| U.S. senator to investigate televangelists, including ORU regents
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WASHINGTON -- A veteran U.S. senator announced Tuesday that he is looking into generous salaries, luxury cars and private jets provided to six televangelists, including three who serve as regents for Oral Roberts University. "I'm following up on complaints from the public and news coverage regarding certain practices at six ministries," said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. "The allegations involve governing boards that aren't independent and allow generous salaries and housing allowances and amenities such as private jets and Rolls Royces." In his announcement, Grassley revealed he has sent detailed letters .
Be Better Than Buffett
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City identifies nine red light camera intersections
The city of Austin has identified nine intersections for red light cameras. Cameras will be installed in April and are expected to be operational on May 1. The intersections are: Northbound MoPac Expressway at Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway Southbound MoPac Expressway at Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway East frontage of Lamar Boulevard at the south frontage of Ben White Boulevard (eastbound) MoPac southbound service road at eastbound U.S. Highway 290 •Northbound I-35 service road at 11th Street Southbound I-35 service road at 15th Street Riverside Drive at Pleasant Valley Road West frontage of Lamar Boulevard at Ben White Boulevard (or Capital of Texas Highway) westbound/northbound Southbound I-35 service road at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. As required by state law, the intersections were identified after the city's public works department conducted traffic engineering studies at 20 intersections with the most red light running collisions in 2006 and 2007.
Olympus Stylus 770 SW digital camera
The Olympus Stylus 770 SW is rugged and reasonably good looking. And that's pretty much where the praise runs out. The 7.1-megapixel camera is designed for rough outdoor use, with a sealed housing that's shockproof, freeze-proof, and crush-proof, and waterproof to depths of 33 feet to boot. It even has a manometer, which records the depth or altitude at which a photo was shot. The waterproof part is no gimmick, as the camera shrugged off repeated dunkings in salt water on a couple of kayak expeditions. If we had the time to go to Alaska, it no doubt also would have laughed at repeated drops onto the frozen tundra. Downsides? In Macworld jury tests, the camera did receive Good ratings across the board, but many shots came out soft and overexposed, and there's little room to override the camera's decisions.
Solons hit PNP over plan to put ‘spy cam’ in Senate
They, more than us, need to be protected at this time, I think, he said in a radio interview. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) chief Maj. Gen. (ret.) Jose Balajadia said two policemen went to the chambers building around 3 p.m. last Saturday saying theyre out to conduct survey on the premises for the installation of CCTVs. They introduced themselves as from the PNP. Im not saying theyre from PNP. But they told my supervisor on duty who went to see them, that theyre from PNP. They said they will make a request through their RD (regional director) on Tuesday, Balajadia said. Balajadia, who was immediately contacted by the supervisor on duty, blocked them. We already have our own system, our kind of CCTVs which is I think is more modern than then because it can secure the Senate even up to Macapagal Boulevard.
Broadcom Demonstrates Industry Leading Gaming Performance With ...
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 2008 MWC -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the first public demonstration showing realistic mobile game benchmarks based on the emerging OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard, running on cell phone hardware. In collaboration with Futuremark, a respected developer of PC and handheld performance benchmarks, Broadcom will demonstrate the ability of the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard to deliver a significantly enhanced gaming experience on mobile devices when powered with the innovative VideoCore(R) III multimedia processor. The enhanced mobile gaming demonstrations, utilizing Futuremark performance benchmarks and based on the Broadcom(R) BCM2727 VideoCore III multimedia processor, will be performed at this week's 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, from February 11th to 14th and at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco from February 18th to 22nd.
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