Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/8925433/Top-10-pet-insurance-claims
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Top 10 pet insurance claims - money - business | Stuff.co.nz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Top 10 pet insurance claims. REBECCA STEVENSON. Last updated 05:00 17/07/2013. pet insurance. Getty Images. PETS FEELING POORLY: The list of unusual Kiwi pet insurance claims is crammed with foolhardy dogs and madcap cats.
Online Gambling ?Single Worst Threat? to Land-based Casinos ...
July 16, 2013
Ader Investment Management boss (and former IGT nemesis) Jason Ader says online gambling represents an existential threat to its brick-and-mortar counterparts. On Monday, Ader made an appearance on the CNBC network?s Talking Numbers segment, during which he described online gambling as ?probably the single worst threat to land-based casinos that I?ve seen in 20-plus years.?
Ader (pictured right, having just been targeted for destruction by an online gambling operator) cautioned that it wasn?t yet clear how regulated US online gambling would present itself, whether it would be limited to poker-only or full-on casino gaming. But Ader warned that ?if you?re able to bring wagering ? sports wagering, poker, baccarat, slots ? real money to people?s homes, it?s going to have a devastating consequence on riverboat gaming, Native American gaming, [and] Las Vegas.? (Translation: to hell with Atlantic City.)
Asked why brick-and-mortar casino companies shouldn?t welcome the option to extend their businesses online, Ader suggested that ?who at the end of the day owns online customers, I?d argue, is much more connected to Google?s business, Facebook?s business, Amazon?s business ? The online players really have the competitive advantage in getting online customers. They, to me, seem like they may well be the hidden beneficiaries to the extent we get a proliferation of online gaming and again, it comes at the expense of the land-based operators.?
It?s worth noting that Ader is a board member of Las Vegas Sands, whose boss Sheldon Adelson?s antipathy toward online gambling is the stuff of comedic legend. The online/land-based zero-sum paradigm espoused by the LVS clique has long been rubbished by the man whose name this site bears, and similar sentiments were recently espoused by Peter Brooks, president and COO of Genting UK, which, until Rank Group acquired 19 Gala Casinos? properties, was the UK?s biggest land-based casino operator.
Speaking at the recent World Gaming Executive Summit, Brooks said ?online does not cannibalize land-based, for us. The experiences on offer are very different. One ? online ? is a solo experience and the other is a social experience.? Brooks said land-based customers weren?t ?drawn to online gambling to the detriment of the land-based industry.? As someone speaking from a market in which the full range of online gambling products has been peacefully co-existing with their brick-and-mortar forebears for years, Brooks presumably has some idea of what he?s talking about.
Source: http://calvinayre.com/2013/07/16/business/online-gambling-single-worst-threat-to-land-based-casinos/
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Imaging electron pairing in a simple magnetic superconductor
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Using a technique to measure the energy required for electrons to pair up and how that energy varies with direction, scientists have identified the factors needed for magnetically mediated superconductivity?as well as those that aren?t.
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Malian troops to open France's Bastille Day parade
PARIS (AP) -- Troops from 13 African countries that took part in the French-led war against al-Qaida-linked extremists in Mali marched with the French military during the Bastille Day parade in Paris on Sunday to honor their role in the conflict.
U.N. troops in blue berets who are helping to stabilize the west African nation of Mali also paraded with thousands of other soldiers down the Champs-Elysees Avenue in France's annual tribute to military might. It marks the storming of the Bastille prison July 14, 1789, by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution.
Despite the triumphal display, which included flyovers by fighter jets, tanks and giant trucks mounted with land-to-air defense systems, the realities in Mali suggest that President Francois Hollande's military intervention has had mixed results.
The mission he launched in January helped the Malian government retake control of much of the country from al-Qaida-linked extremists who had seized northern Mali and threatened the capital. The nation is to hold elections July 28, but tensions involving rebel Tuaregs in the north linger, along with political instability.
Sunday's events, however, focused on the positive.
"It's a victory that was won," Hollande said in an interview after the parade with the France 2 and TF-1 television stations in the garden of the presidential Elysee Palace. "Look at what happened. It was a victory for Africa, a victory against terrorism, and pride that we must have."
He said earlier the presence of African troops in Paris on the French national day was a "tribute to those who actively helped to banish terrorism from the Malian territory."
Referring to trips he's made to Africa, including a February visit to Mali, four weeks after the start of the French intervention, Hollande said, "I was saluted in Africa, not for what I said but for what I did."
He noted that some extremists once lodged in Mali escaped into southern Libya and other neighboring countries. He said those nations need support, "but we won't make war everywhere."
Hollande oversaw the display of military might that France rolls out each year on Bastille Day with Mali interim President Dioncounda Traore and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon at his sides. Defense ministers from the African nations represented in the parade also were present.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said before the parade that the display is "the mark of a solidarity that concretely expressed itself in Mali, and of a common destiny, even beyond the limits of continents, of which we have every reason to be proud."
But some critics say the Mali operation and African presence in the parade reflect France's ambiguous and sometimes patronizing relations with the continent -especially with former colonies such as Mali - often referred to as "Francafrique."
The French non-governmental organization Survie, which is fighting against neocolonialism, condemned "the self-proclaimed role of gendarme of Africa that France claimed in Mali."
"This parade gives a scent of victory to a military operation which is far from being reasonably presented like that, given the numerous shadows that surround it and the remaining uncertainties concerning its outcome," said Fabrice Tarrit, the president of the association.
The critics also include Africans.
"Knowing the history of France, especially French armies with Africa, it doesn't sound good," said Senegalese rapper Keyti, whose real name is Cheikh Sene, 40.
"This last decade we've been trying to be really independent from the French army, especially since they had camps in certain countries around Africa," he said. "And now with what happened in Mali, what's still happening there, it's like they found another way to come in."
Around 50 Malian troops marched in formation Sunday followed by soldiers from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad and Togo.
They were followed by troops from the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali, which took over the French-led military operation on July 1. Some French soldiers who participated in the Mali operation, called Serval, also marched, and aircraft used in Mali, notably to provide cover for ground troops, were featured in the air display.
France had more than 4,000 troops at the height of the campaign, and is now gradually reducing that. France will keep about 1,000 soldiers in Mali after the end of 2013.
In all, 4,800 troops marched in front of the presidential stage Sunday, along with 241 horses, 265 vehicles and 58 planes.
Bringing up the rear was an array of 35 helicopters, used in wartime and for civilian missions. Precision parachutists landed in front of the presidential stand to close the parade.
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Associated Press writer Elaine Ganley in Paris and Robbie Corey-Boulet in Dakar, Senegal, contributed to the report.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Video: Barney Frank Reacts to Jamie Dimon
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/cnbc/52460221/
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
M 4.8, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
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Source: earthquake.usgs.gov --- Friday, July 12, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013 18:31:24 UTC Saturday, July 13, 2013 03:31:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 24.20 km (15.04 mi) ...
Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000id81.php
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