Save the Net in Canada public submissions deadline February 23

The deadline for public submissions to help 'Save the Net in Canada' in February 23rd, and while the formal hearings on the matter won't start until July 6, public submissions to the CRTC ends in two days. For the...

1 dog. 2 states. 3 names. 3 years. This pooch gets around

" They call me a wanderer.  The story of how I disappeared for three years and assumed three identities in two states began in the back of a pickup truck. Those adventures caught up with me Saturday...

Man got 9-foot tapeworm from restaurant

Considering they can get 50' long, and it was a free bonus, I don't know what he was complaining about !" CHICAGO (AP) — A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a...

Government: Diviing Up the Cellphone Pie

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Feds are auctioning Wireless Networks amongst the Big Telecommunications Giants, diviing up the provinces like so much pie.  Eager to get a Slice are...

Dark Lord of the Sith Punished for Attacks

LONDON -May 13, 2008 A founding member of the Welsh Jedi Church was attacked by a drunk "Darth Vader" dressed in a black bin bag on Friday,  March 28. "Darth Vader" was given a suspended sentence today.The...

Americans Sick from Breakfast Salmonella-O's

Almost two dozen Americans have become sick due to salmonella contamination in packaged cereals."Cereal sold in the U.S. and found to be tainted with salmonella is suspected to have sickened at least 23 people,...

Rare Seahorses Found in River Thames

When I was younger I used to be so scared of the River Thames becuase my brother told me that people threw dead bodies in there and I had nightmares about it for weeks. Later in life I found out that he wasn't...

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts'

"A reclusive millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey has heard. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright George Bernard Shaw but had become "rather eccentric" in his old age, the jury was...

Codexis opens Singapore laboratory

""Our expansion to Singapore is a significant part of our global development strategy," Dr. Shaw said. "Singapore offers us access to a highly skilled workforce, proximity to our growing customer base in Asia, and a productive business environment as our company grows....

Facebook gags verbal dissent group

Such heavy handed tactics! Personally, i like the "is", but to just pull the plug on a group is really overbearing, in my view. "Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly...

Jim Crow Justice in Louisiana

"Jim Crow Justice in Louisiana By PreparationG - Jul 21st, 2007 at 6:06 pm EDT Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog Comments | Mail to a Friend Tags: Jim Crow, Louisiana, Racial Politics Bad? Brilliant? You can...

Bridge collapse reveals YouTube realities

Russell Shaw is a writer and commentator for ZDNet, a leading tech mag, and you can take his comments for whatever they are worth.But his musings about what the Minneapolis bridge collapse says about the YouTube...

Praise for Disabled at Highest Level

Friday 20th July 2007 Westminster, London, UK The disabled workforce of Carlyon Print were honoured today at a reception at the Houses of Parliament, by Barry Gardiner MP for Brent North and his staff, He spoke...

Conservative Nanny State

"Here is a another example of the Conservative Nanny State bailing out the private sector. Private cable companies, Shaw and Videotron, who leech off the public air waves and off the municipal cable infrastructure, pull a capital strike over the Canadian TV Fund and the...

Weather delays helicopter probe

My attention was brought to this article as a result of one of our TCC Group workers mentioning that he had mates on this helicopter tragedy.It was apparently a flight that was short distance and regularly taken without incident by our worker.regards must go to the family and...

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