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Aug 21, 2011

INVENTIONS News, Aug 21, 2011


Region 12 inventions to compete in national tilt
Minda News
By Allen V. Estabillo | Sunday| August 21, 2011 | Filed under: Top Stories GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 August) — Four promising inventions from Southwestern Mindanao will compete in the National Invention Contest and Exhibit (NICE) of the ...
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County Limerick company wins National Inventions Competition
Limerick Leader
IshkaTrip, a unique trip switch device which limits water damage caused to homes and businesses by cutting off the water supply when a pipe bursts, won the NationalInventions Competition at the recent Tullamore Show. IshkaTrip, a unique trip switch...
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Limerick Leader
BETTER TIMES ARE AHEAD FOR US PATENTS
Marco Eagle (blog)
And for many industries, that means patents. Patents have been around for over 200 years. They provide critical safeguards for inventions. It's estimated that some 70% of revenue-earninginventions in the US are or have been protected by patents. ...
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Research on treatment of wounds wins award
Sun.Star
“It underscores the invaluable contribution of Filipino inventions and innovations to the country,” Yorobe said in her opening speech. Held at the Ayala Activity Center, the three-day event was organized by DOST and the Technology Application and ...
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Traveling America in search of evolving ideas
Seacoastonline.com
Various ideas and inventions catch his eye — the Stetson hat, for instance, or the gambrel roof barn, unique to America. Where did the designs come from, what physical and cultural influences contributed to small, stylistic differences in neighboring ...
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Happy 105th Birthday, Philo T. Farnsworth
mediabistro.com
By Alex Weprin on August 20, 2011 3:10 PM Without the inventions of Philo T. Farnsworth, there may not have ever been an ABC, Fox News or MTV. While the invention of television was almost certainly inevitable (plenty of inventors were working on it) ...
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Grafton Historical Society takes a trip back in time to 1893 World's Fair
The Daily Grafton
Envision what it would look like if the world's greatest achievements and inventions were collected in one place. In 1893, this vision was realized at the Chicago World's Fair. Take a trip back in time with Patricia Perry of Sneak Peek Productions as ...
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Are drone tractors the future?
DesMoinesRegister.com
Her father's patented inventions made Kinze Manufacturing synonymous with grain carts and plows. Now 33-year-old Susanne Kinzenbaw Veatch is taking Kinze Manufacturing Inc. deep into agriculture's future of drone equipment. ...
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Canada Post Puts the BlackBerry On a Stamp
Tom's Guide
Canada Post is honoring Canadian inventions with a 'Made in Canada' series that sees the electric oven, the electric wheelchair, the pacemaker, and, of course, the BlackBerry featured on stamps. "While smart phones and other communications devices, ...
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Sunday announcements
Tiffin Advertiser Tribune
Tiffin-Seneca Public Library is to host a program about inventions, patents and intellectual property during "Learn the Basics of Patent Law." The event is to take place at 6:30 pm Sept. 21 in Junior Home Room. Jacob M. Ward, patent attorney from ...
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Dalai Lama 'optimistic' after 'century of violence'
AFP
"Last century, we had lots of inventions, lots of developments. In the meantime, we had the biggest number of people killed of violence," the Dalai Lama said. So much so, that the 20th century became "a century of violence", the spiritual leader said. ...
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AFP
Thomas Jefferson on Patents
nPost.com (blog)
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the ...
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Will It Ever Be Possible To Live Forever?
Huffington Post
But, all through the history of ideas and inventions, most have started out being considered "crazy" and from the minds of "mad scientists." The real question is not if, but when. With the advancements in molecular biology -- which seems to be where ...
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People in Business: Aug. 21, 2011
Santa Cruz Sentinel
He was an inventor at IBM for 17 years, patenting 100 inventions and recognized as IBM's "Top Inventor." Ledger is the founder and managing partner at Tamalpais Partners LLC, an investor in and adviser to emerging growth companies. ...
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Elzoria Dean turns 100
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Of the many inventions created during her lifetime, she says the washing machine is definitely the best one. She says she always loved to sew, but is no longer able to due to poor eyesight and arthritis. Though she has rarely left her hometown, ...
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Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Women of the right
National Post (blog)
Their book argues men are responsible for the greater opportunities women enjoy, not feminists: Men created birth control meaning women could have fewer children; men created inventions such as diapers, washers and dryers so women would have more time; ...
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Focus 2011 to begin tomorrow
City Journal.in
The programme will reflect the latest developments and inventions in gynaecology the world over. For the first time, doctors outside the event can clear their doubts and interact through video-conferencing. Importance will be given to case discussions, ...
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DVD releases
Boston Globe
Creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy'' Marsh, who turn up in extras, go uncharacteristically heavy on rote action, but a climactic mash-up of the kids' all-time cleverest inventions is swell. The catchy soundtrack, complete with Slash tune, ...
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Echoes from the city of lost children
The Independent
Scarpa has brilliantly imagined how a sensitive child, who knows practically nothing of the world, would fill in the blanks of her experience with powerful inventions. For example, Cecilia has an imaginary friend, a Medusa figure with hair fashioned ...
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The Blagger's Guide To...The Voewood Festival
The Independent
Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called Voewood "far and away the most interesting building in Holt", and describes it as "a most violently idiosyncratic house ... the inventions sometimes remind one almost of Gaudi." For much of its life, ...
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Inspiring stories from global Pinoys
Philippine Star
To be accurate, he was told that he would get support for his shampoo if he wins at the 27th Salon International des Inventions. This was in 1999. We love winners, and we cheer them on when they bring home the bacon. But where were we when they had ...
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'The Gentlemen's Hour': Tale of surfers, slayings and San Diego catches a wave
OregonLive.com
In "The Gentlemen's Hour," the inventions include a real-estate scam, a mixed martial arts dojo, marital infidelity, an epic beach brawl, several additional murders -- Jones is truly dedicated to his craft -- and Petra Hall, the surfin' attorney who is ...
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OregonLive.com
Arresting the West's crisis of confidence
Spectator.co.uk
What hope is there when foreign nations adopt our most succesful inventions and tools (capitalism) just at the moment when our own elites scream "bankers!" at every mishap? America was the west's big hope but it would seem as if they have reached their ...
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Spectator.co.uk
USA a melting pot of civilizations and home of submerged ideologies
GroundReport
The difference in ideologies was a source of conflict and thus speedy inventions of arms of mass destruction and endless arms race between Soviet and western bloc countries were started soon after the Second World War. Whether it was Adam Smith or Karl ...
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How to French Kiss Your Computer
Boise Weekly
If you love technology and bizarre and/or relatively useless inventions, check out a roundup of nine other products the folks at msnbc.com found, including the severed hand iPhone case, a solar-powered bikini and the all-important mobile watermelon ...
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How To Throw a Group Listening Party on Google+
Gizmodo
We've seen a slew of new inventions that allow people to listen to the same music at the same time online, chatting about it and deciding what to play next, from Turntable.fm to Wahwah.fm. These apps take the social experience of recommending, ...
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Local restaurants to compete in chili cookoff — Inventions | News ...
Aug, 2011 in News of the world. Local restaurants to compete in chili cookoff Inventions Friday, August 19, 2011 10:58 AM EDT ...
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Invention | St Paul News
Millionaire infomercial guru, Robert Axle (Kevin Spacey) loses everything when one of his inventionshas a design flaw that accidentally chops off the ...
www.stpaullocalnews.com/tag/invention/
Invention « High Tech News
The ambitious invention was given by young engineer Min-Zher On (Ming-Zher Poh) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The inventor "has (continue ...
shvainer.ru/category/invention/
Father of Invention - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau ...
Millionaire infomercial guru, Robert Axle loses everything when one of his inventions has a design flaw that accidentally chops off the fingers of thousands ...
www.kfvs12.com/story/15300114/father-of-invention?...
Hacker News | "Most (nearly all?) inventions aren't revolutionary ...
inventions aren't revolutionary in their novelty but are just an increment ... If you're interested in the history of invention, try Steven Berlin Johnson's ...
www.hackerne.ws/item?id=2905270

RUSSIA News, Aug 21, 2011


Four killed in Russian plane crash
IBNLive.com
Moscow: A light plane crashed near Russia's second largest city of St Petersburg, killing all four people onboard, rescue service officials said. The crash occurred 50 km from St Petersburg near the town of Ropsha, Xinhua reported citing the Interfax ...
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DPRK top leader visits dam in Russia's Far East
Xinhua
Kim visited Russia twice before. From July 26 to Aug. 18, 2001, the DPRK leader traveled by train across Russia's territory from Vladivostok to Moscow and St. Petersburg. His second visit toRussia was in August 2002, when the four-day trip to the Far ...
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International Football: Advocaat keeps faith in Russia's old legs
Keeda of Sports (blog)
Midfielders: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Everton), Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (Zenit St Petersburg), Igor Denisov (Zenit St Petersburg), Igor Semshov (DynamoMoscow), Alan Dzagoyev (CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Torbinsky (Lokomotiv ...
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Pinoy seaman freed from Russian prison
Journal Online
The Filipino seafarer was convicted by the Kirovsk City Court of Leningrad on 13 August 2010 of physical injuries which occurred during a stabbing incident with a fellow Filipino seaman onboard their ship which was enroute from St. Petersburg to Moscow ...
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New coach Riha prepares to rid SKA of playoff hex
RT
This is something of a sore point for the Armymen from Russia's northern capital of St. Petersburg. In 2010 alone, SKA's star-studded squad was led by three head coaches. Despite those revamping efforts by the team's board throughout the season, ...
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Russia quietly marks coup try | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-08-21
Philadelphia Inquirer
"We did the right thing," said Lyudmila Skryabina, who was traveling through Moscow on her way back to her home in St. Petersburg on Aug. 19, 1991, and decided to stay. "After all we had learned about our past, I simply didn't want to go back to what ...
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Day in Photos, Aug. 20, 2011
Fort Worth Star Telegram
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) AP A US military aircraft performs during a demonstration flight at the MAKS-2011 International Aviation and Space Show in Zhukovsky, outsideMoscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) AP A loser of a ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
4 Die in Plane Crash Near Russia'S St. Petersburg
WNCT
By: AP MOSCOW (AP) Russian emergency officials say a small private plane has crashed near St.Petersburg killing all four aboard. The regional Emergency Ministry branch said that the Yak-18 plane crashed Saturday near the town of Ropsha, ...
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Moscow frees convicted Filipino seafarer | U.S. News Las Vegas
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16 in time of the commemoration of the Philippines' and Russia's 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The Philippine Embassy in Moscow reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) convict's repatriation to the ... He said that the Philippine Embassy inMoscow had always been assisting him from the very beginning, when he was tried in the Court at St.Petersburg, until his release from prison and departure back to the Philippines. ...
U.S. News Las Vegas
Kim Jong Il's visit to Russia - News
Russian daily <<Izvestia>> the same day quoted Kremlin officials as saying Kim ... to Moscow and St. Petersburg until the departure, journey over 7000 km. ...
www.f-paper.com/?i794172-Kim-Jong-Ils-visit-to-Russia
Moscow to reach monstrous size « Russian News From Russia
Moscow will grow to include Skolkovo town, which hosts Russia's new innovation ... Russian NewsFrom Russia. The Russian News Website of Windows to Russia! ... extending the capital's limits at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June. ...
news.windowstorussia.com/moscow-to-reach-monstrous-size.h...
Four killed in plane crash near Russia's St. Petersburg, officials ...
Jump to main content. Search: News; Quote; Web; Businesses; People; Jobs. News Search. News... Four killed in plane crash near Russia's St. Petersburg, officials say. MOSCOW— The Associated Press. Published Saturday, Aug. ...
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Apartments in St. Petersburg | Russian News and Stories
To learn more, please browse our St. Petersburg Russia apartment site. ... that made our holiday in St. Petersburg and Moscow a wonderfull time to remember. ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Aug 21, 2011

GO! Arts and Entertainment for Aug. 21-27
North County Times
CCC Band plays favorites ---- The Coastal Communities Concert Band performs audience favorites, including "Armenian Dances," "Londonderry Air," big band and patriotic music, a Broadway medley with vocalists Lillian Palmer and Michael Ruhl and a special ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Aug 21, 2011


Live healthier: Eat like a caveman
Sun-Sentinel
But for the mainstream public, a diet rich in natural or whole foods burst onto the wellness scene about five years ago and has recently spiked in popularity. In April, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association called "a back-to-the-basics ...
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Nutrient Density
Snowshoe Magazine
The power of a balanced diet in terms of optimum wellness, disease prevention and risk reduction, endurance sports performance, and personal and planetary health is unequivocal. Nutrition plays a vital role in the regeneration process. ...
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Snowshoe Magazine
Healthy Alternatives
Jewishinstlouis.org
What does WELLNESS mean to you? Tell me what you think and we can discuss this in future blogs. If we truly want to be healthier, then we need to look at diet, stress reduction, exercise, and chiropractic. Let me first introduce you to chiropractic and ...
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