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Despite tax increase, taxpayers will pay less to Tooele County in 2018

Tooele Transcript Bulletin 22 Jun 2018

With a healthy growth in new properties added to the tax rolls, and an increase in property values, the county commission decided to roll-back its anticipated increase to 2.2 percent — to equal the rate of inflation ... The decrease in the municipal type services tax is not only due to the increase in total property values, but also due to the compensation for an error in computing the municipal type services property tax rate in 2016....

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Quantum Computing | Bitcoin’s Doomsday Maker

The Bitcoin News 22 Jun 2018

Although the Bitcoin network is incredibly secure under the current condition of computers, there’s an even greater threat looming overhead. Quantum computers have the potential to make Bitcoin’s security measures obsolete, effectively destroying the once dominant cryptocurrency. What is Quantum Computing?. Simply put, a quantum computer is a supercomputer held at near absolute zero temperatures (-459.67°F)....

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Gaming disorder is a thing now — but will that create more problems?

Deseret News 22 Jun 2018

By 2016, it had risen to 15 percent — and researchers from blamed computer gaming for some of it ... From 2004 to 2015, younger men's recreational computer time increased by 45 percent, despite their total leisure time increasingly by only 4 percent, according to the ... of children who play video games as a part of a normal, healthy life."....

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How to Transfer Data Between Two Computers Without Losing Anything

Gizmodo 22 Jun 2018

If you’ve treated yourself to a shiny new computer then the excitement might be tempered somewhat by the thought of having to shift all your files and programs over to the new machine ... If you can use the new and old computers in tandem for a while we’d recommend it, as it helps you to work out what you need and what you can leave behind ... You can then simply sign into the same browser on your new computer and pick up where you left off....

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Athens computer store owner charged in scam

Decatur Daily 22 Jun 2018

A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of an Athens computer store in an alleged 10-year scam involving surplus federal computers ... the federal "Computers for Learning" program....

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Weight loss: Can you be fat as well as fit?

The Times of India 22 Jun 2018

Another study established that obese people were found to be metabolically healthy ... A researcher had stated that if an obese (or overweight) person is exercising regularly and generally eating healthy, he will be considered a healthy person ... The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health said that "if you are exercising regularly, you shouldn't necessarily be looking at the scale to determine how healthy or fit you are."....

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Brick by brick, book by book

The Hindu 22 Jun 2018

Verma continues, “The aim of the library is not to just give access to a healthy physical space but create a hub to share knowledge and culture.” ... Work in process ... Verma says, “This project is expected to be completes in the next eight to nine months.” He hopes one day VSL will stay open round the clock like libraries in other countries.For now, his priority remains to double the number of books and set-up a computer library....

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Using 1 trillion files helps scientist find a needle in a haystack

Albuquerque Journal 22 Jun 2018

The Ultrascale Systems Research Center in the lab’s High Performance Computing Division is tasked with realizing the next generation of supercomputing. With efforts in storage research, novel computer architectures and extreme scale platform management, the center is uniquely positioned to tackle these seemingly impossible computing challenges ... Next challenge? So-called exascale computing....

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Dry landscapes aids disease transmission: Study

Deccan Chronicle 22 Jun 2018

Turns out, dryness in the zone can be a potent adversary to healthy individuals. According to a study conducted by the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, in water-limited landscapes, sick animals can have increased contact with healthy individuals, which can facilitate disease transmission ... Accordingly, one could expect that sick individuals have less contact with others than healthy individuals....

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Children beat the rain with Zumba class at Boys and Girls Club

Valley Morning Star 22 Jun 2018

Those from the Boys and Girls Club of San Benito resumed their week of healthy activities yesterday after the club had closed Wednesday due to the inclement weather ... While the club was closed on Wednesday, it continued its healthy week that began Monday with cooking classes and relay races ... “When I told them it was healthy living week, they were skeptical but I haven’t heard a complaint yet,” Hernandez said....

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Japanese police make first arrests for crypto mining hijacks

Brave New Coin 22 Jun 2018

The scams snare people by installing mining software on the computers of unsuspecting website visitors, which then parasites the computer’s processing power to mine crypto and forward it to the scammer’s wallets. The NPA carried out a number of ‘cyber patrols’ which confirmed several websites had been installing cryptocurrency mining tools on the computers of site visitors without their knowledge....

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A rabbi’s heart attack, a trainer’s blessing and an epic bike ride

Cleveland Jewish News 22 Jun 2018

I kept doing it because I was told it was what I needed to do to get healthy,” he said ... Since the body is a vessel for the soul, a healthy body can study more Torah and do more mitzvahs. It became clear to Kurinsky that cycling was going to become a big part of his life, and that this message of “healthy body, healthy soul” was one he wanted to bring to more people....

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Paradise Sun Hotel hosts Staff Wellness Day

Nation 22 Jun 2018

Each year, a different theme is adopted and while last year focused on a healthy diet, this year emphasis is being placed on exercise. “The hotel wants to remind and sensitise team members about healthy living; after all, healthy team members contribute towards making our guests happy.” ... “The majority of our population is preoccupied with just surviving, and not focusing on being healthy....

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