Clinic: Woman championed by Obama eligible for aid – WFAA
CLEVELAND (AP) A woman championed as the Obama administration’s emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated. With a self-reported annual income of about $6,000, Natoma Canfield is a

Honda to recall 410,000 vehicles for brake problem – Boston Globe
DETROIT Honda Motor Co. will recall more than 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks because of braking system problems that could make it tougher to stop the vehicle if not repaired. The recall includes 344,000 Odysseys and 68,000 Elements from the 2007 and 2008 model years. Honda

Senators back bill to pressure China on currency – Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON A group of 14 U.S. senators unveiled legislation Tuesday that seeks to increase pressure on China to let its currency to rise in value against the dollar, saying Chinese “currency manipulation” is hurting the U.S. economy. The bill calls for stiff trade sanctions if China does not act

Woods return to Augusta National makes Masters a one-topic major – The Gaea Times
PALM HARBOR, Fla. The Masters is three weeks away, filled with story lines that now are sure to be ignored. Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer will be paired together, if only to hit a ceremonial tee shot to start the tournament. Angel Cabrera is the defending champion. Europe, with five players

Calif teacher arrested for allowing student fights – San Francisco Chronicle
A former substitute teacher at a juvenile probation camp was arrested Tuesday for investigation of supervising a series of fights between students in rival gangs, authorities said. The five fights were overseen by Stephen Wesley, 43, who set rules and told students not to punch each other in the

Visteon bankruptcy judge denies request to halt termination of retiree health benefits – Orlando Sentinel
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) A Delaware bankruptcy judge has refused to halt implementation of his order allowing auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. to terminate its retirees’ health and life insurance benefits. An attorney representing some 2,100 people who worked at two Visteon plants in Indiana

Michael Jackson’s Estate Inks Biggest Recording Deal In History – ABC News
Michael Jackson’s estate has made a deal with Sony Music for nine albums over the next seven years. It’s the biggest deal in the history of the business and it could net the Jacksons over $200 million. In the eight years before Jackson died, he struggled mightily with medical, legal and financial

Ivy League’s Cornell responds to 3 gorge deaths – San Francisco Chronicle
Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month. The move by

A beach, a jogger, a failing plane, and death – YAHOO!
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter’s third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod. Officials say the

58 suspected illegal immigrants found in Phoenix – San Francisco Chronicle
Authorities say they found 58 illegal immigrants in a west Phoenix drop house Tuesday following a lengthy police pursuit on a state highway. Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves says nine suspected illegal immigrants were found in the bed of a truck underneath some plywood after

Gov. Chris Christie taps Charles McKenna to head New Jersey’s – Bridgeton News
On Charles McKenna s desk at the state s Homeland Security headquarters is a clock, a gift from a Bronx public school. That s where he mopped the floors while a law student. Taped to the top of the clock is a visitor pass from his FBI

Mywedding.com to open headquarters in Colorado – TechFlash
Mywedding.com is establishing a new office and headquarters in Castle Rock, Colorado, with plans to add 17 jobs at the facility. The 10-year-old company will continue to operate offices on Bainbridge Island and in Portland, and workers at those

Backgrounder: Internet development in China – Investors Business Daily
BEIJING, Feb 27, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — China’s Internet has seen rapid progress in both technology and expansion of users since it officially gained connection to the international network 16 years ago. Following are the key facts about China’s

Rights and Reprint Sales – Newsweek
Please fill in the following information and we’ll email this link. Great for press kits, meetings, conferences and informational handouts, Reprints can be customized in many ways to meet your educational, marketing or promotional needs. Depending

BT Unveils Pay Per Minute Hosted Services – TMCnet
The reasons include capital cost avoidance and greatly reduced IT expenses, short lead times, flexibility and scalability, access to proven products that are pre-integrated with other offerings for seamless, simple operations, data security and

Vuze 4.0 A Beginner s Guide to BitTorrent – Zeropaid
Easy step-by-step user s guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all. Find, download, and play is the new Vuze motto and it defines the spirit of Vuze 4.0. When it comes to finding content it

California dreaming – Toronto Star
BIG SUR, Calif. It seems astounding that in California, the most populous state in America, it is still possible, in the year 2010, to drop out and furthermore, to find a hallowed escape of the senses in one of its most prosperous, storied and

China’s Latest Knockoff: Ubuntu in XP Clothing – TechNewsWorld
By Katherine Noyes LinuxInsider Part of the ECT News Network 12/29/09 4:00 AM PT What looks like XP but perhaps behaves better? A version of Ubuntu that sports the XP user interface, currently available in Chinese for download from the Web. Whether

Icy roads blamed in 2 deadly vehicle crashes – Times-Argus
Accidents on icy roads killed a Rutland grandmother in Roxbury and a Shoreham firefighter Sunday. State police said Gladys E. Batease, 68, of Rutland, died after going off Route 12A in Roxbury. Police said Peter J. Coe, 43, of Shoreham, stopped to

Tall tales of tech — that happen to be true – Industry Standard
Like the story? Get Alerts of big news events. Enter your email address Every week in InfoWorld’s Off the Record blog , readers take advantage of anonymously sharing their tales from the trenches with IT peers, whether it’s to tell a lesson learned

Bridge slips into fog of history – Rutland Herald
Spectators who lined Route 125 to watch the Champlain Bridge implode Monday had to settle for hearing it. Fog and snow reduced visibility to the point where the bridge and even the “bright flash” which state officials said demolition charges

The Gift That Keeps On Giving – to Apple – TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari MacNewsWorld Part of the ECT News Network 12/29/09 5:00 AM PT Apple’s App Store did a lot of business on Christmas Day, and most of those downloads went to iPod touches, according to analytics tool developer Flurry. One market to

2009 brought changes to Montpelier’s downtown businesses – Times-Argus
MONTPELIER As the economic downturn was pounding businesses across the nation and Vermont, 2009 was a year characterized by resiliency for the businesses in Montpelier’s historic downtown district. “I would say that we were much more resilient

Woman killed by wrong-way driver on I-475 – Toledo Blade
A Bay Park Community Hospital nurse killed yesterday in a West Toledo crash caused by a wrong-way driver on I-475 was a mother and competitive runner. Sarah M. Heator, 32, of Brint Road in Sylvania, was pronounced dead at the scene of the head-on

US removes $400b cap on aid to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac – Boston Globe
NEW YORK – The Treasury Department has removed the $400 billion financial cap on how much money it will provide to the beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , a step taken to keep the companies from failing. So far, taxpayers have shelled out $111 billion to the pair. Yesterday

China Hands 11-Year Sentence to Dissident – CBS News
(AP) A Chinese court sentenced a prominent dissident to 11 years in jail Friday on subversion charges after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to Communist Party dominance. The sentencing of Liu Xiaobo comes despite international appeals for his release, which China sternly rejected

Brittany Murphy buried in private Christmas Eve funeral in Hollywood Hills – MLive.com
The Associated Press Brittany Murphy, pictured here on Dec. 1, died at the age of 32. LOS ANGELES — Brittany Murphy’s family and friends celebrated her life at a private Christmas Eve funeral. The 32-year-old actress was buried Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. The intimate

New Jersey dad David Goldman heads to Disney World with son after escaping media jungle of Brazil – New York Daily News
David Goldman, top, boards a plane bound for the United States with his 9-year-old son, Sean, at the Galeao airport, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Naddar/AP Sean Goldman arrives with his stepfather, Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro Thursday. Do you think David

China blocked green deal: Miliband – MSN UK News
Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has accused China of “hijacking” the Copenhagen summit and preventing a legally binding treaty desired by most of the world. Ed Miliband says China hijacked climate change deal Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband

What is this going to cost? – Bismarck Tribune
Are you realy that clueless that you think I’m refering to reform in general and not the bill before congress?? Do you think the analysis done by economists which I refered to is something other than the reform bill before congress?? If you can’t

Obama the Lightworker and the War in Afghanistan – American Thinker
Obama has gone to war. The Lightworker has sinned . Yes, it’s the Good War in Afghanistan, but if you scratch below the surface of liberal media twaddle, the Iraq War is still going on, with al-Qaida truck bombs in the crowded market places of

Heaven and Nature – New York Times
It s fitting that James Cameron s Avatar arrived in theaters at Christmastime. Like the holiday season itself, the science fiction epic is a crass embodiment of capitalistic excess wrapped around a deeply felt religious message. It s at

Natural Environment – Seattle Post Intelligencer
As the grey wolf moves into Washington from Montana, Idaho and British Columbia, more and more of us will be faced with wolves as neighbors. Not wolves as romantic wild creatures on a National Geographic sweatshirt, howling at the moon or nuzzling

Terminator 2009 – ZNet
I’ve had the great Hollywood epic Terminator 2: Judgment Day on my mind ever since I watched it in a hotel room in New Orleans a few weeks ago with the Superdome visible out the window. In 1991, at the time of its release, T2 was supposedly about a

More CO2 in the atmosphere leads to accelerated growth of certain tree – Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota at Morris have found that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have led to the rapid growth of certain tree species. The quaking aspen, a

Global Temperatures Could Rise More Than Expected, New Study Shows – Democratic Underground.com
New Haven, Conn. The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their

White House: Obama helping climate talks from home – Forbes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is working this week from Washington to help advance U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen ahead of his visit there Friday, the White House said Monday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said developing countries such as China and India would

Legionnaires’ hits 3 former guests of Miami hotel – Miami Herald
About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one former guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaires’ disease. Health officials say the guests at the EPIC Hotel were sent to nearby hotels Saturday to prevent potential contact with the

Courtney Love Loses Legal Guardianship of Daughter – Celebrity Justice
Courtney Love lost legal guardianship of her 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain last Friday. A judge appointed Kurt Cobain’s mother and sister, Wendy O’Connor and Kimberly Dawn Cobain, as her legal guardians, TMZ reports. “This doesn’t necessarily mean that Courtney Love is an unfit mother and

Sully sells hat for $5,800 to help 3 schools – New York Post
SAN RAMON, Calif. Capt. Chesley Sully Sullenberger has auctioned one of his pilot s caps for $5,800 and will donate the proceeds to three San Francisco Bay area public schools. The signed hat which was not worn the day Sullenberger safely landed a disabled jet into the Hudson River

Tick-tock: Waiting for Nelson on health care – Columbia Missourian
Sixty seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and it takes 60 senators to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Sen. Ben Nelson, who has collected hundreds of clocks, is the Democrat making everybody wait for the answer to the burning Washington question: Will he be the last vote that Senate

Airline blames Buffalo crash on pilot error – WFAA
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) A pilot’s inattention and failure to follow safety rules likely caused a commuter plane to plummet from the sky near Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, the airline told federal investigators. The twin-engine turboprop also lacked an adequate system to warn the pilots

22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found – AOL
WASHINGTON -Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over

Yankees and Red Sox to meet in opener – Boston Globe
NEW YORK The World Series champion New York Yankees will play the Boston Red Sox in the major league Sunday night opener on April 4. The game will be televised on ESPN2 nationally but will be blacked out in the areas of the two teams, where it will be broadcast on their local networks. The game

18 cars involved in accident on I-89 – Times-Argus
BOLTON Speed and slippery roads caused a multi-car collision Tuesday morning on Interstate 89 in Bolton, according to the Vermont State Police. The crash occurred at about 9 a.m. near mile marker 73 where there were eight separate collisions

Beyond Radio: Air America Selects Irdeto to Power New Digital – TMCnet
Beyond Radio: Air America Selects Irdeto to Power New Digital Initiative and Expand Multimedia Offering CARLSBAD, Calif. –(Business Wire)– Irdeto (News – Alert), a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services

Sendio First Defense Technologies Available to Partners – TMCnet
trials, several customers asked if there was a way to run the service locally on already existing equipment instead of from our hosting datacenter. We determined that the best technical solution was to offer our software modules to the

Train hits UPS truck at 40 mph – Times-Argus
ROXBURY A freight train struck a UPS truck at an unlighted crossing Tuesday after the truck skidded on a snow-covered road and into its path, police said. The 12-car New England Central Railroad train was traveling about 40 mph northbound when it

HCL strikes 5-year deal with News Corp s UK subsidiary – Indian Television
Corp s UK subsidiary News International, to optimize its technology cost. As a part of the deal, HCL will manage News International’s datacenter and network environments. News International produces newspapers including The Times, The Sun, The

Hot Off the Wire – dBusinessNews.com
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sendio, Inc., developer of the only email system protection solutions to utilize self-managing email communities which totally eliminate attacks and abuse, today announced that the technology used in their

Testimony tells of threats before killing – Rutland Herald
John Baptie’s longtime friend testified Tuesday that Jonathan Bruno threatened to kill Baptie a week before he allegedly carried out the act in a downtown Rutland parking lot. But the account provided by Christopher Heck was cast in doubt by Bruno’s

AccelOps Brings Integrated Datacenter Monitoring and IT Service – TMCnet
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SANTA CLARA, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 12/09/09 — AccelOps, the integrated datacenter monitoring leader, is expanding its operations into China and has opened its first office in Shanghai. The company is hiring

Clydesdales coming to Killington – Rutland Herald
KILLINGTON A group of special holiday visitors who have been absent in these parts for three years will make their way back up the mountain today and stay until Sunday. An eight-horse team of world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales, a symbol of the

Ottawa Hills takes a step toward deer kill in village – Toledo Blade
The Toledo area’s first organized killing of suburban deer since 1998 passed a crucial hurdle Monday night. By a 4-2 vote, the Ottawa Hills Village Council approved an exemption to a 1940 ordinance that has banned firearms from being discharged in

Pitchfork-wielding mobs encircle smart meters – The Register
MP3 Download: Opening keynote speech of The Register s Agile Data Center Summit by European analyst of the year Jon Collins. Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit Opening keynote speech of The Register s Agile Data Center Summit

‘Ghost’ traps, long lost, keep catching lobsters – Times-Argus
PORTLAND, Maine Beneath the cold ocean waters off the coast of Maine, the nation’s lobster breadbasket, lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of old wire lobster “ghost traps.” Lost over the years to storms, boats even the knives of

Commtouch Ranked in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2009 for Second – Stockhouse
Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced that it ranked number 208 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2009, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years

DHL plans to cut up to 788 jobs in Belgium – MSNBC
The company said in a statement that those jobs would be “potentially affected” as the shipper, owned by German mail and logistics company Deutsche Post AG, moves head office functions to Bonn or Leipzig airport and its IT data center to Prague. “

CBS newsman to speak at Castleton State College – Rutland Herald
Award-winning CBS News and “60 Minutes” correspondent Byron Pitts couldn’t read until he was 12 and stuttered miserably into his 20s. He was put into classes with mentally challenged students in grade school and told by a college professor to give up

Wipro Inaugurates Development Centre in Chengdu, China – Stockhouse
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) announced the inauguration of its global delivery centre at Chengdu, China to provide IT & BPO services to its customers. The center will have secured facilities, labs

Barre to vote on veterans exemption – Times-Argus
BARRE An old veteran looking to raise the property-tax exemption for fellow disabled servicemen won a small victory this week when elected officials in Barre agreed to put the issue before voters this Town Meeting Day. Lou Lertola, a retired Army

Town moves on hotel debt – Rutland Herald
Placing a lien on the Red Roof Inn for unpaid sewer bills and hiring the town’s delinquent tax collector to obtain payments was not the right move, according Rutland Town Attorney Kevin Brown. In a letter sent Tuesday to the Select Board and read

Best Practices in Green IT-2008 – Aarkstore Enterprise – TMCnet
For instance; desktop, laptops, networking hardware, storage, and datacenter facilities consumes significant amount Further, it highlights the best practices in Green IT adopted by businesses around the world. The report also elaborates upon the

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,365 – Washington Post
– As of Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at least 4,365 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,477 military personnel died as a result of hostile

UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China – Chippewa Herald
Chen Zhu, Chinese Minister of Health, speaks during the launch press conference of a new UN report ahead of World AIDS Day entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, China. A United Nations report says that the virus that causes AIDS is spreading fastest in China through

CPSC’s Tenenbaum acknowledges slow pace in recalling cribs, vows better effort – Daily Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday promised swift action to get dangerous products off the market, acknowledging that the agency didn’t move quickly enough on a record recall of more than 2 million cribs linked to four deaths. “We were not advancing

Feds blame low oxygen for Ala. coal mine death – WWL-TV
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine. Fifty-three-year-old James Chaney of Berry was killed. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says he and another miner entered an area of

ABC cans Lambert – Boston Globe
Adam Lambert s racy American Music Awards performance cost him a gig on Good Morning America, but he will perform live instead on ABC s morning rivals at CBS. Lambert was to sing today on GMA, but the network said yesterday it was canceling the openly gay singer because we

Fiddle faddle – Boston Herald
In an experiment conducted by the Washington Post, Bell, one of the finest and most famous violinists on the planet, set up in a Washington, D.C., subway station during morning rush hour. He opened his case for contributions and started to play. More

Dance review: A potpourri of dance delights and surprises at O – Minneapolis Star Tribune
organic connection between the senses and the elements according to the Hindu “Ayurveda” or “life philosophy,” for over a year, and his latest foray is like a journey into the planet’s molten core. The ritual-flavored piece literally generates

‘2009 first year of global governance’ – WND.com
In accepting his appointment as the first president of the European Union, Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy announced that “global governance” is only way to address the crises that beset the planet. “We’re living through exceptionally

In the battle over LeBron art, beauty is in the eye of the logo: Bud – Cleveland Plain Dealer
Now, you also might think James already does enough to advertise the city (his Yankees hat aside), seeing as how he’s the face of Cleveland all over the planet — whether he’s in uniform or selling shoes in China. But James and Nike won’t argue the

‘Craft-E’ Kid! – MyFox Detroit
COMMERCE TWP., Mich. (WJBK) – 11-year-old Madison Stump has come up with a clever way to protect the planet and help her community. She’s creating notebooks out of recycled cereal boxes and other cardboard containers and selling them for charity

Anthony Westbury: Fort Pierce residents waiting in limbo for election – TCPalm
OK, I thought I d explain this Fort Pierce election mess for you, come up with one or two brilliant off-the wall solutions, and we d be home free. Then I spoke with an attorney (who wishes to remain anonymous). Big mistake. There are plenty of

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart – Boston Globe
If the universe started with the ‘Big Bang’ and matter was created that expanded outwards well it had to expand into a void that was already there..meaning that space is infinite and always was or is it a bubble within more bubbles but was once

Fems and mad fundies – Salon
The record of a national panic So now to the record of a national panic, and among one of the planet s saner nations. We cannot say with regard to the British ritual-abuse hysteria of 1989 94 that all the witch hunters were women and that the

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin – Forbes
ROME — A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being

GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on – Columbia Missourian
A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over price. Comcast, the largest cable TV operator in the United States, wants NBC Universal largely for

Winfrey announces ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ will end in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Is mammography a flawed technology? Calling it quits after 25 years, Oprah says her decision to end her show in 2011 was guided by prayer and careful thought. Twin Cities flu clinics set for this weekend Chisholm’s Ironworld is shutting down Big moments on the Oprah Show CHICAGO – Oprah Winfrey

China says 15 dead, 114 trapped in mine explosion – San Francisco Chronicle
A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 15 people and trapping another 114 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said. Another 399 people at the Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province managed to escape after the 2:30 a.m

Senate Democrats push crucial health vote – Boston Globe
WASHINGTON – With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial test vote tonight on their sweeping health care bill, with wavering moderates appearing to be falling in line. One of three uncommitted centrists, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, announced yesterday he would vote

Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes – YAHOO!
Obesity and diabetes “are basically the two conditions of greatest concern for U.S. adults right now,” said study lead author Edward Gregg, chief of epidemiology and statistics in the CDC’s division of diabetes translation. “They have been increasing for the last 10 to 15 years,” he said. “This is

South Korea Trade Pact Is Revived by Obama – New York Times
WASHINGTON President Obama opened a potentially bruising battle within the Democratic party on Thursday when he pledged to complete a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea that he inherited from President George W. Bush . President Obama and Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea

France’s Sarkozy apologises to Ireland, dismisses replay – ESPN.com
BRUSSELS, Nov 20 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy apologised to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen for France’s controversial victory over Ireland in their World Cup play-off on Wednesday, but would not agree to a replay. Cowen raised the issue of replaying the match with his French counterpart at a

Reid rolls out Senate healthcare bill – Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over the next decade, setting the stage for a historic Senate debate on a healthcare overhaul. Reid’s legislation would cost

Man faces murder charge in NC girl’s disappearance – AOL
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday. Mario McNeill is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told

Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show – AOL
LOS ANGELES -California tax officials say an interior designer’s false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show. Fifty-six-year-old Ronald Hunt of Los Angeles was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $180,000

AOL to reduce work force – Chicago Tribune
Internet company AOL LLC is planning to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. Major job cuts had been expected, but the magnitude hadn’t been known until Thursday. AOL, which now employs 6,900 workers, is asking for 2,500 volunteers

Heidi Klum wows crowd at Victoria’s Secret show – AOL
NEW YORK -Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road. The lingerie retailer inducted five more women into its “Angel” ranks a designation reserved for top models

Atlantis pair replace antenna in first space walk – YAHOO!
AFP/ NASA TV This NASA tv image shows Atlantis astronaut Bobby Satcher(C-back to camera), on the robotic arm, working After “camping out” overnight in the Quest airlock, which purges nitrogen from their bloodstream to prevent decompression sickness, Foreman and Satcher moved out into the

Competency hearing opens for accused Maui spy – Billings Gazette
Expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense have testified a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. The forensic psychologists also said during a federal court hearing Thursday in Honolulu that Noshir Gowadia of Maui

Testing Times for Traditional Cricket – Wall Street Journal
Lord’s looks set to keep its name after the Marylebone Cricket Club denied a report Wednesday that naming rights to the sport’s most famous ground would be sold as part of a 400 million ($673 million) redevelopment. Now the only question is how

Karzai back at helm, with a battered image – MSNBC
As Hamid Karzai is again sworn in as Afghanistan s president on Thursday, the mood about the man could hardly be more different from when he first emerged to lead the country. Instead of being celebrated as a person with the stature and credentials

Police State USA – Lewrockwell.com
In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative

India’s industrial revolution speeding along, World Policy Institute – Union-News & Sunday Republican
Mira Kamdar SPRINGFIELD – In India, an industrial revolution which took three centuries in Europe and the United States, is taking place within 20 years, said Mira Kamdar, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, who

Primordial Soup Not Simmering – Terra Daily
The Earth’s climate was far cooler – perhaps more than 50 degrees – billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed, according to a research team that includes a Texas A and

Olive: Brace for CRTC cave-in – Toronto Star
H ere’s an interesting concept. You’re a cable company and you don’t pay for the product you sell. CTV and Global provide their signals to you free. You’re a commercial TV broadcaster and you don’t pay the cable guys to distribute your product to

Women ‘bearing brunt’ of climate change – CNN
Locals living near the Chacaltaya glacier rely on it for their water supplies In recent years, they have noticed less water flowing from the glacier Women in poorer countries bear the brunt of climate change, a new UNFPA report warns “For many people

Reps. Hare, Braley: This area need economic boost from Thomon – Quad Cities Onlines
The National Security Council is projecting that turning Thomson Correctional Facility over to the federal government to house prisoners, including Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects, would have an estimated regional economic impact of $1 billion in

The end shouldn’t be the beginning – Kansas City Star
Like the book it s based on, The Road, with Viggo Mortensen, will be harsh even by movie-apocalypse standards. For an interview with the star, see this Sunday s A+E. Apparently few things are as entertaining as watching the Earth shake

Ten years ago, a trade deal was reached. Advantage: China. – Minneapolis Star Tribune
President Obama’s trip to China has occasioned a spate of articles documenting the increasingly unhappy yet apparently indissoluble marriage between the American and Chinese economies. The ugly goings-on within this marriage are plain for all to see

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network : (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting : service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting service with integrated

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the internet here is a daily headache. It’s not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video sharing site that’s affected by being blocked; blank

Host Color Added More Resources To VPS Hosting Plans – PRLog (free press release)
monthly data transfer quota of its premier Virtual Private Server Private Servers. The current increase of the company’s VPS resources is the second one for the web host since September 2009. Host Color offers load-balanced VPS hosting plans

Infinity Ward: “We don’t know what our next game is” – CVG Online
Infinity Ward doesn’t know what its next game is going to be, it’s claimed in an interview (read: if it’s not Modern Warfare 3 we’ll capture and eat a live badger). Community man Robert Bowling told MTV : “We don’t know what our next game is. Once we

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the internet here is a daily headache. It’s not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video sharing site that’s affected by being blocked; blank

Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – TMCnet
(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) EdgeCast’s content delivery network (CDN) pairing with GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure hosting service offers many best-of-class features for infrastructure hosting and content streaming. San Francisco, CA (Vocus

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network : (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting : service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting service with integrated

Infinity Ward: “We don’t know what our next game is” – CVG Online
Infinity Ward doesn’t know what its next game is going to be, it’s claimed in an interview (read: if it’s not Modern Warfare 3 we’ll capture and eat a live badger). Community man Robert Bowling told MTV : “We don’t know what our next game is. Once we

Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – TMCnet
(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) EdgeCast’s content delivery network (CDN) pairing with GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure hosting service offers many best-of-class features for infrastructure hosting and content streaming. San Francisco, CA (Vocus

Host Color Added More Resources To VPS Hosting Plans – PRLog (free press release)
com ) reported to web hosting media that the monthly data transfer quota of its premier Virtual Private Server allows us to give our VPS customers more resources without increasing the prices of our Virtual Private Servers”, said Host Color’s CTO

Hot Off the Wire – dBusinessNews.com
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Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
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Could Car Batteries Back up Our Electrical Grid? – Design News
In the quest to supply electricity for millions of future electric cars, engineers have stumbled upon the most unlikely of energy prospects the car itself. If that sounds like a bit of tangled logic to you, then you’re not alone. The very idea

Could Car Batteries Back up Our Electrical Grid? – Design News
In the quest to supply electricity for millions of future electric cars, engineers have stumbled upon the most unlikely of energy prospects the car itself. If that sounds like a bit of tangled logic to you, then you’re not alone. The very idea

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
GoGrid enables sysadmins, developers, IT professionals and SaaS vendors to create, deploy, and control free f5 load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control which

Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – TMCnet
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Host Color Added More Resources To VPS Hosting Plans – PRLog (free press release)
PRLog (Press Release) Nov 12, 2009 Host Color ( http://www.hostcolor.com ) reported to web hosting media that the monthly data transfer quota of its premier Virtual Private Server – VPS Power ( hostcolor.com/ vps/vps-power ) – has been

Infinity Ward: “We don’t know what our next game is” – CVG Online
Infinity Ward doesn’t know what its next game is going to be, it’s claimed in an interview (read: if it’s not Modern Warfare 3 we’ll capture and eat a live badger). Community man Robert Bowling told MTV : “We don’t know what our next game is. Once we

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
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infrastructure hosting servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique, award-winning web control panel or GoGrid’s API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, and ASP.

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network : (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting : service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting service with integrated

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
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Cloud Provider GoGrid, and EdgeCast Networks Release Zero-Commitment – PRWeb
GoGrid enables sysadmins, developers, IT professionals and SaaS vendors to create, deploy, and control free f5 load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control which

EdgeCast Networks and GoGrid Launch No-Commitment, on-Demand Cloud – PR Inside
EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network : (CDN), and GoGrid, the cloud infrastructure hosting : service from ServePath Hosting, today announced GoGrid CDN, a hybrid cloud hosting service with integrated

Host Color Added More Resources To VPS Hosting Plans – PRLog (free press release)
PRLog (Press Release) Nov 12, 2009 Host Color ( http://www.hostcolor.com ) reported to web hosting media that the monthly data transfer quota of its premier Virtual Private Server – VPS Power ( hostcolor.com/ vps/vps-power ) – has been

Testing 5 VPNs that’ll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China – CNET Asia
Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the internet here is a daily headache. It’s not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video sharing site that’s affected by being blocked; blank

New Empire Craft Servers Live Today – MPOGD.com
A new group of Empire Craft servers will go live at 8:00 a.m. EDT (GMT-04:00) on October 27 to accommodate an additional 30,000 players and enable 650,000 simultaneous players of the free MMO strategy game from Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), China

Empire Craft to add new servers on October 27 – Gamers Hell
A new group of Empire Craft servers will go live at 8:00 a.m. EDT (GMT-04:00) on October 27 to accommodate an additional 30,000 players and enable 650,000 simultaneous players of the free MMO strategy game from Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), China

mLogica and Fuzzy Logix to Deliver an In-Database Predictive Analytic – Stockhouse
mLogica, Inc, a leading Business Intelligence solutions company, specializing in Predictive Analytic Appliances, and Fuzzy Logix, a leading predictive analytics company, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated quantitative