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Graphene, a recently discovered wonder material, is increasingly sought after for its superior electrical, thermal, optical and mechanical properties. It is used in the manufacture of optoelectronic devices such as detectors, sensors and solar cells. It is made up of one-atom-thick, honeycomb-like structure of carbon atoms. A significant challenge faced by scientists is the fabrication of large-area graphene sheets for devices. Finding a ‘green’ source for the carbon atoms is another hurdle. Indian researchers have now developed a new method to fabricate graphene sheets from camphor — a readily available ingredient often used in religious rituals. “Camphor is a plant...

The intent of this article is to reveal the heart of today’s LEFT, and how they truly consider “Rules for Radicals” to be their bible. .....the most famous (infamous) of Alinsky’s quotes with commentary inserted. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)” Think “Brett Kavanaugh” “Control healthcare and you control the people” ~ Saul Alinsky Obama comes to mind, doesn’t he? Bernie Sanders...

Whether you’re starting your career path or an experienced professional, you can learn, grow and perform rewarding work in St. Croix County, WI and surrounding areas. Leading staffing firm Staff Management | SMX announced that while construction crews are working on the infrastructure, it is looking to hire nearly 500 positions over the next 12 to 18 months for the new Phillips-Medisize manufacturing facility in the St. Croix Meadows development in Hudson, WI. Phillips-Medisize is an end-to-end provider of innovation, development and manufacturing solutions serving pharmaceutical, diagnostic, medical device and other FDA-regulated product customers. The company first announced the groundbreaking...

A US Navy research vessel sailed into Taiwan waters at the end of August, giving further substance to the defense cooperation between the two unofficial allies, on top of the enactment of the Taiwan Travel Act and the upcoming sale of F-16 fighter jets. (Please read full article, at the link)

A New Jersey-based IT services firm announced Tuesday it plans to hire hundreds of employees at its new “Innovation Center” in downtown Hartford co-working space Upward Hartford. GalaxE.Solutions Inc., which mainly provides its platform to insurance companies and healthcare providers, said it debuted Sunday at The Stilts Building, 20 Church St., with about 25 employees. Tim Bryan, chief executive of GalaxE, told Hartford Business Journal his firm plans to hire “several hundred” more workers in the coming years. Headquartered in Somerset, N.J., the firm may keep a presence at Upward Hartford long term or grow its operation in another location...

Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, will be expelled from the Conservative Party after voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit. The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most bizarre turns in the three-year Brexit crisis that has gripped a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability. Soames was one of 21 Conservative lawmakers who rebelled, including Ken Clarke, 79, the longest continuously sitting British lawmaker in the House of Commons, and former finance minister Philip Hammond. All are to be expelled.

James Comey immediately shared details from a post-election briefing for then-President-elect Donald Trump with the FBI’s Russia team, according to the recently released inspector general's report on the former bureau director’s actions -- in the latest indication that traditional transition briefings were used to update the incoming president and his team, as well as gather intelligence for the ongoing FBI investigation. The long-awaited report from Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz on Thursday said Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining his memos documenting private discussions with the president. The report also revealed new details about the FBI director’s...

PRINCETON, Ind. - If you don’t mind relocating, Toyota is looking to hire thousands of workers in Indiana and Alabama, according to Fox Business. There are multiple Toyota manufacturing plants hiring in the area, including at an engine plant and joint manufacturing plant. Millie Marshall, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Princeton, Indiana, told Fox Business that the company recently had a $600 million expansion and needs more people. “It’s important that, not only we make the investment here but that we hire the people within the communities where we build and sell,” she said. For the Princeton location, Toyota...

The Bath shipyard has contracts to build 11 new DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for the Navy over the next eight years. Bath Iron Works is known for building Navy warships from the ground up, but if it wants to stay in business it has to do the same to its workforce. The shipyard is in the midst of a massive hiring push to finish a backlog of ship work and reinforce its army of mechanics, many of whom are nearing retirement age. With Maine’s historically low 3 percent unemployment rate and a statewide skilled labor shortage, BIW can’t afford to...

"College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity around Us” I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of political candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBooks, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Hundreds of new jobs and an investment into an old grocery store is expected to bring a huge economic impact to Columbus, according to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Global CallCenter Solutions, a customer service company new to Columbus, is expected to revitalize the area near it’s location off Buena Vista Road. The company is on it’s way to hiring 600 employees. “I think we will be looking at hiring almost every week," said Executive Vice President Megha Heightman. "So, it’s going to be an ongoing process so let’s see about two ,three ,four years to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to help finance new infrastructure in Mongolia on a one-day visit this week, as the landlocked country looks to reduce its reliance on Beijing. Mongolia sits in a strategically important place between Russia and China, and its economy has been growing largely from mineral exports to its giant neighbour China. But the Mongolian authorities have been looking for ways to export more to other Asian countries, and the Russian president's visit on Tuesday was seen as a key opportunity to strengthen ties. "Russia will never forget Mongolia's help and support when Russia was fighting...

An off-duty Indiana police officer is being praised for his "quick thinking and heroic actions" after he stopped a shooter inside a Walmart while out shopping with his family. The officer, a member of the East Chicago Police Department, was shopping at a Walmart in Hobart with his wife and kids on Sunday when a shooter inside began firing, according to police.

Most of the new employees will work in customer service taking calls, but the company also will hire for new management positions, such as account manager, team manager and trainer. LAKELAND — Sykes Enterprises Inc. has new jobs for several hundred people with pleasant personalities who know how to handle a phone. Tampa-based Sykes will be hiring for those positions at its Lakeland call center through the end of the year, according to Kate Thurgood, senior site director supervising the local office. Sykes initiated the hiring boom after adding two new accounts to the Lakeland call center in addition to...

During an interview with RJ Eskow on "The Zero Hour," writer and host of the new "Useful Idiots" podcast Matt Taibbi warned that Donald Trump could very well win in 2020, pointing out that a large portion of people who voted for him in 2016 said they did not "approve" of him. "Trump ended up doing extremely well with voters who considered both choices unfavorable. Roughly one in five registered voters in November 2016 disapproved of both Clinton and Trump. And Trump won those voters by nearly a two-to-one margin. So people who disapproved of Donald Trump were one of...

Vietnam will strictly define local goods to prevent tariff circumvention by Chinese firms amidst the U.S.-China trade war. -- The Ministry of Industry and Trade is drafting a policy that will define a product as "made in Vietnam" if it has a domestic manufacturing added value of 30 percent of its price. Vietnam has not had a clear standard on what locally made goods is, the ministry said last month. The new policy will stop local manufacturers setting their own standards on using the "made in Vietnam" label for their products. Products made with imported material with slight changes will...

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The primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas.” ~Pope Saint Pius X The above quote and those following are taken from the outstanding document, Notre Charge Apostolique, or Our Apostolic Mandate which Pope Saint Pius X issued to the French episcopate on August 25, 1910 to refute the errors of a pseudo-Catholic French political movement known as “The Sillon”. A syncretist mass political movement started by French Catholics, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Sillon soon adopted socialist/humanistic tones and goals. Pius X recognized the dangers inherent in such a movement, which threatened to...

Sen. Mike Lee received a visa to travel to Russia this week, according to his spokesman, after the Kremlin denied visas to several of his colleagues. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, both members of the Foreign Relations Committee, said last week the Russian government refused to grant them visas. A spokesman for Lee said the Utah Republican will visit Russia Sept. 5-8 and meet with government officials and members of the business community, including outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. Lee plans to discuss “trade and military relations [and] religious...

A married father-of-two from South Carolina who founded one of the nation's largest conversion therapy programs has come out as gay and strongly denounced the widely discredited practice. McKrae Game, 51, the former leader of Hope for Wholeness, came out of the closet in June, nearly two years after he was fired from the faith-based conversion therapy ministry. He is now trying to come to terms with the harm he inflicted on LGBTQ people when he was advocating for religious efforts to change a person's sexuality.