Tunisian woman allegedly burned pages of Quran with cigarette
Taroudant, Morocco – A Tunisian woman based in Paris has received a massive flood of accusations because she has allegedly “burned a page of the Quran with her cigarette.”The Tunisian website Bouyafar published photos of a woman who desecrated the pages of Holy Quran by her cigarette.The same source said that Khadija Ben Ayed, a Tunisian living in Paris, burned and desecrated the Quran and posted the photos on her Facebook wall. However, the Moroccan French website Telquel said that “these photos that circulated for a while on Facebook do not belong to the Tunisian question in question.“These are screenshots taken from a video posted on YouTube in 2012 of a completely different person, speaking in English, and affiliated with an Islamophobic forum,” the same source said.
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram Being in my line of business, I get to see certain factors of the economy playing out in real terms. I get to see where people are hurting and where things are good. So it came as surprise to me this week when a Sydney newspaper columnist claimed that the two-speed economy in Australia wasn’t real. The two-speed economy has been so-named to cover the situation in which the mining boom creates massive wealth and employment while the rest of the economy recovers from the effects of the GFC. To make matters worse, the booming miners create inflationary pressures and these must be dampened by the Reserve Bank raising interest rates for the rest of Australia. Hence two speeds: one is flat and suffering under rising interest rates; the other is booming and export-focused. There are enough facts and figures for the economists and columnists to argue about this, and even to claim – as the newspaper columnist did – that everyone is better off having a booming resources sector. But from my perspective I have not seen a time when business owners and householders have worked so hard just to stay where they are. I’m seeing people taking second jobs, mums going back to work, businesses doing more with less. Interest rates have been going up in the past two years and they will go up again. Electricity is going up and the powers that be in Canberra want to put another tax on petrol, to join the others that are there already. It was revealed last week that there are 700,000 ‘arrangement’s with the ATO right now for previous years’ unpaid taxes. That included 260,000 business owners. Given that small business employs 50 percent of Australia’s work force, this is a serious situation. There is clearly a two-speed economy operating, and if the politicians and economists could be bothered talking to real business owners, they’d get that straight pretty quickly. The question is what can be done about it. The idea of slapping ‘super taxes’ on entire industries sounds punitive and not very constructive. You have to wonder about people who think the solution to every problem is to put more taxes on those who are paying a stack of them already.Unfortunately, business owners have always known how to handle these tough times and they’re doing it right now, judging by the fact that the savings rate is going up while credit is flat. When interest rates are up and confidence low, business owners do what they have always done. They ask their families to tighten their belts, and then they all tough it out, waiting for better times.
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäeuble, will visit Athens on July 18 in response to an invitation made by his Greek counterpart Yannis Stournaras. The visit would focus on the extension to Greece of a programme designed by Germany and Spain for the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), for fighting youth unemployment and possibly setting up a Greek investment bank. A few days ago, the German chancellor Angella Merkel and her Minister of Finances Wolfgang Schäuble rejected the possibility of a new haircut of the Greek debts after the upcoming September German elections. Mrs. Merkel, who was interviewed by the Märkische Oderzeitung and Südwest Presse newspapers explained that there is no possibility of a further haircut of the Greek debt. A further haircut would burden the other Eurozone partners with many more billions of euros.
A 33-year-old Algerian national arrested in connection with a deadly raid on a suspected Islamist cell in Belgium last week is set to appear before a prosecutor Tuesday at noon.Belgian authorities have requested his extradition on terrorism charges.Greek and Belgian authorities have said the man is not the suspected mastermind that communicated with cell members from a mobile phone in Greece.According to sources, the 33-year-old has been living in Greece since 2011 when he lodged an appeal for political asylum. In 2012, he was arrested on theft charges before being released last year.Source: Kathimerini Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram
The Greek Culture Ministry announced the discovery of an “exceptionally important” Early Bronze Age settlement on the islet of Daskalio off the coast of Keros, a Cycladic island.The discovery was made during the Keros-Naxos Seaways research programme – a four-year project being conducted by the British School at Athens and the University of Cambridge under the direction of Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd.The ministry described the finds as “unprecedented” due to the highly evolved architectural techniques, such as a complex system of tubes used to keep the sea water out of the settlement as well as many buildings and other sculptures dating back to the early Bronze Age from 2750-2550 BC.READ MORE: Divers can enjoy underwater antiquities near AlonissosThe astonishing findings also revealed a complex multi-level highly-developed civilisation, completely unknown prior to the excavation, that was able to survive in the harsh coastal environment. Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram
iPad : les opérateurs français ne le distribueront pasFrance – C’est en mai que l’iPad fera son entrée en France, mais la tablette Internet d’Apple ne sera pas commercialisée par les opérateurs mobiles.C’est uniquement dans certains magasins Fnac ou Darty, et bien sûr dans les Apple Store de Paris et Montpellier que l’iPad sera vendu à la fin du mois prochain. D’après le quotidien Les Echos, SFR, Bouygues et Orange seront en effet privés de la tablette Internet et devront donc se contenter de proposer des forfaits dédiés aux heureux possesseurs de l’iPad.Apple a choisi pour la France un système identique à celui mis en place aux États-Unis, écartant les opérateurs mobiles pour leur préférer le distributeur Best Buy.Si SFR et ses concurrents proposeront des abonnements pour la version 3G de l’iPad, c’est Apple qui en contrôlera la souscription. Au moment de l’achat de leur tablette, les clients devront en effet indiquer leur choix et c’est Apple qui contactera les opérateurs avec lesquels les utilisateurs de la tablette Internet n’auront donc aucune relation. A noter que l’iPad pourra également être connecté à Internet en Wi-Fi, sans abonnement.Le 28 avril 2010 à 15:38 • Emmanuel Perrin
Fukushima : des dosimètres pour 34.000 enfantsLa ville de Fukushima, au nord-est du Japon, prévoit d’équiper 34.000 enfants de dosimètres dès l’automne. L’objectif est de rassurer les familles inquiètes de la radioactivité qui n’a pas fini de s’échapper de la centrale nucléaire accidentée, située à une soixantaine de kilomètres de là.En septembre, tous les enfants âgés de 4 à 15 ans et qui résident à Fukushima – ville située à l’extérieur de la zone d’évacuation de 20 kilomètres autour de la centrale nucléaire accidentée-, se verront remettre un dosimètre à conserver sur eux en permanence pendant trois mois, a annoncé un responsable du bureau chargé de l’éducation, cité par l’AFP. À lire aussiBébé : 3 conseils pour être un super papa selon la scienceDe nombreux habitants sont inquiets des risques de radiation depuis le séisme et tsunami du 11 mars qui ont fortement endommagé les installations nucléaires de Fukushima Daiichi, située à une soixantaine de kilomètres de là. Au lendemain de la catastrophe, le Japon avait relevé le niveau légal d’exposition pour la population, tous âges confondus, de 1 à 20 millisieverts par an (soit la norme adoptée par beaucoup de pays pour les employés de l’industrie nucléaire, précise l’AFP). “Nous pensons que la distribution de dosimètres va contribuer à rassurer les familles si les mesures confirment que la santé des enfants n’est pas menacée”, explique le responsable à l’agence de presse. Celui-ci a souligné que le niveau de radioactivité dans la ville se situait en dessous de la limite officielle de risque sanitaire. Il a également indiqué que les dosimètres seront vérifiés tous les mois pour constater la quantité de radiations accumulées.Mais le groupe écologiste et antinucléaire Greenpeace souhaite aller plus loin. La semaine dernière, il a demandé au gouvernement japonais d’ordonner l’évacuation des enfants et des femmes enceintes de la ville de Fukushima. Pour le moment, ce n’est pas le cas.Huit ouvriers de la centrale nucléaire irradiés Par ailleurs, l’opérateur de la centrale nucléaire accidentée, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) a annoncé que six autres ouvriers avaient été exposés à des radiations supérieures au maximum autorisé de 250 millisieverts. Au total, ce sont donc huit personnes qui ont été irradiées. Toutefois, selon l’opérateur, les six hommes n’ont pour le moment pas signalé de problème de santé.Le 14 juin 2011 à 13:27 • Emmanuel Perrin
La route migratoire des requins-tigres en lien avec les attaques sur humains ?Des chercheurs américains ont suivi sur plusieurs années les déplacements de nombreux requins-tigres, et suggèrent que ces résultats pourraient expliquer en partie les nombreuses attaques perpétrées par ces squales sur des humains dans l’archipel d’Hawaï.Depuis 2004, des chercheurs de l’Université de Floride et de l’Université d’Hawaï ont équipé de balises satellitaires et suivi par télémétrie acoustique plus de 100 requins-tigres dans les eaux hawaïennes. Ceci a permis d’observer les routes migratoires empruntés par les squales chaque année et constater qu’elle étaient plus “organisées” que ce que les scientifiques pensaient jusqu’ici.”Nous pensons qu’un quart approximativement des femelles matures nagent depuis le banc de sable de la Frégate française [un atoll des îles hawaïennes du nord-ouest] jusqu’aux principales îles hawaïennes, potentiellement pour mettre bas, en automne”, explique Yannis Papastamatiou, biologiste marin à l’Université de Floride. “Cependant, d’autres individus peuvent aussi aller vers d’autres îles, peut-être à la recherche d’un environnement thermique plus approprié, ou parce qu’il pourrait y avoir plus de nourriture vers ces îles”.En effet, grâce à leurs observations, les chercheurs ont remarqué que la migration des requins pouvait dépendre de différents facteurs plus ou moins fixes. “Ce qu’on observe, c’est un modèle complexe de migration partielle qui peut s’expliquer par des facteurs fixes – une femelle gravide migrant pour mettre bas à un endroit particulier – et par des facteurs plus flexibles comme la recherche de nourriture”, ajoute Yannis Papastamatiou dont l’étude est publiée dans la revue Ecology. Un pic dans le nombre de requins vus À lire aussiMaladie de Charcot : symptômes, causes, traitement, où en est on ?”[Avant], nous savions que les requins tigres avaient des habitudes de déplacement assez compliquées et cela semblait être une sorte de ‘chacun pour soi’. Nous avions [aussi] analysé des données pour voir quels requins rendaient visite aux plongeurs (…) à Oahu [la plus peuplée des îles hawaïennes], et l’une des choses que nous avons remarquées, c’est un pic dans le nombre de requins-tigres vus en octobre”, ajoute t-il encore.”Ceci pourrait correspondre à notre modèle, qui prédit un afflux de grandes femelles gravides venant des îles hawaïennes du nord-ouest. Il y a même tendance à y avoir un pic dans le nombre de morsures de requins au cours de cette saison”, conclut le biologiste. Le fichier “Shark Attacks” du Muséum de Floride, qui recense les agressions au niveau international, rapporte pour Hawaï 10 attaques pour 2012 et 8 en 2013, dont une mortelle en août. Le plus grand nombre d’attaques signalées dans l’archipel ont eu lieu en octobre, novembre et décembre.Le 14 septembre 2013 à 09:46 • Maxime Lambert
The race for Gonzalo Higuain appears to be coming to a close with AC Milan sporting director Leonardo set to meet the striker’s agent later todayThe Argentina international looks set to leave Juventus this summer following Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrival earlier this month for a club record transfer fee of €112m.With the five-time Ballon d’Or winner in their ranks, Higuain has been deemed surplus to requirements with Juventus now in need to recouping some of the rather excessive amount they had spent on bringing Ronaldo to Italy.Juventus’ chief executive, Beppe Marotta, had confirmed Milan’s interest in Higuain last week.
Fiorentina owner: “Ribery played better than Ronaldo!” Andrew Smyth – September 14, 2019 Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso was left gushing over Franck Ribery’s performance against Juventus, which he rates above that of even Cristiano Ronaldo’s.“Leonardo knows Higuain well and wants to have him at Milan, but there are contractual issues to resolve. There’s a long way to go…” said Marotta.And now it seems that Milan are ready to step up their interest in the 30-year-old with their newly-appointed sporting director Leonardo leading the bid for the highly-rated forward with Calcio Mercato reporting that he is set to meet Higaun’s brother-agent, Nicolas, later today to discuss the transfer.The Italian news outlet also added that, while no personal terms have been agreed on yet, Higuain is asking for €8m a year at the San Siro.
Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Related Items: Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppProvidenciales, TCI, October 23, 2016 – A Graceway Supermarket manager is recuperating in hospital now; the young woman whose father is a senior Civil Servant could have been killed in hostile crossfire between Police and suspects.A wild bullet hit the woman as she exited her home to go to work. The gun shot caught a popular employee of IGA in her leg. Police have no official info yet in the shocking investigation where bandits stole a truck and almost got away with the entire ScotiaBank ATM machine from the downtown branch of MoneyGram. They chained a huge and heavy machine to the truck and tried to drag it away to get the cash inside.This was minutes to 4 o’clock this morning. Police foiled the theft but the trio (at least) abandoned the truck and took off on foot. The suspects ended up in crime hot bed, Kew Town, where they eventually escaped. The young woman, whose family hails partly from South Caicos was struck by a stray bullet. It is believed the bullet was from the thieves.It’s the second time for this kind of encounter in Kew Town this year. In the former instance the bullet went through the bed headboard of a woman actually laying in bed at the time.The nation is appalled.
After 18 months of private liquor sales in Washington state, the competitive liquor market is moving into its second holiday season that is traditionally its highest sales period of the year.Local spirits sellers are pulling out all the stops to compete for those sales. It’s a contest that has some retailers expanding store liquor departments, others carrying holiday gift packs and some offering extra services such as online sales and abundant, well-trained sales associates on the selling floor. Other liquor retailers, such as warehouse-style booze seller Total Wine & More, rely on volume-order advantages and promotions with spirits producers that help level the playing field with stores such as Costco and other volume discounters.Issaquah-based Costco invested $22 million to back the voter-approved Initiative 1183, which pulled the state out of the business of selling spirits on June 1, 2012.The sudden change in liquor sales rules created a highly competitive retail environment in which liquor sellers in Clark County increased from 14 state-run and state-contracted stores to more than 75 licensed sellers of hard liquor. The voter-approved law attracted major newcomers such as Potomac, Md.-based Total Wine & More, which opened a Vancouver store in May.The company’s sales strategy is three-fold, based on its selection of more than 14,000 spirits, wines and beers, its trained service staff and price, said David Trone, co-owner of the more than 90-store chain.“You’ve always got to have the best price in the market,” Trone told The Columbian.That strategy appears to be working in some parts of the state, such as Bellevue, where the Total Wine & More store was the state’s highest grossing liquor store in 2012, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Tasvir Ul Islam Photo: UNBA Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to Tasvir Ul Islam, chairman of Quasem Industries Ltd till 29 August in a case filed over the forgery in the design of Banani’s ill-fated FR Tower, reports UNB.Dhaka senior special judge KM Imrul Kayes passed the order when his lawyer Ehsanul Haque filed a petition before his court seeking bail.Ehsanul said the court granted bail to his client considering his age and physical ailment.On Sunday, the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested Tasvir, one of the owners of the building, from Segunbagicha area in the case.The ACC had filed two cases against 23 people for their alleged involvement in illegally extending Banani’s FR Tower beyond the permitted number of floors.The building caught fire on 27 March last that left 25 people dead and 73 others injured.During investigation, the ACC found that the 23-storey FR Tower had no fire alarm while it has narrow exit points and staircases and the fire exits are blocked.The authorities had legally obtained permission for a 15-storey building but they made the FR Tower a 23-storey one over time.The ACC sued 20 and five people respectively in the two cases filed over illegal extension of FR Tower from 16th to 18th and 19th to 23rd floors.The accused also include SMHI Faruque, owner of the land on which FR Tower is built, Liakat Ali Khan Mukul, chairman of Rupayan Housing Estate Ltd, the housing company that extended the building illegally, Muhammd Shawkat Ali, member of Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Syed Nazmul Huda, sub-divisional engineer of Public Works Department (PWD) and Shamsur Rahman, executive engineer of PWD.
4 min read September 1, 2012 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Some young-app developers are getting a lesson in civic engagement.From New York City to Seattle, city-sponsored apps contests are increasingly popping up to encourage the generation of innovative solutions to everyday problems — a welcome prospect for app developers and aspiring start-up founders alike.Among various locales in Washington State, for instance, app makers can participate in the Evergreen Apps Challenge, a contest that closes on Sept. 6 and showers winners with $75,000 in prizes, including $20,000 in cash. App challenges have also been held in San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit, where a mobile program showcasing the Motor City’s public art — from graffiti to museum works — took top spot.Though the cash is helpful, some savvy-software developers are also using the contests to enhance their technical training, win seed capital for a new startup and garner much-needed exposure to stand out in an increasingly crowded pack. Getting a foot in the door with a venture capitalist isn’t easy, after all.Related: From Pinterest to Gumroad, 19-Year-Old Sahil Lavingia on His Trek Through Silicon Valley Aaron Coleman quit his job to participate in the AT&T San Diego Apps Challenge and launch Small Steps Labs.The announcement of the AT&T San Diego Apps Challenge in January proved to be the catalyst for Aaron Coleman’s career change. Previously, he had been working on research that intersected mobile communications, technology and health at the University of California, San Diego. In 2010, he won a prize in the Apps for Healthy Kids challenge, which had been sponsored by Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to curb childhood obesity.But when the opportunity to participate in the San Diego’s contest arose, Coleman quit his day job — allowing the 29-year-old to finally put his apps-startup Small Steps Labs in motion. Eager to explore more efficient techniques for developing apps across different platforms, he welcomed the challenge. “I just thought, if nothing else, this is a good way to practice on something good for the city,” says Coleman.One of those apps, Street Report, allows San Diegans to snap pictures and report problems such as gaping potholes, graffiti and other blights directly to city officials. Coleman also worked closely with a city official to determine how information from the app should best be submitted so that addressing issues could become more efficient. The program, which he submitted with a sharply-shot demo video, won both Best Overall App and the City of San Diego Government Innovation App — as well as a $20,000 prize, which Coleman used as seed money for his startup.Related: Andrew Rasiej on the Next Big Wave in Tech — And How Young Treps Can Surf ItFlanking NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is Joel Natividad (on left) and his partner who won the city’s BigApps 3.0 contest this year.Over in New York City, Joel Natividad proves quitting your day job to follow one’s bliss isn’t only for the young. Through his participation in the latest NYC BigApps 3.0 competition, the 44-year-old was able to harness open data that’s generated from users of smartphones and laptops, a process Natividad and his long-time friend and partner have coined crowdknowing.”We rolled the dice, and we’ve been working on it full-time since last October,” says Natividad.The entrepreneur looked to New York City’s challenge as an “accelerator” for his New York-based data-aggregation and analysis firm, Ontodia. They submitted a tool designed for app developers called NYCFacets that allows app developers to leverage different bundles of data — Wifi hotspot locations in Brooklyn, for example. Winning some of the $50,000 in cash and prizes from the BigApps 3.0 contest has helped Natividad advance his startup. So have the intros with heavyweight investors and venture-capital firms he’s landed since the win.”I had always had this perception when you start up, you had Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who didn’t finish college and basically at an early age got lucky,” says Natividad. “They are the outliers.”Related: How to Talk to ‘Nerds’ and Why You Should “What I’m finding out the hard way is it’s all about relationships when you’re doing a startup,” adds Natividad. “My advice is spend some time — maybe two or three years in the business world. Develop your network. Get the kinks out.” And then maybe in your late 20s or early 30s, try the entrepreneurial route, he says. “The days of my generation, where you go to work with one company for all your professional life, are long gone.How has winning a competition helped fuel your business? Let us know in the comments section. Free Workshop | August 28: Get Better Engagement and Build Trust With Customers Now This hands-on workshop will give you the tools to authentically connect with an increasingly skeptical online audience. Enroll Now for Free
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