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Duke Energy appeals tax bills on wind projects
Provided by: newsvine.com762010-09-07 16:28:38buzz / newsvine.com / 
Duke Energy Corp. is appealing the property tax bills on all four of its wind energy projects in Wyoming.
Torture tools displayed ahead of Turkey referendum
Provided by: newsvine.com772010-09-07 16:24:24buzz / newsvine.com / 
A wooden pole used to suspend suspects by their arms. A baton used to beat prisoners on the soles of their feet. Cables used to give electric shocks.
Nigeria to hold presidential election on Jan. 22
Provided by: newsvine.com782010-09-07 16:29:53buzz / newsvine.com / 
Nigeria will hold its presidential election in January, despite concerns that it doesn't give the nation enough time to hold a credible election.
Obama to mark 9/11 anniversary at Pentagon
Provided by: newsvine.com792010-09-07 16:27:45buzz / newsvine.com / 
The White House says President Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon.
MT tea party removes leader after anti-gay post
Provided by: newsvine.com802010-09-07 15:56:50buzz / newsvine.com / 
The Big Sky Tea Party Association's board of directors has removed the organization's president for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Summer runners-up
Provided by: newsvine.com812010-09-07 16:36:59buzz / newsvine.com / 
The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2010 Word of the Summer (refudiate), with definitions from the publisher's dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated interest in the word:
Baby dies as vehicle plunges into S. Calif. river
Provided by: newsvine.com822010-09-07 16:37:40buzz / newsvine.com / 
The California Highway Patrol says a 1-year-old boy has drowned after his drunken father drove an off-road vehicle into a river in the San Bernardino County desert.
Schapiro: Anxiety on plunge may have fueled exodus
Provided by: newsvine.com832010-09-07 16:37:02buzz / newsvine.com / 
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission says anxiety over the "flash crash" on Wall Street on May 6 may have contributed to the withdrawal of retail investors from the stock market in recent months.
Walters, Letterman compare notes on heart surgery
Provided by: newsvine.com842010-09-07 16:41:32buzz / newsvine.com / 
Barbara Walters says that she's feeling fine after heart surgery in May and that she has practically no scar.
Church rebuffs military concerns on Quran burning
Provided by: newsvine.com852010-09-07 15:31:13buzz / newsvine.com / 
A Christian minister said Tuesday that he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran this weekend to protest the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks despite a warning from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that doing so would endanger American troops.
Women, kids among 12 dead in NW Pakistani bombing
Provided by: newsvine.com862010-09-07 16:13:48buzz / newsvine.com / 
A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
Techcrunch posted about doing a Logo week the same as reddit have done, people pointed out reddit had done it, Michael Arrington accused reddit of copying Techcrunch and now has banned a bunch of reddit users from the comments, classy guy.
Provided by: reddit.com872010-09-07 12:59:19buzz / reddit.com / 
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Google's Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is 'Our New Definition' (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK)
Provided by: techmeme.com882010-09-07 16:25:00buzz / techmeme.com / 

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Google's Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is ‘Our New Definition’  —  In a big-picture keynote at Berlin's IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google's new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, super-quick...

Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales (Reuters)
Provided by: techmeme.com892010-09-07 16:25:00buzz / techmeme.com / 

Reuters:
Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sales.  —  The downbeat comment …

Breathing New Life Into Old DirectDraw Games - hacker re-implements ddraw.dll in OpenGL
Provided by: reddit.com902010-09-07 13:24:11buzz / reddit.com / 
Breathing New Life Into Old DirectDraw Games - hacker re-implements ddraw.dll in OpenGL submitted by masta to gaming
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