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16 min ago | Santa Cruz Sentinel

Erin Linney: Santa Cruz needs an energy code

Throughout my four years in Santa Cruz, I have rented four different houses. All have been old, inefficient, and owned by absentee landlords.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, UC Santa Cruz, Opinion

7 hrs ago | The Motley Fool

Pick Your Poison: Overweight or High Cholesterol

Overweight and have high cholesterol? You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cholesterol, Health, Life, Food, Nutrition, Missouri, University of Missouri, Zocor, Simvastatin (generic)

11 hrs ago | Freshnews

VendScreen Adds Industry Innovator Jim Brinton to Board of Directors

VendScreen, Inc. , inventor of the VendScreen Revolution smart device for vending machines, has added new vision to its Board of Directors.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions, Automatic

16 hrs ago | Easy Reader News

Revised California budget retains education finance reform, funds SoCal ROC

Governor Jerry Brown is standing firmly behind his promise to re-vamp the way the state funds education, much to Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi's chagrin.

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Related Topix: Roc, Jerry Brown, US Governors, Education Etc.

Fri May 17, 2013

Daily Monitor

League: Back where we started

Whether its apparent lack of neutrality makes the ministry a credible arbitrator from now on is a matter for future discussions, but for now USLL insists they shall seek alternative means in their pursuit of 'justice' Last Monday thesports ministry pronounced itself on the football matters that have dogged this country over the last 12 months.

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Related Topix: The Federation

Examiner.com

Star Trek Into Darkness: Abrams' 'Wrath' is convoluted but consistently fun

Contrarians may disagree, but I find Abrams' first Star Trek to be as strong a "reboot" as we've seen in cinematic history.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Theater, Arts, Chris Pine, The Federation

BroadwayWorld.com

Fun., MGMT, She & Him to Headline Kanrocksas Music Fest; Full Lineup Announced

The daily band lineup for the second annual Kanrocksas Music & Arts Festival has been announced.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, KS, Pit, Hip-Hop, Zeros, Punk, The Descendents, Dropkick Murphys, John

Examiner.com

Alice in Chains

Few bands manage to pull off as thorough of a critical and commercial comeback as Alice in Chains did with their 2009 comeback album Black Gives Way to Blue .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell

CBS 47

Special Report: Alternative Education

Nadine Blumenshine is wife, mom, teacher and principal at her Clovis home. She has home-schooled all three of her children, since her oldest was 5. "That's the priority for us in choosing homeschooling.

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Related Topix: Clovis, Clovis, CA, Standardized Testing, Education

Thu May 16, 2013

American Reporter

Brasch WordsA Turkey by Any Other Name is Still Governor of Alaska

Amid hundreds of spectators, most of them members of the media, the President makes a few cute comments, issues a pardon for the turkey and a "runner-up" , and then sends the turkeys off to a petting zoo or ranch, where they live about a year.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, The Federation, US Governors, Sarah Palin, Wasilla, AK

ContactMusic.com

Dish To New Subscribers: Hbo Or Ipad?

Dish , the satellite TV provider, which, like its cable competitors, has generally offered new subscribers big discounts for pay-TV channels, will, effective on May 22, begin offering them an alternative choice: a free Apple iPad for use with its Hopper and Sling technology .

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, TBS, iPhone App, Hopper

DurhamRegion.com

Wait lists for autism services setting Durham families back

Durham school boards are increasing their autism resources to meet the needs of a growing number of students with autism spectrum disorder .

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Related Topix: Youth, Kids, Family

Dear Kitty

Cannibalistic Pentagon Syrian war allies

A gruesome video posted on YouTube shows Khalid al-Hamad, the leader of the opposition Farouq Brigade , desecrating the corpse of a Syrian soldier, cutting out his internal organs and biting into one of them.

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Related Topix: Brigade

CNews

NASA telescope's planet-hunting days may be over

NASA's first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Kepler, Space

Examiner.com

The 'stinking rose' supports weight loss management by cleansing blood and liver

Garlic the nutritional powerhouse, has occupied every Italian kitchen for the last 6000 years.

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Wed May 15, 2013

CBS 47

US Trade group slams retailers' global safety pact

The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, is slamming a global pact to improve safety conditions in Bangladesh, backed by mostly European retailers.

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Ottawa Life

Putting the "Science" in "Science Fiction": Zeppelins and Airships

A zeppelin is the largest of what are called lighter-than-air craft, aircraft that fly by harnessing gases that , rather than using lift generated by wings or rotors like planes and helicopters do.

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Related Topix: The Fiction, Boat Disaster, Lakehurst, NJ

The Daily Caller

Locked and Loaded: Are we ready to engage?

Depending on what a dictionary, search engine, or person has to say, the term "Locked and Loaded" can, and many times does, mean something different to each one of us.

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Related Topix: Sands of Iwo Jima, Drama Movies, War Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, John Wayne, Resident Evil: Retribution, Milla Jovovich

This Is London

It's OK to lose 27m, we're investing, says Channel 4 boss David Abraham

It is the morning after the Baftas and David Abraham is feeling fragile. But it's not because the Channel 4 chief executive has been partying or because he is worried as he prepares to announce the state-owned broadcaster has made a A 27 million annual loss.

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Metro UK News

Syrian rebel who 'ate a soldier's heart' declares:...

Khalid al-Hamad can be seen in the video footage, which was widely reported on yesterday, mutilating the pro-regime fighter's corpse before sinking his teeth into his eviscerated organs.

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Related Topix: Brigade