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• Coronary heart disease, or clogged or hardened arteries, caused 43 percent of cardiovascular deaths in the U.S., followed by stroke (17 percent), high blood pressure (10 percent) and heart failure (9 percent).
NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - Oil prices dropped about 5 percent on Monday, putting pressure on energy shares and keeping global stock markets in check, although financial shares rallied after upbeat news from Bank of America and Deutsche Bank.
U.S. crude fell 4.59 percent to $67.75 per barrel, while Brent was last at $71.69, down 4.83 percent on the day, and touched a three-month low.
Wall Street’s main indexes were little changed following strong weeks as investors geared up for a big week of corporate earnings and awaited commentary on the impact of trade disputes between the United States and its trading partners.
“Trade and trade rhetoric will be a focus of the market,” said Mona Mahajan, U.S. investment strategist at Allianz Global Investors in New York.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 17.35 points, or 0.07 percent, to 25,036.76, the S&P 500 lost 1.93 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,799.38 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.01 points, or 0.15 percent, to 7,813.97.
Major energy stocks such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP weighed on key indexes.
Financials in the U.S. and Europe were higher following Bank of America’s better-than-expected quarterly profit and Deutsche Bank’s upbeat earnings preview.
Overall in Europe, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index lost 0.34 percent.
MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.11 percent.
Markets looked ahead to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s semiannual testimony on the economy and monetary policy before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
The dollar fell after posting its largest weekly gain in a month, as investors pared back their long bets on the greenback.
The dollar index fell 0.24 percent, with the euro up 0.22 percent to $1.1711.
The rouble held gains after a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump helped offset a negative impact from the drop in oil prices.
U.S. Treasury yields increased with the two-year yield hitting a near decade peak as domestic retail sales recorded growth for a fifth straight month in June, supporting the view of solid economic growth in the second quarter.
Brandon Truaxe, the founder of cult skin care line Deciem, was ousted from his role Friday after its parent company Estée Lauder told a Canadian court he has caused “irreparable harm” to the business.
The post confused many Deciem shoppers and prompted some to consider stocking up on its products.
An Ontario Superior Court judge granted Estée Lauder’s application to remove Truaxe, who founded the trendy skin care company in 2013, from any role as officer or employee of Deciem. This will bar Truaxe’s access to the brand’s social media accounts, which have been marked by a number of the founder’s controversial posts over the past year, including ones in which he detailed infighting at the company and announced he was firing Deciem’s advertising team.
“We are pleased with the court’s decision today, and will be working closely with Deciem’s leadership team to support and guide them as they resume operations and continue to provide consumers with the products that they know and love,” a spokesperson for Estée Lauder told BuzzFeed News.
Estée Lauder claims in its application that its request to remove Truaxe comes after he exhibited “erratic, irrational, disturbing, and highly offensive behavior and conduct that is entirely inconsistent with the duties and responsibilities of a corporate officer and director” for several months.
Nicola Kilner, formerly co-CEO of Deciem, will become interim CEO of the company, as part of the judge’s order to grant Estée Lauder’s application. During the company’s tumultuous past year, Kilner left the company in February, but she rejoined six months later. Deciem’s board of directors will include only two individuals — an Estée Lauder representative and Deciem minority stakeholder Pasquale Cusano.
Laura Ingraham is on vacation, and I will be filling in for her tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. The program runs live from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern, and is heard at other times in some markets.
Tomorrow’s show should be fun: we have some good guests, and the Manafort jury might return a verdict while I am on the air! Even if that doesn’t happen, I encourage you to tune in. We will be talking about Mueller’s never-ending and ever-fruitless “investigation,” the AP’s recourse to losing Republicans for advice on how the party needs to change, immigration, dumb energy, and more.
Amazon has hired Disney SVP Kyle Laughlin to head its Alexa Gadgets division, TechCrunch has learned. Laughlin spent eight years at Disney, most recently as the SVP and general manager of Games, Apps and Connected Experience at the entertainment giant’s Consumer Products and Interactive Media division.
According to his LinkedIn profile, the role found Laughlin overseeing apps, connected hardware and games for Disney and Lucasfilm. The gig also involved AI, IoT and AR/VR. Also, lots of Muppets.
Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch after eight years at Disney. Examples of current Alexa Gadgets include the Echo Wall Clock and Gemmy Industries’ connected Big Mouth Billy Bass and Dancing Plush Animatronics.
In a few short years, the Echo has transformed from smart speaker to a category-defining, industry-driving project. Alexa has become a huge business for Amazon and left everyone else struggling to catch up. Alexa Gadgets is a big push from Amazon to grow the smart assistant’s ecosystem beyond the smart speaker, through a wide range of connected devices.
Paul VI Varsity Wrestling competed in the National Preps tournament last weekend. Junior Ben Pfotenhauer of Oakton won two matches, junior Sammy Ojjeh, also of Oakton, won three matches and senior Donald Baumgart of Centreville won three matches at this competitive tournament. Baumgart clinched his 100th career win at Preps and was only one win away from earning All-American status.
In the wake of Friday’s news about a jump in existing home sales, we got more not-so-terrible housing news today, when the Census Bureau announced that sales of new homes were up 2.7 per cent from last month. Median sales prices were down, as you’d expect, which is, again, part of the necessary process of letting the market find a price where supply and demand meet. And the inventory of new homes shrank, although there’s still ten months of inventory out there.
The good news from this report is that it seems clear that, as Friday’s report also showed, when prices come down, buyers do start to appear. The potential problem with this report is that since it’s likely home-buying activity this month has dropped as a result of all the market turmoil and people’s attendant anxiety, when we get the October numbers they’ll look especially bad by comparison with September. Normally, I’d assume the market would take account of this month’s exceptional circumstances in evaluating the October sales report. But nowadays, it seems unsafe to assume anything about the judiciousness of the stock market. Although it is interesting that the market did spike a bit when today’s housing news came out, which suggests that it’s not completely indifferent to good news.
A Park Ridge police car.
Charges have been filed against a 55-year-old man who was the subject of a large police manhunt in Park Ridge over the weekend, authorities said.
Patrick J. O’Connor, of the 1500 block of North Dee Road, Park Ridge, was charged with aggravated assault and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after police said he was located inside a home on the 2000 block of Glenview Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
He was being held in Cook County Jail custody without bond following a hearing Tuesday, said Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Sophia Ansari. O’Connor is expected back in court Thursday, she said.
Between 50 and 75 police officers from Park Ridge, the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System and the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) were called in to search for O’Connor after officers responded to a call for a disturbance involving an armed man at the home where O'Connor was living around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, said Park Ridge Deputy Police Chief Duane Mellema.
According to additional information released by the police department Monday, O’Connor had been accused of threatening three people, two of them family members, with a gun during a disagreement over the planned sale of the Dee Road residence. One family member fled the house and was reportedly pursued by O’Connor, who was believed to still be armed with the gun, said Park Ridge Police Chief Frank Kaminski.
Kaminski said O’Connor stopped his pursuit and fled on foot as police officers began responding to the area.
Police were unable to locate O’Connor, but his cellphone was later traced to the 1000 block of North Clifton Avenue, about one mile east of the initial call to police, Mellema and Kaminski said.
Police concentrated their search for O’Connor in the area of Oakton Street and Clifton Avenue, and eventually located O’Connor’s cellphone inside the Clifton Avenue house of a woman known to O'Connor, but he was nowhere to be found, Kaminski said.
Shortly before 12:30 a.m. Sunday, police received a call that O’Connor was inside a friend’s home on the 2000 block of Glenview Avenue, where he was taken into custody, police said.
Police did not recover a weapon, Kaminski said.
“We searched for it that night, and we had bloodhounds out Sunday morning because we think it may have been discarded,” he said.
Kaminski said the department requested assistance from NIPAS and the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System because it was initially unclear whether police were dealing with a barricade situation involving O’Connor.
Police are investigating whether O’Connor left his phone inside the Clifton Avenue home earlier in the evening or while officers were searching for him, Kaminski said.
Through a Nixle alert Saturday night, police advised residents living in the area of Greenwood Avenue and Grace and Clifton avenues to remain in their homes while the search for an armed suspect took place.
“We didn’t know the nature of the threat, and we did the best we could to contain it and make sure everyone was safe at all times,” Kaminski said.
THE article about Magistrate Ashin Singh (The Witness, March 15) refers. As a South African “Indian” living in the northern suburbs, I wish to make it clear that Singh and his ilk do not speak on behalf of the entire “Indian” community. I would expect more from a seemingly educated man. He must realise that as Madiba said, “South Africa belongs to all people who live in it”.
When will people like Singh realise that we are living in 2019 not 1820? It is no surprise then, when the equally racist Julius Malema claims that all Indians are racist. I don’t care who my neighbours are, whether they are rich, poor, black, brown or green, we all bleed, rejoice and cry the same. Nobody is born a racist. When will people learn that there should be no such notion as different races, because the only true race that matters is the human race!
Two men are in jail on murder charges following a Christmas Eve shooting that left one dead in Kosciusko.
Kosciusko Police Department Investigator Greg Collins confirmed 37-year-old Marshall Washington of Sallis was killed about 4 p.m. Sunday at the Cannonade Apartments in Kosciusko. He was shot once in the head.
John Partee, 23, and Trayvone Ickom, 18, have been charged with murder, Collins said. Both men are being held in the Leake County Correctional Facility on a $250,000 bond each.
After amending a defendant's murder charge on Friday, Pottawatomie County District Attorney Allan Grubb said he believes the man originally charged in the 2017 Shawnee homicide was not the shooter so he plans to file murder charges against another suspect based on new evidence he's uncovered since taking office Jan. 7.
Antonio Maurice Sambrano, 20, was originally charged two years ago with first-degree murder, deliberate intent, by previous District Attorney Richard Smothermon's office. Sambrano was accused in the Jan. 4, 2017 shooting death of Isaiah Anthony Harjo, 27, which occurred at Chapel Ridge Apartments, 130 E. 45th Street.
Sambrano's case was scheduled for the upcoming jury term and he appeared in Pottawatomie County District Court Friday for the pre-trial docket.
Grubb said as the newly-elected district attorney for Pottawatomie and Lincoln Counties, he has a duty to seek justice, and that includes not sending people to prison for crimes they did not commit.
“Mr. Sambrano was present when Isaiah Harjo was murdered. Therefore, I made the decision to amend the charge against Mr. Sambrano to the more appropriate crime of accessory to murder. On Friday, Mr. Sambrano pled guilty and he was sentenced by the court,” Grubb said.
After pleading guilty to the amended charge, Sambrano was sentenced to serve a five-year suspended sentence with supervised probation. As a result of that sentence, Sambrano, who has has been in jail since his arrest on Jan. 5, 2017, was released from the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center after serving two years and 12 days in jail. He'll continue to serve out his five year suspended sentence on probation.
Based on the new information in the case, Grubb said he plans to prepare and file a murder charge against Harjo's murderer.
Grubb said that suspect, who he is not naming, is currently jailed in an unrelated case.
Sambrano has nothing on his record but a traffic ticket, Grubb said, while the suspect he plans to charge does have a prior criminal record.
It was just before 1:30 p.m. Jan. 4, 2017 when emergency crews responded to a shots fired report at building 11 at Chapel Ridge Apartments, with reports indicating the shooting occurred in an apartment where Harjo reportedly resided.
Over 70 Bayelsa State indigenes, who were sent to study in Malaysia under the scholarship programme, have cried out that they are stranded in the country.
There was indication yesterday that the beneficiaries of the programme were stranded and battling deportation threat from the Malaysian government.
The son of a former deputy governor (name withheld), is said to be among them.
When will Nigerians get it right?
Bulgarians from the small city of Novi Han and representatives of the Greenpeace organization discussed the consequences of the country's nuclear power policy and its plans for expansion of a nuclear depot near the city.
Jan Haverkamp, activist of the international environmental organization, underlined that the international organization is backing the people from Novi Han, who are urging for reforms in Bulgaria's nuclear power policy.
The people from Novi Han, located some 20 km away of capital Sofia, are opposing the expansion of the nuclear depot near their city. The depot, first constructed some 40 year ago is now full and the government is planning its expansion.The people have joined Greenpeace's demands for Bulgaria to stop the produce of nuclear power.
The international organization filed claim against Government's decision for the building of Belene, Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant.
Bulgaria has revived a controversial plan to build a second nuclear power plant on the Danube River, announced on June 9, a decade after it was dropped amid protests from environmentalists.
In the late 1980s Bulgaria spent USD 1.3 B on infrastructure and foundations at the Danube-located Belene for a 1,000- MW reactor, supplied by then Czechoslovakia. It would cost another USD 2 B to complete the project by 2010, according to energy ministry's estimates.
According to a release by Eurostat last week, Malta's retail sector suffered the second largest decrease in retail sales in the EU.
Malta's retail trade from December 2017 to December 2018 decreased by 1.9% volume-wise, surpassed only by a 2.2% decrease in Germany. Sweden came third with a 1.6% decrease.
On the other hand, retail trade increased in Slovenia, Ireland and Poland, with increases of 11.2%, 7.5% and 4.9% respectively.
Malta, and the other two states, bucked the trend. In the euro area in December 2018, compared with December 2017, the volume of retail trade increased by 2.5% for automotive fuels, by 0.7% for food, drinks and tobacco and by 0.5% for non-food products.
In the EU28, the retail trade volume increased by 3.3% for automotive fuel, by 1.2% for non-food products, and by 0.6% for food, drinks and tobacco.
It was only in the last month of 2018 that decreases were registered.
In the euro area in December 2018, compared with November 2018, the volume of retail trade fell by 2.7% for non-food products and by 0.3% for food, drinks and tobacco, while it increased by 0.5% for automotive fuel.
In the EU28, the retail trade volume fell by 2.6% non-food products and by 0.4% for foods, drinks and tobacco, while it increased by 0.7% for automotive fuel.
This comparison shows that the retail sector generally across the EU reflects the general trend of the economy which is slowing down and heading in some countries like Italy and even Germany into a recession. Malta is no longer an island, cut off from the trends abroad.
In Malta's case, the negative trend as regards retail is exacerbated by online purchases as well as by people going and getting stuff for themselves by means of the catamaran from Sicily.
So far, we have rather skimpy information. The GRTU, which usually issues a press release just after Christmas to speak about the trends over Christmas, has not done so, even though a full month has elapsed after the Christmas shopping days.
To be fair, GRTU, which was itself heavily involved, had issued a press release after Black Monday and is about to speak about the trend of retailing over a whole year.
One must also remember that the retail sector is a very important sector in the economy, perhaps even more than in other countries. We have shops opening in all towns and villages and quite heavy sums are spent to attract visitors and shoppers. Many retail outlets involve many more people around the venture, not just the employees. And when sales start going bad, the reverberations are felt not just by those directly involved but also by their families.
In a way, we have here what we can equally say about the whole construction industry - that density of offer does not always translate into more sales. On the contrary, maybe all these shops get into each other's way.
One must also consider that the sector lacks depth - few are those outlets who have back office capacities: most rely on imports.
At the same time, we can also see that the retail sector in other countries, such as for instance the UK, are consolidating, shedding jobs, closing outlets and coming together. We do not see much of this in Malta. On the contrary, as stated, we see more and more outlets coming on stream.
The retail sector is totally private enterprise and the government wisely steers clear of it. When it tried to so something, in the bad old 1980s, it failed miserably.
So it is the sector itself which has to find out the way ahead. Certainly the beggar thy neighbor tactic is counter-productive. Coming together, facing reality and avoiding measures that render things worse, for starters.
Mobile games rule in the home these days, and the most popular place to play them is in bed.
MocoSpace surveyed 15,000 of its mobile social game users and found that 96 percent of them play mobile games at least once a day at home. About half, or 53 percent, choose to play in bed. If mobile games come between you and your loved one, well, you’re not alone.
The survey shows that mobile games aren’t just a distraction; they’re becoming a mainstay form of entertainment and a cultural fixture.
About 83 percent of respondents said they play waiting for an appointment. About 72 percent play while commuting by train, bus, or car. (The latter probably don’t drive so well). About 64 percent play at work. 46 percent play in class and 25 percent at the gym.
Of those who play in the home, 41 percent play in the living room, 5 percent in the bathroom, and 1 percent at the dinner table. About 52 percent play for more than an hour per day, and 32 percent play for more than three hours a day. About 10 percent of respondents said they play mobile games for more than three hours a day at work.
About 62 percent said they play social games; 53 percent play action; 40 percent play puzzle, and 28 percent play casino games.
When Episode 1 of The Final Season of Telltale's The Walking Dead ended, it brought an ending that was unexpected. While Marlon and his bad decisions opened a rabbit hole with no safe return from, the bullet that entered his brain was heard by all. The shocking moment was made even more devastating when the realisation came about that the young and innocent AJ was the one who fired the gun, in a bid to protect his guardian, Clementine. So where to next in Episode 2: Suffer the Children, and how will the ramifications of Marlon's death affect Clementine and the other kids, but most importantly, AJ?
The opening sequence that plays out prior to the opening credits is some of the better episodic editing of scene juxtaposes Telltale has done. Playing simultaneous scenes of the morning after the tragic death with Clementine and AJ having their private discussion about the matter; with scenes interspersed from the moments straight after the death, with Louis, Violet and the rest of the kids was no easy feat. But it was emotionally charged from all aspects, where battle lines began to get drawn up. Louis is one character who is deeply confused and angry by the whole ordeal; he knows Marlon wasn't a great guy - but he was his best friend, and that fact alone seems to trump the fact that Marlon basically murdered Brody. Violet on the other hand becomes one of Clementine's supporters - seeing Marlon for who he truly was and noting that his death is probably for the better. However, it is this situation that threatens to split the entire school up and poor AJ, and by extension Clementine are caught smack-bang in the middle.
It is worth noting that AJ is just a child; a child who has known no other world except the one where he currently resides, a world filled with monsters behind every corner, and even scarier monsters within the camps, as human survivors get desperate in their acts of survival. Suffer the Children keeps throwing out reminders that AJ is just a kid as well; and there is some nice dialogue where Clementine tries to keep AJ from growing too quickly as well; but the bullet in the head of Marlon courtesy of the child does cause the duo to get kicked out of the safety of the school, and they must fend for themselves out in the wild yet again.
Surprisingly, once Clem and AJ are out in the wild, this is when the story begins to drag a little bit. There is a surprise reveal that throws a few complications into the mix for future episodes, and a new character is introduced who questions the overall morality of the undead - and asks the philosophical questions of whether they are evil, or simply just misunderstood beasts. Unfortunately, with only two episodes remaining to wrap-up the entire series, this is hardly the time to begin tossing up the philosophical debate of whether the zombies are monsters or not.
The best part in terms of story for this episode is the dialogue between Clem and AJ throughout the tale. The themes they discuss, and the morality of whether AJ is even growing up on the right path, or whether he is learning poor habits is an interesting one with no obvious right or wrong answers. Some think he may be asking for trouble after he fired that gun, though others state the importance of needing to defend oneself in these dark times. There is a real interesting discussion here that can have dire effects on AJ's future self. Fortunately, the story does pick up again in the third act of the episode, though a bit of time has passed in the middle that the final act doesn't quite save the whole episode from being a bit of a slog to get through. Making matters worse is that the Telltale engine has always been a poor design for battles, and this final act has plenty of combat sequences. Both melee and ranged sequences play out with a knife and bow & arrows respectively, but they both play horribly in these cases.