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Nike moves to make tying laces a thing of the past

Forget about slipping out of your shoes because of loose laces or feeling pressure from too-tight tying when doing those sprints.

Nike Inc. has unveiled its first power-lacing sneaker — it allows users to make the fit looser or snugger on the fly by pressing buttons on the side of the shoe.

That takes the pressure off of USC athletics recruiting staff, one less requirement to fill.

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Nike moves to make tying laces a thing of the past

 

 

Forget about slipping out of your shoes because of loose laces or feeling pressure from too-tight tying when doing those sprints.

Nike Inc. has unveiled its first power-lacing sneaker — it allows users to make the fit looser or snugger on the fly by pressing buttons on the side of the shoe.

 

 

Geeze, they expect us to remember some obscure stop thing for Trout.  And yet they forget......

 

 

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Those look like ski boots

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Construction worker dies in 800-foot fall from Los Angeles skyscraper

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Erin Andrews, I see your $55 million and raise you.....

 

Hulk Hogan awarded $115 million in Gawker sex tape case

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Yup, Gawker got it's asses handed to them and they actually deserve the judgement against them.

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Sixty-one killed as flydubai jet crashes in southern Russia

 

Sounds like bad weather on landing.  RIP to all on board.

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College student 3-D printed his own braces to save money

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Cops say they cracked case of who egged home more than 100 times

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Santa Monica firm says it has found a way to salt away electricity, literally

 

In the energy world, the ability to store electricity at an affordable price is the treasure sought by utility engineers and financial wizards.

SolarReserve believes it has found a solution.

 

The Santa Monica company recently completed what it touts as a first-of-its-kind solar power plant that stores electricity using salt. The facility, in Nevada between Reno and Las Vegas, is 20 times larger than a SolarCity-Tesla solar and storage operation in Hawaii, which incorporates batteries.

 

Called Crescent Dunes, the SolarReserve power plant is a 110-megawatt facility with 10 hours of energy storage. That translates into 1,100 megawatt hours of storage, enough to power 75,000 homes. In other words, the facility can run for an additional 10 hours at the full 110 megawatt output just from the stored energy, with zero sunshine.

 

Crescent Dunes manages this by using rings of billboard-size mirrors to reflect the sun onto a tower filled with salt. The molten salt boils water, producing steam that powers electricity-generating turbines.

 

 

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Boy, 11, reportedly takes cement truck for joyride, leads cops on chase

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Man who was arrested for sex on Vegas Ferris wheel shot dead near strip club

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LOL.  What a dead douche.  Then again, she took him back.  So either he was hung like a horse, or she has daddy issues.

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Cops say they cracked case of who egged home more than 100 times

 

 

No wonder we haven't heard from YK for a while.

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No wonder we haven't heard from YK for a while.

 

they also found grass clippings on his neighbors driveway.

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 28 DEAD IN TERROR BLASTS AT BRUSSELS AIRPORT, SUBWAY

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BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 28 DEAD IN TERROR BLASTS AT BRUSSELS AIRPORT, SUBWAY

 

 

Horrible. 

 

You can only stick your head in the sand for so long. 

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why brussels? what in the world has brussels done to warrant this kind of attack?

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Universal Studios raises ticket prices just before it opens new Harry Potter attraction

 

Only a few weeks before the opening of its much-anticipated Harry Potter attraction, Universal Studios Hollywood is performing a shrinking spell on your wallet. Over the weekend, the park quietly raised prices up to 20%, pushing its highest-priced daily ticket beyond that of its sister parks in...

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Verizon reports outages across Southern California

 

Verizon customers experienced outages Friday across swaths of Southern California from Los Angeles to San Diego. Customers began complaining on social media of problems making calls in the mid-afternoon. A company spokeswoman said Verizon was aware of the outages but did not know what had caused...

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• Fake Target employee stole 41 cellphones, police say

PALM COAST, Fla. –  Authorities say a Georgia man dressed up like a Target employee stole 41 cellphones from a central Florida store.

The Flagler County Sheriff's Office issued a warrant Tuesday for 26-year-old Jarmal Brown on charges of grand theft and burglary.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal (bit.ly/1MlKHgj) reports Brown entered a Target store Monday morning dressed like a new cellphone sales team member and asked to be let into an equipment room.

 Sheriff's spokesman Jim Troiano says Brown took the cellphones valued at $31,000 from a secured cabinet and left the store.

He was driving a white 2010 Nissan Altima with a Georgia license plate.

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Man steals BMW he tried to buy with food stamp card, investigators say

 

Authorities in Florida have arrested a man they say stole a BMW after trying to buy it with a food stamp debit card.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office tells news outlets in a statement that 36-year-old Nicholas Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with grand theft auto.

Deputies say Jackson was turned away at the Pompano Beach auto dealership after trying to buy the $60,000 car using his EBT card and a credit card.

However, deputies say the suspect returned the next night and stole the car along with keys from 60 other vehicles.

Deputies say they later found Jackson with the car and the keys after he ran out of gas because he didn't have money to fill the tank.

 

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Universal Studios raises ticket prices just before it opens new Harry Potter attraction

Only a few weeks before the opening of its much-anticipated Harry Potter attraction, Universal Studios Hollywood is performing a shrinking spell on your wallet. Over the weekend, the park quietly raised prices up to 20%, pushing its highest-priced daily ticket beyond that of its sister parks in...

We just went in Friday. Bought $95 annual passes from Costco. Loads of black out dates, but how often do you really need to go? We might go three times total.

Harry Potter world was open. It's pretty cool. The ride was crazy wild.

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Man steals BMW he tried to buy with food stamp card, investigators say

 

Authorities in Florida have arrested a man they say stole a BMW after trying to buy it with a food stamp debit card.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office tells news outlets in a statement that 36-year-old Nicholas Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with grand theft auto.

Deputies say Jackson was turned away at the Pompano Beach auto dealership after trying to buy the $60,000 car using his EBT card and a credit card.

However, deputies say the suspect returned the next night and stole the car along with keys from 60 other vehicles.

Deputies say they later found Jackson with the car and the keys after he ran out of gas because he didn't have money to fill the tank.

 

 

Definitely should be in the Florida's Finest thread.

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We just went in Friday. Bought $95 annual passes from Costco. Loads of black out dates, but how often do you really need to go? We might go three times total.

Harry Potter world was open. It's pretty cool. The ride was crazy wild.

 

Good thing might be.  Once Harry Potter is open.  You can go to the Simpsons part of the park and have a few brews in peace.