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In this week’s Sunday Conversation, host Rachel Martin speaks with Detective Sgt. Joe Matthews, who worked for decades on the Adam Walsh murder investigation in Florida. She will speak to him about how the case changed overtime, how it affected him personally and professionally, and how it feels to close a case that he worked on for so long.
The Maltese archipelago includes the islands of Malta, Gozo, Comino, Comminotto and Filfla.
Forty years on Malta was the smallest of the 10 countries to join the EU in May 2004. It joined the eurozone in 2008.
Since becoming an EU member, the tiny island has reported an increasing problem with immigration from north Africa and has requested more help to deal with it.
The UN refugee agency has criticised the island's policy of keeping asylum seekers in detention for 18 months.
Over the centuries, Malta's strategic position fostered its development as an important trading post and it remains a leading centre for container and freight transhipment.
Malta is a popular holiday destination and tourism is the nation's main source of income.
IKCO Vice-president announced target markets’ interest in IKCO Runna. The most important target markets for IKCO cars are CIS countries like Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Middle East countries like Iraq and Tunisia.
Mir Javad Soleimani, IKCO Vice-president in product and quality, said, “Currently we have received orders from these target markets that indicates Runna will guarantee IKCO further presence in global markets.”
Current demands from target markets and allocating 35% of the company’s total export to Runna shows that it would be able to gain more market share in target markets by this newly developed sedan.
Stopping a long-term cooperation with a company like Peugeot which had had lots of technical and economic interactions with IKCO over years was not so easy, but self-reliance in production of Peugeot 206 and following that, production of IKCO’s newly self-developed sedan, Runna, was a big success and the corner stone of the company’s industrial independence and self-satisfaction.
Runna enjoys a powertrain consisting of 1.6L gasoline engine or IKCO-brand 1.4L, 1.5L, 1.7L diesel engines and both manual and automatic transmission systems.
Vicky Pryce, the economist convicted of taking speeding points for disgraced cabinet minister Chris Huhne, is writing a book inspired by her time behind bars. What can people glean about life inside from books written by prisoners?
Oscar Wilde's 50,000-word letter to his ex-lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, was written in 1897, towards the end of a two-year sentence for gross indecency, and published posthumously as De Profundis – Latin for "from the depths".
"Prisoners rarely have a voice," the former prison governor says. "People who write books as prisoners are providing a large number of people with a voice who don't usually have one."
He distinguishes books written by "straights", like Pryce, from those written by career criminals, or "cons". "The classic con account is by Noel 'Razor' Smith," Wilson says.
Smith reveals a deep understanding of "how the staff will operate, how the prison culture will operate, how to survive… and prosper" in his book A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun, Wilson explains.
Straights, meanwhile, find themselves in a "complete and utter alien world… worried about being raped, about being stabbed", he explains.
But they soon find a niche. He cites Jeffrey Archer, who was imprisoned for perjury and published a detailed account of the experience. "He performed a role in helping prisoners to read letters, suggesting who they could write to," Wilson says.
A book by convicted murderer Erwin James, who forged a successful writing career by chronicling his incarceration, showed that his "mechanism for coping with life inside has succeeded so well that he has left jail behind", according to one reviewer.
But James believes that Pryce's book, informed by her background in economics, could be a much-needed catalyst for change.
He argues: "Focusing on the exorbitant amount the taxpayer pays for our failing system… may be just what politicians need to initiate real reform in our prisons."
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Chef Richard Ekkebus is a regular visitor to Hong Kong’s wet markets, where he samples vegetables harvested in the city’s green hinterland and buys fresh seafood plucked straight from the South China sea. But you won’t find many of these ingredients in the dishes he cooks at Amber, the two-starred Michelin restaurant at the city’s The Landmark Mandarin Oriental hotel.
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Amber executive chef Richard Ekkebus
A self-proclaimed “fan” of Hong Kong’s local produce, Mr. Ekkebus says the diners at his French restaurant prefer a menu littered with “exotic ingredients.”
Always on the lookout for new foods, the Dutch-born chef introduces us to his top picks for the most exciting imports to land in Hong Kong in recent months.
Amadai Fish
This Japanese fish comes in two varietiesâthe Red Amadai is available year-round, but the more premium White Amadai is available only during autumn and winter. It is served with its scales intact and the skin fried to a crisp. “The texture of the scales when fried in olive oil is a perfect accompaniment to the high intramuscular fat content of the fish,” says Mr. Ekkebus. “Think of this fish as a well-marbled ‘Wagyu’ of seafood.” It tastes like the lightest coating of crunchy bread crumbs over a buttery cod-like fish.
Greffeuile “Triple A” Lamb
The Greffeuile family from France are so obsessed with quality control that restaurants must be certified before they can even buy the meat. The family’s “Triple A” lamb gets its name from the three French words: agneau (lamb), allaitont (milk-fed) and d’Aveyron (a region in France near Roquefort). The animals are fed only on their mother’s milk, so the cuts are extremely delicate and never gamey in taste.
“ Le Mans ” Poulard
Supplied by Hugo Denoyer, aka the “butcher of the stars” (“stars” refers to Michelin-starred restaurants and also to Paris celebrities), a poulard is a young hen that has been spayed. The meat has a thicker layer of fat, which melts away when fried and helps produce a crispier skin.
Kegani Crab
The Hokkaido crab is ugly in appearanceâpicture a massive hairy crabâbut divine in flavor. Its specialty lies in the texture of its meat, which Mr. Ekkebus likens to “the flesh of pomelos or grapefruit” because it flakes into miniature segments. It is traditionally served raw.
The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
Brittany blue lobster with vegetables at Amber
Les Verges St. Eustache Fruits and Vegetables
The fruits and vegetables grown in this particular garden in southern France are raised on calcium grounds and harvested only from heirloom seeds. As a result, the “carrots really taste like carrots, not a bland mass-produced version people have gotten used to,” says Mr. Ekkebus.
Singer George Michael has been airlifted to hospital with a head injury following a crash on the M1.
The former Wham! star, 49, remains in hospital after the crash at junction 6A, near St Albans, Hertfordshire,
A spokesman for Michael confirmed he had been involved in an accident on Thursday but said the singer only had "superficial cuts" and was "fine".
Michael was a passenger in a Range Rover and no other vehicles were involved, the spokesman added.
Connie Filippello, spokesman for Michael, said: "George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident yesterday evening. No third party was involved.
"We have no further comment at this time."
Ambulance spokesman Gary Sanderson said: "The man who we believe to be in his 40s sustained a head injury and following treatment, stabilisation and immobilisation by land and air ambulance crews, he was flown to hospital for further care."
Hertfordshire Police said the northbound carriageway of the road was closed for an hour while emergency services dealt with the incident.
Two people were in the car at the time of the crash at about 17:50 BST. No arrests have been made.
A police spokesman said: "The exact circumstances of what happened are unclear at this time and until further investigations have been carried out it would be inappropriate for us to comment further."
In September 2010, Michael was given an eight-week sentence for crashing his car while under the influence of cannabis.
He was also fined £1,250 at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London and given a five-year driving ban.
The singer was arrested in Hampstead, north London, after driving his Range Rover into a branch of photographic store Snappy Snaps.
Dell Inc.
anunció el martes que informará sus resultados del primer trimestre fiscal el jueves, tres dÃas hábiles antes de lo que estaba programado.
La compañÃa tenÃa programado anunciar los resultados el 21 de mayo.
El periodista de la cadena CNBC David Faber citó el martes a fuentes que afirman que los resultados de Dell serÃan inferiores a las expectativas del mercado. Añadió que la tendencia de la compañÃa apunta a que la ganancia operativa anual será “muy por debajo” de US$3.000 millones.
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La noticia se conoce mientras el presidente ejecutivo de la compañÃa, Michael Dell, busca dejar de cotizar la firma en bolsa en una operación de US$24.400 millones, mientras que el inversionista Carl Icahn y Southeastern Asset Management Inc. âel mayor accionista externo de Dellâ propusieron la semana pasada una oferta alternativa.
En respuesta a la propuesta alternativa, un comité especial del directorio de Dell dijo que considerarÃa la oferta sólo si ambas partes presentan financiamiento garantizado, un equipo de gestión y una serie de detalles que no incluyeron en su propuesta inicial.
Si los resultados trimestrales de Dell son sólidos, Icahn y Southeastern podrÃan beneficiarse, mientras que un débil informe podrÃa convencer a los accionistas de aceptar la oferta existente.
When Morrie Taylor visited a Goodyear factory in north Amiens, France, he couldn’t believe what he saw: “The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours,” the CEO of Titan
International wrote to French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg earlier this month. “They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three.”
The letter, dated February 8, was leaked to the French newspaper Les Echos this week, apparently by the government. The French unions have denounced it as gravely insulting, and so on. Mr. Taylor is unrepentant.
Mr. Taylor built Titan from scratch into the world’s largest maker of steel wheels and tires for farming and off-road use. And when Goodyear wanted to sell the factory in North Amiens, Titan was the only company that bid. But the factory is dominated by the hard-left CGT union, which Mr. Taylor, not without reason, calls “the communist union.”
Mr. Taylor was the only thing standing between the plant and full closure, with the ensuing loss of 1,500 jobs at that plant and another, also owned by Goodyear, across the road. But when he tried to suggest that the plant’s productivity needed to improve to keep it open, the union president said, according to Mr. Taylor, “This is the French way.” Mr. Taylor told us over the phone that he responded, “Sitting in a cafe is also the French way, and that’s what you’ll be doing soon” if this plant closes.
Mr. Taylor also said that the union bosses told him, “You have to do what we tell you, or we won’t let you buy it [the factory.]“
“So I told them, you guys go bag it,” Mr. Taylor told us.
The trouble with these French factories, Mr. Taylor added, is that once you own one, “You can’t do anything about it, because you can’t fire anybody, you can’t discipline anybody, because that’s against the credo.” Mr. Taylor told us that at least some of the union bosses agreed with him that the situation was out of control at that plant. Alas, it also isn’t the French way to speak out against the most militant of your fellow unionists.
So Mr. Taylor walked. That prompted Mr. Montebourg in January to beseech Mr. Taylor to return to the table. According to Mr. Taylor, the Industry Minister promised to “put his weight behind” getting a mutually agreeable deal with the unions.
And that’s where Mr. Taylor’s February 8 letter comes in.
“Sir,” he wrote, “your letter states that you want Titan to start a discussion. How stupid do you think we are? Titan is the one with the money and the talent to produce tires. What does the crazy union have? It has the French government.”
Mr. Montebourg’s full title is “Minister of Industrial Renewal,” but hardly a month seems to pass without another story about a plant shutting down, or Mr. Montebourg threatening a CEO for threatening to shut down a plant, or begging a CEO (sometimes the same one) to stay in France. If there were truth in advertising laws in politics, he might well have to rebrand himself as the Minister for Industrial Decline.
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Puntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in August 1998.
The move was, in part, an attempt to avoid the clan warfare engulfing southern Somalia. Nevertheless, the region has endured armed conflict, and grabbed the world headlines with an upsurge in pirate attacks on international shipping in the Indian Ocean.
Unlike its neighbour, breakaway Somaliland, Puntland says it does not seek recognition as an independent entity, wishing instead to be part of a federal Somalia.
The region's leadership refused to take part in peace talks in Djibouti in 2008 that led to the formation of a new transitional federal government headed by a moderate Islamist PM, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, but later reluctantly recognised the new administration.
Sporadic fighting has broken out between Puntland and Somaliland over the ownership of the latter's Sool and Sanaag regions, which are claimed by Puntland on the basis of ethnicity. Violence also accompanied a political power struggle in 2001 between rival claimants to the Puntland leadership.
Livestock herding and fishing sustain the people – many of them nomads – of the drought-prone region. The money sent home from overseas workers is an important source of foreign exchange.
Since 2005, the region has become famous as the hub of a burgeoning piracy operation in the seas around Somalia, particularly in the Gulf of Aden, where the pirates prey on key international shipping lanes to and from the Suez Canal.
The issue has achieved a high profile internationally, and several states, including the US, France, Britain and China, have deployed warships to the seas around Somalia to protect shipping.
Piracy has brought vast amounts of money into the region, leading to accusations that the authorities are turning a blind eye to the problem. Puntland's leaders have frequently promised to curb the pirates' activities, but with little apparent success.
It is widely viewed a socially acceptable and lucrative lifestyle, and has attracted former fishermen, ex-militiamen and technical experts.
Many in Somalia defend the attacks on foreign ships as a justified response to illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste along Somalia's long and poorly policed coastline.
Puntland is a destination for many Somalis displaced by violence in the south; some of them attempt to make the sea crossing to Yemen.
The region's coast was hit by the December 2004 Asian tsunami; more than 300 people were killed and thousands lost their livelihoods.
The territory takes its name from the Land of Punt, a centre of trade for the ancient Egyptians and a place shrouded in legend. But the location of ancient Punt is still a matter of scholarly speculation.
Capital Club Bahrain, the Kingdom’s premier private business club and a member of the ENSHAA group of companies, hosted the second debate of its 2013 series; presenting the motion The Benefits of Social Media are Worth the Consequences.
In the hot seats were Ali Sabkar, Founder and President of the Social Media Club MENA, and Steve Royston, Managing Director, Anfield Information WLL and blogger.
The Debate was moderated by the Club’s own Andrea Antal-Al Borno, Club Relations Director.
Supporting the motion that social media is worth the consequences Ali Sabkar, advocated the notion with the key points that social media expedites the spread of information faster than any other medium, empowers businesses, facilitates interaction among family, friends and associates; and allows people to collectively accomplish a goal through ‘crowdsourcing.’
Against the motion, stating that the consequences of social media far outweigh the benefits, Steve Royston argued that social media deludes genuine relationships, hinders productivity and attention spans; and is not properly monitored nor has there been enough education to protect the actions of the impressionable.
An audience vote was taken at the beginning and end of the Debate, with a final tally of 85% supporting the motion that the benefits of social media are worth the consequences, compared to the initial vote of 65% before the arguments began.
The Debate’s overwhelming message was that social media is an integral part of professional and social networking; however, it must be used sensibly.
Individuals and parents of younger networkers must practice and impart terms of use, such as managing privacy settings, keep personal information personal, and generally take precautions to ensure responsible use. Capital Club’s Debate series focuses on topics that affect the community at large.
