Father of Marysville school shooter convicted of 6 gun charges | The Seattle Times

Father of Marysville school shooter convicted of 6 gun charges | The Seattle Times: "The father of the teen who killed four classmates at Marysville-Pilchuck High School last fall was convicted Tuesday of illegally possessing a half-dozen firearms, including the one his son used in the shooting.

Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. was convicted of six counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. One of the firearms, a .40-caliber Beretta pistol, was used by 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg to kill four classmates and wound a fifth. Jaylen then killed himself with the same handgun."

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Volkswagen Test Rigging Follows a Long Auto Industry Pattern - The New York Times

Volkswagen Test Rigging Follows a Long Auto Industry Pattern - The New York Times: "Long before Volkswagen admitted to cheating on emissions tests for millions of cars worldwide, the automobile industry, Volkswagen included, had a well-known record of sidestepping regulation and even duping regulators.

For decades, car companies found ways to rig mileage and emissions testing data. In Europe, some automakers have taped up test cars’ doors and grilles to bolster the aerodynamics. Others have used “superlubricants” to reduce friction in the car’s engine to a degree that would be impossible in real-world driving conditions."

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Donald Trump gets a birther question - Business Insider

Donald Trump gets a birther question - Business Insider: "Donald Trump is catching fire for not correcting a man who claimed that President Barack Obama was a Muslim and not American.

The man also asked when Donald Trump would get rid of them if he were elected. "
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Inside These Hedge Funds, Special Money Managers for the Boss - Bloomberg Business

Inside These Hedge Funds, Special Money Managers for the Boss - Bloomberg Business: "From the same Manhattan skyscraper as Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, Table handles the personal finances of one client: the boss.
Ackman’s setup might seem unusual in the hedge fund business, where managers stake their fortunes on the funds they oversee for clients."
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Israel's 300 Days of Sun No Help as Offshore Gas Eclipses Solar - Bloomberg Business

Israel's 300 Days of Sun No Help as Offshore Gas Eclipses Solar - Bloomberg Business: "After struggling to grow citrus trees on a stretch of parched desert, Israel’s Kibbutz Ketura instead devoted the land to harvesting the country’s most abundant resource: sunshine. Yet as the kibbutzniks seek to expand their solar installations, the government is proving almost as formidable an obstacle as the scorched soil ever was.
“Israel has the technology and plenty of sunshine, but the government is completely ignoring the renewables industry,” said Yosef Abramowitz, a solar energy advocate who helped found Arava Power Co., the developer of the Ketura field."

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Survey of Consumer Expectations inflation August 2015 - Business Insider

Survey of Consumer Expectations inflation August 2015 - Business Insider: "In his speech at the Jackson Hole conference of central bankers in late August, Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer argued that over the long term, inflation expectations have been rather stable: 

"One striking feature of the economic environment is that longer-term inflation expectations in the United States appear to have remained generally stable since the late 1990s. The source of that stability is open to debate, but the fact that the Fed has kept inflation relatively low and stable for three decades must be an important part of the explanation.""

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