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East Timor – Australia problematic billion-dollar gas and oil accord

7 January, 2021

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Saturday, December 3, 2005 Australia and East Timor officials signed a billion-dollar gas and oil accord, which is necessary because of a current maritime border dispute between the countries, which covers a major oil field. Although the accord has to be ratified by East Timor’s parliament which is ruled by Fretilin with 55 seats the […]

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

7 January, 2021

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Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]

Surgeons reattach boy’s three severed limbs

7 January, 2021

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party. […]

The Wii, Nintendo’s next generation console, launches in North America

7 January, 2021

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Sunday, November 19, 2006 Nintendo has released its newest video game console in North America. Known as the Wii, the system and games have an MSRP of US$249.99 and US$49.99 respectively. The North American release is to be followed by the December 2nd launch in Japan and the December 8th launch in Europe. Launched officially […]

John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing

7 January, 2021

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 It can be difficult to be John Reed. Christopher Hitchens called him a “Bin Ladenist” and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he “blames the victims of terrorism” when he puts out a novel like Snowball’s Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell‘s Animal Farm which he was inspired […]

Colorado College Tigers win 41st annual Great Lakes Invitational tournament

7 January, 2021

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Friday, December 30, 2005 The Colorado College Tigers beat the Spartans of Michigan State University in men’s ice hockey on Friday, for the title of champions of the 41st annual Great Lakes Invitational ice hockey tournament at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. The Tigers, the team chosen to be invited into the tournament and appearing […]

Debian to shutdown public File Transfer Protocol services

7 January, 2021

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Friday, April 28, 2017 Debian, a free and open source (FOSS) Linux-based operating system, on Tuesday announced they are to shut down Debian’s public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in November, via their official website. The public FTPs are to be redirected to Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from November 1. On Debian’s announcement list, Cédric Boutillier, […]

Australian Federal Police raid home over unauthorised access to pay TV services

7 January, 2021

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 Australian Federal Police officers reportedly raided the home in Argenton, West of Newcastle, New South Wales of a man suspected of distibuting software to enable unauthorised access to pay TV services Foxtel and Austar. A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Police said that officers seized computer equipment, including an “external hardware […]

IRA disbands military structure

7 January, 2021

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Thursday, October 5, 2006 The Independent Monitoring Commission has reported that the Provisional Irish Republican Army has undergone major changes within their military structure and shows that the IRA Army Council wants to put its military campaign behind it. The Commission consists of John Alderdice, a former Alliance Party leader; Joe Brosnan, former Secretary General […]

Debian to shutdown public File Transfer Protocol services

7 January, 2021

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