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  • Bragg Health Institute Installs Greenhouse at San Marcos High School

    Dr. Patricia Bragg, CEO/President of Bragg Live Food Products and Founder of Bragg Health Institute, along with internationally acclaimed classical-crossover vocal recording-artist and health advocate Duchess Sylvia Valentina, will present a BraggHealth Lecture and Program entitled, 'The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle - You are what you Eat, Drink, Breathe, Think, Say and Do' as part of a ...

  • AMD banks on new chips to drive comeback

    After a year like last year, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is shooting for some sort of comeback.The chipmaker lost a boatload of money in 2012 as its sales of personal computer processor chips plunged amid a downturn in the PC ...

  • Point Austin This Case Is Different

    Monday's ruling by federal Judge Lee Yeakel should not be comforting to the Austin Police Department or the city. Rejecting a summary judgment motion filed by APD Officer Nathan Wagner concerning the 2011 Byron Carter shooting, Yeakel summarized the most prominent evidence to explain his denial of Wagner's motion – that there is sufficient evidence to suggest "unreasonable ...

  • Then Theres This Honk If You Prefer Walking

    East Coast transplant Patrick Marshall is a member of this generation, and says he has no interest in driving. Living in Boston and New York, he could easily get around. Austin presents more of a challenge, but he's managed to make do with his bike and his two feet in the two-and-a-half years he's lived here. "When I came here it didn't cross my mind to get a car," he ...

  • Open City Parks for Business Parking

    A sign along Toomey Road warns that parking is for park patrons only, but Council will consider a controversial proposal to allow businesses – such as parking-strapped Casa de Luz in the background – to use parking facilities at city ...


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Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

Scenes From a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) [DVD]

From the very beginning, you can tell something is wrong, just under the surface. When Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), who have been married for 10 years, sit down for a magazine interview about their perfect marriage, there is an underlying sense o ... ...

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  • Council Watch Out for Angry Penguins

    Adelaide, Australia was once home to poet Max Harris, a founder of the legendary Angry Penguins journal and accompanying modernist literary movement: We know no mithridatum of ...

  • Judge on Byron Carter Shooting Take It to a Jury

    On Monday, May 20, federal Judge Lee Yeakel denied a motion for summary judgment filed by the city and Austin Police Officer Nathan Wagner in connection with the 2011 shooting death of Byron Carter. The ruling clears the way for the Carter family's civil rights suit to proceed to trial. Yeakel's nine-page ruling reaches conclusions similar to those reached by the city's Citizen ...

  • AISD Board Signs With Johns Hopkins Approves Backup Plan

    Austin Independent School District trustees have formally signed on the dotted line to bring Johns Hopkins to Eastside Memor­ial High School. Now they just have to wait for final approval from Education Com­mis­sioner Michael Williams. On May 21, the board voted 8-0 to sign Johns Hopkins to a one-year contract, introducing its Talent Development Secondary program to the campus ...

  • Austin vaults to No. 11 on list of biggest U.S. cities

    Step aside, Indianapolis and Jacksonville. Austin is moving on up.With the fifth-largest population increase among all U.S. cities for the year ending July 1, 2012, Austin leapfrogged past Indianapolis and Jacksonville, Fla., to become the nation's 11th-most populous city, according to population estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau. Between 2011 and 2012, Austin's ...

  • Key budget bills pass as legislators break impasse

    Dtente descended upon the Texas Capitol on Wednesday night after several tense days during which it seemed a delicate political deal to craft the state budget might fall apart.Two budget-related bills, providing tax relief and water funding that Gov. Rick Perry has demanded, passed out of their respective chambers before a midnight ...

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