Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the enduring unknowns in Indian political history is what was it that provoked the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to lift the Emergency in 1977. Though many political pundits have speculated various reasons, the exact reason is still ...
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/KC2844/2H1PG/9LT7BS/DW5K7/ Financials Monday November 23 2009 FT.com - Financials China's Haitong Securities buys Hong Kong rival China's Haitong Securities has become the first mainland brokerage to acquire an overseas rival after announcing...
Financial Works (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
By Gavin J. King Recent news posted stating that JP Morgan was hiring 1200 loan officers at locations all across the nation. In case you did not know who they are, they are the wall street bankers who acquired WAMU to get out from under several billion dollars worth of tax money they owe to the government. Sound familiar? I thought it might. Offsetting further tax liability, they also purchased Bear...
Groklaw (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I'm happy to tell you that we did have a reporter, MikeD, at today's SCO bankruptcy hearing . He says Bonnie Glantz Fattel is an awesome attorney. She represents SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee, Edward Cahn. We have the minutes from the hearing too, so we know how it all went. This was the hearing mainly about two things: the AutoZone settlement agreement, the terms of which Cahn and AutoZone wanted to keep...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Hitchcock could not have done better (or am I thinking of Mel Brooks'). Last week, on November 9 to be exact, Europeans, amidst much hypocritical hoopla, celebrated the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, an event of great importance only to those who had been sequestered behind the wall, and those for whom Communism (and its current incarnation - anti-racism) represent a major nefarious and limiting...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This story comes from left wing communist filth The Morning Star online. It's very easy to imagine that it's satire, but it is actually real. The reasons for Amnesty International sticking its beak into Australian affairs are best known to themselves, as Australia is not known for its political prisoners. However, Amnesty has been expanding far beyond its original brief, lately, and this may explain...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Air France is going to lift up its first A380 on Friday, thus becoming the first European airway company to put the superjumbo into service.
My Makeup Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Counter Display Product Description: What it is: A collection featuring a "wardrobe" of wearable, silky-smooth shades. What it does: In conceptualizing the new Shiseido Makeup Luminizing Satin Eye Color collection, Dick Page was inspired to create a "wardrobe" of colors marked by elements of excitement and surprise. Each shade in the new color collection is not only beautiful,...
7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yesterday, I delivered my last formal talk of the year at the Lift @ home session on “Urban informatics / Les nouveaux paysages numériques“, organized by Nicolas Nova in the Lift Conference premises in Geneva. This event was part of the urban informatics workshop series Nicolas and have been running. I played the role of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Powder to the people Renowned ski guide Felix Tanquay has come up with a new concept to guarantee British skiers the best snow possible in the Alps. This winter his Verbier-based company, Powder Extreme, is launching "Mystery Tours", where guests fly to Geneva to be met by a guide who will make a "last-second" decision as to where the best snow is at that time – and take...
Mattaw's Mumblings (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Synthesizable RTL versions of IBM's excellent embeddable PowerPC™ line of processors (the 405, 460 and the 460 FPU ) are available to SoC designers from Synopsys' Star IP Program and this Star IP PowerPC™ 405-S is also available to Educators . Further embeddable PowerPC™ cores for synthesis are also available from AMCC . In a series of articles I will show how to take the educational...
LIFT Conference Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The next Lift@home will happen next Monday (Nov 9) in Geneva. Organized by Nicolas Nova, the event will be about " Urban informatics ". Future "networked and digital cities" have popped up on the radar for sometime now. This is a topic we address on a regular basis at Lift from a various set of viewpoints (art, design, architecture, digital services) and with a long-term vision....
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
United Nations human rights specialists have expressed concerns over November’s anti-minaret vote and “discriminatory” poster campaign in Switzerland. The comments by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Committee were made in conclusions on Swiss progress in implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is monitored by the body of experts. Switzerland...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Screwfly Solution is an adaptation of a short story by by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon's male pen name), directed by Joe Dante ( Gremlins ). The concept behind this episode is one of the more intriguing in the entire Masters of Horror series, but this hour length treatment really doesn't do it quite enough justice. ***SPOILERS REGARDLESS OF GENDER*** A virus has spread across the Earth, starting...
In Search of Enlightenment (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The latest issue of Nature has this insightful , and refreshing, editorial on renewing our optimism for gene therapy. Here is a sample: In the early 1990s, when the first human trials got under way, it seemed to many that the era of gene therapy was at hand: the techniques of modern molecular biotechnology would make it possible to repair genetic defects by inserting healthy DNA directly into a patient's...
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ads-click | 01/30/2008
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