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Nations Largest Whole-Hog Barbecue Cook-Off April 5-6
2013-04-01 06:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Newport, North Carolina’s annual barbecue cook-off is set for April 5 and 6, leading off a series of events that will culminate with the state championship cooking contest in Raleigh in late September. read more
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Scientists Say Oil Industry Likely Caused Largest Oklahoma Earthquake
2013-03-29 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma history was likely triggered by the injection of wastewater from oil production into wells deep beneath the earth, according to a study published Tuesday in the scientific journal Geology. The magnitude 5.7 earthquake, which struck in 2011 near Prague in central Oklahoma, is the largest and most recent of a number of quakes scientists have tied to wastewater injection from oil and natural gas production, raising new concerns about the practice. Advanced...
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Wastewater Injection Linked to Oklahomas Largest Earthquake
2013-03-28 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The rising number of earthquakes in normally calm parts of Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Colorado are linked to the underground injection of wastewater, finds a new study in the journal "Geology." As an example, the study authors point to the magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Oklahoma on November 6, 2011. The largest quake ever recorded in Oklahoma, this quake is also the largest ever linked to wastewater injection. The quake destroyed 14 homes in the Shawnee-Sparks area, buckled a federal highway...
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Inside IBMs $67 billion SAGE, the largest computer ever built
2013-03-28 16:08:31| Extremetech
In 1957, IBM began the construction of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, by far the world's largest computer. Spanning more than 20 different locations, each equipped with acre-sized computers and connected by a nation-wide network of bleeding-edge 1,300-baud modems, SAGE was the pinnacle of the United States' Cold War radar and missile air defenses.
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DDoS attack against Spamhaus was reportedly the largest in history
2013-03-27 21:56:25| InfoWorld: Top News
A DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started more than a week ago and targeted the Spamhaus Project, an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and London that maintains databases of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, domain names, and other Internet resources involved in spam, malware, and other abusive online activities.
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