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</a> * U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with the Dow industrialsposting the worst day since late June, as investors speculatedwhen the Federal Reserve might begin to reduce its ultra-loosemonetary policy, which has helped propel stocks to record highs.
</a> The men are charged in five separate counts with conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, conspiracy to murder a law enforcement agent and a person assisting a law enforcement agent, conspiracy to kill a person to prevent communications to law enforcement agents, conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board an aircraft.
</a> They are eight points clear at the top of League One after as many fixtures but, in the wake of the publication of their annual accounts, some financial analysts have claimed they may require another cash injection simply to help them complete the campaign.
</a> Former U.S. Treasury official Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute and author of the forthcoming "Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God," said the group is engaged in a broad array of illicit activities, from counterfeiting currencies, documents and goods to credit card fraud, money-laundering, arms smuggling and narcotics trafficking. Hezbollah, one investigator quipped, is like the "Gambinos on steroids."
</a> The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Wednesday also recorded more than 800 aftershocks, including a 5.1-magnitude that greeted President Aquino when he arrived in Tagbilaran City.
</a> Officials from the Fed and the Commodity Futures TradingCommission (CFTC) were expected to testify before a SenateBanking Committee panel led by Senator Sherrod Brown on October8, though it is unclear whether that will still take place giventhe government shutdown.
</a> At 2.5 percent, the base rate in South Korea is near arecord low, and the central bank's decision to maintain its easymonetary policy was expected as it has been supporting thegovernment's fiscal stimulus.
</a> Saints Row 4 goes in some interesting directions never worrying about the believably of its plot because verisimilitude went out the window two games ago. Instead the story focuses on packing in as much delightful insanity as possible. It is like a majestic eagle with laser eyes.
</a> "We arrested a 19-year-old who we believe is responsible for killing a fellow Briton of the same age. At this stage in the investigation we do not know if they were known to each other before fighting broke out."
</a> Lured by the prospect of a rapidly growing middle class in the world's second-biggest economy, many foreign firms have waded into China's retail market only to find they lack local expertise, particularly in building supplier relationships.
</a> Both may use their generational differences to their advantage, though. Millennials do have less experience in the workforce, but they also have a collaborative spirit. If you're a baby boomer with a Generation Y manager, remember that they're more receptive to your input if it's framed as an innovative idea, not a condescending complaint. "There's this concept of learning how to delicately manage your boss," McDaniel says. "A good millennial boss is coachable. You don't have to tell them, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Instead, find an artful way to encourage them to draw from the experiences that you yourself have had. Try saying, 'When I've done things this way, I've been successful.'"
</a> Luckily for Leon Leyson, the Sudeten German businessman and former Wehrmacht secret agent, Oskar Schindler, took over an enamelware factory from the bankruptcy court and persuaded the labour office, with the help of his German-speaking Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, to allow him to employ cheap Jewish labour. Through social contacts with leading local Nazi officials, Schindler had a degree of freedom. He was arrested three times on suspicion of black market trading and other offences but through bribery was able to avoid further investigation. Leon Leyson, along with his parents, became one of Schindler's workers, one of the 1,100 or so that owed their lives to him.
</a> The coroner said the investigations into the three deaths would be conducted with Article Two of the Human Rights Act - which guarantees a "right to life" - playing "an important part".
</a> Geneva Case, 49, does not want to testify in a Louisville court against her partner, Bobbie Jo Clary, 37, who is accused of beating George Murphy, 64, to death with a hammer in 2011 and then stealing his van.
</a> Riegel spent almost 70 years at the helm of Haribo, which was founded by his candymaker father in 1920. From a small firm struggling with the shortages of post-war Germany, he built it into a world famous brand exporting to 100 countries.
</a> Bloomberg made fighting crime a hallmark of his time inoffice. After succeeding Mayor Rudy Giuliani less than twomonths after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Bloomberg pressedahead with aggressive police tactics that have reduced crime butdrawn criticism from civil liberties groups.
</a> The report commissioned by Wall Street's largest lobbygroup, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association(SIFMA), said banks play a small but vital role in the naturalresources supply chain. Their ability to trade in the underlyingcommodities - not just financial derivatives - helped marketsfunction.
</a> "Why isn't all the money going to all the victims? The intent was to give the money to the victims. We're starting from a false premise and this process is re-victimizing the victims," said Caryn Kaufman, who represents a coalition of prior mass shooting victims.
</a> The money would likely only be a fraction of what Hasan's victims and their relatives still need. Some have struggled to find jobs or pay medical bills since Hasan killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others when he opened fire inside a crowded building on the Texas military base on Nov. 5, 2009.
</a> We need to create a dialogue around what works best. Not only must we adapt leading models and best practices to the resources, culture, and conditions of each locale, but we also need to improve upon our leading models, lest these models fall behind or simply fail to realize their full potential.
</a> Most Asian markets were also higher. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.9% to halt a three-day slide, as a weakening in the yen helped lift exporters' shares. Meanwhile, China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.2%.
</a> Most arrived here at the age of 8 or younger, and three-quarters have lived in the U.S. for a least a decade. Fully one-third are still between the ages of 15 and 18, looking forward to going to college and starting careers.
</a> When Congress failed to come to a compromise before a July 1 deadline, interest rates doubled for undergraduate subsidized Stafford loans, from 3.4 percent to a fixed rate of 6.8 percent. Graduate loans are fixed at 6.8 percent, and PLUS loans currently carry a rate of 7.9 percent. But unlike current law, the bill the Senate passed would peg interest rates to the market, meaning they would change year to year.
</a> âThe only hope (for the Rangers) to give themselves any flexibility to change their roster is by buying (Richards) out, so thatâs what makes me think that they would,â Smith, now an analyst for NHL Network and Rogers Sportsnet in Canada, said on the phone. âI donât know whether they should or not. Thatâs up to them.
</a> The former president called the process "magical." Clinton said he spends a lot of time trying to reduce the mortality rate of children, which involves reducing malnutrition but also ensuring access to clean water.
</a> A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Tejada tested positive for Adderall, a substance previously used to treat attention-deficit disorder. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because those details were not made public.
</a> âFairfax gets a free look and can walk away with nopenalty until Nov. 4th,â Gillis said in a research note lastweek. âThe risk of a bidding war breaking out for BlackBerry islow, particularly given what we view are favorable terms toFairfax.â
</a> “We are braced for more calls in the autumn when the full effects of the last year’s crisis begin to bite and farmers have either reduced crop yields to sell, fewer heads of livestock to take to market, or cannot afford to replace lost breeding stock,” she said.
</a> Monteith served as the show's resident hunk with a heart of gold. He played Finn Hudson, a football quarterback with two left feet who found more camaraderie in the choir room than on the football field. After his character graduated high school, Hudson sought out to find himself before settling on what he wanted to do with his life: become a teacher and mentor.
</a> Following Mr Carmichael's appointment, Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary, Margaret Curran, said: "I welcome Alistair Carmichael to his new post and pay tribute to Michael Moore. We frequently disagreed, but he has made a significant contribution to the referendum debate and Scottish politics over the past two years."
</a> HOBSON: In Iowa there's a proposal for an August start, but organizers of the Iowa State Fair, Robin, want to make sure that students are still on vacation in mid-August. The fair manager, Gary Slater(ph), told the Sioux City Journal, children can have an educational experience in a variety of ways, and one of those is at the state fair.
</a> "We really didn't think the effects would be this huge," explained McMaster University researcher Faria Sana, who co-authored the study with fellow doctoral student Tina Weston. "It can change your grade from a B to a B-."
</a> It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide from a year ago, including 18,000 scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
</a> SIR – Since 2008, the Alzheimer’s Society (of which I was formerly Winchester branch chairman) has been rebranded, abolished its network of 236 local branches run by committees of volunteers, and has substituted a centralised management system, run from a South Bank office in London.
</a> On this week's Daily News Fifth Yankees Podcast, Mark Feinsand chats with Yankees reliever Dave Robertson about Mariano Rivera's bad week, what it's been like in the clubhouse since A-Rod returned and Robertson's "Power of 2" contest with Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster.
</a> On Wednesday, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the plane maker was in discussions with Ethiopian Airlines about how to conduct the repair, and that no decisions had been made yet. McNerney said "it was a little premature" to say how long the repair would take.
</a> Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find particularly interesting. Called-out comments are highlighted across the Forbes network. You'll be notified if your comment is called out.
</a> In recent months Chinese, French, German, Japanese, SouthKorean and Greek companies have won engineering and constructioncontracts in power, energy, petrochemicals and rail projectswith a cumulative value of billions of dollars.
</a> The most notable issue has been a $2,000 stipend that would be added to the athletic scholarship to cover the full-cost of college attendance. The big five conferences want to be able to give the stipend to all scholarship athletes.
</a> The gap between the publication of A-Level and GCSE results can make it easy to forget the minor street-party you threw in mid-August. Bear in mind that, should they not get the same treatment, your younger children won’t forget so easily.
</a> The American Action Network has spent $1 million fighting for immigration reform since March and is optimistic their efforts and the report might push House Republicans to act more quickly when they return from recess. The AAN is part of a broader coalition of Republican think tanks and leaders pushing an economic argument for immigration reform and hoping to convince members on the fence that supporting comprehensive reform could help the government generate more revenue.
</a> The question hovering low over the final episodes, of course, is what will happen to Walt; his former drug-dealing partner Jesse (Aaron Paul); his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn); his brother-in-law Hank, a DEA agent (Dean Norris); his children, and all the others caught in his lethal web.
</a> In a footnote to his ruling, Engelhardt said the news organizations "perpetuate the viability" of the officers' bid for a new trial "and support its merit by implication" by refusing to identify their sources.
</a> There are many firsts this year aimed at widening the appealof the Cup. The sailing is in sight of spectators on shore inEllison's home waters of San Francisco Bay. And you can downloadreal-time race data and apps to watch the crews in action,thanks to remote-control cameras affixed to each AC72.
</a> Barry Silbert, the head of the online private marketplaceSecondMarket, said the measure was "transformative." He said hiscompany has already developed a general solicitation productthat will help issuers handle the regulatory requirements.
</a> “We’re coming back hungry,” Ortiz said. “They’re in the playoffs for a reason. They’ve been in the playoffs for a reason for years. They’re a good ballclub. We know this isn’t over.”
</a> But that never was Leylands plan. Sunday was the second night in a row he didnt bring in Coke to face Ortiz in the eighth inning as Ortiz represented the potential tying run. When Leyland didnt go to Coke in Game 1, he mentioned that Coke hadnt pitched in a big-league game for more than three weeks. It was too challenging of a situation for such a pitcher. Coke missed the final part of the regular season with elbow soreness.
</a> "If tapering does kick off in September he is emphasisingthat it's going to be some time before we can see any actualtightening. He is backing up what we saw in the minutes to thelast Fed meeting," ICAP strategist Philip Tyson said.
</a> NCB Capital Impact, a lender that operates in areas traditional banks tend to leave well alone, has a $30 million fund geared toward refurbishing stone and brick buildings in neighborhoods bordering on the midtown area.
</a> Both the White House and Rousseff’s office officially billed the decision as a postponement, and said a state visit could take place at an unspecified later date. However, two officials with knowledge of Rousseff’s decision told Reuters that such a visit was unlikely to happen anytime soon.
</a> It expects to produce over 60 billion cubic metres (bcm) ofgas by 2016, compared with 42 bcm forecast for 2013, and 100 bcmin 2020, of which more than half will be produced at newlyacquired projects.
</a> Lauren Banks, director of policy and advocacy at AIDSAlabama, had expected a rocky rollout. The group received thelargest navigator award in the state - just over $500,000 - andhad planned kick-off events for the first weekend of November.
</a> Meanwhile, researchers found that 44.7% of the surveyed women underestimated their risk and 45.9% overestimated their risk, with the final math being that 90.7% of the surveyed women lacked âaccurate knowledge about their own breast cancer risk.â Researchers wrote that the findings are important because they indicate a need to put an educational emphasis on risk awareness because it will help providers create patient-specific medical plans.
</a> "With the uncertainty that follows the deadline to raise theU.S. debt ceiling and a likely lack lustre 3Q results season,STI's short-term rally has likely come to a stall around 3,250last week," said DBS Vickers in a research report.
</a> Careful consideration needs to be given as to how President Assad will react and what danger it will pose to British interests. There are British military bases in the Mediterranean which could become retaliation targets for the Assad regime. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary need to outline what assessment the Government has taken as to the risks posed to these installations.
</a> Szanton says she thinks the programs will greatly improve the quality of life for participants. The ABLE program did that even without nursing and home repairs, she says, and helped people live longer.
</a> But Cruz, a Tea Party-backed senator with 2016 presidential aspirations, denounced the fiscal accord as a "terrible deal" and accused fellow Republicans of giving in too easily in their bid to derail Obamacare.
</a> Italy and Spain are both set to launch syndicated bond sales today, taking advantage of temporarily benign market conditions and maybe with a weather eye on the U.S. debt stalemate which could soon throw the worldâs markets into turmoil with an Oct. 17 deadline fast approaching.
</a> Brazil's auto market has more than doubled since 2005 and is now the world's fourth largest, but Toyota's market share there has been stuck around 3 percent, compared with nearly 15 percent in the U.S. market.
</a> The G20 gathering, which coincides with the fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, could become another pressure point for the Obama administration to urge Congress to raise the borrowing limit on the nation's debt.
</a> "We'll import wheat from Ukraine under a state-to-statedeal. And the wheat is be shipped within 90 days," Ahmed HossainKhan of the Directorate General of Food told Reuters on Tuesday,adding the purchase is at $307 a tonne, including CIF liner out.
</a> Compass said since the end of its third quarter it hadsigned an agreement to draw $500 million of new debt through aprivate placement with U.S. institutional investors, which wouldbe used in part to repay some existing debt.
</a> Yet five years after the United States demanded its bigbanks take on new capital to reassure investors, Europe is stillstruggling to impose order on its financial system, having givenemergency aid to five countries.
</a> Despite the weaker forecast, stocks jumped, but on Thursday and Friday the markets largely gave back the gains, partly amid fears of a government shutdown or debt default because of political gridlock in Washington but also because of concerns that prices had got over-extended.
</a> Earlier in the day, women, crying and hugging, blocked a side-street to prevent police from deploying to the funeral of 26-year-old al-Sanhouri. His family says he was shot outside his pharmacy as a march went by Friday, on the same street where the protest came under attack again on Saturday.
</a> Perhaps Assad is truly that mad. I wouldn’t begin a war on such bald assertion as this, however. This Neo-Liberal warmongering makes me sick. All while we pretend that we must do something because of the horror we see. When our allies commit crimes and massacres we are silent, as history shows.
</a> And in an onslaught on the judiciary, she claimed judges sometimes wrongly treated it as an absolute rather than a qualified right, accusing them of "putting the law on the side of foreign criminals instead of the public".
</a> After rebel gains around the country, the army has pushed back in recent weeks and reinforced the capital while rebels hold outlying areas. The insurgents use mortars and car bombs to hit areas still held by the government.
</a> Meanwhile, smaller U.S. companies offering encryption and related security services are seeing a jump in business overseas, along with an uptick in sales domestically as individuals and companies work harder to protect secrets.
</a> After last year’s passenger queues at Heathrow and other airports, immigration chiefs have taken staff away from customs checks to process passengers. A series of reports by Mr Vine have highlighted how this new focus has led to the neglect of work to stop drugs and contraband.
</a> She works hard to keep a sense of normality in their lives. Until 2009, the Douglas family lived in Bermuda, far from the bright lights of Hollywood. When work commitments brought them back, they moved to the countryside north of New York.
</a> “He got out and stood by the car and then she shot past me, didn’t say a word. He threw her suitcase into the car and they drove off. I didn’t think she was that stupid.”
</a> The first part worked too well. Party candidates all came to be picked through open primary elections. In the process, the parties lost the ability to select loyal candidates in smoke-filled back rooms - they lost a source of power and persuasion.
</a> Havens says assistance through FEMA's "Individuals andHouseholds Program" was also provided to help West residentsdeal with the immediate aftermath of the explosion. The recentlycompleted session of the Texas Legislature also provideddisaster assistance to West.
</a> However, with a little care and protection (from slug and snails mostly), perennials that set seed can be grown successfully in the ground, and many do it all by themselves. I have a garden chock full of those that do, and Linda's question gives me an opportunity to describe how my own borders, stuffed mainly with perennials, evolve and are managed in what is apparently a cottage garden style:
</a> While these doctors always discuss the “value” of each procedure in terms of the amount of time, work, and overhead required of them to perform it, the implication of that “value” is not lost on anyone in the room: they are, essentially, haggling over what their own salaries should be. “No one ever says the word ‘price,’ ” a doctor on the committee told me after the April meeting. “But yeah, everyone knows we’re talking about money.”
</a> So what did this great police department do to partially invite these two disastrous âreformsâ â one imposing an inspector general and the other giving New Yorkers the ability to sue the city over perceived racial profiling?
</a> Pandoraviruses come from a different family than previously known giant viruses, said researchers Jean-Michel Claverie, a professor at the school of medicine at Aix-Marseille University and Chantal Abergel, director of research at France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
</a> For the present study, researchers obtained dermal papillae from seven human donors and grew them in a tissue culture without adding any other growth factors. These cells were then transplanted on to the backs of mice. These mice had human skin grafted on their backs.
</a> Novartis has similarly distanced itself from any involvement. Media reports cite the company’s Japanese subsidiary as saying that no “intentional data manipulation has been confirmed”.
</a> 'The majority of patients being boarded are frail, elderly and cognitively impaired because most patients admitted acutely to hospital have these characteristics, and because such patients are likely to stay in hospital long enough to fall victim to boarding. In the wake of the Francis report, we need to be honest and open with patients and their families and explain the risks associated with unnecessary ward moves.'
</a> The Syrians are responsible for the actual physical demolition of the materials, while OPCW inspectors monitor the process and verify what is being destroyed, the official said. He declined to provide details or say where the work took place.
</a> Rivers has looked better before. 10-for-18 with no touchdowns and an interception doesn't exactly instill confidence. And just when it looked like Rivers and newly-acquired WR Seyi Ajirotutu were finding their rhythm, Ajirotutu goes down with an injury.
</a> McCollum and Barrett were charged with felony child endangerment. Barrett had a warrant for a previous endangerment charge. McCollum pleaded not guilty in Struthers municipal court on Tuesday to illegally selling and auctioning animals but did not enter a plea on the child endangerment charge, which will be heard on Friday, the court administrator said.
</a> U.S. export prices fell 0.5 percent in August, its sixthstraight monthly decline, while import prices remained flat.Expectations were for export prices to rise 0.1 percent andimport prices to climb 0.4 percent.
</a> Mercedes-AMG has three families of engine Aston could choose from -- an in-line four cylinder unit, a V8 and a V12 but Thursday's announcement specified the agreement was for the development of V8 powertrains, with no mention of whether the company would develop a new generation of V12 engines.
</a> “In fact, the opposite is often the case; employees are more likely to be noticed in a SME and rewarded with promotions and pay rises, whereas it’s easier to be overlooked at larger companies.”
</a> "This is the first real glimmer of hope for Nokia'sresurgence and the viability of the Windows ecosystem insmartphones - provided Nokia, Microsoft, and their operatorpartners can convince consumers that this experience is indeed aleap forward," said Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin."That will be the real hard work."
</a> Ahead of a British referendum on EU membership, Mr Barroso, the head of Brussels executive, which proposes all European legislation, admitted that sometimes the EU got it wrong but that critics must reform not leave.
</a> "We have previously provided USA Today with a plethora of data from a DEA Certified Lab indicating the absence of any amphetamine-like compound in Craze," Ullman said in an e-mail. "In light of USA Today's decision to ignore the data we have provided, we respectfully decline to comment for your story."
</a> * On Saturday it was announced that John Henry, the owner ofthe Boston Red Sox, would purchase the Boston Globe from the NewYork Times Co for $70 million in cash in a deal to closein a month or two. The sale continues a recent trend in thestruggling newspaper industry: newspapers being returned tolocal owners, often at bargain-basement prices. ()
</a> "I don't believe that this bill's blanket ban on semi-automatic rifles would reduce criminal activity or enhance public safety enough to warrant this infringement on gun owners' rights," Brown said in his veto message.
</a> "If I can, through my experience, shed light on the way out of a difficult situation I know many kids are experiencing, you know, just like I did when I was a teenager, I mean, that's huge," Monteith said on the Canadian TV show "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" in 2011.
</a> The second assumption in the University of California study,published last month, was a carbon emissions cut of 80 percentby 2050, consistent with limiting global warming to no more than2 degrees Celsius.
</a> In one of the most shocking recent cases, Zhang Ruqiong, a 44-year-old farmer from Hubei province, was crushed to death by a cement mixer during March protests against forced evictions. After a public outcry, the driver was charged with murder.
</a> In the next step, creditors of a 2007 syndicated loanamounting to 1.35 billion euros and maturing at the end ofSeptember next year, called "SynLoan I", will relinquish theirclaims in exchange for shares equating to around 77 percent ofthe company's stock.
</a> Putin sees hosting the Olympics as a chance to show the world what Russia can achieve more than two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed. The cost of hosting the Games is expected to rise to $50 billion dollars, much more than expected initially and more than any other Olympics.
</a> The Cadillac ATS, Mercedes C-class, and Volvo S-60 sedans won superior ratings. “It’s going to be years before truly driverless cars, autonomous vehicles are out in the road in any numbers,” says Rader. “But the building blocks for that technology are already out on the road.”
</a> Carol Giovannoni, 51, of St. Pete Beach, a barrier island community off Florida's west coast, is one of the people dreading October 1, when the law takes effect. Giovannoni said the annual flood insurance premium on her standard 1950s concrete-block, ranch-style home on the waterfront will jump from $1,700 to $15,000 over the next few years. She said her home has never flooded in 59 years.
</a> A U.N. commission of inquiry said in a 2010 report Pakistan failed to properly protect Bhutto or investigate how she died. At the time, the government blamed Pakistani Taliban militants. Musharraf has said he warned her of the danger she faced.
</a> Brzeski said he had originally been wary of the high-endmarket, because of the much bigger sums involved and thusgreater risk. But then in 2011 he financed the purchase of ahouse in West Hollywood for $1.425 million. Another $1.175million was spent on a total refurbishment.
</a> It only seemed like a matter of time before Bowers & Wilkins would introduce an over-the-ear model to round out its headphone line and now it's happened. Say hello to the P7, which looks similar to its P-series siblings but has bigger earcups and a higher price tag ($399.99).
</a> The financial results are interesting from a commoditymarkets perspective as they show that conditions in the firsthalf of 2013 were tough, but nowhere near as bad as the doom andgloom stories about falling Chinese demand growth would have ledan observer to believe.
</a> Prince Fielder grounded into a double play, but Hunter raced home to make it 2-0. Victor Martinez lined an opposite-field double to left center, keeping the inning going. Then Avila grounded an RBI single to right that went under first baseman Daric Barton's glove and got past a diving Eric Sogard.
</a> Gartner estimates that Apple's share of the global tabletmarket will slip to 47.2 percent in 2014, with Android-basedtablets just overtaking Apple's this year. The IT researchoutfit expects Microsoft tablets to grab 3.4 percent of themarket this year, double the 1.7 percent forecast for 2013.
</a> Her White House career started in January 1961 with JFK's inauguration. In an autobiography, she wrote that at the start of the Kennedy years "a woman reporter at the White House was generally assumed to be little more than a specialized society columnist and I did my share of 'Jackie watching,' keeping tabs on daughter Caroline and reporting on what the first lady wore to lunch on a given day."
</a> In one of the few economic indicators that continues to bepublished amid the federal government partial shutdown, datashowed the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless aidtouched a six-month high last week. A computer-related backlogof claims was processed and the partial government shutdown hitsome non-federal workers.
</a> After the experimental procedure, Kawamura and colleagues were able to recover eggs from five of their 27 patients. One woman went on to have a miscarriage, one did not get pregnant, and two more have not yet attempted pregnancy, Kawamura said in an email.
</a> Nobody knows the exact scale of the problem, but economists surveyed by CNNMoney estimate debt levels reached 14.1 trillion yuan to 19.7 trillion yuan by the end of last year, or roughly one-third of the country's gross domestic product.
</a> The bomb, in a Mitsubishi van filled with the equivalent of 2.5 tons of high explosive, was detonated by a still unidentified suicide bomber. The blast ripped through a busy street, wounding 226 other people and destroying a nearby hotel.
</a> Obama welcomed the 2012 World Series champions Monday at a South Lawn ceremony honoring their victory and their community service work. The Giants swept the World Series in October, defeating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in the final game after nearly being knocked out earlier in the playoffs.
</a> Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. scheduled hearings in October on defense claims that police violated Holmes' constitutional rights by questioning him without reading him his Miranda rights and after he asked for a lawyer.
</a> The latest outflows continued the hefty withdrawals frombond funds of the previous three months. Investors withdrew$138.4 billion from bond funds from the start of June throughFriday, according to TrimTabs. Outflows of $68.6 billion in Junewere the biggest for any month on TrimTabs' records.
</a> "We also believe that transparency in reporting also needsto be applied to the reporting of warehouse stock by company ineach LME warehouse location as well as the category of owner ofmetal placed on warrant," Mukhamedshin said.
</a> Rocker stylist Ray Brown exclaims, âJust like the rock stars!â when OâConnell miked him up for his interview. When she expressed surprised heâd never been interviewed, he told her with self-deprecation, âIn the â80s, I was just the guy making the clothes.â
</a> Florida East Coast Industries officials have said studiesshow that about 50 million people travel between Miami andOrlando every year, with 95 percent making the journey by car infour to five hours.
</a> The August 6, 2012 fire began as firefighters at the Richmond refinery were attempting to find the source of a leak in piping on the refinery's crude distillation unit, which does most of the refining of crude oil at the plant.
</a> White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was "disappointed" at the truncated guest list because "the president thought it was important to talk directly with the members who forced this economic crisis on the country."
</a> Maybe it was because she wasn't taught sex education in school because some states allow parents to opt-out or have to give consent to be taught. Guess her parents thought if she doesn't know she wont do it. Now that she's pregnant and her parents has disowned her and she can't get an abortion because she's embarrassed, ashamed and in a state that's pro-life. You better give her benefits you took all her rights away.
</a> Community Health Systems operates 135 hospitals in 29 states. In the new plan Akron General will convert to a for-profit hospital and operate as an affiliate of the Cleveland Clinic, but will retain its name.
</a> Often, it is a parking lot of strollers, a basic part of life for homeless families: these rolling mini-worlds are the single unchanging point of reference that many homeless kids know. The strollers proceed awkwardly through the security scanners, they queue up in a caravan going back and forth in lines in front of the admission desk, they occupy the middle of the floor of the building’s elevators while standees press themselves against the walls. Plastic bags of possessions drape the stroller handles, sippy cups of juice fill the cup-holders, Burger King paper crowns ride in the carrying racks beneath. Kids sleep peacefully while consultations and long waits go on around them. Some lean back and watch with a numbed, listless patience that suggests how much of their childhood has already been spent like this. Others hunch and squirm and scream their heads off.
</a> In a separate statement, Rocket Internet, the venturecapital company behind Zalando said it had transferred its stakein the company to Swedish investment firm Kinnevik,EFF and Access Industries. Kinnevik and EFF had previously heldpart or all of their stakes indirectly via Rocket Internet.
</a> Prosecutors contend he fudged the number of days he spent cleaning stables, shredding documents and scrubbing floors to pay for his brutal attack on singer Rihanna, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, in a rented Lamborghini in 2009.
</a> The company has worked on its plan for 18 months, lining upsuppliers in Canada, the United States and Australia. Senecalsaid A&W's beef costs will climb, but it has no plans to raiseburger prices. "I think we'll get lots more customers and selllots more burgers," she said.
</a> "I hit a home run off one of the toughest relief pitchers in baseball, a Hall of Fame guy, and if I did not use an illegal bat â which I didn't, it was proven I didn't â but suspected of using an illegal bat, we wouldn't be doing this," Brett said. "It would have been a July 24 game 30 years ago that nobody remembered."
</a> Also on Friday morning, about 25,000 riders were stuck on the Metro North's Hudson line during the morning commute after 10 of its cars derailed the night before. MTA officials said they are looking into heat as a potential cause.
</a> "The Jackson case stands to be another cause for recalibration in the industry because it impacts the same questions about scope of coverage and obligation to monitor behaviors of performers," said Eigen.
</a> Putin remains Russia's most popular politician, with a recent opinion poll showing his trust level at 45 percent, but his authority was dented by mass protests in Moscow and other big cities that began in late 2011 and carried on into 2012.
</a> "I think the Fed is very concerned about the potential for political dysfunction and to start withdrawing stimulus now might be to put something back in the bag that they may need in literally a couple of weeks," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
</a> â Obama yields. Many House Republicans predict the president will give ground to avoid a government default. They point to his past concessions, such as agreeing to raise income taxes only on households earning $450,000 or more, rather than the $250,000 cutoff he had campaigned for.
</a> After the proposal was published, Marquardt said, Perry County officials showed the desire to do something proactive to protect the fish, and the Perry County Community Conservation Plan was created. The conservation plan was to be used as a means to potentially exclude a critical habitat designation, she said. The first draft of the plan was submitted in April.
</a> “Both the dotcom bubble and 2007 made people want to put some money into gold. It’s a non-income producing asset so you have to be sensible. You still need to have property and shares and cash. But 10pc into gold is wise, and of that I’d say two thirds of that should be in bullion, and one third collectable coins where it’s not as volatile. People didn’t know how to buy gold. What we’ve done is make it accessible.”
</a> The unionâs super PACâs latest filings show $370,000 in payments to an unknown consulting firm that shared an address with the Advance Group, a prominent Democratic firm that was working directly with numerous UFT-endorsed candidates.
</a> Miami-Dade Fire Rescue reports that the exposed drum was found Thursday near a dismantled airplane at Opa-locka Executive Airport. A hazmat team from Miami International Airport responded to assess the situation, as well as a possible spill.
</a> "Month-end rebalancing and hedging activity are havingenough impact to move the dollar in an environment of limitedvolume," said Sebastien Galy, foreign exchange strategist atSociete Generale in New York.
</a> After an argument from the Boston manager, the umpires conferred and changed the call to safe at second and Kozma was charged with an error. With the bags loaded, Napoli ripped a bases-clearing double to left-center for a 3-0 lead.
</a> "The revenue and device shipment numbers are pretty surprising given how weak it is," said UBS analyst Amitabh Passi. "I think many of us were expecting a pretty difficult quarter, but this is much worse than we anticipated."
</a> Chief Executive Steve Chazen has spoken openly since Aprilabout a potential deal for its Middle East and North Africaassets, which run across countries from Libya to Iraq to Yemen.Analysts briefed by the company have said its Californiaoperations could be spun out eventually.
</a> Last year Apple also paid about $350 million for AuthenTec,a key player in fingerprint sensors and until its purchase asupplier to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd,Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, Lenovo Group Ltd and Fujitsu.
</a> The apparent lack of support for independence, gauged by conversations with borderers, suggests Scots here will not be swayed by old rivalries - something that the "Yes" campaign has tried to capitalize on.
</a> "People continue to die and peaceful civilians suffer every day in Syria," he told the U.N. General Assembly. "Virtually the only possibility today to put an end to this turmoil is to move from a deadlock to the process of political settlement of the Syrian crisis."
</a> The company is the world's largest maker of smartphones, computer memory chips and TVs. Smartphone sales accounted for about two-thirds of its overall profit in recent years, while demand for televisions and personal computers remained tepid.
</a> "There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there," said Jose Coleman, executive vice president of the Government Development Bank. "Bankruptcy is completely out of the question concerning Puerto Rico."
</a> A change in their election direction occurred too late in my term. President Obama has enough time to make something out of this. So I think they should keep the door open. This is– but the short answer to your question is, we should keep working for the best and preparing for the worst.
</a> Next guy up was Robinson Cano of the Yankees. Harvey hit him just above the knee. And in that moment, things were looking bad in baseball on both sides of town, Harvey with two guys on, nobody out, Cano limping out of the 2013 All-Star Game.
</a> To examine the issue, Sarrel and colleagues undertook a study to calculate the number of premature deaths due to estrogen avoidance by hysterectomized women 50 to 59 since the WHI ended. For a point estimate, they used the 2011 WHI publication, showing a 13/10,000/yr increased mortality in that subgroup of women assigned to placebo.
</a> The moral of the story is that no one enjoys watching two awful teams, whether itâs Jacksonville-St. Louis or the Jetsâ intrasquad scrimmage. Therefore, I fully understand if Stoke City vs. Norwich City isnât your cup of tea. But you throw Manchester United in against one of those EPL bottom feeders and it should pique your interest.
</a> Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.1 percent to 5,111.30 as traders waited for the Reserve Bank of Australia's monthly interest rate decision on Tuesday and the release of employment figures for July on Thursday. South Korea's Kospi fell 0.4 percent to 1,916.22.
</a> She's a judge on "America's Got Talent," but it looks like Heidi Klum has a few stand-out moves herself. The German supermodel twirls by Rockefeller Center for a visit on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Sept. 4, 2013.
</a> Still, the kajillion dollar question remains: What next? Apple still hasn't dropped a new product line since 2010, though rumors continue to swirl about an iWatch or an iTV. On the conference call following the report, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and CEO Tim Cook brushed off specific questions about plans to unveil future products.
</a> The official Xinhua news agency said in an editorial late last month that foreign carmakers were reaping exorbitant profits selling imported luxury cars in China and should face an anti-trust investigation.
</a> The Los Angeles centre, a converted 100-year-old Spanish-style church which became the movement’s world headquarters in 1998, was convenient for the celebrity enclaves of Beverly Hills and Malibu, and soon more stellar names, among them Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Taylor, Britney Spears and Demi Moore, were following Madonna to Berg’s door, drawn by his central philosophy: that by suppressing their enormous egos and “sharing” their assets, wealthy superstars like them could achieve inner peace and — every actor’s dream — immortality.
</a> There may be other tutoring opportunities as well that are not immediately apparent. The University of Rhode Island had a center that exclusively catered to the academic needs of minority students. The center kept a record of potential tutors and the subjects they were comfortable teaching.
</a> Those of you that are coordinated enough to hold your phone in one hand, and take care of business with the other hand, even washing your single soiled hand whilst holding your phone in the other: that is just gross and weird. Stop it.
</a> The speech was an unusual plea from a president who had risked his and his nation’s credibility on whether he could get Congress to support him, even as he has put off the possibility of a military strike for the moment and has maintained that as commander in chief he doesn’t need congressional approval to launch one in any case.
</a> The agency has blamed the payments, more than $5 billion a year as mandated by Congress to prefund the Postal Service's future retirees' healthcare, for contributing to annual losses of billions of dollars.
</a> The reef sliced a 70-meter-long (230-foot) gash in the hull. Seawater rushed in, causing the ship to rapidly lean to one side until it capsized, then drifted to a rocky stretch of seabed just outside the island's tiny port.
</a> "Today's announcement fails to mention the issue patients really care about â nurses on hospital wards," he said. "Hospitals are running without enough staff, yet thousands of nursing jobs have been axed on David Cameron's watch. It's time he got a grip.'
</a> A. Nah, I don't have a beef about the standard. Look I conscientiously try to lead those 200 reporters who follow me around to see some of the issues they need to see. In the midst of this entire craziness I want to let them meet a group of women in Corona who have come out against violence. Let them see a guy in Tottenville, Staten Island whose house was wrecked in Sandy who got $150 from an insurance company. I understand that people that are following the other part of my campaign are just doing their jobs. But they are not going to decide who wins this election. They accuse me of turning this campaign into a media circus, but it is the media that dwells on this aspect of my personal life and then accuses me of making a circus. Cover the real issues I address every day and there will be no circus.
</a> "There's great value in pulling together data about users," says Alibaba's Zeng. "We have a unique understanding of how to leverage the power of technology to really push economic transformation in China."
</a> "Think I just ran over a guy," one soldier can be heard saying in the audio, followed by laughter. At another point in the audio clip, the crew of the Apache helicopter is alerted that a child had been hurt in the raid.
</a> ** The British government said it would offer shares instate-owned Royal Mail at between 260 pence and 330 pence eachin its London listing, valuing the company at as much as 3.3billion pounds ($5.28 billion). The government plans to sellbetween 40.1 percent and 52.2 percent of near 500-year-old RoyalMail, which is expected to make its market debut on Oct 11. Ithas also agreed to give away 10 percent of the company's sharesfor free to staff.
</a> A Home Office spokesperson said: "We recognise the importance of answering all FOI requests accurately and within time limits. We have seen a significant increase in the number of FOI requests recently â up 20 per cent during the last 12 months â which has impacted on how quickly we have been able to respond.Â
</a> WASHINGTON â The Sri Lanka Army has said it will vacate camps in the countryâs northern Jaffna Peninsula before crucial provincial elections in September. Despite the international publicity the move has attracted, Jaffnaâs residents say there is no significant downtick in overall levels of militarization.
</a> "This is the kind of feature that we are well-suited to do," said Bezos, previewing the new tablets to reporters at Amazon's Seattle headquarters on Tuesday. "Many of the things we've done marry together high-tech with heavy lifting. This is one of those things."
</a> Don't see the Microsoft touches? Erickson notes that the logo takes inspiration from the bottom right of the Microsoft flag "echoing its role as a platform of information for the company." He notes that the small angular cut on the top of the âbâ mirrors the angle on the cut of the âtâ in the Microsoft logo as well.
</a> The statutory trust formed by oil and gas producer PacificCoast Energy Co LP (PCEC) said on Wednesday it would offer 13.5million trust units in an underwritten public offering in PCEC'sbid to repay a portion of its debt.
</a> Time Warner Cable President Rob Marcus said in April he believed Google Fiber "passed" only 4,000 homes in Kansas City at the time. "The number of defections we've seen is de minimis at this point," Marcus said.
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</a> The higher level of markdowns and lower-than-expected sales deepened Penney's net loss in the quarter to $586 million, or $2.66 per share, from $147 million, or 67 cents per share a year earlier. Overall sales fell 11.9 percent to $2.66 billion.
</a> Measures to strike enemy missile facilities include attacksby aircraft or missiles and sending soldiers directly to thesite, the Defence Ministry official said, but he added it wastoo early to discuss specific steps.
</a> A man facing child pornography charges may reportedly walk free after a New York judge threw out more than 100 pornographic videos seized from his home computer because the search warrant listed the wrong address.
</a> Coakley was defeated by then-little known GOP state senator Scott Brown for the seat held for decades by liberal icon Edward Kennedy, who died in office. President Obama campaigned for Coakley, whose campaign included a much-derided gaffe in which she suggested former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling was a New York Yankees fan.
</a> Shares of Tesla Motors Inc jumped 13.5 percent to$152.30 a day after the electric car maker posted an unexpectedquarterly profit. The stock has been a major momentum favoritethis year, up almost 350 percent in 2013.
</a> Unfortunately for investors, his seemingly boundless energy â which landed him in hospital after he reportedly damaged his vocal cords shouting âWindows! Windows!â at a sales meeting in Japan â did nothing for Microsoft, as scrappy Silicon Valley rivals such as Apple and Google colonised the market in new technologies.
</a> Lamar Odom, welcomed into the family with open arms when he married Khloe in September 2009, has been ousted from the mansion the couple share and has been spending his nights wandering around downtown Los Angeles allegedly in search of his next hit. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI last month, and is looking drawn and gaunt. As a free agent now, it appears Odomâs basketball career is headed for the skids â and fans fear heâs headed for Skid Row.
</a> This is just a beginning, and no one knows what further obstacles a final agreement may present. But it's an impressive beginning — and it shows that Kerry is made of much tougher stuff than his detractors tried to make out.
</a> John Mayer infused folk-rooted songs such as âQueen of Californiaâ and âWildfireâ with a guitar heroâs finesse. In pieces like âSlow Dancing in a Burning Roomâ and âGravity,â he ignited his woodsy riffs with quicksilver leads. Mayer also offered a cover of âGoing Down the Road Feelinâ Bad,â which he credited to the Grateful Dead. While that band famously covered the piece, itâs of traditional origin and has been performed by countless musicians for decades.
</a> With shock from that disaster still raw, the lower half of the Dodger order taunted St. Louis starter Joe Kelly in the bottom of the second. Gonzalez led off with a single, moved to second on Yasiel Puigâs one-out hit and scored the gameâs first run when Juan Uribe drove him in.
</a> "A range of offences and penalties already exist to tackle those drivers who do not pay proper attention to the road, including careless driving which will become a fixed penalty offence later this year."
</a> There is an agreement. They have a bill that will pass the House, pass the Senate, and be signed by the President. But the Speaker will not bring the bill to a vote. That is not gridlock. That is one guy.
</a> Years later, Elway said, âI wanted to click my heels together, and say, âAuntie Em, bring me home. You can have your signing bonus back, I donât want to stare at Jack Lambert spitting and drooling at me anymore. What the hell have I gotten myself into?ââ
</a> "You know what they do in San Francisco? Some of the gay community there, they want to get people. So, if they've got the stuff, they'll have a ring. You shake hands and the ring's got a little thing where you cut your finger," Robertson told the audience. "Really. I mean it's that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder."
</a> House Democrats are likely to oppose the plan, putting pressure on House GOP leaders to rely solely on their own members to pass it. "GOP's latest plan is designed to torpedo the bipartisan (Senate) solution," tweeted Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Budget Committee. "Plan is not only reckless, it's tantamount to default."
</a> On 18 July 2013 , you asked me to provide an unclassified assessment of options for the potential use of U.S. military force in the Syrian conflict. It offers my independent judgment with as much openness as this classification allows. I am mindful that deliberations are ongoing within our government over the further role of the United States in this complex sectarian war. The decision over whether to introduce military force is a political one that our Nation entrusts to its civilian leaders. I also understand that you deserve my best military advice on how military force could be used in order to decide whether it should be used.
</a> Fisher said early signs suggested households and businesses are "getting the message" on the policy. Markets may need more persuading, although the bank doesn't want to "get into a great to and fro" with them, he said.
</a> Representatives of the Association of Professional FlightAttendants, the Allied Pilots Association and US Airline PilotsAssociation and the Transport Workers Union also met onWednesday with William Baer, the head of the JusticeDepartment's Antitrust Division, to express displeasure over thelawsuit, a union source said.
</a> The UAW trust, a type known as a voluntary employeebeneficiary association, or VEBA, was created in 2007 as a wayfor General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Chryslerto offload their obligation to pay retiree healthcare benefits.
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</a> UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Sri Lanka this week for a seven-day visit to review progress on demilitarization, the course of NPC elections and other human rights issues. She will report back to the UNHRC in September.
</a> That shaft allowed food and water to reach the men while rescuers drilled a bigger escape hole. Finally, in an operation that ended in the early hours of Oct. 13, the miners were hauled up one by one in a cage through 2,000 feet (600 meters) of rock.
</a> The study, conducted by Brigham Young University in Utah, found that when participants texted a lie, it took on average 10 percent longer to compose the message. A group of over 100 students from two US universities were asked to have text-based conversations with a specially written computer program. The program asked each participant 30 questions and the subjects were instructed to lie in roughly 50 percent of their responses. As well as taking longer to compose, the researchers found that those messages that were less than accurate were also more edited and shorter than their truthful counterparts.
</a> Through the long day's journey into night, form held except for 29-year-old, 128th-ranked American Rajeev Ram's straight-sets upset of No. 16 seed Fabio Fognini of Italy. The expected results included Murray's 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 victory over France's 49th-ranked Michael Llodra.
</a> This shoot-from-the-hip approach served HTC well when themarket was growing fast. Shortening the time to market meant HTCcould alter plans at the last minute to take advantage of newor cheaper parts. But, as the market has matured, making itharder for handset makers to differentiate their products, theapproach has left HTC vulnerable. Locking in the supply of moreadvanced components and materials to make products stand outrequires more foresight and planning than HTC currently allows,former executives say.
</a> Pratt Institute student Molly Glover, a huge âGame of Thronesâ fan, recruited seven friends from school to form a human Iron Throne from the HBO fantasy series. The 20-year-old budding costume designer started in August and made the costume out of fabric and spray-painted pool noodles.
</a> "I came here to win, to retain my title," the 24-year-old told BBC Sport. "I wasn't bothered about the time. I just wanted to get around and secure my place. I'm going to Moscow."
</a> The recent surge in violence comes amid heightened tensions between Iraq's Sunni and Shia communities, and claims by the Sunnis that they are being marginalised by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's Shia-led government.
</a> "It will be critical in the best sense of that word," he told the BBC News website. "All our copies are dog-eared and scribbled and dense with marginalia and our notebooks are full. We are getting ready."
</a> That all began to change on Sept. 3, 2003, when agents raided BALCO and began uncovering Conte's scheme to supply THG, a "designer steroid" Conte's athletes could use without fear of detection. Commissioner Bud Selig hired former Sen. George Mitchell to produce a report that exposed widespread doping and included the recommendation that Selig establish a Department of Investigations, and that outfit has proven aggressive in confronting the shadowy figures on the margin of the sport.
</a> Late-inning drama at Target Field, Rangers Ballpark and Yankee Stadium left the AL wild-card chase bunched going into the final weekend. A tangled trio of NL Central teams took the night off. With three days left in the regular season, a quick look at baseball’s playoff picture:
</a> On Monday, the staff of the conservative magazine National Review launched a petition drive directed at Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, arguing that Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, should be tried as an enemy combatant for what they consider "an Act of Terror."
</a> I used to compare myself to the guys but I don’t anymore. They are always going to be physically stronger. Instead, I try to look at what I have and how I can use it to make my team stronger. Being flexible and small can be an advantage. I was once able to help a lady who was trapped in her loft because I was small enough to get in and crawl behind her.
</a> To be clear Rhinehart does recommend having two of these a day so 80 X 2 = 160. 160g of protein a day is quite fine, and heads up, you’re allowed to have as much as you like. Yes you may not get everything you need from this drink, and some of what you do get may be assembled in a shoddy fashion but Soylent is immensely better than the typical diet consumed around the globe. I expect the formula to change as the newly formed company grows. I expect spinoffs and different forms/formulas to arise in order to fit many different body types and needs.
</a> The Z30 is powered by a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. It's certainly not the latest and greatest (i.e. the Snapdragon 800) in the market, but the handset was smooth and animations were fluid when I was trying it out.
</a> The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Wednesday also recorded more than 800 aftershocks, including a 5.1-magnitude that greeted President Aquino when he arrived in Tagbilaran City.
</a> A new meta-analysis from New Zealand of more than 4,000 healthy adults concludes that supplements fail to increase the density of bone at the hip, spine, forearm, or in the body as a whole. Thousands of women around the world take supplements which are either prescribed by their doctor for osteoporosis or bought over the counter as 'bone insurance'.
</a> Residents of southern Beirut say Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, had been on high alert and stepped up security in the area after warnings from Syrian rebels of possible retaliation for the group's support for President Bashar al-Assad.
</a> "In the last four months, very significant mistakes havebeen made and people feel there is no economic leadership," saidone senior government official, speaking on condition ofanonymity. "This is going to frighten potential investors."
</a> âHe wants all the senior citizens and African-Americans out,â said Marquetta Bell, a disabled 45-year-old Persian Gulf War vet who has lived there for over a decade. âHeâs only moving in young students ... and making them pay triple the rent.â
</a> On graduating from Wayne University, Detroit (now Wayne State University) with a degree in English in 1942, Helen Thomas landed a job as a copy girl, fetching coffee and doughnuts for editors at the now-defunct Washington Daily News. United Press — later United Press International — took her on to write local news stories for its radio wire service, although her assignments were initially restricted to women’s news, society paragraphs and celebrity profiles.
</a> Asked if he planned to apologize to Mayweather for the scoring discrepancy, Brady said: "I'll be talking to Floyd. I know Floyd and his people and I'll be talking to them in due time. Any conversation that we have will be between he and I."
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</a> As the industry grows and progresses, factories currently relying on outdated energy generation technologies like coal will hopefully turn to alternative energy like solar itself to power their operations. One of the reason coal remains persistent in the solar industry is because very high temperatures are required for the processing of some materials. That may be about to change thanks to the development of products that don't rely on silicon, which has a notoriously high melting point.
</a> Faurecia did not disclose details of the venture, which aimsto begin production at the end of 2013 and rehire other workersfrom the discontinued plant as the workforce increases to 180 bythe end of 2016.
</a> Taylor Swift may be looking cuper casual the last few days and generally just sporting work out gear but she's had a classic tote on her arm to add a touch of luxury to her otherwise laid back look.
</a> "I think we're all a little bit anxious to see how he looks physically and how he's moving," Girardi said. "I've talked to people that have seen him and said he ran good yesterday. ... I am anxious to see. He hasn't played in a while and he's almost 38. You kind of want to see what you've got."
</a> "But that's not the way people are using computers. Even if it were, it's no excuse to bring all my passwords to one place and reveal them. I don't expect computers to work that way - nobody does."
</a> Rudd founded Williams Plc in 1982, which was one of thelargest industrial holding companies in the UK until itsdemerger in November 2000, creating Chubb Plc and Kidde Plc. Heis also non-executive chairman of technology company InvensysPlc.
</a> âItâs a strange thing,â the former Peopleâs Sexiest Man Alive says of Lively. âI understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But itâs just tough and almost emotionally violent â for anyone, I think â to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.â
</a> When you're out not like eighty pounds right -- on the basis that -- -- -- down as I don't I think at least as it's more -- it's it's not a huge amount of financially turning -- around a person my size you know in huge amount of heat.
</a> But with everyone now set to refocus on the matters at hand, Villas-Boas believes there are plenty of reasons to be positive following two wins from the first three Premier League matches and qualification for the group stages of the Europa League.
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</a> The phase III clinical trial of more than 15 000 infants and young children in Africa found that the vaccine called RTS,S continued to protect the youngsters from malaria for up to 18 months after vaccination. The ongoing trial of the RTS,S vaccine is being conducted by 11 research centres in seven African countries, together with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and drug maker GlaxoSmithKline.
</a> Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said Israel apparently used to run part of its Iranian spy network out of Turkey, giving Turkish secret services the opportunity to monitor their movements. The paper quoted U.S. officials as saying Israel believed the Turks would never turn on the Jewish state after years of cooperation.
</a> If the pilots are to be given a low altitude warning with so little time to respond, why wasn’t the airliner designed to modify the flight path to prevent a crash unless overridden manually? Is Airbus inferior to Boeing in its electronics?
</a> The rise from the 330p offer price was one of the biggest first day jumps in the history of UK privatisations and, as investors rushed to cash in, stockbrokers’ systems went into meltdown.
</a> "Michigan's failure to intervene on Detroit's behalf could result in higher interest rates for other municipalities across the state, as well as potential downgrades as the rating agencies assess... the implications of the state's actions (or lack thereof)," they said.
</a> The Giants, at this point, care only about that next day. Coughlin said his Wednesday theme was âletâs take care of this moment . . . which is the only moment that we can control,â and âyou canât do anything about yesterday.â
</a> Hedlund complained to superiors April 29 that the pursuit endangered public safety, noting that it lasted for several miles and the vehicles involved had driven past a school bus. He said he believed speeding by the governor's driver was common because of pressure to meet his busy schedule, and the state's chief executive shouldn't be above the law.
</a> Bill Gates isn't coming back to Microsoft. He has said so a million times, and â given that he's now doing something much better for the world â it wouldn't be a net positive for humanity. So I'll waste just a single paragraph explaining why he'd be perfect.
</a> DALLAS, Sept 30(Reuters) - Seven women and three men were chosen Monday as jurors in the civil trial of Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, who faces charges of insider trading in shares of a little-known Internet search company.
</a> The House and Senate voted late Wednesday night to end the shutdown that began when Republicans tried unsuccessfully to use must-pass funding legislation to derail the presidentâs landmark health care law.
</a> Obama praised as “patriots” the alleged targets of the gunman, the military and civilian personnel who work at the government facility, and offered his thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims.
</a> "The findings from (this trial) suggest that intensive weight loss may have both anti-inflammatory and biomechanical benefits; when combining weight loss with exercise, patients can safely achieve a mean long-term weight loss of more than 10 percent, with an associated improvement in symptoms greater than with either intervention alone," the authors wrote.
</a> The ECB gathers data on lenders' branch networks across theEU, and the data Reuters reviewed included the 27 EU memberstates at the end of 2012. Croatia has since become the 28thmember. ECB data can differ from statistics from nationalbanking groups, depending on criteria for inclusion.
</a> Inquiring minds now want to see the 2010 and 2011 tax returns that James is keeping secret, along with the names of the charitable causes to which she purportedly donated. The information will reveal whether James upheld her word â and went even further by claiming no tax benefit for her generosity, whether she spun a falsehood, or whether she made some donations and then accepted undeserved credit for giving more.
</a> The assault rifle was one of thousands of firearms up for grabs on the site, as well as its parent site, Facebook, where guns are also sold â many of them assault weapons, according to The Daily Beast.
</a> "The stomach's nerve response does not return to normal upon return to a normal diet. This means you would need to eat more food before you felt the same degree of fullness as a healthy individual."
</a> The researchers reported that 96% of the 47 patients had underlying comorbid medical disorders, including 68% with diabetes, 34% with hypertension, 28% with chronic cardiac disease, and 49% with chronic renal disease.
</a> Reuters reported on Sept. 26 that the discovery, centered onthe SEAL-11 offshore exploration block, likely holds more than 1billion barrels of oil and that the region will soon becomeBrazil's biggest new oil frontier.
</a> "We need to set out some of the parameters and what I'm saying to those who want to unite our people around remembrance (is) 'well what else can we do? What else can we do that maybe helps to heal the hurt over remembrance and brings our people together?'
</a> She does manage to retain a regal bearing and a posh accent. But for the most part, Jasmine, played by Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett, has lost everything including her mind, thanks to her husband's financial and marital misdeeds and her own hapless ways.
</a> Egypt this week introduced visa requirements for Syrians after local media accused Syrian Islamists of joining deadly clashes between Mursi's supporters and the army who had ousted him. They previously only needed a passport to enter Egypt.
</a> A White House spokeswoman referred all questions about the death toll numbers - including a request for comment on whether controversy about the numbers was undermining support on Capitol Hill for administration policy - to intelligence agency spokespeople.
</a> Equity markets took a leg down on Friday after St. LouisFederal Reserve President James Bullard told Bloombergtelevision that a slowing of asset-purchases in October waspossible depending on incoming data.
</a> "At current import prices, we are talking about around $14billion of coal imports, which is likely to go up to $25 billionby 2016/17," said Rahool Panandiker, principal at The BostonConsulting Group. "In this context, when there is a focus onreducing the current account deficit to $70 billion, every bitof increased coal production contributes to decreasing the CAD."
</a> In one such report, "a Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy contacted three adult Asian males who were taking photos of Folsom Dam. They were evasive when the deputy asked them for identification and said their passports were in their vehicle."
</a> ELFA's leasing and finance index measures the volume ofcommercial equipment financed in the United States. It isdesigned to complement the U.S. Commerce Department's durablegoods orders report, which it typically precedes by a few days.
</a> The beauty of Australia's four-week campaign is that it's just like America's, only 35 months shorter. In one short month, the Australians will experience all the joy Americans get watching major candidates stumble through clumsy pratfalls and commit top-quality verbal gaffes, while wasting much less time. To prove his point, Oliver found an Australian Rick Perry, Anthony Weiner, and even a "turbo" Sarah Palin named Stephanie Bannister.
</a> We have to hand it to Nicki Minaj -- the girl knows all her best angles. The bleach blond rapper may have been shooting the music video for her new single "High School," but that didn't stop her from going for a decidedly more grown-up look as she took the plunge in a shocking neon yellow swimsuit that barely managed to cover up her ample assets. The 30-year-old struck one sexy pose after another as she lounged poolside, later tweeting out the sizzling snapshots originally posted to Twitter by video producer Grizz Lee.
</a> Prof Dunbar said that Jane Austen, whose works of romantic fiction included Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, realised that people were extremely good at assessing where they were in the "mating market" and pitching their demands accordingly.
</a> It’s an interesting period of Salinger history, to be sure. Not only did the writer carry six chapters of what would be “The Catcher in the Rye” which storming the beaches of Normandy, he continued working on his book throughout the end of the war.
</a> In addition, prison systems now cost states more than $50 billion annually, up from $11 million in the 1980s, according to Right on Crime, which has support from such conservative leaders as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese and tax reformist Grover Norquist.
</a> Jeter instead had a âwalk-upâ song when he came to the plate in the first inning. The Stadium sound system blared a snippet of Eminemâs âSquare Dance,â with the lyrics:âPeople! It feels so good to be back.â It was obviously a choreographed change.
</a> Ronald Coase passed away the other day. He won the Nobel Prize in economics for unraveling why we need corporations and why we don't need government. But his work may point to ways that the latter can be more like the former.
</a> The U.S.-Russia deal averted punitive U.S. military action against Assad’s government, which Washington blamed for the August attack. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, blamed anti-government rebels for the attack.
</a> And while these banks may be solvent and profitable today, crucial feedback has been missed, and investors have been encouraged to invest not with their heads but based on faith in the government's willingness to bail out banks and create easy conditions for them, no matter the cost to the rest of the economy.
</a> Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing 616,000 people per year, according to the CDC. And, unlike cancer, it seems to affect shorter people more than their taller counterparts.
</a> Such floats remain rare in Europe, with only a couple of other small biotech IPOs this year - French and Swedish cancer specialists Erytech Pharma and Immunicum. For the most part, venture capital remains the main funding source.
</a> "As one of Alibaba's largest shareholders, Yahoo believesthat management's efforts reflect the desire to govern thecompany for long-term success while also balancing the rights ofshareholders," Jacqueline Reses, chief development officer ofYahoo and a member of Alibaba's board of directors, said in astatement.
</a> The classes tend to share much in common with a Marine exercise regimen called the Daily 7, which includes burpees (jumping from a squat position), mountain climbers (one-legged push-ups coupled with ab-crushing knee lifts), straddle hops (known to civilians as jumping jacks), pull-ups and rope climbing, among other high-pressure activities.
</a> The inquiries, most of them started in recent months, seekto determine whether companies controlled by EBX disclosedaccurate operational and financial data in a timely manner tominority shareholders, said the source, who declined to be namedbecause of the delicacy of the matter. The inquiries are notformal investigations, which would follow only if there iscredible evidence of irregularities.
</a> Following criticism, the draft rules attempt to avoidimposing liability should the benchmark prove misleading,although lobbyists said that a proposal that participants sign acode of conduct could scare some off.
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</a> Progress 52's express trip will bring it to the space in station in just six hours, docking after only four orbits of the planet — a shorter journey that's been adopted recently to save vehicles time on a trip that used to take multiple days.
</a> T. Rowe Price Group Inc, Highfields Capital Management, Pzena Investment Management and Yacktman Asset Management have previously voiced opposition to the deal. T. Rowe Price, which owns roughly 4 percent of Dell's stock, reiterated its opposition on Thursday to the deal.
</a> "He has driven well all year," said the 28-year-old. "I've just looked at his points and he has had second, first, second, first all year. He's done the perfect job and he deserves it."
</a> "I don't have a scheduling announcement for you today, but obviously this is not a positive development. And we have a wide range of interests with the Russians, and we are evaluating the utility of a summit," Carney said.
</a> As the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the Quebecprovincial police try to piece together what caused theaccident, they have focused on whether enough hand brakes hadbeen set. The train's air brakes had failed when a locomotivewas shut down after a small fire broke out in its engines, butthe hand brakes should have held the train in place.
</a> "We've seen several thousands sign up to our various membership packages," says Paul Golding, who co-launched Cirrus Legacy - a service which allows you to record login details for all your online accounts and leave instructions to a nominated guardian - just a year ago.
</a> Has already impressed in Swanseaâs Europa League campaign. The Ivory Coast striker had a trial at Liverpool aged 18 but began his European career at Sparta Prague before moving to the Netherlands two seasons ago. Top-scored in Eredivisie last season with 31 goals as Arnhem came fourth â their best league finish in 15 years
</a> Yet market worries about the transition need to be kept inperspective. Even if growth slows to 5 percent a year by 2030,Schellekens with the World Bank said China will still be addingoutput every year equal to the size of the South Korean economy.
</a> Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the presiding officer, banged the gavel to restore order several times, but did not deter Reidy, who screamed "You cannot serve two masters" as she was removed from the floor.
</a> âThe Affordable Care Act will have an impact on us, as well as most other school districts,â said Rich Hanson, the superintendent of Le Sueur-Henderson schools, which employs roughly 280 individuals. âAs an employer with more than 50 employees, we will need to offer health insurance to employees we have not offered to in the past.â
</a> Some in the tech community are starting to speak out about the dearth of women in the industry, and are calling on their colleagues to help squelch sexist attitudes in the field. Yahoo CEO and former Google exec Marissa Mayer lamented a few years back that the industry presents itself as almost uniformly male, immediately turning many women off to the field in the process.
</a> Consumers tempered their optimism last month, causing one popular consumer sentiment measure to fall off its recent highs. The latest reading of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell from June's 85.1 to 80.0 in July. That's the index's lowest level since April and comes down from June's six-year high.
</a> First-half core earnings before interest, tax, depreciationand amortisation (EBITDA) rose 7.2 percent to 1.2 billion euros($1.6 billion) even as sales fell 1.7 percent to 7.2 billion,the group said on Wednesday.
</a> Bernabe, who has been at the helm of the group since 2008,was considering proposing to the board meeting on Thursday acapital increase of up to 5 billion euros ($6.8 billion) to cutdebt and fund badly needed investments, two sources close to thematter said earlier on Friday.
</a> The copayment is the flat fee ($20, for example) you pay each time you access care, such as visiting the doctor. "Those little things can add up depending on how you use services," said Pisano. For instance, copayments can multiply quickly if you take several medications prescribed by various specialists who all require a visit to the doctor's office to renew a prescription.
</a> Helium remains liquid at extremely low temperatures, making it ideal for cooling superconducting magnets used in electronics manufacturing and in magnetic resonance imaging machines which help to diagnose diseases.
</a> Brady absorbed a blow when his offensive lineman, Nate Solder, was pushed into him by defensive lineman Adrian Clayborn, who performed a bulrush on the play. Brady sat out one repetition, but then finished the drill with three more passes. Brady then huddled with coach Bill Belichick, offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and trainer Jim Whelan. It was determined that Brady would sit out the remainder of practice and have an MRI taken. Brady jogged off the field under his own power.
</a> Their decision wonât only be based on finances, either. Itâll be based at least in part on how sure they are that Randle can fill that role. That means theyâll need to see more of those long touchdown catches, and less of those costly mistakes.
</a> Gao Feng, head of the economic crimes investigation unit at China's Ministry of Public Security, said this week similar money transfers to those seen at GSK had been made by other multinational pharmaceutical companies in China.
</a> The LME was set up 135 years ago to provide a venue fortrade conducted for centuries among metal merchants in theBritish capital. Before it was set up, traders met in Londoncoffee houses with a circle drawn on the floor in chalk.
</a> Munoz said the labor minister, Rafael Pardo Rueda, wouldtake part in the talks for a second day on Tuesday, underscoringthe high stakes of a strike for the government. A month-longstoppage at rival miner Cerrejon in February was one factorbehind slower growth in the first three months of the year.
</a> Biologist Gong Chen of Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved with the research, called it "a remarkable achievement," adding, "it opens the door for many studies on the human brain using human neurons."
</a> The firm said it would continue to target underlyingearnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation(EBITDA) of 310 million pounds for 2013-14, before a charge forbonus share schemes, as it focuses on integrating recentacquisitions in the UK, Austria and the Baltic region.
</a> The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 30.47points, or 0.20 percent, to 15,491.50. The Standard & Poor's 500Index fell 1.78 points, or 0.11 percent, to 1,683.55. TheNasdaq Composite Index added 11.89 points, or 0.33percent, to 3,611.03.
</a> But John Paul I died after just 33 days in office, opening the way to the election of John Paul II, an enormously popular figure yet one who began a sharp tack back toward doctrinal orthodoxy and conservatism.
</a> "This is where we draw the line. Oil companies are standing on the doorstep of one of the world's most precious and fragile places, but we will not rest until Virunga is safe from this potential environmental disaster," said Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of WWF International. "Virunga has snow fields and lava fields, but it should not have oil fields."
</a> In May, Mr Obama described the "future of terrorism" as one of recurrent plots by a dangerous but less capable al-Qaeda and its affiliates and sympathisers against US interests and diplomatic facilities around the world. That future is happening now across the Middle East.
</a> The latest Forbes findings - released on Wednesday morning - show that the NFL's 32 teams are worth on average $1.17 billion, an increase of 5% over last year. And the NFL franchises easily out kick their soccer counterparts as the average value of the world's top 20 soccer teams is $968 million.
</a> The CFTC, once a sleepy agency overseeing agriculturefutures, took on a vastly increased role after the financialcrisis. Under Meister, the CFTC filed a record number of actionsagainst the financial industry.
</a> Bei Bei Shuai, 36, pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness and was sentenced to time served, which was 178 days, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Charges of murder and feticide were dropped.
</a> 4. Transfer the fish mixture into a small baking dish. Scoop the flesh out of the sweet potato, mash with a fork, and top the fish mixture with it. Place the baking dish at the top of a hot oven, and bake for 10-15 minutes, until the sweet potato topping starts to turn golden.
</a> He promised that, if the Tories form the next government, they would "run a surplus" on the nation's books as an insurance policy against a repeat of the crisis that began under the last Labour Government. "Never again. This time we are going to run a surplus. This time we are going to fix the roof when the sun shines," he declared.
</a> T. Rowe's New Horizons and Growth Stock funds, for example, owned $84 million and $83 million,respectively, in Twitter stock at the end of June, according toMorningstar. The fund company was not available for comment.
</a> Defunding or delaying implementation of the Affordable Care Act won't lower the debt; it will waste the $500 million dollars already spent on implementation. Delay won't replace sequesters, reform the tax code or enact budget reforms; it will lower consumer confidence, depress the stock market and push businesses to slow hiring.
</a> “There are lots of people who are very worried about how they are going to pay for their electricity and gas bills this winter. But you do that not by magic-wand politics, where you say, 'We’re going to pass a law and everything’s going to be fine’. Most people know that’s not the way life works. You do it by actually developing credible policies to put money back into people’s pockets.”
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</a> Smithâs receivers let him down. Stephen Hill fumbled after a 33-yard catch in the first quarter. Clyde Gates had a touchdown reversed when it was ruled he didnât hold onto the ball as he hit the ground. Gates later allowed a long pass to bounce off his chest.
</a> "Additional text-to-speech software can make them even more accessible and ensure that reading is less challenging and remove the stigma that is so often associated for those who can't read."
</a> The next day, Mrs Moreton claims to have been told by a coroner that the drugs given to her mother had caused the stroke â but no mention of the drugs are on the death certificate and no inquest was held.
</a> As of midday Tuesday, the first day the catalog was available, the Koons sculptures were selling "briskly," but none of the other extremely high-end items had sold yet, said store spokeswoman Ginger Reeder.
</a> Stenson started out birdie, eagle â hitting his second shot 243 yards on the par-5 hole to inside 4 feet. He slowed down from there, parring every hole except for birdies at the 11th and 12th holes.
</a> Weight Watchers' workforce division might be a small piece of the diet pie for now, but revenue for its partnership with large employers grew about 30 percent this quarter. Regional partnerships, with small employers, saw a 1 percent decline in sales. The company has remained tight-lipped on exact details of the division's results and declined to make an executive available to discuss them.
</a> Superman and Batman will face off. Says Director Zack Snyder, "let's face it, it's beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Superheroes in the world."
</a> HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stocks drifted today, with markets in China edging slightly higher as investors stayed cautious ahead of a major holiday and details from the highly anticipated unveiling of a free trade zone in Shanghai. Stocks in Tokyo slid after Japan's inflation spiked.
</a> The tenderness of beef is largely determined by how much exercise the muscles receive; the more a muscle is used, the tougher it is. For instance, a cut from the rear (round) will naturally be tougher than a cut from the tenderloin region, which is located along the upper back. Hereâs a quick crash course in bovine anatomy. Starting at the neck and working down the backbone, you have the chuck, then the rib, followed by the short loin and sirloin and ending with the round. The side section is the flank. Those areas produce the following steaks:
</a> Chanos, whose Kynikos Associates has roughly $6 billion inassets, said the Peoria, Illinois-based maker of heavy equipmentwill face "a series of supercommodity headwinds that I don'tthink its supporters appreciate." He also said that bullishinvestors in Caterpillar will face long-term disappointment, andthat the company is "tied to the wrong products at the wrongpart of the cycle."
</a> "For nearly seven years, Senate Republicans had refused to confirm an ATF director - not because they thought the nominees weren't qualified, but because they put politics ahead of the agency's law enforcement mission," he said in a statement.
</a> Diringer's argument, he noted, makes sense, adding that the type of change needed at the national level is a massive investment in technological innovations to move the world "from getting 13 percent of its energy from carbon-free sources to more than 90 percent, all by 2050" if the world aims to meaningfully stabilize greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
</a> During the second quarter, JPMorgan put further distancebetween itself on the so-called London Whale debacle of a yearearlier, when bad bets on the credit market ultimately cost thebank more than $6 billion.
</a> There are also efforts to leverage the pop-culture spectacle of last meals to protest the death penalty. An Oregon artist has vowed to paint images of fifty last-meal requests of U.S. inmates on ceramic plates every year until the death penalty is outlawed. Amnesty International launched an anti-capital punishment campaign this past February that featured depictions of the last meals of prisoners who were later exonerated of their crimes.
</a> Gyssling and the Nazis wielded such power big studios complied even as the German market withered, because they feared they wouldnât be allowed back when the economy improved. The movie producersâ courage only returned when the ongoing war threatened distribution in England and France, two other big foreign markets.
</a> "We are full-blooded democrats and the purest form of democracy is the republic," said Jan Jambon, the parliamentary leader of the party, which has surged to become the main opposition party seeking Flemish independence through transition.
</a> Courtney Cole, who organized the event over social networks and got a boost from the Internet hacker group Anonymous, said she wasn't bothered by the modest turnout and pointed to the dozens of reporters scattered around the gathering conducting interviews.
</a> June 28, 2013 - Shares fall 25 percent after company reportsloss and warns of more pain, says BlackBerry 10 sales weredisappointing. Days earlier the company said it can now serviceApple and Android devices for enterprise customers.
</a> The new USDA guidelines were a great step in the right direction, but then something completely unforeseeable happened (please note my sarcasm here): Students complained. They said they were hungry. They made videos and staged boycotts and said they needed more French fries and burgers and nachos and less apples and lettuce. In essence, they were doing normal stuff that kids do when you try to make them do something that's good for them.
</a> DoubleLine Total Return Bond, with assets of roughly $38billion, fell 0.22 percent in July, after declining 1.74percent in June. The fund is down just 0.47 percent this year,above 95 percent of peers, Morningstar said.
</a> Reuters says software developer Jeff Langr was fired in 2012 by email and by Skype teleconference, following his employer's acquisition by another company. Langr told Reuters he found the choice of media "impersonal to the point of being cowardly."
</a> "They've got superlative maintenance," Nance told Bloomberg. "The reality is there is so little that goes wrong with the system, unless we started having one of these on a regular basis, this really isn't something anybody should be worrying about."
</a> The Yankees didn't score after the first inning in Tuesday's 3-1 defeat. They opened that frame with three straight singles for a run and added another hit to load the bases with one out before failing to score again.
</a> 3. The most expensive health plans, known informally as "Cadillac plans," may trigger a stiff excise tax for employers in 2018. Watts says nearly a third of employers surveyed responded that they are already taking steps in 2014 to begin reducing participation in such plans, both by offering lower-cost alternatives and by reducing the features and costs in the plans themselves. "From the day this law was passed in 2010," Watts says, "the No. 1 concern of employers has been that excise tax in 2018."
</a> Funding for many U.S. government operations runs out nextweek with the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, and unlessCongress reaches a deal to pay for its activities, much of thegovernment will be forced to shut down. Only certain activitiespermitted under law are allowed to continue, officials said.
</a> High wages need not be a problem either if matched by efficiency. And there's the rub. As Italian officials argued to the IMF, the steady deterioration in the country's unit labour costs relative to the rest of the euro zone is due not to excessive wage increases but to weak labour productivity, which has declined since the launch of the euro.
</a> âI just didnât like the way he was running, so I took him out,â Girardi said. âI just saw the way he kind of ran to first and I said I was going to take him out and kind of protect him here in case (Robinson Cano) hits a ball in the gap. I didnât want him to run on it.â
</a> I don’t know if I can relax anymore. But still… The sea, how I love the sea. I’d told The Builder this before we left, how much I was looking forward to feeling the cold water surround me, and he gave me an odd look then carried on sanding.
</a> "Because we were always viewed as a risk mitigationalternative for the F-35 helmet program, we do not have plans tochallenge this decision," said Liz Ryan Sax, a spokeswoman forthe U.S. unit of BAE Systems.
</a> Since launching its own investigation, 41 people of interest have been identified by the Metropolitan Police, including 15 UK nationals. A large but "manageable" list of phone numbers identified as being present in Praia da Luz - though not necessarily used to make phone calls - has been drawn up by detectives with a "significant" number unattributed to any named person.
</a> She said she had argued she had come straight from a radio show, insisting “it’s what I wear”, before arguing it was right for people on primetime television to “look after their appearance”.
</a> New planes, products and technology have also drivenresults, said Thomas Horton, AMR chief executive. Horton will benonexecutive chairman of the Texas-based merged company, whichwill be named American Airlines Group, and the union is expectedto be complete by the end of September.
</a> As production from the cane crop has lagged demand growth inthe region, refineries are springing up to fill the gap. Therefineries import raws, or unrefined sugar, to process intowhites at a refining cost of $60-$90 a tonne and charge apremium on the end-product.
</a> From where I'm writing I can just see the top of the helter skelter and the big wheel and I'm thinking about Andy Warhol's often misquoted line: "In the future, everyone will be farmers for 15 minutes." I've never had so much fun.
</a> In the Associated Press case, investigators focused on how reporters learned about a U.S. operation in Yemen to foil a plot to bomb an airliner, government officials have said. An AP story in May 2012 described the plot. The AP has reported that it delayed publishing the story at the request of government officials until security concerns were allayed.
</a> Regent's Park's summer performance space was established in 1932 and can be found in Queen Mary's Gardens. Its summer calendar includes Pride and Prejudice (until July 20), The Sound of Music (July 25-September 7) and Dinosaur Zoo ("A tyrannosauric treat for all ages 3 "; August 9-September 8). Food and drink available.
</a> âThe fact of the matter is that 25 percent of corporate India today technically does not have adequate money to make its interest payments, and 15 percent of corporate India has negative cash flows,â Morgan Stanley's Ruchir Sharma told GlobalPost.
</a> It looked closely at potential profits in businesses whereit was long a laggard. In commodities trading, it ranked in thebottom tier among global banks. Consulting firm McKinsey saidthen that across Wall Street, the return on equity incommodities was poised to fall from around 20 percent pre-crisisto around 8 percent after new regulations are fully implemented.
</a> Stable Loss Performance: Credit and residual losses on HCA's portfolio continue to decline significantly from the elevated levels seen in 2008 and 2009. This is a result of strong obligor credit quality and a solid wholesale used vehicle market, leading to higher recovery rates and residual realizations.
</a> Itâs a unique set-up that has drawn the ire of rival high school coaches as well as the attention of the NCAA, which recently labeled Findlay Prep a ânon-scholasticâ entity, barring college coaches from in-person recruiting.
</a> U.S. intelligence officials declassified documents Tuesday revealing the National Security Agency violated privacy rules for three years when it sifted through phone records of Americans with no suspected links to terrorists.
</a> “A new shooting at the Washington Navy Yard – one shooter and 7 bodies. No one is surprised anymore. A vivid confirmation of “American exceptionalism” he tweeted in Russian.
</a> Yet for some of his media peers, Banks words were not strong enough. Why else would they claim he said the Giants âquit?â Why else would they attribute a word to him that he never used? Was Francesa throwing his voice, playing ventriloquist to a Banks puppet?
</a> For those that don’t remember, Sealy was killed on May 20th, 2000, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota while driving home from then best friend and teammate Garnett’s Birthday party. Malik’s SUV was hit by a pickup truck, which was being driven on the wrong side of the highway.
</a> He said: "I think if you look at the history of the reports that the chief inspector's produced it would be fair to say that a number of them have previously been very critical, for example, of the UK Border Agency - in some cases very critical.
</a> The Republicans may be at particular risk; just 32 percent of Americans express a favorable view of the party, vs. 63 percent unfavorable – their worst rating, as noted, in at least 29 years. The Democrats, by contrast, manage about an even split in this basic measure of popularity.
</a> Abe, who took power in December and strengthened his mandate with the LDP's decisive victory in the upper house poll, remains popular on a national scale with approval ratings above 50 percent. He has enjoyed early success because of "Abenomics", a combination of aggressive public spending and monetary easing that has kick-started economic growth.
</a> The international gang of jewel thieves of which he is a member got their "Pink Panther" name after British police found a diamond ring in a tub of face cream, bringing back memories of a scene in the 1963 comedy film The Pink Panther.
</a> The ministry said foreign trade would likely dampen growth,though investment in capital equipment had continued tostabilise. Slowing investment, combined with weak exports, droveGermany to a contraction in the last quarter of 2012.
</a> It sure looked like the right move as Wright was one of the few bright spots for the Mets on Friday night with two hits, including a long two-run home run in the ninth inning. With the Mets playing 18 games in 17 days following the break, the manager knows there wonât be many opportunities for his team to get a breather.
</a> Detroit workers, retirees and pension funds have alreadytried to derail the bankruptcy petition on Michiganconstitutional grounds in state court. But Rhodes last weeksuspended their lawsuits, putting his court in full control ofthe case.
</a> Speaking at the Apec summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, Mr Abbott, an avid sportsman, said claims related to a triathlon event in which he competed in the town of Port Macquarie in 2011 were justified.
</a> Catholics, even conservative ones, say the interview further firms up his place as the "people's pope," says Judie Brown, president and co-founder of the American Life League, a Catholic organization that works against abortion. "He's saying that as Catholics we need to live our faith instead of beating people over the head with it."
</a> Penney shares edged up 2 percent on Monday after a rockyThursday and Friday. The shares rose nearly 7 percent onThursday and then fell 6 percent on Friday, and are off justover 30 percent year to date. The retailer's term loan tradedroughly 1.5 points lower on Monday, down to 96.5-97.5.
</a> George, who flagged concerns about a potential farmland"bubble" in remarks earlier this year, has argued consistentlyfor higher interest rates and an end of the Fed's easy moneypolicies. But in remarks to a gathering of bankers and businessleaders at a conference here, she expressed confidence that bothfarmers and banks had learned and remember the hard lessons ofbeing "over-leveraged" in the 1970s. When the Fed raisedinterest rates sharply in the 1980s to subdue inflation,thousands of farmers were pushed into bankruptcy as land valuespopped and collateral for their bank loans collapsed.
</a> Shares in family-run conglomerates Dogan Holding and Koc Holding fell nearly 8 percent and more than 3 percent respectively after lawyer Mustafa Polat filed a complaint against them in a trial of alleged plotters.
</a> The MIPS SIMD architecture adheres to true RISC philosophy, starting with thirty-two 128-bit architectural registers. Instructions were defined to be easily supported within high-level languages such as C or OpenCL for fast and simple development of new code, as well as leverage of existing code. The hardware-efficient, compiler-friendly implementation of the SIMD in the P5600 is perfectly aligned with the industry's shift toward code portability using JITs and other forms of dynamic compilers.
</a> "We know that at 8.30, that was the time that Mr and Mrs McCann went down to the tapas area for their dinner, and we know that at around 10pm, that was when Mrs McCann found that Madeleine was missing."
</a> Without more comprehensive data, critics say it is tough toestablish whether dark pools help or hinder the broader market,or make public exchanges less efficient in discovering price.This could render new rules challenging to enforce.
</a> The Vietnam government has asked state-owned companies, manyof which have been facing losses even though they have access toample and cheap credit, to divest non-core businesses by 2015and speed up partial privatisation.
</a> Analysts said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decisiveupper house election win last weekend would pave the way forpro-growth fiscal policies and for further Bank of Japanmonetary easing, which would weaken the yen.
</a> One in 12 mothers in a study admitted to 'stretching' diaper supply - leaving a dirty diaper on their child or cleaning and reusing a disposable diaper - because they couldn't afford new ones.
</a> Rambo was last seen rescuing a group of aid workers in war-torn Burma in 2008âs âRambo.â The four films in the franchise that began with 1982âs âFirst Bloodâ earned 727.8 million worldwide.
</a> The law "could create conditions that will make it difficultto continue to provide a reliable supply of domestic petroleumenergy for California," said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president ofthe Western State Petroleum Association, which represents oilcompanies in California.
</a> The scientists found that cocaine use may cause profound metabolic changes which can result in dramatic weight gain during recovery, a distressing phenomenon that can lead to relapse. It was previously widely believed that cocaine suppresses the appetite and that the problematic weight gain during rehabilitation was a result of patients substituting food for drugs.
</a> Conversely, if you’re a Chinese executive hiring a western bank to be the bookrunner for your IPO, the main thing you want is to be able to trust the bank in question. And it stands to reason that if your child is employed in a senior capacity at that bank, you’ll have an extra channel of communication, and slightly more trust in what’s going on internally. Which could quite reasonably mean that you chose that bank rather than a competitor.
</a> It is thought that YouTube's service could come out ahead of Beats Music, which is expected to launch later this year. YouTube has already secured most of the licenses it needs to launch a music service, via its parent company Google's All Access service, which launched in May.
</a> Mary "Shelley" Goldsmith, 19, of Abingdon, Va., collapsed at the Washington club Echostage last Saturday and was pronounced dead at a hospital hours later. Police and family members said she overdosed on a designer drug known as molly, or MDMA, often described as a pure form of ecstasy.