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• PlanetMagpie's Doreyne Douglas says she'd like to see the on-shoring instead of off-shoring concept begin spreading throughout information technology as it is in manufacturing.
• She says the cost of hiring programmers in India far exceeds the promised price with language, cultural and time-zone issues.
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AP News in Brief
Southern Plains, Ozarks clean up as storms that killed 12 in floods, tornado head eastward
• EL RENO, Okla. (AP) -- A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the East Coast on Sunday.
• A tornado killed nine people as it charged down Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City's western suburbs on Friday night, twisting billboards and scattering cars and tractor-trailers along a roadway clogged with rush-hour motorists leaving work or fleeing the storm's path. Flash floods in Arkansas killed three early Friday, including a sheriff attempting a water rescue.
• "The last two nights, I've been having hell," said Roy Stoddard, a truck driver from Depew, Okla., who was delayed by rising floodwaters at Little Rock, Ark. on Thursday. Then on Friday evening, he had to take shelter in a store's walk-in cooler during Friday evening's rush-hour in Oklahoma City as deadly weather approached.
• "I know what a tornado can do," Stoddard added.
• Damage from Friday night's severe weather was concentrated a few miles north of Moore, the Oklahoma City suburb pounded by an EF5 tornado on May 20 that killed 24 people. Next up, the system was approaching the densely populated Northeast.
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Wildfire: NM crews fight blazes as smoke plagues capital; A thousand homes evacuated in Calif.
• ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Firefighting teams in California and New Mexico are battling early season wildfires that have blackened thousands of acres and threatened homes and building, spurring numerous evacuations.
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