Crowne Plaza: London Docklands - As low as 98 GBP or 22,000 IHG points on Nov 17, 21, 22 / Dec 15, 16, 23 Average nightly rate is 210.40 GBP or 51833 IHG points ...

With the global milk powder market set to increase in value over the next 10 years, and with dairy farms targeting optimized productivity, further waste reduction efforts are not just necessary but imperative.

This collection combines sophisticated patterns with advanced technology to create depth and texture for residential and commercial spaces.

AHF's introduces new concrete-look porcelain tile collection, Crossville Trajectory.

Mohawk, in collaboration with Women in the Flooring Industry (WIFI), announces plans to celebrate the impactful women in the flooring industry at Edge Summit 2025. 

In 2023, Performance Accessories further expands this promise by enhancing its stair tread program and emphasizing its waterproof accessories.  

Most people have likely never heard of The Hausbeck Pickle Co. in Saginaw, MI, but there’s a good chance they’ve had one of its pickles, banana peppers or jalapeños.

Producing more than 1.4 billion pounds of pork and turkey annually, the Prestage Farms family of companies employs more than 2,700 associates and is affiliated with more than 470 farm families across the U.S.

The completion of this transaction is part of the company’s overall network optimization strategy, one of the pillars of its Global Strategic Plan.

The expansion is anticipated to more than quadruple the facility's current production output and help support the company's continued plans for growth in novelty and packaged ice cream.

Idaho Milk Products will break ground on the 183,000-sq.-ft. plant on Oct. 11. The facility will be substantially complete by early 2026 with full commercial production by May 2026.

BentallGreenOak paid $60 million for a Medley warehouse with a tenant locked in for the next two decades. An affiliate of BentallGreenOak, a New York-based real estate investment firm led by co-CEOs Sonny Kalsi and John Carrafiell, bought a cold storage facility at 7600 Northwest 82nd Place, records and real estate database Vizzda show. Food […]

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In the months leading up to the unexpected death of a baby boy, Oranga Tamariki staff incorrectly handled several concerns reported to them relating to his family.

The post Coroner finds ‘pervasive deficits’ in Oranga Tamariki social work practice before Napier baby’s death was curated by information for practice.

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The recently published Trotter Review examines political gains made by African American politicians at the beginning of the 21st century. Also, specific essays on why Boston has not elected a black mayor while the city of Denver has done so twice, and how Deval Patrick has served the interests of black communities while not alienating the larger population.

Our panelists:
- Latoyia Edwards, anchor, New England Cable News
- Kim McLarin, assistant professor of writing, literature and publishing, Emerson College
- Phillip Martin, senior reporter, 89.7 WGBH Radio
- Ravi Perry, political science professor
- Kenneth Cooper, editor, The Trotter Review

Shakespeare in Clark Park celebrates its 20th season with a light-hearted and musically-inclined As You Like It. Set in...

Denzel Washington is retiring after his next few projects, he said in a recent interview.

On April 16, Pavel Durov announced that he had given an interview to American journalist Tucker Carlson. He explained that he chose Carlson because of his conservative views. At the same time, Durov announced another interview that he was going to give to a journalist of liberal views. What Pavel Durov is known for Aside from creating Telegram and VK services, Pavel Durov is known for his intricate and mysterious behaviour. He has hardly given any interviews.  In 2021, Forbes named Pavel Durov the richest person in the United Arab Emirates. At that time, his fortune was estimated at $17.2 billion.

Robert Fico became the first NATO leader to have given an interview to Russian media after the start of the special military operation and he made some very bold statements in it. The West fails to bring Russia to its knees Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico gave an interview to Russian journalist Olga Skabeeva on the state-run Rossiya-1 TV channel. He started his interview with a Slovak proverb that says that "no one on their knees can be considered defeated — perhaps they are just tying their shoelaces."

Two Russian servicemen were sentenced for life for the mass murder of civilians in the town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk People's Republic. On October 28, 2023, contract soldiers Stanislav Rau and Anton Sopov shot the Kapkanets family of nine people, including two children. Two days later, law enforcement officers detained the suspects. The men were found guilty of illegally entering a home and murdering two or more people, including minors, in a generally dangerous manner. The servicemen were sentenced to life terms.

British Business-to-Business (B2B) companies take on average 32 days to collect, collate and enrich all the necessary data for a new product launch, significantly impacting UK productivity and go-to-market times, according to research conducted by Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and leading provider of Product Information Management (PIM) solutions.

The Co-op Media Network (CMN) is to install 300 new front-of-store digital media screens to turbo-charge its retail media offering, taking the total number of screens to over 9,000 across its store estate.

Lisa of Blackpink is signaling a comeback as a solo artist. The singer uploaded a clip on social media and posted a notice on her website on how to “pre-save” her new release. It will be her first...

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Mineral identification and quantification are key to the understanding and, hence, the capacity to predict material properties. The method of choice for mineral quantification is powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), generally using a Rietveld refinement approach. However, a successful Rietveld refinement requires preliminary identification of the phases that make up the sample. This is generally carried out manually, and this task becomes extremely long or virtually impossible in the case of very large datasets such as those from synchrotron X-ray diffraction computed tomography. To circumvent this issue, this article proposes a novel neural network (NN) method for automating phase identification and quantification. An XRD pattern calculation code was used to generate large datasets of synthetic data that are used to train the NN. This approach offers significant advantages, including the ability to construct databases with a substantial number of XRD patterns and the introduction of extensive variability into these patterns. To enhance the performance of the NN, a specifically designed loss function for proportion inference was employed during the training process, offering improved efficiency and stability compared with traditional functions. The NN, trained exclusively with synthetic data, proved its ability to identify and quantify mineral phases on synthetic and real XRD patterns. Trained NN errors were equal to 0.5% for phase quantification on the synthetic test set, and 6% on the experimental data, in a system containing four phases of contrasting crystal structures (calcite, gibbsite, dolomite and hematite). The proposed method is freely available on GitHub and allows for major advances since it can be applied to any dataset, regardless of the mineral phases present.

In the structure of the title salt, {[Ba(μ3-C3H2N3O2)2(μ-H2O)(H2O)]·H2O}n, the barium ion and all three oxygen atoms of the water mol­ecules reside on a mirror plane. The hydrogen atoms of the bridging water and the solvate water mol­ecules are arranged across a mirror plane whereas all atoms of the monodentate aqua ligand are situated on this mirror plane. The distorted ninefold coord­ination of the Ba ions is completed with four nitroso-, two carbonyl- and three aqua-O atoms at the distances of 2.763 (3)–2.961 (4) Å and it is best described as tricapped trigonal prism. The three-dimensional framework structure is formed by face-sharing of the trigonal prisms, via μ-nitroso- and μ-aqua-O atoms, and also by the bridging coordination of the anions via carbonyl-O atoms occupying two out of the three cap positions. The solvate water mol­ecules populate the crystal channels and facilitate a set of four directional hydrogen bonds. The principal Ba–carbamoyl­cyano­nitro­somethanido linkage reveals a rare example of the inherently polar binodal six- and three-coordinated bipartite topology (three-letter notation sit). It suggests that small resonance-stabilized cyano­nitroso anions can be utilized as bridging ligands for the supra­molecular synthesis of MOF solids. Such an outcome may be anti­cipated for a broader range of hard Lewis acidic alkaline earth metal ions, which perfectly match the coordination preferences of highly nucleophilic nitroso-O atoms. Thermal analysis reveals two-stage dehydration of the title compound (383 and 473 K) followed by decomposition with release of CO2, HCN and H2O at 558 K.

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Mbank has partnered with Al Etihad Payments Company (AEP), a Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) subsidiary, to introduce the Aani Instant Payment Platform on its mobile application.

Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawba County students in the 4th or 5th grades submitted posters related to the theme �Severe Weather Awareness� and illustrated an example of a natural hazard that affects North Carolina. One poster from each county and one overall winner from all entries were chosen as the winners of the Unifour Area Severe Weather Awareness Week Poster Contest. The winners were announced during Severe Weather Awareness Week with surprise presentations at each winner�s school.

Assistive products and technologies – such as wheelchairs, upper-limb prostheses, and hearing and speech devices – hold promise for partially or fully mitigating the effects of impairments and enabling people with disabilities to work, but in some cases environmental and personal factors create additional barriers to employment, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

National Academy of Sciences President Emeritus Frank Press — distinguished geophysicist, science adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and National Medal of Science recipient — died on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 95.

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee tasked with developing an overarching framework to assist policymakers in planning for equitable allocation of a vaccine against COVID-19 will issue a discussion draft of the preliminary framework for public comment on Sept. 1.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released for public comment a discussion draft of a preliminary framework to assist policymakers in planning for equitable allocation of a vaccine against COVID-19.

X announced in July that TweetDeck, a popular program that allows users to monitor multiple accounts and lists of users at once, would be available only to "verified" account holders from August.

A recent study shows how the public's use of parks and other green spaces in metropolitan areas can be tracked using anonymized GPS data from people's smartphones, which could help guide their management.

"Every other telco will have to follow this new wave," SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said at an AI event where he was speaking alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

At the grocery store, most foods -- meats, breads, cheeses, snacks -- come wrapped in plastic packaging. Not only does this create a lot of non-recyclable, non-biodegradable waste, but thin plastic films are not great at preventing spoilage. And some plastics are suspected of leaching potentially harmful compounds into food. To address these issues, scientists are now developing a packaging film made of milk proteins -- and it is even edible.

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The company’s ambitious growth plan focuses on building upon existing successes and new opportunities. 

Mettler Toledo's X34C delivers a unique X-ray solution to the market: cost-effective inspection of individual packs and bars, immediately after flow-wrapping or pack sealing.

It’s time for seasoned greetings at Dunkin’ Donuts!

NSF/GMP-Certified Edible Ink Printer prints graphics onto cookies, white chocolate, macarons, and now doughnuts and taller food items with Platform Kit Accessory.

A "best of" list of recently released walnut products, from the California Walnut Commission.

The snack producer has turned to the food technology firm to boost production.

The offerings include premium nuts and chocolate-covered nibbles in on-the-go cans.

With this transaction, which closed on Dec. 22, Table Talk hopes to return the closed facility to its key position in the Canadian sweet goods industry.

For the first time in the brand’s history, Fritos is blending two flavors into one bag with an exclusive, limited-edition Fritos X Twisters snack.

The new packs aim to meet growing demand from convenience store operators and on-the-go shoppers.

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery has announced that its 2016 “Snack Producer of the Year” award will go to Unique Pretzel Bakery, Reading, PA, best known for its Original “Splits” pretzels.

Unique Pretzel Bakery astutely combines equal measures of Pennsylvania Dutch tradition and modern-day innovation to catalyze its success.

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery has named industry game-changer Quinn Snacks its 2017 Snack Producer of the Year.