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Usiminas unveils candidates for board amid Nippon-Ternium rift

2015-03-20 08:32:53| Steel - Topix.net

Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA, Brazil's largest listed flat steel producer, unveiled late on Wednesday a list of candidates for its board for an April 6 vote, as a rift between the company's two largest shareholders shows no signs of abating. In a securities filing, the company known as Usiminas said Chairman Paulo Penido Marques is one of the candidates.

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Typhoon adds urgency climate talks as rift opens on pollution

2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: A typhoon that forced at least 900,000 people to evacuate their homes in the Philippines highlighted the stakes for envoys at United Nations climate talks as a rift opened over how to fight global warming. The storm named Hagupit was the third of its kind to strike the island nation in as many years during the annual round of UN talks aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Last years Typhoon Haiyan killed 6,300 people. Developing countries fear storms like Hagupit will become more intense...

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Pence's decision exposes rift on pre-K

2014-10-18 15:34:23| Biotech - Topix.net

Pence's decision exposes rift on pre-K Major supporters of early childhood education take issue with decision not to pursue $80M grant Check out this story on thestarpress.com: http://indy.st/1tAp4Py Indiana Governor Mike Pence with pre-school student Edgar Gomez at Shepherd Community Center, 4107 E. Washington Street on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Pence was there to push his pre-school pilot program.

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Will Samsungs Gear VR trigger the virtual reality revolution before Oculus Rift?

2014-09-04 20:45:57| Extremetech

Out of all the products that Samsung unveiled yesterday, it was the Gear VR -- not the Note 4 or Note Edge -- that intrigued me the most. At first I was a little bit skeptical, but as I started to interpret some hands-on impressions, and learn about Oculus VR's extensive involvement with the Gear VR, the tingling started to swell. Don't forget that Samsung sold over 10 million Note 3 phablets, and will probably sell even more of the Note 4. If the Gear VR is priced appropriately, we are probably looking at the first real consumer-grade, mass-market virtual reality device.

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