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Heathrow campaigners stage protest on Parliament roof

The message should go out today very clearly that decisions in this country should be made in the chamber of this House and not on the roof of this House."It is a very important message that should be sent out to those people who are protesting."One of the roof protesters, Richard George, 27, from London, said: "I am stood on the roof of Parliament because the democratic process had been corrupted."The aviation industry had taken full advantage of a weak Prime Minister to get the Heathrow consultation fixed."It does not even consider global warming despite everything Brown has said about the environment and despite the massive impact aviation has on the climate."The Prime Minister does not even have the courage to ask Londoners the simple question: 'Do you want a third runway?'. Instead, his Government published a consultation document full of gobbledegook and industry spin."Mr George added: "We decided to let Gordon Brown get on with Prime Minister's Questions, but we just wanted him to know what it is like to have an inconvenience above your head that you did not ask for."They made paper aeroplanes out of confidential Whitehall documents they claimed showed the consultation process was "fixed", and glided the planes into the MPs' car park below.The campaign group claimed that the documents – obtained under the Freedom of Information Act – proved that BAA wrote parts of the consultation document and that the Government had already decided to build a third runway and a sixth terminal at the world's biggest international airport.Mr George added: "Now the consultation is over, we can safely ignore the fixed result and get on with the job of stopping this new runway being built."A huge coalition of local residents, Londoners and environmentalists is coming together, supported by all the major mayoral candidates, to stand against Gordon Brown and say 'no more'."Plane Stupid said BAA and the Government wanted a sixth terminal and third runway built over homes, schools and churches in the villages of Sipson and Harmondsworth."This would increase the number of flights from 480,000 a year to at least 702,000."Two million Londoners face increased levels of noise, while CO2 emissions from the airport would shoot up despite claims by Brown that he's committed to fighting climate change," a spokesman said.The protesters said they branded Parliament "BAA HQ" because of the "extraordinary level of collusion" between the aviation industry and government.Matthew Knowles, spokesman for the Society of British Aerospace Companies, said: "These stunts are becoming tiresome and do nothing more than peddle inaccurate propaganda."The aviation industry has ach .

Bozeman boys basketball: Hawks deal Sentinel first loss in sloppy ...

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We all work hard and then, with one trade, the balance goes boom."), but he, like everyone else, is waiting to see what happens with the glacial O'Neal and the high-octane Suns. "They're not going to change the system and all of a sudden be rock 'em, sock 'em basketball," Popovich said. "They're going to figure out a way to slide Shaq in there just like they slid Kurt Thomas in there. It makes it tough for us in the sense that they have someone who can guard Timmy better."

Remember all the preseason talk about how the Eastern Conference had narrowed the talent gap with the West? Oh well. At the All-Star break, the 23-30 New Jersey Nets would be the seventh seed in the East while the 32-20 Denver Nuggets would not make the playoffs in the West.

KC Southern board elects independent director

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Analysis: Nabucco gets boost

The company that's building the pipeline applied for exemption from the general rule of regulated third-party access in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, though which the pipeline would pass. EU laws permit such exemptions.

"The safeguards to which the exemption is subject include a capacity cap preventing a dominant undertaking from booking more than half of the Nabucco exit capacity in Austria and rules to ensure a transparent and non-discriminatory capacity allocation to third parties," the EC said in a statement.

This is the latest good news for the pipeline, which announced last week that German utility RWE would join the project.

"Nabucco clearly has strong political support but it's been missing a heavyweight downstream component and it has that in RWE," Simon Blakey, a senior director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told United Press International in a telephone interview last week.

New York Philharmonic's 'sing song diplomacy' in North Korea

The 130-member orchestra is scheduled to arrive Monday and perform Tuesday night before an audience of high-ranking North Korean officials. Eighty journalists will accompany the musicians to a country that is almost always closed to the outside world.

Reports from Pyongyang suggest that anti-American propaganda is being pulled from the streets in anticipation of the orchestra's rendition of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" and Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony, as well as both the North Korean and American national anthems.

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Jarvis Minton lost kickoff-return job briefly because of that mistake in the Western Illinois game. Bielema talked at length about it afterward. Please don't make the common mistake of assuming because a player makes a mistake it is the result of the staff not addressing an issue. Favre made some bad plays in the loss to Buffalo, remember? Does that mean the staff hasn't addressed ball security with him? Q: Dennis Sullivan of Eau Claire - Iowa seemed to do the best job of any of the Badger's foes in stopping the run. Was their D line that much better or did they have a scheme that the Badgers could not solve?

A: Jeff Potrykus - Michigan did the best job. Iowa had eight guys in the box with a ninth creeping up. They wanted to make Donovan beat them with his arm and he did. Q: Mike of Atlanta - Which redshirt freshmen do you think will make an impact next year? Did the UW redshirt both freshman QB recruits?

A: Jeff Potrykus - Next year again? I haven't thought about it for a second...Yes, neither QB recruit has played.

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Court Questions Patent Damages Against Microsoft For Guatemalan Patent ...

Microsoft has been fighting for years against a Guatemalan patent holder, Carlos Amado, who claims to hold a patent on the concept of linking a database to a spreadsheet. The patent itself has been thoroughly debunked. Even the patent itself admits that it's merely taken a bunch of concepts that were widely used before and combining them -- which is exactly the type of thing that the Supreme Court has said should not be patentable. Microsoft has appealed the ruling, but the Supreme Court turned it down. However, it then appealed the amount of damages, and the appeals court has now thrown out the lower court's damages based on the fact that it appeared to pick the damages number out of thin air. It seems likely that Microsoft will still have to pay damages for infringement (though, the court also admits that new Supreme Court rulings may impact the amount as well), but the lower court is going to at least have to justify how much Microsoft needs to pay Amado for basically putting such an obvious idea on paper and filing a patent.

Jay Leno Drives Street-Legal Go-Kart, Lightweight Spors Cars

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