Union slams Telstra's CES "junket" - ZDNet Australia
Telstra's board meeting at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been labelled a "junket" by one of the main unions representing its workers. The Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) has heavily criticised the Telstra ...
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Porgy & Bess exemplifies Gockley's Americanization of the opera since ... - San Francisco Examiner
Porgy & Bess comes to the San Francisco Opera in June of 2009. David Gockley's American revolution of opera though began to emerge with his inaugural season, by the time of Rigoletto . As Gockley's approachable style made most soon forget, his ...
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Philips 42PFL9903D Aurea II - Stuff.tv
Pros Sharp, stable pictures. Impressive contrast. Bright, vital colours. Extensive specification. Great sound. Gorgeous looks Cons Disappointing remote. Big for a 42in screen. Expensive Philips has invested a huge amount of time and cash into ...
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Is the New Yorker's Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire? - Los Angeles Times Blogs
There are always at least two sides to everything in politics. The up-side for Barack Obama of the persistent controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's black militancy and racist sermons was that it sure drove home the point to millions of thinking ...
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Obama: Let's delay switch to digital TV; Americans aren't ready - Memphis Commercial Appeal
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, arguing that too many Americans who rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air channels won't be ready ...
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LG Electronics Joins WHDI SIG; Leslie Chard Named President of WHDI ... - Consumer Electronics Net
DMN Newswire--2009-1-6--CES, Las Vegas, Nev.--WHDI LLC is pleased to announce that LG Electronics, Ltd. will be joining the WHDI SIG. Current members of the WHDI SIG are AMIMON Inc., Hitachi, Ltd., LG Electronics, Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics ...
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Examining recruiting, WVU backs and polls - Charleston Gazette
AS YOU MAY know, I've been critical of Bill Stewart and his staff for their performance this past football season. The way I saw it, the West Virginia team was an A student that brought home a C+. Give the coaches attaboys if you like, but these eyes ...
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Video Games: Co-op play rules in best video games of 2008 - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
The biggest game trend over this past year was multiplayer play - but rather than competitive head-to-head matches, 2008 was all about getting your game on in "co-op mode" with a friend beside you or over the Internet. As one would expect ...
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Three and easy - Globe and Mail
Juan Valasquez from Canada writes: That was one of the more interesting games I have seen of late. February 7th is as good as marked for me. Rene L: Leafs had 72 PIM's the Habs had 66 PIM's. A difference of 6 mins hardly makes the Leafs instigators ...
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Nationalising Tories - bbc
If there was even a scintilla of doubt that we're in a very painful recession, that doubt must be eliminated by the release today of statistics on manufacturing output and industrial production in November. These were truly shocking. The seasonally ...
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