Leap Year News
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Star Student in Immigration Flap Will Be Home For Graduation
immigrant. So she and her father took the trip down to the Juarez consulate, only to realize they counted dates wrong because of leap year . Olivas was late by one day, initially told she would not be issued her long-term visa and without a "humanitarian parole
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Immigration Technicality May Keep Homecoming Queen From Graduation
immigration lawyer. Sarah Moshe, Olivas' lawyer, told the paper that her firm did not take into account that this is a leap year . Many law firms use legal calendars as a way of tracking important dates that do not add the extra day in February. "She
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Dick Van Dyke Marries 40-Year-Old Makeup Artist
obvious age difference, Dick has never been happier. She brings a lot of light into his life." Palmer said the couple's Leap Day nuptials were a "private ceremony near Dick's house in Malibu." Van Dyke's first marriage ended in divorce; he later
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On Rare Leap Day , Remember Rare Diseasesday indeed, it is only fitting to encourage others to speak up and raise awareness about rare health problems. This year, leap day is also Rare Disease Day , an annual, awareness-driven international event to alert people of the more than 7,000 rare
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Leap Year : The Trials and Tribulations28th since it's within my birth month; leap - year babies call this being a 'Strict Februarian People would rather have the baby on Leap Day ," Sara Channing, spokeswoman for Orlando's because their computer doesn't support Leap Day ," said Peter Brouwer, with one might
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Leap Year Politicshere are some political factoids with Leap Year connections. And if it weren't for one Leap Year in particular, Americans would celebrate signed the Declaration of Independence in a Leap Year . If it weren't for that extra day
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More Leap Year Travel Deals: An Airline and Lots of Hotels
the Kimpton hotels participating in the Leap Year Sale. (Image credit: Courtesy Ron the gun a bit when I reported on three Leap Year travel deals earlier this month. Since hotels and one airline getting in on the Leap Year fun. Frontier Airlines : To my knowledge
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Leaping Lizards! Hotel Deals for Feb. 29the hotel industry will find it and do just that. This is a leap year , meaning there's 366 days - one more than the usual 365 one website are offering deals to coincide with the Feb. 29 leap day . The Somerset on Grace Bay , Turks & Caicos The luxury resort's
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A 49th Anniversary Gift of $1 for Every Day of Marriage -- $17,885told his wife the stacks totaled $17,885, amounting to one dollar for each day the couple has been married. "I forgot leap year so I guess I owe you," Arthur told his wife. Getting the gift was no easy feat. Arthur Schumacher spent most of the day
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TechBytes: If I Can Dreamoff-line. Sony says the glitch had to do with the machine's internal clock, which were programmed to think yesterday was February 29th . MLB 2K10 Review Although Spring training is in full swing, baseball season begins today for video game fans. The popular
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ZuneGate '08: What Really Happened!
system keeps on subtracting 365 days (or 366, in the case of a leap year ) from the total number of days, adding one to the year value have noticed the single botched element in the code. On a leap year , there are 366 days in a year. December 31 is the 366th day
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Microsoft's Official Fix for Failing Zunes
January 1, 2009. Microsoft says it will also issue a fix for the device so that this problem won't re-occur the next leap year , in 2012. To Fix Your Zune Follow These Steps: 1. Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources. 2. Because the
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Microsoft Says Leap Year Bug Caused Zune Failures
the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year . "That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009
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Hundreds of Microsoft Zunes mysteriously shut down
Asher said the company had isolated the issue to a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year . The company said the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to Jan. 1, 2009. The internal
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Hundreds of Microsoft Zunes Mysteriously Shut DownAsher said the company had isolated the issue to a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year . The company said the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to Jan. 1, 2009. The internal
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Wait a second: 2008 gets extended by timekeepers
seconds in 1972, sometimes twice a year. This is first leap second since Dec. 31, 2005. This is the fourth year to have a leap day and a leap second. _ On the Net The U.S. Naval Observatory: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html
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McDonald's July same-store sales rise 8%
company's Big Mac hamburger sandwich helped lift same-store sales in the U.S. to a 6.7% increase, the largest since a Leap - Day -inflated 8.3% in February, the company said. Same-store sales jumped 7.6% in Europe, led by sales in the U.K
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Ad Track: Retailers try to make April 15 less taxing
the pressure that marketers are under today to get noticed," he says, pointing out recent promotions linked to Feb. 29 Leap Day and Feb. 2 Groundhog Day. "The other traditional holidays are so overdone." Many attempts at tax-time promotions will
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Retailers try to make April 15 less taxing
the pressure that marketers are under today to get noticed," he says, pointing out recent promotions linked to Feb. 29 Leap Day and Feb. 2 Groundhog Day. "The other traditional holidays are so overdone." Many attempts at tax-time promotions will
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Rare frogs bred in New Zealand
student at Victoria University in Wellington. "It's wonderful timing for 2008 — International Year of the Frog and a Leap Year ," she said. The breeding suggests Maud Island frogs can be bred in other predator-free habitats — strengthening their
