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Giving gadgets brains will be a hot theme at the Consumer Electronics Show set to open in Las Vegas, with device makers big and small touting hardware with
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"smarts."
Whether it's a doorbell or refrigerator, a TV set or a toothbrush, chances are it will be connected to digital assistants powered by artificial intelligence aiming to anticipate needs or desires.
"I think you're going to see the year of smart," said Jack Gold, a technology analyst with J. Gold Associates.
One of the largest trade shows in the world, the January 9-12 CES will attract about 170,000 visitors and 3,900 exhibitors from 150 countries and will showcase innovations in computers, gaming, robotics, vehicle technology, virtual and augmented reality and more.
Gold said gadgets will be increasingly tuned to glean insights about the people using them, with an aim of anticipating what might be desired at any given moment.
"Your device will learn about you and will know your preferences, and it'll then try to get smarter about how to interact with you," he said.
As consumer electronics evolve, an overriding theme has become voice-assisted
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BT Openreach – the phone and broadband company that we all love to hate – is promising to do better.
Back in June, the UK
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telecoms giant was told by watchdog Ofcom that it could face fines if it did not meet new targets to repair its extensive UK telephone and broadband network.
Under new rules, BT’s Openreach infrastructure division must fix 70 per cent of faults – in the network used by BT’s own customers, as well as those of rivals – within two working days.
Now PC Pro reports that new BT chief Joe Garner has admitted that customer service is one area where Openreach needs to do significantly better, and as part of his strategy for the infrastructure arm, he’s put customer service at the top of the list.
“I actually think we get the vast majority of things right the first time, probably 60 to 70%, and I think there’s another 20% where we get it a little bit wrong, but we sort of retrieve the position,” he said at a briefing with journalists.
Fingers crossed that the new boy can actually make
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Under the nuclear agreement, Tehran has been allowed to convert heavy 'dumb' rockets into precision-guided RAAD missiles, which the IDF believes
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will be delivered to its Shiite proxies in Syria, namely Hezbollah.
Under the nuclear agreement Tehran signed with world powers, which allows it to continue its missile program unabated, the Iranian military industry is developing one of its most covert projects: the RAAD anti-tank missile.
The Iranians have been able to reach a breakthrough in converting heavy "dumb" rockets—some old and containing hundreds of kilograms of explosives—into precision-guided missiles. These GPS-guided missiles will serve as an alternative to the inertial navigation rockets that lose of their accuracy the further they fly.
The IDF's working assumption is that these missiles will make their way to Iran's main proxy in the Middle East, Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah, which receives 75 percent of its budget from Tehran.
The development of the new RAAD missile is based on a fairly new approach to developing weapons: being able to manufacture advanced weapons independently from Russia.
An accurate missile, such as the ones being developed in Iran,
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It was 9:30 P.M., and the Mayor was in his office at Gracie Mansion, speaking by commercial radio to the prison
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ers. His short statement was gamble to win without force the release of 17 hostages held by the prisoners.
Almost precisely two and half hours later, the Mayor stepped from his limousine in front of the Tombs before mid night. There were cheers from inmates leaning out of the prison windows.
He said he was “deeply gratified by the release of the hostages unharmed.” It was for that word that he had been waiting since 9:30 P.M., and it had taken more than two hours to arrive.
Open telephone lines linking his office with the warden's of fice in the Tombs and the Cor rection Commissioner's office across the street from the prison kept him in continuing contact with the tense situation down town.
But until the limousine dash just before midnight, the Mayor, according to his press secretary, Thomas Morgan, did not go outside his residence all day.
He consulted with a variety of city officials during
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The opening of The Northumbria hospital, one of the many notable achievements for Northumbria Healthcare since it became a foundation trust 10 years ago
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Officials and staff at a health trust are have been marking 10 years since it joined the NHS elite and became a foundation trust.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which employs 9,500 staff, achieved the status in August 2006.
And in the following10 years, it has seen its reputation grow nationally while overseen a number of changes and new facilities locally.
Other achievements include one of only five trusts currently rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission; named as one of the country’s ‘top hospitals’ for nine consecutive years; and taking over responsibility for community services in Northumberland.
David Evans, chief executive, said: “Becoming a foundation trust was the first step in our journey to becoming the ‘outstanding’ trust we are today.
Alan Richardson, chairman of Northumbria Healthcare, said: “Being a foundation trust enables us to have a direct link with our local communities through our
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The third and final phase of the Benefis ED is set to open for patient care on Monday, Jan. 14.
The Benefis Health
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Systems emergency department is set to open for patient care on Monday, Jan. 14.
The $12.5 million facility took three years to complete starting with design meetings and moving to construction 18 months later.
“First section opened in May, the second section opened in September and the final one will open Monday,” said Dr. Bridget Brennan, Benefis medical director.
According to Scott Schandelson, nurse manager for Benefis Emergency Services, a large chunk of the money — more than $2.5 million — was funded by the community through the Benefis Foundation.
“This last piece will allow us to operationalize the vision we came up with several years ago,” Schandelson said.
The project expanded the total bed population from about 18 to 33. Schandelson said it will give Benefis a completely different ability to care for its patients.
“Just better utilization of resources and better experiences for the patients, but we
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In the tradition of fine singers everywhere, Vika and Linda Bull let the songwriters create the tunes while they concentrate on interpretation and delivery. Some
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of the songs on their new album, Love is Mighty Close, such as the Stephen Cummings-penned title track, were already in existence. But others, including Paul Kelly's To Be Good Takes A Long Time (To Be Bad No Time at All), were written especially for the Bull sisters. So how personal is a lyric like that?
``Paul observes us; he knows what we're like,'' Linda Bull says with a mischievous laugh. She says they let it be known they were looking for songs, and before they knew it they had offers from some of Australia's finest: Cummings, Jeff Burstin, Rob Snarski, Barry Palmer and Caroline Kennedy, Cyndi Boste, Chris Wilson, David McCormack, Dan Brodie and David Hosking. ``We said we wanted the songs to have country instrumentation, with violins, mandolins and pedal steel, but other than that there was no theme. We knew once the songs came in
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“I was frightened the whole time,” Jake said, but he managed to stay calm.
He had learned in Cub Scouts that
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in an emergency you should call 911 and everyone you know, he said.
A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew rescued an injured Ryan Pritchard, 41, from the cliff-side tree.
“The danger was that the tree would give away and he would fall to his death,” said CHP officer and paramedic Ben Schmidt.
The daring rescue also entailed the copter crew airlifting Jake to safety.
Jake’s 911 call at 3:10 p.m. alerted authorities that his father was stuck in a tree in the Putah Creek State Wildlife Area. While the coordinates derived from the cellphone call failed to lead the helicopter crew to the pair, a resourceful CHP dispatcher using the family name found a Facebook post where the father identified the trail they would be hiking on Sunday.
A CHP helicopter crew eventually found Jake on the cliff overlooking his father’s precarious position. Meanwhile, another CHP helicopter piloted by CHP officer
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Japan's auto makers have called on the Government to end the country's voluntary restraints on automobile exports to the United States when the fiscal year ends next
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March, a Government official said today.
According to the official, the auto makers told the head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry that the quota, which puts a ceiling of 2.3 million vehicles on exports to the United States for the year ending in March, was no longer necessary. The executives said that the strengthening of the yen against the dollar, which makes Japanese products more expensive in the United States, would prevent them from selling many additional cars on the American market.
In the past year, the yen has risen by more than 35 percent against the dollar. Many Japanese manufacturers have raised prices to make up for the shift in exchange rates, while others have cut profit margins to keep prices steady and maintain their markets.
Japanese exports of cars, trucks and buses to the United States in the first six months of this year rose by 18.4 percent from the corresponding period last year, to 1,706,597 vehicles.
In a separate development, an official of the Nissan
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Courtesy photo from the Wasatch Wildlife Watch project, University of Utah A motion-triggered camera recorded this image of a moose in Utah
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’s central Wasatch Mountains June 23 as part of University of Utah research, led by biology graduate student Austin Green, exploring how recreation affects wildlife. Volunteer teams rigged cameras at 210 sites and recorded 40,000 to 50,000 images of animals during a 15-week study period. Now the team is seeking help from the public to process this tsunami of data.
There has perhaps not been a more important time to hone our understanding of the current state of ecological health and function of the Wasatch Mountains and the wildlife that live here.
The Wasatch sustains 9 million visitors a year, which is about the same as that of the “mighty five” Utah national parks. Currently many planning processes and opportunities to shape the future of the central Wasatch are unfolding, ranging from the Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area legislation, transportation solutions from the recent blue print of the Central Wasatch Mountain Accord, and other national forest planning opportunities.
The greater Salt Lake area
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LMN Architects, via city of Seattle.
Real estate company Capstone Partners, developer of the building that will soon become Facebook’s
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new Seattle engineering center, has filed plans for another building with up to 165,000 square feet of office space immediately adjacent to the newly constructed building.
In fact, planning documents filed with the city explicitly describe the new construction as an “expansion” to the existing Dexter Station building. Facebook leased the majority of the new 353,000 square foot office building — with room for up to 2,000 people — and plans to start moving in next week, shifting from its existing engineering center near Interstate 5 in Seattle.
Construction of the expansion building will start later this year with or without a signed tenant, Mike Hubbard of Capstone Partners told the Puget Sound Business Journal, saying that the developer would “entertain” a deal with Facebook, but the project ultimately won’t rely on a larger lease with the social networking giant.
The Daily Journal of Commerce was first to report on the planned Dexter Station expansion.
Facebook’s growth is part of a
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Amidst the negative feedback that game microtransactions have been getting lately, a lone gamer has come forward to tell the story of how he spent
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over $10,000 (around P500,000) purchasing digital items in games.
Reddit user Kensgold posted an open letter to Electronic Arts and other video game developers. The letter talked about how he became addicted to in-game purchases at 19 years of age.
According to a report by Kotaku, Kensgold’s bank account registered a total of $13,500.25 (about P676,800) of payments made to places like Steam, Google Play and Blizzard, to name a few.
Kensgold had started out doing microtransactions on mobile games when he was thirteen. He spent money on games like “Clash of Kings”, “Age of Warring Empire”, and the now defunct “The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth”. From there, he transitioned to PC gaming where he played “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” and “Smite” to name a couple.
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This is certainly comforting: US officials have disclosed that Iraqi militants have found a way to hack into US Predator drone aircraft in an effort that is possibly
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being funded by Iran. The breach could be providing them with information that could help them evade capture by US authorities, and they could be doing it for as little as $25.95.
I wish I was kidding here, but the insurgents have used programs like SkyGrabber — a program that allows for satellite data capture — to obtain access into the drone’s video fees. I guess there’s some good news here: that’s all they’ve apparently been able to access, and officials stress they have not lost control of any aircraft as a result of the break-ins.
Military officials have apparently known about the issue since late last year, when a laptop from a Shiite militant contained drone video feeds. Since then several other laptops have been confiscated with similar data found. Evidence has been found in Afghanistan of hacking as well, indicating our enemies may also be spreading this information. So, where is this loophole that’s allowing people to get in?
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If candy on your sushi isn't your thing, the Scorpions roll ($12.95) is ready to rock you with avocado, white tuna
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, salmon and yellowtail tuna, all wrapped in a cucumber peel. This roll offers a fresh twist on a classic roll with the light crispy cucumber peel.
My dinner guest and I ordered the Elvis roll ($12.95) and the Sam I Am roll ($10.95) respectively. The Elvis roll comes with tempura shrimp and cream cheese, which is then deep fried and topped with seasoned crawfish and crunchy tempura flakes.
The flavors hit just the right spot for fried food lovers, and none of the ingredients overpowers the others. The portions are sizable without being too much of a mouthful, which can sometimes be the case with bigger and bolder sushi rolls.
The Sam I Am roll came with tempura shrimp and crab meat, mixed with spicy mayonnaise and topped with avocado and citrus sauce. The crunch from the fried shrimp with the freshness of the avocado makes a fresh satisfying roll with a lightly hot finish.
More traditional rolls, called
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On Thursday's Velshi and Ruhle on MSNBC, as the entire show was devoted to the school shootings in Florida, host Stephanie R
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uhle repeatedly mocked opponents of gun control as she listed nine prominent Republicans on screen who have tweeted condolences for the victims with the MSNBC host noting how much money the NRA has spent supporting each of them.
She went on to declare that a hunter who needs an AR-15 to hit a target must be a "lousy loser" and then seemed to make a veiled hint that those who resist new gun laws are "jerks."
At 11:39 a.m. ET, Ruhle spent two minutes and 48 seconds informing viewers of nine Republicans -- mostly Senators, but also including President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence -- who have benefited from NRA financial support. When she got to Pence, she made a point of noting that he "enacted a number of laws as governor of Indiana, including legislation allowing firearms to be kept in vehicles on school property," as if there were something wrong with that.
Wrapping up that portion of the show, she lamented: "The thoughts
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Two young mothers fended off home intruders with pepper spray as their young daughter was in the Harlem home. Wale Aliyu reports.
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Two women managed to fight off four would-be home invaders who knocked on their Manhattan apartment door around dinnertime one day last month and tried to force their way in, police say.
Surveillance video shows the four suspects walk into the building on West 131st Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard around 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14. They head down a hallway in single file.
Police say one of them knocked on the door of the 23-year-old and 25-year-old victims' apartment. When they opened it, one of the men told the couple wanted to speak with them; he tried to force open the door, cops say.
"I heard them saying to my wife, 'Can we talk?' and I'm like, who is going to knock on someone's door asking if we can talk?" one of the victims said.
The women pushed the door against him to keep him out, but he whipped out an
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There’s good news for UK TV viewers today – the BBC has boosted iPlayer’s hitherto seven-day catch-up window
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to 30 days.
BBC Director-General Tony Hall first made the announcement almost a year ago to the day, though no concrete date had been given for the move.
Though a handful of shows were already available via iPlayer for more than seven days, the vast majority were limited to a week-long window. From today, however, the British broadcaster will be shifting the viewing and listening window for both iPlayer and its radio-focused cousin iPlayer Radio to a full month.
Launched way back in 2007, there’s little question that BBC iPlayer has set the benchmark for what an online catch-up service should look like in the 21st century. Today, viewers and listeners place more than seven million TV and radio programme requests each day across the country, so by increasing the window to 30 days this can only lead to an increase in viewing (and perhaps binge-watching).
It’s worth noting here that some programmes, including Panorama, Question Time
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Lucasfilm was kind enough to provide us with a Q and A with Frank Oz, the man behind Yoda, to discuss his thoughts on
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the character and bringing him back to "Star Wars: Rebels."
Q. What was your initial reaction to Yoda when you viewed the concept sketches for the character in 1979?
A. When I saw the first sketches they were different from the Yoda we now know. But still, I sensed who he was right away. That rarely happens, but it happened with him.
Q. Do you remember what George Lucas said to you to inspire you to come up with the voice that you chose for Yoda?
A. Actually George didn’t ask me to do the voice. I gave him a voice tape early on but I was told he wanted to try other people doing the voice. Over the year or so while post was going on, I would hear that many men were auditioned for Yoda’s voice. But at the last minute, when I was on my honeymoon in Hawaii with my first wife, I got a call that George would like to
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CHICAGO (AP) — An international phone scam in which callers in India posed as debt collectors bilked millions of dollars out of
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more than 10,000 U.S. residents by using threats of arrest or even the loss of their jobs, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.
The callers, who apparently coordinated with someone in the U.S., drew on personal data snatched from payday loan websites, Federal Trade Commission official Steven Baker said. Over a two year period, at least 20 million calls may have been placed, with phony collectors typically demanding around $500 but sometimes asking for as much as $2,000.
The investigation of a scam with so many millions of calls flooding in from India was a first of its kind, the FTC's Midwest director said. But Baker added that other similar scams are almost certainly up and running.
"We think this is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
JanLaree Dejulius, an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, said she agreed to transfer $763 after receiving a call in April 2010 from someone who knew details about her family
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Vicinity Centres and SapientNitro Melbourne have come up with an innovative solution to the challenge of finding the perfect gift this Christmas.
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It’s called ‘GiftR’ and designed as a fun and interactive digital experience that matches presents with the personality of the person receiving the gift.
Launched this week, the campaign titled ‘GiftR – swipe for the perfect gift’ is designed as a tool for those who enjoy scouting online for the latest and greatest products available. Located on shopping centres’ homepages, ‘GiftR’ asks a series of interest based questions and users can swipe right or left to answer.
The final result is a selection of gift options available at the specific shopping centre, that are based on personality, rather than age or price.
Although Vicinity Centres see a very high volume of traffic to its websites during the Christmas period, the relationship was one way, with customers mostly looking for opening hours and store listings. SapientNitro was tasked with finding a process to add value and relevance for people visiting the site in a fun and
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In a speech in Washington on Thursday, the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers said that the American middle class has been
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shrinking since 1970. Princeton University economist Alan Krueger said the American middle class shrank from 50.3 percent of American households in 1970 to 42.2 percent in 2010. Krueger defined the middle class as households with annual incomes within 50 percent of the national median income. Here is a table presented describing his findings.
Later in the speech, Krueger cited well-known studies describing growing income inequality in the United States. His claim about a shrinking middle class, though, appears to be new. While researchers have in the past argued that the middle class is shrinking, both Democratic and Republican administrations have generally steered clear of giving an exact definition of the middle class. Apparently fearing that an exact definition could backfire on them if the economy performs poorly, administrations have vowed to defend the middle class but avoided specifics. Given the central role that the state of the middle class will play in the 2012 presidential campaign, all of that may be different this year. To me, that’
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) After a big game with the bats, the Los Angeles Angels went home worried about one of their most
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important arms.
Kole Calhoun and Andrelton Simmons each had three of Los Angeles’ 15 hits Tuesday night, but starting pitcher Garrett Richards left in the third inning of a 9-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners because of irritation in his right forearm.
Richards has been plagued by injuries during his career and this was just his second start since coming off the disabled list after being sidelined by a left hamstring strain. He is scheduled to have an MRI on Wednesday.
Calhoun and Albert Pujols both homered for the Angels, who have won three of four. Calhoun and Simmons each had two RBIs.
Simmons, seeking his first All-Star appearance as one of five candidates in online balloting for the final AL spot, hit a go-ahead double in a four-run fourth.
Seattle All-Star Mitch Haniger hit a three-run homer in the first for a 3-0 lead against Richards, who allowed three consecutive hits
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For a man who�s a sports fan and loves football immensely, it doesn�t come as a surprise that I was thrilled when our first
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born was a baby boy.
As a father, you can�t help but dream of gridiron greatness even when your baby still doesn�t possess the motor skills to hold their own head up.
Let�s face it, us men out there want our boys to be football stars.
Whether or not that happens is another story entirely.
I�ve previously stated in this column that I don�t care what Griffin does sports-wise.
I�d much prefer him be a happy, healthy, well-adjusted child and teen than a high-school football standout.
But secretly I root for the latter.
Now that he�s getting old enough to understand what football is, I�ve found myself talking about it more and more with him.
Whether it�s taking him to a game or watching it on TV, Griffin�s becoming increasingly football savvy by the day.
If Griffin eventually plays football for a team, I�m placing my
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LOS ANGELES – “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is losing momentum quickly at the box office, even with a relatively quiet
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weekend free of any new blockbuster competition. After an underwhelming launch, the space saga fell 65 percent in weekend two with $29.3 million from North American theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
“Solo” has now earned $148.9 million domestically, which is still shy of “Rogue One’s” December 2016 opening weekend of $155.1 million and over $135 million short of where “Rogue One” was in its second weekend.
The 65 percent drop off is one of the highest in recent “Star Wars” history, although it is less steep than the second week fall of the franchise’s last film, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which slid 67.5 percent in weekend two this past December – but, that was also after a $220 million debut.
Internationally, “Solo” added $30.3 million, and globally the film has
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The Heat don't plan to re-sign Cooke after his 10-day contract expired Monday, Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald reports. The
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Sioux Falls Skyforce -- Miami's G League affiliate -- has completed its season, allowing the Heat to carry two-way players Duncan Robinson and Yante Maten on the roster for the rest of the season without impacting either player's service time. As a result of those two arrivals, the Heat didn't have much incentive to keep Cooke around as extra insurance off the bench. Cooke didn't see any game action during his week-and-a-half stint with Miami.
Cooke registered 26 points (8-19 FG, 2-6 3Pt, 8-8 FT), five rebounds, three steals, one assist and one block in the 130-112 loss Tuesday to the Blue. Both Cooke and fellow two-way player Duncan Robinson combined for 62 points, but the duo attempted an outstanding 42 of the team's 87 shots. In 41 games with Sioux Falls, Cooke is averaging 14.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 31.6 minutes per
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Last week a friend of mine gave a party for her neck. Through the years it had grown worn and thick with the burdens of rubbernecking
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, bottlenecking and holding her head high. Recently it had developed a crepey wattle, which my friend took as a conspicuous sign that she would either be served up for Thanksgiving dinner or that the A.A.R.P. would soon be leaving its calling card. In the latter case, arthritis, Social Security and early-bird specials would surely follow.
Now, four weeks later, her neck was ready to make its debut. I chose a turtleneck for the occasion. Two other women swathed themselves in Isadora-length scarves. Together we neckless wonders rang her bell.
''Is your mother home?'' one of them joked as our rejuvenated friend came to the door. ''My God, you've lost so much weight,'' exclaimed another, her voice pure puce.
The truth was that a swan would have killed for that neck. It had been lifted, lipo'd, pulled and made girlishly taut:
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A Rochester company is proposing a trash-burning incinerator in Seneca County, in an area already rife with public objections to solid waste landf
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ills.
A "entrepreneurial" Rochester startup company has proposed a massive trash-burning incinerator in Seneca County.
The $365 million incinerator, which would burn up to 175 truckloads of solid waste each day, would be built on a 48-acre parcel that once was part of the storied Seneca Army Depot.
The facility, which would loom 180 feet high over the landscape with a smokestack that reaches even higher, would generate electricity and create ash that the developers say could be reused. The plant would be able to receive trash via rail as well as truck.
The parcel is not far from other depot property that is now known as Deer Haven Park, a preserve for the depot's famous white deer and a military history tourism destination.
The parcel where the new facility would go is owned by a company controlled by Rochester developer David Flaum, though the project is being undertaken by an unrelated company, Circular enerG LLC.
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U.S. equities are struggling again on Tuesday as the hits just keep coming for the tech sector. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB
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) is down another 4%, capping a near-7% loss on Monday, following reports of inappropriate data mining by outside political groups and a government investigation into the company’s practices. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is getting hit by criticism from the Israeli government on security concerns.
This is all in the context of overcrowded investor positioning in the sector, with hedge funds and retail traders equally guilty, resulting in massive inflows into the group in recent weeks.
FB shares have moved below their 200-day moving average, a level that hasn’t been violated since January 2017. Shares are not yet back to the levels they first reached last summer as the stock has faced down a number of negative headlines including charges of political weaponization, the departure of its chief security officer and now reports that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into the company’s use of personal data.
TWTR shares dropped more than 10% after Bloomberg reported that Israel is considering
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Accomplished veteran American boxing trainer Floyd Mayweather senior and SA's global star Zolani Tete prepare for a fight against highly dangerous foe Non
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ito Donaire on April 27.
Local fight fans will see a rejuvenated boxer in Zolani "Last Born" Tete when he puts his WBO bantamweight belt on the line against highly dangerous foe Nonito "Filipino Flash" Donaire later this month.
Tete will battle the WBA Super and WBC diamond champion in the US on April 27. The buzz across the Atlantic came from Tete's manager Mlandeli Tengimfene after watching Tete's training sessions with accomplished American trainer Floyd Mayweather Snr at the latter's son's state-of-the-art gym in Las Vegas.
Tete and Tengimfene have been there since Wednesday last week.
"This is where Zolani needed to be before a fight of this magnitude," said Tengimfene yesterday.
"He is amazing. People will see a hungrier boy with high output in combinations and volumes.
"Floyd took
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Syrian refugee Odai Ahmed peddles to charge smart phones and batteries inside a tent at the migrants camp near Calais, northern France, Nov. 4
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, 2015.
Odai Ahmed cycles hard every day and dreams of reaching England. But as weeks turn to months, the 24-year-old Syrian feels like he's on a road to nowhere.
Like most of the thousands camped near Calais hoping to cross the English Channel, he's tried more than a dozen times to breach security at the nearby ferry port and more distant terminal for cross-Channel trains. Each time, networks of newly constructed 15-foot-high (5-meter-high) razor-topped fences and boosted police patrols have defeated him. He's already been arrested and held for five days in Calais after nearly boarding one train.
Disillusioned, Ahmed spends his afternoons recharging his smartphone on a stationary bike with a manual generator. It takes 2 ½ hours' pedaling to fill the battery.
It gives him time to think. That maybe, he and his Syrian tent-mates might have to turn back and claim asylum somewhere on
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Bombers, field jackets, topcoats, and more to keep you looking sharp as the temperatures dip.
There are plenty of reasons
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to be thankful for fall. Namely that summer, with all of its attendant heat and humidity, finally relinquishes its hold on our weather—and our style. Which means that it's time again to invest in a great coat. Sure, it might feel too hot to be thinking about layering up, but now is actually the best time to ensure your size is in stock, to make sure you get the color you want, and to capitalize on summertime sales. Here are the 10 key outerwear styles to look for this fall.
Denim is a pretty-much-perfect go-to for transitional jackets. And no one does it better than Levi's.
Fall means dealing with changes in weather. Get a jacket that can handle all of those unexpected shifts.
A field jacket is also a staple fall piece. Break it out the same day you bust out your fall boots.
An easygoing cotton bomber works for every type of style.
Baracuta's Harrington
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Rescue workers tend to the injured at the site of a train derailment in Yilan county, northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, Oct. 21
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, 2018.
Officials in Taiwan have launched an investigation into what caused a train derailment Sunday that killed at least 18 people and injured around 175 others.
President Tsai Ing-wen visited the accident site in the northeastern Yilan county on Monday where she met with family members of the victims.
The train carrying more than 360 passengers derailed on a popular coastal route on its way from a suburb of Taipei to the southeastern city of Taitung.
Some passengers interviewed by news agencies said they felt the Puyuma Express train was going too fast.
In this photo released by Taiwan Railways Administration, train carriages are scattered at the site of a train derailment in Yilan county northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018.
All of the train's eight carriages derailed, and five of them were flipped over, according to a statement from the Taiwan Railways Administration.
Photos of the scene showed the train cars lying zig-zagged across the
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Shashi Kapoor did try his hand at a few macho rules, but he for the most part remained the slightly dreamy Prince Charming
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rather than a swashbuckling pirate figure.
Remembering Shashi Kapoor as Handsome is akin to remembering the Taj Mahal as a fancy tomb.
“Handsome” was perhaps the most repeated adjective when obituaries to Shashi Kapoor rolled out in media, social and otherwise. And this was to an extent understandable, for the man, during his acting career in India, was mainly known for playing the charming, often vulnerable romantic hero. Shashi did try his hand at a few macho rules, but he for the most part remained the slightly dreamy Prince Charming rather than a swashbuckling pirate figure.
What not too many people however realise is that Shashi Kapoor was much more than that. Balbir Prithivraj Kapoor (yes, that was his real name) was perhaps the only mainstream Bollywood film star to seriously work on the “art” side of cinema even when he was doing
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LAS VEGAS – Kristaps Porzingis has been consistent about his preference to play power forward over center, stating it plays to his
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strengths in that he can shoot over smaller opponents and doesn’t have to deal with banging against large bodies on defense.
David Fizdale arrived with a different philosophy. It’s not necessarily contrasting Porzingis’ preference, just more open to expansion. And apparently the Latvian has approved.
Fizdale plans to fly to Latvia within a week following Summer League and meet Porzingis for the first time. It’s a family trip (Fizdale is bringing his wife and wants to spend time with the Porzingis family) but also an opportunity to teach. The coach already conceived of the film he’d like to pore over with Porzingis.
It’s no secret Fizdale wants to spread the floor, freeing the paint for drives and kick-outs. He was part of the coaching staff in Miami that transformed Chris Bosh from a power forward in the post to a center on the perimeter. In Memphis
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For the second quarter, PACCAR (NASDAQ:PCAR) saw a rise in net income.
Earnings and Revenue The company experienced
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stronger-than-expected EPS and revenues. The company reported EPS of 83 cents a share versus the 82 cents a share estimate and revenues of $4.46 billion versus the $4.22 billion estimate. The estimates of 14 analysts ranged from profit of 72 cents to profit of 88 cents.
The company's net income for the quarter was $297.2 million. According to the reported number, this is up 24% from last year's levels. Revenue climbed 12.5% from $3.96 billion in the same period last year.
Company Fundamental Trends Last quarter marked the third in a row of rising net income. The company has averaged revenue growth of 49% over the past five quarters.
History Against Expectations The company has now topped analyst estimates for at least the last four quarters. It beat by 11 cents in the first quarter, 12 cents in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year and 7 cents in the third quarter of
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Odle family branching out to Bowling Green, Ky.
The family that has made a name for itself developing the "Brookside" brand
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of student housing in downtown Columbia is looking to Bowling Green, Ky., and Western Kentucky University for its latest projects.
The Odle family, which has built more than 1,000 student housing beds in its Brookside Downtown and Brookside on College projects, is working on three projects in Bowling Green. One, a 474-bed student housing development on the edge of the WKU campus, will be similar to the Brookside development at College Avenue and Walnut Street, Jon Odle said in an email. That project is in a Tax Increment Financing district, the Bowling Green Daily News reported.
Like here, the Odles also are looking beyond the student housing market. Their company, Trittenbach Development, is working on a 14,000-square-foot "urban retail" building as well as 40 to 50 market-rate apartments built into a commercial wrap on a new public parking garage in downtown Bowling Green, Odle wrote.
Locally, Tritten
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International Theatre Institute (ITI) Bangladesh Centre completed its thirty-six years in March 2018. Throughout the long 36 years, it has proved to
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the world of performing arts that sans so-called professionalism, theater workers of this country have been able to create an ambiance of professional skill in theatre. In fact, to be an affiliate with a world organization like ITI, professional theatre practice is one of the basic conditions. But Bangladesh group theatre practice, even being amateurish, possesses so much of rectitude and missionary zeal that ITI Worldwide has been positively convinced to recognize its professionalism and subsequently grab the membership.
So, that's Bangladesh where language and culture are deeply rooted and where people's cultural amateurism is inherently their professionalism. Same attributes mirror in the ITI Bangladesh Centre. The Centre has been holding different theatrical events, festivals and workshops liaising with the ITI Worldwide and other centers globally.
Bangladesh regularly attends ITI World Congress, and in the last 35th Congress held in Segovia, Spain in 2017, Bangladesh had the highest participation so far. For easy and smooth functioning of ITI Worldwide, five
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Barbara Pierce Bush, the fiercely loyal, yet independently strong wife of one U.S. president and mother of another, died Tuesday surrounded by
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her family at her west Houston home. She was 92.
The funeral details for former first lady Barbara Bush have been released on her website after her death Tuesday evening.
The public will be able to pay respects on Friday from noon to midnight at St. Martin's Church, 717 Sage Road in Houston. People are asked to first go the Second Baptist Church campus to park and go through security. Shuttle services will be provided to and from St. Martin's Church.
Barbara Bush reads to first-graders April 17, 1998, at Paradise Elementary School in Las Vegas.
The parking lot at Second Baptist Church will be open at 10 a.m. and shuttles will start running at 11:30 a.m.
Bush's funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 21. It will be by invitation only and guests are asked to go to the Second Baptist Church for security screening. They will then be shuttled to St. Martin's Church.
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WITH Spring in full swing and the sun out more and more, some of us may start to find our scalps- one of the areas
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hardest hit by UV rays and the elements- in need of extra attention.
Scalp condition can have a large impact on the overall health of our locks, with an unhealthy scalp potentially leading to problems with hair growth.
Everything from sunburn to product build-up and imbalanced oil levels can result in itching, flakiness, and dull hair appearance. Luckily, these problems can often be rectified using the right tools.
For those suffering from scalp discomfort, dryness, or oiliness, try a targeted treatment such as Briogeo’s Scalp Revival Charcoal + Tea Tree Scalp Treatment (£27/€31.48 for 30ml, www.cultbeauty.co.uk). This liquid contains Binchotan charcoal to remove impurities, spearmint and peppermint oils to soothe, and witch hazel to balance oil levels. Vitamin biotin also provides nutrients to support healthy hair growth.
Briogeo’
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An inquiry into why we give, what we give, how we give, and what it says about us.Originally published in Esquire Weekly.
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And it takes skill. And talent. And even if you don't have those, there is still a way you can improve, according to Stephen Marche. Here's how.
Because that's what surprises and gifts and happiness really boil down to, too: a reaction in a person's head. We put a social cognition researcher and a best-selling behavioral economist on the case here.
Which some of us learned when we were ex-cowboy drama queens. Here, Scott Raab details the moment he realized the danger of gifts.
Which is what happened to Tom Junod.
Like this little train did, for Chris Jones.
These slippers, he says, civilized a young, barbaric Joe Keohane.
Mike Sager makes the case against giving gifts at all. None. Because, as he explains, there's actually something much, much better — and easier — than presents.
We’re all for nice ties, but what Toys for
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Dade's remarkable success at getting students to register results from close cooperation between district administrators, social studies teachers at each of the county's 25 high
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schools, and officials at the county elections department, according to Paul Hansen, the school system's former director of general education and social sciences. Hansen coordinated the voter program until this fall when he became a school principal.
At the beginning of the school year, the chairmen of the social studies departments of all of Dade's high schools prepare lists of their social studies teachers who have not yet been trained as voter registrars. Each chairman then works with the Dade County Elections Department to set up one-hour training workshops for the not-yet-qualified teachers. Upon completing the workshop, the teachers become deputy registrars with the legal authority to sign up voters.
Each March, the school system runs a computer search to find the names and class schedules of all the students in the county who will be eligible to register to vote in the coming year. (In Florida, citizens can register six months before their 18th birthday but cannot vote until they are 18.) The central office then
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When we hear words like “lift” and “sculpt,” we tend to assume they apply to the middle-aged
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and older crowd. Not so! No matter what your age, you can use tips and tricks like contouring to sculpt your face. With spring coming, who doesn’t want that? Read on below for some amazing tricks!
“First, we figure out your face shape. Is it oval, long, round or square? Next we imagine an oval placed over your face (this is the perfect face shape because it’s proportioned equally from forehead to eyebrows, eyebrows to tip of nose, and the tip of the nose to the chin). Then, we figure out from there what we need to focus on to get the face looking slimmer,” says celebrity makeup artist Amanda Shackleton.
Step 1: “I like to contour with a deeper powder about 2 shades darker than your skin color,” says Shackleton. Powder blends better and looks more natural, but if it’s for evening, you can use a foundation or concealer
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Israeli soldiers lying on the side of the road in southern Israel as they take cover when a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from Gaza into Israel
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, on Nov. 12, 2018. Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
JNS.org – Israelis across the political spectrum expressed their sorrow and condolences to the family of a Druze special-forces soldier killed in a firefight with Hamas operatives in Gaza on Sunday night, which broke out when intelligence forces were discovered and attacked, according to the IDF.
Lt. Col. M, whose name and details of death were withheld by military censors, was on an intelligence-gathering mission in a mosque deep inside Gaza with his team when the group’s cover was blown and the soldiers were attacked.
The 41-year-old father of two was killed in the fighting, and another soldier was moderately wounded.
The team called in Israeli Air Force reinforcements, which provided cover in the form of aerial bombardment while the team escaped back to Israel. Palestinian media shared photos of the car the troops allegedly used to drive 3 kilometers into Gaza, which had been bombed—
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Transitioning from the structured environment of military service to college life can be a frustrating experience for incoming student veterans.
A new peer mentorship
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program at Central Michigan University hopes to make this transition easier by offering counseling from the kinds of people they recently left behind: Other veterans.
The new veteran advising program Peer Advisors for Veteran Education, or PAVE, is a peer mentorship program that connects incoming student veterans with other student veterans who have been living the college life for a while and can help new veterans adjust.
PAVE is a pilot program formed by the University of Michigan’s Depression Center with only three other participating schools: Auburn University, the University of Maryland and George Washington University.
The CMU program has four lead advisers and seven applicants to be regular advisors, all of whom are veterans. Being a veteran is a requirement to be an adviser in the program.
“I had a friend who got out of the military and didn’t know what to do,” said lead adviser and Indian River senior Will Rigling. "He didn’t have the kind of direction he had back
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Dosing of medications is based on the plasma level achieved with a given dose and how long the medicine remains in the body. This study is called
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pharmacokinetics-that is, what the body does to the medication. Ketamine is an intravenous medication used for anesthesia and sedation in children. However the pharmacokinetics of Ketamine has not been systematically studied. We propose to study the pharmacokinetics of ketamine in different age groups of children ranging from infants to teenagers.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial. For more information, please contact Archana Verma, (650) 721 - 1713.
The investigators hope to learn 1) if the addition of prophylaxis with vancomycin will decrease the rate of cefazolin non-susceptible surgical site infections (SSI), in high risk population 2) to develop better understanding of vancomycin and cefazolin pharmacokinetics in children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) 3) to assess the barriers to vancomycin dosing peri-operatively 4) to assess
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Thanks to George Bush's amazing deficit reduction plan, the budget deficit is now only 1.2% of GDP. If this trend continues, by
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the time George Bush leaves office, the budget will be within a hair's breath of being balanced. I can only hope that Democrats don't squander this precious legacy of fiscal responsibility.
Just kidding! Not about the budget deficit, I mean, but about the reason for it. The reason the budget deficit has closed is a combination of economic growth and increasing inequality, which has allowed the government to collect more revenue on a smaller base. The rich really are different--they pay higher tax rates.
These are the perils of attributing economic activity to presidential will. Democrats who got angry when they read the first paragraph should note that the budget deficit is closing whether or not George Bush wants it to; broad trends in the economy dominate even large changes in tax rates. Likewise, the fact that Bill Clinton wanted to close the budget deficit doesn't mean he did; in fact, broad changes in the economy were a much more important driver of change.
Yes, one could argue (and Bob
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BOCA RATON — On the heels of a vicious debate, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Thursday decried the nasty nature of
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the nationally watched Florida race but at the same time likened his Republican opponent, Ron DeSantis, to a temperamental child.
Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, kicked off a bus tour in Miami, visited three college campuses and appeared at a temple in Plantation, with early voting underway and the clock winding down on the Nov. 6 election.
Speaking to a crowd of several hundred students and supporters Thursday afternoon at an auditorium on the Florida Atlantic University campus, Gillum mocked DeSantis’ performance during Wednesday’s second debate, during which the Republican exploded during questioning from moderator Todd McDermott.
DeSantis, whose endorsement by President Donald Trump helped the former congressman coast to victory in the August GOP primary, lost his cool when McDermott asked him about his relationship with conservative author David Horowitz.
DeSantis “came a little undone yesterday,” Gillum began, after asking the crowd if they had tuned into the
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The FBI has disclosed a year-long investigation into the questionable practices of high-frequency trading less than 24 hours after the rest of the world discovered
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how suspect the practice can be.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation into high frequency trading on Wall Street about a year ago. "Trading ahead of other investors based on information about orders that other investors can't see could violate insider-trading laws," an FBI spokesperson explained to the Journal. The FBI joins investigations into high-frequency trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Attorney General's office. CBS News and various others have confirmed the existence of the FBI's investigation.
In a report on 60 Minutes last night, based on an excerpt from his latest book published in The New York Times Magazine on Monday, author Michael Lewis explained a not-so-frequently discussed Wall Street practice of electronically trading shares at a rapid pace to take advantage of the daily ebbs and flows of the market, commonly known as high-frequency trading. The practice is the focus of Lewis' latest book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. In
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When Zuma appointed Magashule as premier of the Free State in 2009, the doors to the provincial treasury were flung open and "King Ace
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", as some in the province refer to him, finally had unfettered access to the poor province's largesse, writes Adriaan Basson.
There is a reason why former presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki both side-lined Ace Magashule to become premier of the Free State during their presidencies.
Although Magashule was the most popular politician in that province, both Mandela and Mbeki knew enough about him to keep him away from the keys to the top office in the Free State and, by extension, the provincial fiscus.
Yes, this feels long ago, but there was a time in the ANC when having corruption clouds hanging over your head actually disqualified you from being promoted by the organisation.
All of this changed in December 2007 when Jacob Zuma was elected party president in Polokwane with the help of rogues like Magashule who saw Msholozi as a get-out-of-jail ticket.
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The final piece of a high-profile border security package got moving Tuesday when a House committee heard House Bill 12 by state Rep. Oscar Longoria
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, which would elevate the state's Border Prosecution Unit into an official statutory being.
Dope smugglers are smart enough to know when and where local prosecutors have the resources to go after them, especially in rural areas. That’s just one of the reasons district attorneys in counties along the Texas-Mexico border say they are backing a bill that would take an existing consolidated border prosecution agency and turn it into an official state unit.
House Bill 12, by state Rep. Oscar Longoria, D-Mission, would put into statute the structure and duties of the state’s current Border Prosecution Unit, which was formed in 2010 after the Legislature appropriated $2 million per year to help border district attorneys handle swelling caseloads. It is made up of 17 jurisdictions including all of the counties on the border and their surrounding areas.
In its current form, an assistant district attorney from each DAs office is assigned to handle the additional prosecutions of border crimes — smuggling, violent crimes
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The eight “Dogs of the Dow” for 2019 had an aggregate year-to-date gain of 10.7% in March
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, up from 8.8% at the end of February led by a gain of 24.6% for Cisco Systems, 24.1% for IBM and 18.5% for ExxonMobil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended March with a year-to-date gain of 11.2%, up slightly from 11.1% at the end of February.
Buy weakness to my semiannual and annual value levels of $41.70 and $39.84, respectively, and reduce holdings on strength to my monthly risky level at $55.58. My quarterly pivot is $52.67.
Chevron (CVX) ended March with a dividend yield of 3.93%, down from 4.27% in December, ranked fourth. The weekly chart for Chevron is positive but overbought with the stock above its five-week MMA at $121.77 and above its 200-week SMA or reversion to the mean at $107.81. The
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"We will continue to provide regular updates and security patches to Chrome on XP through the end of 2015," said Mark Larson, Chrome's director of
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engineering, in a short blog post Thursday.
A year and a half ago, Larson pledged to support Chrome on the even-then-aged operating system until "at least April 2015."
"We know that not everyone can easily switch to a newer operating system," Larson said of Google's decision to continue supporting Chrome on XP after the latter's retirement. "Millions of people are still working on XP computers every day [and] we want those people to have the option to use a browser that's up-to-date and as safe as possible on an unsupported operating system."
But enough was apparently enough.
Because Microsoft halted security fixes for IE on Windows XP on April 14, 2014, security professionals urged the OS's users to switch to another browser. Dropping IE for Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox or Opera Software's Opera was one way to minimize -- but not eliminate -- risk, they said.
Neither Mozilla or Opera have publicized end-of-support dates for their browsers
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AP -- G.E. Patterson, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and a minister for almost 50 years, died of heart
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failure Tuesday, the church announced. He was 67.
The predominantly black Protestant denomination, headquartered in Memphis, claims 6 million members worldwide and traces its origins to the 1870s.
Patterson was hospitalized in January for an undisclosed illness. He told his followers in 2005 that he suffered from prostate cancer.
At the 99th annual COGIC Holy Convocation in November, he said he had considered stepping down from the post he held since 2000, but changed his mind after receiving an outpouring of support.
"If my body being afflicted can get us back to where God wants us to be, then I'm willing to suffer," Patterson said at the time. Following his comments, Patterson received a standing ovation.
"It was a direct result of his work, such as his TV ministries, that allowed people to see COGIC as it should have been projected," said jurisdictional Bishop Jerry Maynard, the chief operating officer of the national church who had worked with Patterson since
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Even Windows users can run this free Linux hard drive utility. We show you how.
Hard drive capacities are quickly expanding, with internal desktop drives
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approaching the half-terabyte mark. The amount of data you can store on today's consumer hard drives was unthinkable even a decade ago, but huge apps and multimedia files have pushed this expansion. As the amount of data stored increases, so does the need to organize it. This usually means setting up a number of directories, but multiple partitions are another great way to manage high-capacity drives. A number of tools exist to make this easy, such as Norton PartitionMagic 8.01, our Editors' Choice (see our review at http://go.pcmag.com/partitionmagic801 ) among partitioning programs. But whereas PartitionMagic costs $70, the open-source community has a free graphical partitioning tool with many advanced functions: QTParted. Running QTParted from a bootable Linux CD-ROM or DVD is the safest way to use the program, and a method that lets even Windows users run it.
Partitions split a hard drive into
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Children born to middle-aged men are more likely than those born to younger fathers to develop any of a range of mental difficulties, including attention deficits
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, bipolar disorder, autism and schizophrenia, according to the most comprehensive study to date of paternal age and offspring mental health.
In recent years, scientists have debated based on mixed evidence whether a father's age is linked to his child's vulnerability to individual disorders like autism and schizophrenia. Some studies have found strong associations, while others have found weak associations or none at all.
The new report, which looked at many mental disorders in Sweden, should inflame the debate, if not settle it, experts said. Men have a biological clock of sorts because of random mutations in sperm over time, the report suggests, and the risks associated with later fatherhood may be higher than previously thought.
The findings were published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
"This is the best paper I've seen on this topic, and it suggests several lines of inquiry into mental illness," said Dr. Patrick Sullivan, a professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina, who was not involved in the research.
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Human Rights Lawyer and activist J C Weliamuna said the amendment to the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) legislation target money laundering, cyber
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crime, corruption and drug networks countering JO claims that the amendments would pave the way for a manhunt against ‘war heroes’.
He told the Sunday Observer that the amendment does not grapple with war crimes or assisting prosecutions with regard to human rights violations.
“The existing MLA provisions do not empower the law enforcement to properly use information available from other countries because we don’t have enabling domestic legislation to make use of the international conventions the country is signatory to,” Weliamuna explained. The MLA was listed in the order paper in order to be taken up in parliament. However, it had to be taken out as there were petitions filed against the amendments to the Bill. “They are talking about evidence on alleged war crimes coming into the country through this although it is the opposite of that is happening with regards to the prosecution. What they are really afraid has nothing to do with war crimes but everything to do with evidence relating to corruption reaching the country,�
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In a recent blogpost titled “Brushstrokes of Spring”, Daisann mentioned that she was given a lucky Spring Cou
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plet (揮春) (“fai cheun”) by Uncle Wah (華叔) (Szeto Wah). I couldn’t help marvelling at the latter’s quick wit and literary virtuosity.
With a total of just eight characters in two poetic lines and topping each line with one of two characters in Daisann’s Chinese name “蘭恩”, Uncle Wah at once described Daisann’s character as expressed through her writing profession and complimented her for having made a positive impact on Hong Kong society. The words that are shown in brackets in the translation are all implied words as deduced from the written words.
Speaking is one way to express one’s thoughts while writing is another way. The character “口” (mouth) is a pun and is used figuratively here to describe Daisann’s writing
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5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Data Breaches - 24/7 Wall St.
Over the course of 2018, security firm Risk Based Security
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reported 6,515 data breaches that exposed more than 5 billion records. Year over year, the total number of breaches slipped by 3.2% and the number of exposed records fell by 35.9%.
The 12 largest breaches alone accounted for 74% of all exposed records. Each of those dozen incidents exposed more than 100 million records.
The United States experienced nearly 35% (2,264) of all breaches, far more than any other country, and also recorded the highest number of exposed records with 2.26 billion (44.4% of the year’s total). The United Kingdom suffered 144 data breaches that exposed 19.6 million records, while Canada posted the third highest number of breaches with 112.
India recorded 82 data breaches and the second-highest number of exposed records with 1.28 billion. China suffered just 12, but the median number of records exposed in those incidents ran to 10 million per breach and the total number of exposed records came to 332.5
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THE Premier League transfer window is set to slam shut in a matter of days now.
Some bosses have been quiet, while others have splashed
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well over £100million to remould their squad.
Despite the moves that have been and gone already, there's still plenty of activity in the transfer market.
As well as done deals, the rumour mill is also in full flow.
MARCOS ROJO is a £30million target for ambitious Everton.
Toffees chief Marco Silva could take his pre-season spending to £127m by also nabbing Barcelona defenders Yerry Mina and Lucas Digne.
CHELSEA have moved for Real Madrid star Mateo Kovacic, according to reports.
The Blues were linked with a swoop for Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey last week, but are now thought to be looking at the Los Blancos star.
AARON RAMSEY could be used in a swap deal to bring Barcelona's Ousmane Dembele to Arsenal.
The Welshman has been locked in contract talks with the Gunners, as he enters his final year, but
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In the remote western province, hotbed of ethnic clashes between Han and Uyghurs, tension continues unabated. A group of people assault
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police station and officers, who open fire at point blank range to repel them.
Urumqi (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Overnight clashes between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the western province of Xinjiang have resulted in 27 victims, almost all protesters killed by police who opened fire on them. The violence took place in the desert area near Turpan, about 280 km from the provincial capital Urumqi. According to the official news agency Xinhua, the officers opened fire on "a mob of rioters."
Before the police opened fire 17 people had already died (9 police officers and 8 civilians). The crowd had stormed a police station and a government building. A local official speaking anonymously, said officers "opened fire on the crowd" to protect the buildings killing 10 civilians. Several dozen were injured on both sides, who have since been admitted to the local hospital.
The spark that ignited the clashes is unclear. The province has long been the epicenter of
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The states with the highest emissions levels mostly voted for the president-elect. Now, he’s selecting officials for his Cabinet who likely won
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’t try to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
For Democrats, the lingering question of whether it was demographic or economic anxiety that primarily motivated Donald Trump’s coalition is a little like poet Robert Frost asking whether the world will end in fire or ice.
The answer may be the same, too. Frost, of course, concluded that either would do the job. “I hold with those who favor fire,” he wrote, before adding: “for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice.” Likewise, with Trump, the accumulating evidence suggests his core voters feel eclipsed by both the cultural and economic changes reshaping American life.
Trump’s polarizing appeal has deepened the existing geographic and demographic fault lines in American politics into a chasm so imposing it could mark the border between two countries. On one side, Hillary Clinton routed Trump in the racially and culturally diverse metropolitan centers that are helping forge a globalized, information-
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Should utilities turn off the electricity when wildfire risk is high?
A Los Angeles County Fire Department helicopter makes a water drop on flames sweeping up a
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steep canyon wall, threatening homes on a ridge line after the Skirball wildfire swept through the Bel Air district of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
With strong winds blowing and bone-dry conditions, utility officials in San Diego on Thursday began shutting off the power to thousands of people — a pre-emptive move to reduce the danger of power lines sparking wildfires.
It’s a controversial approach that may soon become a growing trend across California.
As huge fires continued to envelope parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, San Diego Gas & Electric cut electricity to 12,000 customers in San Diego County by Thursday afternoon, after Santa Ana winds reached 88 mph in some rural areas.
Even though no fires were burning in San Diego County on Thursday morning, the utility notified up to 170,000 customers that they could have their power shut off by Saturday as a safety precaution, and that electricity in some affected communities wouldn’t be back on until Monday.
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Eoin Morgan’s England need improvement against India in this week’s one-day international series after the tourists wrapped up the Vital
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ity IT20s with a seven-wicket win in Bristol.
The hosts’ 198 for nine on Sunday was their third-highest Twenty20 international total on home soil.
But on an excellent pitch, and small playing area, it proved inadequate as Rohit Sharma’s unbeaten century eased India to a 2-1 series success after a third-wicket stand of 89 with his captain Virat Kohli.
Jason Roy (67) and Jos Buttler appeared to have put England on course to easily top 200 – but after their opening partnership of 94 in under eight overs, momentum was lost, and there was no grand finish either.
A manic conclusion to the innings in fact saw five wickets fall in 15 balls, albeit for 21 runs, as Hardik Pandya finished with a career-best four for 38.
Morgan said: “Those 20 or 30 runs we missed out on, in the back-end of our innings, cost us.
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Gisela Williams travelled as a guest of Tova Wald (+972-4629 1878; tovawald.com), which
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Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician went home for the weekend without reaching a verdict.
Friday was the first
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full day of deliberations for the seven-man, five-woman panel considering the fate of Dr. Conrad Murray.
The jurors range in age from 32 to 57. By their own description on the questionnaire, six are Anglo, five Latino, and one African American.
In terms of background for understanding the complex medical information, Juror 10 may be the best qualified. She got a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in England and worked for awhile as a lab technician. She moved to the San Gabriel Valley a 12 years ago. Her husband also has a science background and works in engineering. Juror 3 has an MBA and only two of the jurors do not have at least some college work.
Jurors will return Monday at 8:30 a.m.
How long will it take them to finish? That's anyone's guess. Gerry Schwartz, who was in the pool of prospective Murray jurors, says the group may want a few more days in the spotlight.
"They
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Making good on first lady Michelle Obama's promise last summer, the award for the 2015 School Counselor of the Year will be given at the White
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House today.
Corey Notestine, 33, a school counselor at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colo., will be recognized with the top honor from the American School Counselor Association, based in Alexandria, Va., in a ceremony this afternoon.
•Jennifer Degruise, Montegut Middle School, Montegut, La.
•Jennifer Diaz, White Oak Elementary School, Sugar Hill, Ga.
•Liz Parker, Dumbarton Elementary School, Laurel, Va.
•Tawnya Pringle, Hoover High School, San Diego, Calif.
While the Teacher of the Year has traditionally been recognized at the White House, this is the first year that the counselor award receives the same treatment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The first lady has highlighted the role of school counselors as part of her Reach Higher initiative, which encourages all young people to aspire to some form of postsecondary education. Addressing the school counseling association in July, Ms. Obama pledged to bring
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MIDDLETOWN, NJ - The 17th of February will see members of Garden Club R.F.D. meeting at Deep Cut
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Gardens in Middletown where Diane Allen of the Monmouth County Parks System will discuss “Pruning & Preparing for Spring.” If weather permits, there will be a brief tour in the garden to view proper pruning.
Pruning is a vital part of gardening. But, people often do not want to prune trees and shrubs because they are afraid of possibly killing or seriously harming what they are working on. With some knowledge about the act of pruning, however, you should be able to be successful in your endeavors.
When you prune deciduous plants in the winter, it promotes fast regrowth in the spring. This is because most plants are dormant during the winter and since the foliage is pretty much gone, you can see the shape of the deciduous plants including the crossing and rubbing of branches-- and you can prune with confidence.
1. Prune on a mild, dry day.
2. First prune
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With the Broncos choosing not to put cornerback Chris Harris Jr. on injured reserve, they needed to make room for the addition of cornerback Jamar Taylor
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Denver will waive offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio in a corresponding move, Ryan O’Halloran of the Denver Post reports.
Kouandjio signed Nov. 20 and played in the past two games.
Kouandjio, 25, also spent time with the Broncos last season, playing in three games with one start. The Broncos released him out of the preseason in September.
The Bills made Kouandjio a second-round pick in 2014. He appeared in 25 games with seven starts in his three seasons in Buffalo.
I can remember it like it was yesterday. Doug Whaley was doing cartwheels over being able to pick this guy in the second round. When asked about the game wherein Kouandjio surrendered 7 sacks to an undersized defensive end, Whaley laugjed at the question and said “There arent any 200 pound defensive ends in the NFL.” Ignoring the fact there are many s
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Diet does not have to be a four-letter word.
Most of the time, a diet implies weight loss and comes loaded with restrictions
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and perhaps even plans that are not very healthy. But new recommendations released recently by a team of health experts refer to diet with a different goal in mind: preventing heart disease and stroke.
"We see a lot about diets on the Internet, with everyone commenting about which ones are good for you, but tell me, good for what?" said Dr. Amit Khera, one of the authors of the 2019 Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. "If it's weight loss, sure, some of these diets can help you lose weight, but that does not mean they're heart-healthy."
Developed by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, the new guidelines emphasize a healthy, nutritious diet can play a tremendous role in lowering risk for heart attack and stroke. Such a diet also can help in "reducing or reversing" obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure – all considered risk factors for heart disease.
Specifically, the recommendations
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What If Your Landlord Is Foreclosed Upon?
Every day, the news is filled with stories about the economy, housing prices and mortgage problems
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. Foreclosure rates are increasing, with several military-dense areas being hit hard. So, what happens if your off-base landlord stops paying the mortgage on your house and the house goes into foreclosure?
The bad news is that you will probably have to move. At foreclosure, the home will be purchased by either the lender, a new homeowner, or an investor. The purchaser nearly always chooses to terminate the tenantship when the property changes owners, except in the few states where that is not permitted. Depending on your situation, and the state that the property is located in, you may know for months ahead of time or it is possible that they could legally evict you within days of the foreclosure sale.
There are a lot of websites that can help you understand what happens in a foreclosure and how it affects you as a renter. Unfortunately, foreclosure laws vary widely from state to state. Here are a list of websites that talk about tenants and foreclosure. Please be aware that some of
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The Portgordon event was first held 25 years ago in the village’s harbour, after local people decided to spend £150 on a
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box of garden fireworks from the Slaters Sports store in Buckie.
It was a rousing success, with children from the local primary school getting involved by creating the guy for the top of the bonfire.
Donations taken at that display in 1993 and profit made from sales at the burger, kipper and bottle stalls were enough to pay for the fireworks used.
From such humble beginnings, the display has came on leaps and bound, with organisers undertaking a range of training courses to gain the qualifications required to set-off more powerful and spectacular fireworks.
Last year was the first with a new chairman of the organisational committee, with Michael Burnett inheriting the role following the retirement of long-time incumbent Kenny Gunn.
Mr Gunn said there had many high points – and some low points – to reminisce about over the past quarter of a century.
Risk assessments have also proved problematic, with one bonfire identified as a “trip hazard” for school children and
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Ever since foreign traders all but took the Czech crown (Kč) hostage in the last three weeks of May in speculative trading caused by that country
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's poor economic results and political instability, reverberations from the heavy dealing in Prague shook the Slovak crown (Sk) as well. The National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) successfully stabilized the Sk by throttling the money supply and relentlessly fixing the Sk's basket, but some market observers think that the victory will be a short-lived one, saying the Slovak currency will have to walk the path of its Czech mate and depreciate.
The main indicator that the Sk will go down more when the NBS relaxes its tight measures is the fact that the Sk lost value right after the Kč, one analyst said. "When the Czech crown fell by 15 percent and its fluctuation band was eliminated, the Slovak currency followed immediately," said Martin Kabát, an analyst with the brokerage firm Slávia Capital.
At the beginning of the May 19 week, the Sk depreciated 7 percent, but it later regained some of its value. At the end of
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In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we’re taking important steps to realign Microsoft’s business. I want to
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tell you about what we’re doing and why.
Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year and it is approximately $900 million below our earlier expectations.
The fact that we are growing at all during the worst recession in two generations reflects our strong business fundamentals and is a testament to your hard work. Our products provide great value to our customers. Our financial position is solid. We have made long-term investments that continue to pay off.
But it is also clear that we are not immune to the effects of the economy. Consumers and businesses have reined in spending, which is affecting PC shipments and IT expenditures.
Our response to this environment must combine a commitment to long-term investments in innovation with prompt action to reduce our costs.
During the second quarter we started down the right path. As the economy deteriorated, we acted quickly. As a result, we
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The headteachers of the Pele Trust schools.
A Multi Academy Trust (MAT) of schools in Ponteland is now official.
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Ponteland High and Ponteland Primary School, along with Darras Hall, Belsay, Heddon St Andrew’s CofE Primary Schools and Richard Coates CofE School, operated as Pele Trust from the start of the month.
They carried out concurrent stakeholder consultations in May and June 2017, after which the governing bodies of each school made a decision to move towards academy conversion.
However, the formation of Pele Trust was delayed due to a number of issues outside of their control – most notably the re-tendering of the new school and leisure complex in Ponteland.
The agreed purpose of the MAT is as follows: ‘To build a learning community, brought together by choice, that enables our schools to support and challenge each other to provide consistently outstanding education, whilst offering a stable pathway for students, parents and staff.
The directors have committed to formally reviewing the trust-wide admissions policy later this academic year.
During the
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Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the Saudi woman who captured the world’s attention by barricading herself in a Thai hotel room
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after fleeing abuse in her own country, has said she hopes to inspire other Saudi women to be “brave and free”.
Speaking in her first interview after being given asylum in Canada, and landing in Toronto on Saturday, Qunun, told the ABC Australia her case might be the “agent for change” in Saudi Arabia, a country where women are denied basic freedoms and are not allowed to work, marry and travel without the permission of a male guardian.
Qunun, who was in her first year of university, described how her desire to be independent and to escape abuse inflicted by her father and brother had driven her to make the drastic decision to flee her family during a visit to Kuwait, and head for Australia, with a stopover in Bangkok. She had a visa for Australia but at Bangkok airport she was detained by the Thai immigration authorities, who then placed her in a hotel room ready to be deported back to Saudi Arabia.
After barricading herself
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Excited newly-released iPhone X customers at a Mac City Apple Reseller Store in One Utama shopping mall on November 24, 2017 in Kuala
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Lumpur, Malaysia.
Good morning. A tussle this week between prominent investors and Apple Inc. over iPhone use by young people comes amid a nascent re-evaluation of the smartphone’s social consequences within the industry that spawned it, writes WSJ's Tripp Mickle.
The smartphone has fueled much of Silicon Valley’s soaring profits over the past decade, enriching companies in sectors from social media to gaming to payments. But over the past year or so, a number of key industry figures, including executives at Apple and Facebook, have voiced concerns about the downsides of the technology’s ubiquity.
Those are the kinds of concerns spotlighted in a letter to Apple on Saturday from Jana Partners LLC and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or Calstrs, which control about $2 billion of Apple shares. The letter urged the tech giant to develop new software tools that would help parents control and limit phone use more easily, and to
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Skateboarding is the classic pastime of suburban teen malcontents for good reason: By defying the intended use of public space, it
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appeals to young people who question broader cultural expectations. Reassessing concrete surroundings leads to skepticism about the prescribed conventions of growing up. For Matt Berry, San Ramon native and twenty-year-old bandleader of Happy Diving, skateboarding pivoted him away from suburban malaise and toward the Big World.
The title of Happy Diving's confident debut — Big World — is scrawled beneath a black-and-white photo of some goofy-spooky silhouettes. It's in quotation marks, emphasizing the ambiguity: Is "Big World" ironic grandstanding, youthful naivety, or a hopeful prediction?
The music has all three qualities. Torrents of feedback get sharpened into mightily indulgent guitar leads and copious solos, which Berry casually described as "dumb" and "masturbatory." In these guitar-weary times, displaying proficiency is likely to attract such slights. Preempting them forces the question of whether the guitar playing on
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The National Alliance on Mental Health is offering free Family to Family classes for residents of Schuylkill County. The 12-week course, for
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which sessions go at 6 p.m. Thursdays through April 25, is for family members and caregivers, 18 and older, of people living with a mental health condition. The sessions are held in Conference Room B at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill S. Jackson Street. The effort, according to a release, is an opportunity for families to gain information, insight, understanding and empowerment. All material is provided free. For more information or to register, call 570-527-0002 or 267-414-4870.
The Shenandoah Valley High School Student Council is conducting a drive to provide members of the United States military with various items that would not necessarily be available at their deployment locations around the world. The collection drive is sponsored by “Operation Gratitude,” a nonprofit group that ships more than 200,000 care packages to men and women currently serving in the military, according to a release from Robert C. Yudinsky, school district public
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Brevard Public Schools released results from its survey about arming staff.
Teachers and students are opposed to a program that would arm school employees,
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while parents narrowly support the program, according to a survey by the Brevard County School District.
As part of the survey, students, teachers, employees and parents were asked to answer "yes" or "no" to the following question: Do you support or oppose arming and training school administrators and support employees to serve as guardians who could respond with deadly force to campus shooters?
The survey was shared with every Brevard Public Schools employee and family with an email address on file twice over a period of 10 days. A link to the survey was also posted on Facebook. District staff acknowledged that the survey could be taken multiple times from the same computer.
-Of the 2,228 school district employees who responded, 57 percent said they oppose the program, while 36 percent said they support it and 7 percent said they were not sure.
-Of the 1,195 teachers who took the survey, 59 percent said they oppose the program, while 34 percent said they support it.
-Of
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Moeen Ali played three County Championship games for Worcestershire in 2016.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes is
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happy to change a winning team to accommodate England all-rounder Moeen Ali.
Moeen is available for the County Championship Division Two match against Northamptonshire, starting on Friday.
And, despite last weekend's eight-wicket win over Glamorgan, Rhodes has confirmed that Moeen, 29, will play.
"Whoever misses out, it's special circumstances. They understand that," Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"We love having Mo in our side - he's a wonderful character. His attitude is brilliant when he comes back to play for us."
As well as his one-off Championship appearance against Northants, Moeen has been made available by the England and Wales Cricket Board for Worcestershire's first three One-Day Cup matches - against Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northants.
"We've got good young players who have played quite a bit now so hopefully we can all gel together this year and surprise
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The fashion-peddling first daughter is getting an office in the West Wing, while the wonky former first daughter will accept an award from
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Variety.
Be honest: Six months ago, if someone had told you that Ivanka Trump, fashion-peddling, glamour-gal scion of the Trump real-estate and branding dynasty, would be moving into her own West Wing Office, getting special security clearance which will allow her to view classified info, trying on the role of policy maven, and even receiving her own “government-issued devices,” you’d have thought they were bonkers, or baked, or both.
Now consider that, on Monday, Variety magazine announced that Ivanka’s long-time gal pal Chelsea Clinton—the earnest, wonky, mediaphobic scion of the Clinton political dynasty—has been chosen as one of its Lifetime Impact Honorees for her humanitarian work. Clinton will be feted at a gala luncheon in Manhattan next month, along with actors Blake Lively, Jessica Chastain, and Audra McDonald, the morning show host and
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MANILA, Philippines—As an 11-year-old in 1979, Toym Leon Imao felt the heavy hand of the Marcos dictatorship when
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his favorite TV cartoon series “Voltes V” was unceremoniously taken off the air.
The hugely popular Japanese series, about a super robot and its five pilots defending Earth from Boazanian beast fighters, was banned during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos for its supposedly rebellious messages. The plug was pulled when the series was down to its last four episodes—in which the Voltes team finally overthrows the tyrannical emperor from Planet Boazan.
The piece is currently on exhibit at Palma Hall of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, in line with campus activities commemorating Marcos’ declaration of martial law on Sept. 21, 1972.
“I felt so bad when ‘Voltes V’ was banned. For the first time, the reality of martial law was felt by children my age. As a child, I knew what it was but I had a vague idea about it. But when he banned ‘
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Dear Namco Bandai, you should probably pay more attention to the Windows Phone platform, if only to make sure people don't get confused about
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Pac-Man continuity.
Yes, one of this week's top free games is Pacman 8. Not Pac-Man 8, but Pacman 8. That's an important distinction. It also bears noting that there is also a paid version of Pacman 8. which means the folks at SimpleisBeautiful.com are making a buck or two off of that iconic yellow disc.
I'm sure Namco Bandai gave its blessing. Probably.
Angry Birds without the Star Wars should be called Sad Birds.
Because we can't trust our big buck hunting to amateurs, now can we?
The staying power of this stupid little game is astounding.
Those cracking sands just aren't cracking as much as they used to.
This one's been burning its way up the charts for a bit. Last week it was number 11. This week it counts!
Slowly extracting itself from the top ten list.
People love snowboarding games. Well, I love
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Park Honan, who has died aged 86, will be known to posterity chiefly as the American author (co-author in one case)
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of five outstanding biographies of classic English writers; but to his friends he will also remain one of the most memorable individuals they ever encountered. Even his first name was unforgettable. Park is a common name in Korea, and readers who knew him only from his books often assumed that he was part Korean. In fact it was the surname of his father’s best friend, which he preferred to his other given names, Leonard Hobart.
Park was born in Utica, New York. His father, William, a surgeon who commanded a military field hospital in the first world war, was much older than his mother, Annette (nee Neudecker), and died when Park was seven. Saving his mother tuition fees, Park won a scholarship to Deep Springs, an unconventional college in the Californian desert which prepared a select group of students for life with a combination of academic courses and hard manual work. From there he won another scholarship to Chicago University, which he left with a master’
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Boston College may be one of the most hypocritical colleges in America. Constantly calling for its students to be “men and women for others,
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” BC fails to live up to its own hype, actively discarding its marginalized students in favor of prestige and arbitrary tradition.
Here’s just a small sample of the ways BC’s hypocrisy shines: We still do not have an LGBTQ+ resource center, which is a huge slap in the face to the entire BC queer community. We have more students from the top 1 percent than we do from the bottom 60 percent, which is a disgrace given our $2.2 billion endowment and supposed support of America’s poor and working class. Just last week, it was discovered that some of the braille on campus is printed onto the signs. Let me repeat that. BC braille is printed on so that you cannot feel it. What a terribly poetic metaphor. One of the only aides to the blind and visually impaired students on campus is a cheap facade, nothing more than worthless lip service (but is honestly nothing new in the long history of BC doing relatively little
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At least 1.4 million of Catalans have filled the streets of Barcelona, calling for secession from Spain, as the region prepares to go to
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the polls in what local politicians say will serve as a proxy vote for independence.
The massive pro-independence rally, called under the title “Gateway to the Catalan Republic” (Via Lliure cap a la República Catalana) is taking place in Barcelona, the regional capital, on Catalonia’s national Day, September 11.
About 500,000 people registered on social networks to participate in the pro-independence event, Jordi Sanchez, the president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), told Sputnik news agency on Friday. However, photos and videos from the scene suggest that many more people had flooded into the streets of Barcelona.
Sanchez said he believed the rally will be one of the largest in Catalonia’s history.
The rally, carried out under the slogan “Let’s start building a new country” saw people coming to Barcelona from all parts of Catalonia by car, buses and rail.
The
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In Brief: Very few people have seen Stanley Kubrick's feature directorial debut Fear and Desire (1953), and for good reason — the director
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hated this early work so much that he tried to have every print destroyed. Luckily for us, he failed. While it's by no means a great film, Kubrick's criticism of his own work was unduly harsh. Elements of what would become his auteurial signature were already in place despite his extreme youth (Kubrick was only 24 when production began), and I've always been of the opinion that he was just upset that he didn't come out of the gate with something equal to Citizen Kane, which Orson Welles directed at a similar age. Kubrick's gripes aside, there's plenty of interesting material to be found in his story of four military pilots of indiscriminate nationality in an unspecified conflict who crash behind enemy lines and must make there way back to safety. There are some intriguing metaphysical overtones and anti-war sentiments that Kubrick would revisit in later films, albeit in a less obtrusive light, and many of his visual flourishes were evident from the very beginning
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REPUBLICAN candidates are already elbow-to-elbow in the early battleground states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Bill Clinton is busy looking
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presidential as Democratic strategists plot his reelection run. As the race for the presidency begins in earnest, a big question remains unanswered: Will an independent candidate make run for the White House in 1996?
Ross Perot was a major factor the last time around, after all. His backers are now holding meetings around the country to measure interest in another third-party try. Committees to draft retired Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell -- enormously popular in national polls -- into an independent bid have also sprung up.
Mr. Perot didn't exactly have a wonderful time the last time he ran, however, and he may just be coyly acting the kingmaker. General Powell could be a formidable political presence, but his spokesman has indicated that the presidency is not something he has aspired to, and at this point an independent race on his part would be an enormous logistical challenge.
''It's a huge amount of work, and time's a'wasting,'' notes Susan Estrich, a University
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A daily low dose of aspirin won’t help healthy older people stay alive any longer, suggests new research published this week in the New England
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Journal of Medicine. It might even raise their risk of dying early of certain things, like cancer.
The disappointing findings come from an extensive, randomized, and controlled study that first began in 2010, known as the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial.
Over the next four years, nearly 20,000 people mostly over the age of 70 in both the U.S. and Australia were recruited for the trial. Black and Hispanic volunteers between 65 and 70 were included as well, since these groups have a higher risk of heart disease and dementia. All of the volunteers had no history of cardiovascular disease, dementia, or other major health problems. Half of them were asked to take 100 milligrams of aspirin a day, while the other half took a placebo.
The trial was scheduled to conclude at the end of 2017, but it was ended six months early, in June, because the results were already clear. After a median length of 4.
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Synack senior security researcher Wesley Wineberg has received US$25,000 from Microsoft for quietly disclosing a bug that allows any Hotmail account to
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be hijacked.
The cross-site request forgery vulnerability means that any user visiting a malicious page can have their accounts hijacked without further interaction.
The since-patched hole existed in Microsoft Live.com and could have been spun into a dangerous worm, Wineberg says.
"With IMAP and contact book access, a worm could easily email all of a user’s contacts - or at least the ones who use Hotmail, Outlook.com - with something enticing, ILOVEYOU virus -style, and spread to every user who clicks the link," Wineberg says.
"The only prerequisite was that the victim was logged in and had a valid session token in their cookie.
"This CSRF lets me bypass the user interaction step of the OAuth authentication system."
Wineberg created a proof-of-concept application that could hijack sessions and showcased it in a video.
He says the vulnerability is merely a "classic" cross-site request
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China to dominate in 2030? Maybe not.
FORTUNE -- Now that Japan has been knocked out by China as the world's second-
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biggest economy, the next question is: When will it dominate the U.S.? The Asian powerhouse could unseat the U.S. from the top spot as early as 2030, experts say, reconfirming China's growing influence on economies in every corner of the globe.
But a lot could happen over the next 20 years. Japan has been the world's second-largest economy for most of the past four decades. At one point, there was even speculation that Japan would eventually unseat the United States -- in the 1980s, Japan edged very close, but not close enough.
But unlike Japan, which has an older, smaller population and an economy that saw lackluster growth for more than a decade, China has plenty more room to grow. Its potential lies in the fact that about one-fifth of the world lives there and virtually every major company looking to increase market share, from General Electric (GE, Fortune 500) to Caterpillar (CAT, Fortune 500), has
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To boycott Rolling Stone's cover story is to say that we are unwilling, as a society, to cope with difficult questions.
The knee jerk
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boycotts in response to this week’s Rolling Stone cover story about Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar ‘Jahar’ Tsarnaev, are helping no one. If we want to break the cycle of mass homicide and terror, we need to face the personal histories of men like the Tsarnaev brothers in all their discomfiting complexity and horror, and this includes not only putting up with attractive photos but also giving more subtle thought to their circumstances. The anguished reaction to the article—”I just want to throw up,” proclaimed conservative commentator Michelle Malkin on Fox News— taps a deep vein of revulsion in American culture toward the possibility that mass murder can in any way be explainable. It feels distasteful and outrageous to seek “answers” to something as awful as mass terror. But to understand the terror is not to forgive or forget it.
When we distance ourselves from our shared humanity and treat mass murderers as removed from
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For Sherman Oaks-based designer Karen Tandy, interior and exterior design work together in creating an inviting home base.
"They work hand in
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hand," Tandy says. "People need to look at a home's architecture when they landscape."
So, when a Toluca Lake couple hired Tandy to help them with their lawn-to-drought-garden makeover, Tandy carefully considered the home's Tudor style.
Cactus, for instance, would not suit the home's pitched roofs and storybook details.
"That would look strange," she says. "It isn't compatible with the house."
How to transform a thirsty lawn into a low-water, yet lush English garden?
The couple wanted to reduce their water bill and create a pretty, low-maintenance yard but were afraid it would "look like the desert," Tandy says.
In the designer's mind, however, the yard needed more than just a drought-tolerant update.
"It was a boring front yard," she says. "You couldn't tell where the door was. The approach to the
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Scholarships from Westland Rotary will make attending college this fall easier for some Wayne-Westland graduates.
“This is always
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a great day in Rotary,” said Rotarian Mark McConnell, a Westland district court judge who presented club scholarships at a recent luncheon at Joy Manor in Westland. Family members and educators joined the winners, sharing their pride at reaching this milestone.
• Caroline Mahalak, a John Glenn High graduate and daughter of Gerard and Jocelyn Mahalak. She’ll study engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
• Ashlyn Barnes, a Wayne Memorial High graduate and daughter of Michael Barnes and Rhonda Jones. She’ll study psychology at Western Michigan University.
• Brianna Nolasco, a John Glenn High and William D. Ford Career Technical Center graduate and daughter of Maria Nolasco. She’ll study film at Wayne State University.
• Summer Madison, a John Glenn High graduate and daughter of Ron and Sally Madison. She’ll study occupational therapy at Eastern Michigan University. She received her scholarship through Rot
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Siem Reap’s queen of yoga, Heidi DeWald, is leaving town after four years of teaching devoted followers how to torque
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themselves into Nirvana.
Seeking instead to apply her business skills in an NGO capacity, she moved to Siem Reap four years ago to work at the Angkor Hospital for Children under Jon Morgan. After six months at the hospital she moved on and began doing consulting work for NGOs around Siem Reap.
Yoga has always been her true passion though. “Even my holidays back in Sydney were meditation or yoga retreats with no cell phones or computers,” she said.
Along with her consulting work, Heidi has been teaching Ashtanga yoga at the Singing Tree/Peace Café since her arrival in town. One of the things she’ll miss most about Siem Reap is her yogi disciples.
She’s moving to back to Australia – to Burleigh Heads, near Byron Bay – to study Ayurvedic medicine. “I’m looking forward to being by the ocean again, and there’s a big yoga community
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The United States in April banned American firms from selling parts and software to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for seven years for violating the sanctions against
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Iran.
Apple supplier Skyworks Solutions Inc forecast current-quarter revenue below estimates on Thursday as global smartphone demand slows and U.S. restrictions on customer ZTE weigh, overshadowing better-than-expected second-quarter results. Skyworks, whose radio frequency chips are used in Apple Inc’s iPhone, joins a long list of global suppliers to warn of smartphone weakness that had fueled fears of waning demand for iPhones. However, Apple reported resilient iPhone sales on Tuesday. Piper Jaffray analyst Harsh Kumar said the company’s forecast miss is mostly because of the action against ZTE. The hit on revenue from ZTE of about $25 million to $30 million was included in the guidance, Chief Executive Officer Liam Griffin said on a conference call with analysts. The United States in April banned American firms from selling parts and software to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for seven years for violating the sanctions against Iran.
Skyworks said it expects third-quarter revenue in the
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There are no publicly traded companies headquartered in Central Louisiana. That may change.
The holding company for Alexandra-based Red River Bank has registered with
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the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its stock.
Red River Bancshares Inc. has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "RRBI."
An estimated price per share in the IPO was not included in the S-1 form filed with the SEC on Wednesday. A proposed maximum offering of $30 million was listed. The information provided in the S-1 filing is preliminary and could change.
An IPO is the first sale of stock to the public in a previously privately held company. To this point, shares in Red River Bancshares have only been sold privately.
According to the S-1 filing, Red River Bancshares currently has more than 500 shareholders. The company has raised more than $40 million in five previous private stock offerings. A portion of the shares in the IPO will be issued and sold by the company and a portion will be sold by certain
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The MLB is about to take a giant step forward with the new proposed contract between players and owners as they come to agreement on HGH testing.
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That’s the report out of the New York Times in Michael Schmidt’s piece, New Contract Will Enable Baseball to Test for H.G.H.
As far as I’m concerned, this places Major League Baseball leaps ahead of the NFL’s washrag-type attitude where they can’t seem to finalize their plans to test for this substance. They just can’t seem to get it right yet.
Depicted in my last piece, California Representative Henry Waxman Calls Into Question NFL Union “Delay” Tactics Regarding HGH Testing, I discuss the NFL’s inability to have the guts to make a real commitment to testing for Human Growth Hormone. Oh sure, they can come up with a plan, but follow through on it, nah, maybe next year!!!
And questioning the validity of the test (the players union’s reasoning for not moving forward) holds absolutely no water whatsoever
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Turkey challenges the US with stun gun "Wattozz"
Discussion in 'Turkish Defence Forum' started by Bismarck, Dec 6
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, 2018.
The energy weapon of Turkey "Wattozz" produced all around by domestic means demands the "Taser" from the USA. Unlike Taser, Wattozz is wireless. Turkey's miracle weapon is also referred to as the best non-lethal weapon in the world. The domestic energy weapon produced by the Albayraklar group after a four-year working life does not harm human health with a range of 8 meters. Electroshock kills the person. The only competitor of the weapon, which will be mainly used by the security forces, is the "Taser" from the USA. Unlike "Taser" "Wattozz" is equipped with better high-tech. Next month you will start mass production. More than 70 thousand orders from 60 countries have already been received.
The energy weapon of Turkey "Wattozz" produced all around by domestic means demands the "Taser" from the USA. Unlike Taser, Wattozz is wireless. Turkey
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Remember 2000? Everybody was very happy with the fact that Y2K had passed without nary a glitch, and the e-commerce revolution was
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in full flower. Most of the attention went to e-commerce startups, but IT-oriented people my age and older also recall that many larger firms were attempting to embrace e-commerce. While I was only on the fringes of that movement, in many cases a consultant or academic like me would be brought in to help a company strategize about this important new capability.
It feels like that again now, and this time the focus is on Big Data. A lot of companies are aware that Big Data and analytics offer them considerable opportunity for competitive advantage or parity. They glance sideways at Google Inc. or eBay or Facebook Inc. and say, “Are they going to take over my business?” They peek at GE, and say, “Should I be making a similarly bold investment in data and analytics?” Many organizations are now trying to familiarize their executives with the Big Data possibilities, and to develop a strategy for how to proceed with it.
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