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There are lots of stupid things out there for rich people to waste their money on, but few are more stupid and wasteful than the Stuart Hughes "History Edition" iPad 2.
Yes, they're really charging $8 million for an iPad. It's encrusted in diamonds, jewels, and splintered pieces of a T-rex's thigh bone. Seriously?!
Look, diamonds and jewels are nice, I'm sure. And if you're rich and into dinosaurs, I guess you can buy a bone to show off. But why cram all this stuff onto an iPad? You people do realize that an iPad 3 will be coming out sometime next year and then you'll be stuck with an $8 million gadget that became outdated six months after you purchased it, right? Good lord.
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Nate Kaeding has been kicking for three weeks and is confident he will be better than ever when he returns as the Chargers placekicker in 2012.
Yes, when he returns.
"I absolutely expect to come in and pick up where I left off," said Kaeding, who missed all but the first play of 2011 with a torn ACL in his left knee.
Indeed, discussions with those who have a hand in personnel decisions at Chargers Park indicate that Nick Novak might have kicked himself out of a job while Kaeding didn't get a chance to.
If there does remain any question over whether Kaeding will be handed the job back prior to training camp -- as there appears to be a reluctance to carry two kickers during the summer -- it would center around the disparity in salaries due Kaeding ($2 million) and Novak ($700,000).
But dependability is priceless. And while it remains what insiders categorized as among the most intriguing of the offseason decisions the team must make, it appears almost certain that the Chargers will go with Kaeding next season.
That is an entirely different route than those inside the building would have expected a couple months ago.
Novak made his first 12 field goals after being signed in the season's second week, and he converted 17 of his first 18 field goal tries. He finished the season having made a team-record 11 placements from beyond 40 yards, including four from beyond 50. But he missed six of his final 16 attempts, including two (from 48 and 53 yards) in a three-point loss to Denver and tries from 37 and 44 yards over the final three weeks.
It was that finish that tipped the support going forward toward Kaeding, whose 86.5 percent success rate is highest in NFL history.
Kaeding is, in fact, sort of the Marty Schottenheimer of kickers – tough to beat in the regular season but routinely struggles once the calendar turns to January. And much like former Chargers general manager John Butler did when he hired Schottenheimer as head coach in 2002, the Chargers will hope Kaeding can help them to the playoffs -- and they'll worry about what he does when he gets there.
Kaeding's success rate is an abysmal 53.3 percent in the playoffs. Of his seven misses in 15 attempts, five have come in three different three-point playoff losses.
"There is no doubt it's the one most frustrating thing about my body of work coming into now," Kaeding said Tuesday. "I've just got to work the right way, commit to the process, take the lessons I've learned … I can't explain how excited I am to go and get a chance in the next postseason to kick and to execute those kicks."
After missing three field goals in a 17-14 playoff loss to the New York Jets following the 2009 season, Kaeding had essentially been on notice the past two years that his next postseason opportunity would be an audition for his job.
But the Chargers did not make the postseason in 2010, and Kaeding tore his ACL trying to make a tackle on the opening kickoff of 2011.
He had surgery three days later to repair the ligament and to "clean up" some other minor issues in the knee, and he spent the next four months progressing from bending his knee in September to actually kicking by the end of December.
"It feels good," Kaeding said. "I think we're ahead of schedule."
His plan is to continue to go hard this month and then taper off before returning to a regular offseason in March. He needs to work on his explosiveness in both legs and his stamina.
But after a 2011 preseason he said unequivocally was his "best ever" and some time away this year to take "a detailed look at every little aspect of what it takes to be a successful placekicker in this league," he believes he will be improved.
"It's re-energized me," Kaeding said. "… If anything, the injury made me a better football player. It made me a more humble player, and in a weird way it made me a more confident player. I was able to step back and assess the things it takes to be successful."

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San Luis Obispo, CA – Lezyne LED users will be happy to hear the Lezyne LED helmet mount will be available next month. Production of the long awaited mount began this month and the first round of mounts have already shipped to Lezyne distributors worldwide. Available to the public early February. The helmet mount is made of a stamped and machined aluminum base and compression ring with a Composite Matrix spherical pivot cradle that holds the LED light. A long Velcro strap attaches the mount to the helmet and a rubber pad on the underside of the mount provides grip. The spherical pivot allows the user to adjust the position of the light in all directions.
The mount is compatible with all Lezyne LED lights and will retail for $19.99. Look for these in your local shop next month!
MTBR.com Releases In-depth Review of Super Drive LED
To add to the LED news, the guys of MTBR.com have released an in-depth, 2-page review of the Super Drive LED. Here is what Francis of MTBR.com had to say about the Super Drive LED:
"[The Super Drive] is a ground breaking new light from a new light company. They could sell a few of these lights at $250 so we suspect they will sell a lot at the $110 price. It is a great beam pattern that accomplishes a flood and a decent spot at the same time. And the real bonus is if you want it brighter, buy two. If you want more run time, buy more Lezyne batteries."
"The Lezyne Super Drive is not the brightest but it is the most compelling because of its quality and $110 price. We also want to note its honesty in reporting. Claiming 450 lumens for a measured output of 421 lumens is one of the most honest we've seen to date as the industry usually 30% off.
Follow this link to read the full review >>
LED TECH Page to be Launched
To help consumers learn more about the new LED lights, Lezyne will be launching a new LED Tech Page on our website later this month. It will contain useful information about LED lighting, in general, as well as in–depth details and FAQs about our lights. Check our Engineered Design page for updates and more Lezyne Tech


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Windows success as a platform can be attributed in part to its thriving community of third-party developers. Jason Beres, Infragistics' VP of product management is a notable member of that community. He's worked as a .NET architect and evangelist, and helped found Florida and New Jersey .NET user groups. He's also coauthor of "Professional Silverlight 4," "C# Bible," and "Visual Basic .NET Bible." Dr. Dobb's managing editor Deirdre Blake recently talked with Beres about the mechanics of third-party development.
Dr. Dobb's: How do you coordinate your development with Microsoft releases and updates?
Beres: As part of the Microsoft developer ecosystem and partner program, we have direct access to early previews of Microsoft technologies. This lets us develop community technology previews and release new user interface components and UI development suites 30 to 60 days after Microsoft introduces a new technology or platform. We also participate in Microsoft developer labs and on-site meetings.
Dr. Dobb's: What are some of the tradeoffs you face in development, and how does your team balance them?
Beres: The balancing act comes as we continue to invest in our UI control toolsets for the mature platforms &mdash still heavily in use &mdash and develop new UI controls for emerging technology and platforms.
Dr. Dobb's: What are the greatest challenges and opportunities for third-party developers this year?
Beres: The greatest challenges are the emerging technologies and how to make the right investments in them while still satisfying our customer base &mdash some of whom may not be moving to these technologies. We see numerous opportunities: The continued adoption of Silverlight as a rich line-of-business platform with a great deployment model, as well as Web development in general with the continuing explosive growth of jQuery, and the higher adoption rates of Microsoft's MVC stack as well as the emerging HTML 5 standard. If that isn't enough, there's a greater focus on mobile and tablets in the enterprise.
Dr. Dobb's: Has mobile's transformation and the emergence of cloud platforms affected your efforts?
Beres: No. Development effort and goals for mobile and the cloud are no different than UI control development for any emerging technology. With parity in our features and UI controls across multiple platforms, we can build UI control toolsets for new platforms and devices that enable our customers to create applications with the best user experiences possible.


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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and GERALD IMRAY
Apr. 15, 2014 6:18 AM EDT
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) – The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, wrapping up five days of cross-examination Tuesday of the Olympian, insisted that he intentionally shot his girlfriend to death as they argued.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said he had no further questions after presenting the prosecution's case that Pistorius is lying in his account of mistakenly shooting Reeva Steenkamp in the predawn hours of Valentine's Day last year. Nel said the double-amputee runner killed her intentionally after an argument.
In the adjournment after his cross-examination, Pistorius rubbed his eyes and briefly sank his head into the shoulder of a man who comforted him. He took a tissue from his sister Aimee, who squeezed his arm reassuringly. Shortly afterward, he listened attentively as Barry Roux, his chief lawyer, spoke to him in a low voice.
Throughout the grueling cross-examination, Nel accused Pistorius of "tailoring" evidence and "concocting" a story that he shot out of fear of an intruder in a toilet cubicle in his bathroom in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day last year.
Nel said the couple fought during the night and Steenkamp wanted to leave, then fled to the bathroom screaming before Pistorius shot her through the door with his 9 mm pistol. Pistorius said he never heard Steenkamp scream, or say anything in the minutes before he shot her.
The prosecutor even charged that Pistorius fired the four shots from about three meters (yards) away from Steenkamp as he was talking and arguing with Steenkamp, and changed his aim with later shots to ensure he hit her as she fell back. Nel's unrelenting questioning and accusations provoked many denials by Pistorius and caused the athlete to break down in sobs on numerous occasions.
The athlete says that he thought Steenkamp was an intruder about to come out of the toilet to attack him. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder.
Over the past week, Pistorius came under intense pressure from Nel who accused the world-famous disabled athlete of lying in the witness box. Pistorius has struggled at times to explain alleged inconsistencies during his testimony.
Nel closed his cross-examination Tuesday by inviting Pistorius to take the blame for shooting Steenkamp, but the runner steered away from a direct response, saying only that he opened fire because he believed his life was under threat. That remark drew barbed follow-up questions from the prosecutor.
"We should blame somebody … Should we blame Reeva?" asked Nel, who has harshly criticized Pistorius as someone who is unwilling to take responsibility.
"No, my lady," Pistorius replied, addressing the judge in line with court custom.
"She never told you she was going to the toilet," Nel said. Then he asked: "Should we blame the government?"
When Pistorius responded with another reference to a perceived attacker in his toilet, Nel asked: Who should we blame for the Black Talon rounds that ripped through her body?"
He abandoned his line of questioning soon after the judge questioned whether he was asking the same thing in a different way. Nel summed up by saying Pistorius intentionally killed Steenkamp.
Pistorius remained in the witness box while Roux asked him a series of follow-up questions


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The Order of the Liberator San Martin: Recognition, Remembrance, And Solidarity
Thirty years ago, a workers' blockade in New Brunswick stopped the Argentinian dictatorship from bringing a nuclear reactor online. The longshoremen of Saint John refused to load a $120-million cargo of heavy water bound for Argentina. The blockade also shone an international spotlight on Argentina's tyranny and its political prisoners, and helped force the release of 11 jailed trade unionists. Argentina's democratic government is now honouring the Saint John longshoremen with the highest award it can give them.
Which reminds me.
When I was a strappy young labour reporter, the New Brunswicker Tommy McGrath (a tiny bit about him here, .pdf) was president of Local 400 of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, on the Vancouver waterfront. With Tommy on the docks, no ship that dropped anchor in Vancouver harbour would be allowed to leave if it was owned by any shipping company, anywhere in the world, that was breaking a strike or had skipped someplace without paying its workers' wages. The ship would stay tied up in Vancouver until its owners made good.
In those days, no matter who you were, no matter what seedy Third World backwater port you worked in, if you'd been stiffed by some international shipping company you could call Tommy, and Tommy would come through for you. It could take days or years, but Tommy would come through. All he'd ask in return was the keepsake of your port's pennant or your ship's flag. In his tiny, cramped office at the old Maritime Union hall down in the Eastside, the walls were festooned with these little flags.
Tommy first drew blood in the Canadian Seamen's Union strike in South Africa in 1949. When the CSU was busted up and taken over by the American seafarers' union, Tommy and his comrades refused to buckle, and they set up the democratic West Coast Seamen's Union. In 1958, following the deaths of 19 workers in the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge (now called the Ironworkers' Memorial Bridge) Tommy was fired by the American bridge and ironworkers' union for refusing to order his members back to work. So he and his mates got together and organized the democratic Canadian Ironworkers, Local No. 1.
We became fast friends over the years, he the elder and me the kid with all the questions. He went on to become president of the Canadian Merchant Navy Association, and died in 1996. I can still remember the stinging pain from the moment I heard the news he was dead.
But Tommy lives. In Iran, where workers are in rebellion against Mamoud Ahmadinejad's boss unions, at this very moment the underground trade union movement is rallying its members from all over the country to an illegal May Day demonstration in Tehran, at Laleh Park, in Abnama Square.
Which reminds me. I've written a May Day column that will appear tomorrow in the Tyee, and it will touch on subjects related to our obligations of solidarity with Iranian, Palestinian, Israeli and Afghan workers. I'll be noticing that the betrayal of those obligations is now the rule, rather than the exception, within Canada's labour bureaucracy, as it is within the "Left" establishment in this country. There's even a funny story in it about my recent and nasty personal encounter with Press TV.
I'll put up a post when the column appears.


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USDA issues health alert for Missouri company's chicken
KANSAS CITY (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a public health alert because a Kansas City company refused to recall uninspected chicken products.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday it issued the public health alert after Kansas City-based VU Foods wouldn't recall breaded chicken products after it was determined they hadn't been inspected. The USDA says the products bear the establishment number "P-45038" inside the USDA mark of inspection or on the label. They were also labeled for use in restaurants only.
The problem was discovered in mid-July by the state of Missouri, which notified federal authorities. The USDA says it hasn't received reports of illness from eating the products.
The federal agency continues to detain the products and is working to get the products back from restaurants.


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smallGuides necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 12 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
smallguides (smallguides.com)
We're a new startup that intends to provide quality information products in the form of e-books, videos, blogs and subscription services through our Internet site. This quality content will provide tools and knowledge that will help our prospective client small businesses envision, plan, organize, control and secure their businesses and allow them to grow and prosper into big successes. We believe that although there are many great sources of information out there that can help the small business owner, it takes a lot of time, energy, and often times money to locate it, interpret it, and then implement. We believe people will pay for quality information in a concise format at a reasonable cost that they can quickly self-implement.
Our intended target audience is the small business owner who owns and operates his/her business with 20 or less people. We know that this size business represents the overwhelming number of businesses operating in the US, and likely throughout the world. We know they do not have all the major elements of business properly represented, due to their size. And we believe they would appreciate having access to a trusted source of information that can help them quickly access critical tools and knowledge, and apply them for themselves. We will start with the US, but are hoping to grow the business to be global and multi-lingual, so the logo cannot have any words and must be easily identifiable regardless of language.
We are looking for a simple and elegant logo that can be used consistently in everything we produce - our websites, our products, our invoices, our business cards, advertising banners, avatars, etc. etc. Therefore, it needs to be something that will look equally good in a square, circle or elliptical representation. There will be five colors used: purple (#663366), gold (#FFCC00), silver (#999999), black (#000000) and white (#FFFFFF). The primary colors will be purple and gold, with the rest being secondary. Not all colors must be used in the logo itself.
It needs to be transparent so it may be put on a white paper or a colored header. We envision that this may become more critical over time, for as our business grows, we envision the possibility of branding different sub-sites using different color themes to identify different languages or different types of information product classes. It also needs to be scalable so that it can be be manipulated to fit the environment where it is being placed without it becoming distorted.
One possible idea could be a stylized hiker/guide with staff in one hand and open map in other, with mountain stretching up and away. Uses "guide", "map" or "information" and "upward direction" concepts.
We look forward to your creativity.
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