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Editor's note: This story originally misstated that Twitter took legal action against Adscend Networks. We regret the error. |
Twitter served notice to spammers earlier this month that it's beefing up its anti-spam measures, and it has filed a lawsuit against five "aggressive tool providers and spammers" to keep its feeds clean. How can you keep your business off of Twitter's radar while still conducting some form of commerce using the tool? T... |
This is one of the spam moves that's in Twitter's crosshairs, and anyone with an account has likely been a target: A spammer throws in a link to a product along with a mention of your user name, which prompts you to read the tweet, since we're all plugged into our Mentions like Pavlov's dog. A business that seeks to ad... |
It's easy to wear out Twitter followers by tweeting every single sale, promotion, or product that you offer. While you obviously have to do some of this, limit yourself to a few promotional tweets per day, and use the rest of your feed to interact with customers. Retweeting articles and blog posts that are relevant to ... |
The tools that Twitter objected to enough to sue include TweetAttacks, TweetAdder, and TweetBuddy, which act as tweet spam broadcasters. Unfortunately for these companies, the legal outcome doesn't matter at this point; Twitter has judged them and will likely have an issue with any business using them. If you happen to... |
Those familiar with writing ads for Google AdWords know they can't use terms like "best in the world" or "#1 top results" in their ads. While Twitter is unlikely to penalize you for using such terms that lack evidence to back up such claims, it sounds disingenuous and your followers won’t like it. If you win an award, ... |
Twitter implores its users to report spammers. While you don't get any brownie points from Twitter for doing this, you do make Twitter a better virtual place to be. It's also useful to use Twitter's "What is Spam" guidelines as a yardstick to measure your behavior. Posting multiple duplicate updates, spamming trending ... |
(CNN) - CNN will hold the first Republican presidential debate in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire at 8 p.m. ET on Monday. |
With the 2012 election a little less than a year and a half away, there are still prominent Republicans who have yet to make a decision on whether they'll make a run for the White House but other contenders have been running for months. |
Federal authorities on Friday arrested Cesar Sayoc of Florida in connection with a series of attempted bombings of high-ranking Democrats and media figures, which spawned a massive federal investigation over the past week. |
Sayoc was reportedly arrested in Plantation, Florida, at an auto parts store. His van, which was reportedly plastered with stickers supporting President Trump and taking aim at prominent Democrats and CNN. The vehicle was recovered as evidence and has been taken to an FBI evidence center for inspection. |
According to arrest records, Sayoc has an extensive criminal history, including charges of larceny, grand theft and fraud. In 2002 he was arrested by Miami police for making a bomb threat, for which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation. |
Sayoc is reportedly a registered Republican and was allegedly spotted at a number of Trump rallies. According to Buzzfeed News, he allegedly engaged with conspiracy theories about how Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were working to undermine the United States, often using the n-word to describe African-American pol... |
Over the past week, at least 12 crude explosive devices were sent to a variety of Democratic figures, including President Obama, the Clintons, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), and former Vice-President Joe Biden. |
Liberal philanthropist George Soros was the first to receive one of the packages on Monday, and a bomb, addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, was also sent to CNN’s New York City office on Wednesday, which spawned a mass evacuation. On Thursday, a device bound for Biden was discovered, as was an additional pac... |
According to the FBI the explosive devices, which were described as IEDs, contained PVC piping, battery, wiring and “energetic material,” which refers to potential explosive material. They stressed that it was not hoax material. |
FBI Director Christopher Wray added that the FBI crime lab had found a latent fingerprint “from one of the envelopes containing an IED” which had been sent to Congresswoman Waters. That, combined with DNA samples found on several of the envelopes, which matched “previously collected [samples]…from…an earlier arrest dow... |
At a press conference on Friday afternoon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that Sayoc has been charged with five federal crimes and is facing up to 58 years in prison. |
The attempted bombings triggered a wave of conspiracies which mirrored those for which Sayoc showed support on social media and in the stickers on his van. Mainstream conservatives like Candace Owens, Ann Coulter, and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs all voiced support for the rumor that the attacks were false-flag operatio... |
Trump himself waded into the fray Friday, complaining on Twitter that “this ‘Bomb’ stuff” had stifled Republican momentum in advance of the midterms. |
As CNN’s Oliver Darcy noted, he neglected to mention the name of the media organization or the political affiliations of those targeted, many of whom the president himself has criticized or mocked in the past. |
Sometimes it can take a major life event to make you follow your dream. |
For blues-soul singer Jo Harman it was the death of her father. |
Jo, who will be performing at the Spring Arts Centre in Havant tomorrow night with her band The Connection, says: ‘I’ve been singing professionally now for about four or five years. |
‘I went to university and did a degree, then lots of things changed in my life. I lost my father and it made me reassess what I wanted to do – I decided to do whatever made me happy. |
Her debut album Dirt On My Tongue was released in March 2013 to great acclaim at the start of what turned out to be a very busy year for Jo. |
She played at more than 40 festivals around Europe, including a slot at BluesFest at the Royal Albert Hall, alongside the likes of Robert Plant, Van Morrison and Bobby Womack – the latter set is about to be released as a live album. |
Jo explains: ‘We were asked to do BluesFest last year and Radio2 had a massive involvement in it and wanted to broadcast it. |
‘To be able put out an album recorded by the BBC, how often does that happen? |
‘It’s such a representation of the band – nothing’s been mixed or fixed. You hear mistakes and unique things, things change in every show, it captures the moment. |
‘Sometimes at a blues festival, it’s about a guy on stage having a good noodle, but we’re all about the songs. |
‘I write songs from the heart, and that’s what we try and put across. |
But Jo is now looking towards her second album proper and hoping to release it next year. |
‘I have been writing a bit, not as much as I would like, but there’s about seven or eight tunes of potential second album material. |
In the meantime, she’ll be bringing ‘her boys’, and a mix of everything from ‘intimate ballads to full on stompers’ to the Spring on tomorrow. |
Seventeen labourers, most of them from Jharkhand and Bihar, were killed Tuesday when their vehicle skidded off an icy road and rolled down a 200-ft-deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, police said. |
While the 17 -- who worked for the General Engineering Reserve Force (GREF), a wing of the Border Roads Organisation that maintains the highway passing through rugged Himalayan ranges -- died on the spot, two others were admitted to a nearby hospital, said Superintendent of Police Veena Bharti. |
The accident occurred near Spillo in Pooh subdivision, some 30 km from the district headquarters Rekong Peo and 300 km from here, Veena Bharti told IANS on phone. |
The labourers, who were involved in road construction, left Spillo for Pooh in the GREF tipper for work. “Since it was snowing heavily in Pooh, the labourers were sent back to their base camp in Spillo. When they were returning, their vehicle met with an accident at 12.45 p.m.,” she said.Prime facie, it seemed that the... |
The entire Kinnaur district, one of the most remote places in the state, has been experiencing snowfall for the past two days. |
See how NASA's Landsat satellite constellation has revolutionized our understanding of Earth over 40 yearsa in this SPACE.com infographic. The new Landsat 8 mission launches in 2013. |
Since 1972, the Landsat series of satellites have provided high resolution images of the Earth’s surface that are used by businesses, scientists, governments and the military. The Landsat image database provides the longest continuous record of the Earth's continents as seen from space. The latest in the series is the ... |
At launch, the Landsat 8 satellite weighs 6,133 pounds (2,782 kilograms). Sensors on the spacecraft capture light in various wavelengths including visible, near infrared, shortwave-infrared and thermal infrared. |
Landsat 8 carries 870 pounds (395 kg) of hydrazine fuel, enough to last 10 years. The spacecraft orbits at an altitude of 438 miles (705 kilometers). |
The Landsat program became operational on July 23, 1972 with the launch of the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (later renamed Landsat 1). ERTS was a modified weather satellite, and was the first satellite launched specifically to study the Earth’s landmasses. On Oct. 6, 1993, Landsat 6 was launched and soon tumble... |
The Landsat spacecraft is placed into a near-polar orbit, traveling north to south as it crosses the equator. At a speed of 4.7 miles per second (7.5 km/sec), each orbit takes nearly 99 minutes. Landsat completes just over 14 orbits per day. Landsat’s instruments cover the Earth's surface from 81 degrees north to 81 de... |
Churches need to recognize the awkward teenager inside each of us. |
If you've ever struggled to navigate office politics, faced a catty clique at church, or felt left out of a social circle and thought, "This feels like high school," you are not alone. |
Our churches still have much to learn about mental illness. |
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -Whatever slim hope the Edmonton Oilers had of making the playoffs was put in danger by Wayne Simmonds and the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. Then the St. Louis Blues made any chance disappear. |
The Kings forward had a goal and an assist as Los Angeles beat Edmonton 2-1. Coupled with the Blues' 5-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes later Tuesday, the Oilers were officially dropped out of playoff contention. |
Fernando Pisani had the lone goal for the Oilers, who started the game slowly with 19 first-period giveaways. |
"The last two games are going to be tough to play," said Oilers forward Sam Gagner. "It's a pretty bad feeling in here after coming into this season really excited to get it going, and then hovering around the middle of the pack for a while and faltering in the end. It's a tough thing to deal with." |
The Oilers can blame themselves for missing out, losing seven of their last nine games. |
"We faltered at the worst possible time of the year," captain Ethan Moreau admitted. "The last couple weeks we didn't get the results, regardless of how we played. We put ourselves in a position of having to win games. It's very disappointing." |
Alexander Frolov also scored for the Kings, who have won two of their last three. |
"We talked about finishing out the year strong," said Kings defenseman Matt Greene. "These last three games are huge for us. We're just trying to make sure we have some good compete out there and are playing hard. |
"It's just part of the game," added the former Oiler. "We're going for points here, we're not going to lay down for anybody. Just another game for us." |
Edmonton was in a hole right from the opening minute. The Kings scored just 55 seconds in when Dwayne Roloson let in a soft goal through his legs on an unscreened point shot from Frolov. |
Less than three minutes later the Kings went up 2-0 as Michal Handzus sneaked up behind defenseman Denis Grebeshkov and stripped him of the puck in front of the Oilers net. Handzus had his shot stopped, but Simmonds was there to put home the rebound. |
The Kings more than doubled Edmonton in the first-period shot column, 14-6. |
"We just didn't have any jump at all at the start," Oilers coach Craig MacTavish said. "It was just a terrible start, virtually from everybody." |
Edmonton started to get going in the second period, coming within inches of scoring on a point shot from Steve Staios that went off goalie Jonathan Quick's glove and just missed rolling into the net. |
The Oilers finally scored with 3:31 left in the second period as Grebeshkov's shot was tipped by Pisani and bounced off Kings defender Denis Gauthier and into the net. |
Edmonton reversed the shot totals with a 19-7 edge in the second period. |
The Oilers continued to pressure in the third session and came close to tying with seven minutes to play as Andrew Cogliano sent a shot through the crease during a mad scramble in front. |
Notes: Roloson, 39, was making his 36th consecutive start. ... Edmonton won both of its games in L.A. this year and the Kings returned the favor by winning both of their games in Edmonton. ... Kings defenseman Davis Drewiske got his first NHL assist on L.A.'s first goal. ... Los Angeles had scored one goal or less in s... |
The president of West End Community Council is facing impeachment as a fight over putting an FC Cincinnati stadium in the neighborhood grows. |
The president of West End Community Council is facing possible impeachment in the midst of the fight over putting an FC Cincinnati stadium in the neighborhood. |
On Monday, President Keith Blake signed a community benefits agreement (CBA) between FC Cincinnati and the Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority. But many members of the community council said they had no voice in the agreement. |
In a meeting Tuesday night that lasted about 2½ hours, members of the community council railed against Blake and the agreement. Blake has publicly voiced his support for a West End stadium despite the community council voting overwhelmingly against it. |
Hill tore her copy in half, calling out Keith Blake and Councilman Jeff Pastor – who was in attendance at the Carl H. Lindner YMCA on Linn Street – to discuss the agreement. |
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Before City Council passed a financing plan for a West End stadium Tuesday, it was Pastor who called a news conference to announce the agreement. He had previously said his vote for the stadium plan required a CBA in writing. Pastor voted Monday for a stadium development plan, which passed City Council by a 5-4 vote. |
"I want you to see my face," Pastor said. "So I can own up to what some may consider a mistake and some may consider a blessing." |
The agreement announced by Blake, Pastor and other would set up an affordable housing trust, entrepreneurship classes for neighborhood residents, hiring preferences for West End residents and more. He attempted to go through those benefits, but was mostly met with anger. |
When he explained Over-the-Rhine was not included in the agreement, he was met with an indignant shout from crowd: "It doesn't include us!" |
An ad hoc committee tasked with drafting a framework for an agreement on behalf of the community council only met once for two hours. Members of that committee accused Blake of breaking off contact after that. |
Blake explained that his signature only approved the agreement pending ratification by the full community council. Cincinnati City Council must also approve the agreement before any city money is distributed to FC Cincinnati. |
John Curp, a lawyer retained by the executive board of the community council, made the same argument and said signing the agreement kept the community council "at the head of the table" for negotiations. He was shouted down and jeered when he admitted Keating Muething & Klekamp, the law firm representing FC Cincinnati,... |
In the end, a resident suggested meetings be held Saturday and again on April 24 for further discussion about constructing a community benefits agreement. It was unclear if anyone supported using the agreement Pastor backed as a foundation. |
After the dates were set and few agenda items were voted on, Blake turned the meeting over Vice President Alicia Townsend, who read the petition for Blake's impeachment. |
Blake put on his jacket and left. |
The petition states Blake engaged in conduct unbecoming of an officer and failed to conduct meetings in an orderly fashion. It accuses him of speaking out on issues in the name of the community council without authorization. It also claims he failed to submit business he transacted to full community council for ratific... |
Townsend will now serve as interim-president of the community council while a five-person committee is appointed by the executive board to oversee a hearing on the impeachment within 30 days, under the council's bylaws. The committee will make a recommendation, and the full community council will vote on whether to rem... |
All positions of the community council executive board, including president, are volunteers. |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has refused to pay heed to the clamour to cut interest rate to lift growth. It has purely factored in the inflationary threat into policymaking. That can, of course, be open to question. The underlying message from RBI is that the cost of borrowing is not what is really holding up in... |
Painting a somewhat sombre picture of the economy, RBI has lowered the economic growth forecast for the fiscal year 2017-18 to 6.7 per cent from 7.3 per cent earlier. A possible decline in kharif production, coupled with near-term uncertainty in manufacturing with the adoption of GST could further “delay the revival of... |
Glitches were anticipated in the transition to GST. But it is a sound indirect tax reform that creates audit trails across the income and production chain and makes production efficient. The new tax system is meant to bring goods and services that escape taxation into the tax net. This could cause a one-time knock in i... |
The need is for more reform to converge GST rates and weed out exemptions that mess up the tax system. And the onus is on the GST Council. Instead of four GST rates, ranging from 5 per cent to 28 per cent, without tallying the cesses, it makes sense to aim for a single rate. |
A moderate GST rate of 14 per cent will soften the blow, improve compliance and boost collections. The GST Council must also quickly fix the transition glitches, especially for the small and medium industries. |
GST will be a revenue spinner in the long run, helping the government meet its spending commitments and, in turn, bring the fisc to better shape. |
That the RBI too believes teething problems linked to GST and bandwidth constraints may get resolved soon, allowing growth to accelerate in the second half, is welcome. |
But for investment to pick up, bad loans must be resolved. Banks have started putting the Bankruptcy Code to use to resolve corporate distress. It will take a while to gauge how well the code works. Hopefully, according to RBI, the resolution of stressed corporate exposures in bank balance sheets should start yielding ... |
Can GoI afford to wait till the ‘medium term’? Certainly not. The performance of PSBs must improve quickly. Banks need to be recapitalised. And that’s a commitment the government has already made. Will mergers of small, weaker banks with sound banks help at this stage? A bigger size could enable the bank to lend more f... |
Instead, the government should seriously consider lowering its stake in PSBs to below 50 per cent, and allow them to raise capital from the market. It makes sense for the NDA government to revive the proposal, mooted in an earlier regime, to reduce GoI’s stake in stateowned banks to 33%. The reform will ease constraint... |
For decades now, government ownership has been a hurdle to assessing any loan application in a professional way, given the influence wielded directly or indirectly in lending decisions. Such interference, over time, has hurt the quality of bank assets. Giving full operational autonomy to banks is a much overdue reform. |
Bankers simply cannot work with a Damocles’ sword hanging over their heads if banks have to function like commercial entities. Diluting GoI’s stake will resolve many of the problems that afflict PSBs. It will also spare taxpayers from footing bailout bills. |
A stake dilution alone is not enough. It has to be accompanied by an overhaul of the remuneration structure, especially for senior bankers, who are involved in decision-making. They should be offered a generous incentive package, with a huge variable pay component linked to profitability in the long term. What is neede... |
Improved banking and, crucially, policy will help build a growth momentum. That calls for political courage too. |
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