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People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The prime ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member countries on Friday approved a concept for energy cooperation in the region. CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev told a press conference after the meeting in the southern Ukrainian city of Yalta that the blueprint would regulate the joint construction of energy projects in CIS countries, joint exploration and use of alternative...
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Technopress - All about Tech... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Samsung unveils Android-equipped Galaxy Spica i5700 The long-rumored little brother to the Galaxy , the i5700 , has finally been made official by Samsung -- and sure enough, it'll go by the trade name 'Galaxy Spica.' Sammy's latest Android-powered set clocks in at 13.2mm thick and comes equipped with a 3.5mm jack (which, frankly, every smartphone in the world should be including at this point), an...
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CIS Hoops.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
The host Seahawks forged a 17 point halftime lead and then held on to defeat the Huskies 79-77 despite 28 points from Saint Mary's guard Joey Haywood. 6'5" Jason Shepherd had 20 ponts, 14 rebounds and 7 assists for MUN while Robbie Habib added 17. In an unlikely scenario depending upon your experiences, the host Seahawks were whistled for only 8 fouls all evening as SMU made only 1 trip to the...
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Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
EAT IT LAVAL! GO GOLDEN GAELS GO! View full size photo » TRIPLE P HERE WITH EXCITING NEWS! MY ALMA MATER IS HEADED TO THE VANIER CUP! Even as the doom and gloom of the 2009-2010 Toronto Maple Leafs ' season has been threatening to overwhelm all and sundry and Liverpool's title challenge is postponed for more year a third team of mine has strung together a couple of unbelievable wins to get into...
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bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This year the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) lists 162 trans people killed. That's over 3 a week. The number is significantly higher than previous years (which had generally been between 20 and 30), and most people are attributing that to being able to better track trans murders, especially those outside the U.S. When faced with this overwhelming sense of reality, it's understandably difficult...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
MOSCOW and NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" ("VimpelCom" or the "Company") (NYSE: VIP) a leading international provider of telecommunications services operating in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and South-East Asia today announced that it will webcast its conference call on its third quarter...
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CIS Hoops.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Another somewhat-light schedule in Atlantic Canada with the feature matchup happening on Sunday afternoon as #6 St. FX X-Men visit #4 Dalhousie in a battle of two Top 10 teams which are both undefeated in league play. All eight teams are in action with single games except Saint Mary's visiting Memorial for a pair of games Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. SSN Canada will webcast the X/Dal game beginning...
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CIS Hoops.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Congratulations to old friend and former Dal and Queen's player Kevin Bellamy who was recently honoured in Perth, Ontario. Teacher Kevin Bellamy honoured by Perth Rotary Club Charles MacPhail and staff at Smiths Falls Nissan are focusing their charitable efforts this holiday season on helping out the Perth and District Food Bank. Their specially-decorated cube van will be making the rounds to collection...
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CIS Hoops.ca (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The surprising Lakehead Thunderwolves (4-0 in league play, 6-1 vs. CIS) headline this weekend's action as Scott Morrison's crew looks to continue their undefeated streak with a pair of road games at York (1-3) on Friday night and then at Laurentian in Sudbury on Saturday night. The T-Wolves are a much deeper team this season as Morrison can go at least 10 deep however their young core of 6'0"...
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Mama in Pajamas (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Two years ago this week, I arrived home with our new daughter. I was going back through my old blog posts and thought I'd share a few snippets from those posts. Wow - memories! We met the other Dillon families downstairs and, as one of them said, went to play Frogger. The traffic is just wild and you have to steel your nerves to take that first step into the sea of scooters and vehicles. We've gotten...
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ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Immigration Policy Center Writes: "A new report from the restrictionist group, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Immigrationand Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue, attempts to overturn a century's worth of research which has demonstrated repeatedly that immigrants are less likely...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Prime Minister-led delegation will attend the session of CIS Government leaders.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Quarterback's 479 yards and three touchdowns through the air earn him CIS offensive player of the week honours
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SPICY IP (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In previous p osts , we covered the Right to Read Campaign , a campaign aimed at increasing access to copyrighted works for the print impaired. As many of you know, most works of literature, science and the arts are practically out of bounds for the disabled, unless converted to readable formats such as Braille or digitized and accessed via expensive screen reader software such as JAWS . Recently,...