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February 03, 2010Portugal's representatives at the last Venice Biennale bring together their clever, magical films for their first show in Britain A still from Columbo's Column , a film by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva. The short, silent films of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva were among the most memorable works shown at last year's , where the pair represented Portugal. Their seemingly inconsequential films stay in the head and won't go away. Now some of these same works fill a darkened floor of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, in On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies, the duo's first show in Britain. A stone skips across a still pond, in very slow motion. An egg suspended...
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February 03, 2010• Brain-injured patient's thoughts 'read' by scanner • Technique provides hope for others in similar state Images from an fMRI machine showed that when the patient was asked a specific question and told to respond in a specific way, the same areas of his brain lit up as in a healthy person. Photograph: MRC For seven years the man lay in a hospital bed, showing no signs of consciousness since sustaining a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. His doctors were convinced he was in a vegetative state. Until now. To the astonishment of his medical team, the patient has been able to communicate with the outside world after scientists worked out, in effect, a way to read his thoughts....
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February 03, 2010LONDON — A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at a London auction for 65 million pounds ($104...
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February 03, 2010TORONTO, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Celestica Inc. , a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, today announced that the company is actively investing in its growing healthcare division, enhancing its customized network to help healthcare OEMs accelerate their success. Building upon the company's extensive experience in servicing highly regulated industries with complex technology solutions, Celestica continues to make strategic investments to further tailor its offering to healthcare customers. These investments include expanding capabilities and industry expertise. "Today's healthcare companies need partners who are prepared to invest in...
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February 03, 2010 Enables highly efficient broadband 3G and 4G networks Download image...
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February 03, 2010ROSEVILLE, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Iskra Sistemi, a developer and provider of process automation, communications and security products announced a new product - the SparkLight ADM16 Next Generation SDH Add/Drop Multiplexer. The SparkLight ADM-16 is a compact, high-density STM-16/4/1 next-generation access multiplexer which supports high-speed communications services. By providing a wide variety of interfaces on one common platform, Iskra's SparkLight ADM16 family of products allows service providers to build an effective, flexible, user-friendly communications network. Extremely powerful EoS tools enable a...
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February 03, 2010By Mark Frauenfelder at 1:34 PM February 3, 2010 says: What? Animated Zombies...? Hell yes! After years...
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February 03, 2010By Mark Frauenfelder at 2:14 PM February 3, 2010 The wonderful pop Americana historian...
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February 03, 2010By Xeni Jardin at 2:10 PM February 3, 2010 So, a couple days ago, I blogged about South African band Die Antwoord , after my friend Clayton Cubitt pointed me to them. Here's the earlier BB post. Since then, boom! goes the internet. BB commenter Wingo summed up my reaction by writing: I am both terrified and highly pleased by this. It's utterly confusing to my sensibilities, yet I cannot say that I am not entertained by it. Like Juggalos, but with more Jaegermeister! In...
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February 03, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Fresh from patching an Internet Explorer flaw exploited in cyberattacks on Google and other firms, Microsoft is looking into a newly exposed vulnerability in the browser software. "Microsoft is investigating a responsibly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer," Microsoft Trustworthy Computing group manager Dave Forstrom told AFP on Wednesday. "We're currently...
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February 03, 2010Derby Theatre Not many bands could get away with calling their album Genuine Negro Jig, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops are a case apart – a group of young African-Americans who perform antique jug band tunes with swaggering hip-hop attitude. The music's potency comes from the fact that the trio – fiddler Justin Robinson, banjo-player Rhiannon...
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February 03, 2010TOKYO: Toyota Motor has been hit by over 100 complaints in the US and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a spate of quality troubles for the automaker as it grapples with massive global recalls. The Japanese company’s sales are being battered in the US Toyota’s biggest market after recalls of top-selling models to fix a gas...
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February 03, 2010 Optimized Programmable Power System IC Further Reduces Cost and Expands Power System Design Flexibility FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Exar Corporation unveiled today its latest addition to its acclaimed PowerXR family of digital step down controllers with the XRP7708. This highly integrated field programmable power regulator IC has been optimized to provide 8Amps per channel capability while offering a pin and function compatible option to the existing XRP7704 and the XRP7740; Exar's 5Amp/channel and 15Amp/channel regulators....
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February 03, 2010 Event to be Webcast Live on SuccessFactors' Investor Relations Website Download image...
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February 03, 2010ROME -- These days, it seems beleaguered Italian automaking could use a little divine intervention. After car giant Fiat announced plans to shut auto production at its Sicilian plant, Pope Benedict XVI waded into worldly matters to urge the company to keep the jobs in Italy. The papal admonishment of Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne follows a dressing down from the president of France for Carlos Ghosn, head of automaker Renault, as governments put pressure on carmakers and other manufacturers that benefitted from taxpayer help to keep production at home. It's a trend seen across the continent: As corporations try to stay nimble in an age of cut-throat competition, protectionist impulses are being...
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February 03, 2010Email Print Order Reprint Share: Yahoo! Buzz Text tool name tool goes here Latest Comment Racing Top Stories Danica Patrick could win her stock car debut at Saturday's ARCA race at Daytona and still decide to bypass the Nationwide Series opener there a week later. This was the other side of celebrity, the monotonous, distinctly non-glamorous aspect of Danica Patrick's full-time job that most certainly would not make for a good television commercial. Michael Schumacher expects the Mercedes GP car to be "competitive" this season but isn't sure if the team can win the Formula One championship....
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February 03, 2010What appeals to me about a supersize iPod Touch - which is more or less what Apple brought into the world last week - are the possibilities of that lovely 9.7-inch touch screen. The iPad at first blush seems ideal for the book-reading role Steve Jobs introduced through the iBooks program, which will connect to Apple's online bookstore. The five publishers that have signed on - Macmillan, HarperCollins, Penguin, Simon & Schuster and Hachette - will be able to display their wares in full color on a medium that offers a reading experience closer to that of reading an actual book than any other ebook reader. I can't help but wonder, though, whether we're coming to a fork in the road, a place...
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February 03, 2010SEBRING, Fla. – This was the other side of celebrity, the monotonous, distinctly non-glamorous aspect of Danica Patrick's full-time job that most certainly would not make for a good television commercial. Sitting on a weathered concrete barrier, Patrick was surrounded by crew members and engineers. The scene on Friday was set across from a chain-link fence surrounding a fertilizer plant. An ultralite wobbled overhead. Patrick pondered a plate of Sonny's barbecue during a break in IndyCar testing with Andretti Autosport at Sebring International Raceway. On Thursday, her SpeedWeeks will begin 140 miles east of Sebring, at Daytona International Speedway. She's scheduled to practice for...
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February 03, 2010Date: Saturday, February 6th Start Time: 8:10 p.m. Site: Daytona International Speedway -- Daytona Beach, Florida Track: 2.5-mile tri-oval speedway Laps: 75 Miles: 187.5 Capacity: 168,000 Total purse: $1,217,154 Payouts: 1st Place - $200,000; 2nd Place - $100,000; 3rd Place - $60,000 Year: 32st...
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February 03, 2010Got your remote ready for some racing? Here's a little of the coverage that's scheduled this season. This is just a start and we'll add more, so – as they say on TV – stay tuned. Race fans who don't carry rookie stripes on the rear bumpers already know, but it bears mentioning: Times listed in these schedules represent when TV coverage begins, not when the races or other events actually are supposed to start. Depending on production plans for pre-race programming, weather-related delays at the tracks, politics, satellite weirdness, phases of the moon and those kinds of things, actual race times are often different animals. They can even be members a whole other species. It's our...
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February 03, 2010The Speedweeks schedule at Daytona International Speedway. All times Eastern, subject to change: Thursday, February 4TH Noon - 4:50 PM ARCA PRACTICE 5:00 PM 5:45 PM NSCS BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT PRACTICE 6:00 PM ARCA GARAGE CLOSES 6:30 PM 7:30 PM NSCS FINAL BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT PRACTICE 8:00 PM DRAWING FOR BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT LOCATED OUTSIDE TURN FOUR ON THE SPEED STAGE Friday, February 5TH 11:00 AM ARCA QUALIFYING 2:10 PM 3:30 PM NSCS PRACTICE 4:00 PM 5:30 PM NSCS PRACTICE 5:40 PM 6:30 PM ARCA FINAL PRACTICE Saturday, February 6th 10:00 AM ARCA GARAGE OPENS 1:05 PM DAYTONA 500 QUALIFYING PRESENTED BY KROGER 2:30 PM ARCA DRIVERS MEETING 4:00 PM ARCA...
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February 03, 2010This fellow was looking at...
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February 03, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Google is ramping up its entry in the hotly competitive smartphone race by adding "pinch-to-zoom" multi-touch and 3G wireless broadband network capabilities to the Nexus One. The US Internet powerhouse said it is rolling out the improvements in an "over-the-air" software update it is firing off to Nexus One...
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February 03, 2010VALENCIA, Spain -- Michael Schumacher expects the Mercedes GP car to be "competitive" this season but isn't sure if the team can win the Formula One championship. Schumacher will be aiming for an eighth Formula One title. Schumacher was pleased with his first full day of driving a competitive F1 car on Wednesday, saying it was "running very smoothly, very nice, I'm looking very positive into the season."...
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February 03, 2010A High Profile Debate Breaks Out Over the Merits of Flash vs HTML: Font size Print E-mail Share Page 1 of 2 The iPad doesn't support Flash and Apple CEO Steve Jobs says he's in no rush to support the rival software format from Adobe Section Tech News All about the digital world, from computers and gadgets to industry news and hot tech trends. This article was written by Stephen Shankland of CNET News.com. A difference of opinion among developers has become a high-profile debate over the future of the Web: should programmers continue using Adobe Systems' Flash or embrace newer Web technology instead? The debate has gone on for years, but last week's debut of Apple's iPad--which...
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February 03, 2010Understanding that the computing and Internet revolutions are what will provide the tools needed to fight climate change, we will host our second annual GreenNet on April 29th here in San Francisco, where will be joined by a who’s who of industry players. If...
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February 03, 2010As a reporter covering startups and new product launches, I see a lot of WebEx, GoToMeeting, Glance.net, Adobe Connect, Dimdim and other remote presentation tools on a day-to-day basis. And maybe I’m just on a bad streak of meetings, but they all too often don’t work. So I’m for anything that makes long-distance...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 13:49 CST Conservation scientists say the wolverine, a predator renowned for its strength and tenacious character, may be dying out along with the snowpack upon which it lives, BBC News reported. Experts say wolverine numbers are falling across North America and their decline has been linked to less snow settling as a result of climate change. It is the first study to show a decline in the abundance of any land species due to vanishing snowpack. Wolverines typically thrive in boreal forests across Scandinavia, northern Russia, northern China, Mongolia and North...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 13:29 CST Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Wellcome Trust at the University of Birmingham have carried out “laboratory gunfights” to show that we move faster when we react to something in our environment than we do when we initiate the action ourselves – an idea inspired by cowboy movies but in reality more useful for avoiding oncoming traffic. The research is published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Think of the Wild West of early Hollywood movies...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 13:37 CST Apparently, the mysterious "3/4 law of metabolism" -- proposed by Max Kleiber in 1932, printed in biology textbooks for decades, explained theoretically in Science in 1997 and described in a 2000 essay in Nature as "extended to all life forms" from bacteria to whales -- is just plain wrong. "Actually, it's two-thirds," says University of Vermont mathematician Peter Dodds. His paper3 in the January 29 edition of Physical Review Letters helps overturn almost eighty years of near-mystical belief in a 3/4 exponent used to describe the relationship between the size of animals and their resting metabolism. Two-thirds or...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 13:43 CST New research published in Critical Social Policy UK programs designed to help the unemployed get back to work and support young parents are losing impact because they are not designed with the participants' gender in mind. Men as well as women can lose out as a result of 'gender blind' policies. This finding, based on two case studies in the North East of England, appears in Critical Social Policy this week, published by SAGE. The paper, 'Striking out': Shifting labor markets, welfare to work policy and the renegotiation of gender performances, details stay-at-home dads gaining skills and negotiating gender constructs to find work in the...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 14:21 CST The people that brought the world malicious software which can steal credit card numbers and empty bank ATMs of their cash are apparently hiring, according to Reuters. Kevin Stevens, a threat intelligence analyst for SecureWorks, said the two companies that are...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless says the Devour will be its second phone from Motorola to use Google's Android software. Much like the Motorola Droid, which debuted to much fanfare in November, the Devour has a touch screen that slides away to reveal a keyboard. The screen is slightly smaller, however. Verizon says the phone will be on sale in March, but it hasn't revealed the cost. Verizon Wireless has positioned Android phones as its main alternative to AT&T Inc.'s exclusive iPhone. Motorola, for its part, sees Android-powered smart phones as the way out of a deep multiyear sales slump. Recent Science + Technology stories - February 3, 2010 - If you own a Toyota affected by the recall and are...
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February 03, 2010BEIJING - Google's accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a center for a global explosion of Internet crimes, part of a rash of attacks aimed at a wide array of targets, from a British military contractor to banks and chemical companies to a California software maker. The government denies it is involved. But experts say the highly skilled attacks suggest the military, which is a leader in cyberwarfare research, or other...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi: After HTC and Samsung, now Taiwanese electronics giant Acer has decided to throw its weight behind Google’s Android platform with the launch of Liquid. The company became the third brand to diversify its smartphone portfolio from Windows Mobile to the linux-based open operating system. Liquid is based on Qualcomm’s 1Ghz Snapdragon processor. “We like the platform because it is open and has an application store and a large number of developers working on it,” said Richard Tan, head of...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON - An academic board of inquiry has largely cleared a noted Pennsylvania State University climatologist of scientific misconduct, but a second panel will convene to determine whether his behavior undermined public faith in the science of climate change, Wednesday. The scientist, Dr. Michael E. Mann, has been at the center of a roiling dispute arising from the unauthorized release of more than 1,000 e-mail messages from the servers of the University of East Anglia in England, home to one of the world's premier climate research units. While the Penn State inquiry, conducted by...
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February 03, 2010BUSINESS connections between...
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February 03, 2010BEIJING — Google's accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks. The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a center for a global explosion of Internet crimes, part of a rash of attacks aimed at a wide array of targets, from a British military contractor to banks and chemical companies to a California software maker. The government denies it is involved. But experts say the highly skilled attacks suggest the military, which is a leader in cyberwarfare research, or...
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February 03, 2010Twitter and many other social networks...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless says the Devour will be its second phone from Motorola to use Google's...
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February 03, 2010This article reports...
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February 03, 2010Hopefully RIM can reinvent...
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February 03, 2010Consultants from WYG Engineering have been appointed to rewrite a 25-year-old mine-working manual. The company will write the 'RP 940 Historic Mineworkings Manual' and update the 'CIRIA SP 32...
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February 03, 2010The glow of methane has been detected in the atmosphere of...
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February 03, 2010Titanoboa, which measured up to 45 feet long, was the world's...
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February 03, 2010Scientists have for...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Toyota owners Wednesday they should stop driving their vehicles, then quickly took back his words, adding to confusion over the safety of millions of recalled cars. Toyota, for its part, tried to reassure drivers that sticky gas pedals have been rare -- and the cars can be stopped in any event by firmly stepping on the brakes. The final word from LaHood:...
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February 03, 2010Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Paul Logothetis, AP Auto Racing Writer VALENCIA, Spain — Defending Formula One champion Jenson Button had a "useful" first day with McLaren despite being frustrated it took so long to adjust the seat of his car. The Briton was fifth fastest in Wednesday's test session, finishing nearly 1{ seconds back of pace-setter Fernando Alonso of Ferrari at the season's opening testing session. Button said the day was about getting used...
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February 03, 2010Sleeping Less at Night May Be Normal Part of Healthy Aging, Researchers Say Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Getting less sleep at night may be a normal part of healthy aging and nothing to worry about for most healthy adults. A new study shows that during a standard night of eight hours in bed the amount of time spent actually sleeping decreases progressively with age. Healthy older adults sleep about 20 minutes less than middle-aged adults, who sleep 23 minutes less than young adults. Researchers say the results suggest that healthy older adults without sleep disorders should expect to sleep a little less at night without being sleepy during the day. "Our findings reaffirm...
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February 03, 2010Posted on: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 12:30 CST Being diagnosed with prostate cancer may increase a man's risk of suicide or cardiovascular death, especially right after diagnosis, according to a new study published online February 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. To study the risks men diagnosed with...
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February 03, 2010LONDON-About 40 percent of cancers could be prevented if people stopped smoking and overeating, limited their alcohol, exercised regularly and got vaccines targeting cancer-causing infections, experts say. To mark World Cancer day on Thursday, officials at the International Union Against...
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February 03, 2010THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING - Three dairy plant managers and one milk powder dealer in central China have been arrested for allegedly selling milk products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, shortly after the government launched a 10-day crackdown. The chemical, which is used to manufacture plastics and fertilizer, became a household name in China in 2008, when six children died and 300,000 were sickened after drinking...
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February 03, 2010A new research study published today in a leading scientific journal, NeuroToxicology, found that a Hepatitis B...
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February 03, 2010A dozen years ago, a...
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February 03, 2010FDA is alerting users of certain Powerheart and CardioVive automated external defibrillators that these...
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February 03, 2010Like a tobacco company, Coca-Cola primarily sells one product--in its case, sugar water--that is linked to a number of diseases....
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February 03, 2010 Stock and asset purchase agreement would provide Spheris' customers with access to industry-leading technology platform and transcription services. MT. LAUREL, N.J., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedQuist Inc., a leading provider of medical transcription software and services, today announced that it has agreed to purchase the domestic business of Spheris Inc., a global provider of clinical documentation technology and services that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The proposed transaction will take place pursuant to Section 363 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and will be governed by a court-directed bidding process, subject to applicable regulatory,...
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February 03, 2010New York's Automobile Insurance System Is Currently 'Under Siege,' I.I.I.'s President To Testify ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fraud and abuse in New York's no-fault auto insurance system cost consumers and insurers nearly $230 million in 2009, constituting a "fraud tax" of $1,561, or 22 percent of every no-fault claim, according to Dr. Robert Hartwig, an economist and president of the Insurance Information Institute . Since 2005, no-fault fraud has cost the state's consumers and insurers more than $600 million, Dr. Hartwig estimates, pointing out that the average cost of a no-fault auto insurance claim in New York State soared 55 percent between 2004 and...
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February 03, 2010 Spheris to Obtain $15 Million Financing Facility FRANKLIN, Tenn., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Spheris, a leading global provider of clinical documentation technology and services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement under which MedQuist Inc. and CBay Inc., portfolio companies of CBaySystems Holdings Ltd. and leading providers of medical transcription software and services, have agreed to purchase substantially all of Spheris' assets pursuant to a transaction that is to be implemented under Section 363 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In order to commence the sale process, Spheris and certain of its affiliates filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter...
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February 03, 2010Nestlé barks when Mike Marder and his wife come home, and he barks when they leave. He barks at delivery boys, he barks at the doorbell, and he barks at the Marders’ new puppy, Truffle. But for all that effort, the only sound Nestlé makes is a raspy squeak. Dr. Marder, a veterinarian, tells those who are curious that Nestlé, a dachshund-terrier mix, is hoarse from too much barking. advertisement | But that is not true. The Marders had Nestlé’s vocal cords cut by a veterinary surgeon after a neighbor in the family’s apartment building on the Upper East Side threatened to complain to the co-op board about the noisy dog. Although there is no reliable estimate as to how many dogs have had their...
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February 03, 2010Baker’s yeast may help treat cancer...
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February 03, 2010Chris says: "First and foremost, I’ve never been happier in my life. I have the geek’s dream life.. Photo by Scarlett Smith In yesterday's Part 1, Christopher Wang, successful non-trepreneur of Freaklabs , talked about his indie-techie origins. In the final part 2, he delves into his “wild west” mentality of calculated risk and the joy and loneliness of taking his own highway. Just remember: three years. How do you win an emotional headgame against yourself? Everyone worries about money, but it’s the mental aspect that kills people making the transition. Being on your own is like feeling your way through a black cave toward what you hope is...
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February 03, 2010Mike sez, "Phil Foglio describes why he posted Hugo-winning comic Girl Genius online for free." First of all, printing comic books is expensive. I figured that by not having to do the comic book we were saving close to $20,000 a year....
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February 03, 2010No big surprise here: the commercial success of Avatar paves the way for...
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February 03, 2010BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedeFile International, Inc. , a leader in portable electronic medical records management, announced today that it has signed a marketing and distribution agreement with the National Homecare Network . The National Homecare Network is one of the largest and fastest growing homecare provider networks in North America. MedeFile will have direct access to the individuals and their families that use NHN's services. The elderly is a major demographic for MedeFile International, Inc. and anyone seeking homecare information is an excellent candidate for a MedeFile Personal Health Record....
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February 03, 2010February 3, 2010 Syracuse University inked three of Long Island's top football players early this morning. Riverhead linebacker Malcolm Cater, Lawrence quarterback John Kinder and St. Anthony's defensive tackle Rob Welsh will all play for the Orange in the fall. Cater, the co-winner of the Hansen Award, presented to Suffolk's top...
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February 03, 2010February 3, 2010 A West Babylon man was killed Wednesday morning when he apparently lost control of his car on a slippery road in Melville and crashed into a tree, Suffolk County police said. Jean Xavier, 32, was driving west on Ruland Road at about 6:30 a.m. when his 1999 Nissan Maxima struck a tree, police said. Xavier...
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February 03, 2010February 4, 2009 As we enter a new decade, it's time to take our annual look back at the notable pop-culture anniversaries we'll be observing this year. If you feel old, don't say we didn't warn you. 50TH ANNIVERSARY June 16. "Psycho" - To this day, there still may be some folks who have never showered again...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON – AOL on Wednesday posted a net profit despite an eroding subscriber base as the Internet company released its first quarterly earnings since being spun off by Time Warner in December. AOL reported a fourth-quarter net profit of 1.4 million dollars compared with a net loss of 1.96 billion dollars in the same quarter a year ago, when it was still part of the Time Warner stable. AOL said advertising...
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February 03, 2010PARIS – Access to the Internet in China is "completely open" and foreign firms are welcome to work in the thriving sector, China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Wednesday. Beijing is locked in a dispute with US Internet giant Google which has threatened to pull out of the...
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February 03, 2010Google is finally for maps, photo galleries and the Web, but that's of little consolation to owners of Motorola's Droid and T-Mobile's G1. Don't get me wrong, it's great that at least one more Android phone is getting pinch-to-zoom gestures, and it's never been clear why certain phones don't...
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February 03, 2010OSAKA--The five Japan branches of Swedish furniture giant Ikea, which have shown steady sales since opening in Japan in 2006 even during the business slump, are now looking to provide solutions for household storage problems with new model room sets this year. As the first step to meeting the needs of their target customers--parents in their 20s to 40s--the store's Port Island branch renovated its kitchen area, and the Tsuruhama branch...
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February 03, 2010TANABE, Wakayama--Canadian Brad Towle is working to improve local hospitality for foreign tourists visiting Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes by promoting the use of English among local tourism-related businesses. Towle, 35, an employee of the Tanabe City Kumano Tourism Bureau in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, has offered training in foreign guest hospitality to workers of local inns, restaurants, bus companies and shrines. He has given them English menus and lists of simple sentences handy for talking to foreign visitors, based on the belief that improving hospitality is a key to boosting local tourism. "If tourists come before you're ready to accept them, they might leave with a bad impression,...
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February 03, 2010This recipe, given to me by cookbook author Clifford A. Wright, is incredibly easy to make. Don't be afraid to use high heat, and be sure to allow the cabbage to color...
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February 03, 2010LOS ANGELES – Health insurer Health Net Inc. on Wednesday reported a third-quarter loss on hefty restructuring charges, along with a dip in revenue. The company lost $45.2 million, or 43 cents per share, compared with profit of $35.5 million, or 34 cents per share, during the same period a year prior....
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February 03, 2010• £200bn investment could see energy bills rise £300 a year • Older customers less likely to switch providers will lose out Ofgem had already warned that average bills for the UK’s 23 million households are set to rise above £2,000 by 2020. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA The burden on consumers to help with the £200bn bill to fix the market will add to fears that household bills are spiralling out of control – particularly for those on low incomes....
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February 03, 2010* U.S. crude stocks post bigger-than-expected increase * U.S. refinery utilization rate very low * NYMEX makes biggest gain since September on Tuesday NEW YORK, Feb 3 - Oil inched up in choppy trade on Wednesday after U.S. data showed a drop in product inventories in the world's largest energy consumer, while crude inventories rose. U.S. crude for March delivery rose 15 cents to $77.38 a barrel, by 1:18 p.m. EST after hitting a session high above $78. London ICE Brent crude rose 31 cents to $76.37 a barrel. Gasoline prices rose to near two-week highs after a reported 1.2-million-barrel decline. "The gasoline...
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February 03, 2010* Job cuts effort to reduce duplication, cut costs * No new charges expected for latest job cuts * Shares up 1.8 percent By Nicole Maestri SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting 300 jobs at its headquarters in northwest Arkansas as Chief Executive Mike Duke scours the company for ways to cut costs and make the world's biggest retailer more efficient. In a memo sent to employees, Duke said managers were asked to look for opportunities to eliminate duplication and reduce costs when deciding which jobs to cut. The jobs are mainly being eliminated in its...
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February 03, 2010* Obama committed to bank, health reform - shares fall * Pfizer shares fall after results miss view * Dow slips 0.1 pct; S&P off 0.4 pct; Nasdaq dips 0.1 pct By Edward Krudy NEW YORK, Feb 3 - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to overhaul the healthcare system and impose stricter regulatory reforms on Wall Street. The president's comments to the Senate Democratic caucus weighed on stocks in the healthcare and banking sectors and served to underscore the political risk that has pushed U.S. stocks lower in recent weeks. "Those two are very policy-sensitive sectors," said Jeff Kleintop,...
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February 03, 2010* Ackman sees Borders bankruptcy unlikely * Says co may consolidate, possibly with Barnes & Noble * Borders shares up 38 pct, Barnes up 1.3 pct NEW YORK, Feb 3 - Borders Group Inc shares spiked nearly 40 percent on Wednesday after its largest investor, William Ackman, said there was little likelihood the struggling bookseller would file for bankruptcy and it could even be part of an industry consolidation. Borders shares rose 36 cents to $1.30 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and had reached as high as $1.43 earlier in the session. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management owns 17.7 percent of the No. 2 U.S. bricks-and-mortar...
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February 03, 2010* Q3 net profit Y76.1 bln, vs Y134.1 bln net loss a yr ago * Keeps 300 bln yen forecast vs 291.8 bln consensus * To buy back and cancel 250 billion preferred shares * Smaller rival Shinsei says to "defer" guidance * MUFG ADRs in New York fall 2.4 pct By David Dolan TOKYO, Feb 3 - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc , Japan's top bank, posted its biggest profit in seven quarters on Wednesday, buoyed by an improvement in its stock portfolio and kept its full-year forecast. But unlike many of its rivals, it was hit by sharply higher bad-loan costs in the October-to-December quarter after injecting $2 billion into U.S. subsidiary UnionBanCal Corp. Mitsubishi UFJ...
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February 03, 2010* America Movil eyes synergies from consolidation * Company sees transaction complete in second quarter * No infrastructure acquisitions in U.S. By Noel Randewich and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY, Feb 3 - America Movil, controlled by tycoon Carlos Slim, expects tax benefits and other synergies from its purchase of Telmex Internacional and a majority stake in Telmex, executives said on Wednesday. Reacting to tougher competition in the region, Slim unveiled a $21 billion plan last month to shift control of his Mexican fixed-line operator Telmex and regional fixed-line group Telmex Internacional into his flagship America Movil. "We...
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February 03, 2010* Pfizer Q4 misses, 2010 outlook short of analyst views * Pfizer cuts 2012 profit, revenue targets * Roche 2009 results short of estimates * Pfizer shares fall 2.5 percent; Roche off 0.6 pct By Ransdell Pierson and Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Feb 3 - Top global drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Roche Holding AG, posted disappointing profits and gave lackluster forecasts on Thursday, sending their shares lower. The reports underscore a generally uninspiring results season for the pharmaceutical industry, which is being squeezed by tight government healthcare budgets and the loss of patent protection on many previous blockbuster drugs....
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February 03, 2010 * Employees arrested/indicted includes former unit head * AMAT believes are "meritorious defenses" to charges NEW YORK, Feb 3 - Several Applied Materials Inc employees in South Korea have been arrested and charged in connection with an investigation into the misuse of confidential customer data, the company said on Wednesday. Applied Materials, the biggest producer of chipmaking equipment, said the Seoul Prosecutor's Office for the Eastern District has indicted or arrested employees of several companies, including the former head of Applied Materials Korea, who currently is a company vice president, and other Applied Materials...
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February 03, 2010European commissioner says eurozone can handle Greek debt crisis but must have quarterly reports from Athens European commissioner Joaquín Almunia announces plans for 'intense' scrutiny of Greece's attempts to alleviate its debt crisis. Photograph: Oliver Hoslet/EPA The unveiled plans for the most intrusive scrutiny of an EU member state's fiscal and economic policies and book-keeping ever attempted, when it ruled out calling in the International Monetary Fund to bail out and backed Athens' austerity programme aimed at stopping the country "falling off a cliff". Following the announcement of by the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, on Tuesday, Joaquín Almunia, the outgoing...
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February 03, 2010Er, not much – though they're Britain's three favourite comedians, according to the Leicester Comedy festival. Do you agree? The people's choice ... comedians Bill Hicks, Stewart Lee and Tommy Cooper. Photographs: Rex Features and Gavin Evans In order to drum up publicity for the , the organisers have staged an impromptu survey among their online punters to find out who they think is the greatest standup ever. Such surveys crop up pretty regularly – although not, it has to be said, quite as frequently as new comedy...
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February 03, 2010A report out today says education and training programmes should be an integral part of time served in prison and should be included in the sentencing process Inmates work with a tutor in a prison education department Photograph: Michael Stephens/PA In any walk of life skills are the key to economic and social success. Which without any shadow of a doubt is one of the main reasons our prisons are so full. Official statistics show that 52% of male offenders and 72% of female offenders have no qualifications whatsoever. Almost half of all prisoners have literacy skills at or below level 1 and nearly two thirds have...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON: The Treasury Department said today it expects to hit the government's debt ceiling by the end of February, putting pressure on Congress to raise the limit from its current level of $12.4 trillion. Treasury said it is working closely with Congress to raise the ceiling. The Senate has approved legislation to increase it by $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion. A ceiling that high would equal about $45,000 for every American. The House is...
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February 03, 2010The bills from your holiday shopping trips should be arriving right about now -- so it might be a good time to check your credit report. ``People who got caught up in the hectic pace of holiday shopping may not have taken steps to protect their personal...
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February 03, 2010PHILADELPHIA -- Comcast Corp., like its fellow cable operators, is watchful for any new technology or device that could mount a serious challenge to cable by bringing content directly to the consumer in and outside of the home. Devices such as Apple Inc.'s new...
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February 03, 2010IQALUIT, Nunavut -- This Canadian Arctic capital has no stop lights and didn't start naming its streets until a decade ago. Blizzards can last a week or more, and they tend to come very suddenly. So when the financial chiefs of the seven big industrial democracies meet here Friday and Saturday, they'd better have a quick way out. Iqaluit, population 7,000, may seem an unlikely venue for a G-7 bull session about the global economy, but the host nation chose it in part to underscore a message about sovereignty over its part of the Arctic. Climate change is altering...
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February 03, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- Movie Gallery Inc., owner of the Hollywood Video movie rental chain, has filed for Chapter...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK -- Moody's Investors Service lowered the outlook for a subsidiary of Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. on Wednesday,...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK -- Video game sales plunged in the world's largest markets last year, according to a new report from three groups that track the industry. One of the big reasons for the drop is that so many people...
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February 03, 2010SERVICE SECTOR LACKLUSTER: The Institute for Supply Management said its service-sector index barely grew last month but reached its...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK -- News Corp. shares jumped Wednesday, after "Avatar" ticket sales and TV advertising lifted the media conglomerate's fiscal...
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February 03, 2010MIDLAND, Mich. -- Dow Corning Corp. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit surged 57 percent, driven by recovering demand for its silicone products. The company - a joint venture of Dow Chemical Co. and Corning Inc....
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February 03, 2010Amazon.com's list of weekly bestselling Kindle e-books, released February 2 by Publishers Marketplace, shows Kathryn Stockett's The Help, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold hanging on to the top three spots. Robert Craig's new release The First Rule is also...
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February 03, 2010PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ERT , announced today that it will release its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009 on Thursday, February 25, 2010, after the market closes. After the release, the Company will host a conference call at 5:00 PM EST that day. For the conference call, interested participants should dial 1-800-860-2442 when calling within the United States...
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February 03, 2010 Message Board is One More Way CarLocate.com Helps Consumers Shop Smart for Their Next New or Used Car...
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February 03, 2010Download image AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Challenging top embedded engineers around the world to demonstrate their skills and innovation, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced the DesignStellaris 2010 contest, which takes place through June 23, 2010. Contestants can win by leveraging the Keil™ Microcontroller Development Kit software tools to create a unique hardware- or software-based application that showcases technologies enabled by the advanced connectivity, data efficiency, motion control features and other functionality of TI's Stellaris® LM3S9B96 microcontroller as...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi, February 03: A government-constituted panel Wednesday suggested deregulation of prices of auto fuel, and hike in kerosene and cooking gas prices, noting that there was no clear direct relation between price rise of fuels and inflation. The committee headed by economist Kirit Parikh suggested that for petrol and diesel, the price increase could be of Rs.3-4 per litre, kerosene Rs.6 per litre, and cooking gas Rs.100 per...
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February 03, 2010NEW YORK -- Danica Patrick could win her stock car debut at Saturday's ARCA race at Daytona and still decide to bypass the Nationwide Series opener there a week later. The IndyCar star said Wednesday that...
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February 03, 2010Spin Magazine Online Home Magazine Reviews Blog Photos Video Live Community Subscribe Shop Spinsider Login Remember Me Forgot your Password? Digital Magazine Spin Earth Next Prev The Daily Shuffle Breaking: More Fall Out Boy Fallout 1 of 16 Patrick Stump: "I'm Not in Fall Out Boy" 2 of 16 'Lost': The 12 Best Musical Moments Ever! 3 of 16 Wednesday's Music Roundup 4 of 16 5 Best Movies from the Sundance Film Fest 5 of 16 Dead Weather Set Spring Tour 6 of 16 Steven Tyler to Bandmates: I AM Aerosmith 7 of 16 All-Stars Resurrect 'We Are the World' for Haiti 8 of 16 How He Became… Lightspeed Champion 9 of 16 New Albums from Midlake & 6 More! 10 of 16 Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week 11 of 16...
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February 03, 2010 RIHANNA & JUSTIN BIEBER TO PERFORM AT VH1 CONCERT ON THURSDAY, FEB. 4 NELLY FURTADO, PAULINA RUBIO & PITBULL PERFORM AT PEPSI MUSICA SUPER BOWL FAN JAM, FRIDAY, FEB. 5 MIAMI, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The NFL will partner with Pepsi for two free concerts to help celebrate Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida, it was announced today. The PEPSI SUPER BOWL FAN JAM, the only official NFL Super Bowl concert series on South...
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February 03, 2010Consumers have very little patience for online stores, e-banks and travel sites that slow down, act erratically or crash during busy transaction seasons, according to a new study from Gomez, a provider of Web performance optimization tools and services. As the intolerance with clunky Web sites rises, so does the cost of lost e-business for the banks, retailers and travel agencies running these sites, according to the , which was conducted by Equation Research and will be officially announced next week. "Web performance impacts business results, whether measured by revenue, conversions or brand strength," said Jeff Loeb, vice president of products and solutions marketing at...
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February 03, 2010In a perfect world, we'd have all the answers and solve the problems of humanity sometime before dinner. Sadly, in real life, dinner is often delayed, or put off altogether in favor of a microwave noodle pot. On those long, metaphorical evenings, we turn to science as way of narrowing down the number of things we don't know, and helping us push through problems as best we can. Climate science is a great example of this process in action. We know some big, important facts about how Earth's climate works—how adding extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere causes the planet to get hotter, for instance. Other things are more uncertain, such as exactly how sensitive our climate is to...
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February 03, 2010They study old newspapers in libraries, agonise over headlines and deliver every issue by hand … no wonder Stool Pigeon has spent five years breathing life back into the printed music press Bird's eye view ... the Stool Pigeon Even as bloggers, message boarders and downloaders queue up to dance on the grave of the printed music press, one publication – a title that resolutely looks back to a distant past rather than forward to the digital dawn – is proving that the music newspaper can thrive. , a title founded with the express purpose of covering music in the form of a Victorian tabloid newspaper, this month celebrates its fifth...
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February 03, 2010In 2009, the Akron Art Museum and the Tuesday Musical Association premiered FUZE!, a concert series designed to bring new, interesting and unusual artists and performers to a hopefully curious public. The three concerts featured critically lauded artists - cellist/composer/multimedia artist Maya Beiser, SO Percussion and hipster string quartet Ethel. Each sold-out concert validated the organizers' belief that Akronites and their surrounding neighbors are interested in something different from the usual artsy-fartsy fare. For 2010, FUZE! returns with three concerts featuring artists stretching the boundaries and incorporating the past present and presumably writing the future of their chosen...
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February 03, 2010Picking someone to beat Jimmie Johnson or anyone on the Hendrick Motorsports team is dicey at best. But if there is one organization that could turn the trick in 2010, it very well might be Joe Gibbs Racing. Hamlin, who is the only JGR driver to have made the Chase, says he's focused and confident. The Gibbs camp was arguably the second-best team last season with the trio of Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano combining to find Victory Lane nine times. Though only Hamlin made the Chase, the confidence level at JGR is high as the dawn of the new season nears. "We might not go out there the first six months and win six races, eight races before the Chase, but...
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February 03, 2010CAIRO - Two senior Egyptian editors — one a member of the country's ruling party and the other an expert on Jewish affairs — have been punished by Egypt's Journalists Union for violating its ban on contacts with Israel, in a case that underlines the country's ambivalent policies toward its neighbor. Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel, but relations have remained cool since, with government-to-government contacts dominating links between the two nations. Cultural exchanges and travel to Israel are officially discouraged by the government, while popular sentiments remain mostly hostile toward Israel because of its perceived oppression of...
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February 03, 2010MTV News special "Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public" is set to premiere on Valentine's Day as part of MTV's A Thin Line campaign to stop the spread of digital abuse. And before the show, Boys Like Girls, Michelle Trachtenberg, All Time Low and Asher Roth have teamed up with MTV to inform people about serious harm sexting,...
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February 03, 2010Ashley Viselli is a 5-foot-10 senior guard and captain on the 17-0 Pentucket girls basketball team. She became the first Pentucket girl to reach 1,000 career points earlier this season and was named MVP of the Greater Haverhill Tournament. Viselli is fourth in the Cape Ann League, averaging 15.2 points per game. Her younger sister, freshman Coley Viselli, also plays on the team. Whats it like playing with your younger sister ? Viselli: 'Its frustrating at...
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February 03, 2010CHICAGO-Mike DeBord has been hired as the Chicago Bears' tight ends coach after spending the past two...
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February 03, 2010 - LONDON - London organizers say three of the planned 11 residential sections have been built for the 2012 Olympic Village. Work began in the summer of 2008 and the first residential plot was completed last October. The Olympic Delivery Authority says two others, comprising nearly 600 homes, have now been structurally completed. Work will now start on the exterior of the buildings...
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February 03, 2010 - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Dwight Freeney says the pain in his sprained right ankle is subsiding and he still hopes play in Sunday's Super Bowl. The Colts' All-Pro defensive end said Wednesday that in addition to using an oxygen tent, he has been walking barefoot and in the Florida sand to strengthen the ankle. It appears to be working. Though it's been a slow progression,...
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February 03, 2010 - Site: Daytona Beach. Fla. Schedule: Thursday, practice , draw party ; Friday, practice ; Saturday, race, 8 p.m. Track: Daytona International Speedway . Race distance: 187.5 miles, 75 laps . Last year: Kevin Harvick won the exhibition race, passing Jamie...
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February 03, 2010 - BANGKOK, Thailand - The Asian Tour begins its season Thursday, with organizers still piecing together a schedule in the face of financial turmoil and the challenge of a rival tour. As the global economy plateaus rather than improves, Asian Tour organizers have been dealing with the loss of two of its richest events-the Indian Masters and season-ending Volvo Masters. A new...
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February 03, 2010COMP AVG TD INT PASSING ATT COM PCT YARDS GAIN TD PCT INT PCT LONG RATE P. Manning 83 56 67.5 623 7.51 5 6.0 1 1.2 46 104.6 TEAM 83 56 67.5 623 7.51 5 6.0 1 1.2 46 104.6 OPPONENTS 66 38 57.6 491 7.44 2 3.0 3 4.5 80t 72.2 ; RUSHING ATT YARDS AVG LONG TD Addai 27 103 3.8 17 0 Do. Brown 12 28 2.3 13 0 M. Hart 7 14 2.0 3 0 P. Manning 3 -2 -0.7 0 0 TEAM 49 143 2.9 17 0 OPPONENTS 48 173 3.6 20 0 ; RECEIVING NO. YARDS AVG LONG TD Garcon 16 185 11.6 36 1 Dal. Clark 11 94 8.5 19 1 Collie 11 175 15.9 46 2 Wayne 11 118 10.7 25 1 Addai 4 27 6.8 13 0 Do. Brown 2 15 7.5 8 0 M. Hart...
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February 03, 2010COMP AVG TD INT PASSING ATT COM PCT YARDS GAIN TD PCT INT PCT LONG RATE P. Manning 571 393 68.8 4500 7.88 33 5.8 16 2.8 80t 99.9 Painter 28 8 28.6 83 2.96 0 0.0 2 7.1 22 9.8 Addai 1 1 100.0 22 22.00 1 100.0 0 0.0 22t 158.3 Wayne 1 0 0.0 0 0.00 0 0.0 1100.0 0 0.0 TEAM 601 402 66.9 4605 7.66 34 5.7 19 3.2 80t 95.4 OPPONENTS 583 372 63.8 3631 6.23 19 3.3 16 2.7 63t 80.6 RUSHING ATT YARDS AVG LONG TD Addai 219 828 3.8 21t 10 Do. Brown 78 281 3.6 45 3 C. Simpson 15 102 6.8 31t 2 M. Hart 26 70 2.7 15 1 Dal. Clark 2 11 5.5 7 0 Garcon 2 10 5.0 17 0 Painter 3 4 1.3 10 0 Collie 2 1 0.5 2 0 P. Manning 19 -13 -0.7 3 0 TEAM 366 1294 3.5 45 16 OPPONENTS 467 2024 4.3 64t 10 RECEIVING NO. YARDS AVG LONG TD...
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February 03, 2010Graham Onions admits he is battling two emotions as he prepares to put up for charity auction the only bat he has ever used in Tests. A 'legend': Graham Onions salutes the crowd after his test-saving spell with the bat against South Africa Sadness that he will take guard no more with the 2lb 7oz Woodworm bat with which he defied the South African attack not once, but twice this winter to help secure England’s 1-1 series draw. But also satisfaction that the blade which gained the gratitude of his team-mates and persuaded captain Andrew Strauss to give him the nickname ‘Legend’ is going to raise money for a cause close to his heart, the soldiers’ charity Help For...
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February 03, 2010Francome: Has suggested a two week period during which whips cannot be used Jump racing constantly walks an animal welfare tightrope that will never be completely silenced. The bottom line is that there will always be some who want the sport banned because they think it is cruel. There are also those who will not be happy until jockeys are not able to use whips in racing for anything other than safety issues. My old sparring partner John Francome has kicked the never-ending use-of-the-whip debate into life again by suggesting that a trial should be run without whips for two weeks with riders only allowed to use hands and heels. The theory appears to be that, after the fortnight, few if any...
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February 03, 2010New Sunderland striker Benjani is desperate to kick-start his season after securing a switch to Wearside. The 31-year-old only completed his loan move from Manchester City to the Stadium of Light a day after the closure of the January window because of problems with the club's communications network on Monday. However, he is relishing the chance to prove himself once again after managing only six appearances for City this season, and only two of those in the Barclays Premier League. Fresh start: Benjani can't wait to pull on the red and white stripes Benjani told Sunderland's official website: 'It feels really great to be here and I am very happy with my...
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February 03, 2010The woman at the centre of the John Terry affair today furiously denied allegations of relationships with three more Chelsea players. French underwear model Vanessa Perroncel dismissed claims she had slept with strikers Adrian Mutu and Eidur Gudjohnsen and another mystery player as 'absolute nonsense'. The revelations will increase the pressure on embattled Terry, who faces fresh calls to step down as England captain. Denial: Former Chelsea strikers Adrian Mutu, left, and Eidur Gudjohnsen Revelations: Miss Perroncel had a son Jaydon with Wayne Bridge , but is alleged to have had a four-month affair with his former teammate John Terry It also emerged today that Cheryl Cole has offered...
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February 03, 2010Ryan Giggs believes Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney is edging closer to the select group of players currently regarded the best in the world. The 24-year-old has just completed a memorable week, which began with his first four-goal haul in the victory over Hull. Rooney then headed home the injury-time goal that secured another Wembley appearance for the Red Devils at the expense of Manchester City in the Carling Cup, before finally finishing off a sensational second goal in United's demolition of title rivals Arsenal at the weekend. Pure joy: Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring his brilliant goal for Manchester United at Arsenal on Sunday And Giggs believes Rooney's form could...
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February 03, 2010Carlo Ancelotti has conceded his title-chasing side need to improve their defending from set pieces after counterpart Phil Brown identified the issue as 's 'Achilles heel'. The Blues extended their lead at the Barclays Premier League summit to two points after a 1-1 draw at the KC Stadium, but their ongoing difficulties at dead-ball situations were exposed. Steven Mouyokolo put the Tigers ahead as he left the Chelsea defence for dead to head home a Stephen Hunt corner after half an hour. Then, just moments after Didier Drogba equalised with his 20th goal of the season, Anthony Gardner missed a glorious chance to make it 2-1 after getting on the end of Tom Cairney's free-kick....
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February 03, 2010A source close to the Oklahoma State football program reports that Calvin Barnett, a four-star defensive tackle from Booker T. Washington High School, will sign with Arkansas during an 11 a.m. ceremony today. Tulsa Washington...
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February 03, 2010Jenks' Jarrett Lake has signed a letter of intent with Arkansas, becoming the first surprise of signing day in the state. Jenks standout Jarrett Lake switched schools from Oklahoma from Arakansas on...
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February 03, 2010VALENCIA, Spain - Michael Schumacher says Mercedes GP will be "competitive" this season but...
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February 03, 201017-year-old...
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February 03, 2010Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight FreeneyMark Humphrey/AP Photo Related articlesSuper Bowl XLIV: Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian expecting a high-scoring, competitive game Super Bowl XLIV: Indianapolis Colts arrive in South Florida feeling excited, feeling young Super Bowl XLIV: Indianapolis Colts very, very ready as bye week ends Super Bowl XLIV: Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell keeps players hungry Super Bowl XLIV: A look at five myths surrounding the Indianapolis Colts entering Super Bowl week MIAMI – The NFL's most famous ankle belongs to Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight Freeney, famous enough to rival the Colts' very famous quarterback in the fame category. And so...
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February 03, 2010Morgan State and Murray State will clash on national television as part of the 2010 Bracketbusters challenge, ESPNU announced today. The Bears, defending champions of the MEAC, will face the Racers, who are currently 17-3 and have won 17 straight Ohio Valley Conference games, Feb. 20 at noon at the Regional Special Events Center in Murray,...
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February 03, 2010Spin Magazine Online Home Magazine Reviews Blog Photos Video Live Community Subscribe Shop Spinsider Login Remember Me Forgot your Password? Digital Magazine Spin Earth Next Prev The Daily Shuffle Breaking: More Fall Out Boy Fallout 1 of 16 Patrick Stump: "I'm Not in Fall Out Boy" 2 of 16 'Lost': The 12 Best Musical Moments Ever! 3 of 16 Wednesday's Music Roundup 4 of 16 5 Best Movies from the Sundance Film Fest 5 of 16 Dead Weather Set Spring Tour 6 of 16 Steven Tyler to Bandmates: I AM Aerosmith 7 of 16 All-Stars Resurrect 'We Are the World' for Haiti 8 of 16 How He Became… Lightspeed Champion 9 of 16 New Albums from Midlake & 6 More! 10 of 16 Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week 11 of 16...
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February 03, 2010Twitter pushed out a password reset Tuesday evening to accounts that were following suspicious users. The move comes in the wake of a revelation that phishers were attempting to steal usernames and passwords using fake BitTorrent sites. Twitter foiled the plan as part of its ongoing monitoring for odd activity. Twitter noticed a sudden surge in followers for a couple of accounts in the last five days. When Twitter technicians started digging, they discovered a plot that compelled immediate action. "Torrent sites aren't exactly new; however, this is one of the first...
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February 03, 2010AOL's revenues dropped 17 percent due to declining subscriptions and a weak online advertising market as the company reported its first...
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February 03, 2010Some interesting ideas start at the 606. Nigel Kennedy 's new, three-electric-violin 'Chilling-est Violinists' or 'Big Jam' project was conceived at the club, when Kennedy sat in at a gig by club regular, violinist Chris Garrick.âEuro¨âEuro¨ But this is Christmas, the time we are all reminded - sometimes positively, sometimes forcibly- that nests are there to be outgrown. This rebellious romp may indeed have already outgrown the parental home at...
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February 03, 2010With woozy guitars playing over washes of keyboard, this somnolent synth-kid has inspired a new genre – hypnagogic pop Glo-fi high-flyer ... Ducktails Hometown: New Jersey. The lineup: Matt Mondanile . The background: On Monday, we interviewed legendary rock scribe Nick Kent, a man so "elegantly wasted" – a phrase that he invented in the 1970s – they may as well draft in Russell Brand for the movie version of the former NME freelance's soon-to-be-published memoirs, . Indeed, according to the dissolute deity, overtures have already been made to Brand about starring in the Kent biopic – true story. But we digress. Another phrase that the writer formerly known as Nick...
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February 03, 2010Austria scored a hat-trick this year, with three of its countrymen nominated for an Oscar, including "Inglourious Basterds" star Christoph Waltz, commentators praised on Wednesday. "This is a hat-trick, not just for Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" but also...
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February 03, 2010'Inception', starring Leonardo di Caprio and from...
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February 03, 2010More from Music...
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February 03, 2010More from Music...
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February 03, 2010More from Music...
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February 03, 2010Joe Jonas seems to be actively pursuing his acting career. The Jonas Brother is now attached to a two-episode arc on the ABC drama "Brothers & Sisters," according to E! News. Jonas will reportedly play the younger version of Balthazar Getty's...
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February 03, 2010It has been more than eight months since Michael Jackson died of an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol. The doctor who admitted to supplying the pop icon with the drug, Conrad Murray, has been the focus of a criminal investigation for much of that time. This week, it was reported that the Texas-based physician is ready to surrender to authorities if prosecutors decide to file charges against him in the case. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Murray arrived in Los Angeles over the weekend and spent Tuesday afternoon meeting with his lawyers. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has not confirmed whether it will file any charges against the cardiologist, whose...
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February 03, 2010 Submit your comment Mitsubishi Motors posted its first quarterly profit in more than a year, bolstered by cost cuts and recovering auto demand worldwide. The Japanese maker of the Galant sedan and Outlander SUV on Wednesday reported a net profit of 10.7 billion yen for the October-December quarter, a turnaround from a year-earlier loss of 17.5 billion yen. The result...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON — says being criticized is part of the president's job, and she understands why her husband has been on the...
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February 03, 2010Being that we are growing closer and closer to Valentine's Day, the supposedly most romantic of all holidays, I'd like to branch out a bit and take on a different topic than the norm today. NPR commentator Lori Gottlieb has just released a book entitled Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. In it, Gottlieb insists that a generation of contradictory messages and empowering commandments largely advanced by Feminism have prevented women from choosing a more-than-adequate husband when the opportunity presents itself. Instead, as Gottlieb suggests, such pronouncements have encouraged women to hold out for the perfect mate. Liesl Schillinger's review of the book in...
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February 03, 2010For all their professed love of reason and logic, libertarians can be damned unreasonable sometimes. Consider this post from the blog Live Oaks on the supposed injustice of the Tenth Amendment: Glenn Beck... recently made a statement on his radio show that the states have a right to institute universal health care, hand out free cars, etc. if the citizens of that state want such things. He stated that the federal government is barred from such actions, but the states are not. In other words, he is not opposed to violating individual rights; he just wants it done on a more local level. This is a typical approach by conservatives... They do not challenge the premise that the individual must be...
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February 03, 2010Women join together wearing red to bring attention to heart disease as the #1 killer of women American Heart Association If you like this ... Celebrate American Heart Month with a heart healthy diet New York City declares war on salt Not just the uninsured skippping medications due to cost View all »...
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February 03, 2010Glenn Beck has always been a critic of progressives but some think he went too far when he claimed that progressives were "taking you to a place to be slaughtered" . Beck's comment was connected to his "Cloward and Piven" conspiracy theory in which progressives purposefully cause an economic crisis in order to takeover government. Beck's conspiracy theory fails to recognize that the party in power usually loses power in an economic crisis rather than gaining power. President Bush and the Republicans are the most recent examples. Since the...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will meet with bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House...
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February 03, 2010GAZA – The Islamist group Hamas on Wednesday formally rejected allegations it had committed war crimes during last year's fighting in Gaza, charges made in a United Nations report. Hamas officials said the group set out in a 52-page response handed to a U.N. official in Gaza that the killing of three Israeli civilians in rocket attacks during Israel's December 27, 2008-January 18, 2009...
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February 03, 2010CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb. 3 – CARROLLTON, Texas, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine has begun a sponsorship of the A-Claim™ medical payment solution that includes discounts on A-Claim for all AAUCM members. A-Claim is a proprietary medical payment solution developed by Preferred Health Technology Inc. of Carrollton, Texas, that is changing the way physicians, hospitals and other health care providers are paid. The system simply and securely verifies patients' insurance eligibility,...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by U.S. News & World Report: EVENT TOPIC: "Going Green: America's Cities and the Role of Government" DESCRIPTION: 's National Issues Briefing, "Going Green: America's Cities and the Role of Government," will evaluate the current...
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February 03, 2010BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 3 – BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Florida Chapter of the Club Manager's Association of America today announced they have raised $425,000 in Haiti relief aid under their We Care Program. Approximately eighty-five percent of the funds will directly benefit over 600 South Florida Haitian country club employees and their families who have been adversely affected by the earthquake. The remaining funds will be allocated to a yet to be determined national organization assisting Haiti. Craig Martin, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, coordinated efforts of the...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Basketball great Alonzo Mourning will be featured on February's episode of a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients. airs on more than 300 television stations nationwide. Mourning was one of the top professional basketball players of his era, a seven-time NBA All-Star and two-time Defensive Player of the Year, when he was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a rare and life-threatening genetic kidney disease. In this month's episode, he discusses his surprise upon receiving his diagnosis: "I was shocked when they told...
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February 03, 2010STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 3 – STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- RecycleMania springs back into action as college campuses compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste. For a 10-week period, beginning in mid-January and running parallel to the college basketball season, colleges and universities take part in an exciting competition that increases recycling participation by students and staff, and raises awareness about the significance of waste reduction programs on campuses. From January 17 through March 27, 2010, 607 schools representing 49 states, the District of Columbia and Canada will compete in eight categories to see who recycles the...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday rejected the government's announcement of a committee to deliberate on a mechanism for statehood for Telangana, terming it an "eyewash" and a "delaying tactic". BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said the five-member committee would serve no purpose as there was no clear reference for creation of a separate state of Telangana. “The BJP rejects lock stock and barrel the committee set up by the central government for consultation on the situation in Andhra...
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February 03, 2010Kolkata: West Bengal's Power and Non-Conventional Energy Minister and senior Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Mrinal Banerjee died of...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi: Jaya Bachchan may be openly criticising the Samajwadi Party's decision to oust high profile leader Amar Singh, but Mohan Singh, the party's newly-appointed general secretary, Wednesday asserted that...
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February 03, 2010While the 2010 Bonnaroo lineup won’t be revealed until February 9th, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne let slip in an interview with Spinner that his band will perform a midnight set at the Manchester, Tennessee fest that will feature a complete performance of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. “As of yesterday, we’re gonna do...
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February 03, 2010Photograph by Peter Yang For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a 24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City. Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get...
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February 03, 2010We’re giving away a Lil Wayne prize pack to three lucky winners, each of whom will score a copy of Lil Wayne’s The Carter documentary DVD and a Lil Wayne T-shirt. The sweepstakes is open to residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC who are 18 years of age or older as of February 3, 2010. To enter fill out your name, e-mail and age in the form below. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Sweepstakes begins at 9:00am EST on February 3, 2010 and ends at 11:59pm EST on February 17, 2010. Number of Prizes: 2. ARV: $44.95. Certain restrictions may apply. Complete Official Rules are available below. Loading… Official Rules for the “Lil Wayne T-Shirt and DVD”...
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February 03, 2010On February 3, the most blogged artists according to The Hype Machine are French alternative rock band Phoenix, Brooklyn experimental rock band Yeasayer, and Baltimore indie duo Beach House. Other talked-about artists of the moment include Major Lazer, the British collaborative music project founded just a year...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi/Mumbai/Lucknow,February 03: Political discourse hit a new low Wednesday with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray launching a vicious personal attack on Rahul Gandhi and saying the Congress MP was a "victim of the disease" that sets in when a person doesn't get married "despite advancing age". While the Congress hit back saying the 84-year-old Bal Thackeray was a "paper tiger" and had probably turned senile, his son Uddhav...
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February 03, 2010Report refers to making 'hard choices' and stresses need for co-operation with US and other countries A Royal Navy Trident nuclear submarine. Trident is the only weapons system mentioned in the defence green paper. Photograph: Corbis More deployable bangs are needed with fewer bucks: that is the message behind the defence green paper, an exercise designed to ask questions, but not answer them. The answers, notably how to rebalance the £37bn annual defence budget to make it more relevant to future conflicts,...
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February 03, 2010Labour's latest tactic seeks to portray the Tories as people who cannot make up their minds, people who do U-turns, who say one thing one day and another the next Gordon Brown at prime ministers questions today. Photograph: BBC It doesn't take a genius to know that 's greatest problem in the forthcoming general election campaign will be how to sell the prime minister to the public for another whole...
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February 03, 2010British Library makes explorer's account of final days of doomed Edwardian polar expedition available to worldwide readers Robert Scott and his party at the South Pole in January 1912. Photograph: Scott Polar Research Institute Readers can, from today, pore over the pages of faded pencil handwriting that make up one of the most famous diaries in the world – Captain Robert Scott's journal of the final months, days and hours of his doomed 1911-1912 expedition to the South Pole....
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February 03, 2010updated 9:06 a.m. ET Feb. 3, 2010 When she moved into the nation’s most prestigious address, Michelle Obama’s husband told her that rough times were ahead. The country was in recession, people were out of work, the political parties were in open warfare — and the man who was going to be blamed for it all was President Barack Obama. But you won’t hear the first lady utter a peep of complaint. “The truth is, there are a lot of folks who are hurting. And there's no way I'm going to sit here and complain; I'm sitting in the White House,” Michelle Obama told TODAY’s Matt Lauer during an exclusive, far-ranging White House interview that aired Wednesday.advertisement | It’s just over a year since...
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February 03, 2010updated 9:45 a.m. ET Feb. 3, 2010reporting advertisement | "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you're trying to pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save on college. You prioritize, you make tough choices." President Obama does it again. His latest comment comes almost one year after his first one during a town hall meeting in Indiana in which he said, “You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas...
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February 03, 2010A British couple who escaped trial in Dubai for having sex out of wedlock by producing a marriage certificate have returned to Britain, the British embassy in the Gulf Arab emirate said on Wednesday. Last week, Dubai's public prosecutor dismissed the charge,...
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February 03, 2010By Anne Flaherty, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - It's time to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, the nation's top defence officials declared Tuesday, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaiming that service members should not be forced to "lie about who they are." However, both Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen asked for a year to study the impact before Congress would lift the controversial policy. In the meantime, Gates announced plans to loosen enforcement rules for the policy, which says, in essence, that gays may serve so long as they keep their...
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February 03, 2010By Pamela Hess, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress on Tuesday. The terror organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including "clean" recruits with a negligible trail of terrorist contacts, CIA Director Leon Panetta said. The chilling warning comes as Christmas Day airline attack suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutullab was co-operating with federal investigators, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday. Al-Qaida also is inspiring homegrown extremists to trigger violence on their...
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February 03, 2010Timergara : A bomb planted outside a girls' school killed three US soldiers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the army said, in an area that had been largely cleared of Taliban militants. In scenes that have become familiar in the battle between Taliban militants and the state, a young girl trapped below the stones of a collapsed wall cried out for help. Three children and a Pakistani paramilitary soldier were also killed and 45 people were wounded in the blast near Swat Valley, where the...
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February 03, 2010London: China and India sharply raised defence spending in 2009 despite the economic crisis but most European Nato members face a squeeze on defence budgets as they rein in gaping deficits, a report said on Wednesday. The impact of the global financial crisis on defence and security spending varied across regions and countries, the International Institute for Strategic Studies thinktank said in its annual report 'The Military Balance'. US defence spending almost doubled under...
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February 03, 2010Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government today claimed it had earned praise from a visiting delegation of European Union diplomats for ensuring peace during Christmas and New Year celebrations in the last two years in Kandhamal district, the scene of communal violence in 2007. "The EU diplomats have thanked...
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February 03, 2010On Board Special Aircraft: India today said even "a few steps" by Pakistan in Mumbai terror attacks probe will satisfy it and help in resumption of the composite dialogue as well as carrying on with normal business between the two countries. On his way to Kuwait...
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February 03, 2010Karbala : A bomb on a cart pulled by a motorcycle killed at least 20 in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on Wednesday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala where hundreds of thousands have gathered for a religious rite, police said. The attack was the third this week on Shi'ites making the arduous religious trek to the city south of Baghdad, stoking condemnations from pilgrims of Iraqi politicians in the tense run up to a potentially violent parliamentary election in March. Police...
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February 03, 2010The number of tourists...
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February 03, 2010March event hosts top elected officials and highlights key policy issues affecting the Hispanic business community WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will host its 20th Annual Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C., from March 22 - 24, 2010. Still celebrating its 30th anniversary, the USHCC offers this unique three-day event, which will provide participants with an unparalleled opportunity to hear directly about today's urgent policy and business concerns from key administration officials...
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February 03, 2010NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Emdeon Inc. , a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, today announced that its 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2010, with a record date of April 8, 2010 for purposes of determining stockholders eligible to vote at the meeting. Because this is Emdeon's first annual stockholders...
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February 03, 2010BAGHDAD - An Iraqi appeals panel has decided to allow nearly 500 candidates banned for alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party to stand in a March parliamentary election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday. The ban was imposed by a controversial committee last month and was seen by once-dominant Sunnis as an attempt by...
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February 03, 2010BERLIN - German police have arrested three people they suspect recruited Islamists to fight abroad in a nationwide swoop in which documents and...
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February 03, 2010WASHINGTON— The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board...
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February 03, 2010CHICAGO -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has declared victory in the state's Democratic...
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February 03, 2010Despite the general opinion that it was an overall lackluster year for movies, the box office haul belies such a view, and not just because of "Avatar." BREAKING NEWS Israel Uses White Phosphorus in Combat Action Miss Virginia Crowned Miss America More......
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February 03, 2010Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago. BREAKING NEWS Israel Uses White Phosphorus in Combat Action Miss Virginia Crowned Miss America More......
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February 03, 2010Michael Jackson's doctor is in Los Angeles for meetings with his lawyers but has not been asked to surrender to authorities or appear in court in connection with the pop singer's death, his lawyer said on Tuesday. BREAKING NEWS Israel Uses White Phosphorus in Combat Action...
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February 03, 2010A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal, police warned today. The anonymous 19-year-old student offered her virginity to the highest bidder on the website www.ineed.co.nz under the name "Unigirl," saying she would use the money to pay for her tuition. She said in a post that more than 30,000 people had viewed her ad and more than 1,200 had made bids before she accepted an offer of more than $45,000 . Unlike similar New Zealand websites,...
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February 03, 2010The chemical, which is used to manufacture plastics and fertilizer, became a household name in China in 2008, when six children died and 300,000 were sickened after drinking tainted baby formula. Dozens of officials, dairy executives and farmers were punished, and Beijing vowed to implement stricter safety measures and step up inspections of the industry. Lekang Dairy...
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February 03, 2010Police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said Wednesday that the man was walking on the ice...
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February 03, 2010The appeals ruling also put other leaders around the world on notice that the court will not balk at charging them with genocide if they persecute their own people. The standard of proof the court used last year to dismiss three counts of genocide against al-Bashir "was higher and more demanding than what is required" in its statutes, appellate judge Erkki Kourula of Finland said Wednesday. Activists welcomed the groundbreaking decision, which helps define just how much evidence prosecutors need before judges at the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal will...
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February 03, 2010Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says swapping low-enriched uranium with uranium enriched by 20...
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February 03, 2010That's the problem facing Robert Fidler, who Wednesday lost a High Court appeal to prevent his...
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February 03, 2010Actor John Travolta has finally overcome his fear of balding after learning that fans liked his shaved-head...
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February 03, 2010Johnny Depp is set to direct a documentary on rock legend Keith Richards, who has...
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February 03, 2010 Visionary Concept Work for Samsung C&T Explores the Future of Travel and Transport...
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February 03, 2010PARIS - European powers reacted skeptically Wednesday to Iran's offer to send uranium abroad for enrichment as a way of ending its showdown with the West. French Foreign Ministry Bernard Kouchner said his personal interpretation of the Iranian offer is that they are "trying to buy time." He told reporters in Paris that "I'm perplexed and even a bit pessimistic." President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the United Nations. A U.N. proposal last year envisaged Iran sending low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for further enrichment and use in a research reactor in Tehran. It was aimed...
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February 03, 2010TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. has been hit by over 100 complaints in the U.S. and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a spate of quality troubles for the automaker as it grapples with massive global recalls. The Japanese company's sales are being battered in the U.S. -- Toyota's biggest market -- after recalls of top-selling models to fix a gas pedal that can stick in the depressed position. The new Prius gas-electric hybrid, which went on sale in Japan and the U.S. in May 2009, is not part of the recalls that extend to Europe and China, covering nearly 4.5 million vehicles. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received about 100...
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February 03, 2010Britain turns its back on dementia – and its young people, Ofsted under fire, and stories of redemption A study has found that dementia costs more than cancer and heart disease combined but receives a fraction of research funding. Photograph: Graham Turner Today's top society stories Other news • under costcutting measures contained in a "future scenarios" document drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers, says the Daily Telegraph • The soon-to-depart children's commissioner, Sir Al Aynsley-Green has told the Independent that . The sweet sound of success Cardiff: Voice 10 social enterprise conference • Inspiring presentation of the day was by Lance Gardner, managing director of...
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February 03, 2010CBI report fuels debate about what role hospitals would have if community services were significantly expanded Is it time for the NHS to offer more treatment at home? Photograph: Ian Waldie/Getty Images The could save £15bn by , according to a new report from the CBI. Too much medical care is delivered in hospitals because there are not enough alternatives in the community, says the business group, which is urging a rapid expansion of "smarter care". Controversially, the report recommends that private companies should be allowed to provide the new services and that the NHS should not...
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February 03, 2010The first Golden Tulip Hotel in...
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February 03, 2010IF LAST Friday's cautionary...
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February 03, 2010HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. , owner or part-owner and managers of 50 luxury hotels, restaurants, tourist trains and river cruise properties...
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February 03, 2010 - ROME - Fiat workers across Italy are going on strike to protest plans to end auto production at a Sicilian plant next year. Wednesday's four-hour strike, which began at 8:00 a.m. , marked the first nationwide work stoppage since CEO Sergio Marchionne took over the company in 2004 and mounted its turnaround. Fiat SpA has insisted auto production must stop at the plant because of the high cost-about ?1,000 per car-of transporting parts from northern Italy to the Termini Imerese plant on the southern island. Fiat has said it would study ways of revamping the plant to build other things,...
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February 03, 2010Nagpur, Feb 3 : Vincent Barnes, the bowling coach of South African cricket team contended that although the Indian tour is hectic, the players are a focussed lot. Addressing a news conference after the draw of the stumps on the first day of the...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi, Feb 3 : Prior to finalising the railway budget, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to meet industry...
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February 03, 2010Chennai, Feb 3 : Locking horns with the Shiv Sena over the 'Mumbai for Marathis' issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said it has no takers in Maharashtra and dismissed all reports that said the people of the South were 'anti-Hindi'. The DMK patriarch...
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February 03, 2010Gandhinagar, Feb 3 : A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation arrived here on Wednesday to probe into the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and disappearance of his wife Kausarbi. It was...
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February 03, 2010Giridih , Feb 3 : Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren appeared before a local court here on Wednesday in connection with the 1974 Kurko murder case. Soren stood in the dock for around 30 minutes as Ranjit Singh, the public prosecutor argued in the court of N N Singh, the...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi, Feb 3 : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday appointed a four-member committee to probe the alleged violations of labour laws at Commonwealth Games project...
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February 03, 2010Panaji: With trance music festivals in Goa becoming notorious for sale of drugs during events, the three-day non-stop music festival beginning Feb 5 in a forest area near Agonda beach has come under the police radar. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Deputy Inspector General of Police Ravindra Singh Yadav said that the police will keep a close eye on the 'Chakra view festival', which begins at 6 a.m. Friday and winds up at 12 a.m....
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February 03, 2010A former Irish priest who told gardai he was sexually attracted to altar boys was jailed for one year for indecently assaulting a child. Patrick Hughes, 82, of Park Drive Court, Castleknock, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to four counts of indecent assault against the child, then an altar boy. The boy was aged between 11 and 14 years old when he was abused in a parochial house, on trips to the beach and in the former priest's home on dates between 1979 and 1983. Yesterday, Judge Katherine Delahunt said Hughes' comments on altar boys were strange, before jailing...
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February 03, 2010Dear Carolyn: I am 29 and single. I have a very strong mother, who raised me to treat women with respect. I was taught that women are strong, intelligent and independent; and that women don't need any special treatment. When I go on dates, I treat women that way. I respect them, but I don't offer to hold open the door or always take my car. And I always split the check rather than pay for them. I think it's...
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February 03, 2010New Delhi, Feb 3 : The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are likely to meet very soon to focus on starting the dialogue process, after relations between the two countries soured following the 26/ 11 Mumbai attacks. The foreign secretaries are expected to...
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February 03, 2010YURI KAGEYAMA The Associated Press TOKYO - Honda's quarterly profit soared sixfold on cost cuts and strong sales of green vehicles, boosting the Japanese automaker's full year forecast as the global car market gradually recovers. Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it booked net profit of 134.6 billion yen for the October-December quarter and predicted its first increase in full year profit in two years, underlining a recovery in world auto sales. The results were better than the 74 billion yen profit forecast by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters. The Japanese automaker, known for the Insight hybrid, Accord sedan and Odyssey minivan, reported an 11.5...
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February 03, 2010After sparking a firestorm of criticism from Nevada's elected officials for suggesting that people saving money for college shouldn't blow it in Las Vegas, Obama told U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a letter that he wasn't saying anything negative about Las Vegas. It was the second time since taking office that Obama singled out Las Vegas as a potential example of spending excessively. "I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun," Obama said, according to the letter released by Reid's office. "There is no place better to have fun than Vegas, one of our country's great destinations." Obama said he always enjoys his visits...
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February 03, 2010DETROIT -- Toyota's auto sales fell 16 percent in January, a month when it recalled millions of vehicles and halted sales of several models. Most other automakers reported higher sales and looked for opportunities to snatch customers from the troubled Japanese automaker. January is typically a weak month for U.S. auto sales, but automakers expected sales to improve over last January, when they...
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February 03, 2010LAS VEGAS — President Barack Obama is known for having a way with words, but some lawmakers from Nevada wish he would pipe down about trips to Sin City. After sparking a firestorm of criticism from Nevada's elected officials for suggesting that people saving money for college shouldn't blow it in Las Vegas, Obama told U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a letter that he wasn't saying anything negative about Las Vegas. It was the second time since taking office that Obama singled out Las Vegas as a potential example of spending excessively. "I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun," Obama said, according to the...
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February 03, 2010By Dee-Ann Durbin and Dan Strumpf Associated Press DETROIT - Toyota's auto sales fell 16 percent in January, as it recalled millions of vehicles and halted sales of several models. Most other automakers reported higher sales and looked for opportunities to snatch sales from the troubled Japanese automaker. January is typically a weak month for U.S. auto sales, but automakers expected sales to improve over last January, when they dipped to a 26-year low because of the tough economy. General Motors Co. said its January sales rose 14 percent because of higher fleet and crossover vehicle sales. Crossovers are sized like SUVs but sit on a car instead of a truck frame. Rival Ford Motor Co. said...
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February 03, 2010Demonstration green flight, with reduction of flight time by 30 minutes, saved 10,686 kilograms of fuel and cut carbon emissions by 33,769 kilograms The employment of air traffic management best practices and initiatives by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore contributed to significant reductions in flight time, fuel consumption and carbon emissions by the world's first multi-sector demonstration green flight from Los Angeles to Singapore via Tokyo. The Singapore Airlines demonstration green flight, which arrived in Singapore at 0132hrs local time today, is another initiative under the...
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February 03, 2010The entry deadline for the 2010 World Travel Awards has been extended by two weeks to 14 February. The organisers report that this year is set to be the most hotly contested yet and that there had been a record number of entries, ranging from household travel brands to newly-launched boutique products, all vying to scoop the highest accolade in travel....
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February 03, 2010A group of 60 French travel agents is in the country on a weeks visit as part of prizes won during a challenge held throughout France. The agents whose visit has been coordinated by Air Seychelles, Air...
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February 03, 2010ECOBANK has launched a savings...
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February 03, 2010 Newaygo, Michigan chosen in landslide vote for national event LANSING, Mich., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Canoe Association , announces the selection of Newaygo Michigan's Muskegon River as the site for its Canoe and Kayak National Championship for 2011....
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February 03, 2010Economy » Holiday sales uptick a good sign, though retail results in West worrisome.Updated: 02/02/2010 04:48:25 PM MST Like many sectors of the economy, retail sales of winter sports gear continued to go down this fall, but the decline seemed to be stabilizing. The industry trade group SnowSports Industries America has released figures from its latest retail audit, showing unit sales nationally between August and the end of December 2009 declined 4.1 percent from the same period a year earlier. But the dollar value of those sales increased 0.4 percent....
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