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Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Company, invested $200 million into Facebook. The investment puts Facebook at $10 billion.Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Company, invested $200 million into Facebook. The... more
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Facebook and Twitter were banned in Iran for a short time.
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An artist used to an iPhone app to paint a picture that was featured on the New Yorker.
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The house with the infamous Ferrari scene up for sale. It's going for $2.3 million.
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The founder of the defunct airline Skybus started a new airline, Jet America. The airline will offer non-stop, one way tickets between 6 U.S. cities, at a low price.The founder of the defunct airline Skybus started a new airline, Jet America. The... more
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45 economists talk about the second half of 2009 having an upswing in the economy.
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Arnie says despite the recent ruling from the California Supreme Court eventually the state will recognize gay marriage.Arnie says despite the recent ruling from the California Supreme Court eventually the... more
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Spoiler Alert: prepare to start daydreaming. I really wish I hadn't seen this at the start of a work week.Spoiler Alert: prepare to start daydreaming. I really wish I hadn't seen this at... more
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Red Bull does indeed give you wings...
BERLIN - Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.
The bans started Friday after a sample test conducted by authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state found 0.4 micrograms per liter in the drink. Authorities say the drug level was too low to pose a health risk.
Five other states also banned it from shops amid concerns over possible narcotics law violations.
Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment said Monday that the cocaine level was too low to pose a health risk. It planned to produce a more detailed report Wednesday.
Red Bull said its cola is "harmless and marketable in both the U.S. and Europe." It said similar coca leaf extracts are used worldwide as flavoring, and a test it commissioned itself found no cocaine traces.
Do you think German officials are overreacting or was it the right thing to do? Should the U.S. take the same measure?Red Bull does indeed give you wings...
BERLIN - Six German states have told... more
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It may sound too good to be true, but in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Queen guitarist Brian May suggested the band would like to have a conversation with Adam Lambert about possibly joining the group. Mr. Lambert's stunning vocal range earned comparisons to former Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991. This sounds like a match made in Heaven, if not eternal paradise then at least the club in London. [Interview]
“Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk. But [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. It’s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isn’t that easy. But I’d certainly like to work with Adam. That is one amazing instrument he has there.”
Brian MayIt may sound too good to be true, but in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine,... more
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After reports surfaced this week that Twitter had singed a contract with production company Reveille and Brillstein to integrate the microblogging service into a new TV show, the company's Biz Stone has confirmed that they have signed a contract, BUT that it isn't an “official” Twitter show - 'it’s a non-exclusive contract, and multiple companies are currently working on TV projects related to Twitter.'
That'll no doubt please the Twitter haters amongst us, but sadly for them, this means that Twitter is dealing with a host of production companies, just on a non-exclusive basis...
Expect to see Twitter on your TV sooner rather than later...After reports surfaced this week that Twitter had singed a contract with production... more
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Seems as though that a bank error was made in the favor of a couple struggling business owners and instead of being honest and returning the money they withdrew it and fled the country. Efforts were underway to catch the would be thieves when the authorities received a little help from one of the fugitives Facebook status updates.Seems as though that a bank error was made in the favor of a couple struggling... more
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President Obama today nominated Sonia Sotomayor, 54, for the Supreme Court. A short bio below:
Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx, a short walk from Yankee Stadium. She was diagnosed with diabetes at age 8. Her father, a tool-and-die worker with a third-grade education, died the following year. Her mother, Selena Sotomayor, a nurse, raised Sotomayor and her younger brother, Juan Sotomayor, who is now a doctor. Sotomayor has often stated that her mother is the one person that is her life inspiration. In 1976 Sotomayor married while still a student at Princeton University and divorced in 1983.
Considered a political centrist by the American Bar Association Journal and others, Sotomayor was nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by John M. Walker, Jr. She became the youngest judge in the Southern District and the first Hispanic federal judge anywhere in New York State.
According to a blog post by conservative activist Ed Whelan, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York suggested Sotomayor's name to President Bush and Bush appointed centrist Sotomayor in a deal that allowed a conservative judge to be appointed as well.Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 1992, and received her commission the next day.
On March 30, 1995, she issued the preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball, preventing MLB from unilaterally implementing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and using replacement players, thus ending the 1994 baseball strike. In another high-profile case, she issued an order allowing the Wall Street Journal to publish Vince Foster's suicide note.
On June 25, 1997, she was nominated by former President Bill Clinton to the seat she now holds, which was vacated by J. Daniel Mahoney. Her nomination was approved overwhelmingly by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but became "embroiled in the sometimes tortured judicial politics of the Senate," as some Republicans said they did not want to consider the nomination because elevating Sotomayor to the Appeals Court would enhance her prospects of being appointed to the Supreme Court. An anonymous senator put a secret hold on her nomination, blocking it for over a year. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy called the length of the hold "disturbing," "petty," and "shameful," also noting that at that time, "of the 10 judicial nominees whose nominations have been pending the longest before the Senate, eight are women and racial or ethnic minority candidates.
Prior to her reported selection as President Obama's nominee, Sotomayor had been regarded as a potential Supreme Court nominee by several presidents, both Republican and Democratic. In July 2005, a number of Senate Democrats suggested Sotomayor, among others, to President George W. Bush as a nominee acceptable to them to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The seat was eventually filled by Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the Third Circuit.
For those that want to see her past Appellate opinions in Civil cases there is a long record on abortion, labor, First Amendment and more: http://clipsfcwire.com/editorsblog/?p=443President Obama today nominated Sonia Sotomayor, 54, for the Supreme Court. A short... more
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SAN FRANCISCO - California's highest court on Tuesday upheld the state's gay-marriage ban but allowed existing same-sex marriages to stand.
The California Supreme Court handed down its decision in a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn November's Proposition 8. Gay-rights advocates maintain the ballot measure so dramatically revised the state constitution's equal protection clause that it needed the Legislature's approval before it could be put to voters.
The seven-member court upheld the initiative as a constitutional expression of the electorate's will, but also decided to sustain the marriages of an estimated 18,000 gay couples who wed before the measure passed with 52 percent of the vote.
Source: MSNBCSAN FRANCISCO - California's highest court on Tuesday upheld the state's... more
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Rawley, Rawley, Rawley!
Monday night (I think), one of your news items was the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, with the first round starting tomorrow. You said three of the #1 seeds in the tourney were in the Big East Conference: Louisville, UConn and North Carolina. However, as any true-blooded Carolinan will tell you, UNC is in the ACC or Atlantic Coast Conference, as the following seeded teams: Wake Forest (#4-M), Boston College (#7-M), Maryland (#10-W), Florida St (#5-E), Duke (#2-E) and Clemson (#7-S). So the Big East may have the most #1 seeds, but I believe the ACC has the most seeded teams, or certainly the highest percentage of teams to make it to the Dance!
Trust me, where I live in Durham, NC--three miles from Duke University and four from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--IS March Madness and blue blood will be spilled!!! The only question is if its light (UNC) or dark (Duke)...Rawley, Rawley, Rawley!
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