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Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide
A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...
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Sweden Switzerland advance to world hockey championship final
Sweden's Loui Eriksson (right) celebrates a goal against Finland during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship semi-final match at the Globe Arena in Stockholm May 18, 2013. (ARND ...
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Business New Land Rover dealer yet to start operations
Land Rover Company withdrew its franchise from CMC Motors and gave the same to RMA group, which is yet to start operations. RMA officials told The Standard On Sunday that the group is yet to kick off operations in Kenya, but plans are underway to do so next month. "We are saying that RMA motors Kenya will be operational by first June. We definitely will be offering that service once we are ...
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Western leaders study gamechanging report on global drugs trade
drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition.Publication of the Organisation of American States (OAS) review, commissioned at last year's Cartagena Summit of the Americas attended ...
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3D printers making their way into world of art
"A reporter said: 'She's like something out of a computer game' and he was right," recalls Francis Bitonti. Bitonti is referring to the dress von Teese wore that was made from a nylon mesh material embellished with 12,000 Swarovski crystals. The New York-based architect and designer created the dress in cooperation with Michael Schmidt. It was made using a 3D printer, ...
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10 years later How the Mad Cow crisis changed an industry and a province
SUNDRE -- As Jason Bradley saddles his horse to ride out to check on a herd of Scottish Highland cattle, he relays a bit of homespun lore."There's an analogy as a cowboy. If you're not looking where you're riding, if you're just always looking behind you to see what you missed, you're going to end up in a wreck," he says. The Sundre-area rancher has always been ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford nixes weekend radio show in wake of video controversy
TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will not be hosting his weekly radio show this weekend after explosive allegations that he was recorded on a video appearing to smoke crack cocaine.CFRB program director Mike Bendixen has tweeted that Ford and his brother Doug, a city councillor, won't be behind the microphones this Sunday for their two-hour talk show "The City" on the Toronto ...
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Cannes 2013 Festival taps into the power of nostalgia to fight back against global competition
Cannes film festival .Playing the unfussy singer Jean Berkey straight after her bejewelled portrayal of Daisy Buchanan, the actress appeared to have deliberately cast off the baubles and artifice that hang around the annual 12-day cinematic bonanza on the Cte D'Azur. And this year, the festival's 66th outing on Boulevard de la Croisette, the glittery trappings have strained more than ...
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Doug Ford breaks silence on crack story about brother Rob
Toronto city councillor Doug Ford has broken his silence on the drug-use allegations against his brother, Mayor Rob Ford. His response came more than 36 hours after reports of a video that's alleged to show Rob smoking a glass pipe containing what appears to be crack cocaine.In the past, the Etobicoke councillor has been one of his brother's most vocal and swift defenders, but until ...
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Microsoft wants you to get to know Windows 8
Speaking to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, Tami Reller, Windows division CFO, admitted that the Windows 8 "learning curve is real" and said that Microsoft will be addressing the issue ...
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Respiratory Viruses Threaten to Cause Global Outbreaks
Viral pandemics occur with surprising regularity throughout world history and today we are battling with not one, but two respiratory viruses which threaten to cause global outbreaks. The ...
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Incurable bacteria citrus greening destroying Floridas citrus industry
(CBS News) For millions of Americans, part of the morning ritual is a glass of orange juice, but that sweet start to the day is now threatened. There's a disease spreading through Florida's multi-billion-dollar citrus crop. The malady is called citrus greening, and it is making it harder for area businesses to stock Florida's best known fruit. "My concern is we won't ...
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Semis set at World Match Play Championships
Graeme McDowell reached the semifinals of the World Match Play Championship in Bulgaria with a 2-and-1 win Saturday over Nicolas Colsaerts. McDowell, who lost to Colsaerts in last year's championship match, will face Branden Grace in Sunday's semis. The other two semifinalists ...
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Three Insurance Companies Placed in Liquidation in Illinois
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance, and American Motorists Insurance Companies have been placed in liquidation in Illinois, according to the state insurance department. State insurance guaranty associations will pay the companies' claims, the department said. Illinois Department of Insurance Director Andrew Boron has been serving as statutory rehabilitator ...
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World Customs Organization concludes 3-day 2013 WCO IT in Dubai
WAM DUBAI: The 2013 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition, held under the patronage of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has concluded its activities for this year with the announcement of a number of findings and recommendations that were deliberated upon or proposed during the three day event. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...
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Dubais Business Confidence Index stood at 113 points in Q1 2013
WAM DUBAI: Businesses in Dubai are confident of growth trends continuing to the second quarter of 2013, according to the quarterly business confidence survey conducted by Dubai's Department of Economic Development (DED). While optimism runs across the whole economy, it is particularly high among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and exporting firms as reflected in the composite ...
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TRA celebrates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
WAM ABU DHABI: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has organized an awareness workshop titled "usage of ICTs while driving: Safety or disaster on the road", in celebration of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed this year on 17th May under the theme: "ICTs and Improving Road Safety". Participating in the occasion were Abu Dhabi ...
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We deserve a more perfect world lets free our imagination
As the title of the article suggests, this is an imaginary account of how an ideal world situation should be like, where life is ultimately not just about competition and rushing about but also about taking out time and space for oneself, wherein one can discover one's own inner calling. It can begin by mere imagination but it has to transcend just that and become reality for the world to ...
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Growing your Business Evaluate the Risks First
Sometimes business growth happens naturally. Other times, you have to take a big risk to make it happen. But how do you know if your risk will pay off? We took a risk recently--after working from home for 10 years, my husband and I just opened a brick-and-mortar shop in an office building. I know--most book stores are closing their doors instead of opening new locations. But we decided to buck ...
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Out Of The Ashes Two Surprising Companies Top List Of ‘Hottest Internet Companies Of The Year’
@DoomsDaddy For any online business - certainly, online journalism - the health, welfare and public reach of large internet media companies that spread news around the world is always pertinent. Beyond social media like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, etc., every business – both on or offline – relies on the search engines and profile-raising capabilities of sites ...
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Sweden Storms Into World Hockey Final
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - Sweden reached the world hockey championship final on Saturday as two goals from Dallas Stars wing Loui Eriksson propelled the eight-time champion to a 3-0 semifinal win over an ill-disciplined Finland. Sweden went ahead at 10:33 in the first period with Ilari Melart off the ice for cross-checking; Eriksson converting Henrik Sedin's assist. The same combination ...
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Alberta’s cattle industry recovers a decade after costly mad cow outbreak
EDMONTON - In January 2003, Marwyn Peaster's cow fell down.The six-year-old Black Angus was one of a small herd Peaster had bought the year before for his grain farm and feedlot near Wanham, in Alberta's Peace Country.Believing the cow had pneumonia, Peaster made the fateful decision to send it to a local abattoir instead of calling for a veterinarian or disposing of it on his own ...
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Rugby New world order as players flex muscle
Adrian Petersen. Photo / Getty ImagesWorld rugby will get its integrated season after the next World Cup. Super Rugby will shift to a March start and won't break for test matches, the June window will be shifted to July and all players will have a 14 to 16-week off-season. Other innovative plans are being discussed, such as building a world series of tests in years that fall between the World ...
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Michael Burgess A quiet word in the shell-like might have been a bit wiser
Warriors coach Matt Elliott is playing a risky game with his ongoing protests against NRL refs. On- or off-field, there is usually only one winner when debating with match officials. On one level, Elliott had some grounds for complaint, especially in the past month. After some incorrect calls against the Raiders and Storm at crucial moments, last week's late hit on Glen Fisiiahi by Michael Ennis ...
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10 Things to Know About the Trucking Industry
1. Intermodal is the transfer of products using multiple forms of transportation -- trucks, railroads or ocean carriers. In 2012, intermodal container volumes rose by 5.9 percent over the previous year with 13.1 million moves, according to the Intermodal Association of North America's Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics report. That number surpassed the previous benchmark year of 2007 ...
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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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