Thursday, April 10, 2008

Newsworthy '13'

In random order:
ZHELEZNOGORSK. March 22. KAZINFORM. In compliance with the latest amendments to the federal space program for 2006-2015 an extra thirteen Glonass-M satellites will be made this year for the orbital global navigation system GLONASS, the first deputy general designer of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems plant, Viktor Kosenko, told the media on Friday after a meeting of the chief designers of Russia's space industry. The original intention was to launch six navigation satellites.

Thirteen Hundred Fifty Bucks, Illinois Corn Flake Auction
Would you pay thirteen hundred dollars for a corn flake that sort of looks like the state of Illinois if it were posted on an online auction? Are people now scouring their boxes of breakfast cereal searching high and low for corn flakes that look like California or Florida? Perhaps they should as copycat items are already popping up on eBay.

Thirteen Sahrawi families exchange new HCR-led family visits
Thirty-two people from seven families from the southern province of Smara flew to the Tindouf camps in the morning, while thirty-six members of six families traveled from these camps to Smara, in the eleventh visit exchange in 2008, a press release of the Moroccan Office of Coordination with MINURSO said.

Thirteen Mobylette fans take their bikes to the Sahara and back
Thirteen fans of the classic Mobylette 49 cc moped from Arroyo de la Miel, Málaga, yesterday completed a challenge they had set themselves of riding their machines from Málaga to the Sahara. They have successfully covered 1,800km and have ridden through snow, rain, cold and wind in their ten day there and back trip to the village of Merzouga some 20 kms into the dunes of the Sahara.

Build a Big Fence: Big Fences Make Good Neighbors
The border fence being installed near Columbus, NM is more than sixteen feet high and recent reports suggest it is working. On the other hand, the fence near Naco, AZ is only thirteen feet high and reports suggest it is not working.

Thirteen Tonne Theory
The singer. That's how he refers to himself in Thirteen Tonne Theory, the title coming from the size of the truck needed to get the band's gear around. It's a bitter, disconnected book at times. Seymour asks: how could a band so good fail so often? It's a universal question, but also very specific. I was just the singer, he says. A little bloke running across the stage ranting about girls.

Thirteen arrested in Tibet for March 10 protest by monks
Tibet authorities have arrested 13 people for taking part in a protest with "reactionary" slogans and a banner on March 10 in the regional capital Lhasa, the Tibet Daily reported on Tuesday.

Vote: Do you agree with the Olympic torch protests?
The torch is scheduled to visit 13 more countries after its trip Wednesday to San Francisco, but those plans might be under review.

MSG Net takes big bite of N.Y. Emmys
Actress Lynn Redgrave was honored for her role as program host/moderator of Thirteen/WNETs "Thirteen Setting the Stage."

13 Maoists surrender in Vizag
Thirteen Maoists including four dalam members and nine militia members surrendered before the Visakhapatnam Superintendent of Police Akun Sabharwal here today.

Thirteen million of London's working hours lost each year to tardy tradesmen
A recent YouGov survey[i], sponsored by leading London-based property maintenance company, Aspect Maintenance (www.aspect-maintenance.co.uk), has uncovered that over thirteen million working hours are lost in London each year[ii], while company employees wait in for property maintenance engineers to turn up.

Thirteen held in VAT fraud raids
Thirteen people were arrested in raids by officers investigating allegations of a multi-million pound VAT fraud. About 280 police and customs officials swooped on 20 premises in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and the Midlands.

Thirteen Ukrainian coal miners injured in underground explosion
Thirteen Ukrainian coal miners were injured in an underground explosion on Monday, an official from the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The apparent accident took place in a shaft in the eastern Donetsk region. Rescue workers evacuated 57 people from the pit.

Thirteen added to Derby entry
A record 13 horses have been added to the field at the first supplementary stage for the Vodafone Derby at Epsom on June 7.

Thirteen hits lead Miracle to 9-3 drowning of Threshers
Thanks to a five-run second inning and a season-high 13 hits, the Fort Myers Miracle were able to pick up their second straight win over the Clearwater Threshers by a final score of 9-3 on Wednesday night.

Documents present picture of brutal past
According to the Thirteen and Sixteen laws - the Tibetan feudal legal codes that were compiled in the 17th and 18th centuries and were applied until 1959 - Tibetans were divided into three social strata within nine grades:

In the upper stratum, the King of Tsang and other rulers belonged to the upper grade; Geshes, teachers of morals, abbots, high-ranking officials, or "headmen who had more than 300 attendants and servants", the middle grade; while "the independent bachelors, servants doing odd-jobs in government offices" were relegated to the upper grade of the lower stratum; "blacksmiths, butchers and beggars who had permanent residence and paid taxes", to the middle grade of the lower stratum; and "women, beggars, butchers and blacksmiths" to the lower grade of the lower stratum "whose life-price was a straw rope".

Thirteen held in drugs swoop
Police arrested 13 people in a joint operation to combat drug crime on the south coast following an increase in drug-related offences in Sussex.

Thirteen Europe-bound migrants die off Algeria
Algerian coastguards recovered the corpses of 13 illegal migrants who drowned off Algeria's coast while trying to reach Europe, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Brazilian police arrest 13 mayors accused of corruption

Brazilian Federal Police arrested 13 mayors accused of looting 117 million dollars in public money, authorities said Wednesday. According to an official report issued in Brasilia, 11 mayors from Minas Gerais, Brazil's second-wealthiest state, and two from the state of Bahia were arrested.

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