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- Blessed union Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:34PMDistance kept them apart for more than half their married life. Love for the family keeps them together.
- Community theater: playing nearby tonight Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:51PMBY GREGORY D.V. HOLMES Correspondent The curtain opens. Location: your home. Time: the weekend. Family member No. 1: What do you want to do tonight? Narrator: How about dinner and a show? Family member No. 2: We went to the movies last week. Narrator: Nice, but I am talking about community theater live on stage — musicals and plays. Family members react approvingly. read more
- Chasing the high: As drug use patterns change in Snoqualmie Valley, responders find there is no ‘typical’ addict Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:47PMShe was 16 and already using meth, so why try heroin? Her boyfriend was using it, and wanted her to, but she wasn’t interested, until the day that her friends held her down and injected her with the opiate. She liked it immediately, and started using it, heavily. “In my teen years, I would use almost two grams a day,” said Raechel Femling, who still has a black mark on her arm from that day, 14 ...
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 7/19/2011 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:09PMRelease Time: For Immediate Release James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:39 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Okay. Q Any announcements? MR. CARNEY: Hold on one second. (Laughter.) Q Are we going to hear from the President -- MR. CARNEY: I hope you enjoyed the warm-up act. That’s probably bad, right? I do have -- (laughter) -- I do have a -- Q How much do you value your job? (Laughter.) MR. CARNEY: I do ...
- A visit from Moses Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:10PMHe’s a larger-than-life Maasai warrior and safari operator in Kenya, so I thought he wouldn’t be surprised by much on a visit to Canada. I was wrong. He marvelled at everything
- Sal Khan, teacher to the world Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:52PMby Chris Kenrick Can a hedge-fund guy find fame, fortune and fulfillment as a social entrepreneur? Meet Salman Khan of Mountain View, an MIT-trained former hedge-fund analyst who is fast becoming -- somewhat accidentally, as he tells it -- math teacher to the world.
- FEMA gets mixed reviews three months after NC tornadoes Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:19PMThree months after tornadoes tore across North Carolina, killing 24 people, FEMA has taken more than 9,700 applications for grants and loans and approved more than $18 million in assistance. However, the WRAL Investigates team found that most people don't qualify for help.
- Seattlepi.com’s guide to cutting the cord on cable/satellite TV Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:14PMshare: digg facebook twitter AP photo So, you’re thinking of cutting your cable or satellite TV service and going all-Web. There’s an expanding world of online TV and movie services out there, and every day it’s getting easier and easier to watch it all on your television instead of your computer screen. Services like Hulu, Netflix, ESPN, iTunes, Amazon [...]
- Sydney's best baristas Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:08AMFive standout baristas show there's so much more to making good coffee than grinding, brewing and pouring, writes Jill Dupleix.
- Romance Novels Are Steaming Up E-Reader Screens Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:07AMPhotograph by Douglas Sonders How Angela James, head of Harlequin's new romance e-book imprint, has forged a novel business model in paperless publishing. H ere are some things you may not have known about the $1 billion business that is romance publishing today: Divorced women read far fewer romance novels than single and married women do. Romance readers buy in volume and velocity, making them ...
- Davis' blog on hiking the Appalachian Trail Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:46AMThe Times-News is publishing a blog about Jennifer Pharr Davis' attempt to break the overall record for a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
- Lifelines: Real life has film quality Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:57AMThe Traverse City Film Festival is coming back to town next week. Let's celebrate with three folk poems about early movie venues, theaters and promotional gimmicks in the 1930's.
- Tom Pellereau wins The Apprentice Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:56AMTom Pellereau has been crowned the winner of Britain’s Apprentice.
- Living Large: A Lansing man's weight-loss journey Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:32PMRay Medina weighs in at Sparrow Weight Management Center with registered nurse Mary Fox. Medina started his weight-loss journey at more than 450 pounds.
- Can the Internet and Nostalgia Get Along? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:08PMEmily Price has an interesting piece on TechnoBuffalo about whether the Internet is killing our memory. In fact, she’s really talking about nostalgia, not recall memory in general, but it’s a fascinating topic worth some exploration. The real question is whether the existence of things in digital form or physical form is more pleasing to [...]
- July 17: Lew, DeMint, Durbin, roundtable Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:40AMTranscript of the July 17 broadcast featuring Jack Lew, Jim DeMint, Dick Durbin, John Kasich, David Cote, Marc Morial, Diane Swonk and David Faber.
- Two Sheds Review: Battle Lines Drawn in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:44AMOnce again it’s time to delve into the Frontier Wrestling Alliance season one box set, and this time we're going back to the city of Wolverhampton in March 2010 when Leroy Kincaide challenged new World Champion Martin Stone in the main event of Battle Lines, the fifth show of their comeback. The show began with the special challenge match between Stixx, accompanied by Paul Malen, faced Zack ...
- More finding benefits of taking a year off between high school, college Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:25AMWhen Margot Valentine finished her senior year at Champaign Central High School in 2009, her plans did not include going on to college that fall, even though she had been accepted at the University of Illinois. Instead, she took a gap year in Belgium, where she studied, met new people, traveled all over Europe, and became fluent in French. read more
- Crouching lurkers: columnist Durst Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:15AMRun for the hills, everybody! Armageddon is imminent! The sky is beyond falling; it's anvil-plummeting!
- Housing market down, but not futile Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 3:10AMThe home next door is in foreclosure.
- PHOTOS: Defying gravity Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:43AMA lone tower sits on a high plateau on Mount Shkhara in the Svaneti region along the Russian frontier in the Caucasus Mountains.
- Spectrum receives pledge from Warren Buffett's sister Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:15AMLynn Castro, 21, is thankful for getting into a Spectrum housing program when she needed it. Castro says the program helped turn her life around. / RYAN MERCER, Free Press
- Electric cars coming; Raleigh gets preview Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:54PMRaleigh is getting ready for the electric-car era - starting with a chicken-and-egg focus on the infrastructure drivers eventually will need when they're away from home to charge a battery. Recently, Raleigh was picked to host a four-day national conference for the plug-in electric car industry set to open Monday. It's the first time this event has been conducted on the East Coast.
- Q+A interview with David Cunliffe Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:12PMGuyon Espiner has latest ONE NEWS – COLMAR BRUNTON POLL tonight at 6pm Sunday 17th July, 2011 Q+A interview with David Cunliffe. Points of interest: Labour may allow part-privatisation of new subsidiaries created by SOEs “Stupid idea” to ...
- E-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing Course Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:41PMA six-week, $6,990 crash course in a fast-changing publishing industry at Columbia attracts more eager applicants than it can accommodate.
- Béatrice Dalle: 'I am naturally quite bashful' Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMUnpredictable as ever, Béatrice Dalle shows up on time. Well... two hours late actually, but since there's been a genuine mistake on the part of her office she is morally punctual. Even so, as she walks over to join me in the bar of a small Paris hotel, her arms are raised and she is semaphoring two sentiments rarely associated with her: embarrassment and apology.
- Scout day: Their takes on their players Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:51AMA team’s area scouts are often the nameless, faceless infantry of an organization, but nobody knows the players in the minor league system better than they do. They’ve been watching guys in their area play often for years before they’re drafted. So we went to them for a rundown on the players the Diamondbacks selected in the first 10 rounds of last month's draft. Here’s what they had to say. RHP ...
- Overlooked and underrated gadgets and technology Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:45AMGuest contributor Ethan Siegel is cofounder and CEO of Orb Audio.
- Veteran legislator Mike Hawker beats the odds Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 4:11AMSurrounded by old rifles and favorite books and a lifetime of collectibles in his Hillside home, Mike Hawker looks comfortable and happy. Healthy even. He's clawed his way to the other side after a yearlong struggle with a particularly aggressive prostate cancer. His body is riddled with scar tissue. His treatment is putting him through a sort of male menopause.
- Lehigh mother speaks about thieves stealing crucial groceries Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:36PMLEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - A Lehigh mom is trying to figure out how she will feed her family after thieves broke into her car and stole all of her groceries. The crooks were caught on camera.. and now deputies hope they can track them down.
- Your date for the evening: See that fellow over there with the distinctive facial hair and shiny tights? No, the other ... Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:32PMI was pretty excited to hit the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur last weekend, but it wasn't due to a penchant for jousting. (Too much "Blahblah Sire" this and "Blahblah Milady" that; not enough poking each other with sticks.)
- Buyer beware: Tech toys lure online shoppers into scams Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 9:33PMAustralians love their smartphones and other tech gadgets, but should resist the temptation to buy something "cheap" from an overseas website as the potential for getting scammed is alive and well.
- Long marriages: After seven decades of marriage, bliss and banter still are keys for the Brittons Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:03PMRussell and Betty Britton, a pair with a penchant for humor, still delight in their daily give and take after nearly 70 years of marriage.
- Movie Tavern offers diverse menu during feature film Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 6:15PMCOLLEGEVILLE — Move over, popcorn and soda; bring on the kobe beef sliders and a dry martini.
- Greg Archer: Gay Dating: Five Things to Consider Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:29PMHow is it that I came out the other side of Gay Pride month more confused then ever? When you're a professional and 36 -- fine, 40 (alright 43!) -- how do you maneuver through the changing gay dating scene?
- Throw This Stock Away Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:05PMIf you find something better, grab it.
- Local boating show reaches milestone Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:24PMPaul Jermain, a Manchester resident, recently produced his 100th episode of “Smart Boating,” which will air on MHTV on Thursday, July 21 at 6 p.m. and Friday, July 22 at 11:30 a.m. on Comcast Channel 10 and Verizon Channel 28.
- T-dock receives funding, Dorsey, Johnson oppose land sale Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:59PMThe Hart County Board of Commissioners approved a proposal by the Hart County Chamber of Commerce to contribute $20,000 to install a T-dock at the Gum Branch megaramp at the BOC meeting on July 12.
- James Bond defects: Britain loses spooks to private sector Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:29PMDirector of eavesdropping unit sees staff taking better pay at Google, Microsoft
- What is HTML5? - Once you really understand HTML5, you'll change the way you think about the web. Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:43AMHTML5, when used both as the 21st century web suggests and as the original HTML specification allowed, is best at interconnecting things.
- Reflections on the magical moments of growing up with Harry Potter Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:28AMWhen the final Harry Potter movie opens Thursday at midnight, it will mark more than the end of the wildly successful series. For many fans of the books and movies, Harry's coming of age parallels their own (or their kids').
- ATF allowed purchase of firearms for Mexico Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 1:16AMPHOENIX -- A federal agent told members of Congress on Wednesday that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents in Arizona routinely allowed the purchase of guns they knew would wind up in the hands of Mexican cartel members.
- New Ordinance Targets Minors Purchasing Spray Paint Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:26PMThose under 18 will not be allowed to buy spray paint
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (5th Anniversary Edition) - Walkthrough -- Knights of the Nine Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:01PMK K N N IIIII GGG H H TTTTT SSS K K NN N I G H H T S K K NN N I G H H T S KK N N N I G HHHHH T SSS K K N NN I G GGG H H T S K K N NN I G G H H T ...
- Would You Kill A Stranger To Save Football? [Video] Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 2:33PM# funbag Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Find more of Drew's stuff at KSK or on Twitter . Preorder Drew's new book, The Postmortal, right here. Email the Funbag here. Today, we're covering poop, "Chopped", threesomes, and more. More »
- McConnell fallback plan would leave debt-ceiling hikes to Obama Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 2:33PMMcConnell has called for Congress to pass legislation authorizing Obama to make successive requests to increase the debt limit. Read more...
- ADA's 21st Anniversary Serves as a Reminder of Making the World More Inclusive Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:26AMThe ADA was signed into law on July 26, 1990, increasing opportunities experienced by people with disabilities. n the weeks leading up to the July 26th Anniversary, groups of people with disabilities, Centers for Independent Living, disability organizations, and State and local governments will be celebrating the full and active participation in community life made possible by the Americans with ...
- Two Sheds Review: ROH Take Their Revolution to Canada with Edwards vs. Hero Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 10:02AMIt’s time to step into Ring of Honor territory as we go back to this past May, when Eddie Edwards defended the world title against Chris Hero in the main event of Revolution Canada. The show opener saw Claudio Castagnoli, accompanied by Shane Hagadorn and Sara Del Rey, taking on Kyle O’Reilly. As is the custom with ROH, this was an extremely entertaining opener. Local boy O’Reilly put in a great ...
- Steve Schirripa: From 'The Sopranos' to true-crime TV Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:59PMThe actor’s new show, Nothing Personal, dramatizes real-life contract killings
- Is Netflix Doomed? Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:40PMMy favorite video streaming services only hope is to convince major media companies to let it rent movies—but I fear it's already too late.