TV Expert: Time Warner Cable-CBS Blackout To Result In ?Best Of All Possible Worlds' For Cable Subscribers

Subscribers to Time Warner Cable might not be able to watch CBS shows over the next few weeks, as a result of the latest contract fallout between a network and a pay TV operator. But at least one expert believes that the blackout, while disruptive in the short term, is actually good news for those who pay TV viewers, whether they?re Time Warner Cable subscribers or not.

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NHC: Low Chance of Cyclone East of Melbourne, Florida

Aug 2 (Reuters) - A weak area of low pressure associated with the remnants of tropical storm Dorian, located just east of Melbourne, Florida, has a 30 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.

Cloudiness and showers will continue to affect portions of the northwestern Bahamas and the coastal waters of southeastern and central Florida Friday, the NHC said.

"Conditions are favorable for slight development Friday and early Saturday as the system moves northward near the Florida east coast," the NHC said.

(Reporting by Shruti Chaturvedi in Bangalore; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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5 Legal Issues With Your Kid's Lemonade Stand - Law and Daily Life

When life gives you lemons, you can make lemonade -- but you may not be able to sell it at a lemonade stand, at least not without jumping through some legal hoops.

There is an inexplicable war on lemonade stands, as a Forbes headline so eloquently put it, and your kids are losing the battle. Giving moonshine a run for its money, many kids' lemonade stands are getting shut down.

Here are five legal issues that can potentially stand in the way of your kid's lemonade stand:

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Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger calls trial a sham, declines to testify

By Daniel Lovering

BOSTON (Reuters) - Former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger on Friday called his trial on murder and racketeering charges "a sham" and said he will not take the witness stand, as his defense rested its case.

"My thing is, as far as I'm concerned ... this is a sham and do what you want with me," Bulger, 83, told U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in the Boston court house after his lawyer announced he would not testify.

Bulger, once Boston's most-feared criminal, was charged with participating in the murders of 19 people while heading Boston's Winter Hill crime gang in the 1970s and '80s. He has pleaded not guilty, though his lawyers have admitted he was involved in extortion, drug smuggling and loan sharking.

Casper asked Bulger whether his choice not to testify in his defense was voluntary.

Standing in a dark collarless shirt, and trademark jeans and white sneakers, Bulger responded: "I'm making the choice involuntarily because I feel I've been choked off of the opportunity to give an adequate defense."

Bulger was listed as an FBI informant for years while running the Winter Hill Gang, but Casper has ruled that he cannot argue that he has immunity.

He fled Boston in 1994 on a tip from a corrupt FBI agent that arrest was imminent. He was on the FBI's most wanted list for years, but was not captured until 2011.

Lawyers for both sides are scheduled to present closing arguments in the case on Monday, and the jury is expected to begin deliberations on Tuesday.

Bulger was "at peace" with his decision not to testify, his attorney J.W. Carney told reporters outside the court house.

"I met with him afterwards. He was very calm and very pleased that he made the decision that he did, because he feels it was the right one," he said.

'HANDS ON KILLER'

Government prosecutors presented seven weeks worth of testimony from former FBI agents, hit men, drug smugglers, extortion victims, and family members of the dead to paint Bulger as a "hands-on killer".

Witnesses, including former partners of Bulger's, said he strangled women, gunned down "rats" who talked too much, and threatened drug dealers and businessmen with pistols and machine guns to force them to hand over cash.

Defense lawyers sought to undermine the testimony, saying many prosecution witnesses were ex-criminals who had cut plea deals, and that FBI files came from a Boston office that was tainted by corruption and mismanagement.

Tommy Donahue, whose father was an alleged murder victim of Bulger's, told reporters he had hoped Bulger would take the stand so lawyers could question him about FBI corruption during Winter Hill's reign.

"Whitey was on trial. The prosecution did an unbelievable job of showing what type of animal and savage he was. But also the FBI was on trial here," he told reporters.

Bulger's story has captured Boston's imagination for decades, and recalled a dark period for Boston's FBI when corrupt agents wined and dined gangsters and gave them tips that helped them evade arrest and identify snitches.

His story inspired the character played by Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorsese's 2006 Academy Award-winning film "The Departed."

Bulger was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living with his girlfriend in an apartment with stacks of cash and weapons.

Bulger's lawyer Carney said before Friday's hearing that Bulger wanted to forfeit the $822,000 found in his Santa Monica apartment as long as it goes to victims' families who lost civil suits against the government. That sum is a fraction of the millions Bulger reportedly reaped in his criminal career.

"He would like to see that money go to the families," Carney told reporters after the hearing.

Earlier in the week, Bulger's lawyers had asked judge Casper to let them show the jury photos of the Boston mobster relaxing with pets or posing with friends, a move to show Bulger's softer side that had been widely interpreted as a precursor to Bulger taking the stand.

(Reporting by Daniel Lovering; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by David Gregorio)

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Snapdragon 800 Sambangi Galaxy S4 Active?

Jakarta - Galaxy S4 Active secara resmi memang telah diumumkan Samsung beberapa waktu silam. Namun belakangan diketahui Samsung baru saja kembali mengumumkan versi upgrade smartphone tahan airnya tersebut.

Dipasarkan secara eksklusif oleh operator selular SK Telecom di Korea Selatan, versi upgrade Galaxy S4 Active tersebut konon telah mengandalkan prosesor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. Diduga kuat hal tersebut dilakukan Samsung demi menghadirkan teknologi 4G LTE-A (Long Term Evolution - Advanced) yang telah didukung SK Telecom.

Bukti yang menunjukan penggunaan Snapdragon 800 pada Galaxy S4 Active terbaru kembali diperlihatkan oleh hasil benchmark GFXbench, yang mengungkap bahwa chip yang digunakannya adalah MSM8974 atau yang populer dengan sebutan Snapdragon 800.

Bila benar, ini artinya Galaxy S4 Active versi upgrade tersebut merupakan varian Galaxy S4 bersenjatakan Snapdragon 800 kedua yang secara eksklusif dipasarkan oleh SK Telecom.

Sayangnya, seperti dilansir Phone Arena, Kamis (1/8/2013), tidak seperti Galaxy S4 LTE-A yang konon bakal dipasarkan secara global, sejauh yang diketahui,belum ada kabar lanjutan yang menyatakan niat Samsung untuk turut memasarkan Galaxy S4 Active versi Snapdragon 800 ke pasaran global.

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Britain to close embassy in Yemen for two days due to security concerns

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday that it will close its embassy in Yemen on August 4 and 5 due to "increased security concerns", after the United States announced a number of its embassies would also shut on Sunday.

"We are particularly concerned about the security situation in the final days of Ramadan and into Eid," the Foreign Office said in a statement, referring to the Muslim holy month which ends on Wednesday evening.

The Foreign Office did not say there were any specific threats but said that it constantly reviewed the security of staff and its embassies.

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday American embassies that would normally be open this Sunday - including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo - would be closed that day because of unspecified security concerns.

On Friday, it also issued a global travel alert.

The European Union said that it would be taking "all necessary precautions" following the U.S. announcement.

"We are aware of the move by the U.S. and we are in contact with our U.S. counterparts," European Commission spokesman Alexandre Polack said on Friday.

"Delegations of the EU in the affected region are liaising with U.S. embassies."

(Reporting by Costas Pitas; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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India wants peaceful relations with Pakistan

India Thursday extended an olive branch to its arch-rival Pakistan, saying it wants to develop "peaceful and cooperative relations" with the neighboring country, but in a "terror-free environment".
"It has always been India's policy to develop peaceful and cooperative relations with Pakistan. Naturally, this pre-supposes an environment free of violence and of terror," the newly appointed Indian External Affarirs Ministry Secretary Sujatha Singh told the media in the national capital.
India had suspended bilateral dialogue with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which over 170 people were killed by 10 Pakistani militants who entered the country's financial capital through sea route from the port city of Karachi. However, the two countries resumed composite dialogue in 2011.
"Dialogue with Pakistan was resumed in 2011. Two rounds have been held since then and we will be picking up the threads. There is a new government in Pakistan now. We will be picking up the threads from where we left off with the old government," said the 59-year-old top diplomat, who took office for a fixed tenure of two years.
Singh, who was earlier Indian Ambassador to Germany and succeeded Ranjan Mathai, also spoke of her immediate priorities.
"My immediate priorities would be in our immediate neighborhood. That is where our immediate interest lies and that is where our most intent interactions are. Beyond that, it is important to strengthen relations with our strategic partners all over the world," she added.

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Should Canada geese be killed off instead of mute swans? DNR, readers weigh in

GRAND RAPIDS, MI ? To MLive readers, Barry County officials who recently approved plans to eradicate its mute swan population are targeting the wrong fowl.

Instead, another bird considered by many to be as much, if not more, of a nuisance as the swans should be killed off: the widespread Canada goose.

"The Canada geese are more of a problem," reader Paul Schramm commented on The Grand Rapids Press's Facebook page. "Parasites and filthy."

Others seemed to agree, saying the large birds congregate and leave parks and private property covered in feces.

"Canada geese seem to be the bigger problem," reader aktow said. "They are everywhere now and are pretty destructive. I guess this is where we leave it to the experts."

The conversation started after news Barry County would, over the course of five years, work with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to eradicate mute swans.

Wildlife officials said the swans are an invasive species not native to Michigan, whose seemingly insatiable appetites can deprive other wildlife of food and harm ecosystems.

They also can be aggressive toward other creatures and even humans, DNR waterfowl expert Barb Avers said.

Unlike the swans, Canada geese actually are native to Michigan, Avers said. What's more, more than 60,000 waterfowl hunters in the state help keep their numbers in check.

Canada geese may be hunted at various times between late summer and winter, and their are daily bag limits.

"We try to balance that with trying to have as few nuisance complaints as possible," Avers said. "I look at them as completely separate" from mute swans.

Still, the geese are a pervasive presence throughout Michigan. There are more than 300,000 in the state, up from an estimated 9,000 in 1970, according to the DNR.

Though not as aggressive as mute swans, Canada geese are known to leave feces buildup in their wake.

This can be unsightly on lawns, and even elevate bacteria levels in waterways. High concentrations of bacteria from goose droppings have even forced beach closures.

Earlier this year, a Grand Rapids resident petitioned the city to evict Canada geese from the city's Riverside Park because of feces buildup.

"It is a serious issue," Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell said during the City Connection TV program in April, according to citizen news website The Rapidian, "and I want to treat it seriously."

Canada geese also have a habit of choosing "inappropriate" nesting spots, like bushes near buildings, according to the DNR. They also tend to be aggressive while nesting.

The birds also are known to damage agriculture. The DNR proposes control methods like hunting, using scare devices or dogs to scare the geese away, among others.

Overall, though, the species "aren't having this type of wetland vegetation impact" like the swans, Avers said.

Read more about Michigan's Canada goose problems here, and weigh in on the Barry County swan cull here.

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Movie review: 'Smurfs 2' goes from silly to sappy | The Salt Lake ...

Sony Pictures Animation "The Smurfs 2" ? Smurfette (center, voiced by Katy Perry) meets some naughty creations, Vexy (left, voiced by Christina Ricci) and Hackus (voiced by J.B. Smoove) in this continuation of the children's series. (Opens July 31)

Review ? Tone shifts wildly in animated/live-action hybrid.

It may seem strange and a bit esoteric that the plot of "The Smurfs 2" revolves around Smurfette having an existential crisis ? though when you think about it, animated characters ranging from Buzz Lightyear to Lightning McQueen have wondered about life?s meaning, too.

Of course, director Raja Gosnell ? whose r?sum? includes "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," "Scooby-Doo" and now two "Smurfs" movies ? isn?t exactly in Pixar?s league, and neither is this derivative and syrupy mix of animation and live-action.

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?The Smurfs 2?

The little blue heroes return in a story that shifts oddly from silliness to sentimentality.

Where ? Theaters everywhere.

When ? Opens Wednesday, July 31.

Rating ? PG for some rude humor and action

Running time ? 105 minutes.

Smurfette (voiced by the singer Katy Perry) is torn between her origins ? having been created by the evil Gargamel (Hank Azaria) to tempt the Smurfs toward evil ? and her adopted family of Smurfs, led by the gentle Papa Smurf (voiced by the late Jonathan Winters). When it appears to Smurfette that the other Smurfs have forgotten her Smurfday, though really the Smurfs are just planning a surprise party and hiding the cake and decorations, she thinks she doesn?t belong in Smurf Village.

That coincides with Gargamel?s latest evil plan. The old wizard, now performing a successful magic act at the Paris Opera House, sends his Naughties through a portal to kidnap Smurfette. Once back in Paris, the scheming Vexy (voiced by Christina Ricci) and dim Hackus (voiced by J.B. Smoove) try to persuade Smurfette to return to the dark side and give Gargamel the formula Papa Smurf used to turn her into a real Smurf.

Papa Smurf enlists a makeshift crew ? Clumsy Smurf (voiced by Anton Yelchin), Grouchy Smurf (voiced by George Lopez) and Vanity Smurf (voiced by John Oliver) ? to transport to the human world. There, they enlist their friends, married couple Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) and Grace ("Glee?s" Jayma Mays), along with their son, Blue (Jacob Tremblay), and Patrick?s overly eager stepdad, Victor (Brendan Gleeson).

"The Smurfs" looks clean and polished amid the Parisian backdrops, befitting the characters? European origins. But there?s a big sore thumb in the animation, which is the poorly executed work on Azreal, Gargamel?s cat sidekick. The human cast gets its moments, and Gleeson (Mad-Eye Moody from the "Harry Potter" films) has an excessive amount of fun with the avuncular Victor.

The tag-teamed script, credited to five writers, sets up a parallel between Smurfette?s doubts about her place in Smurfdom and Patrick?s qualms about his stepdad. That?s an oddly deep message to embed in a frothy animated adventure, but Gosnell isn?t capable of maneuvering smartly between silly and sentimental, and the fun kiddie ride of "The Smurfs 2" bogs down considerably.

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Analyst: This Chip Maker Is Building a U.S.-Based Fab to Supply Apple

Is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM) about to replace Samsung (SSNLF.PK) as the primary chip provider for Apple?s (NASDAQ:AAPL) mobile devices? According to a note to investors from Piper Jaffray analyst Jagadish Iyer via Apple Insider, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company?s recent hiring recruitment effort in the Fishkill, N.Y. area might be an indication that the chip maker is preparing to open a local fabrication plant that will supply Apple.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple signed a deal last month with TSMC for the company to begin making some of its iPhone and iPad chips in 2014. Apple had discussed using TSMC as a chip supplier as early as 2010, but the Taiwan-based manufacturer has apparently had difficulties in meeting Apple?s stringent chip specifications.

?With Apple?s supply chain for processors shifting to TSMC from Samsung, we believe Apple could better monitor its supply chain while de-risking itself. Though press reports have surfaced recently on Apple trying to secure a wafer fab, our checks do indicate that Apple has been hiring a number of process technologists in chip manufacturing,? wrote the analyst via Apple Insider.

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Rome native graduates from Harvard

James Isaac Payne graduated from Harvard University with a master?s of divinity degree with an emphasis in Arabic and Islamic studies. In 2011 he graduated suma cum laude from Emory University.

He was the 2007 valedictorian of Rome High school.

He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. James Payne and the grandson of J. Sanford Payne and the late Sara Hall Payne.

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'Masters of Sex' takes explicit look at sexuality

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? There's so much sex depicted on a new cable TV series about researchers Masters and Johnson that filming it became ho-hum for star Michael Sheen.

"I never thought I would get used to having a naked woman in front of me masturbating ... but I actually broke that barrier on the show," Sheen, who plays researcher William Masters, said Tuesday.

He plays opposite Lizzy Caplan as co-researcher and future wife Virginia Johnson in Showtime's "Masters of Sex," an explicit depiction of the pair and their groundbreaking mid-20th century scientific investigation of human sexuality.

The series, based on Thomas Maier's 2009 nonfiction book, debuts Sept. 29 on Showtime. Johnson died last week at age 88 in St. Louis. She was divorced from Masters, who died in 2001.

Sheen, whose film credits include "The Queen," said the story remains pertinent because the same "problems of intimacy" and making connections with people apply today.

During a Q&A session with the Television Critics Association, the difficulty of talking about sex publicly became apparent. One reporter asked the cast and producers how the series can include humor without appearing to titter at sexuality.

"We just had a slightly inappropriate look into your sex life. We all thank you for that," Sheen replied, drolly.

Caplan (TV's "True Blood," ''New Girl") said the researchers' work at Washington University in St. Louis and later at their own institute was especially important for women, allowing them to understand and accept their sexuality as healthy.

"Before Masters and Johnson, no one was telling women that. It was always their own fault," Caplan said. "And that's some (baloney)."

The series embellished some characters but "stuck to the facts very carefully," said producer Michelle Ashford. "Certainly (with) the research, we fudged none of that."

Masters and Johnson became big celebrities who were the topic of late-night talk show hosts and on the cover of news magazines. Their work drew some criticism, especially in an era when sex was seldom discussed in public and certainly not in detail.

The cast, asked whether filming sex scenes proved embarrassing, said there was a painstaking effort to protect the actors by making the production "comfortable and safe," Sheen said.

Cast member Teddy Sears recalled director John Madden saying, "I want to protect your modesty," then mimicked the British Madden giving a stage direction: "Grab her bum."

Doing repeated takes of one clinical sex scene turned out to be "decidedly unsexy after a while," Sears said.

The panelists, including executive producer Sarah Timberman, said they were not in touch with Johnson because they'd wanted to respect her privacy.

"She wanted to live out her the last few years of her life not in the limelight," Caplan said.

Johnson "bared her soul in the book (by Maier) and then was done with that," said producer Ashford.

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The 4 Phases of Information Marketing Business | Ryan Lee ...

I?ve been doing a lot of soul-searching over the past few weeks.

Trying to figure out why some of my students are so successful, yet others get the SAME material and get virtually no results.

It can?t be the material (it?s the same). It can?t be the coaching (it?s also the same).

So what is it?

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THE SIMPLE TRUTH

Here?s the way it works and how a majority of people operate. And let?s stick with this world of building an online business.

Phase 1 ? The Pain: This is when people are sick and tired of living in mediocrity. It might be debt and student bills. Or they might have had enough of working for someone else. Whatever the reason, they are looking for a change.

Phase 2 ? The Discovery: They start hitting good ?ol Google and find this entirely new world. Money. Freedom. And lots of big promises. So they buy products and go to the next phase?

Phase 3 ? The Idea: They now have a great idea for a product or business. They jot down a few goals and get excited. They can almost taste that first check. But before the money starts rolling in, it?s time for phase 4.

Phase 4 ? The Silence: This is the final (and fatal) phase. Most of the time, they do nothing. That?s right, the enthusiasm starts to fade and reality sets in. So instead of just doing something ? they choose to do absolutely zip.

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ENTHUSIASM NEEDS OXYGEN

Just like a fire needs oxygen to survive, so does your enthusiasm.

But in this case, your ?oxygen? is ACTION.

That?s right, ACTION. It can be small, simple steps.?

How many of you took the time to write your Rebel Yell? And if you did write it down, what have you done since then?

Have you created a new marketing funnel? Re-crafted your blog posts? Re-worked your products. Recorded a new video? Wrote a new headline?

These aren?t big action steps. I didn?t say to rent out Madison Square Garden and put on a 20,000 person event. I?m talking small steps.

But again, how many people did this after reading that post? I?m willing to be the percentage is low. Really low. Probably less than 5%. I?d love to be wrong, but I?m not. And 14+ years of doing this online have proven the numbers just don?t change much.

Maybe you got scared. Or you got distracted with yet another ?launch?. Or the pain of actually doing something was too much to overcome.

Whatever the reason, you MUST overcome the inactivity. It?s a requirement for success.

The Rebel Yell was a good first step. Even that small bit of clarity can transform your business. Now it?s time to get off your butt and keep stoking your enthusiasm with ACTION.

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW.

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British police investigate violent, sexual Twitter threats to female MP

Stella Creasy, an MP with the opposition Labour party, faced a stream of abuse after supporting a feminist activist who was targeted for campaigning for an image of novelist Jane Austen to appear on banknotes.

Another lawmaker said she too was receiving a barrage of offensive messages, while a man has been arrested and bailed over rape threats to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.

"This isn't about Twitter, this is about hatred of women and hatred of women who speak up," Creasy told BBC radio on Monday.

"Twitter needs to be explicit that sexual violence and sexual aggression will not be tolerated as part of their user terms and conditions."

High-profile women in Britain have long complained of online harassment but the issue reached front pages after Criado-Perez said she received "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours" last week.

Scotland Yard said Tuesday that police had received an allegation from an MP about "malicious communications" over comments on Twitter.

Creasy retweeted a series of tweets that included threats from accounts named "killcreasynow" and "eatcreasynow", which have now been suspended.

She said she was reporting the abuse to both Twitter and police.

Lawmaker Claire Perry, from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, likewise retweeted a string of message including threats of sexual violence and one that read, "please disappear into obscurity and/or alcoholism. or die, whatever."

"I am tempted to shut down my Twitter account given the trolling going on incl. to me ? but that would be giving in," Perry tweeted.

Perry has been advising Cameron on his plans to introduce an "opt-in" system for blocking Internet pornography.

The abuse to Criado-Perez sparked a huge outcry among Twitter users and prompted more than 60?000 people to sign an online petition demanding the network introduce a "report abuse" button and review its rules on abusive behaviour.

Twitter has introduced a report button on tweets in its iPhone app and plans to bring it to other platforms.

But some users say the form to which it links is too complex and time-consuming for those receiving a barrage of abusive tweets.

In a blog post titled ?We Hear You?, Twitter said on Monday: "We are not blind to the reality that there will always be people using Twitter in ways that are abusive and may harm others".

Del Harvey, senior director for trust and safety, wrote that manual reviewing of all tweets was not possible as 400?million of the 140-character messages are sent each day around the world.

But it said it used both automated and manual systems to assess reports of users violating its rules, which bar "direct, specific threats of violence against others".

Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of sending malicious communications to Criado-Perez, whose banknote campaign culminated Wednesday in the announcement Jane Austen would feature on the ?10 note from 2017.

The Bank of England had previously announced changes that would have left Queen Elizabeth?II as the only woman represented.

Concerns have been raised that a quicker "report abuse" function on Twitter could be open to misuse by those wishing to silence other users.

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Mini-monsters of the forest floor

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects after ancient Mayan lords and demons.

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OneBlueOnePink: MoneySupermarket Home Improvement Hero ...

I really love a challenge, and recently MoneySupermarket asked me the question, Is it possible to change the look, feel and even functionality of a room on a low budget? A budget of ?50 to be precise. Well, knowing that I had a few ideas to make our living room feel more homely I accepted the challenge.

Here is our living room before (well to be honest part way through because I only remembered to take the picture after we had pulled the sofa and got the dust sheets at the ready!)

We have lived in our home (a new build when we brought it) for 7 years and a lot of the rooms are still magnolia, which, I think is really plain and boring. We had made half an effort with our living room and wallpapered a feature wall a couple of years back. But that is as far as we had got. As with lots of other rooms in the house, cracks had started to show between the ceiling and the coving joins. So first on my list was to ask Craig to kindly fill those cracks.
It was really easy to do, he just used some decorators caulk (we had some spare, so didn't need to buy anymore) and used a decorating gun to press it into the cracks. We then waited a couple of days for it to dry out before painting over it.

Whilst this was drying we painted a couple of tester pots of paint onto various parts of the wall, to see what the 2 colours we had narrowed it down to would look like in different lights. Wanting to keep it close to the flower colour on our wall paper we chose to go with Duck Egg.

So after carefully masking, the areas that needed masking we set to work painting the ceiling and coving white (using paint we already had) and then painting the walls Duck Egg. As the living room is a high traffic area and the children are still young we chose to go for Silk paint. Meaning that it can be wiped clean if necessary.

Next on my list to change the look and feel of the room was to change the blinds for curtains. The blinds looked nice when we moved in, but times have changed and I no longer like them. So I went and found some really nice curtains in the homebase sale. They are a cream colour with brown flowers stitched into the top. So go perfectly with the wallpaper. ?As our house in newish the walls are made of plaster board, which can be a real pain when it comes to hanging things, as the plasterboard is just not strong enough to hold in screws. So here is what we did....

1. Measure up and mark out where we were putting the curtain pole. We used a skewer to poke through the screw holes and mark the wall in the correct place.
2. Using some Black and Decker hollow fixings, which are specifically designed for plasterboard, Craig hammered them into the wall.
3. He then threaded the screw through the curtain pole fixing and screwed that into the hollow fixings. By doing this the hollow fixings would have sprung out from behind, clinging onto the plasterboard and making the curtain pole more secure.?
4. Finally, we threaded the curtains onto the pole and placed the pole into the curtain pole fixing.?

We repeated this process to put the curtain holdbacks up.

The final part of our effort to change the look and feel of the room was to put up a picture frame we had been meaning to hang somewhere for a long time. Again, because of the plasterboard walls this does restrict a little. However we have found a really great product that makes hanging pictures really easy!

1. Place 4 sets of large damage free hanging strips (they come in packs of 4) onto the back of your frame, two at the very top and the other two 3 quarters of the way down. Pressing down on each one for 30 seconds.
2. Measure up and mark exactly where you are going to place your picture.?
3. Take the backing off of each strip and carefully place your picture onto the wall. Again, press each one for 30 seconds.
4. Stand back and admire how lovely and flat the picture frame looks against your wall!

We also hung a white wooden heart onto the wall in between the window and the wallpaper and I think that looks great.?

Our room now looks like this...

Totally different and really calming. We also turned the sofa around so that it didn't block out so much light (it was against the window). I love that we have made it personal with the photo frame and also that just by putting up some curtains and a lick of paint its made the room look so different!

So this was our total spends:

Curtains ? ? ? ? ?- ?12.42 (These were a bargain as should of been over ?30!)

Curtain pole ? ?- ?6.78

Hollow fixings - ?6.99

2x holdbacks ?- ?7.98

Paint ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - ?11.99

Picture Strips ?- ?3.39

Wicker Heart - ?3.99

Total ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??53.54

Ok so I came in at ?3.54 over the ?50 budget, but its still an amazing transformation for only just over ?50!! Do I think I have succeeded with the challenge, YES!!! I set out to change the look and feel of the room and we have definitely done that! I feel so much happier sitting in our front room now, its a nice, cozy, welcoming room. Rather than a room that I was quite fed up with and embarrassed about!

Source: http://www.oneblueonepink.com/2013/07/moneysupermarket-home-improvement-hero.html

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Washington County sets aside acreage as buffer to protect trout-sensitive Browns Creek

A drive to save a natural area along a trout-sensitive stream in Washington County advanced last week when the county pledged money for its purchase.

The 17 acres in Stillwater Township, bordering Browns Creek, sit at the corner of a busy crossroads and would be attractive to anyone wanting to build a gas station, said David Johnson, a township supervisor.

?As a gateway to our community, we felt this was an inappropriate use of the property,? he told the County Board last week.

Commissioners voted to fund at least some of the purchase cost of the Palmer property, as it?s known, with money from the county?s Land and Water Legacy program. The purchase will be the latest use of the voter-approved $20 million bond referendum fund to preserve open spaces and protect water quality from commercial development.

In a related action last week, commissioners approved spending as much as $247,000 in Legacy funds toward the purchase of 30 acres along La Lake in Woodbury for preservation. This land is at 6655 Bailey Road, just north of the Woodbury?s La Lake Open Space. The city of Woodbury will pay the remaining $468,000 for the land.

The Palmer property, southeast of the busy Stillwater Township intersection of Hwy. 96 and Manning Av., holds significant importance as a natural area because the creek?s health is a high priority for the Browns Creek Watershed District as it attempts to reintroduce trout in the upper reaches.

Brown trout, a cold-water species, have been stocked yearly in Browns Creek since 1958. Long-term studies show that sustaining native brook trout and other species in the creek had been troublesome because of impairments, according to a recent watershed district report.

Browns Creek, as it meanders southeast, will parallel the new Browns Creek State Trail that is to be built next spring. Environmentalists have raised concern about harm to the creek with 75,000 people a year using the adjacent trail, but the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said it would limit access to the creek from the trail.

Portion may be a trailhead

The western portion of the Palmer property is envisioned as a trailhead for the Lake Links and Central Greenways regional trails, which intersect at the property, and the forthcoming state trail that is a third of a mile to the south. Trail development has gained considerable traction in Washington County in recent years.

Source: http://www.startribune.com/local/east/217317871.html

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