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The game comes with four buzzer controllers that make it really easy to buzz in and to select your answers. Plus, this is the perfect type of game to make use of downloadable content; I look forward to seeing some expansions for download. They haven't been announced yet, but it's pretty much a given. .
Cyclist, truck collide near OHSU
Twenty five years ago I was an avid bicycle enthusiast and rider. I realized how dangerous it is to mix cars and bikes and gave up bicycle riding on the public streets. It is just not worth the risk. Proponents of bicycles as a major transportation choice are deluding themselves. How many of our fine City workers go about their daily business on bicycles? Save for a few bike cops and the like, the rest of them use motor vehicles to conduct business. The idea that the rest of us are somehow supposed to commute to work on bicycles is irrational thinking. Painting boxes and lines on the roadways just encourages more people to use this dangerous and inefficient form of transportation and does not provide enough safety. Bicycles are regressive, not progressive. Doing the wrong thing harder never works.
Crims' jail time trimmed
SERIOUS criminal offenders will receive shorter jail sentences because of record prison overcrowding, a judge has warned. District Court Judge Marie Shaw said jail terms were being reduced in Britain because of similar problems with prison overcrowding, sparking a political storm last night. "In England, what's happening with overcrowding is that the Court of Appeal has handed down a decision that means that, because there isn't suitable housing for prisoners, prisoners get shorter sentences and are being released," Judge Shaw said. She made her remarks on Monday during a bail hearing for a convicted sex offender who had spent almost four weeks in the City Watchhouse in conditions described by his lawyer as "inhumane". The Advertiser previously has reported how the Department for Correctional Services has used the facility since February to hold up to 37 male and female remand prisoners because the state's prisons were full.
Habs greats worry about team behaviour
The team must always come first, retired stars Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and Henri Richard said Thursday as they weighed in on the embarrassing arrests this week of Hab rookie Ryan O'Byrne and veteran forward Tom Kostopoulos. "They are young kids and they forget, they don't think about what the Montreal Canadiens mean .. they think about having a little fun," said Henri Richard, a former Habs captain and 11-time Stanley Cup winner as a player. "I feel sorry for them, but they're going to learn," Richard said. O'Byrne and Kostopoulos were arrested at about 3 a.m. Monday outside Whiskey Park, a Tampa, Fla., nightclub following the team's annual rookie dinner. .
Man gets 11 years in "stupid" loan scheme
Severson's attorney, Christopher Kelly, recommended his client receive five years in prison, less than the nine years Crabb imposed on Hardyman in July 2006. Kelly said Hardyman was more responsible for the bank's collapse. He loaned $13.4 million to three businessmen, including Severson, and encouraged Severson to run several businesses despite his lack of business training or even a high school diploma. "He's not Donald Trump who could bankrupt a casino chain and then start over and make millions (of dollars) more," Kelly said. Determining if Hardyman or Severson is more guilty is like asking, "Who's more culpable: the thief or the fence?" said Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Johnson. Each needed the other to carry out the scheme, but the federal guidelines call for a higher sentence for Severson, who was on probation for a 2001 felony conviction while defrauding the Blanchardville bank, Johnson said.
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