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Becker's violation record dates to 2002 with charges including cruelty to animals, taking or destroying species of special concern, illegal method of catching mangrove snapper, possessing undersized sheepshead, no commercial vessel license and a number of motor vehicle violations.
ERIK LAMELA is reportedly set for a contract extension at Tottenham.
The Argentine's current deal - which he penned when joining from Roma in August 2013 - expires next year.
But ESPN claim Spurs are preparing to invoke the 12 month extension option that was part of that agreement to tie down his future.
Lamela, 25, and defender Toby Alderweireld are the only senior members of Mauricio Pochettino's squad not to commit their futures to the club.
But if they exercise the one-year option, that would lessen the doubt of losing the South American this summer amid interest from Italy.
Lamela signed a four-year, £65,000-a-week contract at White Hart Lane with an optional two additional years after completing a then club-record £30m move from the Serie A side.
That became a four-plus-two-plus-one - but Spurs are claimed to be in no rush to activate it just yet.
Throughout his time in North London he has been plagued by injuries, totally a year and a half on the sidelines.
But since his latest lay-off he appears to be gradually impressing Pochettino again and was a surprise starter for the 2-2 Champions League draw with Juventus on Tuesday.
And he repaid his manager's faith in him by producing an impressive display.
Lamela still faces serious competition for his place following the arrival of Lucas Moura from Paris Saint-Germain and from Son Heung-Min.
That could mean that Spurs could be tempted to cash in if any substantial offers are made over the summer window.
But the star insists he wants to go nowhere, saying last month: "I'm happy at Tottenham.
"If not, I would have left. I feel a part of the club. I'm at home here.
"I am not thinking about how long is left on my contract."
The AWS Partner Network is growing by leaps and bounds. Here are 15 solution providers that were just named AWS Consulting Partners and those that have achieved a brand-new AWS technical competency.
The Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN) continues to grow as more solution providers join the cloud giant's robust partner community. At the same time, existing AWS partners are taking their partnership with the cloud giant to the next level by working toward AWS technical competencies in solution areas such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, migration, security and DevOps, and industries including financial services, life sciences and education.
Here are 15 solution providers that have earned new AWS competencies and those that are newly minted Premier and Consulting Partners.
The highest concentration of single men with jobs is in the city of Clarksville, straddling both sides of the Tennessee-Kentucky border. They outnumber the women 145 to 100.
Interestingly, there isn’t a single city in the nation where employed, single women outnumber the men. They live in the highest concentration in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, at a roughly 1 to 1 ratio with the male population.
But the most intriguing differences emerge depending on the definition of “eligible.” If the goal is to find the highest proportion of bachelors, then large swathes of Arizona, Indiana and Louisiana offer favorable odds, but refine the goal to employed bachelors and suddenly those states appear to be wastelands. It reveals how drastically the marriage market can change depending on what you’re looking for, and how unlikely it is that a map of just one or two preferences will lead to that life-long mate.
Then again, it doesn’t hurt to look.
Learn how to gauge customer reception of your product before spending loads of time and money developing it, at this event sponsored by Babson College and Bain Capital Ventures. A panelist from Bain as well as speakers from a few local startups will share their insights on getting early customer feedback.
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As it stands, the Lakers are more concerned about free agency than they are giving up their young players in a huge trade.
Will Warriors finish the Clippers in Game 5 at Oracle, laying 14-points?
Golden State will attempt to eliminate Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.
Thompson returned home to the SoCal area to drown the Clippers with deep shooting in Game 4.
Mychal Thompson responded to pressure from Lakers fans about Klay Thompson. It’s not great to put a father in this position over NBA free agency.
For the first time in these playoffs, the Warriors game wasn’t dramatic. It was just a normal basketball game, with the better team winning.
Donovan Mitchell needs offensive help in the worst way for Utah to take the next step.
Many of the supporting Pacers who battled to the No. 5 seed in Oladipo’s absence are hitting free agency. What’s the right move to maximize a healthy Oladipo?
Klay Thompson scored 31 points while Kevin Durant had his second consecutive stellar game in Los Angeles to give the Warriors a 3-1 lead in the opening round of the 2019 NBA playoffs.
The Golden State Warriors got a wake up call from the Los Angeles Clippers. Will they make the adjustments or did LA provide the blueprint for a potential early playoff exit for Golden State?
In danger of another game slipping from their grasp, the Warriors put the clamps on the Clippers down the stretch, flashing their top defensive form on their way to a commanding 3-1 series lead.
Golden State has a 3-1 series lead after a strong victory in LA.
Thompson, Durant pace the Dubs in a Game 4 win.
Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, the BBC assures viewers that it won't be using Wi-Fi packet sniffing to detect licence fee evaders, the LHC's potential new particle was a statistical blip, the public web has turned 25 and more.
The BBC has denied that its licence fee enforcement contractor, Capita, will be using intrusive Wi-Fi packet sniffing technology to detect users streaming iPlayer content without a licence when new laws requiring online viewers to pay the licence fee come into effect on September 1 (The Register). The improbable claims were made in an article published by The Telegraph, which speculates that "licence-fee inspectors could sit outside a property and view encrypted "packets" of data." However, the BBC has responded to the article, stating that "it is wrong to suggest that our technology involves capturing data from private wi-fi networks."
Signs of a potential new particle detected by CERN's Large Hadron Collider last year have turned out to be a statistical anomaly (Scientific American). In a new paper, CERN researchers conclude that the extra photons observed following the collision of protons in the collider were "a fluctuation or statistical fluke," according to particle physicist and CERN ATLAS spokesperson Dave Charlton. The anomaly had previously been thought by some to indicate the presence of a new particle outside the known Standard Model of physics.
Saturday, August 6, marked 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee put the first publicly accessible website online, hosted on a server at CERN labs in Switzerland (TechRadar). The site's still there, informing users that: "The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents." Although the Berners-Lee's very first site went up in October 1990, August 6 marks the original announcement and public launch of the online infrastructure that would come to dominate our lives.
The USA's Food And Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a field trial of genetically modified mosquitoes, created by Oxitec, in the hope of combatting the spread of Zika virus in Florida (Fusion). The plan proposes the release of thousands of genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, designed to breed with wild mosquito populations and pass on a gene that will be fatal to any offspring they have with wild female mosquitoes. Effective methods of combatting Zika are of increasing concern to the USA as the disease has begun to spread in areas of the country, but Oxitec still needs to obtain the approval of local authorities and residents for the pilot scheme.
The self-driving Autopilot feature of a Tesla Model X successfully took the car's owner on a 20 mile (32km) journey to the nearest hospital when he was struck by a pulmonary embolism on the way home from work (TechCrunch). 37-year-old Joshua Neally of the USA says he can't "remember much of the drive" but that, when the initial symptoms of the embolism hit, he "just knew [he] had to get [to the ER]". The Model X took him all the way to a motorway off-ramp near the hospital, from where he was able to complete the journey by himself. If he'd not been able to issue commands to the car or continue driving, Autopilot would have automatically kicked into failsafe mode to turn on its hazard warning lights, decelerate and pull up at the roadside.
Although the nighttime flights of giant colonies of bats look elegantly choreographed, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences have captured video footage showing that the airborne mammals actually collide and bounce off each other in flight with surprising frequency (Motherboard). Nickolay Hristov and Louise Allen studied and recorded the flights of Brazilian free-tailed bats in Texas and, Hristov said, although "we expected that they fly around each other and they never have physical contact, we have found, shocking to us, that bats crash into each other quite often. It’s a messy situation, but generally, it’s very safe and it works very well." While the occasional crashes generally do no harm to the bats, colony members have a number of techniques to avoid them, including echolocation and formation flying.
In a blog post, Niantic has revealed why it's banned popular Pokémon Go tracking apps such as Pokévision and Pokéhound, which allowed players to see where Pokémon were spawning in the world around them (WIRED). As many suspected, the server drain caused by the tracking apps was impacting Pokémon Go's already volatile performance ahead of the game's launch in 15 more countries across Asia and Oceania.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray has announced that No Man's Sky will receive a massive injection of new content on the day of release, including new story paths, more creatures and a bigger universe to explore (Polygon). Murry also promised that "Hello Games will continually update No Man’s Sky this way. This is the first of many." No Man's Sky is due out on August 9 for PlayStation 4 and August 12 for Windows.
George R.R. Martin has revealed that the Wild Cards shared narrative universe, which he co-created with Melinda M. Snodgrass in 1987, could be coming to TV thanks to a rights deal with Universal Cable Productions (The Verge). Wild Cards is a sci-fi series that's involved dozens of authors contributing work to 23 story anthologies to date, and takes place in an alternate universe where an alien virus mutates those who survive it, giving them either superpowers or debilitating physical conditions. While Martin himself can't get involved in the TV production due to contractual obligations to HBO, Snodgrass is set to be an executive producer on the series.
Just in time for the 30th anniversary of the first Metroid game's original Japanese release on the Famicom Disc System in August 1986, a fan developer has released a stunning remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus (Ars Technica). While the original was released for the Game Boy, the remake, AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) has been released for Windows, in glorious colour and with updated gameplay mechanics, although it has only a 320x240 resolution. It's available to download for free now, with a Linux version coming soon.
So here we are - the third instalment in Warner Bros' attempt to create a shared cinematic universe inhabited by its DC Comics characters. Following the disappointing, grim opening salvos fired by 2013's Man of Steel and this year's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, can director David Ayer's Suicide Squad course-correct the floundering franchise?
This year we’ve broadened the scope of the annual WIRED 100 to cover the most powerful and influential people in the digital world, not just Europe. Find out who does (and doesn’t) make the list. Out now in print, iPad and iPhone. Subscribe now and save.
WIRED2016 showcases some of the world’s most disruptive minds and explores the trends of tomorrow. Now in its sixth year, the two-day event returns this November.
DUBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - A creditor of Dubai-based Abraaj has started legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands seeking the restructuring of the private equity firm’s liabilities.
Auctus is the second creditor, after Kuwait’s Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS), to start legal action in the Cayman Islands, where Abraaj Holdings is registered.
In a statement to Reuters from its representatives, legal firm Kobre & Kim, Auctus Fund Ltd. said it has filed an application that seeks the appointment of “court-approved professionals in the Cayman Islands” to manage the restructuring process.
Auctus said it holds a large credit position in Abraaj Holdings and its investment arm, Abraaj Investment Management Limited.
The moves by the two creditors come amid Abraaj’s own plan to file for provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands before a hearing on a petition to wind up a company.
This followed the Kuwaiti fund’s refusal this month to agree to a proposed debt freeze, complicating Abraaj’s efforts to sell its investment management business to New York-based Cerberus Capital Management.
Abraaj has been trying to stem the fallout from a row with four of its investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Finance Corp (IFC), over how it used their money in a $1 billion healthcare fund.
Abraaj, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest private equity firm, denies any wrongdoing.
Summary findings of a review carried out by Deloitte, which was hired by Abraaj to examine its business, showed that a cash shortage led the firm to “commingle” investor money with its own money, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Abraaj, with debts estimated at over $1 billion, met its creditors earlier this month to reach a standstill deal, which the firm said was backed by the vast majority of its lenders, to facilitate the sale of its investment management business to Cerberus.
However the Kuwaiti fund, an unsecured creditor, refused to join secured creditors in the proposed debt freeze agreement.
PIFSS said it would see through “till the end” a petition filed in the Cayman Islands for the liquidation and winding up of Abraaj Holdings after it defaulted on a $100 million loan.
Iraq is pumping more oil than ever before, even as ISIS-fueled chaos grips parts of the Middle Eastern country.
Iraq, which relies on oil to fund nearly its entire government, increased daily oil production to an all-time high of 4.5 million barrels in May, according to estimates from research firm JBC Energy.
That's up by 100,000 barrels a day from April and helps fill the void left by big outages in Nigeria and Canada. It's also about 2 million barrels a day more than what Iraq was pumping before the 2003 U.S. invasion.
"Iraq has been quite successful at ramping up production, despite all of the political and security issues going on," said Julius Walker, senior consultant at JBC Energy.
Much of that oil is flowing into the U.S. Iraqi oil imports to the U.S. have tripled since January and now stand at the highest level since July 2014, according to ClipperData.
The milestones comes even as tales of horror emerge from Falluja, the ISIS stronghold located in the center of Iraq away from key oil facilities. The United Nations estimates as many as 50,000 residents are caught in the crossfire in Falluja as the U.S.-backed Iraqi military attempts to oust the terror group. Reports indicate children in Falluja have been killed by bombs, people are forced to eat garbage to stay alive and ISIS is shooting civilians who try to flee.
In recent weeks, the political crisis and security situation in Iraq has worsened.
"With the potential for political temperatures to rise this summer, the government has already reinforced security around southern oil facilities," Helima Croft, head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, wrote in a recent report.
Of course, the Iraqi military's advance on Falluja wouldn't be possible without oil revenue, which according to the IMF made up 94% of Iraq's 2014 federal revenue. These days, oil makes up 99% of Iraq's exports and about 90% of all federal revenue, according to the Brookings Institute.
"Every barrel helps. There isn't a whole lot going on in Iraq other than oil. They are highly dependent," said Mike Wittner, global head of oil research at Societe Generale.
It's sort of a Catch-22 situation for Iraq. Not only does the country need to sell a ton of oil to pay for its defense budget, but it needs robust security to protect its golden goose: oil revenue.
"Oil is financing everything, including their security forces. One depends on the other," Wittner said.
Like Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, Iraq's finances have been hurt by the steep decline in oil prices over the past two years.
An Iraqi laborer at an oil refinery in the town of Nasiriyah, which is located along the Euphrates River and is south of Baghdad.
Iraq's oil apparatus has held up reasonably well lately after suffering from sabotage last year. Analysts said there are no current reports of major production outages caused by security issues. That's because much of Iraq's oil facilities are clustered in the southern part of the country away from much of the fighting.
However, Iraq's oil production has been hurt by other issues. The biggest is an ongoing payments dispute between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government over how to split up oil revenue. Societe Generale estimates that is hurting Iraq's oil production by about 100,000 to 150,000 barrels per day.
Iraq's oil output is also subject to the whims of the shaky power grid and rolling blackouts that still impact daily life there.
"It's striking that 13 years after the 2003 invasion Iraq still faces severe power cuts for large parts of the day. That's still not resolved even though it's one of the basic things the government should want to do to keep the population happy," said Wittner.
The power headaches highlight the long-term challenge facing Baghdad. The country needs to attract investment from foreign oil companies to maintain aging oil fields and search for new ones. Yet the humanitarian crisis in Falluja and more basic problems like rolling blackouts make that difficult.
"Iraq continues to face headwinds in terms of stability. If there was greater stability and more investment into the country they could increase production volumes," said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData.
Shares of telecommunications companies rose as weak inflation data was interpreted as staying the Federal Reserve's hand on interest-rate hikes.
Ciena shares slid after the maker of network equipment forecast earnings short of some investors' expectations.
French conglomerate Bouygues swung to a profit in the first half of the year, helped by a strong performance from its telecom unit.
SUNRSISE, FLA – Florida Panthers Executive Vice President & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with RW Matt Bradley on a two-year contract.
Bradley joins F Kris Versteeg, F Tomas Fleischmann, F Scottie Upshall, F Marcel Goc, F Sean Bergenheim, D Ed Jovanovski, G Jose Theodore, D Brian Campbell and F Tomas Kopecky as new Panthers that have been acquired over the last week.
Bradley, 33, has played in 630 National Hockey League games with San Jose (2000-03), Pittsburgh (2003-04) and Washington (2005-11) scoring 56 goals with 85 assists and 531 PIM. The 6-foot-3, 210-poound winger has played in 47 post season contests registering 11 points (3-8-11). He has spent the last six seasons playing for the Washington, recording a career best 24 points (10-14-24) during the 2009-10 season, while placing among the club’s top five in hits for the last four years.
The Stittsville, Ontario native was drafted by San Jose with their fourth choice (102nd overall) in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
The Florida Panthers Offseason is presented by JetBlue. Sunrise Sports & Entertainment is the premier company of its kind in South Florida. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Home to more than 200 events annually and the Florida Panthers Hockey Club, the BankAtlantic Center was a finalist for Arena of the Year in annual awards given by trade publication Pollstar.
More than 200 people arrested as thousands of Armenians protest hike in power price.
At least 240 people were reportedly arrested in Yerevan, Armenia's capital city, following clashes between thousands marching against rising electricity prices and riot police. The march began on Monday but went into the early hours of Tuesday after demonstrators staged an overnight sit-in, blocking traffic.
Those detained by authorities on Tuesday morning may be charged for "hooliganism and disturbing public order". Police also reportedly destroyed or confiscated equipment from journalists who were covering the rally. According to the health ministry, at least 25 people were injured including 11 police officers.
Protesters demand the Armenian government reverse the decision to increase electricity prices by up to 22 per cent in August. Armenia is suffering due to Russia's economic crisis, and the country's electricity company is controlled by a Russian firm. The company blamed the hike on the fall of Armenia's currency.
Many shared images of the clashes using #ElectricYerevan and #ElectricArmenia.
Despite the clashes, many came out on Tuesday to continue voicing their demands.
Others dismissed the notion that the protests were anti-Russian.
President Ilham Aliyev goes after neighbour with scathing tweets.

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