Monthly Archives: May 2011

‘Tornado dog’ crawls on broken legs to family | abc7.com

Posted on May 28, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

Mason, a terrier mix, was picked up and swept away by a tornado. His family searched but could not find him.

Then Monday, two and a half weeks later, they came back home to sift through the debris and found Mason waiting for them on the porch.

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$1M Coin Collection Scattered Along I-95 | WESH Orlando

Posted on May 28, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

A Boca Raton couple was heading north to a coin show in Jacksonville when the back passenger-side tire blew out in Volusia County. The SUV rolled, flipping as many as five times, police said.

The rare collection went flying out of the car, spilling across the median.

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Bitcoin miners busted? Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm – Computerworld Blogs

Posted on May 26, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

Bitcoin, one of the world’s newest currencies, is an open source, peer-to-peer currency that does not exist in physical form. It’s owned and traded by means of an anonymous P2P network, without any third-party intermediary like a payment processor, without any government issuing or tracking the virtual currency. While there is a limit of only 21 million bitcoins to be generated by the year 2140, bitcoin is “free” to generate and is created by “bitcoin miners.”

The implication is that a completely untraceable underground economy will emerge using bitcoin.

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Weekly Economic Update | LADEC

Posted on May 25, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:

April State/Local Area Employment Reports
U.S. Building Permits
U.S. Housing Starts
Mortgage Foreclosures
Events of Interest

May 26, 2011: The 4th U.S. Azerbaijan ICT Business Forum
June 7, 2011: Japan’s Positive Impact on the Southern California Economy
July 20, 2011: Mid-year Economic Forecast

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Paying for College and Grad School: How to Avoid Spending $100,000 (or more) on a Credential You Don’t Really Need

Posted on May 23, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

“You can’t put a price on a good education”… or can you?

If you ask your parents or mentors how to become successful, their answer will most likely include four interrelated invisible scripts:

“Get the best education you can.”

“Colleges provide the best education.”

“The best colleges are expensive.”

“More college is better.”

Like so many of the invisible scripts we grow up with, three of these assumptions aren’t necessarily true.

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Will A Hybrid Car Really Pay Off? | GreenCar.com

Posted on May 23, 2011 by lmehit | Leave a comment

It’s true that hybrids cost more than regular vehicles. This prompts many to wonder if the extra cost for these high efficiency cars is worth it, and in fact if the difference can be offset over time by the cash saved from buying less fuel.

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May 22, 2011 Timelapse Tornado Chase

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This is time lapsed footage of an entire storm chase through north central South Dakota on May 22, 2010. The video starts with the storm still in the towering cumulus stage and ends with the storm gusting out as an outflow dominant high precipitation supercell, with several tornadoes including a violent wedge in between. – Skip Talbot

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The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic – Chris Hedges | Truthdig

Posted on May 22, 2011 by CBPS | Leave a comment

“He makes a bee line to me right after the talk, in front of everybody,” West says. “He just lets me have it. He says, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, saying I’m not a progressive. Is that the best you can do? Who do you think you are?’ I smiled. I shook his hand. And a sister hollered in the back, ‘You can’t talk to professor West. That’s Dr. Cornel West. Who do you think you are?’

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