Neverland Valley Ranch, owned by Michael Jackson, is to be sold at auction on March 19, 2008, unless Jackson pays over US$24 million. Financial Title Company, the trustee of his Santa Barbara County, California, home and amusement park, has foreclosed on the property. They notified Jackson of the foreclosure and sale on Monday. Jackson...
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Users worldwide are reporting that they are unable to login to Microsoft’s (MS) live services such as Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and in some cases Xbox Live. Problems reportedly began around 6:30 a.m. eastern time. “We are aware that some customers may be experiencing difficulty accessing their Windows Live accounts. We’re actively investigating the...
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Massive blackouts occurred throughout the US state of Florida shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (18:00 UTC) on Tuesday afternoon. Out of the 4.4 million customers served by Florida Power & Light, Co. (FPL), about 680,000 residents were affected, with an additional two million-plus customers affected in other parts of the state. It is...
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Pakistan has lifted a ban on the video-sharing website YouTube, which was said to be brought in after a video offensive to Islam was uploaded to the site. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the offending material was in relation to a trailer for a film by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician. The...
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The European Commission currently has proposals on the table to extend performers’ copyright terms. Described by Professor Martin Kretschmer as the “Beatles Extension Act”, the proposed measure would extend copyright from 50 to 95 years after recording. A vast number of classical tracks are at stake; the copyright on recordings from the fifties and...
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Background: The historic, one-of-a-kind conference "From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence" was held in Sacramento, California February 15-16 and was a major success. The conference was sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and Children and featured leading domestic violence authorities from around the world.
Many of these researchers...
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Background: Conscientious Virginia judge James Michael Shull, who smoked out a woman who sought to extend a restraining order based on false charges of domestic violence, was removed from the bench last fall by this Virginia Supreme Court ruling. Not only was Shull railroaded, but he has been the target of widely-disseminated lazy, misleading reporting...
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Barack Obama’s campaign is the by-product of a deep cynicism that has become ingrained in the past 50 years, says Prof. Mike Rosenberg. By Mike Rosenberg Europeans are scratching their heads trying to figure out how Barack Obama – until recently a relatively unknown politician outside the borders of the United States – has...
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"It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center. Day after day, you wait for the casualties to show up from the alleged campus rape epidemicâ€â€but no one calls. Could this mean that the crisis is overblown? No: it means, according to the campus sexual-assault industry, that the abuse of...
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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra has played a concert in Pyongyang, North Korea in a move which has been hoped to bring better relations between the communist country and the West. This comes as Eric Clapton has been invited to play Pyongyang in 2009, as an anonymous North Korean official revealed. The orchestra played...
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In the New South Wales today, thousands of people joined a protest including 15 Labor Members of Parliament about the State Government’s plans to privatize the electricity industry. The MPs included Paul Gibson, Upper House president Peter Primrose, and former MPs Kerry Hickey and Grant McBride. Mr Gibson was reported as saying, “I’m a...
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“God is behind everything, but everything hides God,” wrote Victor Hugo in his classic Les Miserables, Book 5, Chapter 4. Born FEBRUARY 26, 1802, Victor Marie Hugo was hailed as the greatest of the Romanticists poets. He is best know for writing Cromwell, 1827, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831, and Les Miserables, 1862,...
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A result is expected today on the possibility of an election re-run in Nigeria. Opposition parties claim that current President Umaru Yar’Adua’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) fixed the results of the 2007 election in his favor and are calling to have the result annulled. So far, the tribunal has rejected one out of the...
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Frank Walker, the chief minister of Jersey, a United Kingdom Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France, has been forced to deny claims of a cover up after a child’s remains were found. Police are currently investigating twenty-seven cases of child abuse on the island and recently discovered the body of one child...
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George W. Bush has met today with the United States’ National Governors Association. Speaking in the White House, President Bush after the meeting on Saturday said that , “I like to tell people I’m going to finish strong, and I want to work with you as I do so.†He continued...
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According to a statement posted on its website, Stage6, a site that hosts videos made by users, has decided to shut down on February 28, 2008 because they no longer have the resources to keep it online. “Why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of...
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"Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me," said Jewell's father, Ricky Ward. "The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court."
"She wanted to kill them. I let the court know that. But they took only one side...I loved them. I've been fighting for...
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Since I have been indirectly labeled an extremist, I feel this qualifies me to be in the position to reach out to others who may be the same. This is how I felt after reading Jonah Bloom’s article at Glenn Sack’s blog. Jonah is Executive Editor and writer for Advertising Age, a weekly marketing...
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Yes, I Am An Extremist
Since I have been indirectly labeled an extremist, I feel this qualifies me to be in the position to reach out to others who may be the same. This is how I felt after reading Jonah Bloom’s article at Glenn Sack’s blog. Jonah is Executive Editor and writer for Advertising Age, a weekly marketing...
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