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Back to the Eighties - Van Damme Friday!!

Look at that hair and glasses..

'Poltergeist' Star Zelda Rubinstein Dies at 76

By PopEater Staff
From: http://www.popeater.com/

Actress Zelda Rubinstein, who played spirit talker Tangina in Steven Spielberg's cult 1982 film 'Poltergeist,' has passed away. Her agent, Eric Stevens, confirmed she passed away of natural causes at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 27. She was 76-years-old.

Stevens tells RadarOnline.com, "She had ongoing health issues and unfortunately they finally overtook her."

"At 1:59 this morning Zelda left us. She was very much at peace when she finally rested. I'm so sad right now, but I'm glad I was here to be with her and hold her hand," a friend of the actress said.

She was hospitalized in Los Angeles in December after two of her major organs failed. According to reports, friends and family insisted Rubinstein was on the mend earlier this month.

A friends adds, "She was very much at peace when she finally rested... The world has definitely lost someone very special."

'Poltergeist' was Rubinstein's big break in Hollywood, but she also appeared in 'Poltergeist II: The Other Side,' 'National Lampoon's Last Resort' and 'Sixteen Candles.' Her other credits include 'Caroline in the City,' 'Picket Fences' and 'Mr. Belvedere.'

Man sets 'keepy-uppy' world record in London

Dan Magness visited all of London's Premier League grounds during his feat

A man has broken a world record by playing "keepy-uppy" 30 miles across London, visiting every Premier League stadium in the capital.

Dan Magness, 26, left Fulham's Craven Cottage at 0800 GMT and finished at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane stadium at about 2145 GMT.

The football freestyler beat the record for the longest keepy-uppy journey.

To manage the feat he had to keep the ball off the ground using all parts of his body, except his hands.

After reaching White Hart Lane, Mr Magness, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, said: "I am absolutely exhausted, I've had every sort of cramp but I am really proud."

'Amazing spectacle'

He said he now hoped to visit every Premier League ground doing his football tricks.

The ball he used will embark on a 10,000-mile overland journey to Johannesburg, South Africa.

On its journey, the football will be taken through Europe and 17 African countries to the opening of the World Cup in the South African city.

In much the same vein as the Olympic Torch, the football - which organisers refer to as The Ball - is seen as a symbol of hope, promoting peace and unity.

The ball was hand-stitched in Africa by Alive & Kicking, a UK-based social enterprise that runs stitching factories in Kenya and Zambia.

"It's a fitting way to begin the ball's journey to the World Cup in South Africa and we're very proud that a ball hand-stitched by Alive & Kicking in Kenya will be the centrepiece of this amazing footballing spectacle," said Alive & Kicking director Will Prochaska.

Mr Magness has already broken four world records, recently controlling a ball for 24 hours in a box in central London's Covent Garden.

Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff
From: http://www.boston.com/

Howard Zinn.

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Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People's History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.

His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.

"He's made an amazing contribution to American intellectual and moral culture," Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, said tonight. "He's changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. I really can't think of anyone I can compare him to in this respect."

Zinn turns to comics

Chomsky added that Dr. Zinn's writings "simply changed perspective and understanding for a whole generation. He opened up approaches to history that were novel and highly significant. Both by his actions, and his writings for 50 years, he played a powerful role in helping and in many ways inspiring the Civil rights movement and the anti-war movement."

For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. "A People’s History of the United States" (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s.

As he wrote in his autobiography, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (1994), "From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity'; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble."

Certainly, it was a recipe for rancor between Dr. Zinn and John Silber, former president of Boston University. Dr. Zinn, a leading critic of Silber, twice helped lead faculty votes to oust the BU president, who in turn once accused Dr. Zinn of arson (a charge he quickly retracted) and cited him as a prime example of teachers "who poison the well of academe."

Dr. Zinn was a cochairman of the strike committee when BU professors walked out in 1979. After the strike was settled, he and four colleagues were charged with violating their contract when they refused to cross a picket line of striking secretaries. The charges against "the BU Five" were soon dropped.

In 1997, Dr. Zinn slipped into popular culture when his writing made a cameo appearance in the film "Good Will Hunting." The title character, played by Matt Damon, lauds "A People’s History" and urges Robin Williams’s character to read it. Damon, who co-wrote the script, was a neighbor of the Zinns growing up.

"Howard had a great mind and was one of the great voices in the American political life," Ben Affleck, also a family friend growing up and Damon's co-star in "Good Will Hunting," said in a statement. "He taught me how valuable -- how necessary -- dissent was to democracy and to America itself. He taught that history was made by the everyman, not the elites. I was lucky enough to know him personally and I will carry with me what I learned from him -- and try to impart it to my own children -- in his memory."

Damon was later involved in a television version of the book, "The People Speak," which ran on the History Channel in 2009, and he narrated a 2004 biographical documentary, "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train."

"Howard had a genius for the shape of public morality and for articulating the great alternative vision of peace as more than a dream," said James Carroll a columnist for the Globe's opinion pages whose friendship with Dr. Zinn dates to when Carroll was a Catholic chaplain at BU. "But above all, he had a genius for the practical meaning of love. That is what drew legions of the young to him and what made the wide circle of his friends so constantly amazed and grateful."

Dr. Zinn was born in New York City on Aug. 24, 1922, the son of Jewish immigrants, Edward Zinn, a waiter, and Jennie (Rabinowitz) Zinn, a housewife. He attended New York public schools and was working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard when he met Roslyn Shechter.

"She was working as a secretary," Dr. Zinn said in an interview with the Globe nearly two years ago. "We were both working in the same neighborhood, but we didn't know each other. A mutual friend asked me to deliver something to her. She opened the door, I saw her, and that was it."

He joined the Army Air Corps, and they courted through the mail before marrying in October 1944 while he was on his first furlough. She died in 2008.

During World War II, he served as a bombardier, was awarded the Air Medal, and attained the rank of second lieutenant.

After the war, Dr. Zinn worked at a series of menial jobs until entering New York University on the GI Bill as a 27-year-old freshman. He worked nights in a warehouse loading trucks to support his studies. He received his bachelor’s degree from NYU, followed by master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Columbia University.

Dr. Zinn was an instructor at Upsala College and lecturer at Brooklyn College before joining the faculty of Spelman College in Atlanta, in 1956. He served at the historically black women’s institution as chairman of the history department. Among his students were novelist Alice Walker, who called him "the best teacher I ever had," and Marian Wright Edelman, future head of the Children's Defense Fund.

During this time, Dr. Zinn became active in the civil rights movement. He served on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the most aggressive civil rights organization of the time, and participated in numerous demonstrations.

Dr. Zinn became an associate professor of political science at BU in 1964 and was named full professor in 1966.

The focus of his activism became the Vietnam War. Dr. Zinn spoke at many rallies and teach-ins and drew national attention when he and the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, another leading antiwar activist, went to Hanoi in 1968 to receive three prisoners released by the North Vietnamese.

Dr. Zinn’s involvement in the antiwar movement led to his publishing two books: "Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal" (1967) and "Disobedience and Democracy" (1968). He had previously published "LaGuardia in Congress" (1959), which had won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize; "SNCC: The New Abolitionists" (1964); "The Southern Mystique" (1964); and "New Deal Thought" (1966).

He also was the author of "The Politics of History" (1970); "Postwar America" (1973); "Justice in Everyday Life" (1974); and "Declarations of Independence" (1990).

In 1988, Dr. Zinn took early retirement to concentrate on speaking and writing. The latter activity included writing for the stage. Dr. Zinn had two plays produced: "Emma," about the anarchist leader Emma Goldman, and "Daughter of Venus."

On his last day at BU, Dr. Zinn ended class 30 minutes early so he could join a picket line and urged the 500 students attending his lecture to come along. A hundred did.

"Howard was an old and very close friend," Chomsky said. "He was a person of real courage and integrity, warmth and humor. He was just a remarkable person."

Carroll called Dr. Zinn "simply one of the greatest Americans of our time. He will not be replaced -- or soon forgotten. How we loved him back."

In addition to his daughter, Dr. Zinn leaves a son, Jeff of Wellfleet; three granddaughters; and two grandsons.

Funeral plans were not available.

HP Slate teases us with another video appearance

By Vladislav Savov

From: http://www.engadget.com/

The HP Slate -- has there ever been a more iconic, more groundbreaking, more life-altering device? Oh, there has? Well anyway, HP CTO Phil McKinney has been friendly enough to share some of the history behind the development of his company's newly announced tablet, which is set for a release at some point later this year. Starting with e-reader prototypes five years ago, he tells us, HP steadily built up an idea of the sort of "rich media experience" modern consumers are lusting after. It's only now, however, in a "perfect storm" of innovation, that HP finds itself capable of pairing the right hardware with the mainstream-friendly price point it was shooting for. Join us after the break for the full dose of education on this multitouch Windows 7 machine.

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Blaze of glory: Marijuana's greatest moments in sports

By DAVE CAREY
From: http://www.covers.com/

Sports are littered with shrines to the greatest players of all-time: The Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Baseball Hall of Fame. But as players evolve and change, it’s important these institutions change with them.

That’s why Covers.com is proud to present the inaugural class into the Pot Head Hall of Fame.

This group of five tokers was selected by a committee and will get their busts blazed into our imaginary venue on April 20, 2010 in – where else – Miami, Fla.

So without further ado, let’s look at those legendary athletes who braved police, drug tests, public scrutiny and the munchies to make our first class.

Ricky Williams, Miami Dolphins – The dreadlocks are more than a fashion statement

Seriously, were you expecting Peyton Manning?

It’s hard to look anywhere else but at the former Texas standout when trying to find the finest aficionados of the sticky icky. But Hell, if your real name was Errick Lynne Williams, Jr., and you enjoyed giving interviews with your helmet on you probably would have hit the cheeba, too.

During his roller-coaster career, he failed three drug tests and squeezed in a semester at the California College of Ayurveda studying ancient Indian holistic medicine. And I’m sure a steady diet of hippie lettuce during his stint at a Buddhist temple in Asia kept him in about the same game shape as his time packing bowls in the CFL.

Some people still might not be sold on Williams being No. 1 on our list, but the same guy who used to have his entire name on his jersey in New Orleans also was caught on film doing something only a stoner can truly appreciate. There is footage of him eating at an IHOP – and seriously, who does that if they aren’t high?

Michael Phelps, Swimmer – Known more for his bong toke than his breast stroke

I know, I know, too easy. But how fast can someone go from being known for holding gold medals to being known for holding a bong?

And it wasn’t even a water bong. It makes you wonder if the guy’s legendary 12,000 calorie-a-day diet wasn’t made up mostly of ding-dongs and Funyuns. I doubt if he can even remember which stripper he is dating this week.

However, after visiting Mr. Phelps favorite gentlemen’s club for “journalistic purposes” I can assure readers of two things: First, the man has good taste. And second, the girls there swear he is a crappy tipper. But again, this coming from a writer who was thanked by one of the strippers for helping her afford a plane ticket to California at the end of the night.

Regardless, a legendary lung capacity served Phelps well during his victory rip and don’t expect him to let those air balloons go to waste any time in the near future. He still has two more years to go before London. They say his training is under way, but after looking at his infamous snapshot, I think he needs to start actually mixing the pool and some water into his regimen.

Nate Newton, Dallas Cowboys – Momma’s don’t let your babies grow up to be Cowboys

Here’s one guy who wasn’t afraid to push mad weight. The former Super Bowl winner made white panel vans more popular than child molesters when he got busted with 213 pounds of pot, just a few years after retiring.

To put that in perspective, the Center for Disease Control says the average American man weighs just 191 pounds. But not to be outdone, Newton was busted again five weeks later with another 175 pounds of the sweet herb.

That’s nearly 400 pounds of Mary Jane – or roughly what Willy Nelson used to smoke in three days. Other things in the world that weigh 400 pounds: a Welsh pony, an average male lion and a 500cc motorcycle. For the record, this is what around 400 pounds of pot looks like.

Ross Rebagliati, Snowboarder - Canadian snowboarder is to weed what Tina Turner is to legs

Admit it, you forgot all about this fan of the ganja. The Canadian made headlines around the world when he tested positive for marijuana after he won a gold medal in 1998.

Besides spending his time WAY north of the border, Rebagliati has gotten political recently, announcing this fall he wanted to seek a nomination from the Liberal Party. One of the biggest pieces of their platform? You guessed it, legalize dope.

But considering this guy also successfully won a defamation suit against a Canadian TV station for creating a soap opera character too closely based on him, don’t put anything past this grass master.

In the epic YouTube interview below, Rebagliati discusses having a total lack of motivation and not being good with things like money. Shocker. The best part? He used to live in a cabin down by the lake. Is that like a van down by the river Chris Farley talked about in his famous Saturday Night Live sketch?

Corie Blount, NBA journeyman – Blount is dangerously close to blunt

With all the great performances by NBA players through the years and their undeniable love of the chronic, it makes you wonder how Blount is the only NBA player that shows up on our list.

The former Bull, Cavalier, Sixer, Laker, Warrior, Sun and Raptor rolled to more than 2,000 points and 2,000 rebounds in his career, but his greatest hustle came off the court in 2008.

He was busted with 29 pounds of pot – throw in three illegal firearms to sweeten the deal – and played just as bad defense in court as on the court, telling the judge that all that Yukon Gold was for just him and a friend.

The judge’s response? "Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much."

Let’s just let Jim Rome take care of this one.

Digital Maps Reveal Hidden Geographies Of Sex And Religion

When you create a marker on Google Maps, you could be revealing the most popular religious and sexual habits in your local region. At least, that's what a group of social geographers demonstrated with their "sex and religion" map.

A group of three geographers who research internet map data did an exhaustive study of user-generated markers on Google maps. These are flags and notes that people can leave on Google maps to let other people know what's going on in that area. University of Kentucky's Matthew Zook and Oxford's Mark Graham sifted through reams of this data looking for keywords that popped up in association with different regions. One of their most recent results is this map showing the prevalence of words associated with different religions (they picked the words "Jesus," "Hindu," "Buddha," and "Allah"). Perhaps not surprisingly, the terms tend to occur more commonly in areas of the world associated with religions that use those words frequently. Obviously, there are going to be more places with the word "Jesus" associated with them in South America, while there will be more places associated with "Buddha" in Southeast Asia.

Then the researchers added in places where there were markers that had the word "sex" in them. You get a nice view of sexy places and religious places.

Says researcher Mark Graham:

Here we included placemarks that reference the word ("sex"), a popular and international used term with very different connotations than the religious keywords used earlier. The purpose of including this term is to compare user interest in religion to user interest in sex. If (as some say) the three topics to avoid in polite conversation are religion, sex and politics it seems only right that this Internet blog (the antithesis to polite conversation if there every was one) takes on the question. Sadly, the inclusion of politics will have to wait until another day.

In Asia there are very few places where there are more references to sex than Allah, Buddha, Hindu or Jesus. Constrasting this is Western Europe (especially the UK and Scandinavia) and North America (especially the East and West Coasts) there are more references to sex than any of the four religious terms that we searched for . . . There are, however, exceptions such as the Iberian countries of Spain and Portugal which continue to show more references to Jesus.

And then there's this map, which I adore, showing placemarkers with the word "strip club" in them. Of course Vegas leads the way.

UPDATE: io9 spoke with researcher Matthew Zook, who clarified how they gathered the data. He said via email that these maps are based on gathering data from:

Half a million geotagged places that have been contributed to Wikipedia, 10 million contributed to WikiMapia, 800 million GPS points uploaded to OpenStreetMap, and almost 10 million placemarks uploaded to Google.

He also noted that "all terms were in English." Zook added:

Using translated terms is something we are working on but it is a tough nut. Which language should be used at which point? What is the best translated term for "sex" in Chinese, Thai, German, Danish, etc.?

You can find more intriguing maps like these on the researchers' blog FloatingSheep.

Send an email to Annalee Newitz, the author of this post, at annalee@io9.com.

Reporter Makes Backwards Half Court Shot

While describing the half court shot prank we posted yesterday, a reporter makes an even more impressive backwards shot.

HIGH School Posters Are Some Primo $#!%

John Stalberg’s HIGH School is getting some high marks at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Matt Bush as Henry Burke, the class valedictorian who decides to give marijuana a shot for the first time. His transgression is harmless until the school principal (Michael Chiklis) announces a zero-tolerance policy targeting the drug. The only way Burke can secure his college scholarship is to team up with school pothead (Sean Marquette) and get all of their peers stoned.

HIGH School has a fantastic premise, delivered an amusing trailer and now has two posters to match. Everything about the art is perfect from the imagery to the tag lines. I can’t wait for Parallel Media to nail a release date so I can see these plastered all over New York City.

What's Better Than a Tablet? A Computer That Doesn't Need a Screen

Posted by Alex_Pasternack

From: http://www.motherboard.tv/

Now that our future has been revolutionized, at least for today, with a Moses-like tablet that will change how we publish, read, think and watch NSFW videos in public spaces, it’s easy to forget about the real future of computers — the one that involves no physical screen, and no real gadget, at all.

It’s been the stuff of the future in science fiction before, most recently as the gear used in the Syfy’s Battlestar prequel Caprica. But dudes, we’re living in the future. Using laser-based projection technology, one of those “phase modulating spatial light modulators” and other tech tucked into a tiny box, this computer by a UK company called Light Blue Optics projects a touch screen on any surface with relatively low power. The company’s co-founder, Dr. Adrian Cable, visited gadget geek Robert Scoble yesterday at his house, leading to a homemade, touch-heavy video with a gently voiced cameraman that might be best be called softcore amateur future gadget porn.

To see the thing in action,

Want an excuse to write something on some of your old monogramed stationary? You could type it. Ordering another enchilada right on your table cloth? Check. Want to mix your afternoon Bloody Mary on top of your Google Docs page? Does your e-reader or your fat belly need more music videos on it? It’s coming. Googling on your steering wheel? You so crazy. Wanna take multitasking to the next dimension? Project this hologram screen on top of your iPad. Yup, straight on top of it.

Alright, maybe we’re not ready for that just yet. And while the prototype is already being manufactured by Foxconn, the big company that makes Apple’s products, and the company has heard lots of interest since it made a splash at CES, we’re probably not going to start using any surface as our computers for another couple of years.

But I can’t wait for a future when we don’t have to lug around screens everywhere (and, for that matter, don’t tweet-drool over things like over-hyped oversized iPhones.)

Liger goes to 'London' for a light lunch

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

At first glance it seems this 12-foot long, 900-pound prowling beast is on the loose round the streets of London, simply taking in a tour of traditional sights.

The liger often has a very limited life span as well as birth defects and other mutation Photo: Barry Bland / Barcroft Media

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress Photo: Barry Bland / Barcroft Media

However, he is in fact in the warm climate of the Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Walking round the mock-up English town that is a tribute to the British music invasion of the States in the 1960's,

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress Photo: Barry Bland / Barcroft Media

Hercules struts his stuff round the village like a hipster from the swinging sixties. And in a graphic display of his incredible size and strength, Hercules stops for a spot of lunch from the top of an iconic double decker bus, eating his way through some of the 25 pounds of meat and gallon of water he needs each day.

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress and borrow characteristics from both species. Ligers enjoy swimming which is a characteristic of tigers and are very sociable like lions.

The liger often has a very limited life span as well as birth defects and other mutations.

In the wild it is virtually impossible for lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers in Asia.

Today there are also believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tiglons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother.

Tiglons are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger.

Other exotic hybrids include the zeedonk , a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/ domestic cow cross.

Another rare creature is the wolphin, the offspring of a whale and a dolphin.

Back in the big cat world zoos in Japan, Germany and Italy have bred leopons, a male leopard/lioness cross, while Salzburg Zoo in Austria has bred jaguar/leopard hybrids known as lepjags.

Twinkie Cars, Sausage Men, and Hoagie Blimps: Kitchen (Football Snack) Stadium

By Drew Tewksbury
From: http://blogs.laweekly.com/

The Big Game appoacheth. With Super Bowl XLIV right around the corner, millions of Americans will break out potato chips, Chex mex, Hot Dogs, and hamburgers and, of course, build a giant junk food football stadium. Okay, this may not be standard operating procedure for most gridiron fanatics gathered around the warm glow of the television, but for a second year, the folks of Break.com have set out to construct the best (and only?) snack stadium in the universe. Yesterday at Busby's East, the creative team of Break built a pool table sized arena that dwarfed last year's Twinkie, Slim Jim and guacamole stadium. Deftly wielding frosting, Cracker Jacks, doughnuts (and holes), deli meat, sweaty cheese, and some broccoli--to make mom happy--the stadium was an ode to beer bellies and lap bands across America.

This is Why You're Fat, eat your heart out. Break and their friends Holy Taco will release two behind-the-scenes videos of the snacktastrophe construction on Feb. 3rd and 5th. But before then, Squid Ink has exclusive photos of the ultimate snack stadium and a calorie breakdown after the jump. A picture is worth a thousand calories. Make that 110,428 calories.

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Behold the power of a fully operational Snack Stadium

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Rome wasn't built in a day

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Who doesn't love sweaty cheese and warm deli meat?

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Looking good, crowd! Loo-king gooooood!

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marshmallow wheels

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And the crowd goes wild!

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It's the carrots vs. the Vienna sausages for the game of the century!

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Birds eye view from the Hoagie Blimp (not pictured)

Get your lap bands ready, here's the calorie break down:

C per serving Quantity Total C per Item

STADIUM/STANDS:

Twizzlers 1/100c 1200c/bag 1200c

Good n Plenty 1/4c 1 bag 585<

Sno-Caps 1/4cup=180c 1 bag 360

Hershey Bars 1pc/40c 600/block 600

Red Hots 1/3c 720/box 720

Mike and Ike 1/6c 560/box 560

Hot Tamales 20p/150c 400/box 400

Hershey Kisses 12pcs/355c 12 pcs 355

Pink Sugar Wafers 1/22c 550/bag 550

Wht Sugar Wafers 1/45c 1080/bag 1080

Crème Filled Cookies 1/55c 990/bag 990

Vanilla Wafers 1/14c 1200/box 1200

Choc Chip cookies 1/38c 2100/box 2100

PNut Granola Bars 1/170 ½ box 680

Graham Crackers 1/19c 2 boxes 3600

Slim Jims 1/80c 4 pcs 320

Baby Carrots 210c/bag 210/bag 420

5 Layer Dip 735c/pack 735c/pack 735

String Cheese 1/60c 720/pack 720

Taquitos 1/74c 4 296

Cheez Its 1/4c ½ box 650

Triscuts 1/20c 1200/box 2400

Pringles 1/9c 900/tube 2700

Dry Peanuts 10z/160c 1120/can 2240

Honey Peanuts 38pcs/150c 1050/can 2100

Sun Chips 1/8c 1540/bag 3080

Popcorn 800c/bag 800c/bag 1600

Doritos 450c/bag 450/bag 900

Carmel Corn 3/4cup=120c 900/bag 1800

Tortilla Chips 1/17c 1120/bag 1120

Cheese Popcorn 750c/bag 750/bag 750

Wheat Crackers 1040c/box 1040c/box 2080

Peanuts w/Shell 1oz/180c 1260/bag 1260

Pretzels 1/3c 1320c/bag 1320

Sunflower Seeds 475c/bag ½ bag 238

Fritos 1oz/160 1440c/bag 1440

Chex Mix 1800c/bag 1800c/bag 5400

Waffle Pretzels 1/10c 1320c/bag 2640

Chicharones 640c/bag 640c/bag 1280

Mixed Nuts 1 oz/170c 5440c/jar 5440

Blue Chips 1/9c 2240c/bag 4480

Goldfish 840c/bag 840c/bag 1680

Wheat Sticks 1/6c 990c/bag 990

MissionTortillaChips 1/14c 3080c/box 3080

Salami 1 lb 1lb 1380

Ham 1 lb 1 lb 483

Cheddar Cheese 1 lb 1 lb 1828

Swiss Cheese 1 lb 1 lb 1714

=73,544

PARKING LOT:

Ho Hos 1/120c 2 boxes 2400

Twinkies 1/150 2 boxes 3000

Choc Doughnuts 1/290c 2320/box 2320

Glazed Doughnuts 1/250c 2000/box 2000

Small Doughnuts 1/53c 1890/bag 1890

Cream cheese 770c 770c/jar 770

Graham Crackers 1/19c 1800c/box 3600

Vanilla Frosting 1400/can 3 cans 4200

Hot Dogs 1/45c 3 packs 1350

Hot Dog Buns 1/130c 4 packs 4160

Sliders 1/155 20 1550

=28,020

FIELD:

Vanilla Frosting 1400/can 5 cans 7000

Vienna Sausages 1/23c 175/can 407

Black Olives 4/25c 275/can 300

Green Olives 4.75/1 12 57

Baby Carrots 210c/bag 210/bag 420

Pretzel Stubs 1/7.5 4 30

Dots 11p/130c 650/box 650

=8,864

TOTAL: 110,428

Windows 7's XP Mode: what it is, how it works, who it's for

Windows 7's XP Mode: what it is, how it works, who it's for

Google Voice Comes to iPhone, Palm Pre

By MIGUEL HELFT
From: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/

The spat that erupted last summer among Google, Apple and AT&T over Google Voice remains unresolved, which means the app for the popular call routing and calling service from Google is still not available on the iPhone.

Google Voice for the iPhone.

But Google is not waiting for a thaw in the frosty standoff. The company is following up on its vow to bring Google Voice to the iPhone “one way or the other,” in the words of Vic Gundotra, the vice president for engineering for mobile apps at Google.

On Tuesday, Google unveiled a spruced-up mobile Web version of Google Voice tailored to the iPhone, as well as the Palm Pre. Vincent Paquet, senior product manager for Google Voice, said the new mobile Web version of the product was as good as the native app, which runs on Android mobile phones.

Of course, iPhone users were always able to point their mobile Web browser to m.google.com/voice to access their Google Voice accounts. But plenty of things didn’t work right. For example, making calls was a two-step process and the outbound caller ID feature didn’t work, meaning that the person receiving the call couldn’t see who was calling, which is one of the more compelling features of Google Voice. Mr. Paquet said that all those problems had been solved, and that the new version of Google Voice also offered free text messaging.

Mr. Paquet said the spat with Apple remained unresolved. “We haven’t heard back from Apple on this,” he said.

In August, Apple told the Federal Communications Commission that it was still pondering Google’s application for Google Voice to run on the iPhone. Quite a bit of finger-pointing ensued, with Apple and Google publicizing their exchanges with the F.C.C.

Mr. Paquet said the decision to improve the mobile Web version of Google Voice for the iPhone — and for any mobile Web browser that understands HTML5 — was not meant as a slap to Apple or AT&T.

“It’s a way to make sure that people who have been asking to use Google Voice on the iPhone have a way to do so,” he said.

And of course, Google is releasing the mobile browser version of Google Voice just in time for it to run smoothly on Apple’s soon-to-be-released tablet computer.

Two More Colorado Ski Towns May Legalize Weed This Year

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By $@bs

Two more towns in CO may be voting this year on whether to decriminalize possession of the green. The Leadville City Council unanimously voted to instruct the city attorney to draft language that would change city laws in order to waive pot fines (woot woot)! Currently Leadville law allows for a fine of up to $100 for possession of less than an ounce of pot (boo-hiss). Aspen attorneys say that there are talks to bring a marijuana decriminalization move to voters there this fall. Denver and Breckenridge have already voted to waive criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of pot by adults over 21. Damn, but I’ma have to learn to ski. What?

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The 9 Most Interesting Variations of a Hot Dog Around the World

Written By: Anna Starostinetskaya
From: http://offtrackplanet.com/

We’ve got the stars and stripes, the Fourth of July and the Liberty Bell. But nothing screams America more than hot dogs. They are our national culinary pride and joy. Not only is August 26^th National Hot Dog Day, we bet you didn’t know about the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (a committee dedicated to that wonderful meat and bun). From America’s east to west coast, each city swears by its own interpretation of the dog (with Chicago and New York swearing the loudest). Taking the blank sausage and bun as a starting point, numerous nations have adopted the hot dog into their cuisine and reinterpreted the American favorite to fit their cultural eating habits. This has produced some strange ass hot dogs, and so we give you the 9 most interesting variations of a hot dog around the world (with our favorite dog of them all saved for last)…

China

Hot dogs do exist in China, but their sausages are just a lot smaller (this is hot dogs, focus). China has only recently and very cautiously opened their doors to Western influences. Their traditional food is so carbo-loaded (noodles, rice and all that jazz) that putting a big hunk of meat into a smaller bun makes no Chinese sense. The hot dog first creeped into China as a sausage wrapped in a dumpling-like dough and has been evolving to suit mostly tourists’ hot dog needs since. The opening of Orange Dog in the basement of a big shopping center in Shanghai is the epitome of catering to Western hot dog tastes. Fans of Orange Dog are raving about how “normal” these dogs taste; we think normal is boring. Bring on the small sausages; moving on.

Amsterdam

There is no nice way to put it: people go to Amsterdam to get high. What happens when you get high? You get the munchies. The locals here have crafted the most satisfying munchies cure of all. We give you “The Stoner Dog”. Thanks to Amsterdam, you no longer have to aimlessly wander between pizza shop and hot dog stand, deciding which one would hit the spot as The Stoner Dog is basically a pizza on top of a hot dog. Now if they threw some M&Ms and a handful of Doritos on top, the world would be at peace.

Brazil

A good description would be “Hot Dog Soup in a Bun”. The toppings on Brazil’s version of the hot dog don’t stop and they’re ridiculous. Just listing them all here sounds like we’re making a dinner for a family of ten. Nonetheless, here we go, in order of ridiculousness: hot dog, bun, red pepper, green pepper, onion, hot dog ju, a small hard-boiled egg, corn, peas (why with the peas?), parmesan cheese, ketchup, mayo and potato chips (for crunch we presume). OTP went to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil just to witness it for ourselves and for the above photo opportunity.

Italy

They did invent pizza so why not hot dogs? Fear not, Italy is indeed serving up hot dogs, just not in a way Americans are used to. The Italian hot dog is a large brioche loaf stuffed with sliced (like pepperoni) wurstel and topped with a healthy dose of mayo. The composition of the Italian hot dog is of German/Austrian (wurstel) and French (brioche) influence and has very little, if anything, to do with Americans.

South Korea

So somebody had to do it and South Korea took the initiative: the French fry wrapped hot dog. While other varieties exist, this one seems to combine perceived American favorites best (with an added punch of deep frying it all) and on a stick. Some hypothesize that this version is influenced by combining foods left over by American troops during the Korean War; we think it was a message from the gods. Either way, we’re glad the Korean dog is covered in French Fries and not spare ribs.

Sweden

Their meatballs are perfection. But as far as hot dogs go, the Swedes came up with some twisted culinary concoction. The recipe: flatbread, bologna-like dog , mashed f*cking potatoes, one side mustard and the other side green mayo and then…THEN mayo covered shrimp salad. Where the shrimp salad (or the mashed potatoes for that matter) fits in beats us but this hot dog definitely covers all the food groups (if mayo had its own food group that is).

Japan

Japan is home to long time hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (a competitive eating sports icon, because those exist). But what does Japan, sushi capital of the world, know about hot dogs? Well, these guys retain their fishy roots in their dogs. More of a corn dog, a Japanese style hot dog is made up of a seafood sausage and served up with squid sashimi, natto (slimy, gooey, fermented soy beans) and seaweed. Kobayashi’s secret then must lie in conditioning his stomach with fishy dogs. Who knew?

Moscow, Russia

There is a bar called “Hot Dogs” in Moscow and while you would expect their dogs to be loaded with beets, potatoes and some sort of stewed animal products (maybe a shot of vodka on top), Russians are just not that big on hot dogs. Their dogs are regular ketchup and mustard dogs. So why include them on the list? Well, “Hot Dogs Bar” has hookers, and the combination of hookers and hot dogs is something we believe is a rarely explored, and quite interesting, pastime.

The Hollywood Hot Dog

Mostly to avoid argument about which one is best, OTP has gone far off the track and selected the Hollywood Hot Dog as our official dog of choice. Sold by illegal street cart pushers at 2:00 a.m. outside the hottest Los Angeles nightclubs, the aroma alone draws partygoers away from their drinks and out into the streets for a taste of artery-clogging, stomach-punching heaven. To do this dog justice, we dove deep into its history. Our discoveries were shocking: the beloved Hollywood Hot Dog, with its bacon wrapped interior and sultry grilled onion posterior, is actually of Mexican (not Hollywoodian) origin. This goes to show that globalization has spread our dogs around the world.

There you have it. Hot dogs are unstoppable and have permeated almost every crevice of world cuisine. The simple ketchup and mustard dog has mutated into mashed potatoes, shrimp salad, peas, fish and other toppings more suitable for a garbage disposal. Nonetheless, the hot dog, and its world interpretations, is a symbol of both American influence and the permanence of culture specific food preferences when confronted with that American influence.

Giant sculptured Mayan head found

January 27, 2010 by Lin Edwards

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Maya mask at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Image: Wolfgang Sauber, via Wikipedia.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A decorated Mayan head measuring three meters (10 feet) at the base and sculptured out of stucco has been unearthed in northern Guatemala, near the border with Mexico. The sculpture had been buried for centuries under the thick jungle, and its presence may suggest the site could have been part of a Mayan city.

Archaeologists from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Valencia in Spain recently found the sculpture in the Chilonché ruins in the jungle-covered Petén region. The team are experts in stuccoed artifacts and their restoration and conservation. They have dated the giant head to the early Classical period of 300-600 AD, which is considerably older than other artifacts found at the site, and means the site is older than thought previously. The find is in excellent condition and some of its original colors have been preserved.

One of the archaeology team, Professor Gaspar Muñoz Cosme, said the find was “spectacular” and the sculpture could be linked to Mayan mythology, and possibly represents an imaginary being such as a Mayan god, or an underworld figure. He said the discovery provides important scientific data that helps us understand the architecture of the Mayans of the time. The team hopes to find similar heads at the site, since the Mayans often built and arranged multiple items symmetrically.

The Petén region is close to well-known Mayan cities such as Tikal and Nakum. It contains dozens of Mayan ruins, but the site at Chilonché has not been excavated to a great extent, largely because the thick jungle region is home to poachers, looters looking for artifacts to sell on the black market, and drug smugglers carrying cocaine to nearby Mexico. The giant head was found inside one of the tunnels built by looters at the site. As soon as the find was located, the archaeologists contacted Guatemalan authorities to ensure security around the site was tightened because of the significance of the find.

The giant figurehead sculpture is similar to other sculptured heads found at Uaxactun, where they decorated a solar observatory. In the Classical period from 300 to 900 AD the Mayans built vast cities and towering pyramids in an extensive area of Central America from Mexico through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize. The reasons for the collapse of the Mayan civilization in the last century or so of the Classical period remain a mystery, but may have been linked to deforestation and resulting climate change and extended droughts and crop failures.

© 2010 PhysOrg.com

The World’s 18 Strangest Tunnels: Gallery

Life aboveground is crowded. As engineers and architects grapple with innovative ways to meet the needs of roads, superhighways and bridges to handle unprecedented traffic. But sometimes, going underground is the only option. Tunnels, whether bored through imposing mountains or laid hundreds of feet under water, are inspiring feats of engineering. Here, PM presents a collection of the world's most interesting and impressive tunnels.

By Chris Sweeney

1. Laerdal Tunnel

Location /// Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Background: About 5000 different blasts were conducted during the construction phase of Laerdal Tunnel, which stretches under Norway's mountainous and fjord-filled terrain for 15 miles, making it the longest completed road tunnel in the world.

Why It's Unique: Driving through a windowless tunnel for 20 minutes can get a bit monotonous, so a team of psychologists and engineers focused on retaining driver concentration. "The psychological reaction of a person in a tunnel is very important … it makes the difference between people accepting the facility or simply just avoiding it," says Youssef Hashash, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, who has worked on 10 different tunnel projects. "Given the length of this tunnel, you need a carefully designed environment and lighting system." Some solutions used in the Laerdal tunnel include bright blue lights and subtle curves that keep drivers engaged. Most important, though, is the fact that the tunnel is divided into several different sections, breaking up the drive and creating the impression that commuters are traveling through a handful of smaller tunnels.

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