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Aug 24, 2011

INVENTIONS News, Aug 24, 2011


New batch of Apple patents includes solar power, device orientation inventions
Apple Insider
Credit for the invention goes to Wendell Sander, Daniel Warren and Aaron Leiba. Apple has been considering solar power for several years now. According to one report, both Apple and Samsung are "evaluating" the option for their consumer products, ...
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Nagoya Protocol's Rules for Genetic Resources Pose Challenges for US Drug ...
Genetic Engineering News
Traditional knowledge” is defined by WIPO as “tradition-based literary, artistic, or scientific works; performances; inventions; scientific discoveries; designs; marks, names, and symbols; undisclosed information; and all other tradition-based ...
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Genetic Engineering News
Crowdsourcing Designers Set Up Workshop In Store Window
DNAinfo
The invention company crowdsources the products they design by allowing everyday folks to suggest ideas for inventions and then shape them during the design and manufacturing process. People who contribute to a product can actually make money if it ...
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DNAinfo
New Energy Researchers Develop First-ever Prototype
Glass on Web
New Energy researchers have made inventions that are awaiting 10 patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Among such SolarWindow-related inventions is the discovery of novel coatings, which remain see-through while ...
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Investors Take Risky Ride on Double Deckers
Wall Street Journal
By JOHN JANNARONE From the Walkman to instant noodles, myriad Japaneseinventions have taken hold in the West. Investors should beware Japan's latest financial creation. Compared with Americans, the Japanese are veterans of ultralow interest rates. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Power of prayer holding back world's evils
TriCities.com
This was brought by inventions that changed our way of life to modern day travel by automobiles and jet planes. Many brought change from a manual labor way of life to the many household conveniences we have today. All this was done by power such as ...
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Samsung Cites Sci-Fi Classic in Attacking Apple Patent
Wall Street Journal (blog)
One of the ways defendants respond to such charges is by trying to get a judge to declare a patent invalid, often by citing earlier inventions to make a case the patent should never have been granted. Samsung, along with a motion that is still under ...
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Cramahe artist has solo show
Cramahe Now
Cramahe Township painter Irene Osborne will open her solo show "Diverse Inventions" at the Colborne Art Gallery this Saturday. Diverse Inventions is apropos. Irene's work continues to evolve. She has gone from her landscapes which capture light, ...
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TCISD Foundation names '11 inductees
Daily News - Galveston County
Prevost, a retired supervisor from BP, found a way to increase safety and production with severalinventions during his industrial career. His first invention was an automatic cutoff switch for Lincoln and Linde welding machines. ...
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Watch and Read: Fun with Phineas and Ferb
School Library Journal
In each episode, Phineas Flynn (voiced by Vincent Martella) and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher (Thomas Sangster) come up with a mind-bogglingly spectacular way to spend their day, usually involving odd inventions or way-out-there activities, ...
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PCs Hit 'Big 30' - Next Stop, Boneyard?
TechNewsWorld
That company was created to commercialize his inventions and capitalize the use of incandescent bulbs by developing and managing power production and distribution infrastructures. In 1890, Edison brought together numerous business interests under the ...
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Obama and the Smartphone Wars
Wall Street Journal
Free is a problem for the incumbents, who don't have Google's search advertising revenues as a way to monetize their software inventions. Secondly, and we mean this in the nicest possible way, Google is a patent violator. ...
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My people perish for lack of philosophy (2)
Nigeria Daily Independent
This crisis has been described as the inability of the ideas and inventions devised or adopted by the African society for its daily survival to realize the good life for the society and its people. The overwhelming nature of the crisis facing the ...
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Quo vadis HP?
ZDNet (blog)
At this moment in time, HP's history, its place as the founder of modern day Silicon Valley, its world changing inventions over the years matter not one jot. Important though they are historically we are witnessing a company that is in the fight of its ...
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ZDNet (blog)
The Steak Done Triple Whatever, a Review of a Taco Bell Roll-out
Village Voice (blog)
Taco Bell is the culinary equivalent of Minimalist Art. Their fast food inventions are so simple, that they often omit key ingredients that might make the food good. ​The foil wrapper is intended to dazzle the eyes. As an approximation of Mexican or ...
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The Revolution in Context: Alaa Al Aswany's On the State of Egypt
Huffington Post
The legal accountability of heads of state is one of the last, best inventions of the liberal tradition. This chapter in the ongoing Egyptian Revolution thus reminds us that many of its actors have liberalizing aims. Alaa Al Aswany has long voiced ...
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Alphas Episode 1-7 Review: Catch and Release
Inside Pulse
From the inventions we see, they are non-lethal. However, the government, with its power and authority, deems that she is unsafe based on some coded messages and pursues her. When Rosen and the team finds out who Skylar's been communicating with, ...
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Inside Pulse
Flick: Just trying to keep up can be exhausting
Bloomington Pantagraph (blog)
Without all of our technological innovation today, we would not have the wonderful inventions that make life so much more bearable (I am thinking here, specifically, of the snooze alarm). In a computer age when you'd think things would be easier, ...
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Intellectual Property & Antitrust Issues: Licensing Practices
Patent Baristas
This type of arrangement proves beneficial to the inventor as well as the manufacturer and thereby consumers as it greatly reduces costs and provides incentives for inventions and improvements thereupon. In the past, the approach toward licensing ...
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Priceline Founder Sues Over Tech Patents
NY Convergence
Since 1994, his company Walker Digital LLC made most of its income from spinning out itsinventions like Priceline. According to The Wall Street Journal, after Walker Digital put its patent portfolio up for auction last year and never having his asking ...
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The Newspaper of the Harvard Business School
Harbus Online
The history of this American icon is riddled with technology breakthroughs and game-changinginventions that affected the way Americans captured and saved their memories, yet the last five years have put that icon status in jeopardy as the company ...
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With Apologies To Hillary It Does Take a Village
Huffington Post
... living with and provide the environment that nurtures, retains and attracts the bright and creative people that generate new patents and inventions, innovative world-class products and services and the finance and marketing plans to support them. ...
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Jef Lee Johnson, Yohannes Tona & Michael Bland at the Black Dog Cafe this ...
Jazz Police
But he is also capable of creating highly experimental guitar inventions that will drop your jaw. Chaka Khan called him “a gift from God” and D'Angelo called him “the Hendrix of our generation.” Bassist Yohannes Tona hails from Ethiopia, but in a short ...
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Kenya: Are the Gods of Africa Asleep?
AllAfrica.com
No one, not university lecturers or researchers, will be pricked to dig deeper and find the underlying cause, which is often the route through which great inventions that benefit mankind are arrived at. Deformed newborn animals and strange diseases are ...
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Bloodless vampire flick fades to grey not red
Sydney Morning Herald
With its cleverly choreographed stunts and its ingenious reworkings of the conventions and inventions of so many genres, it may be a very cool film but it's also a glum and dispiriting one. If it weren't for the rivers of the stuff spilling across the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Technology deals back to pre-recession levels
Financial Times
Two of the largest IT inventions in history, the PC and the mobile phone, are merging into the smartphone, and companies are racing to adapt, said Guido Mengelkamp, head of technology banking, Emea at Citigroup. “Companies's core business are under ...
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Quinn, Emanuel now arguing over everything from casinos to potholes
Chicago Sun-Times
“If you'll notice, I don't put my name on any of these projects,” Quinn said “I was a big fan of Wacker Drive, That's one of the greatest inventions known to man., Lower Wacker. They are reviving the Drive. Who do you think's paying for that? ...
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Music of the 1890s comes alive at annual Cooper Gristmill event
Dailyrecord.com
“Even though he built his mill in 1784, it took a while for his inventions to catch on. Plus, a lot of people stole his ideas. Patent laws back then weren't as strict as they are now.” The Cooper Gristmill was constructed in 1826 by Nathan Cooper, ...
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Cryptophasia: The secrets of twin speak.
Slate Magazine
They imitate and reinforce each other's early inventions, weakening each other's incentive to learn the mother tongue. They spend less time communicating with parents and other adults, on average, than do nontwins, because they always have a ready ...
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Slate Magazine
Historic Gladstone farm to host country fair
Kansas City Star
The Big Shoal Country Fair is looking for young inventors to display their latest inventions. The creations must be something that would have made life or work on the farm easier in 1890-1910. Inventors will need to build a model or have a diagram of ...
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The STI 2011 in the Year 2011
AmmoLand.com (press release)
Some designs or inventions are almost accidental in nature. This one was not. There were specific problems to be solved from my point of view as a working pistolsmith and firearm component designer. In the late 1980′s, the IPSC evolutionary path was ...
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AmmoLand.com (press release)
Spam Emails Are Pretending To Be Traffic Tickets
pc1news
Using the technique of tricking unsuspecting people into opening the enclosed folder, the hackers are spreading one of their latest inventions. The virus is a variant of Trojan.FakeAV and is reported to be one of the most widely detected threats ...
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Medtronic says stiff rules will hit innovation
Financial Times
Mr Ishrak said Medtronic defended its policies and added that it had “guardrails” in place such as caps on physician payments and additional disclosures about royalties that doctors received for theirinventions. Although he expressed concern about ...
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Fixing your little red Radio Flyer
Times Daily
He created Liberty Coaster Co. in 1923, where he mass-produced the wagon, which was named in honor of two of his favorite inventions: the radio and airplane. Q: Why do we say someone has an “edge” on someone else when they have some type of advantage ...
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Region 12 inventions to compete for national tilt - Positive News ...
19 (PNA) - Four promising inventions from Southwestern Mindanao will compete in the NationalInvention Contest and Exhibit (NICE) of the Department of ...
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Technology News | Technology News, its all about latest inventions ...
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Latest News of the World (stories politics inventions creations ...
Launch of Pakistan's first National Communication Satellite Paksat-1R - The Paksat story by Dr. Muhammad Riaz Suddle The daily News paper of 23 August 2011 ...
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Ameranth Expands Its Patent Enforcements to Include Its 21st ...
NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, ... Its 21st Century Communications™ Web/Wireless Synchronization Inventions ...
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RUSSIA News, Aug 24, 2011


Russia's Medvedev hold talks with DPRK top leader
Xinhua
MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday met with Kim Jong Il, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), near Russia's eastern Siberian city of Ulan Ude, according to the Itar-Tass news agency ...
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Xinhua
Russian Art Exchanges Frozen Over Chabad Lawsuit
Forward
By Paul Berger The exchange of art between America and Russia is in a deep freeze because of a legal battle between the Chabad-Lubavitch sect and the Russian government over the Schneerson Collection — almost 40000 books and manuscripts that Moscow ...
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Samuel Eto'o: Why Anzhi Makhachkala's Transfer Is Great for European Soccer
Bleacher Report
Zenit St Petersburg meanwhile set a Russian transfer record for €30 million with the purchase of Portuguese midfielder Danny who came from Dinamo Moscow via Maritimo, later joined by Italian cult hero Alessandro Rosina. With each of theseRussian clubs ...
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Lithuania vexed by Leningrad nuke mishap
UPI.com
The Russian nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom said the mishap occurred when construction crews were pouring the concrete for the outer protective shell of Unit 1 at the site about 50 miles west of St. Petersburg on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. ...
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Building a Pro Bono Culture in Russia
The Moscow Times
So far, 714 participants from 438 organizations have taken part in these sessions inMoscow and St. Petersburg with more planned later this year. This type of initiative complements other recent steps in Russia to establish a more comprehensive legal ...
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The Moscow Times
Argentina: Is there more choice in the Russian market?
FreshPlaza
Russia annually imports an average of 1.3 million tons of apples, mainly from Europe (EU 15). The southern hemisphere supplies Moscow and St. Petersburg with more than 100000 tons per year, a volume that varies in relation to existing domestic crops. ...
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A Mole Poorly Disguised as a Sapsan Terrorist
The Moscow Times
By Yulia Latynina The Federal Security Service told Kommersant last week that it had prevented a major terrorist attack against the Sapsan bullet train between Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to the FSB, the attack was organized by Islam Khamuzhev ...
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Where Yeltsin Ruled and a Tsar Died
St.Petersburg Times.ru
She describes Yekaterinburg as convenient because it is the most compact of the 10 Russian cities with a population of more than 1 million. Moscow and St. Petersburg probably aren't comparable because they are larger by a wide margin. ...
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StandardAero enters growing Russian market
Winnipeg Free Press
The airline's network includes major Russian cities like Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Surgut. The airline also operates international scheduled and charter flights. Engines will be shipped to Winnipeg by plane or ship and typically spend 30-45 days in ...
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Russia and Oil: The Libya Factor
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News
Russian media reports that St. Petersburg governor, Valentina Matviyenko, has secured more than 90% of the votes in two city district elections at the weekend. Once she takes one of those seats, she will be eligible to be appointed speaker of the ...
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Desert island
St.Petersburg Times.ru
“Moscow has already witnessed similar projects… Now St. Petersburg will have its own art space that will fascinate creative people and encourage the development of modern art in Russia,” he added. New Holland was created in the 18th century by Peter ...
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Is the future with Russia's workers?
Workers' Liberty
As I can testify after a journalistic assignment last month, both Moscow and the renamed St Petersburg have reinvented themselves as recognisably modern capitalist European cities. They have a full array of pleasant bars and restaurants, and a layer of...
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Workers' Liberty
StandardAero Signs Service Agreement with Russian Regional Carrier, Ak Bars ...
AMTOnline.com
The network includes major cities of Russia such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Surgut. The airline operates also international scheduled and charter flights. Ak Bars Aero is the partner airline for the 2013 venue of the All-Russian Rhythmic ...
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Lee Presidential Concert Series To Begin In September
The Chattanoogan
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Mr. Yakushev won his first award at age 12 as a prize winner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition. His San Francisco Symphony performances in 2007 were included in the top 10 classical music events of the year ...
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Kenyan Man Attacked
St.Petersburg Times.ru
The survey was carried out at the Moscow and Ladozhsky railway stations and on Nevsky and Ligovsky prospects. The results of the voting have not yet been announced. The new law will bring St.Petersburg into line with other cities that have brand ...
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It's kick-off time! Eto'o for Daguestan!
Pravda
CSKA Moskva and Zenit St. Petersburg battle it out for top spot, the Moscow team having a two-point advantage at present. In Russia, after CSKA and Zenit, Dinamo Moskva is third, followed by FC Anzhi Makhachkala of Daguestan, where the Cameroon ...
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In Your Town: Briefs from across Marin for Aug. 24, 2011
Marin Independent-Journal
Sisemore will describe his latest river cruise adventure on the Volga River in Russia, following the path of Peter the Great from Moscow to St. Petersburg and into the heart of Russia. He will also share insights on the rivers of the world and their ...
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Exhibit Highlights Child Sex Industy
St.Petersburg Times.ru
7 to 13) and Moscow (Sept. 21 to 27). “Lightning. Children, Beware” runs through Aug. 30 at the St.Petersburg History of Photography Museum, Tel. 346 1850. Entrance is free, but closed to children under 14 years old. Something to say? ...
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Mayor Slain in '90s-Style Killing
St.Petersburg Times.ru
Sergiyev Posad, a historic city of about 105000 people located 60 kilometers north of Moscow, is most famous for being home to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, the largest monastery in Russia and the official residence of the Russian Orthodox ...
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Sheksna develops full range production, enters new markets
Steel Business Briefing (subscription)
The Sheksna hollow sections plant, part of Russian steelmaker Severstal, has developed production of all specifications of hollow sections and tubes and started marketing its output abroad, Steel Business Briefing learns from the parent company. ...
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Anniversary of Coup Attracts Mixed Reactions 20 Years On
St.Petersburg Times.ru
AP MOSCOW — Russia quietly marked the 20th anniversary of the start of the attempted coup that led to the Soviet collapse, with only about 100 people gathering Friday evening at the spot where tens of thousands of protesters rallied in 1991. ...
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Poltavchenko Named Acting City Governor
St.Petersburg Times.ru
It remained unclear when Matviyenko might enter the Federation Council, where the speaker's seat has been vacant since May, when Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov was ousted by the St.Petersburg legislature, controlled by the rival United Russia party ...
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Poltavechenko in prime position for Petersburg ... - The Moscow News
The Moscow News ... Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accepted St Petersburg governor ...After eight years of leading Russia's second largest city, ...
themoscownews.com/russia/20110823/188950760.html
Russia marks its National Flag day - World News - SINA English
1991, which saw a failed coup attempt in Moscow. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo). Youths hold a Russian flag during celebrations for Russia's Flag Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 22, 2011. Russia marked its National Flag day on Monday, ...
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Express to Russia | Rostral Columns
Book your Moscow hotel with Express to Russia and receive not only the lowest prices for hotels inMoscow available on the internet but free Russian visa invitations for each traveler – only here on Express to Russia, ... Moscow - St. Petersburg Cruises · » Volga River Cruises ... Russian Newsand Stories ...
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Russia stick to old guard for qualifiers - Russian National ...
Russian Legends. NEWS. Russia stick to old guard for qualifiers. Russia coach Dick Advocaat stuck to using experienced players for next month's ... Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeyev (CSKAMoscow), Vyacheslav Malafeyev (Zenit St Petersburg) ...
russiateam.com/news_2011_3/2011_08_19_02.htm
The state of Russian happiness | SOCIETY | The Moscow News
Two recent surveys have found that Russians are the unhappiest people in ... is not the done thing here,” Elena from St. Peterburg told the Moscow News. ...
themoscownews.ru/society/20110822/188946036.html

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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Aug 24, 2011

Musicians Mourn Ashford at His Own Bar
New York Times (blog)
It was blues night at Sugar Bar on Tuesday, and the musicians were working through their grief over the loss of Nick Ashford, the singer and songwriter who with his wife, Valerie Simpson, penned some of the greatest songs of the Motown era. ...
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