| Tioga DA asks appellate court to reinstate Harris verdict
Tioga County District Attorney Gerald Keene has asked a state court to reinstate a guilty verdict against Calvin Harris. On Wednesday, Keene mailed a 33-page brief to the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, arguing that the judge's decision to throw out the second-degree murder verdict against the Tioga County businessman was incorrect, the district attorney said Friday. Keene declined to discuss the specifics of the argument laid out in the appeal. "The argument is that Judge Smith committed an error by setting aside the verdict," Keene said. The appellate court could reinstate the guilty verdict, or it could uphold Judge Martin Smith's ruling. If that ruling is upheld, Harris would be re-tried, Keene said. Harris, 46, was convicted last summer of killing his estranged wife, Michele, who disappeared in 2001.
Mardi Gras Prompts 2-Day Vote in Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Don't mess with Mardi Gras in Alabama. Voters in two coastal counties _ Baldwin and Mobile _ will vote Wednesday even though the state primary is six days later on Feb. 5. The reason: Feb. 5 also is Fat Tuesday when throngs of people celebrate Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast. The frenzied end to Carnival is an official holiday in the two counties in Alabama. When the state legislature moved up the presidential primary from June 3 to Super Tuesday, it discovered belatedly that it fell on Mardi Gras. In Baldwin and Mobile counties, government shuts down and crowds by the tens of thousands jam the port city's streets for parades. The legislature's solution was to let voters in those two counties go to the precincts six days early.
Instant noodles get a makeover in China
Nissin is now poised along with other market players such Uni-President to gain from a blitz of retail and marketing promotions leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Uni-President - official sponsor of the Beijing Olympic Games - has been making a loss in its noodle business. It has volunteered to donate one yuan from each sale of instant noodles to build schools throughout China. .
Alberta is the promised land, or so we have been told-
Don't sit there waiting for another empty promis from Buzz and Dalton about re-opening some doomed factory for a few more years. Go get a new job in a new industry. You are responsible for you. Posted 29/01/08 at 1:25 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
An Altar Beyond Olympus For A Deity Pre-Dating Zeus
Before Zeus hurled his first thunderbolt from Olympus, the pre-Greek people occupying the land presumably paid homage and offered sacrifices to their own gods and goddesses, whose nature and identities are unknown to scholars today. Archaeologists say they have now found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion, in the region of Greece known as Arcadia. The remains were uncovered last summer at an altar later devoted to Zeus. Fragments of a coarse, undecorated pottery in the debris indicated that the sacrifices might have been made as early as 3000 B.C., the archaeologists concluded. That was about 900 years before Greek-speaking people arrived, probably from the north in the Balkans, and brought their religion with them.
Supreme Court Allows EULAs On Seeds
In 2006 I had a failed crop of tomatoes in my backyard vegetable garden, and only 16 plants survived the combination of unusually dry, hot season, and cucumber blight that didn't restrict itself to cucumbers. In 2007, I rotated my crops, as I always do, but managed to get 12 tomato plants sprout in my pepper area. Do I now owe Burpee money since the seeds I planted the prior year resulted in new plants this year? That said... even though it's a stupid law, if you're going to replant, still buy seeds in slowly diminishing quantities to stay off the radar of the "obviously infringing" people. Sad to say, but something like this could eventually wipe out the naturally sustainable food sources. Finally, the seeds SHOULD be free, because they are ONLY resistant to that brand's herbicides, meaning guaranteed herbicide sales.
Newcomer's charm fuels 'Bartlett'
Here's a name to remember: Anton Yelchin. OK, no one said it would be easy to remember. But make a mark of it: This kid's going to be around for a long time. He's got charisma, cool and cocky likability to spare. In fact, it seems somehow fitting to find him on the verge of breaking out with "Charlie Bartlett," a movie that co-stars Robert Downey Jr., about whom the exact same things could have been said 20 years ago. .
Wizard hikes home loan rates
WIZARD Home Loans, one of the price leaders in the Australian mortgage market in the past decade, yesterday hiked rates on its standard variable mortgage loan by 0.35 per cent. The hike is the largest by a home lender this year and further reduces the discount of Wizard's standard variable product to similar loans offered by most of the banks. The 0.35 per cent rise increases the rate on Wizard's Smart Choice loan to 8.57 per cent - a discount of only 10 basis points to Commonwealth Bank's benchmark rate of 8.67 per cent. The standard variable rate at RAMS is now priced at a discount of only two basis points to CBA. According to data from market research firm Cannex, the price gap between mortgage originators and the leading banks has narrowed in the past six months as the global liquidity squeeze has inflated funding costs across the industry.
Madeleine McCann: A Pundit Says, Judge Eurico Reis Orders And The Sun ...
I am Portuguese, very upset about this tragedy. For the first time have I read something (Bugalus 1970 3A) that makes sense. When Kate discovered the disappearence of her older daughter she is supposed to have exclaimed: «THEY've TAKEN her». My English is poor but if she had refferred to THEY, that's because she was refferring to «someone she knew». And using the «HAVE TAKEN», that's because she was expecting something to happen, however she didn't know «when». In any other circumstance of real pain and surprise I think she might have said» .
Reluctant McGregor one of the Aussie tennis greats
KEN McGregor was a reluctant tennis hero, who would have been just as content to make his sporting mark as a footballer. McGregor, who died on Friday aged 78, temporarily shelved his footy ambitions and moved to Melbourne where he teamed with Frank Sedgman to become one of the world's finest doubles pairs. Sedgman and McGregor won seven consecutive grand slam doubles crowns from the start of 1951 until they lost a five-set final at the US championships the following year. Their dominance of the Australian, French, Wimbledon and US titles in 1951 remains the only Grand Slam doubles achievement in tennis. Legendary coach Harry Hopman spotted the athletic young McGregor in Adelaide and convinced him to move to Melbourne to develop his tennis.
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