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THE WORLD COUP! [Juice Rap News S02:E06].
All eyes are on Brazil as it endures... errr.... *hosts* the 2014 soccer World Coup - the most watched sporting event on the planet. Join Robert Foster as he investigates why many Brazilians are protesting against THIEFA, the shady organisation that runs the World Cup, and the rather fascist policies it has introduced to their country "for the good of the game". But Brazil is not the only country to get shafted in this epic episode, which features exclusive interviews with captains of the strongest teams in the running for the notorious WORLD COUP. So, click play and find out why they really call it "The World Game."
Critics blast President Obama as a Syria-based militant group overruns key regions in Iraq.
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© Last Week Tonight With John Oliver/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNETMusing on a robot-dominated world, imaginary time, and parallel universes.
The famed physicist made an appearance last night on HBO's "Last Week Tonight," and had a deep and meaningful conversation with host John Oliver. Well, at least Hawking's side of the conversation was deep and meaningful.
Oliver asked him what was the one thing he most wanted people to grasp. Hawking replied: "Imaginary time."
"Imaginary time is like another direction in space," he said. "It's the one bit of my work science fiction writers haven't used."
Honestly, I thought that all sci-fi was written merely by adding blood, gore, and sex to the work of scientists. So why haven't sci-fi writers built stories around imaginary time? "They don't understand it," he said.
I can't pretend to understand it either. However, it's something to do with time that runs in a different direction to the time that gnaws at us every day.
Most importantly, however, Oliver wanted to know about artificial intelligence. Like so many artificial things, it carries with it the idea that it could be noxious or even deadly.
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1. In some cases, US home sellers must tell a buyer if a property is haunted.
There are all sorts of disclosures that home sellers must make to potential buyers, but do you really need a ghost disclosure? Some states require a seller to disclose if a property is "psychologically impacted" in some way, such as from a recent murder on the premises.
If your house is famously said to be haunted, however, you may want to make sure the buyer is aware of the situation. In the 1991 case Stambovsky v. Ackley, Helen Ackley had sold her Nyack, New York, property after she and other members of her family had widely reported that the house was haunted by poltergeists. Jeffrey Stambovsky, unaware of the stories surround the house, purchased the home and later sued, requesting rescission of the contract of sale. The New York Supreme Court justices had a field day writing that opinion, stating that the "plaintiff hasn't a ghost of a chance" and "I am moved by the spirit of equity." While the court didn't state that poltergeists actually exist, it did say that, based on wide reports of the house's haunted status, that its value was affected and therefore the house was haunted as a matter of law.
© SkySpeed: A spectator leaps the fence and tries to compete during a race meet.
But the excitement on the turf appears to have been all too much for one punter... who decided to get involved himself.
The lone spectator left the stands, vaulted a fence and took to the field mid-way through the race.
Despite sprinting at full pelt, he was quickly overtaken by the ten galloping horses and their determined riders.
But the white-shirted man was fortunate not to be trampled under the hooves of the animals on the field.
It is unknown what action, if any, was taken against the spectator. Previous attempts at gate-crashing the turf have ended in serious injury or death.
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Chelsea Clinton had a $600,000 annual contract with NBC but has recently switched over to a month-to-month arrangement in case her mother runs for president.
...She joined the network as a special correspondent with a three-month trial period starting in November 2011 before she was signed on full time.
The segments that she worked on showed up largely on the now-defunct Rock Center with Brian Williams, and her most recent coverage aired on Nightly News but her last contribution came in January.
Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, seemed to type out a complete tweet only to attach an Instagram link at the end of it, a situation in which Twitter likely chopped up the message at an unfortunate point. The tweet has since been deleted, but screenshots of the image remain thanks to a number of political pundits and a mounting number of re-tweets.
