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Alex Wilson (3-1) earned the victory with a 1-2-3 eighth inning that included a strikeout. Ryan Kelly picked up his second save of the series by working a perfect ninth inning with one strikeout. Kelly continued his incredible streak of retiring all 15 batters he has faced in the Carolina League, and Wilson extended the Hillcats’ longest active scoreless streak to 12 innings pitched.
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Earlier in the game, the Hillcats trailed on two different occasions. After Frederick (21-30) plated an unearned run in the first on an RBI double by Zane Chavez, Lynchburg remained down until the bottom of the fourth. David Nick bunted for a single and advanced on a throwing error by Brady Wager. After moving to third on a passed ball, Nick scored on a Will Skinner single to knot the score, 1-1. With the base hit, Skinner moved ahead of Kevin Ahrens for the team lead with 26 RBIs.
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Two innings later, Nick reached on a fielder’s choice and scored on an RBI double by Hyams to briefly give Lynchburg a 2-1 lead. However, Frederick reclaimed the upperhand with a two-run double by Glynn Davis in the seventh to take a 3-2 advantage.
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Trailing 3-2, Sanchez hit a one-out single in the seventh before Castro doubled to left field. Joe Odom singled to center field to drive home Sanchez and tie the game at 3-all.
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Miguel Chalas suffered his third blown save and fell to 0-3 on the year after entering in the seventh and surrendering four earned runs on five hits with three strikeouts in two innings. Wager did not factor into the decision despite holding Lynchburg to one earned run in six innings.
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Lynchburg hits the road for a four-game series at Winston-Salem beginning Friday at 7pm. Greg Ross (4-1, 2.33) will match up against Jeff Wendelken (4-5, 3.94) of the Dash. Erik Wilson will have the live play-by-play on 97.9 The Planet.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Cameras captured a man prowling in a Whitehaven neighborhood, making his way inside at least one vehicle, trying to get into others.
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The burglary is prompting neighbors to make some big changes.
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Memphis Police posted pictures of the suspect. In them you can see an interior car light illuminating a man taking items from a car on Acacia Street.
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Cameras recorded him committing the crime on Feb. 23, but police said he wasn't done there.
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After looking through security footage, the vehicle's owner saw the same man, going to other homes, pulling on door handles of other parked cars.
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Edward Hart's vehicle one of them. Nothing was stolen from his car but since his neighbor showed him the eerie video, he showed WREG the changes he made just yesterday.
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"I had an alarm installed and I installed the doorbell camera," he said.
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Hart said he felt violated seeing the man go through his car, "Because I work too hard," he explained.
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He's been targeted twice. Back in December, he said he had two generators and a power washer stolen.
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This most recent scare is leaving him on guard and his home well protected — like Fort Knox, he said.
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"Yes, I got four cameras. I'm gonna have two on this end and two on the backside. I even got two dogs now."
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His neighbor is taking precautions too.
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"I make sure that's the last thing I do before I come in. I make sure they're locked. All of them is locked," a man across the street said.
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Hart says it's a little sad they have to go to such lengths trying to secure but it brings peace of mind.
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"I feel better now. I feel well protected."
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If you know anything about the man who broke into the vehicle call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH.
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences.
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The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Holder unveiled in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco. He also introduced a policy to reduce sentences for elderly, nonviolent inmates and find alternatives to prison for nonviolent criminals.
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Justice Department lawyers have worked for months on the proposals, which Holder wants to make the cornerstone of the rest of his tenure.
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It is clear that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for no truly good law enforcement reason,” Holder said. “We cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation,” he added later in the speech.
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Holder is calling for a change in Justice Department policies to reserve the most severe penalties for drug offenses for serious, high-level or violent drug traffickers. He has directed his 94 U.S. attorneys across the country to develop specific, locally tailored guidelines for determining when federal charges should be filed and when they should not.
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He also said the Justice Department would work with the Department of Education and other allies “to confront the ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ and those zero-tolerance school discipline policies that do not promote safety,” but instead serve as gateways to the criminal justice system.
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“A minor school disciplinary offense should put a student in the principal’s office and not a police precinct,” Holder said.
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Some of Holder’s other initiatives will require legislative change. Holder is urging passage of legislation with bipartisan support that is aimed at giving federal judges more discretion in applying mandatory minimum sentences to certain drug offenses.
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“Although incarceration has a role to play in our justice system, widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable,” Holder said.
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The cost of incarceration in the United States was $80 billion in 2010, according to the Justice Department. While the U.S. population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown by about 800 percent. Justice Department officials said federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent over capacity.
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Federal officials attribute part of that increase to mandatory minimum sentences for drugs, including marijuana, under legislation passed in the 1980s. Under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, for example, a minimum sentence of five years without parole was mandated for possession of five grams of crack cocaine, while the same sentence was mandated for possession of 500 grams of powder cocaine, law enforcement officials said, pointing to discrepancies that they say have led to higher levels of incarceration in poorer communities.
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“Sentencing by mandatory minimums is the antithesis of rational sentencing policy,” American Bar Association lawyer James E. Felman said in testimony three years ago before the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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Although the United States is home to 5 percent of the world’s population, almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners are incarcerated in American prisons, according to the Justice Department. More than 219,000 federal inmates are behind bars, and almost half of them are serving time for drug-related crimes.
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An additional 9 million to 10 million people cycle through local jails in the United States each year. About 40 percent of former federal prisoners and more than 60 percent of former state prisoners are rearrested or have their supervision revoked within three years after their release, often for technical or minor violations of the terms of their release.
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Holder said he has also revised the department’s prison policy to allow for more compassionate releases of elderly inmates who did not commit violent crimes, have served significant portions of their sentences and pose no threat to the public.
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Over the next weeks, Holder and his deputies plan to visit cities to promote their prison agenda and point to examples of the type of change the attorney general is advocating.
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New legislation in Kentucky, for example, has reserved prison beds for only the most serious criminals, focusing resources instead on community supervision and other alternatives. The state is projected to reduce its prison population by more than 3,000 over the next 10 years, saving more than $400 million, according to Justice Department officials.
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Investments in drug treatment for nonviolent offenders and changes to parole policies helped Arkansas reduce its prison population by more than 1,400 inmates, U.S. officials said, and led to a reduction in the prison population of more than 5,000 inmates last year in Texas.
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Holder did not announce any changes in the Justice Department’s policy on marijuana, which is illegal under federal law. Two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized marijuana in November. Supporters of the measures argued that hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on a failed war against marijuana that has filled American prisons will low-level offenders.
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Supporters also contended that decriminalization would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue that could be used for education, health care and other government services.
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But the legalization measures directly violate the federal Controlled Substances Act, which prohibits the production, possession and sale of marijuana and classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, putting it in the same category as LSD and heroin. The Justice Department has not said how it will respond to the measures in Colorado and Washington, leaving state and local officials confused about exactly how to proceed. A Justice Department spokesman said the matter is still under review.
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Joe Schlesinger, who narrowly escaped the Nazis as a young boy growing up in the former Czechoslovakia and ended up becoming one of Canada's most beloved and respected journalists, has died at the age of 90.
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Joe Schlesinger covered some of the key events of the 20th century as a foreign correspondent for CBC News: the Iranian Revolution, the Contra war in Nicaragua, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Persian Gulf war, among many others.
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Joe Schlesinger, who narrowly escaped the Nazis as a young boy growing up in the former Czechoslovakia and ended up becoming one of Canada's most beloved and respected journalists, has died after a lengthy illness.
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As a foreign correspondent for the CBC, Schlesinger covered some of the most significant news events of the latter part of the 20th century and early 2000s.
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He bore witness to historical events from Vietnam to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, and he did so in his inimitable way, with his accented English, his gimlet eye for detail and the elan of a born storyteller.
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"You could see the way he talked to the camera, embraced the camera," former CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge said today from his home in Stratford, Ont.
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"In translating the story to all of us, whatever that story was, wherever he happened to be. Whether he was in Zimbabwe, being gassed by Zimbabwean soldiers, whether he was in Vietnam, whether he was in the streets of Paris during riots. He knew how to tell a story in a way that could really embrace the viewer. That's an art form."
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Mansbridge later tweeted, "You've earned your rest Joe."
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Joe Schlesinger. Look at a map and it seems you could point to anywhere and remember a story Joe did from there. Storytelling that few will ever match and in ways that made us all better informed about the planet we live on. You’ve earned your rest Joe.
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Schlesinger was in St. Peter's Square in Rome in 1978 when John Paul II became Pope and in Tehran a year later when the Shah fell.
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Joe Schlesinger, right, in Amman, Jordan, in 1991.
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Schlesinger reflected on his long tenure as a globe-trotting journalist in a 2009 interview with the Canadian Press, saying, "I have a career of wandering around the world, watching the universe unfold and actually getting paid for it. It's like a little boy's dream."
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Born in Vienna in 1928, Schlesinger and his family later moved to the former Czechoslovakia, where he spent his early childhood.
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He would later reflect that the experiences of his childhood were what led him into journalism, reporting on "the triumphs on the world," such as those momentous days in Berlin in the early 1990s, but more often on "the travails of war" and other disasters.
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While living in Bratislava in the late 1930s, his family witnessed the rise of Hitler, and, as Jews, his parents were particularly fearful of what might happen to them.
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They decided to send Schlesinger, then 11, and his nine-year-old brother, Ernie, to Britain under a study program for Jewish children.
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Schlesinger and his brother were among the more than 200 kids who travelled under guard by train through Nazi Germany in June 1939 on the so-called Kindertransport.
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The trip was one of a series of secretive operations that spirited thousands of Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Schlesinger's parents were later killed in the Holocaust.
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It was only revealed decades later that this daring escape had been organized by the eccentric British businessman Nicholas Winton.
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"If it hadn't been for Nicky Winton, I certainly wouldn't be alive today," Schlesinger told Sook-Yin Lee on CBC's Definitely Not the Opera in 2011.
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"This is the man who gave me the rest of my life."
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Schlesinger eventually became close to Winton and wrote about him and the Kindertransport on several occasions.
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Schlesinger and his brother returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, and one of Schlesinger's earliest journalism jobs was with The Associated Press in Prague in 1948.
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But as the post-war Communist government began to arrest journalists, Schlesinger was forced to leave his homeland a second time. In 1950, he ended up as a refugee in Vancouver.
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Schlesinger worked as a waiter, construction worker and seaman before enrolling at the University of British Columbia, where he spent much of his time at the campus newspaper.
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This led to a job at a Vancouver paper and then a position at the Toronto Star.
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Schlesinger would move overseas to join UPI in London and, later, the Herald Tribune in Paris before returning to Canada, where he started at the CBC in 1966.
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Schlesinger quickly worked his way up into CBC news management but then made the unusual decision of returning to the field.
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"I only realized as I started climbing up the ladder that this is not what I wanted to do," he said in a 1994 CBC documentary. "That's when I went out again as a reporter, and I've been happier ever since, thank you."
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One of Schlesinger's first assignments back in the field was reporting from inside Mao's Cultural Revolution in China in the early 1970s.
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In fact, he was one of the few to get a firsthand look at China's "Ping-Pong diplomacy," when a couple of Ping-Pong players from the U.S. and China helped change the course of history.
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He would go on to cover such world events as the Iranian Revolution, the Contra war in Nicaragua and the first Persian Gulf war. Decades later, he remembered riding an elephant in Cambodia with an army patrol, chasing Khmer Rouge guerillas through the rice paddies.
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"I fell off the elephant," he said. "But nevermind."
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Former CBC News foreign correspondent Brian Stewart remembers his friend and colleague as "a global mind and a global reporter."
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"He always took the sophistication into the field," Stewart said in an interview with CBC News Now. "He had a great context for stories, a great sense of history. He discussed the historical depth of stories so well ... and he always seemed to know more than we did because he did, let's face it."
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The renowned journalist was inducted into the CBC News Hall of Fame in 2016. On that occasion, he shared with the CBC's Adrienne Arsenault the memory of what he loved most about being on the road.
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"Of having a carte blanche in life. Of being able to follow one's instincts. Of being able to find something new and exciting, something that would interest me and presumably interest an audience."
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"And I remember thinking at the time, 'That's not very likely to happen very soon.' And, of course, it did!"
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He also returned to his homeland decades after he left, to report on the Velvet Revolution from Prague. He told the Toronto Star in 2009 it was a highlight of his career.
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"If I could choose one moment, it would be going back to Prague 50 years after I'd left as a refugee from Hitler, 40 years after I left as a refugee from Stalin, and watching the whole system crumble."
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Schlesinger officially retired in 1994 but continued to contribute to CBC as a correspondent and an occasional columnist for CBCNews.ca until 2015.
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His last CBC column was published in September 2016 in the midst of the U.S. presidential election and the controversy over Hillary Clinton's health problems.
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A little less than a year prior to that, in December 2015, he explored a subject near to his heart: the plight of refugees, specifically those fleeing the Syrian conflict and seeking sanctuary in Canada.
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In the piece, Schlesinger acknowledged that amid fears of high unemployment and the risks of terrorism, many Canadians had reservations about welcoming this crop of refugees.
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But as someone who had been a refugee himself, and met many more during his decades-long career as a journalist, Schlesinger advised Canadians to be compassionate.
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"This country was built and changed for the better by refugees," he wrote.
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The National's Adrienne Arsenault looks back at Joe Schlesinger's life and career.
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An earlier version of this story credited a 2009 quote from Joe Schlesinger to the Toronto Star. It was, in fact, from an interview with The Canadian Press.
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The euro fell to a three week low against the dollar after a disappointing Spanish bond auction shifted concerns back to the euro zone debt crisis. Bond yields rose while demand for Spanish debt weakened. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank kept its benchmark interest rate on hold at 1 percent as ECB President Mario Draghi said in a press conference he still sees downside risks and it was too early to consider winding down ECB’s accommodative policy. EURUSD fell to a low of 1.3106 during U.S. session, falling since a European session high of 1.3211.
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The pound gained against the euro and clawed back losses against the dollar ahead of the Bank of England meeting on Thursday. Sterling is being buoyed by a series of strong PMI data this week, on manufacturing, construction and today, better than expected service sector PMI data were released. EURGBP fell to a two-month low of 0.8260 versus the European session high of 0.8312. GBPUSD bounced from 1.5832 to 1.5893, back to European session open levels.
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USDCHF rose for a fourth straight session to hit a two-and-a-half week high of 0.9181, from the post-Fed minutes of 0.9021 late Tuesday.
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Yen was stronger against the dollar today, reflecting safe haven flows as risk aversion picked up on Spanish debt concerns. USDJPY was off the Tuesday high of 82.98, hit after the Federal Reserve minutes, reaching a high of 82.67 in New York trading today.
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The Canadian dollar weakened further against the greenback ahead of a jobs report tomorrow that is forecast to show Canadian job growth is slowing. USDCAD rose to 0.9972 in North American trading hours from 0.9912 in European trading.
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Gold fell due to a stronger U.S. dollar following Fed minutes which indicate QE3 is unlikely. Gold and the dollar usually have an inverse price relationship because the precious metal is priced in USD. Spot gold fell to$1,611.65 in New York trading losing over $30 on the day.
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The frenzy to acquire fast-growing technology start-ups reached new heights on Wednesday as Facebook announced its largest acquisition ever, saying it would pay at least $16 billion for WhatsApp, a text messaging application with 450 million users around the world who pay little or no money for it.
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