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Senate deal struck on mortgage aid
2008-05-19 22:21:26
Senate Banking Committee leaders said Monday that they have come to a deal on a housing bill that would prevent foreclosures, create affordable housing and revamp oversight of two of the mortgage market’s biggest players: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. President Bush has threatened to veto a similar bill passed by the House, CNNMoney.com reports. [...]
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Billionaire oilman backing wind power
2008-05-19 22:21:26
Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. CNN’s Ali Velshi asked the oil legend why he thinks wind could be the answer to this country’s [...]
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Big Brown arrives in New York for racing Belmont Stakes (AFP)
2008-05-19 22:20:48
Big Brown , trying to become the first horse to sweep the US flat racing Triple Crown in 30 years, arrived here Monday at Belmont Park to begin preparations for next month's Belmont Stakes . Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Fresh, GOLF, google news, Headline, HOURSE RACING, Jersey-Barker, jt barker, live news, NBA, NFL, NHL, Olympics, Source, SPORTS, Syndicated, today, [...]
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Young Penguins in Stanley Cup finals (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:47
Everybody in the NHL knew these Pittsburgh Penguins would be very good, and soon. How could a team with players as young and talented as Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Marc-Andre Fleury and Jordan Staal not be? This good, this soon? This dominating, and this determined to succeed? Hardly. The Penguins didn’t listen to all that [...]
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Flyers have plenty to feel good about (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:47
Make it 25 years and counting without a championship in Philadelphia. The Flyers were the latest team to skate away without a title, making the city’s big four sports teams 0-for-25 since the 76ers last won a championship in 1983 and celebrated with a parade down Broad Street. The Flyers extended their personal Stanley Cup [...]


Wings headed back to Stanley Cup finals (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:47
Dominant in the regular season, superb again in the postseason, the Detroit Red Wings are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals . With gusto, too. Just when the Red Wings lost consecutive games and were starting to look vulnerable, they bounced back strong in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, getting first-period goals from [...]
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Preds owners committed to young talent (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:46
Last summer, Predators general manager David Poile had to strip several key players off his team to save money on salary. This year the team has new ownership committed to keeping Nashville’s young talent from leaving. Want proof? Start with the seven-year, $31.5 million contract handed out to forward Martin Erat in the longest and [...]


Kovalchuk, Russia win world hockey title (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:46
Ilya Kovalchuk scored his second goal of the game in overtime, giving Russia its first world hockey title since 1993 with a 5-4 win Sunday over Canada. Canada took a 4-2 lead into the third period, but couldn’t hold off the Russians. Alexei Tereshchenko and Kovalchuk scored to tie it, setting the stage for the [...]


Finland takes bronze medal at worlds (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:46
Finland beat Sweden 4-0 Saturday for the bronze medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championship behind first-period goals by Antti Pihlstrom and Janne Niskala and 36 saves by Niklas Backstrom. Canada and Russia play for the gold medal Sunday. The two countries have never met in a world championship final. Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Fresh, GOLF, google [...]
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Panthers GM Martin to stay through ‘12 (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:46
Jacques Martin has reached an agreement to remain with the Florida Panthers as general manager through the 2011-12 season, the team said Friday. Martin was stripped of his duties as head coach last month but said he would stay on as general manager. He said then the two jobs were too much for one person. Powered [...]


Coach Laviolette to return to Hurricanes (AP)
2008-05-19 22:20:46
The Carolina Hurricanes know their coach will be back next season. They’re still waiting to find out whether two of their aging defensemen will join him. General manager Jim Rutherford said Friday that the team would retain coach Peter Laviolette, who in 2006 led the Hurricanes to their only Stanley Cup. Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Fresh, GOLF, [...]
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Moon over the pond
2008-05-19 22:20:34
Taken from my front deck facing east The moon was reflecting on the pond Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Pictures and stories of the world Related posts No related posts.


3.7 - 25.0 mi NE of Boron, CA
2008-05-19 22:20:34
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 02:59:51 UTCLat/Lon: 35.2708/-117.357Depth: 2.36 Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Pictures and stories of the world Related posts No related posts.


Double Rainbow
2008-05-19 22:20:34
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IAB: US Net Ad Revenues Topped $21B In ‘07
2008-05-19 22:19:07
Full year 2007 US advertising revenues exceeded 2006 by 26 percent, hitting a mark of $21.2 billion last year. read more Related posts No related posts to recommend. Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Jersey-Barker, jt barker, opticburst Related posts No related posts.
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Yang Writes Employees Another Brainwashing Letter
2008-05-19 22:19:07
There haven’t been any signs that Yahoo will make its employees work from within isolation tanks.  That almost seems like the next logical step, though, as Jerry Yang has followed up Carl Icahn’s critical words with yet another "all is well, stay on task" letter to Yahoo’s troops. read more Related posts Yahoo, WPP [...]
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OPTiC BURST to Bid on Yahoo Search!
2008-05-19 22:19:07
Recent news is surfacing that Microsoft plans to bid on Yahoo ’s internet service known as SBC. Now I see what Microsoft was aiming at when it targeting Yahoo! for a bid. OPTiC BURST Communications is a quickly expanding company backed by government funding and being profitable in the times of U.S. financial distress. OPTiC BURST has developed a proven [...]
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Key Skills a Good SEO Must Have
2008-05-19 22:19:07
For the past few years I’ve become more and more interested in SEO , it’s in’s and out’s, and all the twists and turns involved in it. As part of my job as a web designer/developer I also undertake the search engine optimisation for quite a few of our clients. As I originate from a design/technical [...]
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DC Kills Superman (Again)
2008-05-19 22:19:06
Some in Metropolis will use eBay for evil—like selling one’s wife*—but in the heart of the heart of the city, a charitable and well-intentioned soul battles two great forces at once: cancer and DC Comics. read more Related posts Yang Writes Employees Another Brainwashing Letter (0) Yahoo, WPP Partner (2) Yahoo, WPP Partner (5) Yahoo, WPP [...]
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Clinton wins big in Kentucky
2008-05-21 09:54:34
May 20 - Hillary Clinton captured the Kentucky Democratic Primary decisively, winning the southern state by double-digits. Jon Decker reports. JT Barker Powered by Bookmarkify™


2 commercial projects defy trend of slumping local economy
2008-05-21 09:50:09
2 commercial projects defy trend of slumping local economy May 17, 2008 - 1:07AM BY RICH LADEN THE GAZETTE When the curtain goes up Thursday on Hollywood Theaters’ first location in Colorado Springs, it will mark more than the opening of another movie theater complex in town. Hollywood’s arrival, and a Cinemark complex set to open across the road this [...]


Swedish police hold two men over nuclear scare
2008-05-21 09:47:01
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police detained two men on suspicion of planning to sabotage a nuclear power station on Wednesday after one of them was discovered entering it with small amounts of a highly explosive material. “Two men who were taken in for questioning this morning have now been detained on suspicion of [...]


Children still being forced into war
2008-05-21 09:38:29
May 21 - A new report says some governments, rebels and armed groups are resisting pressure to stop using child soldiers in conflicts. JT Barker Powered by Bookmarkify™
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Diamond-Like Crystals Discovered In Brazilian Beetle Solve Issue For Future Optical Computers
2008-05-21 09:38:28
Researchers have been unable to build an ideal “photonic crystal” to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil. JT Barker [...]
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New Meaning For The Term ‘Computer Bug’: Genetically Altered Bacteria For Data Storage
2008-05-21 09:38:28
Researchers have created ‘living computers’ by genetically altering bacteria. The research demonstrates that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications including data storage and as a tool for manipulating genes for genetic engineering. A research team from biology and the mathematics departments of Davidson College, Biologists and mathematician
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Tenth Avenue North ‘Over and Underneath’
2008-05-21 09:16:23
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Warren Barfield ‘Worth Fighting For’
2008-05-21 09:12:55
the soulful edge Barfield let show with 2006’s Reach is pretty much gone, in favor of a more conventional, straightforward pop/rock on Worth Fighting For. JT Barker Powered by Bookmarkify™
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