| Two Arrested in Drug Ring Investigation
He faces felony charges for allegedly possessing and selling hydrocodone to an undercover officer in November 2007. Ryan Scouten, 32, was arrested on Sunday. He also faces felony charges for allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover officer in December 2007. Five others were arrested late last year, during the same undercover operation. The Penn Yan Police Department, the Yates County Sheriff's Office, and the Ontario County Sheriff's Office collaborated on this effort. .
2 major insurers launch 'green' policies
That's already happening on the commercial building side and in auto insurance, where insurers in some states are offering breaks to hybrid-car drivers. "Some insurers perceive a 'halo effect' in which adopters of climate-change mitigation technologies are viewed as low-risk customers," according to a report by the nonprofit research group Ceres, called "Insurer Responses to Climate Change." Ceres directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, a group of 60 institutional investors that collectively manage more than $4 trillion in assets. .
Local reaction to training bomb dropped in Va. Beach
She says she didn't hear the training bomb land, but did notice the jets were louder today and seemed to be flying a bit lower. The Navy says earlier in the day, the F/A-18C Hornet was conducting a training mission at the Navy's Dare County, North Carolina Bombing Range. A former A-6 intruder pilot familiar with these types of training missions says, "It's almost unheard of. There's various things that can happen at intervals ranging from error in the cockpit to mechanical malfunction on the airplane."
The former pilot described how the training bomb, which often releases a small plume of smoke when it lands, works. "It's harmless and it's only so you can see the location of where the bomb hits. It's for target practice basically."
The Virginia Beach warehouse was obviously not the Navy's intended target. Now it's investigating what caused the training bomb to accidentally drop.
A History of The Virginia Gazette
He set up his press and began to publish the acts of the recently adjourned Assembly. He also printed several other papers about which nothing is known.
Nuthead was called before the governor and the council, where he was ordered to stop the presses "until the signification of his Majesties pleasure shall be known therein." Within months that "pleasure" was known when a royal order was issued that "no person be permitted to use any press for printing upon any occasion whatsoever."
With that definitive ruling, Nuthead packed up and returned to his native Maryland. Printing was nonexistent in the colony for nearly 50 years thereafter.
Government policy eventually eased and a more tolerant attitude prevailed. In 1730 William Parks moved from Annapolis to Virginias new capital, Williamsburg, to open a branch office.
The New Focus Groups: Online Networks
The sites often bear some resemblance to other social-networking sites, where members create profile pages and post to discussion boards. Companies use them to administer polls, chat in real time with consumers and even ask members to go to the store to try out specific products. The rapid back-and-forth between the company and the online community can help substantially shorten the product-development cycle. It can typically take a year or more from the time a company comes up with a product idea until the item arrives in stores. For Snausages Breakfast Bites, that process took six months. During that time, Del Monte contacted "I Love My Dog" members dozens of times, both as a group and individually. The company has also tapped members for prelaunch insights into other products, including a 50-calorie pack of its Pup-Peroni treat that recently landed on store shelves.
2007 Wrap-Up
The dollar's share of global foreign-exchange reserves fell to a record low in the third quarter as demand for U.S. assets waned after the subprime-mortgage market collapsed. The U.S. currency accounted for 63.8% of reserves at the end of September, down from 65% at the end of June, the International Monetary Fund said... The share of euros increased to 26.4%, from 25.5%. The figures suggest central banks diversified out of the dollar as it fell to the lowest level in a decade. Investors sold a record amount of U.S. securities in August when defaults on subprime mortgages rippled through financial markets and the Federal Reserve signaled it would cut interest rates." December 27 - Financial Times (Daniel Dombey): "At the end of a year in which the dollar has endured a marked decline against other currencies, an unsettling question is beginning to be voiced: can the troubles of the US currency be confined to the financial world or are they set to undermine Washington's place on the international stage? 'This is the neglected dimension of the dollar's decline,' says Flynt Leverett, a former senior National Security Council official under President George W.
Ruling: TJX No Longer a Federal Case
The largest credit card data breach in history is now a matter for a Massachussetts court.The worst credit card data breach in history is a federal case no more. A federal judge overseeing the TJX cases in effect fired himself as TJX judge on Tuesday, and ordered the case out of federal court and into Massachusetts state court. U.S. District Court Judge William Young also praised Visa as a "hero" because it conducted its own investigation and worked out a settlement with a class of plaintiffs. "I find this very significant, [that] theyve worked out a settlement with an opt-in class. Opt-in classes are very desirable," the judge said from the bench. The judge was referring to an agreement that Visa worked out with TJX where TJX would directly pay some of the plaintiffs banks.
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