Oct 30
MIAMI — LeBron James got his ring, then got cramps.
The Miami Heat found a way to beat their biggest rival anyway.
Oct 30
NEW YORK — Two days after New York City closed its subway system in the face of Hurricane Sandy, swarms of New Yorkers made their way over the Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges by foot and by bike — forms of transportation that may become more familiar as the Metropolitan Transit Authority and others indicated Tuesday that it may take weeks to restore the MTA for its roughly 8.7 million daily riders.
In a press conference Tuesday morning Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not attempt a firm estimate of when New Yorkers may be able to resume their normal commuting routines, describing the challenges the city faces in the coming days as “enormous.” By Tuesday evening, Bloomberg told reporters that the city’s subway system would remain closed for at least, “four to five days.”
“The work is well under way,” Bloomberg said Tuesday morning. “East River bridges have already been reopened. The work of getting our mass transit grid and our power grid restored, however, is going to take more time and a lot of patience.”
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Oct 30
Hurricane Sandy Evacuees In Flooded New Jersey Towns Describe Fast-Rising Water
Posted in: Today's ChiliMOONACHIE, N.J. –- The first signs of trouble were the car alarms: Dozens of them, all going off at once, just after midnight at Hurricane Sandy’s peak.
Then it was the smell of gasoline.
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Oct 30
Yesterday a new trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II aired during Monday Night Football. If you missed that commercial during a potty break or a run to the refrigerator for frosty beverage, the surprise trailer is now available on YouTube. The trailer is packed with cameos from famous actors and little-known web personalities.
The surprise trailer was directed by Guy Ritchie, and the biggest actor in the trailer is Robert Downey Jr., who happens to be flying a jet in the trailer. Other celebrities in the trailer include a comedic actor from France named Omar Sy, FPSRussia, and iJustine. I think this might be my favorite trailer yet for the game.
The trailer shows different players each thinking they have the element of surprise and are about to kill an enemy. However, just as each of the characters is set to take their shot, someone else surprises them and the hunter becomes the hunted. Check out the new trailer below:
Oct 30
10,000 miles will not stop Richard Van As of South Africa and Ivan Owen of Washington State from building an inexpensive prosthetic finger prototype that could one day help millions of amputees. Richard lost his arm last year in an accident. In spite of his condition, he did not lose hope and decided to search for prosthetics online that could help him. After a seemingly futile search, he eventually found one of Ivan’s mechanical hand prop videos on YouTube. (more…)
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Oct 30
NEW YORK — The 26 miles might be the easy part.
The biggest challenge for this New York City Marathon on Sunday could be getting to the start, not the finish.
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Oct 30
Anti-Obama Flier Invoking Hurricane Sandy Reportedly Released By Americans For Tax Reform
Posted in: Today's ChiliAn anti-Obama flier invoking Hurricane Sandy was reportedly distributed by conservative activist Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday.
The advertisement, which appeared on northern Virginia doorsteps starting Tuesday, features a photo of President Obama superimposed over a storm image.
“We’ve seen storms in Virginia, but none like this …” reads the flier. “Barack Obama’s policies have added $4 billion in debt each day he’s been in office. Americans can’t afford this debt.”
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Oct 30
Yes, you can currently snag a data usage tracker for iOS, but if you’re wanting to know exactly which apps are sapping your monthly data, then Onavo Count is where it’s at. The free app just debuted in the App Store, which allows users to pinpoint the most data hungry titles with a handful of lovely graphs. Like other apps, Onavo Count will help you from exceeding your monthly allotment by tracking your last 30 days of mobile data usage, and if you really want to geek out, you can even break it down by week. Not to stop there, the app is also integrated with Onavo Extend, which compresses unencrypted data in order to help users squeeze a bit more from their data plan. If your interest is now piqued, be sure to hit up the video after the break, or simply head over to the App Store, where you can snag it for yourself.
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Oct 30
MIAMI — LeBron James held his index finger aloft, then turned and took a walk nine years in the making.
A few moments later, a championship ring – finally – was his.
Oct 30
Michigan Highway Shooting Investigation Targets ‘Suspicious’ Vehicles In Search Of Gunman
Posted in: Today's ChiliDETROIT — Police have stopped a number of cars that appear to be involved in “suspicious activities” along some southeast Michigan roads and freeways in an effort to find a man shooting randomly at passing vehicles.
Officers are looking for anything out of the norm as part of a four-county investigation into two dozen vehicle shootings, said Lt. Mike Shaw, of the state police post in Brighton. Shootings have been reported in Oakland, Livingston, Ingham and Shiawassee counties.
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