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Packers Provision, a Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico, establishment, is recalling approximately 420 pounds of frozen beef trim that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7,.
Posted 3 hours ago by  Bob Ewing in Food
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When looking back Presidents in the United States who brought big changes to government, Lincoln and Kennedy, what is remembered is they were assassinated. Barack Obama would no doubt bring a change to the government. Would he make it four years?
Posted 5 hours ago by KJ (momentsintime) in Politics
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Elephants in Kenya are sending text messages to warn owners about their location. Wildlife service officials have installed SIM cards on elephants’ collars to beam messages whenever they approach a “geo fence” global positioning location.
Posted 6 hours ago by Chris V. (cgull) in Technology
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A London gallery exhibit is displaying reworked images of cartoon characters engaged in random acts of gory violence. But is the artist worried about the impact on children and thorny legality issues?
Posted 6 hours ago by  David Silverberg in Arts
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Barack Obama thanked John McCain for telling his supporters to “be respectful” and avoiding racial, hate-filled epithets.
Posted 6 hours ago by Chris V. (cgull) in Politics
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After a slew of attacks on Barack Obama's character made by Sarah Palin, McCain campaign surrogates and in attack ads running on TV and Radio, John McCain felt the need to defend Barack Obama at a campaign rally yesterday.
Posted 6 hours ago by Sadiq Green (Spolitics) in Politics
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John McCain and his crew have vilified Barack Obama, saying that he "pals around with domestic terrorists" and using his foreign sounding middle name as an epithet. Now he takes umbrage as his believing supporters repeat some of that garbage back.
Posted 8 hours ago by Brad Sylvester in Politics
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Richard Blaylock, 76, is a convicted burglar in Britain who was just released from prison says that his life of crime is over because of modern technology like surveillance cameras and DNA testing. Blaylock has spent more than half of his life in prison.
Posted 9 hours ago by Debra Myers (skyangel) in Crime
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Since its beginning Saturday Night Live has been on the cutting edge of political parodies. Starting with Gerald Ford it has wound its way through Ronald Reagan, both Bushs' and up to the current presidential nominees and political personalities.
Posted 9 hours ago by Sadiq Green (Spolitics) in Politics
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A court-ordered analysis of the tape by Harper's own audio expert has found.a tape recording at the centre of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $3.5-million defamation suit against the Liberal party was not altered as the prime minister has claimed
Posted 9 hours ago by Bob Ewing in Politics
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A poor homeless man, who used to hang out in an L.A. neighborhood for more than 20 years, was chased, doused with gas and set ablaze. He died at the scene from his injuries.
Posted 9 hours ago by Chris V. (cgull) in Crime
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume no name brand all-purpose flour because the product may contain excessively high levels of folic acid, iron, niacin, riboflavin and thiamine.
Posted 9 hours ago by Bob Ewing in Food
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A woman finally revealed the secret at the hospital after she was kept prisoner by her own husband for 50 years. She was not allowed to leave the home alone nor talk to others.
Posted 10 hours ago by Chris V. (cgull) in Crime
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YouTube has posted full-length TV shows like the original Star Trek, MacGyver and Beverly Hills 90210. You can watch these classic in full theater view.
Posted 11 hours ago by Chris V. (cgull) in Entertainment
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Us Brits have little knowledge about and despite the fairly low coverage of the White House race over here, I'd like to take the opportunity of expressing the rules of British school of Politics
Posted 11 hours ago by Michelle D. (PlanetJanet) in Politics
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For Black Frog restaurant patrons in Greenville, Maine, there used to be such a thing as a free lunch, but like most things that are supposedly free there were a few strings in this case, unattached. Read on and learn the naked truth
Posted 12 hours ago by MDee in Lifestyle
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A Cambodian couple have taken a diverse and unusual approach to the old statutory 'splitting everything in half' on separation - they have split the house - quite literally
Posted 12 hours ago by Michelle D. (PlanetJanet) in Lifestyle
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An elderly man shot his wife in her hospital bed Friday before turning the gun on himself. He is now listed in critical condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune., New Jersey.
Posted 14 hours ago by KJ (momentsintime) in Crime
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The Google sponsored GeoEye-1 Satellite has downloaded the first images since attaining orbit. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base September 6, 2008.
Posted 15 hours ago by Michael Squires in Technology
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The only way to prevent the US car industry falling into the clutches of those hedonists at the Smithsonian is modernization. Chrysler and GM are looking at ways of avoiding extinction. The great big asteroid of the economy is looking threatening.
Posted 16 hours ago by Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) in Business
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele
Citizen Journalist
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Reporting from: Toronto, Canada Registered: Mar 24, 2007
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I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who lives in Toronto since 1996.
As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish.
As an author, I have written five books and co-authored two. I am currently working on another project.
I love technology, not because it is "cool" but because of what it can do for me.
My current passion is Japanese culture and language. I sing enka, practice Japanese classical dancing (nihonbuyou), kitsuke (kimono dressing) and wasai (Japanese tailoring).
My website has not been updated for several years, due to lack of time, but I still do maintain a weblog for De Standaard, a major Dutch newspaper in Belgium (in Dutch). It can be found at this link.
I am also the Toronto correspondent for Wereldnet, a program by the VPRO on Dutch state-owned radio. This is a link to most of the programs in which I have appeared so far since August 2001 (in Dutch). |
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