Russia licenses faith healers

Mikhail Fadkin claims he can cure a long list of disorders — pancreatitis, bronchitis, digestive problems, even infertility — by using his hands to manipulate what he describes as a person's "bio-energy field."

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Microsoft Frees Up Virtualization Tech

Software developers will no longer need to license Microsoft Corp.'s technology for allowing one computer to run multiple operating systems simultaneously.

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Microsoft to License 3-D Image Technology

Microsoft Corp. plans to license a technology for manipulating three-dimensional images as part of the company's efforts to make more money from its in-house research and development.

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Back in June, we wrote about how cab drivers in Tampa Bay were trying to get the city council to outlaw new competitors in the form of free ad-supported transportation from some owners of electric vehicles.

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The St. Petersburg City Council was trying to update its ordinances and wound up upsetting local fortune tellers and mystics.

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We were a little startled to see Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a new law yesterday, that will require tattoo artists and people who preform body piercings to be licensed by the state. (!!!) Ummm...

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Maryland officials are preparing to open bids for slots licenses today. Are they giddy? Are they joyful? No. They're terrified that somebody who bids might just back out later.

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Which brings us to step two: while making one DVD pressing of 4,999 copies, I will place promotional files of the entire film - at all resolutions, including broadcast-quality, HD, and film-quality image sequences - online at archive.org and as many mirror hosts as volunteer to s …

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Prosecutors are withholding three discs showing Caylee Anthony's remains from the defense team, WESH 2 News confirmed.

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Excerpt: Casey Anthony's defense attorney wants a judge to appoint someone to oversee any law-enforcement questioning of a private investigator who worked on the case.

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Finally. The major record labels are coming around to voluntary collective licensing, as we've been urging (and predicting) since 2003. Last week, TechDirt posted a set of leaked slides suggesting that Warner Music Group has opened a discussion with several major U.S.

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Thwaites, the Blackburn-based brewery which owns 400 pubs, has won a victory which will bring cheer to licensees, but may cause consternation for those who live near busy pubs that open well into the night.

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MLB loses its argument

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The cliché that DRM stands for "doesn't really matter" holds true, so branding tracks as "MP3" is a bit too much insider for the mass consumer market. It's like wireless operators branding their content services "BREW downloads" based on the technology used to deliver it.

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It's the kind of loophole the sex industry must have been dreaming of: in 2003, when the Licensing Act came into force, lapdancing clubs could suddenly be opened as easily as a karaoke bar or a Starbucks. Previously they needed a special nudity licence.

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In his latest note to investors, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter commented on Ubisoft's recently-announced acquisition of the Tom Clancy name, estimating "the purchase price was approximately €60 million ($94 million)," though Ubisoft declined to confirm exactly how mu …

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A watchdog group is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for abruptly halting a public meeting last week after problems arose with Progress Energy's application for a new reactor in North Carolina -- and for continuing the discussion with company officials in private.

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TARRYTOWN -Riverkeeper and a group of nuclear watchdogs want federal regulators to suspend license renewal reviews of Indian Point and three other plants in the Northeast until an independent investigation examines what the advocates say is a "cut-and-paste" approval process.

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WHITE PLAINS, New York,, November 16, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the attorneys general of five other states have submitted a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, expressing "serious concerns" about the commission's disregard of safety iss …

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HOUSTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday called on federal nuclear regulators to give more consideration to safety issues when deciding whether to extend an operating licenses for aging nuclear reactors.

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Speaking to journalists at the World Energy Congress in Rome on 12 November, Areva chair Anne Lauvergeon called for international coordination in the licensing of new nuclear power projects as a way to speed up the development of the nuclear industry.

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Undercover Congressional investigators set up a bogus company and obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March that would have allowed them to buy the radioactive materials needed for a so-called dirty bomb.

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...Megastars Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and more than a dozen music publishers have banded together against Jay-Z's 40/40 Club - rapping the Chelsea hotspot with a federal lawsuit for allegedly skimping on royalties...

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By: Tina Gasperson In 2000, when Theresa Friday, Ray Waldin, and Jeff Luszcz were working for dot-com startup Cacheon, they saw firsthand the power of open source software to impact a business model.

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I'm no software developer... but I know that opensource contributes signficantly to our economy, and really supports innovation.... so not surprised by this.

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An Illinois-based company and its Nevada partner have filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging that Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" treads on an interface patent that affects the operating system's nearly universal use of tabs. Little-known intellectual property agency IP Innovation  …

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Need help protecting your idea. Contact the Intellectual Property Association for a consultation.

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Claiming that they alone have the right to reproduce music (even if that music is written down by volunteers), the Music Publishers Association and its licensing subsidiary the Harry Fox Agency managed to shutter the major tablature sites in the US last year.

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