recruitment giant Hays tumbled toward the bottom of the index despite posting a rise in profits on Tuesday. The company said it |
I can sympathize with Cleveland’s desire to play “what if” with the NBA Finals. The Cavs were missing two of | their best players and LeBron James gave the Warriors all they could handle on his own. But Cleveland’s game of “what if” overlooks the Warriors’ counters to all their hypotheticals. What if Kyrie Irving didn’t get injured? Well, what if the Warriors packed the lane and denied him looks at the rim? What if Kevin Love was healthy? Well, what if the Warriors exposed his defensive weakness by going small and driving straight at him? What if LeBron James had help? Well, what if the Warriors’ team defense was flexible and fast enough to shut down that help while still locking down James? On Christmas day, theWarriors team not only dispatched the Cavs — for the fourth time in a row — but put to rest all the “what ifs” but one. What if the Warriors were the better team last season, and would have won the Finals even againsta healthy Cleveland squad?
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Comments made by a Whanganui man who is organising a picket outside Whanganui District Council in opposition to the city becoming a refugee resettlement | location have been labelled "vile and disgusting" by another who plans to counter protest.
Last week Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announced Whanganui will become one of five new refugee re-settlement locations around New Zealand.
"There are already not enough houses and jobs for local people in Whanganui," long time protester Phillip "Bear" Rewiti said.
"The council meeting is at noon tomorrow (the meeting is at 1pm) and we'll be outside from 11am making a peaceful protest."
Reweti, who ran for council in 2016, said he believed some refugees would come from "Osama bin Laden countries".
Ross Fallen, another former council candidate, said Rewiti's comments were "vile and disgusting".
"I have contacted Phillip and pointed out that he promotes himself as a 'professional protester' and should be showing some social responsibility," Fallen said.
"I'm a pacifist so I won't be |
KUWAIT CITY, March 10: The Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Jarallah was recently quoted as saying he hopes the proposed | US-GCC summit which is expected to be held next spring will see the end of the Gulf crisis, according to gulf-times.com. The ‘times’ attributing its reports to the Kuwait News Agency, quoted Al-Jarallah as saying although invitations have yet to be sent to the participants in the summit, the US has been trying to host Gulf leaders to resolve the dispute.
“However, several prominent Gulf figures would be shortly visiting the US, amid moves which could pave the way for the convening of the summit,” Al-Jarallah was quoted as saying.
The Kuwaiti official expressed hope the summit will be held and the Gulf dispute will be solved. He went on to say, “The region is facing dangerous challenges, and we will not be able to face these challenges individually.” Qatar’s foreign minister has said his country is willing to participate in the US-GCC summit provided the countries involved in the dispute |
More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part of their summer vacations undergoing training by the | National Guard.
The training at a National Guard camp about 75 kilometers (45 miles) from Kiev taught children aged 11-15 rudimentary military skills and gave them a taste of army life in courses over three days. At night the children were quartered in army tents; by day they got instruction in marksmanship, hand-to-hand fighting, weapons maintenance, first aid, map reading and orienteering.
For 11-year-old Oleksander Olinichenko, whose mother and father are both in the Ukrainian army, the camp was a chance to pursue his interest in all things military, as well as show his patriotism.
"''I like everything here, they teach me to take apart and to assemble the assault rifle, they teach us hand-to-hand fighting, first aid - it's very interesting," said Oleksander, his face disguised by military goggles and a regulation helmet.
Some children are from |
On Tuesday, The New York Times published a report revealing that more than 1 billion username and password combinations had been stolen by a Russian cyber gang currently | being called CyberVor.
The report was based on recent findings from security firm Hold Security, and the Times described the breach as "the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials."
Newer reports, however, are skeptical of these claims. There are numerous details that Hold Security has not disclosed, such as whether or not the stolen data was encrypted (disguised as random characters for privacy purposes), which companies and websites had been affected by the attack, and which countries the information had been stolen from.
What's more, Hold is charging a $120 subscription to their services in order to see whether or not you've been affected by the attack, as Forbes pointed out.
Joe Siegrist, CEO of password management platform LastPass, said that this could make Hold Security's findings seem suspicious. The fact that the firm is charging users a fee to see if their data has been compromised could be a red flag, but it's difficult to be sure without more information.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Freddie Mac, the government-owned mortgage finance company, on Wednesday said it is considering legal action against Richmond, California, | if the city uses eminent domain to seize mortgages of local residents who owe more than their properties are worth in a bid to keep them in their homes.
"Our sense is that those so-called voluntarily loan sales would not be very voluntary," said Freddie Mac's general counsel William McDavid in a conference call with reporters to discuss the company's second-quarter financial results. "They're loan sales under pressure - in fact, under a threat of seizure by eminent domain. We would consider taking legal action."
Freddie Mac and its larger sister company, Fannie Mae, are some of the biggest buyers of private home-loan bonds. The two government-backed companies' finances would be affected if the eminent domain plan went forward and wiped out the worth of those bond investments.
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are investors in these securities. This is an issue that we are discussing," said Denise Dunckel, a spokeswoman for the companies' regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency |
Viswanathan Anand doesn't want to reflect on the year gone by and says his main focus right now is to prepare for the World Championship | in Russia where he will face Boris Gelfand of Israel next year.
The 42-year-old world champion said he will have to analyse his game to find out his weaknesses but added that it was not the right time as he gears up to defend his world title at the historic Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow in May.
"I started off well this year, got good results in TATA steel. I did consistently well in rapid event but somehow in the seven hour events I was getting neutralised," Anand said on the sidelines of a NIIT felicitation program here.
"It was a bit of a blow and I definitely have to analyse it. Probably it is a mixture of preparation and caution slipping into the move.
"I have to find exactly what is the root cause but that is not the task now. I can't think about tournaments now because world championship is round the corner and so I will focus on that for the moment. I will just |
Barry Clayton, the man behind the spoken word introduction to Iron Maiden‘s classic 1982 album ‘The Number Of The Beast’ | has passed away.
‘The Number Of The Beast’ begins with a seven-line excerpt from the passages of 12:12 and 13:18 from the Book of Revelations, which Clayton read. The album is largely viewed as Iron Maiden‘s breakthrough album.
Clayton, who was also the voiceover artist for a large number of movie trailers, passed away this week. He was 80 years old, reports The Islington Tribune.
Clayon also acted as the producer for the Black Londoners radio programme for the BBC – the first black daily radio programme. He worked on the prgramme from its first airing in 1974 until 1988 when he left to join Capital Radio.
He also arranged for a Christmas link-up with Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad for a Channel 4 special in 1981.
Iron Maiden, who are currently on a break after their extended world tour, have said that they plan to “make at least one more album” |
If advertising is one barometer of society’s commercial preferences, South Africans have a disposition towards cars and food (especially chicken). These are | two of the main trends that emerge from the latest Kantar Millward Brown best-liked TV ads survey for the first and second quarters of 2018.
The survey, which is closely watched by brands to determine best-practice ad agencies, is dominated by the Ogilvy group, which has six ads in the top 10 list of both quarters. No other competitor in the latest measurement period places more than one ad.
Notes one brand manager: "This is an agency that continues to demonstrate the power of creativity in delivering ads that work and resonate with target markets, something which is critical at a time when TV advertising is under increasing threat from better and often more cost-effective digital solutions which come at a fraction of the price."
Millward Brown’s research lists ads that are liked by an SA audience, which, says the agency, is the most important critic — people who ultimately choose to buy brands or not.
Topping the Q2 list are two ads for fast |
In the Capital Region, the apartment market might seem saturated, but construction of multifamily units, especially those in the urban cores, continues.
| Jeff Buell, principal with Redburn Development, which is investing $80 million in commercial and rental living space along North Pearl Street in Albany, said that the market for what he builds — "everyday apartments for everyday people" — is not softening at all.
"If anything, there is an uptick," said Buell whose apartments are centered in Albany, Schenectady, Troy and Watervliet. "We are strategically building in walkable neighborhoods next to big job centers. I would be surprised if you heard from anyone in Albany, Schenectady or Troy who is not seeing good returns on their apartments. We feel incredibly confident that it is a decades-long trend."
Capital Region Builders and Remodeler's Association Vice President Gregg Biche, also the founder of home remodeling firm Quality PM in Delmar, said that the market remains strong in desirable areas, but has seen a softening in renting older units.
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Fueled by strong growth in the second half of the year, BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) enjoyed an 86% surge in | full-year profits and hiked its dividend by 22%.
BHP, the worlds largest miner, said its second-half earnings leaped 62% to $10.98 billion, but that missed consensus estimates from analysts for $11.7 billion.
The basic materials heavyweight posted full-year profits of $23.65 billion, up 86% from a profit of $12.72 billion a year earlier. The profit of nearly $24 billion marked an all-time record for an Australian-based company, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
Excluding one-time items, full-year profits hit $31.98 billion, slightly topping forecasts from analysts. BHP said full-year revenue jumped 36% to $72.74 billion.
Inspired by the results, BHP increased its final dividend to 55 cents a share, up from 45 cents previously.
BHP issued a mixed economic outlook given a slew of challenges facing the global economy. The company also |
Mr Koh Yee Boon suggested that the Ministry of Manpower allow employers to hold on to the work permits of their foreign domestic workers (FD | Ws) to prevent them from engaging in moneylending activities (Put a stop to maids borrowing from moneylenders; May 23).
This move will further constrain the FDWs, who have already limited basic rights in Singapore. Also, the work permit is one of the few identification documents the FDW has to prove her legal status here.
While FDWs increasingly falling prey to loan sharks is an alarming concern for employers as the law also holds them accountable for their employees' well-being, we must consider the root causes.
Why are FDWs approaching illegal moneylenders in the first place?
Loan sharks operate under the cover of informal social networks, which FDWs tend to rely on as their first, and possibly only, source of social support while working here.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Zhou Yihong pointed out in 2016 that FDWs lack "ready access to legal sources of funds", which enables loan sharks to charge them exorbitant interest rates (J |
Heinz W. Mueller, 86, passed away April 17, 2008, beloved husband of the late Erna M. Mueller, nee | Weimann; loving father of Ronald (Ann), Robert Mueller and Deborah (Frank) Spaletto; devoted grandfather of Michelle, Lindsey (Drew) Berson; Stacy and Tracy; Michael, Andrea, Christine (George) Prada, Nick; and the late Bryan; great-grandfather of Tyler, Trey, Corrine, Jared, Dominic, Avery,Bianca, Nevaeh and Brandon; fond brother-in-law of Reinhold (the late Gertrude) and Emil Weimann, Irma (the late Richard)Weichenhain and the late Frieda Schulke; uncle of many nieces and nephews.
Heinz was a proud veteran of WWII and the Korean War. He worked for Goss Co. (Rockwell International) and Amoco Oil Company.
Visitation Sunday, from 1p.m. until time of service at 4p.m. atKnollcrest Funeral Home |
On Monday the featured package included 10 car washes in Salem for 50 percent off. There were facials and skin-toning treatments for $ | 75 instead of $200 on Wednesday. Friday’s offer was $75 worth of wine, lobster, and Kobe beef for $27.
That’s a typical week of deals for the Newburyport startup company LocalGinger.
What’s not so typical is the business itself, which combines social media and advertising to offer discounts to the public.
Companies like Groupon and the Boston-based BuyWithMe were the first large-scale businesses to pioneer the concept of coordinating with a retailer, restaurant, or other business to offer goods at a deep discount. A certain number of people must buy the coupon for the deal to be valid. Usually deals only last 24 to 48 hours.
There are more than 70 group buying compa nies in the national market, most of which target their deals in major cities, according to the website Business Insider. This is where LocalGinger bucks the trend. Focusing exclusively on businesses on the North Shore, LocalG |
And it’s true — I was so young that first time in Boston. (Applause.) And look, I’ll | admit it, maybe I was a little nervous, addressing such a big crowd. But I was filled with faith; faith in America — the generous, big-hearted, hopeful country that made my story — that made all of our stories — possible.
By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. And through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy, and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
And that work involves a big choice this November. I think it’s fair to say, this is not your typical election. It’s not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right. This is a more fundamental choice — about who we are as a people, and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government.
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Last Thursday’s signals were not triggered, as the price was already above 1.1800 at the London open.
Trades may only | be taken before 5pm London time today during the next 24-hour period.
Short entry following a bearish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next touch of 1.1875 or 1.1897.
Long entry following a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next touch of 1.1792 (if the level survives as support into the London open) or 1.1732.
I wrote last Thursday that if the price could get established above 1.1800 soon, then I would have a bullish bias. The price did get above 1.1800 but ended up going nowhere for the rest of the day, before pulling back further on Friday. However, the action still looks relatively bullish.
There is strong short-term bullishness on the Euro, against the long-term trend, because the market is now focusing on the possibility that the ECB will soon end its long-run quantitative easing (i.e. money |
Dallas, Texas is a city of more than one million people. There are zoos, theme parks, museums, nightclubs, malls, g | ourmet restaurants, an international airport and four national sports teams that call Dallas home. Whether you are a group of sports fans, on a girls' trip or on a family trip, there is something for everyone in the Big D. It is no wonder that many people travel to the city each year for a Dallas getaway.
The downtown Dallas skyline is a picture that represents Dallas for locals and non-locals alike. The area is large and divided into 13 districts. The Dallas Arts District is home to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Black Dance Theater. The Deep Ellum District is host to numerous nightclubs and bars for the younger crowd. The West End Historical District is popular with families because of its rich history, street vendors, performers and variety of restaurants and entertainment. Another popular Downtown Dallas attraction is the Dealy Plaza District, where President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963. It is in this district that travelers can tour the Sixth Floor Museum, |
'Divergent' Star Ansel Elgort Releases Debut EDM Single 'Home Alone' -- Hear It Now!
Ansel | Elgort has released his debut single, because it's not enough for the 22-year-old actor to be beautiful and the star of the Divergent franchise -- he has to be a virtuoso as well.
Elgort released his new song, "Home Alone," on Soundcloud on Friday. While the electro pop tune may not be what you'd expect from the guy that made us all cry as Augustus Waters, Elgort certainly knows what he's doing.
While Elgort's been performing as a DJ under the name Ansolo since 2014, this is the first single we've heard from him as an artist. The Billionaire Boys Club star recently opened up toDuJour about following his passion and finding his sound.
"I'm still making club music, but I'm also working on a lot that's just singing and piano," Elgort told the magazine. "Before I started producing music, I was writing music on the piano and singing |
My name is Johnny Joannou. I am a London-based artist with a love for sport, movies, numbers and good design.
| I run a business called ‘On A Sixpence’ and sell my artwork on my website, and various high quality gift shops, including the Tomorrow Store in London.
My first job was to paint the numbers next to seats at the Oval, Surrey’s fabulous cricket ground. We all have to start somewhere.
I design geeky art prints to reflect the history of a topic. My objective is to design neatly-structured prints to depict great sporting events and teams, film genres, music and novels. My work includes prints to represent the history of the Tour de France, Arsenal Football Club, Shakespeare and the greatest Horror films of all–time.
The business started because I could not find a high quality gift for my football mad nephew. I realised there was a gap in the market and a market in the gap.
I spend a great deal of time researching, categorising and arranging key metrics relating to the theme and then using an appropriate colour palette to reflect |
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Luxury car maker Lexus has positioned itself for further long-term expansion, establishing a new dealership in one of Australia’s fastest | growing regions.
Lexus of Central Coast is strategically located within one of NSW’s main growth corridors, situated in the hills above Gosford, 75km from Sydney.
Positioned at the interchange to the M1 motorway at Somersby, the dealership is located at the gateway to the Central Coast, the third largest urban area in NSW and the ninth largest in Australia.
the Central Coast region is growing rapidly, largely due to an influx of young affluents, new business owners and small entrepreneurs.
“Gosford and the surrounding region is currently home to approximately 328,000 residents and predicted to increase to over 400,000 in the next 25 years,” Mr Worthington said.
“It will continue to become even more attractive to new residents, including families, as major road and rail infrastructure upgrades make it even easier to commute to jobs in Sydney.
Lexus Australia chief executive Scott Thompson said the opening of the new dealership reflects the |
There had been a vague hope in No 10 that the long summer recess would give tired and grumpy Conservative MPs some time to relax, rejuvenate | and heal old wounds. Alas the break only led to more feuding and when Parliament returns on Tuesday, Theresa May comes back to a party even more divided over Brexit than it was when she set off on her walking holiday.
Meanwhile, the Times reports that 20 Brexiteer MPs are making a public commitment to ‘StandUp4Brexit’ and scupper her proposals. On Sunday, David Davis – the former Brexit Secretary – said he would vote against May’s deal when it comes to Parliament – expected now around November.
On the other side of the debate, Nick Boles has joined the chorus of naysayers. The Conservative MP – and close ally of Michael Gove – says he will not support Chequers. However, what he has in mind is a temporary stay in the EEA. This is something many Brexiteer politicians, such as Davis’s former SpAd Stewart Jackson, have ruled out as unacceptable. Meanwhile, George Freeman |
Martin O'Neill expects to seal a second transfer victory over Portsmouth rival Harry Redknapp in 24 hours by signing Spurs defender Younes Kaboul | for £6million after the £4m capture of Reading’s Nicky Shorey last night.
Left-back Shorey snubbed a move to Fratton Park to sign a three-year deal with Villa and O’Neill will add £11m to his summer transfer bill in the next 48 hours by signing former French Under-21 central defender Kaboul and Middlesbrough right-back Luke Young for £5m.
Redknapp has virtually conceded defeat in the battle for Kaboul who, according to sources close to him, has set his sights on a move to Villa Park despite interest from Sunderland and Portsmouth.
O’Neill has been notoriously cautious in the transfer market this summer, but moved into overdrive yesterday by securing the services of 27-year-old Shorey after he completed a medical at Villa’s Bodymoor Heath training complex.
Shorey was looking for an instant return to the Premier League after last season� |
How Will the Game of Thrones Be Won?
As the show returns for its seventh, penultimate season, what will become of Westeros? |
Game of Thrones is, inarguably, the king of the TV water-cooler. There’s no other show around that maintains total command of the zeitgeist and dominates the pop-culture conversation every week like Thrones does each season. In the fractured world of Peak TV, the HBO fantasy epic is still a show you have to watch live rather than wait to binge, such is the ubiquity of spoilers. And yet, as the series returns for its seventh and penultimate season Sunday on HBO, even avid fans could be forgiven for not quite remembering where things in Westeros last left off.
Thrones has been off-air so long—the last season premiered in April 2016—because the showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss wanted extra time to prep all the warfare on the way. They were also seeking to harness a cold-weather schedule, since the long-promised winter of the show has truly arrived. The seasons in the world |
The most important thing to do when you’re a marketer and you’re trying to improve your campaign is to have a thorough | understanding of the concepts that you’re dealing with. A lot of people see terms like SEO, open rates, conversions, and they simply assume that they have a “general sense” of what these terms mean and continue on their merry way without truly doing their homework. The most successful blogs like Neil Patel’s QuickSprout or Rand Fishkin’s Moz are successful because they stress values like critical thinking and comprehension with regards to these techniques.
In the spirit of encouraging this success, let us recap a little on what exactly email open rates actually means before we even touch on ways that you, as a marketer, can increase them. The open rate is a very intuitive concept – it simply refers to how many people open up an email that you send out as part of an email blast or campaign. However, there are a number of intricacies to consider when we’re talking about actually measuring and increasing that rate. Let’s take a closer |
The collection was brimming with both sensual dresses for which the brand is known and a key expansion of daywear.
A Cartier ad | , an Eddie Murphy movie and Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. It sounds like a mixed bag of references, yet Carly Cushnie managed to extract a common thread of opulence to inform her lovely pre-fall collection, brimming with sensual dresses for which the brand is known and a key expansion of daywear.
The Cartier ad was by Jean Larivière in the Fifties, where a leopard slinks its way inside a store, representing a type of otherworldly glamour you can only dream of. It led the designer to think about the late Eighties comedy “Coming to America,” where Murphy plays a prince coming to New York from a made-up African country. Mixed together, they provided Cushnie with a recipe for light Eighties silhouettes and overall posh gloss, seen in exaggerated shoulders throughout and the draped tulle sleeves of a fabulous little black dress.
Cai Guo-Qiang’ |
Luxury handbag maker Coach Inc. has spent the past few years working to revive sales, refresh designs and shake off heavy discounting. | Now it has its next strategy firmly in sight: building a multibrand company through acquisitions.
With a war chest of more than $1.8 billion in cash, Chief Executive Officer Victor Luis has let it be known that he’s interested in purchasing handbag, accessories, footwear and outerwear brands. There’s no lack of speculation about targets. In recent months, New York-based Coach was said to be interested in Burberry Group Plc and Kate Spade & Co., and there’s been buzz about Jimmy Choo Plc.
Two newly created management roles—to oversee the Coach brand and to develop global strategic partnerships—attest to Coach’s ambition. Luis described both jobs as an important step in the company’s multibrand evolution. Earlier this year, Coach also hired a new chief financial officer, Kevin Wills, who has a background in M&A.
Coach, founded in 1941, has relied on its |
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In 1953, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Roy Rayle took up his new post at Springfield Armory. Best known for his work | on the M-14 rifle and M-60 machine gun, he spent his time at the government arsenal taking part in several different projects — including the development of the T-148 grenade launcher.
The Army hoped the 40-millimeter weapon and its three-round magazine would make for a deadly hand-cannon. In theory, it would give soldiers even more firepower compared to the single-shot version Springfield engineers were cooking up at the same time.
The Army weaponeer was right to be concerned. Over the next decade and a half, American troops in Vietnam found that the launcher was simply too bulky and fragile for combat.
The T-148 developed from a larger project to give troops the ability to launch explosives, and do so accurately, farther than they could chuck hand grenades. Experiences from World War II and the Korean War undoubtedly informed the Army’s goals.
Marshall found that commanders gave extra grenades to soldiers they saw as having the strongest arms, regardless |
NAME: Bob Eastwood. AGE: 51.
JOINED SENIOR PGA TOUR: 1996.
BACKGROUND: Eastwood | captured his first championship as a member of the Senior PGA Tour last weekend, prevailing in the rain-shortened Bell Atlantic Classic in Malvern, Pa. Eastwood fired rounds of 66-69, edging John Bland and Bob E. Smith by one shot.
RAIN MAN: Eastwood won the tournament by making birdies at his final two holes on Saturday, including rolling in a 25-foot birdie putt at the 18th hole. He was declared champion early Sunday afternoon when it was decided more than half the tournament field would not be able to finish the third round, which would have enabled a Monday finish.
DROUGHT ENDED: Eastwood had not ventured into the winner's circle since 1985, when, as a member of the PGA Tour, he captured the Byron Nelson Classic in Texas. It was one of three titles he won while playing the younger circuit. In 1984, Eastwood won the USF&G; Classic and the Danny Thomas |
Third-ranked broadcast network TV5 of the PLDT group continues to struggle financially despite the best efforts of its new management team, due in part | to the cutthroat competition in an industry dominated by giants ABS-CBN Corp. and GMA Network Inc.
Proof of TV5’s stubborn prob …, or shall we say “challenges”…, was last week’s major “bloodletting” where a large number of staffers was axed in one go.
Biz Buzz heard that, last Friday, some employees were summoned to a room by management. Some of them thought it was going to be a department-wide meeting, so in they went, only to find themselves facing senior officials (as well as some security personnel, according to another source). Once fully assembled, the staffers were told that their services would no longer be needed and that very day would be their last day in the company’s employ.
The message basically was “you don’t need to report for work tomorrow” or something to that effect.
Naturally, many of them |
In the Amazon region of Colombia, along the Peruvian and Brazilian border, there are now around 2,700 more bespectacled people than | there were a few weeks ago.
In January of 2013 Florida doctor Carey Rowan was among a team of over 65 surgeons, nurses, and volunteers who flew into the city of Leticia in the Colombian jungle and over a two-week period improved the sight of over 600 patients a day.
In just two weeks, around 2,700 pairs of glasses were given out. These glasses are donated in the United States and collected and marked with the prescription. “The glasses may not be perfect but they’re close,” said the surgeon.
“I was doing the surgery part in this little hospital. It was all sanitized, but like they do it in Russia with three surgeons operating in the same room and two assistants each,” said Rowan. “The patients can’t see the [faces of the] people who helped them come to the surgery, but the following day we take off the patch and they can see things they haven� |
Canadian patients who rely on medical cannabis and the organizations that represent them are frustrated with the federal government’s proposed “sin” tax | on their medicine.
In November 2017, the Liberal government revealed a proposed excise duty framework that would see recreational cannabis taxed at a rate of $1 per gram (or 10 percent of the producer’s sale price) when it is legalized in July.
While most Canadians expected the duty would apply to all fresh and dried cannabis, cannabis oils, seeds, and seedlings, many patients, physicians, and members of the industry were appalled to learn that it would also apply to the sale of medical cannabis.
Cam Battley, chief corporate officer at Canada’s second-largest licensed producer, Aurora Cannabis Inc., told the Georgia Straight by phone from Milton, Ontario, last week that the proposed framework came from a “profoundly wrongheaded” place.
Consider the financial stress of people who are dealing with a chronic illness, he said. With many patients already living in income-constrained circumstances, the added tax could have a dramatic effect on individuals who prefer |
BALTIMORE - Who needs Alex Rodriguez when you have Freddy Garcia?
Garcia made a triumphant return from the disabled list Monday night | , leading the Yankees to a 3-2 win over the Orioles that earned them a split of the four-game series at Camden Yards.
Pitching for the first time in 22 days, Garcia tossed six innings of one-run ball, picking up his 11th win of the season. "That's as good as it gets," Joe Girardi said. "He gave us six great innings."
The win moved the Yankees within 1-1/2 games of the Red Sox in the American League East. The two teams will meet for three games at Fenway Park beginning Tuesday night.
Rodriguez is unlikely to be in the lineup, as the third baseman was in New York Monday having his sore left thumb examined by Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser, the team's hand specialist.
An MRI exam revealed no structural damage, but Girardi said A-Rod was "really questionable" for the crucial series in Boston, leaving his availability in doubt.
"It just depends |
Amidst a rash of database misconfiguration incidents, a report from the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team has found that 53 | % of organizations using cloud storage services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) have inadvertently exposed one or more such service to the public as of September.
That’s up from 40% in the group’s May Cloud Infrastructure Security Trends report, and comes after high-profile events like the Verizon snafu and Amazon publishing a warning on this subject to all of its customers.
The RedLock CSI team also discovered 37% of databases are accepting inbound connection requests from the internet, and 7% of those are receiving requests from suspicious IP addresses, indicating they’ve been compromised.
Moreover, the research also revealed that 48% of PCI checks fail in public cloud computing environments.
Vulnerabilities are being neglected in the cloud due to the fact that organizations are unable to leverage their existing vulnerability management investments that lack context on constantly changing cloud resources, the report noted. The RedLock CSI researchers found that 81% of organizations are not managing host vulnerabilities in |
In a call with Wall Street analysts, California Public Utilities Commission head Michael Picker reportedly said he could not imagine letting PG&E go bankrupt as | it faces billions of dollars in potential liability from the wildfires ravaging California.
The burned remains of a vehicle and home are seen during the Camp fire in Paradise, California on November 8, 2018.
Shares of utility PG&E popped 37.5 percent on Friday after the head of a regulator eased worries about the California-based utility going bankrupt. Friday's rise marks the stock's biggest in at least four decades.
In a call with Wall Street analysts, California Public Utilities Commission head Michael Picker reportedly said he could not imagine letting PG&E go bankrupt as it faces billions of dollars in potential liability from the wildfires ravaging California. Picker's comments on the call were first reported by Bloomberg News.
Picker later told the San Francisco Chronicle that the agency would implement a provision through which utilities can pass wildfire costs on to consumers.
"Why is the CPUC stepping up now vs. mostly looking for legislative initiatives earlier? Given the reaction in the stock market, we think |
Hoping to keep up with changing telephone technology while salvaging the city's budget, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to put a $ | 243-million telephone utility users tax on the Feb. 15 presidential primary ballot.
Worried that a pending court ruling could eliminate the 40-year-old tax, the council agreed to ask voters to preserve it and, to ward off future lawsuits, grant the city the power to tax telephone services that have not yet been invented.
Hours before the vote, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa persuaded the two final holdouts -- Councilmen Dennis Zine and Greig Smith, fiscal conservatives who represent the west San Fernando Valley -- that the tax is too important to leave to the courts.
Now the city's elected officials expect Villaraigosa to make a similar pitch to voters, telling them that government services will be gutted unless the tax is preserved.
"We really need the mayor to drive home the need for this tax. His city is at stake," said Councilwoman Janice Hahn. "A lot of what he's been charged with, whether it's fixing traffic |
Drones and the augmented/virtual reality market both offer the company an opportunity to diversify its revenue streams.
There are a handful of things | InvenSense (NYSE:INVN) needs to fix before I'd feel comfortable investing in the company. One of those entails diversifying its revenue away from Apple and some other players. That's why it's promising to see the company focusing some of its attention on the augmented/virtual reality market and drones.
Here's why these rapidly growing technologies could open up some great opportunities for InvenSense.
InvenSense makes motion sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) that track movement, primarily for mobile devices. InvenSense's sensors are some of the best, and Apple and Samsung have both counted the company as a key supplier for their devices. In fiscal 2017, InvenSense said its "largest customer" -- widely accepted as referring to Apple -- accounted for 46% of total revenue. Meanwhile, Samsung now accounts for less than 10% of the top line, down from 14% in its fiscal fourth quarter. While these two tech juggernauts have seen mobile |
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces said they shot and killed a Palestinian who was brandishing a knife near an Israeli settlement on | Monday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service confirmed the death near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, but said it had no further details.
“A Palestinian assailant approached an Israel Defence Forces checkpoint near Kiryat Arba, east of Hebron, with a drawn knife in his hand. In response, IDF troops fired towards him... The assailant was neutralized,” a brief military statement said.
However, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, Abed al-Maw’ti al-Qawasmi, claimed that the man was shot by an Israeli settler who “stopped his car suddenly and then fired at him”.
Al-Qawasmi said he heard four shots, and that the man killed was not carrying “any knives or anything”. No Israelis were hurt.
It was the first killing of a Palestinian by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank since July, when a Palestinian assailant was shot dead after |
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MANUEL PELLEGRINI has urged Manchester City fans to boo his side into the Champions League semi-finals.
Pel | legrini’s men meet Paris St-Germain in a crunch quarter-final showdown at the Etihad tonight.
The clash promises to be one of the biggest night’s in City’s history as they look to book a place in the last four for the first time.
Home fans have jeered the opening Champions League music this season in protest at UEFA’s treatment of their club in relation to Financial Fair Play.
A near sell-out crowd is expected to do the same again tonight - but Pellegrini insists he doesn’t have a problem with it.
The Chilean says the booing has become one of City’s lucky charms because it means his side are still in the competition.
Pellegrini said: “It depends if you are superstitious. If you are superstitious then we continue winning if they boo the anthem.
“Of course the fans can make a difference. |
The only child of Tory peer Lord Kilmartin, 32-year-old Harriet is a very modern woman. She'd be modern now, | so in 1923 she is really quite something!
Expensively educated but with little parental influence, Harriet knows her own mind and views life as something to be enjoyed, not endured. An adventurous spirit, she has travelled and read broadly.
Harriet’s a practiced manipulator with a fierce intellect - she gets what she wants. And right now she wants a cover. Lord Kilmartin wants her married and he wants her to behave. Harriet will concede on the first point, but not the second!
She is steely with a cutting wit, but she does not deploy it without reason. Loyal to her friends Harriet will circle the wagons in a crisis. She will become Edmund's closest ally and defend him when Bairstow or Clem attempt to push him in directions that suits their own ambition but not his.
Harriet has a wide circle of fast friends. She is central to it and it is central to her. Harriet will be the moderniser pitted against |
More than 17,000 attendees nibbled, munched and sipped their way through 80,000 specialty food products at last week's 37th | Winter Fancy Food Show at Moscone Center.
Organized by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, the show gives restaurateurs, retailers, importers, distributors and producers an opportunity to discover new products for consumers.
Here are some standouts that should be appearing on store shelves in the next few months.
We were intrigued by Arette's organic tea seed oil that is 90 percent unsaturated fat has a 485° smoke point. The tea seeds are hand-picked and contain one of the highest amounts of omega9/oleic acid of any oil (aretteorganic.com).
For just a hint of sweetness, we liked the Slims Collection, dessert crackers that are essentially crisp quick breads. Our favorite: banana bread.
Equally good with cheese and coffee, Paso Robles' Vin' Tucci bite-size wine cookies are dairy- and oil-free; the crisper-than-biscotti wafers come in anise |
State Department says UN would probably endorse final deal with Iran, denies talks on removing sanctions are taking place.
The Obama administration expects that as a | matter of course, the UN Security Council would endorse any final nuclear agreement reached between world powers and Iran, the State Department said Friday, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki also denied reports from Thursday that there are talks already in place to remove the sanctions on Iran, after Western officials said world powers have quietly begun talks on a UN Security Council resolution to lift sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck.
Psaki said that if a comprehensive accord is struck by a June 30 deadline, it would be forwarded to the Security Council for its approval. All five permanent members of the council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — along with Germany are currently racing to complete the outlines of a deal with Iran by the end of this month. They have set the end of June as the deadline for a full agreement.
"We would anticipate that, if we're able to reach a joint comprehensive Plan of Action between the P5+1 |
“Diabetesville, USA” paints a frightening picture about diabetes at the southernmost tip of Texas — so frightening that the film was | the only documentary to be screened at the Scarlet Waters horror film festival in Austin last fall.
“They sent me a note saying it was the scariest film they'd seen, so they were including it, even though they never really do documentaries unless it's the making of a horror movie or something,” said filmmaker Michael Seringer, 39, who lives in San Antonio and shot parts of the film here.
The facts are undeniably bleak in Cameron County, an area in the Rio Grande Valley encompassing Brownsville and Harlingen: Nearly 30 percent of the population has diabetes, including a growing number of children. A majority of the population is overweight or obese. More than half have no medical insurance.
A glimpse into diabetes along the Texas/Mexico border is a glimpse into the future of the country, Seringer said. Experts predict a third of the population will have diabetes by 2050.
“Diabetesville, USA” is Seringer |
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Olympic bobsledder Nate Weber will never forget the | sound.
"My heart started racing," Weber said. "And then I realized, I might want to run pretty fast right now."
He wasn't seriously injured. He also finished his sprints.
At the Olympics, Weber will be representing red, white, blue and green. He's a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army, and a green beret. And he's one of seven Army soldiers who will be sliding for the U.S. at the Pyeongchang Games that start next week, wearing the American flag in a foreign land — with the same level of pride that the 10th Special Forces member has during his three deployments abroad.
"It's a different kind of adrenalin," Weber said. "The stakes are a little bit higher if I'm with my special forces group, but the atmosphere is very similar in that you're a team and that you're there for the guy on your left and right. That transition is really |
Matthew Pennington looks to have played his last game for Ipswich Town after rupturing ligaments in his ankle.
The central defender, currently | on loan from Everton, suffered the ligament injury in training and is set to miss the rest of the season as a result. There is an estimate of a recovery time of between eight and 10 weeks, meaning he has played his final games for the Blues.
“He has an operation now,” Lambert said.
“He’s been excellent, Matty Pennington, but I thought Toto (Nsiala) came in and had a great game.
“Matty, while he’s obviously not our player, has been excellent. It was a nothing incident the other day in training with nobody near him.
It’s understood Pennington picked up the injury while clearing the ball in training, kicking the post as he did so.
Pennington has been one of the Blues’ most consistent performers during a difficult campaign, hitting the ground running with an impressive debut against Norwich City in September and maintaining those standards since.
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Three people have been seriously injured in an attack in Peterborough city centre this afternoon, Tuesday January 17.
Officers are currently at the scene of | a serious assault in the Wentworth Street area of Peterborough. There are eyewitness suggestions that a knife or blade was involved in the assault but police said it was too early to say exactly how the injuries to those involved had been sustained.
It is believed at least three people are receiving treatment at hospital for serious, but not life threatening, injuries. The incident happened at roughly 3pm today.
Details are sketchy at this stage and investigations have begun. Four people have been arrested in connection with the incident.
The scene of the crime is understood to stretch across Peterborough city centre after police were initially called to Rivergate Arcade.
Shoppers there report seeing men chasing each other through the arcade and blood can be seen on the ground there. A trail of blood can be followed along Bridge Street.
The East of England Ambulance Service were called at just after 3pm to Cowgate in Peterborough. An ambulance officer, and ambulance crew as well as the Magpas Air Amb |
Things have gotten so bad for Dean Skelos that he was apparently hoping for some help from beyond the grave.
One of the witnesses the | former state Senate Majority Leader was planning on calling in his defense case is a dead man, prosecutors complained Wednesday.
Assistant US Attorney Rahul Mukhi complained to Judge Kimba Wood that Skelos' lawyers had submitted a list of 29 possible witnesses to testify on Skelos' behalf next week.
"We don't believe this is a real list," Mukhi told the judge, noting it included former state Sen. Owen Johnson, "who passed away."
Johnson's obit in the Daily News — from last December — reads, "Former state Senator Owen Johnson, who served 40 years in the Senate before stepping down two years ago, has died, Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos announced." Johnson, who repped Babylon, LI, died at age 85 of natural causes.
Skelos' lawyer, Robert Gage, eventually acknowledged he'd made a mistake by including Johnson on the list. He chalked the gaffe up to his own uncertainty about who the feds plan |
The Iranian government’s charges against Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who has been jailed since July 22, are “serious | ” and “relate to espionage,” the journalist’s mother told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Friday.
She said she had “no idea” what the specific charges were, which were officially filed this week.
Mary Rezaian told Amanpour that nothing has been explained to her or her family.
Mary Rezaian, mother of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, appeals to Iran's leadership in English and Farsi. Click above to watch.
Amanpour's full interview with Mary Rezaian airs Friday at 2pm ET, 8pm CET on CNN International.
Failing to reach a deal on Iran’s nuclear program would create a very difficult situation for the United States, former U.S. diplomat Frank Wisner told Christiane Amanpour Thursday, but remained optimistic that the gaps could be bridged.
"Both sides are negotiating very seriously, The negotiators are |
Do all religions lead to the same God?
How do Christians make sense of evil in the world?
They're tough questions for anyone who | hasn't studied theology.
An upcoming workshop hosted by a leading Anglican evangelist is intended to help Christians better explain themselves to others.
"You may sit down on an airplane going with somebody somewhere and get into a discussion about religion. A lot of folks back off because they don't know what to say," said the Rev. Marc Robertson, rector of Christ Church.
"It helps to be able to say, 'look this is what Christians have believed for 2,000 years.' You don't have be angry or belligerent, but you can engage people and find out where they are."
Christ Church hosts "Sharing Our Faith," a series of workshops taking place Friday through Sunday to help Christians become better evangelists.
The conference at the downtown church is associated with the Anglican Communion Network, a group of Anglican and Episcopal churches working to advance theologically conservative ideals. The network counts 200,000 lay members and 2,200 clergy in more than 900 |
This season, Broadway’s finding its faith.
The subject matter of “Godspell” and “Superstar” | seems tailor-made for devout audiences, but as successful outreach for pics including “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” has made clear, faith-based auds can often be attracted to entertainment in which the tenets of faith aren’t a central topic but a thematic undercurrent.
“Never Say Never,” for instance, is essentially a concert pic, but it includes multiple segments that showcase the teen idol’s spiritual roots, including a scene in which performers say a group prayer before taking the stage at Madison Square Garden. On Broadway, secular title “The Color Purple” did strong biz with African-American church groups, drawn by the well-known story’s themes of healing and forgiveness.
Similarly, “Memphis,” about the 1950s interracial romance between an African-American singer and a white DJ who becomes one of the first to play black tunes, doesn’t deal primarily with religion, but |
UFC Responds To Allegations Of Drug Test Cover Up, Bonuses, Extended Ronda Rousey - Holm Promo - Wrestling Inc. |
- We posted the Ronda Rousey UFC 193 promo that has received almost universal acclaim this weekend, but that ended up not being the complete presentation. As it turns out, the company had a version produced that also highlighted world champion boxer Holly Holm. You can see that video above.
- UFC responded to a Deadspin report of a shaky drug test from Vitor Belfort that came to light from 2012 after UFC 192 Saturday night.
"I think one of the things to keep in mind with this particular topic is, any suggestion or inference that there was a coverup in regards to that was categorically false," said Dave Sholler, UFC public relations head.
"That period of time with TRT is one that was tricky for everyone: For the UFC, for athletic commissions for athletes alike. I think when everyone came to a conclusion it didn't have a place in the sport and was outlawed in 2014, we were quick to make sure that we followed suit, as |
The leader of an influential group of conservatives on Friday said the House healthcare reform bill still doesn't have the votes to pass the lower chamber despite changes | .
In an interview filmed for C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said there are at least 40 House Republicans who are opposed to the legislation and another 20 to 30 who are undecided. If every member votes and all Democrats vote no, GOP leaders can't afford more than 21 defections.
The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus made his comments before House GOP leaders announced Friday they are making modifications to the ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill that had been sought by the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC).
A Freedom Caucus source Friday afternoon said, "The Freedom Caucus remains opposed to the [legislation] in its current form. Today's announcement of the RSC's support for the bill doesn't change that. If the bill were brought to the floor today, it would fail to get enough votes."
During the interview — which will appear on C-SPAN Sunday at 10 a.m. |
CHENNAI: India was moving into an "era of e-business, e-marketing, e-commerce and e-b | anking" and encryption technology to protect network communication was the only way to ensure the nation's security, said President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The president was addressing scientists here Monday evening at the 5th International Conference on Cryptology in India via videoconferencing.
Reminding his audience that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam's work was being applied in communication networks today, Kalam said: "Cryptography is a wealth generator and wealth protector."
Noting that India was the only country in the world with a huge linguistic diversity and more than 3,000 languages, he asked: "Can we make use of this diversity to our advantage by using different languages as a cryptographic tool?"
Addressing several hundred delegates from all over the world, who had gathered here for the three day conference that began Monday, Kalam said: "Nations that are capable of generating and managing information in a secure way will become world leaders and economic superpowers |
Not a single UK city averages above the official minimum figure of 24Mbps for superfast broadband, according to new independent research study released today.
| The report by comparison website uSwitch.com found that of the 50 largest towns and cities, the average broadband speed is only 14.5Mbps, well below the government's target.
Telford is the fastest of the urban area at 23Mbps, though major cities like London (16.97Mbps), Birmingham (19.15Mbps), Manchester (18.36Mbps) and Liverpool (17.43Mbps) all fall far short of the government's definition of superfast.
This is despite the government's bid to bring superfast broadband to 95 per cent of the UK population by 2017. Lord Inglewood, Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, said last year that the government's original 'Broadband for All' strategy was flawed and needed re-thinking.
Marie-Louise Abretti, a telecoms expert with uSwitch, said: "The Government's blinkered focus on bringing super-fast connections to 95% of Britain by 2017 |
When Jim McIngvale woke up on Sunday morning, his home was filled with about two to three feet of floodwater. Once he was able | to get out, the popular furniture store owner — better known as “Mattress Mack” — headed to work and saw the devastating damage and impact that Hurricane Harvey already had on Houston.
When he arrived at Gallery Furniture, one of his several stores in the city, he made a decision: He would open a couple of his locations as shelters for his fellow Houstonians. Since Sunday, 400 people have gathered at those locations, where they are welcome to sleep on the brand new sets of furniture that occupy the floors. Each store — designed to be flood-proof on elevated concrete — also has bathrooms, showers and an in-store restaurant.
For McIngvale, a well-known figure in the city who has a history of donating to charitable causes, opening his furniture stores as shelters was an easy decision.
Before so many displaced residents came to McIngvale’s stores, he posted the invitation on social media and offered to use his company’s moving |
On the day the U.K. was voting on Brexit, Toronto’s Anayah Phares was in London being honoured by the | Queen for her effort to make the world a better place.
“It was an incredible time to be there,” said Phares, 26, who was among 64 young people from across the Commonwealth receiving this year’s Queen’s Young Leaders Award.
“I’m still so pumped and energized by the experience,” she said in Toronto last week after a whirlwind 10 days in the British capital, networking and being mentored by some of the country’s top business and political leaders as part of the prestigious prize.
Phares, who recently changed her name from Rosimay Venancio to reflect her African heritage and new-found activism, was supposed to receive her award last year, but was barred from travelling due to a passport snafu.
Phares, a refugee from Angola who became a foster child after she was abandoned by her parents in Toronto, won the award after surviving a suicide attempt and homelessness and using |
HP has agreed to transfer 3000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies | announced Thursday.
GM CIO, Randy Mott, said the car company hopes to add the HP workers, part of a team running GM's IT operations under outsourcing contracts, over the next six months.
Mott, named CIO of GM earlier this year, decided early on in his tenure to bring most of the automaker's IT work in-house, a major shift for a company that has long relied on outsourcers.
Under Mott, GM is consolidating and automating IT operations and plans to use the savings to work on innovating its product lines and business operations.
GM plans to reduce its worldwide data center roster from 23 to two within three years, as well as cut the number of its applications by about 40% "as we drive more application commonality and common processes across GM," said Mott.
In a conference call, Mott said the former HP employees will see their jobs "changing pretty rapidly over the course of the transformation," as |
As hundreds gathered in Berkeley today to protest University of California fee hikes, the UC Board of Regents approved a budget plan that will increase student fees | by more than 30 percent over the next year.
The full board approved the budget at UCLA today, increasing student fees for undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, said Ricardo Vazquez, spokesman for the UC Office of the President.
Undergraduate student fees will increase by more than $2,500, or 32 percent, by the 2010-11 school year, with some increases taking effect in spring 2010. The budget also seeks an additional $913 million in state funding for the 2010-11 operating budget.
All but one regent voted to approve the budget plan. Student Regent Jesse Bernal cast the lone opposition vote.
In response to the budget proposal, hundreds of students, union members and supporters gathered for a noon rally at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza. When the board’s decision was announced, the crowd booed loudly.
Toni Mendicino, a UC Berkeley secretary and spokeswoman for the Coalition of University Employees, was at the |
I want my black American daughter to be president of the United States when she grows up – and to evade, at all costs, the question of | whether a president of the United States of America can be morally just.
I want her to wear boring outfits and pay white people to march in front of cameras after the debates and tell everyone who will listen how well she performed in the debates, regardless of how well she actually performed in the debates.
I want her to say “We’re gonna build a wall” and “Oh, you’re a tough guy, Jeb” so many times that millions of lovely fed-up conservative white voters absolutely adore her.
I want my daughter to take the matter of reparations into her own gifted hands by telling these same conservative white voters how suspicious she is of Muslims, and of all those black folks who want our lives to matter and of Barack Obama (an alleged Muslim who supposedly wants our black lives to matter). Even if my daughter does not win, conservative white voters will bless my daughter with $54m.
My daughter will have her reparations, |
The gender gap at work is still alive and well according to new research that examined gender roles in the workplace.
The U.S. Bureau | of Labor Statistics cites women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn. It gets worse as women work longer hours — women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn.
The disparity between men and women in the workplace is the subject of a recent study by Elisabeth Kelan, Ph.D., from King’s College London.
Dr. Kelan found that workers acknowledge gender discrimination is possible in modern organizations, but at the same time maintain their workplaces to be gender neutral. The author notes “gender fatigue” as the cause for workers not acknowledging that bias against women can occur.
The study, conducted in 2003-2004, included 26 men and women from two information communication technology (ICT) companies based in Switzerland. The companies were given assumed names for this study: “Redtech,” a local 50-person Swiss company and |
The actress’s grandmother was raised in Ghana.
Luther star Wunmi Mosaku has said she was “inspired” | by the stories she heard when she met female survivors of violence in Ghana.
The Bafta-winning actress visited the country with ActionAid to help highlight a new campaign to secure justice for women and girls who have been affected by violence.
Mosaku, whose grandmother was raised in Ghana, met survivors of domestic abuse and saw how the charity is working with women and girls to understand and claim their rights and report violence.
“I was inspired by the courageous women and girls I met in Ghana,” she said.
“Talking to them and hearing their stories, I understood the deep-rooted beliefs that have taken hold in communities all over the world, from Ghana to the UK.
“All too often, women and girls are made to feel that their lives are inferior, and that they exist for men to control.
The organisation said an estimated 45% of women in Ghana experience domestic violence during their lifetime, and that intimate partner violence is common in |
HBO announced they will be bringing their award-winning series Boardwalk Empire to an end after its fifth and final season in fall 2014.
| Emmy-winning writer Terence Winter (The Sopranos) and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese have worked together to bring viewers the series chronicling the life and times of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the undisputed leader of Atlantic City during the 1920s Prohibition Era.
At last year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, Boardwalk Empire took home awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Bobby Cannavale), Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series, Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for a total of five Emmy wins — more than any other television series.
Additionally, Boardwalk Empire scored myriad other awards throughout its run including other Emmy wins, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Scorsese and Winter partnered again |
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, announced Tuesday that a key committee will recommend McAllen as a | priority for a new federal courthouse.
The recommendation from the Judicial Conference of U.S. Courts backs a completed feasibility study and inclusion — meaning the city will be considered as a priority to receive a new facility, according to a news release.
The congressman, who directed the U.S. General Services Administration to study the issue, has led the charge for a new courthouse facility for more than seven years, the release states.
In April, a 23-page study conducted by the GSA concluded that while the current facility located on U.S. Business 83 may be adequate for certain federal executive offices, the existing building is inadequate for judicial functions.
Bentsen Tower, where the courts have leased space since 1987, does not and cannot provide adequate space for the courts, the study found.
Additional findings included security being an overall issue, especially regarding secure separation of judges, the public and prisoners. There is also not adequate room in the lobby for proper security screening.
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Hi I’m an editorial designer for BBC News and recently my teammates and I have been working on an interactive feature to accompany and enhance the | BBC Two Horizon programme The Secret Life of the Cat.
Ever wondered what your cat gets up to once it leaves the cat flap? The Horizon programme, in collaboration with the Royal Veterinary College, set off to a Surrey village with GPS trackers and collar ‘cat cams’ to find out.
While the idea seemed light-hearted to begin with there was some serious science behind it. We know more about wild tigers than our cuddly feline roommates and this project aimed to fill that information gap. The study, the largest of its kind ever conducted in the UK, also offered interesting challenges for our team.
Wanting to make our content fun as well as educational we decided to arrange the information around 10 of the cats tracked by the research team. In order to do this we made clickable 'cat tabs', illustrations of each of our 10 cats which would serve as the main navigation around the content.
When a user chose to click on a tab it would |
Hollywood actor and pro-life advocate Eduardo Verástegui is planning to erect the biggest statue of Jesus in the world in his | hometown in Mexico.
The state's reputation is possibly why Verástegui is embarking on the project, which he has named the "Christ of Peace" statue. The statue will be built at a towering 252 feet, which is nearly twice the size of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which stands at 125 feet.
Currently holding the record for the tallest Jesus statue in the world is the Christ the King statue in Świebodzin, Poland, measuring 172 feet off the ground.
Verástegui’s statue, designed by Romero, will be similar to other statues of Jesus that depict Christ with arms outstretched, representing the opening of an embrace.
Verástegui, the filmmaker behind the 2015 faith-based film "Little Boy," and the successful 2007 pro-life film “Bella,” hopes Christ of Peace will “transform the area much the same way He changed his life |
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Actress, Drama: Jodie Foster, "Nell"; Jessica Lange, "Blue Sky"; Jennifer Jason Leigh, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle"; Miranda Richardson, "Tom & Viv"; Meryl Streep, |
Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has stumbled out of the gate with infighting, policy flip-flops | and confusion in his one-week-old government, raising concern among investors about his ability to carry out pressing fiscal reforms.
Divisions have quickly emerged between his political and economic teams over plans to overhaul a messy tax code and costly pension system to bring a high budget deficit under control.
Bolsonaro’s comments in interviews and Twitter posts have also been at odds with senior aides, a red flag for investors who expected the government to arrive focused on a swift pension reform to shore up its finances before tackling an array of hot-button social issues and foreign policy proposals.
Last Friday, for example, Bolsonaro told reporters he was increasing the tax on financial operations and cutting the highest income tax rate.
That prompted a quick denial from an undersecretary to Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, with Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni later saying the president was mistaken.
The back-and-forth unsettled investors who had been pleased at the team of orthodox economists |
A friend of a friend with access to the National Health and Nutrition Examinations Survey data looked into the "how many seven footers are there | ?" question for me and found that the six years of the survey have counted over 3,000 people of whom... none are taller than 6 foot 8 inches. Which is to say that "big man" sized people are, in fact, extremely rare. What's more, according to an exhibit I saw at the Mutter Museum last weekend, a majority of people taller than about 6'10" actually suffer from pathological pituitary gland disorders (Sun Ming Ming, for example) that make them ill-suited to be athletes.
The point of this, you'll recall, was to try and estimate what proportion of age-appropriate seven footers are professional basketball players. Perhaps the question should be further refined to include information about this pituitary business. A few super-tall people who, as best I can tell, aren't basketball players are Leonid Stadnyk, Xi Shun, and Ajaz Ahmed. Angus MacAskill at 7'9" |
Dubai: Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of | Dubai, has launched the Dubai Audio Library, the largest Arabic audio library in the world, according to the Government of Dubai Media Office.
In a statement on Thursday, the media office said that the library, which targets seven million visually impaired people in the Arab world, is an initiative undertaken by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in collaboration with the website Bookshare.org.
The launch of the initiative coincides with International Volunteers Day.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, and Abdullah Al Basti, Secretary General of The Executive Council of Dubai, attended the inauguration of the library.
The launch saw the uploading of the first book to the Dubai Audio Library.
Zayed Diwan, a collection of 87 poems written by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, was the first book to be uploaded. |
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We are recruiting for an exciting newly developed role that will assist the National Programmatic Manager and sales team with the day to day implementation and optimisation of programmatic deals across multiple platforms and supply partners. Working across Pedestrian.TV, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, Gizmodo Group and more.
The Programmatic Executive will adopt a revenue-oriented, commercial mindset to uncover and identify the marketing needs, challenges and objectives of our clients and present the appropriate solution from our comprehensive suite, that deliver exceptional results. You will utilise your ad-tech knowledge and relationships to uncover strategic opportunities and manage an effective sales cycle.
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Some Hamas officials suggested on Tuesday that Israel carried out the bombing, while other Hamas leaders insinuated the PA did.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas | accused Hamas of carrying out the roadside bombing that struck PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and PA General Intelligence Services Majid Faraj’s motorcade in the northern Gaza Strip last week.
“We are fully aware that Hamas is the one who stands behind that incident and carried it out,” Abbas said.
On Tuesday morning, a roadside bomb exploded adjacent to Hamdallah and Faraj’s motorcade in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, injuring seven members of their staffs and damaging several cars.
On the same day, Abbas’s office said Hamas bears responsibility for the bombing, but stopped short of formally accusing Hamas of carrying it out.
Meanwhile, some Hamas officials suggested on Tuesday that Israel carried out the bombing, while other Hamas leaders insinuated the PA did.
Abbas also said that if Hamdallah and Faraj had died in the bombing, a bloody inter-Palestinian conflict would have broken out.
Abbas |
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Maher: “You mean the Oxycontin that he was on?...Why couldn’t he have croaked from it instead of | Heath Ledger?” — HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, February 8, 2008.
Democrats inside and outside the Obama White House have declared a Public Enemy Number One, and it isn’t some vague concept like Poverty or Terrorism or Cancer. It’s a radio talk show host named Rush Limbaugh. Over the years, liberals haven’t just wished his wildly popular radio program would fail. Some have wished he were dead, on national television.
Limbaugh recently joined a group seeking to purchase the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams, which spurred the latest attempt by the American Left to drive Limbaugh off the radio and far away from a place in the mainstream of American life. Limbaugh and his tens of millions of listeners are routinely placed by the media on the menacing fringes.
Almost from the beginning of his nationally syndicated radio show in 1988, Limbaugh has brought out the worst in journalists who are supposed to honor fairness and accuracy |
India will stage next year's edition of the Johnnie Walker Classic, organisers said on Tuesday.
Former world number one Vijay Singh will be | in the field for the $2.5 million event, jointly sanctioned by European, Asian and Australasian Tours.
The Arnold Palmer-designed DLF Golf and Country Club course near New Delhi will host the event from February 28.
Launched in 1990, the Johnnie Walker Classic has been played in seven countries so far. South Africa's Anton Haig won last year's event in Phuket, Thailand, claiming his maiden European Tour title.
Vijay Singh, the former US Masters and US PGA champion, has previously played a Skins event at the course and said he is delighted to be making a return.
"I began my professional career in Asia, so I'm excited to be returning to my old stamping ground," he said in a statement.
"I particularly enjoy playing in the Johnnie Walker Classic as it always boasts a top field of international players."
The event closely follows the inaugural $2.5 million Indian Masters European Tour event |
FULHAM are set to sanction the £4m sale of goalkeeper David Stockdale to help fund their move for Roma shot-stopper Ma | arten Stekelenburg.
Stockdale was once considered a potential for the Fulham number one jersey, but he has spent the majority of the season on loan at Hull City.
Cottagers boss Martin Jol is believed to be in talks with Roma's Maarten Stekelenburg after an initial asking price of £5.1m was met, and is looking to fund the bid by selling Stockdale.
Hull would be keen on permanently signing the 27-year-old if they achieve promotion to the Premier League, and are currently on course to do so in second place in the Championship.
However, West Ham may offer the Tigers competition for Stockdale, with Hammers keeper Jussi Jääskeläinen beginning to show his age this season.
Jol and Fulham are hopeful of auctioning off Stockdale for as much as £4m, as he has been adjudged as surplus to requirements at Craven Cottage.
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Samsung Electronics is in preliminary talks with the EU regulator to settle charges it abused its market position by barring arch rival Apple from using an essential mobile phone | patent, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers by volume and sales, are locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries as they vie to dominate the lucrative and fast-growing mobile market and win over customers with their latest gadgets.
The talks came after the European Commission, which acts as EU competition regulator, told Samsung in December that it was acting unfairly by seeking injunctions against Apple over use of the essential patents.
"Samsung has been involved in settlement discussions for several months now. Samsung wants to settle," said one of the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The sources said it was still too early to say if the discussions would result in a settlement. That would mean no finding of wrongdoing for Samsung and no fine, which could otherwise reach as much as $17.3 billion if the South Korean firm is found to be in breach of EU laws.
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For peace of mind (and that’s exactly what you are paying for here) you may want to go with a two-year subscription | to some kind of security suite. These security suites will annoy you by slowing down your computer, asking you to reboot when they update, and generally being in your way. However, they are important if you or anyone using your laptop is likely to click on things that say “Click here!” and generally doesn’t know what he or she is doing with a computer. There’s a lot of computer crime out there now, and one of these suits will protect you from the simple stuff if you are the type to try to install Peer-to-Peer and lame instant messaging software on your PC, click on ads for free stuff, etc. If you or anyone using your computer is persistent enough, you can figure out how to get around the measures and infect your PC. In that case, good luck to you. The security suites cannot protect you from yourself. If you are a brave soul who skips the security suite, keep your PC on a NAT� |
Sixth-ranked Pleasant plays No. 1 Eastwood for a Division V regional championship Friday at Lima's Spartan Stadium.
Eastwood is 12 | -0 for the first time in school history and ranked No. 1 in the last state poll.
Pleasant is 10-1 and ranked No. 6 in the final AP state poll.
The two teams played last year in the regional opener and Eastwood won 35-28.
MARION - In a season full of big games, this is the biggest. Against a bunch of outstanding teams on the schedule, this is the best.
"Eastwood is as good as it gets," Pleasant coach Aaron Cook said. "They are a state championship caliber team, no doubt about it. They are the number-one team in the state of Ohio for most of the season for a reason."
The sixth-ranked Spartans (10-1) get top-ranked Eastwood (12-0) in a Division V regional championship football game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Lima Senior's Spartan Stadium.
"They are fundamentally sound. They are big and |
One of the biggest obstacles to improving information security within an organisation is the business executives, with the CIO being a big part of the problem, | PwC's Global State of Information Security 2014 report has revealed.
PwC’s survey of more than 9,600 senior leaders from across 115 countries found 18 per cent of Asia Pacific respondents see the CIO to be a hindrance when taking action to improve the effectiveness of information security within their organisations, 2 per cent above the global average.
The CIO is nearly as big an impediment to this as insufficient capital expenditures (almost 22 per cent), and a greater hindrance than insufficient operating expenditures (15.5 per cent) in the region.
The survey found that the CFO mostly considers the CIO to be a hindrance, with a lack of dialogue between the two causing this issue.
Read Financial services firms concerned about risk systems.
Others from the senior leadership team were not off the hook as 25 per cent of Asia Pacific respondents pointed the finger at the CEO, president or board of their company for being a hindrance to improving information security. |
Can a lazy lover be a Casanova? We wondered as we leaned back at the expansive sofa at Lighthouse 13, listening to the song being | played. It was Friday night, time for our weekly fix of Jack and Coke (not the white poison of course!). Some good food and a nice place to let our hair down.
Lighthouse 13 is a mall eatery and we are not particularly fond of eating inside malls, preferring stand-alone joints. The idea is a mall eatery is a place where you drop in when you get too tired shopping! A stand-alone eatery is where you go with the singular purpose of eating. But these are old-fashioned ideas and Lighthouse is not an afterthought. As it turned out, the owners have put some thought in doing it up. From the plush sofas to the dim lights, the place has a unique 'feel'.
We ordered our Jacks and then flipped through the impressive menu. The smoked chicken salad which is cold smoked chicken, crispy bacon, apples and assorted lettuce with mustard dressing proved to be a good starter for the evening. But we wanted some |
3 Why Are Atomic Emission Spectra Discontinuous?
4 How Do Prisms in Optics Work?
Visible light, | radio waves, x-rays and other types of radiation are all part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Visible light is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from roughly 400 and 700 nanometers. In physics, a color is visible light with a specific wavelength. Black and white are not colors because they do not have specific wavelengths. Instead, white light contains all wavelengths of visible light. Black, on the other hand, is the absence of visible light.
The correspondence of a color to a specific wavelength is called spectral color. White and black are excluded from this definition because they do not have specific wavelengths. White is not defined as a color because it is the sum of all possible colors. Black is not defined as a color because it is the absence of light, and therefore color. In the visual art world, white and black may sometimes be defined as distinct colors. This is different from the concept of spectral color in physics.
How Do We Experience Color?
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