Hasta La Gadget!

With no technical glitches to report this week, the results are in on “Dancing With the Stars,” and it was Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi and Sasha Farber were were eliminated.

After last week’s unexpected non-elimination, the judges’ scores for the past two weeks were combined to help determine who would go home in Week 7. While some fans might have been expecting a double-elimination so “DWTS” could get back on schedule, that wasn’t the case.

Bill Engvall and Emma Slater were at the bottom of the leader board, with a combined total of 74 points. Polizzi and Farber tied with Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke for the second-lowest points total over the past two weeks with 84.

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A year after Superstorm Sandy destroyed Pedro Correa’s neighborhood on the southeastern shore of Staten Island, he visited what used to be his home. Little remained of the one-story house that he had spent countless hours renovating himself. There was the concrete foundation, a purple tricycle lying on its back on the bottom of the in-ground swimming pool, and a tire swing still hanging from a tree.

All around, feathery blades of marsh grass rustled in the wind. For years, Correa and his neighbors had waged war with those weeds, cutting them back to keep their houses safe from wildfires. Now Correa sort of misses them. “To be honest, when I come here and I’m listening to what I’m listening to now, I still imagine living here,” he said. “I love it here.”

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Remember kids, synthetic drugs are all fun and games until somebody loses an ear.

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EA Sports’ 15-year relationship with PGA Tour cover athlete Tiger Woods has ended. In a post on the company’s blog, Vice President and General Manager of Golf Daryl Holt said that the split was a mutual decision and wished Woods continued success. While this isn’t on the scale of, say, separating …

Living in cities, driving on freeways, going to work, sitting in cubicles, shopping at supermarkets, surrounding yourself in urban density and all around stepping away from nature makes it easy to forget how beautiful she can be. We should never forget.

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