Stephen Mooney from Londonderry was arrested when police saw him pay a man for drugs.

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt said he would not be able to match pay deals for healthcare staff in other parts of UK.

Sandy Duthie's "dream job" involves solitude, a 160-year history, and a colony of little penguins.

When Scott Stewart was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, he knew he wanted to keep working to support his family.

Father-of-four David McGuinness, 30, died in hospital after an incident last year.

Bosses must pass on all tips and service charges to staff under new employment rules.

VW Finance showed "a lack of empathy", according to the Financial Conduct Authority.

People can attend a virtual meeting to ask questions about the firm and its £1.9m five-year plan.

The National Trust aims to convert disused farmland in Sefton into a thriving woodland habitat.

Meet Nana Dillon - an 86-year-old from Middlesbrough who is proving "age is just a number".

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder says his side will not be afraid of losing when they host rivals Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.

A review identifies aspects of poor care and issues with the neonatal service.

It follows 8,000 residents sharing their views on fortnightly waste collections.

Potential industrial action over the plans have now been called off by a doctors union.

The Labour MP for Hitchin, Alistair Strathern, reacts to the blaze in Wallace Way.

The Right Reverend Richard Jackson says the Archbishop has 'taken responsibility'.

The government will boost pensions of ex-miners on the MPS scheme, leaving out those on the BCSSS.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust wants to help bats with improved habitats on six of its reserves.

Norwich City defender Shane Duffy urges the team to learn quickly and "crack on again" following two defeats away from home in the space of four days.

People react to proposals to shut an "expensive" visitor centre in a seaside town.

Roblox is introducing new safety features for children under the age of 13, following criticism of how it protects younger users. The free online gaming platform, which has around 70 million […]

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Primož Roglič – Path to 2021 Tour de France Glory Wonderful writing from Kate Wagner, on Primož Roglič, and cycling, and the arcs of careers, and change. (tags: cycling primozroglic sport katewagner writing ) playing the believing game – by Sara Hendren – undefended / undefeated "… believing, Elbow says, is a separate muscle entirely, […]

Oddkin: A working letter · Buttondown "Either your workplace is a family or it’s not. It’s not, of course. The very concept of the workplace as family is a tool for exploitation. But if it’s not, where does that leave us in relation to each other? What does it mean to care about your colleagues, […]

Live Drive, SDrive, Project M, Folders, FolderShare, Windows Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive, OneDrive. Yes, Microsoft has been at this file syncing game for a long time. The company bought FolderShare back in November of 2005, and has been …

Peter Drucker, ‘the founder of modern management’ said:

Customers are some of your best leads. According to a 2022 HubSpot Blog survey of more than 500 sales professionals, more than 70 percent said that upsell and cross-sell drives up to 30 percent of their revenue.

Personalisation in marketing works because personal connections matter. That extends beyond your customers, too. Personal connections include the relationships you have with your suppliers, your stakeholders, your employees, industry peers… the list goes on.

Nearly half of all dogs are affected by Bonfire Night displays, with 45% of owners saying their dog is not calm when they can hear fireworks Sky and NOW have […]

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In the cutthroat world of filmmaking it must be hard to get noticed. Some make their names by honing their craft over years or even decades, learning the business from the ground up, and keeping their egos in check. Others sleep their way to the top. But that's kind of lame. Why make good films or suck off a decent producer when you can hop on the concern-porn cause of the week and gain tasty, tasty attention that way?

Enter 'Balkans the Movie', a yet-to-be-made film that aims to expose the seedy underside of human trafficking by, er, cobbling together a lot of ethnic stereotypes and asking NGOs for funding. Nice work if you can get it. Certainly seems to have worked out for Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (which, incidentally, is so my next character if I ever take up RPGs again. Or alternatively my thrash metal band's debut album).

"Joe is one of the remaining few journalists committed to the ethos of investigative journalism – to uncover the truth using all methods in spite of the risks."

"I'm onto a new story with the break-in thing--absolute page one stuff-- ... It's gonna be bigger than Watergate!"

"Guys get into arguments over nothing and before you know it, one of them is dead. They're shooting each other all the time."

"Fats had killed a made man, elite Mafioso."

"Natasha left her country in Eastern Europe to find a rich man in the West. Unfortunately she was conned and is now serving as a prostitute."

"When I was 15, my parents married me, against my will, to a man aged 35, whom I did not love. So started my miseries."

"Smart Nick is Downtown Joey's son and a possible successor to him but first he must learn the business. "

"He has developed an upper class Oxford accent..."

"Leo was born into music, although his family were not in the industry he managed to make the right connections,  is in his early forties and is American. His break came when he graduated from Harvard in Art History and dated the daughter of the Chairman of Warner Music. He has managed huge acts, is a millionaire, loves young women (18+) and sometimes dabbles in cocaine."

This story is fictional and is not intended to be racist or to offend anyone. 

All characters are fictional and any resemblance to any person/event or situation whether present or in the past is coincidental.

Formula 1 drivers urged the operators of the Interlagos circuit to improve the new surface they laid ahead of this year's event.

What was this Aston Martin mechanic thinking during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend? Can you come up with the best caption for this picture?

In the round-up: Alpine must make up for 0.3-second deficit with 2025 chassis - Briatore • Stolen Lauda helmet goes on display • Wittich 'has not resigned'

This post announces the August 2024 core update to Google Search. This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content that feels like it was made just to perform well on Search.

There was a thread recently on InfoQ asking whether standalone BPMS is dead.

Apres la nomination d'Elon Musk a la tete d'un ministere de l'Efficacite gouvernementale, le ministre de la Fonction publique francais a exprime sa << hate >> de << partager les meilleures pratiques >>.

Collaborative Filtering(CF) is a well-known technique in recommender systems. CF exploits relationships between users and recommends items to the active user according to the ratings of his/her neighbors. CF suffers from the data sparsity problem, where users only rate a small set of items. That makes the computation of similarity between users imprecise and consequently reduces the accuracy of CF algorithms. In this article, we propose a clustering approach based on the social information of users to derive the recommendations. We study the application of this approach in two application scenarios: academic venue recommendation based on collaboration information and trust-based recommendation. Using the data from DBLP digital library and Epinion, the evaluation shows that our clustering technique based CF performs better than traditional CF algorithms.

Climat : la justice néerlandaise donne raison à Shell face aux ONG

L'aide militaire américaine à Israël va se poursuivre après un ajustement de l'aide à Gaza

This paper presents a sequential edge swap (SQES) mechanism to design a robust network for a healthcare system utilising energy and communication range of nodes. Two operations: sequential degree difference operation (SQDDO) and sequential angle sum operation (SQASO) are performed to enhance the robustness of network. With equivalent degrees of nodes from the network's centre to its periphery, these operations build a robust network structure. Disaster attacks that have a substantial impact on the network are carried out using the network information. To identify a link between the malicious and disaster attacks, the Pearson coefficient is employed. SQES creates a robust network structure as a single objective optimisation solution by changing the connections of nodes based on the positive correlation of these attacks. SQES beats the current methods, according to simulation results. When compared to hill-climbing algorithm, simulated annealing, and ROSE, respectively, the robustness of SQES is improved by roughly 26%, 19% and 12%.

1. Affaire Squarcini-LVMH : que reproche la justice à l'ancien patron du renseignement intérieur ?  franceinfo
2. Comment LVMH a échappé à un procès malgré l’espionnage de François Ruffin  Le HuffPost
3. Bernard Squarcini devant la justice pour « trafic d’influence »  Le Monde
4. Affaire Squarcini : le « Squale », comme un poisson à LVMH  Sud Ouest
5. Espionnage sur le tournage de "Merci patron" de François Ruffin, le député réclame un euro symbolique  France 3 Régions

1. Stop Using Chrome On Your iPhone, Warns Apple—Millions Of Users Must Now Decide  Forbes
2. 4 new Chrome improvements for iOS  The Keyword
3. Chrome on your iPhone can search using pictures and words at the same time  The Verge
4. Google Rolls Out Four New Chrome Features for iOS  iPhone in Canada
5. Chrome 131 for iOS adding new Google Drive, Maps integrations  9to5Google

1. Justin Welby resigns as archbishop of Canterbury over abuse scandal  Al Jazeera English
2. Church of England head resigns over handling of sex abuse scandal  CTV News
3. The four bishops at risk from child abuse cover-up report  The Telegraph
4. The archbishop and the abuser  The Economist
5. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns in abuse fallout: All to know  Al Jazeera English

Overwhelmed families surrendering custody of their children to CAS  CTV News Northern Ontario

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Hasard du calendrier ou volontￜ de prￜserver le nouveau Premier ministre ? Selon Mediapart, une enquￜte judiciaire ouverte par le parquet de Perpignan, potentiellement gￜnante pour Jean Castex, a ￜtￜ...

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Plus de débats législatifs. Presque plus de gouvernement. Plus de projet de loi sur l’euthanasie. Plus d’invectives. Plus de bruit. Plus de métro. Plus de Twitter. Même plus de chronique (à bientôt). Silence. Le calme, olympien. La trêve, olympique. On voudrait y croire, on veut en rêver.

File transfer is always handled by a separate service, sometimes it is a third-party service in videoconferencing. When sending files during a video session, file data flow and video stream are independent of each other. Encryption is a mature method to ensure file security. However, it still has the chance to leave footprints on the intermediate forwarding machines. These footprints can indicate that a file once passed through, some protocol-related logs give clues to the hackers' later investigation. This work proposes a file-sending scheme through the video stream using blockchain and steganography. Blockchain is used as a file slicing and linkage mechanism. Steganography is applied to embed file pieces into video frames that are continuously generated during the session. The scheme merges files into the video stream with no file transfer protocol use and no extra bandwidth consumed by the file to provide trackless file transmission during the video communication.