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MANCHESTER UNITED are planning to offer Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba £155,000-a-week in order to lure him to Old
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Trafford.
The France international has seen his stock rapidly rise since joining Juventus from United on a free transfer in 2012.
Pogba's form in Italy has caught the attention of Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid but Red Devils boss Louis van Gaal is keen to bring him back.
Last October, the 22-year-old penned a new Juventus deal until 2019 worth £70,000-a-week but reports in Italy suggest United chiefs are ready to blow that contract out of the water and hand him £155,000-a-week to sign in the summer.
The Serie A side's boss Massimo Allegri recently admitted the club will struggle to hold on to their £75m-rated midfielder.
Allegri said: "Everything in life has a price, unfortunately. I don't think it is a problem we need to consider right now.
"It is difficult to replace world class players, but it can be done, as football goes
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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, has said the ministry will begin the paddock development (growing of special
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grasses for cattle) in August.
Ogbeh, who made the disclosure at an interactive session with journalists yesterday in Abuja, explained that after some time, the country would become an exporter of the grass to earn foreign exchange.
He said the ministry had started bringing the special seeds of grass (fodder seeds) into the country.
“The Saudi Arabia is asking that if Nigeria can grow enough grass, they will buy to feed their cows,” he said.
He assured that with the paddock development, the clash between farmers and herdsmen in the country would be put to an end.
“The clash between farmers and herdsmen has been getting worse by the years and by the grace of God I will bring it to an end,” he said.
The Cable reported that the minister said no farmer would allow his crops to be eaten by cattle.
“No farmer in the world would like to plant his crops and arrive to
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"Battleground," a political comedy about a Senate primary campaign, will debut on the video-streaming service next month.
Hulu
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is beefing up its effort to be an Internet video destination to challenge Netflix with plans to produce its first scripted series next month.
The video-steaming service has ordered 13 episodes of "Battleground," a political comedy about a primary campaign for a Wisconsin Senate seat, that will debut on February 14, Hulu announced today. Hulu will follow that up with 10 new episodes of "A Day in the Life," a documentary series about famous people that returns in March, and a six-part travelogue from Richard Linklater, director of "Dazed and Confused, the company said in a statement.
All three shows will be available to users of Hulu's free service and Hulu Plus, its premium subscription service, the company said.
Hulu, which Hulu's recently announced that its revenue rose 60 percent last year, is also considering its options for raising more capital, Andy Forssell, chief content officer, told Bloomberg in an interview.
"We have a very healthy business
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Frank Cordero speaks about the World Food Prize.
Members of the Occupy Iowa movement are turning their attention to the Iowa-based World Food
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Prize.
Occupy’s Frank Cordaro spoke at a statehouse news conference today about the group’s opposition to the annual Food Prize festivities held in Des Moines.
“The World Food Prize is a sham,” Cordaro said. This October, the $250,000 World Food Prize will be awarded to Daniel Hillel, a scientist from Israel who developed new ways to irrigate crops in some of the driest regions of the planet.
The Occupy group isn’t taking issue with all of the people who’ve been awarded the World Food Prize, but rather what Cordaro calls the “corporate ownership” of the prize.
“The very same corporate financial elites that run Wall Street are the same corporate financial elites that own the World Food Prize and control the world food supply system,” Cordaro said. He cited several companies that back the event including Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred and Syngenta
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New animal studies at Henry Ford Hospital found that sildenafil, a drug commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction, may be effective in
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relieving painful and potentially life-threatening nerve damage in men with long-term diabetes.
The research targeted diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the most common complication of diabetes, affecting as many as 70 percent of patients.
The study was recently published online in PLOS ONE.
Lei Wang, M.D., the Henry Ford neuroscientist who led the research, said that although numerous drugs have been shown to be effective in earlier animal experiments, most have not provided benefits in clinical trials.
"Generally, young diabetic animals with an early stage of peripheral neuropathy are used to investigate various drug treatments," Dr. Wang explains. "But patients with diabetes who are enrolled in clinical trials often are older and have advanced peripheral neuropathy.
"Failure to develop and properly evaluate treatments in the laboratory that properly reflect the target clinical population with diabetic peripheral neuropathy may contribute to the failure of clinical trials."
To mimic clinical trials in which diabetes patients have advanced peripheral neuropathy, the Henry Ford
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We’ve tested nearly every over-the-air (OTA) TV DVR out there, and while some of them came close,
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none of them really hit the target for us. The TabletTV system, however, makes a ton of sense. It may not have a massive built-in audience waiting to pounce on it, but once word gets out about how cool it is, we have a feeling it’s going to be extremely popular.
If you got lost in that wash of acronyms just now, an OTA TV DVR is a device that can tune in free, over-the-air, HD TV signals from all your local broadcast stations and record them, just like your cable or satellite DVR does. The best one we’ve tested so far is the TiVo Roamio OTA, which does a great job of pairing free local broadcast TV with Internet apps like Netflix and YouTube. But it must live at your home, sitting with your home entertainment components, connected to the Internet. The TabletTV system, on the other hand, suffers none of those limitations.
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A Queensland Indigenous woman sacked two days after filing an official complaint about racism is taking a government-funded domestic violence organisation to the workplace watchdog.
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Case manager Samantha Cooper had worked for the Centre Against Domestic Abuse in the Moreton Bay region, north of Brisbane, since March, running a pilot program aimed at helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.
After six months of alleged racial discrimination, and several stated attempts to deal with the issues more informally, she filed an official complaint on November 27 outlining a long list of alleged incidents.
The 25-year-old had been described as going “walkabout”, told she was “quite pretty for an Aboriginal” and asked if she had ever met a “real” Aboriginal person, she claimed.
Two days later she was fired, effective immediately, leaving her “gutted” and worried about what would happen to the 12 families she said she was working with.
Samantha Cooper was fired from the Centre for Domestic Abuse two days after filing a Grievance Report Form alleging discrimination.
“I’m really
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Boykin leads the Big 12 and is fourth nationally in total offense at 361.9 yards per game. But he is coming off his worst game
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of the season, when he completed only 12 of 30 passes and threw for a season-low 166 yards at West Virginia.
Patterson said he practiced well last week and has practiced well again this week.
One of the things Patterson looks for from the Horned Frogs is poise. He said he could see that on the sideline in the West Virginia game when he watched the ABC broadcast of the game.
Receiver Kolby Listenbee said composure was key to coming back from a 27-14 deficit.
Patterson said a former West Virginia player complimented him after the game.
The quarterback scramble remains one of Patterson’s most pressing concerns for his defense, and Kansas State’s Jake Waters is not easing his mind.
The Horned Frogs have been hit-and-miss against elusive quarterbacks. Oklahoma’s Trevor Knight proved the toughest to contain, running for 61 yards.
Cornerback Kevin White felt good about his performance against West
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Cyber threats are reaching ever-higher levels of sophistication. A rapidly expanding arsenal of digital tactics and weapons can wreak havoc on corporate networks and
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databases. Recently disclosed vulnerabilities - Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow - are now affecting computer hardware. The legacy approach to fighting software breaches - Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, or CVD - will need a refresh if it is to adequately address this newest breed of threats.
To better protect against cyber criminals, companies can do plenty alone, from making sure they have the best intelligence about potential attacks to frequently testing the state of their cyber defenses. But the sheer volume of threats we now face means organizations can't battle alone. Even the fiercest of competitors must work more closely together. To foil criminals, unprecedented levels of cooperation and information sharing are essential.
A host of hurdles can frustrate collaboration efforts, from technical and organizational barriers to antitrust laws restricting data swapping. What should companies consider to tackle cyber crime? How radical do we need to be? Our experts' panel will debate this timely and important topic, and recommend ways to deal with some of the biggest barriers to radical collaboration.
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The first generation of bring your own device (BYOD) participants are likely to expose businesses to new security risks.
As the first wave of
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bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives gain traction in the workplace, the first generation of BYOD participants could pose a serious risk to corporate IT networks, according to a surveys from network security specialist Fortinet. The study, conducted in 15 territories during May/June 2012, asked more 3,800 active employees in their twenties about their perspectives on BYOD, its impact on their work environment and their approach to personal and corporate IT security, and found one in three respondents said they would contravene a company's security policy that forbids them to use their personal devices at work or for work purposes.
Survey results indicted the primary driver of the BYOD practice is that individuals can constantly access their preferred applications, especially social media and private communications, and this next generation of decision-makers and managers are increasingly viewing the use of personal devices in the workplace a right, rather than a privilege. Nearly three quarters (74 percent) of respondents across all territories already regularly engage in the practice, the
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Bryan Sheffield, a third-generation oil wildcatter in Texas’s Permian Basin, knows what he’ll do
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if crude drops to US$80 a barrel: shut down half his drilling rigs and go on a takeover hunt for weaker rivals.
Sheffield is among producers who’ve together invested US$150-billion in the Permian since 2010 seeking their piece of an oil trove estimated to be worth as much as US$5-trillion. As the money pours in, risks are mounting of a bust as analysts including Marshall Adkins of Raymond James & Associates Inc. forecast crude is heading down to US$70 a barrel next year, a price that would slow drilling in the most expensive U.S. shale formation.
While traditional wells have been drilled in the Permian since the 1920s, producers have become giddy over the potential of the region’s vast overlapping layers of oil-soaked shale rock. Pioneer Natural Resources Co. estimated the remaining yield at the equivalent of 50 billion barrels, more than any field on Earth except Saudi Arabia’s Gh
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The programme notes for the Ardittis' recital would have driven campaigners for plain English to the brink. Here was Brian Ferneyhough
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describing his Fifth Quartet as a "claustrophobic and marginally chaotic renegotiation of mutual priorities", while Pascal Dusapin, writing about his quartet (also No 5), talked of "successive aporia that form so many episodes of affable prepossessing small talk that is at once destroyed by a strategy of ruination".
Ignore the verbiage and both works are impressive, sharply contrasted achievements. Ferneyhough's quartet, first performed by the Arditti in May last year and receiving its London premiere here, is a typically dense, ferociously complex single movement that weaves three kinds of material into a constantly developing fabric that pivots about the central coruscating cello solo. After all the sound and fury, though, the work ends quietly with gentle undulations and some glassy chords as beautiful as anything Ferneyhough has composed.
Dusapin's work (a UK premiere) was inspired by Beck
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Monocrops: They’re a problem, but farmers aren’t the ones who can solve it.
There are two
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sides — active, vocal sides — to just about every food-supply issue on the planet. Are genetically modified organisms, organics, pesticides or conventional livestock good or bad? Depends whom you ask. There is one issue, however, that gets universally bad press. Nobody, but nobody, defends monocrops.
I’m not exactly going to step into the breach — this month, monocrops; next month, Stalin! — but I think any discussion of our food supply has to include a look at just what monocrops are, why farmers sometimes choose them, and the degree to which they’re risky.
A monocrop is exactly what it sounds like. A monogamist has one spouse, a monoglot speaks one language and a monocrop is one plant growing in the same place, year after year.
There are two problems with monocrops. The first is that they are not conducive to good soil
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Indonesian crash investigators say Lion Air, the country's biggest budget airline, should have grounded plane.
The pilots of a Lion Air plane
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that crashed into the sea shortly after take-off struggled to fly the jet because some of the aircraft's automated systems had not been working properly for days and the airline failed to ground the plane to repair the problem, according to a preliminary report by Indonesian investigators into last month's crash that killed 189 people.
In a statement, Indonesia's transport safety committee (KNKT) recommended that Lion Air improve its safety culture following the crash of the almost-new Boeing 737 MAX 8.
The MAX 8, the latest version of the 737, includes an automated system that pushes the nose down if a sensor detects it is pointed so high the plane is at risk of an aerodynamic stall.
Investigators are focusing on whether faulty information from sensors led the plane's system to force the nose down.
Speaking from Jakarta, Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen said the plane had been causing problems for pilots for four days previously.
"There were a lot of technical issues with the same plane," she said,
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The Air Force has laid out plans to welcome back retired pilots into active-duty staff positions.
The service, through the Voluntary Retired
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Return to Active Duty Program, or VRRAD, is encouraging pilots who held a job in the 11X career field to apply before Dec. 31, 2018, officials said in a release this week.
In an effort to address the increasing pilot shortage, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson last July signed off on the program, which aims to fill flight staff positions with those who have prior pilot experience and expertise, thus allowing active-duty pilots to focus on training and missions.
Returning retirees will not be eligible for aviation bonuses, the release said. They will deploy only if they volunteer.
Pilots under the age of 60 who retired within the last five years in the rank of captain, major or lieutenant colonel can apply for VRRAD, according to the service's criteria for the program.
While the Air Force select candidates on a first-come, first-served basis, officials said, applicants are required to be medically qualified for active duty with a flying class II physical;
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has boldly declared that trade wars are easy to win. He’s about to find out.
And just like
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that, a high-risk trade war between the world’s two biggest economies will begin — one that could quickly escalate.
Here’s a look at what’s happening this week and its likely impact.
Starting Friday, the U.S. will tax 818 Chinese products, worth $34 billion a year, from the original list. It won’t target the 284 additions, worth $16 billion, until it gathers further public comments.
China has warned that it won’t yield to Trump’s pressure. If the U.S. starts taxing Chinese imports Friday, Beijing plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on 545 U.S. products worth $34 billion a year — from soybeans and lobsters to sport-utility vehicles and whiskey. China is considering a follow-up tariff on an additional 114 U.S. goods, worth $16 billion a year.
Beijing’s target list of U.S
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The transport minister said on the occasion that they would procure a fleet of 632 Jan Buses finally in the next few months.
Commercial vehicle
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-maker Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja Group, Wednesday handed over a fleet of 30 world’s first front-engined fully flat low-floor single-step-entry buses to the West Bengal government. The formal handover of the ‘Jan Bus’ (people’s bus) to state transport minister Madan Mitra by the company also constituted the global launch of the vehicle.
Ashok Leyland managing director Vinod K Dasari said that they were happy to have the global launch done in the ‘City of Joy’. Dasari said that the West Bengal government was the first to respond in booking the vehicle. “JanBus will revolutionise urban transport and we are delighted to present a world-class bus with four patents covering over 15 unique features to the City of Joy,” Dasari said.
“The government has placed order for a fleet of 449 Jan Buses under the JNNURM
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Harvard University professor Stephen Greenblatt saw a sign. Or, more accurately, he didn’t.
As the 2016 presidential election
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was stumbling toward the finish line, the pollsters, number crunchers and media outlets that had so accurately predicted the 2012 presidential election, confidently forecasted a victory for Hillary Clinton.
So Greenblatt consulted one of his most trusted political analysts – William Shakespeare. In “Richard III,” Greenblatt found troubling parallels with that tyrant’s rise to power and the way the election was unfolding. Inspired by the modern-day relevance of Shakespeare’s insights, Greenblatt wrote an astonishing op-ed piece for the New York Times.
The play explores how Richard III, against all odds, attains the throne, “a position for which he had no reasonable expectation, no proper qualification and absolutely no aptitude,” wrote Greenblatt.
Election Day arrived, and the rest, as they say, is history.
That predictive column clearly served as the seed for Greenblatt’s new book, “Tyr
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At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say.
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A suicide attacker detonated a vehicle and a fierce gun battle followed. Officials say the attack is now over and the area has been cleared.
It comes a week after it said it was launching its "spring offensive", warning of large-scale attacks.
Tuesday's bombing happened during the morning rush hour in Pul-e-Mahmud, a busy neighbourhood where homes, mosques, schools and businesses nestle close to the Ministry of Defence, other ministries and military compounds.
Soldiers and security officers are reported to be among the casualties, but the majority are civilians.
The blast shattered windows up to 1.6km (one mile) away. The Associated Press quoted a police officer as saying it was one of the most powerful explosions he had ever heard, and he could not see or hear anything for 20 minutes after.
It appears the initial blast cleared the way for Taliban fighters to enter the area - a commonly used tactic.
"One of the suicide attackers blew up an explosives-
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Lavishing praise on Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has shocked the cricket world by retiring from Tests, former Indian skipper Rahul D
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ravid said the stumper-batsman would go down as a captain who led "more by example than by rhetoric or by words".
"He was a captain I enjoyed playing under," Dravid told 'ESPNcricinfo'.
"One of the things I liked about MS was, what you saw was what you got. Very uncomplicated, always led by example. One of the things I really liked about playing under MS was that he never asked you to do anything that he himself didn't do," he explained.
Dhoni retired from Test cricket at the end of the third Test against Australia, which ended in a draw yesterday. The retirement was a bolt from the blue given that Dhoni had dropped no hint of such a big decision leading up to the match.
Dravid said Dhoni earned the respect of his teammates by setting an example with his own performance.
"The reality was he was having to transition a senior group of players and build
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It should surprise no one to learn that Elon Musk, a master of promotion, is capturing worldwide media attention Friday for Tesla's selection as the winning
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bidder for a project to install "the world's largest grid-scale battery" in South Australia.
It also shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who pays attention to claims made by promoters that the details are not as exciting as the headlines and are substantially more difficult to discern.
Where Did The Story Begin?
Four months ago, during a crisis in which South Australia's wind-heavy power grid repeatedly failed to deliver, Lyndon Rive, the head of Tesla's energy products division, bragged that his company could provide a quick fix to the Australian state's power supply problems.
South Australian grid operators had indicated that their system woes could be alleviated by adding fast reacting electricity storage capable of providing 100 MW for somewhere between one and three hours. Supposedly, that amount of stored electricity would be sufficient to smooth out fluctuations produced by variations in wind speed.
Stating the obvious, there is a factor of 3 difference in size between a 100 MWhr battery and a
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Santos Medical provides exceptional medical care courtesy of the Mercedes-Benz Metris Van.
Every Monday, hundreds of Miami’s senior
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citizens wake up early to start their week at Santos Medical & Rehab Center, eager to arrive as soon as the facility opens its doors. In Miami—where seniors account for some 15% of the population—more than 1,000 patients rely on Santos Medical not only for exceptional medical care, but also for exercise classes, healthy meals, and a sense of community. When they’re not at the center, patients also trust Santos Medical to deliver important medications to their homes throughout the city, and with the recent addition of two brand-new slim and nimble Mercedes-Benz Metris Vans, manager Yeniset Perez and her team are now able to do so more effectively than ever.
What separates Santos Medical Center from other rehabilitation centers?
We have everything in one place. Over two floors, we have a medical office, excellent doctors, specialists, a pharmacy, pain-management therapy, and a gym. Most of our patients speak Spanish, so we provide interpreters. They
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The man who authorities say walked into the Rancho Cucamonga company that had recently dismissed him and fired a shot was charged Tuesday, Nov
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. 14, with six counts of attempted murder.
Each count against Tony Valdez, 40, previously identified by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department by one of his nine aliases, Pascual Ortega, carried with it enhancements of using a firearm in the commission of a felony and having a prior felony conviction.
Valdez has convictions in Los Angeles County for grand-theft auto (two), burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of methamphetamine and being a drug addict in possession of a firearm.
An agitated Valdez entered a training seminar at the Goodyear plant in the 9600 block of Feron Boulevard in Rancho Cucamonga on Friday, Sgt. Marc Bracco said, carrying a.22-caliber Ruger semi-automatic pistol. The 10-round magazine was fully loaded, said Deputy Jacob Bailey, a sheriff’s spokesman.
Valdez’s motive was under investigation, Bailey said.
The person
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Timothy House of Putnam was found guilty in Dudley District Court of breaking into a Charlton home, assaulting a police officer, failing to stop
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for police and reckless driving.
Mr. House, 29, was arrested Aug. 27 in Southbridge on a Charlton police warrant on charges of breaking and entering during the daytime with intent to commit a felony, using a vehicle during a felony, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (car), destruction of property valued at more than $250, failure to stop for police, reckless driving and speeding.
He was committed to the Worcester House of Correction for failing to post $10,000 bail.
Mr. House was trying to break into a house on Dresser Hill Road on Aug. 20 when a witness contacted police. A police officer found Mr. House at the home and tried to stop his escape. Mr. House allegedly grazed the officer with a car, then fled and led police on a chase.
Judge Timothy M. Bibaud recently reduced the felony charges to misdemeanors and found Mr. House guilty of failing to stop for police, speeding, daytime break-in
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How long before investors lose patience with AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong? The former Google (NSDQ: GOOG)
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ad executive assumed control of the struggling internet company over two years ago, successfully spun it off from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) a year later, and has been repeating his turnaround mantra ever since. Over that time, the company has gone through a number of strategic and personnel changes, including the $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year. With earnings due soon, Armstrong announced another executive shakeup — but investors weren’t impressed, sending the company’s shares down over 2.6 percent.
Armstrong can take some comfort knowing that AOL’s largest individual shareholder continues to back the turnaround. That shareholder, of course, is Armstrong himself — in a vote of confidence he poured another $10 million into the company in February. Armstrong owns just over 1 million shares, or about 1 percent of the company.
To his credit, Armstrong has made some progress in his mission. Although AOL continued to lose money in the first quarter, display revenue grew 4
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nominee for the federal court in New York whom Republicans had criticized for lack of courtroom experience and liberal views, was
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confirmed on Thursday by the Senate in a narrow, party-line vote.
Alison Nathan, a lawyer for the New York solicitor general’s office, was confirmed by a final vote of 48 to 44, one of the closest votes for any of President Obama’s district court nominees.
The Senate also voted to confirm two other judicial nominees on Thursday: Katherine Forrest to the bench in the Southern District of New York, and Susan Hickey to a federal trial court in Arkansas.
Forrest, a Justice Department lawyer specializing in antitrust law and a former partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, was confirmed by a voice vote, meaning no official tally was taken. Hickey, a state court judge in Arkansas since 2010, was confirmed by a vote of 83 to 8.
Nathan in particular faced harsh questioning during her judiciary committee hearing over her views on the death penalty, gun rights and judicial precedents.
Nevertheless both nominees were approved by the judiciary committee
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BERKELEY, Calif. — Nat Courtney’s father had worked for the father of longtime Honda dealership owner Jim Doten. The Dot
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en family, he said, had treated the workers with respect. So Courtney, who started there in 1974 and is now shop steward and a Gold-level Honda-certified technician, naturally thought his job was stable and dependable, the kind of work you could raise a family on.
That is, until the word went around last spring that the dealership was being sold.
On June 1, 2005, Jim Doten sold the dealership to Stephen Beinke, developer of the exclusive suburban Blackhawk community, and his son, Tim Beinke. The new owners forced the 25 service workers to reapply for their jobs, replacing about half with lower-paid recent technical school graduates.
The remaining service workers, members of East Bay Automotive Machinists Lodge 1546, struck the dealership in response. “We feared we were training our replacements,” John McGlinchy, a nine-year worker who had been rehired, told the San Francisco Chronicle
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When I recently wrote about the possibility of a coming east-west schism in the European Union (EU), I focused primarily on Hungary and Poland
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. They’re part of that eastern bloc countries which joined the EU a bit later and introduced a definite culture clash with their significantly more socialist, globalist neighbors in France and Brussels. Recent events to the east seem to have signaled a swift erosion of the older, established “elites” who have been running the show. But there are still more dominos left to fall.
Herr Kurz is called “the Austrian Trump,” and not, to celebrate his youth, “the Austrian JFK,” which illustrates just how far time has marched on. Two generations have been birthed in Europe that can barely recognize the late president by his mere initials.
The young leader, dubbed Wunderwuzzi in his home country, which translates to Wonderkid, has pledged to cut benefits for all foreigners in Austria and has vowed to stop the European Union meddling in the country’s politics.
Kurz, dubbed the Conservative Macron due
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CHELSEA fell to a Champions League group stage home defeat for the first time in 30 matches on a shocker of a night for Jose Mourinho
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Six years ago to the day when Mourinho saw his men struggle to a dire 1-1 draw with Norwegian minnows Rosenborg, the Blues made that result look good in this opening Group E game.
Two days after the Rosenborg upset - watched by fewer than 25,000 at Stamford Bridge - Mourinho parted company with the west Londoners.
Wrong There is no suggestion, of course, something similar will happen tomorrow, but just six games into the second coming of The Special One, something already looks very wrong at Chelsea.
In their last four games, Chelsea have lost to Basel and Everton and also to Bayern Munich in a UEFA Super Cup penalty shoot-out, with a goalless draw at Manchester United the only positive.
Mourinho wanted to sign United's Wayne Rooney this summer, and you can see why, because his team lack a top-class striker.
Oscar gave the Blues the lead in the 45th minute before Mohamed Salah
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Shasta daisies attract bugs that eat bagworms.
Bagworms are caterpillars that spin protective sacks around themselves using silk and
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the foliage, twigs and bark of their host plants. The brown, teardrop-shaped bags reach 1- to 2-inches long and typically look like little cones or seedpods. These voracious eaters can completely defoliate host plants, causing them to weaken, look unattractive and even die. Several organic treatments exist to treat bagworm populations without releasing harmful chemicals into the environment.
Bagworms (Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis) will feed on about 130 plant species, but their favorite foods are the junipers (Juniperus spp.), such as red cedars and Leyland cypress trees, which grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 2 through 9 and zones 6 through 9, respectively. Adult bagworm males are black, fuzzy moths with 1/2-inch wingspans, but the adult females are flightless, worm-like creatures that reach about 1 inch in length
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Philz Coffee CEO Jacob Jaber hopes to conquer all of America with his slow serve, pour-over coffee, a favorite of the Silicon Valley
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tech set. But despite a recent infusion of cash, his projected takeover will be deliberate and methodical.
In an interview last week, Jaber said that his company had raised $45 million in a round led by private equity firm TPG. He declined to give a valuation for the San Francisco-based chain of java houses, but said that the money will be used as part of an on-going effort to push his family's business outside of the Bay Area. By 2017, Philz will have stores in Boston, according to Jaber, its second East Coast market after its expansion into Washington, D.C. earlier this year.
"To grow and reach new milestones, you have to have capital and have great people behind you," he said. "We have productive paranoia. We’re always thinking ahead."
In Silicon Valley, it's become the norm for any fast-growing company to take on investment from venture capital and private equity firms and coffee shops have been
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Jose Canseco still can crush a baseball.
It’s sometimes hard to take Canseco seriously, especially on Twitter or when
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he’s lobbying for a major league return. But the 51-year-old remains passionate about baseball. And on Saturday, he stopped by Dr Pepper Ballpark — home of the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders — to take a few cuts.
Canseco, who last played in the majors in 2001, was expected to challenge local sluggers in an attempt to break his own world record for the longest softball home run of 622 feet, according to a story published last week on the RoughRiders’ website. It’s unclear whether he followed through with that plan or came close to matching the record, but the six-time All-Star and two-time American League home run leader proved capable of clearing the fence.
He even pulled a Babe Ruth and called his shot in one instance, though it probably would have been even more entertaining if the RoughRiders asked Canseco to shag fly balls instead.
23 years ago today
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An $800 million computer hack had everything going for it but a proofreader. Reuters is reporting that a simple spelling error was the only thing that
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stopped thieves from snatching the better part of a billion dollars out of the Bangladesh Bank’s computer systems. Even at that, they did get away with more than $80 million, making this one of the largest bank robberies in history.
The crooks had first stolen the bank’s credentials for making payment transfers, then began sending requests to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to send money to a variety of destinations in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, including an apparently fictional NGO called the Shalika Foundation. The red flag went up when one of those requests directed money to the Shalika “Fandation,” and Deutsche Bank (through which the request was routed) checked in with the Bangladesh Bank for clarification. At the same time, the Fed had been getting suspicious over the number of transfers to private entities, as opposed to other banks, and stopped the rest of the transactions. One official said that, had the scheme not been caught, the loss could have reached
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She had jabbed pencils into her eyes to try to kill herself.
When the woman was brought to a Los Angeles County emergency room in
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2012 alive and in pain, a hospital employee snapped a photograph, breaking a federal patient privacy law.
Two years later, when that photograph appeared on a website that features gory images, the patient’s medical information had been shared publicly, violating a state regulation.
The woman’s story is extreme, but her experience is an example of how her privacy was violated and her medical data breached. Both crimes, which are on the rise, can lead to identity theft or to misuse of information by health insurance companies, said Pam Dixon, executive director of the San Diego-based World Privacy Forum.
California state law requires hospitals to report breaches of patient medical data. The number of incidents investigated by the California Department of Public Health rose to 4,213 last year, or an 81 percent increase from 2009 when there were 2,333 cases.
On a federal level, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 or HIPAA is supposed to ensure privacy and confidentiality of identifiable
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US president says use of drones is "kept on very tight leash" in rare acknowledgement of controversial missile strikes.
US President Barack Obama has confirmed
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that unmanned drones have regularly struck Pakistan’s tribal areas in his government’s efforts to dismantle what it alleges are al-Qaeda sanctuaries in the region.
Obama's rare public acknowledgement of the US drone programme in Pakistan came on Monday during an hour-long online video chat with users of the Google social network.
Obama said the strikes were a “targeted focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists”.
The president said “a lot” of the strikes had targeted "al-Qaeda suspects who are up in very tough terrain” in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), along the border with Afghanistan, long believed to be a hub of activity for armed groups.
The controversial drone programme run by the CIA has often been met with protests in Pakistan amid concerns of civilian casualties. The Pakistani government publicly protests the operations, but is believed to support them.
A spokesperson for Pakistan's foreign ministry reiterated the
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Tibetan farmers demand their freedom in writer-director Tian Tsering’s first feature.
Not just another immigrant story, Tian
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Tsering’s sober vision of Tibetan peasants living under Chinese rule, Barley Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain, draws its power from its direct and straightforward storytelling. The heroine is a headstrong 16-year-old girl who labors away in her family’s barley fields, until the day her father is arrested. Her wrenching search for him and quest for her own freedom point at a one-way, no-return trek to India that implies never seeing part of her family again.
Tucked away in the Mumbai Film Festival’s world cinema section, this first feature describes the quiet rebellion of the farmers with a startling frankness that should grab festival attention and play meaningfully to special-interest groups. Tsering, a talented Chinese expat director, wrote the screenplay in film school with Beru Tessema. Though unable to shoot in Tibet itself, he tracked down authentic refugees in Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives in
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Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland yesterday refused to reverse his recognition of the December 21 no-confidence motion which triggered the fall
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of the government and said he had envisaged discussions between APNU+AFC and the opposition on “the most propitious manner in which effect can be given to the provisions of the Constitution”.
The provisions in question require the resignation of Cabinet inclusive of the President and the holding of general elections in 90 days.
Immediately after the Speaker’s ruling yesterday, Attorney General Basil Williams SC signalled government’s intention to approach the courts as early as today to challenge the validity of former MP Charrandas Persaud’s vote and to seek an order staying the holding of general elections within the legally stipulated 90 days.
The assembly without PPP/C members.
Just before allowing the business of the National Assembly to go on in keeping with the Order Paper, Scotland pronounced on the consequences of the vote. While contending that he did have the authority to reverse the ruling, he expressed the view that it is a matter that should be dealt
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In theory, statistics should help settle arguments. They ought to provide stable reference points that everyone – no matter what their politics – can agree on.
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Yet in recent years, divergent levels of trust in statistics has become one of the key schisms that have opened up in western liberal democracies. Shortly before the November presidential election, a study in the US discovered that 68% of Trump supporters distrusted the economic data published by the federal government. In the UK, a research project by Cambridge University and YouGov looking at conspiracy theories discovered that 55% of the population believes that the government “is hiding the truth about the number of immigrants living here”.
Rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them. Antipathy to statistics has become one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various “experts” that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016. Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them. Reducing social and economic issues to numerical aggregates
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) smells are still sometimes detected around the island, but it’s another gas emitted by Kī
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lauea that has become more important lately—carbon dioxide (CO2).
Deformation signals are consistent with refilling of Kīlauea Volcano’s deep East Rift Zone (ERZ).
Deformation signals are consistent with refilling of Kīlauea Volcano’s deep East Rift Zone. Sulfur dioxide emission rates in the lower ERZ have been below detection limits since early September 2018.
Volcano Watch: Geology of the past, how long will the eruption last?
How did scientists evaluate how long the Kilauea Eruption would last in 2018?
Kīlauea is not erupting. Rates of seismicity, deformation, and gas release have not changed significantly over the past week. Deformation signals are consistent with refilling of the middle ERZ.
The field day begins with a summit weather check at first light. It is a reflective moment at 6:15 a.m. atop Kī
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A man suspected of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in their Montebello home last month surrendered to authorities Monday at the Mexico-U.S. border
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Feb. 20 in the 600 block of North 20th Street in Montebello by a family member who went to check on her, according to sheriff’s homicide Lt. Holly Francisco.
Deputies said detectives received information Martinez had fled to Mexico.
Martinez will be arraigned today at East L.A. Superior Court.
Coroner’s officials on Tuesday named the driver who was killed after her car plunged 275 feet below Angeles Crest Highway.
Ed Winter, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, identified the woman as Maral Racquel Joulakian, 43, of Montrose.
According to sheriff’s officials, Joulakian was a missing person but they didn’t say how long she’s been missing and where she was last seen.
The crash at mile marker 32.5. was discovered Monday afternoon by Caltrans workers, who contacted the California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles County Fire
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AppNexus has stepped up its fundraising, bringing in $50 million for its real-time display advertising platform from existing investors as well as
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Microsoft (s MSFT). The company has now raised $65.5 million over the last three years from investors including Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, Mark Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and Ron Conway.
The company’s real-time bidding business counts customers like Microsoft and eBay (s EBAY), as well as eight of the top 15 ad networks. It auctions more than 4 billion ads on a daily basis and is growing fast. While real-time bidding is still a small part of the market, AppNexus said it expects the sector to grow to 20 percent of the display market by 2012.
New York City-based AppNexus, which pitches itself as a scalable cloud service, runs out of three data centers including one co-located at a Equinix facility in Amsterdam to serve Europe and the Middle East.
AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley was formerly C
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Aspirin is best known as an over-the-counter painkiller. But acetylsalicylic acid, as it’s
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called chemically, has many other health benefits, as well as side effects, in the body that have only become clear in recent years.
Aspirin’s second-best known effect is its ability to protect the heart. In people with heart disease who have already had a heart attack, it has been shown to lower the risk of having another. Studies consistently show that people who have had heart attacks or strokes and who take a low-dose aspirin (also known as baby aspirin, which at 81 mg is about a quarter of the dose of regular-strength aspirin) a day can significantly reduce their risk of having another event.
Its protective benefits come from aspirin’s ability to lower inflammation, a condition that can attract clot-building factors within blood vessel walls. These can rupture, plugging up tiny vessels in the heart and blocking blood flow.
Doctors now believe that taking a daily low-dose aspirin is also a cheap and easy way for people who do not yet have
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Steve Jobs is not a big fan of a Flash Player for the iPhone according to an eFluxMedia article earlier this month. That’
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s not stopping Adobe from moving forward with plans to offer a Flash Player for the iPhone anyway. CNet is reporting that Adobe’s CEO, Shantau Narayen, stated that the company is committed to working with Apple to ensure Flash applications can run on the iPhone.
Adobe has even gone as far as beginning to develop the new Flash player themselves using the software development kit (SDK) which Apple provided to third-party developers to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Of course, it still isn’t clear whether or not Apple will make a Flash player available to download via their iPhone App store if developed. There may be some renewed pressure for Apple to do so, though.
Earlier this week, we reported that Microsoft had licensed Adobe Flash Lite for the Windows Mobile operating system. That will give Window Mobile devices the ability to access Flash applications. If Apple doesn’t follow suit with a Flash player for the iPhone, then Windows Mobile may be considered
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With 114 colleges in Massachusetts, the issue of sexual violence and assault on campuses is on the minds of many students.
That's why Northeastern
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University senior Jace Ritchey attended a summit at Harvard University on Saturday, where about 100 activists, politicians and survivors of sexual violence gathered to discuss how to tackle the issue.
Ritchey said the first step to staving off sexual violence on college campuses is to require schools provide an anonymous sexual misconduct climate survey to see what that institution's specific needs are.
"If we don't know what's happening and we don't know how students feel and what students are aware of in terms of what resources they have in the first place, we won't really be able to move forward with the right staff members that can really respond in a cohesive manner to a situation like sexual violence on campus," Ritchey said.
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a survivor of sexual assault herself, delivered opening remarks at the event, vowing to push for a "survivor justice agenda," while representing the Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District in D.C
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The stock has fallen more than 20% since its earnings report, but investors are overlooking the long-term picture.
It's been a rough
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week for Under Armour (NYSE:UAA).
The high-flying sports apparel stock is now sitting at a two-year low after it cut its revenue forecast in its earnings report last week. The stock is now down more than 40% from its 2015 peak. Shares dropped 13% the day of the report, and have since given up another 7%.
On the earnings call, management said that revenue growth would slow to 20% in the fourth quarter, but it expected to reach the 2018 goal of $7.5 billion in revenue it outlined at its Investor Day conference in 2015. However, the market was dismayed by the company's decision to pull back from a 2018 operating income forecast of $800 million as the company said that it was making investments to "get big fast," which would mean that profits would grow more slowly than revenue. While the company expects revenue growth in the low 20% range over the next two years, it only sees operating income growth in the mid-te
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BBC chiefs are reportedly looking at Stephen Fry to replace suspended "Top Gear" presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the Daily Star reports.
The news has not
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been confirmed by the BBC, and the Daily Star is known for having reported news in the past that turned out to be wrong.
Still, the idea of Fry, one of Britain's most famous comedian, replacing Clarkson is fascinating.
Clarkson was suspended after he was accused of punching BBC producer Oisin Tymon at the Simonstone Hall Hotel in Yorkshire, after the "Top Gear" crew were served a cold platter of cheese and meats instead of hot steak at the end of a shooting session.
An internal investigation, chaired by BBC Scotland chief Ken McQuarrie, is under way, but according to the Daily Mail Clarkson may decide not to come back to "Top Gear" even if he is cleared.
Fry, who presents the BBC comedy quiz show "QI", has already appeared on "Top Gear" twice in the past and is known to be a fan of classic cars.
The two presenters have sided with Clarkson, and have refused to film
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Shanghai remained the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland for expatriates, according to the latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey released on Tuesday
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Shanghai, China's business center, is now ranked 16th overall, down from 11th last year and on par with the cost of living in the New Zealand cities of Auckland and Wellington.
The survey, conducted by the Economist's Intelligent Unit, found Shenzhen and Dalian were the next most expensive Chinese cities to live.
Beijing and Suzhou, which saw the biggest drop among the eight Chinese cities examined, both fell 16 places to 47th and 69th respectively.
Suzhou, Guangzhou and Tianjin, tied for 69th place, making them the cheapest cities on the Chinese mainland, according to the report.
Overall, Singapore retains its title as the world's most expensive city for a fourth consecutive year, followed by Hong Kong and Zurich.
The survey, which compares the price of over 150 items in 133 cities around the world, found that Singapore was 20 percent more expensive than New York and 5 percent pricier than China's Hong Kong.
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Goalkeeper Lou Kousouris finished with a career-high 21 saves and a career best for fewest goals allowed as Army upset 10th
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-ranked Hofstra, 6-2, yesterday in West Point, N.Y.
Kousouris held Hofstra scoreless for the first half and stopped all six of the Flying Dutchmen's extra-man opportunities. Army led 1-0 at halftime on a goal by Ross Yastrzemsky.
Hofstra (6-3) tied the game at 1 on Paul Judge's goal 1: 22 into the third period, but the Cadets (7-4) answered with goals by Chad Hadlock, Yastrzemsky and Tom Miller to forge ahead for good, 4-1. Brian Langtry's goal midway through the fourth quarter pulled the Flying Dutchmen within 4-2, but Army sealed it with two goals in the final minute.
Hofstra was held to two goals for the first time since 1986, and Army's six goals were the fewest it has scored in a victory since defeating Lehigh, 6-5
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Above: The Cryengine in action.
Developers are always looking to better understand their tools, and now Crytek has made a big leap
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toward that goal.
The full source code for the game-making Cryengine software is now available on the programming repository GitHub. Crytek senior systems engineer David Kaye explained in a blog post that this will enable people to quickly see the differences between various versions of the toolkit going forward. While companies and other groups typically upload their source codes to GitHub with an open-source license that gives everyone the right to redistribute and modify, that is not the case for Cryengine. The German company will require you to purchase a commercial license to access certain parts of its code, and the legal restrictions of that license will still apply.
Another benefit of Cryengine on GitHub is that it makes it easier than ever for its users to stay updated.
This is the latest big move for a Crytek company that has had a number of major transitions. In March, Crytek made Cryengine V — its latest revision of the software — pay-what-you-want. This means developers could
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With just 10 days until Christmas, Santa's delivery elves are working overtime.
That means it's extra busy for shippers as well. Monday
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is the peak shipping day of the season for FedEx (FDX) and the U.S. Postal Service.
The post office, which is the nation's largest shipper, expects to process 640 million pieces of mail on Monday, up 33 million from last year. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, it expects to deliver 12.7 billion cards, letters and packages. An additional 3 billion will be shipped between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
FedEx expects to handle 22.6 million shipments on Monday. It is one of three days this month -- all Mondays -- when FedEx expects to handle more than 20 million packages. This season, FedEx projects making 290 million deliveries, up nearly 9% over last year.
Mondays tend to be busier because of volume built up over the weekend, when people spend more time shopping or writing Christmas cards. To handle all those packages and make the spikes more manageable, the Postal Service, FedEx and UPS deliver on all seven days of the
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Tahmena Bokhari, Mrs. Pakistan World 2010 has made history. On Saturday November 13th in Negril, Jamaica, Bokhari
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was crowned Mrs. United Nations 2010. She competed with married women around the world with strong representation from Columbia, Nigeria, West Africa, and South Africa, among many others. In the history of the pageant industry, this is the first time Pakistan has won an international pageant title.
Upon winning Bokhari stated, "I would like to thank all of those who have supported me and have worked with me to improve the image of Pakistan in the world. Being the first international title holder for Pakistan is not my victory alone and nor am I solely responsible for this win. It is because of you out there, all of my family, friends, fans, and all those who have dared to dream this new vision of Pakistan along with me. This is a victory for all Pakistanis everywhere."
Bokhari opened the evening with a bang after coming in the top 5 winner’s circle for talent earlier in the week. Her sensational dance routine represented the emotions of a woman to a compilation of
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World football’s governing body, FIFA, is seeking to recover $10 million bribe paid to officials for the 2010 World Cup.
The
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body on Wednesday demanded the claims in damages from officials indicted in a recent report.
The decision comes after an inquiry last year openly accused South Africa of paying bribes to secure votes for the World Cup, which it hosted.
World football is at the centre of multiple inquiries with some officials including Sepp Blatter falling off.
“The defendants grossly abused their positions of trust to enrich themselves and have deeply tarnished the FIFA brand and impaired FIFA’s ability to use its resources for positive actions throughout the world,” the document said.
Ex-officials who have pleaded guilty have already agreed to pay more than $190 million in forfeiture, according to U.S. authorities.
“These funds should be used to compensate the victims of the defendants’ crimes, particularly FIFA and its member associations and confederations,” FIFA said.
Many of the bribes they add were paid for lucrative television and sponsorship deals in Central and South America.
World Cup
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David Moyes will not be splashing the cash during the transfer window as Mikel Arteta's transfer fee has already been swallowed up to service
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Everton's debt.
Arteta joined Arsenal in a £10million move on deadline day last summer and manager Moyes maintains it was his decision to allow the Spanish midfielder to leave.
Moyes had hoped to use the loan market to add a striker and midfielder but a defender is now his priority after Phil Jagielka was sidelined for up to six weeks with a knee injury.
The Toffees face Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night in the rearranged fixture from the opening weekend of the season.
Moyes' men are 18 points behind their opponents and he admits he is frustrated at failing to keep pace with Harry Redknapp's Spurs.
He said: 'It is a little bit sad they are starting to pull away from us a little bit more than I would like. I think it was only three or four years ago us and Tottenham were competing neck-and-neck for European places.
Referee Martin Atkinson, who sent off Jack Rodwell
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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemeni prosecutors Tuesday accused an American-born militant cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, with
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incitement to kill foreigners, a legal action that reflects the government's newfound resolve to hunt down the notorious al Qaeda figure.
Linked by U.S. authorities to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan and the suspect accused in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt, al-Awlaki was charged in absentia at a court hearing in Sanaa.
Two other suspected militants were charged Tuesday: Hisham Mohammed Asim, 19, of Taiz was charged with al Qaeda links and last month killing a French national who worked for an Austrian oil and gas company in Yemen. He denied all the charges.
Also charged in absentia was Othman al-Awlaki, Anwar al-Awlaki's cousin, who is also charged with inciting violence against foreigners.
Investigators have not announced a link between Anwar al-Awlaki and the recent U.S. bomb plot tied to militants in Yemen. However, prosecutors said he encouraged Asim
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The new multiplatform luxury play from Jason Binn has tapped Keith Pollock and Nicole Vecchiarelli for the joint post.
SHAR
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ING THE LOAD: Du Jour, the new multiplatform luxury play from Jason Binn, has tapped Keith Pollock and Nicole Vecchiarelli as co-editors in chief. Pollock comes from Elle, where he served as editorial director of elle.com, while Vecchiarelli was senior editor of InStyle. On the publishing side, Alan Katz has joined as chief revenue officer. Katz has worked as publisher of Interview, Vanity Fair, Cargo and New York, but most recently was executive vice president, business development of Direct Brands, home to Book-of-the-Month Club and Columbia Home Video. He’ll be working with Cynthia Lewis, vice president of sales. Lewis has worked as publisher of Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar and Shop Etc. She also founded Create Lucrative Relationships, which developed sales and marketing programs for clients such as Bergdorf Goodman. The first issue of Du Jour is expected to hit news
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Interesting news that Apple is pursuing a patent application for "forced advertising" - but does this move heralding free devices, or free content?
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The technology can freeze the device until the user clicks a button or answers a test question to demonstrate that he or she has dutifully noticed the commercial message.
However, someone who doesn’t want to plunk down $100-$300 may be interested in an ad-subsidized iPhone if it brings the initial price down. Heck, Apple could even subsidize the monthly fee, although that’s less likely because most of it goes to the carrier, in this case AT&T.
The piece in the New York Times also mentions that this technology could also be headed to iPods.
It's interesting, but I find it hard to believe that this has anything to do with Apple giving away free of deeply discounted hardware. That's just not Apple's style. I think that this is about content. Apple locking up a process with a patent is a long way removed from Apple ever leveraging the technology in that way.
Think about it. Compared to the
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Petr Cech has dismissed reports of divisions within the Chelsea dressing room.
There were claims all was not well at Stamford Bridge when Luiz
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Felipe Scolari was dismissed as manager earlier this month. But goalkeeper Cech insisted there have not been any problems with player relations since he joined the club in 2004.
"I think there was a lot of reports about Chelsea being divided in the dressing room and stuff like that but it has never been true," he told Sky Sports News.
"This club, since I have arrived, there is something which keeps the momentum, keeps the club going, and that is the strength in the dressing room.
"I think the players have a great relationship. We stick together, the team has a sprit and, even in a difficult time, we show now and again this is the case."
Chelsea kept their slim Barclays Premier League title hopes alive with a 1-0 victory over top-four rivals Aston Villa on Saturday.
Much was made of their show of unity at the end of the match, with new boss Guus Hiddink insisting it was not just for the
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How dumb does Jon Corzine think we are?
And the 65-year-old Mr. Corzine is struggling to figure out
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what comes next for himself, according to friends and former coworkers.
I can hardly type through the sobs.
Stand at LaSalle and Jackson or 10-30 S. Wacker and see how much sympathy you get, Jon. I’d bring bodyguards.
Allegations from shareholders and bondholders that he hid problems or committed fraud at the brokerage firm make “no sense” because he had “no motive,” Mr. Corzine’s lawyers said in a court filing, citing his ownership of 441,960 shares in MF Global. The stake includes 50,000 shares bought shortly before the bankruptcy filing.
Uhm, equityholders in firms teetering on insolvency, or which are insolvent, have a huge incentive to hide problems or commit fraud or take huge risks. It’s called gambling for resurrection. Fraud or concealment permit the firm to survive-and maybe it will get lucky. If
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - CBS Corp’s buyout of embattled Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings won approval from an Australian court on Friday
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, leaving only sign-off from the nation’s securities regulator before the deal is done.
The bankrupt television station had been the subject of a bidding war between CBS and Twenty-First Century Fox Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch, until Ten’s creditors voted in September to accept the CBS offer.
Although a ratings laggard, Ten’s national reach and strong brand recognition in the world’s 12th-largest economy made it an attractive buyout target and CBS swooped after Ten went into administration in July.
Murdoch and his co-bidder, billionaire Bruce Gordon, already lost a legal bid to derail the deal two months ago and did not contest Friday’s procedural application for court permission to transfer Ten’s shares to CBS control.
New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Ashley Black dismissed opposition from three small shareholders to give the deal the green light.
Barring an appeal from the shareholders, all stock in Ten will be
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GM teased the Beat-inspired Chevy Spark on the Today Show. Then GM showed nothing at the Detroit Auto Show. Now we're told the new
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super-mini will instead debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show.
The new Chevy Spark will debut at the Geneva Motor Show alongside a full range of Delta II-platformed vehicles like the Chevy Cruze. But for microcar buyers, there will be only one darling on the stand. The Spark will be introduced with a four cylinder 1.0 liter fuel sipper and a snarling 1.2 liter performance model. It will also show off what looks to be a segment first "respectable" interior — we'll of course have to see such a thing to believe it ourselves. Check out the press release and video below.
There's a Spark promising to light up this year's Geneva Motor Show, and it's to be found on the Chevrolet stand.
The company's all-new mini car goes on sale in Europe later this year and is the latest interpretation of Chevrolet's new global design strategy. As well as Europe, the car will be sold in the USA, India and
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WOODLAND HILLS — Glendale Community College's baseball team must have been able to taste the Western State Conference Southern Division title coming into Saturday
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's road game against L.A. Pierce.
Glendale was on a five-game winning streak, including a huge win over Pierce on Thursday, and had beaten the Brahmas in both of the teams' previous meetings this year. Saturday's winner would earn sole possession of first place in the division, as both squads were tied for first coming into the game.
The Brahmas rose to the occasion, forgetting the drubbing they had suffered Thursday to pull out a 6-3 win at home.
"This just shows our resiliency, we don't give up. We started at Inning One today and it's a whole new game," said Pierce Coach John Bushart, whose team was beaten, 18-9, on Thursday.
Glendale Coach Chris Cicuto said it all came down to focus.
"They showed up and we didn't show up as well as we wanted to," Cicuto said. "Pierce is a tough, tough team and
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Vanessa Trump, center, Donald Trump Jr.’s wife, was taken to a New York hospital Monday after opening an envelope and being
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exposed to white powder.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump Jr.’s wife was taken to a New York City hospital as a precaution Monday after she opened an envelope addressed to her husband that contained an unidentified white powder, police said.
A preliminary test indicated the substance wasn’t dangerous, police said.
Vanessa Trump, 40, opened the letter addressed to the president’s son Monday morning at their midtown Manhattan apartment, investigators said. She called 911 and said she was coughing and felt nauseous, police said.
The Trump Organization didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The Secret Service and our law enforcement partners in New York City are investigating a suspicious package addressed to one of our protectees received today in New York, New York. This is an active investigation and we cannot comment any further,” Secret Service Special Agent Jeffrey Adams said in a statement.
In March 2016, police detectives and FBI agents investigated a threatening
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Prior to publication of the General Catechetical Directory (1971), mandated by Vatican II, Pope Paul VI published the Creed of the People of
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God (1968). The Marian text of the creed is presented here since it became a normative document for some catechetical textbooks in the United States in the period between the council and the directory.
The Creed includes four main Marian teachings – the ancient Creed, "born of the Virgin Mary," the Council of Ephesus' teaching on the Theotokos, and the two dogmas, Immaculate Conception and Assumption. It also expresses the belief in Mary's continued maternal role, and the belief in Mary as one who cooperates with Christ. Lumen Gentium is footnoted ten times, Signum Magnum twice, and the title Mother of the Church is also quoted. The creed contains no scriptural references, no liturgical references, and no devotional, pastoral or catechetical elements as such. It was not intended to serve as a catechetical directory, but was intended by Pope Paul VI as a statement of faith and personal witness which
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[prMac.com] Verwood, United Kingdom - Yummy Software has announced a start of summer sale where Yummy FTP Lite can be
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purchased for $1 and Yummy FTP Alias completely free. Their newly updated Yummy FTP Pro, Yummy FTP Lite, Yummy FTP Watcher and Yummy FTP Alias apps are all now available on the Mac App Store. Yummy FTP titles feature advanced FTP/S, SFTP & WebDAV/S file transfer capabilities and have earned a reputation for ultimate speed, reliability and productivity.
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Yummy FTP Lite is a basic version of the highly acclaimed Yummy FTP app; an FTP, SFTP & FTPS file transfer client which focuses on speed, reliability and productivity.
Blazing fast transfers, unparalleled reliability, and all the file management features required for those
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According to Jimmy Fallon, President Barack Obama’s appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” which featured the much talked about
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“slow jamming” segment, was initiated by the White House.
“It’s the craziest thing ever to have happened to me,” Fallon said in an interview with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show.
The president became a part of a comedy skit, not because producers of Fallon’s show sought his participation, but rather as a result of some prompting via a phone call from the White House.
“We keep going to each other on the set, ‘Hey, it did happen right? We did Slow Jamming with the President of the United States?’” the late-night host remarked.
“What happened is they called us, the White House called us because we did a piece with Michelle on,” Fallon said.
“He booked himself on your show?” Lauer asked.
Fallon was referring to a previous television spot with a White
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Scientists have new understandings why some weight loss drugs work by enhancing the serotonin levels in the brain. The diet drugs that have these mood boosting effects
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on serotonin include sibutramine (marketed as Meridia), and fenfluramine. Fenfluramine has been recalled because of the combination with dexfenfluramine, marketed as fen-phen because of the possibility of fatal heart valve abnormalities.
How does serotonin suppress appetite? The group of researchers, led by Michael Cowley of Oregon Health and Science University conducted research on mice to further investigate how serotonin works with the hypothalamus. They traced the receptors for serotonin and they saw that particular neurons were expressed in this circuitry which directly changed the mice food intake and body weight. They further found a protein called AgRP that stimulated appetite and another protein called áMSH that curbs appetite. These AgRP protein was reduced when the serotonin and drugs that affected serotonin was present while at the same time the áMSH protein was increased reducing the appetite.
Another receptor called melanocortin receptor-4 was identified by the researchers as a critical target
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If you’re suffering from high blood pressure, you might want to consider adding some key foods to your diet. Unlike the standard drug treatment
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—beta blockers—the following foods work on restoring healthy blood pressure by clearing the arteries or removing plaque, rather than reducing the heart’s output of blood. Let’s face it: you might actually want oxygen-rich blood circulating throughout your blood vessels to feed your organs and brain. Here are the top research-proven foods to help if you have high blood pressure.
Magnesium is one of the key electrolytes involved in a healthy heart, blood vessels and blood pressure. Known as Mother’s Nature’s relaxation mineral, the magnesium found in almonds are a great way to help restore healthy blood pressure. A one-ounce serving of almonds contains 20 percent of the recommended daily intake of magnesium.
Beets are among the most powerful natural treatments for high blood pressure. Research published in the medical journal Nitric Oxide showed that consuming more naturally-occuring nitrates, like the ones found in beets, is helpful in the treatment of hypertension. Naturally-
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It must have been an appalling moment when a Viking realised he had paid two cows for a fake designer sword; a clash of blade on blade in
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battle would have led to his sword, still sharp enough to slice through bone, shattering like glass.
"You really didn't want to have that happen," said Dr Alan Williams, an archaeometallurgist and consultant to the Wallace Collection, the London museum which has one of the best assemblies of ancient weapons in the world. He and Tony Fry, a senior researcher at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, south-west London, have solved a riddle that the Viking swordsmiths may have sensed but didn't quite understand.
Some Viking swords were among the best ever made, still fearsome weapons after a millennium. The legendary swords found at Viking sites across northern Europe bear the maker's name, Ulfberht, in raised letters at the hilt end. Puzzlingly, so do the worst ones, found in fragments on battle sites or in graves.
The Vikings would have found it impossible to tell the difference when they bought a newly forged sword: both would
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The question of the day?
Posts: 0 - How many citizens of Lehigh Acres would sign a petition asking the Governor and Attorney General
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to investigate / audit the Fire Department and possibly remove the current Fire Commissioners?
Posts: 0 - WOW MR SHEA HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD.
Posts: 0 - Did anyone besides me see the campaign to removed A.
Posts: 0 - Did you know!!!! that you pay $100.
Posts: 0 - So if you own another lot next to yours even though your county tax considers that as one parcel,according to the fire tax you will pay $200.00 instead of $100.
Posts: 0 - lehigh voted out damon shelor for raising taxes $1.84 and they think we wold tax ourselves $100.00 each parcel, does that mean iy you own 3 quarter acres attached you pay $300.
Posts: 0 - DESMOND BARRETT OF THE THE EAST COUNTY WATER CONTROL DISTRICT WANTS TO RAISE TAXES 20% (DESMOND IS THE HUSBAND OF
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In this undated photo released by Royal Thai Navy on Saturday, July 7, 2018, Thai rescue team members walk inside a cave where 12 boys
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and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand.
The first four boys have been rescued from the cave in Thailand where they have been trapped for two weeks.
Chiang Rai governor and operation chief Narongsak Osottanakorn said the children were healthy and taken to the Chiang Rai hospital.
The rescue mission has concluded for the night and will resume in 10 to 20 hours because of low oxygen levels.
The first two boys were extracted from the cave around 5:40 p.m. local time Sunday with the help of divers.
Four boys have been confirmed rescued from the cave in northern Thailand where they have been trapped for two weeks.
The rest of the Thai soccer team and their 25-year-old coach remain inside the Tham Luang Nang cave.
Chiang Rai governor and operation chief Narongsak Osottanakorn said at a press conference Sunday that he had met
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Nokia now has three of the top four largest recording companies.
Warner Music Group, the third largest music label, will license music to
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Nokia's Comes With Music service, a Warner Music spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
Nokia now only lacks EMI's participation in the service, which offers unlimited free access to music for a full year.
During that time, users will be able to transfer their Comes With Music library to a PC as well as to a new Nokia handheld, but they won't be able to transfer it to iPods or other non-compatible devices.
At the end of the year, Nokia users won't lose their music. It will live on their computer or Nokia device for as long as they own them. To acquire new music after the year is over, Nokia phone owners can either purchase downloads from the Nokia Music store or join the company's subscription service.
The story was first reported by.
The Comes With Music service won't be ready until later this year.
In contrast, Verizon's V Cast service announced Monday that it has begun selling downloads from all four major labels. Not only that,
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The American service member killed Saturday in an apparent insider attack in Afghanistan has been identified as Army Maj. Brent Taylor of the Utah Army National Guard.
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Another U.S. soldier was wounded in the attack, which occurred at the Kabul Military Training Center early Saturday afternoon. That soldier received medical treatment at Bagram airfield and returned to duty, NATO officials said.
Taylor deployed to Afghanistan in January as part of an advisory team that trains Afghan commando units, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Before his death, he had served more than a decade in the National Guard, including seven years on active duty.
Taylor’s most recent deployment to Afghanistan was his fourth overseas tour — he had previously deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.
Taylor is survived by his wife Jennie Taylor and their seven children.
Taylor’s death was the fourth time in five months that a NATO service member has been killed in a green-on-blue incident in Afghanistan. It comes just two weeks after an Afghan soldier opened fire on Czech troops in Herat province, killing one and wounding two others. Before the Herat incident,
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WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Dec. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- I.D. Systems
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, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDSY), a leading provider of wireless solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things, has received an order through its strategic channel partner, Southeast Industrial Equipment Inc. (SIE), to supply its PowerFleet® wireless industrial Vehicle Management System (VMS).
SIE will deploy 175 units of I.D. Systems' next-generation VMS, VAC4, at a multi-building distribution facility in Mexico for a global leader in household appliances. I.D. Systems will remotely host the system, and provide service and support over a three-year period. The installation will mark the second deployment of I.D. Systems’ PowerFleet solution for the end customer.
“This order builds on the momentum we established in our VMS business during Q3, and reflects the increasing growth of the VMS market for tracking and managing industrial trucks,” said I.D. Systems chairman and CEO, Kenneth Ehrman.
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Political junkies have become so accustomed to House Republicans’ venomous hatred of environmental regulation that they could be forgiven for assuming that no environmental legislation
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would pass the House as long as the GOP controlled it. But on Wednesday, proving that one should never say never, the House approved a measure to improve energy efficiency in both the public and private sectors.
Create a “Tenant Star” program, modeled on Energy Star, that would establish best practices for efficiency in commercial tenant spaces and set up a voluntary certification system.
Require federal agencies to adopt best practices to minimize electricity consumption by information technology, especially data servers.
Require federally leased buildings without Energy Star labels to benchmark and disclose energy usage data.
So why did House Republicans do something even the most ardent environmentalists can applaud? According to the bill’s sponsors and environmental activists, there are three reasons: (1) the bill focuses on energy efficiency rather than on environmental protection as such; (2) there is no spending in the bill; and (3) the bill places no requirements on businesses. The last point also explains why business lobbies, from
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Forces led by a controversial Libyan military chief manoeuvred Thursday for a threatened advance towards Tripoli as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of the growing
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risk of violence.
The self-proclaimed Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar announced Wednesday it was gearing up to move on the west of the country including the capital, home to a UN-backed unity government.
Spokesman Ahmed Mesmari said preparations were almost complete "to purge the west of terrorists and mercenaries".
His statement was followed by troop movements on the ground, local and military sources said, as a convoy of LNA vehicles approached the city of Gharyan, some 100 kilometres (60 miles), from Tripoli.
Commander Abdessalem Al-Hassi told AFP Thursday that his forces had entered into the city without fighting.
But at least four sources in the city denied this, and a local official said there were "ongoing efforts to avoid a confrontation" between rival fighters who divide the city.
Unity government chief Fayez al-Sarraj condemned Haftar's "escalation" and said he had ordered loyalist
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Less than a month after Tesla Inc. unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia, the world's largest lithium-ion battery is already being
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put to the test.
It appears to be far exceeding expectations. In the last three weeks alone, the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages, responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power.
Tesla's battery last week kicked in just 0.14 seconds after one of Australia's biggest plants, the Loy Yang facility in the neighboring state of Victoria, suffered a sudden, unexplained drop in output, according to the International Business Times. The week before that, another failure at Loy Yang prompted the Hornsdale battery to respond in as little as four seconds — or less, according to some estimates — beating other plants to the punch. State officials have called the response time "a record," according to local media.
The Hornsdale battery system, which uses the same energy-storage tech found in Tesla's electric cars, is one of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's newest projects.
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IRVING, TEXAS -- There wasn't any fanfare except maybe a little sigh of relief.
Dallas Cowboys defensive back Jeff Heath
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tries to bring down Houston Texans wide receiver Andy Cruse in the final preseason for both teams.
Over the weekend, Saginaw Valley University alum Jeff Heath anxiously waited to hear from the Dallas Cowboys if he would be part of the team's final 53-man roster.
As the team brought players up from the locker room to meet with coach Jason Garrett, no one tapped Heath on the shoulder.
No one pulled him aside.
A meeting with Garrett never happened.
And that's how Heath knew he had made the team.
"If you don't get cut, you just don't get told you were released, that's pretty much all that happens," Heath said. "They were starting to release guys on Friday. We had a run, workout and a couple meetings so we were all in the locker room, and there's a guy coming around who tells you coach Garrett wants to see you. You are just hoping you aren't the next guy."
Heath
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Directors’ College Attendees are invited to register for an optional Sunday Session before the Directors’ College opening reception and dinner on the afternoon
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of June 24, 2018. This session will feature a wine-pairing lunch, tabletop exercises, and a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Competitiveness.
Session Description: A consensus of reliable scientific literature forecasts that by 2025 as many as half of the tasks performed by white-collar professionals and most managers and executives will be more efficiently performed by artificially intelligent or similarly capable expert systems. This trend will likely upend traditional conceptions of work, alter the basic calculus around procuring and retaining skilled employees, and challenge even the largest companies to redefine how human capital is best utilized within the corporate environment.
At the same time, the development and utilization of AI technologies including machine learning systems (or deep learning built on artificial neural networks) by corporate enterprises promises significant competitive advantage in everything from product design and demand forecasting to logistics and pricing optimization. To function properly and improve overall system performance, these machine learning systems generally require very large amounts of relevant data, which has placed a significant new premium on corporate
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[U.S.A.], June 13 (ANI): Turns out, sea urchins lack eyes. But the purpose is solved by
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another of their body part - tentacle-like tube feet.
According to a new study conducted by the Lund University, while sea urchins have fairly low-resolution vision - it is good enough to fulfill their basic needs.
"Sea urchins are currently the only animals that have been shown to see without having eyes. They see using light-sensitive cells in their tube feet, which resemble tentacles and, like the spines, are all over the body. You could say that the entire sea urchin is one single compound eye", said John Kirwan, who conducted the study as a part of his doctoral thesis.
The tube feet have other functions besides registering light. They are used for feeding and in some species are used by the sea urchin for locomotion. Others are used to attach to surfaces or as levers to correct its position when upside down.
John Kirwan studied the sea urchin species Diadema africanum. The experiments placed
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The Europa League final is a potential £60.5 million match for title favourites Manchester United.
Manchester United's Europa League final match against Ajax
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in Stockholm next week is worth a combined £60.5 million to the club and its players.
A report in The Times indicates that United's playing staff could bank "the biggest players' bonus pool in history" if they're successful at the match on Wednesday May 24.
This is because the Europa League winners automatically qualify for next season's Champions League, a competition that activates an Old Trafford pay policy that sees the majority of United's players net a 25% wage increase (a combined £38 million).
United players would also split a £1 million bonus under a performance-led incentive.
Currently, players contracted to United are subject to an assumption that the club always participates in the Champions League. Failure to reach the competition results in a 25% pay reduction.
As the club missed out on the competition last year, an approximate £28 million worth of wages were trimmed from 22 playing contracts last summer, though new signings like Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were exempt
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A three-year-old has been diagnosed with the first case of polio in the Afghan capital Kabul since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, according
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to the country’s Ministry of Public Health.
Officials have responded with an emergency vaccination drive to prevent the virus making further inroads.
Afghanistan is one of three countries where the disease remains endemic although public health experts believe the case may have been contracted in neighbouring Pakistan, where more than 300,000 children are unvaccinated and infections are on the increase.
Kaneshka Baktash, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said the family were from the Kuchi nomadic tribe and travelled back and forth to Pakistan, and may have been away from home when vaccination teams visited.
He said the virus was of the same type found on the Pakistani side of the border.
The virus affects the central nervous system and can leave its victims with withered limbs or paralysis. It has been all but eradicated from the world and remains only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
Health officials believe Afghanistan – where cases have declined from 80 in 2011 to 14 last
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Vice Chairperson of the NDC has descended heavily on media outlets for publishing what she describes as inaccurate reports from an interview she granted GhanaWeb that
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went viral over the weekend.
Betty Mould-Iddrisu is reported to have suggested despite the errors the previous administration made in government, their performance is incomparable to that of the ruling NPP government.
She's alleged to have also stated that her party has learnt well and as such constituted the Professor Botchwey Committee to investigate reasons for their defeat and propose a way forward.
But in a sharp rebuttal to these reports, the former Attorney-General asserts such reports are twisted and spun to make the current government look good.
She was confident that based on the performance of the government so far, Ghanaians are appalled and disappointed and wish the NDC came back into power.
Below is a press release written on her behalf by her aide.
We have once again noted with grave concern and displeasure the deliberate twisting of facts as contained in an interview Madam Betty Mould granted to Ghanaweb on the show “21 minutes with KKB
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CLYDE - Another Chance Sanctuary will host a sale at the Clyde VFW Shelter House from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
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. Friday and Saturday. The VFW is at 847 W. Maple St., Clyde. Proceeds go to the sanctuary, which houses and feeds an assortment of animals needing extra care.
FREMONT- Medium Jodi Weaver and Spirtual Counselor Kimmie Rose will share an evening on connecting to spirits on Monday at Terra State Community College, in Room 101, the General Technology Building. Cost is $30 per person.
Spirit vendors will be in the atrium from 4 to 6 p.m. and the presentation and reading will be 6 to 8 p.m. Proceeds benefit National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The event is sponsored by Terra Walk for NAMI. For more information call 419-559-2342 or email ddalton01@terra.edu.
PORT CLINTON - After 17 years of service, the United Way has resigned as the administrative agency for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program. Community Support Services, a division of
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Bruce Jenner could find himself paying $250,000 to the Internal Revenue Service depending on the results of a pending IRS audit, according to recent reports
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. Radar Online broke the news that Kris and Bruce Jenner are being audited by the IRS. Citing divorce documents attained by the website, Radar Online reported that the couple is being audited for the tax year 2011, but they could also be audited for any of the years during which they were married, up to and including 2013. They tied the knot in 1991.
Perez Hilton quoted an unnamed source when he posted about the Jenners’ financial situation. While any balance uncovered by the pending IRS audit will allegedly be payable by both Kris and Bruce Jenner, the track star’s portion is capped at $250,000. That means any amount due in excess of half a million will be payable solely by Kris.
Wet Paint noted that the couple has plenty of property to divide in the divorce.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bruce Jenner is worth an estimated $100 million. His future ex-wife has an estimated $30 million to fall back on post
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When is the Melbourne Cup, what is the prize money, who is running, which horse is the favourite and is there a live stream?
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THIS year's Lexus Melbourne Cup is set to be another cracker - so make sure you get up early to watch it!
With plenty of British and Irish horses travelling over, here's all you need to know about the race.
What is the Melbourne Cup?
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious horse race and is held at Flemington racecourse.
It is run over a distance of two miles and is the richest two-mile handicap in the World.
The race is known as 'the race that stops a nation' and was first run in 1861.
Melbourne Cup Day is so big that is is a public holiday for all working within metropolitan Melbourne and some parts of regional Victoria.
When is the Melbourne Cup?
The 2018 Melbourne Cup will be run on Tuesday 6 November.
The race is due to start at 3.00pm in Australia which works out at 4am in England. The time will be confirmed nearer the race.
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Think more deeply about relationships and what you bring to them.
If there is a gap between what you give and what you get, you can
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fix it and take that someone special with you to a phase of new togetherness.
If you are single, the place to find your hottest new partner is by a notice board advertising jobs.
Differences over money factor into your chart as the sun and moon square up.
No one will divert you from a claim for cash that is rightly yours.
Your love mood is passionate and playful, which could make you almost too popular.
Don’t be rushed into a choice. The right lover gives you time to be sure.
Mind planet Mercury moves up a gear and the ideas you have are sharper and brighter.
Take every chance to talk about them and trust yourself to turn them into action.
Later, as love takes over, it is wise to see a relationship for what it is, rather than comparing it with past partners.
Stern Saturn reminds you how much loyalty matters, which suggests you are ready to let someone back into your life who you have never
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The White House has said the first meeting ever between sitting U.S. and North Korean leaders could take place in the coming weeks.
Washington
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: President Donald Trump on Friday said the date and location have been set for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, building suspense for the unprecedented talks, as South Korea said it would oppose a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the area.
The White House has said the first meeting ever between sitting U.S. and North Korean leaders could take place in the coming weeks. Trump is to push North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
The demilitarized zone, or DMZ, between North and South Korea, and Singapore are among the top choices being considered for the summit. Trump this week expressed a preference for the DMZ but also said Singapore was possible.
The Peace House at the DMZ was the venue for a meeting last month between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The White House announced that Trump will host Moon at the White House on May 22, in talks aimed at demonstrating allied unity before the Trump-Kim summit.
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Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has admitted Didier Drogba is unlikely to feature for his side until the very end of August
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.
The 30-year-old has spent the summer recuperating from a knee injury which now looks certain to rule him out of the Blues' opening Barclays Premier League games against Portsmouth, on August 17, and Wigan a week later.
"Didier will not play in our first game against Portsmouth and will probably miss the second against Wigan. If there are no more problems he should be ready for the game after that," he said.
Scolari has pencilled in the London derby against big-spending Tottenham on August 31 for a possible return but admits he will not rush the Ivory Coast star back into action.
He added: "When you have a knee injury, you just never know.
"I have been getting a progress report from the doctor every day.
"He's getting better and is working with a fitness coach back at the training ground. I hope he will be ready to start training next week. But he will not play until
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Arab Terrorism versus "Two State Solution"
There can never be a "Two State Solution" here in the Middle East, unless you're in
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favor of Hitler's "Final Solution." It's that simple. Both "solutions" are deadly for Jews.
We Jews and the State of Israel do not have "peace partners." The aim of the Arabs and their enablers is the destruction of the State of Israel, Gd forbid, and the death of us, too.
Our cemeteries are full of innocent Jewish victims murdered by local Arabs. And our history is full of invaders and attempts at our annihilation and holocausts.
Deja vu, been there, done that. We've cried for our victims of terrorism and fought for our independence over and over. Each generation has its enemies. The Jewish People are a small people, but we've outlasted them all. And today's enemies will join all of those others in history books.
We will overcome in ways that no other people have survived, Gd willing.
Gd willing we will soon have brave visionary leaders and we'll build
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Science Scanner: Leonardo da Vinci Might be Wrong and is Planet Mercury a Hit-and-run Victim?
Researchers have snapped the very
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first images of photosynthesis as it happens.
Photosynthesis is the process which plants use to convert light energy into chemical energy, which is then stored as sugar.
Using the U.S. Department of Energy’s LCLS x-ray laser, the world’s most powerful, the researchers imaged the part of photosynthesis that breaks down water molecules into protons, electrons and oxygen.
Besides providing an energy supply for plants, photosynthesis also produces oxygen, something we all need, as a byproduct.
New research shows that silverback gorillas not only use auditory and visual means to connect with each other, but they also use odor as a form of social communication.
The British team that conducted the research said that while not much is known about this form of chemical communication, past studies suggest that all life forms, including humans, use this chemical signaling to connect with each other.
To reach their findings, the researchers studied a group of wild western
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Web-based console is easy to use, but database limited to SQL server.
Compuware Corp.s Vantage 8.5 nicely
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pulls together system, network and client management functions under a newly added Web-based console, but other tools offer more expert modules out of the box.
Vantage 8.5, which is priced starting at $19,000, comprises four base components: ServerVantage, Application Vantage, NetworkVantage and ClientVantage. These components monitor the systems, applications, network performance and client availability of computing resources throughout the enterprise network. However, like competitors such as Computer Associates International Inc., Compuware recommends customers engage its professional services staff to get the full benefit from the product.
eWEEK Labs tests showed the Vantage system has the right stuff to scale up to the largest networks, although database support is limited to Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server.
This version of the product does a fantastic job of uniting components in a Web-based interface, from which we tightly governed our Windows and Unix systems. In addition, the new VantageView console let us control who
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THE NBN has just recorded download speeds so fast you could download a full HD television season in less than one minute.
IMAGINE being able
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to download an entire season of Game of Thrones in HD in less than a minute.
The NBN hopes to make this dream a reality, with the service provider recently producing speeds of 1 gigabit per second on the HFC network used to deliver pay television.
When available to be rolled out commercially, customers will be able to get internet almost 10 times faster than the current highest commercially available speed tier offered by the NBN - the service provider does offer 1Gbps speeds on FTTP, but most ISPs don’t choose to sell it.
Upload speeds were also recorded at 100 Megabits per second, which is more than double the current highest 40 Mbps retail speed available on HFC retail services over the NBN network.
The speeds were captured in lab tests using upgraded Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Docsis) 3.1 technology on the HFC network responsible for supplying internet and Foxtel to millions of Australian homes.
NBN chief executive Bill Morrow said these
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CAMPAIGNERS will stage two community events in a bid to “keep up the fight” to save their library.
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oggeshall Community Library Group has announced it will host a protest march and celebratory reading session in the coming weeks in an effort to protect the future of the service in the village.
Coggeshall Library, in Stoneham Street, is one of a number of facilities which may need to be run by volunteers if Essex County Council decides to press ahead with plans to cut services.
A consultation on the proposals concluded in February, and County Hall is now continuing discussions about what happens next after receiving 21,000 responses from the public.
After joining a countywide protest against the plans in Chelmsford back in February, the Coggeshall Community Library Group will now stage its own protests as it continues to fight against the proposals.
Chairman Tracey Vickers said: “There has been a lot of campaigning and fighting for our libraries but we wanted to run something that was participatory and celebrated them.
The first event, which will be staged between 11.30
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As a shoot-first, think-second gunner off the Warriors’ bench, Nick Young is already the closest thing the NBA has to
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a human line of cocaine. But when Swaggy P calls for the legalization of coke on a TMZ camera while leaving the club on a Tuesday night, he wants y’all to know he’s just kidding.
Young—who is now, I feel compelled to remind you, an NBA champion—got asked about the potential legalization of weed in the U.S. by a TMZ reporter, now that Canada’s done it.
As you can tell, Young was having a good time, and even calling him “engaged” with these questions is being charitable—more than the cocaine line, personally I just love his confused reaction when it sounds like the interviewer says Canada is “the first country in the world.” But because he’s Nick Young, and these are an example of the exact quotes that all NBA fans are constantly waiting for him to give, the comments warranted a small backtrack worthy of its own Instagram text post
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If several members of Partridge resident Ronda Kocher's household had been registered to vote by March 23, the all-terrain-
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vehicle ballot question likely would have passed April 7.
Instead, the ballot to allow ATVs to be driven on Partridge city streets failed, 41 to 42.
Kocher led the petition drive to allow ATVs, and she was a registered voter.
Three potential voters in her household, however, were not registered voters as of March 23, the deadline to register to vote in the April election.
They cast provisional ballots, but those ballots ultimately were not counted.
"It would have passed," said Kocher on Tuesday. "I could be checking my mail in my four-wheeler."
Two other provisional ballots were cast in Partridge, and one of those belonged to her neighbor, who also supported the ATV issue, according to Kocher.
Kocher came to Reno County Commission chambers Tuesday to express dissatisfaction with voter registration and election information provided by the clerk's office. She noted she had been told by staff that people had to be
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LastPass's cloud service suffered a five-hour outage today that left some people unable to use the password manager to log into their internet accounts.
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Its makers said offline mode wasn't affected – and that only its cloud-based password storage fell offline – although some Twitter folks disagreed. One claimed to be unable to log into any accounts whether in “local or remote” mode of the password manager, while another couldn't access their local vault.
The solution, apparently, was to disconnect from the network. That forced LastPass to use account passwords cached on the local machine, rather than pull down credentials from its cloud-hosted password vaults. Folks store login details remotely using LastPass so they can be used and synchronized across multiple devices, backed up in the cloud, shared securely with colleagues, and so on.
The problems first emerged at 1408 UTC on November 20, with netizens reporting an “intermittent connectivity issue” when trying to use LastPass to fill in their passwords to log into their internet accounts. Unlucky punters were, therefore, unable to get into their accounts because
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DETROIT — A number of international companies have suspended operations in Egypt as three days of violent street battles make the streets of Cairo unsafe.
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General Motors Co., Electrolux AB, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Toyota Motor Corp., Suzuki Motor Corp., BASF SE and others shut down facilities and told thousands of workers to stay at home during unrest that has left about 700 people dead since Wednesday.
“This was a precautionary safety measure to ensure employees would not be exposed to risks travelling to and from work,” Daniel Frykholm, a spokesman for Swedish appliance maker Electrolux, said in an email. The company, which has about 6,700 workers in Egypt, asked employees to stay home Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. Friday and Saturday are the Egyptian weekend, and the company will decide Saturday evening if it’s safe enough to resume normal operations, Frykholm said.
Royal Dutch Shell closed its offices Thursday. They will remain shuttered Friday and Saturday. The company also restricted employee travel as the violence continued and said it was monitoring the situation. It was unclear whether Shell’s main production facility
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While everyone knows Denzel Washington for his two-time Oscar-winning acting skills, you may forget that the actor has also gotten behind the camera
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as a director for Antwone Fisher and The Great Debaters. And now he’s preparing for another stint wearing several hats on the movie set as director, producer and star of a new project at HBO.
During An Evening With Denzel Washington & Dr. Todd Boyd Friday night at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the actor revealed that he recently made a deal with HBO to adapt August Wilson‘s 2010 Broadway play Fences into a film at HBO. And that’s just the beginning of a whole batch of HBO projects based on Wilson’s work.
Find out more about the Denzel Washington Fences project and more below!
Wilson’s set of ten plays is also known as The Pittsburgh Cycle or The Century Cycle, and they all take place in a different decade of the 20th Century. In addition, all except one are set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, which is where Wilson grew up,
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PrettyLittleThing is now showing products in multiple sizes.
As a part of a new campaign, online retailer PrettyLittleThing has started
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showing the same garment on two different body types.
It is connected to a collaboration with Hailey Baldwin.
It's not the first store to do so.
Online shopping can be a mixed bag. Thanks to vanity sizing and unreliable product photos, it's hard to know exactly what you'll get in the mail or how it will look on you.
But retailers are trying to make the shopping experience a lot more user-friendly.
The latest fashion giant to cater to shoppers is the online retailer PrettyLittleThing. As part of its new #EveryBODYinPLT campaign, the company is now showing products on more than one model at a time. The aim is to make the shopping experience more inclusive and accessible.
Take, for example, the Silver Glitter Strappy Cowl Neck Bodycon Dress ($42), which is part of the brand's latest campaign with Hailey Baldwin.
According to the product description, the model on the left in the picture below
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