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Guentzel got his fifth goal in the back-to-back games against Anaheim and Los Angeles by scoring on the power play at 9:20. |
Kopitar added an empty-netter with 47 seconds remaining. |
The Penguins went in front 1-0 at 5:30 of the first when Guentzel backhanded in a rebound of Sidney Crosby's shot to extend his point streak to six games. |
Carter tied it at 1 at 10:58 after stealing the puck from defenseman Marcus Pettersson and beating DeSmith with a slap shot. |
NOTES: Quick is 68 wins behind Tom Barrasso in third place. Ducks goalie Ryan Miller is tied with John Vanbiesbrouck for most wins by a U.S.-born goalie at 374. ... Guentzel has seven goals and three assists during a six-game point streak. ... Evgeni Malkin got his eighth assist during a six-game streak. |
If that headline fails to get your attention, there’s nothing about artificial intelligence (AI) or robotic process automation (RPA) that will shock or scare you. Will AI and RPA take your job and kill your career? It depends on what you do for a living, how old you are, where you live and your educational credentials.... |
There’s an old TV series – Hill Street Blues – which began each episode with a warning: “Let’s Be Careful Out There.” As everyone ponders the impact of AI and RPA on their careers, it’s very good advice. |
A photo taken on March 8, 2017 shows two rhinos at the Thoiry Zoo, after intruders shot dead a white rhino and hacked off his horns. |
A zoo in the Czech Republic has started to saw off the horns from its herd of rare rhinoceros, in an effort to protect them from poachers like those who killed and dehorned a rhino in a Paris wildlife park earlier this month. |
Dvur Kralove Zoo director Premysl Rabas said on Tuesday that veterinary surgeons had begun operating on their herd of 21 critically endangered black and southern white rhinos, Agence France-Presse reports. |
Although the international rhino horn trade has been banned since 1977, a thriving black market has been fed by demand from China and Vietnam, where many view rhino horn as a cure-all in traditional medicine. |
Composed mainly of keratin, the same substance that makes up our hair and fingernails, rhino horns are structurally similar to horses’ hooves and turtle beaks, according to conservation group Save the Rhino. |
On 7 March, intruders broke into Thoiry Zoo in suburban France and shot dead a male southern white rhino before removing its horns with a chainsaw. |
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Senegal has named its final 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Liverpool forward Sadio Mane leading a group that also includes key defender Kalidou Koulibaly of Napoli and midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate of West Ham. |
Coach Aliou Cisse, the captain of the 2002 Senegal team that reached the quarterfinals in the country's only previous World Cup appearance, also gambled on Thursday on Monaco winger Keita Balde, out injured, and Anderlecht defender Kara Mbodji, who is on his way back from injury. |
The 20-year-old Rennes winger Ismaila Sarr also made the final squad. |
Senegal faces Poland, Japan and Colombia in the group stage in Russia. |
Dartmouth North MLA Trevor Zinck leaves the courtroom at the Supreme Court during the first day of his trial in Halifax on June 10, 2013. |
An independent politician in the Nova Scotia legislature pleaded guilty Monday to fraud and breach of trust, but said outside court he would like to keep his job as a lawmaker. |
Trevor Zinck entered the pleas on the fifth day of his trial at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax, becoming the last of four politicians to plead guilty to offences stemming from the province's spending scandal that erupted two years ago. |
Prosecutors said a charge of theft over $5,000 was stayed. |
Mr. Zinck said outside court he admits he made errors with his expenses, but wants to remain a member of the legislature for Dartmouth North. |
"I would like to continue on," he said. "There's no question I made some mistakes, but it doesn't take away from all the good I was able to do." |
Mr. Zinck said he doesn't believe he has to quit, but he is nonetheless holding talks with the Speaker's Office and realizes the legislature could expel him. "Other politicians have made mistakes. They were afforded opportunity to pay back and to move on. Unfortunately, I was thrown into a forensic audit," he said outs... |
During the trial, prosecution witnesses testified that organizations that were supposed to receive donations through Mr. Zinck's office never received their cheques. Last week, Mr. Zinck confirmed in court he was given more than $10,000 from the Speaker's Office to cover constituency expenses in 2008 and 2009, even tho... |
Crown attorneys said outside court on Monday that the total has dropped to about $9,000 because the Crown is now accepting Mr. Zinck's explanations in two instances. |
About half the money was supposed to go to the Boys and Girls Club of Dartmouth. Other duplicate cheques — used as receipts in Mr. Zinck's expense claims — were made out to the Dartmouth District 9 Citizens Association, Lake City Woodworkers and a Dartmouth dad looking for a hockey sponsorship for his son. |
The father, James Moore, testified that his son couldn't play in a spring hockey league because Mr. Zinck failed to come through on a promise to provide an $860 sponsorship. |
In court, Crown prosecutor Mark Heerema showed Mr. Moore a duplicate cheque for $860 that Mr. Zinck had made out to Mr. Moore. The document was attached to a March, 2008, expense claim filed by Mr. Zinck and approved for reimbursement by the Speaker's Office. Mr. Moore said he had never seen the cheque before and he co... |
As well, bank records presented as evidence during the trial showed a series of late-night withdrawals made from Mr. Zinck's personal and constituency accounts — all of them made in 2008 from automated bank machines inside Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax. |
Outside court, Mr. Zinck said he will wait until a sentencing hearing on Aug. 7 to provide more complete explanations for what happened to the funds. |
However, Mr. Zinck — who was first elected as an NDP member in 2006 and re-elected in 2009 — said he was facing some financial difficulties during the time of the offences between June, 2007, and July, 2009. |
"Unfortunately, due to a number of issues and overextending myself, I found myself ... in a situation that led to this point. For that I'm very remorseful," he said. |
He said he acknowledges he will forfeit his pension as a result of recent amendments passed by the legislature. |
He said he expects to receive a reimbursement of his pension contributions of between $55,000 and $65,000 and will use those funds to repay any money he's ordered to give back as a result of the court proceedings. |
Crown prosecutor Andrew Macdonald said outside court that he is likely to seek jail time for Mr. Zinck because he involved non-profit and charitable groups in his fraud. |
"This is a matter where he misappropriated funds that were earmarked for ... very worthy charitable organizations and individuals," he said. |
Defence lawyer Lyle Howe said he will argue against a jail sentence, adding Mr. Zinck's conduct wasn't serious enough to warrant incarceration. |
Mr. Zinck was one of four politicians charged in February, 2011, following an investigation by the province's auditor-general into constituency allowance spending. |
The former NDP caucus member is the only one who now sits in the legislature. |
Richard Hurlburt, a former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, pleaded guilty in April, 2012, to fraud and breach of trust for taking $25,321 between December, 2006, and December, 2008. He was sentenced to a year of house arrest. |
David Wilson, a former chairman of the Liberal caucus, pleaded guilty to fraud, uttering forged documents and breach of trust in September, 2011, in crimes that spread over five years. He was sentenced to nine months in jail and was released from custody after four months. |
Russell MacKinnon, a former Liberal, pleaded guilty on April 12 to breach of trust, while one count of fraud and eight counts of uttering forged documents were withdrawn. |
Like Mr. Zinck, Mr. MacKinnon changed his plea while his trial was under way. He was sentenced to four months of house arrest and four months of curfew. |
Will guilty plea be first step in restoring Nova Scotia's faith in MLAs? |
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Myriam's seven-year-old daughter is leaning against the wall, at the risk of crushing her blonde locks, curled and lacquered this morning. "Camille, mind your hair!" her mother cautions. |
They left home in northern France at 8.30am on a Saturday with Marie, 10, the elder sister, their friend Laura, 11, and her mother Caroline. In their cases they have three long red and black flamenco-style dresses with frills and sequins. Now the girls are waiting in an alley in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, along ... |
Myriam and Caroline are wondering what got into the upper house of the French parliament last month when it passed an amendment banning beauty contests for under-16s. Such events allegedly encourage the "hypersexualisation" of young girls, making them attach too much importance to their appearance. "The people who did ... |
"The price isn't the same," Myriam points out. "Up there it costs €5 to €6 [$6.50 to $8], here it's €39." Including the petrol, it is quite an outlay. But the dresses are home-made and the girls are pleased. They are the ones who started the whole thing, to keep up with their friends. The mothers enjoy it too. "I work ... |
In the auditorium the mothers have turned into dressers, and their daughters into princesses. A few fathers and brothers are hanging around on the sidelines. We are treated to a firework display of brightly coloured robes, tulle, feathers, fake gems, fabric flowers and glittering hairdos. This is what Camille, Marie an... |
"They've been preparing for this for so long, parading in front of the mirror, and now it's the big night, the opportunity of a lifetime," Caroline adds. After a song to launch the proceedings, compere Michel Le Parmentier urges the media covering the event to check behind the scenes that there is no make-up and no hig... |
Barbara, 13, last year's Miss Junior Teen, steps up with a message for MPs who are due to debate a bill on gender equality at the end of November and decide whether the "Mini-Miss" amendment, tabled by senator Chantal Jouanno, is voted into law. "Please leave us alone to live out our dreams," Barbara pleads. "Ms Jouann... |
The show proper begins. In the stifling heat the young girls stalk up and down the catwalk. Some strike poses, for a laugh; others are more serious. The atmosphere changes when the 12- to 17-year-olds take the stage. Dresses are darker, shorter, more body-hugging. High heels replace the ballet pumps and faces are clear... |
Stacy, 13, already has her sights on better things. With her stilettos, prim black dress and curled hair pulled back in a bun, she could be five or 10 years older. She wants to be "a model or an actress". Her mother, Karine, sees no point in waiting. "At that age, they know what they want," she says. "Better start a ca... |
Karine is "completely against" the possible ban on such contests, much the same as everyone else at the event. "In the same breath they allow gay marriage but ban Mini-Miss contests. It makes no sense," says another parent. The organisers, all volunteers belonging to a non-profit, according to Le Parmentier, intend to ... |
Neither Camille, Marie nor Laura won the sash, bouquet and crown awarded to winners. "I'm a bit disappointed, you know," says Laura. She is holding one of the diadems given to all the participants, but it is already broken. |
Swedish comms giant Ericsson is to take the axe to jobs across the business after net profit for the last quarter of 2009 plunged a horrifying 92%. Across the board, Ericsson's Q4 profits fell from 3.89bn SEK this time last year to just 314m SEK (£26.9m) at the end of 2009. |
Swedish comms giant Ericsson is to take the axe to jobs across the business after net profit for the last quarter of 2009 plunged a horrifying 92%. |
Across the board, Ericsson's Q4 profits fell from 3.89bn SEK this time last year to just 314m SEK (£26.9m) at the end of 2009. |
Net sales for comparable units fell 16% year-on-year to 55.6bn SEK, excluding Ericsson Mobile Platforms and the recently acquired Nortel CDMA and LTE business. |
The Nortel business contributed sales of 2.7bn SEK duringQ4. |
The cost-saving plan initiated this time last year continued to cut a swathe through Ericsson's head count. The firm canned 5,000 during 2009 and today said that 1,500 more were for the chop, including 600 at its loss-making chip unit, ST-Ericsson. |
Ericsson president and CEO, Hans Vestberg, said reduced operator spending during 2009 had hit its networks business hardest of all. |
However, he went on: "We maintained market shares well in all segments, cash flow was good and our financial position is strong. The services business [particularly in the UK] performed well and our joint ventures remain on track to return to profit." |
PARIS (Reuters) - Safran (SAF.PA) said on Wednesday it expected to reach the high end of its full-year targets after posting a 12 percent rise in first-quarter revenues, and said it had not discovered any surprises since taking over Zodiac Aerospace in March. |
No news on Paris-based Zodiac is generally seen as good news, following production upheavals and repeated profit warnings that resulted in the company bowing to Safran’s long-held takeover ambitions last year. |
But Safran said it would not be able to incorporate Zodiac, whose turnaround remains under close watch after a series of delivery delays, into its full-year forecasts until it reports mid-year earnings in September. |
Safran said revenue reached 4.222 billion euros in the first quarter including a one-month contribution from Zodiac, whose revenues fell in March compared with a year earlier. |
Revenues in the main aerospace propulsion division grew 4.6 percent, or 12.1 percent on an organic basis. |
Safran said it expected full-year underlying revenue excluding Zodiac to post growth at the top end of a previously announced range of 2 to 4 percent. Growth in operating income should hit the upper end of a 7 to 10 percent band. |
Safran said it was in contact with Textron’s Cessna unit after the only other customer for its Silvercrest engine, Dassault Aviation, scrapped its Falcon 5X due to engine delays. |
Textron Chief Executive Scott Donnelly told analysts last week that Cessna was suspending work on its Hemisphere business jet until more was known about the future of the delayed engine. |
“And then based on that, we’ll make our decisions and move forward knowing what the performance of the engine is,” he said. |
Petitcolin said the discussions involved tailoring the engine to Cessna’s jet. |
“There is nothing new. Cessna wants an engine that is optimised for its programme. They are waiting for us to define with them an optimal engine to work with,” Petitcolin said. |
Meanwhile, the commercial helicopter market is emerging from a long slump, pushing up demand for helicopter engines. Safran aims to produce 50 to 100 more such engines this year, Petitcolin said. |
He struck a cautious note, however, on calls for further increases in Airbus jet production, requiring more of the new LEAP engines co-produced with General Electric (GE.N). The manufacturers are handling a sharp ramp-up in production and have run into some delays and glitches from suppliers. |
Airbus said earlier it was increasing production of its A320neo family, about half of which are powered by LEAP engines, to 63 jets a month in 2019, up from a previous goal of 60 a month. It currently produces some 55 of the jets a month. |
“As of today, we are not in a position to commit ourselves to higher volumes,” Petitcolin said . |
Oracle presented an overview today of its ambitions for its newly acquired Sun products, focusing on integrated systems offering everything from the application to the database, servers and storage. "The Sun deal closed yesterday. We're all pumped and excited," said Oracle president Charles Phillips at Oracle headquart... |
Oracle will keep the Sun name and "reinvigorate it," Phillips said. Looking to prevent the finger-pointing that can go on when systems break down, Oracle intends to be the one person to call for the entire stack, said Phillips. "The bottom line is we want to improve and change the way people buy systems, [the way] they... |
Oracle will offer a product stack of Oracle and Sun technologies engineered to work together. The stack will be certified, packaged, deployed, upgraded, and managed together, and it will feature middleware, the database, OS, virtual machines, servers, and storage. The products will be supported together as well. |
Oracle itself, Phillips said, offers products in OLTP, data warehousing, embedded database, middleware, CRM, human capital management, and enterprise performance management. To this list, Sun adds an enterprise OS, servers for Unix and the Oracle database, enterprise tape storage, and Java, Sun's development language. |
Phillips stressed Oracle's commitment to Java. "All our next-generation applications are written in Java. We have a vested interest to see that Java remains successful," Phillips said. JavaOne, the annual Java technical conference historically held in June, will continue but will instead be held as part of the Oracle O... |
The Sun Solaris Unix OS will continue to scale. "We're the only enterprise OS that scales down to very, very small systems all the way to hundreds of threads," said John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president for hardware engineering and a holdover from Sun. "We're taking Solaris to thousands of threads and double-dig... |
MySQL, the open source database Oracle acquires with the Sun buy, will become part of the company's open source global business unit and maintain its own sales force. "We're going to make MySQL better," said Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle. MySQL will be integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager, Se... |
Two customers brought onstage lauded the Sun-Oracle combination. "We're really looking forward to Oracle being the only person we have to call when something goes wrong," said David Maitland, director of corporate services and the CIO for the Atomic Weapons Establishment. "[Oracle] will be the first organization that s... |
In the cloud computing space, Oracle will offer a range of products for building clouds, including the Oracle WebLogic Server application server, Solaris containers, and Sun Oracle servers and storage. "With the merger between Sun and Oracle, Oracle will offer a comprehensive set of building blocks for managing and ass... |
Oracle will spend $4.3 billion in research and development in fiscal year 2011, Phillips said. |
Phillips also made an apparent brief reference to a situation he endured last week when a former romantic interest embarrassed him by posting billboards about their relationship in several cities. "Hopefully, you've had a slightly smoother week than I've had," he said. |
This article, "Oracle's ambitious plans for integrating Sun's technology," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments on Oracle, Java, and MySQL at InfoWorld.com. |
A 24-year old man identified as Ifeanyi Nwong has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 20 months old baby in his apartment. |
Ifeanyi was arrested after parents of the victim (names withheld) saw her child was walking and some sperm on her. |
The offence was committed at Uselu quarters in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. |
He was among 29 suspects paraded by the Edo State Police Command yesterday. |
Ifeanyi was alleged to have lured the victim into his room where the act was committed. |
In a chat with newsmen, Ifeanyi said his sperm only dropped on the laps of the victim but he did not penetrate. |
Other suspects held for defiling minors included Elvis Idemudia who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 12 year old girl, Stanley Edomwonyi who defiled a 9 year old fish seller inside a bush and Precious Omoruyi who allegedly defiled a 10 year old girl. |
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