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May 21, 2012

SPORTS, Athletics News, May 21, 2012

Sports Briefs for May 21, 2012
The Review
EAST LIVERPOOL - The Pegasus Track Club will begin practice and registration May 21-24 at Mangano Memorial Track at East Liverpool High School. The summer track and field team, open to youths ages 5-17 and adults, will offer practice sessions in two ...
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ACTIONAID News, May 21, 2012

G8 to Help 50 Million Africans Out of Poverty
AllAfrica.com
By James Tasamba, 21 May 2012 Group of 8 (G8) leaders have pledged to promote investments in sustainable agriculture as a strategy of uplifting millions of Africans out of poverty. released after a high-profile gathering on a range of topics.
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GDACS Daily Newsletter for 5/21/2012
Newsroom America
Action Aid, ARCS and local communities carried out rescue operations. Afghanistan: Sari Pul Province, Sari Pul Town Flash floods Incident Report No. 3 Mon, 21 May 2012 00:21:10 +0000 This report is produced by OCHA Afghanistan in collaboration with ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, May 21, 2012

Italy quake victims wake in cars, tents, schools
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Map locates epicenter of deadly earthquake Photo: AP / AP The Rocca Estense damaged by the quake is seen in San Felice Panaro, northern Italy, Sunday, May 20, 2012. A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook northern Italy early Sunday. The quake struck at 4:04 ...
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Monti Returns to Italy After Earthquake, Bombing
BusinessWeek
By Tommaso Ebhardt on May 21, 2012 Prime Minister Mario Monti abandoned a NATO summit and returned to Italy yesterday to lead his government's response to a fatal earthquake and attend the funeral of a 16-year-old victim of a terror bombing.
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UNITED KINGDOM News, May 21, 2012

Try a New Approach to Forex Trading With Vantage FX UK
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- For MetaTrader 4 traders seeking the ideal Expert Advisor to automate part or all of their Forex trading process, Vantage FX UK ( http://www.vantagefx.co.uk/ ) has the solution.
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First Utility Launches UK's Cheapest Fixed Price Energy Deal
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- First Utility has announced the launch of the UK's cheapest fixed tariff, iSave Fixed Price v2(i) - a deal with an annual average tariff of GBP 1047. With one of the 'Big Six' energy ...
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UFO News, May 21, 2012

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SATURN IS A GIANT UFO!
Weekly World News (satire)
By Frank Lake on May 21, 2012 Forget about the scientific “facts” drummed into your head by school teachers. Saturn is not a planet – it's a colossal UFO! That's the assertion of controversial astronomer Dr. Eduardo Marquez, who has come forward with ...
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UFO Government Hoax Alien Invasion Planned !! BREAKING NEWS ...
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TECHNOLOGY News, May 21, 2012

Cinnober acquires Nomura's Swedish technology development centre
Reuters
Strengthens investment bank trading knowledge Cinnober today announces it has agreed to acquire Nomura's internationally renowned Swedish technologydevelopment organization in UmeĆ„. The deal includes 40 specialists in developing equity trading ...
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Hand-Gesture Technologies Wave Bye to Desktop Mouse
Wall Street Journal
Using new motion sensing technology they aim for users to replace typing and mouse-clicking with some of the gestures and movements used in everyday life. WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro reports. A race to liberate computer users from the mouse is kicking ...
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RECREATION, Leisure News, May 21, 2012

Sri Lanka's Amaya Leisure March net up 68-pct
Lanka Business Online
May 21, 2012 (LBO) - Profits at Sri Lanka's Amaya Leisure, a unit of listed Hayleys group rose 68 percent in the March 2012 quarter as strong tourist arrivals boosted revenues, interim accounts showed. The group reported earnings of 2.37 rupees for the ...
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China's Dalian Wanda Buys AMC
Wall Street Journal (blog)
According to Dealogic, the deal is the largest M&A transaction in the leisureand recreation sector this year, and the fourth-largest Asia outbound M&A deal, excluding Japan, beating an investment in January by China Petrochemical Corp. into Devon ...
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YOUTUBE - 14 years old boy opera - Giorgos Ioannou - Greece got talent, May 21, 2012

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PHILOSOPHY News, May 21, 2012

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'Prince of piffle' or 'philosopher prince'? Once ridiculed, some now hail ...
Victoria Times Colonist
By Joanne Laucius, Postmedia News May 20, 2012 Talking to plants, fearing that the world would be overrun by self-replicating nano-robots, suggesting to a university vice-chancellor that parapsychology would be an interesting subject to study.
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Dropping out: Is college worth the cost?
CBS News
Morley Safer reports. by knewsterrrrrrr May 21, 2012 1:24 AM EDT Having a bachelor's degree in fine art isn't going to do a damn thing for you in your quest for a job in say, the psychiatric field, or medical field, yet, if you have a bachelor's degree ...
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OCEANIA News, May 21, 2012

From Greene To Great
Maritime Matters
Photographed at Madison, Indiana, May 3, 2012. Photo by Shawn J. Dake. The return of the AMERICAN QUEEN is more important than being just another travel option in the cruise industry. While European River Cruising continues to grow at an astoundingly ...
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Klinsmann adds 11 players to USMNT camp roster
Examiner.com
The team will train in Orlando until May 25, when Klinsmann selects the final 23-man roster for the upcoming five matches. Luminaries from the new selection include Herculez Gomez, Graham Zusi, Chris Wondolowski, Landon Donovan and Geoff Cameron.
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LONDON OLYMPICS News, May 21, 2012

Posted On Monday, May 21, 2012 at 09:01:30 AM
Pune Mirror
Chinese athletics superstar Liu Xiang is playing down expectations for his performance at the London Olympics despite setting a season's best time in the 110m hurdles on Saturday. Liu became China's first ever Olympic track champion at Athens 2004 but ...
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Ennis misses last hurdle
Sky News Australia
Ennis misses last hurdle Updated: 14:05, Monday May 21, 2012 This was one obstacle London Olympic poster girl Jessica Ennis didn't expect to face. The 26-year-old heptathlete was denied a personal best in the 100m hurdles Sunday at the Great CityGames ...
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RUSSIA News, May 21, 2012

The Myth of a US-Russia Strategic Partnership
Wall Street Journal
By GARRY KASPAROV After four years of Dmitry Medvedev keeping the czar's throne warm, Vladimir Putin is once again Russia's president. There were no public celebrations to accompany Mr. Putin's inauguration on May 7. Quite the opposite. Moscow's ...
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ITAR TASS, Russia's Oldest and Most Prestigious News Provider, Becomes ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOSCOW, May 20, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- EuraMedia Summit 2012, scheduled to take place in Boston from June 13th to 16th 2012, announced that ITAR TASS information agency will be its general Russianmedia partner.
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 21, 2012

PositiveTALK Announces Mobile Version at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
The latest scientific research indicates that increasing the level of "positivity" can have a significant positive impact on a person's health, wealth, relationships and happiness, and improve a person's self esteem and influence with friends, ...
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Bristol News Wire: May 21, 2012
Bristol24-7
Golden age for research into dementia in Bristol: A Bristol scientist believes the city is entering a golden age for research into dementia. The city has long been a leading centre for research into Alzheimer's and other forms of the brain disorder ...
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LIFESTYLE News, May 21, 2012

DSM commences tender offer for Kensey Nash
MarketWatch (press release)
HEERLEN, NETHERLANDS, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Royal DSM (euronext amsterdam:DSM), the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, announced today that its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Biomedical Acquisition Corporation, ...
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Gupta's Davos-Worthy Friends Support Him
BusinessWeek
By Patricia Hurtado on May 21, 2012 To US prosecutors, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) (GS) director Rajat Gupta is a Wall Street insider who fed secret tips to his business partner Raj Rajaratnam so the fund manager could reap millions in illicit ...
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CRISSIE HYNDE News, May 21, 2012


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GISELE BUNDCHEN News, May 21, 2012

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May 20, 2012

INVENTIONS News, May 20, 2012


Tesla's Genius Rekindled with Graphic Novel from Helios Entertainment
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"The Inventor: The Story of Tesla" is the first of original transmedia multi-platform IP focused on mystical inventors in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla was a ground-breaking engineer whose ideas and inventions were a catalyst for the ...
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Portland State University students' invention tops the field at national ...
OregonLive.com
The students invention beat out 23 other teams, including from top engineering schools, to win the $10000 top prize. Four jeans-wearing Portland State University seniors spent hundreds of hours this year building a computer-aided pill identifier to ...
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INDIA CINEMA News, May 20, 2012

SSMN: Wednesday May 23rd, 2012
95.9 WATD-FM
At 8:10, we welcome our good friend Nicole Logan from Plimoth Plantation to talk about another food & film event. On June 2 nd , Plimoth Cinema and Plymouth Farmer's Market will present “Queen of the Sun”. What are the bees telling us?
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95.9 WATD-FM
Cannes 2012 Review: Uday Shankar's KALPANA
DearCinema
By Bikas Mishra | Sunday, May 20th, 2012 Kalpana, made in 1948, literally means imagination; however, in its tone it is closer to a dream or even a nightmare. At times, these dreams are clearly marked while mostly they seamlessly merge into the ...
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HOLLYWOOD News, May 20, 2012

'Avengers' Is No. 1, Becomes Disney's Highest-Grossing Film
BusinessWeek
By Michael White and Catarina Saraiva on May 20, 2012 “Marvel's The Avengers” was the No. 1 movie at theaters in the US and Canada for a third straight weekend, taking in $55.1 million for Walt Disney Co. (DIS) (DIS), and making it the studio's ...
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'Avengers' sinks 'Battleship" to remain No. 1
The Seattle Times
(May 20, 2012, by media nonsense) MORE Its hard to get excited about amovie based on the game Battleship no matter how they... (May 20, 2012, by SMurph) MORE "The Avengers" continues to muscle out everything elseHollywood throws at it, easily sinking ...
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BEST Anything, May 20, 2012

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Colsaerts wins World Match Play
Kansas City Star
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium prepares a putt during Volvo World Match Play Golf Championship tournament final against Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, in Casares, southern Spain, Sunday, May 20,2012.
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Kansas City Star
2012 IIHF World Championship: Russia, Slovakia Battle For Gold
SB Nation
By Travis Hughes - NHL Editor The world's top hockey nation, Russia, and the definition of an underdog, Slovakia, will battle for the 2012 IIHF World Championship on Sunday afternoon. May 20,2012 - It's rare that one simple graphic can symbolize a ...
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NATO News, May 20, 2012

Obama: NATO Focused on Afghanistan Support
BusinessWeek
By Margaret Talev and Hans Nichols on May 20, 2012 President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders sought to demonstrate that the coalition in Afghanistan isn't unraveling following a pledge by newly elected French President Francois Hollande to withdraw ...
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Obama: NATO shifting to help peace in Afghanistan
Washington Times
By Anne Gearan and Julie Pace AP President Obama (right) shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during their meeting at the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, May 20,2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) CHICAGO (AP) — TheNATO alliance ...
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