A Million Pieces

Is Peter Thiel funding Dr Shiva Ayyadurai's $35 million lawsuit against Gawker?

Edit The Times of India 30 May 2016

Last week, Thiel admitted that he had bankrolled Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against Gawker for which the wrestler was awarded $140 million in damages ... In his letter, Denton writes, "Represented also by the lawyer you (Thiel) hired, Ayyadurai is suing Gawker for $35 million for defamation, though not the other news organisations that made the same point ."....

R47m spent to service empty government buildings, MPs told

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 30 May 2016

Over R47-million a year is spent on rates and taxes for unused government buildings around the country, the public works department has said. An additional R12-million a year is spent keeping the lights on and water running ... These departments spent at least R324-million on rent. And almost 2 000 buildings and 13 043 pieces of land were unused....

Tehran auction grosses over $7 m (Tehran Municipality)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016

(Source. Tehran Municipality) ... The 5th Tehran Auction,. drawn celebrities, collectors, and businessmen hoping to walk away with the artworks, has broken the last year's record of $6.4 million by $7.4 million, on Tehran's Parsian Azadi Hotel ... Iranian 'artworks should be introduced at the international level after the sanctions,' said Saeed Nikbkhat, an art collector looking at the pieces ahead of the sale ... (noodl. 33854857) ....

Chinese city bans students from tearing up textbooks, state media says

Edit BBC News 30 May 2016

Almost ten million students across China sit for the notoriously difficult, two-day exam every year ... An "unconventional measure of blowing off steam before the exam has prevailed in recent years, with students tearing their textbooks into pieces and throwing them off the school building ... ....

Matt Healy in line for Ireland call in place of injured Luke Fitzgerald

Edit The Irish Times 30 May 2016

Luke Fitzgerald’s grade two medial tear, sustained during Saturday’s Pro 12 final in Edinburgh, looks set to see Matt Healy tour South Africa ... “That could well be Matt,” Schmidt added ... If you go to South Africa you have got to be very, very good in your set piece. “Quinn is an investment in our set piece, and it is an investment in Quinn ... The IRFU today also announced a four-year deal with Vodafone that is worth €15 million ...  . ....

Insider Q&A;: Proofpoint's Devin Redmond

Edit The Oklahoman 30 May 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — The rise of social media has given brands a quick and efficient way to communicate with consumers ... As a result, businesses face a never-ending task of policing their social media accounts. That's where Proofpoint comes in ... Q ... A ... Q ... A ... But if I put a piece of spam on a popular Twitter account or Facebook page, my ability to reach an audience of one million, two million, simply depends on how big of a reach that account has. Q....

Checkmate? Purists fight to revive Myanmar's ancient chess

Edit Topix 30 May 2016

Sittuyin, as Myanmar's unique chess is called, is similar to the modern game but has distinctive pieces as well as moves that echo a time when warriors used it to finetune real fighting strategies. Sittuyin, as Myanmar's unique chess is called, is similar to the modern game but has distinctive pieces as well as moves that echo a time when warriors used it to fine tune real fighting strategies AFP/Ye Aung Thu YANGON....

Monitoring app Qlue helps Jakarta improve services, efficiency

Edit The Jakarta Post 30 May 2016

Divided into five cities, one district, 44 sub-districts, and 267 villages. Jakarta is home to 10 million people and, during the day, an additional 1.4 million people commute to work. Jakartans face inescapable challenges. Clogged drains, waste disposal issues, broken street lamps, damaged roads, heavy traffic and floods are merely a few examples ... It launched Qlue in Dec ... ( Read also ... ( Read also ... Send your piece to [email protected] ... ....

A night of musical fusion

Edit The Times of India 30 May 2016

Abraham too was exceptional in his pieces, specially recreating the popular hit Tum Hi Ho with saxophone ... The percussion conversation between Karthick and Thiruvallikkeni Sekar during each piece was fascinating and the manner in which Palakkad Sreeram presented the ragas was a pure delight ... "This piece has classical, it has Ritigaula, it has ......

Marie's Diary: A gifted young pianist at San Anton Palace

Edit The Malta Independent 30 May 2016

Lots of his pieces play games with numbers, inaudibly ... I had never heard these pieces before but found them enjoyable ... But I was familiar with the opening of Berkovich's piece ... These pieces are lightweight but attractively varied in character and style. Dmitry gave us a varied interpretation of the three pieces ... The young pianist also had the courtesy of playing a piece by a Maltese composer Charles Camilleri, Circus Waltz....

Carlisle’s underwear plant soon to produce upscale infant bedding

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 30 May 2016

Caroline Eager holds up a fine piece of linen-blend fabric, a high thread count rectangle in a classy lavender print ... It’s an infant car seat canopy cover, part of the Liz and Roo line of luxury linens for babies ... But Eager says there are four million pregnant women in the U.S ... Eager said that means that seamstresses such as Mitchell “are looking at each piece, she’s looking at the quality of every piece.” ... Cheryl Truman....

Treasures: Alvar lithograph is an attractive original

Edit The Miami Herald 30 May 2016

The first and perhaps most important piece of information that is commonly omitted is size. This is a critical piece of data, and the lack thereof often means we cannot offer any kind of opinion on value. In this case, we have no idea what the size of this lithograph might be, and this vital piece of information would help us determine if this piece is as it should be....

In e-commerce rush, some companies are getting burnt

Edit China Daily 30 May 2016

Many companies are eyeing a piece of the e-commerce pie in China, but many are getting their hands burnt in the process as well ... Metao.com, a Chinese cross-border e-commerce provider that entered the scene in October 2013, is reportedly facing imminent closure despite receiving $35 million in investments in 2014 ... its evaluation to $100 million....