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A Dollar Ain’t What It Use To Be
99 Cents Only retail chain may face price hike
Ninety-nine cents just doesn’t go as far as it used to, and that’s a problem for the 99 Cents Only Stores chain.
Faced with rising inflation and soaring food prices, the retailer — known for never selling anything for more than 99 cents — is re-evaluating its pricing strategy. And that could mean breaking the $1 barrier for the first time in the company’s 26-year history.
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Bob Schieffer on Forth Worth – Dallas
I caught the end of Face the Nation and heard Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer boast about the Forth Worth. I thought those in the Cowtown area might appreaciate this:
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Coke testing fountain that dispenses 100 beverages
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co., the world’s largest beverage firm, is working on a proprietary fountain system that can dispense more than 100 beverages from a single unit.
First-generation prototype dispensers were tested earlier this summer, the company said Thursday. Second-generation dispensers will begin testing in the first half of 2009. A decision on whether to roll out the system in the market will be made after the second round of testing.
The new dispenser, which fits in about the same space as a current eight-valve machine, uses high-concentrate ingredients to store more beverages. Adding a new brand is “about as easy as changing a print cartridge,†the company said in a press release.
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Cool New Picasa Feature
Google wants to help you put a name to that face.
With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
The “name tag” feature presents users with collections of photos with what it judges to be the same person, then lets them click a button to affix a name. Once photographic subjects are named, users can browse an album of that individual on the fly.
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How to handle irritating seatmates
If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or train follow these instructions: (and maybe say goodbye!).
1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start up.
4. Make sure the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.
[Thanks, Rita!]
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Slow Motion – How A Dog Drinks
The best stuff starts after the two minute mark.
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Vatican Going Green
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican will begin installing some 2,400 solar panels in late September, the first of several projects aimed at exploiting renewable energy resources in the tiny city-state.
The solar modules, which are being donated by a German company, will be fitted atop the roof of the Paul VI audience hall and will produce some 300,000 kilowatt-hours of power each year, said Mauro Villarini, the Vatican engineer coordinating the project.
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My 4-year-old looks like Obama
PALM SPRINGS, FL — A Palm Springs mother says her four-year-old son looks like Barack Obama.
Patricia Smith says when she’s out in public, people comment that her son Rafael looks like Obama. “They call him the Obama kid because he looks like Obama, that’s what they say. When Obama started to run during the primaries, people started to comment and how I should send the pictures to the news.”
Smith says she recently had her son’s picture taken at a portrait studio and workers there commented on his photos, and the resemblance to Senator Obama. “When we had his birthday picture taken, people looked at the picture and said he looked like Obama”. Smith says she thinks it’s funny, considering she is an Obama supporter.
WPTV.com has not received any photos from parents who claim their child looks like Senator John McCain.
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Texas Baptist Preacher Terms Palin VP Pick ‘Anti-Family’
“I don’t see this as a pro-family pick at all!” said Voddie Baucham, a popular author and conference speaker who serves as preaching pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas. “In fact, I believe this was the anti-family pick.”
Baucham, who has spoken in several Southern Baptist venues, including the 2005 SBC Pastors Conference, says he doesn’t believe Palin can balance the responsibility of high political office with her role as Christian wife and mother.
“My point is simple,” Baucham said in a blog. “The job of a wife and mother is to be a wife and mother. Anything in addition to that must also be subservient to it. There is no higher calling. Moreover, I believe Paul’s admonition should lead us to reject any notion of a wife and mother taking on the level of responsibility that Mrs. Palin is seeking.”
Baucham said his “heart breaks” for Palin, because she has been blessed with five children but craves for something the secular world believes is “something more.”
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Barnett Shale Propaganda
Those of you that live in the DFW area are pretty familiar with all the propaganda the energy companies are putting out about the benits of the Barnett Shale. Some of them are so biased that they are pretty comical, and one of them reminded me of this commercial from the Naked Gun 2 1/2, even though this commercial is about nuclear power as opposed to natural gas.
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Illustrated Stories from the Bible (that they won’t tell you in Sunday School)
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