Tag: texas
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#DataDump: Homeless Hotspots, Phonehacking, Hollywood
Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW // FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent // DARPA’s Director Quits to Take Executive Slot at Google // Google Exec Joins Microsoft, Trashes Google // Supercomputer models atomic bomb saving Earth from massive asteroid
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#BingeAndPurge: Authorisation, Animals, Amusement
France asks EU to suspend GM crop authorisation* Boulder works to ban GM crops on county-owned land* Lower global crop prices to ease food inflation: USDA* Environment researcher admits leaking climate docs, claims they’re genuine* Chipotle Makes Delicious Food, Fights For Animals?* Swiss food giant Nestle predicts tough year, posts stronger than expected 2011 sales*…
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Murder/Mayhem: Angel Fires, Mountain Madness & More
Cops race to stop Hollywood-area arson car fires // L.A. arson suspect ‘motivated by rage against Americans’ // Body found believed that of Mt. Rainier gunman // Suspect in Utah shooting was Iraq vet: neighbor // Balloon crash in New Zealand kills 11 // Trooper who shot woman called in rescue // River corpse believed…
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murder/mayhem: silent night, deadly night
update: police say texas gunman dressed as santa police find 7 dead in texas apt from ap: Seven people who were believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot to death in a suburban Fort Worth apartment, police said Sunday. Authorities said they…
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dollar stores win customers with more food, better sites
from dayton daily news: Dollar stores are a growing force in discount retailing, a new study shows. The combined number of stores operated by the four top chains — Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and 99 Cents Only — has surpassed that of the three biggest national drugstore chains — Walgreens, CVS and Rite…
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Last of US’s Most Powerful Nuclear Bombs Dismantled In Texas
The last of a powerful class of nuclear weapons introduced into the U.S. arsenal at the height of the Cold War in 1962 was being dismantled on Tuesday at a nuclear weapons storage facility outside Amarillo, Texas.
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fingerprinting those seeking food stamps is denounced
from nytimes: Taking aim at a practice she called unnecessary, costly and punitive, the speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, is asking the Bloomberg administration to justify requiring applicants for food stamps to be electronically fingerprinted. New York City, where 1.8 million people receive food stamps, is one of only two jurisdictions in…
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recalled ground beef was bound for school lunches
from food safety news: Some 40,000 pounds of frozen ground beef that was intended to be served for lunch at six school districts in Georgia is being recalled because it may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said late Friday. In a news release…
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troy davis execution goes ahead despite serious doubts about his guilt
from guardian: Moments before he was put to death, Troy Davis lifted his head from the gurney to which he was strapped and looked the family of Mark MacPhail, the police officer for whose murder he was convicted, directly in the eyes. “I want to talk to the MacPhail family,” he said. “I was not…
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muslim finds crude 9/11 joke on his houston to-go meal
bartender at houston restaurant gives patron to-go box with ‘happy september 11th’ with picture of towers, plane from ktrk: “Happy September 11th” — three words written on a takeout box from a Houston restaurant, and they are causing a lot of emotional reactions. Since then we’ve spoken with the man who found that written on…
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8/11 Pop Occulture: The Response & The Decline
30,000 Evangelical Christians gather for Perry’s “The Response” prayer event; Counter-response draws protests across Texas
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Earthquake Watch: Planetary Alignment Aug 11
Physical forces exerted on our planet by gravitational waves of other heavenly bodies are very real! Planetary alignments may precipitate quakes. Newsbad.com sees a possible 7.2 earthquake on August 11th because of a Earth-Mercury-Sun-Venus alignment. It will be interesting to see if there’s bad news on that date?
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blood-red water in dried up texas has christians warning of end times
The website “Before It’s News” proclaims, “Ever seen a lake turn BLOOD RED? First sign of the end of days!!!” Indiana preacher Paul Begley, whose ministry appears to focus almost entirely on eschatology, sat before his video camera, drinking his signature coffee and shouting “Are you serious?” Citing Revelation 8:8 and 16:1-4, he asks, “How…
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Bring-Your-Own-Bag at No-Packaging Grocery Store; Coming Soon to TX
If you’re reading this, you probably bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store. Maybe you even wash out your plastic produce bags until they’re in tatters. But how far are you willing to go down the no-packaging road?