Huffington Post
Christopher Brauchli: About Immigrants and Birth Certificates
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- --Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Two bits of bad news to dampen any cheer...
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politico
Of candidate birth certificates
With Donald Trump declaring anew to Lloyd Grove that Barack Obama is actually Kenyan-born and told the truth to a literary agent decades ago, I was reminded of this clip from a Boston Globe column last year about how Mitt Romney's name appears on his birth certificate:
Four years ago, I asked Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom to settle the matter.
“It’s Willard Mitt Romney on the birt...
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Slashdot
Moxie Marlinspike Proposes New TACK Extension To TLS For Key Pinning
Trailrunner7 writes "Two independent researchers are proposing an extension for TLS to provide greater trust in certificate authorities, which have become a weak link in the entire public key infrastructure after some big breaches involving fraudulent SSL certificates. TACK, short for Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys, is a dynamically activated public key framework that enables a TLS serve...
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Mashable
Target and Shopkick Launch Nationwide Loyalty Gift Card Program
Target is expanding its partnership with Shopkick, a mobile couponing app that allows shoppers to collect and exchange points for rewards.
Begin…
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Times of India
Renuka dam project faces delay over NOC clause
With Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) making no objection certificates (NOCs) from gram sabhas of the project area mandatory, plans to start construction of Renuka dam in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh from next month has been delayed.
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Fortune
Facebook scraps its paper stock certificates
Facebook investors hoping for a tangible marker of their ownership stake are out of luck. The company won't be offering paper stock certificates, despite earlier indications that it planned to make them available.
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USA Today
How to cash in your paper stock certificates: Some tips
Paper stock certificates are fast becoming a remnant of the past. Fewer brokerages want to deal with them, and the industry is moving on.
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The Nation
Khoja gives shares to workers
LAHORE – A special ceremony was held in NIT (North Zone) Lahore to distribute Benazir Employees Stock Scheme unit certificates against 12pc NIT shares to employees. Chairman of NIT, Wazir Ali Khoja distributed unit certificates among employees of NIT, North Zone Lahore, who were fulfilling the criteria laid down in the Trust Deed, says a press release.
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BBC
Should stillborn babies be given birth certificates?
Australian woman asks that stillborn baby be recognised
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Irish Times
Law, Technology and Governance
Graduate students in the Law School at the NUI Galway will present their thesis topics for discussion and feedback at a conference on the theme of “Law, Technology and Governance” on Monday, May 28th. Amongst the topics are electronic commerce, internet piracy, data retention, financial regulation and corporate governance. CPD certificates are available for those who pre-register. For more deta...
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Times of India
600 teachers in Yavatmal go ‘deaf’ to avoid transfers
All of them have submitted identical certificates claiming that they are “deaf”, and therefore, ineligible for transfer to other schools in the district.
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Times LIVE
Italian police seize billions of dollars worth of us bonds, gold
Police in Italy have seized 1.5 billion dollars worth of US bonds and more than 1,000 tons worth of gold deposit certificates of dubious origin, according to media reports Saturday.
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China Daily
Carrefour denies selling oilfish as cod
Carrefour denies the accusation posted by a micro-blogger that its stores sell oilfish as cod, saying the cod on sale in its stores are silver pout and buffalo cod which have proper certificates from import authorities.
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Telegraph
"Highly unlikely" NS&I will bring back inflation linked savings certificates
NS&I has confirmed that its popular Index-linked Savings Certificates will not be returning this year.
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China Daily
Nine stand trial for selling fake US degrees
Nine suspects stood trial at a local court in Beijing on Monday for selling fake degree certificates from universities in the United States to defraud people of about $540,000.
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Times of India
British PM moots adult certificate for sexy videos
British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for raunchy promos to be slapped with adult certificates.
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Daily Mail
Graphic pop videos 'to be given 18 certificates' to stop children from seeing them
Prime Minister David Cameron is now considering rules that would force websites hosting such videos to introduce robust age-verification systems similar to those used to safeguard children from online gambling.
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Telegraph
Cameron gets tough on raunchy videos
Explicit music videos would be given 18 certificates to protect children, under plans looked at by Prime Minister.
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Irish Times
Ireland's new citizens: 4,000 people receive certificates
THOUSANDS OF people filed into the Convention Centre Dublin yesterday, some of them in colourful national dress, to collect citizenship documents.
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Telegraph
Andrew Lansley: abortion clinics will be inspected
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says he was "shocked and appalled" to learn that some clinics may be allowing doctors to pre-sign abortion certificates.
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The Guardian
Allen Stanford loses bid for retrial
Lawyers for convicted $7bn fraudster had cited courtroom tweets from journalists, lack of time and prejudicial pretrial publicityThe financier Allen Stanford has lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7bn (£4.4bn) Ponzi scheme.US district judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a retrial in a brief order on Thursday, witho...
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Daily Telegraph
Bosses warned not to question sick notes
BOSSES are warned to tread carefully when questioning the truth of employees' sick certificates over concerns with patient confidentiality.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Certificates of Appreciation for Canadian Veterans
Last Thursday, Toronto Consul General Kevin Johnson, visited the Veterans Centre to hand out Certificates of Appreciation from the U.S. Department of Defense to Sunnybrooks Korean War veterans.
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Los Angeles Times
Dance your way to $20,000 this prom season
It's always a good idea to tune up your dance moves before prom night, but how about a $20,000 incentive?
David's Bridal and Men's Wearhouse have teamed up to launch a national Facebook dance contest called "Dance Dance Prom!" Posted on the contest Facebook page is a video (featured above) of six kids getting their groove on in prom gear. For a chance to win $10,000 for yourself and $10,000 fo...
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Daily Mail
Buy-to-let landlords warned about new rules on Energy Performance Certificates
Buy-to-let landlords are being warned that eco-laws on property rental will be tightened up next month.
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WSJ
'Savings' Yields Tick Lower
Yields on certificates of deposit were mixed in the latest week.
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FT
India unpicks cotton shipments ban
New Delhi says it will not issue any new export certificates, just one day after removing a week-old ban on shipments of the fibre
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WSJ
South Africa Apologizes to Nigeria in Deportation Spat
South Africa apologized for deporting 125 Nigerians accused of entering the country with fake yellow-fever vaccination certificates, capping a diplomatic spat between two continental powers.
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BoingBoing
MIT issues certificates in piracy
Good news! You can now earn a certification in piracy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the first crop of official pirates, Jacob Hurwitz, showed up for his interview with the Boston Globe "wearing a pirate hat, eye patch, earring, knickers, and a stuffed parrot on his shoulder." So you know it's official. [...]
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Mail & Guardian
SA moves to placate Nigeria over yellow fever row
South Africa has apologised for deporting 125 Nigerians accused of using fake vaccination certificates, seeking to defuse a growing dispute.
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BBC
SA apology over yellow fever row
South Africa apologises for the deportation of Nigerians over suspicions their yellow fever certificates were fake - a move Abuja had said was "xenophobic".
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The Jerusalem Post
Ex-chief rabbi suspected of false ordinations
Rabbi Bakshi Doron may be indicted for allegedly granting 1,500 members of IDF, police force false certificates of rabbinic ordination.
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Irish Times
A broken city fears for its future
BENEATH A wide hotel awning blackened and gouged during months of fighting, dozens of men queue to receive embossed certificates commemorating their role in the uprising that dislodged Muammar Gadafy. Stirring revolutionary music blares from loudspeakers as onlookers conclude each tribute to the fallen martyrs with shouts of “Allahu Akbar”.
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Daily Telegraph
Sperm donors' secret details tagged
BIRTH certificates could be secretly tagged with the identity of sperm or egg donors under a controversial new state government proposal.
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siliconindia
New Skills Pay Better Than IT Certificates
IT certification may no longer assure extra pay in your tech field, in spite of the surge of job growth in the IT sector-- new skills are now more valued instead.
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AP
Ex-Stanford exec returns for 2nd day of testimony
HOUSTON (AP) -- People who bought certificates of deposits, or CDs, from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's Caribbean bank were wowed by financial statements and other reports that showed their investments were doing spectacularly well and the bank itself was on solid footing....
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NEWS.au.com
Certificates available to same-sex couples
AUSTRALIANS who want to take part in a same-sex marriage overseas will soon be able to apply for a certificate of no impediment.
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perez hilton
So Sad! G-MaMa Of Royal Estate Murder Victim Speaks!
Ugh! We're still so crEEped out by this!!
Remember when they found the remains of a poor seventeen year old on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham country estate!?!
Of course U do… it was only New Year's!!
Welll… now her grandmother has spoken… and it just breaks our heart!!
Lidija Nesterova says the family is in a [...]
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Telegraph
Kazakh police receive awards for quashing riots
With a bombastic Hollywood film theme tune straining in the background, police officers from central Kazakhstan have received certificates and commemorative watches for their role in quelling riots last month in the west of the country.
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Nikkei
Seven & I To Issue Gift Certificates In Quake-Stricken Area |
Times of India
Value Education and Life Skills
Should schools teach values? Can individual teachers be entrusted the delicate task of showing the path to little ones of the next generation? Are values essential to life skills, or to qualifications and certificates? Or should value building be left to the family and larger society? Schools that are supported by religious trusts have had to tackle this issue more explicitly than others. Missi...
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The Nation
Prosecutors asked to ensure rule of law
OUR STAFF REPORTER
FAISALABAD - The Punjab prosecutor general has said that the provincial government has taken a number of steps to fulfil modern requirements of the Law Department to ensure early and speedy justice.
Addressing a certificates distribution ceremony to prosecutors after a training course at the…
Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story
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AP
Kid Rock, Detroit church donate gifts to needy
DETROIT (AP) -- Kid Rock is teaming up with a Detroit church to give away hundreds of gift baskets and retail gift certificates to needy families in the area where he got his start and still calls home....
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circleID
IP Address Space Covered by Certificates
Since the RIPE NCC launched its Resource Certification service, there is a steady increase in the number of prefixes covered by certificates.
The Resource Certification (RPKI) service was launched at the beginning of 2011. The system enables network operators to perform Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) origin validation, which means that they can securely verify if a BGP route announcement has b...
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Reuters
MIT to offer labs, certificates to virtual students
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing technology that will allow students taking courses online to use simulated labs, interact with professors and other students, and earn certificates.
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The Nation
Desperate Kaneria meets PCB chief
LAHORE (Agencies) - In a bid to revive his international career Danish Kaneria has met the newly-appointed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf."Danish (Kaneria) had requested for a meeting with Zaka f and was given a hearing yesterday," a PCB official said.He said that Kaneria had presented his case before the PCB chairman and informed him that despite having submitted clearance c...
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UN
Heeding UNICEFs calls, Mexico makes progress towards free birth registration
Thousands of children from indigenous communities in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca received birth certificates after sustained calls from the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) for free birth registration.
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TechCrunch
Presentify.me Turns Unused Groupons Into Gifts
Looking for a last-minute holiday gift? How about that Groupon you never used? Daily deal vouchers wouldn't actually make bad presents if there was a way to gift them that didn't involve an email printout tucked into a card. That's where Presentify.me, which turns deal vouchers into attractive gift certificates, can help.
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The Nation
UCs allegedly fleecing public
OUR STAFF REPORTERMALAKWAL - The populace of Malakwal have demanded free issuance of birth and death certificates, saying that they were facing massive hurdles by the union council officials in this regard. The local people including Abdul Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq and Amjad Ali have said that they were faced with many hurdles being created by secretaries of union councils. They all...
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science blogs
Kommentar von perk bei "20.000 Jahre - ein tödlicher "Augenblick" im geologischen Sinn" (Geograffitico) am 19.11.2011
@ jürgen
ich kann mir irgendwie nicht vorstellen, dass das MIT für mitarbeiter nicht wenigstens ein vpn zur verfügung stellt, mit dem man auf alle von der uni abonnierten journale zugreifen kann
ne kurze google suche ergab: http://libraries.mit.edu/multi/faq.html
punkt 8:8. How do I access these resources from off-campus?
If you are searching from off-campus, you'll need MIT certificates in...
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Wired
Can Sedition Create a Marketplace for Limited-Edition Digital Art?
A new platform for digital art signs up some impressive names, including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Shepard Fairey. But can certificates of authenticity really help pricey digital images retain their value?
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Art Review
Blog post by surabhi trivedi
Blog post by surabhi trivediAnother out-of-the-box show from Khoj: CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICITY SIGNED BY OVER 50 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTSNew Delhi: KHOJ International Artists’ Association presents In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, a travelling exhibition curated by Susan Hapgood and Cornelia Lauf, that is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by the curators Lorenzo ...
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New York Times
On Manila's Streets, Open-Air ID Mills
Despite periodic efforts to stamp out the trade, fake documents of every stripe -- including diplomas, passports and birth certificates -- are widely available for purchase in the Philippine capital.
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Technology Review
Fake Certificates Reveal Flaws in the Internet's Security
A new report concludes that a breach at a single certificate authority can undermine the security of the entire Internet.
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