June 2011
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Boulder, Colo., police seek man who hid in... →
This dirty little story has been getting noticed around the world:
Boulder police are looking for a tall young man who escaped capture while “covered in feces” after he contorted himself inside a portable toilet at the Hanuman Yoga Festival on Friday.
A woman had gone inside to use the toilet when she suspected someone was hiding in the well-used bowl beneath a tarp, police said...
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WatchWhen the Centennial, Colo., IKEA store opens July 27, customers will enter the second-largest IKEA store in all of North America, housing the largest IKEA restaurant in the Western Hemisphere.
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Portland, Oregon, flushing 8 million gallons of... →
The Associated Press reports:
Treated water stored in the city’s five open-air reservoirs goes directly to customers. A city official says he didn’t want to serve them urine in the water.
Critics call that an overreaction, saying that animals routinely defecate and urinate in the reservoirs and sometimes die in them.
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Computer outage strands United customers at... →
David Renwick, a former Denverite, who now lives in Oregon, has been stranded at the airport in Portland for three hours on his way to San Fransico.
“When I got here they were already making an announcement,” Renwick said. “They said they were having systemwide computer problems affecting everything from reservations to weather reports for pilots, so they said all planes...
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How do you get men to spay, neuter their dogs? Try...
John Davidson reports from our Fetch blog:
Statistics show that men are notoriously reluctant to get their dogs fixed, despite the widely recognized benefits of the surgery.
Most men own male dogs and it seems guys are afraid that neutering them will take away Fido’s masculinity.
How do you overcome that?
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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Court says Microsoft must pay in patent case →
The Associated Press reports:
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. must pay a $290 million judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company for infringing on one of its patents inside its popular Microsoft Word program.
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WatchMaintenance crews are working with fiberglass and paint this week on Denver’s 60-foot-tall “Dancers,” a sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky. Just feet from Speer Blvd. outside the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the sculpture has divided many Denverites since its installation in 2003. (Video by Anne Herbst, The Denver Post)
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"If it's virtual, does it constitute infidelity?... →
Rep. Weiner’s predicament has left many people wondering where sexting and cybersex fall on the infidelity scale. Is it cheating? Where do you stand on sexting and other forms of virtual dalliance?
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Boulder, Colo., could be world's greenest city by... →
The Boulder Daily Camera’s Heath Urie reports:
Xcel officials said Monday that they are prepared to offer the city an energy plan that would provide up to 70 percent renewable energy to Boulder within the first year of a new 20-year franchise agreement.
By 2020, the company claims, Boulder would reach 90 percent renewable energy.
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Huge number of pets suffer silently from pain,... →
According to Dr. Robin Downing, there are an enormous number of pets in pain that suffer silently. John Davidson reports on The Denver Post’s Fetch blog.
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British spy agents reportedly hack Al Qaeda... →
latimes:
Marzipan espionage…
Indeed…
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Watchamyfriedenberger:
Video by Mahala Gaylord / The Denver Post
More than 200 artists will spend hours turning the streets of Larimer Square into a museum of chalk art at the Denver Chalk Art Festival June 4 & 5, 2011. Denver Chalk Art Festival is produced by the Larimer Arts Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting arts awareness and education in Denver.
I love this video...
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Aurora panel reinstates cop fired for off-duty DUI... →
Aurora’s Civil Service Commission has reinstated a police officer who was fired after he was arrested twice for driving under the influence.
Officer Marc Sears was instead suspended without pay for 1,040 hours, or about six months. The suspension is retroactive to Jan. 5.
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Panel: Drug war failed, regulate marijuana →
A high-level international panel slammed the war on drugs as a failure Thursday and called on governments to undertake experiments to decriminalize the use of drugs, especially marijuana, to undermine the power of organized crime.
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Debt Ceiling Debate: Moody's warns US government... →
The Associated Press reports:
A credit rating agency is warning the U.S. government that it could lose its sterling debt rating if Congress and the Obama administration don’t reach an agreement to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.
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FAA to fine people who point lasers at pilots →
The Federal Aviation Administration will begin imposing fines of up to $11,000 on people who point lasers into an aircraft cockpit.
Denver International Airport ranks 10th nationally for the number of laser incidents that have occurred in 2011, while Dallas-Fort Worth ranks the highest.
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US to boycott world racism conference at UN →
The Associated Press reports:
The Obama administration confirmed Wednesday in a letter to a U.S. senator that it will boycott a world conference against racism being held at U.N. headquarters in September.
Joseph E. Macmanus, acting U.S. assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, wrote in the letter to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that the United States will not participate in...
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USA.gov: Rare Midnight Eclipse Tonight →
usagov:
Image description: A “midnight Sun” eclipse photographed by Oddleiv Skilbrei in northern Sweden on July 31, 2000.
NASA reports that a partial solar eclipse will occur at around midnight tonight:
“It might sound like a contradiction to have a solar eclipse in the middle of the night,…
Tonight’s “midnight sun” eclipse won’t be visible from Colorado, but...
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“In the fourth, a loud foul flew in our direction, and I swallowed the gum,...”
– The Post’s Woody Paige, reflecting on a trip to see a four-game series between the Cardinals and the Giants on Memorial Day weekend in 1958.
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WatchA Denver wastewater worker made a splash on “America’s Got Talent” last night
Video of the memorable moment from NBC.com.
