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Scarecrows in Altavista

By Bryan Gentry Lynchburg News & Advance Published: October 30, 2009 ALTAVISTA - Downtown Altavista is playing host to nearly three dozen straw-stuffed strangers. There’s a slumped scarecrow named Edward Jones outside an...

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Buchanan planning to resign as US Attorney on Nov. 16

Who is serving life in prison for importing 2000 to 3000 kilograms of cocaine into the area between 1991 and 2003. (Fri Oct 30 08:34:58 2009 PDT)[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%),...

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NEWS: 29th August 2012: the date Google becomes "aware"

COMMENT: Has Google got too big? Another day, another industry in trouble, all because the company that promises to "do no evil" has entered its market. The latest victims that are likely to fall foul of the search giant are...

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Ask.com For Sale? Jeeves’s Services May No Longer Be Required

IAC head Barry Diller says he may be open to selling Ask.com, the struggling search engine that's always lagged far behind Google, Yahoo, and even Microsoft. Internet search engine Ask.com has a storied history, launching back...

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Pinnacle Bankshares Corporation Announces Third Quarter Earnings (Business Wire)

ALTAVISTA, Va.----Pinnacle Bankshares Corporation , the one-bank holding company of First National Bank reported today net income after taxes of $237,000 or $0.16 per basic and diluted share for the quarter ended September 30,...

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Sustainability: The ‘must have’ holy grail

When I was a kid, Atari dominated the gaming scene. Sure, Mattel’s Intellivision and Coleco’s Colecovision had their loyalists, but to the general public, when you mentioned video games, Atari was the name that sprang to mind....

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On the literary and scholarly awesomeness of the timezone file

John Udell's "A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database" points out the transcendentally complex nature of keeping track of every timezone and temporary change in times that exists today or has existed in the...

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Web search in a post-Twitter world

By Tim Conneally , Betanews We all contribute to the news cycle when we post timely content online, even if it's 140 characters or fewer, and this week we learned that our little bits of information have substantive value when...

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Buffett's Wrong: 3 Companies That Beat His (at Motley Fool)

My jaw hit my chest when I heard it. I knew that Buffett was standing by many of the banks in his portfolio -- namely Wells Fargo, US Bancorp, and M&T Bank. But Buffett took it oh so much further: "If I had to put all of my net...

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Real-Time Search Startups on Google/Bing/Twitter News: Who Will Prevail, Who Will Profit?

Is today's news of major search engines' integration of Twitter posts in search results the herald of a mass extinction or a mass acquisition? According to tonight's conversations with key players in the space, the day's events...

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