Rawr…. brains… Watchout for these brain munching amoeba:
An Arizona teenager has died after contracting a deadly infection that attacks the brain. Aaron Evans, 14, got the disease after swimming in Lake Havasu earlier this month.
A 6-year-old Buckeye boy died from the same infection after swimming in Lake Pleasant last year.
Armin Van Buuren – A State Of Trance
Complete 000 through 228
39.25 GB
Centene is moving its HQ downtown into Ballpark Village!
From STLToday.com:
Clayton’s loss is downtown St. Louis’ gain. Centene Corp., said today it is moving its headquarters from Clayton to Ballpark Village.
In return for the promise of 1,200 new jobs to downtown within the next five years, Centene will receive $78 million in tax incentives from the city for the approximately $250 million development with more to come from state and federal programs.
Construction is scheduled to begin on the Centene Centre complex in summer of 2008.
The complex will be built in two phases and include office, retail and parking on two blocks at the corner of Broadway and Walnut Street.
Both blocks will see some development as part of phase one. The first block will have 700,000 square feet of office space. There will also be two floors of retail but no square footage was given.
The health care services company will occupy 400,000 square feet and lease out the remaining 300,000 square feet until it needs the space.
The second block will have 1,750 parking spaces and two more floors of retail. The square footage of retail on the second block, or the total number of stories in each buildings was also not released. The rest of the second block will be built in phase two and include up to 550,000 square feet of office space on an as-needed basis.
The retail will be sold back to Cordish at cost and count toward the company’s commitment to 360,000 square feet of retail in the first phase of Ballpark Village.
Cordish will also build a 180-room hotel in the first phase of Ballpark Village. The hotel will accommodate Centene employees, clients and other guests. The location of the hotel was not immediately clear.
“Centene will be the largest employer to move its corporate headquarters into the city in decades – maybe as long as 50 years,” said Mayor Francis Slay in a statement.
The move will help keep a major corporate headquarters within the metro area, bring jobs into the city and increase the momentum of downtown revitalization, Slay said.
To encourage Centene to make the move, the city will give the company $48 million in city tax abatement in addition to other incentives for a total of $78 million in incentives.
Centene will also receive $24 million through a federal incentive program for underdeveloped business districts. The company will receive $1.9 million as a portion of the sales tax collected from the hotel through the formation of a special tax district.
The city also plans to request more funds from the state’s downtown economic program.
These tax breaks will be in addition to the approximately $116 million in incentives already allocated to Baltimore-based Cordish Co., the developers of Ballpark Village.
Bad-ass, the trailer is here. It’s in high def quality with some sweet chest spiking, face melting, laser blasting, human skinning, marine firefight, and Predator nuke action. Can’t wait until Christmas.
I freaking DELETED my mp3′s of this album. I was in the mood for some super thumping disco beats and I got denied. Please, if you are reading this hook me up! It’s like there are no more torrents with this stuff in it.
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Fiat Lux Racing Team 99
Record Label: Ultra Records
UPC Code: 4294967295
Track Listing:
1. Bubble Boogie – Superfunk
2. Move That Body – Sexy Kool (Kodak Teo S mix)
3. Oh You! – Kardek (Inferno by Superfunk remix)
4. Come Back (Supamix) – Superfunk
5. Sea, Sweet And Funk – Sexy Kool/Superfunk
6. See Me Dancin’ – Caesar Palace
7. Drop The Bomb – Superfunk (Demon Ritchie’s Africa Tour mix)
8. Kool Vibrations – Sexy Kool
9. Sugar Pop – Superfunk (Paul Johnson’s Sugary Coated mix)
10. Discodeluxe – Star Deluxe
11. Aerobic Compressor – Sexy Kool (Briton Compressor mix)
12. Luxury – Scott Burnett/Gary Burrit
13. Come Back – Superfunk (Romanthony Slight Vocal Radio mix)
At least I see it that way. For instance I just logged into my blog via Blackberry super easily thanks to openID. All my account info is already filled out for aphexddb.com, its not like having to remember usernames.. Like I just had to do in order to xfer a domain from Dreamhost. Ugh, that was from a year ago! If I had an OpenID account with them I could de-authorize that login and effectivly wipe that account out. Of course now I have to hope they delete my info (doubtful) when I close the account.
-via Blackbery 8800
All I have to say is this was news like 6 years ago. You know big business is FINALLY catching up with reality when Gartner talks about “new trends!”.Â
You can try to avoid open source, but it’s probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code, according to Gartner.
“To some of you, this is shocking, you don’t believe this,” Gartner research vice president Mark Driver said Wednesday during the keynote session of Gartner’s Open Source Summit in Las Vegas. “Others are saying, ‘Forget 2011, it’s already here today.’” Even if they don’t plan to use software that’s fully open source, network executives should pay attention to this trend because the open source choices commercial vendors make can expose users to risk or create competitive disadvantages. “Open source is going to come into your network whether you like it or not,” Driver said. “It has become completely impractical to avoid the subject at all.”
Saw this by way of BoingBoing, from Kottke.org:
Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.