Posted by lesleee_999, at 05:38PM 10/11/08 and by 1 others: Kentucky shows off new unis at practice (AP)
Note: A year ago, Kentuckys Big Blue Madness was about showing off a new coach. This time, it was about showing off a new look. Billy Gillispies Wildcats donned their new blue and white uniforms with a checkerboard pattern as the nations all-time winningest program kicked off its preseason preparations Friday night in front of 23,000 of their closest friends. tags: wildcats
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Posted by pkrf1end, at 01:58PM 10/11/08 and by 1 others: FCC sides with NFL Network in Comcast dispute
Note: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission has sided with the National Football League in a long-running programming dispute with Comcast Corp., ruling that Comcast should carry the leagues NFL Network on its popular digital cable package. In a decision released late Friday, the FCC ruled that Comcast discriminated against the NFL Network by agreeing to carry the channel only on a more expensive sports cable service. The NFL tags: federal communications commission
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Posted by nettobubis, at 09:14AM 10/11/08 and by 1 others: Calif. tries 'circuit of the future' to keep blackouts brief - CNET News
Note: A device called a fault current limiter will stop a surge to prevent damage to a utility's equipment, much the way a surge protector works on a personal computer.The New York Times A CNET article by Matthew L. Wald, . Published on October 16, 2007 9:31 AM PDT. tags: tech news groups: in U.S. News
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 02:05AM 10/11/08 : £2.7 trillion wiped ( $6 Trillion ) off the global value of shares as confidence collapses
Note: A frenzied day of panic selling on stock markets across the world capped a week of extraordinary financial mayhem in which £2.7 trillion was wiped off the value of shares globally.
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the West’s leading economies attempted last night to quell the markets’ fears with moves to shore up their banking systems and prevent a full-scale meltdown of the world financial system. Such was the level of panic, however, that officials gathered in Washington were forced to contemplate the previously unthinkable: that Britain’s enfeebled banks may face outright nationalisation if Gordon Brown’s £50 billion bailout fails.
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