Month: May 2014
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Obama and Merkel fail to reach no-spying pact
from aljazeera.com: The leaders of the US and Germany have admitted that the two governments have failed to reach a no-spying agreement. US President Barack Obama met with German chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, months after Edward Snowden, a former US surveillence agency contractor, revealed that Washington was spying on German officials, including Merkel. Efforts…
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World’s Largest Fully-Operational Solar Plant Opens in Arizona
from inhabitat.com: Somewhere between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona on a desolate stretch of 2,400 acres of land, construction was just completed on the world’s largest fully-operational solar-power plant. Known as Agua Caliente, the renewable energy plant can generate 290 megawatts at peak capacity – which is enough to power 230,000 homes and is comparable to…
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3D Printers Print Ten Houses in 24 Hours
from china view: A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized houses in just one day.
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Nigeria’s Government Defends Its Actions as More Girls Abducted
from cnn.com: Nigeria defended its response to the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by the terror group Boko Haram, even as details emerged Tuesday about a second mass abduction, adding to a growing global outrage over the fate of the children. President Goodluck Jonathan has been under fire over accusations the government initially ignored and…
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Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers
from inquisitr.com: Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode109 – Taking Chances ♬
https://archive.org/download/20140503PumpUpThaVolume109/20140503_PumpUpThaVolume109.mp3 Download MP3 “♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫” on Episode109 – Taking Chances which features brand new sounds from Adanowsky, CUZ, Saintseneca, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cody ChestnuTT, Gary Clark Jr., Gentlemen, Octopus Project, Hauschka, TOY, HABITATS, Black Diet, Sharon Van Etten, Holy Wave, Thievery Corporation and Pillar Point… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode108 -…
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Who Was Fulcanelli?
There’s nothing like a good mystery and Fulcanelli supplies it in spades! Fulcanelli, a pen name, “…seems to be a play on words: Vulcan the ancient Roman god of fire plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire…Fulcanelli wrote two books that were published after his disappearance during 1926, having left…
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You Can See Actual Women In Movies This Weekend
from forbes.com: …the good news is there are a few other options if you are not in the superhero frame of mind. Last weekend the comedy, The Other Woman was smartly counter programmed against Captain America 2 and was able to take in over $24 million on over 3,000 screens. The reviews have been brutal…
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Bush’s Chief of Staff Reenacts Famous 9/11 Quote
from tmz.com: Andy Card — chief of staff for George W. Bush while he was President — probably has the most famous quote of all-time that was not heard at the time … and he re-enacted it this morning for TMZ. Card was in D.C. this morning — coincidentally signing the famous photo taken on…
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#Ukraine Suffers Deadliest Day in Months; 34 Killed in #Odessa
from washingtonpost.com: Ukraine suffered its bloodiest day in nearly three months on Friday, with at least nine people killed when the army launched its first major assault on a rebel stronghold and 34 killed in clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian mobs in the Black Sea port city of Odessa.
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#Microsoft Backs Down, Fix #IE Vulnerability Even on #WindowsXP
from pcworld.com: Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is over. It really is. But because of the company’s sense of responsibility, it will fix and Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects XP — just this once. That was the message that Microsoft sent in a blog post on Thursday, when it said it would fix all versions…
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First US Case of MERS Virus Is Found in Indiana Man Who Visited Mideast
from nytimes.com: A virus that has killed more than 100 people in the Middle East has been found in the United States for the first time, in an Indiana health care worker who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, federal health officials said on Friday.
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#GerryAdams Arrested for Questioning Over 1972 #IRA Slaying
from cnn.com: Police on Wednesday arrested Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for questioning in connection with the 1972 Irish Republican Army abduction and slaying of a widow, a move that could shake Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
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Max Clifford Called ‘A Devil’ As Another Abuser Exposed
from news.sky.com: A mother who was represented by Max Clifford after she found out she was having octuplets has called the convicted PR guru “a devil”. Mandy Allwood said Clifford “preys on people’s vulnerability” and used her as a “money-making machine”. She hit the headlines in 1996 after taking fertility drugs, but went on to…
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Subway Leads Fast Food Nation In Underpaying Workers
from money.cnn.com: McDonald’s gets a lot of bad press for its low pay. But there’s an even bigger offender when it comes to fast food companies underpaying their employees: Subway. Individual Subway franchisees have been found in violation of pay and hour rules in more than 1,100 investigations spanning from 2000 to 2013, according to…