Red Bear Angels Backs Startups From The Cornell Community

 How's this for school spirit? A group of alums have come together to invest in startups connected to Cornell. Chairman and founder Sam Sezak (also a partner at Blue Heron Capital) has both a BS and an MBA from Cornell. He said the idea began a few years ago, after he attended a cornell entrepreneurship event — the event impressed Sezak with the community's entrepreneurial… Read More

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Stop Anti-CFPB Bill, Clinton Tells House Democrats: Politico

H.R. 1266, which would replace CFPB director with 5-person commission, is part of Republican effort to "defund and defang" CFPB, Hillary Clinton tells lawmakers in a letter, according to Politico. "I also hope you'll stand with me in opposing any other efforts to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act's financial reforms in the upcoming budget and debt ceiling negotiations": Clinton NOTE: House Financial Services Cmte on Sept. 30 voted 35-24 to approve H.R. 1266

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"Covering up some shady s–t"

(Scott Johnson) In the adjacent post, Paul considers the news that Madam Hillary sought reduced her email storage maintained by Platte River in late 2014 and early 2015, after she had turned over the paper copies of the emails she turned over to The State Department. Her team twice instructed Platte River to reduce the amount of email data stored during each server backup by decreasing the backup time period for email

Source: Power Line

Donald Trump leads 2016 GOP field in Fla., Ohio, Pa., but trails in general election match-ups

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has maintained his grip on the race for the 2016 GOP nomination in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson performs best among the Republicans in general election match-ups, according to polling released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.

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Congress Can Now Get A Brand New Set Of Undercover Videos In Planned Parenthood Investigation

'Congress has the power to investigate'

Via: The Daily Caller

69-Year-Old Man Camps Outside His Own Million-Dollar Home During Divorce With Wife — but There Seems to Be More to the Story

"If you want to feed him, take him to your house."

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Biden Backers Release Ad Recalling 1972 Accident

Group pushing for Vice President Joe Biden to enter presidential race releases television ad focusing on 1972 car accident that killed Biden's wife, daughter. Ad includes audio of speech Biden gave at Yale University recounting how his life was shaped by the accident Pro-Biden group spending $250k on advertising time, New York Times reports 90-second ad to air during NBC's "Today Show" and ahead of Tuesday's Democratic debate on CNN: NYT

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Obama, Hillary Clinton not agreeing on many issues lately

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama seemed to call Hillary Rodham Clinton's idea of a no-fly zone in Syria "half-baked." Clinton described the president's immigration strategy as "harsh and aggressive." And as Obama tries to rally Democrats around the chief economic proposal of his second term, the party's presidential front-runner ...

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It Might Look Like This Drone Is Carrying a Torpedo but It's Really an Experiment From the Department of Agriculture

"We are investigating using remotely piloted aircraft capable of eliminating small-scale outbreaks."

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France Launches New Anti-Jihad Campaign Featuring Messages From Mourning Family Members of People Who Fled to Join Terrorism Abroad

"We are not the parents of a terrorist. We are victims."

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Enterprise SaaS Marketplace AppDirect Raises $140M Series E Round Led By J.P. Morgan

 AppDirect makes it easier for enterprises to buy cloud services from the likes of Box, Google, Symantec and others (and serves as a kind of referral service for these businesses). The company today announced that it has raised a $140 million funding round led by J.P. Morgan. All of the company's existing institutional investors, including Foundry Group, iNovia Capital, Mithril Capital… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: Iowa, New Hampshire Democrats Not Sold on Clinton—or Biden

Democratic voters tell Bloomberg Politics' Mark Halperin and John Heilemann why they're worried about Clinton, what they like about Bernie Sanders.

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Use This Investing "Swiss Army Knife" to Get the Trade You Want Every Time

Editor's Note: We're sharing this Power Profit Trades with you today because, once you see how this works, you'll be able to get the best possible entry and exit points on every trade. It's that powerful. Here's Tom… Prior to moving into trading full time, I spent a number of years with a leading global […]

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Lumo Aims For The Running Market With Launch Of "Smart" Pants To Improve Runner's Posture

 Lumo, makers of the Lumo Lift posture correcting device, have released something to help runners create better form, too. Called Lumo Run, it's a wearables system consisting of Lumo "smart garments" – shorts for men and capris for women – and a device that fits inside the pocket of these garments that gives real-time feedback on an app to show the runner how they… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Wall Street Ignores Summer of Trump

Wall Street sentiment on the presidential race mirrors betting venues more than polls.

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White House Labor Summit Participant: Stop Targeting Franchisors

One of President Obama's invitees at his worker summit is hoping to educate policymakers about the franchising model targeted by labor regulators.

The post White House Labor Summit Participant: Stop Targeting Franchisors appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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How Google Thinks About Hiring, Management, and Culture

 During Laszlo Bock's nine years as Google's SVP of People Operations, the company has won more than 100 awards for its employment practices. Bock, who came to Google after stints at McKinsey and GE, recently collected his thoughts about management and culture into "Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead," a New York Times… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

'You Thought Obamacare Was Shocking?': Drudge Reveals What Supreme Court Justice Said 'To My Face'

"You thought some of these other decisions were shocking?"

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Ivy League Professor Uses Racial Slur to Refer to Ben Carson, Deletes Comment When Reporter Uncovers

"If only there was a…"

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Tado Scores Further $17.1M As Smart Thermostat Market Heats Up

 The smart thermostat market continues to heat up, not least in Europe where Munich-headquartered Tado is aiming to become the leader. The German company, which counts Google-owned Nest as a competitor, along with the likes of the UK's Heatmiser and Hive from British Gas, has raised further $17 million in backing, bringing total funding to $34 million since being founded in 2011. Read More

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Matt Drudge Issues Grave Warning to America on Social Media, Current State of the Internet

"This is what's frightening."

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Samsung Expects A Strong Third-Quarter Thanks To Chip And Display Sales

 After almost two years of disappointing sales and slowing profit, Samsung Electronics finally has some good financial news. The Korean tech giant said today that it expects its third-quarter operating profit to be much higher than the same period a year earlier. Read More

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Clinton Says Has Plan More Comprehensive Than Glass-Steagall:CNN

Hillary Clinton dismisses idea of reinstating the Depression-era banking law, CNN reports. Says her Wall Street plan to be unveiled next wk would be more comprehensive than reinstating the law: report Big banks "not the only thing we have to worry about" "What I am proposing is we go after the risk, and if they are too big to manage, that is a risk and they should not continue. If they are so big that they are causing disruptions on the marketplace, that's a risk." NOTE: Four Issues to Watch Whe

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Report: Team Hillary asked Platte River to reduce email data storage

(Paul Mirengoff) In 2013, Hillary Clinton hired Platte River to manage her private email network. Thereafter, according to a letter written by Sen. Ron Johnson and obtained by the Daily Caller, the Clinton Executive Services Corp. — a Clinton family company — twice instructed Platte River to reduce the amount of email data being stored during each server backup by decreasing the backup time period for email retention. The change caused the

Source: Power Line

The Naked Truth: 12 Stars Who Have Stripped Down [SLIDESHOW]

These ladies have bared it all in the name of fashion

Via: The Daily Caller

Impossible Foods Raises a Whopping $108 Million For Its Plant-Based Burgers

Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers. Investors in the round, which was led by UBS, include Viking Global Investors and earlier backers Khosla Ventures; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Horizons Ventures, which… Read More

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Even DNC Vice Chair is Calling For More DNC Debates

Hawaii congresswoman and a Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard defied DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Monday and called for more Democratic-sanctioned debates. "We have to have more opportunities for people to present their vision for our country, their plans, and to be held accountable for the positions they're taking and the path they'd ...More

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Read the Note Hillary Clinton Sent Each of the GOP Candidates — and See How Cruz & Jindal Responded

"I have now sent each of them a copy of my book."

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