Legal malpractice and a storybook divorce
From New York Attorney Malpractice Blog Reading between the lines,Manus v Flamm 2013 NY Slip Op 07683 [111 AD3d 525] November 19, 2013 Appellate Division, First Department sounds like a 1930’s romantic divorce movie. Husband marries glamorous starlet, gives her…
Kenya bus attack: Al-Shabab ‘wants religious war’
From BBC Kenyan security forces at the scene of the bus attack near the town of Mandera in northern Kenya – 22 November 2014 The driver of the bus tried to accelerate away from the militants, but the vehicle got…
Suicide at the 92nd Street Y: Did Sol Adler die because of the very institution he lived for?
By Steve Fishman From New York Magazine When Debbie Adler reviews the events of May 9, which she does obsessively, she figures that her husband had about 20 minutes to kill himself. For 25 years, Sol Adler had been the…
Bankrupting the next generation
By: Daniel Ammann and Michael Krobath From The Finalist It’s a simple fact: Most countries in the Western world don’t take in nearly as much money as they spend. And so they borrow. By the billions. Make that trillions. And…
Islamic Finance
From Ogier Introduction We have the skills to manage a wide range of corporate and finance transactions and to provide our clients with the high quality advice they require. We have teams that are integrated across legal disciplines and offices…
EC$250,000 reward offered in Oliver Gobat’s murder
By Samuel Sukhnandan, St Lucia News online The parents of slain Saint Lucian hotelier Oliver Gobat is offering an EC$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects in his killing. The announcement was made today at…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
DIWire attempts to fill the gaps left by 3D printers (hands-on) Hands-on
By Christopher Trout From engadget It brought solar-powered smartphone chargers to the streets of NYC, now Pensa, a Brooklyn-based design firm, is taking on desktop prototyping. Its latest invention, DIWire, is a compact CNC wire bender. A machine designed solely…
Dark meat chicken recipes for white meat lovers?
From thekitchn GOOD QUESTIONS Q: I buy whole chickens in order to reduce cost, but not being a huge meat eater myself, my fiancé is the one who gets to eat everything. He loves the mild taste of chicken breasts,…
Jeffries, Clarke and Caribbean-American leaders in Brooklyn address Obama’s immigration overhaul
By Brooklyn Reader in Bedford Stuyvesant Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is joined by Rep. Yvette Clarke, State Senator Kevin Parker, Assemblyman N. Nick Perry, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, Assemblywoman Anne Simon, Assemblyman Walter Mosley, Council Member Mathieu Eugene, Bertha…
