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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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- 9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Huge ball of ice crashes through woman’s roof – Then she heard a huge explosion after something fell out of the sky right into her kitchen. Thankfully Hagan was not sitting in the room. The two of them had just left the kitchen and no one in the home was injured. "It was just bizarre," Hagan said, "I heard a huge explosion, couldn't figure out if something had crashed in or exploded out and [it was] just complete chaos after that." It turns out a piece of ice, a bowling-ball-size piece, fell from the sky.
- Quit smoking today—and start looking better tomorrow: Consumer Reports Health Blog – Fewer wrinkles. Better-smelling breath, hair, and clothing. Healthier teeth and gums. More money in your pocket. An improved sense of taste and smell. A reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and cancer of the lungs, cervix, pancreas, throat, intestine, kidneys, and bladder. Most important, up to 10 years added to your life span. Despite these convincing reasons to quit smoking, Americans are not getting the message that smoking can not only shorten your life, but also increase the risk of death in those who come into contact with your secondhand smoke—including your children.
- Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure – Infrastructure – Jalopnik – This is apparently how Japanese engineers settle civil arguments: Don't want to move your building? Eat me. I've got a road to build.
- J.C. Penney discontinuing "big book" – Dallas Business Journal: – As more consumers flock to the Web to make online retail purchases, North Texas-based J.C. Penney Co. is changing the face of its brand by discontinuing the publishing of its two “big book” catalogs in exchange for more online initiatives and smaller, more specialized catalogs.
- Daily Express | World News :: Million hit by ‘plague worse than swine flu’ – A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.
- Washington Redskins can keep team name; Supreme Court refuses native Americans’ suit | csmonitor.com – A group of native Americans have lost their bid to force the Washington Redskins pro football team to change its name because they consider it to be a racial slur. On Monday, the US Supreme Court, in a one-line ruling, refused to take up the case. The action lets stand a decision by a federal appeals court in Washington that the native Americans had waited too long to bring their challenge to the Redskins trademark, and thus forfeited any right to sue.
- Web site’s cash handout stunt horrifies French minister| Technology| Reuters – Marketing Web site Mailorama.fr was forced to call off its plan to throw envelopes of cash to passers-by from the top of a bus on Saturday after thousands of people turned up and began spilling over security barriers. The decision to call off the stunt, which had been heavily promoted beforehand, sparked violent scenes in which shop windows were smashed, at least one car was overturned by hooded youths and photographers and cameramen were attacked.
- Americans see country headed in wrong direction, poll says, but closer look shows strong partisan divide on nation’s direction | Postcards – Daron Shaw, a University of Texas government professor who helped helm the poll, reacted: “The Republicans are (basically) more pessimistic than the Democrats are optimistic.”
- Al Jazeera English – Europe – Sicilian Mafia fugitive arrested – He had been convicted of five murders, including the kidnapping and killing of a rival's son, whose body was thrown into a vat of acid. Raccuglia faces several life sentences.
- 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.
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