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The Economic Times
Ripples in Kerala: Parties may come back to LDF fold Ripples in Kerala: Parties may come back to LDF foldSoon after he took over, Yechury said that discussions to bring back Janata Dal (U) and RSP from the United Democratic Front camp to the Left Front would start soon.
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The Economic Times
'Yeh jeena bhi kya jeena hai', PM Modi asks babus 'Yeh jeena bhi kya jeena hai', PM Modi asks babusWith a month to go for his govt’s 1st anniversary, PM Modi has come around to the age-old aphorism that all work and no play does make Jack a dull boy.
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Small Business Trends 8
Say “Open Sesame” With the Sesame Smart Lock What kid doesn’t dream that saying, “Open Sesame,” opens some kind of secret passageway? Childhood dreams of magic and treasure aside, even adults would admit that such convenience has appeal. One company is playing on both fantasy and reality with a smart lock that can open a door with a phrase or secret knock. The Sesame smart lock is the first creation to come out of Candy House. This startup
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Reuters 9
Senate may face contentious debate on Iran nuclear bill WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate could plunge into a heated debate on legislation giving Congress the power to review a nuclear deal with Iran as soon as Wednesday, as some Republicans sought to change the bill to take a harder line on any agreement.
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Reuters 21
UK speed trader arrested over role in 2010 'flash crash' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A high-frequency trader was arrested in London over his alleged role in the May 2010 "flash crash" that briefly wiped out nearly $1 trillion in market value, the first time authorities have blamed manipulation for the turbulence.
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BBC News - World 36
Climate change: Paris 'last chance' Climate scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris.
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BBC News - World 26
HK set for election reform proposal Hong Kong's government is set to reveal a political reform proposal for choosing the next leader including, for the first time, a public vote.
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BBC News - World
NY buses must show 'killing Jews' ad A judge rules that New York City's buses must display a controversial advert that refers to Muslims killing Jews.
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The Times of India
Many ‘discrepancies’ in answer key to JEE (mains) Candidates and their teachers have spotted multiple “discrepancies” in the answer key to the Joint Entrance Examination (mains) held earlier in April.
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The Times of India
Leakgate: 'CCTV camera operator helped accused' Petroleum ministry officials accused of leaking sensitive documents were aided in their designs by the CCTV camera operator, who switched off the devices to allow the late-night theft of documents.
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BBC News - World 21
VIDEO: UK fugitive arrested in Spain Spain's Guardia Civil has issued video footage which shows police officers swooping on the Alicante villa of one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, and placing him under arrest.
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BBC News - World 200+
In pictures: Nigeria's frog kebabs Tastier than fish? Some Nigerians are not convinced
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Business Insider 10
The world's brightest scientific minds posed for this 1927 photo after historic debates about quantum mechanics "Einstein, stop telling God what to do," physicist Niels Bohr once told Albert Einstein, who in a room full of the world's most notable scientific minds argued "God does not play dice."  In 1927, Einstein and Bohr were two of the 29 scientists (more than half of whom were, or would later become Nobel Prize recipients) in attendance at the Fifth Solvay Institut International de
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Business Insider 15
Here's how people in different countries use emoji With the increase in the popularity of emoji around the world, smiley faces and sad faces are firmly entrenched within our social messaging lexicons. Mobile keyboard company SwiftKey aggregated more than 1 billion emoji sent by millions of its users all over the world from October 2014 to January 2015  They organized 800 emoji into 60 different categories, and were able to gather some pretty inter
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Reuters 37
Saudis end air campaign in Yemen, seek political solution DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor.
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Business Insider 10
Marissa Mayer may try to beat Google at search — just like these companies failed to do (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, IBM) Ahead of today's Yahoo earnings report, Re/Code's Kara Swisher reported that Marissa Mayer is considering using the newly negotiated terms with Microsoft to rebuild Yahoo's search engine. In 2009, Yahoo outsourced search results and search ads to Microsoft. Last week, the two companies signed a new deal where Yahoo would only be dependent on Microsoft for 51% of search and search ads. Mayer could
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BBC News - World 25
The small Kurdish girl pictured firing a huge machine gun Are Kurds starting to use children in propaganda?
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BBC News - World 51
VIDEO: Artists fight for Puerto Rico's soul A cultural fight against gentrification in Puerto Rico
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The Times of India 9
Rebel leaders gone but AAP war goes on The expulsion of four senior rebels from the Aam Aadmi Party on Monday appeared to be the last chapter in the party’s internecine battle, but it gave rise to an even uglier spat between the Arvind Kejriwal camp and the expelled group on Tuesday.
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The Economic Times
IRFC may raise Rs 6,300 crore via rupee-denominate bonds abroad IRFC may raise Rs 6,300 crore via rupee-denominate bonds abroadRailways' finance wing may become the first domestic entity to sell offshore rupee-denominated bonds after RBI allowed this in its April 7 policy.
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The Economic Times
How bosses are turning incubators for staff | Hedge funds’ interest in startups may wane? How bosses are turning incubators for staff | Hedge funds’ interest in startups may wane?For the employee-entrepreneurs, or ‘intrapreneurs’, this degree of maturity is a godsend in a high-mortality industry.
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Business Insider 4
These 4 people get to see the jobs report the night before the market does On the first Friday of each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Jobs Report.  This is the premier data point on the US economic calendar and is viewed as the best overview of the most important part of the economy: the workforce.  The report comes out at 8:30 am ET, but there are 4 people who get the report beforehand so they know what's coming the next day.  On Barry Ritholtz's Mas
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Reuters 25
Japan stocks hit 15-year high, oil down as Yemen bombing ends TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese shares hit a new 15-year high on Wednesday on expectations of positive corporate earnings, while oil sagged after Saudi Arabia ended its military campaign in Yemen, easing tensions in the energy-rich Middle East.
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TrendHunter.com
Quirky Beer Hotels - The Dogfish Inn is a Charming Beer Tourist Attraction in Delaware (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The Dogfish Inn is a quaint hotel located in Lewes, Delaware that is an extension of the Dogfish Head Microbrewery brand. Designed with Dogfish Head's “signature off-centered approach&#...
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Business Insider 9
Google's wireless phone service may launch tomorrow and it will put the squeeze on big phone companies (GOOG) Google is getting ready to launch a wireless phone service in the U.S., and it could come out as soon as tomorrow, according to the Wall Street Journal.  Google will use other companies' wireless networks — Sprint and T-Mobile — to provide bandwidth, then offer it under a new pricing scheme where users will be credited for the data they don't use. The service is also expected to let people make ca
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BBC News - World 9
Is India's Aam Admi Party no place for intellectuals? Is there any place for intellectuals in India's politics?
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BBC News - World 23
In pictures: Stairway to Heaven Finding a final resting places in a crowded city
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BBC News - World 39
Petrobras’s oil bonanza: Blessing or curse? Has a Brazilian success story been derailed by a corruption scandal?
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The Times of India 1
Tamil Nadu shows Coca-Cola the door after stir The Tamil Nadu government on Monday cancelled allotment of land for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd to set up a bottling unit in Perundurai SIPCOT complex in Erode district, amid growing protests by local residents over possible exploitation of groundwater.
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The Times of India 8
Chidambaram, son Karti skip TNCC executive meet Former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti, an AICC member, were both conspicuous by their absence at the third state executive meeting convened on Tuesday by the TNCC chief E V K S Elangovan.
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The Economic Times
Yechury’s elevation gives fresh lease of life to CPM Yechury’s elevation gives fresh lease of life to CPMThe Marxists were so dispirited and in organisational disarray that they didn't have any mass mobilisation programme after Mamata Banerjee assumed office in 2011.
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BBC News - World 44
VIDEO: Polish farmers fight food rules Farmers in Poland say they are struggling to make a living because of strict food hygiene rules.
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BBC News - World 42
Shapps denies Wikipedia claims Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps denies claims he changed Wikipedia entries about himself and other politicians.
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BBC News - World 23
Armenian tragedy still raw in Turkey 100 years on Darkest moment still haunts Turkey 100 years on
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BBC News - World 500+
Flawless diamond sells for $22.1m A flawless 100-carat diamond sells for $22.1m (£14.8m) at Sotheby's auction house in New York.
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The Times of India 9
Sivakasi fireworks industry sends out SOS There is less noise in the fireworks hub this year. At a time when Sivakasi should be crackling with preparations for Diwali, at least 100 fireworks units are up for sale.
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Psychology Today 1
Verde Primaverile As in previous, Italian-titled, posts, I put together some fragments for your enjoyment and mulling. Two of today’s chips are on happiness.
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The Economic Times 1
Teva offers to buy Mylan for $40.1 billion Teva, the world’s biggest maker of generic medicines, offered $82 a share in cash and stock for Mylan, according to a statement.
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Lifehacker 8
The Bright White Swedish Workspace Today’s featured workspace looks immaculate, with its pristine white walls, simple white desk, and wood accents. Those skylights help too.The workspace appears to be in the corner of a bedroom in a duplex in Sweden. The rest of the apartment, which is currently for sale, is just as clean and tastefully arranged as this space—so it’s worth a look over at 55 Kvadrat linked below, even if you’re not
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 9
While China Is Writing The Rules Of The Asian Market, US And Japan Are Still Debating A Trade Deal China wants to write the rules for the world’s largest and fast growing market -- Asia. And so are the US and its closest Asian ally, Japan. So far, China maintains the lead with the launching and execution of initiatives that pave the way for the integration of local and national Asian markets. Asian and non-Asian countries—some America’s closest European allies—have already taken notice; rushing
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 46
Yahoo's Planned Entry Into Daily Fantasy Sports Market Is Good News; Helps To Stop Oligopoly Pricing (Author's disclosure:  The author consults for a fantasy sports provider that is in current litigation against DraftKings, a company mentioned in this article).
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 16
A Tech Tiger In Utah Turnaround veteran Joe Wang has delivered big wins to investors. Now he’s back in Utah with a new challenge: turning tiny TreeHouse Interactive into a giant.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 6
The Worst CEO Screw-Ups Of 2014
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 13
Gurbaksh Chahal And Gravity4 Hit With Gender Discrimination, Illegal Surveillance Lawsuit Gurbaksh Chahal, the 32-year-old embattled and often self-aggrandizing CEO who was convicted of domestic violence last year and fired from his ad-tech company RadiumOne, hoped that his new startup, Gravity4, would give him a clean, more woman-friendly slate. He was wrong.
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BBC News - World 100+
VIDEO: House washed away in Australia storm Mobile phone footage shows a house being washed away by floodwater in Dungog in New South Wales during a fierce storm.
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BBC News - World 64
VIDEO: 'I paid 2,200 euros for place on boat' One of the people on board the migrant boat which ran aground off the Greek island of Rhodes on Monday has been speaking to the BBC.
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The Times of India 5
Centre says it has rained relief on farmers Centre believes facts weigh heavily in its favour as it has taken a number of measures to provide relief to distressed villagers in the wake of the recent unseasonal rain and hailstorms.
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Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips 35
WordPress Releases Version 4.1.2, Calls It A “Critical Security Release” WordPress webmasters advised to upgrade immediately to prevent anonymous users from compromising websites. The post WordPress Releases Version 4.1.2, Calls It A “Critical Security Release” appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Psychology Today
How to Take Advantage of an Air Crash Some people want to dramatize themselves by pretending to have been present at catastrophes. It can be lucrative or in other ways rewarding.
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The Economic Times
Press Information Bureau to launch app for journalists It will also refurbish its website for better social media integration and follow a more proactive information policy on Facebook and Twitter.
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The Economic Times 1
Govt may sell stakes in IDFC, Tata Communications To monetise its minority holding in these two and several blue chips, the Centre is considering floating an exchange-trade fund, in the same lines of an ETF it launched last year.
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The Economic Times
Tyre Stocks like Apollo Tyres, MRF, Ceat skid as rubber prices firm up Following 7.3% growth in 2013-14, tyre exports witnessed flat volume growth for first nine months (April 2014 to December 2014) due to subdued global auto demand.
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The Economic Times
Postcards turn lethal weapon for Cong in land bill war | 'Democracy a big hurdle' Postcards turn lethal weapon for Cong in land bill war | 'Democracy a big hurdle'The Indian Youth Congress office has been receiving about 30,000 postcards a day from various parts of the country, criticising the Land Acquisition Bill, 2015.
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The Economic Times
Even old news is a good sell in falling market These days, it is easy to spread news, information and rumours. A small provocative line sent to one trader’s chat group spreads like wildfire, making wild speculation sound like gospel.
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The Economic Times 2
No upgrade for RIL despite record quarterly profit Several analysts point out a protracted weakness in energy prices could be a key risk, which can disturb the economics of the company’s investments.
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The Economic Times 1
India, Australia plan to sign FTA by December Australia is pushing for tariff reduction in dairy, fresh fruit, pharma, meats and wines. India wants zero tariff on auto parts and textiles, besides fresh fruit.
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The Economic Times
Sun Pharma sees biggest fall in 5 years The counter witnessed one of the largest secondary market transactions when Daiichi Sankyo sold about 215 million shares in Sun Pharma via multiple block trades.
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The Economic Times 2
Sistema Shyam to launch Wi-Fi services at key rly stations Analysts at PwC expect India to see a spurt in Wi-Fi hotspots, driven by “the government’s smart cities and Digital India as well as private sector initiatives”.
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The Economic Times 1
Fb shifts News Feed, gives priority to friends | Google lobbying spend reaches new high Fb shifts News Feed, gives priority to friends | Google lobbying spend reaches new highThe world's biggest social network yesterday unveiled changes which decrease reliance on "referral" traffic - or the sharing of news articles.
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The Economic Times 1
Federal Reserve will tighten rates, but not too much Janet Yellen wants you to know that while the era of zero rates may be drawing to a close, money will stay cheap for a long time to come.
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The Economic Times 5
Micromax to go for flash sales in bid to protect market share Micromax, which clocked 54% jump in its revenues for the year ended March 2015 at around Rs 10,000 crore, will offer exclusive products in different price ranges.
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Business Insider 16
Hackers can easily use Wifi to crash your entire phone, and there's nothing you can do to avoid it Many people think denial of service (DoS) attacks only happen to company websites and their servers. DoS attacks occur when hackers send endless traffic to one source, which causes it to crash. Github was recently a victim of this.  But DoS attacks are not merely relegated to websites. In fact, researchers have proven it's possible to attack iOS devices, crashing either individual apps or entire
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Small Business Trends 26
Ground Control Beer is Out of This World — Literally Depending on your taste, you’ve probably had some mighty good beers in your time. But until now, you may not have had a beer that’s literally out of this world. Now it’s time to leave the capsule, if you dare. For those interested in trying a beer that’s quite literally been in space, there’s Ground Control Beer. The imperial stout is brewed by the Ninkasi Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon. As st
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TrendHunter.com
Modern Seafood Restaurants - This Fish and Chip Shop Boasts a Pristine Visual Branding Identity (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The Good Fish Co is a fish and chip shop located on the southwest coast of Australia. The pristine shop boasts an ultramodern visual branding identity that exude the eatery's brand of quality...
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BBC News - World 44
Clegg in public servants' pay pledge Millions of public sector workers would be spared further pay cuts under Liberal Democrat plans, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces.
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BBC News - World 71
BBC to air final Clarkson scenes Unused footage of Jeremy Clarkson taken during his last days at the helm of Top Gear will be screened later this year, the head of BBC2 says.
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BBC News - World 81
Powerful storms continue in NSW Australian emergency services rescue nearly 100 people from floodwaters in New South Wales as powerful storms continue to hit the state.
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The Economic Times 1
Traders like Cargill, ITC worried over slow arrival, poor quality of wheat Unseasonal rains over the past few weeks have taken away the sheen of the grains, reducing their shelf life. The amount of shrivelled and broken grains is also higher than normal.
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The Economic Times
Ghani's India visit: Transnational road deal likely The pact, if signed, would also send a message to Pakistan that has been obstructing road connectivity among all South Asian countries.
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The Economic Times
Bajaj Fin eyes Rs 1,800 cr via QIP & pref issue to promoter Its board has cleared a proposal to raise Rs 1,400 crore from qualified institutional investors (QIP) and issue 925,000 preferential shares to Bajaj Finserv.
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The Economic Times
Democracy a big hurdle in India, feel Chinese In China, displaced farmers are offered alternative plots in lieu of the land acquired by govt. They are also offered money and jobs.
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The Economic Times
Law Ministry did give its view on anti-conversion law Law Ministry did give its view on anti-conversion lawThe home ministry had not proposed any bill or sought an opinion on a national anti-conversion law but the law ministry offered its views to the parliamentary ministry.
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The Economic Times
‘I can’t comprehend Nehru could have spied on Netaji’ ‘I can’t comprehend Nehru could have spied on Netaji’A few recently declassified file notings of the IB has shown Netaji’s family was placed under surveillance between 1948-1968.
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The Economic Times 1
Government of India versus FPI: Is there a solution? ET drills down the latest tax controversy, past MAT demands on FPIs, that pulled down markets. Why are investors so angry and why does North Block say the issue is overblown?
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Business Insider 21
The 10 best iPhone apps you can get for a discount right now There are too many apps in the App Store to notice when each one goes on sale. Luckily we've collected the best iPhone apps on sale at this very moment so you don't have to. From gorgeous games like Pursuit of Light and the classic Bioshock to our new favorite weather app, you're bound to find a good deal on something new. Just remember these deals could end at any time, so act quick!Fresh Air is
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Lifehacker 31
Groupon Is Basically Giving Away Sam's Club Memberships If you live near a Sam’s Club, but the membership fee has scared you off from joining, this might change your tune. Groupon is currently selling a one-year Sam’s Plus membership, a $20 gift card, and vouchers for select fresh food items for just $45. The Plus membership alone (which lets you get into the store early, access special deals, and earn cash back) normally costs $100, and the gift card
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Business Insider 4
Why the iconic adventure writer Jon Krakauer is telling the story of rape in a college town Author Jon Krakauer's newest book came out Tuesday, and it's a complete departure for an adventure writer known for books like "Into the Wild." The new book looks at the culture of sexual assault in a Montana college town and how police handled rape cases there. Krakauer started researching sexual assault after finding out someone close to him had been raped, he told NPR's Rachel Martin
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Business Insider 17
A LOT of employees plan to buy a smartwatch for work (AAPL) Apple Watch is already having a ripple effect. A lot of employees who already use mobile devices for work plan to buy an Apple Watch or similar device, according to a global survey by mobile device management company MobileIron. It asked over 3,500 workers about their plans to buy a device like the Apple Watch. 42% percent said they either already own a smartwatch or plan to buy one. While that do
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Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips 100+
Facebook’s Latest Tweaks Favor Friends, Could Hurt Page Reach Three updates to the News Feed algorithm prioritize posts from friends; company warns that reach might decline for some Pages. The post Facebook’s Latest Tweaks Favor Friends, Could Hurt Page Reach appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Hack a Day 10
These Builds Grow Food In Cities You’ve probably heard the term food desert: locations where it’s difficult to get access to fresh fruits and vegetables. One way to help alleviate the problem is to promote urban farming. This week we challenged you to think of ideas that would make growing fresh food in urban areas easier and more enticing. Let’s take a look: The IKEA Model: One concept that was popular with this week’s theme was
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Entrepreneur: Latest Articles 81
5 Ways to Miss the Promotion Boat Your company picks up a great new project and is looking for the right person to head it up. Or, your boss announces her departure, and suddenly a plum job is up for grabs.You look around the room and realize that the person best suited for this opportunity just might be you.Before you start tearing up your old business cards, it’s important to bear in mind that promotions are a tricky business --
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Lifehacker 17
Why You May Want to Reconsider Using Wheeled Luggage When You Travel Wheeled luggage makes it much easier to transport more when we travel, but that also might be one of the best reasons to avoid it. The more you feel like you can take with you, the more unnecessary things you’ll end up dragging along.If you think about the trips in your past, you can probably remember a few times when you didn’t even use half of the things you brought. What seems like planning ahe
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Business Insider 6
Average commission per share vs. trading volume Via Deutsche Bank's David Bianco: Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Watch these giant container ships collide near the Suez Canal
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BBC News - World 61
VIDEO: Cheers as Solar Impulse lands in Nanjing Solar Impulse has landed safely in Nanjing in the east of China, much to the delight of its mission control team.
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BBC News - World 32
The Armenian rugs that tell two stories The rugs that tell two stories, one bitter, one sweet
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The Times of India 400+
Seeing the most progress in Bihar: Melinda Gates At a time when foreign-funded NGOs are under the government’s scanner, Melinda Gates, Padma Bhushan awardee and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, says NGO activism is needed for society to thrive.
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The Times of India 100+
IAF may restructure jet pilot training The IAF may be forced to junk its transitional training for rookie fighter pilots because of Hindustan Aeronautics’ continuing failure to deliver its Sitara intermediate jet trainer
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The Times of India 36
BJP hits back at Rahul's 'suit-boot' barb, says Congress ran ‘suitcase' govt BJP on Tuesday accused Congress of being a “suitcase” outfit in a reference to mega scams which had hallmarked the UPA government and by suggesting that the Congress-led regime sought to favour RIL.
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Business Insider 9
Tender photos show the special bond between dogs and their owners Dogs have been man's best friend since the dawn of recorded history. It's hypothesized that early hunters used dogs for their keen sense of smell. Australian Aborigines huddled with them to gain warmth on cold nights. Dogs have been buried with humans as far back as 1,000 BC. Every dog is different and every owner is different, and the bond between the two is unique to them. Photographers Ollie Gr
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Fast Company 57
Here's A Pungent Tour Inside San Francisco's Top Marijuana Dispensaries Join us behind the green door for a peek at three of the world's best-designed pot shops.There are about 30 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of San Francisco, though you might not know it to walk by them. With names like Shambhala Healing Center and Mission Organic, you'd be forgiven for thinking that some of these discreet storefronts are spas or health-food stores. Others, like SPARC a
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Fast Company 28
The Cannabis Editor Marijuana is literally this person's job.We sat down with Ricardo Baca, editor at The Denver Post and the world's first-ever cannabis editor, to talk about the future of marijuana. We found out when cannabis is expected to be as mainstream as alcohol, how transparent you should be on your own marijuana use, and how this role came to be.Read Full Story
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Fast Company 27
That Quadruple Rainbow You've Been Freaking Out About Is A Fake Sorry to harsh your mellow, Internet.Many of us will never forget the joyous, tear-filled occasion when Paul "Bear" Vasquez set his eyes upon an elusive double rainbow:Read Full Story
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Business Insider 8
Yemen is facing a humanitarian catastrophe Saudi Arabia has declared Operation Decisive Storm is over in Yemen. On April 21st, after nearly a month of bombing and more than  2300 aerial sorties, Saudi Arabia announced it was halting the bombing campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. However, Saudi claims the operation really achieved all of its goals strains credulity. Yemen's internationally recognized president, Mansur Abd al Hadi,
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Business Insider 86
Here's what you can earn working at Microsoft (a LOT!) Microsoft has been a dominant force in the tech industry for decades. Love it or hate it, nearly everyone everywhere is touched, influenced or somehow dependent upon this company and its products. Microsoft is also famous for paying well. The company created about 10,000 millionaires out of its early employees, so the story goes. Today, Microsoft employs about 123,000 people, and while not all of
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Business Insider 8
Yahoo just threw investors a bone: It's hiring advisors to figure out what to do with Yahoo Japan (YHOO) Yahoo has retained advisors to explore options for its Yahoo Japan stake, and the news appears to have lifted investors' spirits after the company delivered an underwhelming Q1 earnings report.  During Yahoo's earnings conference call on Tuesday, CEO Marissa Mayer said that "maximizing value" of its 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan was a key priority.  Yahoo's stock, which fell as much as 2 pe
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Business Insider 7
The trader allegedly connected to the 2010 'Flash Crash' supposedly bragged about telling the CME 'kiss my a--' Navinder Singh Sarao, the UK-based futures trader charged in connection with the 2010 "Flash Crash," bragged that he called the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and told them to kiss his "a--," according the criminal complaint. This allegedly occurred in an email after the CME had contacted him on May 6, 2010, the day of the "Flash Crash."  From the Department of Justice c
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Entrepreneur: Latest Articles 44
Give Your Brand a Boost With Lifestyle Content How do you earn intensely loyal and interactive followers for your business?You start by developing a strategic content strategy. Think of every photo, tweet, video or blog post you share online -- the sum total of all that content you share builds your brand's reputation.Developing a content strategy that exceeds the expectations of your audience is vital for you to stand out among the best in yo
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Home - SearchEngineWatch 23
Optimization Not Only Factor in "Mobilegeddon" Search Ranking Shortly after changing its algorithm to push mobile-friendly sites higher in search results, Google posted a blog letting users know that there are 199 other criteria in ranking.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 25
DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman's Big Test Will Come After Her Battle With Trian DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman's big test will start in the second half of 2015, a time when proxy battles and sharp currency moves have likely cooled.
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Reuters 57
Saudis end air campaign in Yemen, seek political solution DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor.
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BBC News - World 15K
'Success kid' raises cash for dad Sam Griner, whose image spawned the 'success kid' meme, is using his fame to raise cash to pay for medical treatment for his father.
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BBC News - World 34
VIDEO: Helicopter view of deadly migrant route Richard Bilton travels by helicopter above the Mediterranean where hundreds have died, and speaks to those who have made it safely to the island of Lampedusa.
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BBC News - World 300+
Late Samuels blast foils England England are frustrated by a counter-attacking unbeaten 94 by Marlon Samuels on a scrappy first day of the second Test.
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TrendHunter.com 1
Shoe Packaging Purses - Sara Palen's Ida Hillebjork Shoe Packaging Box Doubles as a Bag (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The idea of a shoe packaging box with an integrated string for carrying is not a new one, but designer Sara Palén reinvisions the concept with more of a fashion focus. The student designer from Mid...
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Psychology Today 11
Rocket Science for Space Cadets If you take your "unrealistic" ideas and remind yourself the stakes are high for following through and focus on completion, you can make your own reality. Stop shooting yourself in the foot by pretending the stakes are not high.
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The Economic Times
Delays hit anti-missile systems; Army vulnerable Delays hit anti-missile systems; Army vulnerableThe problems run deeper, with other platforms of the navy and the air force, too, suffering from a lack of air cover due to delays in missile developmental projects.
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The Economic Times 1
A lowdown on why markets are nervous Factory production is inching up and inflation is softening. Despite this, Dalal Street is nervous, thanks to multiple concerns – some genuine, a few exaggerated.
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The Economic Times 1
LoC quiet, action shifts to India-Pakistan border LoC quiet, action shifts to India-Pakistan borderThe latest intelligence estimates on infiltration bids on the LoC suggest that in the first quarter of this year, only one attempt was made by militant groups
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The Economic Times
America’s after-work plans: New report reveals gaps between post-retirement expectations and reality A new report shows that while workers have steadily increased the age at which they expect to retire beyond 65—from 11 per cent in 1991 to 36 per cent.
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BBC News - World 39
Poland to buy US Patriot missiles Poland announces a major deal to buy Patriot surface-to-air missiles from the US, amid rising tensions with Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
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Business Insider 11
'Bar Rescue' host Jon Taffer describes the 3 worst bar disasters he's ever witnessed Over four seasons of hosting Spike TV's "Bar Rescue," Jon Taffer has seen a lot of things, including someone riding a horse into a bar. He's even gotten into some tussles with angry bar owners. But beyond the makings of great TV, Taffer has seen some genuine horror stories in his long career in the bar business. Taffer landed his first bar management job in 1978 and worked his way throug
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Kylie Jenner responds to the out-of-control #KylieJennerChallenge that has teens suctioning shot glasses to their lips to mimic her look After scores of teens posted photos of themselves with plumped-up (and bruised or bleeding) lips in an effort to look more like the youngest Kardashian-Jenner sibling, Kylie herself has commented on the mini-trend via Twitter. Since this weekend, the #KylieJennerChallenge hashtag has been accruing thousands of tweets and Instagram posts through which people display lips they have plumped up throug
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What UberX and Lyft Drivers Can Do to Minimize Their Personal Liability Peer-to-peer startups like Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Uber and Lyft are transforming traditional business models.The heavy battle between old and new is playing out right now in the car service industry. Ride-sharing startups such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar use a smartphone app to connect people who need a ride with drivers. It’s cheaper, faster and more user-friendly than the traditional taxi service, an
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3 Knockout Business Strategies--From the UFC Fan Who Got Into the Inner Circle UFC fan Jay T. Warsh had a big dream--one his friends called foolish. How he proved them wrong is something every entrepreneur can learn from.
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Top 10 Venture Capital Backed Green Companies Venture capitalists are writing large checks for companies that help the environment and save resources.
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How to Get Your Employees to Think Like Owners Building your team with employees who think like owners isn't as hard as it seems.
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Here's the internal video message Apple's retail boss sent to employees about the Apple Watch launch (AAPL) Angela Ahrendts, Apple's senior vice president of retail, recently sent a video message to Apple employees to discuss details regarding the launch of the Apple Watch and the new MacBook. French Apple blog Mac4ever obtained the video and posted it online. The main point of the memo seemed to be clarifying the Apple Watch's retail availability on April 24 — which is when the watch officially launche
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A major security flaw has led to me getting mistakenly emailed tons of other people's private information and social security numbers A major flaw that could potentially be exposed by identity thieves has gone largely unnoticed. My email address is similar enough to many others that I constantly receive travel itineraries, the occasional mortgage agreement and other documents containing Social Security numbers, addresses and other sensitive information. In one instance, an accountant sent me his client’s tax return. I'm probabl
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California isn’t the only state with water problems Americans tend to take it for granted that when we open a tap, water will come out. Western states have been dealing with water problems for a while, but they won't be alone for long. As drought, flooding, and climate change restrict America's water supply, demands from population growth and energy production look set to increase, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Offic
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7 Areas of My Life That I Outsource So I Can Focus on Business When it comes to focusing on clients and providing each person I partner with the time they deserve, I have found there is nothing better than to outsource. I outsource in an effort to make better use of the time I do have and to put myself in the best position possible to do my best work possible.Here are seven outsourcing opportunities that are worth the extra effort and money:1. Private chefA p
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Make a Simple, Self-Inflating Camping Pillow Out of Memory Foam Camping is a lot of fun, but trying to rest your head on a rock is not. This DIY camping pillow is easy to make and even easier to pack for your camping trip.If you’re lucky enough to have a sleeping bag with a built-in pillow, you don’t need to bring one along. For the rest of us, however, Instructables user rob.renn.9’s pillow setup is useful and compact. You need a piece of memory foam, a gallo
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VIDEO: The tribe defending Saudi-Yemeni border As Saudi Arabia ends its bombing campaign against rebels in Yemen, the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen gives his analysis on finding a political solution in Yemen.
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Nine held in bourbon whiskey swoop Nine people in Kentucky are charged with stealing large quantities of bourbon whiskey worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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US DEA head Leonhart to step down US Drug Enforcement Administration director Michele Leonhart is to step down after allegations that agents attended sex parties in Colombia funded by drug cartels.
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FACEBOOK'S ATLAS AD SERVER: What it is, how it works, and why it could finally move digital advertising beyond 'cookies' For years, digital marketers have been shackled to an increasingly outdated technology known as the cookie, which are still used to measure and target digital ads. Cookies — bits of code dropped into web browsers — are known to generate poor approximations of how many people view a digital ad, inaccurate estimates of how many times any given individual sees an ad, not to mention unreliable measur
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US probe into police custody death The US Department of Justice opens an investigation into the death of a black man who died in police custody in Baltimore.
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'Govt does not endorse communal remarks' Home minister Rajnath Singh was on Tuesday forced to make a statement in Lok Sabha on “communal utterances” of party members and allies.
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US blames Dow flash-crash on British-Indian trader A British-Indian stock trader has been arrested from his home in London on Tuesday after US prosecutors charged him with manipulating trades that caused the so-called ''flash crash'' in May 2010 when the Dow Jones index dropped by nearly 1000 points within minutes, jolting the stock market and briefly causing worldwide panic.
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PM hails minister for fact-fighting Rahul in LS Prime Minister lauded agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh for his effective response to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the government over the land bill in Lok Sabha.
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After CEO, 30 GoAir pilots quit Wadia Group’s GoAir seems to be passing through a turbulent phase. Within weeks of GoAir CEO Giorgio De Roni quitting, 30 pilots of the low cost carrier (LCC) have now put in their papers.
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Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Software Architect With thousands of factors to consider when designing and coding software, someone has to provide overall direction when teams are working on multiple apps for multiple clients. That code wrangler is the software architect, who guides projects from concepts to working products.To learn what it means to be a software architect, we spoke with Harrison Ambs, the lead software architect at a small comp
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A Palestinian Gandhi Where are the "Palestinian Gandhis"? Ali Abu Awwad is a one of them, and there are more. However, we don't hear about them, and their effectiveness is limited, because the media are more attracted to violence than nonviolence. Thus, rather than helping promote peace, reporters unwittingly encourage violent activism.
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Life Lessons from My 100-Year-Old Grandmother The inspiration for this week’s blog is the 100th birthday of my beautiful grandmother. She has been an ongoing reminder in my life that all things are possible when you believe in yourself, and it's never, ever too late to grow, change, or create a new life chapter.
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Former 'Top Gear' host Jeremy Clarkson hints at a TV return and a new car show Jeremy Clarkson, "Top Gear's" mercurial former lead host, hinted over the weekend that he could return to TV with a new car show. In his weekly column on the Sunday Times, Clarkson chronicled every maudlin detail of his of life since the BBC banished him from the show he built into an entertainment powerhouse.  The network's decision to part ways with the polarizing TV personality came a
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Chipotle is raising prices again Chipotle will raise prices this year. The company will start charging more for barbacoa and steak later this year by about 4%. That means that a steak burrito that currently costs $6.65 would cost $6.92.  Chipotle raised prices last year, citing dairy and avocado costs.  Steak and barbacoa burritos cost the company $1 more to make than alternatives like chicken or vegetarian, executives told inves
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How Fast Is Rey’s Speeder in the Star Wars Teaser? We get another look at a speeder in the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. How fast was it moving? Video analysis included. The post How Fast Is Rey’s Speeder in the Star Wars Teaser? appeared first on WIRED.
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Sphero talks about building BB-8, the droid star of the new Star Wars movie BB-8, very probably the world's cutest droid, is already the breakout star of the forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which comes out in December. In an age of computer graphics, this little robot stands out for being a practical effect. In fact, at this weekend's Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm and Sphero — the Boulder-based robotics startup that designed BB-8 for the movie — put him on st
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Only 37% of retirees feel good about their finances, but that's way up from five years ago FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Retiree confidence has almost doubled since the financial crisis (Financial Advisor) A study conducted by the Employee Benefits Research Institute found 37% of retirees believe they will have a comfortable retirement, up from 20% in 2010. The survey also concluded retirees are
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5 Tips for Crowdfunding on Twitter to Run a Successful Campaign Crowdfunding is more than just a trend. It’s become the most popular fundraising model to date, and it’s garnered most of its success from social media, particularly Twitter. It’s a simple and easy way to get consumers to both fund and support your cause. Those seeking to gain funding through Twitter’s widespread online organization may find the following tips helpful. Crowdfunding on Twitter Est
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Verizon may have figured out how to lower ESPN's astronomical monthly fees ESPN does not like Verizon’s new pricing strategy for FIOS. The wireless carrier and cable provider announced this week that customers will now be able to opt out of bundles and customize its television packages to include mostly just the channels they watch — and possibly exclude others like ESPN. Verizon’s new “Custom TV” plans have moved ESPN's networks, which rank among the most profitable in
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It won't be easy to return your gold Apple Watch (AAPL) The 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition isn't easy to find, buy, or even try on. It will also difficult to return, too. According to a new report from 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman, the Apple Watch Edition has a unique return process. Here it is, step-by-step, based on an alleged internal document: Apple will first inspect the watch with "extreme care" to "ensure that the product is in origi
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There's a huge crisis brewing in Chicago's public school system Chicago Public Schools are having a tough time right now. The US government is investigating Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for possible financial misconduct.   Meanwhile, the city's school system faces a huge budget gap, and the governor of Illinois even suggested bankruptcy might be the best option for the district. "This investigation is very sad, I hope there's been no wrong-doing, but Chic
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Most Popular Ebook Reader: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Which ereader delivers the best reading experience, access to books, and bang for the buck isn’t a simple question. Last week we asked you for your favorites, then looked at the five best ebook readers. Now we’re back to tally up the votes and crown your favorite. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the winning ereader was a Kindle, but it wasn’t Amazon’s new, shiny model—it was the Kindle Paperwhite, bringi
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5 Essential Hiring Tips for Growing Startups If you run a young startup looking to grow, recruitment can be a scary task to contemplate. In this case, one of the best things you can do for yourself, and your business, is to learn from the successful CEOs who have already gone before you.Below, I’ve pulled together five great pieces of wisdom from business owners and managers who have “been there, done that.” Hopefully, they’ll provide some m
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Mobile Fashion Marketplace Poshmark Raises $25 Million More, Straps on Apple Watch Last December, I wrote about Poshmark adding luxury authentication to their already-addictive mobile fashion marketplace. Investors must have liked that effort—plus the fact that the company is set to double its revenue in just six months this quarter with a $200 million run rate in annual sales. Today, the company announced it has raised $25 million in new funding.
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Barcelona 2-0 Paris St-Germain (agg 5-1) Neymar's two goals see Barcelona coast past Paris St-Germain and into a third successive Champions League semi-final.
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Bayern Munich and Barcelona cruise into semi-finals Paris (France) (AFP) - Doubles from Robert Lewandowski and Neymar inspired Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively into the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday.Lewandowski's brace came in a crazy first half where Bayern rattled five goals past a demoralised Porto side, who had come into the game leading 3-1 after the first leg and with real hopes of reaching their first semi-final since they
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Tubular T-Shirt Packaging - Don & Brook's T-Shirt Tubes Communicate with Modern Hieroglyphs (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) As a men's fashion and lifestyle brand based out of Cairo, it seems natural for Don & Brook's t-shirt tube packaging system to made use of modern icons that take inspiration from...
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Internet Provider Puts Gaming Exec On Trial For Killing Fictional Character In #LifeOnTrial Legal Spoof Having internet access may not be a matter of life for death, but, for many, it's certainly close. Service provider TeliaSonera takes that concept and runs with it in a new campaign. The post Internet Provider Puts Gaming Exec On Trial For Killing Fictional Character In #LifeOnTrial Legal Spoof... Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Dear Younger Me: 4 Smart Things That Would Have Changed My Small Business Life Running a business was exciting at first. I felt the freedom of controlling my own destiny while working with my closest friends, daydreaming about the next big breakthrough and planning for the day that financial freedom would finally arrive.Related: Don't Make These 10 Startup MistakesUnfortunately, I wasn’t prepared for the constant state of struggle and hardship that lay ahead. And as I look b
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Chipotle's CEO just told us that the company's pork shortage crisis won't be over for months Earlier this year, Chipotle stopped serving pork at hundreds of locations after the company found that suppliers weren't meeting its standards.  The brand says that it will be months before carnitas are available at all locations. Chipotle founder and CEO Steve Ells told investors there is "very little supply cushion" for pork that meets the company's standards. The company demands that
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SearchCap: Google Mobile Friendly Rolling Out, Yahoo & Bing Deal Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Mobile Friendly Rolling Out, Yahoo & Bing Deal appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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The Ultimate List of All the Converters You'll Ever Need At least four times a day I convert something - dollars to euro, cm to inches or PDF files to PPT depending on what I’m going about. I figured out it would be nice to have all the tools I use listed and categorized in one place and so here’s a list of different convertors to have you covered at all times! 1. PDF ConvertersUniPDF - for converting PDF files to word. Excellent free software you can i
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Can Virtual Reality Cut the Cord? Let’s not mince words: I am visibly aroused by Valve’s new Virtual Reality headset. The Vive, created in partnership with HTC, boasts perfect tracking of your head and two controllers, a comfortable 2160 x 1200 resolution, and a ultra-sharp 90hz OLED display. It’s coming out this year, and it offers interactive VR experiences that provide a sustained sense of physical presence in the virtual scene
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The Rich Are Still Getting Richer! (????) 2014 was an off year for many Forbes billionaires’ stocks.  As a group, our Index of 575 publicly traded Forbes Billionaires--those on the list who created or inherited a preponderance of their wealth from a publicly traded company--generated less return than their peers.  US Billionaires earned about 9% last year and Non US Forbes Billionaires performed even worse.  They actually lost about 1% la
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Selling Your Business Is A Risky Affair You need to know how your business size fits into the world of business transfers. If your business does less than two million dollars buyers are likely to want you to hold paper either through a buyers note or an earn out.
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Marketing Day: Mobilegeddon Results, Twitter’s New Abuse Blocking Policies & Google Preferred Study Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. The post Marketing Day: Mobilegeddon Results, Twitter’s New Abuse Blocking Policies & Google Preferred Study appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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I'm learning how to code and now I feel like I could do anything This is the first in an on-going series about my experience learning to code, what I’m learning, why it’s important, and how I plan to utilize these new found skills. I always wanted a super power as a kid. The closest I ever came was when I’d watch the Star Wars trilogy and play with Legos. It felt like there were infinite possibilities in my tub of plastic blocks. The rules were simple (put blo
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Bayern Munich 6-1 FC Porto (agg 7-4) Bayern Munich put in a devastating first-half performance to beat Porto and reach the Champions League semi-finals.
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Google: Fear Of Mobilegeddon Boosted Mobile-Friendly Sites By 5% Fear of Google's mobile update resulted in many webmasters taking the plunge to go mobile friendly. The post Google: Fear Of Mobilegeddon Boosted Mobile-Friendly Sites By 5% appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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The CEO of LearnVest shares her 2 favorite job interview questions Savvy hiring managers know which interview questions yield the most information possible about a job candidate — and those are the ones they ask. In a recent interview with Adam Bryant of the New York Times, LearnVest CEO Alexa von Tobel revealed two questions she thinks are most telling (and almost always asks): Her first go-to: What are you genuinely bad at? She admits that oftentimes candidates
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More people watched CBS’s ‘Scorpion’ finale than any other scripted show on Monday Night CBS’s tech nerd procedural “Scorpion” ended its first season on a high note when it became Monday night’s most-watched scripted show. “Scorpion” earned a strong 2.1 rating with the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 18-49 and averaged 10.4 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. That’s an 11% and 9% lift over last week’s numbers, respectively. Its closest competition
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Traders have been ‘spoofing’ the market and now regulators are finally catching on On Tuesday, trader Navinder Singh Sarao was arrested in London in connection with the Flash Crash of 2010. His charge: "spoofing." Sarao's case is just the latest in a recent wave of spoofing investigations being conducted by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators. So what is it? One person who would know is fraud attorney Celiza Bragança of S
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Wal-Mart mysteriously closed 5 stores and now there's a conspiracy theory explaining why Thousands of Wal-Mart employees are fighting to get their jobs back after Wal-Mart suddenly closed five stores last week without warning.  The retailer said it closed the stores in California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida due to persistent plumbing issues that could take as long as six months to fix. More than 2,200 workers were laid off as a result and given two months of severance pay.  But some
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This casting call for a 'Mark Zuckerberg fan fiction' TV show is annoying San Franciscans A casting call for a new TV show called "94110" has some San Franciscans scratching their heads.  According to an ad posted on Craigslist, "94110 imagines the story of six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving together in San Francisco's Mission District, 94110. Production is scheduled on location in San Francisco for summer 2015." The casting call is for t
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Chipotle's impressive growth could come to a screeching halt Chipotle's shares are crashing on news that the company's sales missed expectations. For the past decade, Chipotle's growth has been unstoppable.  The burrito chain has a market value of $19 billion, and more than 1,600 locations. The stock price has increased nearly 45% in the past year.  But Ken Kurson at Esquire makes a compelling case for why Chipotle's growth is unsustainable.  "Next tim
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Yahoo's profit, revenue miss Street forecasts as costs rise (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc missed Wall Street's revenue and profit forecasts as slight growth in its online advertising businesses was outweighed by higher payments to websites which send readers to Yahoo.
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Tamil Nadu cancels permission for Coca-Cola's Perundurai plant Says company failed to start construction in stipulated 6 months; company blames state for delay in approvals
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Godrej eyes sixfold increase in Africa business by 2020 The Adi-Godrej Group's flagship firm Godrej Consumer proposes to up its African turnover six times in five years from around Rs 1,200 cr now
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Investment banks order forensic audit of promoters, key management staff An investment bank based abroad recently got in touch with the Mumbai-based head of a forensic practice
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Wipro Q4 net grows 2% y-o-y, 4% q-o-q at Rs 2,272 cr Rishad Premji appointed as wholetime director; gives conservative guidance for IT services business for Q1 of FY16
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Daiichi exits Sun Pharma in India's largest bulk deal Japanese firm raises $3.2 billion; Goldman Sachs, Singapore govt, Aranda lead stake buy; Sun stock dips 9%
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3 Tips to Ignite the Creative Spark Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and winner of the 2015 TED Prize, recently announced the release of an app that enables people anywhere, anytime to record conversations as a way to share and archive conversations globally. And that really got me thinking.What a creative idea it is to have an app that orally records and shares stories as a way to unite people. How difficult it is to come up with a
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Chimpanzees Take a Huge Step Toward (Some) Human Rights According to a New York judge, two chimpanzees now have a right that until Monday was reserved for humans. The post Chimpanzees Take a Huge Step Toward (Some) Human Rights appeared first on WIRED.
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This chart of teen sentiment shows why Facebook should be glad it bought Instagram Facebook may be the most dominant social media network in the world, but that's not the case among teens. According to a recent survey by Piper Jaffray, Facebook-owned Instagram is considered the "most important" social media among teens, accounting for almost a third of the total responses (32%). Twitter came in at second at 24%, although it dropped 3 percentage points from last year. T
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Yahoo earnings miss expectations Internet search giant Yahoo reports worse-than-expected profits for the first three months of this year, adding to investor concern.
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VIDEO: From above: The waters where migrants perish The BBC's Richard Bilton has travelled by helicopter to explore the waters near Libya where so many migrants have died.
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Rs 12,000cr Swachh Bharat fund cut worries panel A parliamentary committee has recorded its concern over reduction in budgetary allocation for the drinking water and sanitation ministry.
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Indian-origin UK trader arrested over US 'flash crash' Indian-origin UK trader arrested over US 'flash crash'A futures trader was arrested in UK on US wire fraud, commodities fraud and manipulation charges in the May 2010 "Flash Crash," the Department said.
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Boil Microwave Pasta by Adding Three Minutes to the Normal Cook Time While you might think cooking pasta in the microwave is blasphemy, it works great when you’re hungry and want something super easy. Just add some time to the recommended boiling time on the box.This video from HouseholdHacker demonstrates the easiest way you’ll ever make pasta (the tip starts at the 2:23 mark) . Get a microwave safe bowl and add pasta with enough water to cover it. See what the su
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Use decoy customers to check flouting of rules, RBI tells banks Many banks have earned RBI’s ire for violating norms after a sting operation by the news website ‘Cobra Post’
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As Daiichi exits, Sun Pharma faces prospect of a mammoth rival Teva has made an unsolicited offer to buy Mylan for about $40.1 billion as it seeks to fend off competitors like Sun Pharma
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On-demand delivery the next battlefield in competition: Peter Guarraia The Bain and Co. partner on how Indian firms should focus on digitization to build supply chain and on-demand as the next big thing in e-commerce
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Petroleum minister reaches out to industry on gas pricing issue Dharmendra Pradhan calls for building trust in the system in the wake of oil ministry documents leak
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Approach to Digital India will be selective: HCL’s Anant Gupta The market momentum is strong and the deal pipeline this quarter in IT outsourcing is larger than what it was last year, says Anant Gupta
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SC seeks SIT report on black money case Case relates to a PIL filed by Ram Jethmalani in 2009 seeking the return of black money allegedly salted away by Indians in foreign banks
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Micromax plans to double revenue this fiscal year Company bets on cheaper smartphones; will launch 15-20 devices in mass market segment in 2015
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The online march of tax returns About four years after the govt started a drive on filing of tax returns online, it is nearing the 100% mark, helped especially by three pockets of gain
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It has been a tough quarter: Wipro’s T.K. Kurien Wipro were caught very much by surprise with what happened in oil and gas, says the firm’s chief executive officer and executive director
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Twitter adopts new policy and tools to block threats, harassment The social network’s policy is now being changed to include threats of violence or promoting violence
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Saudi-led coalition announces end to Yemen operation DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen for almost a month announced on Tuesday the end to its military operation, but a Saudi spokesman said forces would continue to target the Iran-allied Houthi movement as necessary.
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How to Relate Relating with another person requires stepping away from your own judgements and making an effort to understand the person without bias. Seek out opportunities to talk to people from different areas of life, and use the following advice to make the most of these opportunities. Successfully relating to someone has the potential to make both of you happier and more fulfilled. Steps Relating to a Fr
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Norms on airport checks ‘hypocritical’: Vadra Robert Vadra on Tuesday lashed out at aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Facebook, without naming him, regarding his remark on carrying matches on aircraft.
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SC bench to judge if it can hear NJAC cases In an unprecedented act, the new five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to adjudicate its own suitability to hear petitions challenging the validity of National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act.
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Addiction: A Systems Perspective The dynamics of systems theory and neuroplasticity can provide valuable windows through which we can better understand the respective processes that contribute to addiction and recovery.
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Back to the Future Our brains don’t store everything that happens to us, only those events that may have future relevance.
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The Self "Loathsome Gluttony" of Binge-eating Disorder Binge eating disorder (BED) is a new diagnostic category in psychiatry's DSM-5 although it was first described in 1959. Already pharmaceutical companies are heavily marketing their medications to this new population.
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A town in Canada known as the 'Land of Rape and Honey' is rethinking its slogan Tisdale, a town in Canada nicknamed the "Land of Rape and Honey" for nearly 60 years, is surveying residents about rebranding, the Star Phoenix reports.  The town hasn't been advertising a high rate of sexual violence — "rape" in the slogan refers to "rapeseed," a flowering plant used to cultivate canola for canola oil. Tisdale produces large quantities of both rapes
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3 goats went airborne in China as part of an elaborate stunt with a giant kite Three small goats take flight in China when they're placed in a basket attached to a giant kite. The kite weighs near 1,110 pounds and is said to be one of the largest kites in the world.  Produced by Jason Gaines. Video courtesy of Associated Press. Follow BI Video: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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Planetary Clip: How Important Is Space Travel to Humanity? Space travel changed how humans understand Earth. The documentary Planetary examines that impact. The post Planetary Clip: How Important Is Space Travel to Humanity? appeared first on WIRED.
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Finding a Competitive Edge in a Non-Traditional Locale Let's face it: Every business has inherent challenges. If setting up a business were easy, we’d all be doing it. And that's not all: There are also the challenges of simply being in business -- especially the self-inflicted kind. It's the latter challenge that my own business deals with every day.Related: 4 Reasons to Stand by Your Midwest Startup Location First, some background: I launched BKWLD
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ASCII Art With Pure Data And A Typewriter [vtol] is quickly becoming our favorite technological artist. Just a few weeks ago he graced us with a Game Boy Camera gun, complete with the classic Game Boy printer. Now, he’s somehow managed to create even lower resolution images with a modified typewriter that produces ASCII art images. As with everything dealing with typewriters, machine selection is key. [vtol] is using a Brother SX-4000 typ
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Russia Proposes Highway from New York to London A record-breaking global infrastructure project could bring The Big Smoke closer to The Big Apple – via The Third Rome. It is a speculative plan, but alluring. Who hasn’t dreamed of taking a car trip around the entire world? In short, the plan is to build  a single highway that runs from London, all the way across Russia, crosses over into Alaska, and then crosses the USA, finally landing in New Y
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Why Small Business Is Personal -- Not Local Have you heard the idea that your thoughts become the words you speak? Then those words become beliefs, then actions, habits, character and ultimately, your destiny?It's true.And as society exclaims that small business is local, you stand alongside, beaming with pride.Unfortunately, your belief manifests into your actions of remaining local, and in doing so, you place limitations on your success.
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STOCKS GO NOWHERE: Here's what you need to know (SPY, DJI, IXIC, TEVA, MYL, BHI, UA, FNRG, TASR) Stocks fluctuated in trading on Tuesday, with the Dow being the biggest loser, dragged down by disappointing earnings results. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 17,949.59, -85.34, (-0.47%) S&P 500: 2,097.29, -3.11, (-0.15%) Nasdaq: 5,014.10, +19.50, (0.39%) And now, the top stories on Tuesday: Teva Pharmaceuticals proposed to buy Mylan Pharmaceuticals for $82 per share in cash and stock in a deal
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Move Your Apple Photos Library with a Simple Setting Tweak For better or worse, Apple’s new Photos app sets itself up automatically using your previous settings for iPhoto (if you had it). This can make it a bit confusing to deal with if you need to move things around. Thankfully, How-To Geek shows you how to change the location of the library.All you need to do is open up Photos, then head to Preferences > General. Select the “Show in Finder” option, the
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7 awesome ways quantum computers will change the world Superfast computers built on the bizarre principles of quantum physics are coming, and when they finally get here, they're going to change everything. Eric Ladizinsky, cofounder of the quantum computing company D-Wave, gave a great explanation of the difference between a regular computer and a quantum computer during a talk at the WIRED 2014 conference in London. Imagine you only have five minutes
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12 Ways To Rethink Your Morning Routine
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Women: The Next Wave of Angel Investors? By Alicia Robb, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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World’s fastest train records speed of 603km per hour Maglevs (Magnetic-levitation) trains, rely on magnetic power to float the cars above ground, eliminating the friction of steel tracks
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J.B. Patnaik, former Odisha chief minister, dies at 89 Patnaik died following a cardiac arrest, a few hours after he offered prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala
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Mumbai development plan 2034 to be revised State government asks municipal corporation to correct factual errors, come out with revised draft in four months
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Dentsu wins 13 Maruti accounts in Rs250 crore deal The advertising firm will also be responsible for corporate brand communications
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There’s more to a product than just returns Analyse an investment based on need for liquidity and risk tolerance. Then move to returns potential
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Make disclosures machine readable Getting access to data in a form that can be downloaded and worked upon is important
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How to optimize your MacBook Whether you are using an old MacBook or have just bought a new one, these simple steps will help you make the most of it
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Cimmco gets licence for manufacturing defence equipment The equipment will be manufactured from the Cimmco unit at Bharatpur in Rajasthan
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UFO Moviez to launch IPO on 28 April Shares will be sold in a price band of Rs615 to Rs625 and the company is seeking to raise up to Rs600 crore
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E-commerce skews retail market curve in India Parallels being drawn between the state of the retail market and that of the telecom market in the 2000s
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Adani Group in talks with Korea, China banks for Australia project American equipment maker Caterpillar may also join Adani’s Mining Pty’s coal mine project in Queensland
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Coming soon to a TV near you: a Discovery Channel clone on farming DD Kisan will cover global benchmarks in farming techniques, farmer suicides, unseasonal rains and ways to boost farm income
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Arvind Kejriwal to lead AAP protest against land bill Agitation is seen as bid by AAP to show all is well despite the expulsion of Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan and two other founding members
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10 Simple Steps for Starting a Business Today There’s a saying that you have to “fake it till you make it,” in life and in business. However, you also hear about wantrepreneurs. So what’s the difference? The real difference to me is in the action.If you want to get started, but you don’t know how to begin from zero, here is a simple and effective approach. Follow these 10 step-by-step instructions to get started on your business today.1. Writ
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Meet Brendan Jordan, the 15-year-old beauty blogger who made the #KylieJennerChallenge go viral Thanks to the sustained success of beauty vloggers like Michelle Phan, makeup tutorials are plentiful on YouTube these days. Fifteen-year-old vlogger Brendan Jordan seems like a typical beauty blogger at first glance, but he's actually more interested in poking fun at the idea of a YouTube beauty celeb while encouraging viewers to be themselves.  Update: wearing taller heels than my mom — Brend
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This meditation teacher has an amazing explanation — and solution — for why so many of us can’t escape the voice in our heads Like most New Yorkers, Ethan Nichtern spends a lot of time talking about commuting. But he's not complaining about the subway.  Nichtern, who's a senior teacher in Shambhala Buddhism, uses "the commute" as a metaphor for how people approach their lives — schlepping from job to job and relationship to relationship, hoping for something better to happen.  In his new book "the Road Hom
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How To Create A Healthy Routine Without Getting Stuck In A Rut These three strategies can help you stick to a productive routine without getting stuck in a rut.
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Executive Onboarding From A Subordinate's Perspective Everyone is watching and everyone has the same question, ?What does this mean for me??
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HCL Technologies Q3 profit rises 3.6%, misses estimates Net profit at Rs1,683 crore in the three months ended March was down 12.2% compared with the December quarter’s profit
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Artisanal T-Shirt Branding - This Honest To Goodness Clothing Packaging is Rustic and Eco-Friendly (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) Yoobee School Of Design's Honest to Goodness t-shirt branding is rustic and eco-friendly. This brand identity project is reflective of the company's core values and is designed with...
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Chipotle sales disappoint and now the stock is tumbling (CMG) Chipotle just reported same-store sales that missed expectations and the stock is falling after hours. Same-store sales at Chipotle rose 10.4% in the first quarter, missing expectations for growth of 11.8%.  In the fourth quarter, same-store sales rose 16.1% and in the same quarter last year, same-store sales were up 13.4%.  Adjusted earnings per share, however, beat expectations, while the compan
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MPs wanted dilution of black money bill As part of the crackdown on black money in local economy, finance minister Arun Jaitley has also proposed banning advance payment beyond Rs 20,000 for real estate deals.
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Doctors in Delhi remove 'largest' kidney Doctors at a city private hospital have removed from the body of a 45-year-old a kidney weighing 2.75kg, equal to the weight of a newborn child.
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Does Emotional Attachment to an Owner Change in Older Dogs? Although older dogs may appear to be more placid and less emotionally responsive, physiological measures show that this is not the case. They may actually be reacting to stress to a greater degree than they did when they were younger.
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This might be the box for the Apple Watch Sport (AAPL) Apple is shipping its first wave of Apple Watches to customers this Friday. While we know all about the watches — what they look like, what they can and can't do at launch, etc. — we haven't seen the boxes that Apple will use to ship its watches. Until now. Apple blog 9to5Mac says a "tipster" sent over photos that claim to reveal the box for the Apple Watch Sport, which is the cheapest A
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The Golden State Warriors have one huge advantage over the rest of the NBA, and it's not going away anytime soon The Golden State Warriors' ascent to the top of the NBA has been part smart team-building and part luck. They've made savvy draft choices, signings, and trades, and gotten a little bit of luck with players staying healthy and draft picks exceeding expectations. No matter how you look at it, though, the Warriors' success this season isn't a fluke, and they have one key competitive advantage over th
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11 of the worst social media blunders ever Social media gives you the freedom to share your thoughts with thousands of people around the world. But freedom comes with responsibility, and when you post the wrong stuff, it could end up offending a lot of people. Especially when you’re a public figure, things could quickly go downhill with a single mistaken post.Lily James: “‘Shinderera’ premiere in Tokyo.” Lily James is the actress who play
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4 Real Robots That Can Trace Their Lineage to Movies Sci-fi movies have shown us many visions of our future. Often, these visions have included robots. In some cases these robots are a little closer to reality than in others. Out of all of the heroic automata, the droids you were looking for, those you weren’t, and A.I.s both disturbing […] Read more on MAKE The post 4 Real Robots That Can Trace Their Lineage to Movies appeared first on Make:.
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6 Tips For Positive Brand Building Learning to focus on your company's positives while still emphasizing your point of difference takes practice
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6 Reasons Why You Need Personal PR Now Podcast interviews, public speaking or even content marketing may seem like "vanity projects" to some entrepreneurs. In fact, such personal PR activities are highly beneficial.
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7 tricks to talk your boss into the salary you want, from a former FBI hostage-negotiation trainer Negotiations are tricky, and often intimidating. "People worry about coming off as pushy, greedy, manipulative, or entitled," says Mark Goulston, a psychiatrist, author, and former FBI hostage-negotiation trainer. "At a deeper subconscious level is your fear not just of being told 'no,' but of your reaction to being told 'no,'" he says. Goulston now works as a business advisor
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Yahoo whiffs on earnings, stock drops (YHOO, MSFT) Yahoo just reported its first quarter earnings results after the bell today.  Here are the key numbers:  $1.04 billion net revenue, compared $1.06 billion expected by analysts.  $0.15 non-GAAP EPS versus $0.18 expected by analysts.  Mobile GAAP revenue grew 61% year-on-year to $234 million. Yahoo's GAAP search revenue increased 20% to $532 million. Yahoo noted that it is recognizing revenue from
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Republican Party boss actually thinks Bill de Blasio might be president At least one political leader thinks New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) could be a serious 2016 presidential contender — but it's not someone you might expect.  New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox touted de Blasio's presidential prospects in a conversation with Business Insider on Tuesday.  Cox said the staunchly progressive de Blasio might not even face an uphill battle for the De
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Google Says There Are 4.7% More Mobile Friendly Websites Today Than Two Months Ago The fear of Mobilegeddon encouraged many webmasters to make their sites mobile friendly. Google says there was an uptick of 4.7% of sites that are now mobile friendly compared to two months ago. The post Google Says There Are 4.7% More Mobile Friendly Websites Today Than Two Months Ago appeared... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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Learn to Play an Instrument with 7 Free Online Music Lessons Learning a to play an instrument is a great experience — not only is it a lot of fun, but science shows that it’s good for your brain, too. But getting music lessons can be expensive. So why not try out some of these free online music lesson courses? You can learn at your own pace, go through each lesson as many times as you want, and not pay a dime. Guitar: JustinGuitar.com Justin Sandercoe is a
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Healthy Meals Should Have Bigger Portions, Not Smaller Ones Portion control is over-hyped. If you’re trying to eat healthy, small portions are probably hurting more than helping you. Does that sound backwards? Consider this: if your “healthy” meal is so small it’s more of a snack, you’re just setting yourself up for failure later in the day.It’s not hard to find lists of 500, 400, even 300-calorie “healthy dinners.” They make good headlines to readers who
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8 (affordable) gifts your mom actually wants for Mother's Day [up to 40% off] Mother's Day is getting closer. If you haven't gotten your mom anything yet, we recommend checking out one of these gifts. We've rounded up eight amazing (and affordable!) items that your mother will surely love this year. For the sentimental mom... This simple circle design is classic and will look beautiful on any woman, regardless of her personal style or what's trendy. Plus, this necklace is
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A closer look at the town where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reportedly hiding out The leader of ISIS was reportedly 'seriously injured' in a March airstrike, according to the Guardian. The newspaper reported that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been traveling in a convoy of vehicles targeted in a coalition airstrike near the western town of Baaj on March 18th. Baghdadi had not been the target of the strike, which was aimed at local-level ISIS figures. If the Guardian report is true 
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DEA chief to step down, Congress probes sex party leaks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's chief will step down within weeks, the Obama administration said on Tuesday, as a congressional panel planned to examine whether DEA agents divulged secrets at sex parties that Colombian drug lords may have staged.
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20 tricks for sitting at your desk without hurting your back Sitting is killing you. Although if you are like most people, you probably don't have access to an alternative workspace option like a treadmill desk. If you are forced to sit, you should maximize your desk's potential for healthy ergonomics and productivity with this perfect setup.   Produced by Justin Gmoser. Additional graphics by Alex Kuzoian. Follow BI Video: On Facebook  Join the conve
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Kings XI Punjab beat Rajasthan in Super over Kings XI Punjab snapped Rajasthan Royals winning run in the 2015 Indian Premier League by recording a thrilling Super Over victory on Tuesday.
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Google lobbying spending reached new high in early 2015 Google lobbying spending reached new high in early 2015The disclosure on lobbying expenditures comes as the company faces charges brought by the European Union that it demoted rivals in search results.
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Instagram Becomes A Choose-Your-Own Adventure For The Toronto Silent Film Festival Call the cops or run away? Hide in a hospital or a department store? The choices are yours.When Instagram added video to its social network, it allowed people to share their moving images in 15-second bursts. But limitations like time constraints always yield creative hacks, and to promote the Toronto Short Film Festival agency Red Lion found a way to turn the photo sharing platform into a choose-
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According To Our Emojis, Americans Are A Tolerant, Tech-Savvy, Meat-Loving Bunch Emoji is changing the way we communicate, but not always in the ways you would expect.Emojis have been around since the late 1990s, but only lately have the unicode-based symbols begun to influence the way we communicate with each other. And are they ever: The tiny pictograms that come pre-built into most smartphones are used widely not just by kids and millennials, but also by moms, and White Hou
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No charges for Argentina's President
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Volvo Axes the Passenger Seat to Boost Backseat Legroom To entice wealthy types, Volvo has created a new concept that removes the front passenger seat for crazy legroom. The post Volvo Axes the Passenger Seat to Boost Backseat Legroom appeared first on WIRED.
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5 Ways to Tell If You're Doing Social Media Right Some entrepreneurs are complete naturals when it comes to expressing themselves through social media, but some people need a little help to put themselves out there and reap the rewards that digital has to offer them.Related: 8 Social-Media Sins That Are Sure to Get You Unfriended and UnfollowedWhen we do personal branding work with company clients, they often ask how they'll know whether they are
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Show and Tell: How Will You Celebrate Earth Day? Send us photos and videos of your hiking, biking, trash-collecting, energy-saving, water-conserving selves in action -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Generic drugmaker Teva makes $40 billion offer for rival Mylan TEL AVIV/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Tuesday made an unsolicited $40 billion offer for smaller rival Mylan NV, a bold bid for growth as its lucrative Copaxone drug faces generic competition.
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One of the most iconic crystal companies just opened a hotel in New York, and everything is extremely breakable This spring, French crystal maker Baccarat launched a hotel chain with the opening of its Manhattan flagship, Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York. The 114-suite property redefines opulence, with coyote-skin armchairs and silk-lined walls, 17 custom-made chandeliers, and 15,000 pieces of Baccarat crystal stemware scattered throughout. Rooms start at $899 per night. Baccarat plans to expand its
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Bill Gross has found the 'short of a lifetime' — but you've got to wait until September 2016 (BUND, JNS) Janus Capital's Bill Gross says the German 10-year bond, widely known as the "Bund," is the "short of a lifetime." Here's Gross' tweet from Tuesday morning: Gross: German 10yr Bunds = The short of a lifetime. Better than the pound in 1993. Only question is Timing / ECB QE — Janus Capital (@JanusCapital) April 21, 2015 In 1992, the British pound collapsed in value after th
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Christopher Nolan says he's most proud of the opening scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' When it comes to technology, director Christopher Nolan ("Interstellar," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy), is famously something of a Luddite. He doesn't have an email or a cell phone, and he's a vocal advocate of film over digital. His action sequences also rely more heavily on practical effects than CGI. Nolan appeared Monday evening at a Tribeca Film Festival panel to discuss his
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Retired Firefighter Creates Exposure Tracker App to Track Long-Term Risks There are many dangers that go along with being a firefighter. The obvious ones include burns, smoke inhalation and building collapses. But there are also some less obvious long-term dangers that go along with fighting fires year after year. Clive Savacool has dealt with those dangers firsthand. In March 2014, he collapsed after battling a grass fire in Pittsburg, California. He spent the next fe
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Are You Buying an Apple Watch? The Apple Watch has started shipping to early adopters in preparation for the official release this Friday, which is making us wonder: are any of you planning on buying the Apple Watch?The Apple Watch comes in all shapes, sizes, and prices, but it’s not totally evident how, if at all, it’ll actually be useful. Still, we want to hear it, did you order a watch? Which one? What apps and software are
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Meet the Frontwoman Writing Some of Rock’s Best New Lyrics The band's second LP, Foil Deer, out today, cements Sadie Dupuis as one of the best rock lyricists of her generation. The post Meet the Frontwoman Writing Some of Rock’s Best New Lyrics appeared first on WIRED.
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Brown 'might miss rest of season' Harlequins' England full-back Mike Brown might not play again this season because of concussion, says Quins boss Conor O'Shea.
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Zeman exits Cagliari for second time Cagliari boss Zdenek Zeman leaves his post at the Serie A strugglers for the second time this season.
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Kenya suspends police over Garissa Seven policemen are suspended over failures to act on intelligence about a possible attack on Garissa University College where 148 people were killed.
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Saudi Arabia ends Yemen air campaign A Saudi-led coalition ends its month-long bombing campaign against rebels in Yemen, saying its aims have been achieved.
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Saudi-led coalition declares end to Yemen campaign Riyadh (AFP) - A Saudi-led coalition declared an end Tuesday to its military campaign nearly a month after launching air strikes against rebels in Yemen, saying their threat to Saudi Arabia and its neighbours had been removed.The coalition has "ended Operation Decisive Storm based on a request by the Yemeni government and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi," its spokesman, Brigadier Genera
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You've probably already forgotten about last week's wild sell-off The global markets got rocked last Friday, with the Dow dropping 279 points, or 1.5%, and the S&P 500 ending the day lower by 1.1%. Such big sell-offs often have investors wondering if it's the beginning of an extended downtrend in stocks, like a bear market. But as the chart below from Oppenheimer's John Stoltzfus shows, we've had multiple market plunges this year. And yet we're still up by m
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A new survey of 28 colleges could shed light on a controversial rape statistic Advocates of reforming collegiate sexual misconduct policies often cite the "1 in 5" statistic — that roughly 20% of college women will be sexually assaulted during their time on campus. "One in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted in her college years," said Vice President Joe Biden
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The CEO of oil driller Baker Hughes says there's been 'a bit of drama in the marketplace' (BHI, USO, OIL) The response to the oil crash has been brutal. Energy companies have laid off thousands of workers; on Tuesday morning, Baker Hughes announced it cut its workforce by 17% in the first quarter, which totals 10,500 positions. CEO Martin Craighead described this as "the really crappy part of the job" during the company's earnings call. Halliburton and Schlumberger also recently reported la
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An Electric Self-Driving Car Befit for the Superhero Generation We don’t know exactly how autonomous cars will change the world, but the Chevy FNR Concept hints it’ll look a lot like Tron. Debuting at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show, this electric self-driving car concept was developed in China by GM’s Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center. The rakish exterior design incorporates lighting in surfaces changes between the body panels and molded glass. Accessing the
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Homeless Viewpoint Ads - Depaul UK's Poverty Awareness Campaign Shows Two Sides of the Story (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) As Depaul UK's poverty awareness campaign shows, there is always more than one way to tell a story. In an attempt to bring more attention to the rising numbers of homeless youth, an eye-...
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Are Souls Like Athletes... The seven storey mountain is the mountain of Purgatory that must be climbed to reach Paradise.
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What Languages Do Bilinguals Count In? Is it true that bilinguals always count in their first language? And if so, are bilingual children at a disadvantage if they study math in a second language? New brain studies suggest that bilinguals are more flexible than previously thought.
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Creative Mind Breaks for Productive Loafing Oh, the spaces a day makes if we stand and stare.
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Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm to Balance Content From Friends Vs. Pages Today, Facebook announced three brand new updates to the News Feed algorithm specifically meant to improve user experience. How? By providing a better balance of updates from friends versus updates from businesses, publishers, public figures, and local organizations. Every time Facebook updates its algorithm, brands and marketers freak out. To help you quickly get to the bottom of this change, he
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Wink’s Outage Shows Us How Frustrating Smart Homes Could Be The recent failure of a popular connected-home controller reminds us that the smart home of the future won't be immune from the testiness that plagues any technology. The post Wink’s Outage Shows Us How Frustrating Smart Homes Could Be appeared first on WIRED.
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Sustainable Clothing Wraps - Essi's T-Shirt Packaging Concept is Eco-Friendly and Collapsible (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) Essi's t-shirt packaging concept relies on sustainable design practices. The product is created by designer Jessica Cullen and boasts a scroll-like system that folds in and out in seconds....
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LED Bulbs Are Now Two for $5—Officially Too Cheap to Ignore A new 60-watt equivalent LED bulb from Philips could be what finally convinces you to upgrade your lamps. The post LED Bulbs Are Now Two for $5—Officially Too Cheap to Ignore appeared first on WIRED.
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3 Vital Things to Consider Before Starting a Business We wrote a column where we outlined the three most important personal attributes of an entrepreneur. They are adaptability, persistence and work ethic. We stick by these. You’ll need all three.However, to start a new business, you’ll also need to deal with three very practical issues.1. Possess the requisite skills to do the primary work of the business.(Or if you possess only some of the required
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Parents of a one-year-old were criticized by the internet after a demanding list of acceptable birthday gifts for their child went viral A demanding email for a one-year-old’s birthday party is going viral on Reddit. Reddit user razz32 shared the birthday email that his coworker had received from the parents on /r/pics. In the email, the parents request four specific gifts, no more books since their baby “hates when we try reading to him,” and no personalized clothing with names since it’s “the #1 thing that leads to kidnapping, s
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The most interesting men in the world You've probably seen the Dos Equis commercials that feature The Most Interesting Man In The World, a dapper, salt-and-pepper-haired gentleman who "received a standing ovation from a juror's box" and "taught canaries in the art of falconry," among a Bible-thick list of other impossible accomplishments. This Dos Equis-drinking gent is only a fantasy, but in real life, people like
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3D Printed Wind Turbine Uses Bamboo Using wood and aluminum for wind turbines is one thing, but how about 3D printing the blades and using bamboo to hold them together? [Jeff Heidbrier] of Hero Electronics decided to try something new. He designed his own wind turbine to use cheap and readily available bamboo, with 3D printed parts. It’s a vertical axis wind turbine, unlike the typical wind mills you see generating power. The blades
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Here are two new Stormtroopers that will be in 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Fans at last week's "Star Wars Celebration" in Anaheim, California, were able to get a good look at the next generation of Stormtroopers from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" up close and personal.  However, if you were at the event in Anaheim, you also got a sneak peek at some of the other Stormtroopers that will be in the movie. First up is the Flametrooper, who, yes, has a fl
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Facebook is making 3 big changes to its NewsFeed algorithm, and publishers should be worried Is Facebookgeddon finally here? For the past year and a half, a number of publishers and Facebook page owners have benefitted from a surge of traffic sent to them by the social network. Publishers post content to Facebook with links, and thousands — or millions — of Facebook users see it and interact with it. But publishers have also known that the flood of traffic may not last, and Facebook says
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Don’t Do A Redesign! Learn Why Evolution Beats Revolution For those about to engage in an epic design overhaul to take your product to the next level, I’ve got bad news for you. It’s probably not going to work. The revolutionary, or “out with the old and in with the new,” approach to redesign has been the norm for many years. Websites, in particular, are often overhauled every 3-5 years, but remain fairly static between updates. The overarching issue is
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How to Establish a Vision Statement Employees Will Get Behind Most companies have a clearly defined mission statement, but it’s the vision statement that employees cling onto. Whereas mission statements explain a company’s reason for existence, a vision statement describes where the company is going and how they’re going to get there.To paint a better picture, here are the mission and vision statements we work by at ClearCompany:Our mission: We exist to help
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WIRED 27
Restless Spring Continues for Perú’s Ubinas April has brought more explosions and mudflows to Ubinas in Peru. The post Restless Spring Continues for Perú’s Ubinas appeared first on WIRED.
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Why Twitter Is Finally Taking a Stand Against Trolls Twitter is starting to realize it has more to lose by staying silent on the issue of abuse. The post Why Twitter Is Finally Taking a Stand Against Trolls appeared first on WIRED.
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Saudi Arabia to stop bombing Yemen A Saudi-led coalition will end "Operation Decisive Storm" -- its nearly monthlong bombing campaign in Yemen-- by the end of Tuesday, and a new undertaking called "Operation Restoring Hope" will begin, Saudi state-run TV reported without immediately elaborating.
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Today in Tabs: Lemon Aid The tweets of justice turn slowly, but grind exceeding(ly?) fine.There should be a sex position called the Manual RetweetRead Full Story
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Bankrupt Aereo Will Pay $950,000 To Broadcasters Aereo's story is a cautionary tale for startups that push the law in their efforts to disrupt."Ask forgiveness, not permission" is an old adage you will often hear from startups that leapt ahead of their competition by taking risks and pushing legal boundaries. The strategy is often lucrative—just look at Uber, which has flouted local laws around the world and is currently valued at more
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Returning to Turkey, in search of a lost Armenian past Istanbul (AFP) - "My grandparents were killed here. My mother escaped with her two brothers," said Gerard Bodigoff, 70, as he made his first visit to Turkey and the land of his ancestors.Like many descendants of Armenians killed in the Ottoman massacres of 1915, Bodigoff is visiting his roots in what he describes as a duty to his mother to mark the centenary of the calamity that befell A
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Governments and utilities are in a rush to install smart meters and realize savings Smart meters are quickly becoming one of the most ubiquitous IoT devices, and volume is being driven by government officials and utility executives.  Smart meters help to make energy use more efficient, provide real-time billing information, and reduce the number of workers needed to check meters. In a new report from BI Intelligence, we size the smart meter market globally and in regions and coun
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Apple is shipping the Apple Watch to developers by April 28, even though some customers have to wait for weeks (AAPL) The Apple Watch is way backordered, and even some of those who preordered on day one won't get their watches until later this summer. But if you're a registered Apple developer waiting and waiting for your watch to ship, there's a glimmer of hope: Apple is offering some developers the chance to buy one Apple Watch Sport with a blue band and aluminum case that's guaranteed to ship by April 28th — a
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How Mark Cuban turned the Dallas Mavericks franchise around by treating it like a startup When Mark Cuban became the majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, the team hadn't had a winning season in 10 years. And because the team was awful, fans weren't showing up to games. It took Cuban until 2013 to make the Mavericks profitable, but since he took over, the Mavs have made the playoffs all but one year since 2001 and have sold out every game since December 15, 2001, for the long
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This Chart Shows How Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Affect Your Photos Learning even just the basics of photography takes a bit of work and one of the more complex ideas is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. German photography blog Photoblog Hamburg has a graphic explaining how it works. The graphic does a reasonable job at explaining how the amount of light you let it affects a photo, how certain settings can increase noise, and how focus ch
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Apple is guaranteeing some developers an Apple Watch before just about everyone else (AAPL) If you want an Apple Watch but didn't place a pre-order on April 10, you'll probably have to wait at least a month or two for delivery. But if you're an iOS developer, you still have a chance to get an Apple Watch shipped to you by the end of the month, according to MacRumors. Hoping to attract more developers to build applications for its latest device, Apple on Tuesday started sending out emails
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Twitter Moves To Strengthen Its Abuse Blocking Policies & Enforcement Company gives itself more leeway to crack down on violent threats and other abuse and creates a penalty box to lock out abusive accounts for specific periods of time. The post Twitter Moves To Strengthen Its Abuse Blocking Policies & Enforcement appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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South African troops to help police stem immigrant attacks South Africa will deploy an undisclosed number of troops to areas where police are spread too thin trying to curb deadly attacks against immigrants, the country's defense minister said Tuesday.
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New Project: Build an Ionic Thruster like NASA Uses for Space Propulsion An ion thruster produces a flow of air even though it has no moving parts. A version of this seemingly impossible device is used on a larger scale to propel deep space probes for NASA. The advantage to this system over others is that you need only an electrical source […] Read more on MAKE The post Build an Ionic Thruster like NASA Uses for Space Propulsion appeared first on Make:.
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Fun Fiber Optic Formalwear Illuminates the Dance Floor If you’d like to make a fashion statement that’s out of this world, then you’d better keep your eye out for the fiber optic formal wear that will be on display at Maker Faire Bay Area this year. Jenn Mann did a fabulous job following Instructables user Natalina’s Fiber Optic […] Read more on MAKE The post Fun Fiber Optic Formalwear Illuminates the Dance Floor appeared first on Make:.
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SEW, ClickZ, ClickZ Live, and SES Acquired by Blenheim Chalcot SEW, ClickZ, ClickZ Live, and SES have been bought by Blenheim Chalcot in a move that is guaranteed to create a stronger brand that is bigger and better than ever before.
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Inside the strange and wonderful world of micronations Late last week, BBC reported that conservative Party of Free Citizens in the Czech Republic member Vit Jedlicka has declared a 2.7-square-mile "no man's land" between the borders of Serbia and Croatia to be a new sovereign nation. Naming it "Liberland," Jedlicka appointed himself the president. Liberland is just the newest in a long history of "micronations," pieces
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The 2 events Americans most fear they can't afford are things that happen to everyone Northwestern Mutual's 2015 Planning and Progress Study surveyed over 2,000 Americans in January to gauge how they feel about their money. One of the most interesting insights it uncovered is that more Americans fear unplanned financial emergencies and the inability to afford to retire comfortably more than anything else to do with their money: What's the big deal about that? Retiring and facing a
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Artistic Clothing Tags - MiHi's Branding Concept Draws Inspiration From Painted Masterpieces (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) MiHi's clothing tags and brand identity reference painted art works and are reflective of the label's hand-crafted aesthetic. Based in Dehli, India, MiHi specializes in sleepwear, gifts...
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Russia will not be banned - IAAF Russia will not be banned from major competitions because of doping allegations, says IAAF president Lamine Diack.
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Conflicting reports on IS head fate There are conflicting reports about the fate of Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with some officials saying he was badly injured in an air strike.
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UK arrest over US 'flash crash' A financial trader is arrested in the UK after US authorities allege he contributed to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" that wiped billons of dollars off the value of shares.
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Artist Draws Using Only His Eyes With another portrait finished at the Riflemaker Gallery, Graham Fink has his assistant print the sketch out and brand it with his custom-made signature stamp, finalizing the piece of art without ever even touching it himself. In Drawing with my Eyes, Mr. Fink has found a novel way of expressing his art—using eye-tracking software to “paint” silhouettes, one continuous pixellated line at a time.
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Smiling is the New Tab Pinning Smiling is the new Tab Pinning. A  Google Chrome extension, Smile Suggest, uses your webcam and facial recognition technology to determine which webpages make you smile, and then saves them. I took it for a joy ride. Once you allow the Chrome Extension to turn on your webcam, you use a slider to set how big a smile will save a page on a scale of one to 10. I set mine at a 5—a happy medium. When S
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These Autonomous Drones May Soon Deliver Your Lunch (And Your Medicine) Your Seamless order is floating above your house.For the past few years, a startup called Matternet has been testing out autonomous delivery drones in developing countries like Haiti, Papua New Guinea, and Bhutan. Now, the company is getting ready to release a commercial version of the $5,000 quadcopter, called the Matternet One. Pretty soon, the on-demand economy may be staffed by these drones.Re
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What's The Apple Watch For? You Figure It Out Apple's happy to tell you about how its watch looks, works, and is manufactured, but hasn't laid out the need it serves.In 2010, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPad—Apple's last new product category before the debut of the Apple Watch—he first set up the product by publicly pondering what had been the middle space between the smartphone and laptop. In doing so, he asked whether there was a need fo
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Psychology Today
Earthly Life and the Longing for Longevity Macho-preservation instincts, allied with slime-avoidance, in a high-school dissecting class. Biology is not for the faint of heart. A father hopes to extend his life-on-Earth tenure well beyond his seventh decade. He’s already been made aware of what would curtail it, so he seeks a window into his daughter’s life in a lab—for the lab may be her life.
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4 Lifestyle Changes That Boost Mental Health When we seek help for a mental health condition, we can expect to hear about various medications and treatment options, but what’s often missing from the conversation is any talk of lifestyle changes.
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Comm Min take steps to improve ease of doing biz in SEZs The move is part of steps the ministry is taking to revive investors confidence in SEZs.
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Bal Thackeray was chronically ill since 2007, says his doctor Parkar was being examined as a witness in the case related to a dispute between Bal Thackeray's two sons, Uddhav and Jaidev, over his will.
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RBI appoints NSE's Ravi Narain to small bank panel RBI had earlier announced a panel under Nachiket M Mor, Director of Central Board, for payments banks.
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Mayors lash out at Greek govt's demand for cash as default fears grow Athens (AFP) - Mayors across Greece lashed out Tuesday at a government decree ordering them to hand over their cash reserves as Athens struggled to pay off its massive debt and avert a possible default.The cash-strapped radical left-wing government has been battling to come to a deal with its international creditors on unlocking some 7.2 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in bailout funds.With some 3 bi
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Feds Warn Airlines to Look Out for Passengers Hacking Jets In response to reports last week that passenger Wi-Fi networks make some planes vulnerable to hacking, the FBI and TSA have issued an alert to airlines advising them to be on the lookout for evidence of tampering or network intrusions. The FBI and TSA note that they currently have no information to support claims that […] The post Feds Warn Airlines to Look Out for Passengers Hacking Jets appeared
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CEO describes the moment when he decided to raise his company's minimum wage to $70,000 a year Dan Price, founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, shocked everyone last Monday, including his 120 employees, when he announced that he would raise the minimum wage at his credit card processing firm to $70,000 a year. Price says a series of moments over the past 12 years since starting the company culminated in a recent epiphany that led him to make this radical decision.  The first person Price hir
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SpaceX has discovered what caused its Falcon 9 rocket to crash land and explode SpaceX is writing history with its gutsy rocket landing attempts that are unlike anything we've ever seen. The company's second attempt in history to land a rocket on a floating platform in the ocean on April 14 didn't go exactly according to plan. The good news is that this second landing attempt missed the mark for a different reason than the first attempt: Unlike the first try last January, whe
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Angry congressman warns protester: 'I'll drop your a--' Rep. Steve Knight (R-California) recently got in a heated confrontation with an anti-immigration protest. Video of the exchange, apparently outside an open house at his Simi Valley office, was posted Tuesday on Political Wire. Knight clearly did not appreciate one protester who got in his face. "If you touch me again, I'll drop your a--, alright?" Knight told him. The protesters accused
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Contraband Fashion Packaging - This Streetwear Packaging is a Clever Reference to the Product (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) While many may not first consider the need for streetwear packaging design, there are plenty of innovative concepts that make ordering the latest tee online even more of a delight to receive....
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Go all out to counter oppn on land issue: BJP to MPs Go all out to counter oppn on land issue: BJP to MPsParliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu alleged Congress is continuously trying to spread falsehood as truth and asked party MPs to counter it aggressively.
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Up next, PAN card to be issued in 48 hours flat! Up next, PAN card to be issued in 48 hours flat!"An online facility for issuance of PAN is on the anvil under which an applicant can get a PAN card within 48 hours," a senior official said.
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West Indies on back foot after early losses St. George's (Grenada) (AFP) - James Anderson and Chris Jordan struck early to have the West Indies struggling on 36 for two at the lunch interval following a rain-shortened first session of the second Test at the Queen's Park Stadium in Grenada on Tuesday.Under overcast skies that produced the sporadic showers which delayed the start of play until almost midday, Anderson produced an unplayable in
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Ethan Czahor lost his job because of controversial tweets — now he's built an app that prevents others from making the same mistake Former Jeb Bush staffer Ethan Czahor knows better than anyone that you're just one bad tweet or Facebook post away from getting canned, so he's created a new app called Clear that lets people vet their own social media accounts and escape his fate. The story goes like this: Earlier this year, Czahor was forced to resign from his new position as CTO of Jeb Bush's political action committee, Right t
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Google just made a huge update that could affect millions of businesses. Here's what you need to know The day of reckoning has arrived. Today, Google is making a major update to its mobile search algorithm that will change the order in which websites are ranked when users search for something from their phone.  The algorithm will start favoring mobile-friendly websites — ones with large text, easy-to-click links, or that resize to fit whatever screen they're viewed on — and ranking them higher in
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Overwhelmed? 6 Ways to Bring Sanity to an Insane Work Schedule If you're struggling to get everything done, your best bet may be to give up the fight.
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Boston Marathon Champs on How Not to Burn Out The last two winners have both been knocked out of races due to injuries. Here's what they've learned from it--and what they do differently now to stay strong.
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Y Combinator's Sam Altman Thinks Startup Burn Rates Are Getting 'Frightening' The incubator president says that many tech companies are spending too much money, but the industry isn't in a bubble as many investors fear.
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Here's What It's Like to Leave Google to Work at a Startup After working for the tech giant, many employees decide to pursue a more entrepreneurial path.
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5 Ways to Lead in Challenging Times In a time of unprecedented challenge, leaders don't just need to lead their companies. They also need to lead themselves.
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7 Daily Habits for a Healthier Work-Life Balance We all have to juggle work and our personal lives. Many times, work takes priority and begins to drown out opportunities for the moments in life that we live for. Here are seven daily habits to help improve your work-life balance.
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2 Great Reasons Startups Should Consider Markets Other Than Silicon Valley For most startups, the benefits of a third-tier market outweigh the negatives. Looking for an atypical place to grow could get you ahead in the game.
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How Should Your Business Respond to #Mobilegeddon? (TLDR: Start with Deep Breaths) by @tomdemers OK, so let’s breathe, everybody. If you’re in the search marketing (or even in the digital marketing) space you’ve likely heard about Google’s unusual preemptive announcement of a pending algorithm update around mobile-friendly sites in search results. It has a lot of folks anxious, has been all over the news and is being billed as a major, impactful update. That doesn’t necessarily mean the sky i
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Energizing Fruit Lemonade - Hydrive Energy Water's Pink Lemonade Provides a Small Shot of Caffeine (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) With the introduction of two new flavors, Hydrive Energy Water is making fruit lemonade even more of a staple for fueling up during the summer season. The Strawberry Lemonade and Raspberry Lemonade...
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Wealthy reserve deputy who admits he shot an unarmed man permitted to go on Bahamas vacation A wealthy reserve deputy who says he fatally shot an unarmed man because he mistook his gun for his Taser has been allowed to go on a Caribbean vacation for the next month, the Tulsa World reports. Robert Bates, 73, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a second-degree manslaughter charge for the killing of Eric Harris earlier this month. Bates' lawyer told a court Tuesday that the local prosecutor didn't
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LeBron James is only halfway to Michael Jordan's 22 career trophies During the 2012-13 season, LeBron James won the NBA title, MVP award, and Finals MVP award, the ninth, 10th, and 11th trophies of his career respectively. Two years later, James is now still only halfway to Michael Jordan's 22 career trophies. James is not expected to win an MVP this season. However, if he can lead the Cavaliers to the NBA title and win the Finals MVP along the way, LeBron would b
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Jawbone's most important product had a serious problem that delayed its launch for months: 'It reminded me of my 6 year-old's arts and crafts project' Jawbone announced its latest fitness tracker, the Up 3, back in November, but the product didn't start shipping until this month. The company missed the crucial holiday season, while rivals like Fitbit had their new gadgets ready to go before the end of 2014. The reason behind Jawbone's delay, according to a new report from The Information's Reed Albergotti, was the company's obsession with keepin
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Five Localization Strategies Every Digital Marketer Needs You work hard to develop compelling content marketing campaigns. But did you know 70% of internet users are not native English speakers, and 75% of the world’s economy is outside the USA? In this white paper from SDL, you will learn the 5 strategies you need to master to boost your... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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Why It's Sometimes Okay to Eat Chicken That's Pink After Cooking You cut into your fully-cooked chicken and see pink. Panic time? Throw it back in the oven? Not necessarily. The Kitchn reminds us that when all parts of the chicken have reached at an internal temperature of at least 165° F, it’s safe to eat, regardless of color:The USDA further explains that even fully cooked poultry can sometimes show a pinkish tinge in the meat and juices. This is particularly
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How to Change Your Password on Any Desktop or Mobile Device For most of your accounts, your password is the only thing standing between a stranger and your most private data. It had better be a strong password, otherwise your privacy and integrity may be at risk. When was the last time you updated the password on your computer, phone, or tablet? It may be time to do it right now –  we explain how. Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 The following instructions are fo
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Incisive Media’s ClickZ, SES & Search Engine Watch Acquired By Blenheim Chalcot Incisive Media CEO says sale of its Interactive Marketing divisions will allow his group to focus on its core financial business. The post Incisive Media’s ClickZ, SES & Search Engine Watch Acquired By Blenheim Chalcot appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Disney's new 'Tomorrowland' trailer is awesome — but we're still not sure what it's about Disney just released the third trailer for "Tomorrowland." The movie stars George Clooney in the story of — well, we're not exactly sure what it's about. All of the trailers, including this one, have kept most major plot details under wraps. All we know is that George Clooney's character transports a teenage girl to the futuristic world of Tomorrowland. We'll have to wait and find ou
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Turkey is 'making NATO very uncomfortable' Turkey's push to carve out an independent foreign policy and purchase arms from countries outside of NATO is raising concerns among members of the defensive military alliance, Emre Peker reports for the Wall Street Journal.  “Turkey is recasting itself as a nonaligned country in its rhetoric, which is making NATO very uncomfortable,” a Western official in Brussels told the WSJ.  Ankara's decision
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The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? To evolutionary biologists, humans are amazing not because they have so much hair but because they have so little. The post The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? appeared first on WIRED.
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These 3 Organizations Are Working to Boost Female Entrepreneurs Historically, female entrepreneurs have faced more challenges in the startup landscape, tasked with competing with male entrepreneurs for investment dollars and industry recognition. A 2014 report from Babson College found that less than 3 percent of venture capital-funded businesses had women at the helm. Fortunately, the landscape continues to change and there is an increasing number of opportun
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Isabel Diagnoses Your Health Symptoms, Based on Tools Used by Doctors Google is not the best place to start looking up your symptoms. Instead, check out Isabel, a powerful symptom checker that’s based on a tool used by over 100 hospitals and doctors’ offices.The site asks you for your symptoms, then shows possible diagnoses, which can be filtered by the most common conditions or the most concerning ones. Clicking on a condition takes you to resources like Wikipedia
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How To Use Facebook Groups To Increase Traffic And Engagement Most of the articles you’ll read about Facebook marketing discuss how to increase engagement, traffic and sales via a business Page. While we don’t have current data on the number of businesses that have a Facebook Page, we do know that around 80% of marketers are active on the platform.
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As Governor, Jeb Bush Catered Tax Cuts to the Wealthy When it comes to tax policy, the Bush family has one thing in common: They like to cut taxes on investors.
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Dozens killed in Yemen air strikes Two Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen kill almost 30 people, as the UN warns that the country's health system is on the brink of collapse.
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Virtual Reality Lets Architects Step Into Spaces That Don’t Exist… Yet You walk through a narrow hallway and are spit out onto a red-carpeted platform facing a half-circle amphitheater of empty lounge chairs. Turn around and you can see the signature TED typeface come to life on a big screen behind the stage. Face forward and zoom in and out through the rows of seating. You’re standing on stage at the pop-up TED2014 theater in the Vancouver Convention Center. Only it
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Living Room Furnishings Made of Bound Trees When you found out, as a kid, that furniture grew from trees, you probably never saw anything the same way again. But unlike what British furniture maker Gavin Munro did a little later in life, you probably didn’t envision furniture that could grow naturally, forming shapes with which we’re familiar without the need for processing the wood, not to mention the discipline of carpentry. His cradle-
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Psychology Today 2
Making a Change? Remember the Key Ingredient! When I listen to people speak about changes they are making, they often speak as if they have no control. They say things like “I’ll have to wait and see what happens” or “I just hope things go back to the way they were.” These statements indicate a passivity—a sense of inaction. They forget they have core internal qualities that give them some control.
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The Economic Times 5
Xi to create hometown bonhomie with PM in Xian Xi to create hometown bonhomie with PM in XianModi will begin his three-day China sojourn by arriving in the ancient city of Xian, the capital of Xi's home province Shaanxi.
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The Economic Times 3
How dollar strength impacts Reliance Comm offshore bonds But overall risks from dollar appreciation are limited for those low-rated non-financial companies raising offshore funds.
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After SP, BSP now BJP MLAs donate salary for farmers' relief Amid rising reports of farmers committing suicide over crop failure, BJP MLAs in UP decided to donate their one month salary towards CM's relief fund.
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Apple wins voice recognition patent case in China Apple today won a case relating to patent on voice recognition technology in China over a Chinese government agency and a Shanghai technology company.
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The Economic Times
NDA govt drops Indira, Rajiv's name from two Hindi awards There were four categories of Rajbhasha awards of which two were named after the two former Prime Ministers. The four awards were merged into two now.
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RBI panel discusses steps to encourage retailers in GSec market The first meeting of the reconstituted Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Financial Markets was held today, under the chairmanship of H R Khan.
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Experts from US firm arrive at ONGC fire site in Gujarat The experts from a oil and gas blow out control firm would be preparing an action plan to douse the blaze in which 12 persons were injured.
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AAP's internal row: Purge continues as Parl party leader sacked AAP removed its parliamentary party leader Dharamvira Gandhi while one of its top leaders Ashish Khetan hit back at lawyers Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant.
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VIP facilities: Vadra takes a swipe at Ashok Gajapathi Raju Vadra said since he was not SPG protectee, his children and he have always travelled like ordinary passengers.
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Government relaxes rules for sugar exports to EU, US Any trader or entity can export sugar to the European Union and the US under the tariff rate quota (TRQ), which entitles shipments to enjoy low tariff.
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Psychology Today
Savoring Life in Autumn: Quotations to Inspire You Autumn can feel like a season of contradictions. Sometimes it’s associated with melancholy and sorrow, but at the same time, it’s the season of harvest and thanksgiving, when we pause to count the blessings that have ripened from the seeds we sowed the rest of the year. Here are some quotations and reflections to help celebrate this season.
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Psychology Today
Adoption Diary Pt. 3: My Daughter in Her Own Words Before I became a mother, I had thought of my life as having begun when I was adopted. But now my heart swelled with sadness. For the first time in my life I began to wonder who my biological mother was and how she could have ever let me go.
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If the Earth Spoke, Would We Listen? It has often seemed to me that the only way humankind will change in time to avert its headlong course toward environmental destruction will be through the emergence of a new myth. Gary S. Bobroff, a Jungian-oriented psychologist, has devoted his life to studying the emergence of just such a history-changing myth: the emergence of . . .the phenomenon of crop circles.
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Arvind Kejriwal's only aim is to grab power: Delhi BJP Slamming Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his statement that it would not be bad if his government fulfilled about half the promises, Delhi BJP today said that the his only aim was to "grab power and not to serve the people."
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EU mounts fresh bid to end US re-insurance collateral rule EU states agreed on Tuesday to give the bloc's executive European Commission a mandate to negotiate a regulatory pact with the United States.
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Prez releases commemorative stamp on Kottayam Old Seminary Kerala was the first state in the country where both Christianity and Islam took roots with people voluntarily choosing different religious beliefs.
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UFO Moviez IPO opens on Apr 28; price band at Rs 615-625 The Mumbai-based company has fixed Rs 615-625 per share as the price band, and will list on both BSE and NSE.
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Sebi bars Angela Agrotech raising public money The regulator observed that allotment of shares by Angela Agrotech was a public issue, which under the rules require a compulsory listing on a recognised stock exchange.
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Govt to make acid sale data available online, says Rajnath Singh With country witnessing 310 cases of acid attack in 2014, Rajnath Singh said the government is contemplating to make available online data on sale of acid.
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Make: 5
See Diet Coke & Mentos, a Two-Ton Hexapod, and More at Maker Faire UK We’re now less than a week away from the premier maker event in the Britain, Maker Faire UK, which will be held at the Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne this weekend. So roll up, roll up, for the biggest Maker Faire in Britain. Read more on MAKE The post See Diet Coke & Mentos, a Two-Ton Hexapod, and More at Maker Faire UK appeared first on Make:.
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IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured in air strike in Iraq According to the report, Baghdadi, 44, suffered life- threatening injuries during the attack by the US-led coalition in March.
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Bounce Back From Mobilegeddon, Master SEM Tactics & Tools – Secure Your All Access Pass To SMX Advanced Early Bird rates for Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced conference expire next week. Register now and secure your spot at this once-a-year opportunity to get sophisticated tactics from 70 leading authorities on SEO, paid search, mobile, social media and more. Are you prepared for Mobilegeddon? For... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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A trader faces charges in connection with the 2010 'Flash Crash' Commodities traders Navinder Singh Sarao has been arrested in his home in London in connection with having a role in the 2010 "Flash Crash" that rocked global markets. On May 6, 2010, the market plunged 9% mysteriously. The Dow fell 1,000 points. Since then the SEC has released reports on the matter but really no one has been blamed. The agency did say that it was likely the fault of a s
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Understated Accessory Catalogs - This Ölend Backpack Lookbook Boasts a Modern Art Inspiration (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) Barcelona backpack brand Ölend is known for their handcrafted product range that is showcased in their latest accessory catalog. The understated lookbook is non-traditional, resembling an art or...
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Lyrid meteor shower crosses night sky Look for spectacular shooting stars this week as the annual Lyrid meteor shower light up the nighttime sky.
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5 Antidotes for Chronic Digital Distraction It’s very easy to lose precious hours to digital distractions. You grab your smartphone to make a quick call before a meeting, only to see that you’ve received 47 new emails, 10 LinkedIn requests and just as many Facebook notifications. As you scan your inbox, you get a text from a friend. Before you know it, you’re not only late to your meeting, but you also forgot to make your call.Entrepreneurs
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Today's Best Deals: Chromebooks, Kitchen Gear, and a Lot More Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best. More Deals Today’s Best App DealsToday’s Best Media DealsToday’s Best Gaming Deals This Week’s Best Apparel DealsTop DealsIf you haven’t heard of the Bondic Liquid
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Bounce Back From Mobilegeddon, Master SEM Tactics & Tools – Secure Your All Access Pass To SMX Advanced Early Bird rates for Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced conference expire next week. Register now and secure your spot at this once-a-year opportunity to get sophisticated tactics from 70 leading authorities on SEO, paid search, mobile, social media and more. Are you prepared for Mobilegeddon? For... Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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The Woman Who Designed the 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' Sign Has Died The ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’ sign is as famous as the city itself. In just five words, it conveys excitement, revelry, debauchery. It’s everything great design should be.The woman who created that iconic sign was Betty Whitehead Willis, who died earlier this week. Born in Overton, Nev., in 1924, she was 91 years old, according to an obituary published on the website of a local Nevada mortua
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Sophisticated Brew Bottles - Queseria La Antigua of Fuentesauco's Craft Beer Bottle is Elegant (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) When a design takes more cues from wine packaging than the average craft beer bottle, the result is something that looks like the newest offering from Quesería La Antigua De Fuentesaúco. This...
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Security fears for China-Pakistan corridor as Xi ends visit Islamabad (AFP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping Tuesday hailed a $46 billion economic corridor as a "historic development opportunity" for Pakistan, but security fears linger over the project which involves major construction in highly unstable areas.Pakistani and Chinese officials on Monday signed more than 50 accords to inaugurate the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which will create
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Patch Adds the “Smart” to Any “Dumb” Watch Digitock is a patch that will stick to the backside of a watch. Inside the thin sheet is a battery, health monitors, a way of connecting to your phone and a vibrating component. The goal of the Digitock is to give existing watches added functionality without the need to buy an entirely new device. But unlike other smart watches, the Digitock isn’t pushing for a new, smaller screen on the wrist. T
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7 tricks for appearing smarter than you are You don't have to be intelligent to look smart.  Instead, social science research has found that it's really about sending the right signals to people. Here are a few examples: Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's what master of success Tony Robbins does every morning
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Airbnb’s biggest ad campaign touches upon the initial weirdness about staying in somebody else’s house Online home rental service Airbnb is launching its biggest advertising campaign to date, USA Today reports. The campaign centers around a TV spot created by ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day — which launches on Tuesday night during primetime TV shows in the US, UK, and Australia — that touches upon the initial tentativeness users might first have about staying in somebody else's house, especially if they
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PM sends 'chaadar' to Ajmer Sharif dargah Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday pitched for harmony among all religions, citing the "great message" of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti as he sent a 'chaadar' to be offered at his dargah in Ajmer.
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US court to hear if chimps are 'legal persons' An animal rights group has been granted a court hearing in which it will argue that two chimpanzees who live at a New York state university cannot be held captive because they are autonomous, intelligent creatures.
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Twitter moves to stem violent threats, abuse Twitter on Tuesday began implementing a new policy aimed at curbing use of the social network to incite violence, and to crack down on abuse and harassment on the service.
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Educating Loved Ones about Your Health During the Holidays When the holidays arrive, we find ourselves expected to participate in a range of activities. The increase in activity exacerbates our physical symptoms, while coping with sadness, frustration, and maybe even guilt about our physical limitations gives rise to emotional pain.
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A Bit of Holiday Humor to Brighten Your Day The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. —Johnny Carson
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Physical Illnesses May Soon Be Labeled “Mental Disorders” You can help prevent the creation of Somatic Symptom Disorder. After reading this piece, click on the link to Dr. Frances’ article, “Mislabeling Medical Illness as Mental Disorder." He has the best chance to get your feedback (via "page views" and comments to his piece) to the American Psychiatric Association before the new manual for mental disorders goes to press.
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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions that Nobody Will Keep Every year I torture myself by making New Year’s Resolutions that I don’t keep. So, as a public service, in order to save you the trouble of letting yourself down yet again, I offer the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions that Nobody Will Keep...
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Your Physical Illness May Now Be Labeled a Mental Disorder Despite the vehement opposition of many in the health care field—including many therapists—the American Psychiatric Association has included Somatic Symptom Disorder in its fifth edition—DSM-5—which will be published in May. This means that millions of people who suffer from chronic illness will soon be subject to diagnosis as mentally ill.
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Winter Lovers, Humbuggers, and Poets: 21 Quotes on Winter Twenty-one quotations about winter with paintings by Andrew Wyeth who said: “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
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Coolest Kid on the Block—Christmas Tree AND Hanukkah Bush! Some of our relatives disapproved of my parents’ holiday traditions and refused to come to our house in December. But my friends—Jewish and Christian alike—thought I was the coolest kid on the block because I got to celebrate both holidays.
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Is Your Caregiver Self-Absorbed and Manipulative? Do any of the following sound familiar? At first your caregiver is amazing. He or she seems truly devoted to giving you the best care possible. But then this person to whom you’ve entrusted your care (and often your house keys) begins to criticize you and find fault with everything you do.
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When Poor Health and the Holidays Collide It's a “happy/sad” time of year for many of us (to use an expression coined by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield). I want so badly to spend time with my loved ones, but I also know that I won’t be able to participate fully in the festivities and that even my limited participation will result in “pay back” later on.
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Another Blow to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Sufferers Were it not for the woefully misleading label that’s been given to this debilitating illness, I don’t see how the American Academy of Family Physicians could have begun its new “Patient Information Sheet on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” with this sentence: “Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disorder that causes you to be very tired.”
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What I'm REALLY Grateful for this Thanksgiving Season I’m grateful that I live in a family that values re-gifting...
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Boo! Halloween Humor to Tickle Your Funny Bone Q. What did the skeleton say to the bartender? A. I'll have two beers and a mop.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Getting a Cold I was recently visited by that old friend, the common cold. I used to think nothing of it. A cold was a minor nuisance that didn’t even stop me from going to work. But now that I’m chronically ill, a cold is a big event in my life. In How to Be Sick, I call it “sick upon sick.” Here I share the good, the bad, and the ugly of getting a cold...
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Euripides to Goldie Hawn: 30 Quotes on Mindfulness For 2,500 years, philosophers, writers, humorists, scientists, and people of wisdom have been writing about mindfulness—just not using the word. These quotes come from unexpected voices. I offer them to inspire you to practice living in the present moment.
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Confessions of a Sick Person I worry that I’m no longer competent out in the world.
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National Park Service Partners With Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord to Crowdsource #FindYourPark Campaign The Grey New York campaign will solicit original artistic contributions on the hitRECord site, then mix and curate them to produce inspiring content. The post National Park Service Partners With Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord to Crowdsource #FindYourPark Campaign appeared first on... Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are expected to split $300 million — here's where the money comes from We are less than two weeks away from the most anticipated fight in recent boxing history when Floyd Mayweather finally takes on Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Details about how much the two fighters will make and where the money will come from are starting to emerge, and the amounts are staggering. At the end of the day, both boxers are expected to make "well over $100 million&
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7 LinkedIn Tools for Recruiting New Employees In his book Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business, search engine optimization and online marketing expert consultant Ted Prodromou explains how you can use LinkedIn to quickly engage with ideal customers, partners, and employees, showcase your company and attract new opportunities. In this edited excerpt, the author briefly describes the seven different ways you can use LinkedIn to attract new j
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Segway Polo is a real sport and the world championship just took place in England Rugby College in Warwickshire, England hosted the inaugural international Segway Polo Championship on April 18th.  Segway polo can best be described as a cross between horse polo and hockey, played on a battery-powered scooter. 16 teams from different parts of the world played against each other over the two day tournament. The sport launched over a decade ago in California, and has been slowl
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Twitter gets serious about online harassment with new rules and punishments (TWTR) Twitter is making some serious strides in its fight to end its epidemic of online harassment with some changes to the way it identifies and deals with offenders, according to a Twitter blog post.  This is critical, as CEO Dick Costolo has acknowledged that shutting down online harassment is a major priority for the company if it wants to continue growing.  The first major change is that it's no lo
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How to Write For Google’s Impending Mobile Algorithm Update by @JuliaEMcCoy The Google mobile update is set to affect all websites on a bigger scale than the Panda and Penguin. Learn how you can get your content in shape to prepare.The post How to Write For Google’s Impending Mobile Algorithm Update by @JuliaEMcCoy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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The 10 Tricks That Will Make You Appear Smarter In Meetings Will this scale? Probably!Meetings: the place where mental energy goes to die. It's not that you don't want to pay attention, it's just that pesky issue of your body completely shutting down the second a slide goes up.Read Full Story
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If you don't buy this version of the Apple Watch, you're making a huge mistake (AAPL) After seeing all the reviews, watching all the interviews, and hearing Tim Cook sing its praises, I finally decided to get over to an Apple Store and try on the Apple Watch for myself. As I've written before, I'm not a smartwatch rookie. I've been wearing a Samsung Gear Fit for eight months and I'm a big fan both of that device and the concept of a smartwatch in general. So I know what it feels li
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Brazil's reputation hangs on a set of numbers coming out on Wednesday On Wednesday Brazil's massive quasi-state oil company Petrobras will report earnings that have been delayed since December of 2014. Consider this a litmus test of the new Brazil — a way for the world to understand whether or not this emerging market can truly recover from corporate and political corruption. Back in November President Dilma Rousseff said that the Petrobras scandal may have the abil
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If you only have $165,000, then this is the McLaren supercar for you The McLaren 540C is the latest offering from the English supercar specialist. It's "affordable." It's "entry-level." But don't let any of that fool you. At $165,000, the 540C is only bargain-basement when compared to the company's million-dollar $1.3-million P1 hypercar or the $300,000, 640-horsepower 650S. It's really a budget supercar. Powered by the same 3.8-liter, twin-tur
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13 WordPress Plugins Small Business Owners Should Focus On Are you getting the most from your business’s WordPress site? Thousands of small businesses rely on the WordPress platform for their site design and content organization. But beyond the standard layouts and themes, WordPress plugins give your site added customization. And with the raft of small business WordPress plugins available — updating and accumulating daily — there’s nary a solution one ha
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7 Apps to Help Anyone Improve Their English Grammar In a world of spellcheck and texting abbreviations, few people want to take the time to learn about subjects, objects, and dangling modifiers. Besides, computers can fix our sentences for us. However, as anyone who’s suffered an autocorrect embarrassment knows, computers don’t always get it right. Language is a human tool and requires the insight of human minds. Plus, employers still care about th
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Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands? Honestly, it’s puzzling that an inanimate, imaginary thing such as a brand should seem to have gender. But obviously brands do send out gender signals, and sometimes they’re quite strong. In fact, recent research shows that the more intense the gender signals, the greater the brand value — so not only do we readily perceive gender in brands, we like to perceive gender in brands. Yet lately it s
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The Best High-End and Bargain TVs Right Now Those fancy high-end TVs get all the attention, but consider these bargain deals on good TVs you can afford. The post The Best High-End and Bargain TVs Right Now appeared first on WIRED.
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Wall Street's strategists and stock pickers have switched places for the first time in 7 years Wall Street's research departments include both equity strategists and equity analysts. Strategists publish targets for stock markets as a whole from their big-picture analysis (i.e., top-down analysis). Analysts publish price targets on individual stocks based on their analyses of the companies they cover (i.e. bottoms-up analysis). For whatever reason, the aggregate earnings forecasts of the bot
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What to Do with Your Bonds When Interest Rates Go Up The Federal Reserve is close to raising interest rates again—possibly even this year. That means your bonds will lose value, so what’s a balanced investment portfolio to do? Here are three things you can do to combat interest rates’ effect on your investments.The Relationship Between Bonds and Interest RatesAs we’ve mentioned before, when interest rates rise, the value of bond funds falls. When yo
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Imagine If Your Smartphone Had a Second, Full-Size Screen We’ve all done it: You pull your boarding pass up on your phone while in the security line at the airport, only to have it buried behind your email and Twitter when you finally make it to the gate. One company is looking to add a second screen to your iPhone, preventing similar mishaps and adding a new layer of functionality to the device.Enter popSLATE, the Burlingame, Calif.-based startup that t
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Hesitant Parents Can Be Nudged to Use Measles Vaccine To get measles vaccine coverage for all, try small nudges to hesitant parents -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sienna Miller to join Cannes jury Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal and Guillermo del Toro will join chairmen, the Coen Brothers, on the Cannes Film Festival jury, organisers say.
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O'Sullivan risks fine playing in socks Ronnie O'Sullivan risks being fined for playing with no shoes on, and goes close to a 147 break in his Crucible opener.
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Pop-Up Restaurant Saves Food Destined for Trash Bin by Serving It Few things in life are more shaming than poking around in the crisp box of your fridge (though one might be using the prissy and somehow very 70s term “crisp box” in the first place). For isn’t there always a heart-sinking moment at some point in the month when you reach down and pull up a stinking bag of yellowing kale, a too-bendy carrot, a tomato whose youthful blush has turned unaccountably t
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Clarity on LPG subsidy-sharing, but what about kerosene? The quantum of losses arising from selling kerosene below cost that upstream companies will bear is still unclear
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Non-railway orders, improved working capital help Titagarh Wagons Titagarh Wagons’ revenue rose 60% in March quarter on better execution and contribution from businesses other than those catering to the Indian Railways
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Earnings season brings disappointment for IT services companies IT companies disappoint in the March quarter with revenues as well as the guidance for the June quarter falling far below analysts’ estimates
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Iraq 'pushes IS from Ramadi areas' Iraqi security forces battling Islamic State (IS) militants retake key areas in the western city of Ramadi, including a hospital, officials say.
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First Sushi Delivery Service in Yucatán Ups Its Brand Game Rice Now, the first sushi delivery service in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has launched new branding across all touch points. The design efforts were done in collaboration with creative branding and communications studio Bienal Comunicación which was tasked with creating a complete brand experience that includes the logotype, imagery and packaging. Specifically, the service wanted to express the b
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Facebook's Internet.org goes live in Indonesia Internet.org is being criticized for providing free internet access to only its partners, while blocking websites and apps that do not sign up for the programme.
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Psychology Today
Use “Paintracking” to Help Manage Chronic Pain “Living with chronic pain can feel like you are a raggedy doll, tossed about by conditions beyond your control.” So writes Deborah Barrett in her wonderfully helpful and practical book, "Paintracking: Your Personal Guide to Living Well with Chronic Pain."
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Two Years Out: The Top 15 “Turning Straw Into Gold” Pieces This is an anniversary of sorts for me. I’ve been writing for Psychology Today for two years now and am approaching having posted 100 pieces. I thought this would be a good time to do some math and so I’ve compiled a list of the most read of my 93 pieces.
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12 Tips from 12 Years Sick Two years ago, I wrote “10 Tips from 10 Years Sick.” Last year, I wrote “11 Tips from 11 Years Sick.” This year, sigh…I’m still sick. And so it’s time for “12 Tips from 12 Years Sick.” A few of them have made an appearance in different form in the earlier pieces, but that’s because some tips have a very long shelf life…
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Spring Unfolds in Quotations, Reflections, and Photographs Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” —the wonderful Robin Williams
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Are You Embarrassed? The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is that we’ve been conditioned to set unrealistically high expectations for ourselves and to judge ourselves negatively when we can’t possibly meet those standards.
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More: Tough Choices You Face When Chronically Ill or in Pain I recently posted “5 Tough Choices You Face When Chronically Ill or in Pain.” I wrote it from personal experience but was amazed to discover how many of you said it applied to you too. It seems as if we all face the same tough choices...
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What Can We Learn From Reading Online Reviews? To write a review or not to write a review (and simply use stars)
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5 Tough Choices You Face When Chronically Ill or in Pain Here are five tough choices continually faced by those who suffer from chronic pain and/or illness. There aren't easy answers to the issues they raise: that’s why they’re tough choices.
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Event organisers to be held accountable for cleanliness: Govt Organisers will be held accountable for ensuring cleanliness and they will be required to pay security deposit for obtaining permission for holding events.
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FM to meet tax officials again to keep ITR forms simple FM to meet tax officials again to keep ITR forms simple Jaitley had held a meeting with tax officials on the new Income Tax Return (ITR) forms that have evoked sharp reactions from experts and others alike.
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MEP Infra IPO sees 18% subscription on first day The Rs 324-crore public offer received bids for 70,83,000 shares against the total issue size of 4,02,89,225.
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Greece hopes to reach deal on Russian gas pipeline soon Greece's energy minister said Athens held "constructive" talks with the head of Russian gas giant Gazprom on Tuesday, adding he hoped the two sides would soon reach a deal on a gas pipeline.
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The woman accused of glorifying 'trophy hunting' says the only reason she gets hundreds of death threats is because she's a girl The feud between a celebrity huntress and comedian Ricky Gervais is heating up online. A week ago on Monday, Gervais posted a picture of 41-year-old hunter Rebecca Francis lying next to a giraffe she had killed. "What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?" Gervais commented on the picture. What must've happe
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Blow the Shofar in Style with Beautifully Workshopped Filagree The shofar is an ancient instrument made from a ram’s horn, used in Jewish religious ceremonies. The video below shows not so much the process of making the instrument itself, but the process of making the decorative metal covering that goes on the top. The results of this process, seen […] Read more on MAKE The post Blow the Shofar in Style with Beautifully Workshopped Filagree appeared first on
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A Private Office Pod That’ll Help You Find Your Work Flow Brody Research, from Steelcase, is a one-person pod with an adjustable chair, a titling work surface, a footrest, and a privacy screen that encircles the person within. The post A Private Office Pod That’ll Help You Find Your Work Flow appeared first on WIRED.
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The 30 cities where people work the longest hours In 2013, Americans worked an average of 47 hours per week, including the time they spent commuting to and from work. That's according to a recent study from the New York City Comptroller's office, based on the most recent Census and American Community Survey microdata.  The study found that workers in some cities — like San Francisco and Houston — put in more hours than the average American. While
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British multi-millionaire Michelle Mone told us how losing weight made her more successful Michelle Mone may be a self-made millionaire with a net worth of £20 million ($29.8 million) but she says "many more doors opened" once she lost lots of weight. It's not often that a prominent business woman would openly attribute part of her success to improved looks. But Mone is adamant that slimming down helped her to grow her businesses, (which include lingerie group Ultimo and self-
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An Uber customer was accidentally charged $12,000 for her ride An Uber customer on her way from her Brooklyn apartment to a bar in Manhattan was accidentally charged $12,000 for the ride, Gothamist reports. In late March, Jaime Hessel took a 35-minute, 7-mile, surge-priced UberX ride from her apartment in East Williamsburg to a bar in Midtown East. She said that her driver seemed a bit distracted, and began to ignore his GPS directions.   "I'm paying att
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Your Guide to Peak Efficiency Click to Enlarge (+)Related:Your Guide to Peak EfficiencyHere's What Futurist Ray Kurzweil Is Ingesting in His Bid to Live Forever3 Tips for Securing Wearable Technology In the Work Place
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Google lobbying spending reached new high in early 2015 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc , already one of Washington's biggest spenders, set a company record for its lobbying activity in the first quarter of 2015 when it spent $5.5 million, according to a government database.
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Google "Mobilegeddon" Has Officially Arrived Nearly two months after its announcement, Google has changed its algorithm to favor mobile-friendly sites. Brands like Ryanair and American Apparel are already suffering in the search rankings.
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Social Design Competitions - Twitter UK's #PoweredByTweets Promotes Social Media and Design (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) Twitter is a powerful networking platform that has proven time and time again how well social media and design go together. Inspired by the way Twitter can be used to change the world for the better,...
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Southwest Airlines is being sued by a widow over her trader husband's death (LUV) An airline is being sued for allegedly not providing medical attention to a financial trader who collapsed last year during a flight, the Los Angeles Times reports. Kelly Ilczyszyn has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Southwest Airlines that alleged flight crews treated husband Richard Ilczyszyn, 46, as if he were creating a disturbance instead of having a medical emergency. Richard Ilczyszy
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Hillary Clinton was likely looking at this chart when she said we should 'topple' the top 1% Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, taking a populist tone, suggested that the US economy needs a "toppling" of the top 1%, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday. Clinton's comments reportedly came during a meeting with economists in which she was shown a chart illustrating how incomes for the highest earners have skyrocketed in the US in recent years. The
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Why Entrepreneurs are Shepherds of Renaissance Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. —HoraceI make no apologies for holding a degree in Italian art history. No, I didn’t major in business or journalism, the fields that would become my specialties. For several jobless years after gra
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Want To See A Sliver Of What Google Knows About You? You can now download your entire Google search history.Google just gave Chrome users a little feature with big implications: You can now download your search history. It might seem silly—and somewhat frightening—to download a massive file containing everything you have searched for since enabling the web history setting, but the list is an interesting peek into how Google sees you.Read Full Story
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Can Bing Surpass Google Search Through Windows 10 Integration? In terms of search volume, Google eats Bing for breakfast. And the widespread use of the Android operating system contributes its part to Google’s dominance. But Bing and Microsoft are a Phoenix in full-rebirth mode. As Google faces antitrust allegations and Cortana meets the Windows 10 Taskbar, Microsoft may soon turn the tables. Bing is Capturing Markets Microsoft’s Bing search engine has captur
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Nishikori eases into Barcelona 3rd round Barcelona (AFP) - Defending champion Kei Nishikori cruised into the third round of the Barcelona Open with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili on Tuesday.The Japanese top seed was making his season debut on clay but was largely untroubled by the world number 85 as he broke early in each set and faced just one break point on his own serve before sealing victory.Nishikori will face eithe
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You'll be able to buy a toy version of that cute little ball droid from the new 'Star Wars' movie (DIS) BB-8 is one of the new droids in the next "Star Wars" movie, "The Force Awakens." He's only appeared in two trailers and a live "Star Wars" event so far, but BB-8 is quickly becoming a new fan favorite. BB-8 looks like this: Sphero, a startup that makes smartphone-controlled ball toys, announced this week that it helped develop the BB-8 puppet used in "The Force
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Superfan Builds Life-Size Iron Man Hulkbuster Suit U.K. cosplayer and master fabricator James Bruton has done some amazing projects on his XRobots website, but he is outdoing himself on his Hulkbuster suit in homage to the upcoming Avengers 2: Age of Ultron film. On James’ site and YouTube channel, he’s been painstakingly documenting every step of his […] Read more on MAKE The post Superfan Builds Life-Size Iron Man Hulkbuster Suit appeared first
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When Kids Can Stop Using a Booster or Sit in the Front Seat of the Car State laws regulate when it’s legal for kids to stop riding in car safety seats or boosters, and some have requirements for sitting in the front seat. Even these laws, however, might not be the safest guidelines.The laws vary based on age, height, and/or weight. For example, several states allow children the age of six and up or over 40 pounds to use the regular seatbelt without a booster seat. Bu
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New Technology Cracks 'Strong' Passwords -- What You Need To Know If you have followed the advice of “experts” and created long passwords containing letters, numbers, and symbols in order to keep your online banking account protected and your data secure you may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
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Ready, Set, Go - How Fast Is Your Data? Data agility has emerged as one of the hottest business topics today, with people weighing in on its importance, to everyone from the CIO to the sales team. And what is data agility, exactly? I think one of the best ways to define data agility is to think of it the same way you think of human physical agility. It’s about being able to move and change quickly in order to adapt to what’s going on in
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Role Reversal As Scalia Dissents From Decision Giving States More Power Over Gas Prices The Supreme Court decides in favor of states' rights in a natural gas case, and Scalia and Roberts dissent.
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Mexico's Drugwar Violence Continues Despite Arrests Of Senior Cartel Leaders Over the last few days Mexican authorities have detained the leaders of both the Juarez Cartel and the Gulf Cartel, groups that have historically controlled drug trafficking in Ciudad Juarez and eastern Mexico.  Mexican agents captured the Juarez Cartel’s alleged leader Jesús Salas Aguayo and the Gulf Cartel’s boss José Tiburcio Hernández Fuentes on April 17.  The arrests continue a pattern of top
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What it looks like on the migrant ships that are shipwrecking near Europe Cellphone footage from a migrant ship that crossed the Mediterranean with hundreds of refugees on board shows how crammed the conditions are on these dangerous journeys. Thousands of migrants died last year trying to cross the Mediterranean and get to Europe. Many of those who are willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for passage on these ships are desperate to flee dangerous situations
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Parliamentary panel recommends price caps for all drugs Standing committee on chemicals and fertilizers says that all medicines should be available in market at an affordable price
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Saudi Arabia's new muscular foreign policy The Saudis bristling with pride at military campaign in Yemen
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Melt Your Mind with Vacuum Metallized Lamps The Future of Light promises all kinds of unprecedented, and beautiful, computer and smartphone-controlled effects, but the possibilities of technological wizardry sometimes can’t match those of dazzling, and well-chosen, physical materials. A set of pendant lamps called MELT from Tom Dixon, which debuted at this year’s Milan Design Week, are a prime example of this; though crafted out of metalli
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IKEA Tables Wirelessly Charge Your Tech IKEA is launching a new range of home furnishing items that can wirelessly top up a device’s battery. The Wireless Charging collection of furniture with built-in chargers for compatible mobile phones aims to make everyday life at home more convenient. As smartphones have become an essential part of our lives, IKEA decided to make the charging function a natural part of our homes. This new range
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Won’t spare the Bhushans: AAP’s Ashish Khetan Training his guns at dissident duo of Shanti and Prashant Bhushan, AAP leader Ashish Khetan on Tuesday said he will not spare them for levelling baseless allegations against him.
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Psychology Today
Which Parent do You Love More? Parents are told not to favor one child in the family, but there are no rules that govern how children ought to feel about parents. One theory of family relationships can help provide perspective on this surprisingly under-researched area.
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The Brevity of Time You would think that awareness of our common fate – the knowledge that we are all ‘in the same boat’…. in that we all, individually, die – would induce some small, however slight, sense of our common ‘humanness’ across the world’s nations and cultures.
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Nighttime-Inspired Beer Designs - The Carlsberg NOX Packaging is Dark and Mysterious (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The Carlsberg NOX packaging takes a decidedly darker turn from what people are used to when it comes to this brand. It replaces the green bottles with a black exterior that creates a moody sense of...
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MicroBlitz [Western Australia] University of Western Australia researchers are looking for citizen scientists to send them soil samples from around the state to better understand region’s biodiversity and environmental health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Interacting With Invisible Objects What do you do when you are playing in the park on a hot day and your parents offer you an ice cream? Most probably, you go running to them, keep your eyes on the delicious ice cream cone, and reach... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Why Indians are no longer queuing up to open petrol pumps Why Indians are no longer queuing up to open petrol pumpsA proliferation of pumps has led to lowering of average volume at filling stations and left companies such as IOC and HPCL struggling to find new dealers.
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Land Bill: Congress looks to up the ante The show-down over the land Bill is set to escalate after Rahul Gandhi's attack on the ruling dispensation as the government appears to be in no mood to relent amidst an indication that it would push the proposed legislation in Parliament after May 4.
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Rupee decline temporary, will stabilise soon: FinMin The rupee fell to more-than three months low of 63.15 in early trade today. However, it recovered later on dollar selling by banks to settle six paise higher at 62.85.
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Have successfully test-fired missile: Pak Taliban Have successfully test-fired missile: Pak TalibanTo justify its claim, the TTP, which has presence across the country and currently resisting Pakistani troops in the volatile tribal regions on the border with Afghanistan, has issued a statement and posted a video demonstrating the launch of missile.
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Record number of Chinese among world's richest billionaires Each of the 370 Chinese billionaires have at least $1 billion in net assets and were led in the wealth stakes by 86-year-old Hong Kong magnate Li Ka-shing with an estimated $33.3 billion in assets.
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Rajasthan government to bear cost of damaged foodgrains The state government would pay Rs 7.25 per quintal for partial damaged or half-cut pieces of wheat grains assessed in the range from 6 to 9 per cent.
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BJP seeks removal of Har Cong MLAs from party for displaying 'racist' posters BJP also demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi apologise to the people on the issue.
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Goldman Sachs settles London discrimination case The bank, which had denied allegations of discrimination, had said Pereiro-Mendez's level of salary and bonuses reflected her relatively poor performance.
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Teva offers to buy Mylan at $82 per share in cash, stock The company has made an offer to acquire outstanding shares of Mylan at $82 per share, 50 per cent in cash and another 50 per cent in stock.
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6 Cool Company Blogs Everyone Will Enjoy Reading When I need inspiration for content that delights, email campaigns that actually work, and social media interactions that are genuinely fun ... I turn to one source: an online clothing store called ModCloth. My closet is proof that their marketing works. (Perhaps a little too well.) And watching them grow has been a master class in what a customer-driven company should look like. Ask any inbound
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DEA chief expected to resign amid 'sex parties' scandal Michele Leonhart, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is expected to resign "soon," CBS News reported Tuesday.  A representative for the DEA declined to comment to Business Insider on the report. According to CBS, Leonhart has led the agency since 2007. If true, the resignation would come in the aftermath of a series of highly embarrassing reports involving DE
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TECH DEALS OF THE DAY: Touchscreen laptops, charging stations, and more Today's deals are brought to us by our partners over at TechBargains. The WorkPro Ergonomic chair The WorkPro Ergonomic chair has all the adjustable features of a far more expensive designer chair at a fraction of the cost. It has a cool mesh back and is rated for sitting 6-8 hours. Customize to your liking with adjustable seat depth, tilting posture lock and pivoting arms with adjustable height.
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Here comes the first wave of Apple Watches (AAPL) Apple will ship its first batch of Apple Watches to customers this Friday. Leading up to the initial release date, some customers are seeing their order statuses changing from "processing items" to "preparing for shipment." The company has also started charging customers' credit and debit cards. According to MacRumors, Apple has been collecting bulk shipments of the Watch at ce
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The 10 best islands in the world TripAdvisor just announced its Travelers' Choice Awards for the best islands in the world. To create this list, millions of travelers ranked their favorite islands around the world. From the rocky beaches of Brazil to the glimmering white-washed homes of Santorini, Greece, here are all 10 real-life paradises you must see.  10. Fernando de Noronha, Brazil 9. Bora Bora, French Polynesia 8. Mauriti
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How each incremental change in climate will have an increasingly devastating effect on the world's water One of the biggest threats posed by climate change is the availability of water for people around the world.  Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently put out a giant report on the future of agriculture and water us. Among the takeaways: water scarcity, and the resulting agricultural constraints, is the biggest global problem of the 21st century. From the report, this graphic shows how warming globa
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Hack with Us in the City that Never Sleeps We’re hosting one day of hacking in New York City in just a few weeks. Stretch your skills with the power of deadlines and you can be immortalized in Hackaday history. If that kind of cred doesn’t do it for you, Hackaday is bringing along $1500 in prizes and there’s another $5000 cash prize at stake as well. Only Hackaday can bring hardware to the TechCrunch NYC Hackathon on May 2nd. We need you t
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3 Things to Make You Smarter About Your Mobile Strategy in 2015 Mobile advertising has slowly but surely established itself as a leader in digital media strategy, as this channel continues to evolve and innovation abounds. There are now 163.9 million smartphones in the United States alone, and mobile consumption is growing by leaps and bounds each year. If one thing is clear about your marketing efforts in 2015, it’s that mobile should play a major part.Relate
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Should You Turn Your Screensaver Off? History & Modern Use of a Bug Fix Screensavers have long been a part of Windows, but they don’t play such a big role nowadays. Once an important feature to help prevent screen burn on CRT monitors, screensavers are mostly used now to look pretty. Let’s take a look at how screensavers came to be, remember some famous examples, and discuss whether it’s still worth using one in this day and age, considering the power usage implicatio
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Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Trusted 'No' Person Leila Janah, founder of Sama Group, says you need to have someone who act as a smart filter to your boundless ideas.
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What Will Brand Engagement Look Like in 2020? When it comes to brand engagement, 5 years will seem like a lifetime.
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How to Keep a Team on Time and on Budget Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of social media consultancy VaynerMedia, talks about what it takes to manage a team, social media influencers, and more.
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The Real Benefits of Knowing How to Code It's a great skill to have, but the advantages extend far beyond the computer.
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Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic Last year, I worked with a senior executive — let’s call him Steve — who had received feedback from his boss that he was wearing the power of his new title in an off-putting way. Steve’s boss told him that he had developed a subtle way of being right in meetings that sucked all the oxygen out of the room.  No one wanted to offer ideas once Steve had declared the right answer.  Since his promoti
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New Poster Makes Understanding Type As Easy As Learning The ABCs Pop Chart Lab's latest charts the ABCs of typography.Many of us learned our ABCs in elementary school from big alphabet posters tacked up by our kindergarten teachers on the walls. New from Pop Chart Lab, the Alphabet of Typography is like that poster, but for aspiring typographers instead of aspiring readers.Read Full Story
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Adobe Gives Lightroom New Facial Recognition and HDR Features, An Android Update, And More The app for wrangling images is going way beyond basic photo organization.Adobe is announcing an upgrade to Creative Cloud Photo, the cheapest version—$10 a month—of its pay-as-you-go creativity suite. In the case of Creative Cloud Photo, the suite has two core components: Lightroom and Photoshop. And the upgrade is really about meaty revisions to the Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom.Read Ful
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna Miller, Sophie Marceau on Cannes jury Paris (AFP) - Filmstars Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sophie Marceau, as well as cult director Guillermo del Toro are among the members of this year's Cannes film festival jury, organisers announced Tuesday.Other members of the jury for the May festival, which is being presided over by the Coen brothers, are Canadian director Xavier Dolan, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and Malian composer Ro
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'The Little Prince' trailer looks better than anything Pixar has made in years We just got the trailer for the star-studded animated feature "The Little Prince," based on the 1943 novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The movie combines computer-generated animation with traditional stop-motion animation techniques. Judging by the trailer, the movie promises to be a strong contender in the category of Best Animated Feature at next year's  Academy Awards. Directed b
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Build a DIY Fold-Down Workbench To Save Floorspace in Your Shop No matter how big your workshop is, space is precious. You can build this fold-down work bench in an afternoon that instantly upgrades your work area without taking up valuable floor space.This table is similar to another fold-down work bench we’ve highlighted before, but this table only uses one hinge and the legs are attached to the table and swing out as one.There’s no set size for this table,
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Political intervention in bureaucracy necessary: Narendra Modi PM says in a democracy, bureaucracy and political intervention go hand in hand
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About time: New record for atomic clock accuracy Paris (AFP) - Physicists said Tuesday they have fine-tuned an atomic clock to the point where it won't lose or gain a second in 15 billion years -- longer than the universe has existed.The "optical lattice" clock, which uses strontium atoms, is now three times more accurate than a year ago when it set the previous world record, its developers reported in the journal Nature Communications
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Sentencing phase will 'throw open' door on secretive Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev America’s most infamous convicted terrorist remains one of its biggest mysteries. Despite a long trial, little is known about Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev outside of his age (21), his laidback demeanour and that he admitted to carrying out the terror attack with brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. That is about to change as the sentencing phase of the trial begins. “The jury will receive a lot
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One of Facebook's most important products was inspired by the way people communicated 100 years ago (FB) Although Facebook is a company built on technology, some of Facebook's products and features have been inspired by the way people used to communicate hundreds of years ago. The Newsfeed, for example, is based on really simple, primitive forms of communication — like the way gossip used to spread in small towns years and years ago.  Paul Adams, now Vice President of Product at Intercom, worked at
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A Busy Entrepreneur's 3-Step Guide to Reading Business Books If you regularly read entrepreneurial blogs and Twitter feeds, I’d be willing to bet that barely a day goes by that you don’t see some list of “The 50 must-read books for entrepreneurs.” This is on top of all the Amazon, StumbleUpon and Goodreads recommendations along with other suggestions that you receive on a daily basis.Such a stream of reading material can get pretty overwhelming for us time-
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Barbara Corcoran: Great Entrepreneurs Don't Have Time to Mourn Rejection (VIDEO) Take it from Barbara Corcoran: Even the fiercest entrepreneurs can possess, at the same time, a fragile sensitivity.Though the Shark Tank star says she’s embarrassed to admit it, a wayward glance or a strained greeting at a cocktail party is sometimes enough to throw her into total disarray. “I’m like, ‘Oh shit, they don’t like me. Oh my god, this isn’t my crowd anyway -- I shouldn’t have come.’”B
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A Cleaner, Faster iPhoto: Upgrade to Photos for OS X Yosemite Photos for OS X has finally arrived, replacing the dusty and worn-out iPhoto with an image management application that Mac users will actually want to use — but is there enough here to satisfy Aperture users? Last year Apple announced that they would be discontinuing iPhoto and its more powerful cousin Aperture, and replace them with a revamped photo program that better fits a climate of iPhones a
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[YS Meetup in Indore] Laying the foundation for an ecosystem in emerging startup hubs Is the startup culture in India really catching up? To answer this question, YourStory looked beyond the obvious places of Bengaluru, Powai, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon. We found that the youth of other cities and towns are venturing forth on unchartered territory and trying to establish a base for themselves, whether it is the traditional Metro city of Chennai, or smaller cities like Pune, Lucknow and
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BlackBerry May Pay $70 Million For Document Security Service, WatchDox Tuesday morning brought word that BlackBerry -- a company that was seriously imperiled in 2013 -- has enough money to make acquisitions. And it signed a deal to acquire document security company, WatchDox, for a price estimated at $70 million by the Wall Street Journal.
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The Apple stand-in The Apple Watch isn’t coming to India just yet, but there are other smartwatch options
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Micromax’s Canvas Spark takes on Motorola’s Moto E (4G) and Lenovo’s A6000 Plus Unsure about which one to buy? The Canvas Spark runs on Android 5.0 and has a good design
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Saudi Arabia's elite National Guard has been ordered to take part in the war in Yemen Saudi Arabia has ordered its elite National Guard to prepare to take part in the country's ongoing campaign against Houthi militants in neighboring Yemen. Saudi King Salman is reportedly preparing to send the ground force to participate in the military campaign, signaling a potentially sharp escalation for what has so far been an aerial operation.  If the National Guard is sent to Yemen, it will
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Pope accepts US bishop's resignation Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Missouri bishop, Robert Finn, who pleaded guilty three years ago to not reporting child abuse by a priest.
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Ice cream firm widens product recall US ice cream firm Blue Bell expands a recall to include all of its products owing to potentially lethal bacteria contamination.
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UK will aid Med searches, PM says The UK will contribute to search-and-rescue efforts in the Mediterranean, to help stop migrants becoming "cargoes of death", David Cameron says.
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Choose Your Own Silent Film Adventure on Instagram The Toronto Silent Film Festival is leveraging Instagram as an awareness tool for its 2015 festival by letting users choose their own adventure on the social platform. This promotion is fitting for the festival as it makes users look at a new medium differently while in turn getting them looking at an old medium under a new lens. The innovative experience allows people to create their own silent
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Tiny Billboards Promote Ant-Man Movie Another big comic book movie is set to hit cinemas this summer, this time featuring a very small superhero. The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time. Marvel has been taking advantage of the size of its superhero for a well thought-out marketing campaign. Back in January, the studio released both an a
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Govt to make acid sale data available online "We are developing a software for online regularisation of sale of acid. It is under process," Rajnath Singh said during the Question Hour.
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Lanco surges 9 per cent on closing of power plant sale to Adani Stocks of Lanco Infratech today surged nearly 9 per cent after Adani Power completed the acquisition of its Udupi Power plant for Rs 6,300 crore.
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Army looks at more authorisation of special clothing, equipment The issue of increased authorisation of special clothing and special equipment was discussed in detail. This basically pertains to the Northern and Eastern Command.
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Rishad's appointment shows shareholder interest: CEO | Q4 net up 3.7% QoQ Rishad's appointment shows shareholder interest: CEO | Q4 net up 3.7% QoQWipro chief TK Kurien today said the appointment of promoter Azim Premji's eldest son Rishad to the company board "represents shareholder interest".
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Don't be robotic, spend quality time with family: PM to bureaucrats Prime Minister Narendra Modi today advised bureaucrats not live like robots and spend quality time with their families.
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Centre to seed fund convention centre in Goa, says Parrikar Manohar Parrikar said here today that the Union government would provide the seed capital to construct a convention centre in Goa.
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Nitish Kumar has become announcement minister, says BJP The BJP leader said the people of Bihar will seek account from Kumar of the plethora of announcements he made over the last 22 months after he parted ways from the NDA.
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Wall Street edges up as results ease anxiety over earnings A majority of the top 10 S&P 500 sectors were up, with the health index leading the gains following Teva Pharmaceutical's bid for Mylan.
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HP says to sell photo sharing service Snapfish Hewlett-Packard Co said it would sell its web-based photo sharing service Snapfish to digital imaging company District Photo.
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NSE sees record high at Rs 41,165cr in cash mkt segment NSE today saw record volumes in equity trading at nearly Rs 41,165 crore helped by a huge bulk deal worth over Rs 20,000 crore in Sun Pharma.
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EU Google probe encourages investors in Russia competitor Yandex Yandex has amassed a $6.54 billion market capitalization, mainly by selling advertising against the web browser used on 64 per cent of Russian desktop computers.
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Can Futurism Affect Digital #Marketing? #SEJSummit Speaker Dana Todd Says Yes by @wonderwall7 Our SEJ Summit Chicago event was held on April 15th, and we were happy to have Dana Todd, of Dana Todd Consulting, presenting. She spoke about “The Future of Today” when it comes to combining your digital strategy and futurist technology. Our next event, SEJ Summit London, is now less than four weeks away! We still have a few FREE tickets available for our London marketing conference, courtesy of
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Uber driver with concealed handgun prevents mass shooting in Chicago A driver with the ridesharing company Uber put a stop to a potential mass shooting in Chicago over the weekend. According to the Chicago Tribune: A group of people had been walking in front of the driver around 11:50 p.m. in the 2900 block of North Milwaukee Avenue when Everardo Custodio, 22, began firing into the crowd, Quinn said. The driver pulled out a handgun and fired six shots at Custodio,
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The incredible real estate portfolio of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison Former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is no stranger to the real estate market — he's been called "the nation's most avid trophy-home buyer" and has all but taken over entire neighborhoods in Malibu and the Lake Tahoe area.  When asked by CNBC in 2012 why he would buy more homes than he could possibly live in, Ellison referenced his love of art.  "I'm going to start these art museums that
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In the news: AirAsia mega discount from Delhi, HCL Tech, Wipro Q4 and more Though there is not a single business news story which can be termed less important, there are some which stand out among those we cover during a day. Here are the top five of them which we found the most relevant today.
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Here’s what its like to own one of the biggest professional video gaming teams in the world Steve Arhancet has his dream job. As the co-owner of Team Liquid, he runs one of the most popular professional gaming organizations in the world.   His teams compete in professional leagues and tournaments in every major competitive video game, earning big cash prizes and netting lucrative sponsorships from companies like HTC, Nissan, and Red Bull.  It didn’t start that way. In 2012, Arhancet left
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That Time Google Almost Bought Tesla for $11 Billion Tesla, the $26 billion electric hot-rod powerhouse, is revving up to be one of the hottest automakers in the world. But, like most tech startups, it came this close to stalling out on the rough road to success. And when Tesla almost bottomed out, Elon Musk turned to Google to save it.That was back in March of 2013, when Musk asked his friend and Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page to rescue his s
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Fei-Fei Li: If We Want Machines to Think, We Need to Teach Them to See   It’s 2025 (give or take), and the long-awaited Big One has hit the San Francisco Bay Area. In the frenetic aftermath, teams of specialized rescue workers begin tearing through piles of wreckage—searching for signs of life, administering care, and calling for backup. These first responders aren’t Red Cross volunteers or paramedics. As Stanford University’s […] The post Fei-Fei Li: If We Want Mach
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Bulls player Jimmy Butler turned down $40 million before the breakout season that's going to make him millions more Jimmy Butler emerged as the Chicago Bulls' most important player this season. The fourth-year wing player has become one of the top two-way players in the NBA, averaging 20 points per game while guarding the opponent's best player nightly. The timing couldn't have been better for Butler. On the eve of a contract year, Butler reportedly turned down a four-year, $40 million contract extension from t
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How to become known as the best in your field In an increasingly competitive marketplace, how do you get noticed and build a powerful reputation? I interviewed more than 50 top thought leaders in fields ranging from business and technology to genomics and urban planning to find the answer. Here are 10 of the best insights they shared in my new book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. "When you
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Retailers are clamoring for a new kind of ideal customer Retailers from Target to Burberry are targeting a new kind of customer.  The market's sweet spot right now are people aged 25-34 with money to spend but who aren't rich, luxury marketing expert Pam Danziger said in a recent report. She calls calls these customers HENRYs, for "High Earners Not Rich Yet." HENRY households between $100,000 and $250,000 a year.  The group is "the new fa
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Can Small Solar Deliver Cheap Light? Entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to the world's energy poor without fossil fuels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The people behind the MINI Cooper have created an incredible x-ray vision device for drivers that will blow you away The folks who build those fun, quirky little MINI Coopers have teamed up with Qualcomm and a San Francisco-based AR designer to try and take your driving experience to another level. The companies have created a set of augmented reality glasses that connect drivers and their MINIs in ways few other carmakers have explored. MINI's Augmented Vision glasses are basically a head-up display for your fa
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The next ‘Transformers’ movie may be coming in 2017 Following the monster release of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” last spring, in which it made over a billion dollars worldwide and became the biggest-opening film ever in China, fans will be happy to hear that the fifth installment in the franchise is coming soon. During a Hasbro earnings call on April 20, CEO Brian Goldner confirmed that the next “Transformers” is slated for a 2017 release. En
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After years of trying to sell Snapfish, HP finally finds a buyer (HPQ) HP isn't reporting how much it received for Snapfish, the online photo printing/storage/sharing service it purchased in 2005 for $300 million. But after years of trying to sell it, the company has finally found a buyer, HP said this morning: a private company called District Photo, who will complete the purchase by October before HP splits into two. Snapfish had been an oddball unit which made sen
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Screen-Printed Geometric Designs Mean No More Bottle Labels In the U.S., beer branding has become a fascinating contest to follow, sometimes even helping drive the content of the bottle, with brews based on Pantone shades, for example. But what about technological innovation in the bottles themselves? A Polish designer, Kamil Piatkowski, has created a bottle design called Regular Beer that uses screen printing to elegantly save on the mental and physical e
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Ramdev to open 10,000 yoga centers in Haryana Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday announced that 10,000 yoga training centers would be opened in Haryana that could be a combination of vedic and modern teaching methodologies.
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Pak Taliban 'test-fire' missile called ‘Omar-1’ Just as Pakistan was celebrating the launch of Chinese investments worth $46 billion in the country, the militant organization, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Monday claimed to have successfully test fired its first indigenously developed missile, named as "Omar 1".
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Choosing to Be Child-free More and more people in the west are choosing not to have children. Is this a puzzle for evolutionary psychologists? What does the research say on this topic?
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Tax exemption for donations to Greenpeace no more? Tax exemption for donations to Greenpeace no more? Sources said central security agencies including those associated with financial intelligence have recommended such a course against the NGO on grounds of alleged financial irregularities in contributions received by it from abroad, a charge denied by the organisation.
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Speaker pulls up deputy in Lok Sabha Lok Sabha today witnessed a rare spectacle as Speaker Sumitra Mahajan pulled up her deputy M Thambidurai when he suddenly spoke about an alleged encounter in Tamil Nadu.
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'Those who ran 'loot ki sarkar' shouldn't doubt NDA' 'Those who ran 'loot ki sarkar' shouldn't doubt NDA'The ruling party said it was less about the land acquisition Bill and more about Rahul's "acquisition" by Congress after his return from a long break.
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'Untimely rains, hailstorm hit 9.38 million hectare of farmland' This was the second time the agriculture ministry revised the area impacted by untimely rains and hailstorms between January and March.
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E-zine row: Was warned of 'terrible consequences', says Thampu When a person's advice is not accepted as it is, that person feels slighted. The more distinguished the adviser is, the greater the indignation.
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'Will connect with like-minded people, try to create new model' Striking a pensive note, he also put out a Facebook post, saying his expulsion from the party was not a sad end, rather, the beginning of a "beautiful, long journey".
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BlackBerry to buy WatchDox to bolster data security The WatchDox software gives clients full visibility and control over how their files are edited, copied, printed or forwarded.
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SC seeks SIT report on progress made in black money probe The apex court had on January 20 asked SIT to consider suggestions of senior advocate Ram Jethmalani who had filed a PIL in 2009 on the black money issue, on the way forward to bring the illegal money stashed in banks abroad.
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The Critical Role of Sales Development in Inbound Marketing It sounds so promising. Create compelling content (consistently). Share and promote the content. Prospects engage, download stuff and become qualified leads. Those leads are passed on to the sales team, who instantaneously reach out and are immediately welcomed into the prospect’s world. The meeting quickly turns into a bona fide sales opportunity. Proposals are requested, immediately acted upon
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Brand Bangalore being Bangalored? Concerns of several leading citizens of the city is that trifurcation might not just add more layers of bureaucracy, but more important, destroy Brand Bangalore.
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Blue Bell Ice Cream Recalls All Products Over Listeria Worries Everything is bigger in Texas – including product recalls.On Monday, Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries issued a voluntary recall of all products, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks. The ice cream company made the decision to recall the products after discovering listeria, a dangerous bacteria, in samples from two half gallons of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream as we
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Home-Based Franchises That Are Home Runs Homebased businesses—those that don’t require a fixed location or any of the costs that come along with it—are among the biggest trends in franchising. In fact, nearly one-third of the companies ranked in Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500® offer franchisees the opportunity to run a business without the need for a storefront, office or warehouse outside the home. You’ll find the 100 highest-ranking of t
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Taser International shares are falling after a new documentary questions how safe tasers really are (TASR) Shares of Taser International fell by more than 4% as the Tribeca Film Festival continues running a documentary that questions the safety of its namesake product. Business Insider’s Brett Arnold and Amanda Macias wrote about the film, titled "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle": "Rick and Tom Smith founded Taser International in 1993 and have sold their stun gun to almost all of the U
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Carson Block sounds like he's having a great day since the co-CEO of one of his short targets stepped down Influential short-seller Carson Block, the founder of Muddy Waters Research, seems pleased this morning.  That's because NQ Mobile's co-CEO, Omar Khan, just stepped down from his role at the Chinese telecom company that Block has publicly called a "massive fraud." The company said Khan will remain in an advisory role through December 31, 2015. "We wish all the best to Omar Khan in h
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Building an Earth-Size Telescope, 1 Station at a Time Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Iran flashes military might amid hopes for nuclear deal
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Scientists confirm existence of supervoid Scientists have confirmed the existence of what one said might be "the largest individual structure ever found by humanity" -- a supervoid in space with far fewer galaxies than is usual.
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'Just as violence can go viral, so can love'
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After years of violence and death, 'life is back' in Juarez Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was once known as the murder capital of the world. Back in 2010, at the height of cartel violence, the city averaged 8.5 killings per day.
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Are Chinese falling out of love with their cars? With a well-paid job in finance and his own apartment, Li Lifei is living the Chinese dream. But there's one missing ingredient -- his own car.
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Why migrants head to Mediterranean They come from more than 20 countries, drawn to Libya as the funnel to Europe.
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Two air strikes in Yemen kill at least 40 people, mostly civilians (Reuters) - Two air strikes in Yemen on Tuesday killed at least 40 people, most of them civilians and wounded dozens of others, medical sources said.
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4 things single people should know about living alone Back in the 1920s, only 5% of Americans lived alone. In 1970, it was still less than 6%. By 2013, it was 23%. Not getting married is even more widespread. Over 50% of American adults are now single, compared with 37% in 1976.  But as as Kate Bolick, the author of "Spinster: Making A Life of One's Own," tells Business Insider, America remains obsessed with coupledom —meaning there's littl
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Here are the 16 best luggage deals this week [up to 82% off] It's hard to find great luggage at an affordable price. The cheap stuff breaks after one flight, and the expensive stuff — well, it's expensive. But we found some deals on quality luggage pieces this week, offering up to 82% off. Whether you're someone who travels often for work, or are just looking for a good piece of luggage — check out these sales below. Luggage sets If you have a family or o
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Japan's maglev train sets world record It's a bird -- It's a plane -- It's an insanely fast Japanese bullet train.
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Life Lessons from Power Rangers That Have Stuck With Me Forever Kids shows are pretty cheesy. Power Rangers, doubly so. The idea of learning real, adult life lessons from the shows we loved as kids sounds silly, but sometimes things stick with you. Here’s what the Power Rangers taught me that actually stuck around. Seriously. Don’t Let Other People Make You Feel Like Crap Bullying isn’t a new trope for kids shows. In my day, though, there was no one who epit
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Boston bombing victims recall day of pain, chaos, grief BOSTON (Reuters) - Celeste Corcoran was hurled into the air by a bomb at the Boston Marathon finish line two years ago. Gillian Reny saw blood gushing from her legs and wondered if she would survive. William Campbell waited hours for his daughter to emerge from surgery only to learn she had been killed by the blasts.
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How to Sync iTunes Music with an Android Phone or Tablet Your iTunes collection is perhaps a vast, lumbering collection of tracks that might go back to your first iPod or a compact selection of favorites. Either way, you want those songs on your Android smartphone or tablet. We’ve seen several ways of syncing an iTunes library with your Android device in the past, but now there is a far simpler method. By employing free-to-use sync software on your Wind
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Russia just unveiled its new Armata battle tank The Russian military has released its first official picture of the new "Armata" Universal Combat Platform that will form the base of its main battle tank. The pictures come as part of the preparations for the Victory Day parade on May 9 in the Russian capital. Among the over 100 vehicles that will drive through the streets of Moscow during this year's event, there will be ten T-14 batt
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Why 'investing' in art is a terrible idea Art has no intrinsic value. It cannot be regularly marked to some market price. It has zero cash flow. And five years from now, it's much more likely to be worth less than it is to be worth more than what you paid for it.  You've probably heard otherwise. This week, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock told Bloomberg: "The two greatest stores of wealth internationally today is contemporary art...
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The 9 most expensive cities in America Kiplinger.com put together a list of the most expensive cities to live in the US using data on 308 urban areas collected by the C2ER. Here are the top 9.  Produced by Devan Joseph Follow BI Video: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete Photo by Andrew Nguyen Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. The payoff is that it puts the firm in a position to drive those relative costs even lower as competiti
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Mobilegeddon is Here: Google’s Mobile-Friendly Algorithm is Live! by @mattsouthern Editor’s Note: SEJ founder Loren Baker also contributed to this post. Today, Google launched its long-awaited mobile-friendly algorithm update worldwide, which is estimated to affect a large % of mobile search queries. As more people use their smartphones to browse the internet, this update was made in an effort to provide users with the most relevant and timely results, whether the information is
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Scientific American Content: Global 35
Inside the Wonderful World of Bee Cognition - How it All Began One of the first things I get asked when I tell people that I work on bee cognition (apart from `do you get stung a lot?') is `bees have cognition?'. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Psychology Today 3
A Destination Divorce? Get Outta Town! No, Really You don’t need to travel to get a divorce today, but purveyors of tropical divorce getaways insist you might reach a better agreement under the swaying palm trees of someplace else.
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Life Is Not a Premortality Condition Western medical science has changed life into a premortality condition and death into a failure of treatment.
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Please Let Me Act out on My Sugar Addiction in Peace Those who consider themselves sugar addicts but then quit never tire of lecturing other sugar consumers about the dangers of that white powder. Why can't they just let us leave us alone with our cookies?
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Do You Tend to Dread Loss or Anticipate Gain? Losing money and getting bad grades are more painful to most people than winning money and getting good grades are pleasurable. Some have figured out that they’ll be more likely to succeed (at losing weight, for example) if they commit to sending money to a charity they hate if they fail to meet their goal.
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Technology May Be Ruining Your Ability to Read Emotions Research shows how our digital world may be taking a toll on our emotional intelligence.
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Kings XI Punjab beat Rajasthan in Super over
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S Africa to deploy army over xenophobic attacks South African soldiers will be deployed to tackle gangs hunting down and killing foreigners, officials said on Tuesday, after at least seven people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
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The Economic Times 1
Gold fails to glitter on auspicious Akshaya Tritiya Buyers preferred to remain on the sidelines awaiting further price correction and expectations of import duty cut.
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I am not going to spare Bhushans: Ashish Khetan I am not going to spare Bhushans: Ashish KhetanTraining his guns at dissident duo of Shanti and Prashant Bhushan, AAP leader Ashish Khetan today said he will not spare them for levelling baseless allegations against him.
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J&K CM calls for promoting high-density orchards in state Sayeed today pushed for promotion of high-density orchards with facility of micro-irrigation to arrest the fall in apple production in the state.
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Political intervention in bureaucracy is necessary: PM Political intervention in bureaucracy is necessary: PMDrawing a distinction between political interference and intervention, he said while the former will "destroy" the system the latter is "necessary" and "inevitable".
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President condoles passing away of JB Patnaik In his condolence message to Patnaik's wife Jayanti, the President said he was saddened to learn about the passing away of Patnaik, a friend and colleague of long years.
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Pope Francis okays resignation of US bishop for not reporting abuse Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected child abuser.
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Business Insider 6
Payments security is undergoing a revolution and Apple Pay is leading the way There's a massive card fraud problem in the US, and EMV isn't going to solve it. Instead a number of new security protocols are being implemented for in-store and online payments to try to mitigate card data theft. Each of these protocols has strengths and weaknesses, but one of the newest security protocols — from Apple Pay — has security measures above and beyond the rest. In two new reports fro
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Inside the office of London design company MOO, which prints some of the coolest business cards around London-based company MOO lets customers design business cards and other products online. MOO might not necessarily sound like a tech company, but it's using the digital space to enhance the business of reputation management. In 2012, for example, MOO acquired online profile site Flavors.me. The company has also launched a range of Near Field Communication business cards, which are embedded with a
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Mangoes to cost 65% more this summer: Study Mango crop suffered the onslaught of repeated rain accompanied by hailstorm and strong winds from end January till early April, 2015 in North and Central India, resulting in huge loss, a study by Assocham says.
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Google Android Wear brings Wi-Fi support, hand drawn emoji to watch According to the Verge, the changes made to the Android Wear are small, but collectively, Google promises to make even year-old hardware seem new.
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India to see 6% rise in steel demand in 2015: PwC Higher demand is likely to come from India, with forecast growth of 6 per cent in 2015 compared to 1.8 per cent in 2013, PwC said.
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Entrepreneur: Latest Articles 61
3 Ways to Harness the Inner Child in Every Entrepreneur I’ve had the good fortune of starting several companies, both in the United States and England, building them from product concept to market expansion to successful exit. In my experience, business acumen, gut feeling and luck only get you so far on the entrepreneurial journey. The rest requires a steely ability to weather the ups and downs of building a company, whilst continuing to keep all of y
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Futuristic Travel Stunts - The S7 Airlines Campaign Granted Free Trips Using Brainwave Headset (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) The travel industry continues to push boundaries throughout every possible experience, which the S7 Airlines campaign demonstrates. Using an EEG-brainwave headset, it puts a futuristic twist on...
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It has been a historic year for biotech mergers and it might not be over yet (TEVA, MYL, IBB, PCYC, ASPX) It's already been a huge year for biotech mergers, we just saw the biggest announcement yet, and the buying might not be over. On Tuesday, Teva Pharmaceuticals announced an offer to buy Mylan  for $82 per share in cash and stock in a deal worth about $40 billion, according to a statement. This is the largest takeover attempt in the industry this year, topping Abbvie’s buyout of Pharmacyclics for $
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Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire Justine Musk, the first wife of billionaire Elon Musk, knows a thing or two about wealth and hard work — her ex-husband is a founder of PayPal and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and has an estimated net worth of $12.1 billion. She recently posted a response to a Quora thread asking: "Will I become a billionaire if I am determined to be one and put in all the necessary work required?" Her an
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Quantify Your Pro-Con List to Make Better Decisions A pro-con list is usually the place to start when it comes to tough decisions. These lists are nothing new, but here’s an interesting way to make them more useful: quantify every item on the list, then add it all up.In his book, Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons entrepreneur Seymour Schulich has an effective way of making decisions based on a pro-con list. Instead of just writing down a stand
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This website turns satellite images into beautiful iPhone wallpapers If you're looking for a good place to find beautiful iPhone wallpapers, you need to check out WLPPR. The new website pulls from existing satellite images of the Earth and transforms them into gorgeous iPhone backgrounds. Each HD image contains an incredible amount of detail, and below each wallpaper are some handy links for downloading cropped versions that will perfectly fit an iPhone 5/5S, iPhon
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4 Keys to Raising Your Content Marketing Game Content marketing has been, and will likely continue as, one of the most effective tools for businesses of any size to drive brand awareness. As Google and other search engines continue to refine their algorithms, businesses need to quickly step up their game when it comes to content marketing. Are you sure that you are doing enough to stand out from the increasing competition? The steps below wil
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Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing 500+
Google’s Mobile-Friendly Update Is Rolling Out Right Now The impact may take roughly a week to appear. The post Google’s Mobile-Friendly Update Is Rolling Out Right Now appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 25
15 Tricks To Overcome Procrastination Procrastination costs us time and takes up vital energy, yet it's something most of us do. If you’re avoiding, delaying, or sidestepping something, you can use these tips to combat procrastination and boost your productivity.
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New Leader And Finding It Hard To Delegate? Read On Successful leaders delegate. As we become more senior, our responsibilities expand and it’s quite clear that we can’t do everything whilst producing high quality work, developing more business and maintaining a modicum of sanity.
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Is My Job About To Become Extinct? Is your company going to become a forgotten bit of history? Is your industry heading for a Napster Moment? Is your expert status at risk? “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” —Jack Welch
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs 100+
How To Build A Fast-Growing Company With $500 And 500 Mistakes No money down, no business plan and no kitchen, The Fresh Diet exploded into a million dollar company just a year out of the starting gate. The only problem? I had no idea how to run a business.
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Earth Day 2015: These 10 Funds Prove Investors Can Beat The Stock Market By Going Green Earth Day advocates will be very proud to see that investors can beat the stock market while saving the planet. Going green makes big green. The 10 solar and clean energy ETFs on the stock market vaulted anywhere from 6% to a mind blowing 41% year to date.
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How Capital Superabundance Could Burn Private Equity Investors The continued expansion of financial assets looks to be an enduring feature of the investment environment, which private equity (PE) firms will need to reckon with for a long time to come. However, the very forces that rescued the boom-year investments—record low interest rates and plentiful capital—are magnifying two issues that are making it more challenging for general partners (GPs) to profit
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Teva Pharmaceuticals Hopes $40 Billion Mylan Deal Will Fuel Stock Rebound In the red hot market for pharmaceutical deal-making it's either eat or be eaten. That's the case with Teva Pharmaceutical's $82 a share cash and stock bid for generic competitor Mylan on Tuesday morning, a direct challenge to Mylan's near $30 billion takeover bid for Perrigo, unveiled on April 8.
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Ritz-Carlton President Herve Humler's Leadership, Culture And Customer Service Secrets It’s been a back-to-our-roots scenario lately at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, where Herve Humler, part of the original executive team that more than 30 years ago created the hotel brand as we know it, has settled in at the helm.
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A Different Perspective On Going Public In teaching business law, I’ve concluded that securities law can be frustratingly confusing from an outsider’s perspective. Often times, we hear about the instant zillionaires who emerge from IPOs, but then the textbook tells a different, sobering story. Going public is messy and expensive; and staying public is even messier. Filings, disclosures, holds on stock activity.  Why bother?
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SBA Preparing for National Small Business Week The nationwide celebration of small businesses is two weeks away. National Small Business Week is being held from May 4-8 this year. For one week every year since 1963, the President of the United States has declared a national recognition for small businesses and their importance to the economy. This is the 52nd National Small Business Week in the U.S. Ahead of last year’s festivities, President
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Business Insider 100+
A 13-episode 'Full House' spinoff is definitely happening After reports that a "Full House" reboot may be coming to Netflix earlier this month, John Stamos made it official Monday night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." According to Stamos, the new season will be a partial reunion, but mostly a spin-off. "We were trying to do some kind of spin-off and we wanted to give credit to the legacy and we didn't want to just sort of throw it away a
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Business Insider 16
Tesco broadband has gone down across Britain Tesco Broadband has gone down across all of Britain, the BBC reports. The significant outage apparently started around noon, with a customer service representative confirming to the BBC that the company is aware of the issue and meeting to discuss it. The supermarket chain has also posted on Twitter that they are "aware that customers around the country are experiencing issues with bb [broadb
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Why Some Depressed People Hate Being Told to ‘Cheer Up’ Why many find it so hard to support people who are depressed. » Continue reading: Why Some Depressed People Hate Being Told to ‘Cheer Up’ » Read HealthiestBlog.com, the new site from PsyBlog's author Related articles: Depressed People Take Social Rejection Harder, Here’s Why The 5 Biggest Reasons People Get Anxious or Depressed A Strange Depression Symptom That Most People Don’t Know How P
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Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips 62
Why The Apple Watch Is The New Remote Control For Everything Like the remote, wearables will make consumers' lives easier. Combined with notifications, says contributor Brent Hieggelke, they'll help people connect with brands. The post Why The Apple Watch Is The New Remote Control For Everything appeared first on Marketing Land. Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.
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BBC News - World 53
Morrison condemns black police shootings Award-winning author Toni Morrison condemns the killing of several black men by white police officers.
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VIDEO: EU plans to deal with migrant crisis he European Commission has come up with ten point plan to try to deal with the problem of human trafficking
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The Economic Times 5
Chinese cybersecurity rules could backfire: Eric Xu Xu's scepticism comes despite the fact that his company should, in theory, be one of the biggest beneficiaries of China's domestic technology push.
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Sun Pharma shares tank nearly 9%; top loser on Sensex Shares of Sun Pharma tanked nearly 9 per cent today, leading to an erosion of Rs 22,262 crore from its market valuation.
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Mufti govt sets up ministerial group to oversee 'Agenda of Alliance' Sayeed today formed the group, led by Nirmal Singh, which will oversee the implementation of various components of the 'Agenda of the alliance' in the state.
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ISKCON extends its support to ban on slaughter of cows "The cottage industry through cow protection and cow rearing is a wonderful model for rural development," ISKCON spiritual leader Radha Nath Swami Maharaj said.
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Don't view climate change 'a biz opportunity' Don't view climate change 'a biz opportunity'India demanded the developed world "must" fulfil it's financial commitment to ensure that critical technologies are made available at affordable cost.
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Hillary Clinton called for 'toppling' the 1% Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US economy requires a "toppling" of the wealthiest 1%, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday. Clinton reportedly made the comments in a meeting with economists earlier this year, when she was shown a graph that "charted how real wages, adjusted for inflation, had increased expon
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Cincinnati Reds manager drops the F-word 77 times in a five-minute rant at a reporter Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price went on a five-minute, 34-second rant to reporters on Monday afternoon after a question from C. Trent Rosencrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer. While Price was upset by the Reds' poor play of late, he was more angry about two Enquirer stories in which news was reported before the team announced it. During pregame media session, when the camera crews had left, Price
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Trading in shares of the light bulb company whose chairman was arrested will be suspended for at least a few more weeks (FNRG) Trading in ForceField Energy has now been suspended for at least two weeks. On Monday, shares of ForceField tanked, falling more than 20%, before being halted after the LED lighting company disclosed that its chairman, Richard St. Julien, was arrested on Friday and resigned on Sunday. The stock didn't re-open, and now won't be back for at least a couple weeks.  In a release on Tuesday morning, the
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10 reasons why Kevin Pietersen is a great batsman Earlier, former Australian skipper Steve Waugh had shared his opinion that Kevin Pietersen did not deserve a place in the current eleven.
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Shiv Sena now wants to rename Bombay High Court, IIT-Bombay According to a Sena leader, Mumbai derived its name from Goddess Mumbadevi. "However, the name Bombay was coined by the British rulers as they could not pronounce Mumbai," he added.
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How To Give Regular Feedback And Still Get Work Done Performance reviews twice a year do little to help people improve. Here's how to give constant feedback and and still get things done.It's been printed in enough management articles that it's probably implanted in your brain: Millennials want constant feedback.Read Full Story
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MIT's Self-Assembling Table Could Change The Way You Build Ikea Furniture Imagine never having to waste a day interpreting confusing instructions again.We've seen the remarkable programmable materials coming out of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab for years—things like magnetic chairs that could snap together in a fish tank, or textiles that could flex themselves into various shapes—but it's always been research-level work.Read Full Story
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How To Make A Travel Mag As Visually Appealing As The Destinations Most travel magazines are like clichéd old tourist postcards. Not the new Afar.If most travel magazines are like a tired "Wish You Were Here" postcard, the new Afar is like ripping a bespoke, hand-lettered sign off of some exotic city wall, then bringing it back in your luggage. It's not just typographically beautiful, but it has a life of its own.Read Full Story
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Micromax launches Canvas Spark for Rs 4,999 The smartphone, launched at a press briefing in New Delhi, will be available exclusively on online portal Snapdeal through flash sales starting April 29.
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Gold fails to attract buyers on Akshaya Tritiya Traders said apart from a weak trend in overseas markets as investors weighed a rally in equities and the dollar in the absence of any significant buying by jewellers, led to decline in gold prices.
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Business Insider 16
One phrase destroyed real news as we knew it The American humorist H. Allen Smith once suggested that of all the worrisome words in the English language, the scariest "uh oh," as when a physician looks at your x-rays, and with a knitted brow says "Uh oh." I should like to suggest that the words "Now ... this" are as ominous as any, all the more so because they are spoken without knitted brow. The phrase, if tha
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Hit by cross currency movements, Wipro posts tepid Q4 earnings   Bangalore-based IT major also appoints Rishad Premji, son of executive chairman Azim Premji, to its board Read more
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Why Testing Drugs on Our Dogs Is Good for Our Health Trying medicines out on pet dogs is a practical way to research new human uses for out-of-patent drugs. The post Why Testing Drugs on Our Dogs Is Good for Our Health appeared first on WIRED.
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Shyp Thinks It’s Solved the Problem of Push-Button Shipping Kevin Gibbon thinks he's cracked the logistics of never having to go to the post office again. The post Shyp Thinks It’s Solved the Problem of Push-Button Shipping appeared first on WIRED.
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Vivid Map Pinpoints Every Street Tree in NYC Manhattan’s trees tend to get overshadowed the city's by skyscrapers. But they play an essential role in New York's environment. The post Vivid Map Pinpoints Every Street Tree in NYC appeared first on WIRED.
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Scientific American Content: Global 62
In Praise of Fractals and Poetry This year for Math Poetry month, I read Proportions of the Heart: Poems that Play with Mathematics, a collection of poems by Emily Grosholz. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sofia Vergara Lawsuit Teaches Lesson For Couples Seeking IVF It began with an anonymous court filing pitting "John Doe" against "Jane Doe."  It didn't take long for Jane and John to be identified publicly as Modern Family's Sophia Vergara and creator of the Onion Crunch, Nick Loeb.  Formerly engaged to be married, the ex-couple now is heading to court battling against each other over what could be a drawn-out debate involving the fundame
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Why Worrying About Competition Can Destroy Your Business You may feel that you have to take steps to position yourself against the competition. If the competition offers a new widget, you might feel like you have to offer a bigger widget. If they offer double rewards, you need to offer triple rewards. The problem, however, is that when you focus on the competition, you might miss something important.
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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term Kenneth Andersson A great deal of ink has been spent over the past thirty years or so on the idea of corporate or organizational culture. Back in the 1980’s, I picked up a now-famous book, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman’s In Search of Excellence, that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). I was working
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Teva makes $40.1 billion takeover bid for Mylan Mylan has said it wants to stay independent and that any Teva bid would face antitrust hurdles
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Govt will not relent on Rs40,000 crore tax demand on FIIs FIIs have protested tax notices and demands saying they were exempt from long-term capital gains tax
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Screen Off: 5 Ways to Toggle Your Monitor & Save Energy If you’re leaving your display active while your computer is idle, you’re wasting energy. Whether you’d like to save money or just get a little more out of your laptop’s battery life, you have plenty of options to choose from. We’ll touch on manual as well as automatic solutions to address the waste of power. Turn Off Your Monitor Manually The simplest way to save energy is by manually turning off
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Psychology Today 8
6 Reasons Nice People Hurt Your Feelings Are your feelings easily hurt? These tips can take the sting out of the thoughtless things people can say.
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Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing 83
Yahoo Or Bing Could Now Divorce Before 10-Year Search Deal Expires New deal terms allow either Bing or Yahoo to terminate with four-months notice. The post Yahoo Or Bing Could Now Divorce Before 10-Year Search Deal Expires appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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'35 Maoists killed in April 11 attack in Bastar' A Maoist, who had surrendered soon after the April 11 gunbattle between Special Task Force and his group in Bastar, on Tuesday claimed that 35 Maoists were killed and 15 injured in the retaliatory gun-battle.
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Chardham yatra begins in Uttarakhand The annual Chardham yatra commenced on Tuesday with the opening of the sacred portals of the Himalayan shrines of Gangotri and Yamunotri after a six-month winter break.
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Telangana MLAs to visit Israel as ‘farmers’ The Telangana government has decided to send an eight-member team, including four MLAs of the ruling TRS with a tag of "progressive farmers", to attend an agriculture exhibition and field trips in Israel.
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