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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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- Foodborne illness: An acute and long-term health challenge for the 21st century | Science Blog – CFI's report, The Long-Term Health Outcomes of Selected Foodborne Pathogens, calls for a new approach to foodborne illness research and surveillance and provides expert reviews about some of the long-term health outcomes for five foodborne pathogens. The outcomes range from hypertension and diabetes to kidney failure and mental retardation.
- Arizona lands solar manufacturing facility – Phoenix Business Journal: – The company, which is based in Wuxi, China, and has its American offices in San Francisco, has not settled on a site as of yet. Company officials cited its work with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council as well as the state’s renewable energy standard and potential research relationships with Arizona State University as the reasons behind its decision. The plant will initially employ about 75 people with the potential to double that within the first year.
- Local News | ‘Missing’ SeaTac man found with new name, in new state | Seattle Times Newspaper – Earlier this year, Christine Francisco got a divorce and, in an interview with KIRO-TV, said she had subsequently learned her husband had been leading a double life, complete with hidden bank accounts.
- Mysterious Porpoise Deaths Blamed On Berserk Dolphins – News Story – KTVU San Francisco – Marine biologists have figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.
- High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Recipe For Hypertension, Study Finds – Over the last 200 years, the rate of fructose intake has directly paralleled the increasing rate of obesity, which has increased sharply in the last 20 years since the introduction of HFCS. Today, Americans consume 30% more fructose than 20 years ago and up to four times more than 100 years ago, when obesity rates were less than 5%. While this increase mirrors the dramatic rise in the prevalence of hypertension, studies have been inconsistent in linking excess fructose in the diet to hypertension.
- News : Desalinization plant presents sustainability, waste concerns – Rio Rancho Observer – Jensen is also concerned with what happens after 100 years. “The deepwater isn’t renewable, so when it’s gone, it’s gone,” he said. “So, if it’s being used to promote more growth and more development and more housing, when that water runs out, there’s going to be a huge question of where the water comes from to supply the new population. That is a serious issue.”
- Report: Motorola looking at selling unit – Motorola Inc. is seeking to sell its largest division, which includes Tempe operations, according to a report Wednesday. Motorola has a location in Tempe at 2900 S. Diablo Way. The Schaumburg, Ill., company is exploring a sale worth about $4.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal's Web site, which cited "people familiar with the matter."
- Al Jazeera English – Americas – Rio gangs down police helicopter – Suspected drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have shot down a police helicopter monitoring a shootout between rival armed gangs.
- Florissant deer gores woman who tried to pet it – The Denver Post – A young buck mule deer gored a 63-year-old woman near Florissant on Monday after she apparently called to the animal in an attempt to pet him, officials from the state Division of Wildlife said today in a news release.
- Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men: Scientific American – Studies suggest that females prefer the scent of males whose MHC genes differ from their own, a preference that has probably evolved because it helps offspring survive: couples with different MHC genes are less likely to be related to each other than couples with similar genes are, and their children are born with more varied MHC profiles and thus more robust immune systems.
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