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Four Togolese arrested in Ghana for illegal mining
According to Inspector Adu Gyamfi, the officer in-charge of the Kyekyewere Police Station in the Central Region, the seven were arrested last Thursday afternoon after he led a patrol team to the mining ...
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How Is Experience Valued In the Sharing Economy
How do you buy or sell something so abstract as an "experience"? And what is it worth? That's not an idle question for companies in the sharing economy. The experience of staying in an Airbnb apartment-with all its quirks, blemishes and unique qualities-is the differentiator from the equivalent traditional hotel. Teasing out how an Airbnb home is valued or how a RelayRides ...
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The Paradox Of Women Business Owners
The American Express report also noted, however, that a woman-owned business employs, on average, just one person in addition to the owner; the typical privately held business (where the gender of its owner or owners isn't broken out and the company's shares are neither traded on public exchanges nor issued through an initial public offering) employs two people apart from the owner. ...
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Microsoft slashes Surface RT prices by 60 for schools
Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%. It was the third time within a month that Microsoft has launched a Surface RT promotion, hinting at an impending refresh of the tablet. On Monday, Ryan Lowdermilk, a Microsoft technical evangelist, published details ...
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Worlds Largest Solar Boat Docks in NYC
The world's largest solar boat, a catamaran called Turanor, reached New York City Monday afternoon, docking at the North Cove Marina in downtown Manhattan at about 5 p.m. New York is the boat's sixth stop in a trans-Atlantic expedition that began in March in the south of France. The boat's upper decks are covered in 5,554 square feet of solar paneling. The photovoltaic cells get ...
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Shinzo Abe asks Stormont to continuously support Japanese companies in Northern Ireland
An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...
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Socceroos Brazil-bound after late goal secures World Cup spot
Sydney 2000 Socceroos coach Holger Osieck has described qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as a "beautiful feeling" and vindication of his methods.Australia beat Iraq 1-0 in a tense, nervy affair at Sydney's Olympic stadium last night thanks to an 83rd-minute headed goal from substitute Josh ...
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Processed Food Companies Spend Big Bucks Making Food Look ‘Imperfect’ To Make You Think It’s Natural
reports that fast and processed food makers have been trying their hardest to make products look ';imperfect'; in an attempt to convince consumers that they’re just as natural or fresh as a home-cooked meal. For instance, McDonald’s makes the eggs in its ';Egg White Delight McMuffin'; look sloppy and uneven — unlike the eggs in regular McMuffins, which tend ...
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Business jets dominate Bombardiers $2B in sales at air show
Bombardier announced Tuesday that VistaJet has put in an order for 40 of its Challenger 350 business jets, above. The sale would be worth $1.035 billion at current list prices, although customers usually get a discount. ...
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John Studzinski Marrying business and the arts
The banker John Studzinski is helping to nurture young theatre directors. He's a living example of how commerce and culture can sit comfortably ...
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Industry-backed studies more prominent at meetings
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Studies that are funded by pharmaceutical companies or involve industry-backed scientists tend to be more prominent at cancer meetings than independent studies, a new report ...
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EasyJet plane order rekindles Airbus-Boeing subsidy row
EasyJet announced the $10 billion order for 100 A320neo medium-haul jets, together with 35 current-generation A320 aircraft worth $3 billion at list prices, on Tuesday, day two of the Paris ...
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Intel urges holders to reject mini-tender offer
+1.45% on Tuesday urged the chip maker's shareholders to reject a "mini-tender offer" from TRC Capital that sought to buy up to 4 million shares of the company at $23.75 a share. Intel said it does not endorse the tender offer, which it noted was roughly 5% below Intel's closing share price of $24.99 on June 13, the day before the offer began. Intel shares were last trading ...
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La-Z-Boy options active ahead of earnings
- La-Z-Boy, Inc. - Shares in furniture producer, La-Z-Boy, Inc., increased as much as 3.9% to $19.80 at the start of the session, the highest level since 2004, ahead of the company's fourth-quarter earnings report after the closing bell today. Options volume is up ahead of the report, with roughly 400 contracts in play this afternoon versus average daily volume of around 80 contracts. ...
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Bizarro World Bill Ayers Accuses Obama of Terrorism
I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member, gave some people the idea that Obama was a dangerous radical who couldn't be trusted in office. Add to the list of people who agree that Obama is a dangerous radical one Bill Ayers. Ayers is basically incapable of giving a non-entertaining interview -- remember ...
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Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist. I'm in South Dakota today, sort of a ground zero for the XL Keystone Pipeline, that pipeline, owned by a Canadian corporation that will export tar sands oil to the rest of the world. This is the heart of ...
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Brad Pitts Son Maddox Gets Shot in World War Z Movie
Cast member Brad Pitt attends a photocall for the film ''Killing Them Softly'', by director Andrew Dominik, in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, May 22, ...
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Japan Airlines SKY SUITE named Best Business Class Airline Seat
JAL SKY SUITE was today named "Best Business Class Airline Seat" globally, based on the world's largest airline passenger satisfaction survey conducted by SKYTRAX. Japan Airlines (JAL) received the top honor for its new fully-flat Business Class seat at SKYTRAX's 2013 World Airline Awards held at Paris Air Show. JAL is the first Japanese airline to win the Best Business ...
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Turkish Minister of Finance Simsek said Turkish economy was based on strong roots and foreign investors still …
Turkish Minister of Finance Simsek said Turkish economy was based on strong roots and foreign investors still believed in Turkish success ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Finance Mehmet Simsek said Thursday that the investors still had confidence in Turkey's success despite recent Taksim protests. Simsek evaluated the Taksim incidents speaking on Aljazeera Channel and said Gezi Park projects ...
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Prehistoric armoured fish had the worlds first abs
The new fish fossils contain the oldest preserved muscles ever found. While most fossils only preserve the hard parts of animals, like bones and teeth, these fossil fish contain soft ...
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VA hospital faulted for slow reporting on Legionnaires disease
Pittsburgh-area congressmen accused the officials at the Pittsburgh veterans hospital of stonewalling on an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. The outbreak, caused by bacteria in the hospital's water system, sickened at least 21 patients in 2011 and 2012, causing five deaths. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, using documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reported the ...
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Boeing Embraer team on KC-390 marketing
U.S. and Brazilian companies are teaming to market a multi-mission transport and aerial refueling aircraft. The deal announced at the Paris Air Show Tuesday is between Boeing, which will lead in selling, sustaining and training crews for the aircraft, and the plane's manufacturer, Embraer. The companies say sales will focus on the United States, Britain and select Middle Eastern ...
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Pesticides in global rivers and streams said reducing biodiversity
Pesticides commonly used in Europe and Australia are reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, scientists say. A team of German and Australian researchers analyzed the impact of pesticides, including insecticides and fungicides, on the biodiversity of invertebrates in flowing waters using data from Germany, France and the state of Victoria in ...
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Extractive Industries A New Accountability Agenda
Freedom of Expression Corruption and Financial Accountability Abuses in the Extractives Sector Absence of the Rule of Law Annex D: Ethiopia, Aspiring EITI ...
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Optimism lifts world shares overnight
Wall Street advanced amid optimism that US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will reassure investors that the central bank will not pull back its monetary stimulus before it is satisfied with the economic outlook. In late afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1 per cent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.83 per cent and the Nasdaq ...
Middle East Focus
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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