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about 5 years ago
How Parent’s Love Helps Kid Thrive
How Parent's Love Helps Kid ThriveResearcher Barbara Fredrickson highlights exactly how positive emotions like love, joy, and gratitude help us grow and become better versions of ourselves.That moment when your baby meets your reach to pick her up and molds to your body a...continued
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about 5 years ago
ComReg accuses broadband provider Pure Telecom of breaking contract-changing rules
ComReg accused broadband provider Pure Telecom of breaking contract-changing rulesThe watchdog issued a notice of non-compliance to the telco company.BROADBAND AND PHONE services provider Pure Telecom has received a warning from the Communications Regulator over a notice ...continued
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about 5 years ago
Xiaomi’s new headquarters is massive – ready for use
Xiaomi's new headquarters is massiveToday,Lu Weibing, the general manager of Redmi, posted an image Xiaomi’s new headquarters which is also the first “completely permanent headquarters of Xiaomi”. Earlier, Xiaomi President Lin Bin said, “We will be able to move to a new h...continued
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about 5 years ago
Thatcher Breaks Consensus | History Today
When asked who has been the most controversial and radical postwar British prime minister, many historians and academics incline towards Margaret Thatcher. Taking office 40 years ago, and in power between 1979 and 1990 as the UK’s first female prime minister, the circumst...continued
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over 5 years ago
'Australia are not losing a game' - Alyssa Healy on women's Ashes
3:15 AM ETAlex MalcolmAustralia women's wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy has channelled Glenn McGrath in predicting Australia will not lose a game in the upcoming women's Ashes series against England.Australia are the current women's Ashes holders but retained them only after a ...continued
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over 5 years ago
Afghanistan's World Cup of self-inflicted chaos
6:44 PM ETAndrew Fidel FernandoDon't do this, Afghanistan. There is another way.There are alternatives to letting chaos overwhelm you. There are brighter timelines, waiting to be seized, in which dysfunction does not define your World Cup. Your opponents, South Africa, mi...continued
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over 5 years ago
Crowdstrike pops nearly 80% in debut, now worth about $12 billion
George KurtzHeidi Petty | CNBCCrowdStrike rocketed as much as 97% in its first day of trading on the public market on Wednesday. The security software vendor opened trading at $63.50 after it priced its IPO at $34 a share, above the high end of its expected range of $28 t...continued
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over 5 years ago
Florida Sen. Rick Scott says his state should have less representation and federal funding
Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) said on Tuesday that he wants his state to have less federal representation and get less federal funding. His reasoning: non-citizens, many of whom live in his state, should not factor into the equation. The junior senator made the unusual argu...continued
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over 5 years ago
Touring Factory Berlin, Europe’s ‘largest club for startups’ – TechCrunch
According to the startups at Factory Berlin, it’s not just another coworking space. After all, the company took its name from Andy Warhol’s famous factory in New York City, and it describes itself as “Europe’s largest club for startups.” Late last year, we toured Fact...continued
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over 5 years ago
Report: Aston Villa eye move to sign Ruben Alcaraz | Sportslens
Aston Villa are expected to remain busy in the summer transfer window following their promotion to the Premier League. According to reports from Spanish newspaper Marca, Villa have joi...continued
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Aston Villa fans want Robert Snodgrass to come back
Aston Villa fans have urged Robert Snodgrass on social networking site Twitter to return to Villa Park in the summer transfer window following their promotion to the Premier League. Sn...continued
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over 5 years ago
Congressman upset about cost of Mueller investigation says solution is another investigation
Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) is upset that there was an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election because it took time and money — so he’s proposing legislation to require another costly and time-consuming probe to investigate that initial investigation. Speci...continued
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over 5 years ago
Most Shocking Free Agent Signings in Baseball
Since the first free-agent signing of the modern era back in 1974, there have been several free-agent deals that shook the baseball world and realigned power across the Majors. Here's a look at several moves that changed the landscape of baseball, and in some cases were d...continued
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Wolves keen on signing Danny Loader | Sportslens
Wolves are interested in signing the Reading forward Danny Loader this summer. According to Goal, the likes of Arsenal, Leicester and Southampton are keen on the player as well. Loader...continued
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over 5 years ago
Trump just dismantled one of the last major protections keeping transgender people safe
The Trump administration announced Friday morning sweeping changes to the rules protecting transgender people from discrimination in health care. Combined with an announcement earlier this week ending gender identity protections in homeless shelters, the administration ha...continued
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George Munsey 'gutted' despite career-best innings after Scotland fall short
9:43 AM ETIn a Scotland batting unit featuring the reigning ICC Associate Player of the Year, Calum MacLeod, and a captain who earlier in the month had became the fastest Associate cricketer to 2000 ODI runs, Kyle Coetzer (in 49 innings), the most menacing threat to oppos...continued
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Alabama Senate hopeful who authored an ACA repeal sells ‘free’ pro-life stickers — for $4 each
Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), who claims to be “pro-life” despite his repeated votes to take health insurance away from millions of people, is hoping to cash in on his state’s new unconstitutional abortion ban. Byrne, who is seeking his party’s nomination to challenge Sen. D...continued
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Focus on fringe inclusions shows how far England's World Cup planning has come
9:56 AM ETGeorge Dobell at Lord'sThere are some things - flights, cups of tea and your heartbeat, for example - you want to find predictable.And perhaps it is the same with squad announcements. Squad announcements for global tournaments, anyway.Selectors have had four yea...continued
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PCB hoping to convince England, Australia to tour Pakistan
9:31 AM ETThe Pakistan Cricket Board has scheduled a fresh round of talks with officials from Cricket Australia and England and Wales Cricket Board after the World Cup to discuss the resumption of international cricket in the country.The board is also set to officially di...continued
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over 5 years ago
Three states, including two big ones for the 2020 election, just set new lows for unemployment
A job recruiter wears a shirt showing all of the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. brands during a career fair at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Charles Mostoller | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAt a time when the national unemployment rate is at its lowest in nearly half ...continued
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over 5 years ago
Pelosi doubts Trump will strike a trade deal with China this week as tariff hike looms
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he departs following the Friends of Ireland Luncheon in honor of Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, March 14, 2019.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesNancy Pelo...continued
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American ‘caravan’ crossed Canadian border to buy affordable diabetes drugs
For Quinn Nystrom, and millions of other Americans living with Type 1 Diabetes, insulin affordability is a “real crisis issue.” So Nystrom took it upon herself to find a temporary solution. Last week, she and seven others organized a four-car “caravan” from Minneapolis, M...continued
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