Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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As Hezbollah has deepened its support for the brutal Assad regime and worked to expand its global reach through increased involvement in international criminal schemes and terrorist plots around the world, a growing number of governments are recognizing Hezbollah as the dangerous and destabilizing terrorist organization that it is.
John Kerry
The U.S. Secretary of State was speaking after the European Union branded the militant wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Source: http://www.breakingpropertynews.com/index.php/sid/216017135/scat/d805653303cbbba8
Security News Headlines - Yahoo! News
Apple's Developer Center Hacked by Security Researcher, Data Unharmed
Apple revealed late yesterday that its Developer Center had been forced out of action by "an intruder"?but a researcher has provided evidence to confirm that the downtime was a result of his identification of a security vulnerability.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/apples-developer-center-hacked-by-security-researcher-864846271
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
UBS settles U.S. mortgage probe, second-quarter profit beats views
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS
The Swiss bank, which reports the full quarter on July 30, said its net profit was 690 million francs, from 425 million francs year-ago. It didn't disclose the specific charge to settle the mortgage probe.
Analyst consensus for the quarter's net profit is 558 million francs, according to Thomson Reuters data. The shares rose 2.7 percent in pre-market indications; trading begins at 3 a.m. ET.
UBS said net new money was 10.1 billion francs for the quarter at its flagship private banking arm and 2.7 billion in its U.S.-based brokerage, but that its asset management arm suffered 2 billion francs in outflows.
The result shows that UBS's private bank, which attracted the most customer money in six years last quarter, continues to thrive. The unit is the centerpiece of UBS's strategy following exits from large parts of the fixed income business - including cutting 10,000 jobs across the bank.
UBS, the largest private bank in the world, is seeking to reinvent itself following a series of scandals, including a $1.5 billion penalty for manipulating Libor and other benchmark interest rates.
The U.S. settlement comes shortly after UBS and thirteen other banks sued by the FHFA, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the two mortgage finance companies were placed into federal conservatorship at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, lost a bid to have a U.S. appeals court intervene in their cases based on what they called a judge's "gravely prejudicial" rulings.
(Reporting By Katharina Bart; Editing by Louise Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ubs-settles-u-mortgage-probe-second-quarter-profit-062704512.html
Grand Lake area of N.B. cleans up after fierce storm, possible tornado
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:23AM EDT
Last Updated Sunday, July 21, 2013 8:36PM EDT
Parts of southern New Brunswick are cleaning up after a quick but destructive storm downed trees and levelled buildings Saturday night.
Several communities in and near the Grand Lake area were hit with strong winds, and possibly a tornado, according to video and eyewitness accounts.
One hard-hit area was Cambridge Narrows, located approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Fredericton.
Property owner Harold Jones lost three buildings in the storm. Several of his tractors were damaged.
?It only lasted about three minutes to five minutes and it was over,? said Jones told CTV Atlantic. ?I looked out on the veranda and everything was in the air, just like a big funnel -- pieces of garage, everything just flying.?
Nearby resident Mary-Beth Mitchell said she couldn?t believe what she was witnessing.
?We saw the lightning and we heard a lot of wind and a lot of rain, but when we came out this morning we drove down the road, there were all the trees uprooted.
?You don?t see stuff like that in New Brunswick.?
In nearby Whites Cove, strong winds destroyed a barn and a 100-year-old tree.
Alex Hache was finishing a day of waterskiing on a the lake with friends when he saw a something stirring in the distance.
?We just kept watching it and it just started getting bigger and bigger,? said Hache, who captured video footage of what appears to be a funnel cloud.
Says his friend Matthew Rideout: ?We saw it lift up a barn and disintegrate it. That?s huge, that?s strong.?
NB Power spent Sunday reconnecting power lines that were knocked out in the storm.
There were no reports of injuries.
Environment Canada is sending a team Monday to investigate the damage and assess whether the storm system was indeed a tornado.
With reports from CTV Atlantic?s Ashley Dunbar and David Bell
Monday, July 22, 2013
Beware of Common Law Trademarks
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Individuals and businesses are constantly considering brand protection. In particular, they usually contact a trademark attorney and say that they want to register their trademark. In the United States, that registration would be ...
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