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Only in New Mexico: TV News – I got a note today from someone who said Frank Magid had died. He was a guy who single-handedly destroyed broadcast journalism with his 'happy news' format back in the early 70's
REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS — Site Selection magazine, January 2010 – he southward migration of regional headquarters operations from Northern U.S. states will continue unless government officials in the Northeast and Midwest get serious about cost containment, says a leading site selection consultant who advises companies on such moves. Boyd says that with cost containment becoming paramount, other cities are joining Atlanta on the list of favorable locations. Among them are Sioux Falls, S.D.; Glendale and Tucson, Ariz.; Rio Rancho, N.M.; Provo, Utah; Henderson, Nev.; Miramar and Davie, Fla.; Providence and West Kingston, R.I.; and Manchester, N.H.
The Payson Roundup / New Mexico — The Land of Enchantment – In my early years after graduating university, my first real job was at KOB-TV, Channel 4 in Albuquerque, N.M. I lived there for some four years, learning the television business. Having been raised in Los Angeles, anything in New Mexico seemed different and interesting. On my days off I would take to the highways and explore this enchanted part of America.
We’re Looking for the All American Handyman (or Woman!) : About Us : Home & Garden Television – HGTV is seeking charismatic, energetic, non-professional handy men and women to participate in the upcoming competition series, All American Handyman. Strong carpentry skills, experience with tools, creativity and excellent problem-solving skills are a real plus. The winner will be awarded a significant prize package.
Rescue group finds ignorant beacon owner who triggered false alarms – The Denver Post – Members of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group used special "direction finding equipment" to locate the owner of a "personal locator beacon" (PLB) that had been inadvertently triggered nine times between Dec. 11, 2009, and Feb. 11 by a backcountry skier from Fraser who mistook the unit for an avalanche beacon. According to the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office, the owner had no idea that every time he turned on the ACR Electronics PLB-300 MicrOFix given to him as a birthday present, a distress signal was broadcast to international satellites linked to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Air Force Rescue Coordination Center.
5th Annual New Mexico TechEx Awards Celebrating Ideas – Innovation – Impact — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – – On Thursday May 6, 2010 – the New Mexico Technology Council will host the 5th annual Technology Excellence Awards. This year the awards celebrate innovation in New Mexico and recognize people and organizations that have a made significant impact on the technology landscape of the State.
Mass drug overdose – none dead – health – 01 February 2010 – New Scientist – No ill effects were reported by hundreds of volunteers who took part in a mass-overdose stunt around the world to demonstrate that homeopathic remedies are nothing more than sugar pills. "There were no casualties at all, as far as I know," says Martin Robbins, spokesman for the "10:23" campaign, created to highlight the alleged ineffectiveness of homeopathic remedies.
AnandTech: Intel & Micron Announce 25nm NAND Flash Production, SSDs to get Bigger/Cheaper in Q4 – Today IMFT is announcing that it has begun sampling 2-bits-per-cell MLC NAND flash manufactured using 25nm transistors. The company believed it had a 6 month head start over the competition in 34nm, and now believes that with 25nm NAND it’s roughly a year ahead of anyone else. Volume production will happen sometime in Q2, with products shipping before the end of the year. In my last SSD article I mentioned that Intel’s 3rd generation X25-M would be shipping in Q4 at 160GB, 320GB and 600GB. These drives will use IMFT’s new 25nm flash.
Irish Intel chips get fertiliser – News – PC Authority – The problem for the chipmaker is that it needs extremely pure water for its manufacturing processes and, while it tests water purity onsite, it did not really expect to have to spot ammonia and now has to send water samples offsite. While the water was pure enough for drinking it was not good enough to use for making semiconductor chips.
Dr. Jeffry Life believes he’s the picture of health<br /> He’s that graying senior with the chiseled physique in those print ads. He shares his health regimen. – Los Angeles Times – ppearing in medical-clinic ads in airline magazines and newspapers (including this one), the incongruous photo juxtaposes a bald, white-haired, septuagenarian head on top of a rippling, V-shaped torso worthy of an Olympic gymnast or powerlifter. Completing the effect of macho, forever-young vitality, Life's left hand casually dangles by his thumb from a jeans front pocket, in a cool cowboy swagger.
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- Demolition of 107-year-old home in Denver historic district angers neighbors – The Denver Post – About two weeks ago, a neighbor, Camille Palmeri, noticed that the north wall of the brick structure had been broken through, leaving a gaping hole roughly 10 feet square exposing the entire interior to the elements. Burbano told the city the wall fell down on its own.
- KOB.com – ‘How-to’ sex article raises eyebrows – The column that appeared in the campus paper last week is essentially a graphic, how-to-guide for having anal sex. It's more than 700 words dedicated to a subject you would expect to find in an adult book store.
- Rank-and-file county staff reveal fear of Sheriff Joe Arpaio – Fears first spiked in December 2008, when county administrators spent $10,000 to sweep county offices for illegal wiretaps they worried had been installed by Arpaio. None was found. But rank-and-file workers still became terrified of possible surveillance, lawsuits or even arrest. Arpaio's frequent retort to critics that the innocent had nothing to worry about did not allay their concerns.
- Southwest taking Wi-Fi fleetwide – Dallas Business Journal: – Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) is scheduled to begin installing the equipment in the second quarter of 2010. It will do so on about 15 aircraft per month, with the goal of fitting Southwest’s entire fleet of 540 plans with Wi-Fi service by early 2012.
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- Apple A4 SOC unveiled – It’s an ARM CPU and the GPU! – Bright Side Of News* – A4 is a System-on-a-Chip, or SOC, that integrates the main processor [ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore i.e. Multi-Processing Core, identical to ones used in nVidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon] with graphics silicon [ARM Mali 50-Series GPU], and other functions like the memory controller on one piece of silicon – not unlike what Intel is trying to achieve with its future "Moorestown" Atom processor that debuted inside LG's Smartphone.
- Target says no to farmed salmon – Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: – Target consulted with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif., on a better option, and decided to go with wild-caught salmon from Alaska, which is certified as sustainable to the standard of the Marine Stewardship Council.
- The 2010 Sonic Blast – Intel blew out the fourth quarter and is firmly on the way to historic high earnings in 2010. Wall Street initially bid the shares to a new 16-month high but reversed into a long weekend presaged by Friday's options expiration. A record 65% gross margin and 29% higher revenues than the year previous were ignored as investors decided this is as good as it gets; that its all down hill from here. Looking at the nation's dismal political news, steamrolling a health care bill few want and ignoring China's blatant attacks on American high technology, it's easy to put on the dark glasses. However alluring it is to take the past year's gains to the bank and seek safer haven, this ignores an expansive global economy and multiple technology product cycles from which Intel and other chipmakers will handsomely benefit these next several years.
- What analysts should ask Apple | Mac | MacUser | Macworld – The point is that Apple isn’t just being contrary when it fights to keep its plans secret. If you announce a good idea a year before you can implement it, you had better be the only company in the world that could implement something that customers will think is a “good enough” version of what you promise. “Good enough” plus “cheaper” or “for sale sooner” is how the world got stuck with Windows. Apple has some precedent here. Enough said.
- Clearwire submits flurry of wireless permits in Chandler – A company's flurry of requests in Chandler for wireless communication permits could be a sign the city – and perhaps the Valley — will soon become part of the first nationwide WiMAX wireless broadband network planned by Kirkland, Washington-based Clearwire Corporation. But company officials aren't talking.
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- Business & Technology | Starbucks to close 130-worker call center in Seattle | Seattle Times Newspaper – Starbucks said Thursday it will close a 130-worker call center at its Seattle headquarters and rely on an outside company in Albuquerque, N.M., to handle customer feedback.
- AMD posts first profit in 13 quarters – AMD's revenue jumped 42 percent year-over-year to $1.626 billion, handily beating Intel's (also impressive) 28 percent jump. The chipmaker's quarterly profit, $1.288 billion, is mostly thanks to the $1.224 settlement with Intel.
- Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID | qbit.cc – According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world.
- How to Survive in Federal Prison – wikiHow – If you have been sentenced to federal prison, you will become the property of the Bureau Of Prisons (BOP) and this will be the end of life as you know it. As with most federal sentences, you will most likely have many years during which to deal with this new life. This article will offer some advice so you can prepare and survive.
- Al Jazeera English – Africa – Huge ransom paid to Somali pirates – The ransom delivered on Sunday is believed to be between $5.5m and $7m, according to unnamed sources interviewed by the Reuters news agency.
- GM Corn & Organ Failure: Lots of Sensationalism, Few Facts | 80beats | Discover Magazine – On Wednesday, we covered the overreaction by a few important online sources to an International Journal of Biological Sciences article claiming to find “signs of toxicity” in three varieties of genetically modified (GM) corn produced by Monsanto. We posted some caveats that made us uneasy about the study, such as the funding sources, the unknown quality of the journal, and the fact that the toxicity claims rely on reinterpreting statistical data that Gilles-Eric Séralini and his coauthors themselves note is not as robust as it needs to be.
- Infant sealed in concrete by a Brooklyn couple charged with enslaving hooker mom was beaten to death – The infant boy sealed in concrete by a Brooklyn couple charged with pimping out his enslaved hooker mom, was beaten to death, the Daily News has learned.
- News : Developers envy the pace of Rio Rancho’��s ‘��Lego Man’�� – Rio Rancho Observer – At 58, Larry Winchell of Northwest Albuquerque is anything but a kid – and his expertise with Legos gives him good reason to dub himself the “Lego Man.” His life could’ve taken almost any direction, given that he came from a broken home, had 18 residences in a span of 18years and didn’t start turning his life around until he joined the Air Force. A self-proclaimed East Village hippie “back in the day,” he later used the G.I. Bill to finance his education, later serving as a college teacher and planetarium curator.
- Intel uses iTunes for performance benchmarking – iPod owners already know that the Windows version of iTunes is anything but an advertisement for good or stable application design, so as a benchmark of how a processor can help matters no matter what software is running this could prove quite informative. Unsurprisingly, the newer i5 processor was much quicker to finish the task than the older Core II Duo it was matched against.
- The killer app that busted ski-resort snow jobs – The Globe and Mail – The deceptive advertising has been decisively busted by the internet, where skeptical skiers can now check a skireport.com application on their iPhone to vet the resort-supplied snow tally against first-hand accounts from the slopes and lifts.
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- Intel earnings surprise: we have lift-off – epending on how you look at it, Intel either turned in a monster of an earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2009, or it's finally pulled back up to 2007 levels—the former view gives you a whopping 875 percent jump in year-over-year net income, while the latter gives you essentially three "lost years," in which the company's revenues topped out (2007), then tanked (2008), then ramped right back up (2009). Either way, Intel has posted a "V-shaped recovery" that is gunning its stock up in after-hours trading.
- MediaPost Publications AMC Mobile Tour Promotes ‘Breaking Bad’ 01/15/2010 – The lead character in AMC's "Breaking Bad" runs his drug-dealing enterprise from a revolting RV. To promote the third season, the network is going with a much plusher vehicle. Next month, a truck with a 90-seat theater — replete with stadium seating and high-def screen — will begin a coast-to-coast journey to plug the series.
- Phoenix officer, blogger indicted on felony counts – Officer David Barnes, 42, is accused of being a primary tipster to the Web site badphoenixcops.com and with harassing two members of the department through an anonymous letter and emails.
- Proof of Martians ‘to come this year’: Scientific American – David McKay, chief of astrobiology at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, says powerful new microscopes and other instruments will establish whether features in martian meteorites are alien fossils.
- Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi out of ‘Spider-Man’ – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety – The new untitled Spider Man film will center on the webslinging teen as he grapples with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises. Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin are producing.
- Updated Dish, EchStar, Nagrastar To Receive $51 Million In Anti-Piracy Case – 2010-01-11 17:35:15 | Multichannel News – The decision, rendered by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, took aim at piracy software marketed as "Thedssguy and Veracity" that allowed viewers to bypass NagraStar's conditional access security and receive premium as well as regular channels that meant lost potential revenue of over $70 per month per viewer that did not have to pay to get its programming.
- Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold – The folks who run the National Center for Atmospheric Research have a great rundown of the details of the AO Oscillation. In short, high pressure in the Arctic forces the jet stream south, and it drags cold air with it, chilling North American and northern Eurasia. In its opposite mode, those same regions tend to be much warmer. Right now, we're in such an extreme high-pressure event that the readings have run off the scale of NOAA's AO index. Fortunately for those hoping to warm up a bit, the AO is a weather event—it often changes states multiple times within a single season, and there's no clear evidence linking its behavior to climate trends.
- From behind bars, hard-core ski bum defies authorities – The Denver Post – Since 1976, the 63-year-old has skied 120 days a season, shoveling snow and doing other odd jobs for a few bucks and skiing every day. What affirms his title as ski bum supreme is the fact that at night he retired to his car, parked close to the lifts.
But now Toups' brawny 6-foot frame is wedged in a jail cell in Georgetown, imprisoned for the past 57 days on misdemeanor federal charges of camping on public land, possessing marijuana and assaulting a Forest Service officer.
- Suspect caught after high-speed chase | KRQE News 13 New Mexico – Police started chasing the suspect on Highway 528 through Rio Rancho and then continue their pursuit on Highway 550. At the time, the suspect was reportedly driving more than 100 miles per hour.
- Goldman sued by pension fund over bonus plans| Reuters – Such sums, and Goldman's practice of continuing to pay out nearly 50 percent of net revenue as compensation, show "scant regard" for the interests of shareholders, it said.
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- Gallup: America the ‘conservative’? / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com – per pollster Gallup, the nation has grown only more polarized in the past year. By the end of 2009, 40 percent of Americans self-identified as conservative, up from 37 percent in 2008. Moderates clocked in at 36 percent, down from 37 a year earlier. And 21 percent of Americans self-identified as liberal, down a point from 2008.
- Why cheap Chianti is often better than the expensive stuff. – By Mike Steinberger – Slate Magazine – Chianti is Italy's most famous wine, and—given its operatic recent history—it is arguably the most Italian of Italian wines. Back in the 1960s and '70s, Chianti was synonymous with plonk; it was the cheap, insipid Tuscan wine that came in straw flasks (fiascos, as they were aptly known) and was typically found, on these shores, in pizza joints with checkered tablecloths and jukeboxes.
- First Rio Rancho Mayor Accused Of Sex Charges – Albuquerque News Story – KOAT Albuquerque – In February 1981, when Rio Rancho was a fledgling city, William Howden was its first mayor. Now, almost three decades later, Howden is accused of molesting his 7-year-old granddaughter.
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio investigated by grand jury, officials confirm – Two Maricopa County executives said Thursday they will appear before a federal grand jury next week to testify about allegations that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and others in his office have abused their power.
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has toiled to steer clear of George W. Bush’s shadow | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News – "His populist, anti-government definition of himself is one that has more in common with Sarah Palin than it does with George W. Bush" by resonating with the emerging tea-party movement, said University of Texas political scientist Bruce Buchanan.
- "Smart" ski tickets lead to more pass-fraud busts in Colorado – The Denver Post – Even though skiers do not need to remove their pass from their pocket, ticket checkers can review a host of data from each pass they scan, including a large photograph of the skier.
- Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? – Agner Fog details this particularly nasty examples of Intel's anticompetitive practices quite well. Intel's compiler can produce different versions of pieces of code, with each version being optimised for a specific processor and/or instruction set (SSE2, SSE3, etc.). The system detects which CPU it's running on and chooses the optimal code path accordingly; the CPU dispatcher, as it's called.
- I am a debunker of 9/11 conspiracy theories. AMA. : reddit.com – I'm a guy who sees a country that's become increasingly hostile to science from both the right (obvious) and the left (all-natural drugs, homeopathy, anti-vax).
- Why didn’t I use pervious concrete for my driveway? – Fresh Dirt – Sunset.com – Pervious concrete is basically concrete without the sand. And the absence of sand creates a lot of void space. 15-30%. That is enough, according to the Pacific Southwest Concrete Alliance, for 3-8 gallons of water per minute to pass through each square foot. That is equal, says the Alliance, to 6,000 to 17,000 inches of rain per day. Even an El Nino won't produce more than that.
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- Why didn’t I use pervious concrete for my driveway? – Fresh Dirt – Sunset.com – Pervious concrete is basically concrete without the sand. And the absence of sand creates a lot of void space. 15-30%. That is enough, according to the Pacific Southwest Concrete Alliance, for 3-8 gallons of water per minute to pass through each square foot. That is equal, says the Alliance, to 6,000 to 17,000 inches of rain per day. Even an El Nino won't produce more than that.
- No right to bear unlicensed machine guns, federal court says / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com – “Whatever the individual right to keep and bear arms might entail, it does not authorize an unlicensed individual to possess unregistered machine guns for personal use,” said the three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
- No right to bear unlicensed machine guns, federal court says / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com – “Whatever the individual right to keep and bear arms might entail, it does not authorize an unlicensed individual to possess unregistered machine guns for personal use,” said the three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Southwest bags more fliers by not imposing fees – The Denver Post – While the airline cut capacity by 5 percent in 2009, it added service to four new airports — New York LaGuardia, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Milwaukee. At the same time, he said the airline has gained a 1 percent market share and even has offered all employees raises during one of the worst financial slumps in airline history.
- The President on Preliminary Findings Regarding the Attempted Terrorist Attack | The White House – I wanted to speak to the American people again today because some of this preliminary information that has surfaced in the last 24 hours raises some serious concerns. It's been widely reported that the father of the suspect in the Christmas incident warned U.S. officials in Africa about his son's extremist views. It now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community, but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's name on a no-fly list.
- Retirees Flock to Mexico for the Sun and the Health Care | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 28, 2009 | PBS – Thousands of Americans are coming to places like Puerto Vallarta, not to dip their toes in the warm Pacific, sip a margarita, or browse a crafts fair. No, they are coming for health care, in many cases, care they could never afford to acquire in the United States.
- New equation for comfort – The Denver Post – The Apex boot essentially is a snowboarding boot inserted into a lightweight carbon fiber frame. The external carbon fiber structure provides the lateral stiffness and forward lean required to make skis perform, but can be removed easily for walking.
- Italian town where a White Christmas is a police matter | World news | The Guardian – Some 3,000 people have marched through the town in protest at the operation, which the Vatican called "sad and distressing". But it has been endorsed by Silvio Berlusconi's government. Visiting nearby Brescia, where he announced the opening of a detention camp for suspected illegal immigrants – a so-called centre for identification and expulsion – Berlusconi's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, a leader of the League, complimented Coccaglio's mayor.
- N.M. teacher claims lottery prize 2 hours before it expires – Lottery News – With only two hours to spare, an Albuquerque teacher claimed a $10,000 Powerball prize scheduled to expire today at 4:30 p.m.
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- Children die by dozens as adults snap | KRQE News 13 New Mexico – "This has really been the year for tragedy for children in Albuquerque," Pat Davis, a spokesman for District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, told KRQE News 13. "It's been so extraordinary we don't want to see this happen again."
- 2011 Ford Mustang: Five-Point-Oh is now 412 hp – To Ford Mustang fans, 5.0 means a lot, and the new 2011 5.0-liter V8 Mustang will deliver 412 hp, company officials said on Thursday. The information was supposed to be embargoed until Dec. 28, but news leaked out shortly after the announcement in Dearborn, Mich.
- Business On The Wild East’s Frontier – Forbes.com – I am riding along with a team of 10 American officials from the smallish but distinctly upscale town of Rio Rancho, N.M., population 80,000. The officials have come–the first of many planned reciprocal visits–to begin sister-city procedures with Hunchun.
- Phoenix explosion sends man to hospital – A garage storing black powder and other ammunition exploded in east Phoenix, setting the house on fire and sending a 57-year-old man to the hospital.
- Mesquite blog: Long hair gets pre-kindergarten student kicked out of class | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News – Four-year-old Taylor Pugh, in prekindergarten at Floyd Elementary School, likes his hair long – just below his ears and along his collar in the back. He likes it longer in front. That length is outside the school district's dress code so the boy has been having lessons alone in the library. And his mother says the district has said he will be kicked out of school completely on Tuesday.
- seMissourian.com: Local News: Sonic employee charged with cooking meth in restaurant – Cape Girardeau police officer Eric Ralls responded to a call at 1:57 a.m. Thursday and upon arrival reportedly found Dennie L. Bratcher, 27, a shift manager at the restaurant, cooking a batch of methamphetamine, according to the probable-cause statement.
- 6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations | Cracked.com – Cats have many different ways of communicating, but the meow is every cat's go-to vocalization when it wants to tell us something; be it, "I'm hungry," "pay attention to me" or "I just took a dump, go clean it up." However, far from the one-dimensional barking sound that dogs use to communicate, cats are like living stereo equalizers that are able to fine tune the pitches and tones of their meows… so they can better manipulate you into doing what they want.
- Arizona sheriff ups the ante against his foes — latimes.com – But he has escalated his tactics in recent months, not only defying the federal government but launching repeated investigations of those who criticize him. He recently filed a racketeering lawsuit against the entire Maricopa County power structure. On Thursday night, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued an emergency order forbidding the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from searching the home or chambers of a Superior Court judge who was named in the racketeering case.
- CreditBloggers: A Great Gift For Kids: A Box of Boxes – My dad always said that we played more with the boxes than items came in than with the toys themselves. Once again, I had to learn things the hard way. So here is my frugal, creative holiday shopping idea for parents of young children: give your kids a box of boxes.
- Credit Card Skimmer Found On Gas Pump – Portland News Story – KPTV Portland – Vancouver police said the skimming device had been plugged into the wiring behind the panel of a gas pump at the 7-Eleven at 5600 E. Fourth Plain Blvd. It didn't impact customers' ability to purchase gas and it was well hidden from view, according to officers.
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- KOB.com – Albuquerque non-profit provides protection for women – Imagine having your own personal bodyguard outside your home all day and all night at no cost. That’s what an Albuquerque non-profit group is providing, specifically for abused women.
- The Official Site of Rio Rancho, NM – Outdoor Lighting Task Force – The task force will provide the Governing Body solutions to address existing outdoor lighting concerns, feedback regarding existing outdoor lighting ordinances, and recommendations to regulate outdoor lighting in future development areas while taking into consideration safety, reduction of light pollution, aesthetics and energy conservation.
- 300 competing in Lego championship at ASU – Arizona State University is hosting the First Lego League robotics championship this Saturday where 300 students ages 9 to 14 statewide will be vying for a chance to compete in the national finals in Atlanta.
- Man dies after sitting in recliner for eight months – KSN TV – In March, Webb's 550-pound husband, Tillmon, sat down in a recliner inside their trailer in Greenwood. Wearing nothing but a blanket, the 33-year-old didn't move from that recliner for the next eight months.
- Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Illinois forfeiture law | csmonitor.com – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to the Cook County State's Attorney and the Chicago Police Department when the justices unanimously dismissed as moot a challenge to Illinois' controversial forfeiture law.
- Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » The Seven Words You Can’t Say In A Dragon iPhone App – Friends, this screenshot represents my g*ddamned best effort to get the Dragon app to properly parse the spotlight lines from George Carlin’s “Seven Words” routine. The seven naughty words appear twice in this passage. In the final sentence, I simply read them naturally. But when I spoke them in the second sentence, I spoke with the measured tones and eloquent baritone of Frasier Crane, enunciating carefully and confidently, over and over again, one word at a time, coaxing the Dragon to do the right thing and giving the software the best chance possible. What you see there in the second sentence is the very best I could do to get Dragon Dictation to correctly transcribe some extremely naughty dictation.
- Intel scraps graphics chip based on Larrabee| Reuters – Intel decided to scrap plans for the graphics card because Larrabee's silicon and software development are behind where it had hoped they would be at this point in the project, spokesman Nick Knupffer said.
- Pearl Harbor Day 2009: three enduring mysteries | csmonitor.com – A better explanation for the enormity of the US defeat might be that the attack was a so-called black swan event: something so far outside the realm of expectations that Americans could not conceive of it occurring.
- Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News – Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only.
This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade. "Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project," Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said Friday. "As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product," he said.
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- The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte – Wouldn't it be great if customers could determine how a much company's chief executive is paid? Well I can't speak for AT&T or Apple, but at TWiT that's exactly what we're going to do. Up to now I've been taking my pay from TWiT's general fund (along with all the other employees). Not any more. From now on you'll pay me directly with your contributions. I won't take a penny out of the operating funds.Think of your contributions as a tip jar. If you like what I'm doing with TWiT I hope you'll contribute $2 a month (or more or less depending on what TWiT is worth to you). If you are unhappy with our direction, you can cancel your contribution completely. Believe me, I'll notice. Your contributions will have a direct impact on how TWiT is run – because they'll have a direct impact on my personal bottom line.
- Southwest plane lands at DIA after in-flight birth – The Denver Post – A baby boy was born on a commercial airline flight this morning about 100 miles north of Denver. The sky-high delivery happened on Southwest Airlines Flight 441 at about 10:45 a.m., said Chris Mainz, an airlines spokesman.
- The Nasty Bits: Frankenstein’s Frog, Stir-Fried | Serious Eats : Recipes – Upon contact with the salt, the appendages began to move. I recoiled in shock. Was it normal, that even after the frogs had been stunned, skinned, and eviscerated, for their appendages to be quivering? After 20 seconds or so the quivering turned into a restless jig. The legs twitched violently, pumping up and down as if they were getting ready for one last hop. Then the forelegs began to pump too, with their spindly fingers grasping upwards towards me. The chests, which had been exhumed of their innards, heaved up and down as if gasping for air.
- Forcibly adopted American Indians torn between cultures – The Denver Post – Harness was among the 395 or so American Indian children forcibly adopted into white families as part of a national social experiment conducted from 1958 through 1967.
- JROTC, APS, and a Culture of Violence – Duke City Fix – For four years, I was the lone JROTC parent pulling up to drill meets in a vehicle plastered with peace and justice slogans. I was the mom with the trilingual peace button on my tote bag (salaam, peace, shalom), plus a few other buttons that were, shall we say, not exactly supportive of the decisions made by the administration in Washington. In 4 years, no one ever questioned me about my political views at a JROTC event, though I was ready with a well-honed First Amendment rebuttal. (Maybe they knew that.) After all, they do teach the Constitution in JROTC.
- Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence | Society | The Guardian – In civilian life it was a different story. He was an angry, unhappy and frustrated man who was not able to control his emotions or his hands. As a child I witnessed his repeated violence against my mother, and the terror and misery he caused was such that, if I felt I could have succeeded, I would have killed him. If my mother had attempted it, I would have held him down.
- Big blasts create tiny, tough diamonds | KRQE News 13 – Scientists from the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) at New Mexico Tech are using massive explosions to create diamonds in a remote piece of desert at Playas.
- Hikers rescued for free in Arizona – These cases and others like them may be sending the wrong message to hikers nationwide, but Arizona search-and-rescue teams have a more important message: They do not charge for rescues. Most states don't.
- ABQJournal.com: Disinterest and Denial – Readers criticize the site’s cluttered design and say they can never find what they seek. They say ABQJournal.com is difficult and confusing to navigate and complain that the search engine is not much help. They also hit ABQJournal.com for its lack of interactivity. Have any of you tried to post a comment on a story? Have you ever read one?
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- HGTV Looks To Put Santa Fe Family On TV – Albuquerque News Story – KOAT Albuquerque – Popular cable channel HGTV is looking for a Santa Fe family to put on television. They are looking for outgoing people between the ages of 25 and 50 who would like help with a small home improvement project
- SRP to build 20-megawatt solar facility in Phoenix area – Phoenix Business Journal: – Salt River Project will build a 20-megawatt photovoltaic facility southeast of Phoenix that will come online in 2011. The solar power station, to be built by Iberdrola Renewables, will be capable of powering about 4,500 homes.
- Global study of salmon shows: ‘Sustainable’ food isn’t so sustainable | Science Blog – Fish should swim, not fly. Air-freighting salmon, and any food, results in substantial increases in environmental impacts. If more frozen food were consumed, more container ships would be used to ship food. Container ships are by far the most efficient and carbon-friendly way to transport food. Globally, the majority of salmon fillets are currently consumed fresh and never frozen. In fish-loving Japan, which gets much of its fish by air, switching to 75 percent frozen salmon would have more benefit than all of Europe eating locally farmed salmon.
- Mexico City mayor on quest to increase quality of life – "When you throw your gum on the ground, you're saying, 'I don't care about my quality of life,' " said Ebrard, 50. "The idea . . . is to change our civic culture."
- 5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says | Science Blog – Seung-Hyun Hong says projected savings from weekday-only delivery could wither if the move chases away lucrative business customers who count on the mail to blanket homes with coupons, fliers and other advertisements.
- Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog » Davido’s Pizza & More – Rio Rancho, New Mexico – Add Davido’s Pizza & More to the list of Rio Rancho pizzerias with a claim to the New York pizza heritage. The family patriarch (not named Davido) is indeed a transplanted New Yorker though it is his daughter and son-in-law who own and manage the restaurant. The restaurant opened in April, 2008. Davido’s is situated just about as far north as you can go in Rio Rancho before you’re on Santa Ana Pueblo. Heretofore, the good citizens of this outpost had to drive several miles to placate their pizza fixes with the good stuff–or they could have “pizza” delivered by nearby chains Pizza Hut, Little Caesar’s and Domino’s. Pizza pundits now have a real choice–a good one.
- Moab man embraces simple life living in cave – The Denver Post – The 48-year-old kneels in front of the desert cave he calls home, sips cedar tea from a chipped mug and explains, again, why he has intentionally lived the past nine years without using money.
- News : City focuses its vision on the future – Rio Rancho Observer – Unlike Albuquerque, Rio Rancho has plenty of room to grow. Of the city’s 106 square miles, only 34.5 percent is developed. “This is allowing us to build a city from scratch,” Colley said. “The challenge is having to balance the wants and needs of different populations.” The city is updating the plan to better manage and guide development. In 20 years, Rio Rancho could look very different. The Mid-Region Council of Governments projects the city’s population to double to 160,000 by 2030.
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