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DB&T's Callahan promoted to Dubuque market president
Dubuque Bank and Trust announces that William H. “Bill” Callahan has been promoted to the newly-created position of Dubuque market president.
thonline.com (57 minutes ago)
Mary Wigman: a dance pioneer with an awkward past
Reading on mobile? Click here to view. As the debate gathers around the current imbalance between male and female choreographers, the names of pioneering women such as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bronislava Nijinska are regularly invoked to recall a golden age of female creativity and power. These women, all...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor
Virginia's next lieutenant governor could well be a man who has compared gay people to paedophiles and likened Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, after state Republican Party officials selected Tea Party favourite EW Jackson as its nominee. Jackson, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Senate spot in 2012,...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Five Decades Of Asset Bubbles: Which One Is Next?
Or maybe this is a trick question, and the answer for the "New Normal", when all central banks are coordinating on reflating the biggest asset bubble of all time, is "all of them"... And some thoughts on the chart above from Obermeyer Asset Management: The above chart shows that once every ten years or so, some...
zerohedge.com (1 hour ago)
House IRS watchdog asks targeted groups to help blow the whistle
Paul Bedard The House Ways and Means Committee, which has been probing the IRS-Tea Party scandal that's reached well into the White House, is calling on targeted groups to help blow the whistle on the tax agency's political witch hunt during President Obama's reelection campaign. Chairman Dave Camp has just created...
washingtonexaminer.com (2 hours ago)
Paint it red: artists find new life in west Cumbria's disused iron ore mine
In 2008, after nearly 200 years of toil, Florence Mine in Egremont, Cumbria, the last deep iron ore mine in western Europe, closed. Its 'Red Men' – the name given to the miners as they always were always coated in the ore's fine red dust – hung up their pickaxes. But just five years later the mine is springing back...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Buzzy Takes the Sting Out of Shots
Physician, pain researcher and mother of three invents a pain relief device that created some buzz at the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire. Continue reading →
discovery.com (2 hours ago)
3 Robots That Want To Save Your Life
Meet the machines that might rescue you after a future disaster. Thanks to their mechanical strength and ability to operate in conditions too dangerous for humans, robots are poised to become the rescuers of the future. Here are three promising designs that could soon work alongside first responders to save lives...
popsci.com (2 hours ago)
Giorgio Moroder: Back to the Future
Armed with an array of fabulous machines and a superhuman sense of groove, producer Giorgio Moroder created some of dance, pop, and film's most forward-thinking, influential music-before a cultural sea-change sapped his powers...
spin.com (2 hours ago)
How can Sergio García explain his comments about Tiger Woods? | Ewan Murray
The problem for Sergio García, or at least one of them as he attempts to avert professional suicide, is the lack of an obvious defence for the phrase he used in the context of Tiger Woods at a European Tour dinner. "Fried" and "chicken" are not words routinely associated with jibes – good-humoured or otherwise –...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog
The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing. The report from the Financial Intelligence Authority showed the agency received six...
foxnews.com (3 hours ago)
Nicolas Winding Refn says he made Only God Forgives 'like a pornographer'
Two sounds provided the keynote of the first screening of Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Drive: the screams of characters being subjected to grotesque acts of dismemberment and torture, and the slap of seats springing upright as members of the press walked out of the grandest cinema at the Cannes film festival....
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Mahamadou Lamine Sagna: France-Afrique: Breaking the Ties
The French army's recent intervention in Mali has sparked fresh debate about the relationship between France and Africa. Some detractors passionately advocate for the abandonment of the long-established France-Afrique1 relations, while others feel that preserving these ties is in Africa's best interest. But exactly...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
The great European Cup teams: Ajax 1971-73 | Jonathan Wilson
It's difficult now, given the city's reputation for liberalism and excess to imagine Amsterdam in the years following the second world war. It was a dull, staid place where, as Albert Camus wrote in the Fall, published in 1955, "for centuries, pipe smokers have been watching the same rain falling on the same canal"....
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Drew Hasselback: Bill C-60 introduces more uncertainty on foreign takeovers
Ottawa was supposed to have cleared the air on takeovers by state-owned enterprises. Instead, it looks like it's created more opportunities for review
financialpost.com (3 hours ago)
Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives
A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit...
foxnews.com (4 hours ago)
Face Messaging the New SMS
University of Cambridge scientists have created a program that digitizes your face, gives it emotion and reads off your texts. WSJ’s Linda Freund introduces us to Zoe.
wsj.com (4 hours ago)
This Subway Map Is Not an Image, Just Pure Code
This version of London's iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network-but in fact it is created entirely from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. That's a pretty insane feat. Its creator, freelance web developer John Galantini, has recreated every symbol, line, circle and piece of text using HTML...
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
Beautiful Games: the science of sport
Using the periodic table as a template, London-based artist Johnny Joannou has created these neatly-structured infographics to depict renown sporting tournaments and teamsJonny Weeks
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives
It may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok. It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Britvic to close two factories and warehouse with loss of up to 400 jobs
Up to 400 jobs at Britvic in the UK and Ireland are under threat, after the maker of Robinsons squash and R White's lemonade said it would close two factories and a warehouse. The company, which employs some 3,300 people, is reducing its staff by up to 15% as part of an attempt to cut annual costs by £30m over the...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
All The Meteorites That Have Been Seen Falling to Earth Since 2500 BC
Since 2005 BC over 35,000 meteorites are known to have hit the Earth-but just 1,107 have actually been seen falling. This visualization shows how they pockmarked our planet over time. Created by Carlo Zapponi, the animated visualization is based on data from the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society....
gizmodo.com (6 hours ago)
Obama announces his election commission team
President Barack Obama on Tuesday filled out his Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which was created to improve election systems in the United States. "As I said in my State of the Union Address, when any American, no matter where they live or what their party, is denied that right [to vote] simply...
yahoo.com (6 hours ago)
Exhibitors needed for garden fair benefit
Sponsors and exhibitors are sought for an upcoming Garden Fair to benefit, "Planting Hope in Delaware," which created a garden at the Department of Health and Social Services' Herman Holloway campus on U.S. 13 near New Castle.
delawareonline.com (6 hours ago)
Afghan president Hamid Karzai hands India weapons 'wish list'
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, today said he had handed a “wish list” to India seeking greater military and civilian support to fill the vacuum created by the withdrawal of Western next year – an undertaking that is likely to spark anxiety in neighbouring Pakistan.
independent.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Big banks are still gaming the state, but who's got the courage to say it? | Richard Paton
For four and a half years our leaders have beheld the threat posed by our handful of enormous banks and averted their eyes. Among politicians, this has fuelled strange forms of denial. Among the public, it has created a deepening cynicism that what we sense to be true – these banks are holding us all hostage – can't...
guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Thinking Digital gets underway for 2013
Thinking Digital is a placemark in the calendar for many working in the technology and creative sectors and has helped put the north east on the map for innovative digital activity. Yesterday was taken up with masterclasses for delegates but today the formal conference gets underway. During the next two days,...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Government will 'stick to its plans' when IMF delivers verdict on economy
Downing Street will launch a staunch defence of the government's economic strategy and says it will stick to its plans when the International Monetary Fund publishes the findings of its annual survey of the British economy on Wednesday. Treasury officials have gone to great lengths to prepare a response after...
guardian.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Use right parchment paper to make these stuffed apricots
Not all parchment paper is created equal. Parchment paper has long been employed for the classic French "en papillote" style of roasting meats and vegetables; it literally means in parchment. It's perhaps more commonly used as a liner for cakes, cook...
readingeagle.com (11 hours ago)
2 school boards to see races
While most school boards immediately will not be impacted by Tuesday's primary election results, the Jersey Shore Area School Board will see Loren Koch take a seat at the board within the month after winning the newly created Region 3 seat during a...
sungazette.com (11 hours ago)
