The Independent: Its detractors may end up dubbing it “Dementiaville”, but Switzerland is brushing aside a debate raging among geriatric-care experts with plans to build a mock-1950s village catering exclusively for elderly sufferers of Alzheimer’s and other debilitating mental illnesses. The newly approved 20 million EUR housing project is to be built next to the […]
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WorldCrunch: On the sixth floor of the Bon Génie, sitting opposite the huge windows with a view on the rooftops of Molard Square in Geneva, it’s easy to imagine you’re in an elegant bar in the 1950s. You even have a ciggy dangling from the corner of your mouth – because smoking is allowed up
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A man who, after graduating from college, was unable to find a job started his own business writing other people’s college papers. His primary marketable skill is that he can write fast. He regularly writes 30+ pages of college level writing every single day. And yes, he knows that this is cheating. How does it
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Trunk Shows, also known as party businesses, the traditional in-home shopping parties for friends and family, are about to take a giant leap forward thanks to a revolutionary e-commerce system and online marketplace that connects fashion designers from all over the world with women who want to start their own business. The Hybrid Her technology
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Fox Business: If you want to start a business as an image consultant, you need to have an understanding of color basics, textiles and clothing silhouettes. Reed, who has a master’s degree in theater make-up and costume design, suggests taking courses in color theory and retail merchandising to sharpen your skills. She started out in
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and it meets in a mall! The Bend Bulletin: has more There are no professors in Virginia Tech’s largest classroom, only a sea of computers and red plastic cups. In the Math Emporium, the computer is king, and instructors are reduced to roving guides. Lessons are self-paced, and help is delivered “on demand†in a
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NY Times: On the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, two Italian hackers have been searching for bugs — not the island’s many beetle varieties, but secret flaws in computer code that governments pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn about and exploit. The hackers, Luigi Auriemma, 32, and Donato Ferrante, 28, sell technical details
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Associated Press: The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can “thin” a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand. The thinner is part of a new generation of machines that target the last frontier of agricultural mechanization — fruits and vegetables destined
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Wamda: Lebanese entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir will now be able to bring snap-together electronics toys littleBits to a wider audience, thanks to a new round of $3.65 million in Series A funding from U.S. venture capital firms. As Business Insider reports, the round was led by tech-focused Silicon Valley-based VC True Ventures, with Kholsa Ventures, O’Reilly
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Business opportunity can be described as a packaged business investment or sales of any service, product or equipment that will make the purchaser- licensee to be able to start a business. Basically, the business opportunity seller declares that it will assist the buyer to find a suitable site or provide avail the products to the
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