Month: December 2017

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The NewsWorthy - Flynn’s Guilty Plea, CVS Deal & Happy Bday, SMS – Monday, December 4th, 2017

All the news you need to know for Monday, December 4th, 2017! 

Today we're catching you up on the investigation into the Trump campaign -- from a guilty plea to several controversial tweets.

Plus: a world-renowned conductor accused of sexual abuse, a big merger in the health industry, a unique birth and more supermoons...

All that and much more - in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.

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African Tech Roundup - Khaled Ismail on how KI Angel and HIM Angel funds pursue inter-Africa startup growth

Khaled Ismail is the Chairman and Founder of two Cairo-based angel funds— KI Angel and HIM Angel. He also serves as advisor to Algebra Ventures, Egypt’s leading technology venture capital outfit, which focuses primarily on Series A and Series B investments in Egypt and the MENA region. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at the fringes of African Angel Investor Summit 2017 (www.AAIS2017.com) - Khaled relates how he went from being a career technologist to founding seven tech ventures since 1991 (including a 4G mobile tech firm which was acquired by Intel) before accidentally falling into structured angel funding activities. Khaled also explains how he’s acting on his idealistic desire to tear down trade barriers linked to Africa’s colonial past. He's determined to normalise the interchange of both angel funding and startup founding talent across the continent.
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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO99: Crystal Lee, 2014 Miss America Runner-Up and Entrepreneur

Crystal Lee was First Runner-Up in the 2014 Miss America pageant, and now she's part of a tech startup in Silicon Valley. Crystal has written some incisive pieces including one for CNN.com in response to what happened at the most recent Miss America - that is, a contested answered a question competently and the world exploded. We talk about her background, how exactly one becomes a Miss America contestant, and whether she thinks pageants will be able to escape their undeniably sexist roots!  
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PHPUgly - 85: Masters of our Domains

Recorded November 30, 2017

Topics

-Buskoin

-PHP: News Archive - 2017

-https://wiki.php.net/rfc/trailing-comma-function-calls

-Dreaming code

-“I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my secret project is bringing a Laracon to Australia!"

-Laracon US 2018 is Announced - Laravel News

-My Mental Health Toolbelt – Taylor Otwell – Medium

-CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down

-Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach

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World Book Club - Richard Flanagan: Narrow Road to the Deep North

Best-selling Australian writer Richard Flanagan talks about his Booker prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

This unforgettable novel about the cruelty of war and the tenuousness of love and life tells the story of captive Australian soldiers forced into hard labour, working on the Burmese railway during and after World War Two. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943 which builds to a horrific climax as surgeon Dorrigo Evans battles and too often fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs.

(Photo: Writer Richard Flanagan. Credit: Joel Saget)

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The Gist - Bob Saget Doesn’t Think He’s That Raunchy

Bob Saget has long been known as the cuddly, sitcom dad with a surprisingly raunchy side. The comedian talks about the two shows that launched his career and the very first jokes he wrote as a teenager. Bob Saget’s comedy special is Zero to Sixty.

In the Spiel, Mike pays an overdue visit to mail from listeners, and awards a Lobstar.

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