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Sunday 25 September - Daylight Saving Time begins (NZ)
Tuesday 27 September - New Moon 11:09 UT
Wednesday 28 September - Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) begins at sunset
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24 April 2014
Public spending on education in the UK is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The independent financial researchers say spending will fall by 13% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
In England, the deepest cuts are in school buildings, higher education, 16-to-19 provision and early years.
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24 April 2014
Sunday 30 October - Daylight Saving Time ends (European Union)
Monday 31 October - Halloween; World?s population passes 7bn
Tuesday 1 November - All Saints Day
Wednesday 2 November - All Souls Day; Moon?s First Quarter 16:38 UT
Saturday 5 November - Guy Fawkes (UK Bonfire Night)
Sunday 6 November - Daylight Saving Time ends (USA, Mexico and Canada)
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24 April 2014
A baby designated as the world?s seven billionth has been born in India.
Baby Nargis was born at 07:25 local time (01:55GMT) in Mall village in India?s Uttar Pradesh state.
Nargis was chosen symbolically by Plan International as it is not possible to know where exactly the seven billionth baby was born.
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24 April 2014
Sunday 6 November - Daylight Saving Time ends (US, CDN)
Tuesday 8 November - Election Day (US)
Thursday 10 November - Full Moon 20:16 UT
Friday 11 November - Remembrance Day
Sunday 13 November - Remembrance Sunday
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24 April 2014
Two researchers at Columbia University in New York say they've found a flaw in ordinary office printers that lets hackers hijack the devices to spy on users, spread malware and even force them to overheat to the point of catching fire.
Researchers sent a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer various bogus firmware updates. One made the fuser overheat, causing the paper in the printer to yellow and smoke until the machine shut down.
When a tax return was sent to the printer as a print job, another bogus update secretly forwarded the document, complete with Social Security numbers, to a second computer.
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=printers-can-be-hacked-to-catch-fire
24 April 2014
Monday 10 October - Columbus Day (US); Thanksgiving Day (CDN)
Wednesday 12 October - Full Moon 02:06 UT; Dia de la Raza (MX)
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23 April 2014
Wikipedia and several other major websites, blacked out their sites in protest against two bills being put to the United States House of Representatives. Known by their acronyms SOP (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) the US is trying to impose their laws across the world. The need for these arose after so many websites made it easy to access and download copyright material in the music and film world. But like other laws designed to police the Internet, small and innocent sites have no redress in a court of law.
It appears that such websites may be shut down on the word of a single complainant. There?s no system to argue and defend the site in a court of law.
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22 April 2014
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