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Local police chief Laurent Nunez said about 300 English fans had been involved and a similar number of Russians. |
There were no plans to close a beach-side fan zone, he said. |
Police made six arrests on Saturday, adding to the nine from Friday. |
Those charged could face trial as early as Monday. |
Pictures posted online showed Russian fans proudly displaying England flags captured during violent exchanges on Friday while groups of locals also weighed in, particularly with the throwing of bottles. |
The Queen Victoria and next-door Irish bar were forced to close their doors to England fans late last night, and several other bars in the port area have said they will not be showing the match on TV. |
With up to 90,000 fans expected to fill the city, authorities were endeavouring to keep some sort of control and the atmosphere around the stadium and on the route to the fan zones was convivial. |
SAN DIEGO & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientist.com, the world’s largest marketplace for outsourced scientific services, today announced a partnership with the BioIndustry Association (BIA), the UK’s national trade association for innovative bioscience enterprises. The partnership will allow BIA members to access the Sc... |
The BIA plays an integral role in the development and commercialisation of UK-based therapeutics and works to influence government to ensure the best possible biotech ecosystem for companies to grow and scale in the UK. BIA members will now receive the added benefit of an online marketplace to meet their sourcing needs... |
Learn more about Scientist.com at UK Bioscience Forum 2018, which is scheduled for Thursday 18 October at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London. |
This just in: The Christian terror baby program just crossed the 3 billion threshold today, some 800 years after the program's founding, the goal of which was to swarm Europe and the New World with "sleeper cells" that are now so pervasive that their descendants constitute the overwhelming majority of the population in... |
Meanwhile, the controversy over Christian churches too numerous to count having been erected on ground soaked in the blood of American Indians, millions of African slaves, and more than a few witches, continues to not be very controversial at all. |
In fact, millions of the pious continue to flock to these Ground Zero churches every Sunday, pretending nothing is wrong, seemingly oblivious to the obvious sensitivities of locating houses of worship on such hallowed ground. |
In other religion news, mainstream Christians still resent being lumped in with the Crusaders, Inquisiters, and other religio-fascists throughout history, insisting, "We'd never do those terrible things to people, we are peaceable, and believe there are many paths to heaven. Our country was conceived in liberty, with f... |
Meanwhile, all Muslims are terrorists. |
Is Bloomberg the Only Sane Politician Who Gets the Mosque ? |
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces and years of fighting have laid waste to much of the city of Aleppo, but he has won it back after nearly six years of war. |
The president now looks more secure than ever since the 2011 uprising against his family's four-decade rule. But thousands of people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, since the opposition carved out a foothold in Aleppo in 2012. Many of those who left say they will never return. |
Here are five things to know about the retaking of Aleppo. |
Aleppo, said to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, was once the commercial heart of Syria, its biggest city and one of its main tourism draws. It was famous for its Old City, citadel, winding bazaars, and historic mosques. Much of it now lies in ruin. |
The city was initially spared from the worst of the unrest that convulsed the country in 2011. But after months of anti-government demonstrations and retaliatory crackdowns, rebels swept into Aleppo's eastern districts the next year and thrust the city into the furnace of war. |
The government carried out near-daily air raids, dropping barrels filled with explosives from helicopters and destroying entire city blocks. The rebels shelled government-held areas and tunneled underground, both to evade airstrikes and to carry out sneak attacks. |
Eastern Aleppo was the largest urban area under the opposition's control, and as they were driven out of other cities and towns, it came to be seen as the last bastion of the uprising against Assad. |
The Syrian opposition lost eastern Aleppo because it was outnumbered and outgunned by the forces of Assad and his allies and abandoned by the international community. |
Militarily, the most important factor was Russia's powerful and relentless airstrikes. Also, fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah group and Shiite militias from Iraq and elsewhere joined Assad's military on the front lines. Battered and overstretched by fighting around the country, Syrian government troops had long seemed... |
But with its allies help, Assad's forces punched through an opposition corridor north of Aleppo in February, severing rebel supply lines to Turkey. By August, they completely surrounded the rebel-held east. Wave after wave of airstrikes in recent months destroyed virtually all the hospitals in the east, as well as scho... |
In late November, rebel defenses in the city collapsed. |
The United States, along with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others have provided aid to the Syrian rebels since 2011, but none were willing to intervene directly on their behalf in Aleppo. The United States was on the verge of intervening in 2013 after a chemical attack near Damascus blamed on Assad's forces, but at ... |
Russia used its veto to block any effective action at the United Nations and entered the war directly in September 2015. |
The rebels' main sponsor, Turkey, sent its forces into northern Syria in August in an operation dubbed Euphrates Shield, but that intervention was designed to push back Kurdish rebels and Islamic State militants from its border. It ended up diverting rebel resources away from Aleppo. |
The United States spent much of this year trying to secure a cease-fire in Aleppo that would allow for the delivery of aid. But truces were short-lived, and Washington and Moscow traded blame for their failure. |
Assad now controls Syria's five largest cities and its Mediterranean coast. His government appears more secure than at any point since the conflict began. |
But the victory has taken a horrifying toll. |
An estimated 21,000 civilians have been killed in Aleppo and surrounding areas since 2011, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled, and many will never return, fearing government reprisals. |
Much of the Old City has been destroyed, including the historic bazaar and the 11th century minaret of the Grand Mosque. Entire blocks resemble cities firebombed during World War II, with rows of bombed-out buildings and streets flooded with rubble. It could take years to rebuild eastern Aleppo and restore public servi... |
Syria's civil war is far from over. The opposition still controls the northwestern Idlib province and pockets of territory elsewhere in the country, and the Islamic State group rules a large swath of the northeast, including the ancient city of Palmyra, seized from government forces earlier this month while all eyes we... |
Syrian Kurdish forces have carved out a largely autonomous enclave in northeastern Syria, and Turkish troops, along with allied Syrian opposition forces, crossed the border earlier this year to battle IS as well as the Kurds. |
Assad, for his part, has vowed to "liberate" every corner of Syria. |
James Ivory holds his Oscar for best adapted screenplay earlier this month at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. |
Fresh off his Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name,” renowned director James Ivory visited Newport’s Jane Pickens Theater on Sunday for a screening of one of his best-known films, “The Remains of the Day” (1993). After the screening, Ivory engaged in an onstage talk with Chuck Hinman of R... |
He said the biggest surprise he’s experienced over the past year is “the extraordinary passion” that teenage girls have shown for “Call Me by Your Name,” an Italy-set romance between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and older Oliver (Armie Hammer). “It’s not simply Timothée Chalamet, although that has a lot to do w... |
A Thorpe St Andrew teenager who spent more than 30 hours battling enemy snipers on the front line has earned himself a place in the Guinness World Record books . . . by playing a computer game marathon. |
Craig Johnson, 19, was one of four console-playing soldiers who spent a total of 33 hours playing Call of Duty4: Modern Warfare at Newbury Racecourse earlier this month. |
The marathon shoot-up meant Mr Johnson, who is originally from Thorpe St Andrew but now studies at York University, together with the rest of his platoon, smashed the previous world best of 32 hours and 20 minutes, set by a team of American gamers last year. |
Mr Johnson, who is studying maths and economics at university, said: “It feels great to be a record breaker. The team worked so hard and we were all shattered by the end. |
Mr Johnson and fellow students Sam Smith, Steve Weavis and Thomas Stilliard, started their record-breaking attempt at 9am on Friday, November 12 and finally finished playing at 6pm on Saturday, November 13, some 40 minutes after the previous best. |
They were only allowed one 10-minute break every hour as they chased down the target time, meaning it was a mental as well as physical test of endurance. |
The world record attempt was set up by burger giants Rustlers, who actively promote gaming, and took place at the Insomnia41gaming extravaganza. |
Mr Johnson and his fellow students were presented with their certificate, confirming the world record, by Gaz Deaves, Guinness World Records gaming editor. Mr Johnson’s world record-breaking efforts have helped continue Thorpe St Andrew’s association with the Guinness Book of World Records. |
In 2009, Shaun Jones was at the Oasis Sports and Leisure Centre at Pound Lane, Thorpe St Andrew, where he attempted to smash two world records. |
Mr Jones, from Wroxham, attempted the fastest hot water bottle burst as well as trying to lift more than 40,000kg, the weight of a ship or bridge, in one hour of squat lifts. |
Government reports released Wednesday reinforced concerns that the economy was facing severe headwinds. |
Hesitant about the shaky economy, American businesses are cutting back on investments and equipment. And the housing industry, in its worst crisis since the early 1990s, is poised for several months of anemic sales. |
“Businesses are reluctant to invest because they still have no clue about how the economy is going to shake out over the next six to 12 months,” said Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group, a forecasting firm in Princeton, N.J. |
Home builders are equally flummoxed. As buyers vanish, residential construction companies are slashing prices on unsold homes. In January, the median price of a new home fell to $216,000, down 15 percent from the previous January, according to the Commerce Department. |
But the discounts failed to fan interest. Last month, sales of new homes slowed to an annual rate of 588,000, the lowest in almost 13 years. It was the third consecutive monthly decline, and 2.8 percent below the sales rate in December. |
In an ominous sign for builders, inventories of unsold new homes continued to rise. At the current rate, it would take nearly 10 months to sell the backlog. |
“Prices will need to fall further to help clear the market,” said Joshua Shapiro, the chief United States economist at MFR, a research firm. Would-be buyers are waiting for better deals, say economists, who predict that sales will remain light through at least the summer. |
Sales have gone south amid a wave of foreclosures and more stringent lending standards for mortgages. The number of new homes on the market in January dropped as well. |
Toll Brothers, a leading luxury builder, said on Wednesday that first-quarter sales fell 23 percent, leading to a $96 million loss. The company was forced to write down $245 million in unsold properties, double the amount from a year ago. |
In January, sales of new homes fell 10.3 percent in the Northeast; 7.6 percent in the Midwest; and 2.4 percent in the South. Sales rose 2.2 percent in the West. |
The weak housing data coincided with new evidence of other economic troubles. A separate Commerce Department report showed that businesses spent less on durable goods in January, a sign that companies were hesitant to make large purchases. |
Over all, new orders of durable goods — those that last for several years — fell 5.3 percent last month, dragged down by a sharp drop in transportation goods like aircraft. It was the first monthly decline since October. |
TOKYO (Bloomberg News) — January factory production in Japan fell twice as much as economists had predicted as manufacturers anticipated a deepening slump in the United States would weaken demand. |
Companies cut output 2 percent from December, when it rose 1.4 percent, the trade ministry said Thursday. |
A separate report showed retail sales increased 1.5 percent in January from a year earlier, though most of the gain was driven by higher gasoline prices. |
"My roommate Chascarillo Meow and I have been struggling with a lot of anger over our neighborhood (the Bywater) and decided to work it out with some art. We've slowly come to realize that the entire neighborhood is being overrun by Airbnb, to the point where it's near impossible to find long term leases (140 Airbnb li... |
Airbnb is an online service that connects freelance renters with adventurous travelers. The spread of unlicensed pop-up inns has been a boon for some, but has rankled others. Read Katherine Sayer's July 2014 story "New Orleans city council toughens ban on unlicensed short-term vacation rentals." |
"It's bachelorette weekends and birthday getaways every day of the week," Thomas wrote. "I used to live on a quiet block and now it's packs of bros heading to Booty's for craft cocktails. I walk outside and people are taking selfies in front of my house." |
Thomas may have exacerbated the selfie problem since her satiric sign was in the style of an old-fashioned Carnival photo prop in which fun-loving folk were able to place their faces on the cartoon bodies of "authentic" Bywater residents. The caricatures are meant to depict the popular yet often disdained "hipster" sty... |
Thomas, an art school graduate who grew up in Baton Rouge and moved to Bywater in 2008, said that the number of available Airbnb rentals has the same effect as if a 140-room hotel had invaded her once-hospitable neighborhood. Worse yet, she said, the rental of rooms to vacationers is so lucrative that it is inflating t... |
"The Bywater has been such a source of great artists and musicians for such a long time, I hate to see the neighborhood be priced out," she said in a telephone conversation. |
Thomas, 29, works as a Carnival float designer - explaining how the sign was executed in a style so reminiscent of a Mardi Gras float. She said she has removed the sign in order to avoid calling undue scorn upon her neighbors, some of whom solicit temporary renters online. |
Thomas said she's aware of the ironies involved in singling out the neighborhood online room renters for particular blame in the changing economy and demographics of the Bywater. |
"Everyone is complicit in the gentrification," she said. |
For more, read Alex Woodward's story "'Who needs neighbors when we've got brunch?' New Orleans artists respond to Airbnb" on The Gambit website. |
And/or read Kimberly Curth's more general story "Bywater neighbors fed up with airbnb rentals," which includes reference to Thomas's artwork on the Fox8 website. |
Proof that a little bit of code can go a long way, µTorrent packs an outstanding array of features in 107KB, and doesn't even create a folder in your Program Files. Azureus, to be fair, takes up only 151KB; BitTorrent is 184KB; and BitPump is 113KBnone of these clients is particularly bloated. |
µTorrent is second only to Azureus in features. Right-clicking on a torrent file in the main window brings up controls for maximum upload and download speeds for the individual file, along with seeding times and upload-to-download ratios. |
Highlighting a torrent lets you choose from a selection of tabs for current speeds, information about individual files in the torrent, peer stats, time elapsed, estimated remaining time, and a visual tool to track the availability of the file you're working on. |
The main Settings folder offers global bandwidth control and the ability to randomize the port used by µTorrent on every start. (If you have a UPnP-compatible router, you can use the UPnP port mapping option to forward ports automatically.) The built-in scheduler can control bandwidth across different times of day. |
µTorrent has the reputation of being able to run on nearly any version of Windows (users claim everything from 486 PCs running Windows 95 and the Winsock2 update up through Windows Vista beta). In the course of our testing for this story, it replaced Azureus as our BitTorrent tool of choice. Azureus-style plug-ins woul... |
The US dollar fell against most of the major currencies over the past week. |
Euro was capped near $1.1285. |
In the middle of last week, the dollar tested trendline support that connects the flash crash low (January 3) a little below JPY105 and the March lows (~JPY109.75). |
For two and a half weeks, sterling has bounced between $1.30 and $1.32, but from a slightly larger vantage point, it is carving out a triangle. |
The Australian dollar advanced nearly 1% last week to extend its streak to three weeks. |
The US dollar fell against most of the major currencies over the past week. The yen and the Swiss franc were the exceptions. The technical correction we anticipated last week may have some more room to run. However, we do view it as a counter-trend move and expect the data to show the US economy picked up some momentum... |
Dollar Index: The Dollar Index tried one more time to push through the 97.50 area at the start of last week and gave up and retreated to about 96.75, where the 50-day moving average is found, ahead of the weekend. It traded below its 20-day moving average (~96.90) for the first time this month, but managed to close jus... |
Euro: The single currency was capped near $1.1285. It looked as if the market was about to give up and then talk of a large direct investment related euro-yen trade propelled it higher as stops were triggered. It was the first time in nearly three weeks that the euro traded back into its old range (~$1.1300-1.1500). Th... |
Yen: In the middle of last week, the dollar tested trendline support that connects the flash crash low (January 3) a little below JPY105 and the March lows (~JPY109.75). It was near JPY110.85 in the middle of last week, and the dollar sprung higher. It pushed through JPY112.00 for the first time ahead of the weekend an... |
Sterling: For two and a half weeks, sterling has bounced between $1.30 and $1.32, but from a slightly larger vantage point, it is carving out a triangle. This is most commonly seen as a continuation pattern. In this case, that is bullish. The top of the triangle is drawn from the March 13 high near $1.3380 and late Mar... |
Canadian Dollar: In January and February, the US dollar traded between CAD1.3100 and CAD1.3300, with a few exceptions. It moved into a higher range in March. It now seems to be in a CAD1.3300 and CAD1.3440. The market seems comfortable in that range, and the three-month implied volatility is at five-year lows (~5.2%). ... |
Australian Dollar: The Australian dollar advanced nearly 1% last week to extend its streak to three weeks. Ahead of the weekend it almost reached $0.7200 for the first time since late February. A trendline from last November and late January highs comes in near there, as does the 200-day moving average. The Aussie has ... |
Mexican Peso: The Mexican peso was the second strongest currency in the world last week, only bested by the Argentine peso (~1.7% vs. 4.1%). The dollar had its lowest close so far this year ahead of the weekend (~MXN18.75). It appears the high-interest rates are drawing capital, offsetting the talk that many domestics ... |
Oil: Every day WTI for June delivery bumped up against resistance near $65 a barrel. It is primarily a supply story. OPEC+ cuts are deeper than the commitments. Venezuela and Libyan supply have been compromised, and the US has yet to decide on the waivers from the embargo against Iran. The price of WTI has risen for th... |
US Rates: For only the second time this year, the US 10-year yield rose in back-to-back weeks. It was virtually flat coming into the end of the week, and despite the softer University of Michigan inflation expectations, the yield jumped six basis points. Rising oil and stock prices, and the data that made gave credence... |
S&P 500: The S&P 500 closed at new six-month highs before the weekend after gapping higher at the open. Favorable earnings from JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), a large acquisition in the oil sector (Chevron (NYSE:CVX)-Anadarko (NYSE:APC)), and strong export and lending growth in China, lifted sentiment. The gap is found between t... |
Almost six months ago, Steve Bennett, CEO, Intuit, sang the praises of Google “integration” into QuickBooks 2007, as of Q3 2006:Intuit is committed to partnering with best-in-class companies to help solve important customer problems. By partnering with a leading company like Google, we bring together Intuit's strength ... |
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