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Beckham To Retire At Last
Life, Leeds United, The Universe and Everything

Beckham: Hanging Up Boots So, the day has arrived at last.  An icon is to depart the game.  England’s “Goldenballs”, the man with the most famous metatarsal the world has ever seen, he of the sculpted facial furniture with chiseled jaw and cheekbones to die for, David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE is finally to quit the game he has – more or less – adorned since 1995.  Everybody is sitting up and taking notice at what is the end of an era.  Leyton Orient have felt it necessary to remind the world in a timely tweet that the Coiffed One is to make his last appearance against French side Lorient – NOT the English League One denizens L.Orient.  Thanks for clearing that up, lads.  My first memory of David Beckham is necessarily hazy – I was quite intoxicated, and stood high up in the away end at The Theatre of Hollow Myths as Leeds United’s all-conquering youth side trampled the budding superstars of Man U into the turf on their way to an eventual

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Bloomberg News poll: 71% say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, Apple (AAPL) investors instantly worried the consumer electronics juggernaut had lost its innovative soul,” Matt Egan reports for FOXBusiness.Increasingly, investors seem to be betting those fears are coming true. “Seventy-one percent of respondents in a newly-released Bloomberg poll say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator, including 28% who say it is permanent and 43% who believe it may just be a temporary issue,” Egan reports. “Another 23% of poll respondents believe Apple remains on top of the industry as an innovator and 6% were unsure, Bloomberg said.” Egan reports, “Apple had long been admired for its groundbreaking inventions, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad. However, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company appears to have ceded some of that innovative ground to rivals like Samsung and Amazon.com.” MacDailyNews Take: Yes, and pigs might

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Woof! The World’s Best Chef Is Looking For A French Bulldog to Rep The elBuilli Foundation
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BY TEAM JST “I will hold casting sessions in New York, London, Madrid, and Barcelona if necessary,” Ferran Adrià told the Guardian. For what, you may ask. One of the most revolutionary chefs in the world is looking for a French bull dog to rep the elBulli Foundation – a project near and dear to his heart, in hopes of fostering creativity, gastronomy all in the pursuit of happiness. As he tells the Guardian, “The El Bulli Foundation will draw inspiration, from such varied sources as the Cirque du Soleil circus, fellow Catalan madcap Salvador Dali and his museum in nearby Figueres, and MIT’s Media Lab.” Why a French bulldog? It was what inspired Adrià to create elBulli, the world famous restaurant, in the first place. The chosen pup will be the spokesperson for the foundation that includes pop-up dinners, charity events, and a lab for students to create, innovate and experiment with food. Like he said, Adrià will be looking in four major cities in the

Man Wanted For Attempted Sexual Assault On South Side
CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are searching for man who attempted to sexually assault a woman in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Friday morning. Police said the man tried to sexually assault a woman about 7:45 Friday in the 4800 block of South Seeley Avenue after she had pulled over her vehicle to tend to a problem it was having, according an alert from Area Central detectives. The man is described as white or Hispanic with a thick mustache, 30-40, 5-feet to 5-feet-4 and 150-170 pounds, the alert said. He was wearing a hooded black sweatshirt and spoke Spanish with a heavy accent, the alert said. Anyone with information about the attempted assault is asked to call Area Central detectives (312) 747-8380. (Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2013. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Monsanto : Extinction – 25 May 2013
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Uploaded 9 September 2008 by sowhtttt GMOs are made by manipulation of extremely deadly viruses & bacteria (such as E. coli) that have been engineered to be IMMUNE TO ANTIBIOTICS (Pause video at 8:08). Monsanto spends millions of dollars each year in order to “sugar” coat the facts of what GMOs actually are and more importantly, how they are made. This video straight-forwardly explains the scientific facts on how Monsanto manufactures their GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) by simply removing all the corporate propaganda, the “smoke & mirrors” if you will. Monsanto’s greed, combined with their quest to monopolize all aspects of food & seed on the planet, has knowingly allowed the proverbial Reaper free upon the world. GMOs are now acting much like the deadly virus and pre-cancer type cells they are made from… by infecting other organisms that were once pure and healthy. We as a people should demand Monsanto be held for crimes against

Bike to Work Week about to begin!
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Bike to Work Week is back for 2013! It’s an event that keeps getting bigger, with more participants and more companies supporting it. Goldstream Bicycles has been involved since the early days, and continues to support it. This year we’re donating a Kona Dew commuter hybrid, complete with our Lifetime Tune-Ups and Flat Insurance service offerings, as a prize for a lucky BTWW participant. For a third year in a row, we’re also co-sponsoring a BTWW Celebration Station! The past two years it’s been at Veteran’s Memorial Park across the street, but it wasn’t the best location for commuters returning to Langford in the evening. Ours is at “Crossroads Park”. Not sure where that is? We weren’t either, at least not by name. It’s right beside our bike shop, at the intersection of Goldstream and Veteran’s Memorial Parkway, nicely located on two busy streets bike commuters use, and not far from Atkins Rd. (which also has a lot of bi

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Republican Senator Rand Paul announces 2016 campaign
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(CNN) — He’s running. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul announced Friday he will be on ballots in November 2016, but he told voters in his home state that they might be the only ones with a chance to vote for him. The freshman Republican senator was returning to Kentucky from visits to a trio of states that hold sway in the presidential nominating process, visits which further stoked the speculation about his presidential interests. He indicated his intention to be on the ballot for re-election that year, but downplayed any White House ambitions. “For now, (what) we know for sure is we’re going to run for the U.S. Senate,” he said, according to a report from The Independent. “The other decision can come later.” Paul posted online a link to a separate report on his appearance at the Woodford County Republican Dinner, one which did not include the quote. Both articles noted state law allows him to run simultaneously for the White House and re-election to h

Noise From Music Fest At Chicagoland Speedway Has Neighbors Up In Arms
CBS Chicago

JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) – It’s an electronic dance music festival, not race cars, making noise this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet. And as WBBM’s Bob Roberts reports, some people are up in arms about it. [cbs-audio url=http://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mp3_bc_-wav_carts_daisy-w1-sat.mp3 size=340px download=false name="Noise From Music Fest At Chicagoland Speedway Has Neighbors Up In Arms" artist="WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts"] Most of the complaints seem to be coming from the east of the Chicagoland Speedway in new Lenox, Frankfort and Mokena as grandstands protect the other three sides. Bill Crimmins says he does noise studies for a living and says this is far from the ordinary. “This is crazy. We have numerous races at the Speedway here every year. You hear a little bit of it in the background, in fact you kind of forget that it is there because it is just kind of a background noise. This dwarfs the amount of noise beyond belief,” said Crimmins. Cr

Rosenthal Launches Radon Bill

Last year, when Sane Energy Project visited the offices of Assembly Member, Linda Rosenthal, and explained the problems with radon that might be coming through new pipelines into city kitchens, even we didn’t expect the response we got: Let’s write a law about it. You mean, be proactive? Who knew! At a point when donations from gas and oil interests are rampant, when scandals in Albany dominate news cycles, when the governor stalls on doing the right thing and banning fracking, the Assembly member has done something extraordinary: drafted a bill that would protect New Yorkers from a potential threat that no government agency had previously taken steps to prevent. We don’t want ANY fracked gas being used, but if we can’t stop every pipeline they’re planning to build, the government ought to at least prevent a public health crisis created by a changing gas supply. Sane Energy Project extends sincere thanks to A.M. Rosenthal for her leadership in launching a

Father kidnaps son; Amber Alert issued for 3-year-old boy
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LONGMONT, Colo. — An Amber Alert has been issued, as police look for a man who they said shot his estranged wife with a stun gun, sprayed pepper spray in her face, and then kidnapped their 3-year-old son, Luke. Longmont police said Monty Turner took his son Luke just after 10 a.m. Saturday from the 700 block of Eldora Place. Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said the boy’s father was last seen riding a bike with his son going eastbound on Mountain View Ave. from Independence Drive. Police say Turner may have had a parked car waiting for him nearby the scene, and that he has since fled in that vehicle. Officers say Luke had just been reunited with his mother, Brandy Turner, in March after Monty had previously taken his son last July. Brandy now has sole custody of her son, according to police. Luke has blonde hair and blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a dark blue shirt and light blue swim shorts. Monty is wanted on an outstanding warrant with a $50,000 bond for failure to

PG&E: Shareholders Will Pay For Pipeline Explosion Penalties
CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Officials at Pacific Gas & Electric say customers will not be paying the massive fines being sought by state regulators in the deadly 2010 pipeline explosion in San Bruno, but that PG&E’s shareholders will bear that cost. On Friday the utility said it thought the record $2.25 billion in fines being sought by state regulators is illegally excessive, but did not offer a specific dollar figure it considers reasonable. In a 103-page filing submitted just before the close of business, PG&E said that it agrees with the California Public Utilities Commission’s finding that a financial penalty is appropriate for the September 2010 explosion that killed eight people. But with shareholders already paying $2.2 billion in system upgrades and other improvements in response to the blast, a spokesman on Saturday said that amount should be applied to any penalty. (Copyright 2013 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be p

Police arrest cross-dressing bank robbery suspect
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SALT LAKE CITY — A man was arrested Saturday in connection with two bank robberies, one of which was carried out while the suspect was disguised as a woman. John Eugene Walker was taken into custody by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, the Sandy City Police Department and the Unified Police Department. A federal complaint alleges Walker robbed the Zions Bank on 700 E. 8955 S. in Sandy on May 22, and that he robbed the U.S. Bank on 888 E. 4500 S. in Salt Lake City on May 3. Walker was located using witness accounts, tips generated as a result of news reports and other leads, according to a press release. Walker carried out the alleged robbery at Zions Bank while disguised as a woman. During the robbery he told a teller to put all of the money in a purse, but the suspect did not make any threats of violence or display any weapons. The suspect in that robbery fled in a newer model Toyota Solara. The robbery was captured on surveillance cameras and can be seen below. [ooyala code="E3a

British Council Series at the Telegraph Hay Festival 23 May – 2 June
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View this email in your browser British Council Series at the Telegraph Hay Festival 23 May – 2 June We’re proud to present a special series of four British fiction events at the original Hay Festival as part of our global partnership. Event 40: Saturday 25 May 2013, 1pm on the Wales Stage Will Self talks to the writer and journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, about his Booker-shortlisted novel, Umbrella, films of his work and the opportunities presented by the digital form. Event 145: Monday 27 May 2013, 1pm in Google’s Big Tent Howard Jacobson presents his latest novel, Zoo Time, a book about love – love of women, love of literature, love of laughter in conversation with Hay Festival Director, Peter Florence. Event 314: Friday 31 May 2013, 11.30am on the Wales Stage The third event in our series features Sebastian Faulks crossing continents and time by way of discussing his latest novel with the Telegraph’s Literary editor, Gaby Wood. Event 380: Saturday 1 June 2013, 4pm on t

The Swedish police promoting citizen journalism
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Interesting promotion of ‘citizen journalism’ by Swedish police –the self-imposed Big Brother. “Sweden unrest: Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riots – Europe – World – The Independent” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-unrest-stockholm-police-ask-for-reinforcements-to-quell-ongoing-riots-8631688.html

LIVE: Dortmund udligner på straffespark!
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Så er vi i luften! Gennem hele lørdag aften fra kl. 20.15 vil du kunne følge ekstrabladet.tv her i denne artikel. Med gæster i studiet og fodboldfans i sofaen har vi linet op til et brag af en sportsaften med først CL-finale mellem Bayern München og Borussia Dortmund. Derefter får VM-braget mellem Carl Froch og [...] LIVE: Dortmund udligner på straffespark! | www.limit.ws

LIVE: Dortmund udligner på straffespark!
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Så er vi i luften! Gennem hele lørdag aften fra kl. 20.15 vil du kunne følge ekstrabladet.tv her i denne artikel. Med gæster i studiet og fodboldfans i sofaen har vi linet op til et brag af en sportsaften med først CL-finale mellem Bayern München og Borussia Dortmund. Derefter får VM-braget mellem Carl Froch og [...] LIVE: Dortmund udligner på straffespark! | www.limit.ws