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The energy generated by the project would go to homes and businesses in San Mateo, she said. An office about five miles away in Santa N | ella would coincide with the completion of the project about a year from now.
The Merced County Board of Supervisors approved the project on grazing land in March 2015, records show.
The solar array represents an important economic investment in the county, according to Mark Hendrickson, director of community and economic development for Merced County.
“This project which will add hundreds of construction jobs in the community, it will bring in millions of dollars of new tax revenues for community benefit and will greatly enhance the effort to make our state and region more environmentally sustainable,” he said in a statement.
The company also estimates the project could bring in as much as $6 million in tax revenue to the region.
News of the environmentally-friendly project comes days after UN scientists announced the dire circumstances that people around the world would face about a decade from now if nations did not drastically cut their carbon emissions. Supporters of solar energy have touted it as a way to effectively cut greenhouse gases.
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What happens when you bring real-time, on-demand analytics to Slack?
What happens to a great open source project when its creators are | no longer using the tool themselves?
PANDA, the four-year-old Knight News Challenge-winning newsroom application for storing and analyzing large data sets, still has a respectable community of users, but could now use a new longterm caretaker.
NPR has always recommended books, films, TV shows, and music to its listeners. Earbud.fm is the first time it’s making recommendations in an industry where it’s also one of the biggest content creators.
What is Data.gov doing wrong? And how could it get better?
After jobs at Talking Points Memo, Yahoo, Frontline, and The Atlantic, Andrew Golis, new general manager of The Wire, is ready to share the three pillars of a strong media brand.
Boyer, Brian. "Brian Boyer: Welcome to Hacker Journalism 101, take your seats." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Sep. 2012. Web |
How soon could Denver businesses open the first social marijuana use areas? It’s still not clear.
Owner Jim Norris works behind the coffee | counter at Mutiny Information Cafe on December 2, 2016, in Denver, Colorado. Along with co-owner Matt Megyesi, Norris intends to apply for a social marijuana use permit once the city’s Department of Excise and Licenses works out the particulars of how to implement Initiative 300.
For Mutiny Information Cafe on Denver’s South Broadway strip, the city’s recently passed social marijuana use voter initiative could allow for once-a-month Saturday night gatherings that mix vaping, edibles and dancing.
Other businesses are considering the possibilities opened up by the successful ballot measure, ranging from one-off events to allowing pot consumption areas on-site daily. The owner of a yoga and spinning studio on East Colfax is mulling the idea of occasional special events that might couple marijuana with meditation or Thai massage.
But before The Rhythm Revolution’s Jasmine Anderson decides whether to even seek a new marijuana consumption permit, she — like others whose interest is |
The Roundtable debates the recent June jobs report on 'This Week' Sunday.
MORAN (voice-over): Good morning, and | welcome to "This Week."
ROMNEY: This kick in the gut has got to end.
MORAN: Another bleak jobs report.
OBAMA: We've got to grow the economy even faster, and we've got to put even more people back to work.
MORAN: Refocuses the presidential race on the struggling economy. The big questions: Can President Obama turn the economic tide before November? Can Mr. Romney convince voters he can do better? Two governors debate those questions, potential Romney running mate Bobby Jindal and key Obama ally Martin O'Malley. Jindal versus O'Malley, only on "This Week."
ROMNEY: It's a tax. They decided it was constitutional, so it is a tax and it's unconstitutional.
MORAN: More fallout from the Supreme Court's health care decision.
ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. It's your voice, your vote. Reporting |
LOS ANGELES -- Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs | , television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
Sasaki said in a statement that Dangerfield suffered a small stroke after the operation and developed infectious and abdominal complications. But in the past week he had emerged from the coma, the publicist said.
"When Rodney emerged, he kissed me, squeezed my hand and smiled for his doctors," Dangerfield's wife, Joan, said in the statement. The comic is also survived by two children from a previous marriage.
He tried it at a New York club, and the joke drew a bigger response than ever. He kept the phrase in the act, and it seemed to establish a bond |
Ted Leonsis, founder of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, is best known as a Washington sports mogul but recently acquired Baltimore and Washington teams in | the Arena Football League.
Baltimore's Arena Football League team has sold 500 season tickets for its inaugural season, but owner Ted Leonsis said it's way too early to be concerned.
"I ask that you have a little patience with us. Let's have some fun together," Leonsis said during a speech Wednesday to the CEO Club of Baltimore. "We've sold like 500 season tickets. I think the arena seats like 10,000 people."
The Baltimore Brigade open its season April 7 against the Washington Valor. Both teams are owned by Leonsis' Washington-based Monumental Sports & Entertainment, and he has said it is exceedingly rare, if not unprecedented, to launch two expansion teams in the same year.
"There are going to be 100 things that bring shame to us where people will say, 'I knew they shouldn't have,' " Leonsis said. "That's how most people are. You want to criticize, as opposed to saying, |
How Long Can the NFL Get Away with Asking Future Employees if They're Gay?
Now that National Football League executives are asking players about their | sexual orientation — not just wondering in the shadows about Manti Te'o but grilling them in job interviews — it may be time for the commissioner to do something. It may even be breaking the law.
Now that National Football League executives are asking players about their sexual orientation — not just wondering in the shadows about Manti Te'o but grilling them in job interviews — it may be time for the pro sport with the worst reputation about equality in the locker room to finally do something about its big gay problem. It may even be breaking the law.
University of Colorado tight end Nick Kasa, projected to go in the fourth or fifth round of the NFL Draft in April, said in an interview on Tuesday that NFL general managers had been asking more or less outright whether he was gay. "[Teams] ask you like, 'Do you have a girlfriend?' 'Are you married?' 'Do you like girls?'" Kasa told ESPN Radio Denver's CJ & Kreckman. |
Miami-Dade County has mismanaged one of its largest contracts, a $208 million deal to provide door-to-door transportation to the | disabled, NBC 6 Investigators have uncovered.
At various times, the county paid too much when prices should have decreased, missed deadlines to seek damages from its contractor for alleged substandard performance, and failed to accurately calculate the most basic of contract functions -- cost of living adjustments, or COLAs.
missed deadlines to seek recovery of more than $200,000 in damages from TA for what the county claimed was substandard service.
After being informed of its mistakes by NBC 6 Investigators, the county recalculated the COLAs and – after revising $65 million in inaccurate billings – determined it owes TA about $151,000 through late March.
Despite those shortcomings, the county employees who oversee transit and procurement deny any mismanagement occurred.
"There are numerous checks and balances and controls that detect an instance where an index was applied in a manner that needs to be updated or corrected,” said Miriam Singer, chief procurement officer.
When NBC 6 Investigators pointed out the |
Pune, 13 Apr 2018: Unity Social & Welfare Foundation, Pimpri, near here, organized camp on caste certificate guidance on the occasion | of birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, at Hotel Dakshin, Sant Tukaram Nagar, Pimpri, near here, recently.
The social activist Kiran Y Suvarna delivered the preliminary address.
Lonavala deputy councilor Sridar Somappa Poojary, Mangaluru taluk panchayat vice president Poornima Ganesh Poojary was the chief guests of the occasion.
Former corporator and Bharat Co-operative Bank (Mumbai) Limited director offered info on how to get caste certificate in Pune.
Persons belonging to castes Billava, Sappaliga, Moolya, Kumbhar have also attended.
Advocate Appu Moolya, Ganesh Anchan, Sridar Poojary, former vice presidents of Billava Sangha were also present on the dais.
Social activist Sangita K Suvarna proposed vote of |
Islamabad - A Saudi organisation ‘King Abdullah’s Relief Campaign for Pakistani People (KARCPP)’ has started distribution | of schoolbags with stationery and other necessary items among orphan children studying in different affected areas of Pakistan.
The school bag projects would benefit about 12,333 orphan children completing education in various institutions of Pakistan hit by natural calamity in the recent years, Dr Khalid M Al-Othmani, Regional Director KARCPP, told reporters here.
Giving details of the relief and distribution work being carried out in different areas of Pakistan under the guidance of Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, second Crown Prince and Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia and Petron-In-Chief of the KARCPP, he said that the Organization has started the school bag project costing Rs 21.5 million to help the orphan children completing education in 111 different institutions of Pakistan. Earlier, the organization had distributed thousands of schools bags among the orphan children during its first and second phase programmes, he informed.
He said that all the relief and distribution activities are being completed with Saudi Public donations to express solidarity with the |
Aussie tourist in Hawaii tells..
An emergency alert message warning of a ballistic missile threat sent Hawaii into panic on Saturday morning.
Gabi | James, an Australian woman holidaying in Hawaii, was among those who received the message.
This morning she spoke to Ross and John about her reaction to the threat.
“We were fairly chilled about it…some people were very relaxed, some people were panicking and running for shelter,” she said.
Gabi said the text message urged people to seek shelter, but didn’t specify what shelter was.
A follow up message declaring the warning was a false alarm was sent 38 minutes after the first message.
Hawaiian State Governor David Ige has said the false warning was caused by an employee pressing the wrong button, but Gabi is skeptical.
“If indeed it was some person who pressed the wrong button at the wrong time, you feel like you would have got a second message saying it was all a mistake in less than 38 minutes,” she said.
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T-DM1, known as an “empowered antibody,” combines Genentech’s existing antibody drug trastuz | umab (Herceptin) with ImmunoGen’s cancer-killing toxin DM1, for an added punch. The FDA stated that the souped-up drug did not meet the requirements for accelerated approval because all other treatments choices had not been exhausted for the patients with metastatic breast cancer who participated in the clinical trials of the drug.
Genentech submitted its application for accelerated approval for T-DM1 in July, based on clinical trial data showing that the drug had helped partially or completely shrink tumors in roughly one out of every three patients, in a group of volunteers who had already received an average of seven different drugs for their cancer. The data was presented in December at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
ImmunoGen stock had fallen more than 35 percent as of 12:57pm today, to $5.43 per share. ImmunoGen also stated that the financial guidance it previously announced for fiscal year 2011 was no longer applicable due to the FDA � |
What Is a Daniel Fast?
All allowable Daniel Fast foods come from plants.
The Daniel Fast is a 21-day diet and lifestyle plan | based on the biblical story of Daniel, who was captured by the Babylonians in Jerusalem during the 6th century B.C. During his captivity, he limited his food intake as a way to seek answers from God. Although many who partake in the Daniel Fast do so as a spiritual discipline that includes prayer and self-denial, others follow the fast in an attempt to lose weight or as a challenge to eat more healthfully. Consult your physician before starting this diet.
The foods allowed on the Daniel Fast are based on two biblical stories of Daniel's dietary restrictions while fasting. Although his first fast limited his diet to just vegetables and water, his second period of fasting involved avoiding "choice foods," such as wine and meat. Based on these stories, the Daniel Fast allows only whole grains, nuts, seeds, beans, fruits, vegetables and vegetable oils. The quantity of food you're allowed to eat is not restricted.
Prepare to give up your morning coffee and that glass of wine |
Mr. Xia Zhiyun has been serving as President and Director in Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. since September 16, 2014. | He is also Chairman of the Board in Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. (Nanjing), as well as Executive Director in Sinoma International Engineering (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. He used to serve as Director of the Company, General Manager and Director in two other machinery companies.
Mr. Ni Jinrui has been serving as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President in Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. since November 14, 2017. He is also Executive Director in a Beijing-based trade company.
Mr. Jiang Zhongwen has been serving as Vice President and Director in Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. since November 14, 2017. He is also Executive Director in a Hong Kong-based company. He was Chairman of the Board in Suzhou Sinoma Architecture and Building Materials Design Research Institute Co Ltd.
Mr. Jiao Feng has been serving as Vice President in Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. since August 2005. He is also serving as Chairman |
A prayer vigil and balloon release for three Hardin County teens killed in a weekend wreck has been planned for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday | at Praise Church, 8325 Walker Road in Beaumont.
Funeral services for Caringtin Mosley, of Batson, will be Thursday at First Baptist Church of Batson with burial following at Guedry Cemetery.
Services for Alix Neel, of Batson, will be Friday at First Baptist Church in Sour Lake with burial following at Pine Ridge Cemetery.
Services for Garrett Saulters, of Votaw, will be Friday at Cochran Funeral Home in Livingston, with interment following at Blue Water Cemetery in Livingston.
"He was our baby, the joy of our life, my everything," said Michelle Willis, the mother of Saulters, who died in the Sunday evening wreck.
The three 18-year-olds were in a Chrysler 200 driven by Mosley that crashed into a van on FM 787 near Saratoga at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, according to the Department of Public Safety. The van was halted |
The unrest in Sherman Park after a fatal police shooting Saturday appears to have mostly abated, but the social media communication that helped fuel it has, | if anything, intensified and focused on the officer.
As of Tuesday, at least 3,000 people have shared a Facebook photo of the 24-year-old Milwaukee patrolman who fatally shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith – some of them adding furious and threatening comments.
The posters gave the officer’s name, Dominique Heaggan, and some included his home address. The Journal Sentinel has independently confirmed his identity, which has not been released by the Police Department. He is also known as Dominique Heaggan-Brown.
The Journal Sentinel is naming the officer because his identity already is widely known and readily available.
Heaggan and Smith, both of whom are black, knew each other from the Sherman Park neighborhood, multiple relatives and friends have said.
Most people shared the same photo — Heaggan, in uniform and standing in front of a squad car — or shared stories of interacting with him on the streets.
Not only have social |
It's Fall Festival time in Mount Airy, and that means that Ben Gue has no time for his Main Street antiques and gifts store | .
For the past two weeks, Mr. Gue has been dealing with the last-minute crises and planning details associated with the festival, which he has chaired since 1991.
The event, to be held this weekend, traditionally draws thousands of people to Mount Airy's Main Street. Visitors can browse among the craft booths, feast on food vendors' fare and listen to the music to be provided by a variety of bands.
As the festival approaches, Mr. Gue spends much of his time fielding calls from festival participants who want to know what the plans are in case of bad weather or what office should receive the food permit application.
"Yesterday I didn't do anything for my store until 10 to 4 [p.m.]," Mr. Gue said. "I don't mind giving my time, but I always know that the last two weeks I won't get anything done here."
It's an annual routine Mr. Gue has become accustomed to as he heads |
Foul by Mirco Antenucci (SPAL).
Steven Nzonzi (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive | half.
Patrik Schick (Roma) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Edin Dzeko (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, SPAL. Conceded by Iván Marcano.
Attempt missed. Kevin Bonifazi (SPAL) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jasmin Kurtic with a cross following a corner.
Attempt missed. Patrik Schick (Roma) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Offside, Roma. Steven Nzonzi tries a through ball, but Edin Dzeko is caught offside.
Justin Kluivert (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Justin Kluivert (Roma).
Attempt blocked. Justin Kluivert (Roma) right footed shot from outside the box is |
Security Chief Guilty Of Impeding Mine Disaster Investigation : The Two-Way Former Massey Energy security chief Hughie Stover was found guilty of trying | to destroy evidence in the investigation of last year's deadly explosion at the company's Upper Big Branch coal mine.
A jury in Beckley, W.Va., has found former Massey Energy security chief Hughie Stover guilty of trying to destroy evidence in the investigation of last year's deadly explosion at the company's Upper Big Branch coal mine.
The nation's worst mine disaster in 40 years killed 29 workers.
Stover, 60, was also convicted of lying to investigators about an illegal practice at the mine in which security guards warned miners underground when federal officials arrived for surprise inspections. In two days of testimony, several guards testified that Stover trained them how to surreptitiously issue the warnings.
Prosecutors said Stover ordered a subordinate to dump thousands of security documents that investigators intended to collect as evidence in the disaster investigation.
Stover was not charged with anything directly related to the deadly blast that ripped through the mine on April 5, 2010. The defense cited that fact |
Police closed their investigations into more than half of crime reports in South Yorkshire last year without a suspect even being identified, figures from the Home Office reveal | .
That is on top of an increase in the overall crime rate which saw numbers of offences reported to the force soar by around a third to 121,000 last year, compared to 93,000 only two years previously.
incidents previously attributed to anti-social behaviour are now categorised as crimes.
Last year, 56 per cent of investigations were closed without anyone ever being identified as a suspect in South Yorkshire, suggesting many criminals effectively ‘got away with it’. Two years previously, the figure had been 45 per cent.
That situation appears worse, because of the steep increase in crimes recorded alongside a percentage increase in cases where no suspect is found.
While the figure for cases closed with no suspect found in South Yorkshire was 56 per cent last year, it was down to 45 per cent in West Yorkshire, which has similar large urban populations, 42 per cent in North Yorkshire and 41 per cent in Humberside, which has a city, towns and rural areas like |
Yaakov Har-Oz, Ori Elan and Meyer Iny were the winners of Gaash Golf Club’s inaugural Israel Golf | Cup tournament, which was played at the club.
The tournament, which David Goldenberg, Gaash Golf Club’s professional, initiated, was an individual stableford format with a nine-hole tournament in the morning and an 18-hole competition in the afternoon.
The nine-hole competition was won by Yaakov Har-Oz, followed by Yoram Bernstein, by Ilan Mendelsohn and Benny Meirov.
In the 18-hole tournament, the A division was won by Elan followed by Guy Ben Hamou. Hugo Wainstein took third, followed by Chaim Shaininger.
Iny won the B division followed by Gill Sadeghi with Albert Levi in third place, followed by Alain Hababou.
The longest drive prize went to Eliezer Shkedi and Nearest to the pin prize went to Assaf Lengy.
Last week, 40 players participated in the April Monthly Medal the day after Pass |
COSHOCTON - A few weeks ago, Keim Lumber Company in Charm celebrated its anniversary with four days of sales, free dough | nuts, coffee, popcorn and a pancake and sausage breakfast. On Saturday, drawings for door prizes took place. I had seen advertisements for the event from a mailing and ads in the Coshocton Tribune and The Beacon.
My wife and I decided to take advantage of the free pancake and sausage breakfast on Friday morning. It was being held from 7 to 9 a.m., and we showed up at 8:30 a.m. Many people were there already. The parking lot was full of cars, trucks, and Amish buggies.
Amish greeters handed out little cards to be filled out for the drawing. We filled out the cards and placed them in small containers at the writing desks. As we walked toward the breakfast venue, I saw the drum that held the cards for the drawing. It was about the size of a 55-gallon drum, and it was already three-quarters full. I mentally kissed away my chances of getting one of the Saturday |
Forza Motorsport 5 is one of the first batch of games available on the Xbox One.
After viewing the original Kinect with disdain, it is | a hugely pleasant surprise to find how impressive the new model is included with Xbox One. Voice commands actually work and the camera sensor is far more accurate. Dead Rising 3 offers the best in-game implementation so far, in calling out support commands to allies while slaughtering zombies.
Many of the launch titles – conspicuously, largely first-party titles published by Microsoft – are filled with micro-transactions (ie charging you, albeit small amounts, for extras). Forza Motorsport 5, although a great racer mechanically, offers constant nagging to buy better cars with real money, while Crimson Dragon and Ryse both lure you into the Xbox Marketplace for upgrades. Digital consumables in full-price games is disheartening, to say the least.
More a suite than a single feature, Xbox One's dedication to all-encompassing media consumption is very well implemented. Alongside Blu-ray playback and the usual array of on-demand services (Netflix, LoveFilm, iPlayer et |
CL_F Elliott Wave short-term view suggests that the decline to 61.80 on 4/06/2018 low ended Intermediate wave (2 | ). Above from there, Intermediate wave (3) remains in progress as Zigzag Elliott Wave structure. Looking to extend higher towards 70.43-72.47 area at a minimum. Up from 61.80 low, the instrument made a strong rally higher. And ended Minor wave A at 67.45 high in 5 waves structure.
The internals of Minor wave A unfolded in 5 waves impulse Elliott Wave structure where Minute wave ((i)) at 62.43, Minute wave ((ii)) ended at 62.09. Minute wave ((iii)) ended at 66.44 and Minute wave ((iv)) ended at 65.71 low. And Minute wave ((v)) of A ended at 67.45. The instrument then made a 3 waves correction lower in Minor wave B pullback as a Flat. Down from 67.45, Minute wave ((a)) at 66 low, Minute wave ((b)) at 67.76 and Minute wave ((c)) of B ended at 65.56 low. |
If local prosecutors don’t act, the anti-abortion crowd will expect — no, make that demand — that the attorney general step in | . The new measure essentially would force the attorney general to make abortion a top agenda item.
This is pure power politics. Missouri already has some of the toughest abortion laws in the nation. The state, for instance, is one of only five that require women to wait 72 hours after receiving counseling before undergoing an abortion. And that 72 hours is the nation’s longest waiting period, according to the pro-abortion-rights Guttmacher Institute.
As of now in Missouri, abortions are performed only in St. Louis, a base of the Democratic Party in the state. Democratic prosecutors there often favor abortion rights. Giving the attorney general additional power is one more way for the anti-abortion crowd to undermine the procedure.
Kansas suffered through four years of Phill Kline’s relentless crusade against abortion when he served as that state’s attorney general from 2003 to 2007. Kline whipped up a frenzy of court cases, charges, accusations and dubious claims before voters ran him |
The home — a cozy, custom-built, 272-square-foot space — was a dream Steve and Krissy Bryant nurtured for years | . But on a recent sunny Friday, Steve Bryant was stuck moving everything his four-person family owns into the single bedroom they’ll now share.
The Bryants have lived for nearly four years in a tiny wooden home on a gooseneck trailer. They towed it from El Paso, Texas, to Bend in late 2015 after Steve Bryant got out of the Army and lived in an RV park for a year before buying property in 2017 that gave their young daughters space to play outside.
For the last 12 months, their set-up seemed perfect. The Bryants had their small home, a large yard and a four-bedroom house on the same property. They rented rooms to veterans at affordable rates for Bend.
Then, in mid-January, everything started to fall apart. The family received a letter from Bend’s code enforcement division giving them 10 days to move out of their tiny, 32-foot-long house, which is considered illegal under Bend code. |
Former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan Monday hoped that the rupee will not go in for a free fall as the central bank is | appropriately raising interest rate to control inflation.
The rupee crashed below the 72-mark to end at a life-low of 72.45 against the US dollar on growing fears of contagion from an emerging-market rout and escalation of a global trade war.
Heavy speculative dollar demand along with panic among importers sent the domestic currency tumbling by a sharp 94 paise to hit a historic low of 72.67 in mid-morning trade, triggering the central bank intervention to defend the currency.
In an interview to CNBC TV18, Rajan said it was important for the RBI to continue to give signal that it would keep inflation under check.
"It is very important that RBI continues to signal as it has done so far on its concern about keeping inflation on track, about raising interest rate whenever appropriate, to fulfil its inflation objective... that gives investors confidence that rupee is not going to go in for free fall because ultimately inflation will be in control...," he said.
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CBI today examined UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya in connection with its probe into alleged loan default of Rs 900 crore taken from ID | BI bank.
The sources said Mallya was called to agency Headquarters here in connection with the case where the team of Banking Securities Fraud Cell carried out his detailed questioning.
The company said it will not comment on the matter.
CBI has registered a case against Mallya, Director of defunct Kingfisher Airlines; the company; A Raghunathan, Chief Financial Officer of the Airlines; and unknown officials of IDBI Bank.
It is alleged that the loan was sanctioned in violation of norms regarding credit limits.
The CBI sources said an FIR into the alleged violations was registered recently as part of its wide probe into criminal aspects of loans declared to be non-performing assets by public sector banks.
The sources said there was no need for the bank to take the exposure outside the consortium.
“It was first exposure to the bank. There was no need for the bank to take the exposure outside the consortium when already other loans were getting stressed,” a |
After the interest rate rise here in Australia, investors, those in debt and those thinking about parking their dough in interest-bearing securities might be asking | themselves - what next?
Knowing the answer to this question helps to make big decisions such as: Should I escape the stock market? If so, escape to what? And will this affect the housing recovery?
There are two parts to these answers, which could help you make your plans - the Aussie part and the US part.
In a scary, changeable world, I like to believe that China and India have at least a couple of good years ahead - it's not easy to stop runaway trains! And the best analysts believe Europe and Japan are in the early parts of their recovery, which should help global growth. In fact, the Reserve Bank put a strong global growth outlook into its monetary show-and-tell statement last week when justifying taking the cash rate of interest to 6%.
Against this, we have the Middle East spiralling out of control, with the Israel and Lebanon battle loading up oil prices and BP having to close down a vital pipeline in Alaska. Also hurricane |
Twice every year, candidates from all over the country converge in Ibadan and Lagos for the West Africa College of Physician and National | Post Graduate Medical College exams respectively, each diet of examinations consisting of written, objective structured clinical exams, picture tests and oral/long case exams as the case may be. It is usually a very grueling and trying time for any candidate with psychological, emotional, financial and sometimes physical consequences.
A minimum of N60,000 is paid for each exam attended without consideration of transportation, feeding, and other ancillary expenses incurred. It is funded by the candidate after an initial one time sponsorship by the training hospital.
A candidate may repeat the exams as many as seven (7) times. There are records of up to 10 times and over at one stage. Usually, candidates do not scale the first stage, and even then, meeting hurdles in each subsequent stages of the OSCE, Picture test and long case stages. Each must be passed independently, usually under stifling time constraints.
It is pertinent to shed some light on the long case examination, already phased out by certain faculties of |
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Lebanon's Foreign Minister instructs UN envoy to complain against Israel's operation against Hezbollah's tunnels.
Lebanon's Foreign Minister, | Gebran Bassil, claimed on Thursday that Israel’s actions near the border with his country is in preparation for a military assault on Lebanon.
According to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Bassil instructed Lebanon’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Amal Mudallali, to submit a complaint against Israel in this matter.
The IDF launched Operation Northern Shield overnight Monday in order to dismantle terrorist tunnels dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Within hours of the initial announcement, the IDF reported that it had uncovered a terror tunnel originating in the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kela, and leading into Israeli territory. The tunnel was dug from a cement factory in the southern Kafr Kela area and which had been converted to a military site by Hezbollah terrorists.
Earlier on Thursday, the head of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick, held a meeting with UNIFIL commander General Stefano del Col.
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The free event at RSPB Pulborough Brooks is suitable for all levels of bird and wildlife watchers and will take place on May 4 and | 5.
There will be variety of binoculars and telescopes on display for visitors to try out, as well as friendly and impartial advice from the knowledgeable team of staff and volunteers.
Sara Humphrey, communications officer at RSPB, said: “We’re privileged to showcase some incredible species on our South East reserves, including rare nightingales at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.
“Our Binocular and Telescope Open Weekends are fun, friendly and interactive events designed to help you select the very best kit for your needs – whether you’re new to wildlife watching or an experienced birder.
Not just for wildlife experts, RSPB reserve shops stock a wide range of equipment suitable for different skill levels.
The range includes RSPB and Viking binoculars and telescopes as well as other premium brands such as Swarovski and Leica.
Sara added: “We bring in extra staff and volunteers during Binocular and Telescope |
Popular Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been chosen to deliver the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address tonight. Ideas about how best | the government might respond to the limping economy and tackle the enormous federal budget deficit are sure to feature prominently in both speeches. Daniels comes to such a discussion with baggage, however, having head the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003, when the projected budget surplus of $236 billion ran down the sink hole to become a $400 billion deficit.
Warren Buffett, an icon of American super wealth, skewers the anti-tax political theocracy dominating Republican politics in a New York Times op-ed today. GOP justifications for refusing to raise taxes for billionaire Americans at a time of record deficits are preposterous, he writes, adding that taxes have never stopped wealthy people from investing. He points out that Clinton-era tax rates were clearly more effective in adding jobs than the slashed rates of the Bush years. He adds that most of the mega wealthy only pay taxes on investment income, whereas lower- and middle-class Americans pay payroll taxes, too. He |
When it comes to changing your passwords, the Heartbleed Bug is a better-safe-than-sorry bug.
This is not a | case of hackers breaking into a bunch of sites and stealing all the sites’ usernames and passwords; this is a vulnerability that allowed hackers to grab relatively small chunks of data as they flowed through sites. If you happened to be entering your username, password or credit card number as someone was making a grab, it’s probably out there now.
You’re playing the odds, in other words — and we don’t exactly know what the odds are. This bug has existed for a couple years but was just recently publicly disclosed, so there’s no telling how extensive the damage may or may not be. Again, you’re better safe than sorry.
A user over on GitHub has taken the liberty of checking the top 10,000 Alexa-ranked websites to see which ones are (or were) vulnerable to the bug. What’s handy is that the first test was run two days ago, and a second test was run within the |
So that was more like Rent Half-Live.
After leading cast member Brennin Hunt, who plays Roger, broke his foot during yesterday's | rehearsal of what was supposed to be a live production, a whole lot of changes had to be made, including making most of the production not live.
About 20 minutes into the show, after a few scenes labeled as "previously recorded," the entire cast gathered on stage to explain what had happened.
"Last night during our performance in front of a live audience, one of our cast members sustained an injury," Vanessa Hudgens, who plays Maureen, said. "A visit to the hospital confirmed that Brennin Hunt, our Roger, had broken his foot and will be unable to perform tonight."
"But Rent has always been about community, resiliency and bouncing back, so the show must go on," said Valentina, who plays Angel.
"Most of what you'll see tonight will come from last night's performance, but we have all rallied together to rework the final act so that all of us, including Brennin and the original Broadway cast of Rent |
The Paris of Sebastian Faulks is a city in which voices from the past echo disturbingly, a city also where every Metro station has a story | behind its name. One of the novel’s epigraphs comes from Kafka: “The Metro furnishes the best opportunity for the foreigner to imagine that he has understood the essence of Paris.” So enjoyment of this dazzling if also at times darkly bleak novel will be enhanced if you read it with a plan of the Paris Metro to hand: it will help you keep track of the movements of the principal characters.
It is set early this century but harks back to the grim, grey wartime Paris. Hannah, one of the two main characters, is a serious thirty-ish American academic, unattached, with an unhappy Parisian love affair some years in the past, and is now engaged in research into the lives of women during the years of the German Occupation. The other is her temporary lodger, Tariq, a beautiful, bright and brightly ignorant Moroccan of 19, who has come to Paris perhaps in search of his half-French mother, really to |
Basically, every character in the show has been assigned his or her own unique color. See all that teal in the chart above? That� | �s Alexander Hamilton. The mauve represents Angelica Schuyler, the sister-in-law with whom Hamilton has a flirtatious relationship. The songs have been run through a filter that only highlights the appearances of those specific characters. (This can be reset, if desired.) Everyone else is grayed out. By following Wu’s chart, one can see that “Take A Break” represents the one point at which Alexander and Angelica sing together.
But that’s just the beginning of what Wu has done with the data she has harvested from Hamilton. Some of the graphs here consist of clusters of dots, grouped both by song title and theme (ambition, personality, legacy, death). Wu has also carefully recorded any phrases that recur during Hamilton. Ultimately, this project has helped her achieve a greater understanding of the ideas and relationships contained within the musical. It does all seem slightly reminiscent of the bulletin boards made by conspiracy theorists, however. |
Openly gay Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa ( 35th Ward ) has denounced a May 23 decision to expel him made by the City Council | 's Latino Caucus.
The expulsion comes the same day as a City Council meeting brought to an abrupt halt by Mayor Rahm Emanuel after heated arguments about a $95 million police academy that Ramirez-Rosa opposes.
Caucus leader Ald. Gil Villegas, 36th Ward, told Chicago Tribune that the expulsion was not related to the police academy issueRamirez-Rosa supposedly did not engage "meaningfully" with the Caucus, they saidand that Ramirez-Rosa could appeal the decision next month.
In a May 23 statement, Ramirez-Rosa said, "I have worked diligently to craft a progressive agenda for the Latino Caucus since my election to the Chicago City Council in 2015. I have scheduled policy briefings for the Caucus with legal experts and community leadersincluding at the Caucus' last meeting. I have repeatedly sought the support of the Caucus for measures that will expand protections for undocumented immigrants, and address displacement and gentrification in our communities.
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Poison frontmanBret Michaels has twice failed to find love among bunches of bleached, leathered, pierced and painted strippers at a | Hollywood Hills mansion (every rose has her thorns, after all), so the dreamy hair god has taken his search to more realistic environs -- the road. And the road leads to Hagerstown.
"The Rock of Love Bus Tour" hits Hagerstown Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Michaels plans to play Hager Hall after canceling or postponing dates in Chicago, Richmond and Knoxville, Tenn., because of laryngitis.
I wonder how he got it? And I hope he finds someone to give it to in Hagerstown. I can't think of a better place in the area -- outside of Jaxx in West Springfield, of course -- for this '80s icon to find his true piece.
Michaels' third season of "Love," which inspired this tour, has him tailed by two bus loads of groupies who must jump through hoops to prove they can handle life on the road. Just screams "Hep |
update The Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group (AUUG) today faced a call from past president Greg Lehey to dismantle the 31-year | -old organisation.
AUUG was formed in 1975 and focuses on building an Australian community of professionals interested in Unix-based interoperable systems. However, the group has suffered a dwindling membership over the years, leading to a discussion kicked off in mid-2004 about finally closing its doors.
AUUG past president Greg Lehey re-opened that discussion today with a lengthy e-mail to the organisation's online discussion list and board of directors. The letter was entitled "AUUG: Time to pull the plug?"
"I think that it's time to disband AUUG. Am I the only one?" Lehey wrote.
Highlighting a lack of communication about AUUG's pending annual general meeting and conference, in addition to ongoing maintenance issues, Lehey called for discussion on AUUG's future.
When contacted, AUUG vice president Steve Landers pointed to a post he made this afternoon to the group's e-mail discussion list.
"Re the question of whether AU |
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece has received legislative approval for constitutional changes that transfer the powers of the presidency to himself and the leftwingers | who dominate his parliament.
Before the shift can be carried out, a second vote is required after elections in June. Approval then will be a clear sign that Mr. Papandreou is crossing a political divide--turning Greece into the anti-Western leftist state he spoke about when campaigning for office in 1981.
His apologists suggest that Mr. Papandreou is skillfully walking a tightrope between his own pro-Western leaning--developed as a U.S. citizen and a World War II GI--and the Marxist wing of his Socialist Party. But his crafty moves to eliminate political opposition are Marxist scripture.
His first step toward usurping the power of the presidency was to force the resignation of President Constantine Karamanlis, a respected leader whose presence as head of state seemed a guarantee against left-wing extremism. Mr. Papandreou`s hand-picked replacement, Christos Sartzetakis, then dissolved parliament and called new elections. That is a |
GLENDALE, Ariz. — In its video detailing a 20-game suspension for Calgary’s Dennis Wideman for his cross- | check of linesman Don Henderson, the NHL acknowledged that Wideman had suffered a concussion on a hit moments earlier. The league’s concussion spotter flagged Wideman to be sent to the so-called “quiet room” as part of the concussion protocol, but Wideman refused to leave the game.
The NHL currently is being sued by more than 100 former players claiming the league was negligent in its handling of concussions, and in educating players about the risks head injuries pose.
Michal Rozsival returned to the lineup on Thursday after missing Tuesday’s game with a lower-body injury. Both Rob Scuderi and Viktor Svedberg were scratched. Quenneville still is unsure how long he’ll carry eight defensemen.
“We’re only looking at it tonight right now,” he said before the game.
It’s becoming commonplace for reporters outside of Chicago to ask about Corey Crawford, as his profile |
For years now, we CIOs have been hard at work consolidating data centers, systems and software licenses. We’ve saved our | companies millions. But as the saying goes, “You can’t save your way to greatness.” Greatness in business requires making money.
And so we need to change our thinking about what IT contributes to an organization. We’re used to viewing computing as a back-office function–a cost center. But we have to turn it into a profit center. We need to ask ourselves what we can do with IT that our customers will pay for.
CIOs must exercise leadership here because IT is becoming central to how companies make money in our global economy. While important for all CIOs, it’s essential for CIOs at mid-market companies, where survival depends on finding new revenue opportunities.
Using IT to make money means getting close to your sales force and helping them sell more of your company’s products. It’s that simple. But it takes commitment to shift from a money-saving to a moneymaking |
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been on the run from the US authorities after being linked to a serious US national security breach, has come | out of hiding in Belgium.
The Telegraph reports that trouble started for Assange after a US intelligence analyst bragged about sending 260,000 confidential state department cables about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the online whistleblower website. Washington tried to stop the classified information being posted online by arresting the analyst, Bradley Manning. Amid reports that he was the target of a US military manhunt, Mr Assange went to ground for one month.
We need support and protection. We have that. More is always helpful. But we believe that the situation is stable and under control. There’s no need to be worried. There’s a need always to be on the alert.
Wikileaks appeared on the internet three years ago. It was created by an online network of journalists, computer experts and dissidents from all over the world, as a repository for highly sensitive, or secret information, often published straight from the secret files. The website’s content is held by as many as twenty servers |
J. Razzo's 2 in Westfield is expected to close soon, too, the owner said.
After eight years in business, | a beloved Italian restaurant in Carmel is closing its doors.
J. Razzo's Italian Restaurant will close Sept. 15, owner John Perazzo told IndyStar on Monday.
Perazzo said construction on U.S. 31 and the permanent closure of the exit to Carmel Drive affected his business.
"For the past six years, it was hard for people to find the restaurant or they would get lost," Perazzo said. "The shopping center doesn't have that many tenants anymore. There's only a few of us left."
The project that ended in 2015 turned U.S. 31 into an expressway-style thoroughfare with roundabout entrances and exits, but it caused hardship for several businesses, especially restaurants, which reported losing as much as 50 percent of their customers.
Carmel began a campaign called the #31Bites pledge, which challenged residents to eat and shop along the corridor 31 times during August of 2014.
Some businesses |
Andy Preece revealed that he was left disillusioned with football after his Southport exit as he prepares to make his first return to Haig | Avenue with Chorley this weekend.
Preece took over at Southport in February 2017 when they were in the midst of a relegation battle. The ex-Bury, Worcester and Northwich Victoria boss could not prevent Port’s relegation from the National League.
That May, Preece was told he would not be kept on, but was invited to re-apply for his position when the new board was in place.
Preece found himself fed up with football until a call from an ex-player of his, and new Chorley boss, Jamie Vermiglio was too good to turn down.
Vermiglio had just stepped up from assistant to manager at the National League North side and asked his old Northwich boss to join his coaching staff.
Vermiglio, Preece and Jonathan Smith have since guided the Magpies to the top of the table.
And as he heads to his old side Preece |
Two pipeline protesters who caused millions of dollars in property damage have gone into hiding, prompting many to wonder if they will ever face justice.
Construction | workers were subjected unprecedented levels of protests from environmental and progressive activists when building of the Dakota Access Pipeline started in 2016. Protesters gathered by the thousands in an attempt to stop the completion of the crude oil pipeline that now runs from Illinois to North Dakota — cutting across Iowa along the way. Many of them resorted to criminal activity in the process.
President Donald Trump’s approval of the project in January 2017 has not deterred many of these pipeline protesters.
In what was an apparent public admission of guilt, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya — two longtime activists — held a news conference on July 24, 2017 outside the Iowa Utilities Board’s offices in Des Moines to explain their own anti-pipeline activity. Reznicek and Montoya detailed a litany of crimes they committed as part of their “direct action” campaign to interfere with construction: Torching at least five pieces of heavy construction equipment in Buena Vista County, Iowa; using oxyacetylene cutting |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — How can we keep more people from joining the ranks of the 29 million Americans already diagnosed with diabetes? What | if we could tell with precision who has the highest risk of developing the disease, and figure out which preventive steps are most likely to help each of them individually?
The new model may allow better targeting of drugs and lifestyle changes to those who can benefit most.
Researchers have just released a “precision medicine” approach to diabetes prevention that could do just that – using existing information like blood sugar levels and waist-to-hip ratios, and without needing new genetic tests.
Their newly published model examined 17 different health factors, in an effort to predict who stands to gain the most from a diabetes-preventing drug, or from lifestyle changes like weight loss and regular exercise. Seven of those factors turned out to matter most.
The model is published in the British Medical Journal by a team from the University of Michigan, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
They hope to turn it into a tool for doctors to use with patients who have “ |
Great Mills and Lighthouse Productions presents Footloose the Musical!
One of the most explosive movie musicals in recent memory bursts onto the live | stage with exhilarating results. When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the inevitable adjustment period at his new high school. What he isn't prepared for are the rigorous local edicts, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher, determined to exercise the control over the town's youth that he cannot command in his own home. When the reverend's rebellious daughter sets her sights on Ren, her roughneck boyfriend tries to sabotage Ren's reputation, with many of the locals eager to believe the worst about the new kid. The heartfelt story that emerges is of a father longing for the son he lost and of a young man aching for the father who walked out on him. To the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score (the soundtrack album reached number one on the Billboard charts and has sold over 15 million copies!) and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical, FOOTLOOSE celebrates the |
General picture of knives handed in during an amnesty.
Thousands of banned items including knives, tools and alcohol have been confiscated at courts in West Yorkshire | .
During the last five years a total of 34,476 items were seized by court security staff, including 489 knives bigger than 3in and 2,735 containers of alcohol.
The two crown courts in Leeds and Bradford, where the most serious cases from Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield are sent, as well as Leeds Magistrates’ Court had the highest number of items seized year on year.
Bradford Magistrates’ Court was the only court to confiscate replica guns from people attending court, with four found in 2012-2013.
No genuine firearms have been confiscated in the past five years.
A total of 209 banned items were confiscated at Calderdale Magistrates’ Court including 19 knives, only one of which was longer than 3in, as well as 69 items from the “others” category, which has included umbrellas, aerosols, drinks cans or anything else that security thought could be used as a weapon or cause |
Science and the digital world have overhauled our world, but the stakes just got higher: Now technology wants to remake you, using everything from the | internet to stem cells.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus taught man how to farm. But when he gave man fire, the gods felt he had gone too far. And so as punishment, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where every day an eagle would come and eat his liver, which would regrow because he was immortal.
Prometheus’s story is about mankind’s dominion over its world and how much power is too much. But counterintuitively it is Zeus, not Prometheus, who many artists and writers in the last thousand years have sided with. The story is relevant today because humanity is at a turning point, and two opposing forces are locked in a war that is just beginning to come into being. On one side are our innovations and the power that comes with them, and on the other side is the fact that when it comes to us ourselves, there seems to be no innovation.
For tens of thousands of years, technology has been directed outward—on the world |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Thirty-one passengers and a crew member aboard an Etihad Airways flight were injured Wednesday | when their plane ran into sudden turbulence as it prepared to land in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
The United Arab Emirates' national airline said flight EY474, which departed from its hub in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi, was hit by "severe and unexpected turbulence" about 45 minutes before landing at Soekarno Hatta International Airport.
The Airbus A330-200 landed safely but nine passengers and a crew member were taken to a local hospital for their injuries, Etihad said. Paramedics treated the other 22 at the airport's clinic for minor injuries and they were released, the airline said.
Haerul Anwar, a spokesman for the Jakarta airport, described nine of the injuries as serious. He said officials from the airport and Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee were inspecting the plane.
The airline did not provide details on the severity of the injuries, but said the turbulence was severe enough that it damaged cabin storage bins.
Indonesian Transportation Ministry spokesman |
The Anaheim City Council on Wednesday night voted down a historic ballot proposal that would have created voting districts to help increase Latino representation in a community that has | been riven by two recent fatal police shootings.
The proposal, supported by Disneyland Resort and many of the hundreds of people who packed the special council meeting, was killed on a 3-2 vote following several hours of emotional testimony.
Mayor Tom Tait and Councilwoman Lorri Galloway supported the measure. "There is no reason to waste time," Galloway said. "Let the people vote."
Council members Kris Murray, Gail Eastman and Harry Sidhu cast the dissenting votes for the majority. "I strongly believe we should take the time and do it right," Murray said to boos from the audience.
Council members opted instead to establish a citizens advisory committee on elections and community involvement. The move angered dozens in the audience, who began chanting, "We'll be back. We'll be back," as they left the auditorium at Anaheim High School.
The council vote came in the wake of a series of heated protests over the deadly police shootings last month of |
New Delhi: India, the world’s largest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may impose tax on imports to protect oilseed growers as | cheap palm oil floods the domestic market.
The government may levy the tax after Diwali on 28 October, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Duty on crude soya bean and palm oils was scrapped in April and the levy on refined edible oils was cut to 7.5% to bolster supplies.
Lower vegetable oil purchases may pressure palm oil prices, which have fallen to a two-year low in Malaysia, which trades the global benchmark. The tropical oil makes up 90% of India’s total purchases of edible oils.
Edible oil imports in September gained 9% to 623,208 tonnes from 569,538 tonnes a year ago, the Solvent Extractors’ Association said last week. Imports climbed 14.5% to 4.82 million tonnes (mt) in the 11 months ended 30 September, the trade body said.
January-delivery palm oil dropped as much as 6.7% to 1,5 |
When Jerry Brown was unveiling his final state budget this month, a reporter asked him about the legacy of his record-long governorship.
Well | , yes they do, and during his second gubernatorial incarnation, Brown has often invoked the accomplishments of his father, Pat Brown. It has been a marked contrast to his first stint as governor four decades ago, when, as sons are wont to do, he was trying to project his own identity.
In fact, one could infer that Jerry Brown’s entire second governorship has been, at least partly, an effort to bury the “Governor Moonbeam” image he acquired the first time around and compare favorably with the father he now embraces.
That inference was bolstered by Brown’s final State of the State address last week, one devoted largely to recounting what he and the Legislature have done over the last seven years and only minimally to any agenda for his final year.
Brown punctuated his speech with lists of what he clearly regards as major accomplishments, such as pension reform, workers compensation reform, creation of a “rainy day fund” to |
BAGHDAD, Iraq—Shiite Muslim assassins are killing former members of Saddam Hussein's mostly Sunni Muslim regime with impunity in a wave | of violence that, combined with the ongoing Sunni insurgency, threatens to escalate into civil war.
The war between Shiite vigilantes and former Baath Party members is seldom investigated and largely overshadowed by the insurgency. The U.S. military is preoccupied with hunting down suicide bombers and foreign terrorists, and Iraq's new Shiite leaders have little interest in prosecuting those who kill their former oppressors or their enemies in the insurgency.
The killings have intensified since January's Shiite electoral victory, and U.S. and Iraqi officials worry that they could imperil progress toward a unified, democratic Iraq.
"It's the beginning, and we could go down the slippery slope very quickly," said Sabah Kadhim, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. "We've been so concerned with removing terrorists and Islamists that this other situation has reared its ugly head. Both sides are sharpening their knives."
An intelligence memo distributed Feb. 15 to the U.S. military and private security contractors in |
This is not the kind of earnings growth you ordinarily get from a stodgy "industrials" company.
Shares of heavy-manufact | uring company ITT Inc. (NYSE:ITT) popped 16% after reporting a big earnings beat this morning. Expected to earn only $0.79 per share on sales of $671.4 million, ITT reported $0.82 per share in pro forma profits -- and an even better $1.25 per share in GAAP.
Sales, likewise, came in ahead of estimates at $680.6 million.
ITT's stock has been seesawing all day -- but it's still up strongly. Image source: Getty Images.
Revenues for the fiscal third quarter inched up 6%, but ITT parlayed improved profit margins into a 28% increase in net profit per diluted share. Management also highlighted a 10% increase in new orders during the quarter -- faster than revenue growth and probably foreshadowing more revenue growth to come.
So why has ITT stock already given back nearly half its gains from earlier in the day? (As |
NASHVILLE — The Jets face a losing team for the third straight week, hoping for their third straight win.
Gang Green has kept | its slim playoff hopes alive by beating the Cardinals and Jaguars the last two weeks. Tonight, they face the Titans in what amounts to an elimination game for the Jets (6-7). If they lose, they are out of the playoffs.
The Titans (4-9) have lost three straight games and are in a tailspin. The Jets, though, are not looking at their record.
“I don’t think at this point we can overlook anybody, regardless of their record,” safety Yeremiah Bell said.
No they can not. The Jets have taken care of business the last two weeks against some dismal offenses. They held the Cardinals and Jaguars to a combined 2-for-31 on third downs.
Tennessee enters the game with the 23rd ranked offense in the NFL. The Titans have only one starter on the offensive line who began the season as a starter, as injuries have hit that group hard.
The Jets won’t |
We're coming up fast on the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 15 (26 July-7 August 1971), the first advanced J-class Apollo mission | and the first to include a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). I've been looking for an opportunity to use the two panels above, which display the LRV deployment sequence in colorful detail. I had thought to include them in the post I am writing now, which is about an alternative to the LRV that (literally) never took off, but these panels are just too detailed and well-wrought for that; they pull attention away from the real focus of the post. So, I decided to give them a post of their own.
Boeing built the LRV on contract to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, starting in mid-1969, though the company (and several others, such as Bendix) had studied lunar rovers since the early 1960s. Three LRVs now rest on the moon where their Apollo astronaut drivers parked them. In a program chock-full of remarkable machines, the LRVs stand out from |
Justo Gallego has spent 40 years single-handedly building a cathedral, only to discover that his quixotic passion for the offbeat | building was not widely shared.
After four decades of toil the 78-year-old former Cistercian monk says his obra, or work, which rises out of the Castilian plain at Mejorada del Campo 15 miles from Madrid, is now almost finished.
But as many of Spain's dilapidated churches are increasingly given over to storks rather than worshippers, the Church sees no need for another.
"It's not a cathedral and it never will be," said a spokesman for the Alcala diocese, to which Mejorada del Campo belongs. "It's not necessary and it needs the kind of investment that the diocese just can't make."
The local authorities also wonder what they will do with a building that never had planning permission and is built with techniques unorthodox even by Spain's variable standards.
Miguel Valero, a planning councillor at Mejorada del Campo, echoed doubts over the future |
Martin says issues of skin color are nothing new in the black community.
(CNN) - Acura found itself in a bit of hot water | this week when it was revealed that a casting agency in Los Angeles only desired light-skinned African-American actors for the company's Super Bowl commercial featuring Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld.
The company apologized, but that hasn't stopped a lot of the chatter criticizing Acura for not doing more to keep the casting agency in check. This really isn't a new story considering how many times in the past we've heard similar stories, including that advertising agencies have non-urban dictates like refusing to buy advertising space on black-focused radio, TV, magazine and online properties.
But there is another critical discussion that must be had, and that is the belief that the lighter skinned you are, the better your life will be.
Being called the "White House" has nothing to do with white people. It wasnt even called that until 1901.....300 years after the countrys founding....1776 was the date the union was founded, not Americas birthyear. Prior to 1901 it |
The Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom’s dual-lens rear camera, long battery life and generous storage capacity help it break the trend | of unimpressive smartphone upgrades.
The Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom ships with a 5.5-inch display featuring full HD resolution. The screen supports up to 10 simultaneous touchpoints and has a blue light filter to protect user eyes. It also features Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 to protect against falls and a fingerprint- and smudge-resistant coating for better visual quality.
The Zenfone 3 Zoom has a massive 5,000mAh battery that can last up to two days of continuous talk time. When the phone is in standby mode, its battery can hold out for 42 days before it needs to be recharged.
Fast-charging has become a critical feature in the smartphone market, and Asus was quick to note that not only does its smartphone support it, but it’s using cutting-edge charging technology. The Zenfone 3 Zoom comes with a USB-C port that allows it to add two hours of charge time in just five minutes. |
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I visited Mary Beth Meehan’s City of Champions, a display of large-scale images of Brockton residents on the walls of buildings in downtown Brockton. Meehan photographs people she gets to know and comes across in Brockton, a town that is struggling with economic hardship, a changing population, and a growing rift between “old” and “new” Brockton, a rift that is at least partially racial.
The images will be up for a year, and the project also includes various kinds of participatory programming, a project web site, and newspaper articles. Mary Beth Meehan wrote a couple of articles about her project including one for the Public Humanist, and it has received local publicity. Many of the articles include slideshows, which feature photos that are now large-scale banners hanging on buildings in Brockton and others which are part of the larger project, which is explained on |
Jay Z is making moves to expand his entertainment empire, but there’s at least one artist who isn’t too thrilled about it | : British chart-topper Rita Ora.
The “Body on Me” singer, 25, filed a complaint against Jay Z’s Roc Nation record label on Thursday, December 17, claiming that the company has not been taking care of its own since it expanded into sports management and other interests.
California Labor Code Section 2855 (better known as the “seven year rule”) was enacted in 1944, when actress Olivia De Haviland took issue with her contract with Warner Bros. after the studio refused to let her go or let her sign on for roles outside of the ones they’d suggested for her.
Ora’s main complaint is that she is currently “self-funding her promotional television appearances, recording costs and video projects” now that she’s been “orphaned” by Roc Nation after it switched distribution partners from Sony to Universal — but left her behind at Sony.
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Graham: Why didn't the FBI warn Trump like they warned Feinstein?
Graham: Why didn’t the FBI warn Trump like they warned | Feinstein?
In order to get Lindsey Graham’s point in this discussion with Harris Faulkner, first you’d have to know about the spy on Dianne Feinstein’s staff. Thanks to the collective silence of most media outlets, the audience for this argument might be somewhat limited — but that doesn’t make it any less powerful. Graham wants to know why the FBI warned Dianne Feinstein about a suspected spy but never bothered to tell Donald Trump about their suspicions over Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
I’m gonna send a letter to Director Wray next week and ask him what is the policy? Why didn’t you tell president Trump that you had concerns about Carter Page? Is there a double standard here?
If this was a counter-intelligence investigation and not a criminal investigation, the FBI should have told President Trump they had concerns about Papadopoulos and Page. Why didn’t they do for Trump what they did for Feinstein? |
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, Credit: Archdiocese of Bombay.
Bangkok, Thailand, Jul 23, 2013 | / 12:07 pm ().- Pope Francis' encyclical “Lumen Fidei” is notable for exploring the “valuable richness” of faith and for being an “answer to the present challenges to faith,” according to the Archbishop of Bombay.
“Lumen Fidei” is a “challenge to us not to take our faith for granted, but to understand our faith, to live it ethically, and proclaim it confidently,” Cardinal Oswald Gracias told CNA July 22.
The encyclical has the “theological depth” and insights of Benedict XVI as well as the “direct approach” of Pope Francis, making concrete examples to form direct appeals to people of God.
“I think the combination has been excellent (in) the depth, clarity and appeal” of the document.
While the encyclical is addressed to all the faithful, Cardinal Gracias |
The merger of SunEdison and Vivint Solar has investors excited today.
What: Shares of TerraForm Power (NASDAQ:TERP | ), SunEdison (NASDAQOTH:SUNEQ), and Vivint Solar (NYSE:VSLR) all surged today after a merger involving all three companies moved a step closer to becoming reality.
So what: Vivint solar agreed to take $2 less per share in cash than originally agreed upon from SunEdison, now down to $7.89 per share. And SunEdison kicked in $0.75 per share in additional stock, although it didn't change the old offer of 0.12 shares of stock per Vivint Solar share, despite the stock's drop since June.
In addition, Blackstone will provide $250 million in financing, and Goldman Sachs is adding another $300 million to fund the transaction. Those sources of funding, and $799 million in asset purchases being dropped down to TerraForm Power, should get the deal done.
Now what: Clearly, investors are cheering this adjusted merger today. Keep in mind, however, that it was |
What if the Toronto International Film Festival threw a party, and no one wanted to come? That's traditionally been the dilemma when it comes to T | IFF's opening-night film – an ostensibly prestigious slot that's been so littered with charity cases, flops and embarrassments that it's practically toxic. Does anyone remember – or, more accurately, want to remember – last year's entry, The Judge? How about The Fifth Estate the year before that? Or – apologies in advance for bringing it up – Score: A Hockey Musical?
Programming the spot is a tricky calculus. If the film is too Canadian, it will scare off the few foreign press who show up on the first day. Too Hollywood and it will incite the usual cris de coeur from talking heads across the country. Once upon a time, the slot was reserved for homegrown productions, often the splashier of Telefilm Canada's wares. But that was also back when the festival had its Canada First! program and a distinct inferiority complex regarding its own countrymen's cultural output (which is different from the festival's current inferiority complex regarding competing festivals such as |
Thursday marks 10 years since anyone has heard from or seen Kyle Fleischmann.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – There is | a somber anniversary for the mysterious disappearance of a young man.
Thursday marks 10 years since anyone has heard from or seen Kyle Fleischmann. The 24-year-old was last seen on video surveillance walking alone after police say he left a group of friends in uptown Charlotte.
Now, Kyle’s grieving father is sharing his thoughts about the cold case. Richard Fleischmann tells NBC Charlotte he hasn’t heard from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department since 2013 and he still has several questions about his son’s case.
“It’s hard to believe it’s 10 years, it seems like yesterday for us,” Richard said.
NBC Charlotte interviewed Richard through Skype. New technology also makes the grieving father wonder, what if?
“Ironically, if this were to happen tonight, he would have pressed Uber and probably been alive today,” Richard said.
Video surveillance shows the last images of |
Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne could both return to action as champions Manchester City face Everton this weekend.
Aguero, | City’s record scorer, has missed the last four games with a groin injury while playmaker De Bruyne has been troubled by knee injuries all season.
The Belgian has been restricted to just three substitute appearances in the Premier League and not featured at all since the first week of November.
The pair’s return would ease a lengthy injury list that left Guardiola with just 15 senior fit players for the Champions League clash against Hoffenheim in midweek.
Former Everton defender John Stones, who was substituted at half-time on Wednesday with a knee problem, Fernandinho and Danilo will also be assessed ahead of the Toffees’ visit to the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday, Guardiola said: “Yesterday (Stones) was in treatment and today we train at 4pm.
David Silva, Benjamin Mendy and Claudio Bravo remain on the sidelines.
Guardiola added that the recent spate of injuries |
The supreme court has ruled that electoral candidates cannot seek votes in the name of religion, caste, creed, community or language. A seven-jud | ge bench, headed by chief justice of India TS Thakur, said and that the relationship between man and God is an individual choice and the state should not interfere in it.
While the bench called election a secular exercise, three of the seven judges expressed dissent by saying that the matter must be left to Parliament to decide. The three dissenting judges, as quoted by the Hindustan Times, added that prohibiting people from articulating legitimate concerns reduced “democracy to an abstraction".
The bench was hearing petitions in a 21-year-old SC verdict that had called Hindutva a "way of life" and not a religion. The 1995 apex court’s decision had given many political parties the leverage to attract voters on religious lines.
In the near future, the latest decision of the SC can have serious implications on campaigning in assembly elections due this year in five states, especially in Uttar Pradesh where the Ram temple in Ayodhya still remains a poll issue. In the long |
HE HOSTED the show in 2013, but that didn’t stop Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane revealing what he sees as the | Oscars’ biggest problem during yesterday’s ceremony.
FAMILY Guy creator and one-time Academy Awards host Seth MacFarlane has spoken out about what he sees as the “big problem” with the Oscars following yesterday’s ceremony.
MacFarlane, who drew mixed responses when he hosted the 2013 Oscars, tweeted his thoughts after a ceremony yesterday that saw fantasy film The Shape Of Water and dramas like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and The Darkest Hour take home many of the major awards.
MacFarlane’s issue with the Oscars is the lack of acknowledgment for excellent comedy films.
“Here’s another big problem with the Oscars no one talks about: It’s 99% drama. Until a movie like Bridesmaids or Airplane! gets a Best Picture win or even a nomination, it’s all conspicuously incomplete. Get Out is a breath of fresh air to be sure, but it |
A 12-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the lower leg Wednesday evening on East Jacobs Road north of Spokane Valley.
Spokane County | sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an accidental shooting around 8:45 p.m.
The boy and his grandfather were roughhousing together in the living room of a home on the 14000 block of East Jacobs Road when a handgun in a concealed holster on the grandfather’s belt went off, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The bullet went through the boy’s right calf.
The injury wasn’t life-threatening, the Sheriff’s Office said, and the boy was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
A Moscow man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of an acquaintance now faces a drug charge.
Nathaniel H. Nisbet, 28, has been charged in 2nd District Court with possession of a controlled substance, the Lewiston Tribune reported.
Police say they found methamphetamine in a backpack while searching a trailer following a Nov. 10 shooting.
Prosecutors say Nisbet shot and |
Bailey’s Bay, Somerset Cricket Club, Willow Cuts, Western Stars, Devonshire Recreation Club and Warwick Workmen’ | s Club all recorded victories in this weekend’s First and Premier Division cricket action.
At the Sea Breeze Oval, Cleveland County batted first and were bowled all out for 83 in 22 overs. Clay Darrell was the top scorer with 24, Kyle Hodsoll led the Bailey’s Bay bowling attack with figures of 6-1-26-4.
In reply Bailey’s Bay scored 84/2 in 15.1 overs, Stephen Outerbridge was the top scorer with 27, Treadwell Gibbons was the pick of the Cleveland County bowlers with figures of 4-0-8-1.
At the Somerset Cricket Club, Joshua Gilbert scored 94 runs to lead the Somerset Cricket Club to a total of 242, Delyone Borden led the St. David’s Cricket Club bowling attack with figures of 9.2-1-54-4.
In reply St. David’s Cricket Club were bowled all out for 92 |
Unlike actual suicide, it's really easy to change your mind about fake suicide, which can be both a plus and a minus. It's a | minus if your goal is to evade the law, as in the case of the Indiana businessman Marcus Schrenker, who faked his death in a plane crash.
WaPo: Schrenker had been missing since Sunday, when he flew from Anderson, Ind., bound for Destin, Fla. Southwest of Birmingham, Ala., he radioed that his plane's windshield had imploded and that his face was covered with blood.
Authorities said they think Schrenker then bailed out of the Piper Turboprop, parachuting to the ground and speeding away on a motorcycle he had stashed away in the pine barrens of central Alabama. Military jets tried to intercept the plane and found the door open, the cockpit dark. The plane crashed in the Florida Panhandle after traveling more than 200 miles on autopilot.
Authorities suspect Schrenker, president of a wealth management company, was trying to escape legal and financial troubles, including allegations of fraud. Schrenker's wife also had |
Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about a child heroin addict she fabricated.
In 1921, New York World reporter Louis Seib | old won a Pulitzer Prize for an interview he conducted with President Woodrow Wilson. The problem: Wilson was incapacitated due to a stroke, and the interview was faked with the help of the president’s wife and chief of staff.
Now known for his frequent presence on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Barnicle was forced to resign from the Boston Globe in 1998 after plagiarizing the comedian George Carlin in a column. Barnicle had troubles dating back to 1973, when a court ruled Barnicle made up a quote and the Globe was forced to pay $40,000 in damages. In 1990, he quoted Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz as saying he likes Asian women because they’re “submissive.” The Globe paid $75,000 in a settlement after Dershowitz sued.
In 2004, Fox News apologized to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) after Cameron falsely reported Kerry had received a manicure before |
Javier Bardem has never played an investigative reporter in his many dramatic films.
But the Spanish Oscar winner turns into a real-life journalist | for Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony, the refugee-crisis documentary he brought to TIFF 2012. He’s involved because he’s frustrated by a lack of clarity and action by global governments and the United Nations.
Forced to live in refugee camps or on Moroccan-occupied lands for decades, the Sahrawi remain peaceful due to their highly honourable culture, says Bardem.
Together with director Alvaro Longoria, Bardem uses his celebrity spotlight to probe deeply into the epic tragedy and scandal that has hundreds of thousands of people in the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, living as the impoverished hostages of failed politics.
These people, known as Sahrawi, have for decades been forced to live in refugee camps or on Moroccan-occupied lands, because the world doesn’t know how to deal with Morocco’s illegal territorial ambitions.
Neighbouring Morocco seized control of the Western Sahara in 1975 after Spain quit the territory |
"They've got the TV on (inside Craig's office)," he said. "He's got his Spuddy Buddy (Idaho potato doll | ) on the credenza when you walk in, and a ceramic potato full of those Idaho pins. There have been a number of Craig people, at least four staffers, who have gone out and come back with vanilla and chocolate swirl soft ice cream. They've been fueled by soft swirl ice cream this afternoon."
When one young staffer walked by, the reporters grilled her. She just smiled and walked on, taking another bite of her ice cream.
Meanwhile, official Senate business continued. One man came to the office with what looked like an official photograph. Another wandered the halls with big canvas bags that said Florida Orange juice.
"I didn't see him stop by Craig's office," Popkey said.
Craig mentioned the value of his seniority in his statement Thursday as a key reason he decided to stay in office for the rest of his term. Some of that value can be seen in the Hart Office Building.
"He's around the corner from (Alaska Sen.) Ted |
With its blue globe, swooshed rings and a constellation of stars remarkably like NASA's, North Korea has proudly unveiled a new logo for its | space agency to 'glorify' its stature as a global power.
But almost as soon as it was unveiled, the emblem was already threatening to bring dictator Kim Jong Un crashing back down to Earth.
Amid the fanfare, it has been quick to attract mocking criticism because its acronym NADA unfortunately translates as 'nothing' in Spanish.
That, cynics have pointed out, pretty much sums up the hermit nation's achievements in the space race to date.
North Korea has managed to launch just one satellite into space after several botched attempts and even that is thought to have malfunctioned while in orbit.
And while the logo has also been likened to NASA's iconic symbol - albeit a cartoon version - North Korea made no reference to its arch rivals when announcing the design.
Critics soon took to Twitter to mock the logo.
Felicity Morse said: 'Love that North Korea has not only ripped off Nasa's logo, but also called it Nada'.
The logo |
A contingent of 26 Godspeed Wings team members will run today in Carrollton, Ga., at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Cross Country National | Championships.
The Godspeed Wings range from 10 to 18 years old and represent the Carson City, Douglas County, Lake Tahoe and Elko.
The Youth Boys team of Trevor Birba, Tyler Bourns, Martin Cerceo, Kyle Conroy, Ian Rice and Chad Shroy won the team title at the Region 14 championships three weeks ago in Pleasanton, Calif., but will be without key runner Justin Grant.
The Midget Boys team that took first in both the Pacific and region meets hopes to finish in the top five teams today. The team consists of Travis Airola, second at regionals; Patrick Reilly, fourth at regionals; Spencer Brinson, David King, Brendan Rice, Richard Shroy and Patrick Van Epps.
The Youth Girls team of Christa Casci, Tiffany Halen, Kelsey McClurg, Lauren Riersgard, and Taylor Stokes finished fifth at the regional meet and are looking to crack the top 10 today.
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UPDATE March 7 4:12 PM EST: Attorney General Eric Holder sent a second letter to Senator Rand Paul on Thursday clarifying the administration’ | s views on the use of military force inside the United States.
Yes, the president does have the authority to use military force against American citizens on US soil—but only in “an extraordinary circumstance,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday.
Last month, Paul threatened to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan, Obama’s pick to head the CIA, “until he answers the question of whether or not the president can kill American citizens through the drone strike program on US soil.” Tuesday, Brennan told Paul that “the agency I have been nominated to lead does not conduct lethal operations inside the United States—nor does it have any authority to do so.” Brennan said that the Justice Department would answer Paul’s question about whether Americans could be targeted for lethal strikes on US soil.
This post has been edited to include Paul’s statement and the final line of Holder |
You can only depreciate office furniture.
Depletion and depreciation are similar terms. Depletion is commonly referred to for the use | of a resource, like coal, whereas depreciation means the use of an asset. However, both words perform the same function. You start off with the cost of an item and, over the life of that item, you have an expense to match its use. With furniture, you should use depreciation. The two most common depreciation forms are straight line depreciation and double declining depreciation.
Find the cost of the furniture, and estimate a useful life for the furniture and if you think it will have any value when you are done with it. The useful life is how long you reasonably expect the furniture to last. For example, assume you bought furniture for $500 and expect it to last for five years and it will be worth $50 at the end of the five years.
Subtract the value you estimate the furniture to be worth at the end of its useful life from the cost of the furniture. Then divide the difference by the useful life to depreciate the asset under straight line depreciation. |
The present EMU Collections Department policy is to hold a student’s degree as hostage until the debt is paid in full. If a student | has taken all of his required classes in his program of study and then must take his internship to finish his degree, the EMU Collections Department will not allow that student to complete his program by registering for his internship until he pays his debt. The only penalty which can be placed upon the EMU Collections Department for violating these Federal laws is to be sued in court.
Unfortunately, many Chapter 7 bankruptcy students are not in a financial position to hire and attorney to represent them in court and therefore feel pressured to pay the EMU Collections Department the money that they require. This “fresh start” that was intended to occur by the Federal Government has now been negated by an educational institution whose policy it is to exploit the poor for their own financial gain.
Students who attend EMU work hard in order to earn a college degree, thus hoping to improve the quality of their lives. The current policy of holding a degree hostage by refusing Chapter 7 bankruptcy students to complete their education until the debt is |
League of Legends is rolling out something called “champion mastery” across the game’s many servers this week. It’ | s an experimental feature that sounds like it could scratch an itch that League players have felt for a long time: the desire to toy with their favorite characters in immediate, tangible ways.
The promise of the system—and the thing that makes it an exciting addition for League of Legends—is that it gives players more opportunities to assess their own performance and get a sense that they’re actually making progress in the game over time. The way League has worked so far, the game doesn’t give its players much of anything in that regard besides the overall level they’re able to achieve in the fiercely competitive ranked mode. Since it takes a long time to reach a level where you can even compete in ranked games (let alone compete effectively), it’s hard to stay motivated if you find yourself chugging along with a preferred champion or two for months on end. A new character-specific leveling system is a good way to help players overcome such moments of discouragement. |
View of One World Trade Center (left) and the Manhattan skyline looking south from the Empire State Building in New York.
NEW YORK - The | richest Americans are increasing their ranks and putting the recession of 2008 and 2009 behind them, according to an annual study by the Chicago-based Spectrem Group.
Total millionaire households in the United States jumped to more than 9.6 million according to Spectrem, an increase of more than 600,000 over the previous year. That is the highest level since the research group started measuring in 2004.
Those who have more than US$5 million (S$6.3 million) grew to 1.24 million. The 2014 Affluent Market Insights Report aggregates monthly surveys by Spectrem that reach more than 12,000 investors in total.
The richest of these rich, or ultra-rich, who have more than US$25 million in investable assets (not including a primary residence), increased by 57 per cent through the end of 2013, and now number 132,000, up from 84,000 in 2008.
These people tend to be senior corporate executives, doctors, lawyers |
As you may already know, British Airways already impresses when it comes to flying long-haul. Now, the airline is upping the stakes | with its new Economy food offering. Those flying on a Middle East route in the World Traveller cabin will be happy to know that the airline has introduced a chicken in spicy Arabic sauce meal to get your tastebuds going.
Accompanying the meals are a starter such as couscous salad, Colcannon mash with seasonal vegetables side or tomato, farfalle and vegetable dish for non-meat eaters. Save room for the Pots & Co dessert which comes in salted caramel and chocolate mousse. Don't have much of a sweet tooth? There's always cheese and biscuits to look forward to.
You can experience the new dishes on Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia routes and it's all part of a catering roll-out from January 17 that adapts for each region and changes every six months. So China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea flights can enjoy chicken in spicy Cheng du sauce, while Chennai, Hyderabad |
As young people, we are keyed into what's fair and not fair in our lives. We call things that are really unfair injustices. | Youths in Racine have a history and pride in fighting against injustices and for a better world with Youth Empowered in the Struggle, a youth-led group that works for social justice.
Issues we have been involved in include fair and humane immigration reform, worker justice, the King holiday, school funding, the Student Bill of Rights and Get Out the Vote efforts in our community.
Our efforts have been attacked recently in the media, including talk radio, local newspapers and blogs. These bullies have devoted a lot of ink and airtime to covering "allegations" about our June 5 Get Out the Vote effort. We have been accused of being partisan, using taxpayer money and being manipulated by adults.
We find it extremely offensive and scary that some of our students were followed around by adults interrogating and taking pictures of us on election day June 5. We are shocked by the amount of media coverage devoted to claims that have no supporting evidence or officially filed complaints. In high school |
City centre turns into battle zone as anti-government fighters target several locations.
Mohammad Atmar, the new minister of internal affairs, told | journalists that seven of the attackers had been killed.
A ministry spokesman, Zemarai Bashery, added that two of the attackers had taken refuge in a building and had been killed.
Farhad Paiker, an Afghan journalist, told Al Jazeera that a suicide bomber had hit a shopping centre.
"A suicide bomber in a car came towards the foreign ministry. Security forces tried to stop it and it hit a shopping centre," he said.
"It is really chaotic in the area."
Later a car bomb exploded near another shopping centre, close to the education ministry.
A security source was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that a suicide bomber had killed "several police and intelligence officials".
Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's Kabul producer, reporting about 200m from the scene of some of the fighting, said: "There are hundreds of Afghan army and police and intelligence officials present. Civilians have completely left the area.
"It |
"How would the world sound today had songbirds never existed?...One may ask whether human music would have reached the heights it has, had | the first songbird not sung in an Australian rainforest."
Songbirds originated in Australia millions of years ago, and from here they spread out across the world.
But even though evolution marched on, it doesn't mean that Australian bird calls are the most simple.
In fact, the variation of Australia's avian noises and the history of their songs has inspired two classically-trained musicians to pick up their 400-year-old instruments and jam with the birds.
LISTEN TO SIMONE AND MAGGIE SLATTERY TALK ABOUT THE POETRY OF BIRDS.
Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending, 1917.
"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?"
If you like nature and have some kids in your life, here is a short taste of a new ABC podcast called ABC Classic Kids.
PODCAST BONUS. Two women, armed with a pencil and a |
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are happily married, but have one serious problem. Our sleeping habits are incompatible. I am an extremely | light sleeper; he is a horrendous snorer.
He sees a snoring specialist and tried several medical treatments, none of which worked. The only solution is a minor surgical procedure. He doesn't want to have the surgery. He insists he "sleeps fine," and says I'm the one with the problem.
I have tried earplugs, white noise machines, sleep medications and more, but I cannot get a decent sleep with the obnoxious snoring. He stays up much later than I do, and I enjoy sleeping in our master bedroom until he comes to bed. I usually get driven out of the room by the noise.
We agree we don't want to sleep in separate rooms and lose the intimacy, but it's the only option for me to sleep well. Neither of us wants to give up the master bedroom because it's the only one with an attached bathroom.
Am I wrong for asking him to have surgery so we can share a bed? And if he won |
MONMOUTH — It’s time to get Sauced. It’s kind of a new theme hitting the Maple City area | . There is now a Sauced Pub to pair with the Sauced Grub restaurant at 431 N. 11 St.
Sauced Grub officially opened Nov. 15, 2018, in the former Eagles Club building. There was no grand opening in a bitter winter that saw over 60 inches of snow in the Monmouth area (29 1/2 inches above normal) and the temperatures hitting minus 30.
Caldwell bought The Pizza Place, formerly Breadaux Pizza, in Monmouth a couple years ago.
But Caldwell felt he did not have enough space at The Pizza Place and that’s when he was able to buy 3 acres of land and the old Eagles Club — right across the street from Tombstone Bowl.
Caldwell has continued the wide-variety of pizza and calzones on the menu of Sauced Grub.
Cisco and his wife, Amanda (McManus), moved to Monmouth recently after living in the Denver area. |
The safety protocol used by healthcare workers to treat Ebola patients in Dallas wasn’t adequate because it didn’t require that all skin be | covered, said Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A Dallas nurse infected with the deadly virus after treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan probably contracted the disease through exposed skin, Fauci said on the “Fox News Sunday” program Sunday.
The protocol recommended by the World Health Organization “is best fitted for out in the field,” Fauci said. It was not designed for “very invasive-type procedures” in a hospital.
Fauci made the rounds of all five Sunday network talk shows after a week of heightened concern about the Ebola virus that has killed more than 4,500 people in west Africa and drew calls from U.S. lawmakers for a ban on travel to the U.S. from affected countries.
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have said the release of new guidelines for U.S. health-care workers is imminent.
The |
Trump to global CEOs and financiers in Davos, Switzerland: “America is open for business.” We’re now | a great place for you to make money. We’ve slashed taxes and regulations so you can make a bundle here.
Trump to ambitious young immigrants around the world, including those brought here as children: America is closed. We don’t want you. Forget that poem affixed to the Statue of Liberty about bringing us your poor yearning to breathe free. Don’t even try.
In Trump’s America, global capital is welcome, people aren’t.
Well, I have news for the so-called businessman. America was built by ambitious people from all over the world, not by global capital.
Global capital wants just one thing: A high return on its investment.
Global capital has no obligation to any country or community. If there’s another place around the world where taxes are lower and regulations laxer, global capital will move there at the speed of an electronic blip.
Global capital doesn’t care how |
You're welcome to dance like there's nobody watching. But you'd better write emails like your email provider is going to be hacked.
The | Internet-era twist on the old maxim is the lesson that technology entrepreneur Greg Isenberg learned from the cyberattack that ravaged Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer network last month, sending thousands of sensitive email exchanges into the public domain as the studio, under threat, fretted over whether to release "The Interview."
Isenberg, who runs a popular video-watching app called 5by, lost control of his email account in June after a fraudulent message lured him to a malicious website resembling YouTube. The hacker reset Isenberg's PayPal password, drained his account and found his Social Security number in another email. Immediately after, Isenberg changed his passwords and turned on two-step authentication so someone would need to know his password and have his smartphone to log into his accounts.
The Sony breach spooked him again, though. He toughened up each of his key passwords to a Ft. Knox standard this time around, said Isenberg, a self-described "double-neurotic."
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PAULINE PELLEGRINO was expecting a big baby.
Ms. Pellegrino, a 37-year-old Leon | ia resident, said her doctor had estimated that her baby would weigh about 9 pounds. It was the day before Ms. Pellegrino's due date, and the baby showed no sign of being born soon. Big babies can often mean difficult deliveries and possible injury to both mother and child, so her doctor decided to try to induce labor with the drug Pitocin. It wasn't effective, so the dosage was increased, but then the baby's heartbeat became irregular; Ms. Pellegrino was then wheeled into the Englewood Hospital operating room for a swift Caesarean section. Her daughter weighed a normal 7 pounds 10 ounces.
Another day, another C-section in New Jersey.
New Jersey had the highest rate of C-sections in the country in 2003, 33.1 percent, according to recent preliminary data from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md. The national rate is 27.6 percent, up 6 percent from 2002. |
NEW YORK -- New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he turned into a common football fan enthralled by the performance of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback | Michael Vick in Monday's game against the Redskins.
But come Sunday night it will be the Giants' (6-3) turn to deal with the versatile Vick in a showdown against the Eagles (6-3) in Philadelphia with the NFC East lead at stake.
"Let's see, 35-0, 12 plays for Washington," Coughlin told reporters at the Giants training complex on Wednesday when asked what he was thinking about watching Vick play. "Just what everybody else was — put the pencil down and become a fan."
Vick threw four touchdown passes and ran for two other scores as the Eagles soared to a 59-28 rout of Washington.
Coughlin said there are various approaches to take against the strong-armed quarterback, who is also one of the fastest runners in the game when he takes off from the pocket.
"You have to obviously try to contain and keep him inside and not let him outside," Coughlin said.
"There's all |
Imagine the unspeakable fury that would erupt across the Islamic world if a Christian-led government in Khartoum had been responsible for the | deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese Muslims over the past 30 years. Or if Christian gunmen were firebombing mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers. Or if Muslim girls in Indonesia had been abducted and beheaded on their way to school, because of their faith.
Such horrors are barely thinkable, of course. But they have all occurred in reverse, with Christians falling victim to Islamist aggression. Only two days ago, a suicide bomber crashed a jeep laden with explosives into a packed Catholic church in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100. The tragedy bore the imprint of numerous similar attacks by Boko Haram (which roughly translates as “Western education is sinful”), an exceptionally bloodthirsty militant group.
Other notable trouble spots include Egypt, where 600,000 Copts – more than the entire population of Manchester – have emigrated since the 1980s in the face of harassment or outright oppression.
Why is such a huge scourge chronically |
However, as yet there’s no evidence of massive “tax flight,” as it’s been dubbed.
A | study conducted for Controller Betty Yee by Stanford University concluded, “Migration is a very small component of changes in the number of California millionaires.
This year, Beacon Economics produced a study of migration patterns for the Next 10 foundation and concluded that while California had a net loss of 625,000 people between 2007 and 2014 in state-to-state moves, those most likely to leave are over the age of 25 and lack college educations, while the state had a net gain in college-educated movers.
Whether California’s highest-income residents stay or go is no small matter.
The state’s one-percenters, about 150,000 families, pay half of its income taxes and thus account for about a third of general fund revenue – a share that has climbed sharply in recent years.
While there’s only anecdotal movement of tax flight to date, it’s difficult to predict whether that will continue because conditions may soon change.
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