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You love moving and shaking. After all, playing with a normal controller just sounds boring. Come on in and meet up with other gamers who like throwing remotes around.
Personally, my favorite is SSBB. Post your favorites here.
I am a mac gamer and proud of it.
SSBB all the way!
Super Smash Bros. Brawl is definitely the best Wii game. Heck, I think it's the best game ever.
No More Heroes.
Twilight Princess has been the best game so far. It packed solid and dependable while renewed gameplay along with a good story.
Mine is Mario Kart Wii. I can play that all day...especially online. It's so much fun.
Although I haven't had my Wii system for a long time, I am really enjoying playing Boom Blox. I like that I can just pick it up and play whenever I don't feel like getting too involved with another game I may be playing.
i think the best game for the wii is super smash bro brawl even though i lose to my little brother its ok.... i love it anyway i love link hes awesome
By far is Super Smash Bros Brawl. I don't think they're gonna be another Wii game that can match the greatness of Brawl.
I love the The Conduit multiplayer. Its like Halo for the Wii.
Smash Bros Brawl and Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn r tied for me!!
Ou should probably be able to tell by my avatar. 2nd fav, MP3, then SSBB.
And that's what she said.
It would be a close battle between Twilight Princess and Super Smash Bros Brawl. In the end though, I think that SSBB would overcome on my favorites list.
its the best game ever!...by far
My favorite is Brawl, obviously. But besides that, Galaxy and World of Goo are my other favorite Wii games.


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Prep for two meals done at one time.
by Jaclyn Kreifels
Caring for a family is a lot of responsibility. And you want to provide good, nutritious meals for your family; but you only have time for quick meals? Just because their quick does not mean they can't be nutritious too! Make a collection of recipes, and take a look at your weekly calendar. A lot of prep work for meals can be done in advance. Having a chicken dish tonight? Bake extra chicken to have for fajitas or chicken salad sandwiches for the next day. Prep for two meals done at one time.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007
What the hell is wrong with people?
Unfortunately, there is an ugly and not so feel-good side to this story: Johnson said he has hired security for their wedding this weekend due to racial threats. Apparently the bigots of the world have a problem with Johnson, who is black, marrying his white girlfriend. According to the AP story linked above, since his Jan. 1 proposal, Johnson has received phone calls, letters and some personal threats from people who object to their marriage plans.
Worst of all, as Johnson even says, "It's really sad because a lot of people that are probably doing it are the same people who were cheering me on."
Man, I'd like to think that's not the case. Then again, I would've liked to think in 2007, Johnson and his fiancee wouldn't be getting such hateful threats from anybody right before their big day.
7 comments:
- Out of Conference said...
Sooner fans.
- July 26, 2007 9:31 AM
- beast in 'bama said...
Damned land thieves...
- July 26, 2007 9:59 AM
- Matt said...
So much for progress. I hate people.
Not like it really matters, but I didn't see much difference in skin color between the two when he proposed. I guess to normal people like you and me, this kind of thing isn't a cause for alarm in the first place.
- July 26, 2007 11:28 AM
- Brad Coe said...
Im sure for the people making the threats wouldn't like being threatened. What if the peoples wives had a tatoo and there was a group that don't believe in tatoos. Then that group starts threatening their marriage. Its stupid. I see a human being marrying a human being and think it is awesome thing that they have fell in love. You can't find that around the corner. So the people making the threats need to shut the hell up and let them live their lives. and for those who are asking, No im not black and don't even have any blacks in my family, but i respect all human beings and think we all deserve to be treated the same.
- July 26, 2007 12:12 PM
- One Man Gang said...
In other news, that's a pretty quick turnaround for that wedding, isn't it?
- July 26, 2007 12:40 PM
- insomniac said...
You can show the couple your support by sending them a teapot or something.
- July 26, 2007 6:48 PM
- harry hasselhoff said...
It's Idaho. What isn't wrong with that place?
- July 27, 2007 1:27 PM


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Basketball's Fine but Baseball's Divine
Tomorrow is the first official Rockies spring training game of 2010 against the D-Backs.
I so wanted to be there welcoming the players and wishing them good luck. My smiling face was doing just that the first game of spring training last season and look how far the Rockies went…I'm just say'n 🙂
The Hotstove.com has been sending out questions to Rockies Bloggers and they've been posting my responses along with several other Rockies Bloggers.
Here's the question from Feb 24, 2010:
If free agent infielder Felipe Lopez can be had for a bargain price, should the Rockies consider bringing him in to give Clint Barmes some competition at second base?
The other question was from today and it was:
The Rockies have been notoriously slow starters in the past few seasons, often digging a deep hole for themselves in April. Is it the cold weather in Colorado, or something else that keeps the team from performing well early in the season?
Answering questions about the Rockies is fun in anticipation of the regular season but thank god for basketball, it fulfulls my need to watch live sports and take pictures in the baseball off-season and doesn't break the bank(Thanks B).
In a month we'll be watching the Rockies play the Mariners. I have several goals for those two special games.
You ask why is it a special game? Honestly I'm not sure but the ticket prices suggest something special so when I figure out exactly what it is that justifies the extremely high cost of tickets for these two games I'll let you know. (The cheapest ticket is $25.00)
First I'd like to get Ken Griffey Jr's autograph(Yeah I know who wouldn't). It's doubtful he'd sign for me dressed up in my Rockies gear but my wife Krista will be with me and that levels the playing field.
Second I'd like to catch a batting practice homer and/or possibly a game foul ball.
Third, I'd like to get Jason Giambi's autograph. Yes I know I have all season to do that but I figure I'd get 'er done early and that's one less thing to do.
By the way if you're attending this game and would like to trade your BERM tickets for tickets in section 120 give me a shout.
I attended the Nuggets/Pistons game on Feb 26th with my buddy Tom and Vanilla Ice was the half-time show. This is the second time I've seen Vanilla Ice at the Pepsi Center as he did the same thing last season.
I'm not a fan, the video was shot only for future laughs.
Here are random game shots from the third level. A shot of Kenyon Martin who's been injured.
This is a No-No, c'mon dude this was a good game.
George Karl, being a trooper and working through his illness.
If you've ever wondered why they call Chris Anderson "The Birdman" here's why.
The Nuggets beat the Pistons 107-102.
Next weekend is Frozen Dead Guy Days in my town of Nederland, Colorado.
I plan to do a huge entry with pictures on FDGD explaining exactly what it is so you'll have to check back to read it.
The games have begun, and I'm ready for some fun in the sun.
D..The Rockpile Ranter
Go Rockies


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Begin the Journey to Your Secure Enterprise: Solution Overview
Today's enterprise security needs a balance of flexibility as well as managing high volumes of interaction. With the demands for security evolving on a regular basis, IT pros face many challenges.
This informative resource outlines some of the key steps to creating a secure enterprise. Learn more about developing a security balance to support your enterprise with an actionable plan.


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Book Review: Camel In Action 55
|Camel In Action
|Claus Ibsen, Jonathan Anstey
|Manning Publications
|A Camel tutorial full of small examples showing how to work with the integration patterns.
The book is exhaustive in it's coverage of Camel. It shows the reader how to configure Camel using both Java code and Spring configuration snippets. It's meant to be progressive in nature, showing the reader simple uses to start with, then progressing to more advanced scenarios as the book gets into the latter chapters. (More about this later, it involves my only complaint about the book.) Along the way, the authors address real-world topics like transactions, production monitoring, and deployment to different hosting containers. All told, the book reflects the concerns of someone who has actually used Camel for real-world work, and as such will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone moving Camel to production.
The source code that goes with the book is clean, easy to read, and above all it works right out of the box. It's all Maven-centric, so if you're not a Maven user yet you will be at least partially practiced in it by the time you're done with this book. The examples are straight out of the chapters, so you can look to the book for a detailed explanation of what you're running. (You can also run what's being described, and monkey with it to learn new things. Very handy.) I offer no improvement for the sample code, it works as advertised.
I was especially impressed by the care the authors took to explain the really nitty-gritty stuff that a real-world user is going to need. Concurrency and transactions fall into this category. All the sample examples in the world won't help you if the book doesn't help you scale you app and make it safe for production use, considerations you sometimes don't find in tech books. They're here, though, and covered in sufficient detail to meet your go-to-production needs.
This is a big book, and the text it contains is as simple as it should be but no simpler. The illustrations are simple and relevant. If you're brand new to Camel and want to read it front to back, be prepared to allocate a good number of hours for this task. This is because there's just a lot of material covered here, none of it fluff. If you're already an established Camel user, this book will serve well as a desktop reference for when you want to venture off into more of Camel's abundant functionality.
So what's not to like? The only criticism I have for this book is that the ordering of the chapters is not quite to my liking. It starts out with the simple canned examples, and they get progressively harder, 'till the reader is finally given the knowledge to write their own applications way out in chapter 11. If you're like me, you like to see an example or two, then you like to start hacking out your own "Hello World" apps to get a feel for how to build the artifacts you need to get things running. I thought chapter 11 was too late in the game for that knowledge. In fairness, if you're a reader who doesn't mind skipping around as you read, then just skip to chapter 11 right away and you needn't worry about this tiny nit.
So who's this book good for? Camel users of all types, from beginners to those who already own running Camel apps will benefit from this book. You won't be sorry-- you'll never wish you'd held out for a better book, because there just flat isn't going to be one, at least not for a long, long time.
You can purchase Camel In Action from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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With the new school year, Clarke's school buses are getting back into action. However, there's been a few snags along the way.
On the first day of school, two school buses broke down. They were buses No. 2 and No. 10.
During an Aug. 12 Clarke School Board meeting, Rick Perin, the school's transportation director, recommended the school board purchase six new buses to replace the district's six oldest buses.
"It seems like, to me, that next board meeting, we better buy a couple of buses, at minimum. … You guys are really in a situation right now where we might not have enough buses to haul the kids around. So, let's get some buses bought immediately," said James Bair, school board member, during an Aug. 26 school board meeting.
Worst-case scenario
The question is, what happens if more buses break down before new buses can be purchased?
Perin said, many times, a school bus being "down," doesn't mean a major breakdown. Problems and equipment can often be fixed in a timely manner.
The worst case scenario is an extracurricular activity, such as a football game, could be canceled because there's not enough buses for transportation.
Perin said he would do everything for that not to happen. There's always the possibility of leasing a school bus for an event or borrowing one from another school district.
Clarke Superintendent Benita Gonzales and Perin are currently working together on the issue of the school district needing new buses.
Perin said he can acquire used buses for the district to purchase, but they will be similar to the condition of buses the district already has in its fleet.
"Just an additional comment, too," said Gerard Linskens, school board president. "Yeah, we've spent how much money on technology, which is great, but if you're looking at essentials, the logistics of just getting kids back and forth places — to school — that's an essential thing. I think it's very important that we really strive forward with this."
More problems
There were other bus issues discussed during the Aug. 26 board meeting, which many bus drivers attended.
Perin said no children were "lost" the first day of school. However, some children did fall asleep on the buses.
Extreme heat has also been a problem.
"When we are getting out of school early, you might have the greatest air-conditioning system in the whole district, but those buses are about 104 or 105 degrees," said school-bus driver Tom Murr. "When we get 60 people in there, they get even hotter."
Murr added, as for getting ventilation with having the windows down, he only goes about 15 miles per hour in town and, on some routes, there are three children to a seat.
Then, there's the use of foul language on school buses.
Murr said bus drivers need the school board's full support and help when dealing with inappropriate language on school buses.
Last year, a bus driver had to deal with a boy calling him and other students derogatory names. The male student was written up by the bus driver, but he wasn't taken off the bus until he started harassing a female student.
"When we ignore the F-word, we're not helping these kids," Murr said.
The policy on language in the classrooms applies to language on school buses.
Perin said students know when the bus driver has his or her full attention on the road.
"They know when he looks down, it's time to act up," he said. "It's going to get even worse if we get newer buses. Your bus seats are taller now, just for safety's sake. Kids can hide. They can lay down. They can do all kinds of stuff … our hands our tied."
A comment was made if a student gets written up about behavior on the school bus, the board and administration need to follow through with appropriate discipline.
Perin said it would be worthwhile to look into installing cameras on school buses.
"It's evidence. There it is," he said. "You bring Mom and Dad in and say, 'It's your kid, isn't it? What do you want to do about it?'"


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Jessica Courtier will give the talk, "Blues Rhapsodies and Jazz Fantasies: Bessie Smith in 'St. Louis Blues' and Duke Ellington in 'Black and Tan'," on Monday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building at Bucknell University. [NOTE time change]
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the ongoing Samuel Williams Colloquium on Jazz and Culture at Bucknell, sponsored by the music department and made possible by a gift from Ellen Williams, Class of 1919.
In her study of short musical films from the 1920s and '30s, Courtier is developing new work on the relationship between filmic vocal performance and perceptions of gendered, raced, and classed social identity.
Courtier holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Virginia. She has given papers at Feminist Theory and Music, Music and the Moving Image, and the Society for American Music, from which she received the Mark Tucker Award for Outstanding Student Paper.
Together with several colleagues she recently presented the panel, "Performing Under Suspicion: Generic Conventions and African-American Female Singers," at the American Musicological Society.
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NORWALK, Conn. -- Norwalk firefighters quickly extinguished a truck fire that backed up traffic on I-95 southbound at midday Thursday.
Three engines responded to the fire at 11:30 a.m. The burning tractor-trailer truck was stopped in the slow travel lane near the Route 7 connector. The blaze was extinguished within 10 minutes, and firefighters continued to cool the smoldering tractor cab and motor for several minutes, fire officials said. The shipping container that the truck was carrying was empty.
The saddle tanks of the tractor contained 100 gallons of diesel fuel. Connecticut Department of Transportation crews and sand trucks assisted with some motor fluids that mixed with rainfall on the highway, fire officials said. The storm water culverts to the Norwalk River were checked for motor fluids, and none were found.
The southbound traffic on I-95 and the Route 7 connector was shut down or reduced to one lane for an hour as emergency crews worked the scene. Firefighters and DOT crews removed melted debris from the roadway, and Parkway Auto Body towed the truck from the highway.
Fire Inspector Tom Raila is investigating the cause of the blaze. The driver of the truck was not injured in the incident.
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Students learning science in the great outdoors with Kids on the Land program
Recently, 122 students from Blackwell, Highland, and Roscoe visited the 69 Ranch for another day of hands-on learning with Kids On the Land volunteers. This is the third year for the program due to the generosity of the Dickson Family, Buzzi Unicem, Infigen Energy, Nolan County Soil and Water Conservation Board and Hydraulic Supply and Service Company. Others in the Maryneal community provided food and volunteers."The fourth and fifth grade students are learning science in the great outdoors," said Peggy Maddox, Executive Director of Kids On the Land, Inc. The 501c3 non-profit's program is spreading across Texas. Since its beginning in 2003, over 2,800 students have participated. The mission of the organization is – "Kids On the Land is a unique environmental program designed to teach children about the region where they live, connecting them to the land and a more sustainable future."A video team from the Ft. Worth office of the Army Corps of Engineers came for the event in order to video Kids On the Land in action. They see the program as an extension of their work with Texas schools in order to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Bryon Haney, geo-spatial engineer from that office has been a volunteer for the last five years.Local volunteers included Katherine Dickson, Mandi Ligon, Jesse Monroe, Darrell Doggett, Josh Boston, Dalton and Gretchen Maddox, Susie Dent, Katy Hoskins and Celeste Hill. Others, from out of town, included Dr. Paul Martin and his wife, Betsy, Karen McGinnis, Angie Dickson, Daniel Makins and Bryon Haney.For more information about Kids On the Land, contact Peggy Maddox at 325.392.2292 or email email@example.com. You can visit their website, kidsontheland.org.


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Work has begun on the much anticipated Beach Renourishment Project. The starting point for the project is Magnolia Street in Hollywood. The project will then work southward to the Miami-Dade County line in Hallandale Beach. Equipment has been brought in and assembly of shore pipe is taking place at Magnolia Street. Workers are laying submerged pipe for the dredging process just off shore, a quarter of a mile south of Magnolia Street.
Equipment Assembly
Pipeline is readied for assembly at Magnolia Street. A total of 16,470 feet, or 3.12 miles of steel, 30-inch diameter pipe will be used in the Beach Renourishment Project, both on shore and submerged.
Beachgoers will encounter heavy equipment on the beach from time to time during the Beach Renourishment Project. Among the equipment beachgoers may see are bulldozers, front-end loaders, ATV carts, field shacks, fuel tanks, pipeline, valves, and fittings.
Off-Shore Work
After assembly at Port Everglades, the pipe string to be submerged was towed to the pipeline corridor location just south of Magnolia Street in Hollywood.
The pipeline string was then aligned in the proper corridor. To insure safety of both boaters and swimmers, marker buoys have been placed to identify the work area.
After the pipeline is properly aligned, it is sunk to the ocean floor.


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Steven J. Milloy is NOT a scientist but industry-paid hack [sourcewatch.org], is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. For years, Milloy has been scamming people on Fox News and on his junkscience site.
This guy has been bought and paid for many times over by companies like Phillip Morris and Exxon Mobil.
This report [ucsusa.org] from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how Milloy, headed a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which had been covertly created by the tobacco company Philip Morris in 1993 to manufacture uncertainty about the health hazards posed by secondhand smoke. Milloy also served as a member of the small 1998 Global Climate Science Team task force that mapped out ExxonMobil's disinformation strategy on global warming. Between 2000 and 2004, ExxonMobil gave $50,000 to Milloy's Advancement of Sound Science Center, and another $60,000 to an organization called the Free Enterprise Education Institute (a.k.a. Free Enterprise Action Institute), which is also registered to Milloy's home address.
ExxonMobil also gave $130,000 to Milloy's "Free Enterprise Action Institute" between 1998-2005. The organization is registered under Milloy's name and home address.
Milloy is also the former director of the "National Environmental Policy Institute". Yet another industry front group providing disinformation on climate science to which ExxonMobil gave at least $75,000.
As others have stated, Milloy never mentions the large amounts of mercury being released from coal-fired power plants that has resulted in levels of mercury so high in lakes and streams of New England that state health agencies have to warn pregnant women and young children not to eat too much fish caught from these waters. Milloy never mentions that his friends in the power industry (and unfortunately the current administrators in the EPA) fought tooth and nail to prevent the installation of equipment on the power plants to remove the large amounts of mercury released to the air.
As has been pointed out, the mercury in the CFL bulbs (unlike that being released from power plants) is contained and the bulbs can be recycled. Should we eventually move to other solutions with less potential for mercury contamination like LED bulbs. Absolutely! But LED bulbs are even more expensive now than CFLs.
What people like Milloy do and have done for years is nothing less then criminal: Take money from industry to lie and confuse Americans about the dangers of smoking, concerns about global warming, and other health, safety, and consumer issues.
Yep, I've used sulphur powder twice for spills, once in a chem lab and once from a thermometer at home.
Sulphur powder is preferred over zinc for home use. Sulphur is readily purchased from a drugstore, is inexpensive, has no odor when used, is non-staining to clothing/rugs/pets/furniture, and is non-toxic as long as you don't take a match to it.
Whereas zinc powder is (surprise!) flammable.
Make sure you get *powdered* sulphur. It looks like yellow chalk dust. Coarse granules are much less effective for a couple of reasons.
Directions for use (assumes you're dealing with the 5 mg-10 mg mercury of a CFL):
1. Pick up glass first.
2. Sprinkle the dry sulphur powder wherever you think the mercury went. You can use lots, but piles of sulphur powder are overkill.
2. Work it into the area, say by spreading with a disposable cloth. (Careful of glass though!)
3. Wipe it up. Since it's bright yellow, it's easy to see where to clean. Use dry or wet cloth for this. Final clean with vacuum cleaner is optional.
4. Dispose in trash. Sulphur powder is stable and benign to the environment. As others have pointed out, 5 mg mercury in a sulphur amalgam is a low risk.
While mercury does turn dry sulphur a brown color, you don't get enough mercury from a CFL for the brown to be visible to you.
The issue is when you take 5mg of mercury and multiply it by the number of people who just toss these in landfills. Let us take a reasonably small number of say 40,000 bulbs in your local landfill that is 200,000 mg of mercury. I can assure you that 200,000 mg could easily leach into your local water supply if the land fill is poorly designed or overused (which happens frequently).
Ah but burning coal, which many powerplants burn to produce energy, releases mercury too. By using CFLs people don't use as much power and therfore not as much coal is burned. Niether this article nor you mention this. If it's just concern for mercury then a comparison of how much mercury is released by burning coal for the power to light incandescents and CFLs vr how much mercury is in CFLs needs to be done. However it's not so simple because by using CFLs greenhouse gas emissions are also cut, then there the pollution from coal mining.
I bet an overall analysis, ROI or TCO, of incandsescent lights and CFLs will conclude CFLs are better. Oh, also you mention about CFLs ending up in landfills however some places take them for recycling. I can't vouch for it but here's a business that recycles and makes equipment to recycle CFLs, Air Cycle [aircycle.com].Falcon
Have you ever broken an old-school tube flouro? You know, the ones with 10 to 100 times the mercury of modern Compact Flouro bulbs?
I can't tell what you're trying to say here. Are you trying to say the risk of breakage is minimal? Because I've broken both types before. Are you trying to say that the impact is minimal compared to the old ones? That is a stupid argument; if I shoot you, you are not going to invite me to stab you because what the fuck, it's nothing compared to being shot.
Like most people, when something no longer works, it goes in the trash. After the CFL's start making inroads into most houses...will we soon then be forced to take our bulbs to a special disposal unit or be taxed to cover the cost of disposal of these?
Most people do not recycle, do not haul stuff to be disposed of in an orderly, environmentally sensitive way. They throw it in the trash, and the trash man hauls it off to 'somewhere'. Will the mercury in these bulbs make that even worse than it is today?
I'm not really gonna want to buy and use something unless it is economically beneficial to me, or makes life easier.
The article is a bit too one-sided on the mercury issue.
From CFL's wiki entry [wikipedia.org]:
Note that coal power plants are the "the largest uncontrolled industrial source of mercury emissions in Canada". According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (when coal power is used) the mercury released from powering an incandescent bulb for five years exceeds the total of (a) the mercury released by powering a comparably luminous CFL for the same period and (b) the mercury contained in the lamp. It should be noted,
If CFLs are recycled and the mercury reclaimed, the equation tilts towards CFLs
Many major US cities still don't even have curbside recycling for lucrative materials like aluminum.
The vast majority of people won't recycle anything that they can't do at their curbside.
Almost everyone left will recycle something only if they need to in order to keep the waste out of their yard (dirty oil and coolant, for example) or if there is a sizable deposit that they need to recover. Which means tha
Which means that the vast majority of CFLs are going right into the trash. Which means that the equation is tilted significantly towards incandescents.
Except for the fact that the extra power consumed by incandescents releases more mercury than is in the CFB, given the current coal plant emissions and proportion of US power generated from coal.
Never min
Like the National Post [wikipedia.org], which is where TFA is.This is an urban legend propagated by conservative propaganda sites.
It's overreaction. Mercury really isn't that dangerous. I mean, it's not safe either, but the really horrific things happened back when scientists were so fascinated by the stuff that they'd enclose themselves in small, poorly ventillated rooms with big pools of mercury evaporating into the air, and sometimes even submerge large portions of their bodies into tubs full of mercury.
So, yeah, if you break a thermometer, don't clean it up with your tongue. Don't feed your kids diets consisting only of tuna, because their bodies are small and mercury builds up. But if you break a thermometer or CF bulb, don't worry about it. Even if you get a little on your hands, it's not going to kill you.
But there's a lesson here - if you break a CFL, open the windows and clean it up yourself. Don't lick the floor where it broke. Don't gnaw on the pieces of broken glass. Don't scrape the coating from the inside of the bulb, dissolve it in vodka, and inject it into your neck. Use common sense.
Safe cleanup precautions: If a CFL breaks in your home, open nearby windows to disperse any vapor that may escape, carefully sweep up the fragments (do not use your hands) and wipe the area with a disposable paper towel to remove all glass fragments. Do not use a vacuum. Place all fragments in a sealed plastic bag and follow disposal instructions above.
Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk-science expert and advocate of free enterprise, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Is it true that CFLs contain mercury? Why and how much?
CFLs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing - an average of 5 milligrams (roughly equivalent to the tip of a ball-point pen). Mercury is an essential, irreplaceable element in CFLs and is what allows the bulb to be an efficient light source. By comparison, older home thermometers contain 500 milligrams of mercury and many manual thermostats contain up to 3000 milligrams. It would take between 100 and 600 CFLs to equal those amounts.
What should I do if a CFL breaks?
Because there is such a small amount of mercury in CFLs, your greatest risk if a bulb breaks is getting cut from glass shards. Research indicates that there is no immediate health risk to you or your family should a bulb break and it's cleaned up properly. You can minimize any risks by following these proper clean-up and disposal guidelines:
- Sweep up--don't vacuum--all of the glass fragments and fine particles.
- Place broken pieces in a sealed plastic bag and wipe the area with a damp paper towel to pick up any stray shards of glass or fine particles. Put the used towel in the plastic bag as well.
- If weather permits, open windows to allow the room to ventilate.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant


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This is from the latest "Dear Prudence" on Slate.com.
Dear Prudence,
A close friend of mine unfortunately was diagnosed with HIV about two years ago. We are part of a circle of close gay friends. We have been extremely supportive of him, as he is young and nobody wants such a life-altering illness. He avoided dating, as well as sex dates, until he met the person who seems to be the man of his dreams. His boyfriend does not have HIV, and we figured that our friend would tell him his own status soon enough. But it became apparent that he hadn't informed his partner and has avoided doing so for the past year. I assumed they were using protection but the other night I asked the boyfriend about it. He responded, Of course we don't! We've been together for a year now and are monogamous. I am in shock. My friend is being bizarrely protected by everybody with people advising that I stay out of their business. I have no idea how to tackle this situation. I feel that my friend's partner deserves to know, but how do I tell him, or who does it?
Devastating Secret
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Dear Devastating,
A couple of years ago one of your friends dates, or even one of his sex dates, neglected to pass on some crucial information to him, and thus passed on an incurable virus. I hope he is not justifying his own negligence by concluding such risks are the price one pays for an interesting sex life. Or maybe hes engaging in magical thinking and has concluded that if hes on antiretroviral therapy (which I assume he is) then love and a low viral load will protect his boyfriend. Its true treatment reduces the chances of transmission. But the risk still exists and absent the use of condoms your friend is playing sexual Russian roulette with someone elses life. I spoke to Wendy E. Parmet, associate dean of Northeastern University School of Law and an expert on public health law, and she said that in most states a person who is HIV positive and knowingly engages in unsafe sex could be found criminally liable, though such prosecutions are rare. But your dilemma is primarily an ethical one, and I applaud you for recognizing that a wrong is being done instead of shrugging off someone elses health. Either your friend has been lying to his boyfriend or hes allowed the new love to make some false assumptions about his risk. Thats a terrible thing to do, and you seem to be the only person in your circle clear-eyed enough to address this. Although I turned to Parmet for legal expertise, I agree with her suggestion about how you should proceed: Have a frank discussion with your friend in which you say you understand the turmoil he must be experiencing, but if its true he hasnt disclosed his HIV status to his boyfriend and theyre not using condoms, then something has to be done. This talk will confirm whether youve got your facts straight, and if you do, you should tell your friend he needs to inform his boyfriend immediately. Say that if he doesnt, you will. Yes, your friendship will likely be at an end. But a person who would endanger the life of someone he supposedly loves is not much of a friend to anyone.
This is a horrible situation, the friend may have to tell the boyfriend but it really should come from his own partner.


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Dothan City School Board members voted on Friday to ask that the election set for Sept. 10 be cancelled.
When the election was first called for, the school board thought all residents of Dothan could vote at their normal city polling place with Houston County supervising the election.
But, since that time, the board has discovered that Dothan residents in Henry County would have to have an election in Henry County supervised by Henry County officials.
And another election would have to be held by the Dale County Commission for Dothan residents that live in Dale County.
Also, there are residents in parts of Dale County annexed into Dothan who say they were promised at the time of the annexation, that they would not be taxed.
The questions in Dale County caused a delay in setting an election. The school board said they were concerned that the election might not be valid if all city residents aren't involved.
Before setting a date for a new election, the school board will be meeting with officials from all three counties to make sure that everything is in order.


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At the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference on Tuesday, Web telephony company Jaduka plans to announce the availability of its application programming interface, which will enable developers to create Web services that interact with the standard Public Switched Telephone Network, sometimes called PSTN.
Jaduka already offers some phone-oriented Web services such as click-to-call and disposable phone numbers, but it wants developers to build Web-based phone applications atop its voice communication platform. That platform is managed by Jaduka's parent company, enterprise telecom infrastructure provider NetworkIP.
Traditionally, "there was a huge hardware barrier to entry for anybody who wanted to just play around with telecom," said Trevor Baca, VP of software engineering for Jaduka.
By opening its API, Jaduka aims to remove that barrier and to bring in some revenue as well, since use of the phone network is metered. "If you want to send traffic over the public network, you have to pay money," Baca said.
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The Presidents Cup Senior B lacrosse national championship starts officially Monday morning at Burnaby's Bill Copeland Arena, but the verbal slashing and hacking is already well underway.
Ian McGough, coach of the two-time reigning tournament champion Owen Sound (Ont.) Woodsmen, complained about the schedule to the Owen Sound Sun Times, saying, "it's a ridiculous format, that's what it is, and it's out of hand. It's the goofiest format and I don't know why B.C. came up with it."
The tournament has gone from a modified pool play set-up with seven teams to one where all seven clubs meet once over five days, with the top two then playing for gold on Saturday. That means teams have one day where they play twice, and McGough doesn't like the fact that the tournament host Burnaby Burrards play three of their six contests against teams who will be on the back half of a doubleheader. McGough also said that he knows of two teams who have protested to the Canadian Lacrosse Association, although he didn't name them.
Burrards general manager Shawn Joinson maintains that it wasn't his club but the CLA itself that created the tournament format. It came as a result, in part, of a convoluted tiebreaker system last year in the pool play pushing the 1-3 Tri-City Bandits, instead of the 3-1 Okotoks (Alta.) Raiders, into the semifinals at nationals. As for his team benefiting from facing tired clubs this week, he maintains that it makes the most sense attendance wise to have the Burrards and the Bandits, the B.C. champions, in the marquee game slots.
"It is an awful lot of lacrosse, but there's no way you can do true pool play with seven teams," he said.
Owen Sound remains one of the tournament favourites heading in. They feature goaltender Steve Dietrich, 40, who just wrapped up his 18th National Lacrosse League season as a back-up with the Toronto Rock. In the summer, he's been part of two Mann Cup Senior A national championships and three Presidents Cups, including the past two with Owen Sound.
Tri-City also looks good on paper, led by Athan Iannucci, 28, and Russ Heard, 46, both former scoring champions from B.C.'s Senior A league, the Western Lacrosse Association. Iannucci is rehabbing from knee troubles. He had a league-record 71 goals in 16 games in the NLL with the Philadelphia Wings in 2008.
As for the Burrards, they copped the West Coast Senior Lacrosse League regular season crown this season, their 14-1-1-0 record leaving them two points ahead of the 13-2-0-1 Bandits. They were upset in the league semifinals, falling 3-0 in the best-of-five set to the Nanaimo Timbermen. Tri-City ended up beating Nanaimo 3-1 in the best-of-seven finale.
The Burrards don't have the star power of some of the other teams, admits Burnaby veteran Cory Seigner, but he maintains their chemistry makes them competitive.
"Shawn and the rest of the staff has done a good job of putting together a team of 25 friends," said Seigner, 29. "We've got a lot of character, and we're all liked minded."


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As long as I'm recommending products -- and providing links which, if used, support this blog -- I just bought this expensive stool today, a Swopper. I'm expecting this thing to save me from my bad habit of getting locked into one position while working at the computer for hours on end. Also, I read that fidgeting burns a lot of calories over the course of the day, and I'm thinking the Swopper will promote fidgeting. You can bounce and wobble on it. And of course, with no back, it forces you to use some muscles to sit upright.
Now, one more thing, which I'd like to buy, but haven't bought yet, is a Jesper sit/stand desk. I've seen it in the store. It looks great, and it's motorized with a simple button to raise and lower the desk, so you can make it a standing desk to vary your position. I mentioned this thing the other day in the comments to that post about treadmills in front of desks, and somebody said they wanted more info. So this is the info.
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Davidson County Schools Transportation Department officials implemented a new way of registering students riding the bus for the upcoming school year.
Davidson County Schools Transportation Department officials implemented a new way of registering students riding the bus for the upcoming school year.
A deadline has been set for Friday where parents need to inform their children's school that they will need to ride the bus for transportation. Information packets were sent home at the end of the school year with students and phone messages were sent out to alert parents of the changes. If the information is not given to officials by the deadline, parents can expect a delay and will need to be ready to provide transportation for the child for two to 10 days.
Gary Buie, transportation director, said if parents have not filled out a sheet they need to contact their child's school as soon as possible. The next step is to contact the transportation department at 249-8977.
"We just want to give them as many opportunities as we can," Buie said.
In the past parents would normally get information about their child riding the bus during open house, which is usually the week before school starts. Buie noted that parents could sign up for the bus up until the last day before school started.
With that old procedure Buie said the buses were having overcrowding issues, and it created dangerous situations because the drivers did not have enough time to prepare for the route or know who was riding their bus.
If a parent has already turned in information, Buie said, they are OK. He said if the family has moved or relocated to another part of the county, they need to contact the school in their district by Friday.
With the deadline, transportation officials will have two weeks to get the administrative work complete where they can develop routes and verify the bus stops. Buie noted this set up will allow them to work on the number of students per buses. Then before buses roll out on the first day of school, bus drivers will have had the chance to drive their routes and learn the bus stops.
At the start of the third week in August when parents attend open house at the schools, they will receive information on where the child's bus stops are located and what time the bus should arrive.
The system had 10,864 students ride one of the 188 buses last school year. Buie said there are more than 300 bus routes developed all over the county.
"It's all about safety," Buie said. "We want our bus drivers to be prepared to know where they are going on Aug. 25."
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I fail to see how extensions are either a form of lock-in or a particular security risk. True, users will have to exercise a degree of discretion in selecting which extensions to trust and install, but that's pretty much true of all software -- even with package management in a Linux distribution, you're trusting the distribution authors, and the people packaging the software (which is probably fairly safe). I really don't see how the ability to install and use NoScript somehow degrades my browser's security.
And I don't really see how they're a lock-in either. Calling something a lock-in implies that steps are deliberately being taken to prevent competitors from implementing a similar feature, or preventing compatibility with competitors' products. The FireFox team is doing neither, to my knowledge: if google gets their extension framework sorted out and NoScript gets ported (or a function-alike is created), then there won't really be anything the FireFox team can do, and I wouldn't expect them to try prevent such an occurrence anyway.
Edit: And, when did Epiphany become more than Gecko in GTK decorations?
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When i am working with directStore, how to process with grid Paging Tool and Grid Buffer
When i am working with directStore, how to process with grid Paging Tool and Grid Buffer
Are you wanting to use paging or the buffered store?
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So I am running into an issue which I expect is similar to the OP. I'm having an interesting time getting buffered scrolling working with a direct store using the api scheme.
I have looked quite a bit for examples of using direct store with the api scheme, but haven't been able to find any. First I'll explain what I'm doing, then I'll explain the result I'm seeing.
Here is the code I'm using:
I have tried it with and without the plugin declaration in the grid, as i've found examples of people doing this many different ways.Code:Ext.require([ 'Ext.grid.*', 'Ext.data.*', 'Ext.util.*', 'Ext.state.*', 'Ext.ux.grid.FiltersFeature', 'Ext.grid.plugin.BufferedRenderer' ]); Ext.define('App.store.SampleStore', { extend : 'Ext.data.DirectStore', requires : [ 'App.model.SampleModel' ], constructor : function(cfg) { var me = this; cfg = cfg || {}; me.callParent([Ext.apply({ model : 'App.model.SampleModel', pageSize : 15, buffered : true, trailingBufferZone : 30, leadingBufferZone : 15, autoLoad : true, proxy : { type : 'direct', api : { read : SampleApi.getResults }, reader : { type : 'json', root : 'records', totalProperty : 'total', successProperty : 'success' } } }, cfg)]); } }); var sampleStore = Ext.create('App.store.SampleStore'); Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', { renderTo : 'someDivId', store : sampleStore, plugins: [ Ext.create('Ext.grid.plugin.BufferedRenderer', { trailingBufferZone : 30, leadingBufferZone : 15 }) ], columns : [ { dataIndex : 'sample_data', text : "Sample Data", flex : 1, hideable : false } ] });
The result I see is that the page loads. The initial data set is requested from the server. Then two additional requests are made, each requesting 2 more pages of data (buffering). This all happens, the response is valid, yet the grid draws with no data.
What additional information can I provide that can help? The data response from the server is proper. I can test that by adding the standard pagination bar to the grid and removing buffering. It allows me to page around at will and data is always rendered.
I feel like every example I come across is doing either REST or JSON proxies; is there a direct store limitation?
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By SARAH DiLORENZOPARIS (AP) ⿿ French luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton confirmed Thursday that it's recession-proof: Net profit rose 12 percent last year, as wealthy customers snatched up its Bulgari jewelry and flocked to its luxury malls. The company behind Givenchy gowns and Louis Vuitton luggage said it pulled in ⿬3.4 billion ($4.6 billion) in profit in 2012. Revenue rose 19 percent to ⿬28.1 billion ($38.1 billion), exactly in line with the consensus of analysts surveyed by FactSet. The market for luxury goods has been nearly impervious to the global economic slowdown, and LVMH has ridden that wave well. CEO Bernard Arnault told analysts on Thursday that they can barely keep their Hennessy cognac in stock, as evidence of the tremendous demand for high-end products. "2012 was another remarkable year for LVMH, especially in the context of the economic slowdown in Europe," Arnault said. The company saw revenue growth in all its business groups ⿿ which include everything from champagne to cosmetics ⿿ but the largest rise was in jewelry and watches. Arnault attributed that sector's 46 percent increase in sales largely to the acquisition of fine jeweler Bulgari. That sale was completed in 2011. In addition to the strength of the luxury market, the company's sizable presence in several different regions is a large component of its success. Many European companies have struggled as the continent's economy has tanked and unemployment skyrocketed because they were reliant on their home markets for much of their revenue. By contrast, Asia is LVMH's largest market, and it has a sizable U.S. presence also. But even in Europe, LVMH said there was 7 percent organic sales growth; it gave no other sales figures broken down by region. Arnault noted that the company's Europe sales are, in part, propped up by spending by tourists from outside the region.
Arnault, who is Europe's wealthiest man, caused a stir recently after he reportedly applied for Belgian citizenship. He refused to comment Thursday on his plans in France's low-tax neighbor.


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We hope everyone had a great weekend since the world did not come to an end on Saturday. Luckily, we were still able to go see the Nashville RollerGirls defeat Jet City from Everette, Washington 156-67. There were several somewhat skeptical first-timers there and all were impressed and became die-hard fans. Your next opportunity to see the ladies in action is on June 18.
Two more off-season activities for Preds fans are set this week wit a group viewing of The Hangover 2 on Thursday at the Thoroughbred 20 (details soon) and a night at the Sounds Baseball game on Friday.
Make the jump to see today's news as well as details about special edition of RLD Hockey Radio at noon today...
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Today at Noon Central, Ryan Porth will present a special edition of RLD Hockey Talk at 1 PM ET that will feature Richard Pollock from @IllegalCurve in Winnipeg and Launy "The" Schwartz of Hockey 54 in Toronto to give an opposing view to the relocation.
In Pred Nation...
Jim Diamond has an update on Ryan Suter's summer plans which includes plenty of family time.
David Climer is talking about doomsday if Shea Weber doesn't sign.
The Edmonton Journal has a nice feature story on Shea Weber.
Dirk Hoag has news of the Predators posibly signing defensive prospect Victor Bartley who was slated to play in the Swedish Elite League before the change of plans. Today, Dirk is up early with his morning links.
Robby Stanley takes an early look at the Predators at the NHL Awards.
Jeremy Gover has predators moments 11 and 12 in his top 15 countdown.
UAB Magazine profiles our friend Rebecca Dobrinski who has become the leading expert on the history of hockey in Nashville.
Jerred Smithson's father, Bernie is still playing hockey for the Lotus Gardens team in British Columbia.
Canucks 4 Sharks 2...
Yesterday's game in San Jose was a textbook lesson on how special teams should play. The Canucks killed five straight penalties in the first 22 minutes of the game and then scored three power play goals in a span of less than two minutes to take the lead and never looked back in route to their 4-2 victory over the Sharks.
The Canucks only had 13 shots during the contest. Henrik Sedin assisted on all four goals while brother Daniel was in on three. Sami Salo had two goals 16 seconds apart.
The series shifts back to Vancouver on Tuesday where the Canucks can wrap up the Western Conference title and have a few days off before the East is concluded.
Lightning at Bruins...
After taking a 3-0 lead on Saturday, the Boston Bruins fell apart and allowed the Tampa Bay Lightning to score five unanswered goals in route to a 5-3 win. Mike Smith came in to replace Dwayne Roloson but will not get the start tonight in Boston with the series is tied 2-2. Game time is 7 p.m. CDT on Versus.
Atlanta to Winnipeg...
The Atlanta rally to save the Thrashers only had a couple of hundred folks show up and the select-a-seat event was even more sparsely attended. Here is a video of a few fans in attendance. The Atlanta Hawks mascot showed up but Thrash did not. Maybe he flew north.
Jeff Schultz says Gary Bettman wants to make it hurt for the Atlanta Spirit.
Illegal Curve's podcast on Saturday was wall to wall on the news of the new Winnipeg team. Here is part one and part two. Their web site remains the best aggrigator on all news team Winnipeg.
Around the NHL...
Tampa fans may have one upped Pred fans at the airport by making a human Lightning bolt.
Ryan at the RLD takes a look at the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals. That was a good playoff year.
Michael Langlois takes a look at Brian Burke and his offseason plans.
Odds and Ends...
If you are following the destruction in Joplin, Missouri, you can listen to the police scanner here for the up to the second news.
Droid X users may be a closer to a Gingerbread update than ever before.
The new Pirates of the Caribbean 4 set international records at the box office but did not do as well domestically.
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Got some great trackside pix at the Roller Girls bout, featuring Bomber-blaster Ramb0 Samb0. All they needed was a chorus of "Hands Go Up" after the win.
- May 23, 2011 at 9:25 AM
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She didn't have her best bout going early, but pulled a Ryan Kesler and took the team on her back in the second half. A bunch of first-timers fell in love with Derby on Saturday night. Anyone that is a true fan of sport has to appreciate how good Rambo really is.
- May 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM
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Gasoline prices skyrocketed as much as 40 cents a gallon this week as crude oil prices hit their highest levels since spring of 2012.
�The price rise has been wickedly rapid,� said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital, a New York-based hedge fund that focuses on energy. �Consumers could see a 10- to 15-cent rise by mid- to late next week. This rise in crude prices is going to sting everyone.�
Benchmark U.S. crude oil touched a 15-month high of $107.45 this week as U.S. stockpiles tumbled, unrest in Egypt raised concern that the flow of Middle East shipments would be interrupted, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke backed sustained monetary stimulus to boost the economy. Crude and gasoline futures also jumped after a spate of refinery shutdowns in Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois.
�We�re looking at the worst of all worlds with overly expensive crude oil, tightening supplies and increasing demand,� said Michael Green, a spokesman in Washington for AAA. �There�s not a lot of hope for motorists.�
The price of benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose $2.82 for the week to close at $106.04. Gasoline futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, which often appear to have a direct impact on retail prices across the country, rose 22 cents to $3.12 a gallon Friday.
Around mid-Michigan Friday afternoon, countywide average prices looked like this:
� Clare: $3.84, up 31 cents over seven days;
� Gratiot: $3.86, up 40 cents from last week;
� Isabella: $3.86, up 27 cents from the week before;
� Mecosta: $3.86, up 38 cents over a week;
� Midland: $3.85, up 26 cents from last week;
� Montcalm: $3.84, up 34 cents from last Friday.
� Lowest reported prices in region: Howard City, $3.65
� Highest prices in region: Midland, $3.89
� Lowest prices in state: Detroit, $3.43
� Highest prices in state: Muskegon Heights, $4.29
� Statewide average Friday: $3.76, up 21 cents this week
� Year ago: $3.49
� Lowest metro-area average: Marquette, $3.70
� Highest metro-area average: Traverse City, $3.83
� Lowest Mid-Michigan diesel price: Greevnille, $3.76
� Highest Mid-Michigan diesel price: Farwell, $4.11
� Statewide diesel average: $3.95, up 1 cent from last week. A year ago, diesel fuel sold for an average of $3.71 a gallon.
(Sources: Michigangasprices.com; Oil Price Information Service through Michigan AAA and WEX Inc.; additional research by TheMorningSun.com. Bloomberg News contributed to this report.)


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First, here is how the order went. I ordered a couple months ago when they had the big sale. Beginning of May I believe. Order went out quickly but got turned around in customs due to incorrect address. All I did was email Anton and ask him to check the shipping status. As soon as he saw it, he reshipped. That went out about a week later. That shipment has been held up in customs since then. Mind you, I never received a customs letter or anything. All I did was email Anton again (about 15 days after shipment) and ask him to tell me what he thought. The very next day, he shipped again (domestic this time) and I received my order very quickly.
I never PM'd a mod about this or cried to Anton about how long it was taking or anything...mainly b/c Anton stayed in contact with me throughout the whole process. I never had a doubt that I would receive my order. I have not tried any of it yet but as long as the gear is good, I would highly recommend ordering with Legend based on customer service alone.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 may have been put on hold in favor of Sonic Generations, but the game is still scheduled for 2012. Now Sega is detailing a few of the changes coming to this second installment of the episodic franchise. For example, Tails and Metal Sonic will make their return to Episode 2.
A GameSpot AU interview (via Kotaku) with digital brand manager Ken Balough details the new additions. Complete with Tails-inspired facial hair, Balough announces that both the foxy sidekick and Metal Sonic will make a return. Plus, due to fan feedback, the game will feature a new graphics and physics engine. Balough says this should solve certain problems that didn't feel like the Genesis games, like Sonic sticking to a wall.
When announcing platforms, Balough mentions PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS App Store, Android, and Windows Phone -- but not Wii, which received the first game.


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A curious legal case is playing out in a Cleveland courtroom. Sixteen members of a conservative Amish church group are charged with attacking spiritual transgressors by cutting off their beards. The trial has brought international news coverage to the Amish --- a reclusive population better known as a quaint tourist attraction. So far testimony has mixed allegations of sex and interstate crime, with the religious significance of facial hair.


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At 16 years old, Dustin Walker of Channahon has already experienced his share of some pretty awesome adventures — thanks to a tight bond with 1980's pop legend Rick Springfield and Walker's own musical talent.
Walker was first introduced to the Grammy Award winner at Naperville Ribfest when he was just 3 years old. The cute toddler was riding on his grandfather's shoulders, little plastic guitar in hand, when he was spotted by Springfield's road manager.
He was invited to get on the stage with the singer, something Springfield frequently does with his fans during concerts.
The toddler's first response was "maybe later," Walker said from his Channahon home this week.
But he did get on stage, met the singer and got a big taste of being in the spotlight. The two have kept in touch over the years, with Walker invited on stage at Springfield concerts many more times when he performed in the area.
"I love him, he's a great guy," Walker said. "He has never let me down."
Walker and Springfield have formed a close friendship since that first meeting in 1999. Springfield has introduced him to many other famous musicians and actors, including Springfield's record producer Jeff Silverman, who is helping Walker to further his own musical career.
In early 2010, Walker was asked to be in a rock documentary about Springfield, called "An Affair of the Heart."
The documentary is about the bond Springfield has formed with his fans over the years, chronicling three decades of devotion to those fans. Springfield not only wanted Walker to be in the movie, but sing and play guitar with him on stage.
When he first got the news, Walker freaked out.
"Being in a movie with my hero, my idol, is unbelievable," he said.
Several other fans are also featured in the movie, but Walker is the only one who performs with the singer.
Walker had several tapings with Springfield, including a performance on stage at The Taste of Joliet later that summer. Walker played lead guitar and sang "Victoria's Secret" with Springfield.
The two were taped kicking back and singing in a lounge at the historic Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, Wis. Another time they were at Walker's church, a scene that was later cut.
Walker didn't get to see any part of the movie until the first screening for cast members in September 2011 in Malibu, Calif.
He had the thrill of walking down the red carpet, clad in a tuxedo, along with Springfield. Paparazzi were everywhere.
"There was news stations everywhere; lights (flashed) everywhere," he said. "I just didn't know where to look. It was awesome."
After the showing, Walker joined Springfield, the movie's directors and producers and other cast members in an interview hosted by MTV's Martha Quinn.
Since the original premiere, Walker has attended showings of the movie at film festivals in Florida and most recently in Milwaukee. The movie was released to the public in New York City just this past Wednesday.
When he's in Channahon, Walker finds it a bit difficult to get back into small town life. It's hard to make the transition from riding in Rick Springfield's Corvette in Malibu or hanging out in a tour bus with band members from Eddie Money to going to school and being a local teen.
"When we go away, it's surreal," Walker's grandmother Lori Stroud said. "We are treated like royalty."
Walker attends Christ Academy in Shorewood, and he eats, sleeps and lives music. While he's been in several local bands, right now he's focusing on writing songs and playing acoustical music with buddy Nate Smith of Joliet.
His favorite music has always been from the 1980s and that influence shows in his two-song CD "Body Bag," co-written and produced by Silverman, owner of Palette Studios in Nashville and released last year.
Silverman has worked with other famous artists besides Springfield, including Charice, Boyz to Men and Prince.
Whether he's back home in Channahon or attending a movie premiere, Walker feels like anybody else, he said.
"I don't think of myself as anything special from anyone else," he said. "I just love being around people and being nice to them. I hate anything mean.
"I guess I'm a 16-year-old long-haired hippie stuck in the 80s, but who lives in 2012."


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Restaurateurs Carla and Christine Pallotta gazed at the window opening being cut out of a brick wall at 520 Atlantic Ave. on a recent afternoon. It's an expensive feature, the sisters said, but an important one — they want the new location of their Nebo restaurant to have plenty of natural light.
And when it opens in May, Nebo will become the latest bright spot in Boston's increasingly vibrant Fort Point Channel area, also known by its newer name — the Innovation District.
There's a building boom going on in the district, much of it driven by restaurants and food-related businesses. A few weeks ago, Tavern Road on Congress Street, owned by Louis and Michael diBiccari, opened. Celebrity chef Ming Tsai's Blue Dragon on the corner of A and Melcher streets is less than two months old, and Bee's Knees Supply Co., a gourmet grocery on Farnsworth, is also a newcomer.
More restaurants are on the way. In addition to Nebo, Pastoral is under construction on Congress and should open in June or July. Row 34, also on Congress and a sibling of the Island Creek Oyster restaurant, is expected to start serving customers in September. Restaurateur Seth Greenberg's Bastille on Melcher is also scheduled for an early fall debut. And super chef Mario Batali's office says a lease is currently being worked out for a restaurant somewhere in the Fort Point section.
Less than two years ago, when the economy was still faltering, this growth surge would have seemed unlikely. Tsai joked that when he first came down to look at Fort Point about a year and a half ago, "tumbleweeds were blowing down the street." Six months later, he returned and saw a lot more action.
During that visit, Tsai remembered thinking, "You know what? The area is coming up."
Ed McCabe, president of Cafco, a Boston company that specializes in restaurant construction, said places to eat "have become the new anchor tenants of developments." They act as meeting places, foster a sense of community, spark street life, and provide entertainment, he said.
Well-known chef Barbara Lynch was a dining-out pioneer in the neighborhood, opening the casual Sportello and Drink in 2008, and haute cuisine Menton in 2010 in the FP3 residential building, at a time when the streets were empty at night, and the recession was stalling most development plans.
Joanne Chang opened another key spot, Flour Bakery, on Farnsworth Street in 2007
Fort Point's mix is notable because most of the restaurants are independents. McCabe's company is building out Nebo, and built Tavern Road and the 2-year-old Trade on Atlantic Wharf, among others. He credited Young Park, president of Berkley Investments, for taking the initiative to go after independently owned businesses. Berkley has developed many of Fort Point's residential and office buildings.
Unlike the nearby Seaport district, where chains such as Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House, Legal Sea Foods and Rosa Mexicano occupy spaces in modern buildings, Fort Point's weathered-brick wharf structures, most only about six stories high, have an intimate feel.
"Fort Point neighborhood is so unique for the fabric of those buildings," McCabe said, which give it "so much soul."
That doesn't mean success is a sure thing, especially when independent restaurants are involved. Investing in such operations can be risky, Park said. Large chains can put more money upfront and withstand bad times, while independents often have less capital, leaving them less room for missteps. Restaurant trends "are fickle," Park noted, "and things might not work out."
Also, the area's older buildings were not designed for restaurant use, he said, so they have to be outfitted for ventilation and other modern utilities. That's an expensive proposition.
Others point to the district's parking shortage and the fact that the nearest MBTA stop, South Station, is several blocks away.
Brothers Louis and Michael diBiccari say Fort Point's home-grown element is part of its appeal. The 120-seat Tavern Road, which opened in late February, is their first restaurant.
"We made our bones in Boston," said Louis, who was previously chef at Storyville and cooked at L'Espalier. Michael was manager at such restaurants as Sel de la Terre and Eastern Standard.
Although many more people work in the area than live there, several large residential and rental projects are under construction along Congress, A, and Melcher, which will help fill the area at night, the diBiccaris said.
The Fort Point Channel area was developed in the 1830s by Boston Wharf Co., which built and owned the industrial loft buildings until the early 2000s. The buildings were used for manufacturing and warehousing goods moved along the channel to Boston Harbor. As those uses declined in the 20th century, artists moved into the abandoned lofts, creating an eclectic scene.
The Pallotta sisters grew up in the North End near their current restaurant, which will close Saturday. The new Nebo will be at Atlantic Wharf, a mixed residential and office building along Fort Point Channel.
The sisters considered the location at the suggestion of their brother, hedge fund manager James Pallotta, whose office is in the building. They fell in love with the space, which features details such as exposed steel pillars and big windows to the street. The restaurant, with about 150 seats inside and 65 on the patio, will have a view of the Greenway.
"The rapidly growing restaurant scene is a huge factor in the incredible vitality of Fort Point, a neighborhood with lots of cultural history and a vibrant arts community," said Nicole Fichera, the Boston Redevelopment Authority's innovation manager.
Restaurants by themselves obviously aren't enough to grow the neighborhood's business.
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JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq – Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division–North, trained Iraqi army soldiers on various medical tasks to help ensure they have the knowledge and capability to take care of injured comrades.
Capt. David Marcoux, a Lancaster, Ohio, native and physician assistant for "Red Dragons," and a team of medics traveled to 4th Battalion, 17th Iraqi Army Brigade's compound and conducted medical training exercises.
The instruction ranged from evaluation and treatment of specific injuries to advanced subjects such as pulmonary systems and orthopedics, he explained.
Conducting hands-on training is very important to the Iraqis since they do not have many live-action training scenarios where they can hone and practice their medical skills, Marcoux said.
Sick call provides the best training opportunity for the Iraqi medics because it is a time when sick soldiers or those with minor injuries can be treated by their medics, said Marcoux.
When U.S. medical personnel were present for IA sick call hours, they provided direct oversight, by coaching and mentoring the Iraqi doctors and medics as they treat patients, continued Marcoux.
Red Dragon medics also instructed Iraqis on how to best control and expedite the flow of patients during hours of operation, as well as proper documentation on a patient's illness, injury history and prescriptions.
In addition to training their IA counterparts, the Red Dragons have also helped them outfit their clinic.
"Last deployment, this Iraqi clinic had barely anything – no chairs for the medics to work out of, no stretchers with which to load and attend patients, barely any medical equipment, and barely enough supplies to patch up minor to moderate wounds," said Staff Sgt. Richard Tyree, the treatment non-commissioned officer in charge for 3rd Battalion, 82nd FA Regiment. "Thanks to the efforts of our battalion, and the one we replaced, the clinic is now much more operational."
With Iraqi security forces firmly in the lead of combat operations, IA soldiers with the 4th Battalion, 17th IA Brigade, can enter the battlefield knowing their medics and doctors have extensively trained with their U.S. counterparts, and that they have a fully functional clinic to return to if they get injured.
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Both General Motors and Volvo were honored today at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, as it accepts these two important safety items as part of a larger collection of artifacts from eight different donors.
In a special donation ceremony this morning, the museum received items related to more than 75 years of auto safety and materials pertaining to safety initiatives administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The event also marks the 25th anniversary of the "Vince and Larry" ads sponsored by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
The Smithsonian now has more than three million items in its collection and has about four million visitors a year.
GM donated 50H-1, an Anthropomorphic Test Device, or ATD – scientific jargon for what the world knows as a crash test dummy.
"GM's leading role in the development of crash test devices over the decades makes it fitting that one of our crash veterans become part of the Smithsonian's collections," said Mike Robinson, GM vice president of Safety Policy.
"With all that we have learned from him over the years, it almost seems unfair to call 50H-1 a dummy," said Robinson, as he refuted my description.
Though not as vocal as the famous Vince and Larry "dummies" of NHTSA advertising fame, the taciturn 50H-1 is significant because "he" represents the dummy, err ATD, most used in U.S. automotive crash testing. His title refers to the Hybrid III ATD, representing a typical male adult in the 50th percentile for height and weight.


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Roslyn Byrne is twenty-four years old, broken in body, heart and soul. Her career as a professional ballet dancer ended with a car wreck and a miscarriage, leaving her lost and grieving. She needs a new path, but she doesn't have the least idea how or where to start. With some shoving from her very Southern mama, she immures herself for the summer on Manny's Island, Georgia, one of the Sea Isles, to recover.
There Roslyn finds a ten-year-old girl, Damascus, who brings alligators, pumpkins and hoodoo into her sorry life.
Roslyn rents a house from Damascus's family, the Trezevants, a strange bunch. One of the cousins, Nonnie, who works in the family's market, sees things Roslyn is pretty sure she shouldn't, and knows things regular people don't. Between the Trezevant secrets and Damascus's blatant snooping and meddling, Roslyn finds herself caught in a mysterious stew of the past and present, the music of the river, the dead and the dying who haunt the riverbank, and a passion for living her new life.
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I am rather intrigued by the idea of the evil twin, where all of us, somewhere on earth, have a twin self that is as malignant and morally corrupt as we ourselves are innocent and pure. Or just the opposite, if you like.
And of course, the opposite would have to be true, because if each of us has an evil twin, then each evil twin must have their own evil twin, aka the virtuous twin. That would be us, right?
So the question remains, if there is one twin of each of us, how do we really know which one we are? Are we the evil twin? Or the virtuous twin?
Somewhere in the world there is an incredibly attractive, sexy, petite woman who is the most horribly vicious, nasty person in the universe. This would be my wife's evil twin, driven to such an extreme state by my wife's incredible goodness and sweetness.
Now, my wife didn't get so sweet and kind by accident. She had to resist a great deal of evil twin exposure. Stacey comes from a family of twins. She is the oldest of five kids, and the only singleton. The first set of twins born were fraternal, a boy and a girl, and I don't think it would be in my best interest to discuss their individual virtues, given that I have no idea which of them is the evil one.
And I don't know what her mother was thinking, but something evil was going on, because next time she gave birth it was to another set of twins, this time a pair of identical boys.
They are now grown men who I have known for several years, and I'm starting to think I've got them figured out.
One twin (I'll call him T-A) sings in a choir and teaches children how to play the piano. He's a vegan. He owns a cat. The other twin (T-B) drives a jet-black BMW M5 much faster than he should, prefers an IPA Pilsner, eats as much meat as he can, and has TWO cats.
Which one is the evil twin? They both are evil. How did I figure this out? They both like to sing karaoke.
The Germans have a similar concept to the "Evil Twin" known as the "doppelganger," which I think is a really nice word to say out loud. Go ahead, try it! DOPPELGANGER. It's fun!
The German language is full of cool words, like "fahrvergnugen" and "liebfraumilch." German is, in fact, a very interesting language to listen to, so long as you're not standing directly in front of whoever is speaking. The language is full of too much spit and phlegm for proper sanitation.
French, on the other hand, is a very smooth language that involves very little aerosolized saliva. But there should be a law against turning French words into English. Have you ever heard your cousin Billy-Bob say the word "reservoir"?
"Hey Billy-Jean! It's hot! Let's go for a swim up in the reserv... The reservo... Oh, hell, you know where I mean!"
Maybe it's because we're all so overweight, but American mouths are not designed to produce the sound, "voir." And another thing. There's a reason we don't roll our r's in English. It's because it sounds stupid.
The German word doppelganger has come to be synonymous with "Evil Twin," but it actually started as a different concept. Originally it was a word expressing an experience many people had tried to describe of seeing, briefly and only out of the corner of their eye, their own self walking beside them. It is an ancient word, which I believe comes from the Germanic root words, "doppel — to push someone over" and, "ganger — a small band of nomadic hairdressers."
Anyway, the term doppelganger was originally used to describe that person walking next to you, and was considered an omen of impending death. And you've got to hand it to those Germans, they're always good for a laugh.
But what's so funny about "Evil Twins"? Nothing, really. Our evil twins are responsible for most all the suffering and injustice in the world. It is our evil twins who fly jets into trade towers, who strap bombs into baby carriages, who torture enemy combatants, who ship coal by rail to China, who drive when they could have walked.
It is our evil twins who keep voting for the same congressman every two years even if he is an ultra-partisan rubber stamp for a political party completely out of touch with reality. It is our evil twins who believe what they hear on talk-radio, who cheer for the wrong team, and who leave the toilet seats up. It is our evil twin who uses the cellphone while driving, doesn't pick up after his dog, and yells at his kids.
So, do you know who your evil twin is? Have you looked in the mirror lately?
I know who my evil twin is.
He's the guy who writes this column.
Craig Danner is a novelist and physician assistant living in Hood River with his wife and two teenage sons.
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I'll tell you this: I've switched to OS X a couple of years ago as well and I still think to this day it was the right choice for me. And no, I have not spent one penny on Apple hardware so I don't need to rationalize anything. Also I don't need to feel good about my choice. If I don't like an OS I just search for another one, that's how I ended up with OS X anyway. As I never particularly liked Windows I used to have a cycle of Linux tryouts. Maybe twice or 3 times per year I would try several Linux distros as my main computer, but I've always reverted to Windows because I just couldn't do my work efficiently or in some instances couldn't do it at all on Linux. So about 2 years ago I tried OS X and it stayed.
It simply works for me. I develop, run and administer my own web sites, so I use the computer to mainly do PHP development, administer Linux servers, web-design and also some occasional DTP, photo and video editing. At the end of the day I need to run a business and after several years of trial and error I've came to the conclusion that OS X is the best OS for my particular business.
I don't see the author of the original article preaching anything, he's just sharing his experience with the goods and the bads, that's all. I think the article is truthful and if anybody learns anything from it then it was worth publishing. On the other hand your comment sounds like rant blinded by hate.


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A ferris wheel has a diameter of 24 metres and completes one revolution every 48 seconds. The centre of the wheel is 18 metres of the ground. The car is directly 12 metres beneath the ferris wheel centre. The car is 6 metres above the air. How high above the ground will the car be if it moved for 18 seconds.
I know where the car will be but i don't know how to get the height of where it lands. So i just did (24*pi/48)*18. Also i figgured out that the car rotated around the circle for 135 degrees. 18/48 *360


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