Each company will need to deliver 53 NGSW-R, 43 NGSW-AR, and 845,000 rounds of ammunition. And that ammo may not look like what soldiers currently carry.

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX) Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR) Law Firm: No Counsel Application No., Date, Speed: 15822059 on 11/24/2017 (585 days app to issue)

Bogged down by the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson struggles constantly to pivot away from the war to focus on his stated goals of reducing poverty, ending segregation, and establishing the social programs many Americans rely on to this day, including the immensely popular Medicare program. During his "War on Poverty" State of the Union Address of Jan. 8, 1964, LBJ outlines the need for the country to reduce poverty, end racial discrimination, attend to the health needs of the elderly, and other progressive goals. LBJ later ushers in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Social Security Amendments of 1965.

The city, she added, has to work within the Growth Management Act to ensure certain levels of housing density.

Highway 85 projects will be paid for, at least in part, by the Measure B sales tax passed by voters in 2016. The measure earmarks funding for transportation improvements throughout Santa Clara County, including $350 million in funding for upgrades to Highway 85. The language of the measure specifically asked VTA to study bus rapid transit, light rail and "future transportation technologies."

Trucks from the St. Charles Quarry Co. parked on high ground near the Missouri River on Aug. 3, 1993. The quarry is south of Interstate 70. Photo by Scott Dine

Inventor(s): Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas, TX) Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15365436 on 11/30/2016 (944 days app to issue)

However, the bioelectrical impedance machines used in clinical studies will be much more powerful than this, which has fewer (just two) and smaller sensors and therefore is unlikely to be as accurate. 

Democratic megadonor Ed Buck is facing allegations of human trafficking and revenge porn months after he came under fire when two black men died from overdoses in his home. Buck is now facing two more charges in an ongoing case brought by the mother of one of the two men who died in his West Hollywood apartment. (The Daily Beast)  

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The Caney River at Bartlesville is forecast to rise to 15 feet late Friday. The river will remain near 15 feet through Sunday morning and then begin to slowly fall. With the level at 15 feet, the old Highway 75 crossing or Tuxedo Boulevard in