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Jul 18, 2011

DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Jul 18, 2011


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  • Trinity+twenty-five years - Jun 1970 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=KAcAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 26, No. 6 - 116 pages - Magazine
    People are inclined to forget even the great medical discoveries and technologicalinnovations of recent years, which have made our existence immensely ...
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  • Science and art - Feb 1959 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=ogkAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 15, No. 2 - 48 pages - Magazine
    In science, observations or discoveries remain true within a known .... The modern-dayinventions have dumped sixty billion pictures on our heads— pictures ...
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  • Electricity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity - Cached
    In addition, electricity encompasses less familiar concepts such as the ..... This requires electricity utilities to make careful predictions of their ..... Inventions, and Discoveries of the 18th Century, Greenwood Press, pp. ...


  • Modern history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history - Cached
    The concept of modernity interprets the general meaning of these events and ...

  • The Future of the Car - Sep 2004 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=twAAAAAAMBAJ...Popular Science - Vol. 265, No. 3 - 184 pages - Magazine
    In fact, it is Singh's problem — his invention. Even as a prototype, it's high-concept but exceptionally low-tech, the sort of thing you might be able to ...
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  • InventionsInnovations & Concepts Pty Ltd


    www.iiandc.com.au/ - Cached
    II&C Pty Ltd (InventionsInnovations and Concepts Pty Ltd) is a brand new 21st Century company. It was established by John (Joannes) H.M. Jorna in late ...

  • Scientific American inventions and discoveries: all the milestones ... - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?isbn=0471244104...Rodney P. Carlisle - 2004 - Science - 502 pages
    The concept or “law” suggests that in the solar system each planet's distance ... taken to fulfill the prediction implicit in the Titius-Bode relationship. ...


  • Flat Classroom 11-1 Project - Innovation


    flatclassroom11-1.flatclassroomproject.org/Innovation - Cached
    14 Apr 2011 – Group B Videos - Innovation, Invention, and Prediction ... "Design is a high-concept aptitude that is difficult to outsource and automate ...


  • Design and Invention | QuesTek Innovations


    www.questek.com/design-and-invention.html - Cached
    QuesTek Innovations LLC logo. Skip navigation. ... After down-selecting our most promising new microstructural concept(s), we refine our ... and testing efforts to validate modelpredictions and material properties at prototype scale. ...

  • How scientific are the social sciences? - Jan 1973 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=oQsAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 29, No. 1 - 52 pages - Magazine
    It is the discoveries and inventions within the natural sciences that are .... Moreover, as the very concepts used are defined in relation to these implicit ...
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  • Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries ...


    www.scribd.com/.../Groundbreaking-Scientific-Experiments-Inventi... - Cached
    Inventions and Innovations 8. Weapons and War Glossary Selected ..... to verify their observations and concepts or made viable predictions to arrive at ...

  • Einstein and peace - Mar 1979 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=7goAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 35, No. 3 - 88 pages - Magazine
    (21 3) 342-4984 f Maps and Photos of / recent geothermal discoveries and projects. .... The trouble is that an invention, once made, cannot be disinvented. ...
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  • Enlightenment The Age of


    history-world.org/age_of_enlightenment.htm - Cached
    The most fundamental concept of the Enlightenment were faith in nature. and belief in human progress. ..... innovations designed to improve efficiency. In 1733 James Kay in England ...The Enlightenment brought a new vision of the future, which forecast the ... The surprisingdiscoveries of astronomers produced ...

  • Great events of the past and a look ahead - Jan 1977 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=LOIDAAAAMBAJ...Popular Mechanics - Vol. 147, No. 1 - 160 pages - Magazine
    What were the most significant inventions and discoveries over the past 75 years? ... Mypredictions of the future are not definite, and are perhaps ...
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  • Innovation - a key concept in Economics and Management


    economicswebinstitute.org/glossary/innovate.htm - Cached
    Innovation is the complex development of discoveries (eg. new physical laws) and inventions(eg. a new machinery) brought in the business and social ...


  • Floyd Henry Allport and Dale A. Hartman: The Prediction of ...


    www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Allport/Allport_1931c.html - Cached
    Though differing in their conceptions of cultural units and types of index, ... to have been present in the making of significant' scientific discoveries. .... The prediction of an inventionin anything more than a bare telic sense is ..... in which the existing mores were enforced and few innovations attempted. ...

  • Science and man in the Americas - Oct 1973 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=IQwAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 29, No. 8 - 64 pages - Magazine
    Curiously enough, the major discoveries and advancement on the agricultural ...... Fifteen years ago there were many predictions of widespread famine in the ...
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  • Energy: no quick fix for a permanent crisis - Dec 1980 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=QQsAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 36, No. 10 - 64 pages - Magazine
    The coexistence of extremes in the evaluation of new inventions, .... If this reasonableprediction comes to pass, such power plants can be placed at ...
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    Module 1: What Does It Mean? An Introduction to Inventions ...


    www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/tech/imym/6/module1/m1.pdf
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    1 Apr 2005 – An Introduction to InventionsInnovations, and Discoveries. In Module 1: What Does It Mean? ... Students explore the concept of “discovery.” They prepare ... makepredictions, and discover own interpretations. ...

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    Why Do We Invent?


    www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ks4/tech/imym/6/module1/m1_3b.pdf
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    InventionsInnovations, and Discoveries: IMYM6. Mod.1.3b. Last updated ...

  • Can science come out of the laboratory now? - Apr 1976 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=lQsAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - 48 pages - Magazine
    To others, science appears as a dangerous force, producing inventions that ... To illustrate how discoveries in biology are made, the authors describe the ...
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  • THE IMPACT OF MAJOR INNOVATIONS: GUESSWORK OR FORECAST


    demnet.ubi.pt/~tessalen/impact.htm - Cached
    Although it is not yet possible to forecast the precise path of the .... Also within the Internet many innovations and software inventions of the ... What I think most dangerous and misleading is their blind devotion to monetary concepts. ... 1776 and 1789, immediately followed by the discoveries of Proust(1806), ...


  • The Scientific Revolution


    www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM - Cached
    6 Jun 1999 – ... is a long discussion of the major innovations in the natural sciences ... and Asians understood only one-half of the concept of inertia: things .... discoveries that cinched the Copernican-Keplerian universe. ... The Ptolemaic universe was a mathematical model designed to assist predictions but ...


  • 5.14 Compact fluorescents and new developments - Invention and ...


    openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397861...5... - Cached
    Invention and innovation: an introduction ... 5 Part 1: 4 Key concepts. 5.1 Introduction to key concepts · 5.2 Inventors and inventions · 5.3 Designs ... Some projections expect them to achieve a 15 per cent share by 2010. ... based on more recent scientific discoveries and more advanced technological applications. ...


  • Greece, Ancient Greek Inventions


    www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Inventions.htm - Cached
    Ancient Greek Inventions. Michael Lahanas. Εφευρέσεις των αρχαίων ... It must have been assisted by the great discovery of the early part of the ... Supported corrections of scale distortions in other maps, i.e. introduced map projections. ... a hermetically closed sphere around the earth (Concept of the satellite? ...


  • SCOTLAND'S INVENTIONS


    www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html - Cached
    Developed the concept of "Latent Heat" and discovered Carbon Dioxide ("Fixed Air"). ... He was a vetinary surgeon, but his interest in inventions led him to .... This innovation allowed the drying of water-logged land, bringing large areas ... to confirm his prediction, and he was beaten to the post by the French. ...

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    Review of Theories of Invention and Innovation


    www.infra.kth.se/cesis/documents/WP47.pdf
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    In contrast to innovations—a concept with a more obvious and easily verifiable condition, ...inventions and discoveries. Some historians and sociologists, ... 13In fact, this is impossible since their prediction would imply their ...


  • Ocean Energy - Inventions, Research, Innovations, Breakthroughs ...


    www.oilgae.com/energy/nn/oce/oce.html - Cached
    15 Feb 2007 – Breakthroughs, InventionsDiscoveries & Pioneering Efforts in the ... validate the results of several years of concepts and planning, ... They will also help efforts to improveprediction of weather and wave activity. ...

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    Schumpeter and the Concept of Social Evolution: Role of Innovation ...


    www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/service/tenji/amjas/Yagi.pdf
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    by K Yagi - Cited by 1 - Related articles
    Scope of innovation as a social factor. invention and discovery, .... Gilfillan went so far that he maintained a prediction of inventions would be possible. ...


  • Top 20 Computer Trends and Techy Innovations in 2008 (COUNTDOWN)


    www.trendhunter.com/.../top-20-computer-trends-and-techy-innova... - Cached
    Top 20 Computer Trends and Techy Innovations in 2008 - This computers micro-trend report... Future Tech Predictions, Ultra Thin Notebooks, Green Next Gen Notebooks ... has ushered in a multitude of technology and science-related inventions and discoveries, ... 8 Minimalist Concept Amps. 9 Avian Gamer Goodies ...


  • Innovation's Dirty Dozen: 12 Innovation ... - Invention Machine


    inventionmachine.com/.../Innovation-s-Dirty-Dozen-12-Innovation-... - Cached
    3 Jan 2011 – Innovation does not have to be haphazard and unpredictable. ... test hypotheses and make discoveries that have already been done elsewhere in ... My view of poor implementation is -Lack of real world proof of concept info. ... and they all have business plans that forecast what they want to have ...


  • Forecasting The Progress Of Technology


    www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/.../martino.ht... - Cached
    by MJP Martino - 1969 - Cited by 7 - Related articles
    However, the forecast of a future invention must be distinguished from the act of ...especially when these machines may rely on inventions and discoveries not yet made? ....The introduction and spread of an earlier technological innovation, .... In concept it is quite simple. It involves only the plotting of some ...


  • Category:discovery And Invention Controversies


    wn.com/category:discovery_and_invention_controversies - Cached
    Category:discovery And Invention Controversies on WN Network delivers the ... 160) This lecture introduces an important concept related to the past and future of .... humaninnovation has a pronounced influence upon plants and animals alike. ...... After the war ended, Tesla made predictions regarding the relevant ...


  • Special Report - 20 Forecasts for 2011-2025


    www.wfs.org/forecasts/ - Cached
    Forecast #2: Water Becomes the New Oil—Water desalination may soon become one of the... leading this revolution in a new special report, The Automation of Invention. .... Analysts at Deutsche Bank are enthusiastic and believe this concept could .... innovations,discoveries, and new solutions on the horizon. ...


  • Scientific Innovations/Discoveries by ixgagbalamvucub - Pearltrees


    www.pearltrees.com/.../innovations-discoveries/id2656208 - Cached
    Check Scientific Innovations/Discoveries by ixgagbalamvucub: The Future ... Want to keep track of the latest concept cars, automotive innovations, and more? ... Inventions,Innovations and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us. | ... century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events ...

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    Using cellular automata modeling of the emergence of innovations


    systemsbiomed.org/papers/cellularInnovations.pdf
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    by J Goldenberg - 2001 - Cited by 33 - Related articles
    need before, or concurrently with, its discovery by the firm in question, ... it has led to the formulation of important methods that enable predictions of ... However, the ability to elicit truly original concepts through marketing research ... invention [14]. Edison was not the only light bulb inventor (in fact, ...

  • [DOC] 

    Grading Period Snapshot


    www.austinschools.org/curriculum/.../SS_WH_6th_6wks_GPS_1011.doc
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    Concept: Ideologies and Globalization. Units: (1) The Cold War ... war, trade, independentinventions, and diffusion of ideas and motivations on cultural change ... and describe the changes produced by these discoveries and innovations ... generalizations andpredictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions ...


  • The Emperor's New Mind


    www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/enm3.html - Cached
    21 Sep 2000 – Mathematical objects are just concepts;they are the mental ... Its wonderfully elaborate structure was not the invention of any one person,nor was it ... revealed by any computer [Ref: Predictions Jul 97,p8 "Fract or Friction"]. ... On this view,the true mathematical discoveries would,in a general ...


  • Innovation vs. invention: Knowing the difference makes a ...


    wtnnews.com/articles/4184/ - Cached
    18 Sep 2007 – Separating innovation from invention is not rocket science, and there has been some ... What is captured in this definition is the concept of innovation being the actualization or .... Invention involves major discovery those like eureka moments ... Gartner upgrades worldwide IT spending forecast ...


  • Courses: Stefanos Zenios: Stanford GSB


    faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/zenios/courses.html - Cached
    Biomedical innovations are rapidly redefining health care, ... experience on the early-stages towards the commercialization of biomedical discoveries. ... first steps in invention, patenting, early prototyping and development of new concepts. ... And financial projectionswith key milestones and assumptions clearly ...


  • CREAX :: Creativity - Innovation - Trend Portal


    www.creax.net/ - Cached
    Jump to Innovation‎: Wiki InnovationInnovation Styles; DPT Fast Rapid . ... Best ideas of 2005; Year 2005 in ideas; Biggest discoveries . ... Invention Dimension; Inventions: . ...Retrofuture; The Futuro House; Yesterday´s Tomorrow; Erroneous Predictions ... BasicConcepts ... Syntens Toekomstwijze. ...

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    Session on “Innovation Concepts” August 15, 2010 Chair Zuo-tang ...


    www.ictas.vt.edu/downloads/powerpoint/Shandong_revised_081310.pdf
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    15 Aug 2010 – 1. Invention vs. Innovation. Innovation Concepts ... unappreciated upon theirdiscovery, and remained unappreciated well after initial use. .... Computational simulation andprediction of inflammation network ...


  • Current Electricity


    www.docstoc.com/docs/69623063/Current-Electricity - Cached
    20 Jan 2011 – InventionsInnovations, and Discoveries: IMYM6 Mod.3.2 Current Electricity... make predictions, and discover own interpretations. .... with students to make suggestions or to clarify concepts when needed. ...

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    RESEARCH ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE INNOVATION DESIGN IN FRANCE ...


    www.uiah.fi/joiningforces/papers/Uehara_et_al.pdf
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    by M Uehara
    The main discoveries are radical inventions, such as the steam engine and nuclear power,... They also represent major scientific projections likely to upset ... innovationconcept(functions & services) innovation and relationship ...


  • Discoveriesinnovations, and business cycles - Elsevier


    linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0040162584900520
    by W Low - 1984 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
    Recently some economists have used this model to forecast economic recovery in ... The transfer of knowledge from basic inventions to industrial innovations .... DISCOVERIES,INNOVATIONS, AND BUSINESS CYCLES 357 This paper deals with a closer .... (Indeed, a major ingredient of the laser is the concept of inverted ...


  • Chinadaily BBS - China Watch - Chinese InventionsDiscoveries and ...


    bbs.chinadaily.com.cn › News Talk › China Watch - Cached
    20 posts - 1 author - Last post: 25 Jan 2007
    The Chinese invented the chain pump in the first century AD ... The area that let China grow and expand was the innovations in the area of agriculture. ..... and by 8 BC somepredictions of total solar eclipse were made .... Harvey was, however, not even the first European to recognize the concept, ...

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    Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries ...


    read.pudn.com/.../ebook/.../Groundbreaking_Scientific_Experiments.pdf
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    Inventions and Innovations. 189. 8. Weapons and War. 243. Glossary. 291. Selected Bibliography .... ise that anyone's concept of the universe is whatever that person wants .....stantiated predictions and revelations. ...


  • History of Electricity - A Timeline of Innovation and Multiple Key ...


    ezinearticles.com › Reference and Education › Science - Cached
    16 Apr 2009 – It outlines numerous inventions, key discoveries or milestones ... inventionof electric batteries, the concepts of voltage and Ohms law ... The last point to highlight is the journey or evolution of discoveries and innovations which ... Protein Structure Prediction - Primary and Secondary Structure ...


  • Category:Invention and Innovation - Eurêka


    www.eurekaencyclopedia.com/.../Category:Invention_and_Innovati... - Cached
    Scientific discovery Invention of new knowledge in science. ... Borrowing innovation Concept that an economy or an entrepreneur may be innovative by .... "Almost all of the manypredictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the ...

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    Inventions and Inventing: Finding Solutions to Practical Problems


    www.i-c-r.org.uk/publications/monographarchive/Monograph35.pdf
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    by K Byron - Cited by 1 - Related articles
    rather than a modification or reformulation of an existing concept. A more precise criterion for defining ... 'Invention' is often used synonymously with innovation yet there ... pursuit of pure science, where the great discoveries are allegedly ... local generalisations, predictionsand to accumulate knowledge. ...


  • ENTERTAINMENT News, Jul 18, 2011

    Sony Music Entertainment Names Antonio 'L.A.' Reid Chairman & CEO, Epic Records
    PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:30 AM PDT
    Renowned record executive and Grammy Award-winning producer Antonio 'L.A.' Reid has been named Chairman & CEO of Epic Records, it was announced today by Doug Morris, Chief Executive Officer, Sony Music Entertainment.
    Sayreville set to reject Shadow Lake dredge
    Independent Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:09 AM PDT
    MIDDLETOWN â The final destination of Shadow Lakeâs dredged silt, if contaminated, remains unclear. Reports indicated that the material would be transported as fill to the site of Sayrevilleâs former National Lead plant, now the future location for The Point, a 400-plus-acre redevelopment project that will include housing, retail, office andentertainment uses. read more
    "Journeys in Film" Adds Global Education to Mission of USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center
    PR Newswire via Yahoo! News Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:06 AM PDT
    New Home for Innovative Project Using Entertainment to Teach American Students About the World
    SALINE: Annual Celtic Festival draws big crowd to Saline for musicalentertainment, athletics, exhibits
    The Saline Reporter Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT
    It was hot Saturday, the big day of the Saline Celtic Festival. Maybe that's why one of the day's more entertaining-yet-unplanned events happened.
    Fremont branch of NAACP sponsoring Gospel Fest '11
    Fremont News-Messenger Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:55 AM PDT
    FREMONT -- The Fremont branch of the NAACP will have Gospel Fest 2011, an afternoon of music, entertainment and fellowship, from 3 to 7 p.m. July 30 at Birchard Park.
    Erick Erickson: What I Read
    The Atlantic Wire Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:53 AM PDT
    How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers. This is drawn from a conversation with  Erick Erickson the editor-in-chief of Red State and a CNN contributor.  Before going to bed around ...
    Surgeons use Kinect for smoother, quicker operations (Yahoo! News)
    Yahoo! Tech Blog Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:50 AM PDT
    Yahoo! News - You trust the Xbox 360's motion-sensing Kinect accessory to provide enjoyable entertainment, but would you trust it with your life? Doctor's at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center sure hope so, and they are using the gaming tool to assist them â¦
    Weekend Wrap-Up: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Split, Harry Potter Rules and Lots of Babies!
    E! Online Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:39 AM PDT
    Too busy tweeting about Carmageddon to catch up on this weekend'sentertainment news? No need to fret. We've got all the details on Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's breakup, along...
    TOUR DE FRANCE 2011: Join La Caravane through the countryside
    Daily Mail Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:38 AM PDT
    Rest day for the riders, the teams and the organisers. And for La Caravane, the travelling circus of entertainment which sweeps through villages and towns.
    Central graduate enjoying work as graphic designer in Hollywood
    Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:37 AM PDT
    Daren Clary is the senior art director for entertainment at BLT and Associates.

    WORLD News, Jul 18, 2011


    MP, top Karzai aide feared killed: police official
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 11:54 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoKABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a top advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a member of the country's parliament in a residential district of Kabul on Sunday, just days after the president's brother was gunned down at home, officials said.

    TECHNOLOGY News, Jul 18, 2011

    Dawn on Vesta

    Taiwan's HTC shares tumble after Apple ruling
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 06:57 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Shares in Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC tumbled as much as 6.5 percent on Monday after losing a preliminary ruling in a patent case with Apple Inc, with its announcement of a share buyback failing to stem the fall.
    Full Story

    SPORTS News, Jul 18, 2011

    Caddie says lucky locker helped Clarke to win Open
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoLONDON (Reuters) - Darren Clarke's caddie John Mulrooney said he had an inkling the Northern Irishman would prevail at the British Open the moment he was given the same locker in Royal St George'sclubhouse as 1993 champion Greg Norman.
     
    CORRECTED-Golf-Caddie says lucky locker helped Clarke to win Open
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 09:25 PM PDT
    Reuters - (removes reference to Jimenez winning a major) Full Story

    Frilly pink flower power lifts disaster-hit Japan
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 07:59 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoTOKYO (Reuters) - Named after a frilly pink flower, Japan's World Cup-winning women's soccer team embodied the iron-willed spirit of a nation united in its battle to recover from disaster.

    Japan had "something bigger" on its side: Solo
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 07:45 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Hope Solo had kept the United States alive in the World Cup tournament with one scintillating performance after another but she knew she was up against more than just 11 women from Japan Sunday.

    Japan beat U.S. to win women's World Cup
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 07:45 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Japan won the women's World Cup on Sunday for the first time, stunning the heavily favored United States 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in extra time.

    Japan had "something bigger" on its side: Solo
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT
    Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Hope Solo had kept the United States alive in the World Cup tournament with one scintillating performance after another but she knew she was up against more than just 11 women from Japan on Sunday. Full Story

    Japan beat U.S. to win women's World Cup
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Japan won the women's World Cup on Sunday for the first time, stunning the heavily favored United States 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in extra time.

    Japan had "something bigger" on its side: Solo
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:56 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Hope Solo had kept the United States alive in the World Cup tournament with one scintillating performance after another but she knew she was up against more than just 11 women from Japan on Sunday.

    UPDATE 1-Golf-Kirk wins Viking Classic
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:36 PM PDT
    Reuters - * Kirk captures first PGA Tour win Full Story

    Golf-U.S. PGA Tour Viking Classic scores
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 03:17 PM PDT
    Reuters - July 17 (Reuters) - Scores from the U.S. PGA Tour Viking Classic at the par-72 course on Sunday in Madison, Mississippi 266 Chris Kirk (U.S.) 67 67 64 68 267 Tom Pernice Jr. (U.S.) 66 67 67 67 Full Story

    Kirk wins Viking Classic
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 02:30 PM PDT
    Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - PGA Tour rookie Chris Kirk birdied two of the last four holes on Sunday to win the Viking Classic at Madison, Mississippi by a single stroke. Full Story

    Golf-Caddie says lucky locker helped Clarke to win Open
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 02:13 PM PDT
    Reuters - LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Darren Clarke's caddie John Mulrooney said he had an inkling the Northern Irishman would prevail at the British Open the moment he was given the same locker in Royal St George's clubhouse as 1993 champion Greg Norman. Full Story

    Golf-Clarke celebrates an extraordinary day for an ordinary guy
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 01:43 PM PDT
    Reuters - SANDWICH, England, July 17 (Reuters) - Sitting with the Claret Jug to one side and a pint of Guinness on the other, Northern Ireland's forgotten man Darren Clarke basked in the glory of a British Open triumph that will be celebrated by ordinary golfers the world over on Sunday. Full Story

    Irish eyes smiling again as Clarke wins Open
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoSANDWICH, England (Reuters) - Darren Clarke repelled a dynamic charge from Phil Mickelson to complete a runaway three-shot win at the British Open on Sunday, claiming his first major title and becoming the first home winner of the championship for 12 years.

    Bryant keeping options open during lockout
    Sun,17 Jul 2011 12:31 PM PDT
    Reuters -
    photoNANJING, China (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant has said he is keeping his options open for next season while the National Basketball Association (NBA) remains in lockout.