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Hani Omar Dalqamouni Joined Marriott Worldwide Sales Office for the Middle East, Africa & South Asia, appointed as Sales Manager for Jordan (Aramex - Marriott General Sales Representative - Jordan). Police have charged two men in the case of a Bedford man accused of helping foreign nationals fraudulently obtain permanent-resident status and Canada citizenship. The RCMP announced on Thursday that they charged 39-year-old Hani Dalqamouni and 37-year-old Nael Al-Mehdawi under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Dalqamouni, a Canadian citizen, is charged with three counts of counselling misrepresentation, while Al-Mehdawi, a permanent resident of Canada, is charged with misrepresentation. The two are thought to be clients of Bedford’s Hassan Al-Awaid, who is accused of helping foreign nationals from the Middle East obtain permanent-resident status and Canadian citizenship through fraudulent means. The RCMP allege that Dalqamouni and Al-Mehdawi acted as points of contact and helped the 57-year-old. Police laid 53 charges against Al-Awaid last March. RCMP Staff Sgt. Terry Quinn of the Atlantic Region Immigration and Passport Section said the investigation is “complex,” which is why it took about 10 months for more charges to come. “We seized thousands of documents, so we had to go through every one of those documents very carefully, and as a result of that, these charges were laid,” Quinn said on Thursday. Both men are believed to be living in the Kingdom of Jordan, and warrants for their arrest have been issued. Quinn said they’re not working with police in Jordan in relation to the case. He said the charges to Dalgamouni and Al-Mehdawi carry a maximum penalty of a fine of $100,000 or five years behind bars. طائرات
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Police have charged two men in the case of a Bedford man accused of helping foreign nationals fraudulently obtain permanent-resident status and Canada citizenship. The RCMP announced on Thursday that they charged 39-year-old Hani Dalqamouni and 37-year-old Nael Al-Mehdawi under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Dalqamouni, a Canadian citizen, is charged with three counts of counselling misrepresentation, while Al-Mehdawi, a permanent resident of Canada, is charged with misrepresentation. The two are thought to be clients of Bedford’s Hassan Al-Awaid, who is accused of helping foreign nationals from the Middle East obtain permanent-resident status and Canadian citizenship through fraudulent means. The RCMP allege that Dalqamouni and Al-Mehdawi acted as points of contact and helped the 57-year-old. Police laid 53 charges against Al-Awaid last March. RCMP Staff Sgt. Terry Quinn of the Atlantic Region Immigration and Passport Section said the investigation is “complex,” which is why it took about 10 months for more charges to come. “We seized thousands of documents, so we had to go through every one of those documents very carefully, and as a result of that, these charges were laid,” Quinn said on Thursday. Both men are believed to be living in the Kingdom of Jordan, and warrants for their arrest have been issued. Quinn said they’re not working with police in Jordan in relation to the case. He said the charges to Dalgamouni and Al-Mehdawi carry a maximum penalty of a fine of $100,000 or five years behind bars.

The RCMP announced on Thursday that they charged 39-year-old Hani Dalqamouni and 37-year-old Nael Al-Mehdawi under the Immigration ...

And the Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year Is… – Twirlit

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And the Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year is… GIF!

GIF is an acronym for “graphics image format” and refers to a type of file used to transmit short, looped video clips on the Internet. It beat out YOLO, super PAC, superstorm and others to become the Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year – meaning it’s a word that has captured the zeitgeist of 2012.

Betabeat reports that Katherine Martin, head of the US dictionaries program, had this to say about GIF’s big win:

“GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun. The GIF has evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.”

Along with bestowing the title of Word of the Year upon it, the Oxford American Dictionary also cleared up the hotly debated issue of how to correctly pronounce GIF.

“GIF may be pronounced with either a soft g (as in giant) or a hard g (as in graphic),” said Martin in a statement on the Oxford American Dictionary blog. “The programmers who developed the format preferred a pronunciation with a soft g (in homage to the commercial tagline of the peanut butter brand Jiff, they supposedly quipped, “choosy developers choose GIF”). However, the pronunciation with a hard g is now very widespread and readily understood. Whichever pronunciation you use, it should of course be the same for both the noun and the verb.

WE DID IT! Let’s celebrate with… well, some GIFs, obviously.