Calgary bookstores continue to help flood victims

The Calgary bookstore Pages on Kensington is helping customers replace books they lost, while publishers have offered discounts to the store.

By Molly Driscoll,?Staff Writer / August 1, 2013

Calgary residents shovel debris after flooding in the area.

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A bookstore in Calgary is helping residents replace books that were lost in the flooding experienced by the city this past June.

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The bookstore Pages on Kensington, which did not suffer damage, started an initiative in June in which it offered to sell books to customers at cost. In addition, the store made accounts for customers who lost books in the flooding to allow others to make donations. Customers were able to e-mail the store with titles they lost for Pages staff to try to locate and the store did not charging for shipping.

The store set a deadline of July 9 originally, but extended it to July 31, according to the store's Twitter account.

?I extended the deadline because after spending two weeks with the emergency clean-up of my parents? house I knew that people weren?t ready to sit down and think clearly about what they had lost, when they were still ripping out drywall,? Pages owner Simone Lee told the website Quill and Quire in mid-July.

Several publishers, including Anansi/Groundwood, Simon & Schuster, and others offered to help Pages on Kensington with the plan, selling books to the store at discounted prices. Some, like the University of Alberta Press and Coach House Books, gave the store free copies, while Penguin Random House Canada sold books at a 50 percent discount.

Other indie stores stepped forward to help bookstores affected in Calgary, including Galiano Island Books of Galiano Island and Ella Minnow Children?s Bookstore of Toronto, which split its sales for one day with damaged Calgary bookstore Owl?s Nest. Owl?s Nest later announced it would be assisting bookstore Pixie Hollow Books, where the entire inventory was wiped out. Owl's Nest donated funds received from other bookstores as well half of their own earnings for one day to Pixie Hollow.

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Texas withdraws subpoena for tweets on new abortion law

By Marice Richter

DALLAS (Reuters) - The Texas Department of Public Safety said on Thursday it had withdrawn a subpoena for information from Twitter regarding two tweets about conservative Texas lawmakers, including Governor Rick Perry, and the passage of restrictive abortion regulations.

The department had sought information, documents and records related to the Twitter accounts of Denise Romano of Austin and Michael Mayer of New York in an investigation into their tweets between July 17 and 19, the day before and after Perry signed the abortion bill into law.

Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger confirmed in an email that the subpoena had been withdrawn and said the department "will continue to investigate potential threats against public officials."

The tweets were directed at Perry and other Texas lawmakers in response to the ban on abortions in the state after 20 weeks of pregnancy and to new regulations on abortion providers.

One of the tweets on July 18 posted by Romano said, "Should we execute Perry by lethal injection or stoning for all he's killed." That post was retweeted by Mayer.

Both Mayer and Romano received support from their followers on Twitter, who expressed dismay that social media comments could be construed as a threat.

"We are pleased," said Romano's attorney Michelle Kostun, who added that the matter concerning her client is closed.

"We commend Twitter on its commitment to protecting user information and content," she added.

Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser said the social media outlet would not "confirm or comment" on the subpoena.

(Editing by Brendan O'Brien and Jackie Frank)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-withdraws-subpoena-tweets-abortion-law-015035078.html

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Baylor College of Medicine receives sizable grant from Komen for cancer research

Baylor researchers received nearly $1 million in grant funding to advance breast cancer research.

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston received $960,000 from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to advance breast cancer research.

Dr. Sao Jiralerspong, assistant professor in the Lester and Sue Breast Center at BCM, was awarded a $450,000 grant to explore the lab potential of metformin, a diabetes drug, to reduce the threat that ductal carcinoma in situ will spread and develop into a more invasive type of cancer.

Dr. Melissa Bondy, professor of pediatrics in hematology and oncology, received $225,000 in funding to test a new method for assessing breast cancer risk using copy number variation, or structural changes in the genome that result in deletion of genes, deletion of parts of them or extra copies of them.

Bondy will look at classifying risk into multiple groups.

Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, the C.C. Bell Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at BCM, received $225,000 to study the function of a tumor-suppressing gene in mammary gland development and breast cancer.

Dr. Bert O'Malley, professor and chair of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, was awarded $62,500 to study a particular protein's potential role in the progression of ductal carcinoma in situ from a non-invasive to invasive cancer.

Bayan Raji covers health care for the Houston Business Journal. For her breaking stories and industry insights, follow her on Twitter.

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Looks like Verizon's launch date for the HTC One has been bumped back to August 15th.

Looks like Verizon's launch date for the HTC One has been bumped back to August 15th. The device, originally slated for launch tomorrow, has already been available from other U.S. carriers for some time. [DroidLife via DroidForums]

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Oh, Snap: NeNe Leakes Had A Wedding She Didn?t Bother To Pay For

NeNe Leakes was so hype over her recent wedding redux to Gregg Leakes last month, having a lavish ceremony in Atlanta that she posted photos from all over the Internet, blah blah. The whole thing was filmed for TV, over 400 guests were in attendance and there was plenty of fun to be had for all. The problem? Uh, NeNe didn?t pay for any of this? and now she?s being sued by her wedding planner.

From TMZ:

The woman going after Leakes is Tiffany Cook ? who claims NeNe hired Dream Design Weddings to coordinate the party for her marriage to Gregg Leakes on June 22, 2013 ? a wedding that will featured on a Bravo TV special in September.

In her suit, filed in Georgia, Cook claims Leakes promised to pay her 15% of the entire wedding budget PLUS fees design and execution of the wedding PLUS travel expenses to the event.

In total, Cook claims NeNe?s budget for the wedding was $1.8 MILLION!!!!!!!!! And Cook claims she was due $270k (the 15%) PLUS another $889,900 (design fees) PLUS $1,750 (4 coach tickets from Florida to Georgia).

Cook claims NeNe did fork over the initial down payment ($18,750) ? but she hasn?t seen a penny since ? and is suing for the remaining $1,142,900 balance ? PLUS damages.

In total, Cook ? who also put together Kordell Stewart?s wedding to Porsha ? wants more than $2.5 MILLION for her troubles.

Sounds like a hot mess. Also, how the hell is she due another nearly million dollars for design fees if the entire wedding budget was $1.8 million? Like, girl, no. Something tells me there?s some lying going on here. If you didn?t receive full payment for all of your services, fair enough. But to try and tack on all this other money ? $2.5 million in total, which is almost a million MORE than the ENTIRE WEDDING BUDGET ? then you need to get to steppin?.

July 31, 2013 at 8:00 am by Jennifer

Source: http://www.evilbeetgossip.com/2013/07/31/oh-snap-nene-leakes-had-a-wedding-she-didnt-bother-to-pay-for/

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South Africa faces challenge of curbing inflation: Marcus

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African Reserve Bank is concerned about keeping inflation within its 3-6 percent target band and about pricey labour deals fanning inflationary pressure in Africa's largest economy, Governor Gill Marcus said on Wednesday.

Marcus also said reducing chronic unemployment was one of the country's most pressing policy objectives and South Africa needed to diversify beyond the mining sector that has traditionally accounted for about 4-6 percent of the economy.

Government data a day earlier showed unemployment was at 25.6 percent in the second quarter and about 4.7 million South African job seekers were without work, the highest figure in the survey's five-year history.

Marcus said South Africa has faced a jobs crisis for the better part of three decades and its effects would be around for years, partly because of structural challenges.

Labour strife in mining over the past year has slowed production of minerals for export and been a drag on growth. Mining houses have reached wage deals well above the 6 percent inflation rate to bring calm to the troubled sector.

Marcus said labour regulations have not lived up to expectations, with collective bargaining favouring large firms, at the expense of small and medium-sized firms that provide most jobs.

South Africa's labour laws have been ranked as some of the most restrictive in the world, making labour less competitive than other emerging markets.

The unemployment rate has been stuck at around 22-25 percent for more than a decade and is one of the biggest headaches for President Jacob Zuma's ruling African National Congress as the country heads into elections next year.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africas-marcus-says-reducing-unemployment-job-no-073215579.html

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Farley leaves AACo - Agriculture - Agribusiness - General News ...

THE boss of Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) ? the country?s biggest corporate beef producer - has exited the position.

AACo this morning revealed current chief executive David Farley would cease employment with the company.

But in its announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange it offered little explanation as to the reason for his departure.

?David has done a very good job and we thank him for his considerable contribution to the company,? AACo chairman Donald McGauchie said in the statement.

A past boss of Colly Cotton in Australia and Calcot in the United States, Mr Farley had been chief executive of AACo since December 2009.

Mr McGauchie said Mr Farley?s skills had been essential to bring the company to where it was today but indicated the next CEO would require ?a different skill set? to lead its next stage of growth.

Chief financial officer Craig White has been appointed interim CEO while the company conducts an executive search that it says will be internal and external.

Mr White, the former CFO at Billabong International and a former financial director with Coca-Cola, has only been with AACo since April.

Construction of one of the largest abattoirs in northern Australia at Livingstone, south of Darwin, has reportedly caused some friction within the company.

Mr Farley announced in April this year AACo would pay for the $85 million abattoir being built near Darwin off its own balance sheet.

"AACo has had numerous discussions with potential joint-venture partners, but... AACo will only consider a joint venture if the partner brought strategic value to the project, such as logistics or distribution capability, on terms acceptable to AACo," Mr Farley said in a statement.

The lengthy staged process of building the abattoir is said to have frustrated some board members.

AACo has recently been selling some of its Queensland properties, in a move the company said is part of its strategy to refocus capital in Northern Australia, after announcing its March 2013 quarter profits were negatively affected by the cattle price slump.

The properties include Brighton Downs, a 420,000 hectare cattle station near Winton, and Adelong, a 5200ha dryland farming and grazing property at Comet.

While the announcement of a disappointing first-quarter earnings result in May cast a cloud over the company, attributable to a $43.2 million revaluation of its herd, AACo's share price performed strongly in the last week of June, increasing from $1.10 to close at $1.17. Trading was strong with the second highest weekly volume recorded in the last 12 months.

The share price then hovered between $1.18 and $1.27 through July.

The company was rebounding from close to a 12-month low after falling sharply from a high of $1.41 in February. Its share price this morning (July 31) sat at $1.20, little changed from recent days.

More to come.

Source: http://www.theland.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/farley-leaves-aaco/2666169.aspx

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