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The murder of openly gay teen Jason Mattison Jr., 15, has shaken the city of Baltimore. On Nov. 10, police found Mattison raped, gagged and stabbed to death in a closet at his aunt’s house. The main suspect is Dante Parish, 35, a family friend and convicted felon who served only 10 years of an original [...]
Extra Technology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
New Appointment Underlines Moravia's Commitment to the UK and Irish Markets Brno, Czech Republic ( PRWEB ) November 23, 2009 -- Moravia Worldwide, a leading globalization solution provider, announced today the appointment of George Krawczyk as Sales Director for Ireland and the UK. In this new position, he will lead the established business services team in these countries and have an overall responsibility...
Slovak Yankee (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If you are wondering why the year 1869 is so prominent in the Slovak part of my ancestry, it is due to the 1869 Hungarian census. The Kingdom of Hungary included that which we today call the Slovak Republic and the villages from which my Slovak ancestors came. This census has been filmed by the LDS Family History Library and is available there and its satellite research centers. It took three trips...
News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Cayuga County has 4,000 doses of the vaccine to offer at its school flu clinics. The first one was held Thursday in Moravia.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Conveying a child's experience of the Holocaust is a difficult challenge for any filmmaker who's wary of easy sentimentality or condescending oversimplifications.
Cooler Insights (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Courtesy of OxfordSEOBlog As a current student in humanities, I have generated an interest in its various fields like sociology, psychology, anthropology and geography. Being a marketer and communicator, my focus is to see how these wider fields in social sciences influence the outcomes of consumers and markets. By understanding the various dimensions of human behaviours in individual, group and community...
News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Onondaga and Cayuga County put schedules in place Wednesday for district-wide H1N1 clinics for students. Information was posted on school websites and through letters being sent home. | Find the...
News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Several counties put schedules in place Wednesday for district-wide H1N1 clinics for students. A news conference will be held at 2pm by the health department. | Find the schedule for...
Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
From LA Times "You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Serbia, in Poland, even in Russia; the superstition, so we must call it, of the vampire," wrote Sheridan Le Fanu in his classic "Carmilla," first serialized in London in 1871 and 1872. It's not just Le Fanu's language that feels antique...
Tomedes Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Leading globalization solution provider Moravia Worldwide announced the formation of a partnership with Asia Online which is a leader in the field of automated machine translation technology. The partnership was formed to provide the clients of Moravia Worldwide with value-added language translation services that would be based on Asia Online’s Language Studio platform. Asia Online’s innovative...
lathophobic aphasia (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
It was I think Alberto Moravia (and if it wasn’t, it was someone else) who said ‘the Mediterranean woman has this terrible quality’. He did not mean that she is a fat, pasty slattern in a pink towelling track suit with black roots and panda eyes. He meant rather that she is implacable, jealous, unforgiving of insult and merciless in exacting revenge for infidelity. Right. Well. This...
Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Nezval Some spires of Prague Jerry and Diane Rothernberg and the Sovaks in their Paris apartment Vítězslav Nezval Antilyrik , translated from the Czech by Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001) After a couple of years in pre-production, my Green Integer press finally published this July Jerome Rothernberg's and Milos Sovak's excellent translation, Antilyrik...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Signet Solar and BSC-Solar to Build 1.8 MW Solar Farm in the Czech Republic BLÍŽKOVICE, Czech Republic & MOCHAU, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Signet Solar and BSC-Solar today announced that they are jointly developing a 1.8 MW solar power plant in the Czech Republic, located in [...]
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Author and big-time intellectual John Ralston Saul has just been elected president of PEN International. According to The Globe and Mail, he is the first Canadian to be elected president in the 88-year history of the organization. Saul succeeds the Czech writer Jiri Grusa, who has held the post for six years. Earlier presidents have included [...]
The Israeli Diamond Industry (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Before World War II, Germany was a known trading zone in Europe, taking a big part in the European jewelry trading. During the war, German Nazis looted gold, diamond, art and treasures from the territories they occupied and the people they victimized, later to be looted themselves by Russians at the end of war. In the last months of the war, some of the Third Reich's secret archives were hurriedly...
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