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Until a short time ago, my FR feed showed the first few lines of each article when I clicked on (for example) "FORUM". That seems to be no longer true. Now, I am seeing:>=======================================INTERNATIONAL HOT AND SPICY FOOD DAY – January 16 1/16/2023, 1:35:14 PM · by Red Badger · 3 repliesNational Day Calendar ^ | January 16, 2023 | Staff ======================================= In the past, I would have seen something like: INTERNATIONAL HOT AND SPICY FOOD DAY – January 16 1/16/2023, 1:35:14 PM · by Red Badger · 3 repliesNational Day Calendar ^ | January 16, 2023 | Staff Each...

4 hours ago ... Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp says it’s trying to battle fake news and social-media clickbait with Knewz, its own curated headline-aggregation service. The company’s new Knewz.com site — a text-heavy agglomeration that has already drawn critiques of its cluttered design — officially launched Thursday as a “beta” test. The site, patterned after other aggregators like Google News, Apple News and Drudge Report, compiles headlines and links for publications across a broad range of political leanings, from Fox News and Newsmax to Daily Kos and Mother Jones. In announcing the launch of Knewz.com, News Corp said readers will...

According to proprietary reporting from Ed Klein, Bill Clinton is concerned that Barack Obama is about to throw Hillary Clinton under the bus. On The Kudlow Report, Klein said that President Clinton is reaching out to friends in the legal profession trying to figure out what his wife should do if she’s subpoenaed - called in to testify about events in Libya. Joe Klein went on to say if you listen to the language used by Joe Biden in the debate closely – Bill Clinton's move may be more than simply precautionary.“Biden said something like we were unaware – nobody...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided. These results are based upon nightly interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, only about two-thirds of the interviews for today’s update were conducted after the presidential debate. Sunday morning’s update will be the first national polling based entirely upon post-debate interviews. Still, the numbers reflect quite a debate bounce for Romney. Heading into Wednesday’s...

More than 58 million people watched the first Presidential debate last night between President Obama and Mitt Romney, up substantially from the first debate in the 2008 election cycle, which had 52.4 million viewers.Fox News was the most-watched cable news network during the debate, and will likely be the most-watched network on TV, though final broadcast numbers will not be released until after 4 PM.Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, Fox and CBS are all up from the same debate in 2008, while CNN and ABC are down. In the adults 25-54 demo, FNC and MSNBC are up compared to 2008,...

Over 65 Million watched the debate yesterday! Fox Cable had more viewers than any other network including the ABCNNBCBS!

Many households in Germany are no longer able to pay their electricity bills. As a result, around half a million households are sitting in the dark. The sharp price increases for electricity and gas is leading to serious payment problems for more and more consumers – even to dark apartments. Because of unpaid bills an estimated 600,000 households in Germany had their power cut off in 2010, said the consumer watch dog Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen which is based in Düsseldorf. This estimate is based on a survey of local energy providers in Germany’s most populous state. "Price increases of around 15...

Negative water vapor feedback in plant evapotranspiration foundRising CO2 is causing plants to release less water to the atmosphere, researchers sayStudy Finds That CO2-Induced Warming Causes Atmosphere To Hold Less Water VaporStomata are structures that allow plants to exchange gases with the air. Contemporary plants in Florida have fewer stomata than their ancestors did a few decades ago. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density of pores that allow plants to breathe has dwindled by 34 percent, restricting the amount of water vapor the plants release to the atmosphere, report scientists from...

...doctors diagnosed her with a ruptured throat and ordered her to rest it completely to allow it to heal. The bizarre injury is the first known vuvuzela-related accident... 'I was walking towards the Fan Park in Cape Town and blowing it as hard as I could when suddenly my throat started to hurt. 'At first I thought I'd gone down with a bug but the next day it was worse. 'When I went to the doctor he took a look and then laughed. 'He said I'd ruptured my throat by blowing too hard, and that perhaps I had been doing...

CLICK HERE FOR THE WHOLE PAMPHLET ...Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions. Twenty pages of concise commentary and cartoons: The short synopsis of how we paid to find a crisis. The...

...The hormone fuels sex-drive in both men and women and is associated with competitiveness and dominance.Prior research has shown that high levels of testosterone are also linked to risky behaviour such as gambling or excessive drinking.Scientists in the US measured the amount of testosterone in saliva samples taken from 500 male and female MBA business students at the University of Chicago.Participants in the study were asked to play a computer game that evaluated their attitude towards risk.A series of questions allowed them to choose between a guaranteed monetary reward or a risky lottery with a higher potential pay-out... play safe......

Apparently, Our Beloved Leader, Barack Hussein Obama, the most merciful, Lion of the Masses, Protector of the Common Man and Omnipotent Parental Figure, will give an address on September 8 to America's school children. The audience will be all children, preK-12. In protest of the forced ObamaTV viewing in classrooms across the nation everyone is encouraged to participate in a National Skip Day and keep your kids home. Take the opportunity to teach your kids true life lessons and not subject them to Obama propaganda. Maybe even use the day to make protest posters for the 912 March on DC!!...

<p>Hello all. When I was talking to Ray on the phone yesterday, and told him about all the thoughts and prayers sent to me, he was overwhelmed. He said he would love to post something, and I told him I would write it down, and get it on here. Besides his thanks for all the well wishes, he, of course, being CT, wanted to make a polital statement. With the gracious help of AF Phys, who is and always has been, one of Ray's favorite FReepers made sense of my scribblings. So below is the post, what I was able to convey what Ray was telling me, clarified by AF Phys. Whether you agree or not, this was a joint effort, and I am so glad that I can get Ray's words on here again.</p>

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NEW YORK - US industrial companies are spending heavily on environmentally friendly efforts even as the economic slowdown dents their profits. Fuelling the "green" trend are hopes that products that are made of recyclable materials or use less energy will win praise, forestall onerous regulation and cut rising costs. In particular, oil prices have jumped more than 20 percent this year. "Oil for $116 a barrel is staggering," said Donald Young, a spokesman for the International Facility Management Association professional group. "Companies are forging ahead." For example, building maintenance supply company W.W. Grainger Inc says its manufacturing and industrial customers...

PEKIN (IL) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama sent a message to Congress from Aventine Renewable Energy's plant. Obama visited the nation's second-largest ethanol producer Monday. Obama urged increasing ethanol production and reducing the nation's dependence on foreign oil. "For too long now we've relied too heavily on foreign oil to fuel our energy needs in this country, and for too long politicians have just passed the buck or gotten themselves bogged down in partisanship over what to do about it," he said in a release. He said he hopes to incorporate support for both ethanol and biodiesel into an upcoming...

Unauthorized computer programs, secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Brothers supermarkets compromised up to 4.2 million debit and credit cards... PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford Bros. Co.'s supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida enabled the massive data breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards, the company said Friday...The Scarborough, Maine-based grocer confirmed a report in The Boston Globe that it told Massachusetts regulators this week about the link between the breach and the illicit programs, known as "malware." The company doesn't know how the malware -...

ABOVE THE STORM: The afternoon sky darkened. Grey clouds billowed to the heavens. Thunder shook the ground and lightning danced overhead. The first droplets of heavy rain were just hitting the ground when the spaceship flew by.... This really happened on Feb. 5th when the International Space Station (ISS) flew over western Africa during an afternoon thunderstorm in Mali:Orbiting Earth 200 miles high at a speed of 17,000 mph, astronauts took the picture using a Nikon D2Xs peering through one of the space station's many windows. It shows an enormous anvil cloud. Anvil clouds form in the tops of thunderstorms...

Pakistan has successfully held elections for the National Assembly and provincial governments, and President Pervez Musharraf and the pro-Taliban Muttahida Majlis-e-Amil, or MMA, have encountered major setbacks. Musharraf has lost his governing coalition, while the MMA lost most of its seats in the National Assembly as well as control of the Northwest Frontier Province. The Pakistan People's Party has won the majority of seats and will form the government, while the Pakistani Muslim League - Nawaz finished a close second. The Awami National Party also won a surprising victory. Election Results Election results are available for 240 of the 272...

Quinnipiac has a new poll out on the 2008 Presidential Race. Note that the survey began Wednesday, April 25, the day before the Democrats held their first debate in Orangeburg, SC, and finished on Tuesday, May 1. On the Democratic side, both Clinton and Obama have taken a bit of a slide but still lead the rest of the pack, while Edwards got a solid bump: Democrats Clinton 32 (-6 points versus last month's poll) Obama 18 (-5) Gore 14 (+3) Edwards 12 (+6) Richardson 3 (+1) Biden 2 (+1) Undecided 15 (+13) For the Republicans, Giuliani took a pretty...