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Robert Puente's legislative career will come full circle this morning at his political retirement party. Among the first to arrive — and probably the last to leave — will be a pair of 80-year-olds who may have been the first constituents to seek the help of a young Puente. Gloria and David Saliba remember it well. It was 1991 and just a short time after a 31-year-old Puente was elected to his first term in the Texas House. The elm tree in the front yard of the Saliba's Southeast Side home had withered before their eyes and a strange source of water was bubbling up nearby. "It took three days for a big beautiful tree to dry up and die," Gloria Saliba recalled Thursday. The couple called Puente, who showed up at their home to inspect the problem.
Windows Home Server Bug Causes Problems
Microsoft Windows Home Server has a bug showing its ugly head that can cause some corrupted files. Seeing that the point of having a home server is to store files, this corruption of files can cause some problems for this purpose. According to Microsoft, the bug only becomes an issue when the system is under an "extreme load" but have decided to sound an alarm and conduct an investigation of the issue before it becomes a serious issue. Microsoft says that the problem is not 100 percent reproducible and depends on several factors to make it happen. The server must be under an extreme load and doing a large file copy, and at the same time the server cache must be full and the user has to be editing a file to a previously shared folder. At some time in the future, a fix will be pushed to all Windows Home Server customers by way of Windows Update with the process to be determined by the server software's Automatic Updates settings.
Jackson Browne Backs Off Support for Pro-Nuke Obama
On Capitol Hill today, there was a press conference. Three members of Congress - Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), John Hall (D-New York), and Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada) - were there. Activists like Harvey Wasserman and David Fenton - were there. And musicians including Hall, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash - who were among the organizers, with Wasserman, of the 1979 No Nukes Concerts in Madison Square Garden, which played a prominent role in galvanizing citizen energy against nuclear power - were there. Environmental leaders from NRDC, Greenpeace, U.S. PIRG, Public Citzen, Sierra Club, the Environmental Working Group, the League of Conservation Voters, among others - were there. They made arguments against pending legislation that will grant massive loan guarantees to nuclear power companies to build new reactors.
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