Black Friday numbers are strong across the board, according to initial reports coming in today from retailers and payments companies. As IBM reported earlier today, total online sales saw a surge of 20.7 percent in spending from last year. eBay-owned PayPal is reporting that Black Friday global mobile payments volume was up 193 percent from last year.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2pG9YKCrVjo/
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Once completed, the project will include 1,165 residential units in addition to green spaces and a community club.
Qatar Islamic Bank acts as the Investment Agent for the facility and is joined as a participant by ABC Islamic Bank, Ahli United Bank, Arab Banking Corporation, First Gulf Bank, and National Bank of Abu Dhabi. QInvest acted as financial advisor to Mazaya Qatar and as sole bookrunner.
Joseph Al Hamod from Mazaya Qatar Real Estate Development Company, stated, "The Sidra Village Residential Project is a key project for us and K&L Gates played a critical role in enabling us to meet our objective in securing funding."
K&L Gates Doha counsels Kathleen Bradley and Kirk Durrant, Doha partner Amjad Hussain, and Dubai partner Natalie Boyd represented Mazaya in this transaction.
Kathleen Bradley commented, "We are delighted to have assisted Mazaya Qatar to close this transaction for the financing of one of their landmark projects in Qatar. We expect to see Mazaya Qatar playing an increasingly prominent role in the important Qatar real estate sector as Qatar reaches to meet its National Vision 2030 objectives."
Source: http://www.ameinfo.com/kl-gates-advises-mazaya-qatar-real-319857
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PADANG SIDEMPUAN, Indonesia (AP) ? They came from the remotest parts of Indonesia, taking crowded overnight ferries and riding for hours in cars or buses ? all in the hope that a simple, and free, surgical procedure would restore their eyesight.
Many patients were elderly and needed help to reach two hospitals in Sumatra where mass eye camps were held earlier this month by Nepalese surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit. During eight days, more than 1,400 cataracts were removed.
The patients camped out, sleeping side-by-side on military cots, eating donated food while fire trucks supplied water for showers and toilets. Many who had given up hope of seeing again left smiling after their bandages were removed.
"I've been blind for three years, and it's really bad," said Arlita Tobing, 65, whose sight was restored after the surgery. "I worked on someone's farm, but I couldn't work anymore."
Indonesia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, making it a target country for Ruit who travels throughout the developing world holding free mass eye camps while training doctors to perform the simple, stitch-free procedure he pioneered. He often visits hard-to-reach remote areas where health care is scarce and patients are poor. He believes that by teaching doctors how to perform his method of cataract removal, the rate of blindness can be reduced worldwide.
Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness globally, affecting about 20 million people who mostly live in poor countries, according to the World Health Organization.
"We get only one life, and that life is very short. I am blessed by God to have this opportunity," said Ruit, who runs the Tilganga Eye Center in Katmandu, Nepal. "The most important of that is training, taking the idea to other people."
During the recent camps, Ruit trained six doctors from Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.
Here, in images, are scenes from the mobile eye camps:
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-simple-surgery-heals-blind-indonesians-020228367.html
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The defeated GOP candidate famously disparaged Obama as the candidate of the 47 percent. Now, liberals gleefully view Mitt's final tally as poetic justiceLiberal schadenfreude is about to reach overdose levels. Just when you thought the dead horse of Mitt Romney's campaign had been beaten more than enough ? and most savagely?by members of his own party ? Dave Wasserman at Cook Political Report projects that the final count of the popular vote, which is still ongoing, will show Romney winning 47 percent of the electorate. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/top-10-gifs-week-023444156.html
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Less than 2% of the earth's fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago. The find is described in a paper published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Pierre-Olivier Antoine and colleagues from the University of Montpellier, France.
The fossil, found in Turkey, is thought to be that of a large two-horned rhino common in the Eastern Mediterranean region during that period. According to the researchers, unusual features of the preserved skull suggest that the animal was 'cooked to death' at temperatures that may have approached 500? C, in a volcanic flow similar to that of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy in 79 A.D.
The rhino's grisly death was near-instantaneous, and followed by severe dehydration in the extreme heat of the eruption. As the researchers describe its end, "the body was baked under a temperature approximating 400?C, then dismembered within the pyroclastic flow, and the skull separated from body". The flow of volcanic ash then moved the skull about 30 km north of the eruption site, where it was discovered by the four member research team.
Although other researchers have previously identified fossils of soft-bodied organisms preserved in volcanic ash, organic matter near an active volcanic eruption is usually quickly destroyed by the high temperatures, making a fossil such as this one extremely rare.
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Antoine P-O, Orliac MJ, Atici G, Ulusoy I, Sen E, et al. (2012) A Rhinocerotid Skull Cooked-to-Death in a 9.2 Ma-Old Ignimbrite Flow of Turkey. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49997. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049997
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Latvian insurers have rejected the request to insure against ?breaking the space-time continuum? and the coming of a fictional deity Cthulhu as the ?damage from the end of the world is difficult to evaluate?.
With one month to go before the end of the world according to Mayan calendar cycle, an unusual request came from organizers of a festival to a Latvian insurance agency, reports Apollo.lv. The client also wanted to insure against abduction by aliens and breaking the space-time continuum that could take festival goers into parallel worlds.
The Russian market is also not ready to offer such a product, the Vice President of Russian insurer Ingosstrakh Ilya Solomatin told newsru.com.
"You can ask the Russian insurance company to insure the risk from the so-called end of the world. The Question is, if the end of the world comes, who will pay you, and what would you need it for?" he says.
In some European countries the insurance product is not regulated by authorities, and the customer can insure against anything. In Russia, the rules are strict and are the subject to licensing, thus the end of the world insurance in Russia is impossible by law. European insurers are the leaders in exotic products on offer. Lloy'd's of London offers a policy which provides men up to $1.8 million if they lose their chest hair in an accident. American companies offer insurance of the Immaculate Conception, the loss of a sense of humor, and the loss of attraction.
The ?end of the world? tales mean brisk business for some. Dozens of websites offer Armageddon insurance for up to $60. Website 2012supplies.com launched in 2007 by a man in Arizona has been selling gas masks, dried foods, and all sorts of other worst-case scenario products with the end of the world souvenir industry booming. While some doomsday theorists suggest putting together survival kits, people in south eastern Mexico plan to throw a yearlong celebration to make a profit while they party. Mexico's tourism agency expects to draw 52 million visitors over the coming year to the five states richest in Mayan ruins. Mexico as a whole is expected to lure just 22 million foreigners this year. Guatemala expects to greet two million foreign visitors in 2012, an eight percent increase from the previous year, according to the Guatemalan Tourism Institute.
According to a recent Reuters Survey which interviewed people in 21 countries, including the United States, 1 in 7 people think the world will end in their lifetime and 1 in 10 believe it will occur in 2012. The December 21 date represents the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar that begins in the year 3114 before Christ.
Source: http://rt.com/business/news/apocalypse-insurance-make-money-345/
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KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two Afghan guards outside a NATO-run compound in the main diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials said, an attack that was quickly claimed by the Taliban.
"The bomber killed himself in front of the compound. Two people were killed and two more were wounded, all Afghan guards," said Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danesh.
A second man wearing an explosives-laden vest also approached the front of the compound but was shot dead by Afghan security forces, a statement from the Kabul police chief said. It said five civilians were also wounded.
The bomber struck near the sprawling base known as Camp Eggers, the headquarters of the NATO training mission and home to some 2,500 trainers from the multinational coalition.
Dozens of police swarmed to the area, where shattered glass from cars lay on the ground, and cordoned it off.
The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, which happened at 8.20 a.m. (0350 GMT) local time, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Violence is intensifying across Afghanistan ahead of the planned withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of 2014, sparking concerns over how the 350,000-strong Afghan security forces will be able to manage.
At least a dozen embassies, including the U.S. and British missions, and the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are all near the area of the attack.
(Additional reporting by Martin Petty, writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman,; Editing by Paul Tait)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/large-blast-heard-diplomatic-area-afghan-capital-witnesses-040222965.html
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