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Sat, 12/18/2010 - 09:40 by Anand Chokkavelu
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Sat, 11/20/2010 - 09:30 by Prince damin
Las Cruces, N.M. -- SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital space tourist craft, is entering a period of aggressive U.S. testing to prepare it for commercial operations, its backers say.
At Spaceport America, a facility under construction in New Mexico as the home of Virgin Galactic, the spaceship is being prepared for more glide tests and the eventual fitting of its hybrid rocket motor.
Starting space tourism operations is a challenging endeavor, a Virgin Galactic executive said.
"There are a lot of different pieces to it. Job number one is to continue progressing and to eventually finish the flight test program safely and build a set of vehicles that can be flown safely with precious cargo," CEO George Whitesides told SPACE.com.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 01:09 by Prince damin
Chicago -- A spokesman for embattled former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said the ex-official appeared in a commercial for pistachios to "pay the mortgage."
Blagojevich spokesman Glenn Selig said the ousted governor appeared in a Wonderful Pistachios commercial, which aired Sunday night during the World Series, because he "needs money to pay the mortgage," the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.
The commercial features Blagojevich receiving a briefcase and opening it to find hundreds of pistachios waiting to pour out.
"Rod Blagojevich does it innocently," an announcer says on the commercial.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 10/14/2010 - 02:38 by Prince damin
Coral Gables, Fla. -- Officials in a Florida city are considering a measure that would ban gas-powered leaf blowers and place restrictions on electric blowers.
The Coral Gables City Commission is scheduled to vote Oct. 26 on an ordinance that would ban commercial gardeners and lawn services from using leaf blowers and restrict homeowners to using only electric leaf blowers during approved hours, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
City Commissioner Ralph Cabrera, who is leading the effort to pass the ordinance, said leaf blowers create excessive noise and cause pollution by spreading mold spores and chemicals including pesticides.
However, many residents have said the commission is overreaching with the proposed measure.
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Fri, 09/17/2010 - 22:08 by Prince damin
Ottawa -- Conservationists say data showing strong growth in cod numbers off Canada's east coast may lead to pressure to revive commercial fishing, banned since 1994.
The World Wildlife Fund announced Thursday the cod population on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland had jumped by 69 per cent from numbers taken in 2007.
But biologist Jeff Hutchings says cod are still in a precarious state, representing just a 10th of historic levels seen in the 1960s.
Hutchings said he is worried that politicians will be lobbied to open up commercial activity.
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Fri, 09/10/2010 - 00:28 by Prince damin
London -- The Bank of England said Thursday it would keep its commercial reserve lending rate at 0.5 percent, a move widely expected.
The BOE has kept the rate unchanged since March 2009. Since then, the British economy has managed a lethargic recovery, posting gross domestic product growth of 1.2 percent in the second quarter compared to the first.
The BOE said it would continue with a $308 billion asset purchase, which it also began in March 2009.
The bank issued a brief statement Thursday, which is traditionally followed up by a release of meeting minutes three weeks after the policy decision.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Wed, 07/14/2010 - 09:19 by Pankaj Damin
Los Angeles -- The Sept. 10 Stand Up to Cancer fundraising event will air live and commercial-free from Los Angeles on the Fox network, organizers said Tuesday.
Joining ABC, CBS and NBC, Fox will donate 1 hour of live, commercial-free prime time for the nationally televised fundraiser.
Additionally, VH1, HBO Latino, TV One and G4 have agreed to air the SU2C event. They join HBO, Discovery Health, E!, MLB Network and The Style Network for what is being billed as "an historic evening to raise much-needed money for
groundbreaking cancer research," Stand Up to Cancer organizers said.
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Tue, 06/15/2010 - 10:40 by Pankaj Damin
Toronto -- Sophie Froment was booted from the Miss Universe Canada pageant after it was discovered she appeared in TV commercials for an extramarital dating Web site.
The 21-year-old law student lost her place in the competition Saturday after pageant officials learned she taped commercials for Ashley Madison, a Web site for people seeking to have affairs, the Toronto Star said.
Although the ads never ran in Canada because they were rejected by the TTC's advertising review committee for not meeting community standards, they did air in the United States and someone brought them to the attention of pageant officials, the newspaper said.
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Fri, 05/07/2010 - 15:24 by Jaspreet Virk
Benefiting from corporate restructuring, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS), the biggest government-owned bank in United Kingdom, reported narrower loss for the quarter ended March 31.
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Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:46 by Jaspreet Virk
Apple is leaving no stone unturned to promote is forthcoming tablet computer iPad. Though the device is yet not out in the market, the company has already kick started a campaign.
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Mon, 02/08/2010 - 22:13 by Samia Sehgal
Los Angeles, February 8 -- Super Bowl viewers were treated to a surprise on their screens last night. Late night rivals Jay Leno and David Letterman, along with Oprah Winfrey, shot together for a commercial promoting CBS's ‘Late Show with David Letterman.’
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Sat, 01/30/2010 - 13:13 by Natalie James
Los Angeles, January 30 -- After reviewing a commercial from a gay dating site called Mancrunch.com, CBS has rejected it as inappropriate for the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV, according to reports.
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