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  • Tiny House Community in Florida for Homeless Veterans

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    The community would go up in LaVilla, an historic neighborhood that the city of Jacksonville is targeting for revitalization including a new transit center and residential units, according to the Jacksonville Times-Union. LaVilla, established in 1866, was the city’s first suburb and started out as mostly black, eventually attracting immigrant groups including Greeks, Syrians and […]

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  • Everything You Need To Know About the Invictus Games 2018

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    At the beginning of 2014, Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games. The event is an international sporting event for injured service men and women. And the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 will feature 500 competitors from 18 participating nations. When is the Invictus Games opening ceremony? The Invictus Games opening ceremony will take place on Saturday, […]

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  • Erectile dysfunction or performance anxiety? The truth behind a modern malaise

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    All men struggle to get an erection at some point in their lives, but more and more in their 20s and 30s are having problems. Are they panicking at the thought of sex? It was just as things were getting serious in the bathroom at a house party that an off-hand comment ruined the mood […]

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  • Is Facebook listening to you?

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    The biggest challenges in the design of speech and audio interfaces frequently repeated urban story is that someone talks about an arbitrary topic, say “cars” and minutes later he sees a car-advertisement on Facebook. Or that you talk about “Greg” and seconds later you see a “Add friend” notification for someone named Greg. This highlights a […]

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  • Kandahar police chief killed in Afghan attack but U.S. Gen. Scott Miller unhurt

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    The Taliban claimed responsibility and said the American commander was the intended target. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, escaped injury during a Taliban-claimed gun attack Thursday, but three Americans were wounded. The police chief of the southern province of Kandahar, Gen. Abdul Raziq, was killed, reportedly […]

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  • 130 Coffee Shops in Europe Started to Accept and Sell Crypto

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    Be honest: shopping with cryptocurrency isn’t always the easiest experience. Even if price volatility is on your side, spending funds can be nightmarish. Crypto is gaining in popularity but many merchants still don’t accept it – meaning you are stuck with those age-old, boring options of paying by card or cash. A “technology enabler” startup […]

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  • Accenture Launches Commercial R3 Blockchain Solution in Thailand

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    Global consulting giant Accenture and Digital Ventures, a fintech subsidiary of Thai financial services conglomerate Slam Commercial Bank (SCB) have announced the launch of a jointly developed blockchain solution that makes commercial operations in Thailand more efficient by using R3‘s open-source Corda blockchain protocol to revamp the process of making and receiving payments and accessing finance. […]

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  • 7 Tips for Effectively Allocating an SMB Advertising Budget

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    By analyzing not only the demographics but the psychographics of your target market and strengthening your ideal customer profile, you’ll make the budget you have more effective. Last year, according to Statista, 47 percent of small businesses surveyed budgeted less than $10,000 for marketing and advertising. Some 25 of them spent up to $100,000, 11 percent spent […]

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  • Hacked, scammed and on your own: navigating cryptocurrency ‘wild west’

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    NEW YORK – When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-character password and cleaned out their cryptocurrency wallet, they did not go to the police or alert the tokens’ issuer, the Berlin-based technology group IOTA. They bought more coins. The Cyprus-based German couple, who describe themselves as financial educators, figured […]

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  • Pompeo says the U.S. will give Saudi Arabia ‘a few more days’ for Khashoggi investigation

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    Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin later said that after meeting with Trump and Pompeo Thursday morning, he would not be attending the Future Investment Initiative summit in Saudi Arabia as initially planned. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday after meeting with President Trump at the White House that the U.S. will […]

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