| Fans flock to Nails site for freebie downloads
Rock band Nine Inch Nails are struggling to keep their website online after releasing their latest album as a partly free download. Frontman Trent Reznor ditched the band's record label last year after publicly berating it over the price charged for its albums. Now a "free agent", Nine Inch Nails are offering their latest four-volume album, Ghosts I-IV, to fans directly via their website and through BitTorrent file sharing networks. The instrumental album has been put out under a Creative Commons licence, so people are free to share and remix it for non-commercial uses. In October last year, British rock group Radiohead ditched their record label, EMI, in order to release their new album, In Rainbows, as a download on their website.
Minturn at crossroads
Older buildings near a newer house are a sign of the times in Minturn. More change is coming to the small town near Vail. Florida resort developer Bobby Ginn plans a billion-dollar project on 4,300 acres, which the town council voted to incorporate within Minturn's boundaries. .
E-mail scam threatens hit man's visit
The letter is direct, simple and to the point.
I am very sorry for you , is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you dont comply.
Its an e-mail scam, state authorities say, designed to threaten the recipient into sending money so an unnamed hit man wont pay them a visit. .
Seniority an Issue for Delta, Northwest
Northwest Airlines Corp. pilots have integration issues to sort out. Not just the ones with their counterparts at Delta Air Lines Inc. that threaten to scuttle talks to combine the two carriers. The ones with Republic Airlines. From 1986. An arbitrator is still sorting out seniority questions from that deal, illustrating just how much the point matters. Employees at the top of the list get first choice on vacations, the best routes and the bigger planes that they get paid more for flying. The boards of Delta and Northwest had been expected to vote Wednesday on a combination projected to be worth $20 billion if a pilot deal was in place. It was not clear if the boards met, though a person familiar with the negotiations said a merger deal would not be announced Thursday as had been hoped.
Lady Bulldog netters fall to Sahuaro
Douglas' No. 1 singles player Alexis Romero returns a serve in her singles match with Sahuaro Friday. Romero was a 6-4, 6-3 winner as the Lady Bulldogs fell to Sahuaro 6-3. Douglas kicks off region play this week hosting Palo Verde on Thursday before heading to Sahuarita on Friday. .
GPX Global Systems Inc. launches Neutral Middle East Internet eXchange ...
MEIX will be one of the key telecommunication transit service providers operating in a free telecommunications zone. The state-of-the-art Internet exchange is located in the prestigious Heliopolis section of Cairo and is the first of its kind in Egypt. GPX's MEIX offers customers collocation, onsite interconnectivity, a secure and reliable environment to house servers and network equipment, and local access to ISPs and telecommunications providers residing within the exchange. This new exchange is fully licensed and supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Unlike other telecommunications and ISP-owned interconnect businesses within the region, GPX does not resell network transport or hosting services, so customers are free to choose, in an open, neutral environment, partners that best meet their needs based on their criteria such as pricing, performance, and service levels.
Admiral Fallon’s “No Iran War” Line Angered White House
That story, published Nov. 19 and not picked up by any U.S. news media, reported that Fallon had "ruled out a possible strike against Iran and said Washington was mulling non-military options instead." Later that day, according to Barnett, Fallon told him during a coffee break in a military meeting, "I'm in hot water again," and then confirmed that his problems were directly with the White House. That was the second time in less than a week and the third time in seven weeks that Fallon had publicly declared that there would be no war against Iran. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television in September, which Fallon himself had requested, according to a source at Al-Jazeera, he had said, "This constant drum beat of conflict is what strikes me which is not helpful and not useful".
Daggers Bar Sikhs From Meeting Pope
The leader of the Roman Catholic church is heading an interfaith meeting on April 17, in an effort to extend peace. While Sikh representatives had been invited to attend, authorities were concerned about the security risk to Pope Benedict XVI. The secret service will not allow the Sikhs to go near the Pope while they carry a kirpaan, a dagger worn as part of their traditional garb. The World Sikh Council-America Region said in a statement the service "refused to accommodate the Sikh requirement of the kirpaan." .
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