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It’s not much fun grilling burgers in the middle of a snowstorm. That’s why we’d like to plug in this Flama Chakall Grill, place it under our super-powerful range hood that can practically suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, and see if the grill can leave those luscious carbon stripes on our slaughtered animal flesh — no matter what the weather. It’s unclear whether it’s even possible or safe to use this grill inside, but there’s certainly enough power on board to properly fire up those meats — there’s a 2.3kW heating element blazing away under the grates.

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Chakall Grill brings char-broiled goodness inside

Airport security agents mistakenly allowed a bottle of liquid to pass through before it was properly scanned early Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, causing a security breach that halted screening for about 25 minutes, authorities said.

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LA airport screening closed after security breach (AP via Yahoo! News)

Speaking at a MIX10 session about Windows Phone 7 Series architecture this morning, Microsoft’s Istvan Cseri mentioned that the Windows Phone Marketplace — the one and only clearinghouse for apps in WP7S — will be able to remotely revoke licenses.

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Windows Phone Marketplace can remotely revoke app licenses

I found Redmond Path while looking at a lot of tool installs on multiple systems with varying drive layouts. I knew with the certainty of a seasoned geek that surely someone had written a better way to edit the Windows path than the one Microsoft provides.

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Geek Fave Redmond Path Improves Command Line Mastery (Network World)

SKOKIE, Ill., March 17 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudvox, which was recently acquired by Ifbyphone, today announced the first fruits of their combined platform: a flat pay-as-you-go rate of $0.03 per minute, phone numbers from around the world, and a comprehensive conference call API for all Cloudvox users. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/LA94596LOGO) “We’re …

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Cloudvox Boosts Platform with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing, Worldwide Phone Numbers & Conference Call API (redOrbit)

PayPal has released an update for its iPhone/iPod Touch that’s indicative of how we may handle cash in the near future (though not exclusively with Apple products or PayPal, mind you): you can now “bump” money from your PayPal account into a friend’s if they are close by. Of course, nothing’s stopping you from doing it the old fashioned way, which involves firing up the app and putting in a target email address.

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PayPal 2.0 adds money ‘bumping,’ leave your wallet at home

Cloudvox, which was recently acquired by Ifbyphone, today announced the first fruits of their combined platform: a flat pay-as-you-go rate of $0.03 per minute, phone numbers from around the world, and a comprehensive conference call API for all Cloudvox users.

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Cloudvox Boosts Platform with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing, Worldwide Phone Numbers & Conference Call API (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

The Maryland General Assembly has been reluctant to raise taxes in an election year. But 39 legislators across both chambers are co-sponsoring the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Consumer Retail Choice Act that would impose a 5-cent tax on disposable carryout bags at grocery stores and other retail outlets. The bill would require Maryland…

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Bill would make customers pay for using plastic bags (Catonsville Times)

Spring Design said its Android-powered Alex e-reader is now on sale, and customers can pre-order their complementary e-books in a variety of formats. Customers can order the $399 Alex e-reader at www.springdesign.com . The company announced the Alex e-reader late last year, sporting a dual-screen 6-inch E Ink display, a second 3.5-inch Android-powered touchscreen, and Wi-Fi connectivity.

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Spring Design’s Alex E-Reader Now Available for Preorder

Majority of Developers Don’t Consider Business Risks From Lack of Support and Indemnification Around Dynamic Languages

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ActiveState Poll Finds Enterprise Developers Use Dynamic Languages to Get Products to Market Faster and Cheaper; Feel … (Marketwire)

VANCOUVER, BC–(Marketwire – 03/16/10) – ActiveState, the dynamic languages company, today announced the results of an informal survey of enterprise software architects and developers that found developers benefit greatly from dynamic languages to get products to market faster and at a reduced cost. The poll was conducted on March 10, 2010 during a webinar given by Larry Backman, VP of Quality …

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ActiveState Poll Finds Enterprise Developers Use Dynamic Languages to Get Products to Market Faster and Cheaper; Feel … (Marketwire via Yahoo!…

Hospitals may reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in newborns with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by replacing the device every 30 days or so, according to a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study. The daily risk of getting a dangerous bacterial infection jumped by 33 percent per day around day 35 and remained elevated thereafter in those babies who …

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In The Fight Against Life-Threatening Catheter Infections, Length Of Use Is Key (Medical News Today)

After having no luck installing Debian 5.0 on my Axioo MNC0152, I decided to install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on it (dual boot with Windows XP). To sum up everything is working fine, except the video driver (Sis3 Mirage).

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Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on Axioo MNC0152

Maybe it’s late, but it’s better than not posting it at all. He  he he. I’ve finished creating new DepositFiles.com premium link generator , here’s the link: http://www.megavideodownloader.com/dfindex.php Like my previous premium link generator, it has not file size limitation, link will always be valid as long as the original link is valid, however, it’s limited to only 2 links per IP.

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DepositFiles.com and Uploading.com premium link generator

In a hair under two minutes time, Pennington sophomore Doug McCord set a new school record yesterday in the 200-yard IM. The odd thing was he didn’t take the top prize in the event.

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SWIMMING: Hopewell Valley claims first in crosstown war with Pennington (Pennington Post)

Worldlabel: “Alan Jackson’s PostScript::MailLabels is a Perl utility to automate production of high-quality label layouts. it is designed to be useful to Perl scripters, who can easily incorporate high-quality PostScript output into their scripts, but the scripts included in the base package are, themselves, an easy-to-use set of command-line tools for label printing.”

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Labels with PostScript::MailLabels Getting Started (Linux Today)

CANBERRA (Reuters) – A collision involving a Japanese security ship and anti-whaling activists on Wednesday has reignited debate over Tokyo’s annual whaling campaign. Japan continues to hunt whales despite pressure to stop from anti-whaling nations.

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FACTBOX – Japanese Southern Ocean whaling (The Star)

Toblach, Italy – Peter Northug (NOR) won his third stage of the 2010 Tour de Ski, outsprinting Dario Cologna (SUI) and Marcus Hellner (SWE) in the 35km freestyle pursuit. Cologna leads Northug and Hellner into the stadium For the first time in the four year history of Tour, the event stopped in the Cortina-Toblach region of Italy.

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Northug Wins Tour Stage 5 in Final Sprint (FasterSkier.com)

SAN MATEO, Calif.—-Global Vision Group – a worldwide consulting company focused on the electronic payments industry, announced today that Marc Perl, a veteran in the Payments industry, will join GVGroup as Senior Consultant in the Business and Risk Strategy Practice.

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Marc Perl Joins Global Vision Group, as Senior Consultant in Risk Strategy Practice (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

If you caught “InfoWorld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies” in November, you had a running head start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our …

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InfoWorld’s 2010 Technology of the Year Awards (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)