| Ask AP: Product Recalls, Obama's Faith
If you have your own news-related question that you'd like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with "Ask AP" in the subject line. --- What becomes of all the recalled poisonous pet food, lead-tainted toys and antifreeze-flavored toothpaste? Are they incinerated? Buried? William Gazdagh Belleville, Ill. --- Recalled products that are taken back to stores are returned to manufacturers, which generally destroy them, through incineration or other measures, or send them to a landfill. Depending on the nature of the recall, though, food products are sometimes reprocessed. In the past, if a recall involved a bacterial pathogen that could be destroyed by cooking at a high temperature, recalled meat was further processed until it was deemed safe, and then sometimes reused in pet food.
Toshiba weighs into Macbook Air with slim Portege
The R500 not only has 3G connectivity, it also has three USB ports to Air's one, and it includes an internal DVD drive, removable battery, a full-size DVI video port, a PC Card slot, Gigabit Ethernet and a Firewire connector. All of the latter are missing from the Macbook Air. Chan said that the R500 weighs just 1kg as well, to the Air's 3lb (1.35kg), and is thinner. The one area where the Air scores is screen size - it has a 13.3-inch TFT, versus the R500's 12-inch. .
Proclamation splits council
He likened the move to what would happen if a conservative pushed a proclamation honoring conservative talk radio host Mike Rosen "for all he does for the taxpayers of the city." Lopez acknowledged that the proclamation hadn't been universally embraced by his colleagues and that Brown and Faatz had asked him not to push it. "I respect their opinion," Lopez said. "But there should be no controversy about the need for a living wage or access to health care or affordable housing." Council President Michael Hancock and councilwoman Carol Boigon were absent for the entire meeting. Usually proclamations are feel-good measures that draw universal support. But in December, Brown chastised Councilmen Chris Nevitt and Doug Linkhart for talking about labor strife when a proclamation was issued to National Hirschfeld, which has been in business for 100 years.
Linux Blog Safari: Waxing Philosophic on a New Linux Year
"When asked what I fervently wish for Linux, I realize how full-featured a system it has finally become," said Slashdot blogger yagu. "I'm writing this reply in Firefox, on a Linux machine which has been my exclusive working environment for the last year. I have a full office suite of software (Open Office); a powerful, standards-compliant browser (Firefox); a full e-mail client (Thunderbird); and thousands of free programs." Better Email Security Just Got A Whole Lot Easier. And Cheaper. Introducing Security Software As A Service From Webroot. Free 14-Day Trial. .
Not just another punk: Martin Atkins' can-do approach
On a snowy night in late January, a former funeral home in Bridgeport teems with life. The basement houses a small recording studio; the ground floor, where friends and family once gathered to mourn the deceased, functions as an art gallery/office space/warehouse; only the second floor, long ago converted into a two-bedroom apartment, stands empty.
For the past six years this two-story building has functioned as a sort of mission control for Martin Atkins, onetime drummer for Johnny Lydon's post-Sex Pistols project Public Image Ltd., the driving force behind industrial band Pigface, artist and the founder of Invisible Records, which is entering its 20th year.
The Coventry, England-born Atkins, who settled in Chicago more than a decade ago, just completed a hectic 2007.
HP's latest generation of workstation computing solutions arrives
Hewlett-Packard unveiled two new Intel Xeon based workstations that enhance the performance and extend the boundaries of workstation computing for demanding workstation users in Asia Pacific. The new desk-side HP xw6400 and xw8400 workstations, featuring the latest dual-core Intel Xeon processors, delivers the latest generation of technological innovations that further establishes HPs leadership in the workstation industry in the region. .
ESPN Anchor Goes On Vulgar Anti-Jesus Rant at Celebrity Roast
In the past few decades, as political correctness has taken hold of virtually every industry, folks involved in sports and sportscasting that have made racist or sexist remarks on camera have typically been fired or forced to make public apologies. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder's termination by CBS back in 1988 is a fine example, with the recent two-week suspension of Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman being another. Yet, given what happened on an Atlantic City dais on January 11, where a high-profile ESPN anchor went on an alcohol-induced tirade which included a vulgar reference to Jesus Christ, it appears public antitheism is not politically incorrect. After all, until this moment, you probably hadn't heard about this incident, and the person involved apparently has not been publicly admonished for her behavior by her employer.
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