martedì 2 luglio 2013

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Financial Times: Rising US claims threaten BP profits

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 02:48 AM PDT

Spiralling compensation payouts related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster highlight importance of upcoming legal challenge from the oil group

Aljazeera: Russian rocket launched in Kazakhstan crashes

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 03:35 AM PDT

Proton-M booster was carrying navigation satellites and fell near launch pad, spreading components of its toxic fuel.

Aljazeera: Siberia helicopter crash leaves many dead

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 04:36 AM PDT

MI-8 helicopter comes down in nearly impassable taiga in country's east, killing at least 19 people, including children.

Aljazeera: US mourns death of Arizona firefighters

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 04:41 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama pays tribute to 19 who died battling Arizona wildfire that continues to rage unchecked.

Financial Times: Hannam faces accusations over emails

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 05:21 AM PDT

Dealmaker challenges market abuse fine in a hearing that will help determine what inside information is as part of a case that has divided the City

Financial Times: Ex-Groupon chief turns to music for motivation

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 07:48 AM PDT

Andrew Mason, who was fired by the online discounter in March, has published a soft-rock album with a message of business motivation

Financial Times: Bolivia offers to consider Snowden asylum

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Bolivia president Evo Morales is willing to 'enter into discussions' on offering refuge to Edward Snowden as NSA whistle-blower's other options narrow

Huffington Post: The Best Water Parks Around D.C.: Beat The Heat And Ride Some Slides

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 09:58 AM PDT

So pools aren't your thing. And the beach is too far.

No problem. That's what water parks are for!

And the D.C. area has no shortage. In order to break down the fun and help you decide, we've put together a list of our favorite water parks!


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Huffington Post: Disgraced Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Offers Career Tips In The Form Of Song

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 10:03 AM PDT

Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's long-awaited debut album of "motivational business music" has arrived. Upon listening to the record, available on Spotify and iTunes on Tuesday, one thing stuck us: the disgraced centimillionaire seems to offer a lot of career advice for a guy who was kicked out of the company he founded for failing to turn it around.

Granted, Mason left Groupon as a man worth $200 million, so it's hard to call him unsuccessful. But these lyrics are overwhelmingly simple and pretty ridiculous. The album is full of business advice, and much of it is either odd or obvious. Mason is being compared to Raffi, and it's easy to see why.

But what do we know? Steve Jobs said he entered "one of the most creative periods of my life" after being kicked out of Apple in 1985. The following year he founded NeXT Computer, purchased by Apple a decade later, and bought the studio that would become Pixar.


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Huffington Post: 15 Ways To Cope With Your Post-Grad Life

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 10:08 AM PDT

You've just graduated college and are finally in the real world! You've been waiting for this moment since the first time you watched "The Hills." But now that it's been a month and not one unpaid internship or dog-walking service has called you back, you can't help but feel like this:

Don't worry! Here are fifteen ways to deal with your new found self-loathing in whatever metropolitan area (or parent's basement) you've decided to call home.


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Huffington Post: DOMA Ruling Helps Undocumented Immigrants As Immigration Benefits Are Extended To Same-Sex Couples

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 10:08 AM PDT

Javier Hernandez celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act for the same reason many others did, but he also hopes that victory clears the way for another progressive issue that's personal for him.

Hernandez, a 24-year-old Chaffey College student from Pomona, is gay, and he's been campaigning for an end to restrictions on same-sex marriage since Proposition 8 -- defining marriage as between a man and a woman, approved by state voters in 2008 and effectively invalided by the court last week -- was first proposed.

But he also has a long political and personal connection to the immigration reform like the bill the Senate passed last week. One controversy impeding that bill had been whether to extend immigration benefits to same-sex couples, many Democrats saying the two cultural land mines should be debated separately.


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Aljazeera: Sectarian fears as Iraq bombs kill dozens

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 10:29 AM PDT

At least 25 killed in series of attacks in mostly Shia areas of capital Baghdad, medics say.

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