67-year-old man beats up young Dude interviews

So earlier we posted about a 67 year old beating up a 50 year old and here is the interview about the fight. WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

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67-year-old man Beats Up Young Dude

 
 
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SINFUL AND FLAYMZ Performing

WAXWUN Recording artist Sinful & Flaymz will be performing at Apostrophe Lounge on Feb 22nd. 

Come and show your support. 

UNC vs. DUKE

What is your best UNC-Duke moment?

Come and watch the game at Midtown in the University Area.

Game starts at 9pm

SUPER BOWL 2010. WHO IS GOING TO WIN ??????

VS.

iPhone 4G

So I was looknig at getting the iPhone 3GS but then there are rummors about a iPhone 4G coming out Mid Year 2010. SHOULD I WAIT ???

RUN THIS TOWN REMIX

Check out the Run This Town Remix by Flaymz and Sinful. Let us know what you think.

 

Think you know about Charlotte’s drinking water? Take a closer look…

Did you know: According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, four of the country's forty-four high-hazard coal ash ponds are on the Catawba River, and Duke Energy owns them all. A high-hazard classification means "failure or misoperation will probably cause the loss of human life" in addition to catastrophic environmental and economic damage.

Did you know: In North Carolina alone, the (Catawba) river has 182 discharge permits, or licenses to pollute, all of which are up for renewal in 2010. One of those permits gives Duke Energy permission to drain water from two unlined, high-hazard coal ash ponds into Mountain Island Lake, the source of 80 percent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg's drinking water.

What is coal ash: In its raw form, coal ash -- the waste produced when coal is burned to create electricity -- looks and feels like black baby powder. To prevent the dust from contaminating the air, the ash is infused with water to weigh it down. It's then pumped into holding ponds, like the two behind Duke Energy's

Riverbend Steam Station, on the shore of Mountain Island Lake, where it stands for a few days, allowing gravity to pull the heavy waste particles to the bottom of the ponds before it drains into the lake.

A decade ago, the coal industry promised the EPA it would self-monitor groundwater near coal ash ponds in exchange for the agency not categorizing coal ash as hazardous waste, a move that would jack up the cost of disposal and, in turn, energy rates. However, since Duke Energy didn't begin monitoring the groundwater near Riverbend's unlined ponds until a little more than a year ago, it's impossible to know if the contamination is getting better or worse. Since the ponds aren't lined with plastic or any other barrier, there's nothing to prevent the toxic contaminants in the ash from seeping through the soil and into the water table.

The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization in Washington D.C.,

reports coal ash is "replete with toxic constituents -- arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury, and many others -- that can wreak havoc on the environment and human health. Exposure to its toxins can lead to cancer, birth defects, gastro-intestinal illnesses, and reproductive problems."
An environmental group called Appalachian Voices analyzed a recent groundwater sample Duke Energy submitted to the government. The data reveal that the groundwater near all of North Carolina's thirteen coal ash ponds is contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants "including but not limited to: arsenic, boron, cadmium, chloride, chromium, iron, lead, manganese, pH and sulfate." Neither the state nor Duke Energy has refuted the group's report.

Did you know: While [Mecklenburg] county also draws drinking water from Lake Norman, Mountain Island Lake provides 80 percent of its water supply. Should the water in Mountain Island Lake be compromised, it's feasible Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities would not be able to provide enough clean drinking water to sustain the city since the water treatment plant on Lake Norman isn't large enough to process the amount of the water the county requires.

Although Gaston County has shared its contingency plan in the event of an environmental disaster on the Catawba River, (David) Merryman (Catawba Riverkeeper) says, "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities has not been willing to produce a contingency plan to deal with the potential contamination of Mountain Island Lake in the event of a coal ash release of the type that recently happened in Tennessee."

Even if the ponds don't breach their earthen dams, Duke Energy, according to its own records, discharges more than a pound of arsenic, and other heavy metals, from the ponds into Mountain Island Lake daily. But the coal plant isn't violating any laws since its current discharge permits don't limit the amount of arsenic it's allowed to discharge into the lake.

On February 28, Duke Energy's Riverbend Steam Station's discharge permit is scheduled to expire. "At that time," says Merryman, "[the Department of Environment and Natural Resources] will make an important decision: protect our residents and their source of water from heavy-metal-laced discharges from coal ash ponds or continue ignoring the facts."

Various excerpts taken from the February issue of Charlotte Magazine. Read the full article in its published form at

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/February-2010/One-Man-and-a-River/

DJSYMPHONY.com

Shouts out to DJ Symphony for starting H.A.R.D. Radio for the artisit. 

Tiger Woods on cover of Vanity Fair Magazine

So I do not know what in the world Tiger was thinking doing this photo shoot.

Ladies what do you think, THUMBS UP or THUMBS DOWN ?