Lib Dems Dismiss Tory Threat To Cut Green Energy Subsidies

The Liberal Democrats have dismissed a Conservative threat to cut renewable energy subsidies in order to reduce consumer bills as a ?total red herring? while energy companies have warned that a political row over green policies will itself lead to higher prices.

Following the headline-grabbing pledge by Ed Miliband that a Labour government would freeze energy prices for 20 months Tory ministers queued up to attack green subsidies at their conference in Manchester last week with some saying that the levies should be cut in order to reduce bills.

But a senior Lib Dem source told the Guardian such a cut was not legally possible because contracts with energy companies are already in place: ?This side of the election, the deals are already done: you?d need to be knocking on the doors of windfarms and saying the deal you had is off.?

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Source: http://www.thegwpf.org/lib-dems-dismiss-tory-threat-cut-green-energy-subsidies/

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Top 5 amazing iOS 7 gestures: How to get more done faster!

iOS 7 includes even more gesture-based navigation shortcuts than ever, and that means, if you master them, you can navigate your apps, peek at information, and general get things done faster and more easily than ever before. Whether it's glancing or navigating back at your list in Mail or Messages, swiping up Control Center or down Notification Center, moving through your Safari history, or flinging away tabs or entire apps, with iOS 7 gestures, all the shortcuts you need are literally at your fingertips. Here's how to use them:

1. Calling Control Center and Notification Center

Notification Center has been accessible via a downward swipe from the top edge of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad display for a while now. With iOS 7, the all new Control Center can be accessed via a swipe up from the bottom edge as well.

That works from anywhere in the system, though on full-screen apps you need to swipe twice - once to reveal the "handle" and a second time to activate the center itself. That's to stop you accidentally covering your game, movie, etc. If you really don't want to trigger Control Center accidentally, you can disable them from working inside apps, period. Also, if you're concerned about security, you can disable them from functioning on the lock screen - so no one can read your messages or take your device offline without authenticating first.

• How to access and start using Control Center in iOS 7
• How to disable access to Control Center from appearing within apps in iOS 7
• How to disable Control Center access on the iOS 7 Lock screen
• How to disable access to Siri and Passbook on the Lock screen

2. Peeking at, and navigating to, lists in Mail and Messages

Both Mail and iMessage include a new gesture that lets you either peek back at your messages list, or pull back to it entirely. From an individual message, simply touch the screen on the left edge and swipe right, and your full list of messages will appear. Pull back only slightly for a quick glimpse of the message list, or pull back all the way to switch to it entirely. You can also swipe from right to left on an individual message to access delete and other functions.

In the Mail app you can swipe back again to get your full list of mail accounts and folders, and in messages you can swipe right to glance at time stamps for individual messages.

• How to view timestamps for individual texts and iMessages in iOS 7

3. Swiping through history in Safari

With iOS 7, Safari gets gesture-based navigation all its own. Now, you can swipe from the left edge towards the right to go back to the previous page in your browser history, or from the right edge towards the left to go forward to the next page (if you've previously gone back). If you imagine following each link on a website adds another page to the stack, these gestures let you quickly move pages off of and onto the stack until you get to just exactly the one you need.

4. Tossing away cards and tabs

iOS 7 lets treat a lot more objects like objects, including and especially the new card interface for multitasking and the new rolodex interface for Safari. In both, when you trigger them, you can grab a screen and simply toss it away. From anywhere on the system, double click the Home button to bring up the new card interface for multitasking. Then just touch one app, two apps, or as many as three apps, and flick them up and off the screen. They'll quit and be one. In Safari, tap the bookmarks button, touch a tab, and flick it to the left to close it. Couldn't be simpler. You can even fling down passes in Passbook to get back to the wallet view.

• How to quit and kill (force quit) apps in iOS 7

5. Accessing Spotlight Search from any Home screen

While it might seem like iOS 7 banished Spotlight Search from the Home screen system, what it actually did was move it from its own screen off to the left, and integrate it into every screen. Now, instead of swiping the other way, you simply touch anywhere on the Home screen (except the top edge, that's reserved for Notification Center), and swipe down slightly. It works the same way search has worked inside apps for years. The screen drops down and the Spotlight field is revealed.

• How to find Spotlight search - and your apps! - in IOS 7

Bonus tip: iPad gesture navigation

The iPad and iPad mini also still include several, system-wide gesture shortcuts all their own. They make it incredibly quick and easy to move between apps, open the fast app switcher, and even return to the Home screen. To access the multitasking card interface, place four fingers on the screen and swipe up. To move between apps without having to click into the multitasking card first, place four fingers on the screen and swipe from right to left to go to the previous app, and from left to right to return to the next app. To return to the Home screen, place four fingers on the screen and pinch them in together.

You can also use the basic pinch to get back from a single photo to the new Moments view in the Photos, or back from single place view to multiplace list in the Weather app.

Your top iOS 7 tips?

Those are our top 5 secret shortcuts that make moving around the iOS 7 interface not only faster, but funner as well. If you've found other ways to save time, let us know how!

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/CSVhVpZ-A4s/story01.htm

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Iran confirms British diplomat exchange

Tehran (AFP) - Iran confirmed Tuesday it will appoint a non-resident charge d'affaires with Britain, as the two sides work towards restoring ties severed after an attack on the British embassy in Tehran.

"Following the meeting between the two foreign ministers in New York, (Britain's) William Hague on Monday called Iranian (counterpart) Mohammad Javad Zarif to propose the appointment of charges d'affaires in both countries," ISNA news agency quoted foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham as saying.

"Pursuant to a decision by the Iranian parliament, it was agreed that from today the two countries have a relationship at the level of non-resident charges d'affaires," she added.

Earlier on Tuesday, Hague said Britain and Iran would each appoint a charge d'affaires, a diplomatic post that is one level below ambassador.

Britain ordered Iran's embassy in London to shut after closing its own in Tehran following the storming of the compound by hundreds of Islamist students in November 2011.

They were demonstrating in front of the embassy to express anger over Western sanctions adopted against Tehran over its disputed nuclear drive, and then ransacked the building.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-iran-appoint-non-resident-diplomats-hague-151643353.html

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Any.DO's Cal app scores Uber, Waze and Google Maps integration (updated)

The stock iOS calendar works just fine for basic scheduling, but if you religiously use Uber, Waze or Google Maps, Any.DO's Cal could be worth checking out. An update to the popular productivity outfit's brainchild brings integration with the three aforementioned services, which means you can now ...

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/08/any-do-cal-app-uber-waze-google-maps/?ncid=rss_truncated

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Hate crime ruled out in U.S. soldier's stabbing death; three arrested

By Jonathan Kaminsky

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Three U.S. Army soldiers have been arrested over the stabbing death of a fellow serviceman in Washington state that police initially described as a possible hate crime, but which authorities later concluded stemmed from "trash talk" that got out of hand.

The victim, 20-year-old Tevin Geike, had been walking with two other soldiers on Saturday in a Tacoma suburb. A car drove by and the African-American occupants yelled "something about being white" to the three men who are all Caucasian, according to witness statements given to police.

More words were exchanged, and even as the situation appeared to defuse, Geike was stabbed to death in violence police initially said may have been racially motivated. But by Monday, authorities said it appeared that verbal sparring of a more general nature had preceded the stabbing.

"My understanding from detectives was that there may have been some trash talk, but when they looked into it race turned out not to be a factor," Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said.

He said prosecutors were weighing first-degree murder charges against Jeremiah Hill, 23, who witnesses say put Geike in a bear hug and pushed him to the ground before returning to the car covered in blood.

"The main suspect, Jeremiah Hill, did not make a statement; so it's unknown exactly why he did this," Lakewood Police Department spokesman Lieutenant Chris Lawler.

Lesser charges have been filed against the other two soldiers, who are accused of helping to dispose of the knife used in the killing.

The three men charged in the case are scheduled to make a first court appearance on Tuesday.

A base spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

A break in the case came Sunday afternoon, Lawler said, when a military sergeant came to police with incriminating information about Hill.

Hill had sought medical attention at a military hospital for a cut to his hand but gave conflicting stories about how he had hurt himself.

Geike was from Summerville, South Carolina, and held the rank of specialist, a base spokesman said. He entered the Army in 2010 and arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in 2011 after training to be an aviation operations specialist.

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Richard Chang and Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hate-crime-ruled-u-soldiers-stabbing-death-three-014731152.html

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Twitter hopes to raise $1 billion USD, unveils IPO documents

Social media micro-blogging behemoth Twitter says it aims to raise $1 billion (USD) as the company plans to go public with an Initial Public Offering, which it filed in September.

In files disclosed on Thursday, Twitter said its revenue for 2012 hit $317 million. The company also said it has 215 million active users. That's compared to Facebook's 1.2 billion and LinkedIn's 240 million. The three companies are often mentioned in the same breath, as they are the leaders in the social media/online platform world (along with Google-owned YouTube), although all three companies offer different services.

According the The Toronto Star (link above), Twitter's market value has been estimated at $10 billion. Shares could begin trading by November.

Twitter filed for its IPO on September 12, 2013, with underwriters Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and CODE Advisors.

The company has not yet said which stock market it will be listed on, but said it intends to use "TWTR" as its ticker.

Source: http://www.kelownacapnews.com/business/226374211.html

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Israel Prize laureate badly injured in hit-and-run

Israel Prize winner David Kazhdan, 67, was severely injured Sunday when he was hit by a truck while riding his bike in Jerusalem.

He was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, where doctors were trying to stabilize his condition Sunday night.

?He is in very serious condition and the medical team is continuing its efforts to save his life,? hospital spokeswoman Rachel Goldblatt said.

The driver who struck Kazhdan didn?t stop and was not immediately located. Police set up checkpoints in the area near the accident and at the exits to Jerusalem in an attempt to catch the driver.

Kazhdan?s son, Eli, was riding ahead of him when the incident happened. The two were on their way back from a trip to Beit Shemesh.

?I was riding in front of him, so I didn?t see the accident itself,? David said. ?I heard the crash, and when I looked back, I saw my father lying on the ground. I didn?t manage to see the truck, because my focus was on my dad. This work I leave to the police.?

Kazhdan was born in Moscow and moved to the US in 1975. He immigrated to Israel in 2002 and won the Israel Prize for mathematics and computer science in 2012. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, professor emeritus at Harvard and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

He lives with his wife in Jerusalem and has three children.

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-prize-laureate-badly-injured-in-hit-and-run/

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