| Iran on the Horizon:
Sami al-Faraj is President of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies and an advisor to the Kuwaiti government on preparing for potential nuclear accidents in Iran.
The focus of this panel was a discussion regarding Iran and the issues facing GCC states with respect to Iran's attempts to become a regional hegemon, focusing on how Iran's rise to power is affecting the political and economic policies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait. The event was held February 1, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC. The following is a complete transcript of Barbara Slavin's remarks. The other speakers' remarks will be distributed in SUSRIS later this week.
For SUSRIS readers, this panel has been divided into four sections with each speakers' remarks. To view the entire presentation, as well as the Questions & Answers section, click here.
J.J.'s Notes From Spring Training
Let's see.. 3 straight to wrap up the ALCS..4 consecutive wins in the World Series.. 2 lopsided victories over the local college nines...and now an 8-3 win over the Minnesota Twins to open the Grapefruit League schedule. That's 10 straight ! Dice-K, two solid innings of 2-hit, no run ball. He pitched to the minimum 6 batters, benefit of two double plays. Hideki Okajima followed with a 1-2-3 3rd inning. In all, 7 pitchers to the hill... IP H R ER BB K ERA
D. Matsuzaka 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
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Nanopores That Can Recognize, Separate Proteins and Small Molecules
Nanopores, holes less than one-thousand the width of a human hair, are capable of isolating strands of DNA or therapeutic drugs from a solution, based mostly on the size of the pores. Now, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created nanopores that can recognize and interact with certain molecules, actively controlling their movement across synthetic membranes. Results were published online Feb. 3 in Nature Nanotechnology. .
The things the little girl said
She talked about how he "played barbershop" and cut her hair, and said the sexual abuse happened once, at his house, with his fingers, knuckles and hands. "Actually," the little girl said, "it happened two times." "When was the other time?" the interviewer asked. "I think it was Tuesday." "Okay." "Well, no, last week was Wednesday. I think probably he touched me on that day." "Okay." "It was," the little girl finally said. "I asked my mom. She said it was Wednesday. So I believed her." This interview lasted 42 minutes. The interviewer wrote in her report that the child had given "clear disclosure of sex acts." The little girl, she wrote, should be kept away from her father.
EastNets Service Bureau gains popularity as more than 100 banking and ...
This success is a result of careful research of the regional financial community for an outsourcing platform and the managed services to complement it. EastNets Service Bureau is a comprehensive outsourcing platform established at a secure data centre in a fully-owned subsidiary of the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone, delivering EastNets solutions to banks and financial organisations throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Balkans, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Hazem Mulhim, CEO, EastNets said: 'The high level of service and security that EastNets solutions offer has brought it a growing number of clients. Today we have 100 customers on the EastNets Service Bureau and are contracted to implement our payment and security solutions through the platform for more customers by the end of the year.' Increasingly high standards imposed by the international banking industry, government legislations and recent security threats, have required banks to increase investments in their technology systems and those supporting it.
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Prizes given for plans to ‘tag’ an asteroid
In the student category, the $5,000 first-place prize went to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Engineering student Jonathan Sharma was the principal investigator for a mission design entitled Pharos. NASA and the European Space Agency co-sponsored the competition and will review the mission designs, the Planetary Society said. "We are very happy that this competition inspired innovative designs to solve an important problem that could affect life on Earth — as the dinosaurs learned the hard way," Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, said in an announcement listing the winners. “We hope the winning entries will catalyze the world's space agencies to move ahead with designs and missions to protect Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids and comets." To tag an asteroid
Although Apophis was used as the test case for the contest, the Planetary Society said the mission designs could be adapted to tag any potentially hazardous asteroid.
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We have become a family of chargers. Not the credit card variety, but the cell phone, digital camera battery, ipod kind of chargers. That's why one of my favorite Christmas presents not only helped me organize those electric items, but also made a corner of my kitchen look better. The multi-charging unit, painted white, just like my woodwork, fits neatly in a space on the counter and hides a power strip inside. I plug in the unsightly chargers and all I can see are the tiny plug-ins. At night, we line up our electronic neccessities and know right where they are every morning, charged up and ready to go. It makes me feel so twenty-first century. .
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