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April 27, 2017 at 9:03 am
Higher prices helped lift PepsiCo’s sales in the first quarter, as the maker of Doritos, Gatorade and Quaker worked on transforming its lineup of products to keep up with changing tastes.
Sales for the North America Beverages and Frito-Lay North America segment both climbed 2 percent in the quarter, as pricing offset a decline in volume. Like other major food and beverage companies including Coca-Cola and Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, PepsiCo has said it is working on adapting its stable of brands to better reflect the trend toward options that people feel are healthier.
“Snacks are simple pleasure in life. What we’re doing is making our snacks more permissible,” PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said during a call with analysts. That includes by offering options with reduced...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:57 am
A new business mapping initiative looks to gather input from Jerusalem residents and those who work in the city, and connect local supply with local demand.
The Jerusalem Municipality and the Jerusalem Innovation Team (JLM i-team), together with Maof Jerusalem, the operating arm of the Small and Medium Business Agency at the Ministry of Economy and Industry, and the Digital Israel at the Ministry for Social Equality, announce the launch of Coming Soon, a citywide business mapping initiative, which uses crowdsourcing to determine which businesses are lacking in each neighborhood and business district, and connects local demand with local entrepreneurs looking for new opportunities. The app goes live on Wednesday, 30 Nissan, and will be active for one month.
Jerusalem residents and those w...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:53 am
President Donald Trump will direct his administration Thursday to expedite a new investigation into whether aluminum imports are jeopardizing U.S. national security.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the president will sign a memo ordering him to determine the impact of rising aluminum imports. High-purity aluminum is used in a number of defense applications, including military planes and the armor-plating of military vehicles.
Ross said that, thanks to steep competition from overseas, there is only one American smelter that produces high-purity, aerospace-quality aluminum still in operation.
“It’s very, very dangerous, obviously from a national defense point of view, to only have one supplier of an absolutely critical material,” he told reporters at a White House br...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:53 am
Twenty wounded IDF soldiers and veterans went for a motorcycle tour of Jerusalem last Friday thanks to Belev Echad, which organized the tour with the international Gold Wing Road Riders Association motorcycle club.
Escorted by Israeli police, 30 Goldwing members and supporters of Belev Echad took the wounded veterans around Jerusalem for a daylong tour, stopping at the Kosel and in East Talpiot and the Judean Hills for a view of the city.
Belev Echad was founded by Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler in 2009. The organization aims to show the Jewish people’s gratitude to IDF veterans for putting their lives on the line to protect and defend the Jewish state. Belev Echad brings wounded soldiers on life-changing therapeutic trips to New York, and also helps the soldiers receive prosthetic l...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:53 am
The Innovatech 2017 Conference will be held this week in Paris. The first of its kind conference is intended to foster cooperation between the two nations and encourage French investments in Israeli Innovation. The event is a joint initiative of the Foreign Investment and Industrial Cooperation Authority of the Israeli Ministry of Economy & Industry, the Connecting Leaders Club of France, and the Economic Mission of the Israeli Ministry of Economy & Industry in France.
The conference will focus on the fields of food tech, life sciences, auto-tech and cyber-security. It will be attended by 250 leaders from the French Hi-Tech industry, along with 15 Israeli companies and directors of Israeli venture capital funds.
Israeli chip company Valens, which earlier this month announced $60 ...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:52 am
Researchers have taken an important step toward better lung cancer treatment by using blood tests to track genetic changes in tumors as they progress from their very earliest stages.
With experimental tests that detect bits of DNA that tumors shed into the blood, they were able to detect some recurrences of cancer up to a year before imaging scans could, giving a chance to try new therapy sooner.
It’s the latest development for tests called liquid biopsies, which analyze cancer using blood rather than tissue samples. Some doctors use these tests now to guide care for patients with advanced cancers, mostly in research settings. The new work is the first time tests like this have been used to monitor the evolution of lung tumors at an early stage, when there’s a much better c...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:49 am
On Monday afternoon 28 Nissan, ten Search & Rescue Units took part in a joint exercise with the IDF’s Search & Rescue Unit 669 and United Hatzalah. According to Shmuel Avraham, the Director of Emergency and Security Operations at United Hatzalah, approximately ten percent of the volunteers present at the exercise were members of United Hatzalah’s emergency medical services. The exercise took place outside of the southern city of Arad and featured helicopter rescues and high-intensity training drills in some of the most difficult terrain in Israel.
The cooperative relationship between United Hatzalah together with the IDF’s 669 Unit, began a few years ago but intensified after a recent meeting between the Emergency and Security Operations department of United Hatz...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:44 am
United Airlines says it will raise the limit — to $10,000 — on payments to customers who give up seats on oversold flights and will increase training for employees as it deals with fallout from the video of a passenger being violently dragged from his seat.
United is also vowing to reduce, but not eliminate, overbooking — the selling of more tickets than there are seats on the plane.
The airline made the promises Thursday as it released a report detailing mistakes that led to the April 9 incident on a United Express plane in Chicago.
United isn’t saying whether ticket sales have dropped since the removal of a 69-year-old passenger by three airport security officers, but the airline’s CEO admits it could be damaging.
“I breached public trust with this...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:43 am
What makes a photograph museum worthy?
What is it about the photographer’s eye that allows him to take a memorable shot? After D-Day, tens of thousands arrived in New York, but only one captured image defines the moment. The horrors of war are beyond counting, yet a single searing image of a child suffering the agony of napalm bombing still causes us to recoil decades after Vietnam. Millions of eyes and camera lenses were tracking the rise of the Challenger spacecraft when it exploded. Only one image, with its distinctive contrails of smoke, takes us back to that terrible moment.
Certainly, a great photographer has to be “lucky”. That is, he has to be in the right place at the right time to capture a particular shot. But certain...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:43 am
A ‘superbug’ fungus is emerging as a new menace in U.S. hospitals, mostly in New York and New Jersey.
First identified in Japan in 2009, the fungus has spread to more than a dozen countries around the globe. The oldest of the 66 cases reported in the U.S. dates back to 2013, but most were reported in the last year.
The fungus called Candida auris is a harmful form of yeast. Scientists say it can be hard to identify with standard lab tests. U.S. health officials sounded alarms last year because two of the three kinds of commonly used antifungal drugs have little effect.
“It’s acting like a superbug” bacteria, said Dr. Paige Armstrong of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most vulnerable are fragile hospital patients – particularly newborn...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:42 am
It is perhaps one of the most remarkable innovations in the history of fetal medicine. It is called the “BioBag” and for all practical purposes, it acts like an artificial replacement womb. It is predicted that this device, already successful with sheep, could in a few short years, bring premature human babies to term outside of the uterus.
This innovation is significant because extremely premature babies have very difficult and dismal outcomes. Prematurity is the leading cause of death for newborns. In the United States, ten percent of babies are born before they reach 37 weeks. Six percent are born at or before they reach 28 weeks.
Those that are extremely premature, in order to survive, require mechanical ventilation. They need medications and intravenous nutrition as well...
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April 27, 2017 at 8:42 am
Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich had words of praise for the program involving raising foals for the department, a program that began in 2013 as part of the educational curriculum of police studies program in Kfar Noar. These horses are raised in compliance with the special operational needs of the department.
This saves the department work and resources on the one hand while providing the youths working in the stables receive the tools that will assist them in their lives.
Police trends in the youth villages constitute the essence of the perception of the role of the police, as one who sees itself as also responsible for improving the norms of obedience to the law in the State of Israel. The curriculum as part of the police studies program is an integral part of realizing this vision.
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April 27, 2017 at 8:42 am
Im Tirtzu CEO Matan Peleg sent a letter to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday night the eve of 1 Rosh Chodesh Iyar, accusing him of hypocrisy. In the letter, Peleg wrote:
“I read your response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement concerning your meeting with the anti-Israel NGOs Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem, and I wish to tell you on behalf of Im Tirtzu, the largest Zionist movement in Israel, that we view your statement as inherently flawed, hypocritical and insulting.”
Peleg continued: “The only organizations in Israel that the German government funds are political propaganda organizations that promote defamatory criticism against Israel including false accusations of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and additional crimes again...
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April 26, 2017 at 10:24 pm
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 26, 2017 - For many in the local Orthodox Jewish community, the heroin crisis in Baltimore City is one of the furthest political issues in our minds. We talk about other local and national issues: we were angry about the Rain Tax; we were upset that the anticipated additional $5 million in state funding for school vouchers didn’t make it into Governor Hogan’s 2017 budget; and we applauded Ambassador Nikki Haley’s defense of Israel in the United Nations. But as a prosecuting attorney for the City of Baltimore and a mother of two young children, I am genuinely concerned about heroin addiction in our city, and you should be too. Here’s why.
The heroin epidemic is a growing, but not new, problem in Baltimore. Few know that it has been hurting our c...
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April 26, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Taylor Force was a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was pursuing his MBA at Vanderbilt last year, and his future was certainly very bright.
"Taylor was stabbed to death while he was in Israel by a Palestinian," says his mother, Robbi, matter-of-factly.
Taylor, who was 28, was walking along the Mediterranean boardwalk promenade with friends in Tel Aviv, when he was savagely knifed to death on March 8, 2016.
His killer was identified as a Palestinian terrorist, 22-year-old Bashar Masalha, who authorities say went on a stabbing spree that also severely wounded ten others before he was shot dead by Israeli police.
"All dads and all moms are proud of their kids. Taylor basically did everything right, but he was humble about it," says his father, Stuart.
Taylor...
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April 26, 2017 at 9:35 pm
For the first time in nearly 20 years, Baltimore has suffered more than 100 homicides before the end of April.
Media outlets report that the city recorded its 100th murder Monday, followed hours later by another homicide that brings the total count to 101.
The violence has not relented since 32 homicides were recorded in January, the most in that month since 2005.
Baltimore has not seen 100 homicides before the end of April since 1998.
The violence here began to spike in the spring of 2015, after civil unrest prompted by the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.
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April 26, 2017 at 9:34 pm
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley is urging the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo and additional sanctions on South Sudan to pressure the parties to end the civil war in the world’s newest nation — but Russia and China remain opposed.
Haley warned the council on Tuesday that 5.5 million people — half of South Sudan’s population — face “life-threatening hunger if nothing changes soon.”
She said, “We must not wait for more deaths, more displacement and more destruction before we have the courage to act.”
But Russia and China said new sanctions won’t end the conflict.
South Sudan’s civil war began in December 2013 and has grown more intense. U.N. envoy David Shearer told the council no party has shown interest in re...
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April 26, 2017 at 9:33 pm
Despite increased IDF and Israel Police efforts to apprehend persons responsible for attacks against IDF soldiers, the attacks continue.
According to reports, no less than five soldiers were attacked in a 24-hour period this week, all amid shouts of ‘Chardak’, the derogatory term used by chareidim against the frum soldiers.
The attacks this week were reportedly carried out by members of the Peleg faction and the Eida Chareidis. Four attacks occurred on Monday evening the eve of 29 Nissan, in which police extricated two soldiers and the soldiers extricated themselves in the other attacks. One attack occurred in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday. At least two arrests have been made in that attack.
Authorities promise they will prosecute suspects to the fullest extent of the law.
In the...
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April 26, 2017 at 9:30 pm
A senior Republican senator emerged from a dinner with Donald Trump confident the president will not allow North Korea to build a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters Tuesday that North Korea should “not underestimate President Trump’s resolve to stop them from getting a missile to hit our homeland.”
Graham joined Sen. John McCain of Arizona for the dinner at the White House on Monday evening.
Graham and McCain are defense hawks and have been two of Trump’s sharpest GOP critics on foreign policy matters. But both senators are backing Trump’s hard line approach on North Korea.
Pyongyang has threatened to use pre-emptive strikes or any other measures it deems necessary to defend it...
