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Broken cross removed from N.B. cenotaph site as city readies for Remembrance Day

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:29:00 +0000

FREDERICTON — Part of a cenotaph broken by vandals in Fredericton has been removed from the site, but officials say Remembrance Day ceremonies will go ahead as planned on Wednesday. The chunks of the...

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Vancouver Aquarium invites Canadians to name its baby beluga

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:54:00 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The Vancouver Aquarium is offering Canadians a whale of an opportunity. The aquarium has announced it's holding a naming contest for a baby beluga that was born in July. The...

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Relatives mourn at ND pond where women found dead

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:09:00 +0000

DICKINSON, N.D. — Teammates and family members threw roses and softballs Wednesday into the farm pond where three North Dakota college softball players were found dead inside their sunken sport...

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Aliens target Earth again in "V" revival

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:34:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – After about 25 years, those sneaky, lizard-like aliens are back. Once again, they want to take over Earth and, maybe, destroy or consume the populace. But so what?...

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Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:03:00 +0000

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Facebook outlines new privacy policy

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:36:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users. Vice president of communications and public...

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Telus will have its new wireless network that will run iPhone up Nov. 5

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:21:00 +0000

MONTREAL — Telus (TSX:T) will have its advance new wireless network that will run Apple's iPhone up and running on Nov. 5, giving consumers a fast mobile Internet experience on their smartphones. In...

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US human space flight plan underfunded: experts

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:12:00 +0000

WASHINGTON — NASA's human space flight program is too underfunded to fly, an independent panel of experts has said in their final report to US President Barack Obama. The 155-page document is pretty...

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Get Out: Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Overnight

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:23:00 +0000

The Orionid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show tonight into the predawn hours Wednesday, weather permitting. This annual meteor shower is created when Earth passes...

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Sky's the limit for ABC's "V" promotion

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:48:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC might not be able to simulate spaceships hovering above cities, as in the show's premiere episode, but the network came up with the next best thing to promote...

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Apple lets iPhone apps get down to business

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:24:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said Friday that it is allowing businesses to sell content or services through applications given away for free at the iPhone maker's online App Store. The shift of policy is...

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Bram Stoker's Canadian relative brings Dracula back to life

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:57:00 +0000

MONTREAL — Dracula has risen! Again! Forget the flurry of fang-flashers of recent years. The king of the bloodsucker set is haunting bookstores just in time for Halloween in "Dracula: The Un-Dead," a...

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Guy Laliberte will assess global impact of his two-hour space extravaganza

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:51:00 +0000

MONTREAL — Back from his trip in space, Circus magnate Guy Laliberte said Sunday he'll soon be ready to follow up on the outcome of the two-hour extravaganza of poetry, science and dance that he...

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Hitchhiker's Guide back with 6th book in "trilogy"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:14:00 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) – Don't Panic. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is back with a sixth installment of the absurd, intergalactic and increasingly inaccurately named "trilogy." ...

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Adrien Brody to star in new take on "Predators"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:36:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Adrien Brody will star in "Robert Rodriguez's Predators," a reboot of the sci-fi franchise. Topher Grace is in negotiations to join the...

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Leonard Nimoy gets new sci-fi life on "Fringe"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:37:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Leonard Nimoy returns to U.S. television this week in his new guise as a mysterious mastermind on the show "Fringe," but doubts that his Mr. Spock will head back to...

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Cameras capture meteor streaking across southwestern Ontario sky

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:23:00 +0000

LONDON, Ont. — Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario have captured footage of a meteor streaking across the night sky, and are now asking residents in a region of southwestern Ontario to...

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Undead TV script comes alive as "Zombieland"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:15:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – A first-time director's first challenge is finding a screenplay. For writer-directors, that's no big deal because they usually start out passionate about something...

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Vancouver's Bait Car program marks 7th anniversary; auto theft down 71 per cent

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:20:00 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C. — In one video, two young men break into a car and excitedly proclaim "we're gangsters" and "it's got an engine" before desperately fleeing the vehicle when they realize police are...

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Harrelson, Murray bring flair to "Zombieland"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:34:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Falling closer in tone to "Shaun of the Dead" than "28 Days Later" or the George Romero movies, "Zombieland" has its tongue planted firmly in its rancid cheek while...

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New swine flu wave hits Mexico, closings unlikely

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:00 +0000

MEXICO CITY — The next wave of swine flu has arrived, and Mexicans are bracing for an outbreak that may be even larger than the one here last spring that became a pandemic. Daily diagnoses reached...

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Australia cleans up after dust storm

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:37:00 +0000

SYDNEY — Millions of Australians were wiping a film of reddish Outback grit from nearly everything Thursday after the country's worst dust storm in seven decades played havoc with transport systems...

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Nigeria denounces District 9 movie

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Nigerian officials say they've asked cinemas to stop screening the sci-fi movie District 9, filmed in South Africa, because of its portrayal of Nigerians. Information Minister Dora Akunyili said...

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Earthquake strikes off Bali coast

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:54:00 +0000

An earthquake off the Indonesian holiday island of Bali has sent people running from their homes in panic. At least seven people have been injured - some were hurt jumping from buildings while...

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Greenpeace occupies Alberta oilsands site

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:29:00 +0000

A group of Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a three-storey dump truck and surrounded it with pickup trucks at Shell's Albian Sands mine about 80 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alta.,...

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I worked on this film back in Sept.2005

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NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos - Yahoo! News
NY deal reached over Monroe's last nude photos

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Patrick Swayze in hospital, The Beast will have to wait
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Heather Allin elected president of ACTRA Toronto