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Here are some quickies since most of the rumors are from yesterday, earlier today and stuff.
What's this madness I hear? Baby Sham, Rah Digga, Rampage and Spliff Starr are no longer Flipmode? They are now called…The Famous Millionaire Squad (FMS).
I think with the talk of Foxy Brown getting out of jail early it was only natural that her wig get pushed back… Her album is now delayed until Feb of 08.
Juelz Santana is also supposedly going to drop in Feb of 08 with a new album! AYE!
Congrats to Jay-Z on hitting that No. 1 spot. Peace out Elvis! He sold 433k, Chris Brown pushed 301k and Cassidy squeeked in the Top 10 with 67k sold.
The War Against Women
Such acts can land them important posts in government. When atrocities become sufficiently conspicuous and horrific — such as the notorious amputations of arms and legs in Sierra Leone — the international community steps in to initiate a peace process. Usually they bring to the negotiating table all the bad, bad men who have been causing so much trouble and buy them off with positions of power in a new "interim" or "transitional" government. Witness, in another part of the world where women are notoriously badly treated, all those well-known warlords the Afghan people wanted tried for war crimes who somehow wound up in President Hamid Karzai's cabinet, or — after elections advertised as democratic — in parliament. Foday Sankoh had been condemned to death for treason when he was summoned to just such peace negotiations.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment.
David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss roommate apparently arrived at the apartment at 1218 S. Main St. about 2 a.m. and found the victim on the floor in the kitchen area of the apartment, according to a press release. The roommate called police. The death is being investigated as suspicious, said Moscow Police Department Assistant Chief David Duke. The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the head. No gun was found in the apartment, Duke said. .
Drakes Creek students win academic contest
Drakes Creek Middle School won four individual events and took first place in Quick Recall to capture first place in the District 19 Governor's Cup academic competition Jan. 26. Drakes Creek scored 48 points to finish ahead of runner-up Henry F. Moss Middle School with 33 points.Individual winners for Drakes Creek were Austin Taing in mathematics and science, Seth Stewart in composition and Callie Allison in arts and humanities. Drakes Creek also had three second-place finishers - Nathaniel Powers in science, Mallory Clouse in language arts and Emily Powell in arts and humanities.The top scorers for Henry F. Moss Middle School were Matt Clouse (first in social studies), Alec Minnicks (third in mathematics and fourth in science) and Allyn Goately (second in composition).The other individual winner was David Sekora of Franklin-Simpson Middle School in language arts.
Campanile hosting auditions for Into the Woods
Does cabin fever have you in its clutches? Would you rather be someone else or be somewhere else? Do you feel like breaking into song? We have the answer to your thespian dreams.The Campanile Center for the Arts is holding auditions for its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical Into the Woods. Auditions will be held Monday, Feb. 11 and Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Campanile Center for the Arts, 141 Milwaukee St. (corner of Milwaukee and Flambeau streets) in downtown Minocqua. .
Kentucky Chamber announces 'New Agenda' results
The initiative, launched last April, was designed to encourage Kentuckians to suggest ways to improve the state, and funnel those ideas into an action agenda that will be presented to Gov. Steve Beshear and other policy officials. A task force of business executives and entrepreneurs was formed to guide the process of developing the agenda and help solicit ideas from the public through a designated Web site, community meetings, outreach to civic organizations and community groups, and interviews with experts and opinion leaders. The task force was led by Craig Grant, regional president of PNC Bank, and included local business leaders such as Ed Glasscock, co-managing partner of Frost Brown Todd LLC; Joan Coleman, president of AT&T Kentucky; Sean O'Leary, CEO of Genscape Inc.; Steve Sexton, president of Churchill Downs; Chris Spalding, president of the Young Professionals Association of Louisville; and Stephen Williams, president and CEO of Norton Healthcare Inc.
Coaches discuss fairness of tournament site
New year, same debate.With the Mountain West Conference Basketball Championships looming, Monday's teleconference involving the league's coaches was dominated by the near-annual debate about the fairness of UNLV hosting the conference tournament.The exact answers varied, but -- especially with five new coaches on the scene -- all pointed towards further discussion in the offseason about finding a better plan."Unfortunately, until things change, the automatic (NCAA Tournament) qualifier is the conference tournament winner," New Mexico coach Steve Alford said. "And that's why I think it's very, very important for our league to really look closely at what we're doing with our league tournament, because having it at a host school, there's not any kind of balance or anything fair to that for the other eight teams in the league."Alford, in his first year at the helm for the Lobos, has been the most vocal about the situation and has made his comments public and very clear from Day One.He coached in the Big Ten at Iowa for the last eight seasons, where the conference tournament alternates between Chicago and Indianapolis, Ind.
out your back window
Nancy Heppner, Saskatchewan's environment minister, says illegal hunting and outfitting robs the people of the province of its natural resources. She calls the penalty "significant" and says she's confident it will send the message that the province's wildlife is valued and will be protected.
tomorrow on AM 740 the FAN .
Video is the winner on the Web
Overall, across the world, online viewers spent 3.25 hours in November watching videos up from 2.5 hours in January the same year. On an average, they spent 2.8 minutes online. In November 2007, the world watched a phenomenal 9.5 billion videos online, 28.3 per cent higher than September 2007. YouTube alone accounted for 2.9 billion of those, with 29.5 million visitors... Compete, another website analytics company, found that several new video sharing sites (including adult video sharing sites) showed growth rates of over 14,000 per cent from December 2006 to December 2007. Another trend: 18 of the top 20 sites belong to the peer-to-peer sharing platform. Video content is now an integral part of the Web 2.0 trend where person-to-person interaction and information sharing will be the bedrock of the development of the Internet.
Google to expand child care in Baylands
Architects for Google presented plans for a daycare facility for 250 children alongside Palo Alto's Baylands to the Architectural Review Board Thursday. The site at 1129 San Antonio Ave. lies just across the street from another Google daycare facility for 80 children under construction at 3801 E. Bayshore Road. Google offices are also nearby in Mountain View. The board's preliminary review required no vote, but members said they liked the plans despite concerns about parking. The proposal calls for tearing down three existing office buildings susceptible to flooding because they lie below a federally required eight-foot mark and replacing them with a one-story row of classrooms and play spaces. The buildings, bordered by salt marshes and a utility yard, would measure about 46,500 square feet, project manager David Blitz of the Staubach Company said.
New legislation could lead to ISP throttling ban
This wouldn't be happening if consumers weren't getting the service, value, and access to content they desire...These are serious issues for carriers and consumers alike, and we believe a thoughtful and balanced examination will lead to what we already know: Government intervention is not necessary." .
EMC and SAP plan a romp in the clouds
EMC may partner with German software giant SAP to develop a suite of web hosted storage and application services. In an interview with Reuters, SAP executive Doug Merritt said the two companies are in early-stage talks to add SAP's business applications to EMC's burgeoning software-as-a-service (SaaS) storage platform. Both companies are mum on any technical or financial details of the proposed collaboration. But let's look at how things lay. In January, EMC unveiled MozyEnterprise, the first offering in its new hosted software line dubbed "Fortress." The online backup and recovery suite is based on technology acquired from Berkeley Data Systems last October. EMC made sure to point out Mozy is only the first step in expanding the SaaS operation.
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