Developers pitch housing in Huntington Station AvalonBay Communities is planning to turn 30 acres of vacant land in Huntington Station into a 530-unit mix of rental apartments and condominiums. The company's proposed $125 million transit-oriented development is located just west of Park Avenue and about a...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmy Award winning 62 Blue Productions, LLC, has entered into a production and development agreement with the National Geographic Channel and Indiana University's Department of Underwater Science to film the exploration of what is believed to be the last great ship of the...
LAGOS AFP — Gunmen kidnapped an Israeli national from his residence in Nigeria's southern oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said Wednesday. "An Israeli national was abducted in the city yesterday Tuesday. We are still checking the details of the incident," Rivers state police spokeswoman Rita Abbey told AFP....
My secret life The house I grew up in ... was a small house in World's End [in Chelsea, London], with black and white tiled front steps and a dark green living room where my parents played Al Green and Buddy Holly. It always smelled of...
MOGADISHU AFP — Pirates kidnapped four foreign tourists, including a woman and a child, while they were sailing off the coast of Somalia's northern Puntland region, officials said Tuesday. The four, whose identities were not immediately clear, were seized on Monday near the coastal town of Lasqorey, Puntland senior...
Calendar Professional BASEBALL Colorado at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m. Auto racing NASCAR Sprint Toyota 350 RESULTS SUNDAY AT SONOMA, CALIF. Lap length: 1.99 miles Start position in parentheses 1. (30) Kyle Busch,...
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Calendar Professional MLB Kansas City at New York Yankees, 12:05 p.m. Amateur BASEBALL Clarinda at Topeka Golden Giants, 7 p.m., Falley Field Today's line NBA playoffs TUESDAY Favorite__Line__Underdog ...
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — A dog trained to sniff out pirated discs, from a Malaysian unit which criminals have made threats against, has been found dead in the undisclosed location where it was kept, a report said on Sunday. The New Straits Times said that Manny, a one-year-old golden...
A lawyer for Nevis-registered Valence Media vowed to appeal a US$110 million legal judgment in Los Angeles federal court against its TorrentSpy website for directing people to unauthorized online copies of films and TV shows, reports AFP (May 12, 2008): Valence shut down the...
NAIROBI AFP — Somali pirates have hijacked a Panama-flagged cargo freighter off Somalia as it was sailing to the Romanian port of Constanza, its owner and a Kenyan maritime official said Monday. "A ship owned by Dutch Reider Shipping was boarded off the coast of Somalia by pirates... The...
The music industry is tightening its grips on University of Utah students who they believe have pirated songs. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry, notified the university of its intent to sue individuals who it contends...
Faced with the repeated acts of maritime piracy, particularly off the coast of Somalia, cooperation between European countries on this issue should be reinforced. At least this is the wish of the European Commission in response to several questions from MEPs and journalists. "Keeping...
The European Commission hosted, on 13 May, a high-level conference on fighting counterfeiting and piracy. The event was aimed at bringing together MEPs and stakeholders including businesses, public administrations and consumers. International trade in counterfeit and pirated goods has been estimated at US$200 billion in 2005....
MANILA AFP — Al-Qaeda linked Islamic militants are suspected of rampant intellectual piracy in the Philippines, particularly of Hollywood films, to raise funds, a senior media industry official said Wednesday. The Abu Sayyaf, blamed for the worst terrorist attacks in the Southeast Asian country, were likely behind the illegal...
MARRAKECH, Morocco AFP — You will not see g-strings, revealing leotards, or nudity at Claude Thomas' newly-created cabaret revue in Marrakech. Instead, dancers' bodies are demurely hidden and kisses are only allowed on the cheek. "Les Folies de Marrakech", launched earlier this month, is an unusual blend of Western...
REGULATION PIRATES The swashbuckling plunderers who operate beyond the arm of the regulator can be a force for creative good, argues Matt Mason When a young Irish entrepreneur named Ronan O'Rahilly founded pirate station Radio Caroline in 1964, he also established a great British tradition....
Software Piracy Rates Fall in Sixty-Seven Countries; Worldwide Piracy Rate Rises Three Points to 38% WASHINGTON -- Although piracy of software on personal computers PC declined in many countries in 2007, fast growing PC markets in some of the world's highest piracy nations caused overall numbers to worsen--a trend...
SINGAPORE AFP — Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China's growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday. The Asia-Pacific's average PC software piracy rate in 2007 increased to 59 percent of the software in use in the region from 55...
COPENHAGEN AFP — The United States called Wednesday for increased civilian and military cooperation worldwide to combat sea piracy, off the perilous coasts of Africa in particular. Maritime forces should unite with insurance and shipping companies to make it "so hard, so difficult, and high risk for pirates to...
