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Toledo Blade
March 30, 2018
Lisa Zatko wakes her two daughters up every morning at 6. She makes breakfast, packs their lunches, and they're on a yellow bus by 7, headed from their Sylvania Township home to Lial Elementary, a private Catholic school near Whitehouse. With her and her husband working, the bus is the best optionÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 30, 2018
Chief among them: that Amtrak may be growing less accommodating to ferrying these private coaches around the country tethered to its regularly scheduled service, because of bad behavior among some one-off renters of the private coaches and, more significantly, because risks to on-time performance atÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 30, 2018
“We conclude that the (Nevada Public Records Act) does not categorically exempt public records maintained on private devices or servers from disclosure,” Justice Michael Cherry wrote in the opinion, which was unanimously affirmed by the six other justices. “To withhold a public record from disclosure, theÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 30, 2018
“With the internet making education free, it's hard to justify paying record high tuition for a private education unless you're rich,” said Dogen, who attended both during his young life. “Yet, many parents pay for religious reasons, fear of missing out, the desire for smaller class sizes and more attention for theirÃâà...
FEI Daily
March 30, 2018
Financial Executive International's Committee on Private Company Policy (CPC-P) consists of business owners and senior financial executives of privately-owned and family businesses. The CPC-P provides advocacy and support for its members by monitoring legislative and regulatory developments andÃâà...
TechCrunch
March 29, 2018
It hopes now to expand that to make the UK a “one-stop shop” for the private space industry. A big component of this will be, as the bill said, the opportunities afforded by “using satellite data and machine learning technology to support the rollout of charging points for electric vehicles,” for example.
WABI
March 26, 2018
Keeping information private on Facebook. By Zach Warren |. Posted: Mon 5:39 PM, Mar 26, 2018. BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - British Consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is accused of data mining the information of 50-million Facebook profiles. The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday it would be investigating theÃâà...
Bravo (blog)
March 26, 2018
The appeal of flying private — showing up 15 minutes before departure and bypassing the unpleasantries of a commercial airport terminal, for starters — is easy to grasp. So how much is it to fly private? Well, sadly, for most of us, the actual experience of flying in a private jet remains stubbornly out of reach.
PYMNTS.com
March 26, 2018
Macy's has been suffering from a slump in sales, but it's hoping a renewed focus on private label brands will improve its outlook with investors. According to Jeff Gennette, chairman and CEO of Macy's, the goal is to boost private label sales to eventually rake in 40 percent of the retailer's total business. That would be 11Ãâà...
WPSD Local 6
March 26, 2018
Open government advocates compared it to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a private server for her email, a method also used by past Republican presidential administrations. “Public record means more than a record sitting on the desk of a public official,” said Amye Bensenhaver, director ofÃâà...
CNBC
March 26, 2018
Keeping a private plane on hand is a costly business that even the mega wealthy may not indulge in. According to new research, the cost of owning and maintaining a private jet is so great that the estimated mean average wealth of such a person is calculated at around $1.5 billion. Much less than that andÃâà...
Barron's
March 25, 2018
African-American multi-media artist Lona Simpson previewed Hypothetical?—an audio installation and meditation on race relations—at the 1993 Whitney Biennial. For the next decade or so, the wind-instrument-fronted work—a response to the Los Angeles riots in 1992—traversed the country, appearing inÃâà...
wtkr.com
March 25, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Tis' the season to slam dunk for charity. Top area athletes from public and private schools duked it out at Virginia Wesleyan University in the Virginian-Pilot's 2nd Annual Joy Fund All-Star Classic. Dereon Seabron from Lake Taylor dunks. The proceeds from the event help the JoyÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 25, 2018
Former LSU edge rusher Arden Key said the New Orleans Saints are among the NFL teams that will put him through a private workout and a personal visit during the lead-up to the 2018 NFL Draft. Key spoke Saturday (March 24) before a charity kickball game put on by New Orleans native and former LSUÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 25, 2018
KUALA LUMPUR: Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Iskandar's private vehicle collection was the highlight of a motorshow at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang. According to the New Straits Times (NST), the Sultan had consented to have his collection displayed at the event, which runs from Mar 23 to 25.
Detroit Free Press
March 25, 2018
A secret for years, the private GM showroom displays 165 vintage cars of 700 owned. Designs range from 1902 to present, concept cars and road tested. Loading… Post to Facebook. General Motors' private car museum has been a secret for years A secret for years, the private GM showroom displays 165Ãâà...
CleanTechnica
March 25, 2018
To make these new vehicles more functional and support the community, early plug-in vehicle owners networked to share their private EV charging stations with other plug-in vehicle drivers. Range anxiety — or the fear of running out of battery power before making it to a plug-in vehicle charging spotÃâà...
ZDNet
March 14, 2018
Mozilla has released its Firefox 59 browser for PC, Mac and Android devices, featuring a number of performance, privacy and security updates. Among the most interesting additions, Firefox 59 adds new settings in the preferences menu to to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access yourÃâà...
WHYY
March 14, 2018
Bob Brady said he will sponsor a special kind of legislation — a private bill — on behalf of one family of undocumented immigrants living in Philadelphia. This type of measure has been used as a last resort to give immigrants in extraordinary circumstances legal status in the U.S. in the past, but changes toÃâà...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
A glimpse at the “private, hidden face” of Albert Einstein, including the celebrated scientist's thoughts on everything from his fears that his best work was behind him to his equivocal feelings about his fame, has been revealed in a cache of letters he wrote to his beloved younger sister, Maja. The collectionÃâà...
Newsweek
March 14, 2018
Trump's Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, has argued that he never took a private jet, because the planes he travelled on had propellers. He made the bizarre statement Tuesday as he faced questions in Congress about his spending of taxpayer dollars for a series of chartered flights. “I never took aÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
March 14, 2018
ARVADA, Colo. -- Students and parents protested Tuesday night outside Faith Christian Academy because they say there is a culture of racism at the private school that needs to be stopped. “The children feel like they can do whatever they want, say whatever they want with no accountability,” parent NancyÃâà...
Science Daily
March 14, 2018
Information about water from private wells has been limited because such wells are exempt from the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act, the 1986 Lead Ban and the 2011 Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act. Now, researchers report a case study in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology thatÃâà...
Aviation Today
March 9, 2018
Delta Private Jets launched its new Sky Access membership model in January. It is designed to provide what the Part 135 air carrier describes as “affordable” access to empty-leg flights. Empty leg flights occur when operators are positioning an aircraft in their fleets for its next scheduled flight, andÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 9, 2018
The key to ensuring that the region's agriculture and aquaculture sectors produce enough food lies in Public-Private Partnerships. Agri-PPP has the potential to modernise the agriculture sector and deliver multiple benefits, including pest and insects' problems, seed production and commercialisation, andÃâà...
EFF
March 9, 2018
Last month Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) separately wrote to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Pinterest accusing them of facilitating trade in illegal narcotics and prescription drugs.
The Guardian
March 9, 2018
A teacher at a private school in Northamptonshire has been banned from teaching after repeatedly using racist language about students. A professional conduct panel found that Philip Pedley, a history teacher at Oundle school, where fees can be more than Ãâã35,000 a year, told colleagues he did not “wantÃâà...
The Verge
March 8, 2018
During a cabinet meeting today, President Donald Trump remarked briefly on the success of the private industry — and that NASA seems to be increasingly using vehicles from commercial companies. The only problem: the Trump administration's budget requests don't make significant strides to partnerÃâà...
Page Six
March 7, 2018
11, where three computers containing private information were snatched from the premises. Innovative Artists, which represents celebrities such as Sterling K. Brown, Britt Robertson, Rachel Brosnahan, Channing Tatum, Lacey Chabert and Jane Seymour, believes the computer equipment was stolen forÃâà...
The Daily Herald
March 7, 2018
Today it's easy to drive past the nondescript vacant lot on Highway 527, between a gym and auto repair shop opposite the Cadman cement mixing plant near the Bothell-Mill Creek border, without batting an eye. A year from now, the 13.5-acre site will house a private, independent school its founders areÃâà...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
When my long-term cancer patient landed in a different public hospital with unexpected bleeding complications, it soon became apparent that he was at the end of life. There were no beds in that hospital and the patient was too unwell to transfer. He died in a cubicle many hours later. The physician calledÃâà...
Twin Falls Times-News
March 7, 2018
Idaho's Constitution is pretty direct with the separation of church and state, Dickinson said, and most of Idaho's private schools are religiously affiliated. On its face, the bill may seem like a small change, he said, but “it has the potential to become a slippery slope.” Dickinson said it's difficult to say how theÃâà...
AL.com
March 7, 2018
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the city of Gardendale and its municipal court have filed a joint motion to dismiss a lawsuit relating to the northern Birmingham suburb's use of a private probation company. Gardendale and Municipal Judge Kenneth Gomany cut ties with Private Probation ServicesÃâà...
GeekWire
March 7, 2018
Six new points-of-presence will allow large Dropbox customers in those areas to quickly tap into its private network and share files over a connection much faster than the public internet. Those new points-of-presence will come online in Atlanta, Denver, Berlin, and Toronto in the first half of this year, withÃâà...
CNBC
March 7, 2018
Private payrolls rose by 235,000 in February, well above Wall Street estimates of 195,000, according to a report from ADP and Moody's Analytics. Growth actually decelerated slightly, as January posted an upwardly revised 244,000 from the initially reported 234,000. The Moody's/ADP report precedes theÃâà...
Accounting Today
March 7, 2018
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed into law on Feb. 9, has a provision that may be a boon to people who want to use stock in their family businesses to fund private foundations. Under the old law, private foundations were severely restricted in their ownership of any business enterprise, with excessÃâà...
HuffPost
March 7, 2018
Seven siblings who were rescued from a squalid Southern California home earlier this year received a special treat last week: a private performance by Yo-Yo Ma. The world-renowned cellist reportedly performed for seven of the 13 siblings at a hospital in Corona, California, on Friday. The special visitÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 7, 2018
SINGAPORE: Regulations for the private-hire car industry are being reviewed as the fast-growing sector continues to evolve, Second Minister for Transport Ng Chee Meng said on Wednesday (Mar 7). Speaking in Parliament during the Committee of Supply debates, Mr Ng said the Government is studyingÃâà...
Fast Company
March 7, 2018
But what made matters worse: the URL included in Modi's email used the HTTP protocol—that is, it began with “http://”—which is notoriously insecure compared with HTTPS, and can make supposedly “private” webpages accessible to hackers and other adversaries. As Modi points out, this isn't justÃâà...
MyCentralJersey.com
March 7, 2018
PLAINFIELD - A judge has sided with the city's private special improvement district in a case that will decide the fate of the entity. In December, the Plainfield City Council passed an ordinance replacing the existing special improvement district (SID) with a mayoral-appointed Central Business DistrictÃâà...
Golf Channel
March 7, 2018
Equipment insider Matt Adams learns how you can get your own private fitting at the PGA Tour Superstore. PlaylistTrending. PGA Tour Superstore 'no fear' private equipment fittingMar 06, 2018 Ãâ÷ Wie mindset change: 'I was sick of struggling'Mar 06, 2018 Ãâ÷ Bet with Leadbetter contributes to win for WieMarÃâà...
CBS News
March 7, 2018
A key aide to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been granted permission to make extra money moonlighting for private clients whose identities are being kept secret. A letter approving outside employment contracts for John Konkus — signed by an EPA ethics lawyer in AugustÃâà...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
“I believe that we should address these issues together and redirect part of the wasteful and ineffective private health insurance rebate to expand Medicare-funded dental care,” the letter, sent on Tuesday evening and seen by Guardian Australia, says. “A cooperative approach on this significant reform willÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 3, 2018
Trouble is brewing among the students of the Girls Domestic Science School, a well-known private institution at Hitotsubashi, Kanda, which enjoys a good reputation in educational circles and has contributed greatly to the advancement of female education, the courses including sewing, embroidery andÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 3, 2018
It's a delicate ecosystem, and private keys are generally only supposed to be accessible to the site owner—which is why it's absolutely bizarre for the CEO of a company that sells certificates to not only have access to customers' private keys, but to email them around willy-nilly. It's as if someone at the DMVÃâà...
Investopedia (blog)
March 3, 2018
Since its introduction, blockchain has undergone several iterations as the general public and private corporations sought to take advantage of its valuable infrastructure. While its spectacular design has long played second fiddle to the speculative sentiment driving valuations in cryptocurrencies,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 3, 2018
The Department for International Development (DfID) has written to all its contracted private-sector firms, as well as UK and non-UK-based charities, insisting they immediately report any abuse allegations. Last night two big DfID contractors said they were aware of allegations of sexual misconduct orÃâà...
ARTnews
March 2, 2018
Clade, an online club that bills itself as a “private, digital community designed for the world's wealthiest and most influential investors,” has launched an art exhibition in which its members can buy artworks through its website. Its first show features works by the painter Nate Lowman that have been broughtÃâà...
National Geographic
March 2, 2018
On Tuesday, a 22-year-old, unnamed woman was mauled to death while visiting a popular private wildlife sanctuary run by Kevin Richardson, the well-known “Lion Whisperer,” near Pretoria. Richardson and the sanctuary could not be reached for comment at the time of this publication, but RichardsonÃâà...
TechTarget
March 2, 2018
DigiCert, which acquired Symantec's certificate business last August, announced Wednesday that approximately 20,000 Symantec certificates, including GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL brands, were to be revoked because their private keys had been exposed [DigiCert later revised the number to aroundÃâà...
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