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Oil and gas interests left to "self-regulate" in aftermath of winter storm ERIN DOUGLAS, The Texas Tribune March 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail After being battered by withering criticism of its management of the power grid during last month’s winter storm, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas saw several of its board members resign and fired its CEO. The chair of the Public Utility Commission, which oversees the grid operator, was forced to resign. The political fallout from the long-las...

Canada media group tries to block sale of ‘pirate’ set-top boxes 04-03-2021 20-05-2016 Canadian media company Allarco Entertainment has requested an injunction preventing retailers including Best Buy and Staples from selling “pirate’ set-top boxes in their stores. The owner of TV network Super Channel sought an immediate injunction at the Court of Queens Bench of Alberta, claiming that the retailers were facilitating copyright infringement. This is the latest development in an ong...

Craig Finn has been insanely busy through Trump and pandemic years, alternating between introspective solo albums and strident anthemic works with his band, The Hold Steady. So it’s not surprising

TEXAS POWER GRID HEARINGS: Natural gas suppliers, power plants blame each other FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Lawmakers listen as Bill Magness, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), testifies as the Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources holds a joint public hearing to consider the factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. The hearings were the first in Texas since a blackout that was one of the worst i...

New guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine welcome surprise in Westport FacebookTwitterEmail A tray of syringes filled with doses of COVID-19 vaccine at the vaccination clinic set up in the gymnasium of the Bigelow Center for Senior Activities, in Fairfield in Jan.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media WESTPORT — Ellen Johnston was surprised on Monday when she learned she would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning March 1. “I didn’t think it was probably going to be until May,” said J...

Flour for Baking After swinging by our favorite bakeries this weekend for a box of whatever looks good, track down Barton Spring Mills flour at Central Market to bake bread. We recently talked to Oak Cliff Bread about the variety they use, but there’s a full range offered depending on what you’re baking, including pastry flour. NYTimes no-knead recipe is almost fail-proof (just be sure you find a warm place for the yeast to get crazy). Nothing like fresh bread with counter butter. Queso ...

Perfect storm: Energy supply chain slashed by extreme weather FacebookTwitterEmail “These extreme weather conditions impacted every aspect of the Texas energy supply chain,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association.Eli Hartman, MBI / Associated Press Texas natural gas producers struggled to keep up with record demand during the historic winter storm that wreaked havoc on the state’s electricity grid and plunged millions of residents into frigid darkness. The compa...

Noor Avenue Staples Aligns with Industry-Leading Repair Provider uBreakiFix to Elevate In-Store Tech Support OfferingsSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading electronics repair brand uBreakiFix® has partnered with Staples® to open a tech repair hub within Staples’ South San Francisco location at 470 Noor Avenue. The new repair hub provides Staples customers access to on-site, professional repair service for anything with a power button. The uBreakiFix tech repai...

  While artists are rightfully wary of reductive phrases like “lockdown album”, the extenuating circumstances of recent times helped Tindersticks get their 13th album, Distractions, over the line. “I think the confinement provided an opportunity for something that was already happening,” singer Stuart Staples says. “I found myself in the studio at the end of March with all this time I didn’t expect to have. It gave us a purpose and a way of losing myself in weird ...

Deals round up Wednesday, Feb. 10 We also included some philosophy. The Buy Area Staff FacebookTwitterEmail As Socrates once said, "there is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." If we had been Socrates students, we would have helpfully added, "its also good when things are on sale because its nice to save money." Socrates would have been so happy that he would have told Plato to take a hike and made us his protege. Alas, what a world we could have lived in, where everyone knew a...