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Dickov reverted to this set-up over Christmas but, when Furman departed for Afcon, Rovers struggled to adapt. After the highs of Coventry, Dickov’s men won just one in eight. |
Things might have been so different for Abdul Razak had he been available in January as a direct replacement for Furman. Instead the waiting for international clearance went on and on and on. Three months on, nobody is any the wiser as to what his best position is. |
After a disappointing home loss to Walsall, and a sequence of results that suggested Doncaster’s top six bid was faltering, a commanding 5-0 win at Crawley re-ignited confidence and belief in the camp. |
Curtis Main also ended a ten-game run without a goal, and is building up a head of steam for the run-in. |
Even more significant than Jermaine Beckford’s last gasp equaliser, which again dented momentum, was the knee injury suffered by key man Keegan. |
Rovers have won one in four in the Dubliner’s absence. |
A mouth-watering double bill with play-off rivals Bradford and Sheffield United will go a long way to determining Doncaster’s fate. |
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Babelingo 1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch is only $5.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple's App Store. |
Photos on Twitter are live. Here's how they look. |
Photos on Twitter are live. Here’s how they look. |
We knew it was coming, but now we know what it looks like. From the pic.twitter.com domain, we have a randomly-generated grouping of numbers and letters that point to a photo that’s powered by Photobucket. |
Haven’t kept up with the news? Make sure to read back about the launch of Photobucket integration, our interview with Photobucket’s CEO and Twitter’s correction of some of the CEO’s mistakes in how it will all work. |
Read next: Spy shots from the setup of Apple's WWDC. |
Today marks the biggest recruiting day for North Carolina since Harrison Barnes committed to the Tar Heels on November 13th, 2009. Cole Anthony (No. 3) & Anthony Harris (No. 65) to UNC in the same day. Two of the best two-way guards in the 2019 class. |
Early prediction on North Carolina's 19-20 starting five: Cole Anthony, Brandon Robinson, Leaky Black, Garrison Brooks, Armando Bacot. |
North Carolina is the perfect situation for Cole Anthony. Tar Heels need someone to carry the offense from day one with all the personnel losses, and he'll excel in their up-tempo system. |
Where is he going to commit? |
According to the report, Amazon India featured at the six spot in terms of television presence (ad placement and frequency) during IPL 2017. |
New Delhi: The recent churn and funding pressure at some of the top e-commerce firms in India has knocked the category off the list of top five advertisers at Indian Premier League (IPL), a report by market intelligence firm SilverPush said. |
IPL, the 20-over cricketing tournament that runs for about two months each year, is one of the most sought-after advertising platforms in India. |
According to SilverPush, e-commerce, from being the fourth most-advertised category in IPL 2016, was replaced by electronics, durables, automobiles, telecom and food and beverages (in this order) in the 2017 season. |
The analysis is derived from monitoring television and YouTube ads (during IPL matches) and impressions received on the brands’ social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, SilverPush said. It may not essentially represent ad spends by these brands. |
According to the analysis, Amazon India featured at the six spot in terms of television presence (ad placement and frequency) during IPL 2017, trailing behind Chinese phone-makers Oppo and Vivo, and telecom networks Reliance Jio and Vodafone (top four in this order). |
Amazon’s market share in TV ads, among its peers, increased to 88.7% during IPL 2017 from 40.4% during IPL 2016, while Flipkart’s share tumbled to 6.2% from 18.7% and Snapdeal’s share to 5.1% from 40.9%, the data showed. |
On the digital side, Amazon swelled its advertising share to a staggering 99.9% from 37.9% in IPL 2016. “Amazon’s new line of creatives and impending sale season ensured it booked the top spot on YouTube, while Makemytrip’s star studded innovative creatives garnered many views, too." SilverPush report said. |
The trend, in many ways, is a manifestation of what is happening on the business side at the e-commerce firms. |
Having failed to raise fresh funds, Delhi-based Snapdeal is in the process of getting sold to larger rival Flipkart, while Flipkart, after a number of management changes and seeing its valuation marked down at least five times, recently managed to close a $1.4-billion round from investors. |
“E-commerce firms have become more prudent in their spends, especially since now it has become a two-horse race. IPL is one of the most expensive properties and could be hard to justify buying it ROI-wise (return on investment)," said Hitesh Chawla, chief executive officer at SilverPush. |
“For newer players like Jio and Oppo, IPL provides a perfect launch pad for quick brand building and mass reach." |
Amazon is about to enter the world of true wireless headphones. The tech giant is reportedly hard at work on a pair of AirPod competitors with its Alexa voice assistant onboard, according to Bloomberg. |
The new headphones are being developed at Amazon’s Lab126 division, Bloomberg said, a group that is also working on a home robot for consumers. Alexa integration means that those wearing the headphones can ask for weather, change music, and even order things from Amazon, all without raising a finger. This is similar to... |
Unlike the AirPods, the new Amazon earbuds will apparently feature physical controls, letting you tap to pick up and end calls, as well as to switch between songs. |
Amazon has had mixed success with tech hardware. Sure, the Kindle is an unqualified success, and its video streamers and smart home devices are popular — but products like the Fire Smartphone never gained steam. That’s worth noting, because though you might think entering the true wireless headphone space would be simp... |
We’ve even seen longtime headphone makers like Bose and Sony falter in the true wireless space, with Apple, Jabra, Samsung, and others pouring significant research and development into their successful products in the space. |
The good news is, the tech has advanced considerably since true wireless headphones were first released by Apple in late 2016, with companies like Qualcomm spending serious development dollars on better, more efficient, and more compact chips to put inside the tiny headphones. |
No word on when Amazon may release the new headphones, with it reportedly facing some development delays on the product. That said, it has reportedly been looking for manufacturing and supply partners, and has historically launched new devices in the fall. Last September it released a dozen new devices, including a mic... |
A retired Alabama police officer said she was told to keep an eye on Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore because he was known to harass teenage cheerleaders at local school ball games in the 1980s. |
Ex-Gadsden cop Faye Gray told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell that rumors of Moore liking young girls were heard on a daily basis and she was even informed that he had been suspended from Gadsden Mall because he would often target young female employees. |
Retired Alabama police officer Faye Gary has accused Sentate canidate Roy Moore of harassing cheerleaders. |
"We were also told to watch him at the ball games and make sure that he didn't hang around the cheerleaders," Gray said. |
"The rumor was that Roy Moore likes young girls," she added. "It was not only in our department but at the courthouse, too." |
Gray, a 37-year police veteran who was a detective for the juvenile division at the time, said the department took no action against Moore because it never received complaints on the allegations. |
"Every day we were looking for a complaint to come in," she said. "And I didn't realize until sometime later that when they said he liked young girls, I just thought he liked young ladies, you know, maybe in their 20s. I had no idea, or we had no idea, that we were talking about 14-year-olds." |
Several women have come forward accusing the ex-Alabama chief justice of either sexually harassing, molesting or groping them. The youngest alleged victim was 14 years old when Moore was 32 and making moves on her in 1979, according to a Washington Post expose. |
Moore has denied the claims while both Democrats and Republicans have called for him to drop out of the Senate race. He's running against Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 Alabama special election. |
Madeleine Rees is Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF). She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to human rights, particularly women's rights, and international peace and security. In 1998 she began working as the chief of the OHCHR ... |
Gender, war and peace: "We the people." |
Feminism: a way of thought and a way of being that can and has made change. We must stand up for humanity now so that our children can have theirs. |
The refugee crisis in Europe has challenged many accepted truths, and shown that the solution lies in applying international human rights law to override political manoeuvring. |
The 2015 WILPF manifesto outlines how those who choose peace over conflict must act, and recognises that negotiations on a treaty making transnational corporations accountable for violation of human rights is part of the way forward. |
The one simple yet unanswered question in the United Nations versus Anders Kompass affair is - why? Is it because he did not accept the politicisation of human rights ? |
The United Nations should secure compliance with international law. Ongoing conflicts show that both the law and the UN have been subordinated to a single default position: military intervention. |
Margot Wallström’s decision not to sell arms to Saudi Arabia demonstrates the fundamental rethink needed to achieve a feminist foreign policy. Herein lies women's power to stop war. |
A high level of uncertainty around collected and submitted data characterized the first phase of mandated Federal Open Payments reporting by life sciences companies with over 20% saying reports initially filed were rejected before being accepted upon resubmission, according to a new survey of senior life sciences compl... |
The poll, conducted by Polaris, a global life sciences compliance consulting and technology firm, showed mixed results. Companies were somewhat confident in their reporting processes yet there was evidence that some faced significant hurdles in their attempt to meet the Phase 1 reporting deadline last March 31st. There... |
"We wanted to hear from the life sciences compliance community about what their Phase 1 preparation, reporting and filing process was like and how that might impact Phase 2," said Andy Bender, President, Polaris. "We hope the findings from this survey provide solutions for all stakeholders in the Sunshine Act moving fo... |
Specifically, questions were raised about information captured for the Sunshine Act. Almost 44% of respondents said there was a minimum of one (22%) to several (22%) specific discovered payments that either raised compliance concerns or necessitated significant follow-up. Companies also seemed to be confused about what... |
The survey also raised concerns about how organizations verified the information they gathered before submission. To that point, survey respondents reported a variety of methods for validating the accuracy of data reported. These ranged from solely checking against source system data (56%) to comparing aggregate data t... |
When asked about how confident they were in the veracity of the data they collected and disclosed, there were a range of responses. Nearly 60% of survey respondents were only somewhat satisfied with the covered recipient data they submitted on March 31st. Only 16% answered that they were very satisfied with what they d... |
"Based on the expected high variances between Phase 1 and Phase 2 reporting and the low levels of satisfaction with data submitted, as shown in the survey findings, it is clear that applicable life sciences manufacturers are struggling to meet the standard of submitting timely, complete and accurate data in their repor... |
The survey findings also highlighted how many companies are struggling to get a more complete understanding of data around their engagements with healthcare practitioners (HCPs). Respondents said that they only spent 28% of their time in Phase 1 verifying HCP information they were going to report on. They said they spe... |
Further, the findings raised some doubts about whether objective sources were being used to validate and report physician-derived data. Almost 22% of respondents indicated they sourced their physician data either from an internally created master database or source (19%) or did not indicate where they sourced it from. ... |
More than 65% of respondents either did not notify covered recipients of data related to them for validation prior to report submission (28%) nor did they plan to notify them about what data they were planning to disclose post-submission (38%). Only 25% said they planned to notify contracted parties following report su... |
Polaris surveyed via e-mail and social media 35 senior life sciences company compliance and regulatory officers and legal counsel from April 17 thru May 22 of 2014 on their experience with the Phase 1 reporting process of the U.S. Sunshine Act. |
Polaris is a global life sciences consulting and technology firm exclusively focused on the compliance needs of the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. |
Polaris understands that there is more than one way to meet your compliance needs. Using a process-driven approach, Polaris will tailor a solution that is efficient, scalable and unique to your needs. |
What’s the deal or no deal Brexit row over? |
A year ago Liam Fox declared that striking a deal with the European Union (EU) would be “one of the easiest in human history”. This week the disgraced Tory minister was left with his tail between his legs. |
Fox admitted that the “intransigence” of the European Commission is “pushing us towards a no deal Brexit”. His comments came hot on the heels of recently-promoted foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt’s prediction that “we’re heading for a no-deal by accident”. |
For all the Brexiteer ministers’ bullishness, beating the banker in Brussels has not proved that easy after all. |
The government is being buffeted by big business, Tory backbenchers and the EU’s rulers. Any proposals for a Brexit deal that Theresa May manages to cobble together will quickly unravel because of objections from one of these groups. |
She’s managed to stumble on from one political fudge after another, but the time for making real decisions is fast approaching. If there’s going to be a deal, the Tories and EU will have to hammer out a withdrawal treaty by a summit in October. |
The prospect of a no deal Brexit is sending shudders through global capitalism. After Fox’s comments currency speculators rapidly sold the pound, which saw it fall to the lowest level in 11 months. |
And many ordinary people are fearful of a no deal Brexit and think May isn’t making a good job of negotiations. |
The likelihood is that there will be a threadbare deal that leaves many negotiating points unresolved. |
Theresa May came back from her holidays early to talk with French president Emmanuel Macron, and the EU looked as if it was loosening on some points. |
But talking up “no deal” suits the EU, and both Remain and Leave supporters in the Tory cabinet and backbenches. |
The EU is using it as a powerful form of leverage in negotiations. The shock of a no deal Brexit would be far more damaging to British capitalism than it would the 27-strong bloc of EU states. |
Without a Brexit deal trade rules between the EU and Britain would likely revert to World Trade Organisation (WTO) regulations. These would impose some customs checks and duties at the border. |
This would not mean the near-apocalyptic predictions that much of the business press claim—such as the “collapse” of the port of Dover. But the shock would initially hit the supply chains and profits of British bosses. |
The EU’s rulers know that British bosses fear this scenario and that they are piling pressure onto the Tories. Big business is desperate to maintain access to the EU’s single market. It pushes competition and blocks policies such as nationalisation. |
Businesses also want May to stick to her promised 21-month transition period after formally leaving the EU, which would buy them time to revise trade rules. |
Remain supporters in the Tory party such as Jeremy Hunt find it useful to raise the spectre of sleepwalking into no deal scenarios. They hope this can increase leverage against their Brexiteer colleagues. |
This jostling speaks to a deeper rift within the Tory party. |
By painting themselves as the party of a right wing, nationalist Brexit the Tories were able to win back voters from Ukip. And now the Brexiteers hope to position themselves as those who stood up against any possible betrayal of a “soft Brexit”. This is what lay behind David Davis and Boris Johnson’s resignations from ... |
Whether there is a deal or no deal, a Tory government will always try and make workers and migrants pay. |
The left has a choice about how it responds. One option is to attach ourselves to the coat tails of right wing liberals such as Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell who call for a second referendum. But whatever the good intentions of some Remain supporters, the EU will do nothing to protect workers and mi... |
The other option is to understand that Brexit means crisis not just for the Tories, but for the majority of the ruling class. We should seize on their divisions, up the level of working class resistance against the Tories and fight for a socialist and anti-racist vision of Brexit. |
In her eloquent salute to the First Amendment recently printed in the S.F. Chronicle, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the distinguished President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), has finally convinced me that the oil industry only has the best interests of the Constitution, the people and the environment in m... |
Her touching prose in defending the free speech rights of Big Oil to be free of pesky “climate change” labels on gas pumps in the City of Berkeley brought a deluge of tears to my eyes. |
“One of the underlying tenets of our cherished right to free speech is that everyone is entitled to it — even people with whom we disagree,” gushed Reheis-Boyd. |
“It seems fitting — indeed essential — to remember this important principle as the city of Berkeley and the city and county of San Francisco debate whether to compel service station owners in those Bay Area cities to display so-called ‘climate change labels’ on their gas pumps,” she said. |
Reheis-Boyd courageously invokes the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement to stand up for the First Amendment rights of the downtrodden oil companies and gas station owners. |
“It is, of course, ironic that the city of Berkeley — birthplace of the Free Speech Movement 50 years ago — would even consider an ordinance that so clearly treads upon the free speech rights of the men and women who own and operate service stations within its borders. Even some members of Berkeley’s own City Council c... |
There is no doubt that Reheis-Boyd and the Western States Petroleum Association are heroic defenders of the First Amendment, as well as the environment and the public trust. That’s why Reheis-Boyd generously volunteered to Chair the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force to create glorious ... |
How could Reheis-Boyd be anything but a dedicated “environmentalist” and First Amendment defender when NRDC, the League of Conservation Voters, the Ocean Conservancy and other “environmental” NGOs and self-sacrificing state officials touted the process that she oversaw as the most “open, transparent and inclusive” proc... |
This marine guardian/First Amendment defender is also now pushing for the expansion of sustainable hydraulic fracturing and the long-overdue weakening of California’s environmental laws for noble, saintly reasons that truly touch me. |
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