Watching my newly minted 7th-grade daughter excitedly high-five her friends on the first day, I reminded myself that each new academic year is an opportunity for us as parents, to learn that fine balance between coach and cheerleader.

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Banking giant HSBC, which was hit with a US fine for money laundering last year, is facing fresh accusations of illegal activity in Argentina.

BBC: HSBC faces new money laundering claims in Argentina

Hats off to Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal, for raising money for a good cause and for doing a fine job of showing us all how good marketing is done.

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Now, it's fine for us to have a debate about how the best way to get there is, but to suggest somehow that I'm not interested in having anybody covered, or to suggest, as Hillary just did, that I was in favor of single payer -- I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single payer.

CNN: Part 2 of CNN Democratic presidential debate

The Hitachi rep is quick to tell us that for typical viewing distances for that screen size 720p will be just fine which may be true for most, but we'd prefer less processing instead of more, even if it is 1080p.

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Even Google's Gmail, Play Store and Play Music apps need to be enabled manually, so we have a feeling this is more of a policy issue rather than a technical issue -- Play Store and Play Music certainly worked fine for us over Dynamic Display, just not Gmail.

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Instead it and US prosecutors came to what is called a deferred prosecution agreement, with the fine being paid in exchange for the charges being dropped.

BBC: Swiss bank Wegelin to close after US tax evasion fine