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Roberto Carlos to coach Turkish Sivasspor club
Former World Cup winner and Real Madrid star Roberto Carlos has agreed to coach Turkish Super League's Sivasspor club. Sivasspor officials announced that they had offered the coaching job to the Brazilian after former coach Riza Calimbay called it quits, reports Xinhua. Carlos, 40, reportedly accepted the offer after consulting with friends from his time with Fenerbahce. Carlos is currently ...
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Boarts earnings hit by mining downturn
Drilling services company Boart Longyear says its earnings will fall in 2013 because mining companies are scaling back on exploration."The downturn in capital and exploration spending in the mining sector globally has clearly reduced the demand for drilling services and products," chief executive Richard O'Brien told Boart Longyear's annual general meeting in Adelaide.He said ...
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Lester Wishnatzki Pioneer in Strawberry Industry Dies at 96
LAKELAND | Lester Wishnatzki, a pioneer of the Florida strawberry industry and benefactor to many Polk County civic groups and people, both financially and with gifts of fresh strawberries, died of natural causes Sunday at age 96 at Lakeland Regional Medical ...
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Video Gawker editor addresses Ford allegations
Gawker editor John Cook explains why the U.S. website is raising money to buy a video at the centre of drug use allegations involving Toronto Mayor Rob ...
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United earnings still on the rise
PARKERSBURG- United Bank had another successful year in 2012 as it continued to increase earnings to shareholders, the chairman and CEO told shareholders Monday. United Bankshares Inc. officials, at the annual meeting of shareholders Monday at the Blennerhassett Hotel, said the company was able to continue to thrive in the economic conditions brought on by the Great Recession of 2008. "We ...
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City UT exploring cultural center at Worlds Fair Park
Madeline Rogero announced Monday that the city is exploring a new partnership with the University of Tennessee to develop a "center for cultural resources" at World's Fair ...
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World gone cold on global warming
People on Earth learnt the other week that the heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air they breathe had crossed the 400 parts per million (ppm) mark, which could possibly be a life-changing level. Scientists have warned that a tipping point could be reached at the existing rate of gas increase caused by industry, agriculture and applications of technology, like vehicle use and air travel. ...
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Douglas Todd Ecstatic Christian charismatic movement is powerful in Metro Vancouver around world
"God's movin' in this place. I am undone. I've got tears flowin.' I've got snot comin' out of my nose. God, we can be undignified with you. Knowin' our indignity is all for you."Pastor Rico Galindez is shaking in front of about 500 people who are praying and swaying in the near-dark sanctuary of Cedar Grove Baptist Church in north Surrey.It's ...
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Former Henderson County Business Owner Sentenced to 12 Months for Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods www.privateofficcer.com
--The former owner of Tree Tops business, located in Henderson County, Kentucky, was sentenced to 12 months and one day by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. today in United States District Court for trafficking in counterfeit goods, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of ...
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Public Sharply Critical on IRS Benghazi But Economy Cuts Obama Some Slack
May 21, 2013 12:01am Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll sharply reject special scrutiny of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, suspect an administration cover-up of the Benghazi incident and express substantial distrust of the federal government more generally. Yet the national survey also finds no backlash against Barack Obama, at least at this point. His ...
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Kenya Snapp Announces Sponsorship of the Miss World Kenya 2013
East African Breweries Limited (EABL), through the Snapp brand, recently unveiled Miss World Kenya 2013 beauty pageant, of which Snapp is the title sponsor. The Miss World Kenya pageant is held every year as part of the Miss World competition. The lady crowned as Miss World Kenya 2013 will represent Kenya in the global contest that will be held in September at the Sentul International ...
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Ethiopia Ethiopia Becomes Worlds Fourth Largest Flower Exporter
Indian-owned firms in Ethiopia are making flowers the country's third-largest export earner. This is according to www.deccanherald.com. In the last five years, the Ethiopian floriculture industry has become the second largest flower exporter in Africa after Kenya and fourth largest flower exporter in the world. According to one estimate, the export value earned by the country is expected ...
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Increased expat ownership of UAE companies remains open to debate says Minister of Economy
Sultan Al Mansouri said yesterday as the ministry aims to push through one of "the most critical laws" for the economy. But decisions about raising foreign ownership limits, a much-anticipated clause that was stripped out of the original companies law, remained "open", he said. "The companies law is one of the most important, critical for us," he told reporters in ...
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Congressional Travel U.S. House Sees World
If the American public needed more reasons to distrust Congress, travel has provided 864 of them. That's the number of foreign trips that members of the U.S. House took last year at taxpayers' expense, reported the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on May ...
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Japan economy picking up slowly
With Japan's exports showing signs of recovery due to the weakening yen and industrial production making steady improvement, the government Monday revised upward its assessment of the current state of the economy for the first time in two months. According to the monthly economic report for May, the economy is "picking up slowly". This is compared with the April report, which ...
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10 most valuable global brands
Apple remains the top global brand with an estimated value of $185 billion, according to an annual ranking by WPP and Millward Brown. Which other companies have brands worth ...
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NewsWatch New Xbox may keep Microsoft in the game
Microsoft is expected to unveil a new Xbox on Tuesday. Investors have been bidding up shares of videogame firms, but the market has shifted dramatically in recent ...
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Yen weakens after economy ministers remarks
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Economy Minister Akira Amari said Tuesday he hopes yen's foreign-exchange levels will settle at a level that corresponds with the relative strength of the domestic economy, according to a report. "I hope [foreign exchange] levels will settle so they match the basic strength of the Japanese economy," Amari said at a press conference after a ...
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UPDATE 1-Gloom hits services firms as Australias mining boom peaks
Mon May 20, 2013 11:27pm EDT * Mining services large and small suffer * Cuts in mine projects, exploration spending hit mining services * Share prices smashed, Transfield sinks to record low By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, May 21 (Reuters) - A spate of profit warnings from Australian mining services firms suggests the country's "once-a-century" resources spending boom may have peaked ...
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Stanfords Ipsen Arizona States Jones Qualify for U.S. World Championship Team
Kristian Ipsen was one of four divers to punch their ticket to Barcelona for the 2013 FINA World Championships, as spots on the 1-meter were up for grabs Wednesday on day one of the World Championships ...
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Hainan urged to promote good faith in tourism industry
China's tourist industry has been urged by a senior official to promote practices of good faith. Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the comment during a four-day inspection tour, that ended on Monday, in south China's Guangdong and Hainan provinces. When visiting Hainan, a popular tourist destination, Liu urged for ...
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Microsoft To Reveal New Xbox Features
Microsoft currently sitting in the top spot of video game console sales for the 28th consecutive month according to retail tracking firm NPD Group. Total retail spending for the Xbox 360 platform in April — which included hardware, software and accessories — topped $208 million dollar. However, the company is already looking ahead to the next generation. "Looking forward to ...
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US manufacturing drawn to Fremont California
A combination of tax breaks, agreeable infrastructure and a proximity to the technology hotspot of Silicon Valley are combining to create interest in manufacturing in Fremont, ...
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Manufacturing gender gap widens in the US
The recovery of the US manufacturing sector has not been felt by the entire American population. There is a gender in-balance as most new jobs in the sector are going to ...
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Finally Independent Testing Of Rossis E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Maybe The World Will Change After All
I first wrote about Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, and his E-Cat project, a device that produces heat through a process called a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR). Very briefly, LENR, otherwise called cold fusion, is a technique that generates energy through low temperature (far lower than hot fusion temperatures which are in the range of tens off thousands of degrees) reactions that are not ...
Middle East Focus
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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