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Aug 9, 2011

Atrial Fibrillation Pictures: Symptoms, Causes, Tests, and Treatments


At the core of every healthy body is a strong, steady heartbeat. Atrial fibrillation is a condition that disrupts this rhythm. A glitch in the heart's electrical system makes the upper chambers (the atria) quiver or fibrillate. This causes the lower chambers (the ventricles) to beat irregularly. Atrial fibrillation can be dangerous because it raises the risk of stroke and heart failure."

Heart Testing Overused, Report Finds, Aug 09, 2011

By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
Aug. 2, 2011 -- Far too many healthy Americans are undergoing heart screening tests, which can lead to unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatments. That’s according to an investigation appearing in next month’s Consumer Reports.
In a survey of more than 8,000 subscribers, nearly half (44%) of those without major heart risk factors or symptoms reported having a screening test such as an electrocardiogram, exercise stress test, or ultrasound of the carotid arteries.
These tests, which are done to identify blockages, are not recommended for the vast majority of healthy people without symptoms of heart disease, such as chest pain or shortness of breath.
That’s because interventions like angioplasty to clear blocked arteries may do more harm than good in this group, Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center Director John Santa, MD, MPH, tells WebMD."

SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 09, 2011


A Once in 10000 years Event: A Star is Torn Apart
International Business Times AU
The international team of astronomers, including Sydney University astrophysicist Sean Farrell, has spent the last three years analyzing archival footage taken by the European Space Agency's X-ray telescope in the hope of spotting a rare object or ...
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International Business Times AU
Shooting for the stars
ABC Local
"Even from my backyard, I can do deep space photography," Tony said. Tony's interest in astronomy began in 1998 when he purchased his first telescope. Eager to learn more about the hobby, in 2002 he joined the Central West Astronomy Society based in ...
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ABC Local
Russian scientists to develop space rover to study the Sun
Channel 6 News Online
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- Russian scientists are developing a space rover which will conduct studies of the Sun from a closer distance than ever before, the Russian academy of Sciences announced. The Institute was cited by the Russian news agency ...
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With New Funding, Quest for Alien Life Is Back On
Fox News
... senior astronomer at the institute, said at the time. "We've lost the instrument that's best for zeroing in on these better targets." The 42 radio dishes that make it up had scanned deep space since 2007 for signals from alien civilizations while ...
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Fox News
Perseid meteor shower: Best times to see the 'shooting stars'
Christian Science Monitor
... please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at: tmalik@space.com. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes aboutastronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Staring at the sun
Labradorian
Power grids have shut down because of the sun.” Mr. Mestre said his next step is to take his findings back to his students in Connecticut. For an astronomer used to studying an unexplored expanse of space, it was Labrador that was surprising. ...
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Labradorian
Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak Becoming a Reality
International Business Times
According to a research paper titled, "Invisibility cloaking without superluminal propagation," published on Monday by Janos Perczel of School of Physics andAstronomy, University of St Andrews, Tomáˇs Tyc, Faculty of Science, Kotlarska and Ulf ...
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International Business Times
DePauw-Launched Balloon Reaches 8th Highest Altitude Ever
DePauw University
"This is the eighth highest altitude ever achieved by a latex balloon, and exceeded the previous record in the BASE program by more than 20000 feet," according to Howard L. Brooks, Paul B. Kissinger Professor of Physics and Astronomy at DePauw and ...
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DePauw University
Nemesis No More? Comet-Hurling 'Death Star' Most Likely a Myth
LiveScience.com
NASA Scientist Says No] "There is a tendency for people to find patterns in nature that do not exist," said study author Coryn Bailer-Jones, of the Max Planck Institute forAstronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, in a statement. ...
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LiveScience.com
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Trojan rock seen in Earth's orbit
Astronomers detect an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun, that could be a target for future manned space missions.
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster10725477/
IAC2009: The Contribution of Space Science to Astronomy ...
Astronomy, one of the worlds oldest sciences, has benefited greatly since the advent of spacescience fifty years ago. Space science allows an ever ...
sciencenewstweets.com/.../iac2009-the-contribution-of-space-s...
Astronomy Supplies: Article Astronomy News
Astronomy Supplies. A blog about the best things of astronomy news. ... mainly concerned with analytical models to describe objects and phenomena in space. ...
littlepapershop.blogspot.com/.../article-astronomy-news.html

RECREATION, Leisure News, Aug 09, 2011


Excesses can devastate older gamblers
SignOnSanDiego.com
With fewer economic obligations, some retired older adults have increasing opportunities to engage inrecreation and leisure activities. Americans view retirement as a time to have fun after a lifetime of responsibility, work, bosses, children, ...
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Government outdoor recreation track record "disappointing"
Voxy
"CORANZ does not believe that outdoor recreation, environmental and conservation values should be at the expense of an ideologically driven and poorly managed economy." Many New Zealanders participate in outdoor leisure whether walking, tramping, ...
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In Motion throughout the summer
La Ronge Northerner
In Motion reflects the importance of “recreation. leisure and active living” in people's day-to-day lives. The guide provides a list of activities, clubs and contacts for such activities as sports, canoeing, fitness classes, geocaching and survival ...
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Sanam Luang officially reopens after renovation
Thai News Agency MCOT
Speaking after the ceremony, the governor said that Sanam Luang will be a place for recreation andleisure for the public daily between 5am and 10pm, while only the walkway through the middle of the new park, linking the Thammasat University side and ...
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City leisure program registration starts Aug. 15
NorthernLife.ca
Registration for the city's fall and winter leisure programs will start Aug. 15, according to a press release from the city. Citizens will receive copies of the fall and winter leisure guide this week “to review prior to registering. ...
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Finance Seminar at Abbot Public Library
Patch.com
Caleb Harty is a graduate of Gordon College where he majored in economics and minored inrecreation and leisure studies. Originally from the Quabbin Reservoir region of Massachusetts, he now resides in Salem. He specializes in helping young families on ...
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'Recycle' games coming to Rocky Zone
Coastal Courier
Visit the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Web site for information about what FMWR has to offer soldiers and their families at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. The site is at http://www.stewartmwr.com/. Registration is under way for the ...
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Gymnastics sessions for disabled children to continue
isleofman.com
More than 80 children have already participated in the weekly sessions which are facilitated by Manx Sport and Recreation, the Island's Special Education Needs Units and the Ellan Vannin Gymnastics Club. Community, Culture and Leisure Minister David ...
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isleofman.com
Philadelphia mayor cracks down on youth flash mobs
Reuters
... patrols and the formation of citizen patrols that can reach police by portable radio in case of emergency. Nutter said many city recreation centers would also expand their evening hours so youth will have a place to gather for leisure activities.
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Reuters
Kids have a Playday
Cumnock Chronicle
Young reporters from the Recreation Partnership Service MEND initiative played a massive part by capturing the views of the community with cameras and comments from children and their families about what they thought of Playday and the importance of ...
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Recalling Randy Hopper
Huffington Post
There is no salacious gotcha-type smearing in the vivid memories I have from a camp that was as much recreation as rite of passage. This is perhaps a portrait of where future power poachers breed an ideology that they can disavow with growing leisure. ...
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Best condo buys in Metro
Journal Online
It allows young families of modest income to own their dream home within areas of their place of work, study, and leisure. They have pools, Wi-Fi, utilities, fire alarm system, mail room, elevators, and many more. Some of their condos have a resort ...
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INVENTIONS News, Aug 09, 2011


So you have the right invention, do you have the right circumstances?
ITBusiness.ca (blog)
Part of the responsibilities of such an individual is to ensure that a company is obtaining value when it pays to patent its inventions. In my last post I addressed right invention. This time I will address the right circumstances. ...
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Man Claims Invention Company Misled Him
WYFF Greenville
He said it's why he called InventHelp, a company that helps people seek patents on their inventionsand submit those inventions to companies. Crenshaw said the sales representative at InventHelp's Columbia office was impressed by the John Lock. ...
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The Daily Start-Up: Quirky Inventions Welcome Here
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Now lounge-chair inventors can manufacture the next tongue scraper or ultra-absorbent towel without ever leaving their La-Z-Boy. Every week Quirky Inc.–a two-year-old start-up that just closed a $16 million Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners ...
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Wheelie bin cover keeps gardens looking good
Wokingham Times
He and his father Cyril also founded Obtain Ltd, which they hope will become a platform for a number of inventions they have in the pipeline. Exact details of the other inventions are top secret until they are patented, which is where a set of ...
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NewProductHelp.com to Spearhead Marketing Efforts for Roll-a-Note Roll-a-Chord ...
PR.com (press release)
NewProductHelp.com assists inventors who are seeking to bring their inventions to the consumer market via established third party manufacturers and marketers by providing them expertise designed to guide them from the earliest stages of invention ...
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WINNERS of the ICKC 6th Annual National Invention
Southeast Missourian
The Inventors Club of Kansas City hosted their sixth annual national Invention Contest on Tuesday, August 2nd. Inventors and entrepreneurs from all over North America arrived at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center to present their US Patented or...
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Southeast Missourian
Speedy launches search for sustainability inventions
Plant Engineer
Plant and equipment hire specialist Speedy is calling on manufacturers to put their most eco-friendly products forward for its Environmental Award. Launched last year as part of Speedy's commitment to sustainability, the award is open to all suppliers, ...
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Plant Engineer
Research and development deserve priority
Nation Online
It is technical knowledge that makes innovations and inventions possible. Within certain economies, technical progress is constantly on the move and existing products are modified or dropped in favour of new ones. In other economies, especially in ...
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INVENTING FUN
Calcutta Telegraph
One of the many amazing inventions of Professor Trilokeswar Shonku, although to set this machine up he needs the help of two German scientists, a laboratory in Munich, and funding from a psychic research institute in the same city. ...
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Calcutta Telegraph
The truth about the iPhone 5 and iPad 3
InfoWorld (blog)
Others are clearly inventions by enthusiast bloggers who have learned they can get an audience by constantly making stuff up. The Web has no memory, it seems, so the false prophets of Apple's plans get away with purveying their fiction. ...
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Glitter factory plans move ahead
New Jersey Herald
By BRUCE A. SCRUTON NEWTON — Meadowbrook Inventions solidified its plans to bring a glitter factory to the town on Monday by signing a contract to buy the Paterson Avenue lot where it wants to set up the operation. And on Monday evening, ...
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Boston Herald (blog)
The cable network officially dropped plans for a sixth season (a six-episode order) to wrap up the series about a town full of geniuses whose inventions often run amok. Instead, the fifth season - set to air sometime next year - will conclude the show. ...
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Boston Herald (blog)
Recession drives rise in inventor numbers
Irish Independent
By Caitriona Murphy A record 53 aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs have entered this year's National Inventions Competition at Tullamore Show. Sponsored by the Farming Independent, WR Shaw and Glenngorey Pumps, entries for the €2000 annual ...
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Aquarium film in festival finals
The Salinas Californian
Two climate-change-related video programs produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium — an animated short narrated by British comedy actor John Cleese and an auditorium program on how nature has inspired energy-efficient inventions — have both been named ...
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Boilermaker designs new wheel chock
The Gympie Times
A job as a drag line operator in the mines was followed by a successful property investment and a couple of clever inventions that have since been acquired by the mining industry. Mr Gorlick, a qualified boilermaker, and his wife Robyn established ...
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State school simulates ARMM elections
Manila Bulletin
In another development, local inventions will be showcased during the celebration of the National Science and Technology Week in General Santos City from August 11 to 12. Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Regional Director Zenaida Laidan said ...
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Why President Obama Has The 'Jobs' Equation Backwards; Supporting Patent ...
Techdirt
First, it assumes that only one person in the US could come up with a particular invention (and, Mr. President, patents cover inventions, not "products or ideas") and that the only one person who comes up with an invention is also the only one who can ...
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Reuniting with the inner entrepreneur
The City Wire
It was a perfect fit for the ideas, inventions and skills I have been interested in all my life. Instead of a lemonade stand, which I had at one point, I made homemade magazines with my crayons to sell when I was 7? Sad that the thought owning my own ...
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Guide2 Midi-Pyrenees competition : Win a copy of "The White Lie"
Guide 2 Midi-Pyrenees
Secret underground laboratories exist where previously unemployed professors work on secretinventions for unknown employers. In Switzerland, Professor William Fairfax succeeded in creating a stable wormhole through which people could travel through ...
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Acupuncture and the Placebo Effect—Reply
Archives of Ophthalmology
A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent and provides incentives to individuals by offering them recognition for their creativity and material reward for their marketableinventions. The use of the combination of the 5 ...
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Make Innovation Sourcing a Business Strategy
TMC Net
External innovation recognizes the importance and benefits of inventions that are developed outside of internal research and development (R&D) departments. To external innovation advocates, it is common sense to adopt a proven technology rather than ...
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First to File in the Unpredictable Arts: Change in Law Requires Balancing of ...
JD Supra (press release)
In competitive technology fields this move puts additional pressure on companies to quickly make critical patent strategy decisions about how to protect newly-conceived inventions. Among the most important are decisions about how best to balance the ...
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Florists wanted by church
Fenland Today
The theme for this year's festival is inventions. From the wheel, to the steam engine, to the telephone and television: if you can say it with flowers then the St Peter's Church Flower Festival is a blooming marvellous chance for you show of your ...
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Lyndon LaRouche Special LPAC-TV Interview The Pact of the Human Soul
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
That, for example, we make inventions; a typical example, the common one people can understand: We make an invention; this invention enables mankind not only increase his power, but also to make up for the problems, the new demands that come upon ...
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Associated Press: America Is Dead -- Funeral Plans Under Debate
Huffington Post (satire)
They include a host of ingenious inventions and innovations such as Benjamin Franklin's wooden swim fins (1717), Levi Spear Parmly's dental floss (1815), George Crum's potato chip (1853), and the atomic bomb, for which no was willing to take credit ...
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Kim of Ewha Medical Center wins Hippocrates Award 2011
The Korea Herald
His inventions have been adopted in many countries including India, Israel, Australia, Portugal and the Czech Republic. He was also noted for writing up to 10 research papers every year for authoritative academic journals. ...
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Microsoft launches reward scheme for online security
Hostway
Security researchers could see themselves on the receiving end of rewards for innovative inventions following the launch of a new scheme by Microsoft. Last week, the IT giant unveiled the BlueHat Prize initiative in a bid to encourage the development...
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Hostway
We've lost confidence, ability to do for ourselves
StandardNet
Over the years, great inventions have been put in use in our country. We forgot how to rely on our own ability to solve problems without outside help, so we've lost self-confidence, self-reliance and self-determination. Once, when this country was ...
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Steve Urkel is back! Family Matters star is all grown up in Cee-Lo Green's new ...
Daily Mail
But his fans have longed to see what became of the clumsy purveyor of crazyinventions and now their wait is over, as he is the star of Cee-Lo Green's video for his new single Cry Baby. Cee Lo Green, 37, is of course an extremely busy man. ...
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Daily Mail
Aethereus Announced
Gamers Hell
In addition, you can embark on a variety of procedurally generated expeditions with your friends discovering new lands and situations to overcome, or you can design and build new gear, weapons and inventions to solve the many challenges that await you ...
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SilverStone Group Unveils Re-Branding Including New Website
Insurance News Net (press release)
Classic meets modern in the usage of the firm's "original invention illustrations" that represent SilverStone Group's thought philosophy; the inventions started much the same way SilverStone Group works: researched, invented, presented and implemented. ...
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My Inspiration: Kathleen Hagan
Belfast Telegraph
... young woman would have in science and technology, so it is no accident that I gravitated to becoming a 'business technologist' working with talented scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs in helping them bring their inventions to the marketplace. ...
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Director's Cut: Best Coast: "Our Deal"
Pitchfork Media
Drew Barrymore: I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song. So I downloaded the album and loved it from start to finish, ...
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Pitchfork Media
MOSAID Announces ARM Complaint
MarketWatch (press release)
... the following: MOSAID's continued expansion of its patent portfolio and of its opportunities for future patent licensing revenue as a result of MOSAID's acquisition of patents from third parties and from development of new inventions; ...
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Patenting And Copyright Of Software - With Particular Reference To Maltese Law ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Maltese law does not protect computer programs under patent and indeed, article 4 of the Patents and Designs Act, incorporated almost verbatim the wording of article 52 EPC stating that computer programs shall not be considered as inventions and are ...
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Mark Cuban wants to end patents on software and business methods
Los Angeles Times
Business method patents are especially controversial because they seem more like ideas or insights than inventions. They also tread perilously close to being obvious, which should disqualify them from patent protection. The call to eliminate software ...
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Businesses still pursue military dollars
News & Observer
Other opportunities, Hagan said, include what she called niche products, inventions that would help the military save money on tasks it has to do all the time. Mike Walls of MEB General Contractors hopes to help his company secure more immediate ...
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Evergreen ECE
Frontline
Ishari Ganesh said Vels was “concentrating more on research and inventions now. We will come up with two or three products in a month's time”. Research is under way in 11 areas, according to K. Anbudorai, the university's Director of Research. ...
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Frontline
What To Do: Sleep Troubles
Patch.com
Sleep machines might be one of the world's smartest inventions. But you don't have to buy a pricey machine; I downloaded a free app on my phone called “Relax and Sleep”. It has at least 25 different, commonly loved sounds that help one drift off to ...
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Kanye West's 808s And Heartbreak
A.V. Club Chicago
Time magazine included Auto-Tune on its list of the 50 worst inventions (alongside abominations like the Pinto and Betamax), claiming that it can make “bad singers sound good and really bad singers sound like robots.” (Actually, it can make Al Green...
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A.V. Club Chicago
Falling in love with Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post
The 'ThruYou' videos have made quite an impression, garnering attention from Time magazine, which named it one of the 50 best inventions of 2009. His work has been exhibited all over the world including in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. ...
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Social Innovation: India Connecting and Vaccinating
Justmeans
This could soon help to place India firmly within the major world economies. Mobile phones have become one of the most important inventions of the 21 st century leading to a remarkable communications transformation of how we connect with each other.
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How comics influence graphic designers
Salon
When Maryland Institute began so did the Industrial Age on the East Coast; the chief emphasis was on inventions, designing items related to manufacturing, construction and building the city. But from the beginning the fine and applied arts had a place ...
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Salon
Brain Diving The Ghost with the Most
Anime News Network
It is often unclear whether the stories are new twists on ancient stories, or are modern inventionsthemselves. It's also not entirely clear how the various stories relate to Japanese religions. Drazen states that Japan has a dual religious nature of ...
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NASA's Shattered Legacy
Huffington Post (blog)
Since then, innumerable inventions, conveniences and life-saving products and technologies have made their way from the Moon back to Earth and store shelves, the Internet and hospitals. I, for one, never questioned the value proposition of the ...
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HowStuffWorks: Free iPad app is impressive
USA Today (blog)
Whether it's the fascinating "How nuns work," the informative "How gas prices work" or the historical "10 inventions that changed the world," there is most definitely something for everyone. This collection of diverse topics should also be a gold mine ...
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USA Today (blog)
NewProductHelp.com to Spearhead Marketing ... - American Banking News
By ABMN Staff
Miami, FL, August 09, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Donal M., Florida resident and inventor, has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to...
American Banking News
Creative minds share ideas, inventions at Maker Faire - News ...
News. Creative minds share ideas, inventions at Maker Faire ... More than 300 makers will bring their wares, ideas, inventions and solutions to Maker Faire ...
www.pressandguide.com/.../doc4e32ec93cf562529804138.txt...
Breaking News Video: 1001 Inventions Exhibition – BBC London News ...
Breaking News Video: 1001 Inventions Exhibition – BBC London News. Posted by TrendChatter on August 9th, 2011. Watch the 1001 Inventions Exhibition – BBC ...
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UAE Billionaire's Name Visible from Space - Offbeat News ...
Related news: Japanese Engineers to Build Floating City with 1km-High Building ... new inventionsin the field of computer science & information technology ...
www.infoniac.com/.../uae-billionaire-name-visible-from-space...