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3 Mandatory encapsulation of all spent nuclear fuel, etc., and ban on all nuclear materials. AGRICULTURE: 1 Support system of ecologically based, sustainable, organic agriculture based on family farms and farming cooperatives guaranteeing full workers' rights, etc. See platform. CIVIL RIGHTS: 1 End all restrictions in law and work place, marriages, and sodomy laws 2 Prevent student violence and discrimination in schools and all of society 3 Federal ban on all forms of job discrimination, on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender or economic status 4 Oppose English as the only official language .
NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew
NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., collected the data using the facility's Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California's Mojave Desert. The imagery generated by the data has been incorporated into animation depicting the descent to the lunar surface of a future human lunar lander and a flyover of Shackleton Crater. The mapping data collected indicate that the region of the moon's south pole near Shackleton Crater is much more rugged than previously understood. The Shackleton rim area is considered a candidate landing site for a future human mission to the moon. "The south pole of the moon certainly would be a beautiful place to explore," said Doug Cooke, deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Washington.
Agent hosts limo tours of available homes
Valley real estate agents are getting creative when it comes to convincing wary buyers that a down market is the perfect time to nab hot deals on homes. Read Misty Williams' real estate blog Search current Valley foreclosures Later this month, West USA Realty agent Kent Gagon will begin hosting limousine tours of foreclosed and bank-owned houses in Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert and other East Valley cities. The first tour on March 21 is open to 16 people and will visit 20 to 30 homes, ranging in price from $160,000 to $400,000 in Ahwatukee Foothills and Tempe. Buyers must be pre-qualified by one of Gagon’s lenders. Find more information at www.allarizonarealestate.com. Show appeal With more than 50,000 Valley homes for sale and competition escalating, some agents are going the high-tech route to draw buyers and sellers.
Plaza cam is back
The Plaza cam is back. Visitors to www.ArcataPlazaCam.com can now see live video of the northwest corner of the town square via a Web-enabled camera perched on the Plaza View Stay balcony at Ninth and H streets, according to a press release. A separate web camera existed on the south side of the Plaza for several years, operated by a Web site design and hosting company. Alex Stillman, an Arcata City Councilwoman, is sponsoring the new camera. It uses her private DSL for Internet access. "I figure it's for fun," she said. Stillman said she decided to put it up after her daughter in the Bay Area said she was checking on road and slope conditions via Web cams to decide whether to go skiing. That conversation reminded Stillman of the old Plaza cam. The new camera will be great to view festivals and to see how busy the plaza is, Stillman said.
Art, love, and one giant war
Paul Tarrant is living his dream. Thanks to a legacy from his slumlord grandmom, the 20-something from northern England is enrolled at the prestigious Slade School in London, learning to be a "real" artist. Too bad he isn't. Paul's teacher, the real-life artist and surgeon Henry Tonks, offers him a devastating assessment early on in Life Class, the new novel by award-winning writer Pat Barker: Paul has ability, but nothing to say. He's a technically accomplished void. To make matters worse, Paul meets Kit Neville, a slightly older artist who has made a name painting the gritty, urban scenes Paul was surrounded by growing up, and which he escaped by painting pretty landscapes. To complicate things further, both men are preoccupied with the same woman, Elinor Brooke, another Slade student.
Unversity Place litigation settled
A settlement has been reached in litigation over the University of Idahos failed University Place real estate project in Boise. Under its terms, the UI Foundation will pay $2.5 million and the various parties insurers will pay $5.8 million, for a total $8.3 million mediated settlement. Of that, $5.8 million goes to the foundations Consolidated Investment Trust, and the other $2.5 million goes to the university. In a joint statement, the parties, who include law firms, insurance companies, the UI Foundation board, and former UI officials including former President Robert Hoover, said, The settlement is a reasonable resolution of an extremely complex matter, avoids substantial future litigation costs, and is in the best interest of the University community. The amount being paid by each party is being kept secret.
Hostopia email service now available for BlackBerry smartphones
FT. LAUDERDALE -- Hostopia.com, Inc. (TSX: H), today announced that its Hostopia email service now offers integrated support for BlackBerry(R) Internet Service from Research In Motion (RIM) . Hostopia's wholesale, managed email platform provides email services to leading global service providers of telecommunications and Internet services, who, in turn, offer email services to millions of businesses and consumers worldwide.
The Hostopia email service now allows BlackBerry(R) smartphone users to automatically receive messages from their Hostopia email account. To instantly configure and connect with their Hostopia email account users can simply enter their email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone.
Hostopia's Chief Marketing Officer, Paul D.
IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
We'll hand it to IBM's researchers. They think big - really big. Like holy-crap-what-have-you-done big. The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable "of hosting the entire internet as an application." This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers so loved by the high performance computing crowd. IBM's researchers have proposed tweaking the Blue Gene systems to run today's most popular web applications such as Linux, Apache, MySQL and Ruby on Rails. .
Poll puts Zapatero ahead (but don't tell the Spanish)
In private though, Socialist Party officials worry that the high rate of immigration in the past few years could cost it votes on Sunday. Spain’s once-dwindling population has jumped from 40 million to 45 million since 2000, boosting the economy but creating tensions in working-class, urban areas, where many immigrants have settled. The economy is another source of worry for strategists. Unemployment figures showed that 53,000 Spaniards lost their jobs in February, taking the unemployment rate to 8.6 per cent. The manufacturing sector is also at its weakest in more than six years. Mr Zapatero swept to power unexpectedly four years ago on a wave of public anger over the previous Government’s handling of the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800.
'Fowl' Language Upsets Some in Pa.
ALTOONA, Pa. - A convenience store chain's billboard advertising its fried chicken sandwich is ruffling the feathers of some residents. Sheetz unveiled the "Crispy Frickin' Chicken" billboards at the beginning of February. The campaign consists of 100 billboards placed locations that carry the sandwich, spokeswoman Monica Jones said Thursday. The campaign is aimed at young adults, and the company did not intend to offend anyone, Jones said. "We're kind of known for edgy, kind of brash advertising tactics, and we knew this would spark a certain amount of controversy," Jones said. "That said, we're proud of the campaign." .
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