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by Alvin aqua Blanco March 7, 2012, 9:37am

Mingo from the now defunct How To Make It In America and Dot Da Genius took their WZRD rock band to the Late Night With Conan O'Brien Show. The duo performed Teleport 2 Me, Jamie" off their just released WZRD album.

WZRD sold over 70,000 copies its first week in stores despite Kid CuDi saying his "weak @ss label" dropped the ball when it came to promoting the project. Watch the performance, courtesy of Yardie, below.

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WZRD (Kid CuDi/Dot Da Genius) Perform “Teleport 2 Me, Jaime” On Late Night With Conan O'Brien [VIDEO]

To the Editor:

Here we are again. Winter in South Jersey, 2012, warmer than usual not that I am complaining about the mild winter rain predicted, with forecast lows in the mid-30s. Then the state highway department wastes more taxpayer money by brining the roads.

I am all about keeping our roads clear of snow and ice, nice and safe, but what the heck is going on? Who is being held accountable for such wasteful decisions?

I am sure that brine is cheap and effective, but what about the labor cost, the fuel wasted and the unnecessary hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere? Is it just me, or is this another careless waste of our money?

All that salt is going to be washed down into the street drains, right into local fresh water tributaries, not to mention all over our cars.

I know that some elected officials were caught off guard with some snow we got last winter, but make-up calls dont work in sports or highway safety.

I brought this up at work on Feb. 18, the last time there was useless brining, and I heard, If they dont use it up and spend the money, they wont get allocated enough next winter.

Really? Does salt have a shelf life that I was not aware of? Are the drivers going to quit their high-paying jobs because they did not get enough overtime your money, folks this winter?

It is that ideology that propagates such wasteful spending at much larger government levels. This waste must stop! This is why successful businessmen, not lawyers, should be elected.

I am sure if enough of us ask our elected officials why the roads are wastefully prepared for ice and snow, when the road surfaces are well above freezing and only rain is predicted, someone will have to answer.

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Lewis-Palmer's Josh Scott, left, is among three CU signees selected to the boys all-star game. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

Future Division I players dot the boys and girls rosters of The Show, the annual high school basketball all-star game set for April 6.

The boys game features nine future D-I kids, highlighted by CU signees Josh Scott (Lewis-Palmer), Wesley Gordon (Sierra) and Xavier Talton (Sterling).

"It will be fun just because everyone has good talent," Gordon said. "I'm going to be on the floor with people who know what they're doing. It will give me a sense of what it will be like to play in college."

Future Wyoming teammates Josh Adams (Chaparral) and Austin Haldorson (Highlands Ranch) were also been selected.

Two other Division I-bound athlete have signed for other sports. Fairview's Shane O'Neill, will play soccer at Virginia; Fruita Monument's Drew Bridges will play baseball at New Mexico.

The boys game will also pit rising sophomores Dominique Collier (Denver East) and Josh Perkins (Regis Jesuit) against one another. Considered the state's top two recruits in the class of 2014, the close friends will be on opposing teams.

"We're going to have to go at it with each other," Collier said.

Perkins called being selected "one of my goals since I was a little kid."

Aurora Central's Carlton Hurst was the lone junior selected.

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by admin on March 4, 2012

Last week, I offered a copy of my book, Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul, to anyone who showed up for Dot Com Pho, and only four people showed up. This week, I offered nothing and got a record breaking 20 people coming out to Pho Ba Co. We took up five tables, including one from the Mexican restaurant next door. The lesson learned: sometimes, the best incentive is no incentive.

For this edition of Dot Com Pho, we have Sally Chow making more Fear Factor drinks, an average magician doing above-average magic, William the 365 Bow Tie guy teaches how to tie a bow tie (a real bow tie, not a clip on), and we find out how many Orange County blondes are required to make a batch of chocolate-chip cookies.

Anyone is welcome to join us for Dot Com Pho. Follow me on Twitter to find out the time and location of the next one. We would love to meet you.

This article courtesy of Dot Com Pho How To Tie a Bow Tie Edition

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A year ago, owners and operators of businesses along U.S. 70 East feared the demise of their establishments if the N.C. Department of Transportation carried out its plan to build a median through the middle of the corridor.

Those fears were not realized, however, as DOT officials announced in a letter last week they were shelving the proposal after further study of crash data.

With information now available to NCDOT, we do not recommend implementation of the concrete median at this time, Neil Lassiter, Division Engineer for the DOTs Division 2 office in Greenville, wrote in a Friday letter to J. Mac Daughety, chairman of the Lenoir County Transportation Committee. However, we do reserve the right to revisit this section of roadway for further safety improvements if the traffic crash rates trend upward in the future.

Officials with the DOT began seeking public comment in February of 2011 on a proposal to install the median between the intersections with N.C. 58 South and U.S. 258 South.

The department used data from a 2007 study, which reviewed five prior years of crash patterns, to show a median with a few openings could lead to a safer corridor than its current design, which consists of five open lanes, including a middle turn lane marked by yellow dashed lines that gives access to the restaurants, shops, gas stations and hotels from anywhere along the highway.

Business and property owners liked the existing design and immediately cried foul last year because they feared a median with only a few openings could hinder drivers access.

The project was expected to cost nearly $1 million; the DOT originally planned to let the contracts in May of 2011 and finish construction by the end of the year.

It didnt happen, though; the Lenoir County Transportation Committee passed a resolution against the project, as well as the board of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce.

The matter also caused intense debate among the members of the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners and Kinston City Council.

Local Reps. Stephen LaRoque, R-Lenoir, and William Wainwright, D-Craven, introduced a local bill in the General Assembly to get the project stopped. The legislation did not pass before the 2011 session ended, though.

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