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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Hollywood’s Watergate
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood this month to talk about the waves of abuse news coming out of the church, the state, celebrity state, the news business and, of course, Hollyweird + the headlines, ‘this day in history’ and more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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Major U.S. ISP’s Accused of Deliberately Slowing Traffic
from yahoo.com: Five major internet service providers in the US and one in Europe have been accused of abusing their market share to interfere with the flow of the internet for end users. The accusations come from Level 3, a communications company that helps connect large-scale ISPs like Comcast or AT&T to the rest of…
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Chicago Library Branches Closed on H.H. Holmes Execution Day
from chicagonow.com: Well officially it is closed for a “staff training” day but we lovers of strange Chicago history know better! Born Herman Webster Mudgett and made a household name by Erik Larson’s Book “The Devil in the White City”, he graduated from the University of Michigan College of Medicine in 1884 and thereafter moved…
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Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries
from aljazeera.com: Fast-food workers are planning a global strike for better pay and working conditions, with actions set to take place in 150 U.S. cities and 32 other countries in a bid to exert pressure on multinational companies. Strikes are planned for May 15 across five continents in countries including Morocco, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany,…
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Yvan eht Nioj: Egypt TV Says The Simpsons Predicted Syria Chaos
from dailymail.co.uk: The sighting of a Syrian opposition flag in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons is proof the United States is behind the country’s civil war, an Egyptian television channel has claimed. A report on Al-Tahrir TV featured an episode of the Fox show called New Kids On The Blecch which originally aired more…
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Apple Patent Could End Butt Dialing Forever!
from appleinsider.com: Apple is famous for its pioneering touchscreen devices, but a new patent shows the company has also dabbled behind the scenes in touch-sensitive buttons that would be able to distinguish between accidental activation and an actual finger press. The concept comes from a patent continuation published this week by the U.S. Patent and…
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Soylent and the End of Food
Has a Tech Entrepreneur Replaced Our Meals? from newyorker.com: In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup. They had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator, but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers—had…
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Stamp Out Hunger, Largest Single-Day Food Drive, on May 10
from news-press.com: Summer is coming, school will be out, and the need for food assistance will grow. So the timing is right for the nation’s largest single-day food drive, “Stamp Out Hunger,” set for Saturday. This is the one day when letter carriers collect nonperishable food that has been left by mailboxes. The National Association…
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#Oklahoma’s ‘Satanic Monument’ Nears Completion Next to Ten Commandments
from theglobaldispatch.com: The New York-based Satanist group has released photographs of its sculpted ‘Homage to Satan,’ which the group plans to place next to a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol building. This monument is subject of a federal lawsuit after the group proposed the statue as a tribute in…
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What The Bryan Singer Scandal Says About Hollywood
from time.com: The casting couch is as old as Hollywood itself. Ever since there have been aspiring actors eager for a chance to break into the business, there have been powerful producers and directors offering opportunity and access in exchange for sexual favors. But in the wake of accusations that X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually…
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The Fat Cats of Fast-Food
from consortiumnews.com: Pay inequity has worsened across the U.S. economy, but perhaps nowhere more than in the fast-food industry where CEOs and other top executives fatten their compensation as their fast-food workers subsist on taxpayer-provided food stamps, as Michael Winship explains. Bad enough that the empty calories of many a fast-food meal have all the nutritional…
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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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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…