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Microsoft is taking a shot at social networking.
The company rolled out access to its social search site So.cl to the public. The service was initially available to students at a select number of universities.
According to an FAQ on So.cl’s site, it combines “social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages.”
Prince George’s County residents had their last chance to visit Joint Base Andrews near Camp Springs to see the latest and greatest in military technology and death-defying aerobatic stunts this weekend before 2014.
After the weekend’s Joint Service Open House and Air Show, the base will move from offering the show annually to every other year — in an effort to save money, base officials said.
Water and sewer system managers, regulators, engineers, environmental experts and business people met Friday to discuss how to better use the region’s limited, but ever-in-demand, water resources.
“My opinion is it’s the right time to be talking about this,” particularly with the region’s population growing and the need to create jobs, said Zohreh Movahed, one of the key organizers of the half-day Water Awareness Symposium at Johns Hopkins University’s Montgomery County campus in Rockville
State transportation officials hope you’ll do a lot of sightseeing this Memorial Day weekend. Just not on the Bay Bridge.
Travelers headed to the Eastern Shore for the first time since last summer might be surprised. For one thing, the toll has risen to $4 from $2.50. For another, the westbound span is being painted for the first time since it opened in 1973, and scaffolding is likely to be a distraction — and potential hot spot for fender-benders.
Commentary by Len Lazarick
Last week’s special session and another that seems likely to be called in mid-summer gave us all a taste how a full-time legislature might feel. It feels lousy.
In his often provocative blog, St. Mary’s College Professor Todd Eberly suggested last month that a full-time legislature might be just what the doctor ordered. Says Eberly: “Studies show that full-time legislatures spend more time responding to constituent demands and are more responsive to constituents. Full-time legislatures are more prone to enact governmental reforms, especially with regard to personnel. Full-time legislatures demonstrate more efficient legislating (as opposed to what we just witnessed) and a greater willingness to enact more complex measures.”
Unfortunately, Eberly does not cite the studies showing that a round-the-year legislature does a better job. The states that make lawmaking full-time don’t really seem more wise or productive, despite higher pay and bigger staffs.
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.
The SpaceX company made history as its Falcon 9 rocket rose from its seaside launch pad and pierced the pre-dawn sky, aiming for a rendezvous in a few days with the space station. The unmanned rocket carried into orbit a capsule named Dragon that is packed with 1,000 pounds of space station provisions.
Casinos are not like Starbucks stores: You really can’t have one on every corner.
That’s the word from David Cordish, whose company is opening the huge Maryland Live! casino at Arundel Mills next month.
Yet, Cordish warns the expansion of casino gambling can’t go on unchecked forever. A big problem is the attitude of politicians nationwide who view casinos as free money.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected an attempt by the Libertarian and Green parties to get their candidates back on the state ballot by petition, ruling that the signatures have to exactly match the names on the voter rolls.
In its 7-0 decision, released Monday, the court overruled a Circuit Court judge and upheld the State Board of Elections’ rejection of thousands of signatures on petitions to permit the two minor parties to be back on this year’s ballot.
The two parties were forced to petition for ballot access after neither gained 1 percent of the votes for governor in the 2010 election – 18,759 votes. When that happens, they must gather the signatures of at least 10,000 registered voters to win a place on the next ballot for their candidates, who are nominated by party conventions.
Smith’s Rosebud Salve is a beauty product made entirely within Maryland’s borders, but its brand name stretches far beyond the borders of the country.
In 2003, Sephora, a major beauty chain, picked up the salve for sale in its stores across Europe and the states.
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Urban Outfitters and its higher-end clothing boutique, Anthropologie, also carry the rose-scented balm typically used for dry lips, cuticles and skin, as do many mom-and-pop shops that carried the product before it took off on an international scale. Today, independent shops make up a very small percent of the company’s sales.
Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Monday on behalf of dioceses, schools and health care agencies that argued the requirement violates religious freedom.
Among the plaintiffs is the University of Notre Dame, which in February praised President Barack Obama for pledging to accommodate religious groups and find a way to soften the rule. Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John Jenkins, said the school had since decided to sue because “progress has not been encouraging” in talks with administration officials.
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs still are five years from their deadline to have a joint, interoperable electronic health record. But early success at the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in Chicago is paving the way for further tests.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Monday hospitals in San Antonio and Hampton Roads, Va., would be the next facilities to implement the initial capabilities of the electronic health record (EHR) by 2014.
Alexandria police are alarmed at the number of red-light camera fines being generated in the city.
During the first three months of this year, more than 3,200 red-light fines have been handed out at the city’s three camera-monitored intersections. Duke and Walker streets, South Patrick and Franklin streets and South Patrick and Gibbon streets all have red-light cameras.
Daily commutes in the Washington area can be brutal. D.C. has fallen to sixth in an annual ranking of the nation’s worst traffic cities, a drop from fourth in 2010.
The INRIX study found that the worst time for traffic in Washington is 5:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings.
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” George Washington
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