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Caroline Howard, Forbes Staff
Covering education, enterprising women and special projects.
Staten Islander Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, has filed a shocking $900 trillion federal suit against the City Of New York for placing her two children in a foster home over three years ago.
In court documents filed last week, Ogunbayo has accused the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and city for causing economic hardship, substantial economic injuries and violating her and her children's civil rights. Her sons, removed in June 2008, are now ages 16 and 13.
According to the Staten Island Advance:
Ms. Ogunbayo alleges she and her children have suffered "over three years of terror, horror, grievous harm, time lost, substantial economic hardship and injuries" due to their separation.
In removing the boys, the city contended Ms. Ogunbayo was mentally unstable and had refused treatment, said court papers. She allegedly suffered from hallucinations and delusions, and also left the boys at home alone for extended periods while she was working, the city maintained.
Ms. Ogunbayo, who is representing herself, has branded the allegations a "huge lie."
Further, in her complaint she states the city "recklessly disregarded" her "right to family integrity." Ogunbayo no doubt took note of a state Appellate Division decision from January in a separate case vacating the neglect charge by Family Court due to lack of evidence the boys were in "imminent danger."
In fact, the youngsters had "near-perfect" attendance in school and "were doing well, even thriving, academically," while in their mother's care, the appellate division said. In addition, the boys were up to date on their medical examinations and vaccinations, and their heights and weights were appropriate for their ages, said the court.
The children remain in ACS custody due to a petition pending in Family Court, according to the city Law Department.
The net effect of the forcible removal of your kids is soul-crushing. But at a net price of $900,000,000,000,000? For perspective: The largest City settlement to an individual is $18,278,000 to James McMillan, who suffered paralyzing injuries in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry dock crash that killed 11 passengers. He was originally awarded $22.9 million by a jury. And the national debt is $15 trillion.
"It's hard to even take it seriously," says a spokesperson for the city Law Department. "There may be a case, which is for a court of law to decide, but that's a made-up number."
SOURCES: Staten Island Advance, The Smoking Gun
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A politician talking about "made up Numbers " sorta Pot calling the kettle black and all that !
If my number counting is correct, that's 900 Quadrillion Dollars. Which is how many zeros about any parent who has been crucified and had the Alinsky Character Assassination would put down on paper.
More than likely, she held the zero button down until it filled the page and then had to edit out a thousand zeros in order to finish her complaint.
Practically NOBODY knows what an evil farce the CPS system is- with the maledicent participation of Mental Illness counselors, Guardian Ad Litems, CASA workers, and the unconstitutional courts of No Due Process- until YOU personally go through it.
Unfortunately, settlement with these mendacious tyrants for the completely uncalled-for destruction to families could never be enough.
The object is to sue the thoroughly evil CPS and their agents back to the Stone Age. Out of existence. There is nothing good in them whatsoever.
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©
No, that's 900 trillion. Frankly anyone who would put that in a document and expect to be taken seriously stinks to high heaven of mental illness.
Hear, HEAR!!!
We have two good (documented) Latino families, deathly afraid of reprisals from our family court systems to fight…
Alan Ernesto Phillips
Shasta County, CA
(Father of a Court-Abducted daughter…)
I hope she gets every darn penny of it. The government needs to stay out of people's lives.
Half the world eh? The global GDP is 63 trillion dollars. As such, she would totally bankrupt the world 14.3 times over. You work for Forbes, eh?
What you're saying is that you want this woman to be God, essentially. No religious offense intended, but 900 trillion dollars is all of (or close to it) the entire world's net worth. This woman would own everything that you own, everything that everyone you know owns, and everything that everyone you don't know owns. ALL OF IT.
Our society and government is broken. We sit and judge this woman without knowing the whole story. The amount she's asking for is alot. But how can anyone put a price on having your kids not with you for 3 years. The sad part is IF she needed help, then help is what she should have gotten. Somethimes child services are a joke. Where were the people looking after those 2 little boys that got burned up in a fire by thier father? Like a said before, our system is broken.


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on Dell laptops; other manufacturers use different methods). The TV can
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Su Shi's 'Red Cliff Meditation' (1082) re-creates an epic Chinese naval battle.
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With its emphasis on character analysis and political philosophy, Lord Charnwood's biography of Abraham Lincoln achieves a Plutarchian gravity that helps give the book its standing as a masterpiece.
Completed only months before his death, Anthony Van Dyck's 'Self-Portrait' is one of the most revealing and poignant—and eerily prescient—works the artist ever produced.
Arthur Koestler's novel 'Darkness at Noon' warned against the horrors of communism when few in the West were ready to hear about it.
Created to commemorate a celebrated war victory, 'The Dying Gaul' is now on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art, the first time in two centuries that the sculpture has left Italy.
Marc Chagall may be best known for his romantic, fantastical and childlike images, but his subjects also encompassed war, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Apocalypse, the Holocaust and the Crucifixion.
On the walls of Dartmouth College's Baker Library, José Clemente Orozco's brutally expressive and bitterly pessimistic mural recounts the history of the Western Hemisphere.
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"A Most Wanted Man," based on the novel by John le Carré, is Philip Seymour Hoffman's last completed film. If only it were a role worthy of the late actor's great talents.
"Magic in the Moonlight" is minor in its scale, but not in its substance, which amounts to a summing up of themes that the director has explored throughout his creative life.
Instead of soft-core, there's no core.
Film Review: No one has ever made a movie quite like it. Yet there's so much here—a surfeit of surfeits—that sensory overload causes aesthetic suffocation, Joe Morgenstern writes.
A film with sci-fi ambitions that never overcomes its eye-rolling earnestness.
Review: "Boyhood" captures the mysteries of becoming a young man, Joe Morgenstern writes.
An ambitious triptych that's been overshadowed by the Renaissance yet remains unsurpassed in symbolic complexity.
"Earth to Echo" tries too hard to be the Steven Spielberg classic.
Roman Polanski finds comedy in "Venus in Fur," but his ending is nothing short of a forced provocation.
"A Hard Day's Night" turns 50 this month, and it is still the feel-good film of 2014.
Is Melissa McCarthy the new Katharine Hepburn?
Director Jack O'Brien makes his Shakespeare in the Park debut at the Delacorte Theater.
The contrivances of "The Fault in Our Stars" are partly offset by the beauty of Shailene Woodley's portrayal of the heroine and narrator.
Film Review: The true—and universal—concerns of Lukas Moodysson's "We Are the Best!" are living life, pushing limits, making a mark and discovering love, writes Joe Morgenstern.
Huge movie franchise installments are rarely as enjoyable as "X-Men: Days of Future Past," writes Joe Morgenstern.
Film critic Joe Morgenstern says when "Godzilla" finally gets around to monsters on a rampage, you'll get both more and less than you bargained for.
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Tom Hardy turns "Locke," which takes place entirely inside a car, from a small film into a big one, says Joe Morgenstern.
Film Review: Critic Joe Morgenstern says "Transcendence" is visually ambitious but the plot is preposterous.
Film Review: Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive" is a genuinely affecting—and erotic—love story, writes Joe Morgenstern.
Film critic Joe Morgenstern says the action is awesome and the casting smart and sly in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
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Joe Morgenstern says "Divergent" is dauntingly long and dauntingly dumb.
Film critic Joe Morgenstern says the action sequences in "Need for Speed" are spectacular, but the writing is wobbly, the direction lead-footed and some of the acting could have used a boost.
Joe Morgenstern says hardly a moment goes by in Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" when there isn't something to make us smile.
Joe Morgenstern says Liam Neeson fills the thrill quotient in the suspense thriller 'Non-Stop.'
Film critic Joe Morgenstern says the writing, directing and acting align in Romanian drama, 'Child's Pose,' to make the most appalling characters engrossing.
Joe Morgenstern says the remake of "RoboCop" is overburdened with underbaked notions.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son" transcends the switched-at-birth plot pattern with tenderness, humor and exquisite depth of feeling, writes Joe Morgenstern.
Joe Morgenstern says the story of 'Monuments Men' is fascinating, but the movie's tone is at war with its subject.
'Tim's Vermeer,' a fascinating documentary by the comic magicians Penn & Teller, has a way of arousing passionate feelings while provoking fresh ideas about the porous border between technology and art, Joe Morgenstern says.
In this thriller full of spies, competing national-security agencies and ideological forces run amok, it's easy to lose sight of what makes "The Honorable Woman" such an enthralling drama.
WGN is onto something here, with a series that taps into the undying drawing power of everything connected to the creation of the first atomic bomb.
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'The Newburgh Sting' on HBO will make everyone who sees it angry, just not for the same reasons.
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Showtime's astounding 'Ray Donovan' is full of menace and profanity but every performance glitters.
Once this thriller establishes itself as the complex and ambitious enterprise that it is, the visual terrors come to feel distinctly minor.
An increasingly sturdy comedy-drama of married life—despite its unpromising start.
HBO takes a stab at adapting the acclaimed Tom Perrotta novel.
Season 2 of "Last Tango in Halifax" is even better than Season 1.
What if a plague swept earth and one Navy ship had to find a cure while fighting off Russians and al Qaeda?
Traditional in appearance, BBC America's fresh take on the Dumas heroes gives them new adventures and deeper back stories.
No mere songfest with historical re-enactments, this is the story of how the U.S. flag came to be.
"The Escape Artist" doesn't have a lot in common with the innocent performance art for which Houdini was famous. Here the performance is about criminal law; the artist, an attorney who's never lost a case.
"Orange Is the New Black" is now a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Lost among all the hype-driven conversation, though, is the fact that the series also offers some of the best times, and company, to be found on TV.
There's a new team of mad men for the PC era on AMC.
History's 'The World Wars' is a reminder that some mistakes can happen again, and HBO's 'The Normal Heart' opens old wounds.
Just because people butcher their competitors and all their kin, "Gang Related" is here to tell us, doesn't mean they don't have family values.
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What was shocking in 1968 is less so today in NBC's stylish makeover of a classic thriller about a man who pimps his wife out to Satan.
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'Keeping House,' and 'Bad Teacher' make wild women wildly funny, but in 'Salem' the devil makes them do it.
The romance of the mentally ill, the idea that psychosis is a gift, and related ludicrous notions have appealed to creative minds in the TV world for some time now. Add to that the allure of the neuroscience fad and you have a sense of the reason for the creation of "Black Box"—which turns out, despite its baggage, to be a series that's both smart and seductive.
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With a new cast and story, the FX version of 'Fargo' is more demented than the movie, and sets off a battle of biblical magnitude.
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ABC's "Resurrection" is bound to elicit pondering of its deeper meanings, its implicit reflections on life, death, family and faith. None of which is nearly as important as the impact of its smartly ordered, sizzling drama, which establishes itself from the opening scene and builds from there.
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Chloë Sevigny is the best thing about A&E's remake of a Danish thriller on the perils of serial-killer hunting.
The second season of 'The Americans' arrives on FX as suspenseful as ever, more brutal in its violence, perhaps, and more expansive in its reach into history. Best of all, it easily manages to uphold the standards of the first season.
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'About a Boy' and 'Killer Karaoke' seem to have more fairy dust and less pain than earlier versions of themselves.
HBO's airing of the complete "Sopranos" series has allowed for a deeper appreciation of this show without equal in television history.
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Christopher Hitchens once described the creator of James Bond as "a heavy sadist, a narcissist, and all-around repressed pervert." "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" doesn't go that far—this sex-clogged drama is meant to be a heroic portrait—but there's no missing its emphasis. All that's missing are whips and chains.
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One of my favorite changes in Capybara 2.1 is ignoring all hidden elements by default. This could be viewed as a limiting of Capybara's feature set, since you can no longer (easily) test certain elements on a page. I will argue that it steers you into writing tests that are more realistic, causing this limitation to actually enhance the quality of your acceptance tests.
Presenter Sanity
I'm not a huge fan of Rails view helpers, which is a post for a different day, but put simply I prefer to encapsulate presentation logic in a presenter object rather than mix it in globally across all templates. There's a few ways to do this, the simplest being the Good Ol' Plain Ol' Ruby Object:
class FooPresenter
def description_for(foo)
Date.today.tuesday? ? "50% off! #{foo.description}" : foo.description
Usually, I'll instantiate the presenter in a controller and then call it within the view:
class FoosController
def index
@foos = Foo.all
@foo_presenter = FooPresenter.new
<% @foos.each do |foo| %>
<%= foo.name %>
<%= @foo_presenter.description_for(foo) %>
<% end %>
Everything is simple and feels where it should be, but we've gotten this at the cost of losing view helpers mixed in from Rails. One of the helpers I find particularly helpful is strip_tags. If we want access to strip_tags we can do as Rails does when mixing it into the view scope and include it in our presenter:
class FooPresenter
include ActionView::Helpers::SanitizeHelper
def description_for(foo)
description = strip_tags(foo.description)
html = Date.today.tuesday? ? "50% off! #{description}" : description
This feels a bit wrong as well. For one, we've increased the number of public methods on our presenter by at least 4, and only really needed one of them. Two, we have little control over how we are stripping the tags, and so any unit tests we've written for our presenter must integrate and essentially test parts of Rails. What we really want is something that can do what strip_tags is doing. Luckily, and due Rails becoming more modular, we already something to do this for us in the Rails library html-scanner. Under the hood, strip_tag is, unless configured differently, passing your string down to the sanitize method on an instance of an HTML::FullSanitizer object. We can do something similar in our presenter:
require 'html/sanitizer'
class FooPresenter
def initialize(sanitizer=HTML::FullSanitizer.new)
@sanitizer = sanitizer
def description_for(foo)
description = @sanitizer.sanitize(foo.description)
html = Date.today.tuesday? ? "50% off! #{description}" : description
Now we have an object that is easy to test purely as a unit, and also has the ability to be extended with different sanitizers.
While this works well with strip_tags, unfortunately not every helper in Rails is as nicely decoupled. The work being done in the number_to_* methods, for instance, are written completely in modules. It may be nice at some point to pull these into corresponding objects, but a short term solution could be to just have an object that includes the module:
class NumberCruncher
include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
> NumberCruncher.new.number_to_currency(1)
=> "$1.00"
02/25/13: 7304.84 Days of Ruby
Find gems with vulnerabilities
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Interesting Things
Lightning Talks are next week, but no talks have been submitted yet. Unless talks are submitted, it's going to be a long hour of staring at the wall.
jQuery 1.7 has been released http://blog.jquery.com/2011/11/03/jquery-1-7-released/ . If you use Backbone.js you might want to update jQuery for the improved delegated events performance.
Standup 00110111 – AKA 55 day
Interesting Things
- The Postgres adapter for ActiveRecord will not use an offset unless you also provide a limit.
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Standup 07/20/2011: I Know What Bowling Is
Ask for Help
"Rubymine can't call git ls-files in gemspec"
This should have been fixed a while ago in the developer image.
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Check to see what options RVM is using when it builds 1.9.
Interesting Things
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David Stevenson
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I was doing morning grounds check at the grave yard i use to work at.. and found a young man sitting up against the the masalium. i walked over to him to see if he was ok.. i spoke to him several times. no respones..he jus sat there whith his head hung down. i bent down to check him out kind of nudge him . he fell over.. he had a small 25 in his hand and blood trickle from his mouth.. i had to call the cops. come to find out where i found him was his mothers grave.. she had died a week before..
Re: HAVE YA EVER FOUND SOMETHING THAT JUS FREAKED YOU OUT!tyedyetrish on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:38am
Not something I'd want to walk up on, that's for sure. My husband found a friend of his 3 days after he'd died in his home from cardiac arrest. We'd stopped over cause he hadn't returned any calls for a few days. I had almost gone with him in the house but decided to wait on the porch when we didn't get an answer at the door, which was unlocked. Yeah...not a pretty site.
Re: HAVE YA EVER FOUND SOMETHING THAT JUS FREAKED YOU OUT!HELLFIGHTER on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:48am
A homeless man. Dead outside New Yorks Grand Central Station in the wee hours of the morning. Empty eyes staring at the sky, wide open, no soul. Thats why I know the "dead" people in movies dont evern come close. There IS a light that goes out.
RE:HAVE YA EVER FOUND SOMETHING THAT JUS FREAKED YOU OUT!joestoutenger on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 1:35am
I was a general contractor by trade..home builder..always had a big truck license to move heavy eqiptment..work was scarce so I took some pipe loads and ran them..was on the road for 2 1/2 days running my ass off (baby needs new shoes) non stop no sleep and was heading down the NY thruway about 4am falling asleep at the wheel..and wham..WTF swirving and can't see because there was solid blood all over the windshield and I could'nt see where I was going... heard a friggin crunching sound coming from outside the truck then shit hitting all around..Myself and 3 other trucks.. I was in between and could only see big asssed trailer in front of me ...we took out a heard of deer from a head count there was 15 of them that got splattered..blood every where..body parts..my friggin load was a blood covered mess...Yup that was sumething that jus freaked me out..there was so much blood and parts dripping every where..Yup Trish that was a Liver Shiver Moment...lol..Peace...Joe
ps...ran out and bought stock in Clorox the next day....lmao
Re: HAVE YA EVER FOUND SOMETHING THAT JUS FREAKED YOU OUT!HELLFIGHTER on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 1:39am
Shit ! Good thing you guys were in trucks and not cars, Joe. Would have been a lot uglier.
@ Joetyedyetrish on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 1:51am
See, that's why I don't have an issue with hunting. There's about as many deer as there are cockroaches for crying out loud!
SOMETHING THAT JUS FREAKED YOUjoestoutenger on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 2:23am
I saw most people are freaked out by dead bodies...I very involved in a professional freash water dive shop..trained divers..voluteer fire companies/search and rescue..river diving is face plate visability and wham a bloated head appears from the mirk..bodies wedged up under fallen trees...dead people don't bother me too much...when I contracted use to do a lot lf work for slum lords..we got a call from a neighbor at one of the slum houses and I showed up..yup something was real ripe so I broke down the door and went inside..in the old houses they use to have old converison coal burners..when you walk in the door there was a single radiant grate usually 3' by 5' and yup there he was all 400 lbs. dead on the heater grate thermostat turned up to 80 degrees and friggin gross but was melted..er..um gooed into the little 1X1 square holes been there about 3 days..the fat was nasty..the cops got there and the corner we unscrewed the grate from the floor and put the well body if thats what you want to call it in a bag still on the grate(so it could cool off) along with the gooy parts that fell off..I just remembered that smell...well the live ones are the pain in the asses..like HF said the lights are off on the dead ones..souless...well I just had to share this...the warm and fuzzy moments of my life...lmao...Peace..Joe


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Brookings Institution Hosts Forum on How Mobile Is Fueling Entrepreneurship around the World
Panel of experts examine how mobile technology can accelerate entrepreneurship and successfully connect innovators worldwide.
Effective October 1, 2012, QUALCOMM Incorporated completed a corporate reorganization in which the assets of certain of its businesses and groups, as well as the stock of certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, were contributed to Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Learn more about these changes
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Panel of experts examine how mobile technology can accelerate entrepreneurship and successfully connect innovators worldwide.
Ever wonder what Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs does in his spare time?
He checks the scores of his favorite teams, peruses the New York Times or gets cozy with an eBook.
To celebrate today's launch of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft created an 80-foot banner featuring the start screen of Jacobs' own phone. It features Live Tiles for some of Jacobs' favorite apps, including The New York Times, AccuWeather, and Amazon Kindle.
Companies are working together to cut that last wired cord from your electronic devices.
Thinking about Windows RT? Check this out!
Do you know Shannon? No, not your friend across the street. But that other guy who has a law by his name. Nice guy, but his law is kind of tough...
See who won $35,000 in cash prizes!
I've been robbed several times at gunpoint... I have friends who have been kidnapped...
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Qualcomm Life hosts the screening of a new independent movie that examines one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Nowhere has the mobile revolution had a bigger impact on people's lives than in developing countries.
Parallel computing will not only provide a surge in computational capacity for all apps, but it will also help to establish standards for the platform.
At Qualcomm, we live and breathe mobile technology. We are acutely aware that it has transformed the way we live our lives and connect to the world around us. That is why we were thrilled to learn that TIME was devoting a special issue to wireless technology and bringing together industry experts to further examine the transformative power of mobile.
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Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
What a great time! I had to miss the first two bands, Eve 6 and 7 Mary 3 but arrived just in time for Filter to hit the stage. They were pretty good, I honestly only knew a couple of their songs.
Buck Cherry was amazing, even though there were some tech problems with the bass player and the singer got irritated and threw down the mike as he walked off stage until it was fixed.
Collective Soul is one of those bands that I've always liked what I heard on the radio but never ran out to buy the CD.... They were so good, I was really suprised at how clean their sound was.
It wasn't a GS show, but for a little local fest they did a really good job and it was just what I needed to blow off some serious steam!
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Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
Awesome! My sis is a huge HUGE josh fan, buck cherry, did you get any pix?
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
Yep, I put them on FB, Buck Cherry shots are so much better because the sun was still up when they went on, Collective Soul was almost impossible to get a good shot because of the lights! :( All in all it was a great show though!
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
Sounds like a good time..I always liked Filter.Hey Man Nice Shot!
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
We almost never get decent shows right here in in town so I usually have to drive at least to Charlotte if not further. It was really nice to be home in 20 minutes afterwards! :)
We will have Fall Out in October, they announced last night that Weaving the Fate (Villanova) and Saving Abel have signed on for the show, and there will be at least two or three more. I went last year and had a ball. They have it at a bar in The Vista and a local radio station puts it on. That's how I've ended up seeing Theory of a Deadman three times, lol.
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
Collective Soul was an underrated band, imo. All their albums are great.
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
Fall Out was Friday night, Weaving the Fate (Villanova), Paper Tongues and Saving Abel. Weaving the Fate is from here in Columbia and they are really good live. Paper Tongues were fabulous! I danced and danced and danced Saving Abel was good but not as good as I was expecting. So we had a super Friday followed up by a nice Saturday at the Puddlin' Duck watching the Gamecocks beat down the GA Bulldogs!
Re: Famously Hot Music Festival 2012
AND my Wolfpack took down the Criminoles (FSU).


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New Products
ImageStream Internet Solutions is shipping its new 1000 series ATM network adaptors, including DS3/E3 and OC3 cards in PCI and PMC formats. The new cards are designed to work as components in routers, servers and test equipment. The 1000 series ATM adaptors are 32-bit PCI 2.1-compliant cards that feature ATM segmentation and reassembly to optimize PCI bus performance with small packets. The PCI and PMC format cards include the 1001-DE, a dual-function DS3/E3 card and the 1001-O3M and 1001-O3S, which are OC3 cards for multimode and single-mode applications.
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eclipse.org has made an open-source C and C++ integrated development environment (IDE) available for the eclipse platform on Linux workstations. The C/C++ IDE for the eclipse platform includes a GUI-based source code editor, an integrated debugger and the ability to access a command-line interface for forming advanced debugger requests. It joins existing Java support on the eclipse platform, an open-source environment for creating, integrating and deploying application development tools across a broad range of technologies. The C/C++ IDE is available for download from the web site.
Contact www.eclipse.org.
NIC Express 1.0 is a hardware and vendor-neutral trunking solution for load balancing network traffic across two or more network connections, thereby increasing throughput and fault tolerance. NIC Express also increases fault tolerance by searching the network in addition to the server. It locates both physical and logical faults and reroutes traffic, eliminating single points of failure between any two endpoints on the network. Version 2.4 and higher of the kernel are supported, and the NIC Express works with any 10/100/1000 Ethernet NIC and any layer 2/3/4 switch.
Contact IP Metrics Software, Inc., 416 North Main Street, Suite #231, Euless, Texas 76039, 877-358-1007 (toll-free), firstname.lastname@example.com, www.ipmetrics.com.
The Geodesic Suite contains analyzers, debuggers and diagnostic tools for application development, testing and deployment. Included in the suite are Great Circle, a development debugging environment that operates via a web browser; Geodesic Runtime Solutions, which integrate into deployed applications to diagnose and resolve server-based problems at runtime without interruption; and Geodesic Analyzer, which installs at runtime and reports performance bottlenecks and reliability risks. Support is provided for 64-bit Itanium processors and 32-bit Pentium processors.
Contact Geodesic Systems, 414 North Orleans, Suite 410, Chicago, Illinois 60610, 800-360-8388 (toll-free), email@example.com, www.geodesic.com.
Ch 2.1, a C/C++ interpreter for scripting that is free for academic and nonprofit use, is now available from SoftIntegration. A superset of C with C++ classes, Ch 2.1 supports C90, major features of C99, POSIX, X11/Motif, OpenGL, ODBC, XML and GTK+. It also offers support for generic mathematical functions, computational arrays and advanced numerical functions for linear systems. Geared toward rapid application development, Ch can be used for cross-platform shell programming for regression testing, system administration, automating tasks, real-time interactive computing, rapid prototyping and 2-D/3-D plotting.
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Stephen Toon attended the inaugural meeting of Men's Health Victoria in Melbourne on 17th June where he presented a professional development session on Working with Men with Integrety.
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Look, when you went on that awesome roadtrip last summer, you left Goldie at home. And that rockin' concert you went to last weekend, same deal. Goldie held down the fort. He did that for you.
Sure, it's not "practical" to take Goldie with you wherever you go… and we've all heard that goldfish only remember the last 30 seconds anyway, but even Goldie deserves a vacation, right?
Here's a project that'll help you satisfy Goldie's wanderlust while keeping him safely submerged in his aquatic home.
Give the ole fishtank a photo makeover. It's easy, looks great, and Goldie gets a glamorous new view!
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Give Your Aquarium a Photo Makeover
p.s. This is the first piece by Photojojo intern, Christy Stipelcovich. Say hi! -> christy at photojojo dot com
So why a photo aquarium? Besides giving your scaly pal a beautiful new vista, it's a great way to freshen up your home or apartment. Or surprise a friend and dress up his fishtank for the holidays!
You can make a photo aquarium with everything from the tiniest plastic tank to the very largest glass behemoth.
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Before we get started, here's a quick look at what we're working towards.
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A great photo aquarium requires a great photo. Here are some photo ideas to get you going:
Step 1: Measure your tank
First things first, you'll want to measure the back of your aquarium.
You'll use these measurements to ensure your photo's large enough to cover the entire back pane of your tank, overlapping the metal on the top and bottom.
It's a simple step, but remember to include the metal borders–not just the glass–when measuring the height of your tank.
Step 2: Print Your Photo
When printing your photo, be sure the height and width equal or exceed the dimensions of the back of your aquarium. If you have a large tank, you may need to get your prints made online with a printer with larger sizes available.
We recommend matte prints over glossy–they mean less glare reflecting off your photo.
Step 3: Crop & Prepare Your Photo
Choose a good crop that matches the tank dimensions you measured earlier and draw it in on the back of your photo.
Use scissors or an exacto knife to crop your photo. (You may want to leave a little extra just in case and trim it off later if you need to.)
Step 4: Stick it On!
Stick double sided tape, sticky tack, or plain tape rolled up, to the four corners of the front of your photo. Don't fret — the hood on the top and rocks on the bottom of the aquarium will hide the tape.
Press your picture to the outside (repeat after us, outside) of the back of your aquarium, facing forward.
Ta da! You're done!
Yes, it was that easy. And your photo will not only show through the front, it'll also reflect at fun angles through the sides. You've got a beautiful new tank, and you've given your friend Goldie a fresh new outlook on life!
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Nativa Hostel was a great place to stay at. It is located right in front of the casino and at a walking distance to most bars, and restaurants. The people there are really nice and helpful. The room I stayed at had six bunk beds. It was comfortable. There are only two bathrooms and the showers aren't that great. ... more
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McALESTER — McAlester senior Zach Skimbo began playing basketball competitively in the third grade at Tannehill. He said before Friday's home game against Broken Bow that his father coached him when he was younger, and that he joined the Buffaloes in the ninth grade.
Always a point guard, Skimbo said his earliest memories are of the three-point shooting common to his position.
"It was in the Kiowa tournament against Frink (Chambers)," Skimbo said of his first three-pointer, which came in the third grade. "I was pretty ecstatic. I banked it too, so it was really nothing but luck."
Skimbo has grown considerably since those early days. Not just physically — he's now well over six feet tall — but also mentally.
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By Tim Graham
Count Buffalo Bills center Eric Wood among the players who want the NFL to test for human growth hormone.
While Wood didn't specify HGH, he mentioned in a Twitter conversation with some of his followers that he had a league-mandated drug test and openly wondered why they don't go all the way with it. Wood lobbied for blood testing, which is the only way HGH can be detected.
The NFL Players Association has been resistant to the NFL's proposed methods for HGH blood testing. HGH testing is permitted under the collective bargaining agreement that was signed before last season, but the sides have been unable to agree on how to go about it.
EWood70 (a verified account): "Just took my at home drug test for the league and they could have easily blood tested. If you're going to test cover everything."
In response to a follower's question, Wood replied the holdup was "prob a combo of both [the NFL and NFLPA] but I would like to see it get done." When asked if players are open to blood testing, Wood replied "They should be."
The NFL and the union agreed in April to a population study in hopes of paving the way for HGH testing this season, but the study has commenced in fits and starts.
Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins, one of the preeminent international sports journalists, explained in December why the population study was important:
One of the primary things the NFLPA is asking for and hasn't gotten is the population study [the World Anti Doping Agency] used to develop the test. WADA claims to detect HGH by measuring isoform ratios in human blood: If you show a ratio beyond what WADA scientists consider your natural limit, you are considered guilty of HGH use. But natural limits can vary significantly among people. If you're an NFL player, you don't necessarily want to be compared with a Romanian gymnast.
The NFLPA quotes Martin Bidlingmaier, co-founder of the HGH test, who has said that gender, age, body composition, injury history, type of sport, diet and the effects of chronic exercise could all be relevant, and the ratios should be based on "a suitable reference population." Is WADA's reference population suitable for 300-pound NFL players? Is it suitable for 6-foot-6 NBA players? Whom did WADA conduct its trials on? Downhill skiers? How big were they, where do they live, what were their diets, their living conditions, their habits? WADA has only provided the NFLPA with some summary info, and not the study itself.
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith told ProFootballTalk.com two weeks ago he was hopeful blood testing would be in place for the upcoming season.
NFL general counsel Jeff Pash said "It would be a nice surprise. I'm certainly not optimistic."
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "The cream of the lineup, and possibly the vintage, the 2012 Chateauneuf du Pape Les Grenaches de Pierre is an incredible effort that possesses notions of bouquet garni, pepper, licorice, cassis and crushed stone-like minerality. Full-bodied, powerful and layered, yet also elegant and with terrific..
Cellar/Tasting Notes The wine hits all cylinders in 2010. The average alcohol for the bottled wine is 14%. It has a gorgeously sweet nose of creme de cassis, spring flowers, subtle barbecue smoke and charcoal followed by full body, beautiful intensity, great purity, stature and length. The influence of any oak is..
Cellar/Tasting Notes Fleming's 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon boasts gorgeous depth and precision from start to finish. Hints of licorice, sweet spices and menthol are layered into an expressive core of dark fruit in this beautiful, complete Cabernet Sauvignon. The aromas and flavors are naturally quite primary, but there is..
Cellar/Tasting Notes A brilliant wine, and one of the stars of the vintage, the 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection boasts aromas of blueberry pie, blackberries, cassis and white flowers. This full-bodied, velvety textured, delicious 2011 is already drinking well, and should continue to do so for 10-12 years. It..
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Tonawanda News — Absentee ballots cast in the City of Tonawanda's Second Ward race between Republican Jon Juliano and Democrat Jackie Smilinich will be opened and counted Tuesday at the Erie County Board of Elections.
The 34 absentees will be counted at 1 p.m. at the office, 134 W. Eagle St.
Smilinich is currently ahead of Juliano by just one vote, by a count of 415-414.
Although the absentees could decide the race once and for all, the chance remains that the battle between the two candidates will continue in court. In the 2011 election, Third Ward candidate Augustine Beyer was ahead of Councilman Richard Slisz by just one vote until Slisz challenged the count.
After a prolonged court battle that made it the last election in the entire state to be decided, both sides agreed to sit down and hand count the 870 votes. The inspection revealed that one vote for Slisz had somehow gone completely uncounted, while another voter incorrectly circled Slisz's bubble instead of filling it in. With two more votes to his name, Slisz won the seat in February.
Local Democratic party chair Gayle Syposs said Smilinich hasn't filed a lawsuit, as it's not appropriate to do so until after the absentees are counted.
"I'm hoping there is a wide enough margin where we don't have to go through that all again," she said. "We are optimistic."
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Toddler Rhyme Time, 10:30 to 11 a.m., Cannon Free Library, 40 Elm St.
Blood drive, 1 to 6 p.m., Otego United Methodist Church, Church Street.
Free knitting and crocheting class, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Main Street Baptist Church, 333 Main St.
Catskill Area Hospice Thrift Shop, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 261 Main St., Suite 2. For info: 432-5335
The Lord's Table, 4:30 to 6 p.m., 18 Elm St. A feeding program, serving a full dinner. For info: 432-3558.
Blood drive, noon to 5 p.m., State University College at Oneonta, Blodgett Drive.
Greater Oneonta Historical Society History Center, noon to 3 p.m., 183 Main St. Local history exhibits.
Main Street Revitalization, 7 to 9 p.m., Oneonta Elks Club, 84 Chestnut St. Greater Oneonta Historical Society & Main Street Oneonta present architect Randy Crawford on upstate examples of revitalization and Oneonta's potential. Doors open at 6:30.
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Unatego SOS committee, 7 p.m., Unatego Central School, 2641 State Route 7.
Andes Roundtable, 7 p.m., Hunting Tavern, 288 Main St. Featuring stand-up comic and screenwriter Mark Cohen.
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Blood drive, 2 to 7 p.m., Cherry Valley Community Center, 2 Genesee St.
Blood drive, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., SUNY Cobleskill, Bouck Hall Ballroom. For reservation, info: (315) 255-5300, email@example.com.
Free rabies vaccination clinic, 6 to 8 p.m., Delhi Fire Hall, Delview Terrace Extension.
Parent/Child Storytime, 10 to 11 a.m., Franklin Free Library, 334 Main St. For children up to 6 years old. For info: 829-2941 or 230-4042.
Catskill Area Hospice Thrift Shop, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 261 Main St., Suite 2. For info: 432-5335.
The Lord's Table, 4:30 to 6 p.m., 18 Elm St. A feeding program, serving a full dinner. For info: 432-3558.
Soup-to-Go, 4 to 5 p.m., Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St.. Donations accepted. For info: 432-6552, 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday.
Kid's night, 5 to 7 p.m., Harris Memorial Library, 334 Main St. For info: 988-6661.
Sidney Historical Museum, 4 to 6 p.m., Civic Center, Room 218, 21 Liberty St. For info: 563-1425.