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Google Earth pool spying to stop Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 12:14AMCouncil members in the town of Riverhead have voted to stop using Google Earth to check pool permits.
Riverhead Votes To Stop Google Earth Pool Searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:51PMBig Brother's not watching anymore. At least not the pool. Council members in the town of Riverhead have voted to stop using Google Earth to check whether all pools are properly permitted.
Theater events this week Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 10:04PMPROFESSIONAL THEATERSARASOTAMURDERS SHE WROTE: Comic dinner theater mysteries with audience
NY town votes to stop Google Earth pool searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 8:58PMRIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- Big Brother's not watching anymore. At least not the pool. Newsday reports that council members in the town of Riverhead have voted to stop using Google Earth to check whether all pools are properly permitted.
Turkey's Mount Ararat glaciers shrunk—scientist Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 7:53PMISTANBUL—The glaciers atop Mount Ararat, the peak in eastern Turkey where Noah's Ark is believed by devotees to have settled after the biblical flood, have shrunk by 30 percent in surface area over the last 30 years, a researcher said Wednesday.
NY town votes to stop Google Earth pool searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 7:30PMBig Brother's not watching anymore. At least not the pool. Newsday reports that council members in the town of Riverhead have voted to stop using Google Earth to check whether all pools are properly permitted. Google Earth - Big Brother - New York - Google - Riverhead New York
NY town votes to stop Google Earth pool searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 7:15PMBig Brother's not watching anymore. At least not the pool.
NY town votes to stop Google Earth pool searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 7:11PMTown on NY's Long Island votes to stop using Google Earth to find unpermitted swimming pools
NY town votes to stop Google Earth pool searches Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 6:55PMAssociated Press - September 8, 2010 7:45 PM ET RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Big Brother's not watching anymore. At least not the pool. Council members in the town of Riverhead have voted to...
Category 1 Hurricane Earl moves eastward as surfers catch a wave Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 9:53AMWhile hundreds of thousands took shelter as Hurricane Earl struck Nova Scotia on Saturday, Jason Murray and his wave-hungry band of surfers went in search of the biggest ocean swells the storm could muster.
Hurricane Earl changes course, heads toward Halifax Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 8:32AMAs winds pick up, Environment Canada maintains hurricane status for parts of Nova Scotia
Satellites Help Aid Workers Plan Pakistan Flood Relief Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 8:31AMSatellites are helping aid workers plan relief for flood-ravaged Pakistan by providing high-resolution maps of the destruction so rescue crews can reach the homeless, displaced and sick.
Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 6:36AMDrilling means spilling, hundreds of annual incidents, most small, unreported, yet their cumulative effect is devastating, what the industry and nightly news won't mention or explain.
Earl weakened to tropical storm just before hitting Maritimes Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 5:53AMHurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday night just as it was bearing down on Canada’s East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre announced.
Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 5:09AMWashington, Sep 4 : A new study has revealed that more than 80 percent of the farmlands created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came into existence after cutting forests.
In the glare of a hot summer sun Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 11:16PMBeverly Owens’s work shines at her own gallery
Earl fizzles to tropical storm just before hitting Maritimes Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 10:53PMHurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday night just as it was bearing down on Canada’s East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre announced.
Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests, research shows Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 9:22PMA new study shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it easier to rein in the trend.
Royal Oak TV repair survives downturn, sees bright future Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 8:54PMRoyal Oak -- The emergence of inexpensive and high-tech televisions spelled trouble for television repair shops, which have dwindled to about 10 in Metro Detroit. But that hasn't hurt Northern Television & Vacuum in Royal Oak, where owner Mike Sheppard's optimism and knowhow have allowed him to weather the economic downturn.
Tourists forced to flee North Carolina island threatened by hurricane Earl Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 6:45PM5,000 visitors told to leave Ocracoke Island after storm alert on US east coast prompts evacuation order Five thousand tourists on a holiday island off North Carolina were preparing to board ferries to the mainland today after an evacuation order as hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the east coast of the United States. Vehicles were lined up to board ferries – the only public transport off ...
Path of giant iceberg tracked from space Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 6:26PMPARIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Scientists say a European satellite has been tracking an iceberg, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, that cracked from the Greenland ice sheet Aug. 4. Greenland - Northern Hemisphere - Iceberg - Greenland ice sheet - Satellite
Farmland comes at expense of forests Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 6:12PMPALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- More than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics since 1980 has come from felling forests, which drives global warming, researchers say. Forest - Global warming - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views
Hurricane Earl prepares to unleash on Maritimes Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 5:53PMHurricane Earl is bearing down on Canada's East Coast and will unleash dangerous winds, rain and high ocean waves on Nova Scotia starting Saturday morning.
Solar Probe Plus instruments will brave the sun's wrath Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 4:50PMNASA is developing a fortified satellite that will nearly touch the sun starting in 2018, collecting unprecedented data on the super-heated solar atmosphere.
European Space Agency captures images of huge ice island Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 3:33PMThe colossal iceberg that broke away from a Greenland glacier last month is now drifting into Canada's Arctic waters.
Hurricane Earl weakens to a Category 2 storm Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:47PMForecasters warn that the storm is still powerful as it heads toward North Carolina and the Eastern Seaboard
Toshiba finally dives into Blu-ray 3D with BDX3100 player, offers up BDX1100 if stereo's not your style Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:36PMSeems like Toshiba bit off more Blu-ray 3D than it could chew this year -- the Japanese firm's just announced that the new BDX3100KB will be its first set-top stereoscopic player, never mind the BDX3000 it announced at CES . Still, we're willing to forgive and forget if the new machine (replete with DivX and MKV playback, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround, and instant playback of ...
HOW TO: Track Hurricane Earl Online Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:31PMHurricane Earl is expected to wreak some havoc on the East Coast this Labor Day weekend. According to the the National Hurricane Center , Earl is expected “pass near the North Carolina outer banks tonight [Thursday]… and approach southeastern…
Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV gets a stereoscopic software makeover, now plays nice with 2D content, Blu-ray 3D and ... Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:51PMNabbed one of Toshiba's fully-loaded stereoscopic laptops , only to find a dearth of actual 3D? The company's got a software update that might revitalize your machine. Where previously you'd have to install ready-made dual-ocular content directly to your hard drive, the manufacturer's just promised a Toshiba Video Player application that will convert your existing 2D content into 3D, plus ...
Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 5:10PMNew report says vast tracts of tropical forest were felled for farmland between 1980 and 2000, but there are signs the situation may be improving.
NASA catches heavy rainfall happening in Category 4 Earl as it approaches the US Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:17PMHurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the high rates rain was falling within Earl, in some areas more than 2 inches per hour. Today, the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is also flying into the eye of Hurricane Earl at altitudes of 60 ...
Bermuda in warnings as the GOES-13 Satellite catches Fiona approaching Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:02PMBermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, although packing a punch, is a much smaller system that her brother, the Category 4 Hurricane Earl.
DIADEM Contestants Advance Computational Tools to Speed Mapping of Neurons Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:48PMManually tracing the projections of neurons in microscope images is a tedious, time-consuming process that scientists hope computer programs might one day eliminate.
Indian moon mission to launch with Russian lander Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 2:20PMIndia's Chandrayaan 2 moon mission will launch in 2013 with a lander from Russia, but the first announcement of the lunar probe's science instruments does not include contributions from the United States or Europe.
New NASA HD app for iPad with expanded content available free Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 1:46PM(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad.
BoatUS: Hanna has lessons for Earl Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:24PMWith Earl approaching, boaters should heed last major storm's damage
Hawk Mountain honors winged scavengers Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:16PMVultures are scavengers. They can soar for hours and are first in line to swoop down on the dead. But that's a good thing because they reduce the spread of disease such as anthrax, botulism and rabies.
Hollywood's uneasy embrace of Apple's 99-cent TV rental offer Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:17PMOnly two major Hollywood television studios agreed to allow Apple Inc. to offer 99-cent rentals of TV shows -- a price that the device-maker hopes will spark sales of a new generation of its set-top box.
Boeing weather satellite accepted into service by NASA, NOAA Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:51PMA Boeing-built satellite completed on-orbit testing and was accepted into service by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the company said Wednesday.
Hurricane Earl heads towards East Coast Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:32PMHurricane Earl is expected to hit Canada's East Coast Saturday morning with strong winds rocking western Nova Scotia and heavy rains battering New Brunswick, Canadian meteorologists predicted Wednesday.
USGS Director Visits EROS Data Center Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:30PMThe U.S. Geological Survey Director visited the EROS Data Center near Garreston Wednesday.
Earl a Category 4 storm once more Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 4:42PMHurricane warning issued for North Carolina as tourists flee as Earl targets East Coast
Sep 01 4 pm cdt Hurricane Earl UPDATE Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 4:18PM...DANGEROUS AND LARGE HURRICANE EARL ONCE AGAIN ACHIEVES CATEGORY 4 STRENGTH..POSES A THREAT TO THE MID-ATLANTIC COAST...WATCHES AND WARNINGS EXTENDED NORTHWARD THROUGH MASSACHUSETTS...
NASA and NOAA's newest GOES satellite ready for action Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 4:08PMNASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services. GOES-15 is the third and final spacecraft in the GOES N-P Series of geostationary environmental ...
Noida set to grow taller, greener Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:46PMNoida is set to grow vertically, and if all goes to plan, turn greener and more resident-friendly, weaving in nursing homes and recreational spaces within residential units.
New Photos Show Fidel Castro With US Journalist Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:29AMCuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based expert on Latin American policy. The images show Cuba's 84-year-old former leader with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia E. Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations during a visit Monday to the Havana aquarium — Castro's second trip there during a media blitz that has seen ...
Intensifying Hurricane Heads North Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:07AMHurricane Earl passed through the northern Caribbean early Tuesday after strengthening to Category Four status and veered onto a path toward the East Coast.
'Parlor Games' for Kent Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:32AMFrom an enclosed porch at the Sharon home of his mother, Pat Heller, and stepfather, Ben Heller, Nikko Sedgwick paused during a recent interview to admire the magnificent view of the rolling hills and river valley far below.
New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:24AMCuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based expert on Latin American policy.
Rydeen Introduces the GCOM701 Android Slate with Marvell's ARMADA CPU Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:27AMRydeen Mobile Electronics today introduced the GCOM701, a "slate" form factor device utilizing the Android operating system. Powered by the Marvell ARMADA 166 application processor, the GCOM701 delivers seamless connectivity; live, real-time content; rich and immersive media experiences - ...