Sep 22

Synchronized Toilet Flushing: Bulawayo City Council Asks Residents To Flush At Same Time

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — City authorities in Zimbabwe’s second largest city are appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specified time as a way to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing.

Bulawayo City Council has asked its more than 1 million residents to flush their toilets simultaneously at 7:30 p.m. Saturday when water supplies are restored. City officials say “synchronized flushing” is needed to clear waste that would have accumulated in sanitary facilities which will have been affected by days of water outages.

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Sep 22

Obama Makes Wisconsin Push As Mitt Romney Seeks California Cash

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WASHINGTON — A breeze of momentum on his side, President Barack Obama was trying to shore up support in a pivotal state Saturday while he and rival Mitt Romney argue over who can change the country’s political culture and best protect the financial and health security of older Americans.

Obama was traveling to Wisconsin, which his campaign had considered safely in his column, for his first visit since February. Obama aides seem eager to fortify that hold in case Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, can erode some of the president’s support as the candidates’ first debate, on Oct. 3, fast approaches.

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Sep 22

Renee Bishop-McKean Guilty: Washington Woman Convicted In Saw Attack On Husband

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EVERETT, Wash. — A Washington state woman accused of trying to decapitate her sleeping husband with an electric saw was convicted Thursday of attempted murder.

Jurors needed only about three hours to reach a verdict in the trial of Renee Bishop-McKean of Everett. They also convicted the 44-year-old woman of first-degree assault for hitting the man in the head with a hatchet and mallet.

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Sep 22

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 4 Suspected Militants In Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four suspected militants.

The officials say the attack took place Saturday in Mohammed Khel village in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

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Sep 22

Kate Upton Flaunts Cleavage At Behind-The-Scenes ‘CR Fashion Book’ Shoot

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Sep 22

Kobe Bryant Trade To Barcelona? Lakers Star Would Love To Swap Places With Messi

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The shooting guard features alongside the Barcelona attacker in a commercial, and he admits he would like to trade positions with the Argentine for a seven-day period.

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Sep 22

Emmy Nominees 2012: Before They Were Stars

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Before they were walking red carpets and taking home Emmys, stars were mugging for their yearbook photos. Can you guess who these two stars are?

None other than Steve Buscemi and Kathy Bates.

Buscemi is up for his fifth Emmy, the second for “Boardwalk Empire.” He’s seen here as a senior at Valley Stream Central High School in New York in 1975.

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Sep 22

Robert Beecroft, Richard Olson Confirmed By Senate As Ambassadors To Iraq, Pakistan

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WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama’s nominees to serve as ambassadors to Iraq and Pakistan.

By voice vote early Saturday morning, lawmakers backed the selection of Richard Olson to be U.S. envoy in Pakistan. His appointment comes as an already tenuous relationship between Islamabad and Washington has been complicated by anti-American protests in several Pakistani cities against an anti-Islam film.

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Sep 22

Haunted Ships Great Spots For Ghost Hunts, Researchers Say (VIDEO)

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Trying to make contact with a ghost? The key to getting them to respond may be pie — or at least a question about it.

That’s the surprising claim made by paranormal researcher Matt Schulz, a San Diego-based art director when he’s not exploring old houses, hotels or ships.

“It sounds strange, but a question like ‘What kind of pie do you like? Cherry or Apple?’ actually seems to get a response from spirits,” Schulz told a group of wannabe paranormal researchers during a midnight expedition on the Star Of India, a 149-year-old ship that is harbored down in San Diego.

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Sep 22

W3C says HTML 5 will be finalized in 2014, HTML 5.1 to follow in 2016

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W3C says HTML 5 will be finalized in 2014, HTML 51 to follow in 2016

HTML 5 has been a buzz word around the interwebs for so long you’d be forgiven if you thought it was a well-established standard looking for a successor. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helps establish the primary standards used online, didn’t actually intend to complete HTML 5 until 2022. Thankfully, the group has reconsidered that seemingly absurd timeline and now plans to have this whole mess wrapped up by the end of 2014. The revised plan calls for an HTML 5 Candidate Recommendation (sort of like a feature-frozen beta) to be submitted by the end of 2012, before being finalized in 2014. All existing bits of the standard that are unstable or that suffer interoperability problems will be pulled from that candidate and pushed to a draft version of HTML 5.1. While HTML 5 is being completed, its evolutionary successor will begin the process of marching towards standardization, with a target completion date of 2016. For a more detailed exploration of the future of HTML hit up the source link.

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