Arab Media Grade Obama’s Performance as Commander in Chief (New America Media)

December 29, 2009

As 2009 winds to a close with the President promising 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, how is the Arab media grading Barack Obama on his first year in office? Jamal Dajani is Director of Middle East Programming for Link TV.

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City surveys bomb damage, Pakistan police on patrol (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

December 29, 2009

Shopowners surveyed gutted premises and security forces patrolled nearly empty streets in Pakistan’s commercial capital on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomber killed 32 people and triggered a city-center riot.

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City surveys bomb damage, Pakistan police on patrol (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

December 29, 2009

Shopowners surveyed gutted premises and security forces patrolled nearly empty streets in Pakistan’s commercial capital on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomber killed 32 people and triggered a city-center riot.

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Unemployed rate continues to grow (Seminole Chronicle)

December 28, 2009

SEMINOLE COUNTY – Tony Flores, 48, sits at a computer in the Workforce Central Florida office off of Colonial Drive in Orlando. He’s filling out his job history on a Web site, hunting, pecking, always conscious of the one-hour time limit on his …

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Out with the Aughts: About a toy, or when product placement became the product (National Post)

December 28, 2009

Recently, I visited my four-year-old nephew, who was keen to show me his favourite new toy. Dragging a two-foot-tall plastic robot figure from his room, he introduced me to the 2009 model of Optimus Prime — leader of the Autobots, and virtual star of Michael Bay’s Transformers films

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Top 15 Tech Events of the Decade (PC World via Yahoo! News)

December 28, 2009

For the ten-year span that started in 2000, turbulence was the name of the game in high tech. Fortunes were made and lost, everyday users took control of the reins, and technology-watching became a spectator sport. It was a chaotic time, but it was seldom dull. Here, then, is a look at the decade that was: the highlights and lowlights, the booms and busts, the fizzles and sizzles.

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Third Floor Aids Avatar (Animation World Network)

December 28, 2009

As AVATAR continues to dominate the box office, The Third Floor discussed its previs with AWN.

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PFT: Steelers’ playoff scenarios aren’t that bad (MSNBC)

December 28, 2009

Two weeks ago, when the Pittsburgh Steelers were 6-7, it looked like a virtual certainty that the defending Super Bowl champions wouldn’t return to the playoffs.

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‘Avatar’ designer says the film is still important for its story (CTV.ca)

December 28, 2009

After working as virtual effects art director on the Steven Spielberg-directed “Jurassic Park,” a film featuring pace-setting computer generated imagery, Ellingson thought he’d never work on a film like it again.

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Jail saga tops among Montana stories in 2009 (AP via Yahoo! News)

December 28, 2009

The often bizarre tale of Hardin’s effort to turn its empty jail over to an international police force — capped by the revelation that the uniform-clad savior was a California con man — was chosen by members of The Associated Press as the top news story in Montana for 2009.

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