Deputy PM says Turkey knows where Mosul hostages are kept
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said that Turkey knows where 46 Turkish citizens, who were kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Mosul in June, are currently being kept; stating that Turkey is still in contact with the ...
Turkey reopens border to Syrian Kurds fleeing IS group
Turkey on Friday reopened its border with Syria to Kurds fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants, saying a "worst-case scenario" could drive as many as 100,000 more refugees into the country. Duration: 00:58
Complete Comfort in One Dish
The appeal of a casserole is in its heartiness, warmth, and perhaps most importantly that it requires minimal equipment and lasts for a long time. But just because it’s a love born of convenience doesn’t make it any less real, a point passionately made in Betty Rosbottom’s Sunday Casseroles: Complet ...
NYT: Misleading title of the day: ‘Science has a sexual assault problem’
This op-ed in The New York Times at first conjured up visions of female scientists doing field work and being assaulted by their coworkers. But not so fast: I am a scientist who studies plants... While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sid ...
Recipes: 9 New Ways to Use Your Cupcake Pan
Move over muffins and cool your heels cupcakes, you aren’t the only uses for the bakeware bearing your name. It’s hard to deny the deliciousness of a cupcake or muffin, but if you’re only using the pans for that purpose, you are missing out on a whole world of sweet and savory dishes. Whether you wa ...
Senator Ted Cruz right that Nuclear Iran Bigger Threat than ISIS but what about Turkey and Muslim Brotherhood?
Posted in Featured General To his credit, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of a handful of Senators who voted against an amendment to arm Syria’s rebels. As Shoebat.com revealed, at least one Syrian opposition lobbying group has extensive connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. However, Cruz recently ...
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day in the United States celebrates the first harvest held by the settlers at Plymouth in 1621, in what is now Massachusetts. Because Plymouth and the pilgrims get so much attention, we sometimes forget that Plymouth was not the first English colony in the New World, the pilgrims were n ...
Signature Speaker Series – October 17, 2014
Topic: Social Sales & Marketing Lessons from the Front-Line Presenter: John Mayhall, Senior Sales Manager, LinkedIn Details to be announced When: Friday, October 17, 2014 Where: Cintas Center at Xavier University 1624 Herald Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45207 Free parking in Lot C next to the Cintas Cente ...
The Art Of Happiness
New edition Rights sold to : Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, China, Korea, Turkey October 2014 215 pages 25 lessons to learn how to live happily. Art and happiness. Once again, Christophe André offers us an intense guide to happiness and better-living, by analyzing 25 pictures of the greatest art ...
France conducts first airstrikes against IS; Ayatollah Sistani lukewarm on Western interference; IS drives Syrian Kurds into Turkey
A Rafale fighter at France's Al Dhafra airbase in Abu Dhabi this week. Credit Taieb Mahjoub/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BAGHDAD — The influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday urged vigilance against Western political interference in Iraqi affairs but stopped short o ...
Kurdish leader urges world to protect Syrian town from Islamic State
DIKMETAS Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani called on Friday for international intervention to protect a Kurdish town in neighbouring Syria from Islamic State fighters who have forced many Syrian Kurds to flee across the border into Turkey. Thousands of Kurds crossed the frontier ...