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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Fresh from an election in which Republicans knocked off several entrenched Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the state's GOP is poised to usher in a new era of tougher two-party politics in Northern Virginia, political observers say.
FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Consider giving a newspaper subscription as a gift and/or buying one or more subscriptions for delivery to your workplace ( here's how ); whenever you visit a newspaper site online, please click on one or more of the advertisements and make an effort to patronize newspaper advertisers. Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Crist not so sunny these days...
ZooTennis (Free subscription) | yesterday
©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven CT-- The men's and women's contenders for the college season's second major were pared from 16 to 4 Friday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University. Men's top seed JP Smith of Tennessee will meet fifth seed Steve Johnson of the University of Southern California, while the other semifinal will feature two unseeded players: Michael Shabaz of Virginia...
Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bowling For Soup and MC Lars start a US tour next week. November 11, 2009 Des Moines, Iowa The House of Bricks November 12, 2009 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Nutty's North November 13, 2009 Madison, Wisconsin Orpheum Theatre November 14, 2009 St. Paul, Minnesota Station 4 November 15, 2009 East Lansing, Michigan Small Planet November 17, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio House of Blues November 18, 2009 Pittsburgh,...
Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Mayer will kick off a North American tour in support of his upcoming release, for his new album Battle Studie , beginning February 8th in Charleston, South Carolina, and will feature supporting acts Michael Franti and Spearhead. Tickets for the majority of dates are planned to go on sale to the general public on November 21st, with an American Express card member pre-sale window from November...
Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
I agree completely with Americans United for Separation of Church and State that there are important lessons in the recent elections in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the abolition of civil rights in Maine. Christian extremism is alive and well. According to Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of AU, I wish I could say the Religious Right is dead, but this election shows that reports of its...
Pax Parabellum (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Updated : 13 dead 30 Wounded Sorry this wasn't updated--sooner: Here's a video at CNN of the shooter from the morning of the 5th getting his usual coffee and hashbrowns. (from all the news channels)There was only one shooter, a 39 year old American born Muslim from Virginia who joined the Army and went to medical school to become a psychiatrist on the Army's dime. " Wielding two handguns , Maj....
ZooTennis (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven CT-- Top seed Maria Mosolova of Northwestern's 6-4, 7-5 loss to wild card Anastasia Petukhova of Fresno State was over by the time we arrived at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University, but I did watch some of the second big upset of the day, as 2009 All-American finalist Chelsey Gullickson, the third seed, fell to UCLA senior Yasmin Schnack 7-6(5),...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Click here to view these pictures larger The Following information is from Wikipedia... USS New York (LPD-21) , the fifth San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock , is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York . The New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700 Marines . Construction The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An American army major went on a shooting rampage today at a Texas military base killing 11 people and wounding 31 others before being gunned down, army officials said (he survived and is in custody). Two other soldiers were arrested after the shooting spree and were being held as suspects, said Lieutenant General Bob Cone, commander at Fort Hood, the largest U.S. military base in the world. The major...
The Gadsden Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Virginia authorities on Tuesday are scheduled to execute one of two D.C. sniper suspects whose first victims were employees of an Alabama state liquor store in 2002.
In From the Cold (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As the Fort Hood community deals with the horror of today's mass murder at the Texas base, details are beginning to emerge about the alleged killer, Army Major Nidal M. Hasan. A psychiatrist assigned to the Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Hasan had been assigned to the post since 2007, when he completed training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In fact, all of Hasan's...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The attorney general's office is asking Virginia regulators to order the state's largest utility company to either cut rates or offer customers a refund.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The attorney general's office is asking Virginia regulators to order the state's largest utility company to either cut rates or offer customers a refund.
BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I am not sure why I expected people to resist the temptation to over-read the results of two gubernatorial races on Tuesday. Jon Corzine hasn't seen approval numbers north of 40% in over a year, and his loss in New Jersey seemed inevitable. And Creigh Deeds had been trailing Robert McDonnell by double digits for months. What could these two elections tell us except that unpopular candidates lose elections?...
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trymi | 03/23/2009
It was reported this week that Fiat S.p.A. is carrying out environmental and safety evaluations of Chrysler LLC factors as part of its intention to take over 35 percent of its stake. Environ Holdings Inc., of Arlington, Virginia was hired by Fiat to conduct the evaluations.
parisius | 03/11/2009
Ten people were killed in Alabama last night – including the wife and child of a police officer – after a gun massacre that brought back grim memories of atrocities in Columbine, Colorado, and Blacksburg, Virginia. Michael McLendon, 27, began the killing spree in Samson, a town of 2,000 in the southeast of the state, and continued it in nearby Geneva, killing members of his own family and attacking
ciscozine | 03/06/2009
Surfing the web, I have found a nice article about BGP weakness . This document, entitled “ Defending Against BGP Man-In-The-Middle Attacks “, was presented by Earl Zmijewski during Black Hat DC 2009 (Hyatt Regency Crystal City - February 16-17 - Arlington, Virginia). The slides focus on four points: BGP Routing Basics - Enough to understand and identify the threat BGP Update Messages BGP Attributes
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