Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Source: [b]Houston Chronicle[/b] A 14-year-old girl whose newborn son died from being submerged in a school toilet and having toilet paper stuffed down his throat has been charged with capital murder, authorities said today. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether the teenage mother should be c...
Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The remains of Edouard continue to soak Texas, providing much-needed rain to regions under severe to exceptional drought. The heaviest rains fell near the coast in Baytown, where up to six inches were recorded (Figure 1). Additional rains of 1-2 inches are expected in West Texas today. Edouard has caused no significant flooding, and no reports of major damage have been received. The storm did knock...
ABC 33/40 Weather Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
PUBLIC ADVISORY NUMBER 13 FOR TROPICAL DEPRESSION EDOUARD NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD AL052008 1000 AM CDT WED AUG 06 2008 …TROPICAL DEPRESSION EDOUARD WEAKENING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS… FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR COMANCHE COUNTY…HAMILTON COUNTY…AND MILLS COUNTY TX UNTIL 1215 PM CDT…AND FOR EAST CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 1230 PM CDT. AT 1000 AM CDT…1500Z…TROPICAL...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
From Mexico to Texas
SciGuy (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
As Tropical Storm Edouard moves inland, some of the wind and precipitation models have now incorporated the updated location information into their forecasts. As one would expect from a landfall to Houston's east, the strongest winds are to the city's...
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
By Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Hong Kong–5: 34 PM Aug 4 Monday–GMT/ZULU TIME/UTC – Crude oil fell below $120 a barrel for the first time since May amid speculation that Tropical Storm Edouard will miss most offshore oil facilities as it approaches the coast of Texas. Futures fell as much as $5.60 a barrel, shrugging off port [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Mining giant Consol Energy Inc., hoping to cash in on the demand for gasoline and other oil-based products, said Monday it will develop and build an $800 million plant in West Virginia to convert coal into methanol and gasoline.
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I suppose an increase in the number of motorcycles was inevitable. Though data on new motorcycle registrations are not yet...
Softwareas (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I’ve been researching vCard for a project involving contacts management. This is a quick overview on vCard aimed at developers, with a demo and stealing the example from wikipedia’s vCard entry. The official standard is here. The Format vCard is a standard for representing contact information, the kind of info you would see for a contact in [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Major lenders show confidence in MC Companies, and provide funding for acquisitions in Baytown (Houston) and Austin, Texas. Despite concerns in the real estate market and the financial sector, company principals Ross McCallister and Ken McElroy secure financing and raise equity to expand into two new market areas. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- MC Companies, a real estate investment...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In Texas, Sustainable Power made its initial 7,000 gallon biocrude delivery to Envirocompanies for blending and processing into BG100 biogas, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and marine fuel. CEO John Rivera said: “We have recently completed several major key milestones on our path to reducing dependency on foreign petroleum. We will be ramping up production over [...]
Texas Golf (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Congratulations to Martin Piller, the 2008 Texas State Open champion. Play concluded Sunday at The Cascades in Tyler. Here is the wrapup provided by the Northern Texas PGA: TYLER, Texas – Martin Piller of Dallas proudly displayed his trophy and check for $25,000 after winning the 38th Texas State Open at The Cascades. Piller, a former member of the Texas A&M golf team, was the low amateur for
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
In Texas, Sustainable Power announced an agreement with Norway’s Pemco Energy and Spain’s L.Solé to engineer, procure and construct biocrude and power generation plants in Europe. SSTP Europe, a joint venture of Pemco and SSTP, will target the replacement of L. Solé biomass boiler systems which L. Solé installs and operates in Europe. Last month, biocrude [...]
Do it for BUSINESS (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ First American CoreLogic, a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: - ) family ofpanies and a leader in residential mortgage data and analytics for the mortgage industry and Wall Street, today announced the release of its February 2008 LoanPerformance Home Price Index (HPI).HPI provides aprehensive set of monthly home price indices and median sales prices covering...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
No one from Sterling Municipal Library in Baytown, Texas, is fessing up to a disappointing comment on e-books and piracy. Novelist Cornelia Amiri says she heard the following from a Baytown librarian speaking as a panelist at a science fiction convention: "We all love e-books because you can take that one download and send it [...]
