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Nighttime Waterskiing?
The Austin Chronicle – Jul 4, 2008 05:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Austin
Nighttime Waterskiing?
The Austin Chronicle – Jul 4, 2008 05:54 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Austin
Ohio Attorney General's office files appeal on ruling by Burge
ELYRIA -- Court documents were filed yesterday arguing that Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge abused his discretion and exceeded his authority in ruling that Ohio should only use one anesthetic drug to kill condemned inmates.
Lorain Morning Journal – Jul 4, 2008 05:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cleveland
ELYRIA -- Court documents were filed yesterday arguing that Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge abused his discretion and exceeded his authority in ruling that Ohio should only use one anesthetic drug to kill condemned inmates.
Lorain Morning Journal – Jul 4, 2008 05:53 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cleveland
Steps added to process for appeals
PLAINS TWP. – The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas is changing the appeals process for property owners dissatisfied with their new reassessed property values.
Times Leader – Jul 4, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Wilkes Barre-Scranton
PLAINS TWP. – The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas is changing the appeals process for property owners dissatisfied with their new reassessed property values.
Times Leader – Jul 4, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Wilkes Barre-Scranton
N.C. teen gets life in slaying of Mt. Oliver clerk
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning convicted Eric D. Hancock, 17, of Greensboro, of second-degree murder for robbing the A&E Deli Food Mart on Aug. 28 and killing Jamal Muzafar, 28.
PittsburghLive.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning convicted Eric D. Hancock, 17, of Greensboro, of second-degree murder for robbing the A&E Deli Food Mart on Aug. 28 and killing Jamal Muzafar, 28.
PittsburghLive.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
Stand-up is personal for '30 Rock' star Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan is not Tracy Jordan, the character he plays on NBC's "30 Rock."But the comedian does have a few things in common with his wild and crazy alter-ego on the Emmy-winning sitcom.
PittsburghLive.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
Tracy Morgan is not Tracy Jordan, the character he plays on NBC's "30 Rock."But the comedian does have a few things in common with his wild and crazy alter-ego on the Emmy-winning sitcom.
PittsburghLive.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
News tracker: Council vacancy
What we knew: Joe Ledvina unexpectedly resigned April 5 as president of the La Crosse Common Council. Two South Siders applied for the vacant District 15 post, which represents the swath of La Crosse bounded by State Road to the north, Broadview Place, 33rd Street, Leonard Street and Robinsdale Avenue to the south, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks to the west and city limits to the east.
La Crosse Tribune – Jul 4, 2008 04:15 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Wisconsin: La Crosse-Eau Claire
What we knew: Joe Ledvina unexpectedly resigned April 5 as president of the La Crosse Common Council. Two South Siders applied for the vacant District 15 post, which represents the swath of La Crosse bounded by State Road to the north, Broadview Place, 33rd Street, Leonard Street and Robinsdale Avenue to the south, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks to the west and city limits to the east.
La Crosse Tribune – Jul 4, 2008 04:15 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Wisconsin: La Crosse-Eau Claire
Sex Drive: How to Keep the Fireworks Going From Afar
Many long-distance lovers have become experts in how tech can augment sexuality.No commuter couple should go without Skype, Twitter and mobile phones, while sex toys can take the repetitive stress injury out of a long-distance affair.But it's not much of a stretch to think that there's a bigger need (read: market) for "tele-amore" devices than there ever will be for teledildonics (online sex toys controlled by a lover from anywhere in the world). And yet we don't have a lot of options when we're looking for devices designed to arouse our emotions. Not everyone is comfortable enough with both sex and computers to get internet-enabled vibrators working, but we all want to interact with our partners in special ways. Despite the frenzy around social media applications, we still don't have sensual devices that extend that functionality beyond virtual space.All it would take is something like the Ambient Orb hooked up to a desktop dot to get my heart racing.Joseph Kaye, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University studying human-computer interaction, developed the Virtual Intimate Object, or VIO, to study the effect of low-bandwidth applications on long-distance intimacy.The VIO is a dot that sits in your system tray (Windows) or desktop (Mac) and monitors an identical dot on your partner's computer. When your partner clicks his or her dot, yours fills with color; as time goes by without a click, the color slowly fades until the circle is just an outline.In Kaye's 2004 study (.pdf), five long-distance couples kept journals of how often they clicked the VIO and how using it made them feel. He notes that while he originally thought of the VIO as the source of intimacy, he realized that the journals quickly became an integral part of the experience for the couples.Just as dancing leads to necking which leads to spanking and then to the oral sex, what was enough on day one was merely adequate by day five of the study.By week's end, participants had several suggestions for additional functionality: a choice of colors, the option to play a sound, and the ability to replace the circle with their own set of graphics. They had become emotionally engaged not just with their partners, but with the application.If you can get all that from a 2-D dot, think what you could do with an object you can touch.Unfortunately, the closest thing I can find to that type of technology for consumers is the Nabaztag rabbit, a wireless device that connects with other Nabaztag rabbits over the internet. From a strictly romantic standpoint, they one-up the Chumby and the Tux Droid in that the rabbits can "marry" each other, so that when one partner moves their rabbit's ears, the paired rabbit's ears move the same way.Chat acronyms, make way for the semaphore signs of love.The Nabaztags are excruciatingly cute. I've wanted a set for years, but they weren't specifically designed for suitors. (Nor are they the seamless technical experience they claim to be, apparently: The Nabaztalk user forums provide a sobering counterpoint to the Nabaztags' slick product marketing.)The human-computer interaction folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seem to understand the connection between technology and emotion, but their clever projects -- like the Lover's Cups that light up when a far-away partner takes a sip or the Mutsugoto interactive art bed -- have yet to break free of academia and museums.Gadgets like teledildonics and sex machines that stimulate the body but shouldn't be used at work or in public only go so far. Sex tech doesn't have to be explicit to be effective: If you and your distant partner have been together long enough, you realize that tech that fosters intimacy, playfulness and common experiences has a much greater impact on the quality of your union than just having orgasms now and then.I want to glance at the shelf and see an object glowing warmly because someone special sent me a message. I want to let someone know I'm thinking about him, simply by stroking my fingers over a smooth surface.I know I'm not the only one who wants to interact through something sensual and swoopy and erotic that has no connection to business, chores or taxes.I want my ambient intimacy object. Are you listening, developers? There's a mountain of money to be made keeping long-distance lovers connected in our increasingly complicated world. See you in a fortnight,Regina Lynn- - - Regina Lynn is the author of Sexier Sex: Lessons From the Brave New Sexual Frontier. She blogs at reginalynn.com.
Wired News – Jul 4, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Many long-distance lovers have become experts in how tech can augment sexuality.No commuter couple should go without Skype, Twitter and mobile phones, while sex toys can take the repetitive stress injury out of a long-distance affair.But it's not much of a stretch to think that there's a bigger need (read: market) for "tele-amore" devices than there ever will be for teledildonics (online sex toys controlled by a lover from anywhere in the world). And yet we don't have a lot of options when we're looking for devices designed to arouse our emotions. Not everyone is comfortable enough with both sex and computers to get internet-enabled vibrators working, but we all want to interact with our partners in special ways. Despite the frenzy around social media applications, we still don't have sensual devices that extend that functionality beyond virtual space.All it would take is something like the Ambient Orb hooked up to a desktop dot to get my heart racing.Joseph Kaye, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University studying human-computer interaction, developed the Virtual Intimate Object, or VIO, to study the effect of low-bandwidth applications on long-distance intimacy.The VIO is a dot that sits in your system tray (Windows) or desktop (Mac) and monitors an identical dot on your partner's computer. When your partner clicks his or her dot, yours fills with color; as time goes by without a click, the color slowly fades until the circle is just an outline.In Kaye's 2004 study (.pdf), five long-distance couples kept journals of how often they clicked the VIO and how using it made them feel. He notes that while he originally thought of the VIO as the source of intimacy, he realized that the journals quickly became an integral part of the experience for the couples.Just as dancing leads to necking which leads to spanking and then to the oral sex, what was enough on day one was merely adequate by day five of the study.By week's end, participants had several suggestions for additional functionality: a choice of colors, the option to play a sound, and the ability to replace the circle with their own set of graphics. They had become emotionally engaged not just with their partners, but with the application.If you can get all that from a 2-D dot, think what you could do with an object you can touch.Unfortunately, the closest thing I can find to that type of technology for consumers is the Nabaztag rabbit, a wireless device that connects with other Nabaztag rabbits over the internet. From a strictly romantic standpoint, they one-up the Chumby and the Tux Droid in that the rabbits can "marry" each other, so that when one partner moves their rabbit's ears, the paired rabbit's ears move the same way.Chat acronyms, make way for the semaphore signs of love.The Nabaztags are excruciatingly cute. I've wanted a set for years, but they weren't specifically designed for suitors. (Nor are they the seamless technical experience they claim to be, apparently: The Nabaztalk user forums provide a sobering counterpoint to the Nabaztags' slick product marketing.)The human-computer interaction folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seem to understand the connection between technology and emotion, but their clever projects -- like the Lover's Cups that light up when a far-away partner takes a sip or the Mutsugoto interactive art bed -- have yet to break free of academia and museums.Gadgets like teledildonics and sex machines that stimulate the body but shouldn't be used at work or in public only go so far. Sex tech doesn't have to be explicit to be effective: If you and your distant partner have been together long enough, you realize that tech that fosters intimacy, playfulness and common experiences has a much greater impact on the quality of your union than just having orgasms now and then.I want to glance at the shelf and see an object glowing warmly because someone special sent me a message. I want to let someone know I'm thinking about him, simply by stroking my fingers over a smooth surface.I know I'm not the only one who wants to interact through something sensual and swoopy and erotic that has no connection to business, chores or taxes.I want my ambient intimacy object. Are you listening, developers? There's a mountain of money to be made keeping long-distance lovers connected in our increasingly complicated world. See you in a fortnight,Regina Lynn- - - Regina Lynn is the author of Sexier Sex: Lessons From the Brave New Sexual Frontier. She blogs at reginalynn.com.
Wired News – Jul 4, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
FDA expands salmonella probe to produce from Mexico
WASHINGTON -- The investigation of a salmonella outbreak inthe United States is shifting to the southern border to encompassproduce imported from Mexico. U.S. health officials are strugglingto find the source of the outbreak linked to certain types oftomatoes that has caused a reported 922 cases of salmonella foodpoisoning in 40 states and the District of Colombia since mid-April,CNN reported. The Food and Drug Administration has alerted growersand brokers handling their products that, starting on Monday,inspectors will stop shipments from Mexico of ingredients common toMexican cuisine. Cilantro, jalapeno peppers, serrano peppers,scallions and bulb onions are among the products to be examined, CNNsaid. Tomatoes continue to be the primary focus of the probe butofficials have expanded the investigation to include producecommonly eaten with tomatoes.
Canada.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: British Columbia
WASHINGTON -- The investigation of a salmonella outbreak inthe United States is shifting to the southern border to encompassproduce imported from Mexico. U.S. health officials are strugglingto find the source of the outbreak linked to certain types oftomatoes that has caused a reported 922 cases of salmonella foodpoisoning in 40 states and the District of Colombia since mid-April,CNN reported. The Food and Drug Administration has alerted growersand brokers handling their products that, starting on Monday,inspectors will stop shipments from Mexico of ingredients common toMexican cuisine. Cilantro, jalapeno peppers, serrano peppers,scallions and bulb onions are among the products to be examined, CNNsaid. Tomatoes continue to be the primary focus of the probe butofficials have expanded the investigation to include producecommonly eaten with tomatoes.
Canada.com – Jul 4, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Canada: British Columbia
Pushing For Profit While Dealing With A Drought
The hot, dry summer months continue to take their toll on local farmers here in the east. The latest drought monitoring index shows the eastern part of our state in moderate drought conditions. This time last year only half our state was this dry. Joe Stilley is a fifth generation farmer. Following in his fathers footsteps and dealing with the same problems on the same farm in a different year. On their family farm, they grow different crops like cotton, soybean, corn, and tobacco all with one thing in common. “In order to make a crop, the growth curve goes with the water curve," said Stilley. The logic is simple enough but solving the problem is anything but. Stilley said, “I am thinking that this drought is going to put our harvest off for about two weeks later than we usually are." This particular soil requires more moisture and Stilley says if they had just a few more inches of rain last month that this crop of tobacco would be twice as tall." It’s not just the drought that's causing a cash crisis on area farms. Folks also have to dig deeper in their pockets just to cover the cost of operating. Everything that goes into running their business is increasing while the money they get for their crops struggles to keep up. But despite all that, there is some hope. Stilley said, "You have to roll with the punches and do what you can to make the best crop you can." Stilley says some crops like cotton can withstand dry conditions like these. While a heavy does of rain is needed to get us out of drought conditions, Stilley said too much rain could actually hurt them. More than just a few inches can lead to flooding; killing some of their crops.
WNCT.com – Jul 4, 2008 03:35 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Greenville-New Bern-Washington
The hot, dry summer months continue to take their toll on local farmers here in the east. The latest drought monitoring index shows the eastern part of our state in moderate drought conditions. This time last year only half our state was this dry. Joe Stilley is a fifth generation farmer. Following in his fathers footsteps and dealing with the same problems on the same farm in a different year. On their family farm, they grow different crops like cotton, soybean, corn, and tobacco all with one thing in common. “In order to make a crop, the growth curve goes with the water curve," said Stilley. The logic is simple enough but solving the problem is anything but. Stilley said, “I am thinking that this drought is going to put our harvest off for about two weeks later than we usually are." This particular soil requires more moisture and Stilley says if they had just a few more inches of rain last month that this crop of tobacco would be twice as tall." It’s not just the drought that's causing a cash crisis on area farms. Folks also have to dig deeper in their pockets just to cover the cost of operating. Everything that goes into running their business is increasing while the money they get for their crops struggles to keep up. But despite all that, there is some hope. Stilley said, "You have to roll with the punches and do what you can to make the best crop you can." Stilley says some crops like cotton can withstand dry conditions like these. While a heavy does of rain is needed to get us out of drought conditions, Stilley said too much rain could actually hurt them. More than just a few inches can lead to flooding; killing some of their crops.
WNCT.com – Jul 4, 2008 03:35 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Greenville-New Bern-Washington
Freedom poses challenge for former hostages
After spending 372 days as a hostage in the Philippines, Gracia Burnham would run for cover at the sound of July Fourth fireworks. Her struggles are common among people who spend time in captivity, psychologists say. The 15 hostages rescued this week from Colombian rebels now face their own challenges.
CNN.com – Jul 4, 2008 02:56 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories
After spending 372 days as a hostage in the Philippines, Gracia Burnham would run for cover at the sound of July Fourth fireworks. Her struggles are common among people who spend time in captivity, psychologists say. The 15 hostages rescued this week from Colombian rebels now face their own challenges.
CNN.com – Jul 4, 2008 02:56 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories