Only a third of child care centres in Singapore serve healthier food to preschoolers

When a public health don recently went to a fast-food outlet, he saw a mother pour Coke into a baby milk bottle – and feed it to her toddler.
Anecdotally, Singapore’s young children seem to be consuming more sweet things, from sugared fruit juices and flavoured milk to...

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Security guard befriends 3 brothers in primary school then sexually abuses them

They fully trusted him with their three sons as he was then working in the boys’ school.
Instead of paying back their trust, the family friend abused the boys, destroying their lives by robbing them of their innocence and dignity.
The man, now 52, was working as a school operations...

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August 30, 2016: Breastfeeding Bash with Facebook Live and a $1500 Giveaway

The early days of breastfeeding can be a challenge. Achieving a proper latch, learning how to nurse your babe in public and making sure you’re getting enough to eat can be almost as overwhelming as your list of Do’s and Don’ts when you get pregnant. Our Breastfeeding Bash on Facebook Live pr...

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What A Cutie - December Winners

 
Young Parents readers show off their children’s s
weetest moments
.Terms & conditions This promotion is open to all Singapore residents except employees of Singapore Press Holdings Limited and their immediate family, the sponsor, their media agencies and contractors. Prizes off...

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May 1 - June 1: The LifeChanger by Anna and Eve ($124.99 value)

The LifeChanger by Anna and Eve ($124.99 value)


This giveaway ended at 12AM on Wednesday, June 01.


The LifeChanger by Anna and Eve is the first ever diaper bag that converts to a diaper changing station. You can use it on your lap or any stable flat surface to change baby’s...

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Matt Hartman: Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, and Others Bond With Parenting Foster Youth at Raising Baby

Jordana Brewster, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, and Lindsay Price arrive at Alliance of Moms’ Raising Baby (Photo by Rochelle Brodin/Getty Images for Alliance of Moms)


Nearly 75% of young women in foster care report being pregnant by 21, and nearly 50% of young men in foster care...

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This Adorable Baby Fox Photo Just Won A Major Photography Prize

A heartwarming photo of a mother fox and her baby in Nova Scotia has taken first place in an international wildlife photography competition.
Ian Murray of Wallace, N.S. won the top prize in the “Baby Animals” category of the 2015 American Wildlife Federation Photo Contest, said a...

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Jackie Walker: How To Preserve And Treasure Your Inner Child

It makes me smile when I hear people say they look in the mirror and see their mother. The other day I heard a man wonder out loud how his dad’s hands appeared out of the sleeves of his jacket. After 11 years of living in Chicago, we returned home to Tampa. This morning I asked my...

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Cilla McCain: Baby Lisa"s Disappearance: A Perfect Storm for a Tragic Crime?

It’s a parent’s worst fear. You go to sleep thinking all is right with the world only to wake up and find your baby is gone. It must feel as though you are trapped in some cruel dream from which you cannot wake up.


When my children were born, I pulled their bassinet...

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44 Baby Name Ideas For "Sex And The City" Fans

When, after naming her firstborn Charlotte, Chelsea Clinton named her second child Aidan, people quickly began speculating that the former first daughter may be a massive “Sex and the City” fan.
Inspired by this notion, we scoured the popular HBO series (and its film adaptations) for baby nam...

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Diane Gottsman: Gifts Ideas for a Baby Born With a Silver Spoon in Her Mouth

It’s thrilling to share the joy of a newborn baby, and even more royal when the baby’s mother is Kate Middleton. What are a few things you can gift to show your love and support when the parents clearly have a well-appointed nursery? Perhaps not to the Royal Family, but here are...

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PHOTOS: The World Welcomes Baby Cambridge

While some front pages in the U.S. ran images of crowds outside Buckingham Palace, most publications selected photographs of the town crier, who announced the birth in front of St. Mary’s Hospital on Monday. He was colorfully dressed in traditional clothing, held a scroll, rang a bell...

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6 Sweet Gestures for Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week is the first full week of May! Show your child’s teacher how much she is appreciated with one of these sweet and meaningful gestures. Plus, find some great gift ideas for teacher, too!
Write a Letter of Appreciation
A handwritten letter is always...

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Cheap and good food in Singapore: $1.50 chicken rice, $2 char kway teow

Related: 7 good food places in Singapore to check out this weekend 

 
$1 for a bowl of steaming noodles? Or Char Kway Teow for only $2? Where do you find such cheap eats in Singapore? Check out this list of cheap culinary offerings in Singapore.  

Rickshaw noodles: $1It was a dish that was ...

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How much does Zika test cost for pregnant women?

 

 

 


The Singapore authorities have recently announced the extension of free, as well as subsidised Zika virus testing for all mothers-to-be. 
Subsidised pregnant women who show symptoms or have a male partner infected with virus, can now test free at public healthcare ins...

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WIN! A beautiful life-size keepsake of Baby's feet

Be one of 18 lucky winners to each receive a pair of 3-D casts of your baby’s feet worth $228.
Simply answer a simple question and enter the fields below by Jan 31, 2016.

One of the pioneers of life casting in Singapore, B&G Life Casting creates 3-D casts of your baby’s feet to ke...

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June 6 - July 1: GingerSnapCrate

GingerSnapCrate


This giveaway ended at 12AM on Friday, July 01.


Check out the hottest new monthly subscription box to hit the
nation, GingerSnapCrate, a customized monthly box of your favorite
images printed on photo gifts. Why is this the best box? There is
nothing
like it on the...

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Rachel Hawkins: 10 Things I"ve Learned Since Becoming A Parent

I can’t really remember life B.C. (Before Child), however, in other ways it feels like I only welcomed my son a matter of weeks ago. Time really does fly when you’re having fun.


To celebrate being a Mum for 2 years, I thought I’d compile a list of 10 things I’ve...

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Baby Koala Born At Australian Zoo Will Steal Your Heart

A baby koala bear was born at Australia’s Symbio Wildlife Park just in time for the holidays.
The currently unnamed koala made her film debut in an adorable video shared by the sanctuary over the weekend. Just like the 2-month-old lion cubs at the Denver Zoo and the adorable baby caracals at ...

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Andrea Pflaumer: The Rage Of The Pre-Boomer Woman

Two of my neighbors died within the last year: the husband of one couple and the wife of another. No, this is not a fairytale about the remaining survivors forming a new union. (Ironically, they all knew one another well and shared a mutual loathing.)


I liked all four of them for...

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Baby Lisa"s Mom Has A Dark Side, Former Friend Says

Deborah Bradley, the mother of missing Kansas City infant Lisa Irwin, has come under a cloud of suspicion, as police accuse her of being uncooperative and her recollection of events leading up to the disappearance seems to change.


None of that appears to surprise Shirley Pfaff, who...

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74 Baby Name Ideas For Parents Who Love "Friends"

“Friends” has been off the air for over a decade, but the fandom lives on thanks to Netflix binge-watching, new revelations and endless merch.
For parents and parents-to-be who love the show, “Friends” mania can also continue in other ways… like baby names. We examined the TV show for s...

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Lauren Stevens: Forgive Me For Not Fawning Over The Royal Baby

Please excuse me for not fawning all over the new Royal baby. I groaned in 2011 when the Royal wedding between Kate and William overshadowed my own wedding moment just a month before — didn’t they know that Spring 2011 was my time?
I found out that was pregnant with my first...

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PICS: Royal Baby"s Grandparents Arrive At Hospital!

pic.twitter.com/M8zTux…Read More“},{“id”:”91″,”created”:”07/23/2013 10:09 AM EDT”,”title”:”When Will We Learn The Royal Baby’s...

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The 12 startups making their case at ERA Demo Day

F
or those of you unawares, the Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator, like other accelerators, is a program that provides participating start-ups exposure to potential investors.
They also pair participating startups with an industry-relevant mentor to help bring the startup to market. This ...

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Paddle banks $3.2M for an ecommerce platform targeting SaaS startups

It’s definitely not the sexiest platform play in tech town but b2b startup Paddle thinks it’s found an underserved niche — selling a SaaS ecommerce service to scaling SaaS startups seeking to offload the headache of administering international sales so they can focus on building core produc...

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GoTenna Mesh keeps people connected even when they’re miles apart and off-grid

Today, goTenna is taking pre-orders for their new product, a device called the goTenna Mesh that lets smartphone users text and share their GPS locations, off-grid and across miles of terrain.
The new device works like goTenna’s flagship product did in that it can be used where normal c...

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PlayStation Europe Leak Reveals PlayStation Now for PC

According to a leak on the official PlayStation Europe website, PlayStation Now – Sony’s game streaming service is coming to the PC.
Certain images on the latest post on the site contain the words “PS Now on PC Announce Post by PlayStation Europe, on Flickr” when you...

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Apple to move into a new London campus in 2021

Apple is planning to consolidate its various London offices into a single campus, come 2021.
The Evening Standard broke the news today that Apple’s future home in the U.K. capital will be inside the Battersea Power Station redevelopment zone — a site that has played host to many a press lau...

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IBM releases DataWorks to give enterprise data a home and a brain

While the gears of research are turning fast developing new methods of machine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks like Apache Spark are hitting their stride at the ideal time to put data analytics in the hands of the bus...

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Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center

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Galaxy Note issue: Samsung executives meet DGCA officials

Senior executives of Samsung on Monday met officials of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation, two days after one of the company’s high-end smartphones caught fire inside an IndiGo aircraft.
During the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, the watchdog sought t...

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Twitter finally lets everyone create their own “Moments”

Finally, finally, Twitter has rolled out a version of its storytelling feature called Moments that it should have released at launch. Today, the company says that it’s opening up the Moments platform so anyone can create their own stories using tweets and photos uploaded to the service.
We ...

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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick gets updated with faster hardware and an Alexa-enabled remote

Slowly but surely, Amazon is incorporating Alexa functionality into its numerous existing hardware lines. A few weeks ago, the company announced an update that would bring its friendly voice assistant to its TV streaming hardware solutions, the set top Fire TV and its smaller dongle-based...

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Blackberry bows out of making its own hardware

Former smartphone giant Blackberry has said it will no longer manufacture its own devices. Instead it intends to outsource hardware making to development partners, although the core focus of its business is firmly on software services at this point.
Quitting manufacturing will allow the ...

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Sonali De Rycker and Niklas Zennström join TechCrunch Disrupt London, Dec 5-6

TechCrunch Disrupt London is happening once again this December and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak. The two-day conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and ...

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Facebook At Work is launching next month

Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook At Work in the next few weeks on a per seat pricing model, The Information (paywall) first reported and a source close to Facebook ...

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Google’s search app now sports an incognito mode

Looking to surf the mobile web privately, but generally prefer the Google Search app over standalone browsers like Safari or Chrome? Then you’ll appreciate the latest update to the Google Search app for iOS, which now introduces an “incognito mode” that you can further protect using Touch I...

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Groupon is selling its Indonesia business to fitness membership startup KFit

Groupon continues to streamline its global business after it announced the sale of its operations in Indonesia to a somewhat unlikely buyer. KFit, a one-year-old startup that sells gym and fitness memberships in the same style as U.S.-based ClassPass, is picking up Groupon Indonesia in an u...

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Updates to Apple hardware this year will focus on power users

Apple’s roadmap for the rest of the year (and perhaps a bit beyond that) appears to take aim at big spenders and power users, if we can trust inside information posted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman — as one generally can. Expect updates to the iPad, MacBook Air and Pro and Thunderbolt displ...

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Brad And Angelina Are Dunzo And The Internet Is Collectively Freaking Out

We’ve rounded up some of the best reactions to the Brad and Ang split news below. Naturally, a lot of them had to do with Jennifer Aniston, but it’s OK, y’all. Jen’s got Justin Theroux, and he is FINE.
But anyway, here we go:



If Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are actually getting divorced, t...

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Dr. Ruth Nemzoff: From Deli To Doctor, Doctor To Deli

“For this we sent them to college!” their great grandmothers holler from their graves as their great grandchildren announce their intentions not to be doctors or lawyers or I-bankers but to open a food truck or a restaurant. “We worked hard to spare you back-breaking...

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I took my first ride in an autonomous car and it was weird

At a recent press event focused on industry trends, Ford offered the opportunity to ride in one of the automaker’s autonomous Fusions. As someone who had never ridden in a self-driving car before, I was expecting a strange experience. I was right, just not in the way I...

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Tom Hanks And Rita Wilson Are SOOO In Love In Cute Vacation Selfie

It’s been 28 years since they tied the knot, but A-list couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson look like they’re still in the honeymoon phase. Actress and singer Wilson, who is Huff/Post 50’s editor-at-large, posted this loved-up selfie of the pair cozying up on a beach, captioned simply, “I love h...

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This Nissan Navara-based SUV could be the next Xterra, but isn't

Nissan killed the boxy Xterra after the 2015 model year and not without cause. The truck-like SUV ran for ten years in its second iteration, sharing a platform with the long-in-the-tooth Nissan Frontier. While the Xterra is dead and there’s no major revamp for the Frontier...

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21 Times That Celebrity Dads Shared The Messy Side Of Parenting

When you’re dealing with diaper blowouts, baby vomit and utter exhaustion, any reluctance to talk about the messy parts of parenting tends to fly out the window. 
Even famous parents know this to be true. In honor of Father’s Day, here are 21 spot-on quotes from celebrity dads w...

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Trucker pushes through Louisiana flood waters in tractor trailer

A video released last week showing tractor trailers braving a flooded freeway in Louisiana to deliver their loads on time is making waves on social media.
On September 6, the Walker Police Department in Walker, Louisiana released a video showing two tractor trailers plowing...

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5 Unwritten Rules for Wearing Sequins on the Red Carpet

Sequins and stars go together like peanut butter and jelly, milk and cereal…gin and tonic.
The embellishment attracts attention, adds dimension to fabric and can make you feel instantly glam. On the flip side, shining bright like a diamond can go wrong too (like a stomachache or h...

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Experience the 2016 Quail Motorsports Gathering in glorious technicolor beauty

If you want to properly experience all of the best that Monterey Car Week has to offer, you’re going to want to head to the Quail Lodge and Golf Club on the Friday before The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Showcasing everything from classic roadsters to modern...

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US government outlines policy on self-driving cars

It’s not out of the realm of possibility for fully self-driving cars to hit public roads in the next few years, what with Google, Tesla, Uber and other big-name companies working on the technology. Now, the US government has officially thrown its weight behind the technology and...

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There's a Nissan Rogue promo tie-in with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story because of course

Fiat Chrysler executed its tie-in with 2015’s Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens well. There were entertaining commercials – The Imperial March makes everything better – and special Star Wars-themed Dodge Chargers and Challengers that we drove around wearing Stormtrooper masks ...

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Hanging off a racing sidecar is as crazy as it looks | Translogic 204

Translogic host Jonathon Buckley has done a lot of crazy things on the series, but being a “monkey” in a sidecar race might just be the craziest. In this episode, we travel to Millville, NJ, to learn more about the Sidecar Racing Association and participate in a few...

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WWII Veteran finally gets the Mustang restoration he deserves

Harry Donovan, a B-17 bomber pilot in WWII, was in a nightmare restoration scenario after his chosen restorer took his money and never returned his 1967 Mustang. While the car was eventually found, parts were missing, and Donovan was out money and time. However, thanks to the...

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VW buys stake in Navistar and gains foothold in US truck market

Volkswagen Truck & Bus and Navistar announced that the German truck builder purchased 16.6% of the American company. This alliance not only is an opportunity for VW to get market share in the States, but also a sign that VW isn’t too badly battered by the diesel...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/car+news/vw-buys-stake-in-navistar-and-gains-foothold-in-us-truck-market/

Tractors have the edge in autonomous tech over cars, for now

Various automakers and tech giants may be working frantically to put autonomous cars on the road, but the fully-autonomous tractor concepts in the video above have more self-driving tech than anything around today. Thanks to LiDAR, multiple cameras, and GPS, farmers can control these...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/car+news/tractors-have-the-edge-in-autonomous-tech-over-cars-for-now/

VW admits that its diesels might never come back to the US

As if this week’s announcement about a big shift to electric vehicles wasn’t enough, VW is now saying that it might not bring its diesel line-up back to the US. The German automaker didn’t completely close the door, but after a year of negative headlines from its...

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BP stations get in bed with Nissan for electric vehicle chargers

It’s not that surprising when an electric utility installs some electric vehicle chargers, but a gas station? That’s a bit more unusual, even if it might one day be the norm in Russia. And what happens when a gasoline distributor gets into the EV game? Well,...

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Aluminum Ford Expedition coming in 2017

Ford told investors today that it’s set to introduce a slimmed-down aluminum Expedition in 2017 as a 2018 model. Fuel is cheap and SUV sales continue to hold strong, but that can’t last forever. Add in ever-tightening government fuel economy and emissions standards,...

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Watch the giant touchscreen in the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime in action

The 11.6-inch touchscreen in the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is the largest that Toyota has ever made. It was specifically designed for the upcoming plug-in hybrid and it has an all-new menu setup that is supposed to make accessing the features you’re most likely to use easy as...

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Elon Musk outlines Mars colonization plan

Musk: “I’m personally accumulating assets in order to fund this.” Photo credit: Bloomberg



GUADALAJARA, Mexico — SpaceX is developing a massive rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonizing...

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What happens when you throw a ton of money at a tired Caprice cop car

Icon is best known for building awesome, heavily modified off-roaders. But as it turns out, if you have the money – six figures, we’re guessing – you can apply the company’s handiwork to nearly any vehicle you please. Like a retired police-spec Chevrolet Caprice.
This cop car is p...

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The VW diesel scandal is not a US government conspiracy

The theory holds that the United States wants to destroy a giant German industrial corporation and wreck the “Made in Germany” brand so that American tech companies can rule the world.

There’s a kooky conspiracy theory making the rounds in Germany. It’s all about...

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March sales figures remain strong, but market concerns linger

Tesla Motors wasn’t the only car company to close out March with an upbeat sales report.
Ford enjoyed its best-selling March in ten years, the company said Friday. Other traditional automakers reported sales growth that topped already-historic levels. Trucks and SUVs...

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Jeremy Clarkson sends his house out with a bang, literally

In a move that we’re sure surprises no one, Jeremy Clarkson went with the loudest, most violent method for his house demolition he could: explosives. But this was not some random, unplanned accident or publicity stunt. According to the UK & Ireland branch of Yahoo!...

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Toyota taps Blade Runner and Tron visionary to design Prius VR experience

How do you convince a potential car buyer your vehicle is a future-focused choice? One way is to get one of the most iconic creators of cinematic futurescapes to help you build a virtual world that people can drive the car through themselves. Toyota enlisted Syd Mead, the creative...

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Uber has already lost more than $1.2 billion this year

Uber is a fairly well-established business at this point, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that it makes a profit at this point. But today Uber held a conference call with investors and revealed that it is losing a ton of money so far this year. According to a report from...

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German companies team up with telecom to spur development of talking cars

With connectivity and communications becoming an ever larger part of the automotive world, German automakers Audi, BMW, and Daimler formed the 5G Automotive Association with Intel, Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Huawei. The goal is to develop new technologies to take advantage of...

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Sideshow spectators attack Fresno police cruiser

Guys who block public roads to show off their unimpressive car stunts are the most dangerous version of bro to date. Unfortunately for one California Highway Patrol officer who spent several scary seconds stuck in a crowd of attacking sideshow bros there seems to be a lot of them...

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Toyota: Every future Prius might be a plug-in hybrid

Starting with the fifth-generation models, Toyota might do away with standard hybrid technology altogether in the Prius line-up. Instead, Toyota is considering making every future Prius a plug-in hybrid. The logic comes down to, if you want to push the envelope, you sometimes have...

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Recharge Wrap-up: SolarCity layoffs, pay cuts, Louisiana flooding affects oil industry

SolarCity has announced layoffs for workers and pay cuts for executives as part of a restructuring ahead of its planned merger with Tesla. In preparation of acquisition by Tesla for $2.6 billion in stock, Solarcity says it expects $3 to $5 million in restructuring charges...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/car+news/recharge-wrap-up-solarcity-layoffs-pay-cuts-louisiana-flooding-affects-oil-industry/

Giant moon balloon terrorizes Chinese city

A giant balloon resembling Earth’s moon broke free from its moorings in an eastern Chinese city this week and went on a short but adorable rampage.
According to Popular Mechanics, a giant, semi-deflated balloon painted up to look like the moon appeared seemingly from nowhere...

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Recharge Wrap-up: Eberhard helps Chinese EV maker in US, 'Hail a Honda' at Austin City Limits

Honda is partnering with nonprofit ridesharing service Ride Austin to provide “Hail A Honda” service during the Austin City Limits Music Festival. For both weekends of the festival (Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 and Oct. 7 – Oct. 9), attendees can ride to the event for free in a sp...

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Is Jason O'Mara's Mystery Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director This Marvel Comics Character?

Warning: The following contains spoilers from tonight’s new episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. If you haven’t watched yet, you may want to bookmark this page and return once you have. Proceed with caution.
Well, we’ve finally met Jason O’Mara‘s character on...

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WIN! Safari Zoo Run 2016 goodies

Be one of eight lucky winners to each receive a set of prizes, worth $400 in total. (Prizes include: Four race slots to Safari Zoo Run on Feb 28, Jungle breakfast with wildlife for four people and Singapore Zoo merchandise)
Simply answer a simple question and enter the fields below by Jan 31,...

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June 27 - July 4: Babiators (2 winners)

Babiators (2 winners)


This giveaway ended at 12AM on Monday, July 04.


Babiators, the leading children’s sunglasses brand, is on a mission to protect kids’ eyes from the sun. On June 27th, National Sunglasses Day, this mission is particularly important to share. Sunglasses...

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Galina Nemirovsky: Who Cares How She Feeds Her Baby?

I don’t care how you breastfeed your baby or don’t breastfeed your baby, yet our whole country has been engaged in a dialog about if it’s OK to see ph…
Read more: Mother, Motherhood, Breast Feeding, Breastfeeding, Babies, Children, Feeding, Formula, Parenting,...

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Boston Zoo"s Newborn Baby Goat Is Too Cute To Handle

Get ready for a cuteness overload.
Chewbacca is the newest kid on the block at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo — literally.
The adorable Nigerian dwarf goat was born to parents Leia and Lucky early Tuesday morning.



Franklin Park Zoo


Isn’t Chewbacca the sweetest?



She...

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Kari Henley: The Silent Generation, Boomers, Gen X, And Millenials Are "Wiser Together"

In my most recent post, Millenials and Baby Boomers were joked as being equally “lazy.” While both stages of life can offer the discomfort of decades ahead, with a lack of clarity on what to do, the power and energy of intergenerational collaboration has been generating...

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Cadaver-Sniffing Dog In Baby Lisa"s Home Detects Dead Body Smell

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An FBI cadaver dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the Kansas City home where a baby girl disappeared nearly three weeks ago, according to a police affidavit released Friday.


The affidavit was filed to support a search warrant request for the home of...

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65 Baby Name Ideas For Anyone Who Is Basically Liz Lemon

NBC’s ”30 Rock” has been off the air for three years now, but its legacy endures in the pop culture zeitgeist. In fact, new fans are finding the show on Netflix, and many Liz Lemon-isms have real staying power in contemporary vernacular.
As fans of the show settle down and have children, ther...

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Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana"s Birth Certificate Is Hard To Top

Royal family members — they’re just like us! Well, sort of.


But Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana’s form deviates from the average birth certificate in a few small ways. As we saw with her big brother George’s birth certificate, Charlotte’s parents listed...

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How Much Is The Royal Baby Worth?

With the constant scrutiny and heavy weight of responsibility, it can’t always be easy being a royal.


Take the royal baby. Even while he was still comfortably ensconced in his famous mom’s belly, the eyes of the world were already trained on his every move.


Though he may...

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Your Money: How to Pay for College With Less Stress

And where is that $115 supposed to come from? In his 2002 book, “Make Your Kid a Millionaire,” Mr. McKinley suggested looking at the things on your credit or debit card statement and asking yourself this: Would I rather help my kid go to college or would I prefer to keep buying or doing tho...

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Bloomberg Businessweek Editor-In-Chief Josh Tyrangiel Resigns

Bloomberg Businessweek Editor-in-Chief Josh Tyrangiel is leaving his post at the magazine to “consider new opportunities,” Bloomberg announced Thursday. 
“I’ve spent six years working with some of the smartest and most creative people in journalism, and it’s time for me to take my chips off t...

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5 Things We've Learned Competing Against 800-pound Gorillas

In 2009, my husband and I were contemplating whether to launch another startup. We’d sold our first company to Intuit and taken a few years off to enjoy family and life. But, as entrepreneurs, we were restless with all the down time and eager to jump back in. We didn’t mind the risk or ...

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DealBook: Trump’s a Businessman. Where’s His Business Backing?

As this column has noted previously, virtually no big United States banking institution has done new business with Mr. Trump in years, in part because of his history of bankruptcies and his penchant for litigation. During orientation for new employees, Goldman Sachs specifically used to use...

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Harley Finkelstein: How to Scale Your Business (Fast!) After a Runaway Crowdfunding Campaign

By Liz Downey, Foodie Dice


Last year, my sister moved to California to start a business with me. We didn’t know what we were going to do, but we liked the idea of working together. When she first got here, we created an adventure box with different day trips on little pieces of...

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Sarah Peterson: The ONE Stat Your Online Business Should Pay Attention to in 2017

Unfortunate fact of the day: your blog’s homepage is getting in the way of people reading your articles.


It’s true. Your homepage design plays a HUGE role in visitors staying on or leaving your page. In some cases, up to 56% of visitors leave a blog before they see the first...

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5 tips to teach your child responsibility

Dr Richard C. Woolfsonmagyoungparents@sph.com.sg
Now that your child has started school, he has to realise that homework assignments cannot be ignored. He has full responsibility to complete them in time and to hand them in to the teacher.
He also has to make sure messages from his teacher ...

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