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May 11, 2008 News and Trends
Murdoch's News Corp. ends Newsday bid (Los Angeles Times)
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:06:13 PDT
Two contenders -- Cablevision Systems and media owner Mortimer Zuckerman -- remain for Tribune Co.'s Long Island newspaper after News Corp. withdraws its $580-million offer. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., once the front-runner in bidding for Tribune Co.'s Newsday, has withdrawn its $580-million offer for the Long Island, N.Y., daily newspaper, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.
Grants for Moms Who are Inventors
Sun, 11 May 2008 06:53:24 PDT
What do Stephanie Kwolek, Alice Parker and Beth House have in common? They are just a handful of the hundreds of women inventors who have succeeded in making our lives easier. Stephanie Kwolke invented a material 5 times stronger than steel called Kevlar which is used in bullet-proof vests. Alice Parker invented an improved gas heating furnace which provides us with central heat. Beth House was the 2007 Grand Prize Winner of the Whirlpool Mother of Invention Grant with her award-winning
What are Phi Numbers?
Sun, 11 May 2008 03:19:26 PDT
This Sunday’s Observer has the first figures from PoliticsHome’s Phi5000 - these are figures from daily questioning of a panel of 5000 respondents by YouGov, recruited from the YouGov panel. What this isn’t is a normal YouGov poll, rather the Phi5000 is shamelessly prioritising tracking - the polls are weighted politically in the same way as YouGov’s polls so they aren’t skewed in a party partisan way, but beyond that representativeness takes a back seat to consistency, with the same people bei
Police target new crime trends - Harrogate Today
News Corp. Withdraws Its Bid for Newsday (New York Times)
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:26:05 PDT
Cablevision appeared likely to prevail in the bidding for the Long Island newspaper after News Corporation pulled its $580 million bid.
Trends in SFN Abstracts
Sun, 11 May 2008 02:39:37 PDT
A new paper in PLoS ONE (Lin et al., 2008) applied the methods of computational linguistics1 to analyze the database of abstracts presented at the 2001 to 2006 meetings of the Society for Neuroscience. The results provide an overview of the current state of the field. Figure 8. (A) Visualization of topic map for all SFN meeting abstracts from 2001 to 2006. Abstracts assigned to different clusters appear in different colors (see legend). (B) Zooming in at the center of the topic map reveals mo
Fox News Seeks College Knowledge (Broadcasting and Cable)
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:17:23 PDT
Fox News Channel is expanding its partnership with student-reporter Web site The Palestra.
Picher ok tornado damage (oklahoma)
Sun, 11 May 2008 08:25:29 PDT
links to news updates on the Picher okla tornadoes
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Sun, 11 May 2008 00:06:13 PDT
Two contenders -- Cablevision Systems and media owner Mortimer Zuckerman -- remain for Tribune Co.'s Long Island newspaper after News Corp. withdraws its $580-million offer. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., once the front-runner in bidding for Tribune Co.'s Newsday, has withdrawn its $580-million offer for the Long Island, N.Y., daily newspaper, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday.
Grants for Moms Who are Inventors
Sun, 11 May 2008 06:53:24 PDT
What do Stephanie Kwolek, Alice Parker and Beth House have in common? They are just a handful of the hundreds of women inventors who have succeeded in making our lives easier. Stephanie Kwolke invented a material 5 times stronger than steel called Kevlar which is used in bullet-proof vests. Alice Parker invented an improved gas heating furnace which provides us with central heat. Beth House was the 2007 Grand Prize Winner of the Whirlpool Mother of Invention Grant with her award-winning
What are Phi Numbers?
Sun, 11 May 2008 03:19:26 PDT
This Sunday’s Observer has the first figures from PoliticsHome’s Phi5000 - these are figures from daily questioning of a panel of 5000 respondents by YouGov, recruited from the YouGov panel. What this isn’t is a normal YouGov poll, rather the Phi5000 is shamelessly prioritising tracking - the polls are weighted politically in the same way as YouGov’s polls so they aren’t skewed in a party partisan way, but beyond that representativeness takes a back seat to consistency, with the same people bei
Police target new crime trends - Harrogate Today
Police target new crime trends Harrogate Today, UK - 4 hours ago SPEAKING frankly about trends in crime, Harrogate Police's community safety sergeant Geoff Crocker has identified what he fears will be the top targets for ... |
News Corp. Withdraws Its Bid for Newsday (New York Times)
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:26:05 PDT
Cablevision appeared likely to prevail in the bidding for the Long Island newspaper after News Corporation pulled its $580 million bid.
Trends in SFN Abstracts
Sun, 11 May 2008 02:39:37 PDT
A new paper in PLoS ONE (Lin et al., 2008) applied the methods of computational linguistics1 to analyze the database of abstracts presented at the 2001 to 2006 meetings of the Society for Neuroscience. The results provide an overview of the current state of the field. Figure 8. (A) Visualization of topic map for all SFN meeting abstracts from 2001 to 2006. Abstracts assigned to different clusters appear in different colors (see legend). (B) Zooming in at the center of the topic map reveals mo
Fox News Seeks College Knowledge (Broadcasting and Cable)
Sun, 11 May 2008 00:17:23 PDT
Fox News Channel is expanding its partnership with student-reporter Web site The Palestra.
Picher ok tornado damage (oklahoma)
Sun, 11 May 2008 08:25:29 PDT
links to news updates on the Picher okla tornadoes
ClickBank Product Catalog
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