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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Iron Maiden calls out fan for texting
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
People text each other from the oddest places these days -- bathrooms, roller coasters, water parks. But one fan was called out quite publicly when he decided to text rather continuously from, of all places, an Iron Maiden concert.
Bruce Dickinson, leader of the British heavy metal band, spotted the texter and screamed out, "Oh, for (expletive) sake, the guy with the bald head and the white shirt, you've been texting for the last (expletive) three songs. You're a (British expletive)!"
The scolding was captured on video during Maiden's concert at Klipsch Music Center in Indianapolis on July 19, and the video's quickly been passed around. Dickinson didn't spend much time worrying about the clueless fan. Right after calling him out, the band ripped into "Wasted Years."
Whose side are you on -- Dickinson's or the texting fan's? Vote in our poll, and tell us on Facebook.
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JaxPort board supports pay raise for union workers
The Jacksonville Port Authority board on Monday agreed to a pay raise for union-represented workers, boosting their paychecks by 75 cents per hour starting Oct. 1.
The agreement covers 71 positions at JaxPort and equates to an overall 3 percent increase in pay for those workers represented by the Federation of Public Employees.
The change amends an existing three-year contract that will run through Sept. 30, 2013. That contract required both sides to come back for talks about pay levels for the third year of the contract.
The union members still must vote to ratify the contract.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
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Open Letter to President Obama, White House - By Sanjay Dalal ...
Dear President Obama:
I am a registered democrat, and became a citizen in 2008 to vote for you and Vice President Biden. I have been quite supportive of your policies throughout the last three years, and believe in my heart that you have worked extremely hard to save our country from a very deep recession. My Kudos to you for creating the stimulus, and our financial team (Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Geithner in particular) who acted boldly and promptly to correct our nation's financial problems.
I have been following some of the recent developments, and would like to offer my suggestions:
1. Why make the Bush tax cuts a focus in the election year? In particular, your proposal to tax folks who make more than $250K is polarizing, and could cost you the election. Instead of taxing the hard-working people who make more money, why not INSPIRE them to spend more and invest more in the economy? Give them some type of governmental support and convince them that they must invest in the future of our country! Get the millionaires and small businesses on your side. I don't think that the people who are earning less than $250K want to penalize the people who are making more. At best, I would say forget about the Bush era tax cuts... Just let it be. Instead, INSPIRE our small business owners to do more! And get them to BELIEVE in the American Dream. Get Them to believe that our government is behind them 150%, and will do everything possible to create more jobs. If these businesses get fired up, they will automatically begin spending more and hire more. If you must increase the taxes, then let the Bush era tax cuts expire for everyone.
2. The people of USA look upon you as a bold leader who is going to take them to a newer, brighter future! Create that vision of a great FUTURE. Show to the people what that future would look like. Make them DREAM. Make them work hard. Make them Believers. Focus on doing big bold things that will make America the best country in the world on all fronts: economy, peace, entrepreneurship, and more. Rather than getting tied up in small battles, wouldn't it be great if the country started thinking big things? Like sending Man to Mars? Creating new technologies that would make our lives easier, healthier and happier.
3. Get out and meet common people. Meet local businesses. Talk about the successful owners, and how they are doing it. Share their stories of hard work and sacrifice. Help those struggling.
God Bless!
Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal
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Small Business Social Network
Connect: http://ogoing.com/sanjaydalal
Source: http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/2012/07/open-letter-to-president-obama-white.html
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Plane returns to JFK after strange wiring found
NEW YORK?? A jetliner bound for Madrid returned to Kennedy International Airport as a precaution Thursday evening after a passenger reported strange wiring in the bathroom, but no explosive device was found, law enforcement officials said.
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Delta Flight 126 left the gate at about 8 p.m. ET and returned over an hour later. A U.S. Marshal was onboard the plane, and the New York Police Department bomb squad and FBI met the flight as a swarm of law enforcement vehicles crowded the plane and the 206 passengers were taken off the aircraft.
The wires were determined to be non-explosive but apparently did not belong to the plane, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD.
The wires were threaded through a drinking straw, WNBC-New York reported.
Two passengers questioned
Investigators briefly questioned two passengers, a woman who reported having difficulty breathing at the time the wires were discovered, and a man who apparently had been the last to use the bathroom.
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Officials were concerned the woman may have been creating some sort of diversion, but that was determined not to be the case. The male passenger denied having anything to do with the wires. Both passengers were released.
The Transportation Security Administration said the plane taxied to a remote location and passengers were escorted off.
"The aircraft was searched with negative results," the TSA said in a statement.
Delta spokeswoman Sarah M. Lora said in a statement that the flight was returned to JFK "out of an abundance of caution" and that "the flight landed safely."
Following the investigation, Flight 126 was scheduled to depart JFK at 3:10 a.m. ET and to arrive in Madrid at at 3:41 p.m. (Madrid time), Lora said.
Related: Runaway cart injures 5 on Frontier flight
In May, a US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears of a terror scenario that security officials had warned about. After landing, the plane taxied to a remote part of the airport where law enforcement officials removed the passenger.
NBC News, msnbc.com staff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
SC funeral home to offer Starbucks coffee
EASLEY, S.C. (AP) ? A funeral home in northwestern South Carolina will be offering what it calls the Starbucks experience to those needing comfort, or just a cup of coffee.
Robinson Funeral Home in Easley is building a coffee shop attached to the funeral home.
The Coffee Corner will feature Starbucks coffee and food and also will be open to those who don't need services from the funeral home. Chris Robinson says the Coffee Corner will include a fireplace, TV and Wi-Fi.
Starbucks employees will train employees at the funeral home later this month before the shop opens.
Robinson says there's nothing like food or coffee to help comfort those who've experienced a loss.
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Ex-NKorean star recalls 'ping pong diplomacy'
In this June 13, 2012 photo, North Korean Li Pun Hui speaks to media at the Taedonggong Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang, North Korea. Putting aside politics, the intensely competitive Li paired up with her arch rival, South Korean star Hyun Jung-hwa, in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
In this June 13, 2012 photo, North Korean Li Pun Hui speaks to media at the Taedonggong Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang, North Korea. Putting aside politics, the intensely competitive Li paired up with her arch rival, South Korean star Hyun Jung-hwa, in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
In this Wednesday, June 27, 2012 photo, Hyun Jung-hwa, the head coach of South Korea's Olympic women table tennis team, left, talks with Yoo Nam-kyu, Olympic men's table tennis team player, at the National Training Center in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean table tennis star Hyun teamed up with North Korean Li Pun Hui in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
In this April 30, 1991 photo, South Korea's Hyun Jung-hwa, left, and North Korea's Ri Bun Hui, Koreas' first-ever unified team, wave while holding their winning trophy after they defeated China at a world table tennis championships competition in Chiba, Japan. Grudgingly putting aside politics, the intensely competitive Ri paired up with her arch rival, South Korean star Hyun, in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT
In this June 13, 2012 photo, North Korean Li Pun Hui stands next to a ping pong table as a Paralympic table tennis player passes by in her wheelchair at the Taedonggong Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang, North Korea. Putting aside politics, the intensely competitive Li paired up with her arch rival, South Korean star Hyun Jung-hwa, in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? Her eyes well up when Li Pun Hui recalls her role in a historic example of "ping pong diplomacy."
In 1991, the North Korean table tennis star paired with her archrival, South Korea's Hyun Jung-hwa, as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the blue flag of the Korean Peninsula. With relations between the foes at a low point, the episode is not about to be repeated at the London Olympics. But Li and Hyun fondly recall how they met as enemies and parted as friends, and champions.
"For 50 days, 24 hours a day, we lived together as one, trained together, slept in the same room and ate all our meals together," Li told The Associated Press at an interview in Pyongyang. "We shared the same food ? and our feelings."
As separate squads, neither of the Koreas had been able to beat the team they called the "Great Wall" of table tennis: China, winner of eight consecutive women's world team titles leading up to that year's championships in Chiba, Japan. But Hyun, a 20-year-old from the southern port city of Busan, and the baby-faced 22-year-old Li teamed to help the Koreas finally break China's streak and clinch the gold medal.
The recent South Korean film "As One" reconstructs the complex bid to field a united team of players from both sides of the world's most heavily militarized border. It was just four years after North Korean agents blew up a South Korean airliner, killing all 115 people on board.
At first, the players regarded one another suspiciously. Their countries had fought against one another for three years in the 1950s, and the Korean Peninsula has remained in a state of war since a truce was signed in 1953. In the film, trash talking at a team banquet leads to a brawl.
"Did you see their faces?" one South Korean athlete says in the film. "So morbid."
In a telephone interview with AP, Hyun recalled her dismay when she learned she would be playing doubles with Li, whom she considered a notch lower in skill.
"I was too young to understand how symbolic it was," she said.
Both players were fiercely competitive. Getting past their rivalry, as well the cultural clashes, took time. The film contrasts the rigid orderliness of the North Koreans with the constant horseplay among the southerners.
Then, one day, Li missed practice, debilitated by hepatitis.
"My heart ached," Hyun said. "Aside from the rivalry between us and between our countries, I started hoping Li would get better and do well for her country."
Against all odds, friendships blossomed. The once-reluctant teammates together sang ballads that predated the peninsula's division. Their coaches bonded in a marathon drinking session. Stiff handshakes became high fives.
Li and Hyun developed a profound respect and affection for one another. They became confidantes as well as teammates, and their performances were crucial in helping the unified team win the women's title.
A 1991 photo shows the two in identical blue team suits, smiling, their hands clasped.
"We speak the same language," Li said. "We're the same people. We're Korean. We all had the same goal: To win."
But as the movie shows, they sometimes sparred ? teasingly ? with their ping pong paddles as well as with words.
Did you ever want to live in the South?" says the actress, Ha Ji-won, who portrays Hyun. "We live better than the North. The health care is better."
"Isn't life better in the U.S. than the South?" the fictional Li, played by Bae Doona, fires back. "Why don't you live there?"
In the film, Li admires Hyun's gold ring. Hyun confides that it was a gift from her father, who was hospitalized back home.
At their tearful parting, Hyun presses the ring into Li's hands.
Afterward, the two went home to their opposing sides of the Demilitarized Zone.
Restricted from writing or phoning, they saw each other only one more time, at the next world championships, when the two Koreas competed separately and Hyun won the singles titles. China resumed its dominance in the women's team event and launched another winning streak following the solitary triumph of the united Korean team.
In the years that followed, expectations were high that the two Koreas would keep using sports diplomacy to forge peace ? at least on the playing field. And at times, there was some traction.
In 2000, North and South Korean athletes marched together into the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics under the unified Korea flag, sparking a standing ovation. Months earlier, their leaders held a landmark summit in Pyongyang, raising hopes of reconciliation. There was talk during those "sunshine" years of suiting up as a combined team for competition again.
But with relations now at their lowest point in decades, and Pyongyang issuing regular threats against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his allies, that won't happen in London.
Team Korea, which is sending 245 South Koreans to the London Olympics to compete in 22 sports, will keep its distance from Team PRK Korea, which is sending 51 athletes to compete in nine sports, including women's football, boxing and, of course, table tennis.
Pyongyang also will send its first delegation to the Paralympics ? headed by none other than Li.
At 44, she is still athletic and has devoted herself to bringing the disabled out of the shadows of North Korean society through sports. Li, whose son has cerebral palsy, now heads her country's first Paralympic committee and was interviewed at the Taedonggang Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang.
Hyun went on to become one of South Korea's most decorated players and respected coaches, an Olympic gold medalist who in 2010 was inducted into the International Table Tennis Federation's Hall of Fame. Now 42, she is a director of the Korea Table Tennis Association in Seoul.
She misses Li, and remembers nights spent huddled together over snacks, away from the watchful eye of the North Korean security detail. An attempt by the filmmakers to bring them together for a reunion in Beijing was thwarted when South Korea's Unification Ministry denied Hyun's request for permission to meet the North Korean.
Were they ever to meet again, Hyun said, she would tell Li all about her family.
Nor have the ensuing two decades diminished Li's affection for Hyun, who she describes as "a woman of few words" ? straightforward and ambitious.
"I miss her very much," said Li, her eyes glistening with tears. She still, 21 years later, cherishes the gold ring given to her by her old doubles partner.
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Associated Press writer Sam Kim contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea.
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Amazing Alex for iPhone and iPad review
Amazing Alex is a "new" game by Angry Birds maker Rovio. I say "new", because it has actually been in the App Store before -- as Casey's Contraptions. Rovio purchased the physics-based puzzle game and rebranded it as Amazing Alex. It promises 100 levels of challenging fun, the ability to create and share your own levels, and the frequent, free updates that have made Angry Birds an enduring hit.
The premise of Amazing Alex is that you must help the imaginative whiz kid Alex create amazing chain reactions with the various toys and objects in his room. This includes shelves, balls, books, laundry baskets, springs, balloons, buckets, rope, scissors, and more.
Each level has some objects already on the scene and other objects in a drawer at the bottom of the screen to choose from. It is up to you to use these objects in a way that will achieve the goal of the level. The goal is indicated by circling the objects that must be moved and an arrow pointing to where they need to go. In the beginning levels, Amazing Alex will guide you through the levels by outlining where the objects should go and even show you how to drag them there. This means the beginning levels are actually extremely easy and borderline boring, but it doesn't take long for the levels to get challenging.
In addition to completing the general goal of the level, there are also up to three stars that can be collected. Many times, you have to re-think your construction and get creative in order to get all three stars.
As you progress through Amazing Alex, you will earn new items that will be added to the My Levels section of the game. This is where you get to create you own levels. Once you've created a level, you can upload it to the web where others can go to download it.
To download user-created levels, go to the Downloaded Levels section of Amazing Alex and tap the green Web icon. You'll be taken to a website in Safari where you can browse through levels. When you've found one you like, just tap on it and you'll be taken back to Amazing Alex and the level will be added to your Downloaded Levels section.
One of the other cool features of Amazing Alex is that your solutions to levels will be shared with your friends on Game Center. Unfortunately, Amazing Alex was released with a bug that was preventing this feature from working, but Rovio has since then released an updated fixing the issue. However, because of the bug, I have yet to see a solution from a Game Center friend. I am able to view my shared solutions, though.
The good
- Great graphics
- Fun
- Addicting
- Challenging
- Requires creativity
- Share solutions with Game Center friends
- Create your own levels
- Download user-created levels
The bad
- Because of initial Game Center bug, I have not been able to experience solutions shared by others
The conclusion
I'm totally addicted to Amazing Alex. So much so that this review is coming a little later than it should've been! Rovio was smart to snag this one up and I look forward to the regular updates that I've grown to love and expect from Angry Birds.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Apple?s lawyers sharpen their knives: Nexus 7 has hidden Smart Cover feature [video]
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Some corn farmers mow fields as drought worsens
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Some cornstalks in fields around the farm where David Kellerman works stand tall, but appearances can be deceiving. When the husks are pulled back, the cobs are empty. No kernels developed as the plants struggled with heat and drought.
The soil in Kellerman's part of southern Illinois is like dust after less than an inch of rain since mid-April. This week, he and the farmer he works with packed it in. They cut and baled the withered plants to use as hay for their cattle.
As the worst drought in nearly 25 years spreads across the nation, farmers in Illinois and Indiana are finding themselves among the hardest hit. But they are not alone, and conditions are likely to get worse throughout the middle of the country with an unusually hot summer in the forecast.
Almost a third of the nation's corn crop is already showing signs of damage, and on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released yet another report predicting that farmers will get only a fraction of the corn anticipated last spring when they planted 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937.
It's too soon to say how that will affect food prices. The cost of meat is most likely to be affected because corn is used to feed cattle, and its price is usually passed along in the cost of hamburger and steak. But meat prices were already rising and were expected to stay high after last year's drought in Texas forced many ranchers to reduce their herds.
Corn also is widely used as an ingredient ? in corn flakes to ketchup, bread and soda pop ? but it accounts for a small fraction of their costs compared to such things as transportation and marketing.
A rule of thumb is that food prices typically climb about 1 percent for every 50 percent increase in average corn prices, said Richard Volpe, a USDA food markets research economist.
The government has already predicted food prices will increase this year by as much as 3.5 percent. It won't be clear until the fall, when all the damage is known, how much the crop loss will add to that, Volpe said.
Kellerman, 28, farms near Du Bois, Ill., with his neighbor Gerald Kuberski. He said they had been holding out hope for rain, but gave up last week after more than a week of 100-degree or hotter days.
Temperatures over 95 degrees while corn is pollinating can stunt the growth of ears and prevent kernels from fully developing.
"Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we had 108 degrees. It just pretty much fried the corn," Kellerman said.
He and Kuberski considered selling 20 cattle because they expect feed costs to be high, but so many farmers are trying to sell animals that prices in their area have plummeted.
"You can't really give them away so we decided to keep them and feed them this baled corn," Kellerman said. "We don't know how it's going to work."
The drought stretches from parts of Ohio to California. The historic drought that gripped Texas and other parts of the Southwest last year was more severe, but this year is notable for the ground covered.
"To see something on this continental scale where we're seeing such a large portion of the country in drought you have to go back to 1988," said Brad Rippey, a USDA agricultural meteorologist.
That year, farmers saw corn yields, or the amount produced per acre, drop by nearly a third.
The USDA said Wednesday it now expects farmers to get 146 bushels per acre this year, rather than the 166 bushels per acre it predicted at the beginning of the year. They will harvest an estimated 12.97 billion bushels of grain, a 12 percent reduction from an estimate in June of 14.79 billion bushels.
But even with that loss, farmers may still do better than they would have 10 years ago because plant breeders have developed corn varieties better able to withstand drought. The average yield in 2002 was about 129 bushels per acre.
Even farmers who lose much or all of their corn this year are unlikely to go under. Most take out crop insurance to cover weather-related losses.
Matt Johnson's popcorn fields in Redkey, Ind., have been burning up by the day, and he expects his insurance adjuster to tell him to mow them over if no rain comes by next month.
"It's pretty sad," said Johnson. "Everything's just so short, so small. We haven't mowed our yard since sometime in May. We didn't even get an inch of rain in June and haven't gotten an inch yet in July."
In the end, it may be farmers' spirits that take the hardest hit.
"It's a farmers' nature to want to grow a good crop, and that's a very depressing state to be in when that doesn't happen," said Don Duvall, who farms near the Illinois-Indiana state line in Carmi, Ill.
"Not only has it hit the corn crop, but there are well-established trees that are dying," he added. "Leaves are falling like it's autumn, and a lot of the landscape is just dying."
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Maintaining Your Electric BBQ Grill - IdeaMarketers.com
No one, no matter how much money they have, wants to have to replace appliances on a regular basis. This can become costly and annoying. In order to avoid having to replace appliances on a regular basis, it's important to care for and maintain each appliance, including your electric BBQ grill.
The first step in maintaining your electric BBQ grill is to place it in a safe location. A safe location is away from other heat sources. Also, make sure your rotisserie is not sitting where it will melt any plastic. Keeping your cooking grate away from children is also important. The last thing you want is for a child to get hurt by such an appliance.
The next step is to do a thorough cleaning on it after each time you cook. If you have a table electric BBQ grill then you must rinse the drip tray or place it in the dishwasher if it is dishwasher safe. You also need to wipe down the plates on your cooking grate to remove any leftover fats and food remnants. Cleaning the outside of your electronic roasting framework is important also, to keep it looking presentable. After all, who wants to eat food from a grill that looks disgusting?
The final step is to do a regular inspection before heating it up. You need to check the cable to make sure that it is properly hooked up and to make sure that no wires are sticking out. Also check the thermostat to make sure that the insulation is properly placed and that there are no wires out of place.
An important note to keep in mind, when cleaning and inspecting your electronic rotisserie is that the heating coils and electric grates are free from standing water.
It's a wise idea to do a maintenance check each time you get ready to start up your electric BBQ grill. If you make it a habit to check the location of your electronic cooking appliance, check the cleanliness of your rotisserie, and do an inspection on your electric BBQ grill every time you get ready to do some roasting, then you will find that your roasting framework stays in good shape for a long time to come.
In fact, you'll probably only have to get a new electric BBQ grill when you are ready for new or different features rather than being forced to get one in a pinch because your electronic rotisserie gave out. So, in short, maintaining your electric BBQ grill equates to being able to enjoy your grill.
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With the housing market at its grimmest, more homeowners are staying in their starter homes for longer. The reason for this is that selling their homes at ridiculous losses does not make up for how much they may gain in a new home. Sometimes starter homes tend to be made with substandard materials and are seldom praiseworthy when it comes to durability. These conditions can lead to mold infestation even when the conditions for mold are less than ideal.
An unchecked misted window pane can lead to serious issues of mold and you may not be alerted to its presence until your child has incessant nosebleeds. Children are perhaps the most susceptible when it comes to mold symptoms. A NYC mold inspections company may visit your home and give you a detailed explanation of how extensive your mold issue is. In fact, in infants pulmonary hemorrhage is a common symptom of mold and must not be taken lightly. Hiring a NYC mold inspections company for a preliminary investigation of your mold issue may help you decide if the home needs to be evacuated or not.
Other common mold symptoms that children experience are sore throats, diarrhea and unexplained crying. The unexplained crying results from headaches that children are not able to express clearly to their parents. Many NYC mold inspections company contractors report that their homeowner's children have been experiencing unexplained symptoms for months before they finally realized that it is not a virus or bacteria that is causing their children discomfort. In fact, many physicians themselves are unaware of what these symptoms may mean, until they are presented with a comprehensive report from the NYC mold inspections company.
While children are unable to express psychological depression or other symptoms as a result of mold, many NYC mold inspections company contractors report that the children's behavior has changed recently. These detrimental health defects reverse themselves very often once the mold has been removed by the NYC mold inspections company.
There is no question that these children displaying these mold sensitivities do have a genetic predisposition, but more often than not, unless there is an active mold infestation in the home, then they generally do not have to combat mold as children. So if you are concerned about your child's unexplained symptoms, you may be surprised by what a day's visit from a NYC mold inspections company can tell you.
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Apple launches new iPad in China on July 20th (update: here's why)
Apple is about to complete an important part of the puzzle for the new iPad's world rollout: it just confirmed that its Retina display-packing tablet will reach mainland China on July 20th. The company isn't specific about local pricing, but it's promising both WiFi and cellular versions at its own stores and through resellers. The company is keen to avoid some of the mobs and scalping it's seen in the past and will open reservations for pickup starting on July 19th -- although the company is unusually limiting the reservation window to just three hours each day, between 9AM and noon. No matter how it shakes out, the official Chinese expansion is likely to keep the number of slingshot-delivered imports to a minimum.
Update: As some commenters have noted, the Chinese launch is helped mostly by the truce with Proview. The current iPad design has been certified since March; Apple isn't about to mention Proview by name in the release, but it likely wasn't keen on risking another store ban when it could just avoid the battle altogether.
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Sean Lowe on Bachelorette Exit: No Regrets, Nothing But Love For Emily
Sean Lowe says he was absolutely crushed by his elimination on The Bachelorette Monday night, and was totally planning to propose to Emily Maynard.
In one of the most heartbreaking eliminations in show history, Emily gave Jef Holm and Arie Luyendyk Jr. roses and said goodbye to a devastated Sean.
"I'm not sure what to say," a teary Sean told her. "I feel kind of stupid. Only because I knew with certainty that I was ready to spend forever with you."
"I just didn't see this coming... obviously. I think you should know it's going to hurt me," he added as Emily Maynard broke down in tears, once again.
"I'm going to miss you more than you know. I care about you, ultimately, and if this is the best for you, than you have to do what's best for you."
The decision was clearly tough on her as well.
"I want you to know, I wanted it to be you, so bad. So, so bad ... I'm really going to miss you and I have loved every minute I've had with you."
Now that the shock of his elimination is over and he's spent some time away from the cameras, Sean Lowe admits he wouldn't "change a thing."
"Wow! Thanks so much to everyone who sent love my way," the 28-year-old Tweeted. "Emily is such an amazing girl and I wouldn't change a thing."
"I am so very blessed."
The question is ... did Emily make the right call letting him go?
The other question is ... with Sean out of the picture for better or worse, who will win the final rose (see Bachelorette spoilers if you dare) July 22?
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