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Election polls show support for 3 education initiatives but passage for bond measure in doubt

Edit LA Daily News 16 Oct 2016
With barely a month before the November election, the most recent polls show that three education-related ballot initiatives have garnered significant public support among registered voters ... PROP. 51. School bonds ... The initiative garnered more support from public school parents, 52 percent of whom said they would vote “yes.” Forty-six percent of respondents in households without children indicated they would support it ... 55....

Public defender clears UHWI in dead baby issue

Edit Jamaica Observer 16 Oct 2016
Eight of the newborns died during the summer of 2015, but details of the deaths were not disclosed to the nation by health officials until October 2015 after the media started to report on the issue ... Forty-two babies were infected with health care acquired bacteria between the UHWI and the Cornwall Regional Hospital, of which 18 did not survive ... ....

Web-only letters to the editor, Oct. 15, 2016

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 16 Oct 2016
Dispatch.com regularly will post letters to the editor that don't make it to print in The Dispatch ... Presidential debates ... Be truthful and be respectful ... 2016 elections ... ... That occurred back in the early 60s after Carson had won the Pulitzer Prize for her ground-breaking work Silent Spring where she warned us of pesticide use and its often toxic and even deadly effects upon animals and humans.  More than forty years later I asked Mrs....

Fortis Healthcare completes 51% acquisition in Fortis Hospotel

Edit Deccan Chronicle 15 Oct 2016
Fortis Healthcare has completed the acquisition of 51 per cent stake in Fortis Hospotel Ltd and also acquired compulsorily convertible preference shares issued by Escort Heart Institute and Research Centre....

Fortis Healthcare acquires 51% stake in Fortis Hospotel

Edit Newstrack India 15 Oct 2016
It had also said that it was contemplating "acquiring compulsorily convertible preference shares issued by Escort Heart Institute and Research Centre Ltd, by one of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fortis Hospitals Ltd"....

Lottery State-by-State

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 15 Oct 2016
WASHINGTONDaily Game7-8-1 (seven, eight, one) Keno08-23-27-30-36-38-40-41-43-44-49-52-54-61-62-68-70-71-78-80 (eight, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-six, thirty-eight, forty, ......

Word game: October 15, 2016

Edit The Mercury News 15 Oct 2016
TODAY’S WORD — FORTIES (FORTIES. FORT-eez. The numbers 40 to 49.). Average mark 30 words. Time limit 45 minutes. Can you find 48 or more words in FORTIES? The list will be published Monday ... RULES OF THE GAME.. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... ....

Correction: Conjoined Twins-Surgery story

Edit The Oklahoman 15 Oct 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — In an Oct ... The hospital is in the Bronx, not Brooklyn ... Forty medical experts at a New York hospital have worked for 20 hours to successfully separate conjoined twins attached at the head. NEW YORK (AP) — Forty medical experts at a New York hospital Friday successfully separated conjoined twins attached at the head after a 20-hour procedure ... ....

Gold Medal winner crowned on Saturday (Football West Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Oct 2016
(Source. Football West Ltd). Friday, October 14, 2016. Football West News. After a stunning conclusion to the PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues WA season, in which Perth SC claimed a dramatic title success, votes will be counted and WA's top player will be rewarded with the nine-carat McInerney Ford Gold Medal and a Ford Fiesta car ... Football West Ltd ... Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 15 October 2016 14.59.07 UTC....

India likely to sign diamonds deal with Russia

Edit The Times of India 15 Oct 2016
NEW DELHI. India could soon put in place regulations to end the role of intermediaries in the import of rough diamonds from Russia that would expand bilateral trade and boost this lucrative industry which involves hundreds of traders and workers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat ... Diamond mining in Russia rose by 9.4% in 2015 to 41.9 million carats, worth $4.24 billion ... Download it Now! ....

Canadian stock market ends week lower as gold weighs

Edit Xinhua 15 Oct 2016
TORONTO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock market ended the four-day week down, as gold prices lost nearly half a percentage point on Friday ... Seven of the ten sub-sectors in the index were in the negative on the day ... dollars an ounce ... dollars an ounce ... dollars) a share ... Utilities sector was one of the bright spots on the session, as Fortis Inc ... Fortis now has operations in Canada, the United States, Central America and the Caribbean ... ....

Cross-border tension puts fate of Pakistani patients in a limbo

Edit The Times of India 15 Oct 2016
TOI spoke to the heads of several hospitals, including Apollo, Fortis and Medanta Medicity, who confirmed that there were at least 30 patients still recuperating from treatment in their liver transplant and paediatric cardiac surgery units ... heart defects with failure to thrive," said Dr Ashok Seth, chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute....

Business Highlights

Edit The Tribune San Luis Obispo 15 Oct 2016
--- Nearly half of young adults lack retirement savings, pension NEW YORK (AP) — Young Americans with even just $1 saved for retirement are ahead of the pack. Forty-eight percent ... ....
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