Barbecue boosts Bannerman Park
People in South Porcupine were out enjoying the beautiful summer weather and some delicious barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers Friday, in front of the Pro Hardware Store in South Porcupine. The barbecue was a fundraiser for the Bannerman Park project.[...]
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U.S. video game sales drop 10 percent in June
NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories dropped 10 percent in June to 5 million compared with the same month a year ago. The industrys second-straight month of sales decline was due largely to a lackluster slate of…
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
HowtoForge: “This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card).”
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How You Can Use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Business
Perfect for tedious tasks, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk may be the perfect alternative to hiring temporary workers for singular projects. Think back to the last time you had a task for which you would’ve loved to have had an army of workers. Perhaps you had to sort through thousands of articles looking for something specific, or you had to transcribe hours of audio recordings, or you had to check …
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Profit From a Passion for Sports
If you never want the game to stop, build a business based on your favorite game. The world stops spinning for the MLB playoffs. The World Cup is your Holy Grail. The Super Bowl is marked on your calendar as a national holiday. Face it – you’re a die hard sports fanatic. If the saying that you should do what you love rings true, you may be interested in creating a business based on your favorite …
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HexBright Flex – The Hackable LED Flashlight
The HexBright Flex is another innovative product looking for funding via KickStarter. It’s a 500 lumen LED flashlight that is USB rechargeable and USB programmable. The owner of the project asked me to share the background story on this product in hopes that he’d get funded in time. That’s actually already happened, but since the flashlight [...]
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Hockey hardware handed out
Local hockey players and coaches were honoured at the recent Nanaimo Minor Hockey Association’s annual general meeting.
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Pioneer AVIC Z130BT
In one box, the Pioneer AVIC-Z130BT has all the must-have car tech features that most people could want, including hands-free calling, voice-controlled digital audio playback, and turn-by-turn directions with traffic data.
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Leiby Kletzky died fighting for his life: cops
Leiby Kletzky appears to have fought for his life to the very end as his deranged killer allegedly smothered him with a towel, cops said Thursday.
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Dismembered Brooklyn Boy Fought For His Life
8-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky fought for his life before he was apparently suffocated and dismembered, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said today.
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Fifth Annual Clean Energy Venture Summit 2011
Call for event applicants, attendees and sponsorsAustin, Texas (PRWEB) July 14, 2011 The Austin Clean Energy Incubator and Austin Energy announces the 5th Annual Clean Energy Venture Summit (CEVS) and the Cleantech Open Regional Judging & Awards, scheduled for September 28-29, 2011 at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The Clean Energy Venture Summit has become …
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Spotify launches in USA, but is it the best music service for mobile needs?
Spotify is now available in the USA, but I still find Slacker Radio and the Zune Pass to be better for my listening habits. Are you excited about Spotify?
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Toshiba Satellite L755-5244
The Toshiba Satellite L755-S5244 is an inexpensive laptop, and it delivers performance and battery life to match.
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Why files need to die – Files are an anachronism in the digital age. It’s time for something better.
The idea of files and folders no longer fits today’s connected world. It’s time for new ways organizing our data based on what data means, what it relates to, and how we think about the world.
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Spotify launches in USA, but is it the best music service for mobile needs?
Spotify is now available in the USA, but I still find Slacker Radio and the Zune Pass to be better for my listening habits. Are you excited about Spotify?
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Toshiba Satellite L755-5244
The Toshiba Satellite L755-S5244 is an inexpensive laptop, and it delivers performance and battery life to match.
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Reviewing the Protex CR-53 Corner Fire Resistant Burglary Safe
This Protex CR-53 Corner Fire Resistant Burglary Safe is an excellent choice for your home or business made to fit in a corner. Velvet lined interior, 5-Active round locking bolts 3-way, One user code, 6 digits, 4 pre-drilled anchoring holes on the bottom 1/2 Dia.. Bolting hardware included, 2 adjustable…
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Review: ShutterPro Premium
Implemented in Qt and using up a fair amount of RAM, ShutterPro Premium gets off to a bad start by taking a whopping 12 seconds from tapping its icon to being ready to take a basic shot. Add another five seconds or so if you want to scroll to and apply an effect.
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July 10 rec baseball roundup: Nucs bring home hardware
Greg Bartle scored on a throwing error in the seventh inning as the Newburgh Nuclears outlasted Shrub Oak 10-9 to win the Broome County Hall of Fame American Legion tournament on Sunday in Binghamton.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 teardown: Daintiest of the Android tablets
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is sleek, sexy, and light, but also delicate and best kept out of harm’s way.
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Not just hot air: Marco Island’s Hurricane Preparedness Seminar draws a crowd
Living in paradise, residents have to learn to deal with unwanted guests. Monday evening, nearly 100 Marco Islanders showed up at the Community Room inside the police station to hear about dealing with the most unwelcome of all – hurricanes.As Islanders arrived for the 2011 Hurricane Preparedness Seminar conducted by the city’s police and fire-rescue departments, they were met by flashing lights …
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ICT And Automotive: New App Reduces Motorway Pile-Ups By 40 Percent
Road tests in Los Angeles in August; the objective is in-car Internet According to the researchers from the University of Bologna (Italy) who designed the app, this automatic accident detection system could reduce the number of vehicles involved in pile-ups by up to 40 percent. For now, at least, that’s what it does on paper and in computer simulations, as is described in an article published in …
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Beautiful wooden bike made from black American walnut costs ,000
If you like to ride bicycles for fun and have a taste for it odds are you have a very nice bike, not something you bought down at Walmart. If you are a well to do cyclist you might want something that is very different from any one riding in your group. You might find [...]
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Cambridge Architectural Featured at SCIN Showroom and Library in London
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Nick Murosky, LarsonOBrien Marketing GroupPhone: 412-831-1959 x123 E-mail: nicklarsonobrien.comDate: July 11, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, MD Cambridge Architectural, the worlds most experienced and only full-service provider of sustainable architectural mesh systems for both interior and exterior building applications, will be showcasing it latest and most unique…
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Milestone Adds ImmerVision Enables 360-Degree Panomorph Lens Support
Milestone Systems, the leading global developer of open platform software for managing IP network-based video surveillance, and ImmerVision, inventor of the 360° panomorph lens and worldwide expert in immersive optical technology, announce that Milestone has added ImmerVision Enables panomorph lens support to XProtect Enterprise 8.
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Serious Hardware Incident with the Subaru Telescope Interrupts Its Operation
While shutting down the observation system at the end of the night shift during the early morning of Saturday, July 2. 2011, the telescope operator detected an error signal from the top unit of the telescope.
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RCM Technology Trust – Half Yearly Report
RCM Technology Trust – Half Yearly Report
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Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not The Future We Were Hoping For
It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OS X Lion feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn’t happen. (more…)
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Stamford, Conn., Antiques Centers Around Canal Street
In Stamford, Conn., the antiquing is easy because so many pickers and dealers sweep through the estate sales and bring the better old stuff to one hub, on and around Canal Street.
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