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Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing
Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...
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Sarah Palin disproves climate change as it snowed in Alaska in May
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook over the weekend to express her skepticism of global warming. Palin argued that global warming was not happening, pointing that it was snowing in Alaska in May. According to the Huffington Post, she wrote in a post on her Facebook page 'global warming my gluteus maximus'. In her Facebook argument, Palin confuses weather with climate, a ...
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Social network addiction taking over lives Australian study
The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles! According to the study, three out of every five internet users are accessing these sites more than five times a day, making it a total of seven hours a day. In a report by News.com, the study found that the time spent by ...
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5000 Friends of Santa Barbara View on Facebook
The Facebook page is incredibly active with additional comments, likes and custom content; so, if you’re not, be sure to follow the County’s fastest-growing social media page by clicking the like button below. And, to the person who ...
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Kids Stay on Facebook As an Obligation and Are Savvy About Privacy
Teens, Social Media and Privacy , shows that Facebook's popularity with teens has actualy grown by 1% since 2011 to a whopping 94% of all teen social media users. The next highest service is Twitter (26%) followed by Instagram, the photo-sharing mobile app that Facebook acquired last year. Tumblr, which was just acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion, came in 6th with 5% -- actually below ...
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French Connection II [Blu-Ray]
At the beginning of John Frankenheimers French Connection II, the title card rushes at us from the depths of the screen just as it did in William Friedkins unexpectedly gritty, genre-twisting 1971 Oscar-winner, suggesting that the film to come will barrel toward us ... ...
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Google Analytics Lets Analytics Premium Users Join Big Data in Google Cloud
Last week brought a barrage of announcements from Google I/O. Part of the late-day announcements, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that's quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users the ability to ...
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bloodycyclists Driver admits hit-run on Twitter
The woman, whose name is 'Emma Way' on Twitter, has been contacted by police in the UK city of Norwich following the ill-advised tweet. "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax #bloodycyclists"," she ...
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N. Va. biotech has always been weak. How that could change.
Biotech has never quite taken flight in Northern Virginia. Whether that's due to the lack of a big corporate anchor or blue-chip research university, the dearth of wet labs, the attraction of a stronger scene in Montgomery County or pure dumb happenstance is anyone's guess. But on this side of the D.C. suburbs, the life sciences are not thriving. The story of Virginia biotech right now ...
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NFL player makes fun of Tim Tebows virginity on Twitter
Tim Tebow 's virginity is a personal matter. The devout Christian football player has gone on record saying that he is saving himself for marriage. And there's nothing wrong with that. But ...
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Marmoset stolen in Spain identified on social media sites
Police in Spain said they arrested a man accused of possessing a stolen marmoset after he posted pictures of the pilfered primate online. Investigators in El Coronil, Seville province, said the marmoset, dubbed Paintbrush, was stolen months ago from the Guillena Zoo and was located in the possession of a man identified only as V.I.F.D. after he posted pictures of it on various social media ...
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