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A list of the top five food related threats from Al Dente.
Number 4 is Paula Deen for her butter and fat, heart stopping meals including her new offering: bacon egg and cheeseburger on two donuts.
Number 5 is Stephen Colbert for pushing Doritos on his Colbert Report. This one has a rather convoluted political/Pepsi bit of reasoning. Colbert's newest food hype: Spicy Sweet Doritios.
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Melissa Leavy, director of the downtown economic revitalization group, DERC, has been working with the Sierra Club and TOTALL Metals to offer an electronic recycling event similar to what Clayton had in March.
The event, which will accept old computers, monitors and peripherals, as well as other electronic equipment, will be held on the parking lot of the library on June 21 and possibly June 20th. There is also the possibility that this event will be held in conjunction with the first annual environmental education day.
These recycling events are normally very popular and it is good to see Collinsville offering this opportunity to its residents.
Meanwhile, the city's bi-annual big trash pickup will begin on April 14, 16, 18 for MWF customers and April 22 and 24 for Tu/th customers. It might be a good idea for residents to hold off on their old electronic equipment and take those things to the library on the 21st. It would certainly keep a lot of those items from ending up in the landfill.
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Yesterday marked the day the pencil was patented by Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia. Locally, the world's largest pencil resides in the St. Louis City Museum downtown and is presently being reassembled. Reassembled? You might ask? The pencil is 76 feet long and 21,500 pounds.
The City Museum also owns a pair of the world's largest set of underwear.
It might be worth a trip to the City Museum. They have what looks like a really cool gift shop.
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The 2008 baseball season has begun, some teams opened their seasons yesterday, but most will begin play today.
In St. Louis, you'd think Cardinals opening day was a national holiday what with the non stop news coverage from downtown restaurants, parking lots and Busch Stadium. Everyone on both sides of the river break out red clothing. Otherwise serious news reporters feel driven to act as though they've gone bonkers, dressed in Cardinal colors, reporting breathlessly and sometimes doing some physical comedy as they hold up tickets they're giving away.
Fox 2 will be streaming live video of the pregame pep rally from J. Bucks today.
On another note, the Cubs will be celebrating 100 years without a championship this season. They last won a World Series in 1908 when they beat the Detroit Tigers.
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From the London Telegraph (U.K.), a list and some explanation, of the 101 most useful websites. Some of these are specific to web surfers in Great Britain, i.e. soccer and cricket items, but others are very useful for anyone.
I especially like the site, Wonder How To, a place which gives explanations to many things, click the category list on the top to see the choices. There are some stupid How To's as well as some that are off color.
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We were jarred awake at 5 this morning by thunder and lightning. While reading the paper at 6 there came a tremendous flash and deafening crash, a function of thunder and lightning coming at the exact same time. Wow, that seemed awfully close, but it was dark and raining, hard to see anything out the window. But, as I drove off to church and made the first turn next to the park-like greenspace next to the house...whoa
The road was covered by a good part of a big old Oak tree which got hit by the lightning.
It shook the street lamp out of its moorings.
It is easy to see the path the lightning traveled, right straight down the center of the trunk.
These two huge sections of trunk fused together over the years.
The scorch mark left by the lightning lines the middle of the wood.
By mid-afternoon, a couple of seminary students came along and moved everything off the road so cars could get by. Brad, with the chain saw, used to do this sort of thing for a living, and Greg works a part time job with the grounds people. They did a great job.
I've never lived in a place where trees fall like they do on the Concordia Seminary campus. During the two years we've been here, we've seen probably 25 to 30 huge oaks come down during storms or for no obvious reason. We've lived in places where limbs fall down, but never huge trees in such number. Taking a walk requires a bit of vigilance.
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The Washington Post has a variety of online puzzles and crosswords to wile away a rainy Saturday or lazy Sunday.
Cricklers is fun, the Post calls it "Crosswords out side the box" and "A word game for the computer age." The Crickler link has a helpful introductory game so you can learn how it is played and on the top right of the page there is a drop down box from which you can choose real games.
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As much as I'd love to see the elimination of styrofoam plates and cups, these don't look all that appetizing. Now chocolate bowls, that would be a different thing all together.
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Lots of angst in St. Louis this week over the Centene Corp's decision not to build their world headquarters building in Ballpark Village, a piece of empty land next to the new Busch Stadium. The land is actually part of the ground on which the old Busch Stadium stood. If you go to baseball games, you may have passed by this eyesore which has moldered for going on 3 years now, but have you actually had a good view of it?
Thanks to Steve Patterson of St. Louis Urban Review there's a photo taken from up high so that it is possible to see the water filled muddy hole and all the rest of the wrack and ruin that sits right in the middle of downtown. Steve, by the way, is on his way to recovery from a severe stroke in January. He's now in a rehap center in Mt. Vernon Missouri. We wish him well.
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According to Politico, voters in Pennsylvania are feeling let down by a lack of campaigning in the state by Clinton and Obama. They expected to have the two candidates blanketing the state, but have seen very little of them.
The reason just might be that the voters in Pennsylvania have been pretty clear to pollsters that they prefer Clinton to Obama in fairly large numbers so why should the campaigns waste time and resources. That's what happens when polls indicate huge leads for one candidate or another. How much time did either of these two spend in Illinois before the primary?
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