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Judge orders residents and city to come to agreement on partially collapsed building in Buffalo, New York

31 December, 2020

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Thursday, June 19, 2008 Buffalo, New York —Judge Justice Christopher Burns of the New York State Supreme Court has ordered a halt to an emergency demolition on a 19th century stable and livery on 428-430 Jersey Street in Buffalo, New York that partially collapsed on Wednesday June 11, initially causing at least 15 homes to […]

Buffalo, New York snow storm closes schools, leaves nearly 400,000 without power

31 December, 2020

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Friday, October 13, 2006 Buffalo, New York —Lake effect snow has come early to parts of Western New York prompting a State of Emergency and a flood watch to be issued, especially in Buffalo, New York and its suburbs where nearly 2 feet of snow fell during the afternoon and last night. Snow started to […]

Oral Roberts University accountant claims he was ordered to “cook the books”

31 December, 2020

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 A former accountant for Oral Roberts University (ORU) has filed a lawsuit against ORU and its Board of Regents claiming he was told by Richard Roberts and his wife Lindsay to “cook the books”, hiding financial wrongdoing from authorities and the public. Trent Huddleston, the accountant, has filed suit against the […]

Paramedics protest outside New South Wales parliament

31 December, 2020

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Paramedics employed by the Ambulance Service of New South Wales in Australia marched on the New South Wales parliament today. They called for the Government to sack Ambulance Service of New South Wales CEO Greg Rochford, hire 300 additional ambulance officers and 60 patient transport officers. Paramedics gave the Government 48 […]

Clash of cultures: Somali and Latino workers at U.S. meat packing plants

31 December, 2020

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Friday, October 17, 2008 Muslim Somali workers at a meat packing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska wanted to pray. Their colleagues from Latin America wanted to work. A dispute over the company’s break schedule led to formal discrimination claims, mass job walk-offs and public protests by both sides last month, and a reported 200 firings. […]

Israel and Palestinian militants agree to ceasefire after worse Gaza violence since 2014

31 December, 2020

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 On Tuesday, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, among other Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, announced a ceasefire agreement with Israel. The agreement was brokered by Egypt and the United Nations. A renewal of violence between Israel and militants in Gaza occurred on Monday and Tuesday. According […]

IBM and Cisco in attempt to create a universal platform for communications software development

31 December, 2020

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Friday, March 9, 2007 IBM and Cisco have announced the development of a new platform, based on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative), which should unite all communication and collaboration software developers under a single platform. Before the UC2 (Unified Communication and Collaboration) the unified communication has suffered because of a lack of a […]

Latest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines

31 December, 2020

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Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in […]

News briefs:July 20, 2010

31 December, 2020

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Electronic Frontier Foundation files motion to stop AT&T from forwarding Internet traffic to NSA

31 December, 2020

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Saturday, April 8, 2006 The California-based non-profit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief on Wednesday claiming that AT&T has been illegally forwarding Internet traffic directly to the National Security Agency. The EFF has asked that the forwarding be stopped immediately. According to EFF staff attorney Kevin Bankston, “The evidence that we are filing […]