Month: January 2017

Prop Thtr Presents New Work on Loss at the 28th Annual Rhinofest

Prop Thtr presents On Loss by Mark Chrisler and Groundswell by Karen Fort as part of the 28th Annual Rhinofest. Other Rhinofest events produced by Prop Thtr include A Full Moon Vaudeville featuring a large cast that includes writer/performer Ian Belknap kicking off Rhinofest on Saturday, January 21 and the Cabaret Prop’d series featuring jazz trumpeter Yves Franois that starts on Friday, January 27. Rhinofest is produced and curated by Prop Thtr and Curious Theatre Branch.

StarTek, Inc. (SRT) Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research

According to Zacks, “StarTek, Inc. is a global provider of process management services and owns and operates branded vertical market Internet web sites. Their process management service platforms include E-commerce support and fulfillment, provisioning management for telecommunications systems, high-end inbound technical support, and an offering of supply chain management services.

Dental Implant and Prosthetics Market 2017 Global Industry Key…

PUNE, INDIA, January 13, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Dental Implant and Prosthetics : Summary: The existence of dental implants and its procedures are observed from early evolution that is more than 2,000 years ago in South & North America and in Middle Asia & Mediterranean region. In olden days, replacement of missing teeth was done by using carved stone, shell, bones and gold.

Note to Dejected U.S. Retailers: Malls Are Still Big in Canada an hour ago

A report by the Retail Council of Canada shows that sales by square foot in the northern nation’s shopping centers beat their U.S. counterparts on average. And that’s in spite of the Canadian dollar’s weakness.  Malls in the U.S., which are losing sales to online shoppers, have more vacancies than north of the border, according to Craig Patterson, author of the study from the Toronto-based industry group.

Animal rights activist Peta buys stake in Louis Vuitton

Animal rights pressure group Peta has bought shares in Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey in order to pressure it to stop selling bags and other products made from exotic animal skins. The stake in the French luxury group will give Peta the right to attend shareholder meetings and question the board in front of other shareholders.

Super Bowl LI to feature player POV replays – without attached cameras

Eager as ever to make the most of available technology to enhance its live sports coverage, Fox Sports will once again offer something a little different during its next major broadcast. As part of its Fox Sports Lab tech initiative, the company is planning to give viewers point-of-view perspectives from players on the field during Super Bowl LI in February.

God’s Wording

My youth in the very Protestant North Carolina of the 1940s was suffused with Bible translation. One version stood supreme and virtually alone: the King James, or Authorized, version of 1611, whose words and rhythms remain the stuff of memory.

Bradford pupils are supporting this year’s RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch

It is four years since the children at St Columba’s Catholic Primary School in Bradford started participating in the Big Schools Birdwatch run by the RSPB. Each and every year their findings contribute to the results which the charity utilises to discover the different species visiting our gardens and green spaces and, more importantly, find out those that are thriving and declining.

CBM Review Standard

Whether a patent qualifies for a CBM review has been a moving target. Early decisions held that the claims do not need to be directed to a “financial product or service,” since a reference in the specification to a financial use may be sufficient.

New illuminated lollipop could save children’s lives

From left, Caroline Taukulis, strategic account manager of Business Durham, with inventor Andrew Turner, Gavin Brydon, of Thorn and Cllr Neil Foster A TALENTED inventor has developed the first upgrade to the school crossing patrol sign in 50 years and believes lives could be saved as a result. Andrew Turner, who has an office at the North East Technology Park in Sedgefield, is to meet with distributors about his illuminated lollipop design after winning the backing of a major road safety charity.

Samsung To Focus More On Wearables Than Robots

One of the promises LG made ahead of CES 2017 is that they would be using the event to show off more of their robots , and sure enough they did . However amidst the rush of companies to show off their robotics technology, one company was oddly missing: Samsung, and now we know why.

Coal Curbs in Asia Could Save 50,000 Lives Annually, Study Says

About 50,000 lives a year could be saved by 2030 if no new coal-fired power plants are built in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, according to a study from researchers at Harvard University and Greenpeace International. If coal plants currently planned or under construction in the region are actually built, some 70,000 deaths could result annually, up from about 20,000 deaths at the moment, Greenpeace said Friday in a statement summarizing the study.

Top Trends to Watch in 2017

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Consumer Reports: OK to buy MacBook Pro

Consumer Reports said Thursday it can now recommend Apple’s flashy new MacBook Pro laptops after having previously refused to do so over concerns about inconsistent battery life. Apple worked with Consumer Reports over the holidays to analyze the battery tests and find a fix in response to the influential product reviewer’s criticisms.

WISeKey India Joint Venture First Seed Financing Round Oversubscribed

As per the terms of the Joint Venture, WISeKey India will localize WISeKey’s Cybersecurity Platform and provide Indian customers – both individuals and organizations – trusted identities for the Internet of Things objects and mobiles, enabling them to complete secure online transactions with confidence, trust the identities of others, and the identities of the IoT infrastructure. These transactions will run via localized Root of Trust , serve the Indian Ecosystem, and will benefit sectors such as telecom, manufacturing, retail, and e-commerce.

Tue 17

Admission is free on Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursday through the month of February. Admission to Hamill Family Play Zoo is also free.

Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex.

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. An important aspect of animal perception and cognition is learning to recognize relationships between environmental events that predict others in time, a form of relational knowledge that can be assessed using sequence-learning paradigms.

Using 21st Century Science to Improve Risk-Related Evaluations

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cellular biology, -omics technologies, analytical methods, bioinformatics, and computational tools and methods into the field of toxicology. Similar efforts are being pursued in the field of exposure science with the goals of obtaining more accurate and complete exposure data on individuals and populations for thousands of chemicals over the lifespan; predicting exposures from use data and chemical-property information; and translating exposures between test systems and humans.

Weaverham inventor helps Bosnian boy born with no arms learn how to swim

AN invention from a Weaverham swimming coach has helped a six-year-old boy born with no arms learn how to swim.a Swimming coach-turned inventor Chris Shore saw an inspirational video on the Internet of six-year-old Ismail Zulfic, from Bosnia, learning to swim. Three times a week Ismail’s cash-strapped parents drive him nearly 50 miles from their home in the city of Zenia to swimming lessons in Sarajevo.

Robots need ‘kill switches’, warn MPs

PIC: A Lynx robot toy by UBTECH Robotics dances at ShowStoppers during the 2017 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Nevada this year. The unstoppable rise of robots in our everyday lives requires urgent EU rules such as “kill switches”, European Parliament members warned Thursday as they passed a resolution urging Brussels into action on automaton ethics.

How a PC-based control system is an option for every application

As automation technology accelerates in the industry, PC-based control is an option for every application and for successful implementation for Industrial Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 initiatives. Controller specification is the most important stage of the development process for every industrial automation application.

This time, finish the job.

Then, last Sunday evening, during the NFL playoff game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers, the FBI posted on its website more than 300 emails that Clinton had sent to an unnamed colleague not in the government — no doubt her adviser Sid Blumenthal — that had fallen into the hands of foreign powers. It turns out — and the Sunday night release proves this — that Blumenthal was hacked by intelligence agents from at least three foreign governments and that they obtained the emails Clinton had sent to him that contained state secrets.

ElliQ is a super cute voice-activated robot companion for the elderly

Beyond the fact that it means we’d never have to do the dishes again or maybe even mow our lawn or schedule tedious appointments, we’d like to think about the robots of tomorrow as being potentially great friends of ours. Israeli startup Intuition Robotics had this same idea, because it’s developing a new robot product that’s specifically meant to not only help the elderly but also give them some companionship.

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With an estimated 80% of online adults using smartphones and 84% carrying them into stores, it’s not surprising that brick-and mortar retailers are adopting new ways to capitalize on the trend. Even if customers don’t make a smartphone purchase, the browsing they do on their phones often leads to a sale.

What Legit Reviews Learned at CES2017 about Ryzen

In the days leading up to CES2017 we found ourselves most excited to see what AMD would be showing off with Ryzen CPU series. The anticipation for the new processor series for AMD is growing every day thanks to the marketing machine over at AMD continually showing it performing better than an Intel Core i7-6900K processor that costs over $1000.