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RYANAIR?S BARGAIN THURSDAY!
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100,000 seats on over 1,000 European routes in September, October & November
?from only ?19.99
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Ryanair, Europe?s only ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC), announced that from midnight (24:00hrs) tonight (Thur 1 Aug), passengers can fly from London Stansted to Brno from just ?19.99 in September, October and November as part of its weekly ?Bargain Thursday? promotion.
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Ryanair is releasing 100,000 seats across its European network at prices starting from just ?19.99 for travel on Mon, Tue, Wed & Thur in September, October and November and these ?all in? low fares will be available on over 1,000 of Ryanair?s European routes, but must be booked on www.ryanair.com before midnight (24:00hrs) Mon, 5 Aug.?
Ryanair?s ?19.99 sale fare includes all non-optional taxes, charges and fees, so passengers who only travel with carry-on luggage and decline our priority boarding service can book, check-in online and fly for this advertised ?19.99 fare on these ?Bargain Thursday? flights.
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Ryanair?s Robin Kiely said:
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?Only Ryanair sells Europe?s lowest fares with no fuel surcharges guaranteed, across over 1,600 routes, connecting 180 destinations, while delivering Europe?s No 1 customer service, with the most on-time flights, fewest cancellations and least mishandled bags.
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From midnight tonight (1 Aug), passengers can book 100,000 ?Bargain Thursday? seats on over 1,000 European routes, including London Stansted to Brno, at prices starting from just ?19.99, for travel in September, October and November.?These seats are only available until midnight (24:00hrs) Monday (5 August) and at these mad prices are sure to be snapped up fast, so we urge passengers to book them on www.ryanair.com before they sell out.??
Source: http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/fly-london-to-brno-from-just-19-99-pounds
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's longtime President Robert Mugabe won 61 percent of the presidential vote, trailed by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at 33 percent, election officials announced Saturday.
Mugabe, 89 and in power for 33 years, has another five-year term in office, according to the results.
Mugabe's party won 158 of the 210 parliament seats, giving it a two-thirds majority in the legislature that enables it to make amendments to the new constitution and existing laws, according to the results announced by the state Election Commission. Tsvangirai's party captured 50 seats and two went to independent candidates.
Tsvangirai earlier Saturday rejected the results as fraudulent and called for fresh elections. He urged a peaceful response to the alleged massive rigging by Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.
Tsvangirai said his Movement for Democratic Change party has in its possession evidence of massive rigging by Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in the just-ended polls and will challenge results from Wednesday's voting.
"People of Zimbabwe must be given another chance to participate in a free, fair and credible election. They have been shortchanged by a predetermined election," he said.
Tsvangirai told a news conference that the outcome of the polls has extended Mugabe's rule which has plunged the nation into economic and political turmoil.
He said Mugabe's victory in the polls has "dashed people's hopes and aspirations."
"There is no celebration, there is national mourning," Tsvangirai said.
He said his party will not "participate in any government institutions" in protest but stopped short of saying it will boycott its reduced seats in the Harare parliament.
Mugabe's loyalist army and police have set up security posts in Harare Saturday, apparently in case there are any protest demonstrations.
"We are rejecting the results because they are fraudulent," Tsvangirai said. "We will go back to our people. Our people are the ones hurting. Our people are disciplined. We don't want a violent resolution to this crisis."
He said a complete audit is needed of the shambolic voters' lists, which was only made available at the time of the election.
Official results have shown large disparities between votes cast for Tsvangirai's party in the violent and disputed polls in 2008 and a higher turnout than at the March referendum when all parties supported a "yes" vote and voters' lists were not used.
Tsvangirai's party lost several seats in its Harare urban strongholds by massive margins compared to their overwhelming votes in 2008.
In one Harare constituency, Tsvangirai's party won with 9,538 votes to 8,190 captured by Mugabe's party. In 2008 the same district voted for the MDC candidate, Tendai Biti, by about 8,300 ballots against Mugabe's 2,500 votes.
"It is ZANU-PF's imagination that they have won this election, they know the truth," Tsvangirai said Saturday. "We have been robbed."
Independent monitors have charged that as many as 750,000 voters were prevented from casting their ballots on Wednesday because of irregularities in voters' lists.
They allege thousands of unregistered voters were allowed to vote.
The continent-wide African Union and regional monitors of the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, have generally endorsed the elections as peaceful, but have expressed misgivings over how voting numbers might have been manipulated and have demanded a full account of voter numbers from the official state election body before passing their final judgment on whether the polls were free, fair and credible.
Observers generally commended actual polling for being free of violence that has dominated campaigning against Tsvangirai in his two previous challenges for the presidency in 2002 and 2008.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwe-officials-mugabe-wins-61-percent-163717642.html
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By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the head of litigation for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Matthew Martens' main job is to oversee other lawyers. In his three years at the agency, he had not tried a case himself.
That is, until the SEC decided to bring a civil fraud suit against former Goldman Sachs Vice President Fabrice Tourre, the highest profile case to emerge from the agency's investigations into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis.
Martens, 41, tried the case himself and on Thursday secured a big win. A federal jury in Manhattan found Tourre liable on six of the seven charges against him.
Martens said in an interview it was important that a case deemed significant by the agency should garner attention from the top. He said the verdict should rebut critics of the SEC's trial record, which has taken hits amid setbacks last year in other financial crisis cases.
"If this doesn't convince people we can win these cases, I don't know what would," Martens said.
The SEC accused Tourre, 34, of misleading investors in a synthetic collateralized debt obligation called Abacus 2007-AC1. The SEC said Tourre failed to disclose that Paulson & Co Inc, the hedge fund of billionaire John Paulson, helped choose subprime mortgage securities linked to go into Abacus and also that the fund planned to bet against it.
During the trial, the 20th of his career, Martens told jurors, "Wall Street greed drove Mr. Tourre to lie and deceive."
He readily acknowledged to the jurors the complexities of the case, telling them "nobody is making a TV show any time soon about a CDO trial." But he sought to convince them the fraud Tourre committed was simple.
"You can't and don't need to teach them everything about the subject material," Martens told Reuters Friday.
U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Martens joined the SEC in August 2010 from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte, North Carolina, which he joined as an assistant U.S. attorney and left as deputy criminal chief.
Before heading to Charlotte, Martens worked under Michael Chertoff, first as an associate at the law firm Latham & Watkins and later as chief of staff when Chertoff headed the Justice Department's criminal division.
While he was in Charlotte, Martens started a securities fraud practice. He also built up his trial experience, taking 14 cases to jury trials.
"His philosophy was to volunteer to try anything," said Chertoff, who later served as secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and now heads the Chertoff Group consulting firm. "He wanted to really get that experience."
When Martens began looking to join the SEC, he originally applied to run its Atlanta office, according to Robert Khuzami, who stepped down as the SEC's director of enforcement in January and joined Kirkland & Ellis last month.
Khuzami, who got to know Martens through that process, subsequently reached out when the position of chief trial counsel opened up.
Martens's arrival at the SEC came at a time of restructuring for the SEC's enforcement division, which had been criticized for failing to uncover Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme before it came to light in December 2008.
Khuzami called Martens a "very hands on manager" who instituted closer supervision of members of the trial unit. He also was part of an effort to create more integration between the trial lawyers and investigative units, Khuzami said.
"He generally set a high standard for performance and encouraged member of trial units to get involved earlier in the investigative process," Khuzami said.
Mary Schapiro, who chaired the SEC at the time of Martens' hiring and is now at the Promontory Financial Group consulting firm, said Martens had "this extraordinary ability to, in a very cogent, concise, logical way, pull all the information together that was necessary for us to make a decision."
COURT APPEARANCES
While at the SEC, Martens was the lead lawyer in a lawsuit against the Securities Investor Protection Corp seeking to force the industry-funded non-profit to initiate a court proceeding enabling investors who lost money in Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme to file claims.
Martens argued the case at the district court level, where a judge ruled against the SEC. The case is now on appeal.
He also acted as lead counsel in seeking court approval of a $285 million settlement with Citigroup Inc, which the SEC accused of misleading investors in the sale of a $1 billion collateralized debt obligation.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan rejected the settlement in November 2011, criticizing a provision in which the bank neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. An appeal of that ruling is pending.
Those court appearances notwithstanding, the Tourre case marked Martens's first actual trial at the SEC. He inherited it from Lorin Reisner, who handled the case as deputy director for enforcement until he left in 2011.
The Tourre verdict is a chance for the SEC to rebuff critics who have questioned its ability to win big cases stemming from the financial crisis.
How much longer Martens will be associated with the SEC is unclear. In May, Reuters reported he had been considering leaving to join a law firm.
Martens declined to discuss his future, other than plans to take a vacation this week.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Eddie Evans, Tiffany Wu and Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fabulous-fab-verdict-vindication-sec-lawyer-142759536.html
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Anticipation mounts as the next generation of video game systems are starting to hit the market, promising more realistic graphics, better sound and a more movie-like experience.
Last year, Nintendo released the Wii U, the successor to the Wii. This fall, Sony will release the PlayStation 4, while Microsoft enters the ring with Xbox One.
But with all those shiny new gaming consoles comes a question: Which system is the most energy-efficient system on the market and waste the least amount of energy.
The good people at Enervee?have provided the answer:
With the tests being completed and the numbers crunched, its Sony who comes out the winner.?The PlayStation 4 out of a scale from 0 to 100 (100 being the top mark) received an efficiency score of 100.?Xbox One, was second at 96,?Ouya???an Android operating system micro console ? was third with a score of 78, while the?Nintendo Wii U has a ranking of 67, even below next generation systems.
Older systems??rank even lower on the energy efficiency scale: PlayStation 3 Slim 500GB has a rating of 69; the Wii finishes with 65; Xbox 360 at 63 out of 100; and last on the scale was the PlayStation 3 Slim 320 GB at 62.
While Enervee does give a very through list of environmental performance for electronics, its not the only website out their if you are looking for the greenest video game system or electronics.?Greenpeace every fall publishes their??Guide to Greener Electronics??which provides a comprehensive ranking of the best in eco-friendly gadgets.
Are video games the energy wasting vulture that many within the environmental community complain about? Or as the new generation of systems come out, starting to turn face??What do you people think?
Adam Johnston A University of Winnipeg graduate who received a three year B.A. with a combined major in Economics and Rhetoric, Writing & Communications. Currently attempting to be a freelance social media coordinator. My eventual goal is to be a clean tech policy analyst down the road while I sharpen my skills as a renewable energy writer. Currently working on a book on clean tech and how to relate it to a broader audience. You can follow me on Twitter @adamjohnstonwpg or at www.adammjohnston.wordpress.com
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