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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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Obama making plans to tackle global warming
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second ...
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The Chief Recipient of Government Welfare Corporate America
America has a massive national deficit of nearly $16.9 trillion; the government continues to spend money it doesn't have. What's the answer to this dilemma, what specifically needs to be done? Many of our esteemed politicians say that, to alleviate the condition, government welfare must be ended. So with that premise in mind let's examine the pros and cons of this ...
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Swiss Parliament Scuttles U.S. Deal on Bank Secrecy
Switzerland's Parliament on Wednesday scuttled an information-sharing agreement with the United States that the Swiss government had hailed just weeks ago as a breakthrough in a dispute over banking secrecy, but left open the possibility for another ...
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G-8 Nations Pledge To Crack Down On Corporate Tax Evaders
Leaders take part in the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland on Tuesday. Their discussions included tax-avoidance issues. The world's wealthiest nations are promising to fight what they call the scourge of tax evasion. This week's meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized countries concluded with a pledge to end the use of tax shelters by multinational corporations. But there ...
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Microsoft changes Xbox One policies after outcry
NEW YORK -- Microsoft is rolling back a much-criticized requirement that its upcoming Xbox One gaming console be regularly connected to the Internet and making clear that there will be no limitations on sharing games.Microsoft Corp. has been criticized for vague statements about whether it will allow Xbox One buyers to play secondhand software. Gamers also expressed distaste for a requirement ...
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Microsoft Dynamics Apps Hit Azure Cloud
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it's finally offering its Dynamics GP and Dynamics NAV ERP applications on the Windows Azure cloud. The offering comes six months later than originally promised, but it gives customers a "secure, enterprise-class cloud infrastructure [option] from a trusted provider," according to Paul White, senior director, Microsoft Dynamics ERP. ...
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Xbox One Microsoft abandons controversial DRM restrictions
Company responds to global outcry and removes daily online requirements and restrictions to pre-owned sales. Xbox president, Don Mattrick, thanks gamers for "candid ...
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Microsoft To Reverse Xbox One Policies After Fan Revolt
report from Giant Bomb earlier today, Microsoft has announced today that they've listened to player feedback, and are lifting two of the most important restrictions of the console. Here they are, pulled straight ...
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Say what Microsoft offering up to $100000 for novel exploits of Windows 8.1 protections
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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Intel joins Samsung Qualcomm in wireless power consortium
IDG News Service - Intel has joined the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), a consortium founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, as the chip maker looks to bring wireless charging to tablets and laptops. Another member of A4WP is Integrated Device Technology, which is developing wireless charging chipsets for laptops, tablets and hybrids running on Intel chips. Intel hopes to make wirelessly charging ...
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Hockey Australia beats India to confirm 2014 World Cup berth
Netherlands Australia confirmed its place in the 2014 men's hockey World Cup following a 5-1 thrashing of India at the Hockey World League in Rotterdam.Glenn Simpson, Matt Gohdes, Russell Ford and Matthew Swann scored for the Kookaburras in the quarter-final clash, while their final score was aided by an Indian own goal.The Kookaburras will meet the Netherlands in Saturday's ...
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Brazil sends in elite security forces as anti-World Cup protests continue
Brazil Brazil says it will deploy elite national security forces to five major cities to quell violent clashes between police and protesters.Huge protests have broken out this week, with hundreds of thousands of people across the country marching in protest about the rising cost of living and the $15 billion price tag attached to the Confederations Cup and next year's soccer World Cup.On ...
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No we cant - Japans conservative values collide with plan to mobilise women for economy
TOKYO (Reuters) - Days after Kaoru Shimada and other Japanese mothers rallied in Tokyo this year to press for more public daycare, she was shocked to read a local politician's blog blasting their "shameless" demands and asserting kids should be raised at ...
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Loonie up Poloz tells business to start spending traders look to Fed statement
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed sharply lower Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said that it would maintain the pace of a key stimulus program. The central bank said after its two-day interest rate meeting that it will continue to purchase US$85 billion in bonds every month to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But the greenback gained ground and bond yields advanced as ...
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Xbox 180 Microsoft Fully Reverses Xbox Ones DRM Policies
Xbox One will not require regular online check-ins or place restrictions on game lending, ';as a result of feedback from the Xbox community,'; Microsoft announced today. The announcement is a complete reversal ...
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Housing recovery to accelerate U.S. economy Summers
Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers looks into the audience at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, ...
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Microsoft talked with Nokia about buying devices unit report
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently talked with Nokia about buying the Finnish phone maker's devices unit, but the discussions faltered and are not likely to be revived, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online ...
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Unscrupulous companies charge students $1600 for loan help they could get for free
Polly Williams, a single mother who had recently lost her job, was desperate to lower the payments on her $23,000 in student loans. So, last June, she called one of the many companies advertising debt relief online. For a $250 fee, the University of One, now known ...
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The biggest rule of clickbait No one wants to read about finance
July 2013: The Future Of Flight The incredible innovations, like drone swarms and perpetual flight, bringing aviation into the world of tomorrow. Plus: today's greatest sci-fi writers predict the future, the science behind the summer's biggest blockbusters, a Doctor Who-themed DIY 'bot, the organs you can do without, and much more. /#block-block-41 ...
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Feds plan for the economy a surprise to many investors
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke speaks at a news conference in Washington after a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which made no changes to the Fed's monetary ...
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World Series heros wild pitch could bleed RI finances
Curt Schilling was the toast of New England when he led the Boston Red Sox to World Series glory in 2007, but these days he's a goat after his ill-fated video game company went belly-up and left Rhode Island holding a near-$100 million loan guarantee that now threatens the Ocean State's bond rating. Moody's Investor Services downgraded the state-backed "moral ...
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World Travel Market and Amadeus reveal new series of round table talks
The luxury travel sector is failing to make use of the opportunities the Internet offers, reveals a new series of round table talks involving the best and brightest minds in travel. The comments were made at a the first of four round table conversations focusing on travel technology and which have been organized following a new partnership The Travel Tech Show at WTM and Amadeus. While the ...
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Video Worlds vegetation seen in stunning satellite imagery
While 75 percent of the planet is a relatively unchanging shade of ocean blue, the remaining surface goes through stages of green. In this NASA/NOAA imagery capturing April 2012 to April 2013, the darkest green areas are the lushest in vegetation, while the lightest could be snow covered, drought impacted or just un-vegetated ...
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Uganda Why Kenya Lags Behind Tanzania Rwanda and Uganda in Growth - World Bank Report
KENYA has lagged behind its peers in the East African Community in terms of economic growth for the last ten years, the World Bank says. In fact, according to the bank's latest Kenya Economic Update, the country's economic growth rate has not matched, even once, Africa's growth rate in the the past decade, though the two were close in most years. Kenya's annual growth rate ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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