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When fracking and free speech collide
2014-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: What started as a short YouTube video and a couple of local news interviews about a Texas landowner being able to light his water on fire has ballooned into a free speech fight thats being closely watched by anti-fracking activists across the country. Steve Lipsky has complained for years that fracking company Range Resources polluted his drinking water and streams that run through his property. The company sued him in 2011 for defaming its reputation for environmental stewardship. Now Lipsky...
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T-Mobile brings free Wi-Fi calling to its customers, and it's terrible news
2014-09-13 09:54:55| Wireless - Topix.net
At its seventh Uncarrier event in San Francisco, T-Mobile unveiled plans to clutter up the internet for everyone -- T-Mobile customers and non-T-Mobile customers alike. On the face of it, things sound great.
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Lock Fest at Willamette Falls, Mount Angel Oktoberfest: free and cheap family fun
2014-09-13 04:28:17| Agriculture - Topix.net
Celebrate the weekend with an Aquifer Adventure in Portland, Tour de Parks in Tigard or a 100 Year Celebration in Mosier. Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration: The Beaverton City Library event starts at 2 p.m. and will feature Andean folk music by Chayag.
la TV stations free up airwaves for wireless broadband
2014-09-12 01:15:28| Wireless - Topix.net
An effort to free up some of the airwaves used by TV broadcasts and make them available for wireless broadband took a big step forward this week in the U.S. Two TV stations in Los Angeles, KLCS and KCET, have agreed to share a single frequency to deliver their programming, freeing up a channel that can be auctioned off to wireless carriers next year. The change, which the Federal Communications Commission calls "repackaging," is possible because digital TV broadcasts don't need the full 6MHz of broadcast spectrum that was used for analog TV.
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William Penn Foundation Donates $25 Million to Free Library of Philadelphia
2014-09-11 23:22:40| Chemicals - Topix.net
There was a standing ovation and lots of smiles from library, civic, and community leaders gathered in the library's Skyline Room at the main branch as Janet Haas of the William Penn Foundation delivered the news: Siobhan Reardon, president and director of the Free Library of Philadelphia, says the gift, to be paid over three years, is monumental. "This is gigantic," she said today.
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