F.B.I. Tapes Give Glimpse Into World of High-Stakes Gambling

New York Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

The description of the poker games and the wagers were among the details found in hundreds of conversations and text messages secretly captured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, exposing the shadowy and illegal world of high-stakes gambling in New York ...

Economics Daily Digest Its Gatsbys world theyre just working in it

Daily Kos - Friday 17th May, 2013

Today ) Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline Fellow Nona Willis Aronowitz writes that while pundits sneer at Millennials, members of the generation that came of age during the Great Recession are too busy working to improve the bad hand they've been dealt to have time for ...

Governor Signs Manufacturing Tax Break Law

The Ledger - Friday 17th May, 2013

Scott on Friday signed a bill that creates a tax break for the state's manufacturers. The governor made it official during a stop at a Tampa manufacturing firm. The measure (HB 7007) exempts manufacturers from having to pay sales taxes on equipment purchases for three years. The tax break starts in April 2014 and runs until April 2017. The new law also creates a new nonprofit corporation to ...

Election upset has B.C. film industry reeling over lost tax breaks

The Globe and Mail - Friday 17th May, 2013

A film crew on the set of "Bates Motel," in Aldergrove, British Columbia. NDP Leader Adrian Dix had promised a 40 per cent tax break for the province's film industry. (STUART ...

Richard Cramer biomedical industry pioneer

San Diego Union-Tribune - Friday 17th May, 2013

Richard A. Cramer, a biomedical industry veteran and philanthropist who served as chairman of The Scripps Research Institute, has died at the age of ...

Social-gifting boom spawns dozens of companies

The Seattle Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

Aaron Forth of Swedish social-gifting company Wrapp works at the San Francisco office. The United States is the service’s fastest-growing ...

Worlds oldest university poised for revival in India after 800 years

Sify - Friday 17th May, 2013

Nalanda University, an ancient seat of learning destroyed in 1193, is poised for revival. According to The Independent, an ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda - and located alongside its physical ruins - has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This ...

Thomson Alberta adds trade offices to boost business and image

Edmonton Journal - Friday 17th May, 2013

It is a public relations campaign unlike anything Alberta has ever seen, literally global in scope.The Alberta government is expanding its international profile by opening six more international trade offices -- in Chicago, Singapore, Brazil (likely Rio de Janeiro), India, California (likely San Francisco) and one more in southern China. They're in addition to the 10 offices we already have ...

Al-Zaatari in Jordan Soon to Become World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Impunity Watch - Friday 17th May, 2013

Al-Zaatari, Jordan, the second largest refugee camp in the world, is set to become the largest by the end of this year. The camp, already home to 500,000 refugees, receives between 2,000 – 4,000 refugees on days when the violence in Syria is especially dire, and will soon overtake the Dabaab camp near the Somali-Kenyan border as the highest-populated refugee camp in the world. According to ...

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

AlterNet - Friday 17th May, 2013

Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing. One growing series of protests has been the "MoralMonday" demonstrations in North Carolina. They ...

The Saturday Profile Europe Economist Rehn Rejects ‘Austerity’ Label

International Herald Tribune - Friday 17th May, 2013

BRUSSELS OLLI REHN, the European Union's top economic policy maker and scourge of debt-fueled budget deficits, is fed up with austerity. Or at least with being tarred by a term that "is clearly used to label somebody as an unworthy person who is almost eating ...

The Prophet Gibran Khalil Gibran refracted around the world

Hispanic Business Magazine - Friday 17th May, 2013

May 18--BEIRUT -- It is a commonplace of this broad land that it resides overseas as much as it does within the borders the French drew for it. Naturally, the expatriate condition is shared by Lebanon's artists. The prototype for the expatriate Levantine artist was forged early last century in the crucible of New York City. There a cluster of writers experimented with English-language verse ...

Brazil to unveil World Cup security robots

China Daily - Friday 17th May, 2013

/enpproperty--> The Brazilian government says some of the security robots bought to improve public safety during the 2014 World Cup will be ready for the Confederations Cup in June. The company iRobot said the 30 robots will be delivered by the end of the year, along with spares and other support gear. The government confirmed on Thursday that some will already be in action in the six cities ...

Top technology companies named at Hi-Tech Awards

TVNZ - Friday 17th May, 2013

Kiwis feel busier despite technology advances The top technology companies in the country were named in Auckland last night at the annual NZ Hi-Tech Awards. More than 700 people attended the awards dinner at SkyCity, the largest number since the awards started in 1994. Online accounting software company Xero won the top prize, being named Company of the Year. One international judge described ...

Worlds largest flower blooms for first time in seven years

Times of India - Friday 17th May, 2013

Titan arum , the plant that grows at a rate of around 10cm a day during its flowering phase, reached a height of 187cm when it bloomed. It produces a variety of obnoxious odours ranging from rotting meat, dung and rancid cheese to a nauseating gaseous stench. The flower typically grows once every seven and 10 years after which it is in full splendor for only 48 hours before starting to die. Its ...

Bloomingdale’s Castle foundation show improved perceptions of Hawaii’s economy

Pacific Business News - Friday 17th May, 2013

165,000-square-foot Bloomingdale's store will replace what is now Sears, which is scheduled to close two weeks from Sunday. Bloomingdale's will anchor a $572 million redevelopment of the Sears space that mall ...

World Golf Hall of Fame member Ken Venturi dead at 82

Middle East Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

Ken Venturi, whose 1964 U.S. Open victory was one of the most memorable feats in the history of the golf, died Friday at the age of 82. His death came less than a week after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Venturi had been hospitalized since March for a variety of health issues, including pneumonia and infections in his back and intestine. He won 14 times on the PGA Tour ...

South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19

Middle East Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...

Brazils CB expects economy to expand 3 in 2013

MENAFN - Friday 17th May, 2013

(MENAFN) Brazil's Central Bank President, Alexandre Tombini, stated that in 2013, the country's economy will expand by 3 percent, from just 0.9 percent last year, reported Xinhua News.During the first quarter, Brazil's economy expanded by 1.05 percent compared with 0.63 percent in 2012's same period.Tombini attributed this year's expected growth to strong household ...

Hackers ring up $500000 phone bill business left with charges

News Channel 5 - Friday 17th May, 2013

, a company near Boston had a similar situation in 2009 that also involved outrageous charges from AT&T. Those charges were eventually forgiven. A spokesman for A Better Answer, the company that installed Bream's phone system, says it's impossible to hack. He says there's no way the volume of calls charged to Bream could get through her system and that this is a network ...

World in his qualms COMEDY Bill BaileyMiddle-age has inspired Bill Baileys new show which he brings to Nottingham next weekend. My comedy has...

Hispanic Business Magazine - Friday 17th May, 2013

World in his qualms ; COMEDY Bill BaileyMiddle-age has inspired Bill Bailey's new show which he brings to Nottingham next weekend. My comedy has always reflected where I am in life, he tells Lynne Brighouse HE has reached the age where he is beginning to have qualms. Bill Bailey, now 49, seems to be experiencing serious disquiet about the big unanswered questions of existence. And what ...

Brasov International Film Festival Market Holds Its First 2013 Press Conference The press conference was sponsored by DARIA Magazine and Race The Oaceans a daring global circumnavigation adventure challenge which promotes the protection of ecolo

Hispanic Business Magazine - Friday 17th May, 2013

BRASOV, Romania, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The press conference announcing the winner of the contest "The 'FACE' of Brasov International Film Festival & Market 2013" was held today at the ARO Palace Hotel. At the conference, organized by Brasov Film Center, the official poster of the Festival was revealed as well as the titles of the two films participating this ...