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- Baldwin Times Flashback Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 12:24AMEditor’s note: In conjunction with our new weekend edition of The Baldwin Times, we are introducing “Baldwin Times Flashback.” Each week in this new feature we will present glimpses of what Baldwin County readers perused in the publication’s early days, which date back to the late 19th century.
- Man charged in alleged assault Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 10:47PMOfficers arrested a man early Tuesday morning after he allegedly assaulted another man and drew knives at separate points during the incident. Greenwood Police arrested Brandon Mobley, 20, of Holman Street, Greenwood, and charged him with assault and battery and drawing a weapon in a fray.
- State fair is about more than numbers to retired math teacher Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 9:27PMOver 45 summers, one Halethorpe native has left his mark on the Maryland State Fair and a lasting impression on the fair operations. It was 1947 when Ray Oliver, then a math teacher at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, went to the State Fair looking for summer work. "I just...
- The Hubbard halo is more than dented Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 9:01PMThe receivership of South Canterbury Finance has led to the media turning on the once-sainted Allan Hubbard.
- BBC may axe Myanmar office Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 8:02PMLONDON - THE BBC World Service could face drastic budget cuts that may force it to withdraw from Myanmar, a move that critics fear would be a 'gift to the military junta', a report said on Wednesday. The Foreign Office, the British government department which funds the World Service through an annual grant, has told executives to be ready for a possible cut to its budget of 25 per cent from ...
- Coming Up Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 7:50PMRight Now Donations are being accepted and tables are available for a flea market will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Union Hill Presbyterian Church, 427 Franklin Road, Denville.
- Changing room chat: Turf legends get back in the saddle Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 7:12PMRACEGOERS attending the opening day of Doncaster's St Leger meeting this afternoon are in for a feast of nostalgia as retired riding greats return to the saddle for a one-
- Flowers, rocks, sticks and truth Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 6:56PMBY MARIE MABER Correspondent How soon after summer turns to fall do you begin to miss her blossoms? If summer’s passing has left you longing for another chance to embrace her tulips and delphiniums, then visit Brookdale’s CVA Gallery to view Dan Schroll’s exhibition, “Documents and Flowers.” read more
- BBC World Service may axe broadcasts to Myanmar: report Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 6:37PMThe BBC World Service could face drastic budget cuts that may force it to withdraw from Myanmar a move that critics fear would be a "gift to the military junta" a report said Wednesday.
- You can sleep when you're dead: A guide to late-night Boston Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:36PMThink Boston shuts down at midnight? Here's how to stuff your face, roll gutter balls, binge on cult cinema, and dance your ass off all the way to sunup. To mingle over a grilled cheese at 3 am. To debauch at dusk-till-dawn discothèques. To cram chicken shawarma in your face at 2 am, your ears a-ringing from the show just over at T.T.'s. To mingle over a grilled cheese at 3 am. To debauch at ...
- Breeze readers invited to take part in ‘Cruze Giveaway’ contest Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:16PMGeneral Motors is on the brink of releasing for sale its new, sporty, small car, the Chevy Cruze, and the very first one made for retail sale could end up On Pine Island.
- Liberals show united front on long-gun registry Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:03PMLiberal Leader Michael Ignatieff drew a line in the sand on Tuesday, saying Canadians must choose to stand with Canada's police, or with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, when it comes to the controversial long-gun registry.
- Magnetic Ink Pens Let You Write Audio Messages [Concepts] Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:55PM# concepts The Rec & Play pens are part of a modern art exhibit that covers sound interaction. The red one records sound on paper, the black one plays it back. It's no concept, it actually works. More »
- Breeze readers invited to take part in ‘Cruze Giveaway’ contest Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:54PMGeneral Motors is on the brink of releasing for sale its new, sporty, small car, the Chevy Cruze, and the very first one made for retail sale could end up in North Fort Myers.
- CITGO raising money for local Red Cross Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:48PMLAURINBURG — Nine locally owned CITGO stations in Robeson and Scotland counties are supporting the local Red Cross chapter through fundraising efforts and two community blood drives. From now thro...
- World War II pledge card still relevant today Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:45PMHistory can be preserved in some pretty peculiar and small places. Harry Yeomans was doing a little work recently on an old hinge in the former St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Cherry Street. When he pulled off the hinge, a folded up piece of paper fell out.
- New movie spoof takes India by storm Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:27PMA low-budget film on two brothers desperately seeking to save their ancestral patch of land from moneylenders puts the spotlight on farmers’ suicides, rural indebtedness, a callous system, etc.
- Happy Anniversary, Knoxville News Sentinel Open winner Chris Kirk Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:23PMTahnee Kirk gave her husband, Chris, an ultimatum coming into this past week. “I was like, ‘If I have to watch golf on our anniversary, you have to win,’ ” she said.He did.
- Vegas bane of Bernanke's housing woes Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:32PMPITY the burghers of Las Vegas. While their casinos glitter and hum, the desert city's residents are surveying eviscerated personal fortunes.
- Pen pal and her lawyer son help free inmate Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 4:07PMATLANTA — "I can��t believe you did this," Mary Shannon scolded her mom. "You don��t even know what he did." You��re right, Carol Raeber admitted. I don��t.
- UC Clermont to host Community Arts Centers Day Celebration Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:42PMArt centers throughout the region will open their doors Sunday, Sept. 12, to share music, dance, theater, crafts and galleries for Community Arts Centers Day.
- Toxic algae blooms choking Lake Erie Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:39PMBy TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER After years of recovery, Lake Erie is sick again. Ask the boaters who get the spinach-like clumps of algae on their boat propellers, the tourists grossed out by the sight of pea-green water, the property owners picking up whiffs of stench, the beach-goers confronted by signs urging them to stay out of the water, and the scientists who have said at conferences for ...
- Pen pal and her lawyer son help free inmate Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:29PMATLANTA — "I cant believe you did this," Mary Shannon scolded her mom. "You dont even know what he did." Youre right, Carol Raeber admitted. I dont. At the urging of a church friend, Caro...
- Jeff Gordon to Run Car Designed By Daughter in Atlanta Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:09PMEach week, Jeff Gordon hits the track knowing he's risking his life for a career he enjoys. His wife Ingrid stands by his decision to take that risk and achieve victory. Gordon now has two children that watch him go fast every Sunday. However, when next Sunday comes around, his daughter Ella will be riding with him in more than just spirit. When NASCAR makes the trip to the Atlanta Motor ...
- Revamped site launched today Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 1:51PMThe Norwalk Reflector will debut a redesigned Web site today, according to an announcement by Publisher Andy Prutsok. The new site will feature more free content, including select local stories and brief information, an interactive calendar of events and Associated Press news and video.
- 'Pirates' and Marvel overwhelm 'Superman,' DC projects Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:21PMBack in 1973, singer Jim Croce warned people not to pull on Superman's cape. Apparently, Capt. Jack Sparrow, who proved to be Supes' box office version of Kryptonite this year, didn't get the memo.
- Strasburg to have Tommy John surgery Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:24AMWASHINGTON — Stephen Strasburg had to get through a few hours of anger, confusion and certainly a few more volatile emotions before he was ready to accept the sobering news expressed in three disheartening words.
- Hands on learning Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:12AMCollins Elementary sixth grader Taly Ola's fingertips were smudged with black ink during her English class on Thursday. She didn't mind though. The ink served as a reminder of some valuable information she had just learned.
- Greenwich gets audited for primary results Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 9:12AMIn order to ensure the integrity of the voting process in Connecticut, 73 polling stations out of the 722 across the state that took part in the Aug. 10 primary have been randomly selected to have their books checked, or more precisely, to check the machines’ totals against a good old-fashioned hand count.
- A call to alms Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 9:10AMSutherland Shire girl Alison Thompson couldn't respond to the announcement on Australia Day this year that she had been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her humanitarian work, particularly for the people of the Peraliya region of Sri Lanka after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. She had just flown into Haiti with members of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division, actor-hero Sean Penn ...
- Nationals' efforts couldn't stop Strasburg injury Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 7:06AMAll the protective bubble wrap in the baseball world couldn't protect Stephen Strasburg from the devastating setback known as Tommy John surgery.
- Nationals' efforts couldn't stop Strasburg injury Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 7:04AMNationals' efforts to protect rookie Stephen Strasburg couldn't prevent Tommy John surgery
- Nationals' efforts couldn't stop Stephen Strasburg injury Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:37AMWASHINGTON - All the protective bubble wrap in the baseball world couldn't protect Stephen Strasburg from...
- Sketchy on the details Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:20AMDuncan Way has a sketchy job. The detective-constable is the Barrie police department's in-house forensic artist, one of few across the province still putting pencil to paper for composite sketches of suspects for criminal investigations.[...]
- 'America is a beautiful place' Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:07PMMore than 70 refugee children and children of refugees filled two classrooms at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees Tuesday to share — through art and a short essay — why they think America is great.
- Lindsay Lohan Channeling Creativity in Rehab Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:33PMLindsay Lohan has reportedly been doing a lot of creative sketching and writing in her down-time in rehab Gina DiFalco Radaronline.com reports that a source close to Lindsay Lohan says that she’s been keeping busy while in rehab working on her clothing line 6126. The source says, “Lindsay has been spending a tremendous amount of time drawing designs of handbags for her fashion label ... [she ...
- ‘Art Activist’ sheds light on ‘aerosol artists’ Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:29PMUrban Art. Street Art. Mural Art. Aerosol Art. Spray Art. Guerilla Art. Tag Art. Call graffiti what you will — but there’s no denying it’s a big part of life in NYC (whether we realize it or not). That sentiment was expounded by painter/photographer Shell Sheddy.
- A fine mess - The case of cat ladies, the seized laptop, the Fourth Amendment, the APD detective, the local TV news ... Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:10PMI knew attorney Ronald West was an animal lover before he showed up at the Press offices with a soda cup in hand that had dog hair stuck to it, apparently from the cup holder in his pickup truck, which has a paw-print logo sticker on the driver’s side. I knew he was an animal lover, and that he’d been defending fellow animal lover Deborah Allen in court.
- Verizon Launches Campaign to Encourage More Residential Phone Customers to Switch to Online Billing Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:57PMIn a new initiative to encourage thousands more customers to switch to environmentally friendly online billing, Verizon has launched the Great Paper Escape sweepstakes. Â Featured is a grand prize of $10,000 to a Verizon customer who switches to paperless billing by Dec. 31, 2010.
- Newsweek: Libraries face new budget cutbacks Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:41PMAs cities and counties deal with the slow recovery, the budgets many of them adopted this summer for the 2011 fiscal year have placed large chunks of library funding on the block. For desperate officials, it’s a soft target, but librarians warn that cutting hours and positions might actually slow down the pace of recovery. Libraries - Library - Library and Information Science - Seattle Public ...
- Provo mayor's meeting request draws criticism Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:28AMProvo's mayor is drawing criticism for scheduling meetings with the city council that will keep the public out.
- Worst graph ever [Class M] Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 10:34AMA couple of scientists at the University of Montana say they have detected a small but non-negligible decline in global terretrial "net primary production." NPP is basically a way of measuring plant growth -- how much carbon they're removing from their surroundings and turning into biomass. To my mind, there are two noteworthy aspects to their research, which just appeared in Science . Both led ...
- Baldwin Times Flashback Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:51AMEditor’s note: In conjunction with our new weekend edition of The Baldwin Times, we are introducing “Baldwin Times Flashback.” Each week in this new feature we will present glimpses of what Baldwin County readers perused in the publication’s early days, which date back to the late 19th century.
- Uptown Lexington announces contest winners Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:33AMUptown Lexington Inc. has announced the winners in its Miss Polly Piggy and Mr. Paul Piggy drawing contest.
- App Inventor Google's, Research Roots MIT's Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:25AMGoogle's App Inventor intended for for mobile development Google - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
- Entertainment More » Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 9:01AMThe 2011 edition of "Best Colleges"; published by the U.S. News Media Group, saw Southern Methodist University rise in the ranks. Since last year's ranking, SMU jumped from the No. 68 spot of 191 institutions to No. 56, according to an SMU press release.
- Salina Foundation competing for grant Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:20AMBy: Jason Strachman Miller Four years ago Heidi Feyerherm never imagined she and a staff of volunteers would be working a booth in the K-State Student Union to compete for a $25,000 grant to buy stuffed monkeys for children with cancer. However, in November 2006, Feyerherm’s...
- Asian Countries Too Humid for iPhones? [Apple] Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 7:54AM# apple Apple's been slapped with many lawsuits for overheating products in the past , but over in Asia, iPhone owners are finding out the hard way that 95 per cent humidity isn't the best treatment for the temperature-uncomfortable phones. More »
- He says ... Coastal management issues pose dilemma Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 7:42AMIwas more than alittle dumbfounded by the fact that this paper, as well as its competitor, did not deem the reclassification newsworthy as of this writing. Perhaps this is merely areflection of the fact that August is often vacation time and all the reporters were out of town.
- A College Student Reviews a Smartpen Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 12:41PMEach summer, I’m joined by a summer intern, a high-school or college student who, for some reason, has become fascinated by the inner workings of a tech critic’s life. This year, it was high-school senior Matt Gibstein, who hails from Miami and made my life a lot easier this summer.