Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Baltimore’s Trash Per Day | BillMoyers.com

A large wheel has been strolling the Baltimore Inner Harbor this summer, doing its best to clean the trash that has littered a city landmark and tourist attraction.

It’s called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, and though it moves slowly, it has the capability to collect 50,000 pounds of trash. The timing for John Kellett’s solar-powered creation is crucial — hands and crab nets simply can’t keep up with the growing amount of wrappers, cigarette butts, bottles and other debris carried from storm drains into the harbor.

“It looks sort of like a cross between a spaceship and a covered wagon and an old mill,” Kellett told NPR. “It’s pretty unique in its look, but it’s also doing a really good job getting this trash out of the water.”

This is the kinda thing that I wanna be a part of.

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Well, it’s Blackhawks mania here in the office.

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So I followed a link to an latimes.com article on my phone about this new Ello social network. The only thing I see is the headline since the page is cluttered with visual garbage.

Needless to say, I didn’t bother to stick around.

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She snuck upon on me a few minutes ago and scared the crap outta me.

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Peeps, the rose bush wishes you a wonderful evening.

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Robin Williams’ final movie trailer is out, and it’s wrecking us

In Boulevard, Williams’ character plays an unhappy bank manager named Nolan whose marriage starts rapidly crumbling as soon as he meets Leo. Leo is the catalyst that makes Nolan realize that although he loves his wife —it’s time to confront something he’s been in denial about his entire life: his sexuality.

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Peeps, everything the Violent Femmes did before 1994 should be in your catalog if it’s not already.

PS- I was with a girl but it felt like I was with a boy.

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I could probably watch this for minutes.

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Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel.

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of the Houston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, the officials said.

The officials did not say which employees were the focus of the investigation or whether the team’s highest-ranking officials were aware of the hacking or authorized it. The investigation is being led by the F.B.I.’s Houston field office and has progressed to the point that subpoenas have been served on the Cardinals and Major League Baseball for electronic correspondence.

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Sometimes me and #Amazon jam to epic scores when I work from home.

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