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23
Feb
This year in conjunction with Granger Homestead’s Christkindl Market, All Things Art will host a Gingerbread Competition. If you like to create with gingerbread, this is your opportunity to join in on the holiday fun! It is free to enter. There is a category for everyone: Children (under 8), Youth (9 -12), Teen (13 -17), Adult (18 and older), and Professional. You can enter as an individual or as a team or group.
All creations must be entirely edible except the base. The base can b
23
Feb
Acquirer says: We hope [the target's] innovative spirit rubs off on the rest of our company.
Acquirer says: The target will be run independently with its own management team.
Target founders say: We’re not going anywhere!
Acquirer means: This competitor may one day be a serious threat. Let’s take them out now.
Acquirer means: That’ll happen for a while—until we need to cut costs by folding the target into our operations.
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23
Feb
Algae would grow from pumped-in carbon dioxide and sunlight and be harvested for use either as a liquid fuel to run in a combined heat-and-power unit or turned into biochar, or charcoal used as a soil conditioner that also sequesters carbon from the air.
(Credit:Institution of Mechanical Engineers)
Finally, the institution says that buildings should be retrofitted with reflective roofs to deflect the sun’s rays. In the past months, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has publicly to
23
Feb
Ivory Coast were sent packing by a 3-2 extra time loss to fellow World Cup qualifiers Algeria in the evening’s second quarter-final up in the northern province of Cabinda.
Drama continued to the end with television replays suggesting a late shot from Ivorian defender Kolo Toure that found the net was wrongly judged offside by an assistant referee.
Hard as Angola tried they were unable to cancel that out, although former Manchester United and Hull striker Manucho certainly
23
Feb
Amazon's Early Holiday Cheer
Booming sales of e-book readers and material to read on them brought early holiday cheer to online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) in the third quarter. And judging from the company’s better-than-expected forecast for the current quarter, robust sales will continue through yearend at Seattle-based Amazon.
The day after the earnings announcement, Amazon shares surged 27% to a record, closing at 118.49. The increase suggests
23
Feb
Al-Qaeda could provoke new India-Pakistan war: Gates
Al-Qaeda is seeking to de-stabilise the entire South Asia region and could trigger a war between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told reporters on Wednesday.
Although he praised India for exercising restraint after the 2008 Mumbai attacks — which Delhi blamed on LeT
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Feb