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From the Associated Press:

Doctors in southern India completed a grueling 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at a normal life.

The surgery went “wonderfully well,” said Dr. Sharan Patil, who led a team of more than 30 surgeons in performing the marathon procedure to remove Lakshmi’s extra limbs, salvage her organs and rebuild her pelvis area.

“This girl can now lead as good a life as anyone else,” Patil said from a hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

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Sending his cancer a signal
Kanzius did not have a medical background, not even a bachelor’s degree, but he knew radios. He had built and fixed them since he was a child, collecting transmitters, transceivers, antennas and amplifiers, earning an amateur radio operator license. Kanzius knew how to send radio wave signals around the world. If he could transmit them into cancer cells, he wondered, could he then direct the radio waves to destroy tumors, while leaving healthy cells intact?

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    Publication Date: 11/6/2007 9:30:47 PM

According to a press release issued by Motorola, Motorola USA has announced its intention to “launch a tender offer to acquire a controlling interest in Vertex Standard Co, Ltd.” Vertex Standard is the parent company of Yaesu. Upon successful completion of the tender offer and subsequent restructuring process, Motorola will own 80 percent of Vertex Standard; Tokogiken, a privately held Japanese company, controlled by current president and CEO of Vertex Standard Jun Hasegawa, will retain 20 percent, forming a joint venture. The total purchase price for 80 percent of the outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis will be approximately ¥12.3 billion (approximately US $108 million). The bid will start November 6 and end on December 26. If the bid succeeds, shares of Vertex would be delisted from the Jasdaq Securities Exchange in Japan.
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Eight Days a Week, a Beatles tribute band, will be performing at The Rohs Opera House on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The show starts at 6pm.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information, call The Rohs at (859) 234-9803.
Show sponsors are The Rohs Opera House & WCYN 1400AM

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Ponca City, We Love You writes “USA Today has an advance story on Google’s plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won’t be released until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools, used by programmers to write new applications. “If you’re a developer, you’ll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly,” said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn’t formally agreed to make the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers.” Update 1727 GMT by SM: It’s official, Google is releasing the mobile “Android” OS in place of the Google branded mobile phone that many expected.

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So, Google is spearheading a movement for an opensource platform for mobile phones to operate on, rather than actually creating a single phone or line of phones. While for some, this may seem disappointing, it opens up a new realm of technologies on the wireless phones of all (who partake) service providers and manufacturers. I’ve embedded the video for the announcement below:

Ponca City, We Love You writes “USA Today has an advance story on Google’s plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won’t be released until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools, used by programmers to write new applications. “If you’re a developer, you’ll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly,” said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3 carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn’t formally agreed to make the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers.”

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