Thursday, November 23, 2006

Build your own poker table - FGCU dumps plans to build satellite campus in Charlotte County

The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees has killed plans to partner with a New York developer to build a satellite campus in Charlotte County. At least for now. In a special meeting Wednesday the board that governs the university unanimously voted to step back from the $70 million package trustees accepted less than a month ago.
Dogster, architects of the wildly popular Dogster.com and Catster.com online communities, today announced a partnership with media alpha dog, NBC, to help build awareness for the network's annual Dog Show USA Presented by Purina, a "virtual" online dog show open to all dogs.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Shell Canada Ltd., the country's fourth-largest oil company, plans to raise spending to C$4 billion ($3.5 billion) next year and may build the first new refinery in Canada in more than two decades.
Text of report by Ukrainian newspaper Kiyevskiy
Upscale retailer Nordstrom plans to move out of the 110,000-square-foot store it opened in Fashion Place about 25 years ago and build a 140,000-square-foot store at the Murray mall. The new store, scheduled to open in 2009, will be built on what is a parking lot north of the existing store, company spokeswoman Brooke White said. A mall spokeswoman said a parking garage will be built to
KARACHI - Professionally best in the region, the Pakistan Navy is experienced enough to construct submarines, MCMVs, missile boats, coastal tankers, floating docks and other utility craft.
All discussion was in hush-hush. Russians are in secret agreement with India and China. It is not clear if Russia will be part of it. The need comes from NATOs Afghanistan operations. The Iraq invasion and also the dreadful past Vietnam and Afghanistan.