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The demand for Tayside foodbanks shows no sign of slowing as the traditional post-Christmas lull failed to materialise.
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The owner of a missing Dundee dog has been left "disheartened" after callous crooks stole a high-tech camera used to find the vanished pet.
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Broughty Ferry's Post Office will reopen "imminently" after a short term deal was confirmed.
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Dundee Labour's education spokesman has warned pupils fears of "clyping" on schoolmates could end in tragedy.
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A Dundee property director believes a proposed council-backed water sports project will lead to "ugliness and disaster" in its current form.
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Dundee City Council has apologised after a nursery pupil was found alone in the street.
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One of Dundee's most popular hotels has announced it is objecting to the creation of a new water sport centre at City Quay.
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Dundee City Council is investigating after a concerned parent reported seeing a nursery pupil standing alone in the middle of a busy Dundee road.
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Welspun Enterprises Limited is a holding company. The Company offers civil engineering services. The Company's segments include Infrastructure, Trading, and Oil & Gas. The Company is engaged in the business of infrastructure, trading, oil and gas exploration activities, and corporate support to various infrastructure special purpose vehicles (SPV). The Company has developed and operates public private partnership (PPP) projects in various sectors, such as roads, water and urban infrastructure. The Company holds equity investments in Welspun Natural Resources Private Limited (oil and gas exploration). The Company's projects include Augmentation of Water Supply Scheme of SAS Nagar-Mohali; Renovation of BHEL House; Construction of Delhi-Meerut-Phase-1; Dewas Water Supply; Raisen Rahat Garh Road Project, and Hosangabad Khandwa Road Project.
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BOYNE CITY - Police believe a 16-year-old Boyne City boy is responsible for a rollover accident in Charlevoix County's Evangeline Township early Monday and the theft of another vehicle from the same area a short time later.
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According to the Charlevoix County Sheriff's Department, emergency crews were called to Shadow Trails Road near Ellis Road at about 12:34 a.m. to a report of a rollover accident.
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At the scene authorities located a 1994 Chevrolet Blazer lying on the driver's side just off the roadway. No one was around the vehicle. The sheriff's department was assisted at the scene by Boyne City fire and ambulance crews and the Boyne City Police Department.
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At 5:45 a.m. the sheriff's department responded to a report of a stolen 1990 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck stolen from a Wildwood Harbor Road residence about one mile from the earlier accident scene.
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The owner of the truck said the theft may have occurred shortly after the earlier accident.
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Police later found the truck abandoned at a business on the corner of State and Park streets in Boyne City.
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Through their investigation, police believe the same Boyne City youth was responsible for both incidents.
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Police are withholding the name of the youth pending probate court action.
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Two big books out this week.
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What's the magic word to solve this one?
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From Eve L. Ewing, Joey Vazquez, Felipe Sobreiro, and Clayton Cowles.
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With comics from the 1970s to the modern day.
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Meet Trot and Cap'n Bill.
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With a new story to boot.
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WAR OF THE REALMS #1 brings a bloody beginning to Marvel's reality-wide conflict.
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ANIMOSITY, DARK RED, A WALK THROUGH HELL, and more.
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Six building lots conforming to the R 15 zoning criteria, lots include city water but are not serviced by city sewer. These are being marketed in conjunction with several other contiguous offerings including the church, rectory and three additional building lots on Main street. Subject to subdivision. The diocese of Camden reserves the right to accept or reject any offer at their discretion.
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(CNN) — John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor who is running for president, went into great detail Wednesday explaining the time he took his mother to see an X-rated movie at a theater in the 1970s.
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Hickenlooper said he had returned home from college during Thanksgiving of his freshman year. His father had died when he was 8, and it was the first time his mother had been alone in years, he said. The gravity of that hit him when he came home for the holiday.
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On his return, he said, his mother — who hated to cook — made a huge dinner. He was so touched that he invited her to accompany him and his friend to see a movie.
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In 2015, the world's largest technology companies reported revenues exceeding one trillion dollars when combined. That's a lot of money. In light of this, we've compiled a list of the top 10 largest technology companies in the world, based on their reported 2015 figures.
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There are some usual suspects in the top ten, including the likes of Apple, Samsung, IBM, and Sony, but there are also a few surprise names you might not have expected to see.
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Perhaps not too surprisingly, Apple leads the pack. The Cupertino company reported revenues over $233bn in 2015. Samsung follows behind, but not particularly closely, with revenues over $167.9bn within the same duration. It's worth mentioning here that Samsung also has almost double the staff and sells considerably more products and services.
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Being at the top is one tough game. In 2015, to find themselves in the top 10, a company would have to have had yearly sales of over $66bn. That's something companies including Huawei, Dell, Toshiba, and Intel all failed to do.
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The list is based on revenues rather than profit which if you ask Amazon, who regularly doesn't make a profit, that's a whole different ball game.
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Japanese electronics firm Panasonic has revenues of just over $66bn in 2015, beating companies including Huawei, Dell, Toshiba, and Intel.
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Founded in 1918 as Matsushita Electric, the company makes cameras, televisions, and batteries.
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Seeing huge potential in electric vehicles, Panasonic formed a partnership with Tesla Motors to help the car company build a huge battery producing plant to make batteries for the company's car range.
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Sony's fortunes aren't as good as they once were, but that hasn't stopped the company earning over $70bn in 2015 from sales of PS4 consoles, phones, cameras, and sensors, amongst other things.
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The success of Sony's latest PlayStation console and an aggressive restructuring plan by CEO Kazuo Hirai is helping the electronics giant regain lost ground from the last couple of years.
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Sony's businesses include a music label and Hollywood studio, while it also operates a profitable, but lesser-known, financial unit.
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Alphabet is the new parent company of Google, created to break out the different divisions of software giant, including its moonshot projects or YouTube, without damaging potential revenue forecasts of the core search business.
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The move, which happened in August 2015 didn't stop the company from still being able to rack up $70.36bn of revenue in 2015.
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Since 2001 Google has acquired 189 companies. That's almost an average of one a month.
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Big business supporter and mainframe maker IBM achieved almost $75bn in revenue in 2015.
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Short for International Business Machines Corporation, it is one of the largest technology and consulting companies in the world, with around 380,000 employees globally.
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Headquartered in Armonk, NY, US, IBM was founded in 1911 under the name of CTR, renaming to IBM in 1924.
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In 2001: Space Odyssey, the computer HAL is named so because HAL is one letter down from IBM. The company is also credited for inventing the ATM, the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe, and the Universal Product Code.
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Microsoft may have been founded by the world's richest man, but it's not the most successful company in terms of bringing in the cash.
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In 2015, it declared total revenues of $93.58bn from its software and hardware divisions including Windows, Office, Xbox and others.
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The number could have been a lot higher if sales of its Lumia handsets had been better. Microsoft has struggled to make the Windows Phone platform a viable alternative to Android and iOS, but hopes a transition to cloud based and subscription services will allow it to bring in more cash and profit in the coming years.
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After starting in a garage in 1939, the company brought in $103.3bn of revenue in 2015.
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Now made up of two companies: HP and HP Enterprise, the two combined sell laptops, printers, and servers, as well as offering Enterprise solutions to big businesses.
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More recently, the company has created a group to invest in start ups hoping it can make money from other people's great ideas. HP Tech Ventures will target fields such as 3D printing, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
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Amazon's 2015 turnover was $107bn making it one of the giants of the internet and electronics age.
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With an array of services from its online retail store, to the Kindle, to providing the cloud storage backbone to many of the world's biggest websites, owner Jeff Bezos has the company's fingers in many pies.
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That can be both lucrative and risky at the same time. In January 2016 the CEO founder lost $6bn when stocks plummeted in after sales trading, only to see it all come back again in April 2016 when it rose following good quarterly results.
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It's not a company you've probably heard of, and if you have, its only because it makes the iPhone, iPad and other products for Apple.
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Being one of the main component manufacturers for the world's most successful smartphone maker clearly has its benefits. In 2014 the company's revenues were $132.5 billion.
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Foxconn doesn't just make devices for Apple though. It also makes motherboards for Intel, owns a controlling stake in Japanese electronics giant Sharp, and has factories around the globe in Mexico, India, and Europe. The company employees a whopping 1.3 million people.
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The South Korean company brought in over $167.9bn in revenue in 2015, selling everything from phones to TVs to smart fridges.
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Employing over 300,000 people worldwide the company's turnover doesn't just come from consumer electronics, but a whole range of different sister companies that include ship building and construction.
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Samsung's construction division built the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world.
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People like Apple products and they like them a lot. How do we know? Because in 2015 the company's turnover was a whopping $233.7bn, making it the most profitable tech company on the planet.
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With over 115,000 employees, the maker of the iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch sold millions of devices during the course of the year.
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If that revenue number sounds impressive, how about this? Apple has about the same amount, $233bn (£160bn), in the bank in various accounts around the world. That's enough to buy Tesla, Twitter, Netflix, Uber and a few others and still have change left over for a rainy day.
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Question for tablet makers: What else can this thing do?
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Can Glu Mobile finally thrive in the brutal mobile gaming market?
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Is the flood of money into mobile gaming justified?
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Sanchez agreed to a one-year, $4.625 million contract with the White Sox on Friday, avoiding arbitration.
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Sanchez nearly doubled his salary from a season ago despite a slightly down year. He hit .242 with eight homers and 55 RBI in 2018 after finishing with a .267 average, 12 home runs and 59 RBI in 2017. The 26-year-old is set to begin the upcoming season as Chicago's starting third baseman.
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A trip down memory lane makes this mom wonder whether our kids will ever learn how to bounce back from goofing up.
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This fall, a folder marked “Julie: 4th Grade” emerged from deep within my parents’ basement and revealed some damning evidence of my academic history.
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Where were the scratch-n-sniff stickers? The stars? The pluses?
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This is what happens when you volunteer to help your mother sort through boxes. Every whitewashed memory is laid bare, leaving only the truth preserved in storage, painstakingly marked by name and year.
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“Oh, I must take this home,” I told my mother who in quick fashion retrieved the fourth-grade folder from my clutches.
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“I’m not done with it yet,” she said.
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Actually, I looked forward to showing my homework to our 9-year-old fourth-grader who has been receiving similar comments on his worksheets and tests for the past couple of years, minus the failing letter grades.
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We haven’t had this conversation yet for two reasons: my mother has not relinquished the folder, and I have not figured out an appropriate moral for my story.
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Moral 1: In fourth grade, I slopped through my classwork in an attempt to be the first person at the teacher’s desk with my worksheets completed. After a few too many “Fs” on my papers, I learned to slow down … mostly … and now I lead a productive life with only the occasional speeding ticket.
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Of course, failing is not something today’s parents accept for our kids. Instead, we work diligently to make sure they avoid the sting of failure and instead feel good about themselves. This obsession with the positive may prove counterproductive long term.
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In her book: “The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids In An Age of Self-Importance,” Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D, writes about the consequences of being over-preoccupied with a child’s self-esteem.
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Yikes. So let’s try for Moral 3: Because you are human, failure is always an option, but we’ll still love you, no matter what.
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Oh, and I’m recycling most of your fourth-grade worksheets. You’re welcome.
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In the fight against fake news, WhatsApp is rolling out a helpful new feature to fight fake news.
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The feature, called Frequently Forwarded, was first spotted by WABetaInfo in the beta version of the Android app.
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The new feature, which isn’t available quite yet, will show you when a message has been forwarded more than four times.
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In a blog about the new feature, WABetaInfo said: “WhatsApp added this feature to help the user to understand when a message is very 'popular' on WhatsApp.
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As well as the Frequently Forwarded feature, WhatsApp is also planning to launch new Forwarding Info, according to WABetaInfo.
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This feature will let you see how many times a message has been forwarded.
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It remains unclear when WhatsApp plans to roll these features out to users.
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The Only Campground Reservation/Registration Software that does NOT require an upfront, assigned, site. If you do not want to be forced to assign a site number in order to complete a reservation then Campground101 may be just what you need. It was created by a long time camper that saw a need for a campground to easily track incoming and on-site campers, without having to go through a lot of time consuming entries. It was created to help get a camper in and out of the office as quickly and efficiently as possible, while still maintaining full information and history on that camper.
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When questioned by authorities, Reich said she "lost composure."
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"I think the evidence will show that she picked the baby up and was shaking the baby trying to get it to stop crying," Sheriff Heath Taylor said during a press conference. "She put the baby very forcefully down in the swing or seat it was in. I believe part of the trauma came from that seat as well."
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It was not the first time Reich is accused of shaking the baby. She told investigators she put the baby down forcefully on a cushioned couch after shaking the child during a prior incident.
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"For us, we're just fortunate that the baby was able to be saved and that there wasn't any more damage to the child," Taylor said. "I can imagine how traumatic that would be — that you leave your child with someone who is supposed to be a daycare type person and all of the sudden your child is unresponsive and having to be flown to a child care facility."
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A Russell County District Attorney official said Friday that the child has since recovered, though she may need surgery in the future for a torn retina.
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Harold Eugene Good, 86, a five-year resident of Gardnerville, died Sept. 13, 2007, in Carson City. He was born March 22, 1921, in Alhambra, Calif., to Harvey and Margaret Good.
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Before moving to Gardnerville he lived in Lake Tahoe.
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He was a tire builder for Firestone for 30 years, retiring in 1976.
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Mr. Good served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.
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