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Microsoft to Invest in Barnes & Noble’s Nook
Leave a Comment »Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.11% is investing at least $605 million in Barnes & Noble Inc.’sBKS +51.68% Nook digital-book business, as the software giant pushes deeper into the e-books business and props up a rival to the iPad and Amazon’s Kindle. Barnes & Noble’s stock jumped around 100% in pretrading on news that Microsoft was investing $300 million in their Nook e-reader. Gina Chon reports [...]
Benzion Netanyahu, Hawkish Scholar, Dies at 102
Leave a Comment »Benzion Netanyahu, a scholar of Judaic history who lobbied in the United States for the creation of the Jewish state, wrote a revisionist account of the Spanish Inquisition and became a behind-the-scenes adviser to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his son, died on Monday at his home in Jerusalem. He was 102. Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, comforts Prime [...]
Final Eight, Predictions for Stanley Cup Final
Leave a Comment »O.K. Well it’s time as a sports contributor on Trinity Today to try my hand at picking the final four series a long with the Stanley Cup Final. In the eastern conference, I am predicting that the Flyers, who upended my treasured Pens to the golf course, will take the series against the Devils. Despite [...]
Barrieau Back in Big Way at E.P.R
Leave a Comment »Driver Gilles Barrieau made his first pari-mutuel start back in the sulky a winning one on opening day at Exhibition Park Raceway Saturday after being sidelined from training and racing injuries late last year. Barrieau won his first start in the third race with his own trainee, three-year-old Astronomical filly Queen Of The Isle, in [...]
Good Lord, Say It’s Not True
Leave a Comment »Good Lord, Say It’s Not True You were suppose to be the keepers of the gate and faith somehow knowing who you are has made it worse.. you were thought to be pillars that supported.. shoulders that could have been leaned on somehow knowing who you are has made it worse.. you were suppose to [...]
The Human Side of Healthcare
1 Comment »My partner and I dropped by a friend’s place last Saturday for morning coffee. While there our friend tripped over her cat, went up in the air and bang, hit the floor with a rather loud thud! We initially thought the damage incurred was to her dignity and pride but after 15 minutes when she [...]
Ferguson’s lawyer says trial waste of money
1 Comment »CBC NEWS The lawyer for a former Saint John councillor told a jury at his defamation trial Friday that the five-year long lawsuit has been a waste of money, benefiting only lawyers like him. “Legal fees in the millions,” said Gillis. “And to what purpose?” Gillis began closing arguments in the John Ferguson case, which began [...]
Two bodies discovered in Harcourt home
Leave a Comment »CBC NEWS RCMP say they are not looking for suspects The RCMP in New Brunswick say they found the bodies of a man and woman in Harcourt Saturday night. The police said they were called to a home on Highway 116 in Harcourt around 7 p.m. Inside, they discovered the bodies of a 53-year-old woman [...]
French journalist missing after Colombia FARC battle
Leave a Comment »(Reuters) – A French journalist reporting alongside Colombian security forces tracking drug-funded rebels disappeared after a gun battle with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that killed three soldiers and a police official, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Romeo Langlois, a freelance reporter for French news channel France 24, was taken prisoner [...]
