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Latest NewsTrasladan a hospital a comandante arraigado por caso MartíNo está grave, pero se le practicarán exámenes médicos por un presunto problema gastrointestinal.
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Pronostica SMN lluvias y tormentas eléctricas en noreste y oriente del paísEn el resto del país dominará cielo despejado a medio nublado con lluvias dispersas, que serán originadas por la entrada de aire húmedo de ambos litorales.
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Nuevo atentado en Argelia deja 11 muertosDos coches bomba estallaron en el centro de la ciudad, situada a unos 120 km al sureste de Argel.
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Watchmen Delayed, Or Worsewhisper_jeff writes "Due to some potential copyright issues, The Watchmen might be delayed, or worse. It seems that Fox claims it still owns copyrights which would prevent Warner Bros from releasing the movie. US District Court Judge Gary Feess decided that Fox had enough of a case that he's willing to hear things out. The geek in me hopes that it will be resolved quickly and the movie will hit theaters on time."
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Prevé SMN lluvias y actividad eléctrica para el DFLa temperatura mínima prevista para este día descenderá a 14 grados centígrados, en tanto que la máxima alcanzará 25 grados.
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Se cotiza el Brent en 113.54 dólaresEn tanto, el crudo estadunidense WTI gana este miércoles 26 centavos de dólar (0.23 por ciento) y se cotiza en 114.80 dólares por barril.
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States Throw Out Electronic Voting MachinesDavide Marney passes along an AP story about the thousands of voting machines gathering dust in warehouses across the country after states such as California, Ohio, and Florida have banned their use. Many of these machines cost $3.5K to $5K each. Local election boards are struggling to find ways to recover any of the cost of the machines, or even to recycle them. The picture in Ohio is the most confusing, as multiple court cases limit the state's options and result in a situation in which the discredited machines will nevertheless be used in the presidential election coming up in November. The state's new (Democratic) attorney general has just issued a rule banning the practice of election workers taking the machines home with them the night before elections.
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Magpies Are Self-AwareFireStormZ writes "Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don't have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways."
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Why Corporates Hate PerlAnti-Globalism recommends a posting up at O'Reilly's ONLamp on reasons that some companies are turning away from Perl. "[In one company] [m]anagement have started to refer to Perl-based systems as 'legacy' and to generally disparage it. This attitude has seeped through to non-technical business users who have started to worry if developers mention a system that is written in Perl. Business users, of course, don't want nasty old, broken Perl code. They want the shiny new technologies. I don't deny at all that this company (like many others) has a large amount of badly written and hard-to-maintain Perl code. But I maintain that this isn't directly due to the code being written in Perl. Its because the Perl code has developed piecemeal over the last ten or so years in an environment where there was no design authority.. Many of these systems date back to this company's first steps onto the Internet and were made by separate departments who had no interaction with each other. Its not really a surprise that the systems don't interact well and a lot of the code is hard to maintain."
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Dionicio "Don" Flores resigns after 15 years as El Paso Times editorEL PASO -- El Paso Times Executive Vice President and Editor Dionicio "Don" Flores has resigned from the newspaper after 15 years.
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Senator John McCain plans town-hall meeting in Las CrucesEL PASO -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain flew into El Paso Tuesday before quickly making his way onto the McCain Straight Talk Express bus and shuttling off to Las Cruces for a campaign stop.
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FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivelcoondoggie writes "In the ongoing battle to let us eat dinner in peace without being interrupted by amazingly annoying telemarketer blather, and in this case the even more infuriating recorded telemarketing drivel, the Federal Trade Commission today basically outlawed recorded telemarketing calls. Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller. Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy and quick way for consumers to opt-out of any call, the FTC said. Such an opt-out mechanism needs to be in place by December 1, 2008."
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Lincoln Middle School plans for traffic safety Mulberry work causes confusionBy Stephanie SanchezEl Paso TimesEL PASO -- Parents of students at Lincoln Middle School might be surprised by traffic congestion in the neighborhood as the Upper Valley Drainage Improvement project
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YISD leaves stormwater decision for next monthEL PASO -- After narrowly rejecting a recommendation to compromise over stormwater fees with the Public Service Board, trustees of the Ysleta Independent School District plan to continue considering legal options.
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Woman pulled from water at Wet 'n' WildEL PASO -- Lifeguards are credited with saving a woman who nearly drowned Tuesday at Wet 'n' Wild Water World, park and sheriff's officials said.
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Help sought in finding attackers in stabbingEL PASO -- A 19-year-old man was stabbed during a gang-related fight after a quinceaera Aug. 9, and Las Cruces Crime Stoppers on Tuesday was asking for help in the search for people involved.
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Man gets 75 years for shooting at deputiesEL PASO -- A man was sentenced to 75 years in prison Tuesday for shooting at El Paso County sheriff's deputies last year in Westway, court and sheriff officials said.
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Mom visits man shot by constable deputyEL PASO -- A man shot by a constable deputy was upgraded to stable condition Tuesday at Thomason Hospital, family members said, after the El Paso County Sheriff's Office allowed his mother to visit him.
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Nurse honored for trauma preventionA registered nurse who spearheaded Thomason Hospital's first trauma prevention program aimed at youths received the prestigious Catalyst of the Decade Award from the Texas Statewide Shattered Dreams Coalition and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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