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Ghosn Video Carlos Ghosn, who was officially ousted as Nissan chairman yesterday, has released a video message summing up what he wanted to say at a Thursday press conference, but couldn't because he was re-arrested on fresh financial misconduct charges. Key points: he's innocent; the...

A-HED Minnesota College Has a Portrait by ‘The Scream’ Painter—Or It Doesn’t. Experts Won’t Say. Evidence suggests a painting of a woman in black at St. Olaf College is an Edvard Munch portrait of his lover, but curators in Norway have declined to solve the mystery An untitled portrait of...

“Big outcomes start with small steps. It’s the movement forward that counts.” - Abigail Doolittle

“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.” - Friedrich Hegel

California weighs catastrophic wildfire fund as way to protect utilities Creation of a catastrophic wildfire risk pool is emerging as the most likely option as California lawmakers seek to protect the solvency of investor-owned utilities from record payouts for fire damages. PG&E filed for a...

Amazon's Eero acquisition left some shareholders with almost nothing Amazon paid $97 million to acquire Wi-Fi router maker Eero in a fire-sale deal that left owners of the startup's common stock with practically nothing but appears to have given the founders multi-million dollar paydays...

Tradeweb raises $1.1 billion in year's No. 2 IPO Tradeweb Markets Inc. raised $1.1 billion in the second-largest U.S. initial public offering this year, after again increasing the number of shares it was selling and then pricing them above the marketed range. The bond and derivative trading...

France vs. Ireland As Brexit's crunch week (perhaps the last one) begins, the French and Irish leaders are butting heads over whether or not to grant the U.K. another extension, to avoid a hard Brexit on Friday night. Emmanuel Macron appears to be seriously considering vetoing the request...

Amazon Satellites Amazon has been hiring former SpaceX managers to run its nascent satellite internet program, Project Kuiper. The project is being led by former SpaceX satellites chief Rajeev Badyal and some of his staff. Elon Musk fired Badyal in June, due to frustration with the pace of...

Huawei Ban The U.K.'s GCHQ spy agency thinks Huawei's equipment should be banned from sensitive parts of the country such as Westminster in London—the nerve center of the British government and civil service. Why? The Chinese company's "shoddy" engineering practices, which were highlighted in a...

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Well, I flew from NYC to London this March 30th and they said no devices with Lithium-ion batteries and when I was checking in my luggage the airline agent asked if I had any devices with Lithium batteries but as you pointed out it could be a US thing.

“One thing about growing up is realizing you don’t hate anything anymore. Things either matter to you or they don’t.” - anonymous

“Maturity is when you have the power to destroy someone who did you wrong but you just breathe, walk away and let life kill them.” - anonymous

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“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.” - Jackie Chan

“Reality isn’t static anymore. It’s not a set of ideas you have to either fight or resign yourself to. It’s made up, in part, of ideas that are expected to grow as you grow, and as we all grow, century after century.” ~Robert Pirsig

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