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I have one. How about you. Let's talk via video chat. I can use about anything you want. MSN is good so is Yahoo. So let me know and I will gladly hook up a vid chat for ya.
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Ok Robbert said why is there not a post to my site. Since he found out about it when I hosted a file for him to get. Well you have to register to post as this keeps away the porn bots and the spam. I have a arcade. It is running IP Board. There is even a live chat and a gallery.
So here is the link just click on the forum button when it show and it will give you the link. Come one or none I care not. I run it for family mostly.
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Ya they get quite a few but you never get use to them. I have been through a few and every time it was scarey. Natural disasters are not fun and being through every thing mother nature could throw at me I can vouch for this. Hurricanes, Typhoons, Earthquakes, Lightning Strikes and Tornadoes. Been through them all and each time it was like is this my last day on earth so I know how this people felt and it is nothing to make lite of.
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Well I was born and raised in Kentucky but live in Indiana for last 40 years and they still say I have a slight southern accent. But I don't notice it. Maybe we should talk on the chat again and you tell me.
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NOW or you will be bent over and taking abuse of.
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What Separates The Heart From The Heartless - Stick To Your Guns
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FMLYHM - Seether
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Ya if you share too much like financial stuff you will get burned and I hope the young ones don't do this. I just hope this does not open the door to the pedophile frenzy.
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Let's see friday night I got a bit drunk had some friends over to jam with. We did some metal tunes and even recorded something for fun...maybe I will think about upping it somewhere for all to listen once I get it polished up.
Saturday was real fun had to babysit my 2 grandkids from my second oldest daughter. They are 6 and 9 so it was fun playing DC with them and some online pc gaming as well. Had to watch Bratz Fairly Tales with 6 year old and that was a bit painful.
Sunday I just lazied around. Cleaned house a bit and tweaked up my other machine that had Vista on it but does not now. Called Mom wished happy mothers day and watched some NBA playoff.
What a exciting life I life.
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In Flames - Live In Moscow
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More than a third of the 22 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts who say vehicles are one of the worst places to be during a twister.
"It's like taking a handful of Matchbox cars and rolling them across the kitchen floor," said Sgt. Dan Bracker of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, surveying the damage in and around Seneca, near the Oklahoma line, the hardest hit area. "This is devastating."
Among those killed were three people in Oklahoma who were rushing to reach a relative's house in their car; a woman whose car was blown off a road near Seneca; and four family members — Rick Rountree, his wife, his 13-year-old son, and his mother-in-law — who were in a van on the way to a friend's wedding when a twister packing winds of 170 mph struck the Seneca area on Saturday night.
"They were on the road when the warnings came," said Rountree's brother-in-law, Larry Bilke.
About 100 people have died in U.S. twisters so far this year, the worst toll in a decade, according to the National Weather Service, and the danger has not passed yet. Tornado season typically peaks in the spring and early summer, then again in the late fall.
This could also prove to be the busiest tornado season on record in the United States, though the final figure on the number of twisters is not yet in.
All together, at least 25 people died in Missouri, Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama after the severe storms erupted Saturday over the Southern Plains and swept east.
The death toll rose Monday when Tyler Casey, a 21-year-old firefighter in Seneca, died at a hospital. Officials said he got caught in the tornado while trying to warn people to seek shelter.
According to data from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, 49 of the 705 deaths — or about 7 percent — attributed to tornadoes from 1997 to 2007 were people who were in vehicles when the storm struck.
"They can cover more ground than you can in your car, so unless you know you are moving away from the tornado the best thing you can do is find a strong structure," said National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Foster.
The twister that struck Seneca and surrounding Newton County was moving at 50 mph to 60 mph, Foster said. One car was found a half-mile from the tornado track.
Authorities were still piecing together how some of the other victims died over the weekend. But the Missouri Highway Patrol said one person was killed when her vehicle was blown off the same road where the Rountree family died.
In Picher, Okla., 32 miles away, a man and a woman died when their car was blown into a lagoon. The body of another man from the car wound up in a tree nearby. A 13-year-old girl who was riding in the car was injured.
Fire Chief Jeff Reeves said they were not trying to outrun the twister.
"I think they were actually trying to get to a family member's house on the south side of town to help them and they just didn't make it over," Reeves said.
Another woman was critically injured after she took shelter in a broken-down car outside Susan Roberts' home in Seneca, authorities said. "That is what is tearing me up," Roberts said, adding she had warned the woman about the approaching tornado.
Val Castor, one of the many spotters who bring dramatic video of tornadoes to local TV stations in Oklahoma, said the number of people on the road during tornadoes seems to have increased every year since 1996, when the movie "Twister," which depicts meteorologists chasing tornadoes, came out.
He said driving during severe weather is extremely dangerous for the inexperienced because they don't know where a tornado will form or what direction it will go. Heavy traffic or a broken-down vehicle can prevent people from escaping the funnel cloud.
"Vehicles of any size really don't fare that well in a tornado. Vehicles can be thrown and tossed by the wind," said Rick Smith, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oklahoma.
As with mobile homes, the problem with cars is that they are not anchored to the ground, and the wind can easily get underneath them. Smith said winds of less than 100 mph can flip a car.
"That is probably the worst place that you can be when a tornado, or even some of the severe storms that we see in Oklahoma, happen," he said.
Smith said people should avoid driving when severe storms are forecast and seek shelter in a truck stop, restaurant or other permanent structure if caught on the road during a twister. As a last resort, Smith said, motorists should get out and find a low-lying area, such as a culvert or a ditch, where they can duck and cover.
Weather experts say overpasses should be avoided because the wind can become more powerful as it squeezes through.
"Paying attention to the weather and not being caught in that situation is really your best bet," Smith said.
The warnings against staying in cars were prompted by a tornado that struck Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1979. Of the 42 deaths, 25 were vehicle-related.
The U.S. death toll from tornadoes this year is the highest since 130 people were killed in 1998, according to the weather service. The highest number of tornado-related deaths came in 1953, when 519 people died.
To date this year, 858 tornadoes have been reported in the U.S., although that number probably includes numerous duplicate sightings of the same twister.
Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storms Laboratory said the highest number of tornadoes ever recorded through May 11 of any year was in 1999, when 676 tornadoes were counted. Brooks said he expects the number of confirmed tornadoes through mid-May of this year to end up in the 650-to-700 range.
Altogether, 16 people died in Missouri from the same storm that devastated Picher, where six were killed. Two more people were killed in Georgia, where forecasters said at least six tornadoes touched down. One of those twisters struck McIntosh County's emergency management center, destroying the fire trucks and ambulances inside. Another man was killed in Alabama when his truck was hit by a tree limb as he was surveying storm damage.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it would check for high lead levels in Picher after the tornado blew through the heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds.
Miles Tolbert, Oklahoma secretary of the environment, said he did not believe there was any immediate hazard to the 800 residents. But he said more testing was needed.
One third died in cars man don't people know never stay in your car when a tornado is approaching. Either drive parallel to the tornado or get out and lay flat on the ground. They say this year is on pace for a record breaking tornado outbreak. 900 already and this is just May.
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Dry, windy weather fueled several wildfires on Florida's central Atlantic coast Monday, destroying at least three homes and driving hundreds of residents away as the governor declared a state of emergency.
The largest fire, a 3,000-acre blaze in Brevard County, destroyed at least two homes, including the house Butch Vanfleet built in 1980 and tried in vain to protect with a garden hose.
Vanfleet, 59, said the fire had reached the doorstep of the house in Malabar when he and his family fled Sunday evening. All that stood Monday was the chimney and a stone wall.
Vanfleet said he will rebuild.
"It's devastation," he said. "All you see is nothing but ash in between the palm trees and the palmetto. There's no grass. The fire just came so quickly, we barely got out of there."
The Florida Highway Patrol shut down a 7-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in Brevard County around rush hour Monday. U.S. Highway 1 also was closed in that area, and it was not known when it will reopen, FHP spokeswoman Kim Miller said.
"The fires have picked up in Malabar so it's just heavy, thick black smoke and it's right at driver level," Miller said.
One person may be responsible for the blaze, said Ernie Dieble, an arson investigator with the Palm Bay Police Department. An eyewitness saw someone in a car drop something into an open field, and the fire started shortly afterward, he said.
In another fire in nearby Palm Bay, one home was destroyed and students at two schools were released early as a precaution.
To the north in Daytona Beach, about 800 acres had burned by Monday afternoon, said Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller.
Authorities ordered about 500 homes in the northwest part of the city to be evacuated. No homes were reported damaged, though officials warned that embers could fly more than a mile from the blaze. A 5-mile stretch of road through Daytona Beach was shut down because the fire was too close.
Ray Ademski, 68, left his home with his wife and their important papers when he saw columns of smoke Sunday night around their subdivision. He hosed down the roof and turned on the sprinklers in his yard before heading off to a hotel.
"I could feel the heat from both sides," said Ademski, who returned by bicycle Monday to survey the damage. "The smoke was going straight into my eyes. It was terrible."
By Monday, the skyline was free of the thick smoke that filled it the previous night, but firefighters were wary of flare-ups in the smoldering embers.
The fire was about 20 percent contained, but firefighters' efforts would be challenged by high winds, Weller said.
"The weather conditions are ripe for extreme fire behavior," Weller said. "What we're looking at is fairly typical for this time of year in Florida, coming into the end of the dry season."
Firefighters also contained two smaller blazes near Cocoa that damaged four homes and two commercial structures, officials said.
Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency Monday. The move allows Florida to use federal funds and the National Guard, brings local emergency workers under state control and allows Florida to call on other states for help.
So anyone here effected by this? Or know of someone who is? I have a friend near Daytona Beach that had to leave his home last night cause of this. This thing is spreading all over the place and there are fires from the south to the north all around Florida.
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A earthquake devastated southwestern China on Monday, killing close to 9,000 people and trapping hundreds of others under flattened schools, factories and houses.
The 7.8 magnitude quake, centered in Sichuan province, struck in the middle of the school day and toppled at least eight schools. Factories and at least one hospital were also razed, trapping hundreds more, state media said.
The death toll appeared likely to climb in China's worst earthquake for over three decades.
About 900 teenagers were buried in the rubble of a collapsed three-storey school building in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan. Villagers helped dozens of students out as cranes excavated the site.
In Shefang city in Sichuan, 6,000 residents were evacuated after two chemical plants were leveled, trapping more than a hundred people and spilling corrosive liquids.
The government has rushed troops and medical teams to dig for survivors and treat the injured. State television showed Premier Wen Jiabao, who flew to Sichuan, shouting words of hope to people buried under heavy concrete ruins.
"Everyone hang in there. We're rescuing you," he yelled into a hole as survivors nearby wept and moaned.
But severed roads and rail lines have blocked rescuers' way to the epicenter in Wenchuan, a hilly county of 112,000 people about 100 km (62 miles) from the Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu. Wen said troops would walk in if they had to.
More than 7,000 of the dead were in Sichuan's Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, where 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed, Sichuan television said. Beichuan has a population of 161,000, meaning about one in 10 there were killed or injured.
"We are doing everything we can, but the roads are blanketed with rocks and boulders," Xinhua quoted Sichuan deputy party chief Li Chongxi as saying.
"Even if it means walking in, we must enter the worst-hit areas as quickly as possible," Wen said, according to Xinhua.
But showers forecast in Sichuan for Tuesday could make that more difficult.
"The road is very hard-going, I don't know when we'll get there," a paramilitary officer, Li Zaiyuan, leading 100 troops by foot some 70 kms from Wenchuan, told state television.
Most phone lines in Wenchuan were down and a website for the region's Aba prefecture said the quake had cut several major highways and communications were largely severed in 11 counties.
"The road started swaying as I was driving. Rocks fell from the mountains, with dust darkening the sky over the valley," a driver for Sichuan's seismological bureau was quoted by Xinhua as saying near the epicenter.
Troops have begun pouring into the region with sniffer dogs, life detection equipment, and firefighters carrying explosives to blow up rocks piled on the roads, state television said.
Landslides had cut off three major rail lines leading to Chengdu, stranding 31 passenger trains and 149 cargo trains, Xinhua said, but no casualties had been reported.
The National Tourism Administration had ordered travel agencies to halt tour groups to or through the quake area.
The quake's force was felt across much of China and caused buildings to sway in Beijing and Shanghai and as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok.
The quake was the worst to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in northeastern China where up to 300,000 died.
This time the devastation was worst in hilly farming country, where winding roads can be hard travel even in normal times. The area is near the famed Wolong panda reserve.
The disaster has come at a bad time for China, which holds the Olympic Games in August, and has been struggling to keep a lid on unrest in ethnic Tibetan areas.
The U.S. Geological Survey website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov) said the main quake struck at 0628 GMT at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Thousands of people were milling about in the main square of Chengdu late on Monday, where at least 45 had died and 600 were injured, state television reported. Many residents and school students there and across the region slept outside.
In Beijing and Shanghai, office workers poured into the streets. In the capital, there was no visible damage and the showpiece Bird's Nest Olympic stadium was unscathed.
In Washington, President George W. Bush said the United States was ready to help, and Japan, France, Germany and other powers also sent messages offering condolences and help.
But for now China is struggling to get its own rescuers where they are most needed, and one international aid expert said the death toll was likely to rise in coming days.
"Our biggest concern is children who were in schools and orphanages when the earthquake hit," said Wyndham James, the China country director for the Save the Children charity.
"I can imagine the authorities are releasing only conservative figures that are likely to grow."
Some 61 people have been confirmed killed in northern Shaanxi, 48 in northwestern Gansu, 50 in Chongqing municipality, and one in Yunnan province, Xinhua said, citing the national headquarters of disaster relief.
My heart goes out to these people. 7000 alone in just one providence. 600 students buried alive. This was a bad one for sure.
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Microsoft will now allow for a group of Live Messenger chat participants to watch a video at the same time.
Social video sharing is nothing new, but through a messenger client it is. While users won't be able to stream their own videos yet -- likely due to bandwidth issues as well as copyright concerns -- it certainly is a start.
Currently the United States is not part of the launch, but Canada, Mexico and 18 other countries are, mainly in Europe. The videos available are culled from the company's MSN Video service.
In the United Kingdom, users also have access to videos from partners EMI and Channel 4, according to marketing material for the launch.
The reason for the overseas launch is probably a decision based on scale. Adoption rates for Microsoft's Messenger client are far higher in Europe than they are in their United States home, thus a service would see more usage and reach a broader base there.
About 95 million users, or 40 percent, of Messenger reside in Europe, Microsoft said.
Messenger TV (as it is called) sessions are started by choosing the feature from a list of activities from within the client. From there a user can create a playlist of videos from the MSN Video service.
Damn not in the US yet. Oh well gotta wait. So any of our say Canadian of others that have access to this try it out yet? Seems like it could be useful to show others things you find interesting.
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A triumvirate of the two biggest social networking sites and the premiere search company have committed to changing the structure of the social Web by making their data portable.
Today, Google announced Friend Connect (website going live Monday night), a set of APIs for OpenSocial sites that allows social network data to be used on any Web site. Rather than widgetizing content from one site and injecting it into another, the goal is to ultimately make data equally useful to all sites through secure authorization APIs: OpenID, oAuth, and OpenSocial.
Shared information will include friends lists, profile data, status and presence details. Since Google is not itself a social networking site (although it does operate Orkut), it seeks to provide a gateway between them and third party sites that wish to use the data.
MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, which will allow users to dynamically share profile information and updates with other sites from a central location. Launch partners included Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter, and the News Corp. site said the project will roll out further in the coming weeks.
The next day, Facebook announced its Facebook Connect, what it calls the "next iteration of Facebook Platform," which allowed third-party developers to develop social applications for the site. When it is rolled out ---also "in the coming weeks"-- participating sites will be able to share Facebook users' friends lists, their "real identities," photos, and videos. The only launch partner disclosed Friday was social news site Digg.
All three companies have made announcements extolling the benefits of allowing social networks to "be social" with other sites, but whether they will work together has yet to be determined. At the moment, MySpace data cannot be shared directly with Facebook or vice versa, as these sites have a vested interest in keeping users away from competitors.
This could be a good thing or a bad thing. It is good that all the info can be taken with you on the web to other sites. The bad thing is that this will most likely cause accounts to get hacked and allow the pedophiles to get access to users info easier. Time will tell.
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I stand umm... corrected or something.
EDIT: But it should be more obvious, maybe label it as "Chat" and just go there instead of GameCop's thread.
Uh there is a thing that says IRC in the header bar at the top already.
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A college degree does look impressive on a resume but as Cindr said there are too many out there already with a degree that can't find a job. So my advice to you is work on the portfolio and beef it up a bit. Learn another language besides c++ like java or action script then you should be able to get in somewhere. You might even try applying to jobs out there already that do not mention you need a degree and see what they require to hire you. Just don't give up and maybe one day you can own your own business. It is possible if I can do it anyone can.
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Happy birthday to both of you.
And Gavin being 30 is a walk in the park wait till you hit 50.
Elazul Yagami(24), gavin19(30)
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WinUAE 1.5.0 Public Beta 18 is one of the best Amiga emulators out there
Get it from HERE
Change LogWinUAE 1.5.0 Public Beta 18:
Sprite emulation update test version.
- sprites were visible when they were outside of DDFSTRT/DDFSTOP range (which really is DDFSTRT - end of line, another undocumented feature) “Fixes” demo Blittersweet (looks more broken now but it does look exact same on real A500) This update may not be 100% correct yet, it can break other programs. Test and complain'\.
- some archives mounted as a hard drive crashed
Credit goes to vg-network for this post.
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Yabause 0.9.5 is a Sega Saturn Emulator.
Get it HERE
Change Log0.9.4 -> 0.9.5
68k:
- Added 1010 and 1111 line emulator support.
cd block:
- Reworked bin/cue support. Reading should be a lot more accurate
now on tracks 2 and greater.
emulated bios:
- Fixed a bug in BupGetDate year calculation.
- Fixed a bug where interrupt mask wasn't being set correctly when
using emulated bios.
smpc:
- Added support for SMPC NMIREQ command.
- Added reset button emulation.
software video core:
- Improved software renderer: window, line scroll, mosaic are now
available and color offset and scroll screen has been fixed.
gtk port:
- Tagged most of gtk port strings to be translatable.
qt port:
- Added ability to specify address where binaries are loaded when
using command line.
- Other bug fixes.
wii port:
- Added support for bios and game loading from sd card.
- Added sound support.
- Added usb keyboard support.
windows port:
- Added pause emulation function.
- Other bug fixes.
dreamcast port:
- Rewrote all of the Dreamcast CD Interface in hand-optimized
assembly.
- Enabled use of the emulated bios if there is no saturn.bin on
the CD.
general:
- Updated peripheral interface so both ports can now be used and
multiple pads can now be connected to each port.
- Added translation support through mini18n library.
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Cancer
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Is it an isolated cancer?
Yes good thing too. Will not spread but they have to cut it all to make sure they get it all. So no lower lip. She is getting plastic re constructive surgery after it heals from removal.
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She is doing better but still is scared about having most of her lower lip removed this thursday.
Why's that happening?
Cancer
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Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business — if you run a bike shop.
Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers — or buying new ones — to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say.
"Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas prices," said Barry Dahl, who opened Barry's Bikes in Bismarck in April. He sold more than 50 bicycles in the first month, double the projections in his business plan.
Teacher Joyce McCusker of Herndon, Va., owns a bicycle for the first time in years. She bought it last month and uses it to make the eight-mile trip home from work. A friend drives her pickup to take McCusker's daughter home from school.
"I'm still using fossil fuel," she said. "In two years, my goal is to ride both ways, every day through the year."
About 18 million bicycles have been sold annually in the U.S. over the past few years, accounting for about $6 billion in annual sales, said Fred Clements, executive director the National Bicycle Dealers Association in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Bicycle shops across the country are reporting strong sales so far this year, and more people are bringing in bikes that have been idled for years, he said.
"People are riding bicycles a lot more often, and it's due to a mixture of things but escalating gas prices is one of them," said Bill Nesper, spokesman for the Washington. D.C.-based League of American Bicyclists.
"We're seeing a spike in the number of calls we're getting from people wanting tips on bicycle commuting," he said.
The League of American Bicyclists is promoting Bike-to-Work Week this week and Bike-to-Work Day on May 16. Nesper said he expects a record number of people will be pedaling this year.
There's almost nowhere for the numbers to go but up: The group says less than one-half of 1 percent of Americans ride a bike to work.
Mark Krenz, 48, is giving it a try. The Bismarck auto-parts store manager recently spent $750 on the 24-speed bike and is building up his mileage to prepare for his hilly commute.
"In this business, everybody is constantly talking about how to save gas," Krenz said. "I bought a bike because I figure it's a good way to save money, get in shape and save wear and tear on my pickup."
Rocky Schell, owner of Val's Cycle in Minot, said this may be one of the best years in the history of the shop, started by his father in 1960.
It's seeing a spike in the number of tuneups and repairs, which had been declining for the past 15 years. Schell said he's also selling lots of bike trailers designed to haul children — customers are using them for groceries instead.
A big percentage of Schell's customers haven't been on a bike in decades.
"I'm seeing more people my age or older coming in," said Schell, 51. "The college-age kids to 30-year-olds aren't the ones coming in. They still want to drive."
Dahl, the Bismarck bike shop owner, said he's worked several on "dusty and rusty" bicycles that hadn't been ridden in at least 25 years. He said many families have told him that that they intend to go on a bicycle tour this summer instead of driving somewhere for vacation.
"Millions of people have bicycles hanging in the garage and they're getting them down and riding them," said Rebecca Anderson, advocacy director for Trek Bicycle Corp. "People are looking at the bicycle as more than just a toy."
The Waterloo, Wis.-based company last year started a program called One World, Two Wheels to promote bicycles for transportation and recreation. Anderson said that about 40 percent of trips by car are 2 miles or less — "a habit for some people to get in a car and drive just a few blocks."
Clive Greenberg, a salesman at Metro Bicycles in New York City, said spin cycling classes at health clubs, where people use stationary bikes for a workout, also are spurring bicycle sales.
"It's pretty interesting, a good majority of middle-age people involved in that spinning craze at the gym used to come in and buy cycling shoes," he said. "Now they are getting on real bikes."
Engineer Dale Heinert said he's been seeing more fellow bicycle commuters on his daily trek to work in downtown Bismarck.
Heinert, 56, started cycling to work when the price of gas began skyrocketing — in 1973. But that isn't the only reason for choosing pedal power: "It's a stress-reliever," he said.
Steve Stelton, 47, of Bismarck, was inspired by Greg LeMond's 1986 Tour de France victory and has been commuting year-round ever since. He said he's physically fit because of it and has saved "a ton of money on gas."
Stelton, a printer, doesn't let North Dakota's cold, windy weather slow him down. He said he's ridden to work on snow-covered roads when the wind chill temperature was 40-below zero.
"If you waited for a bluebird day to ride to work in North Dakota," he said, "you'd never do it."
Ya sales are up here as well. I sure see a lot more bike riders on the road.
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Called mine. She is doing better but still is scared about having most of her lower lip removed this thursday. Other then that she was have a wonderful rainy day here. Oh and sent her a ecard as well.
GameEx 9.27
in Emulator Releases [/emu]
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GameEx 9.27 is a front end for many emulators and some pc games.
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