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The Ice’s Cat Gene
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:27:22 -0700
The Ice’s Cat Gene from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. This is one of our family’s favorite stories about The Ice. ...Confused?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:52:07 -0700
Me too.The governor of South Carolina says quitting would be the easy way out.The governor of Alaska says finishing her ...Why Palin quit (including a Freeper battle cry)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700
Everyone out there has a theory -- the latest is that Sarah Palin stepped aside as governor of Alaska because she's about ...Clock Tutorial #3c - Darwin On Time
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:31:03 -0700
This post is a modification from two papers written for two different classes in History of Science, back in 1995 ...Happy Fourth of July!
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!Like most of you, I am taking the day off to celebrate with some patriotic festivities.If ...Ken Hutcherson: Obama has no 'black experience'
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Hutcherson photo art via Mike Tidmus. Oh man, the homo-hating pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Washington state, Ken Hutcherson, ...Is Social Media the New Punk Rock?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:45:31 -0700
This video comes to me via Jennifer McClure via Web Ink Now. I have a love of disruptive, loud, and ...Clock Quotes
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:14 -0700
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. ...Ladder 22 / Ladder 5
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:56:00 -0700
One of the city's two new Pierce platforms was placed in service as Ladder 22 on Thursday, July 2, at ...Fourth of July and Fireworks Safety in the Philippines
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:06:04 -0700
While the Philippines also celebrates Independence Day on July 4, Christmas and New Year's are their big fireworks season. ...Tweets from 2009-07-03
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:59:59 -0700
1 week in to new Palm Pre: local Sprint store rocks, national Sprint service is incompetent, phone reception blows (when ...A Pacemaker is a Network
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:04:05 -0700
This is going to be a challenging post to write for several reasons. How do I explain that a paper ...links for 2009-07-03
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:00:24 -0700
Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security Not to yell "fire" in a crowded social networking site, but this article ...Friday night senior pet pic blogging
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:29 -0700
Presenting the most handsome dog in the ...Merge video retrospective: Superchunk - "Driveway to Driveway"
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:51:00 -0700
It's not technically Friday anymore, but here's Friday's Merge Retrospective video. Here's another classic Superchunk video for "Driveway to Driveway" ...Lindau Nobel - interview with Bente Flier
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:03:11 -0700
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Bente Flier of the University ...Is it ever a good time to jump off of a bank building?
I was disappointed yesterday when I heard that the base jumping event was cancelled downtown Raleigh. I didn’t get the memo but heard about it from my coworkers, but looks like both New Raleigh & The Stinging Nettle received the memo, take a look at what it said.
Wayne Sutton
A Red Bull BASE jump was one of several activities planned as part of the RBC Plaza Grand Opening celebration. In light of this week's events, RBC Bank did not feel that a jump was appropriate and decided to cancel it. "Given the recent market activities, we just didn't think it was an appropriate time to have people jumping off of a bank building," said Jamie Mitchell, RBC Bank media relations manager.
One Response to “Is it ever a good time to jump off of a bank building?”
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Ginny Skalski
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
Very interesting. I was wondering why they cancelled that. I like their rationale. But they cynical side of me has to wonder: Did you still have to pay for the base jumpers? If so, then shouldn’t they do the work they were hired to do … or yet again is money being wasted. Hmmm.