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Obama: I won't 'twiddle my thumbs' waiting for GOP
President Barack Obama explained why, amid a series of executive branch controversies, his renewed his focus on the economy: it's not only about financial stability, but about equal opportunity.
The message he sees as "jobs and justice" from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington 50 years ago still rings true, Obama told The New York Times in an interview published Saturday evening.
To the many Americans who today are uncertain about their future, the 1963 march taught valuable lessons on racial equality and opportunities for "working folks," he argued.
The remarks, days after the president spoke on race and the Trayvon Martin case, came while he was on a campaign-style economic tour.
"Racial tensions won't get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they've got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot" if individuals do not see a stable fiscal future, Obama said.
"If the economy is growing, everybody feels invested. Everybody feels as if we're rolling in the same direction," he said.
Obama's midweek schedule looked familiar to watchers of his 2012 campaign and first White House term, when he favored speaking to crowds at colleges and businesses around the nation over Washington venues when advocating his economic priorities.
After visiting universities in Illinois and Missouri and speaking on the importance of education to the economy, he flew to the port in Jacksonville, Fla, where he called for investment in infrastructure. On Monday, he will speak at a Tennessee shipping center about manufacturing, jobs, and economic growth; then on Wednesday, he will travel to Capitol Hill to meet with Democrats in the House and Senate.
He cast aside the questions about such issues as the National Security Agency leaks, Internal Revenue Service political scrutiny and U.S. handling of the Benghazi, Libya, attack last September. "With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball," he said, although he was not specific about which controversies he was referring to.
The White House plans to continue the push on the economy into the fall.
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Omnicom, Publicis to combine into biggest ad firm
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis, and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group pose during a joint news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis, and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group pose during a joint news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis, and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group exchange a pencil during a joint signature prior to a news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis, and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group pose during a joint news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis, and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group pose during a joint news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Maurice Levy, left, Chief Executive of French advertising group Publicis , and John Wren, head of Omnicom Group pose during a joint news conference in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Publicis and Omnicom have announced merger plans to create the world's biggest advertising group . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
PARIS (AP) ? Omnicom Group Inc. and Publicis Groupe SA say they are combining in a "merger of equals" that will create the world's largest advertising firm, one worth more than $35 billion.
The combined company will be called Publicis Omnicom Group and be jointly led by Omnicom CEO John Wren and Publicis CEO Maurice Levy as co-chief executives. The move is designed to bolster the companies' focus on growing Asian and Latin American markets such as China and Brazil, where they each have ramped up operations to counter lackluster growth in weak European markets.
But although a combined firm will allow for more pricing power in general, the decrease in competition could present regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and Europe. Client conflicts also could be an issue, as rivals such as Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo, McDonald's, Yum Brands' Taco Bell, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble now find themselves under the same umbrella.
Rich Tullo, an analyst at Albert Fried & Co. in New York, predicted pushback from regulators in both the U.S. and France. The U.S. could be wary of one company controlling such a large portion of the market, he said, while in France, authorities might not take warmly to any Americanization of a company that is a bright spot in the bruised French economy.
Tullo also questioned whether the combined company could live up to promises like the $500 million in cost savings touted with the announcement, given Europe's shaky financial condition. "That sounds like financial alchemy, if you ask me," he said.
Omnicom Group Inc., based in New York, owns BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide Communications Group and TBWA Worldwide, among other agencies. Paris-based Publicis Groupe SA runs its namesake agency as well as Leo Burnett Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi and DigitasLBi. Their merger creates a company with combined annual revenue of about $23 billion, leapfrogging them over current London-based industry leader WPP PLC.
For the first year, Omnicom Chairman Bruce Crawford will serve as non-executive chairman of the new company. He will be succeeded by Elisabeth Badinter, the current Publicis Groupe chairwoman, and daughter of its founder, for the second year.
Levy is slated to take the non-executive chairman's seat after 30 months, leaving Wren to continue as sole CEO from that point.
Omnicom, which also owns public relations firms such as Fleishman-Hillard, Porter Novelli and Ketchum, reported 2012 profit of nearly $1 billion on revenue of $14.22 billion. Earlier this month, the Madison Avenue giant posted second-quarter earnings that topped analysts' average forecast, though revenue growth of 2 percent fell just short of expectations.
Founded in 1986, Omnicom generates just over half of its revenue from U.S. clients, and about one-quarter from European and British markets combined. The company's stock has risen 31 percent in the last 12 months, recently peaking at $67.43 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Omnicom will benefit from Publicis' strategic shift in the last few years toward digital operations, as the French company beefed up its digital marketing profile with the acquisitions of Digitas, Razorfish, Rosetta, Big Fuel and LBi. Publicis, which had revenue of $8.78 billion in 2012, had targeted generating 75 percent of its revenue in digital and fast-growing countries by 2018, according to a recent investor presentation.
The move gives Publicis, which has faced questions about who will succeed 71-year-old Levy, access to Omnicom's well-regarded senior leadership, said James Dix, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.
Analysts said the deal also represents even more consolidation in an industry that is already dominated by just a few players, a fact that might not sit well with U.S. regulators.
If the Omnicom-Publicis combination goes through, the combined company would account for nearly 40 percent of the U.S. ad industry, twice as much as the nearest competitor, WPP, according to Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research Group in New York.
Wieser said Sunday the deal came as a surprise to many in the industry. Omnicom, he said, has "always been viewed as too large to get any larger."
The combined company will have more than 130,000 employees.
One concern is whether Omnicom and Publicis can strike a harmonious balance of power ? something that can be difficult in mergers of similar-sized companies.
"It's not clear yet who really is in the driver's seat," Wieser said. "That will emerge over time."
The fact that the two firms are based in different countries could also become an issue, Dix said. "You have these fiefdoms that keep people from playing together. One company is based in Paris, one is in New York. Where is the power center?" he said in an interview Saturday.
Dix expects that top executives are comfortable with the structure of the deal, but the adjustment may be more difficult for the next level of executives who run the firms' units.
"Now they have to fit together into a broader organization," Dix said. "If you lose clients or have defections of senior executives then you have something that looked good on paper but didn't quite play out."
The combination has been approved by the boards of both companies, but remains subject to regulatory approval in both the U.S. and Europe, and to a vote by shareholders of both companies. The deal is structured so that the shareholders of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom, after special dividends, will each hold approximately 50 percent of the company.
Publicis Groupe shareholders will receive one new share of Publicis Omnicom Group for each Publicis Groupe share they own, together with a special dividend of 1 euro per share. Omnicom shareholders will receive 0.813 new shares of Publicis Omnicom Group for each Omnicom share they own, plus a special dividend of $2 per share. The new company intends to be listed in Paris and on the New York Stock Exchange.
The combination could have a domino effect on the industry, spurring marriages between other ad giants who might fear they can't compete otherwise, said Michael Corty, an analyst at Chicago-based Morningstar. "Within the ad agency industry, this is potentially an earthquake deal."
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Business News reporters Christina Rexrode and Jon Fahey contributed from New York.
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2nd body found in NY river where best man fell in
PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) ? A second body was pulled from the Hudson River on Sunday near where a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man went missing after a nighttime boat crash near the Tappan Zee Bridge.
The body of a man believed to be 30-year-old Mark Lennon was discovered by someone on a recreational watercraft who then called 911, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said. The body was found near Piermont about a mile downstream from where the body of a woman believed to be bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart was found Saturday.
Falco said both families had been notified and were distraught. The bodies have since been taken to the medical examiner's office; neither person was wearing a life vest.
"I don't think you can put words to what we have to tell these families," he said.
Stewart was set to be married Aug. 10. Lennon was the best man.
Lennon and Stewart were thrown into the river Friday night after their speedboat crashed into a barge carrying materials for the construction of a replacement for the bridge. Four other friends, including Stewart's fiance, Brian Bond, and the boat operator, Jojo John, were hospitalized.
John, 35, of Nyack, was charged Saturday with vehicular manslaughter and three counts of vehicular assault from a hospital bed, where he was recovering from his injuries in the crash, said William Barbera, chief of the Rockland County Sheriff's Office. Authorities say they suspect John was intoxicated at the time of the crash, but they are awaiting results of blood tests.
Attempts to reach John's family weren't immediately successful and it wasn't clear if he had an attorney.
Authorities have declined to identify the other two boat passengers, saying they're considered witnesses to a crime. One of them has been released from the hospital.
Authorities have said the barge was equipped with lights, but it was still difficult to see on the water late at night. Falco said Sunday that the lighting would be a part of the investigation.
"We will determine if those barges were lit properly and if it was a factor," he said.
Sheryl Palacio, a high school biology teacher from Valley Cottage, went to the pier Sunday with her two young sons and father and said she knows Bond, an art teacher, and John.
"I've known Brian my whole life," she said. "He's an outstanding teacher, a wonderful, kind, respectful man. Now his best friend is missing and his other best friend is charged with manslaughter."
Palacio said John worked as a banker at a local Chase branch and opened accounts for her two boys.
"I just want to make sure everyone knows he was a good man, happy and loving," she said. "He was always telling me about his nieces and nephews."
Palacio's father, Mitchell Turk, of Orangeburg, said he visited with Bond's mother, Jean, at her home in Pearl River on Sunday.
"It's sad and quiet there, long faces. They're trying to carry on, doing as well as can be expected," Turk said.
The group left the village of Piermont for a short trip aboard the 21-foot Stingray across the river to Tarrytown, about 30 miles north of New York City, authorities said.
Stewart, of Piermont, worked for an insurance company. She and Bond were to be married at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pearl River, with a reception at a vineyard in Hillburn, her stepfather, Walter Kosik, said.
The couple had known each other for years and used to go to church together, he said.
"They have been friends the whole time, and they fell in love about 3 ? years ago," Kosik said.
The New York State Thruway Authority, which is overseeing the bridge project, said it was reviewing safety procedures. It said the lighting on the barges appeared to be functioning normally.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families during this difficult time," the authority said in a statement.
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Golf-'Oh baby',Canadian Open wide open after Mahan withdrawal
OAKVILLE, Ontario, July 27 |
OAKVILLE, Ontario, July 27 (Reuters) - Brandt Snedeker will take a one shot cushion into the final round of the Canadian Open after leader Hunter Mahan walked away from a potential $1 million payday on Saturday to be home for the birth of his child.
A wild day of rain delays, spectacular charges and a dazzling nine-under 63 from Snedeker at Glen Abbey Golf Course were all overshadowed by Mahan's hurried exit that threw the tournament wide open.
Mahan, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, had held a two shot overnight lead but while warming up on the driving range received word that his wife Kandi had gone into labor.
One of the hottest players on PGA Tour after having played in the final group at both last week's British Open and before that the U.S. Open, Mahan did not hesitate to give up his shot at the $1 million winner's purse, rushing back to Dallas for the birth of his first child.
"On the seventh tee I looked up and I didn't see Hunter's name on the leaderboard and I looked at my caddie, and go, 'What's going on'," Snedeker told reporters. "He goes, 'I think Hunter had to leave because Kandi went into labor.'
"Hunter was going to be hard to catch because he was playing so good.
"With him leaving now, the tournament is wide open and I knew I had a chance if I could keep the momentum going after the first six holes to really ride it out and do something special today."
With Mahan's name off the leaderboard the scramble was on as golfers took advantage of the soft conditions to attack the Jack Nicklaus designed layout.
Snedeker, who began the day a massive eight shots back of Mahan, surged to the top behind an error free display that was just one birdie shy of equaling the Glen Abbey course record of 62.
Lurking one shot back is David Lingmerth, who eagled the par five 18th, to cap off a round of seven-under 65 and put the Swede in contention for a maiden PGA Tour title on 13-under 203.
Matt Kuchar, the highest ranked player in the field at number six, fired a bogey-free eight-under 64 will start Sunday's final round just two back alongside Jason Bohn, who had a 66.
"I think Hunter right now is playing some of the best golf of anybody in the world," said Kuchar. "To be in the final group of the U.S. Open, final group of the British Open, come here playing just great golf, you knew he was just going to continue to play good golf.
"Not having him in the field kind of bunches the rest of us up and I think kind of gave everybody a chance."
With thunder storms in the area warning horns sounded at exactly noon with spectators and players ordered to evacuate the course.
Before the 80-minute delay several of the early starters, including a trio of former Masters champions Fijian Vijay Singh (2000) and South Africans Charl Schwartzel (2011) and Trevor Immelman (2008) had already mounted charges.
Singh, winner of the 2004 Canadian Open in a playoff over local favourite Mike Weir, got an overcast day off to a bright start going birdie-eagle-birdie to jump up the leaderboard.
The big Fijian would add four more birdies before his round unraveled with a double-bogey at the 15th just prior to the delay followed by a bogey at the 16th right after play resumed but still finished with a 66 to sit just six off the pace.
Immelman also had a 66 but will start five back of the leader while Schwartzel (66) has the most work to do seven shots behind the leader. (Editing by Gene Cherry)
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Rebel pope urges Catholics to shake up dioceses
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis showed his rebel side Thursday, urging young Catholics to shake up the church and make a "mess" in their dioceses by going out into the streets to spread the faith. It's a message he put into practice by visiting one of Rio's most violent slums and opening the church's World Youth Day on a rain-soaked Copacabana Beach.
Francis was elected pope on a mandate to reform the church, and in four short months he has started doing just that: He has broken long-held Vatican rules on everything from where he lays his head at night to how saints are made. He has cast off his security detail to get close to his flock, and his first international foray as pope has shown the faithful appreciate the gesture.
Dubbed the "slum pope" for his work with the poor, Francis received a rapturous welcome in the Varginha shantytown, part of a slum area of northern Rio so violent it's known as the Gaza Strip. The 76-year-old Argentine seemed entirely at home, wading into cheering crowds, kissing people young and old and telling them the Catholic Church is on their side.
"No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world!" Francis told a crowd of thousands who braved a cold rain and stood in a muddy soccer field to welcome him. "No amount of peace-building will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself."
It was a message aimed at reversing the decline in the numbers of Catholics in most of Latin America, with many poor worshippers leaving the church for Pentecostal and evangelical congregations. Those churches have taken up a huge presence in favelas, or shantytowns such as Varginha, attracting souls with nuts-and-bolts advice on how to improve their lives.
The Varginha visit was one of the highlights of Francis' weeklong trip to Brazil, his first as pope and one seemingly tailor-made for the first pontiff from the Americas.
The surprise, though, came during his encounter with Argentine pilgrims, scheduled at the last minute in yet another sign of how this spontaneous pope is shaking up the Vatican's staid and often stuffy protocol.
He told the thousands of youngsters, with an estimated 30,000 Argentines registered, to get out into the streets and spread their faith and make a "mess," saying a church that doesn't go out and preach simply becomes a civic or humanitarian group.
"I want to tell you something. What is it that I expect as a consequence of World Youth Day? I want a mess. We knew that in Rio there would be great disorder, but I want trouble in the dioceses!" he said, speaking off the cuff in his native Spanish. "I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!"
Apparently realizing the radicalness of his message, he apologized in advance to the bishops at home.
Later Thursday, he traveled in his open-sided car through a huge crowd in the pouring rain to a welcoming ceremony on Copacabana beach. It was his first official event with the hundreds of thousands of young people who have flocked to Rio for World Youth Day. Vatican officials estimated the crowd at 1 million.
Cheering pilgrims from 175 nations lined the beachfront drive to catch a glimpse of the pontiff, with many jogging along with the vehicle behind police barricades. The car stopped several times for Francis to kiss babies ? and take a long sip of his beloved mate, the traditional Argentine tea served in a gourd with a straw, which was handed up to him by someone in the crowd.
After he arrived at the beach-front stage, though, the crowd along the streets melted away, driven home by the pouring rain that brought out vendors selling the plastic ponchos that have adorned cardinals and pilgrims alike during this unseasonably cold, wet week.
In an indication of the havoc wreaked by four days of steady showers, organizers made an almost unheard-of change in the festival's agenda, moving the Saturday vigil and climactic Sunday Mass to Copacabana Beach from a rural area 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the city center. The terrain of the area, Guaratiba, had turned into a vast field of mud, making the overnight camping plans of pilgrims untenable.
The news was welcome to John White, a 57-year-old chaperone from the Albany, New York, diocese who attended the past five World Youth Days and complained that organization in Rio was lacking.
"I'm super relieved. That place is a mud pit and I was concerned about the kid's health and that they might catch hypothermia," he said. "That's great news. I just wish the organizers would have told us."
Francis' visit to the Varginha slum followed in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, who visited two such favelas during a 1980 trip to Brazil, and Mother Teresa, who visited Varginha itself in 1972. Her Missionaries of Charity order has kept a presence in the shantytown ever since.
Like Mother Teresa, Francis brought his own personal history to the visit: As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio frequently preached in the poverty-wracked slums of his native city, putting into action his belief that the Catholic Church must go to the farthest peripheries to preach and not sit back and wait for the most marginalized to come to Sunday Mass.
Francis' open-air car was mobbed on a few occasions as he headed into Varginha's heavily policed, shack-lined streets, but he never seemed in danger. He was showered with gifts as he walked down one of the slum's main drags without an umbrella to shield him from the rain. A well-wisher gave him a paper lei to hang around his neck and he held up another offering ? a scarf from his favorite soccer team, Buenos Aires' San Lorenzo.
"Events like this, with the pope and all the local media, get everyone so excited," said Antonieta de Souza Costa, a 56-year-old vendor and resident of Varginha. "I think this visit is going to bring people back to the Catholic Church."
Addressing Varginha's residents, Francis acknowledged that young people in particular have a sensitivity toward injustice.
"You are often disappointed by facts that speak of corruption on the part of people who put their own interests before the common good," Francis told the crowd. "To you and all, I repeat: Never yield to discouragement, do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished."
It was a clear reference to the violent protests that paralyzed parts of the country in recent weeks as Brazilians furious over rampant corruption and inefficiency within the country's political class took to the streets.
Francis blasted what he said was a "culture of selfishness and individualism" that permeates society today, demanding that those with money and power share their wealth and resources to fight hunger and poverty.
"It is certainly necessary to give bread to the hungry ? this is an act of justice. But there is also a deeper hunger, the hunger for a happiness that only God can satisfy," he said.
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Associated Press writer Bradley Brooks contributed to this report.
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Amanda Bynes detained for pysch evaluation
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Amanda Bynes' spree of bizarre behavior in public continued on Monday night, creating more drama for the former actress.
Bynes, 27, was involved in a "disturbance" in a residential neighborhood in Thousand Oaks, north of Los Angeles, Capt. Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. After investigating the incident, deputies determined that Bynes met the criteria for a 5150 welfare hold, or an involuntary psychiatric hold.
Sgt. Eric Buschow told The Hollywood Reporter that the fire department was called around 8:45 p.m. after Bynes sparked a fire in the driveway area of a single-family residence. He noted that this was "not a deliberate attempt to set a house on fire" and there was no damage to the home and added that Bynes is not related to the residents of the home in any way.
Bynes, who grew up in Thousand Oaks, owns a home in nearby Calabasas. She recently made a court appearance in New York City wearing a blue wig, big sunglasses, fake eyelashes, a tank top and sweat pants to face misdemeanor charges in an incident reported by a doorman who told police that Bynes was smoking marijuana in the lobby. Before officers arrived, Bynes had gone back to her 36th floor apartment, and when police came to her apartment, she reportedly tossed the water pipe out the window.
Bynes made no comment during the hearing but has previously denied the charges of marijuana possession, reckless endangerment and attempted tampering with evidence. In September, she'll return to court for another scheduled hearing on the matter.
Bynes has been in the headlines for months for her erratic public behavior, legal problems and her Twitter rants, which sometimes involve insulting other celebrities. Bynes gained early stardom at the age of 13 when she had her own comedy show on the Nickelodeon television network. She later starred the TV show "What I Like About You" and had a major role in the movie "What a Girl Wants" but has not appeared in a film since 2010's "Easy A."
As mandated by law, Bynes will remain in custody for treatment and evaluation for 72 hours.
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Tips & Tricks to Manage the Content That Comes Through Our Home
When children are in the house, it is not complete without desktops, laptops, tablets and video game consoles. I have a seven-year-old daughter who received an email address from her school. She is thrilled to know that she can send an email to her mom, dad, grandparents and friends in school.
Since my work involves the creation of websites and my family and friends as me to help them with anything related to computers, our children are well-versed when it comes to technology and computers. Due to this, I am trying to reduce their interest instead of encouraging it to protect them as much as I can.
It is not easy to keep track of what your children can view online. Although many children follow the instructions of their parents, there are instances when they inadvertently access something inappropriate online.
A number of important points are underlined by the online safety policy of schools, which have been ingrained in the minds of the children. These points include the following:
- Not to reveal personal information such as phone number, address, school, and similar personal data
- Not to share pictures to strangers
- Talk to the teacher about anything they encounter online
- Being aware that it is considered acceptable if they are shown some things that may be considered bad
Parental Control Programs will prevent most inappropriate and damaging content from being displayed on the computer. This program provides parents the capability of setting and modifying limitations on the sites their children can access.
Parental Control Programs can do the following:
- Filter online content and prevent access to sites showing inappropriate content.
- Implement limitations to the time their children can spend online
- Monitor sites that children can view and attempt to access
- Provide a report on the sites used by their children
These controls are user-friendly and will take less than ten minutes to set up.
A number of parental control packages are available online if the internet service provider does not offer these features. These packages may require a fee while others are free-of-charge. It is essential to check online reviews to know whether the company providing these packages is reliable. This can be done by typing the product name together with the word ?reviews? on Google. Mac and Windows computers also feature parental control features that can activate for each device.
It is also possible to limit the videos that can be viewed on YouTube. Parents can do the following for each device
- Visit the homepage of YouTube
- Scroll to the bottom and check the ?Safety: On? or ?Safety: Off? button
- Make sure that the button is turned on and set the safety mode for the browser.
- Save the settings by logging into Google
- The steps should be followed for all browsers
Parents can also use a mobile phone monitoring and tracking program so that they will know the activities of their children. The mSpy application ? http://www.mireview.com/blog/mspy-review/ offers an undetectable range of communication features that can be used on a smartphone or tablet.
Mobile phones are essential in allowing parents to communicate with their adolescent children. However, many parents are worried about the dangers that their children may face by providing them with these devices. Some of the dangers that they may face include cyber bullying and sexting. Adolescents do not normally ask for additional mobile phone privileges since they are more inclined to communicate with other people late at night.
They may also forget to complete their school assignments that result to embarrassment and fear of losing their mobile phone privileges. Due to this, they will not reveal the reason for neglecting their studies since they are afraid that they will lose their mobile phone privileges.
- Let them know about the consequences of sexting and other threats on the internet that emerge because of improper use of the mobile phone.
- Know how they socialize and monitor the people they contact through voice calls or text. Take note of the time they contact these people. Keep an eye on their calls. They will not know that if someone is monitoring them.
- Tell them not to let strangers know about their personal information.
- If your adolescent children have misused their mobile phone privileges, install a mobile tracking application into their mobile phones. This will provide round-the-clock protection to your children anywhere they go.
Keep them safe from cyber bullying and other internet threats. Protect the family. mSpy is a modifiable spy application for tablets and smartphones. It offers the attest mobile phone spy monitoring and tracking features on devices. mSpy offers different features for home and business use. The home version of the application provides parents with an option to listen to calls, log and monitor text messages, view images internet browsing history, and GPS tracking. It also has a new feature that provides users the capability of tracking Whatsapp and Skype activity.
Source: http://www.worldxnews.com/2013/07/24/tips-tricks-to-manage-the-content-that-comes-through-our-home/
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Amnesty bill 'could face legal challenge' - The Nation
Hataikarn Treesuwan,
Praphan Jindalertudomdee,
Pimnara Pradubwit
The Nation July 24, 2013 1:00 am
Ukrit's concerns were raised during last week's meeting of the ruling party's strategic committee led by former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat. A participant at the meeting said Ukrit warned that those not benefiting from Worachai's bill might petition to the Constitutional Court on grounds that the bill discriminates against them.
Pheu Thai Party's strategic committee met last week to discuss priorities for six laws tabled for deliberation in Parliament. It was decided at the meeting that the Budget Bill for 2014 fiscal year should top the agenda, because Parliament has to complete its sessions within 105 days.
The decision has met with stiff opposition from the red shirts, including ministers from the red shirts' quota, who have promised to help secure pardons for red-shirt supporters and leaders jailed for offences related to the 2010 riots.
Even if no one submits a petition to the Constitutional Court, the legislation would still put a burden on correctional officials or public prosecutors, who would have to identify who should be granted amnesty under the bill, the source quoted Ukrit as saying.
Releases of political prisoners would not be made immediately after the bill is passed, Ukrit was quoted as saying.
The red shirts have pressured Pheu Thai to make Worachai's amnesty bill the first item on the Parliament's agenda when it reconvenes on August 1. But Ukrit, chairman of the Independent Committee for Promotion of the Rule of Law, has warned that the bill contains a discriminatory provision that could be in violation of Article 30 of the Constitution.
Quoted by a member of the strategic committee, Ukrit said the bill states that only people who joined rallies, and not leaders or those who issued orders, would be pardoned. He said those excluded by the bill would be likely to take the matter to the Constitutional Court, the source from the meeting said.
Although Somchai's committee raised Ukrit's warning, the red shirts and Worachai insist that the bill be debated first, with the possibility being left open for it to be altered during the vetting process. If the government whips, who are scheduled to meet today, do not agree to push for Worachai's bill to be debated first, Pheu Thai's meeting next Tuesday could see turmoil, the source said.
Worachai declined yesterday to acknowledge having received such a warning. He insisted the law was not discriminatory.
"We want to help all innocent people, but it was the leaders' intention not to take the amnesty. How can that be discrimination?" he said.
If the whips decline to push the bill, he said, he would push for it to be debated, both at the party meeting and in Parliament.
Meanwhile, Pheu Thai's Northeastern faction has urged the party to first consider a bill to amend charter provisions on ratification of agreements with foreign countries and the method for electing senators, and to suspend deliberation on Article 68, saying the government needs to appease senators in order to get their support.
Pheu Thai Nakhon Phanom MP Paijit Srivarakan, a deputy chief whip, said that although most of the whips agreed that an amnesty bill should be vetted first, they were still worried about opposition from anti-government protesters.
"If this is the case, it is likely we will opt for an amendment of the charter on the point of how senators get their seats, since we would face less public opposition on this subject. We will also heed the comments from Pheu Thai's strategic committee on which [draft] law we should discuss first,'' he said.
Ubon Ratchathani MP Somkid Chuakong said he had asked party leader Charupong Ruangsuwan to support the amnesty bill as the top agenda item, while the 2014 Budget Bill will certainly be debated anyway - so there was nothing to fear.
Democrat Party deputy leader Alongkorn Ponlaboot said yesterday he would propose a version of the amnesty bill at the party's meeting on Tuesday next week. The bill would be an adapted version of one proposed by the relatives of the victims.
The modification relates to the timeframe, as well as some offences that did not deserve to be get amnesty under the law, he said, adding that his draft would be dropped if the party disagreed with it.
Payao Akahad, mother of Kamolket, a paramedic who was killed in Wat Pathum Wanaram, and Punsak Srithep, father of 17-year-old Samapun, who was killed in crossfire, last week submitted the group's amnesty bill to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Amnesty-bill-could-face-legal-challenge-30211046.html
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Ukranian charged with murder of Muslim pensioner in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - A Ukrainian man being questioned about explosions at mosques in central England was charged on Monday with murdering a Muslim pensioner.
Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, was in the UK on a sponsored work placement scheme, police said.
The post graduate student from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, was first arrested on Thursday as part of an investigation into blasts near two mosques in the towns of Walsall and Tipton, one in June and the other last week.
West Midlands police said he had since been charged with the murder of Mohammed Saleem, a grandfather who was stabbed to death in April as he walked home from his mosque in the Small Heath area of the English city of Birmingham.
"We understand that these incidents have caused a great deal of anxiety and distress within local communities," Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale said in a statement.
Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit would travel to Ukraine over the next few days, the force added.
There have been several attacks on Islamic buildings in Britain since the murder of a soldier on a London street in May. Two British Muslims will be tried in November for that killing.
(Reporting by Dasha Afanasieva; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ukranian-charged-murder-muslim-pensioner-britain-215508844.html
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OAKLEY, the eyewear based company, is back with a new colorway for their signature "Factory" styled fitted baseball cap. This New Era 59Fifty features a simple Black/White color scheme with a White crown and a Black brim. They also added a Black raised "Oakley" logo on the front panel with a matching NE flag on the side and a button on the top. If you're interested, you can grab this now from?http://www.oakley.com/
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LG offers a sneak peek at the G2 - it will learn from you, as long as the video doesn't give you a seizure
This video from LG promises the G2 will learn from you, but take your Dramamine before watching.
We're all looking forward to seeing what LG's next -- dubbed the G2 (don't call it an Optimus) -- will have to offer. We thrive on details and specifications. LG's latest video teaser doesn't give us a lot of those, but it does focus on how the G2 will learn from you. That is, if the video doesn't give you a seizure first.
We'll be on hand come August 7 when LG unveils the G2 in New York. For now, hit the break to see the latest video.
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DUI convictions at risk in California, Bay Area prosecutor warns
Jaskaran Gill was still on probation for a DUI when he was caught doing 100 mph on Interstate 880 in San Jose with his blood-alcohol concentration nearly twice the legal limit.
A second drunken-driving conviction could have stripped him of his driver's license for at least a year and landed him in jail. But a more devastating likelihood loomed: The State Bar might deny Gill the right to practice law or significantly delay the start of his career at a time when he was more than halfway through Santa Clara University law school.
So, Gill claimed that his blood-alcohol level wasn't really 0.14, as the Santa Clara County crime lab had reported in early 2010. The lab's methodology was outdated, he claimed, rendering the test scientifically invalid and therefore not admissible as evidence in court.
Gill's novel defense tactic failed, thanks to a dedicated young prosecutor who won an epic battle with the law student's lawyers -- and to the county crime lab, which demonstrated that Gill would be considered drunk even if the test had been performed using the more up-to-date procedure.
But now, the same prosecutor, Christopher Boscia, is warning that drunken-driving prosecutions across California are vulnerable to similar legal challenges.
"It is simply a matter of time before a trial court in California excludes blood results based on this novel defense tactic," Boscia writes in a highly technical, 32-page article in the upcoming edition
of the Santa Clara Law Review. "If successful, this tactic could undermine every DUI prosecution in the state."Desperate challenges
Defendants are always coming up with desperate ways to challenge DUI prosecutions, from attacking the credentials of a lab technician to claiming someone else was driving. But the strategy Gill used has already worked in Washington state and Michigan, though so far just in the lower courts.
In California, Boscia contends, the only way to protect some 200,000 annual prosecutions from a possible decision by a judge to exclude the results is if all crime labs revise their procedures and the Legislature updates the DUI regulations. Santa Clara County already has switched to a new protocol for blood-alcohol tests. If an appellate court were to uphold a lower court decision to exclude the results on this theory, it would be binding statewide.
The way the test is now done is arguably outdated for two reasons. Much of the equipment used throughout the state has not been certified as accurate under international standards. The other problem is that a test result -- for instance, Gill's 0.14 blood-alcohol level -- is really an estimate of the true value.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Chris Boscia, San Jose, Calif., April 2013. (LiPo Ching, Bay Area News Group)
It actually needs to include another calculation called the measure of uncertainty, which is somewhat like the margin of error in a poll.In Gill's case, the uncertainty turned out to be plus or minus 4 percent, a fairly tiny range that still put him well over the limit. But in borderline cases, where a defendant's blood-alcohol level is close to the legal limit, presenting a range of values could make a decisive difference. And defense attorneys also can argue, as they did in Gill's trial, that the range of values must be reported in every case because expressing someone's blood-alcohol concentration as a single value gives the judge or jury false confidence in the results.
"Without the measure of uncertainty, the information in a single value is actually misleading," said Ted Vosk, a Harvard law graduate with an undergraduate degree in physics and math, and the leading national expert on these kind of DUI challenges.
In California so far, defense attorneys haven't been able to persuade judges to exclude the single-value test results. But some lawyers have found -- especially in borderline cases -- that the argument undermines the jury's confidence in the prosecution.
"I make the challenge regularly," said Peter Johnson, the Contra Costa County lawyer who represented Gill. "In one case, the jury told us that was the reason for the acquittal. Some judge at some point is going to take it seriously."
Doubt as a tactic
The concept of uncertainty has been discussed in scientific circles at least since the early 1900s, Boscia writes. In 2011, the not-for-profit group that accredits crime labs issued a guideline advising them they had to convert to it for a broad series of tests, not just for blood alcohol. But the labs and legal community protested, and the deadline was postponed until the end of 2013.
"Uncertainty sounds like doubt, even though it's not," Boscia said. "Whenever prosecutors hear the word, they want to run in the other direction."
Some labs have begun the conversion, including the Contra Costa County lab, where Gill's mother works as a toxicologist. But at the time of her son's trial in 2010, her lab had not adopted the new procedures, she acknowledged in a phone interview.
Boscia argues that DUI prosecutions are still vulnerable for several reasons. First, in counties that haven't switched to the new way of handling DUI tests, the tests could be challenged for the next six months.
But even after the change, there will be thousands of blood samples that were tested under the old model that cannot simply be retested using the new procedure to calculate the uncertainty because the defense could argue that alcohol tends to deteriorate over time.
A third problem, Boscia says, is that there will be a conflict between the state's regulations covering DUI cases and the way in which crime labs are handling DUI tests. The prosecutor said defense lawyers could then take a different tack and attack those scientifically valid results on that technical conflict. He's calling for the Legislature to quickly update the law -- and also to set up a forensic science advisory board to ensure that the best science is being practiced and presented to juries in California courtrooms.
Boscia also is traveling around the state training other prosecutors how to fend off any legal challenges. Most DUIs are prosecuted by busy novices in three to five days; Boscia's trial stretched over six weeks and lasted 20 days.
"It's important Chris' message be heard,'' said Sepideh Mousakhani, editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. "(His) article has the potential to make a great difference in the legal community."
As for Gill, he was sentenced to 210 days in jail. Now, about 2?1/2 years after his arrest, he has remained sober and is still trying to gain admission to the State Bar -- including, his mother said, by volunteering full time for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.
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Belen Rodriguez e Santiago De Martino: su Facebook il bagnetto del piccolo con la mamma (VIDEO,FOTO)
Circondata dai suoi amori. Qualche giorno fa la dichiarazione d'amore di Belen Rodriguez era stata per la sorella Cecilia. Questa volta ? per suo figlio Santiago, primogenito della showgirl argentina e del suo compagno Stefano de Martino, nato lo scorso 9 aprile.
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WhatsApp to charge iPhone users 99c a year for service
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Android and other smartphones will become free to download instead of the 99c it costs at the moment, but it will then charge users 99c a year for the service.The move brings its iPhone service in line with its Android business model.The change will only affect new users of the service. People who bought the app for 99c will not be hit with the subscription rate.WhatsApp has quickly become one of the most popular apps on smartphones with more than 250 million users worldwide.Unlike a regular text messaging service, it allows people to send photos and messages to large numbers of people at the ...
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World's Slowest-Moving Drop Caught on Camera At Last
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We?ve long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they...
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How long would you be willing to wait for a drop of the black stuff in Dublin? After 69 years, one of the longest-running laboratory investigations in the world has finally captured the fall of a drop of tar pitch on camera for the first time. A similar, better-known and older experiment in Australia missed filming its latest drop in 2000 because the camera was offline at the time.
The Dublin pitch-drop experiment was set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin to demonstrate the high viscosity or low fluidity of pitch ? also known as bitumen or asphalt ? a material that appears to be solid at room temperature, but is in fact flowing, albeit extremely slowly.
It is a younger and less well-known sibling of an experiment that has been running since 1927 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, which Guinness World Records lists as the world?s longest-running laboratory experiment (see: Long-term research: Slow science). Physicist Thomas Parnell set it up because he wanted to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit surprising properties. In the past 86 years that experiment has yielded eight drops, with the ninth drop now almost fully formed and about to fall.
Long wait
John Mainstone has been custodian of the Queensland experiment since 1961, and has yet to see or capture the fall of a drop ? unsurprising given that it takes 7 to 13 years for a drop to form, but only a tenth of a second for it to fall.
Pitch-drop experiments involve heating a sample of pitch and pouring it into a sealed glass funnel. The pitch is given time ? three years in Parnell?s experiment ? to settle and consolidate before the sealed stem of the funnel is cut.
The origins of the Dublin experiment are now lost to history. It may have been part of a push by the physicist and Nobel prizewinner Ernest Walton, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, to promote science demonstrations for educational purposes. Over the years, the identity of the scientist who began the experiment was forgotten, and the experiment lay unattended on a shelf where it continued to shed drops uninterrupted while gathering layers of dust.
Watching it fall
Physicists at Trinity College recently began to monitor the experiment again. Last April they set up a webcam so that anyone could watch and try to be the first person ever to witness the drop fall live.
At around 5 o'clock in the afternoon on 11 July, physicist Shane Bergin and colleagues captured footage of one of the most eagerly anticipated and exhilarating drips in science. ?We were all so excited,? Bergin says. ?It?s been such a great talking point, with colleagues eager to investigate the mechanics of the break, and the viscosity of the pitch?.
The Trinity College team has estimated the viscosity of the pitch by monitoring the evolution of this one drop, and puts it in the region of 2 million times more viscous than honey, or 20 billion times the viscosity of water. The speed of formation of the drop can depend on the exact composition of the pitch, and environmental conditions such as temperature and vibration.
Asked about the value of this demonstration, Bergin?s colleague Denis Weaire says, ?Curiosity is at the heart of good science, and the pitch drop fuels that curiosity?.
Scientists used to believe glass to be a slow-moving liquid as well ? in part because old church window panes are thicker at the bottom ? but it is now considered a solid.
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Mainstone, who has spent most of his life waiting to see a drop fall with his own eyes, congratulated the Trinity College team. ?I have been examining the video over and over again,? he says, ?and there were a number of things about it that were really quite tantalizing for a very long time pitch-drop observer like myself.?
The University of Queensland pitch-drop experiment can be viewed live via a webcam and has a broad following across the globe. The next Queensland drop is predicted to fall some time in 2013.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on July 18, 2013.
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Will do ?what it takes? to keep troops ready, says new army commander Hainse
Minister of National Defence Rob Nicholson (left) shakes hands with Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse as he takes command of the Canadian Army during a Change of Command parade on Parliament Hill in Ottawa today. ? Photo by The Canadian Press
OTTAWA ? Canada has a new top soldier, and Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse is promising to do ?what it takes? keep troops trained and ready in the face of austerity.
Hainse was sworn in today as the new commander of the Canadian Army, taking the place of Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin, who is retiring after a 35-year military career.
Until recently, Hainse was deputy commander of NATO?s Joint Force Command in Naples.
The change of command, which took place on Parliament Hill, was the first public event for newly appointed Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, who took over Monday after more than six years in the justice portfolio.
Prior to his departure, Devlin expressed concern about keeping the army ready in an era of declining budgets, and even warned last week that some of the hard-won lessons and capabilities from the Afghan war remain on ?life support.?
Hainse says Canada is no different than any other Western army, all of which are facing reductions.
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X Games going deep in heart of Texas to Austin
The X Games are going from the glitz of Los Angeles to deep in the heart of Texas.
Athletes with skateboards and motorcycles will be competing in the Texas capital after ESPN announced Wednesday that Austin will be the next North American host city for the X Games.
"Austin over the last several years has really become synonymous with supporting big events," said Scott Guglielmino, senior vice president, ESPN programming and X Games. "The music scene is fantastic. The night life is fantastic and definitely a young, active town."
The home to the University of Texas also has the new Circuit of the Americas sports and entertainment complex, which will be the primary site for X Games Austin. The 1,500-acre complex opened in November by hosting the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix and held a MotoGP motorcycle race in April.
Austin was selected over three other finalists: Chicago, Detroit and Charlotte, N.C. There were initially 13 qualified bids for the Olympic-style selection process, with Austin picked to host for four years starting next May 15-18.
"X Games is a great action sports competition and is an ideal fit for the city of Austin, which has a tremendous fitness orientation, a tremendous action sports community," said Steve Sexton, president of Circuit of the Americas.
Sexton said 16-18 X Games athletes live in Austin, and that a "couple of thousand people" showed up at the State Capitol to watch an exhibition when Austin was announced as one of the four finalists earlier this year.
X Games is nearing the end of its first year of global expansion and transformation, with events already held in Aspen, Colo., France, Brazil, Spain and Germany.
The X Games will wrap up an 11-year run in Los Angeles with this summer's event Aug. 1-4.
"L.A. clearly, Southern California, it's a special home when it comes to action sports and that whole culture, no question about it," Guglielmino said. "But we felt like it was time to move the X Games to a new venue, a new city. We leave Los Angeles with a lot of great memories, certainly. ... We leave after quite a good and prosperous stay, but definitely looking forward to getting to Austin and really growing out the event."
Aspen has been the host of the winter X Games since 2002, but its contract expires after next year's event. Bidding to host winter competition in the United States just ended, with the next site likely to be picked in early 2014.
There are about 350 fully developed acres at Circuit of the Americas, including the 3.4-mile race track with 20 turns, an expansive outdoor live music space for 14,000 spectators and a 25-story observation tower. There is a pit/paddock building with 34 garage bays and two upper levels of hospitality space, and a 44,000-square-foot event center.
Sexton expects at least 100,000 spectators for the four days of competition.
"The ability to host the X Games fits into our overall strategy, to have a multidimensional entertainment and sports destination," Sexton said. "We're more than motor sports. The X Games is kind of one of the first of many steps in the process."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/x-games-going-deep-heart-texas-austin-140017987.html
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Wells Fargo & Company and Target Corporation ranked highly on?The Chronicle of Philanthropy?s recently released list of Fortune 500 companies that donated the most cash in 2012.
For its list, the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper surveyed 300 of the largest revenue-producing companies in the United States based on their Fortune 500 rankings. A total of 106 companies provided information, whichThe Chronicle?used to rank companies based on their 2012 charitable donations.
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, which offers banking and other financial services, topped the list, having donated roughly $316 million in 2012.
According to the report, Wells Fargo?s charitable giving in 2012 mainly consisted of a $77 million donation to NeighborWorks America?a Washington, D.C.-based network of more than 230 nationwide affordable housing nonprofits?for its NeighborhoodLift program. The program provides down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers in neighborhoods affected by the housing crisis. Wells Fargo also gave $6.7 million to the Opportunity Finance Network, Inc.,?a Philadelphia-based organization of investment firms that finance community businesses?for an awards program that recognizes nonprofits that provide banking services in low-income communities.
Wells Fargo maintains a large presence in Minnesota: It currently operates 211 branch, home mortgage, and advisor offices in the state where 20,000 of its 275,000 worldwide employees work.
Minneapolis-based retail giant Target ranked ninth on the list, having donated approximately $147 million in cash and roughly $77 million-worth of products in 2012. The company declined to provide information to?The Chronicle of Philanthropy?regarding the organizations it endorsed. Target currently employs 31,035 in Minnesota and 361,000 worldwide.
Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; San Ramon, California-based Chevron Corporation; and New York-based Goldman Sachs Group also made?The Chronicle of Philanthropy?s list of charitable companies. Click?here?for the full list.
Meanwhile, Wells Fargo may be poised to add new Minnesota jobs, or at least, move existing employees to a new location. Dave Kvamme, CEO of Wells Fargo Minnesota,?recently told the Minneapolis City Council's community development committee?that the company is interested in buying the top 12 floors of each of the two 20-story office towers outlined in Ryan Companies' proposed?$400 million Downtown East redevelopment project.?
A Wells Fargo representative told?Twin Cities Business?Wednesday in an e-mailed statement that the company is ?still evaluating that opportunity.?
Wells Fargo and Target are among the?10-largest employers?in Minnesota. Additionally, Target is among Minnesota?s?five-largest public companies?based on revenue.
This article is reprinted in partnership with?Twin Cities Business.
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