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First reported 38 mins ago - Updated 38 mins ago - 1 reports

NIKE Inc

Bid now for unique Famine Memorial Celtic shirts

:15ON Sunday, May 12, events were held around the world for National Famine Memorial Day.As part of Celtic's commemoration, the team wore the home kit with the National Famine Memorial Day logo embroidered on the Hoops shirts and Celtic Charity is delighted ... [Published Noodls - 38 mins ago]

Entities: Famine, Charity, Authentication, NIKE Inc

First reported 39 mins ago - Updated 39 mins ago - 1 reports

How Genomics Solved The Mystery Of Ireland's Great Famine

An international group of plant pathologists has solved a historical mystery behind Ireland's Great Famine.Sure, scientists have known for a while that a fungus-like organism called Phytophthora infestans was responsible for the potato blight that plagued ... [Published New England Public Radio - 39 mins ago]

Entities: Pathogen, Famine, Ireland, Phytophthora infestans, Genomics

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Oklahoma’s Dangerous Dearth of Storm Cellars

The deadly tornadoes that struck outside Oklahoma City on Monday have a lot of people asking why there aren’t more storm cellars in the area, which would have enabled more residents to shelter safely. To debunk one popular response: It’s not that they ... [Published The Curious Capitalist - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Famine, Mike Hancock, Calvin Taylor, Oklahoma City

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

News in brief: HICL profits rise on new investments, Dividend ditched as Future’s shares fall, Dearth of deals hits Intermediate

The fund confirmed that it was close to bolstering its portfolio to nearly 90 projects alongside its results this morning. These showed that investments as of March were worth £1.2 billion, up from a valuation of £902 million last year, while pre-tax ... [Published London Evening Standard - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Famine, Dividend, Stocks

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

UN World Food Programme

Innovation of the Month: Cereal Banks Protect Against Famine and Empower Women Across the Sahel

Drought and high food prices in 2012 threatened the food security of over 18 million people in the Sahel Region of Africa, which includes parts of Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon, and northern Nigeria. The Sahel ... [Published Worldwatch Institute - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Sahel, Famine, UN World Food Programme

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

NASA

Star Trek’s replicator comes to life, thanks to NASA funding

NASA has thrown a $125,000 grant at a research project to bring 3D-printed pizza into our reality.Check it out:That’s a prototype printing chocolate. I know it sort of looks like a fraught-with-science version of a Willy Wonka movie prop, but that machine ... [Published Venturebeat - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Replication, NASA, Star Trek

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 9 reports

Mortgage lending picks up, says cautious CML

Mortgage lending rose by 4% last month, and by 21% on April last year.But the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that meaningful comparisons with last April are difficult. The CML estimates gross mortgage lending this April to have been 12.1bn. Despite ... [Published Estate Agent Today - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Mortgages, United Kingdom, House Price Index, England

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 5 reports

Irish Potato Famine Mystery Finally Solved

When the potato famine hit Ireland back in the middle of the 19th century, roughly a million people lost their lives.A team of researchers now say that they have finally pinned down the pathogen responsible for this event.With the help of dried leaf cuttings ... [Published Softpedia - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Great Famine (Ireland), Ireland, 19th century, Phytophthora infestans

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Detected blight strain linked to Great Famine

Scientists have named a unique strain of blight which they believe triggered the Irish potato famine as HERB-1. ... [Published Irish Examiner - May 21 2013]

Entities: Famine

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Dearth of female CEOs a huge problem?

Michael BaroneThe excellent Anne Applebaum http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/sheryl-sandberg-how-succeed-business/?page=1 has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and Hanna ... [Published Washington Examiner - May 20 2013]

Entities: Famine, Anne Applebaum, Hanna Rosin

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

The House That Heineken Built

The grandson of the brewery’s founder is credited with “one of the first eco-conscious consumer designs”:In 1960, Freddy [Heineken] took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 20 2013]

Entities: Heineken NV, Freddy Heineken, Famine, Flickr, Mortar

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

On HK shelves, illicit dirt on China’s elite

4 hours 42 min agoHONG KONG — Visitors from mainland China climb the narrow stairs to a cramped room in Hong Kong filled with forbidden delights: Shelves of scandal-packed exposes of their Communist Party masters.The People’s Recreation Community bookstore ... [Published Today Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: Illicit, China, Hong Kong

Quotes

...we can actually get to the DNA," he says. "This is a great example of how we can use all those treasures in museums and use the latest technology to exploit information that's in those museums."

How Genomics Solved The Mystery Of Ireland's Great Famine [Published New England Public Radio - 39 mins ago]

...a winning park name that embodies the idea that public spaces belong to the people," said John Campbell, President and CEO of Waterfront Toronto. "Corktown Common, like Sherbourne Common, will be the centrepiece of the neighbourhood and is helping to transform the former industrial lands into one of Canada's most sustainable and technologically advanced communities."

Winning name announced for Toronto's newest waterfront park [Published Canada NewsWire - 44 mins ago]

Miller said this string of luck cannot continue forever. "A category 4 or 5 will create serious challenges for us," he said. "We're prepared, we're not as prepared as we could be, but we are probably better prepared than any other state."

Fla. Homeowners Writers See Stockpiled Surplus, More Reinsurance Capital Ahead of Hurricane Season [Published Individual.com - 1 hour ago]

...Mr Pannell said the true underlying position hints that "April is likely to have been one of the strongest months for lending activity since late 2008, but not as strong as the year-earlier comparison suggests"

April 'saw gross mortgage lending rise' [Published Houseladder.co.uk - 1 hour ago]

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Blogs

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Oklahoma’s Dangerous Dearth of Storm Cellars [Published The Curious Capitalist - 5 hours ago] The deadly tornadoes that struck outside Oklahoma City on Monday have a lot of people asking why there aren’t more storm cellars in the area, which would have enabled more residents to shelter safely. To debunk one popular response: It’s not that they ...
Funding Daily: Silicon Valley Is Burning [Published Venturebeat - 12 hours ago] Guuuuurrrrl, the Valley is on fayah today. In a huge wave of announcements, we saw a bevy of businesses from the Bay getting fierce funding deals.Trust: From Mountain View to Redwood City, from Los Gatos to not-so-sunny San Francisco, our Bay Area startups ...
Funding Daily: Silicon Valley Is Burning [Published Venturebeat - 12 hours ago] Guuuuurrrrl, the Valley is on fayah today. In a huge wave of announcements, we saw a bevy of businesses from the Bay getting fierce funding deals. Trust: From Mountain View to Redwood City, from Los Gatos to not-so-sunny San Francisco, our Bay ...
A Sustainable National Security Posture? [Published CSC Center for Strategic Communication - 14 hours ago] [ by Charles Cameron -- and what about climate change, Mike Mazarr? ] . Is there even a Cheney -esque one-percent possibility that 97% of climate scientists (NASA’s estimate) are right? . . ** I just opened up Michael Mazarr ‘s NDU Strategy ...
Star Trek’s replicator comes to life, thanks to... [Published Venturebeat - 15 hours ago] NASA has thrown a $125,000 grant at a research project to bring 3D-printed pizza into our reality.Check it out:That’s a prototype printing chocolate. I know it sort of looks like a fraught-with-science version of a Willy Wonka movie prop, but that machine ...

Audio/Video

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Somaliland hopes for independence [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 18 2013]
South2North - Imagining Africa [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 11 2013]
UN says Somalia famine killed nearly 260,000 [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 02 2013]
Drought, famine devastate East Africa [Published CNN.com - Video - May 02 2013]
Darfur refugees dream of home [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 07 2013]

Press Releases

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