Archive for May, 2008

NOVI, Mich. — Two of the most promising safety technologies — forward-collision warning and lane-departure warning — referenced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) as key to reducing vehicle-related accidents and deaths will be more

Story Tools This was a no-brainer. • July Fourth fireworks, or emergency broadcast radio system? • Fun, or safety? • Tarpon Springs commissioners didn’t have to think long about that one. They decided that the money budgeted for the city’s more

St. Cloud will improve street so postal boxes can move - St. Cloud Times
Drop-off boxes from St. Cloud’s main post office can move to a different location downtown now that St. Cloud City Council has approved road changes for the new site. The boxes in front of the post office at 915 Second St. N will move to Eighth
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Canada Post and eBay Canada have teamed up to develop an exclusive box designed to take the headache out of shipping and selling online for ordinary people. Shippers can use the new Flat Rate Box to package up the old hockey cards and Star Wars continue

Curbside recycling to begin
Bonner Springs Chieftain,  USA - May 14, 2008
Cardboard: Corrugated cardboard refers to shipping boxes that have a middle layer of paper between the inside and outside box surfaces.

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Story Tools MIAMI - Prosecutors in Miami say a fifth person has been charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office spokesman Ed Griffith says Wednesday that 16-year-old Timothy Brown is more

A ninth grader in Calgary admits he has thought about killing himself. The anonymity of his online bully is “killer,” he says. “It could have been my best friend for all I know.” A 19-year-old near Ottawa says a girl started rumours about her online more


Daily Mail
The humbling stories of the Mail's Inspirational Women of the Year
Daily Mail, UK - 34 minutes ago
One grey Saturday morning in November 1996, an extraordinary meeting took place in Dr Carrie Herbert's cosy front room. Sitting on her pretty sofa were two

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Interview with Richard Wolpert, The Mail Room Fund
socalTech.com, CA - May 6, 2008
Richard Wolpert is the head of the Mail Room Fund, a new venture fund backed by William Morris, Accel Partners, Venrock, and AT&T. Wolpert is well known for

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BBC News
Delivering a statement that's quite puzzling
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 16 hours ago
But it's not just mail that vanishes. Taxpayers' money, political credibility and business reputations have been known to disappear inside a system that
Malta Celebrates Postal Service With New Stamps Hell Mail
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The Inner Loop: Two Tons of Trouble
Newspaper Tree, TX - 1 hour ago
The following is an e-mail sent by Pittle to a number of El Pasoans Monday, followed by an e-mail from Pittle to a number of El Pasoans on Tuesday.

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May 14 (Bloomberg) — U.S. natural gas rose to the highest since December 2005 after Enterprise Products Partners LP delayed resumption of a pipeline. The Independence Trail natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico may not resume service until the more

An Oregon hospital improved its emergency care by utilizing voice recognition and other sophisticated features of the DR Systems Unity(TM) PACS, according to a presentation this week to the National Patient Safety Foundation. The technology more

EUGENE, OR — 05/13/08 — EDX Wireless, a long-time provider of RF network planning tools, today announced that Fortress Technologies, a leading provider of secure wireless solutions, is now an EDX Technical Services Partner. As a member of the EDX more

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 12 /PRNewswire/ — In an effort to address growing concerns over safety, security, and eco-friendly issues within the retail procurement industry, a new resource has been formally launched. With headquarters in Scottsdale AZ more

Beautification Plans Moving Along - News Dispatch

Beautification Plans Moving Along
News Dispatch, IN - May 11, 2008
MICHIGAN CITY - America In Bloom plans are in place, and work on beautifying neighborhoods throughout the city are moving ahead, according to an

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Battle of the Bandwidth - Broadcast Newsroom

Battle of the Bandwidth
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 1 hour ago
MPEG-4 set-top boxes are currently being tested and larger MSOs are expected to begin deploying some boxes in the fall, though they’ve been tight-lipped on

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A SHIPMENT of high-energy biscuits that could feed 95,000 survivors of Burma’s Cyclone Nargis remains impounded by customs at the airport in Burma’s largest city Rangoon, a World Food Program (WFP) spokesman said. More than 24 hours after the read more

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) — Aid agencies are furious over the Myanmar government’s refusal to let them distribute food and supplies flown in for victims of the cyclone that is estimated to have killed up to 100,000 people. Cyclone survivors pictured read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Burmese officials have given permission for an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft to deliver supplies to Rangoon on May 12, White House officials said here. Gordon Johndroe, deputy White House press secretary, said the United States read more

Teams of aid experts allowed into the cyclone-ravaged Irrawady delta have returned to Thailand with the bleakest of warnings: Burma is on the brink of a “devastating public health crisis” if help is not allowed to flow across its borders read more