The top 10 local stories of 2008 (The Westerly Sun)
Selecting the top news story of 2008 was an easy task for The Sun’s reporters and editors. The national economic malaise and its effect on our towns topped just about everyone’s list. After that, it was harder reaching a consensus.
Emergent Integrates Illuminate Labs’ Beast Global Illumination System with Gamebryo (Centre Daily Times)
Emergent has integrated Illuminate Labs’ Beast system with the award-winning Gamebryo development platform . Beast will complement Gamebryo’s powerful animation system by adding the ability to quickly create complex, highly-detailed light maps with advanced global illumination.
JumpBox Releases 38 Open Source Virtual Appliances for Amazon Cloud Service (SYS-CON Media)
JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized organizations a library of Open Source applications packaged as pre-built, pre-configured virtual appliances ...
For the week, Sensex added 6.7% during the week to close at 9,958 and the Nifty rose 6.6% at 3,047. (India Infoline)
The key stock indices staged a smart comeback after last week’s retreat, as announcement of the impending new stimulus package drew closer. After market close the RBI announced a cut in CRR by 50 bps and a 100bps cut in reverse repo and repo rates.
County superintendent wants to make school relevant (Victorville Daily Press)
SAN BERNARDINO • Gary Thomas said his top educational goals — engaging students, teaching the fundamentals and keeping kids in school — haven’t changed much from the time he was a Hesperia Unified School District principal two decades
TVA Says Continued Tests Show Water Supplies Safe After Spill TVA Opens "Outreach Center" To Help Affected Residents (The Chattanoogan)
TVA officials said all results from each agency testing public water supplies "have consistently indicated that municipal drinking water supplies are safe" after a huge breach of a coal ash containment retention wall at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant at Harriman.
COVER STORY: Outstanding Independents Awards: Up with people (Progressive Grocer)
"I’m not in the grocery business, I'm in the people business," says Juvenal Chavez, founder, chairman, and c.e.o. of Mi Pueblo, the 10-store Hispanic independent grocer named Progressive Grocer 's Outstanding Community-Based Retailer.
Nostalgia, What’s Old is New Again at CES, Says ScanMyPhotos.com (Centre Daily Times)
What’s old is new again at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Boone-based group (Watauga Democrat)
High levels of toxic heavy metals are present in samples taken from the Kingston Fossil Plant ash spill in Harriman, Tenn., independent testing shows.
LordsofPain.net Transcript Of Dixie Carter's Interview With Government Officials (Lords of Pain)
Here is a transcript of an interview government officials conducted with TNA president Dixie Carter on Thursday, December 6, 2007 largely regarding steroid use in her company as well as professional wrestling. Carter also goes into great detail on the behind the scenes aspects of TNA.
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