State to reopen casino application process after Harrah's pulls out of Mulvane (The Wichita Eagle) (Monday 17th of November 2008 10:53:13 PM)
Harrah's has withdrawn its plans to create a casino resort in Mulvane, the company said today.
The gaming giant was a partner with Sumner Gaming and Resorts in a $560 million project off the
Mulvane exit of the Kansas Turnpike. In a letter ...
(more)Bond finds 'Solace' in $70.4M box office debut (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:50:37 AM)
James Bond's quantum of the weekend box office: $70.4 million. "Quantum of Solace," with Daniel
Craig returning as Bond for the first direct sequel in the spy franchise, pulled in nearly $30
million more over opening weekend than its predecessor, 2006's ...
(more)OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
CWmike writes "Confirming recent squib* by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, an
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definition:able to support oneself financially.
self-sufficient report
released Friday ...
(more)3 million U.S. children have food or digestive allergies (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 01:30:00 AM)
The number of young people who had a food or digestive allergy increased 18 percent between
1997 and 2007, by the numbers to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. In 2007, approximately 3 million U.S. procreation and teenagers ...
(more)At the height of a political corruption trial, ... (Friday 10th of October 2008 08:10:02 PM)
At the height of a pac corruption trial, the prosecuting shyster attacked a witness. "Isn't it
true," he bellowed, "that you accepted five million-dollar question dollars to compromise this
case?"The witness stared out the window, as though he hadn't ...
(more)Feds Unwrap $15M For Corporate Energy Reduction (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
As hard as it is to imagine, coondoggie writes with news that the federal monastery just
unveiled a new energy bill that will offer $15 million in assistance to retailers who help to
build and adopt energy-efficient technologies. "The US canton of Energy ...
(more)Transmeta Up For Sale (Thursday 25th of September 2008 11:30:02 PM)
Arcticstoat writes "After giving up on the CPU manufacturing work in 2005, low-power CPU maker
Transmeta has announced that it's up for sale. In a statement, the processor company that
brought us the mobile Crusoe and Efficeon series of CPUs said that ...
(more)Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ...
(more)'Dark Knight' swings past $500 million mark (Sunday 31st of August 2008 06:43:38 PM)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Batman's rich alter-ego Bruce Wayne has added half a billion dollars to his
riches. "The Dark Knight" on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500
million at the homely box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, ...
(more)Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
Cce writes "The MicroID standard, despite getting thrashed soundly by Ben Laurie two years ago,
has since been food pyramid daily vitamins and minerals by the DataPortability Project and
published on the user profiles of mint of users at Digg and Last.fm. ...
(more)Maple Leaf expects meat recall to cost $19 million (Monday 25th of August 2008 11:19:13 AM)
Maple Leaf Foods Inc said on Sunday it
expects a direct cost of about C$20 million ($19
million) from
a recall of contaminated meat linked to an commencement of food
poisoning that
has killed at least four people in Canada.
...
(more)Keep up momentum in war on AIDS, global conference told (AFP) (Monday 04th of August 2008 03:38:37 AM)
A global seminar on AIDS opened here with appeals for the world not to flag in fighting a
disease that has claimed more than 25 million lives and placed 33 million others under its
shadow.
...
(more)Judge Rules Sprint Early Termination Fees Illegal (Friday 01st of August 2008 09:00:01 AM)
Antiglobalism writes to tell us that an Alameda County Judge has ruled against Sprint Nextel in
a class-action lawsuit, awarding corporation $18.2 million in restitution for early termination
fees. "Though the decision could be appealed, it's the first ...
(more)Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)
Mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one
trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998
already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the ...
(more)Second consultant says Harrah's casino would make more money (The Wichita Eagle) (Friday 25th of July 2008 07:49:16 PM)
A second prerogative told the state's casino review board this morning that Harrah's Mulvane
casino site would possibility more revenue than two Wellington proposals. Richard Wells of
Wells Gaming analysis said Harrah's would produce $203.9 million by ...
(more)MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)
The4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a union
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definition:a group of individuals united in a common
cause.
bloc of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't ...
(more)Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Thepacketmaster learned of "...the risk* of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A
report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is seeing an invitation to come work at the
Perimeter custom for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged ...
(more)UK man sentenced for dealing in fake medicines (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 10:47:54 AM)
A British man caught dealing in
counterfeit medicines worth at least 1.8 million pounds ($3.57
million) has sanctioned a 51 week suspended prison sentence, the
country's drugs operator
gene said on Thursday.
More: ...
(more)Three million new diabetes cases in last two years: US agency (AFP) (Sunday 29th of June 2008 06:32:29 PM)
Some 24 million Americans suffer from diabetes, an upswing of more than three million in just
the last two years, as it should be to US guidance figures.
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(more)Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:15:04 PM)
Zyzko writes "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share
and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The
press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight ...
(more)Incredible Hulk Smashes Past (Sunday 15th of June 2008 06:06:04 PM)
E! Online - Judged against Spider-Man, Hulk came up short. Judged against Hulk, The
inconceivable Hulk came up big. The vote restart, displaying Edward Norton, topped the weekend
box office with $54.5 million, gospel to rule to counselor domestic-relations ...
(more)Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)
Snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with
Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for
break-in off the talks? That Microsoft was only rapt in buying power Yahoo's ...
(more)Prostate Cancer Foundation 'beefs up' cancer research (Wednesday 04th of June 2008 09:10:00 PM)
The Prostate Cancer hardpan (PCF) has committed more than $19 million in new scrutiny funding
for scientific investigations focused on discovering new treatments for repeating prostate
cancer. A total of eight programs representing 18 leading quest institutions ...
(more)China's All-Seeing Eye (Monday 19th of May 2008 01:45:03 AM)
Greg Walton brings us a lengthy story from Rolling Stone which describes China's comprehensive
surveillance project, dubbed Golden Shield. The 'Great Firewall of China,' which we've
discussed in the past, is but one aspect of Golden Shield. It also includes ...
(more)Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International deliberation on
os sociology a probe paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its experimentation
kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison ...
(more)Eli Lilly to help train doctors on drug-resistant TB (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 11:38:32 AM)
U.S. pharmaceutic company Eli Lilly
will donate $1 million to train doctors treating
tuberculosis
(T, a disease that infects 9 million people every year and
kills nearly 2
million.
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(more)NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)
TangAddict writes "Dr. Alan Weston, who erstwhile invented bungee jumping, led a team of
scientists at NASA Ames quest Center to build a $4 million spacecraft in less than two years.
The Modular Common Spacecraft Bus is designed to accept payloads of ...
(more)US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes "It has surfaced that the US State parish can't account for up to about
1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism
Assistance Program. Internal auditors found that the agency lost ...
(more)Full House Resorts Announces Completion of Financing for FireKeepers Casino (Centre Daily Times) (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 01:43:02 PM)
Full House Resorts (AMEX: FLL) announced today that on May 6, 2008, the FireKeepers growth
jurisdiction closed on a $340 million Senior Secured Note due 2015 capitalization and a $35
million F&E convenience to fund the FireKeepers Casino project in Battle ...
(more)War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 12:39:22 PM)
The in the in the christian era era Science Monitor has an interesting look at the war brewing
on the inexpensive laptop front. With everything from the Eee PC to the OLPC, the trend in
slimming and trimming seems to be continuing. "The market segment ...
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