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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Movie Review
Narc
Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Despite last-minute push by Dewhurst campus-carry bill appears to die
In a week when negotiations over a state budget have blown up again and again, when political bickering between the House and Senate has reached pitched levels, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst had been working another issue with laser focus, say senators.Passing legislation to allow concealed handguns inside campus and university buildings for the first ...