TEL AVIV -- White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster served at a UK-based think tank financed by a controversial, George Soros-funded group identified by the Obama White House as central in helping to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public and news media. ......
McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soros-Funded Group that Helped Obama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
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TIO eye bank facing cornea shortage
Kathmandu, August 6 The eye bank at Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology is facing shortage of corneas over the past one week. According to Sankha Narayan Twayana, manager of the eye bank at TIO, the shortage is due to increased demand for the...
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Transparency, due process fell by the wayside in the case of Kaspersky Lab
The government’s actions against Kaspersky Lab is a de facto debarment. Let’s just call it like it is. The government gave Kaspersky Lab the federal procurement version of the death penalty. And the lack of due process for the company should be alarming for every federal contractor. In fact, the entire episode should be a big flashing warning light for other companies, as the actions taken by the government are highly unusual, severe and unexplainable, according to cyber and legal experts. Additionally, the lack of transparency on the evidence of a connection between Kaspersky Lab and the Russian government for this de facto debarment from the General Services Administration or anyone in the...
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Doping: why some athletes are reluctant to speak out
pexels photo New research exploring whistleblowing in sport shows that athletes are generally hesitant to report doping. This is despite the fact that these same athletes are opposed to personally using banned substances. This hesitation can largely be put down to the fact that whistleblowing on doping presents a true moral dilemma – with two equally valid and demanding moral options. As an athlete, do you report doping behaviour to protect the integrity of sport, or keep quiet to protect the individual’s career, reputation and well-being? While on the surface reporting doping may seem straightforward, it rarely is. There are often multiple variables to consider – an athlete may share the...
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France: Churches Vanish, Mosques Spring Up
"France is not a random space... fifteen centuries of history and geography determined its personality." ......
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Tammy Flanagan: Navigating changes to federal retirement system
The only sure thing about federal retirement rules is that they’re changing. Even now,...
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There’s an Environmental Case for Genetic Engineering
1. Is there an environmental case for genetic engineering? By Richard Conniff in Yale Environment 360 2. Our understanding of ‘emotional intelligence’ needs a rewrite. By Lisa Feldman Barrett in Nautilus 3. Doctors and insurers are looking harder at non-health factors to help patients — and it’s working. By Kristian Foden-Vencil at NPR 4. This new catalyst could vastly simplify drawing clean hydrogen power from water. By Rice University 5. Could the so-called love hormone fight PTSD? By Melissa Pandika in Ozy The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. ......
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Web helps runners keep up with the pack
If a friend ran faster than usual, his or her friends would tend to pick up their pace in their runs that same day ......
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Cassini shows Prometheus peeking through Saturn's rings
The incredible image also shows the ghostly rings, which are covered in 'waves and kinks' from gravitational interations between the planet and its moon. ......
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$78,000 of Debt for a Harvard Theater Degree
Students and alumni are frustrated by the turmoil in Harvard’s graduate theater program and have trained their ire on its leader, the director Diane Paulus. ......
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Endangered brown kiwi hatches at Va. National Zoo facility
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is welcoming a new resident: a brown kiwi. The little chick kicked her way out of her egg at the National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, facility sometime between July 29 and 30. Related Stories On this...
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6 foot Pharaoh could be world's oldest case of Gigantism
King Sanakht who ruled during the third Dynasty, would have towered over the average Egyptian, who was on average 5 foot 4. ......
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McMaster Served at Group Financed by Multinational Corporations Doing Billions in Iran Business
TEL AVIV -- White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster served at a UK-based think tank that is heavily bankrolled by multinational corporate firms doing billions of dollars in business in Iran. ......
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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Take Away the Rights of Millions of Americans to ...
President Trump uses workers as props for photo-ops, but always sides with CEOs. The morning of July 25, the Trump administration filed a “Request for Information” in an effort to weaken or kill the badly-needed update to the overtime pay rule. Back in 1975, President Gerald Ford’s Labor Department set the level at which workers could be exempt from...
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Rack Centre CEO, Akintunde Coker says, “Innovation is a way of life”
Congratulations on winning the “Most Innovative Data Centre Technology Provider in Nigeria” category for BusinessDay’s Top 25 Most Innovative Companies & Institutions in Nigeria Awards 2017. Rack Centre has received brand recognition within a short period for your innovations in the technology space. What has been the principles under girding your high level of success in innovating? Answer: Innovation is a way of life for us at Rack Centre. We ensure everything we do is based on global best practice. Our innovation is not just in the technology that underpins Rack Centre, but the products and services that we offer customers. This includes the level of interconnectivity that we provide, the...
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Rack Centre CEO, Ayotunde Coker says, “Innovation is a way of life”
Congratulations on winning the “Most Innovative Data Centre Technology Provider in Nigeria” category for BusinessDay’s Top 25 Most Innovative Companies & Institutions in Nigeria Awards 2017. Rack Centre has received brand recognition within a short period for your innovations in the technology space. What has been the principles under girding your high level of success in innovating? Answer: Innovation is a way of life for us at Rack Centre. We ensure everything we do is based on global best practice. Our innovation is not just in the technology that underpins Rack Centre, but the products and services that we offer customers. This includes the level of interconnectivity that we provide, the...
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Focus for 2017 AFP Executive Institute: Prepare to Be Disrupted, Finance Leaders
BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- To help executive level treasury and finance professionals assess the impact of disruptive technological change to the finance function, the 2017 AFP Executive Institute, October 16-17 in San Diego, will help attendees develop an appropriate ......
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Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto
From just five blinks of starlight, scientists now know more about the next destination of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. ......
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McMaster’s Former Group Scrubs — then Re-Adds — Soros Financing from Website
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is listed as being a member for eleven years, this week added George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and another Soros-financed group to the list of donors on its website in response to a Breitbart News request on the matter. ......
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You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks
1. Soon you might need reservations to visit a national park — for a good reason. By Scott Martelle in the Los Angeles Times 2. America needs a strategy for the sixteen year-old war in Afghanistan. By the editorial board of USA Today 3. Don’t let social media convince you everyone else’s life is perfect. By Barbara Greenberg in Psychology Today 4. The war on drugs is holding science back. By Naomi Burke-Shyne at the Open Society Foundations 5. Could we use games to fight fake news? By Christine Schmidt at NiemanLab The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. ......
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