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Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, which he took over at 24 after his father's suicide. The business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, was worth $1 million when Turner took it over in 1963 (Roughly $7.5 million in present day terms). With some piece of business ideas, Ted has transform this little media empire that he inherit into a billion dollar media industry. He is know as the founder of the world most popular  cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel.  Turner created CNN in 1980. He said: "We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off." After five years, CNN outgrew its home, a former country club on the outskirts of Midtown, Atlanta. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philan...

A pair of flight enthusiasts, John Foden, 37, and Yannick Read, 42, have devised a two-wheeled bike -- christened the XploreAir Paravelo -- that transforms into an aircraft. The British inventors say it is the world's first fully functional flying bicycle. The machine can travel at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour on the road and 25 miles per hour in the air, reaching altitudes of up to 4,000 feet. "The Wright brothers were former bicycle mechanics so there's a real connection between cycling and the birth of powered flight that is recaptured in the spirit of the Paravelo," says so-creator John Foden.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie

Wisdom is better than weapons of war... Ecclesiastes 9:18a KJV

New channel unveiled for international academic publishers to access growing Chinese market Aug 29, 2013 (Menafn - M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation, are proud to announce the unveiling of the CNP eReading platform at the Beijing International Book Fair this week. At launch, the site carries over 200,000 individual book titles from more than 300 international publishers, extending their reach into the rapidly growing Chinese market and attracting new readers to digest their academic content for the very first time. Following a deal signed at the London Book Fair in 2012, the digital hub has been developed by Publishing Technology, a world-leading provider of content solutions for publishers, on a custom-built online publishing platform. CNPIEC, the largest and most highly-developed government sanctioned publication import and export group in China, will manage the new site which i...

Alcoholics fail to communicate with people because their brains don't interpret social cues, a new study has found. Researchers said that long-term alcohol exposure can break communication between two areas of the brain that work together to interpret social signals. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine who found that alcohol inhibits signalling between amygdala and pre-frontal cortex. The pre-frontal cortex is a region associated with cognitive function, social behavior, decision making and modulation of intense behavior. Previous research too has shown that alcohol suppresses activity in amygdala- a part of the brain associated with processing social signals. Having a large amygdala has been linked with good social communication and larger circle of friends.

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a noninvasive human-to-human interface that enables one individual to control another's hand motions using a signal sent via the Internet. In the past, similar feats have been accomplished between mice and, in one case, even a human and mouse; however, in the most recent study, researcher Rajesh Rao was able to move his colleague Andrea Stocco's finger on a keyboard via a brain signal even as they sat on opposite sides of the university's campus. "The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains," Stocco said. "We want to take the knowledge of a brain and transmit it directly from brain to brain."