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Researchers estimate more accurately the short-term solar irradiance

Researchers predict with minor error rate the short-term Global Solar Irradiance (GSI) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). (via WSJ)

December 19

Biz Tech

New Detection Method To Double Number Of Known Black Holes Within Two Years

Researchers have proposed a new detection method to discover about 10 black holes per year. At this rate, the number of known black holes can double within two years. Black holes are known to absorb all light and matter. They also emit zero radiation which makes it difficult to image and detect them amid a black background in space. Now, researchers proposed a new method that may […]

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Gunmen Kill 4 Officers and Canadian Tourist in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan — Four Jordanian police officers and a Canadian tourist were shot and killed by gunmen in the southern city of Karak on Sunday, according to a statement from the Public Security Department. The violence began when a police patrol was sent to check on reports of a house on fire. When the police arrived on the scene, they were met with a barrage of gunfire […]

Some foreign tourists rescued from Jordanian castle siege, others still held

AMMAN At least 10 people, including foreign tourists, were rescued from a besieged medieval fortress in Jordan on Sunday, but others were still being held by the gunmen who took refuge there after a shooting spree on police, two security source said. A Canadian woman and four police officers were killed, police said. The security sources said the number of tourists remaining in the castle in the […]

Bombardier and the Putin connection – The Globe and Mail

It was a clear and chilly afternoon in Moscow – March 18, 2014 – when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the documents to formally annex the Crimean Peninsula away from Ukraine. Frustrated Western governments soon began rolling out the only response they could agree on to Mr. Putin’s brazen redrawing of Europe’s borders: economic sanctions. Over the next two days, the United States would designate 27 individuals […]

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Christmas comes early for top toymakers

Christmas is coming: an event as exciting for the toymakers hoping to fill stockings with this year’s hottest new playthings as it is for the children who will open them on December 25. Expectations of a bumper festive period have brought early Christmas presents for investors in companies such as Spin Master, Hasbro and Nintendo — manufacturers behind some of the biggest hits — that have all […]

December 17

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Quantifying radiation damage in SAXS experiments

Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental technique that provides low-resolution structural information on macromolecules. (via WSJ)

December 17

Business

Pushed by investor Ackman, Chipotle adds four new directors

By Lisa Baertlein and Svea Herbst-Bayliss Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG.N), under pressure from activist investor Bill Ackman, named four new board members on Friday, paving the way for a reunion of sorts between its chief executive and a former top executive at McDonald’s, which once owned the burrito chain. Matthew Paull, a former McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) chief financial officer, will join the Chipotle board. Media executives […]

December 17

10 things to do today: Visit Al Maryah Island's Winter Wonderland, head to a craft market and more

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for December 16, 2016, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Festive fun Visit Al Maryah Island for the Winter Wonderland, featuring cosy cottages hosting activities including bauble-decorating, cracker-making and gingerbread-house-decorating. Plus there’s a skating rink and snow park, and live performances of […]

December 16

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Feature: Is It Possible to Make a Less Allergenic Peanut?

Allergic reactions to peanuts cause around 500 hospitalizations and even some deaths in the United States each year. Food that contains trace amounts, because it was produced with factory equipment or kitchen tools that came into contact with peanuts, can prove fatal for allergic individuals who consume it unsuspectingly. Accidentally ingesting as little as a third of a single peanut — about 70 milligrams — can send […]

December 16

Examining the origins of Arabic ahead of Arabic Language Day

To understand Arabs and their culture, one must first understand their language, but with many conflicting theories about its origins, this is no easy task. To celebrate a language used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, December 18 is the designated UN Arabic Language Day. The day was established by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2010 to “celebrate multilingualism […]

December 16

Markets

Rouble extends gains as top EM performer

Russia’s rouble has cemented its position as the best-performing currency of the past three months, enjoying the benefits of a strong oil price at a time when the US appears to be tilting towards a more accommodating relationship with Vladimir Putin. A 2.3 per cent rise in the rouble’s value against the dollar on Monday was followed by a further half per cent gain during Tuesday trading. […]

December 13

Panama Papers revelations have already delivered… – Mississauga

International heads of state named on the rolls of clandestine companies in tax havens. Canada’s big banks facilitating tax avoidance through thousands of offshore enterprises. Strawmen fronting businesses to mask the identities of the real owners. After a year-long investigation into 11.5 million leaked tax haven documents, the Panama Papers were finally made public last April — and they landed like a bomb. […]

December 13

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Entering Cage, Gold Medalist Kayla Harrison Helps a Show Become a Sport

Photo Kayla Harrison plans to take up mixed martial arts in the World Series of Fighting, and hopes “to see it go more toward the professional route.” Credit Earl Wilson/The New York Times Only one American has ever won an Olympic gold medal in judo: Kayla Harrison. And she has won two, in London in 2012 and in Rio this year. Yet despite her achievements, Harrison is […]

December 13

The Gabriel Yared story from humble beginnings to a Hollywood ending

Gabriel Yared begins every day the same way. He gets up, and reaches for a Bach score, burying his head in the baroque master’s music. “Why do I do this? I put a ceiling of perfection and beauty over my day, and every day is the same to me – trying to reach beauty,” says the celebrated French-Lebanese film composer, who was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement […]

Justin Bieber confirmed to play Dubai in 2017

It is official – Justin Bieber is coming to Dubai next year. After a week of rumours and uncertainty, concert promoters 117Live confirmed they will bring the 22-year-old Canadian pop star to Dubai’s Autism Rock Arena on May 6. Fans can preregister now for tickets at www.117live.com, and the date they will go on sale will be announced soon. Travel and hotel packages will also be announced […]

Companies

UAE's National Bonds launches prestige wealth management program for high networth individuals and investors

11 December 2016 Dubai-UAE – National Bonds Corporation (National Bonds), the leading sharia-compliant savings and investments company in the UAE, has launched its Prestige wealth management program for the benefit of high net-worth customers that total more than 11,000 of the company’s 817,000 client base. National Bonds announced the program at a special gala dinner at the Ritz Carlton in Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC). Attended by guest […]

Stephan Moccio, a man of two musical worlds, to perform in Abu Dhabi

Even in today’s increasingly globalised, genre-melding world of music, many fans remain remarkably territorial – none more so than the stereotypically snobby classical connoisseurs. Yet different genres more in common that you might think, and a series of concerts, hosted as part of the Abu Dhabi Classics, aims to explore and expose the relationship between classical and pop music, with the help of a man who has […]

Panama Papers revelations have already delivered results – Toronto Star

More than ever before, these articles pulled the curtain back on how an estimated $100 billion in undeclared money has been siphoned from Canada into offshore tax havens. Since the first investigations were published, the federal government has invested almost $500 million in the Canada Revenue Agency aimed at tougher tax enforcement, launched investigations into 85 Canadians identified in the Panama Papers and compelled banks to divulge […]

After Aleppo, Syria's Assad still far from regaining his state

By Angus McDowall | BEIRUT BEIRUT When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The expected fall of Aleppo would mean rebels have almost no chance of ousting Assad, but their revolt has […]

Middle East

More focus needed on talent rather than grades, education researchers say

DUBAI // Talent should be nurtured and given a greater value than grades achieved in higher education, experts say. “Talent is often overlooked by outdated grading rubrics, innovation pushed aside by memorisation exercises, and students are often not given the time to find out what they truly love to do,” said assistant professor Dr Franziska Apprich, of the Canadian University Dubai. “Not every A-plus student will be […]

Investing

Officials Admit Radioactive Fish Off U.S. West Coast Have "Disturbing Fingerprint Of Fukushima"

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, The entire Pacific Coast of the United States, Canada and Mexico has been contaminated with radioactive particles from Fukushima. And finally, it is being officially acknowledged. This is really happening… It is a stark reminder that the effects from Fukushima radiation continually spilling into the ocean have not been abated. The site continues to leak highly toxic radioactive material to this […]

10 things to do today: Register your kids for the ZSC Academy Tennis Camp, hit the ground running as StartYas, and more

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for December 11, 2016, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Kids’ camp Register your children, ages 7 to 18, for the ZSC Academy Tennis Camp, led by highly qualified coaches. Intermediate- and higher-level players can keep on top of their game this […]