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SHANGHAI—Haitong Securities Co.'s private-equity arm plans to launch its first yuan- and dollar-denominated funds focused on buyouts, aiming to raise more than $526 million to take controlling stakes in consumer goods and services ...
Glass, Lewis & Co., a major proxy-advisory firm, urged Sprint Nextel Corp. investors to abstain from voting on the wireless operator's $20.1 billion acquisition by Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Corp.
LONDON—Bank of England policy maker Richard Sharp pledged to act independently from government as a member of the central bank's financial stability panel, as he was questioned by U.K. lawmakers over past donations to Prime Minister David ...
NEW YORK--U.S. crude futures settled slightly lower Tuesday, consolidating after gains in the previous session as traders await weekly government data on domestic oil stockpiles.
Chinese investment in Myanmar has fallen sharply over the past year amid strained relations, even as interest from other foreign investors in the Southeast Asian has surged.
WASHINGTON—The White House on Tuesday plans to announce a set of executive actions President Barack Obama will take that are aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as "patent trolls" to their detractors, amid concerns that ...
Strong demand for pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles boosted U.S. sales in May for major auto makers, but the auto industry rebound that has helped buoy the U.S. economy since early last year is showing signs of leveling off.
Six senior Smithfield Foods Inc. executives could receive retention bonuses totaling up to $23.9 million if they stay with the company after its planned takeover by China's largest meat processor, according to a regulatory filing.
1. The Australian dollar fell after the central bank warned in its monthly policy statement that the currency was still too strong. The bank also announced that it was keeping its benchmark interest rate at a record low 2.75% and said it ...
States are tightening regulations on medical spas—and wading into some ugly disputes over where beauty treatments stop and the practice of medicine begins.
An Indian government agency has accused Emaar MGF Land Ltd., a joint venture of Dubai's Emaar Properties PJSC and India's MGF Development Ltd., of violating the country's foreign-exchange rules.
I like to think of myself as something of a connoisseur of honey, even though I'd be the first to admit that there isn't a whole lot of difference between one kind of honey and another. Honey made from bees pollinating lavender fields in ...
BOSTON—There have been books, a movie and a manhunt. Now, Boston's longest-running real-life crime drama is coming to the courtroom.Jury selection is expected to begin Tuesday in the federal trial of James "Whitey" Bulger, whose alleged ...
To help clean up its rivers, streams and bays, the city plans to install 5,500 curbside gardens to intercept, absorb and filter storm runoff before it flows into waterways.
New York City is hoping to spur a host of biotech companies uptown, as it helps overhaul a Harlem office into a communal lab.The city's Economic Development Corp. is helping overhaul a Harlem office, counting on luring promising scientists ...
The last time Paul Kazarian grabbed headlines, Ace of Base topped the pop charts, "Forrest Gump" was a hit at the box office and Mark Zuckerberg was making social connections as a fourth-grader.
Remember him in New Jersey. Sure, that blue-and-orange coda in Madison Square Garden was sweet—he gave the maddening Knicks a sheen of adult supervision, and he had some moments when you could see flashes of the familiar brilliance, the ...
Foreign property investors are returning to Poland, a country whose highflying real-estate market became a symbol of overexuberance during the boom years.
TOKYO—Japan is struggling to quell a mounting barrage of international criticism over the country's wartime acts.A United Nations human-rights panel last week urged Japanese officials to stop re-traumatizing "comfort women" forced to work ...
LAS VEGAS—While much of the airline industry retreats from small cities across the U.S., one scrappy carrier has been finding big profits in their wake.
Delta Air Lines Inc. informed employees at its Memphis, Tenn., hub on Tuesday that it plans to shrink its operations there, as high fuel costs hamper the efficiency of regional jets.
ISTANBUL—On an elegant street here flanked by embassies and Ottoman-era townhouses, torn-up paving stones and contorted shards of metal rise six feet high, the detritus of demonstrators' running battles with Turkish security forces.
PARIS—France said Tuesday it has detected sarin gas—an agent used in chemical weapons—in materials recovered from Syria, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is battling rebels in a protracted civil war.
MOSCOW—Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he plans to hold a snap mayoral election in September, two years before his term expires, as the Kremlin-backed politician looks to capitalize on his current popularity and secure a second term ahead ...
FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank, which holds its monthly meeting Thursday, is likely to hold back from new measures to revive growth in the euro-zone economy amid mounting concern that governments are backtracking on pledges to build a ...
The fate of SAC Capital Advisors LP is a $1 billion question on Wall Street.That figure is an estimate of how much the hedge-fund giant generates annually in trading commissions, financing fees and an array of other payouts to banks and ...
BRUSSELS—The European Union will delay for two months the full impact of import tariffs it planned to put on Chinese solar panel equipment, to allow Chinese manufacturers to negotiate a settlement that could defuse one of the biggest trade ...
HONG KONG—Lenovo Group Ltd. is in preliminary talks with "multiple parties" about a possible joint venture in smartphones, the computer maker's Asia-Pacific president said Tuesday.
With a deadline looming on Friday, banks are lining up to lend money to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the Chinese e-commerce giant, in the hope of getting picked for a role in its expected initial public offering.
A late-day rally wasn't enough to push the Dow industrials into positive territory, snapping a string of Tuesday gains for the blue-chip index that stretched back to the beginning of the year.
SYDNEY—Australian surfwear retailer Billabong International Ltd. was moving urgently to raise new funds, including by selling assets, after takeover talks with two private-equity bidders collapsed and it cut its earnings outlook again.
SYDNEY—Australia's current account deficit narrowed to a seasonally adjusted 8.5 billion Australian dollars (US$8.3 billion) in the first quarter, as a slowing mining-investment boom reduced the need for heavy-equipment imports while the ...
SYDNEY—Australia's central bank held interest rates at a record low as the fading of the long mining-investment boom continues to weigh on the rest of the economy.
The Federal Housing Administration's projected losses over 30 years could reach as high as $115 billion under a previously undisclosed "stress test" conducted last year to determine how the agency would fare under an extremely severe ...
"A new study reveals that women's gains on the economic front may be contributing to a decline in the formation and stability of marriages," writes University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler in a New York Times column.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued units of HSBC Holdings PLC on Tuesday, alleging the bank put mortgage borrowers at greater risk of losing their homes by repeatedly delaying the filing of paperwork that could have helped ...
You aced the interview, your résumé sings, but in the end, you didn't get the job. Chances are, you'll never know why.It is a painful conundrum of the job search process: Rejected candidates want to understand why they didn't get hired, but ...
The law like the government usually trails scientific advances, so kudos to the Supreme Court for preserving an important law enforcement tool. In Maryland v. King on Monday, the closely divided Justices ruled that states can collect DNA ...
WASHINGTON—The 2010 Internal Revenue Service employee conference that has drawn criticism paid $17,000 to a keynote speaker who drew pictures of the singer Bono and the physicist Albert Einstein to inspire IRS employees to free up their ...
NEW YORK--An arbitration panel has ordered now-closed WFP Securities to pay nearly $19 million to a trust representing thousands of investors who lost money in private placements that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme.
A federal court judge in Manhattan denied a summary judgment motion by Fabrice Tourre, a former trader at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who faces trial on civil fraud allegations later this summer.
President Obama supports many things he opposed as Senator Obama—such as unlimited terrorist detention—but for flip-flopping with a high degree of artistic difficulty nothing beats his judicial filibuster ultimatum on Tuesday. If ...
A Cairo court on Tuesday sentenced 43 democratic activists to up to five years in prison. The charges include operating illegal nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and receiving foreign funds without permission. Egypt's spiral down ...
"The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions."Economist Paul Samuelson's quip notwithstanding, most investors prefer false alarms to none at all. Whether it is the not-so-appropriately-named Blue Chip Economic Indicators ...
Facebook Inc. is moving its New York office south and nearly doubling its space, marking the latest technology company to set up shop in the city's Midtown South neighborhood.
In today's tablet market, one device stands distinctly above all others: Apple's iPad. With this tablet, Apple did what it always does and created an innovative, must-have device in a once-unexciting category.
Roland Nelson remembers receiving a slim, rectangular Father's Day present from his wife a few years ago. He was hoping for a circular saw and figured it was a gift certificate.
Content may be king. But in wireless circles, spectrum still reigns supreme.That is good news for owners of broadcast-television stations who hold licenses to large swaths of airwaves. Amid lower ratings and potentially disruptive ...
As U.S. airlines retreat from many small cities in the U.S., Allegiant has begun to fill the void. See how the carrier's network has grown over time.
SCOR is making a habit of generating "badwill."The French reinsurer is buying Assicurazioni Generali's U.S. life-reinsurance operations for $750 million in cash. That is a hefty 35% discount to SCOR's view of the business's embedded value, ...
Massachusetts completed a $100 million bond sale to help finance environmental projects, becoming the first state to sell "green bonds" inspired by a similar program from the World Bank.
PARIS—For years, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has been one of the most dangerous players in tennis, but never a consistent threat.He could astound, like he did when he reached the Australian Open final in 2008, drubbing Rafael Nadal along the way. He ...
Wave of Unrest Spreads Across TurkeyAn antigovernment protester shouted for help to extinguish a fire during protests in Istanbul's main Taksim Square Tuesday.
Stacy Erickson's husband Doug likes to email her little notes during the day to let her know she's on his mind. "Thanks again for last night," read one message. "Still thinking about it with a smile on my face ;-) Love you."
Technology companies welcomed the Obama administration's decision to wade into the debate over patent litigation, seeing a chance to stem a flood of lawsuits they say is hurting innovation.
U.K. Service Marks 60 Years Since Queen's CoronationQueen Elizabeth left Buckingham Palace on June 2, 1953. Elizabeth became monarch upon the death of her father, King George VI, in February 1952. But she wasn't crowned until more than a ...
ZURICH—Swiss lawmakers are raising concerns about a proposal that would allow the country's banks to hand over sensitive information to U.S. legal authorities investigating alleged tax evasion, highlighting the anxiety caused as ...
NEW YORK--For many people, the idea of working alongside a spouse is, well...it's just too much time together. Still, some financial advisers have found the perfect business partner is the one they go home with at the end of the day.
MEXICO CITY—Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a series of accords with Mexico on a trip here Tuesday, as he aims to jump-start an often tense relationship between the two rival exporting powerhouses.
WASHINGTON—The chiefs of the U.S. armed services squared off against senators Tuesday over the issue of how much authority military commanders should have in sexual-assault prosecutions.
Americans' appetite for foreign goods, including cars and cellphones, pushed imports higher and widened the U.S. trade deficit in April, while slower growth abroad restrained overseas demand for U.S. products.
TRENTON, N.J.—Gov. Chris Christie called a special election this October for the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg, drawing a muted reaction from fellow Republicans and applause from national Democrats.
The investment buzz around Africa is missing a key ingredient: The continent's largest economy.South Africa, one of the five so-called Brics economies, is in the doldrums. The country's first-quarter growth of 1.9% was its slowest rate for ...
BRUSSELS—The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan brushed aside calls for a decision now on how many troops will remain in the country after 2014, saying it would be necessary to assess the security and political ...
ISTANBUL—Turkey's deputy prime minister called the crackdown on demonstrators that led to days of nationwide protests "wrong and unjust," making his government's clearest bid yet to defuse tensions as protests continued Tuesday and unions ...
BRUSSELS—The British-led push to add Hezbollah's military wing to the European Union's list of terrorist organizations ran into resistance from about six countries Tuesday in the first formal talks on the issue, according to people familiar ...
Cocktail lovers have sipped drinks made with vermouth for over a hundred years. Vermouth, a fortified wine infused with botanicals like herbs, bark or spices, first appeared in Italy as an aperitif. It gained popularity in the U.S. in the ...
Rivers swollen by Central Europe's worst flooding in more than a decade have hindered business in the economically troubled region, in what is likely to result in billions of euros in damages.
In its latest recall, Johnson & Johnson is pulling 32.2 million packs of Cilest birth-control pills in Latin America, Europe and Asia, after discovering that a key ingredient isn't releasing into the body according to specifications.
NEW DELHI—A 30-year-old American woman was raped by three men near the northern Indian town of Manali early Tuesday morning, police officials said, amid heightened concern for women in the country after recent attacks.
MANILA—Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp. is considering the sale of its stake in electricity producer Manila Electric Co., a holding valued at $3.4 billion at the current share price.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. announced a new set of Iran sanctions on Tuesday, targeting a network of firms that U.S. officials said were front companies that reap billions of dollars in profits for Iran's top leaders.
FRANKFURT—Hopes of a nascent recovery in Europe's car market were dashed at least temporarily as new-car registration data from Germany showed Europe's largest market shrank by 9.9% in May, a worse-than-expected contraction after an uptick ...
The annual rate of inflation across developed economies fell to its lowest level in 3½ years in April, a development opening the way for leading central banks to continue to shore up weak growth through stimulus measures.
WARSAW—City officials in Poland's capital say they are getting closer to breaking the curse of Parade Square.For years, civic and city leaders have dreamed of developing one of Europe's largest office, retail and cultural projects on this ...
Chrysler Group LLC, in an unusual act of defiance, rejected a U.S. auto safety regulator's request it recall 2.7 million Jeeps to repair fuel tank designs that the government says pose a risk of fires in rear-end crashes.
This summer's exotic vacation destination: Your patio?More homeowners are in a spending mood and looking to upgrade worn barbecue grills and plastic patio furniture. Some want to transform their patio into a party space. Others are looking ...
Q: I have a 2005 E320 Mercedes wagon and over the years I have noticed the brakes will make this sound as if a compressor was charging, building pressure. There is no vibration in the pedal and no performance issues on braking. What could ...
International Business Machines Corp. said it agreed to buy SoftLayer Technologies Inc., in a deal aimed at beefing up the technology giant's efforts in cloud computing and taking on Amazon.com Inc. more directly in that fast-growing arena.
CAIRO—An Egyptian court convicted 43 nongovernmental-organization employees, including at least 16 Americans, of using unregistered foreign funding, worrying some Egyptian groups who fear the precedent could hinder their own efforts.
HONG KONG—Thousands of people braved a heavy thunderstorm in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Tuesday evening, lighting candles to honor the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as Beijing tightened restrictions on reporters and on ...
NEW DELHI—India will "very soon" finalize its policy on shale gas exploration and is actively considering new rules to allow commercial gas production from coal blocks allotted to several companies for industrial uses in an attempt to raise ...
NEW DELHI—Coal India Ltd. is considering ceding two coal blocks in Mozambique due to a lack of infrastructure, a senior company executive said Tuesday.
LondonIn Philip Glass's remarkable new opera, "The Perfect American," which had its U.K. premiere at the English National Opera on Saturday, Walt Disney, in the last days of his life, worries that his name will become a brand, "like Ford or ...
LONDON—Croatia, which next month becomes the newest member of the European Union, wants to join the euro zone as soon as possible despite the problems that have plagued the currency area in recent years, the country's central bank governor ...
One of the joys of the contemporary music scene is the chance to witness the blossoming of a new generation of extraordinary singer-songwriters. Twenty-three-year-old Laura Marling's new disc, "Once I Was an Eagle," her fourth, is an ...
New YorkRationalizing apparently endless expansions, art museums often regale their publics with statistics describing the small proportion of a collection that is regularly on view. We're meant to feel bad about the holdings we can't see, ...
American International Group Inc. argued at a New York court hearing Tuesday that an $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America Corp. and investors over mortgage-backed-securities losses is "inadequate" and the result of a conflicted ...
WARSAW—French luxury-goods maker Louis Vuitton's planned store opening here later this month is a striking example of how far Poland's retailers have come in the 20 years since fake brands were sold in giant flea markets.
The flavor of the month in emerging markets is a fish-based broth with rice noodles, ginger and lemongrass called mohinga. Myanmar's national dish, it's sure to be on the menu at this week's World Economic Forum event in the former pariah ...
Japan Is First to QualifyFor 2014 World CupA full year before the 2014 World Cup kicks off in Rio de Janeiro, Japan became the first team to qualify for the tournament on Monday. After a 19-month campaign, Japan finally punched its ticket ...
WASHINGTON—Rep. John Garamendi is known as a staunch advocate for cutting unnecessary defense spending. But the California Democrat avidly defends one program: a fleet of high-altitude surveillance drones that the Pentagon wants to scrap.
In the midst of North America's energy boom, a cruel irony has surfaced: some of the maverick oil wildcatters who helped create the boom are being shown the door.
After leading Oxbow to a victory in the Preakness Stakes on May 18, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said that he's paid to spoil dreams. In this case, it was the Triple Crown aspirations of Kentucky Derby winner Orb. Lukas joked during a media ...
Yields on certificates of deposit were mostly unchanged in the latest week.The average yield on six-month "jumbo" CDs, which typically require deposits of $95,000 or more, remained unchanged at 0.16% from the week earlier, according to ...
A women's advocacy group has filed complaints with a federal agency against Auburn University, Gonzaga University and three other employers over health-insurance plans it says don't pay pregnancy costs for employees' dependent daughters.
New York state is getting a housecleaning. Two state legislators have been arrested in separate corruption cases. A Siena College poll in April showed New York voters expect more to fall—and only 27% thought New York Attorney General Eric ...
With so many scandals breaking in Washington, one may well ask: Where were all the inspectors general when these bad things—at the IRS, at Justice, and at State before, during and after Benghazi, for instance—were going on? Where were the ...
When President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this week in California for an unusually private set of conversations, national-security issues are sure to dominate. Make no mistake: Whether, and how deeply, the two ...
The dollar rose against the yen, as expectations for a pullback in Federal Reserve stimulus continue to dictate the U.S. currency's direction.
Last week, during a five-day trip through Latin America and the Caribbean, I visited a cut-flower farm outside Bogota, Colombia, an hour's drive from downtown that would have been impossibly dangerous 10 years ago. Along the way I passed ...
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama used a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday to pressure Congress to confirm three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a move that rankled Republicans who say the ...
A yelling protester stands before a burning container in Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday as antigovernment demonstrations in Turkey stretched into a fifth day. Photo: Reuters »
After getting hit hard on the back of a disappointing earnings report, Dollar General shares look like they might be a steal. But it may be only a limited-time offer.
NEW YORK—Gold futures fell as new gold import curbs by top consumer India and data showing slower inflation in the developed world sapped investor appetite for the metal.
A patent-holding firm has filed a lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., alleging the bank's credit-card processing software infringed its technology.
At least four Chinese companies are considering U.S. stock exchanges for initial public offerings, possibly reopening a market that slammed shut in 2011 because of accounting woes at other Chinese companies that went public in the U.S.
Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its U.S. life-reinsurance business for $920 million to Paris-based SCOR SE.
KABUL—The Red Cross said Tuesday it was withdrawing part of its staff from Afghanistan, as threats persisted following last week's attack on the humanitarian group's compound in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Hector Ruiz opens his memoir with a prologue that is intended to read like the first pages of a thriller. Mr. Ruiz, the chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices until 2008, brings us into a 2005 board meeting. Curt exchanges, dire ...
Treasury prices drifted lower as investors await a key jobs report to better gauge the future of easy-money policy.Wobbling around the flatline for most of the session, benchmark 10-year notes lost 3/32 in price by late-afternoon trading, ...
TORONTO--The Canadian dollar fell against the U.S. dollar Tuesday, retracing much of the gains made in the prior day as traders moved back into the comfort of the greenback well ahead of one of the most important labor releases in recent ...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's quest for higher office was complicated Monday by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, but he maintained important advantages as he heads into an upended Senate election, political analysts said.
NEW YORK—Copper futures settled at their highest price in nearly two weeks as a work halt at one of the world's largest copper mines reinvigorated concerns about supply of the industrial metal.
NEW YORK—Four financial advisers managing roughly $475 million in client assets have joined Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Florida from the retail brokerage arms of rivals Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and UBS AG (UBS, UBSN.VX).
BRUSSELS—New European rules on net neutrality will oblige Internet service providers to be transparent about connection speed and stop blocking competing services such as Microsoft Corp.'s Skype, European Union technology chief Neelie Kroes ...
A line hundreds-long wrapped around the First Corinthian Baptist Church on West 116th Street Sunday night. Some were parishioners of the 8,000-member church; others were part of the theater community, here to support a friend, or a friend ...
The Brazilian real took a unexpected turn for the worse Tuesday and led the weakness among emerging markets.The Brazilian central bank's monetary policy director, Aldo Mendes, said a weaker real is "inevitable" as the dollar is expected to ...
SAO PAULO—Brazil's real weakened Tuesday after the director of monetary policy for the central bank said the currency's decline against the U.S. dollar was "inevitable," leading many traders to see room for a further drop in value.
INTERACTIVE ART: A journalist stood inside the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, in London's Kensington Gardens Tuesday.
NEW YORK—The Fidelity Select Construction and Housing Portfolio fund (FSHOX) is betting on the rising cost of U.S. homes.In the first quarter, the national median closing price for existing single-family homes jumped 11% from the prior ...
Is Washington engaged in a negotiation with Havana to try to free U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban jail? If so, what's on the table?
Disagreements over "comfort women," those who were forced to work at Japanese war brothels, continue to strain ties nearly seven decades after the end of World War II.
PARIS—The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its growth forecast for the French economy this year and warned that France risks falling behind faster-reforming countries in the euro-zone unless it acts quickly to make its economy ...
Former Porsche Automobil Holding SE finance chief Holger Haerter was found guilty on Tuesday of intentionally making false declarations during loan negotiations associated with the attempted takeover of Volkswagen AG.
Canadian miner Centerra Gold Inc. said it is in talks with the government of Kyrgyzstan about the former Soviet republic taking a direct stake in a mine that was at the heart of riots in the country last week.
Dell Inc. unveiled an expanded global alliance with Oracle Corp. in which the companies will offer business products that combine Dell's hardware and Oracle's software.
JOHANNESBURG—Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world second-largest platinum producer, said Tuesday several thousand workers at its Rustenburg mine embarked on a wildcat strike, adding to a renewal of unrest spreading with South Africa's ...
G-III Apparel Group Ltd., which makes clothing under license for brands including Calvin Klein, Guess and the National Football League, reported a surprise first-quarter profit, the first time in at least 15 years that it has made money at ...
Neiman Marcus Group Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 13% as the high-end department-store operator reported continued sales growth.
AMSTERDAM—Dutch retailer Ahold NV on Tuesday expanded its share-buyback program after the sale of its stake in Scandinavian supermarket chain ICA boosted first-quarter profit, but said it remains cautious about the rest of this year.
The CBOE Volatility Index usually rises and falls along with investor expectations for swings in stock prices, but lately, the bond market appears to be in the driver's seat.
If GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is still thinking about a 2014 Senate bid, he better make up his mind soon.On Monday former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land became the first Republican to announce that she is seeking the nomination for ...
CENTENNIAL, Colo.—A judge on Tuesday accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from James Holmes, who faces the death penalty in the mass shooting at a theater near Denver last year that killed 12 people.
NEW YORK—A judge on Tuesday sent AMR Corp.'s merger with US Airways Group Inc. to AMR creditors for a vote, a penultimate step toward final court approval of the historic deal.
PARIS—A Swiss diplomat was questioned by French authorities after roaring through a police checkpoint in central Paris in his car, prompting officers to shoot out his tires to stop it.
LAS VEGAS—For Mets minor leaguers, the last stop before the majors is a dilapidated ballpark 2,200 miles away from Citi Field. It is nestled along a row of abandoned lots and boarded up storefronts 5 miles north of the Las Vegas Strip, just ...
European stocks gained Tuesday after a drop in the number of registered job seekers in Spain added to optimism that Europe's economy is improving.
TAIPEI—HTC Corp. said Tuesday that Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello has stepped down from his post but will stay on as an executive adviser to the Taiwanese smartphone maker.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—To get a sense of how America will pack more people into its cities, head north to an alley that runs behind Petersham Avenue here. That's where Ajay Kumar built a $300,000, Moroccan-themed cottage that sits in ...
Kaly Erwin remembers the "talk" well.She was 34, married, and seeing her longtime OB-GYN, Mark Jostes, when he broached the topic of children. Did she want them?
NEW DELHI—India's federal cabinet Tuesday approved a bill to set up a regulator for the country's real-estate sector, a step that is expected to increase transparency and boost confidence in an otherwise opaque industry.
MADRID—The number of registered job seekers in Spain fell sharply in May as hiring ahead of the summer vacation season offered hope that unemployment may be close to peaking in the recession-battered economy.
MUMBAI—India's first sale of inflation-linked government bonds in a decade and half received strong response Tuesday with investors snapping up all of the 10 billion rupees ($177 million) of notes offered.
Frank Lautenberg helped build Automatic Data Processing Inc., the payroll giant that also functioned as much of Wall Street's back office, before switching careers to serve five terms as a Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey.
When Yahoo decided to expand its Manhattan offices, the Internet giant didn't take space near Madison Square Park, in the Meatpacking district or any of the other favorite locales of the city's burgeoning technology sector.
TORONTO—The Canadian government dealt a blow Tuesday to Telus Corp.'s plan to buy mobile-phone startup Mobilicity, rejecting the proposed transfer of Mobilicity's wireless spectrum licences to the big incumbent telecom operator.
CHICAGO—The head of United Airlines said Tuesday that sustained yen depreciation would affect capacity and pricing on flights to and from Japan, though his carrier would be less affected than rival Delta Air Lines Inc.
NEW YORK--A $1.6 million arbitration award against brokerage Allied Beacon Partners Inc. has forced the Richmond, Va.-based firm out of business.
STOCKHOLM—The Nobel Foundation, under pressure to trim expenses in recent years, will finally get a new home later this decade thanks to grants from a pair of Swedish donors, including the foundation belonging to the chairman of fashion ...
NEW YORK--Wall Street's self-regulator has ordered units of Wells Fargo & Co. Inc. (WFC) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) to pay more than $3 million to customers who suffered losses when their brokers sold them floating-rate bank loan ...
Voices is an occasional column that allows wealth managers to address issues of interest to the advisory community. Chris Bertelsen is the chief investment officer of Global Financial Private Capital based in Sarasota, Fla.
JOHANNESBURG—South African double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius returned to court Tuesday for the first time since being freed on bail over the killing of his girlfriend in February, and is to face trial in August.
TAIPEI—Intel Capital, the global investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corp., is setting up a $100 million fund to invest in "perceptual" computing technologies like voice and gesture control, company executives said.
Jeff Salter is a chief executive who regularly gets put in his place when he plays with his competitive men's rugby team, the Mighty Armadillos.
What is the No. 1 thing investors should be worried about over the next few years? The Wall Street Journal put this question to The Experts, an exclusive group of industry, academic and other thought leaders who engage in in-depth online ...
NEW DELHI—India's cabinet Tuesday approved a proposal to negotiate a settlement to a tax dispute between Vodafone Group PLC and local authorities, according to a cabinet minister.
The younger brother of convicted insider trader Raj Rajaratnam is in plea talks with the government over his own charges, according to a court filing Monday.
TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will on Wednesday offer fresh economic reforms including greater targeted stock purchases by the national pension plan just as a sudden downturn in the stock market has called into question the ...
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services Monday pressed a federal judge to throw out the federal government's lawsuit against the company.Lawyers for S&P, the world's largest credit-rating firm, gave their most specific argument to date ...
OTTAWA—Canada recorded a slightly wider-than-expected trade deficit in April as exports fell for the first time in five months, and imports, including from the U.S., jumped to record high levels.
Office Depot Inc. agreed to sell its 50% stake in its Mexico joint venture to partner Grupo Gigante S.A.B. for 8.78 billion Mexican pesos ($690.2 million), a move advocated by the U.S. company's biggest investor.
The most severe flooding in Central Europe in more than a decade has killed at least nine people, forced thousands from their homes and disrupted transport around the region, authorities said Monday.
For weeks, former city Comptroller Bill Thompson has occupied an odd position in the race for mayor.Among political watchers and campaign aides, he is seen as a likely competitor in a Democratic runoff, in large part because he is the only ...
A little more than 15 years ago, on May 21, 1998, Suharto stepped down from the Indonesian presidency and ended three decades of autocratic rule. Student demonstrators, white collar professionals, laborers and housewives alike poured into ...
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius—Soccer's world governing body certainly loves its nautical metaphors.Throughout FIFA's annual congress here last week, they were liberally sprinkled across official addresses as the catchall euphemism for the ...
WASHINGTON—U.S. financial regulators took a long-awaited step to address market vulnerabilities Monday, proposing that a first round of large, nonbank financial companies, including American International Group Inc., face tougher government ...
The Canadian dollar slumped against the U.S. dollar Tuesday, as the greenback broadly gained after the Reserve Bank of Australia stood pat on its policy rate during the overnight session, but didn't rule out further cuts ahead.
Jim Hagedorn's salty language has landed the Scotts Miracle-Gro chief in hot water.Scotts said Monday its board had unanimously reprimanded Mr. Hagedorn for his use of "inappropriate language," and that three independent directors had ...
The couple was in their mid-50s and nearly crippled by debt. The husband had been out of work, forcing them to use credit cards and 401(k) loans for living expenses. In addition, they had student loans and owed back taxes, which brought ...
Fighters Enter Syria to Defend ShiitesMany Shiite fighters from Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, have answered calls to protect important shrines like the one in Seyda Zeinab, a mausoleum where Shiites believe Zeinab, a saint-like granddaughter of ...
MUMBAI—Indian shares failed to retain initial gains, and ended lower on Tuesday for the third consecutive session because of selling by overseas investors, dealers said.
The European Union is jeopardizing the competitiveness of its economy and risks disruptions to its supply of energy as a multitude of national regulations is undermining the sector's ability to invest, top executives of some of Europe's ...
Acer's new Iconia W3 8-inch Windows 8 tablet was unveiled Monday at the Computex trade show. The annual event is the largest computing show in Asia, with about 1,724 exhibitors and more than 5,000 booths this year.
MUMBAI—India's central bank Tuesday restricted trading agencies from importing gold under a deferred payment plan to curb speculative purchases of the precious metal that have widened the country's current account deficit.
Singapore, famed for its ban on most chewing-gum sales, isn't so sticky when it comes to exports.With the opening of a large industrial plant on Tuesday, German chemical producer Lanxess AG will mostly be making butyl rubber used for the ...
China's yuan rose against the U.S. dollar Tuesday after the central bank guided the currency to its strongest level on record amid dollar weakness overseas.
Japanese stocks bounced back on Tuesday, while Shanghai declined in a mixed day for stocks in Asia.At the start of the session the U.S. dollar was trading below the much-watched ¥100 mark for the first time in nearly a month after overnight ...
BANGKOK—The thermometer is approaching 90 degrees and Rushta Thadajaroonpanich, clad in a blue heat-resistant jumpsuit, was threading his bicycle through a 4-foot-wide passage in one of this city's teeming street markets. Next, he took a ...
NEW DELHI—India's cabinet is considering on Tuesday selling as much as 5.34 billion rupees ($99.5 million) worth of shares in state miner Neyveli Lignite Corp., a senior official said, as the South Asian nation firms up plans to raise funds ...
Australia's central bank warned on Tuesday that the Australian dollar still remains high even after its recent steep fall, suggesting policy makers remain uncomfortable with the local currency's strength which has acted as a brake on ...
MUMBAI—India's foodgrain output will likely rise in the crop year beginning July as monsoon rains have arrived as expected, the farm ministry said in a statement late Monday.
TAIPEI—Mozilla Corp., the company behind the popular Firefox Web browser, plans to team up with phone manufacturers to launch smartphones priced below US$50 in emerging markets.
Visitors took pictures as China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft and its carrier Long March 2-F rocket were transferred to the launch site in Jiuquan, Gansu province, Tuesday. China will launch the Shenzhou 10 space ship in mid-June, carrying three ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The New Zealand dollar drifted lower on Tuesday because of jitters ahead of a monetary-policy decision by Australia's central bank.
MIAMI—The Indiana Pacers tried hard. They really did. For six games, they bumped and battled and banged with the Miami Heat, pushing the defending champions to the brink of oblivion. At times during this series, they even looked like the ...
A photo that accompanied a World News article on Saturday about Turkish protests showed a Turkish police officer spraying protesters with pepper spray. The caption incorrectly said the officer used a water cannon.
Yankee first baseman Mark Teixeira had looked lost at the plate in the few games he'd played since returning from injury last week—until, suddenly, he figured it out at exactly the right time.
Connecticut's state Legislature gave final approval Monday to a two-year $37.6 billion budget that restores aid to cities and towns while it slashes hospital funding and changes how the state accounts for Medicaid spending.
TORONTO—New York hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman is selling up to 29% of his stake in Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. a year after winning a high-profile proxy fight to install a new chief executive at the railroad.
"Kinky Boots" star Billy Porter never considered musical theater as a career until he turned on the television one day in 1982, when he was 11 years old. It was the Tony Awards telecast, and Jennifer Holliday was performing "And I Am ...
NEW DELHI—In the downtrodden gold market, demand is picking up in an important corner: India.The world's biggest consumer of the precious metal is expected to ramp up its demand for gold by 150% in the three months ending June 30, compared ...
Cities around the U.S. are liberalizing their zoning codes to allow more basement apartments, backyard cottages and the like. But many of the suburbs on New York's Long Island have allowed add-on apartments for decades.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Even though everyone wants to be one, screenwriters don't necessarily have it so easy in Hollywood. The big studios are making fewer movies, and when they do go into production they're often big franchises with big-name ...
On a soggy afternoon last week, Eleanor Friedberger was seated in one of the lone bar-restaurants to be found along an otherwise desolate stretch of docks and warehouses in northern Greenpoint, her neighborhood of 13 years. Ms. Friedberger, ...
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has long been accused of blocking legislation she opposes from reaching the floor. Now, one of her own members is blocking her from moving forward with two bills she publicly promised would get ...
In what once was a seasonal rite in New York City, the first weekend of sustained simmering temperatures often led to spasms of violence resulting in double-digit homicides and even more injured by gunfire.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy has a treatable form of lung cancer, she said in a news release Monday afternoon.Ms. McCarthy, a Democrat who has represented a Long Island district since 1997, said she'll miss some work in Washington while she ...
Jonathan Adler owns the summer. Or at least a slice of the summer-party season: The designer's "happy-chic" stationery collection goes live on Paperless Post on Tuesday, giving party-throwers the chance to email Speedo- or beach ball-shaped ...
Each week in Curtain Raisers, we invite a local theater artist to attend a show of his or her choosing and discuss the work. On Thursday, playwright Julia Jordan opted to see "Far From Heaven," based on the 2002 film of the same name, ...
Jonathan Adler owns the summer. Or at least a slice of the summer-party season: The designer's "happy-chic" stationery collection goes live on Paperless Post on Tuesday, giving party-throwers the chance to email Speedo- or beach ball-shaped ...
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For weeks, Ike Davis heard the rumors of his impending demotion. He heard the chatter. He heard the boos.It bothered him. How couldn't it bother him? Ike Davis is a human being, and human beings feel things when they fail.
The hatchet is apparently buried between former Yankee Nick Swisher and the so-called Bleacher Creatures. Swisher was a Creature favorite until playoff struggles saw him booed in 2012—and after a playoff game, he had some unkind things to ...
The Yankees have officially entered the territory where anything is possible. Baseball's most conservative organization may be sticking with its rule barring too much facial hair, but that seems like the only thing that's set in stone ...
Surf AirA Startup AirlineIs Cleared for TakeoffNew airline Surf Air Inc. plans to disrupt air travel by offering "all you can fly" monthly subscriptions, rather than per-trip tickets, for flights between business hubs in the U.S.
Inside a Williamsburg loft, guests with fresh tattoos, ornate beards and other trappings of trendy Brooklyn settled in recently for a night of music.
Affordable-housing projects around the city have traditionally relied on a complex brew of government aid, including tax credits and loans. But now a major developer is betting on achieving lower rents without relying on that decades-old ...
Jill Kelley, whose report of receiving harassing emails ultimately led David Petraeus to resign as director of the Central Intelligence Agency last year, sued the U.S. government Monday, alleging investigators violated her privacy by ...
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The dollar recouped some of its overnight losses early Tuesday in Asia as investors satisfied with profit-taking shifted their focus back to Japan ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement of a growth strategy for the nation on ...
Chinese companies are snapping up overseas gold mines in their quest to become international giants like Canada's Barrick Gold Corp., even as prices for the metal hit a two-year low.
KILLEEN, Texas—A U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of a carrying out a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 can represent himself in his coming court martial, a military judge ruled Monday.
To Wall Street, Paul Kazarian was a hard-driving and demanding leader who rescued Sunbeam-Oster Co. from bankruptcy and made it profitable again.
Jonathan Adler owns the summer. Or at least a slice of the summer-party season: The designer's "happy-chic" stationery collection goes live on Paperless Post on Tuesday, giving party-throwers the chance to email Speedo- or beach ball-shaped ...
Each week in Curtain Raisers, we invite a local theater artist to attend a show of his or her choosing and discuss the work. On Thursday, playwright Julia Jordan opted to see "Far From Heaven," based on the 2002 film of the same name, ...
For weeks, Ike Davis heard the rumors of his impending demotion. He heard the chatter. He heard the boos.It bothered him. How couldn't it bother him? Ike Davis is a human being, and human beings feel things when they fail.
The hatchet is apparently buried between former Yankee Nick Swisher and the so-called Bleacher Creatures. Swisher was a Creature favorite until playoff struggles saw him booed in 2012—and after a playoff game, he had some unkind things to ...
The Yankees have officially entered the territory where anything is possible. Baseball's most conservative organization may be sticking with its rule barring too much facial hair, but that seems like the only thing that's set in stone ...
Surf AirA Startup AirlineIs Cleared for TakeoffNew airline Surf Air Inc. plans to disrupt air travel by offering "all you can fly" monthly subscriptions, rather than per-trip tickets, for flights between business hubs in the U.S.
Inside a Williamsburg loft, guests with fresh tattoos, ornate beards and other trappings of trendy Brooklyn settled in recently for a night of music.
Affordable-housing projects around the city have traditionally relied on a complex brew of government aid, including tax credits and loans. But now a major developer is betting on achieving lower rents without relying on that decades-old ...
Jill Kelley, whose report of receiving harassing emails ultimately led David Petraeus to resign as director of the Central Intelligence Agency last year, sued the U.S. government Monday, alleging investigators violated her privacy by ...
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The dollar recouped some of its overnight losses early Tuesday in Asia as investors satisfied with profit-taking shifted their focus back to Japan ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement of a growth strategy for the nation on ...
Chinese companies are snapping up overseas gold mines in their quest to become international giants like Canada's Barrick Gold Corp., even as prices for the metal hit a two-year low.
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loose or flaccid body fat
Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.
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Canadian bank transforms ATMs into 'thanking machines'
TD Canada Trust is a personal and small business banking chain and their latest campaign will have you crying tears as if they were pennies from heaven.
Using select ATMs across Canada, the bank turned the "automated telling machines" into "automatic thanking machines."
When unsuspecting, loyal customers approached one of the machines, they were met with a personalized conversation from the otherwise-silent machine.
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This hotel is in an excellent rural location, set in its own grounds, and offers an impressive range of facilities. The spacious bedrooms are all in individual lodges with their own access, and many a...More about Laburnum House Lodge Hotel
This delightful building combines traditional character and ambience with a modern and stylish upgrade. Bedrooms and bathrooms vary in size, but include a range of welcome extras; many have views over...More about The Mariners
This detached Victorian residence has a refreshingly different, contemporary style, and the genuinely warm welcome is allied with a helpful and attentive approach. A variety of bedroom styles is offer...More about Norbury House
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A serene little brick church atop a hill overlooking the town of Murphy, the Harshaw Chapel was established in 1869. Built by Joshua Harshaw one of the most well-to-do residents of the community, the church was most likely established after the adjacent cemetery, as per the dates on some of its graves. Added to the U.S National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the Methodist Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery form one of the most important landmarks in the neighborhood even today.
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Altoona Curve introduce Jabba the Hutt jerseys for Star Wars nightChris Cwik at Big League Stew1 hr ago
Star Wars jerseys have become quite the popular promotion among minor-league clubs. Last season, we saw at least four teams wear uniforms inspired by characters who existed a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
With the usual suspects already getting their own jerseys, the Altoona Curve decided to take a different approach to Star Wars night.
We told you it was different... #JabbatheHutt gets his own jersey for our @starwars night on 5/30. #StarWars (1/2) pic.twitter.com/XDG0LfGonD
Sean Doolittle's girlfriend will buy your tickets to A's Pride NightChris Cwik at Big League Stew3 hrs ago
As part of their special events this season, the Oakland Athletics recently introduced Pride Night. Pride Night will "celebrate the Bay Area's LGBTQ community." Partial proceeds from the event will benefit a non-profit charity supporting the LGBTQ media arts.
After hearing about the promotion, some fans decided they did not want to attend the game, and would rather sell their tickets. Enter Eireann Dolan, girlfriend of A's reliever Sean Doolittle.
Dolan put up a post on her website, telling Athletics' fans that she will buy their tickets if they don't want to go to Pride Night.
A's fans; if attending a baseball game on LGBT Pride Night makes you at all uncomfortable, it is probably a good idea to sell your tickets. And I have the perfect buyer. ME!
Freddy Garcia reportedly signs minor-league deal with DodgersIsrael Fehr at Big League Stew13 hrs ago
A familiar face might be making a return to a major league mound near you in 2015.
Veteran right-hander Freddy Garcia signed a minor-league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday according to MLB.com's Ken Gurnick.
Garcia, 38, was last seen in the big leagues in 2013 when he split time between Baltimore and Atlanta and even made a postseason start for the Braves. He spent all of 2014 pitching in Taiwan for the EDA Rhinos after he was released in spring training that year by Atlanta.
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Mike Napoli crushes home run with shattered bat (Video)Israel Fehr at Big League Stew16 hrs ago
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There are two things that stand out about Mike Napoli: he's got a big beard and he's ridiculously strong.
The beard is always on display, so he showed off some of that stunning strength in the Red Sox's spring training game on Monday night against the Twins to remind us that he brings both style and substance.
Napoli hit a monster shot to left field in the fourth inning, which is impressive by itself, but what's even more spectacular is how he managed to muscle the ball over the wall given what happened to his bat. Check out the video: when Napoli finishes his swing, all that's left in his hand is the bat's handle.
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We've seen broken-bat homers before, though this one might have them all beat. The barrel of the bat broke clean off and ended up near third base and Napoli still powered the ball into the seats.LiveBoston0 - 4Tampa BayFollow Game
Reds open nursing suite to help breast-feeding moms at the ballparkMike Oz at Big League Stew18 hrs ago
The Cincinnati Reds announced a new ballpark feature Monday that any mother will love: A nursing suite where breast-feeding moms can retreat during a game for a more comfortable, more private moment with their child.
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Phil Castellini, the Reds' chief operating officer, told ESPN that the club had an increasing number of women asking for a better place to nurse. Pro sports stadiums are loud, crowded and sometimes sticky — so finding a serene place is a bit of a challenge. As a father of five, Castellini knew this was a serious demand, so the Reds created something special at Great American Ball Park.
"It just didn't make sense that we would put a couple chairs in the women's bathrooms," Castellini told ESPN.
Pirates' Sean Rodriguez challenged Phillies' Kevin Slowey to a fightChris Cwik at Big League Stew20 hrs ago
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies nearly came to blows Monday. While no punches were thrown, two coaches were ejected after benches emptied during the fifth inning. All of this happened during a spring training game where the results don't matter.
The entire incident began during the previous inning. After a strikeout, infielder Sean Rodriguez began shouting at pitcher Kevin Slowey while walking toward the dugout. Rodriguez had called for time during the at-bat, but it was not granted by the home plate umpire. Slowey threw his pitch, and eventually wound up picking up a strikeout at the end of the at-bat.
Rodriguez continued yelling at Slowey at the start of the next inning, challenging him to a fight, according to MLB.com's Todd Zolecki. Slowey said he was surprised at the reaction.LivePhiladelphia5 - 5TorontoFollow Game
MLBPA calls Kris Bryant decision 'a bad day for baseball'Chris Cwik at Big League Stew22 hrs ago
The Chicago Cubs made their decision Monday, sending uber-prospect Kris Bryant down to the minors. Bryant's possible demotion had become a major controversy this spring.
Members of the Cubs front office expressed that Bryant would likely need more seasoning in the minors. While Bryant's agent, Scott Boras, believed his performance, nine home runs over 40 spring at-bats, should have been enough to earn him a spot on the club.
Boras accused the club of sending Bryant down in order to manipulate his service time. If Bryant spends about two weeks in the minors this season, the Cubs will gain an extra year of control on Bryant once he's eligible to reach free agency.
With the move now finalized, the Major League Baseball Players Association weighed in on the situation.
Mets swing two trades to strengthen their bullpenMike Oz at Big League Stew22 hrs ago
With a week between them and opening day, the New York Mets pulled off two trades Monday that should strengthen their bullpen.
The club acquired Alex Torres from the San Diego Padres earlier in the day, then swung a deal to get Jerry Blevins from the Washington Nationals on Monday afternoon.
Both are left-handed relievers, a scarce quantity on the Mets roster before this. Sean Gilmartin, a Rule 5 draft pick from the Minnesota Twins, was the only lefty reliever still with the club at this juncture of spring training. Gilmartin is 24 and has never pitched in the big leagues. He had a 5.19 ERA in 10 Grapefruit League appearances.
The price for the Mets' late-March shopping spree? Matt dan Dekker, a backup outfielder, is going to the Nats, while pitching prospect Cory Mazzoni and a player to be named later are headed to the Padres. All in all, not too bad.
Just like that, #Mets looking at carrying not one, not two, but THREE lefties in their Opening Day bullpen: Blevins, Alex Torres, Gilmartin.LiveNY Mets2 - 0WashingtonFollow Game
AL Central 2015 preview: Indians, White Sox, Royals eager to dethrone TigersMike Oz at Big League Stew1 day ago
With opening day approaching, the Big League Stew crew is here to get you up to speed on the season ahead. We're examining each division over the next two weeks, looking at the big questions, the important players and making our predictions. Our series continues with the AL Central.
So many unknowns in the AL Central this year: Are the Detroit Tigers, the four-year reigning champs, still the power of the division? Will the Kansas City Royals, the wild card Cinderellas of last year, make a postseason run again? Can the Chicago White Sox, big movers and shakers in the offseason, challenge for the crown?
Cubs make their call: send down Kris Bryant, Javier BaezChris Cwik at Big League Stew1 day ago
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After weeks of speculation, the Chicago Cubs have made their decision. The club sent down promising youngsters Kris Bryant and Javier Baez on Monday.


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Berlin 2013: Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning Join 'Young Ones'
BERLIN – Warm Bodies star Nicholas Hoult, Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Shannon and young talents Elle Fanning (We Bought a Zoo) and Australia's Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) have signed on to star in Young Ones, a futuristic thriller written and directed by Jake Paltrow (The Good Night).
Young Ones is set in a near future where water has become the most precious resource. A 14-year-old boy (Smit-McPhee) is forced to use his wits to protect his family and try and survive in an increasingly violent world.
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Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica and Spier Films' Michael Auret are producing the feature, which began shooting in South Africa Feb. 1. Spier Films' Laula Fourie is screening in competition at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
Executive producers of Young Ones are Peter Garde, Marina Fuentes Arredonda, James Atherton, Jan Pace and Brian O'Shea.
STORY: Berlin 2013: Dakota Fanning Joining Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks in 'Every Secret Thing'
O'Shea's The Exchange and Fuentes 6 Sales are handling international sales on the project and are pitching it to buyers at Berlin's EFM. Young Ones has pre-sold to Ascot Elite for Germany, Portugal's Lusomundo, Polar Star for Latin America and Front Row for Middle Eastern territories with Penny Black taking airline rights. UTA is handling North American rights.
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DETROIT, Jan. 10, 2012 —Marygrove College professor and author Donald Levin is celebrating the release of his new mystery, "Crimes of Love," at a book launch party to be held at the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, from 2 - 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Levin will read from the book and sign copies, which will be available for purchase. Wine and cheese and other refreshments will be served.
Set in and around Ferndale, "Crimes of Love" follows police detective Martin Preuss on a frantic search for a seven-year-old girl who has disappeared from the streets of Ferndale. Fast-paced storytelling and keen insights into the weaknesses that beset the human heart make this first Martin Preuss mystery impossible to put down.
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I usually have to make a run to Atlanta for live Blue Crabs. ANyone know of a source in Bham?
Try Empire seafood in Ensley or The Fish Market in Southside/UAB area.
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The Prospect Cemetery is a historic graveyard located in Queens, New York. Built in 1668, the site is one of the few remaining Colonial cemeteries in the vicinity. Burials have been taking place since 1668 at this 4 acre (1.6 hectare) site. The burial site is also occupied by a tiny church, the Chapel of the Sisters. The cemetery was added to the list of National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Pineapple sage -- when does it bloom?
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I've been trying to have a few plants that hummers love.
I had a Pineapple Sage 5 or so years ago that bloomed while still a fairly small plant. Hummingbirds loved it. I don't remember exactly *when* it bloomed, tho.
This year I have another one that I got in March or April. It's a water hog and a grow monster-- it's in a 14" pot right now and still needs water every day.
But no flowers! What in the world is wrong? It is getting full sun and lots of water, growing like crazy. Surely it should have bloomed by now?
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Pipe fitters and plumbers in the oil and gas industry in Western Canada can expect higher salary increases this year than retail and hospitality workers, says a new study.
The oil and gas sectors in Saskatchewan and Alberta are expected to have the highest average salary increase at 4.5 per cent, up from 4.2 per cent last fall, the Conference Board of Canada said Tuesday.
Engineers and project managers as well as electricians and welders are also in demand, said Ian Cullwick, the board's vice-president, leadership and human resources leadership.
"Alberta and Saskatchewan just have a huge demand for those skill sets," he said from Ottawa.
Non-unionized salary gains are projected at three per cent nationally for 2013, with salary gains in the heavily populated provinces of Ontario and Quebec expected under that average.
Workers in hospitality, tobacco and manufacturing industries can expect lower salary increases of 2.3 per cent and retail workers 2.2 per cent, down from 2.9 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively.
"In hospitality and retail, they have more transient workforces. They've got part timers and contract workers. They've got part-time workers that are students as well," Cullwick said.
For unskilled and semi-skilled labour, he said, the implications are higher levels of unemployment and lower salary gains.
"You could argue it's almost two divides," he said, adding that there's a "misalignment" for producing specialized skills and trades versus general university programs that are "educating" but not necessarily developing skill sets.
For Quebec, the Conference Board projected salary gains to be below the national average at 2.7 per cent, while projections for Ontario and British Columbia are at 2.5 per cent.
"We don't have the same boom that's coming from the resource and energy sectors," added Allison Cowan, senior research associate of compensation and industrial relations at the Conference Board.
Manufacturing continues to be challenging in Ontario and to some extent in Quebec, Cowan said.
While teachers and health-care workers, such as nurses, can expect salary gains of 2.6 per cent, in line with last year.
Unionized employees in the private sector should see wage increases averaging 2.3 per cent this year, up from 2.1 per cent in 2012, the board said.
Those in the public sector can expect to see their wages rise by an average of 1.6 per cent, down from the 1.8 per cent forecast last summer.
Cullwick said the private sector has been coming out of the 2009 recession while the public sector is "essentially in a financial recession."
The four Atlantic provinces are expected to see a three per cent increase in non-union salaries this year, in line with previous estimates, and Manitoba salaries are still expected to rise 3.3 per cent over the coming year.
By contrast, Alberta's increases are now expected to come in at 3.9 per cent, which is one-tenth of a point better than expected, while the estimate for Saskatchewan has been raised by three-tenths of a point to four per cent.
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Grieving Singaporeans were joined by world leaders on Sunday to pay their final respects to the country's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
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Chinese property developers are finding themselves forced to sacrifice profits to boost sales amid a downturn in the housing market.
China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned on Sunday that the country needs to be vigilant for signs of deflation.
Russia, Australia and the Netherlands became the latest three countries to say they plan to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will press Chinese officials next week to adopt a more market-determined exchange rate policy, Treasury officials said on Friday.
Some dissidents and opponents of Lee Kuan Yew believe that with his passing the political restrictions he imposed in the name of security will begin to ease.
Opposition and warnings from the U.S. and senior U.K. diplomats have not stopped China's alternative to the World Bank from gaining global support.
Tokyo stock prices are at fifteen-year highs, but Japanese corporations remain pessimistic about the country's growth potential.
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Last week, more than 100 academics gathered at Brandeis University's Cohen
Center for Modern Jewish Studies to analyze an unlikely research subject –
Taglit-Birthright Israel.The formal research confirmed what simple
observation of this informal process reveals: This "Mega-Experiment in Jewish
Education," as Professor Len Saxe who convened the conference calls Birthright,
has succeeded with more than 300,000 young Jews, thanks to the magic of Israel,
an Israel they see through their eyes, not through the distorting lens of
conflict-obsessed reporters or angry activists.But Birthright's success
also stems from its humanistic, person-centered educational philosophy. This
approach emphasizes "no strings attached" – meaning no ideological or practical
demands in return for what Charles Bronfman calls a gift from one generation to
the next. It respects all participants, inviting them to launch their own unique
Jewish journeys without the traditional guilt trips, while acknowledging the
centrality of Israel and of Jewish peoplehood in building modern Jewish
identity.Birthright's origins were not just countercultural but
counterintuitive. This is a program conceived in failure which easily could have
failed. It emerged from the panic generated in the 1990s when the National
Jewish Population Survey confirmed that intermarriage was becoming mainstreamed
in America. The American Jewish future looked grim.Birthright was the
programmatic equivalent of a cardiac defibrillator, trying to give the ailing
Jewish community an emergency healing shock as things turned critical. But
thanks to its affirmative, open-ended approach, Birthright has gone from being
palliative to preventative. Vitamin B10 – 10 days of a collective Birthright
experience trip in Israel – is becoming a Jewish rite of passage, an elegant way
to start or restart a Jewish journey, not a desperate, defensive measure against
assimilation.Now it looks easy, but it wasn't. In the 1990s,
philosophers like Francis Fukuyama were declaring "the end of history," as Miles
Trentell, the evil advertising executive on the late 1980s, early 1990s TV hit,
Thirty-something scoffed that, to modern Americans, history is last week's People
magazine cover.In 1995, the Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam published
his article (which became a book), "Bowling Alone," arguing that in a
post-collective age, selfish Americans bowled, but not together in leagues as
their parents did; this generation bowled alone.In 1996, the historian
David Hollinger's Postethnic America concluded that Americans were abandoning
their tribal connections.Yet to ahistorical, hyperindividualistic,
postethnic Americans – and moderns, because Jews in dozens of countries
participate – Birthright offered a sense of the past through Israel's layers of
history, a sense of the group through the peer experience on the bus, and a
sense of rootedness through the ethnic, tribal, national Jewish
connection.And participants loved it.Similarly, Birthright,
which the historian Jonathan Sarna notes reflected a new faith in
"transformative" educational experiences rather than more normative, less
ecstatic "formative" ones, revolutionized assumptions in the Jewish
world.Birthright proved that Judaism could be dynamic and welcoming. Not
only has Birthright shown that bold ideas can be game-changers, but it
introduced a new, more fluid, more inspiring, less formalistic, less alienating
type of Judaism for young Jews to embrace, even without bar mitzvah goodies as
bribes.Birthright proved that Israel could be inspiring and even
comforting, a far cry from the embattled, controversial country they see on TV,
because not everything is political. And Birthright proved that Zionism, despite
its many internal and external enemies, could be cool and
relevant.Birthright reintroduces Judaism to participants as what Rabbi
Yitz Greenberg calls "an organizing filter," a way of understanding the world
and themselves. This intense "takeoff" experience "reconnects" young Jews with
Jewish tradition, even while acting as what Jeffrey Solomon of the Andrea and
Charles Bronfman Philanthropies called a "disruptive technology," meaning an
innovative, unconventional, cutting-edge program.Birthright Israel's
core educational principles, drafted by one of the greats of modern Jewish
education, Professor Barry Chazan, offer a quilted theory – meaning an
integrated platform – combining an experiential approach, a culture of values, a
culture of ideas, person-centered education, social interactionism and the
concept of fun – in a respectful, constructive context which measures
outcomes.It has created a process which respects every participant's
intelligence, independence and integrity – only asking them to participate
constructively, then draw their own conclusions.The central challenge
facing modern American Jews is not anti-Semitism, nor is it defending Israel. It
is answering such basic questions as "who am I," "what are my values," "how do I
build a meaningful life" and "where does Judaism fit in"? As chairman of
Birthright Israel's International Education Committee, I confess that the bigger
Birthright gets the harder we have to work to help participants answer those
questions effectively by staying small, intimate and person-centered.We
never want to become the "educational McDonald's" of the Jewish people, mass
producing one-size-fits-all fast food-type experiences. Instead, we seek to
cultivate a modern, open-air, experiential Beit Midrash (House of Study),
wherein each individual may follow the same itinerary, but, in a true I-thou
educational interaction, grows in a particular way that works for him or
her.Jeffrey Solomon asked: will Taglit be like Apple or HP – continuing
to innovate or so addicted to past success we stagnate.From the start,
Birthright has invested in research, guaranteeing constant and accurate
feedback, while yielding results – ably analyzed by Len Saxe and his Brandeis
team – proving that the experience encourages Jews to marry each other, raises
Israel awareness, deepens Jewish connectedness, and is lots of
fun.Conferences like this one, assembling educators, rabbis, historians,
demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, even an economist, will keep
Birthright sharp, keep it innovating, even as its essential fuel remains the
delightfully combustible combination of Jewish tradition, an open-ended approach,
passionate educators, and a generation seeking meaning in life and a more
dynamic Judaism than the one their parents introduced to them.Gil Troy
is professor of history at McGill University and a Shalom Hartman Engaging
Israel Research Fellow in Jerusalem. The author of Why I Am a Zionist: Israel,
Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today, he is the chairman of the
Taglit-Birthright Israel International Education Committee.
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