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If you didn't already hate Microsoft, this may push you over the edge: "Security experts raised privacy concerns after a US National Security Agency official revealed that the Agency collaborated with Microsoft during the development stage of Windows 7. The revelation was made in a prepared statement by NSA information assurance director Richard Schaeffer, before the US Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which operates under the Judiciary panel."

Once again Toledo has made national headlines for the wrong thing.

FoxNews
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,564081,00.html

New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/cops_hunt_suspects_in_ohio_bar_gun...

Florida Sun Sentenial
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-viral-toledo-bar-story,...

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33270591/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/11/2009-10-11_wild_shoo...

Major Food Clients Contribute to SSOE's Ranking
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Engineering News Record, one of the industry's primary news publications, ranked SSOE (www.ssoe.com) number four among the top ten food processing firms in the United States. The new ranking reflects an increase of two spots over the 2008 numbers. "We attribute this increase to our client focused philosophy," said Vince DiPofi, who leads SSOE's food group. SSOE has completed more than 500 food-related projects throughout the last five years.

You can buy the full report below.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 9:19 AM

BOWLING GREEN SENTINEL-TRIBUNE VIA AP
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Voters here have said no to a proposed ban on using hand-held cell phones behind the wheel.

The referendum on the ballot yesterday in Bowling Green would have outlawed talking or texting on a mobile phone while driving, except for hands-free devices. It failed by about 56 percent to 44 percent..

City Council member Robert McOmber proposed the idea and says he believes voters in his northwest Ohio community prefer a statewide ban, not a local one..

NEW YORK - AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.

The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their duties under the law to mean that they have to forward such notices.

Can anyone translate this? I don't know if this is good or bad for TPS.
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Got this e-mail today from GM. They are still working hard to change perceptions.
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Dear Christopher,

Thank you for being a GM customer. There's been a lot of
discussion about the auto industry over the past few weeks,
and I want to make sure you know the facts about GM. This
is important because with all the media coverage of late
about our company and industry, it is evident that there is
much misinformation and many very dated perceptions being

I watched an interview by Fareed Zakaria with Lew Kuan Yew, the former PM of Singapore on CNN's GPS program at 1:00 PM today. I have to admit I was impressed with the man. Especially at the end when Zakaria asked him about what he attributed his longevity to. Some people just choose their parents wisely.

Commissioner Pete Gerken wants to award $125,000 to a for-profit organization, Rocket Ventures, in an attempt to jumpstart job creation in the county. "By contributing to the fund, the county would gain a stake in the companies, earning its money back and a profit if the start-ups grow or are acquired by larger firms, said Greg Knudson, the director of Rocket Ventures."

Italian company buys Flatiron building in Times square.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813198,00.html

Abu Dubai to buy Chrysler Building
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112008/business/chrysler_bldg__on_the_bloc...

Belgian brewer intends on buying Anheuser-Busch

Horrid Reviews - People In Movie Refused Entry
(Sorry to repost this - but I doubted anybody'd see it in older post).
Submitted by starling02 on Sat, 2008-04-19 20:59.

We save puppies, whales , deer in high water . We can save babies too !

South Dakota enacted new legislation last month in an effort to further its pro-life campaign and to stop abortions. That measure incorporates ultrasound technology that, according to pro-life activists, plays a major role in many women changing their mind and sparing the life of their baby.

From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon.

Minneapolis is quickly becoming the new poster child for the municipal Wi-Fi movement.

The city is expected to have the majority of its 59-square-mile network finished by the end of this month, and already experts are pointing to the nearly completed network as a model other cities should follow.

I have to wonder WHY? I assume they smoke for the same reasons non-gays smoke (only perhaps more so, since they deal with intolerance more than most do) - stress, calming effect, pleasure, etc. To spend a crazy amount of money on something like this for to get obvious results is aburd. One big step would be to be more tolerant & understanding of gays.

http://tinyurl.com/2wxo5c

The technology gods were not on my side today, which is why there is no live blog. There was no Internet access and the two audio recordings may be unusable. I will post the notes here in just a second.

Which, in turn, is owned by the mighty RWJF (their main funder).

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Associated Press/AP Online
WASHINGTON - Kellogg Co., the world's largest cereal maker, has agreed to change the way it markets to children.

Franklin County Common Please Court Judge in a conflict of interest! David E. Cain ruled private clubs were not exempt under a temporary ruling!