Starting next Tuesday, Dec. 27, West Georgia Technical College is offering a driver’s education class for 16-year-olds who need to meet Georgia’s Joshua’s Law requirements.
Day: December 22, 2016
World Laparoscopy Hospital Says That Surgeons and Gynecologists Can…
Here is news that may interest surgeons. They can get trained in laparoscopy because the Delhi-based World Laparoscopy Hospital is offering a four-week integrated dual-degree postgraduate Diploma program in Laparoscopic Surgery that will earn the candidates D.MAS or Diploma in Minimal Access Surgery and F.MAS or Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery.
Trump, in day of tweets, suggests major changes on…
President-elect Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 21, 2016. Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “comes to its senses” regarding nuclear weapons.
Te Manawa keeping the kids busy during the summer
Dinosaurs are set to remain all the rage at Te Manawa over the summer, with programmes designed to teach children about the extinct creatures taking place during the holidays. Children spent Friday in the museum’s courtyard playing with a snow machine, bringing a bit of white Christmas to sunny Palmerston North.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Carrying Trays on a Cart
As you head home for the holidays, perhaps passing through a checkpoint or two, take some time to think about U.S. Patent No. 6,888,460 , “Advertising trays for security screening.”
Human embryo discovery wins Peoples Choice of Science Breakthrough of the Year
First molecular glimpse : The system developed by Rockefeller scientists that has given researchers the ability to study the molecular events that occur during early human development won the People’s Choice of Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year. A revolutionary method developed by Rockefeller University scientists that allows researchers to study human embryo development in the lab has been voted Breakthrough of the Year by Science magazine readers.
3 Top Virtual Reality Stocks to Buy Now
There are plenty of companies dabbling in virtual reality these days, but only a handful are making big plays in the space. Facebook fall into the latter category, and investors on the hunt for solid virtual reality stocks to buy now should give these three a good look.
Artists, officials clash over safety of underground venues
About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Authorities searching the drab, two-story building found an illegally constructed dance floor, paired with a bar and DJ booth.
Retail Resolutions: 3 Technology Updates Every Retailer Should Make This Year
Technology is transforming the retail industry, bringing new challenges and new opportunities. Retailers who put technology to work for them will see greater efficiency, happier customers, and bigger profits.
Leading Service Providers Are Succeeding With Nutanix
Nutanix , a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced ongoing success of service providers globally with its Enterprise Cloud Platform. Nutanix solutions align with service providers’ business model including fast performance and linear scaling, 1-click operational simplicity and predictive analytics, and flexible purchasing options.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures close up images of Saturn’s moon Pandora2 min ago
Dec 23: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ‘ Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning images of Santurn’s moon ‘Pandora’. On December 18, 2016, Cassini captured it during its closet-ever fly of Pandora.
MOA cinema closing
The Mall of America, where you can ride a roller coaster indoors or take a virtual flight across the Grand Canyon, will close its 14-screen movie theater on Dec. 28, making way for “a new, first-to-market entertainment venue.” The Bloomington mall said Thursday that its Theatres at Mall of America’s eight-year run was successful, but it was time to change.
Woman reveals she is in love with a ROBOT and wants to marry it
EXCLUSIVE: She’s STILL with her – Hillary and Huma Abedin are pictured together for the first time since losing the election, after a five-hour meeting at the failed candidate’s New York office Blaze in Manhattan high-rise leaves 18 injured – including four firefighters – after trapping 20 residents on the roof who tweeted ‘pray for us’ Which personality type are YOU? Quiz claims there are just eight different categories in the world – and your favorite color can reveal if you’re an individualist or an investigator The binge-drinking map of America: North Dakota has the heaviest drinkers while Arkansans down an average of eight drinks in one sitting Now Trump hints at CANCELLING the costly F-35 Lockheed Martin aircraft saying he’s asked rival Boeing to ‘price-out a comparable F18’ Texas man who told police he came home to find his wife and baby son’s throats slit is arrested for murder … (more)
Image reveals historic snowfall over the Sahara Desert as seen from space
It had been 37 years since the last time this rare event occurred, and by the next day, it had all disappeared. But, a breathtaking natural-color image from the Landsat 7 satellite shows a new look at the remarkable snowfall, revealing what the ‘thin veil’ over the desert looked like from space.
Australia police: Christmas Day bomb plot foiled, 5 detained
Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country’s second-largest city, officials said Friday. The suspects had been inspired by the Islamic State group and planned attacks on Melbourne’s Flinders Street train station, neighboring Federation Square and St. Paul’s Cathedral, Victoria state Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said.
Zacks Investment Research Lowers NVE Corp. (NVEC) to Hold
According to Zacks, “NVE Corp. is a recognized leader in the practical commercialization of spintronics, which many experts believe represents the next generation of microelectronics. NVE’s products include magnetic sensors and couplers which revolutionize data acquisition and transfer.
Dino VR adventure ‘Robinson: The Journey’ stomps to Oculus soon
Virtual reality is the best way to get up close and personal with dinosaurs . And next month folks with Oculus Rift headsets can do just that thanks to Robinson: The Journey ‘s PlayStation VR exclusivity going Considering that the game got a boost in graphical fidelity when it moved from PlayStation 4 to the higher-powered PS4 Pro , it should look even better on a high-end PC running a Rift headset.
concrete 4.11.10
Copyright 2012-2016 Johns Hopkins University HLTCOE. All rights reserved. This software is released under the 2-clause BSD license.
Upending the notion of the superiority of objective scientific truths over squishy artistic ones
‘The great enemy of thought and creativity is the received idea,” Siri Hustvedt writes, and woe to the lazy purveyor of unexamined “truths” who comes under her sharp scrutiny in this stimulating essay collection. It doesn’t matter who they are or what their credentials are; well-known sociobiologist E.O. Wilson and evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, both Harvard professors, are among those whose glib certainties she coolly dismantles.
Audubon counters fan out in search of birds
Thousands of shoppers will rush around today for last-minute gifts for Christmas. A smaller number of locals will take part in a more solitary pursuit: counting birds.
CVE-2016-9675
NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance .
How Do We Colonize Saturn’s Moons?
Welcome back to our series on Colonizing the Solar System! Today, we take a look at the largest of Saturn’s Moons – Titan, Rhea, Iapetus, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas. From the 17th century onward, astronomers made some profound discoveries around the planet Saturn, which they believed was the most distant planet of the Solar System at the time.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
The investme… IMPORTANT INVESTOR ALERT: Goldberg Law PC Announces an Investigation of Resource Capital Corp. and Advises Investors with Losses to Contact the Firm )–Goldberg Law PC, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces that it is investigating Resource Capital Corp. concerni… )–Willamette Valley Bank announced today that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.15 per share payable on January 17th. )–Nutanix , a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced ongoing success of service providers globally with its Enterprise Cloud Platform.
Leading Service Providers Are Succeeding With Nutanix
Nutanix solutions align with service providers’ business model including fast performance and linear scaling, 1-click operational simplicity and predictive analytics, and flexible purchasing options. Service providers play an important role in delivering IT services in an increasingly competitive and dynamic market.
Stem cells give Stanford scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
Today, Stanford pediatric cardiologist Marlene Rabinovitch , MD, and her team published new research that advances their quest to understand a serious – and very puzzling – lung disease. They’re studying pulmonary arterial hypertension , which frequently leads to heart failure.
Happy Holidays! A look at the best of this year’s bowl gifts
If coming up with the perfect present during the holidays for one person is stressful, try doing it for 250. Most games try to avoid giving away the same thing.
US companies want to play Chinaa s game. They just cana t win it.
In January 2016, the video-streaming service announced an ambitious global expansion. The goal was to beam American hits such as “House of Cards” around the world including, eventually, in China.
The team behind ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ made a VR radio play
The folks behind the heartrending, award-winning autobiographical game That Dragon, Cancer are back with a new project. Don’t worry though, because it sounds like the polar opposite of that tragic tale.
Apple’s newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports, one of the most thorough publications to do testing on laptops, says Apple’s new MacBook Pros have problems with consistent battery life. As a result, Apple’s latest laptops are the first from the company not to receive a “recommended” rating, Consumer Reports shared in a blog post on Thursday .
Brooks Brothers In Style As It Moves To Cloud
With operations depending on SAP HANA, Brooks Brothers management wanted a minimum of downtime in its move to AWS cloud. Clothing retailer Brooks Brothers is in the process of moving methodically to the cloud and is making use of different tools to get there.
Apple Seen Offering iPhone 7S, iPhone 8
Apple could offer two classes of new smartphones in 2017: a premium handset with an OLED display and more traditional models with LCD screens. The latest news leak from Apple ‘s Asian supply chain points to the company offering two classes of new smartphones in 2017: a premium handset with an OLED display and more traditional models with LCD screens .
Men’s Health, Women’s Health & Runner’s World to Host Awards…
WHAT: Rodale Inc. – publisher of the world’s top health and fitness magazine brands, including Men’s Health , Women’s Health and Runner’s World — will take the Living in Digital Times Stage at CES Tech West to present awards selected by each magazine’s editors, recognizing top brands and products on display at CES 2017 that are positively influencing the health and wellness industry; infuse the crowd with energy through a dynamic workout demonstration with fitness gurus of Women’s Health ; and host exclusive and enlightening discussions during the two-day panel sessions — moderated by Men’s Health Editor in Chief Day 1 Panel: High-Powered Performance Tech helps us to be smarter and fitter, but in many cases it makes us lazier-this panel will discuss the responsibility brands have to use tech to better people’s lives and empower them, and highlight some of the unique ways that brands … (more)
Apple Has an October Surprise – and It Likely Involves New Macs
The iPhone maker is treating the world to an October surprise, with one more product event scheduled for Thursday at its Cupertino campus. The Apple logo is displayed at the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City on June 17, 2015.
Health Care Companies Showing Good Defensive Potential
Among U.S. companies, health care companies offer good defensive-investing opportunities. Such companies, including Johnson & Johnson , Biogen Inc. and VCA Inc. , generally had strong financial strength and gross margins.
Cyberchase
Math rules! CYBERCHASE, an animated adventure series, takes kids on a wild ride through cyberspace where they are challenged to use the power of math. In the world of cyberspace, a classic good-versus-evil battle rages.
Gifts can arrive by Christmas thanks to Amazon Prime Now
Amazon’s last-minute Christmas delivery service, Prime Now, ensures gifts make it to loved ones on Christmas Day, even for orders placed on Christmas Eve. Gifts can arrive by Christmas thanks to Amazon Prime Now Amazon’s last-minute Christmas delivery service, Prime Now, ensures gifts make it to loved ones on Christmas Day, even for orders placed on Christmas Eve.
Consumer Reports can’t recommend new MacBook Pro models
Consumer Reports can’t recommend new MacBook Pro models Battery issues preclude Consumer Reports from awarding recommended ratings for first time to MacBooks. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2ilaPKt SAN FRANCISCO – The reviews are in, and for the first time Consumer Reports has not awarded recommended ratings for MacBooks.
Kate Becker: Cosmic gifts, no purchase required
It’s Gift Guide time, when I get to window-shop the internet for astronomy-themed doodads to delight the star-lovers on your list. But this year, something feels different, and the doodads all feel a little less delightful than usual.
County GOP’s new director dogged by Nazi jokes made as a teen
The newly named acting executive director of San Diego County’s Republican Party had his own political ambitions dashed two years ago when photographs surfaced of him in a German military uniform making Nazi jokes. Sage Naumann, who was running for the Carlsbad school board in 2014 as a 19-year-old, said at the time the photos were taken when he was 14 and that the outfit was for Halloween .
A new General Polymers grows with focus on small, mid-sized processors
General Polymers Thermoplastic Materials opened for business Oct. 15. GP offers support to small-to-medium sized processors with a focus on prime, certifiable grades of engineering resins and compounds from a current total of seven suppliers. General Polymers also was the name of a firm started by Dan McGuire and Tom Mueller in 1973 in Troy, Mich.