The stereo speaker should go in that corner. But that would mean buying yet more wiring, running it along the floor and, perhaps, repositioning the stereo altogether so as to not run cords past, or over, a doorway.There are solutions.You love your big-screen TV and you love Internet videos. You'd like to see the Web videos on the TV and you'd rather not see wires coming into the set. Solutions are here and more are coming.The issues of wiring are being answered -- currently or in the foreseeable future -- as companies roll out wireless gadgetry. This month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a feast of new wireless products. Coupled with the existing products, it amounts to a full-scale movement away from the wads of wiring in the common household.The less-wire movementWhat follows is some of the basics -- emphasis on some.It gives an idea of how telephones, computers, televisions, music, transfer of photo images and so forth are being achieved with minimal wiring -- emphasis on minimal.Going "wireless" actually means going with less wire.

Sheriff might seek sales tax hike Growth spurs need for officers ...

Faced with policing an ever-expanding metropolis, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie is eyeing changes on two fronts to tackle growth both inside county borders and the county jail.

Gillespie credited the more than 250 officers hired under the first phase of the More Cops initiative, which raised the sales tax by a quarter cent, with helping to cut the overall crime rate last year, including drops in homicides, robberies, rapes and traffic deaths.

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Once again I apologize with all my heart to the staff of the Potawotomi Casino in Kansas."

Wherever Borat touched down, he left a shaken populace in his wake. In Washington, D.C., he rocked a Gay Pride parade -- "Many peoples friendly to me in America. In Washingtons, a guy in bikinis grab my busherka," Borat exclaims. But his travels through the South left an especially strong imprint on Borat and his "subjects."

Baron Cohen, as Borat, infuriated audience members at a Salem, Virgina rodeo by singing the Kazakh "national anthem" to the tune of the American anthem. After the rendition, a group of irate rodeo hands on horseback surrounded the filmmakers' van, demanding that they be lynched.

Also in the South, Borat tried to figure out the American art of shopping -- strangest of all, the practice of paying lots of money for old things called "antiques." At a small antique store, Borat is incredibly clumsy and manages to destroy hundreds of dollars of items.

Adviser: Shooter was a good student

As a junior, he was a peer helper. As a sophomore, he was on the chess team and a supporter of the fine arts program. "Fine arts was a way to escape reality, and at the same time they gave you new goals to reach," he was quoted in his sophomore yearbook. Catherine Manske of Palatine graduated a year ahead of Kazmierczak but said she hung out with him frequently in the two years they were on band together. She played flute while he was a tenor saxophonist. "Neither one of us were that good, so we would talk a lot. He liked to hang out with the older kids," Manske said. "He was one of the nicest kids at the school and really normal. I don't think he was on any medication when I knew him." She remembered one quirky thing. He signed her 1997 yearbook with "don't hit any old ladies crossing the road." "We thought that was kind of weird," said Manske, who graduated with Kazmierczak's sister.

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A perfect of a different variety

In a game filled with little to no highlights in the first three quarters, the fourth quarter raised the heart rate at an increasingly rapid pace. Three lead changes in the final few minutes, capped off by two touchdowns, including clutch drive by Eli Manning in the final minute.

Fact is, the Patriots seemed quite conservative in this game, and even if they had won, this was not one of their best performances. The offense never got into a sustained rhythm and the Giants defense should get the collective MVP, perhaps shared with Manning based on that last drive.

Defender of the deep

According to legendary underwater photographer and conservationist Bernie Hanby, British Columbia needs a beneficent dictator to prevent further species loss ...Read the full article