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London art market woos "uber-collectors" to buoy summer sales

London art market woos "uber-collectors" to buoy summer salesBy Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on "uber-collectors" to help London summer art sales top last year's $1 billion (642 million pounds) total when the series kicks off later this month. Estimates from Christie's, Sotheby's and smaller rivals such as Phillips and Bonhams for sales over

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Analysis: Iran moderate's poll triumph is mandate for change

Analysis: Iran moderate's poll triumph is mandate for changeBy Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian voters weary of years of economic isolation and tightening political restrictions threw down a blunt demand for change on Saturday by handing a moderate cleric a landslide victory in a presidential election. Having waited throughout Friday night and most of Saturday, millions of Iranians at home and

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Salesforce.com's quarterly results disappoint Wall Street

Salesforce.com's quarterly results disappoint Wall StreetBy Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower. Under Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO and founder, the company's fast revenue growth has made it a favorite with investors eager to own part of the growing

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Stocks slide after weak economic reports

Stocks slide after weak economic reportsNEW YORK (AP) — A series of weak economic reports sent the stock market sliding to its lowest level in a month.

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Shipping magnate Paul Soros dies in NYC at 87

Shipping magnate Paul Soros dies in NYC at 87NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Soros, a successful innovator in shipping, philanthropist and the older brother of billionaire financier George Soros, died in New York City on Saturday after a long bout with a host of illnesses, said his son Peter Soros. He was 87.

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Disneyland worker arrested in park's dry-ice blast

Disneyland worker arrested in park's dry-ice blastANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested a Disneyland employee on suspicion of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in a theme park trash can where it exploded, authorities said Wednesday.

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South Africa's employment edges up 0.1 pct in first quarter

South Africa's employment edges up 0.1 pct in first quarterJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Employment in South Africa's non-agriculture sector edged up 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the previous three months, although the key mining and manufacturing sectors shed jobs, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. On a year-on-year basis, the number of people with formal jobs rose 1 percent to 8.463 million during the quarter, the statistics agency said in a report. Gross earnings fell

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Pistorius forced out of hiding for trial hearing

Pistorius forced out of hiding for trial hearingThe double-amputee Olympian will appear at a court hearing ahead of his murder trial.

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Crisis states lead way as euro zone's economic mood brightens

Crisis states lead way as euro zone's economic mood brightensBy Martin Santa BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Confidence in the euro zone economy grew by more than expected in May, with hope that the worst of the crisis may be over spreading to countries that have been on its frontline. Economic morale in the 17 states that use the euro increased by 0.8 point to 89.4, the European Commission said. Economists polled by

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Arizona fire officials: Planes collide; 4 dead

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say two small planes collided and then crashed in the desert north of Phoenix on Friday, killing all four people aboard the two aircraft.... Read more...

Woman agrees to plead guilty in RI Navy kickbacks

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — One of two remaining defendants in a kickback scheme that targeted the U.S. Navy says she'll change her plea to guilty, and a Rhode Island federal court filing indicates the person accused of being the ringleader also plans to plead guilty.... Read more...

Computer Tips: Introduction to Keyboard alternatives

Computer Tips: Introduction to Keyboard alternatives

Computer Tips: Introduction to Keyboard alternativesReasons for the dvorak keyboard's comeback, and why the qwerty is slower. Tip on what key board is best for you.
Only a few number of people have ever heard of the "Dvorak" keyboard, let alone know what it is and what happened to it. The Dvorak keyboard is a key setup designed to maximize speed and minimize errors. The keyboard was phased out around the invention of the typewriter as an attempt to "slow down" typists. It is easy enough to learn and with only a moderate amount of practice you can become more efficient in your typing.

  • Dr. August Dvorak, for whom it's named, invented the Dvorak keyboard over a century ago. It lays out keys in a manner so as to put the most often used letters in the easiest to reach and strike accurately in spot. Most users can greatly increase their speed by switching to this system. In 1944 the United States Navy performed tests with 14 typists to see if they could easily be retrained to type on a Dvorak keyboard, the answer was yes. These fourteen typists after only fifty-two hours of training had already reached their average typing speed with the QWERTY keyboard. On top of this the typists increased their accuracy by sixty-eight percent.
  • The history of the QWERTY keyboard (named for the first six letters in the upper left) is proof in and of itself of Dvorak's superiority. Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the original typewriter, designed the QWERTY keyboard. He took the most commonly used keys and placed them far apart to slow down the type. This was in the days when two fingered typing was the accepted method and anything faster than average speed could quite easily jam the typewriter. After typewriters had improved and the ten finger typing method came into being, the QWERTY keyboard was never phased out for a faster system.
  • The Dvorak keyboard is a much faster and efficient keyboard setup. However because of a vicious cycle of typists not changing because of hardware, and hardware not changing because of typists, it has never been fully implemented. Most people with only a moderate time commitment can improve their typing skills and speed by switching to this setup. For anyone wishing to switch, the Dvorak keyboard is supported by all operating systems, by simply changing "keyboard layout" in your settings. The keyboards themselves are available through many online vendors, or from special order at a local computer score. These keyboards are a great commitment of time and money, just because of the spare hours they will save you when typing business reports, term papers, homework, or just plain e-mail.

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