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Even after your license has been reinstated after suspension, the RMV will require you to have ignition interlock device in your car or vehicle for at least two years. This device necessitates you to pass your breath before starting the vehicle. You should even be checking your breath at regular intervals for alcohol. People convicted for OUI and have a hardship license, should use this ignition interlock, an alcohol monitoring, device. A habitual traffic offender (HTO) can get his license suspended but he can qualify for a hardship license if he passes some criterion.

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I am so stressed at the moment. My money troubles have got so bad that I have had to consider calling in a Nevada bankruptcy attorney. I have been borrowing money on a credit card because my salary is not covering my expenses and I have been doing this for so long that my debt is huge.

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Microblogging service Twitter has suspended an account that claimed to be run by the Dalai Lama.

The account purporting to belong to the Tibetan spiritual leader was only a few days old, but had already attracted tens of thousands of followers.

Fake accounts that spoofed media personality Ira Glass and comedian Stephen Colbert gained notable followings until they were unmasked. I

In the case of the Dalai Lama account, Twitter executives said that the decision to nix it was because it violated the company’s terms of service.

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French-US telecom equipment group Alcatel-Lucent said on Wednesday its net loss widened 48.5 percent to 5.215 billion euros (6.5 billion dollars) in 2008, blaming asset write-downs in a crumbling world economy.

In the fourth quarter alone losses came to 3.892 billion euros in constant currency terms, eclipsing its 3.5-billion-euro loss for all of 2007, the company said.

The 2008 performance was sharply worse than analysts had expected, with Natixis Securities projecting a shortfall limited to 1.245 billion euros.

Alcatel-Lucent shares were nonetheless showing a gain of 5.60 percent to 1.55 euros on a generally stronger Paris market. Analysts said that despite the losses, the company had met financial objectives it had set for itself last year.

“Relatively speaking, given what is happening in the market, Alcatel-Lucent didn’t come out too badly,” said Alexandre Paterc of Exane BNP Paribas.

For 2009 the group said it foresaw a market decline of 8.0 to 10 percent and an operating result that approached the break-even point.

Alcatel-Lucent in the final three months of the year recorded asset depreciations of 3.91 billion euros, bringing the annual total to 4.725 billion.

Chief executive Ben Verwaayen said the fourth quarter write-down “was made necessary by the drastic deterioration in the world economy … as well as by our decision to concentrate on a reduced product portfolio.”

But in a telephone conference, finance officer Paul Tufano insisted that a capital increase was not necessary.

Verwaayen, who took charge in September, said that despite the net loss, Alcatel-Lucent enjoyed “a solid operating performance” in the fourth quarter.

“We did what we said we would do … It’s a very good start.”

The group said it had met its three objectives in 2008 regarding sales, operating profit and operating margin.

Sales came to 16.984 billion euros last year, a slide of 4.5 percent, in line with a projected decline of 2.0 to 5.0 percent.

In the fourth quarter, sales totalled 4.954 billion billion euros, down 7.5 percent from the same period of 2007 and and a gain of 16.9 percent from third quarter 2008.

Adjusted operating profit, which excluded the effects of the acquisition of US group Lucent, came to 466 million euros in 2008 after 110 million in 2007, equivalent to 2.7 percent of sales. The company had targeted a range of 2.0 to 5.0 percent.

Adjusted gross profit was 5.8 billion euros in 2008, or 34.18 percent of sales and within an anticipated range of 34 and 36 percent.

Net debt reached 389 million euros at the end of December compared with 415 million on June 30.

Consumer confidence rose to a four-month high in January, helped by optimism that President Barack Obama’s new administration might bring relief from a year-long recession, a survey showed on Friday.

However, the improvement was less than economists had expected and sentiment remained weak overall,

The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its final index reading of confidence for January rose to 61.2 from December’s 60.1.

The final January reading is down slightly from the preliminary result earlier in the month of 61.9 and overall it remains in depressed territory, reflecting the deepening recession in the world’s largest economy.

“Consumers are panicked and confidence is shattered. Consumers may be less worried in January than December, perhaps because of lower gasoline prices and a more stable stock market,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Stocks briefly turned negative after the sentiment data, which only highlighted the headwinds facing the consumer-driven economy.

Government bonds — which generally benefit from signs of economic weakness — pared gains after the report. Bonds were on the back-foot after government data showed the economy’s contraction during the fourth quarter was much less severe than expected.

Economists had expected a reading of 61.9, according to the median of 63 forecasts in a Reuters poll.

The report showed inflation expectations rose, which might be good news considering that economists see a deflationary spiral lower in prices, wages and business activity as a distinct possibility given the unhealthy state of the economy.

One-year inflation expectations rose to 2.2 percent from 1.7 percent in December. Five-year inflation expectations increased to 2.9 percent from 2.6 percent.

Despite the increase in the overall sentiment index, consumers rated their current economic conditions worse than the month before, with this gauge falling to 66.5 from 69.5.

The University of Michigan confidence index dates back to 1952 and is still mired near the record low of 51.7 hit in May 1980.

“Nearly all consumers now anticipate the deepest and longest recession in the post-World War Two era, but consumers do not expect the economy to sink into a 1930s-style depression,” the Surveys of Consumers said.

The report noted the index had been improving from November’s 28-year low, the month of Obama’s election, and that consumer confidence often gains after big political changes.

It added: “These gains may be fleeting since the electoral promise may be trumped by the ongoing drumbeat of bleak economic news.”