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Charging to much when unnecessary
Posted by Bre on 06/15/2006
TACOMA, WASHINGTON -- I have just currenlty added a second line to my phone about 3 months ago and was told at this time it would only cost an additional $20.00 a month.
Ever since then i have been being over charged and had to call and get things straightened out in order to pay my bill. This is a major hasle and very unproffesional. I am getting charged late fees due to their inconsistancy and will not tolerate it for much longer. If this continues to be an ongoing issue i will be canceling my contract. To those who are looking for a reliable mobile service i do not recommend choosing sprint for such things. I do understand that mistakes happen, but when it is reoccurring for months and months that is unacceptable and shows lack of knowlegde in this corporation. I am sorry to say i will not be a sprint customer for much longer.
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Posted by beanbagbritches on 2006-06-15:
Sounds like things were rectified. Is the issue late fees? Also, the word is "recurring."
Posted by CrazyRedHead on 2006-06-15:
Also, unproffesional is spelled unprofessional.
hasle is hassle.
inconsistancy is inconsistency.
Just trying to help.
Posted by Doc J on 2006-06-16:
Those who subject others to strict rules of spelling and grammar shall be held to the same standard.
Posted by Anonymous on 2006-06-16:
Wait for a Sprint special? July the 4th? Be patient.
Posted by Ponie on 2006-06-17:
Wouldn't cancellation be a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face? My understanding (of course it may be incorrect) is you will be charged an early termination fee if you cancel before the end of your contract. I'm with T-Mobile and it was stipulated in the first year contract that I'd have to pay a hefty fee for doing so.
Posted by cvs pharmacy stinks on 2007-05-15:
I am so glad you posted this. SPRINT cell service itself, along with their customer service is HORRIBLE!! I have been over billed EVERY SINGLE MONTH. Then they either disconnect you after you wait on hold, or they say they have credited the account, and then the next month it starts all over again. The last time I talked to the representative she insisted my bill was correct, but couldn't come up with the proper figures to support the bill. Then she arbitrarily said she would credit my bill $50 when I was over charged $111!!!!!!! I asked her where she got the $50 offer from and she said "I thought that was fair". She just pulled it out of thin air. I got so exasperated I quit the phone service, but they are trying to charge me for a disconnect fee. Yea, right.
You truly get lost in the phone system and have to wait hours at times before correcting THEIR MISTAKE. I think it's a downright scam, the overbilling.
I would be very happy to join in on a class action lawsuit against SPRINT. (and I've NEVER sued anyone for anything, but I think this is intentional as it has happened SO MUCH!!!!!!!!)
PS>>>>I changed to tmobile "favorite five" and have had no errors and am very happy with their cell phone service.
Posted by cvs pharmacy stinks on 2007-05-15:
oops double posted sorry
Posted by Heather on 2013-01-10:
I had Sprint internet service for 8 months, which was about 50 to 55 dollars a month. Last month they charged me 500 dollars for going over the data usage. I called customer service and talked to seven different people. No one could tell me how I was using so much data. They said my only option was to choose a plan with more data usage. The problem is, the amount of data they are saying I used would be equivalent of 25 people using my internet service all day long. They said that they don't see anything out of the ordinary. Are you kidding me?! How does someone accrue 500 dollars worth of data usage, when I do nothing different that I have been doing for the last eight months? Needless to say, I paid that 150 to cancel, and I will NOT be paying 500 dollars to Sprint.
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Terrible Cellphone Service and Customer Service!
Posted by Bethcaputo1 on 12/24/2013
I have been a loyal Sprint customer for over 15 years and never missed a payment. Over the last 2 years, the service became terrible and I wasn't even able to get service on my phone in the city. So, I cancelled my service and went with Verizon. I cancelled my Sprint service on day into my billing cycle, and received a bill of $56.00 for one day of usage. When I called, they said that there is nothing they can do about it and I have to pay that bill because my contract says I pay a full month's bill even for one day of use! Stay away from Sprint!!! Terrible service and terrible customer service!!
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Over Charged on 2 Week Bill and 1 Phone Didn't Even Work.
Posted by Vejer2 on 10/17/2013
CARLISLE -- We bought two cell phones at Radio Shack in Sept 2013. We did not know what cell phones to buy. the sale man at Radio Shack said that we had a two week trail period for a money back guaranty on the Sprint plan. We had them activated and over the next three days we tried to get them up and going. My husband drives tractor trailer and up north, he kept loosing service. so we returned them. Radio Shack keep 63 dollars for each phone for 126.00. Radio Shack called Sprint and I also called them to make sure we would get our account closed and we would get all our money back. A couple days later we got a bill for 275.91. I called again, I was told the account was closed and this was a pre-mailed and computer generated bill. Jason said that do not pay, this bill, that an other bill would be coming and it would only be for about 20 dollars for the days used. He said he put a note on the account. He said he could not credit the account at that time, due to everything being automated. He said to call back in a couple days to see if the computer showed the updates and then we could get a correct total for the invoice. Yesterday we got the new bill mail 138.52 which includes a late fee of 13.53 and one whole month of service. I feel this is bad, customer service for a well know company.
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Worst Provider!
Posted by Jenniseve25 on 10/16/2013
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA -- When you call Sprint's 800 number you hear the company "Claim" they have the most reliable network.... Ha What a joke.
I live in a huge city and on their coverage map I show having excellent coverage. This certainly is NOT the case. One day I have good coverage the next NONE. I call Sprint and they say "were sending techs out to inspect your towers"
I was naive to think all service providers had the same decent coverage... I constantly have to call them regarding my invoices, additional charges always just appear on my bills.
On top of TERRIBLE coverage and fees assessed each month you must call to remove, you have to call back and make sure the previous agent actually did what they said they would do.
How can I start a class action law suit? Why should I pay $200 a month for two Samsung Galaxy S3 phones with full services that DON'T get services?? I'm in a coverage area?
Please run if you are thinking about Sprint!
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Posted by cmthru on 2013-10-17:
No wireless provider guarantees 100% coverage. The maps are generalizations and nothing more.
I have Verizon and am 1/2 mile from a tower. If I move to the other side of house the service drops to almost nothing.
As to the additional charges, you will have to fight them on those. You can have them block all third-party charges.
And please do start a class action. The lawyers will reap millions while you get a coupon for a few dollars off.
Posted by Jenniseve25 on 2013-10-21:
I have service one day at my home and no service the next. I drove to Florida and had no services the entire way. No services at the beach either. I 75 south was the interstate I took. I drove to Atlanta... Stayed in Atlanta GA and again had ZERO services.
I have a Galaxy S3, if I have service one day I should have it the next.
I never had this issue with T-Mobile. I could RELY on T-Mobile.
Don't sell a service claiming America's most reliable. I'm not the only one experiencing the problem.
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Business Practices
Posted by Birdie722 on 10/04/2013
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI -- On August 26, 2013 I went to the Sprint store in Kenwood, Ohio. I wanted to upgrade my cell phone to an iPhone. the salesman showed me what was available and I picked one that cost $199. When completing the sales deal he mentioned that they were having a special. If I switched my home service I could save $100. I said that was fine BUT I was leaving the country and didn't want to do it until I came back Sept. 10. He said that was fine. He gave me a box to take with me and said not to hook it up until phone service was started.
When I returned home I had a bill from Sprint for $25+ for phone service in August. I called the store(Sept.11) and said that I had specified that service was NOT to be started until I got home. The sales person gave me a bunch of information that basically said "Tough but that's the way it is!" Then I called customer service. They said to just return the box and they would cancel the account. It had been over two weeks and there was a $200 cancellation fee but they would forgive that. None of this had been explained when I got the phone. I was also not told that when I purchased the phone I contracted to keep the account with Sprint for a year. I had had this account for many years as a gift from my husband. He had paid the account until now. I also could not get the account in my name until I took him into a Sprint store and had him sign over the account.
THEN my husband got a bill from Sprint for206.49. We took it to the Sprint store closet to our house and the manager (who was very knowledgeable) spent over an hour looking over the bill, listening to our explanation, and talking to customer service, finally figured things out. He had been charged incorrectly by the salesman and the bill was $70 overcharged. She said to go back to the store where I purchased the phone. We went back to the Kenwood store and spoke to the manager(the sales person was off that day). He took the bill and listened to our explanation. He said he would call back the next day.(Tuesday Sept 24th).
We waited until Friday and finally called the store. They said he had had a death in the family and was not there. I got a bill on Monday that said I must pay immediately. Since I was told previously that this line was cancelled, called customer service again and talked to Mike. He said the account had been canceled and a credit was made to the account for those charges. Yesterday, my husband received another bill for $172.69. He owes NOTHING!!! There is a late payment charge of $10.00 also a credit $33.80. We don't know what to do!! PLEASE HELP!
Shirley Gallagher
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Posted by Shirlee on 2013-10-22:
Sounds a lot like what I am going thru. I will make another trip to the Sprint Store, also I am going to post whatever and where ever I can until I get a resolution. Meanwhile Sprint is on my S... list.
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Worst Cell Phone Service EVER!
Posted by Dianmscott on 09/29/2013
TUCSON, ARIZONA -- In February 2013 I signed up for service with Sprint after having a phone provided by my employer with Spring service for over 3 years; the owner was selling the company back to the franchisor and I needed my own plan. Soon after getting my new contract, in my name and with an upgraded phone, the service got worse and worse. It's now at the point that most calls I place or receive drop after a minute or two, the phone simply doesn't ring and when the caller leaves a message (none of which I'm aware of since the phone didn't ring), their message takes from 10 minutes to 24 hours to show up as voice mail. Some text messages don't show up for 10 minutes to 2 hours.
This last problem is the newest on the list but frustrating none the less since many of my clients communicate trough text messages since they are busy running their businesses. I have lost imperative information and therefore some business due to these issues. I went to my neighborhood Sprint store where I bought my phone and signed up for the contract and was told by a very cheeky employee there that I should read my contract carefully because it does not state that Sprint has to provide me with decent service. He actually said those words. He also advised that I could 'try' to get out of my contract but that isn't likely to happen'.
During the same conversation this person told me that Sprint is adding hardware to it's towers which is causing all the issues and the work will be completed in November, closing with 'there's not anything we can do about that.' I politely told him that his job must suck since the service his company provides is inferior and he stated "Yeah, especially since I work on commission." I left very frustrated and feel like I'm not only being ripped off but mocked by this company's rude employee!
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Worst Cell Phone Service Ever!!!!
Posted by Victoria_pdll on 08/18/2013
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO -- Sprint is the worst cell phone service ever!! all I ever get is "webpage cannot be displayed" or "service not available" I have called to complain and I got no help whatsoever! The "customer service" representative said it was my phone. I just got the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the phone is brand new. He told me to come into a Sprint store to have it looked at. I finally agreed so he said he'll call me back in a few days to see how everything went. I never received a call back and I decided to forget it. My contract is over in mid September and I cannot wait till I switch to Verizon!!!!! If I could rate the service no stars I would but unfortunately I can't. SPRINT SUCKS AND I WILL NEVER EVER TELL ANYONE TO GET SPRINT. I'LL WARN ANYONE AHEAD OF TIME ABOUT HOW [snip] THE SERVICE IS!!!!
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Posted by Josh on 2013-08-18:
It sounds like you're mobile data connection is turned off on your phone.
Posted by Cecelia on 2013-08-19:
I agree completely with you. My experience is they lie continually to protect their position. Sprint and Virgin Mobile don't care what customers or public think. If you email them, they return basically form letters apologizing (ad nauseum) for what they call "misunderstanding".
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Clock Time Display
Posted by Bbursac1 on 08/17/2013
TAMPA, FLORIDA -- The clock time which displays on the telephone keeps changing between Eastern to Central time zone. Sprint has a systems problem which they are hiding from their customers. Even the staff in Customer Service is either not aware of the problem or is hiding it. However, the technical staff knows the problem but can not solve it. They say that Sprint is updating their system and this is causing problems. Sprint should be honest with their customers and send an email to all users about the problem.
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Sprint Has Declined in Service Areas
Posted by Luckbealady13 on 08/15/2013
PORT HURON, MICHIGAN -- Although the attractive price plans led us to get Sprint as a family plan we deeply regret it. Over the past 3 months the service areas declined dramatically and we get dropped calls on every call regardless if we are in a city or township. We can no longer make calls from our house. I called to complain a couple times, and though their records show the dropped calls all they do is apologize and say they are working on the solution as we aren't the only ones calling about it. We've asked to be let out of our contract and can't because even though the faulted on their service quality it is reported that they are working on the solution and therefore we have to grin and bare it until it's fixed. Though they don't know when that will be. As a family, I can't make calls from a home, 2 miles from a city, and my fiancé gets dropped calls during his travels as a self-employed business professional. We can no longer afford this neglect from a high priced service, for a few dollars more we can get Verizon, we'll just have to watch our Internet usage. Bottom line- Sprint has no care or worry about its customer satisfaction and has declined in service areas within the last 2-3 months.
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Posted by John Nicholson on 2013-08-15:
Call their so-called customer service people and request they suspend your service--and charges--until you receive adequate service. If they decline, send a certified letter stating the facts as they pertain to their lack of providing service with a reference to your request for suspension and subsequent denial. Also inform them that since they are not providing adequate service, you are thus cancelling due to inadequate service. Make sure you do not let them charge your credit card if you were uninformed and actually gave them permission to bill your credit card---or, worse yet, to withdraw monies from your bank account! You may have to get with your bank and ask the best way to stop these charges. You may end up cancelling the card and getting a new one. Then, don't pay any bills until they can assure you of adequate service. Bottom line: don't let them fob you off or bully you into paying for something that doesn't work. You signed a contract for mobile service. They aren't providing it.
Posted by Sis on 2013-08-16:
I have ongoing problems with Virgin Mobile connected to Sprint. The comment written about changing your credit card is a good idea. Call your cc company or bank and tell them what happened. If they can't do anything else, they can replace your cc with a new one. I did it to insure VM couldn't charge anything more to my acct.
Posted by Megan Golden on 2013-08-22:
I've had similar issues and have escalated to many different supervisors. Unfortunately I only get the run around "oh its the towers" "oh wait no its your phone" either way it doesn't matter. So to john's suggestion it won't really help because apparently if they don't provide less than industry standard service for 3 months straight they won't let you out of contract without the 350 term fee. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but after calling every night for two weeks for a phone that won't work only in a 3 mile radius of my home which should have excellent service and getting no help this is where I'm at. There really isn't an end. They really don't care.
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Services Advertised and Paid for Do Not Work.
Posted by Jp4182 on 07/02/2013
CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS, ILLINOIS -- The Problem is no Sprint signal in Cerro Gordo IL. With the exception of US Cellular, who's signal is maintained at a proper level, all other cell phone systems are not working in Cerro Gordo. Sprint should have NEVER issued the Hotspot device to me knowing they could not provide service for it. When you put in my zip code, you should have been informed that service in that area is currently non-existent.
Here is my first impression of Sprint. The two phones I wanted were not in stock. The 3/4G hotspot device that Sprint sold me with a service plan does not work. So, Sprint took payment for a service it could not provide. I left a Working 3/4 G device, in your store to be recycled. I have paid the monthly fee for US Cellular, which I
cannot use. And I have paid for a Sprint service and device, that I cannot use.
Then, some idiot bean counter in Sprint decides your store needs an audit to be conducted on a Monday, the first day of the month, three days before a major holiday. Really stupid move here!
And to top the insult off, the corporate telephone number issued to me in a eletter to call, in case of customer needs, is always busy!
Oh yah, I am at my local library to get a WiFi connection since the service I paid for does not work!
And of course, all the time and effort I put in to securing a HotSpot device that does not work. I am most disappointed.
Honestly, I wish I never heard of Sprint, and genuinely regret having solicited Sprint for cell phone service. I cannot accept the cell phones you ordered either, as I have no guarantee they will work in my area.
The Sprint TV commercial. With the female on the motorcycle which states connections everywhere. Bogus and misleading!
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I have an Intel Mac Mini with Intel Mobile 945. I have the mini connected to Denon AVR 2310CI via DVI-to-HDMI and I have installed boot camp so I can run Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit on it.
When I boot into Mac OS X, all works well and I can see the max resolution of 1920x1080 on my Sony Bravia HDTV.
When I boot into Windows 7, unfortunately, I see the "starting windows" splash screen and then the screen goes blank. I can remote desktop from another computer, and I can connect directly to the TV and see the desktop at 1920x1080 but when I send it through the Denon, it is unable to display the picture.
Since I am looking at several pieces of technology, I did not know where to start, so I started here. Apparently, the Intel driver is unable to keep the EDID information from Denon and that is perhaps where the disconnect is.
Can anyone clarify what may be the problem, and more importantly, how to resolve it?
bump? anyone else have this issue? i have seen this reported elsewhere, but no specific resolution documented anywhere.
Welcome to the club. I would call it a very well known problem of mobile Intel gfx drivers:
This is a shame. It's been like this for over 2 months now.
thanks! it is good to know i am not the only one. are these boards getting any visibility into intel PM? someone needs to take ownership of this issue and communicate/resolve. i am this close to selling my mac mini because it is not serving the purpose of being an HTPC! if it is simply a matter of software/drive update which has just not gotten the visibility, i would be very very disappointed :-(

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19 December 2011
Don Sharp (1921 - 2011)
Marcus Hearn pays tribute to the Hammer director, who died yesterday.
Don Sharp had never seen a horror film before producer Anthony Hinds screened a selection for him at Hammer House in 1962. Despite Sharp's lack of experience in the genre, Hinds saw potential in the Australian director and his faith was rewarded in three Hammer productions over the next few years: The Kiss Of The Vampire, The Devil-Ship Pirates and Rasputin The Mad Monk.
Hinds' script for The Kiss Of The Vampire (1962) played like the quintessential Hammer horror, but Sharp complemented the established style of the Gothic films with a heightened element of suspense. The shock moments that were Hammer's signature now seem par for the course, in stark contrast to the mounting sense of dread and paranoia engineered by Sharp as Gerald Harcourt (Edward de Souza) realises his wife has been kidnapped.
The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963) was another film that hinged on a conspiracy, but this time Sharp was charged with providing a family-friendly follow-up to Hammer's previous swashbuckler The Pirates Of Blood River (1961). At least this time the budget ran to constructing a ship, although when the prop galleon threatened to sink, Sharp made the best of a bad job and set light to it for the final act. Jimmy Sangster's script employed a scenario familiar from Hammer's The Camp On Blood Island (1957), and Sharp wrings considerable tension from a plot largely predicated on the avoidance of conflict. The film marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between the director and his star, Christopher Lee.
Sharp and Lee returned to Hammer's Bray Studios for Rasputin The Mad Monk (1965), an embellished biopic that was compromised by a budget squeeze, the threat of a lawsuit from Rasputin's real-life assassin and some unsympathetic editing from the producer, Anthony Nelson Keys. Despite these constraints, Sharp elicited a towering performance from Lee that ranks alongside the greatest of his career.
Hammer's Michael Carreras offered Sharp the chance to direct Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (1971) and To The Devil A Daughter (1975), but Sharp was unable to accept the former and had no faith in the latter. His fourth and final assignment for the company was "Guardian Of The Abyss", one of the best remembered episodes of the 1980 television anthology Hammer House Of Horror.
Outside Hammer, Sharp directed Christopher Lee in The Face Of Fu Manchu (1965), the first and best of that decade's films based on Sax Rohmer's character, and its follow-up The Brides Of Fu Manchu (1966). The two were reunited in Dark Places (1972) and Bear Island (1978). The latter belongs to the most lavish period of Sharp's film career, when he finally graduated to bigger budget features like Hennessy (1974) and The Thirty Nine Steps (1978). He was, however, at his best when directing modest yet idiosyncratic horror films such as Curse Of The Fly (1964) and the remarkable Psychomania (1971).
"The Kiss Of The Vampire and The Devil-Ship Pirates are among the happiest movies I ever worked on," he told Christopher Koetting, reflecting on his time at Hammer. "At Bray, when you walked through the gate, everything was on your picture. There was a family feeling about it, and a feeling of pride as well; everybody knew their craft and inspired others."
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Most sales people think about objections as being a bad thing, a lot of sales people and worse leaders, get really uptight when it comes to objections. Often before we have even began to define parameters with stakeholders, they'll say "Oh, and we need an Objection Handling session", they want to take a tennis approach to managing objections, prospect "throws" out an objection, and they want to hit it back to them. But objections are really not a bad thing, not always convenient or easy to manage, but they are not a bad thing.
Here are three specific reasons why objections are not always a bad thing (no specific order):
- Indicate engagement
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- Allow you to qualify – disqualify buyers
The goal here is not to specifically give you techniques, but more to get you to relax a bit and see how objections are good for you, your sales, humanity, and global warming.
Keep in mind that for the most part objections come up in two ways, when you are trying to engage or prospect them, (we did a six part series on this, you can find Part I here). The second is when you are trying to gain agreement, either during the sales on specific points that will move things forward, including simple Next Steps, or at the end when you are trying to complete the sale. In either case, what follows will help you put things in a different perspective and let you use the objective to improve your selling, as a whole, and in specific deals.
Indicates Engagement – Even though some objections during the prospecting phase are knee jerk on the part of the buyer, the fact that they "are responding" allows you if prepared, to deal with that objection and segue to a conversation, key is being prepared. As you get into the sale, the objections will be more specific, a direct reflection of what the buyer is thinking, and how they are interpreting what you are saying, and if they are not clear, an opportunity to correct course. Even towards the end, with the lowest form of objection, the price objection, it is an indication that they are involved, capitalize on it.
Allow you to introduce more information/facts/value without pitching – Every time they object, they are in effect asking a question of for clarification, what a bonus. You can get a sense where their thinking is at, introduce additional elements. You can usually go deeper, and more importantly ask for more clarification on the part of the prospect. "Help me understand what you mean by…" Many objections are really questions, or the buyer evaluating things and they vocalize them, it is my chance to recalibrate, add useful value elements, align with the buyer, and move forward.
Allow you to qualify – disqualify buyers – Sellers are always looking to qualify buyers, well their objections are a good qualifier, and as I have argued in the past, if your qualified prospect to closed ration is less than 50%, your time is probably better spent disqualifying those that you know will not close based on experience, which will leave you with more "qualified" buyers. Objections are a great way to disqualify, if you cannot manage and move beyond, you need to accept that it is time to move on, rather than play objection tennis, where you always lose. The big thing is that every time you disqualify a prospect, you have to replace them with a new one. Which is why some sales people would rather pretended they doing productive things by dealing with insurmountable objections, than doing some prospecting.
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Early in her acting career Rogers appeared on TV shows such as Hill Street Blues (1981) and The Rousters (1983–84). She costarred in the series Paper Dolls (1984) and turned in an impressive performance in the film Someone to Watch over Me (1987). Other film appearances include The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997, as Mrs. Kensington), and Lost in Space (1998, as Maureen Robinson). She had an ongoing role on The Geena Davis Show (2000–2001) and is a cast member of Fox's sitcom The Loop (2006). Rogers was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1987 to 1990.
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Various Artists: Gospel for JFP III: Tribute to Jaco Pastorius (2005)
The popular Pastorius composition "Three Views Of A Secret starts off with a wakeup call by the fourteen voices of the Contrafarsa chorus singing in unison through murga, a unique Uruguayan voicing style. Hiram Bullock and Bireli Lagrene then engage in a quiet electric and acoustic guitar conversation before Contrafarsa returns to close the piece.
"Las Olas eases the listener into an easygoing Brazilian mood featuring Michael Gerber on piano and Toninho Horta on guitar. The sound of Weather Report distinguishes the classic "Havona, which originally made its mark on Heavy Weather. Othello Molineaux, a steel pan master, provides a weaving feel while saxophonist Bob Mintzer grounds the tune melodically. Later, drummer Kenwood Dennard enlists electric bassist Marcus Miller to recreate "Teen Town, also from Heavy Weather, in the same fusiony vein yet at a somewhat slower tempo than the original. The recording quiets down into an evocative "Continuum that could easily be used as a comfortable new-agey musical accompaniment for visitors at an aquarium.
Within the first notes, one might assume incorrectly that "I Can Dig It Baby is a singing interlude. In reality, the song quickly takes the shape of a groovy line with Felix Pastorius holding the structure on electric bass with the assistance of a uniquely and engaging percussive Afro-Uruguayan rhythm called candombe. An example of Pastorius' straight-ahead jazz side is "Dania, named after a beach in Florida and played by the Michael Gerber trio.
Long-time Pastorius friend Gil Goldstein borrows "Punk Jazz from Weather Report's Mr. Gone and transforms it into a fascinating sound experiment using several accordions. Two of Pastorius' oldest friends, Richard Franks on drums and Alex Darqui on acoustic piano, are joined by acoustic bassist John Patitucci on the never-recorded "Microcosm. In its rendition of "Good Morning Anya, the Zebra Coast Band, a quartet led by Gil Goldstein, showcases its world-fusion sound by playing over an easy reggae-sounding rhythm. Jorge Pardo leads the melody on saxophone with Goldstein providing textured clips on accordion.
Jaco Pastorius imprinted his mark on funk, R&B, modern jazz, and Afro-Cuban settings. This tribute covers all the bases. Such a representative collection should satisfy fans as well as introduce the unfamiliar to a very influential musician who left us eighteen years ago.
Track Listing: Three Views of a Secret; Las Olas; Havona; Continuum; I Can Dig It Baby; Dania; Punk Jazz; Teen Town; Microcosm; Good Morning Anya; Gospel for J.F.P. III.
Personnel: Hiram Bullock (electric guitar on �Three Views of a Secret,� Teen Town�); Bireli Lagrene (acoustic guitar on �Three Views of a Secret�); Contrafarsa (vocals on �Three Views of a Secret�); Michael Gerber (acoustic piano on �Las Olas,� �Continuum,� �Dania�); Tonhino Horta (guitar, voice on �Las Olas�); Kenny Davis (acoustic bass on �Las Olas,� �Dania�); Danny Gottlieb (drums on �Las Olas�); Armando Mar�al (percussion on �Las Olas,� �Continuum�); Othello Molineaux (steel pans on �Havona�); Bob Mintzer (tenor saxophone on �Havona�); Abel Pabon (keyboards on �Havona�); Pete Sebastien (electric bass on �Havona�); Jonathan Joseph (drums on �Havona�); Robert Thomas Jr. (percussion on �Havona�); Gil Goldstein (keyboards, accordion on �Continuum,� Punk Jazz,� �Good Morning Anya�); Mike Stern (electric guitar on �Continuum�); Romero Lubambo (acoustic guitar on �Continuum�); Ines Bergara (lead vocal on �I Can Dig It Baby�); Hugo Fattoruso (piano, keyboards, voice on �I Can Dig It Baby,� �Gospel for J.F.P. III�); Felix Pastorius (electric bass on �I Can Dig It Baby�); Percussion on �I Can Dig It Baby�: (Fernando �Lobo� Nu�ez, Gustavo Oviedo; Walter �Nego� Haedo, Jorge �Foque� Gomez, Washington Pintos, Noe Nu�ez, Mariano Barroso, Pablo �Pira�a� Silva); Chorus on �I Can Dig It Baby�: Norma Galfetti, Gabriela Gomez, Silvana Lombardini, Mariana Garcia Vigil, Carlos Quintana, Gustavo Monemurro, Urbano Moraes, Cesar Martinez; Billy Hart (drums on �Dania�); Kenwood Dennard (drums on Teen Town�); Marcus Miller (electric bass on �Teen Town�); Delmar Brown (keyboards on �Teen Town�); Charles Blenzig (keyboards on �Teen Town�); Rich Franks (drums on �Microcosm�); Alex Darqui (acoustic piano on �Microcosm�); John Patitucci (acoustic bass on �Microcosm�); Jorge Pardo (saxophone on �Good Morning Anya�); Carles Benavent (electric bass on �Good Morning Anya�); Alex Acu�a (drums, percussion on �Good Morning Anya�); Frances Fatturoso (electric bass on �Gospel for J.F.P. III�); Jorge Osvaldo Fatturoso (drums on �Gospel for J.F.P. III�)
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Built in 1932 by two former mayors of Tehachapi, the Beekay Theatre provided entertainment for the then sleepy small town. The 312 seat theatre boasted the first neon sign in Tehachapi which graced an attractive poured concrete facade of flutted columns and coffered panels.
The decor was simple and spare, utilitarian in its simplicity. All that was important was the show on the screen. The screen went dark in the late-1970's. The theatre lost its marquee with a renovation that also clad the Deco style facade in a Victorian false front. The building was used as a mall then became the Moose Hall.
The theatre building burned in 1997. The fire exposed the forgotten facade and got the citizens and city officials to thinking…hmmm, what to do with it? Thankfully, the City of Tehachapi in partnership with Tehachapi Community Theater then set about the process of reconstructing the lost theater as a new home for the popular local theater troup.
The Beekay Theatre was ready for its close-up on December 6, 2008 after a massive renovation to the plans of architect Kevin Haub. The theatre was rebuilt as a live theatre venue and it now seats up to 120. The first play to be presented was "Oliver!" followed by "Catfish Moon", Nuts" and "Sugar Bean Sisters". 2009, saw the community theater's 40th anniversary and the city's 100th birthday!!
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The City of Tehacapi has awarded the bid of $599,998 to Bowie const. of Tehachapi.Projected completion of the project will be Nov of 2008.
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Here are some photos. Click on the smaller photos on the right. This building needs Alot of work. From what I see in the photos, there isn't much left to renovate.
Success!! The New walls are being raised today!!! Completion of the Beekay Theatre is slated for late Fall 2008!! Tehachapi Community Theater will open thier new home ( 40 years in the making!!!) with a production of Oliver! I'ts an exciting time for the Citizens of Tehachapi, A long held Dream is now being relized.
The Theatre re-construction continues- the roof has been completed and the new HVAC is being installed. The restoration of the Original Facade is underway! The contractors have stated "that this will be a diffrent building at the end of next week." the electrical will be complete which will allow for drywall and plaster to begin. Completion has been moved to late September, early October 2008
This link has a photo that shows the Beekay Theater. Text with photo: "Damaged Roundup Cafe and Beekay Theater buildings in Tehachapi after the 1952 earthquake."
Update: Today the BeeKay Gets its Interior!!! The drywall and plaster are going up today. The Theatre is taking shape quickly even with a few delays to re-think elements of the design.Tehachapi Community Theatre(TCT) has recieved another round of contributions getting us within around Twelve thousand dollars closer to Our sixty thousand dollar goal. The interior will be considerably more elegant than the rather sparten beginnings of the theater. Chandeliers,carpet a mutti-hued color scheme, fine tile all in the Art Deco mode will complete the look. The Facade of the theater cleaned-up well and will recieve its paint scheme… Exciting times!!
Here is a website for the Tehachapi Community Theater.
Thats good news showman.
The intro for the Bekay currently says it opened in 1932. All the periodical references to its construction in the California Index (citing Southwest Builder & Contractor, and Motion Picture Herald) say it dates from 1936.
Frank Baumgart and Louis Kanstein were the owners. The reinforced concrete structure was built by local contractors Art Lange and Joe Fowles. There was apparently no architect, but Southwest Builder and Contractor of July 11, 1936, gave the name of the engineer as F.O. Reyenga of Los Angeles.
Baumgart and Kanstein sold the Beekay to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson in 1954, according to Boxoffice of October 12 that year.
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Nottingham University hosted the 7th Nottingham after a 22 year break. 42 players took part. Winner was Alex Selby (4 dan Cambridge) despite losing his last game to Sandy Taylor (1 dan Durham).
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This year Cambridge moved back from March to February and from the hospital to a city centre location. 46 players attend the event at St. Colomba's Church. Romanian 6 dan player Robert Mateescu, now in Cambridge, won the tournament, beating Matthew Macfadyen in the final. Matthew was equal second with Tim Hunt.
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HITCHCOCK is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho.No show times found for selected day.
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Apartamento, one of the few magazines I'd happily allocate some time to read. Published in Spain, they focus on interior but mostly full of quirky stories of space and life which is what makes it so good. .
Silk & Sheer, sounds like a hair product, no? Heating up the flat to Springtime degrees because somebody has no patience. Carin Wester silk shirt (via Heilee), American Apparel Chiffon Camisole in Apricot
That Natalia Vodianova for Stella McCartney photo just makes me happy for some reason, must be the polkadots and Natalia's babyface.
Someone please tell me what you call this colour, Indigo? Anyway, matches with all my indigo pieces in my wardrobe, which is like, totally, none. From ASOS.
It was either alphabetical order or sort by colour, but then what kind of stupid considers sorting shoes by alphabetical order? (me :() (ASOS to United Nude) Thanks to manual labour by hubby + IKEA shelves from laundry room department.
'Hairy Harry' sweater I found in YesStyle, comfiest thing ever and surprisingly does not do Midas Touch 2012 and leave fluff on everything.
Orange & Nude, which also sounds like a skin product. Hm, Park & Cube sounds like an exfoliating tool, come to think of it… Small coin + phone + cards clutch when running out to get a quick Pret lunch.
If you live in Seoul you must pick up the free FACE magazine. They were so lovely and featured me in the first issue but the contents & design are impeccable. Made up of interviews of interesting (moi, aber natürlich!) characters. 서울산다면 꼭 찾아서 읽어보기!
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De Gea reminds United of slim margins for success
Well, now this is interesting. Manchester United's 2-2 draw against Chelsea on Sunday has left United with an extra game in a draining season and, if they make it through, the prospect of a semifinal against Manchester City in the FA Cup.
-- Rafa: Ferguson snubbed me
-- Tyler: More questions
-- Payne: Honours even
Most notable was that Sir Alex Ferguson blamed the concession of a 2-0 lead on United's tiredness following their midweek loss in the UEFA Champions League to Real Madrid. What he omitted to mention was that his team looked most ailing in central midfield, a topic that has returned to the fore with unerring regularity this season. The difference until now has been that Robin van Persie and his colleagues in United's striking stable have provided sufficient firepower to gloss over this awkward issue, but with the Dutchman in the first subpar spell of his time at United, it is again the most pressing of questions.
Chelsea came back into this match thanks to an exceptional playmaking trio of Oscar, Eden Hazard and Juan Mata, supported by a midfield that was both hard-running and tactically astute. United midfielder Michael Carrick, who provided an excellent assist for the game's opening goal by Javier Hernandez, is as smart with and without the ball as any Premier League player at his position.
However, he needs a partner alongside him who can put in the short, sharp bursts of pace to link with their teammates higher up the field. The man best-suited to that job this season, of the available options, is Tom Cleverley. Yet he was exposed on Sunday, drawn out of position and outrun by the outstanding Ramires, who gave the most damaging possible example of what Manchester United are missing through the middle.
When entering the final straight of a demanding season, this is not a particularly good time to be running out of gas. Manchester City will have watched this with interest, given that they are due to visit Old Trafford again in the Premier League, as are Chelsea. Roberto Mancini has some of the most powerful central midfielders in the division -- step forward, Yaya Toure and James Milner -- and it would be little surprise to see them as a pairing when that critical fixture comes around.
However, before doom and gloom are too readily paired off, Manchester United's fans can remind themselves that they are, after all, still in the competition. They are there despite the fatigue of their first-choice full backs, whom Ferguson singled out as uniquely exhausted, and despite the alarmingly poor form of Antonio Valencia, who had another afternoon he would like to forget -- but which his paymasters will probably not.
Nani, who withdrew early with an injury, is looking like an increasingly important option in these closing stages. Wayne Rooney, though he scored early, also showed the problem with fielding forwards who do not fully attend to their defensive duties.
Perhaps the last word should go to goalkeeper David De Gea, since it was he who made the last major statement on the field. The taciturn Spaniard had been called upon for little else when the final minute of the game arrived, but the stop he then produced with his outstretched right leg on a Juan Mata shot should go on a short list of the season's best saves. By the time this season is done, he will have quite the highlight reel circulating on YouTube.
If his team does proceed, as it should, to a league title this year, then it is De Gea more than many who can be thanked for carrying United over the line in front. As it stands, they have a 12-point lead in the Premier League and have narrowly avoided the psychological blow of losing a second consecutive game from a winning position. Sunday's game, as much as any, was a lesson in how swiftly the most impressive margins can crumble. As the last few matches of this season approach, Manchester United will do well to heed it.


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Another Year
Sunday, December 18, 2011
I posted a long post just now and I accidentally closed the browser window, losing everything. Argh!
Here's basically what I wrote.
It's been another year. This website won't go away until I forget to renew the domain name! I've got a lifetime account as A Small Orange and so I don't have to worry about monthly domain fees.
Every month I received a spam comment or two in my image galleries. When I got notice of them, I simply disabled comments for that image and deleted the comment. In November and early December, the spam comments got much more frequent, so I disabled all comments on all images on all of the galleries. Saved me some time in getting rid of those comments, I should've done it earlier!
Back in April, when I last posted, I did a fresh install of ExpressionEngine 1 on an unused domain of mine to try and diagnose the htaccess problems. The domain is installed on the same server as this one, so I thought if I could get it working on that domain, I could get it working on this one. All I did to change with that install was change the settings to remove index.php from the URLs. Eventually I did get it figure it out, but I left the ExpressionEngine install alone.
The spammers managed to find this domain and they went crazy with the spam comments. I didn't notice what has happening until August. I happened to log in to check the stats on my domains and noticed that there was an unusually high amount of bandwidth usage on that domain. Turns out the spammers had made 15,337 comments on one that one default post from June 2nd to August 16th! Here's what the visitors graph from Awstats looked like:
I still want to upgrade to EE 2. This main blog is inactive but my private journal isn't. I have a Tumblr account and this year I got to spend some time with WordPress 3 since I was helping a friend design a website. They're both great but I don't like them as much as I do EE and I'd much rather stick with EE than use something else. I made a copy of my site offline, and using MAMP, I upgraded to EE 2 and started working away at updating the templates and the broken plugins. I stopped when I couldn't get the Textile formatting plugin to work. That was several months ago and I haven't looked at it since. I can't say when I will start looking at it again.
So that's all for now. Happy Holidays!
Almost fixed
Monday, April 11, 2011
After 5 months, I finally found a partial solution to the htaccess problem. The front site appears to work for the most part. Except now I can't get into the control panel properly.
If I access the control panel at mysite.org/system, I cannot access the control panel.
If I access the control panel at mysite.org/system/index.php, I get access to the control panel.
It's not a big deal but I'm lazy and don't want to type in the extra characters.
htaccess problems
Thursday, November 04, 2010
My host dropped PHP4 support and switched to PHP5 in October. Somehow, it has messed up my .htaccess file rules. What used to work doesn't work anymore. As a result you can't access any of the pages. I'm trying to find out how to fix it, so stay tuned.
Edit: The issue is something to do with the fact that I'm removing index.php from my URL. If you add index.php back to the URL the pages will work fine.
Hey it's another year!
Friday, December 18, 2009
I waited deliberately for a couple of days until December 17th to post this. Anyone reading?
I'm still alive. I'm still updating part of my site, although it's only my journal and it's all private. I have left the public part of the site to rot, and I said a year ago I'd try to fix it up, but obviously I still haven't yet.
ExpressionEngine 2 has been out for two weeks now, and I have yet to try it out. In fact I wasn't really planning on trying EE 2 this soon if at all. I'm perfectly happy with my existing setup. But, I participated in the EE Heist and won a free upgrade. (I actually won something. It was a rare feeling.) I bought the EE Heist bundle because it had some useful modules/extensions that I could use with EE 1.6.x. Now that I have access to EE 2 though there's no way I'm not going to use it!!
I haven't received my upgrade yet (still waiting for reply to email), but once I do I'll be installing it and hopefully I can convert my LJ crosspost module to be compatible with EE 2. If I can do that, I'll upgrade this site to EE 2 and maybe I'll post more!
In the meantime you can find me in public on Twitter if you want to read my meaningless and infrequent tweets.
First post in a year
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wow, I haven't posted in this blog for a year now!
I would love to rehaul the entire site, get rid of all the broken stuff. But I don't have the motivation to do it.
How silly of me
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I used to get a lot of comment spam on this weblog. 99.9% of them were caught and so they never showed up in the comments, but I still had to delete the comments in the control panel. In the last couple of months the comment spam has died down to nothing. I was congratulating myself for solving this comment spam problem (although it's really EE's security features and Loweblog's Akismet module that should get all the credit) when I realized that in the last couple of months I had turned on the option to close comments after 30 days. So obviously I wouldn't get any comment spam if no one can post comments! And I rarely make public posts these days.
Replacing 8kb of javascript for 36kb
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
A long time ago I came up with a solution to use inline editing with EE using some ajax magic. The problem with that solution though was that the page would refresh once you submit something to edit. I figured that there must be a more elegant solution, one that updated the edited information without a page refresh.
Oh well. At least I got to learn how to use the jQuery library. And, since I am the only person who's authorized to do any editing, I made it so the javascript files are only loaded when I'm logged in, so it doesn't make any difference whatsoever to you the reader.
Gmail finally offers IMAP!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I read on Slashdot that Gmail is finally offering IMAP support for their email accounts. According to the comments in the ./ post they're only rolling it out to a few accounts for now. I eagerly checked my gmail account and to my surprise I found they'd enabled IMAP on my account! (In the past I've always been the last to get the new Gmail features.)
I prefer using IMAP over POP3 (which Gmail has had available for a while now) because with POP3 I somehow always manage to lose email when I'm downloading it to a desktop mail client. Ever since I started using Gmail, I've stuck to checking my email using the web-based interface. Now I get to use both the web-based interface and a desktop client, woohoo!
The new My Yahoo Beta
Friday, August 31, 2007
A few weeks ago, I switched to the beta version of the new My Yahoo, a personalized portal page. They've added a couple of new features, including more customization options and more content. I'm using it as my home page, same as I've done for years now, but there are a couple of things that bug me.
In the old version, there was something called the "Message Center", which I had on the top left corner of the page. It told me whether I had any new mail in my Yahoo account, and it was really quite handy. If I did have mail, then I could sign into the Yahoo mail.
In the new version, it's been replaced with something called the "Personal Assistant". Except it's not a replacement. This new Personal Assistant tells me if I have new mail only if I'm logged in. If I'm not, then it tells me to sign in. Which makes it useless!
Then there's the fact that this Personal Assistant seems to be stuck on the right side of the page. I can't move it around like I can with all of the other items on the page.
Lastly it sticks an advertisement into the middle of my links:
Note: I wrote this post because I wanted to test out the screen-capture abilities of Skitch. And I felt like whining.
Some Potter related links
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Note: all links below contain spoilers for the 7th Harry Potter book. Please proceed carefully.
- Potterdammerung is a short version and a parody of the book – it's hilarious!
- Non-magic T-shirt – an even shorter summary that fits onto a T-shirt. Would people really wear that?
- J.K. Rowling reveals what happens after the end of the book. It says she might write an encyclopedia on all the stuff that didn't make into the books – I'd love to read that.
- Dan Radcliffe talks about what he thinks of the book.


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Nik Bates – Never Had A Worry Lyrics
On my way to school, man, I never had a worry
But I knew I had to be there in a hurry
The troubles that I had as the time flew past, make me
Wish that I didn't have to grow up so fast
[Verse 1]
Never did I ever think that I would need a job
Never put our hands up whenever we would cough
Never knew that I would record rap songs
Worrying about the Sea World Splash Zone
Times were never tough at McMillin Elementary
Nervous when I saw my first crush was sitting next to me
Pack a school bus, like we in Noah's Ark
Take a trip, take a walk, up in Balboa Park
Never got picked on when I walked home
Only at home I could talk on the phone
Never had a phone I could fit in my pocket
Didn't need pockets, 'cause I didn't have a wallet
All we cared about was riding bikes when we would play
Going down a slide would be the highlight of my day
Shooting up my friends when we could kick it at Atlantis
Living in the 'burb must've had it's own advantage
[Hook x2]
On my way to school, man I never had a worry
But I knew I had to be there in a hurry
The troubles that I had as the time flew past, make me
Wish that I didn't have to grow up so fast
[Verse 2]
Living in the middle, we was well, not off
Tilt-a-Whirl, Dippin', at Belmont Park
The Lions and the Tigers with the Birds in the view
All the different things you could learn at the zoo
San Andreas was the only time I cared 'bout someone killing me
Never knew rich, I knew the feeling of stability
Never had Playstation, I was never home
Didn't do homework, I couldn't write a poem
Making up lame, excuses was my plan
Scraping up change, when I hear the Ice Cream Man
Now I'm working at Vans, and taking out loans
Thankful I could call San Diego my home
Used to pass on Euclid and Imperial at night
Never turn at red light, so I stay on my
Way home, from the bay so, stop and get Rally's
Glad I'm not banging, living in Spring Valley
[Hook x2]
[Verse 3]
They say that you won't make it if you never had a story
Well mine starts here, so I never had a worry
A good kid living in a calm city
Tryna make a little something called history
When everybody just sits and chills
I'm thinking how to flip these bills
How can I climb to the top of the charts
And still be alone when I walk in my yard?
How can I fill hip-hop's many vacancies?
Trying to tell the youth to never settle for complacency
How to stand alone when a million rappers facing me
But I'm a good bet, so I think you should be raising me
Wish there was a manual 'bout how to be a rapper
The trouble of the public eye I learned from Marshall Mathers
Before I thought about getting fatter
I wish that I could go back, to when it didn't matter
To when it didn't matter
To when it didn't matter
To when it didn't matter
I wish that I could go back, to when it didn't matter
[Hook x2]
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National API HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
In recent years, the number of diagnoses of HIV infection among Asians has increased while the number of diagnoses among Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders has decreased. In 2011, an estimated 821 Asians and 68 Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States.
To raise awareness about the impact of HIV on these populations, National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day events are held nationwide on May 19. The theme for 2013 is "I'm talking about HIV…because saving face can't make you safe." Saving face is a common cultural norm among Asian and Pacific Islanders that contributes to silence around talking about sex, HIV, and safer sex practices.
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was founded by the Banyan Tree Project, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to end the silence and shame surrounding HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
The Banyan Tree Project is sponsored by the San Francisco-based Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center and in collaboration with partner organizations in Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
What Can You Do?
- Get tested for HIV. To find a testing site near you, text your ZIP Code to KNOW IT (566948).
- Attend an event near you.
- Talk with your health care provider about your risks for HIV and get tested.
- Get the facts about HIV/AIDS by visiting the Act Against AIDS web site including:
- The risk factors for acquiring HIV.
- How to avoid high-risk behaviors.
- How to practice safer methods to prevent HIV.
- Talk about HIV prevention with family, friends, and colleagues.
- Volunteer at a local organization that serves people living with HIV.
- Stand up against stigma, racism, and other forms of discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS.
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Indiana State Police say they have found the two week old boy, Jacob Alexander Black, they have been searching for after he was taken from his legal guardians by his biological mother.
Authorities say 21-year-old Carrie J. Black and 22-year-old Randy R. Black of Tell City turned themselves in at the Dale Police Department. They also had Jacob, who was safe and sound.
They say Jacob will be turned over to Child Protective Services.
Troopers say Carrie and Randy have both been arrested on theft and interference with custody charges.
ISP say on Saturday around 1:30 p.m. CST, the Santa Claus Police Department responded to W. Shepherd's Lane for the report of a possible child abduction and stolen vehicle.
Investigation showed Jacob's biological mother, Carrie had gone to her parents, the legal guardians of Jacob, for a supervised visit.
During the visit Carrie was left alone in part of the house with Jacob. While being left alone, Carrie took Jacob, some of her parent's credit cards, their vehicle and left the area. ISP says the vehicle and credit cards were also returned.
Since leaving her parents house Carrie, Jacob and Jacob's father, Randy were seen in the Owensboro, KY Wal-Mart on State Route 54 around 4:11 p.m. CST Saturday night.
Jacob was not believed to be in immediate danger, but officials say he needed to be returned to his legal guardians.
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Last night was a busy one in the AHL. Here are some of the more relevant news and notes to pass along:
Sean Couturier had two assists last night for the Flyers AHL affiliate. Couturier is right around the PPG mark, as he has been playing more of an offensive role with the Phantoms than he did with the Flyers last year. I like his offensive upside a lot, but it depends if he gets "stuck" in the third line C spot or if he is able to move up in the lineup once Daniel Briere's contract expires.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson had a goal and an assist for Portland. He continues to make easy work of the AHL.
Tim Erixon and David Savard have both been very impressive in Springfield, and both would have a great shot at earning a roster spot in Columbus if/when a season starts up in the next little while.
Another player enjoying success in the AHL is Ryan Johansen. This lockout could be great for him in the long run - he is near a PPG, and hopefully will be able to carry that confidence over into a top six spot with Columbus once the NHL returns. Johansen is a lot bigger and stronger than he was in junior - he is close to 225 pounds, and at 6-3, he's quite a presence on the ice.
And finally, Cam Atkinson's strong season continues for Springfield as well. Columbus fan(s) have to be excited at the collection of young talent that is playing together in the AHL right now. There may not be any potential superstars, but Johansen and Calvert both have a lot of upside (and there are secondary talents like Matt Calvert kicking around as well).
Canucks GM Mike Gillis and assistant GM Laurence Gilman were on the radio yesterday to discuss almost everything related to the team. I pulled some of the more interesting quotes in this piece here. Topics include Kassian, Edler, Ballard, Kesler, and more.
On Kassian:
"Like any young player, the thing they don't understand is the level of consistency you need. AHL and NHL is a fine line for a number of players. What separates them is consistency that coaches can rely on."
I'd expect lockout talk to be quiet over the holidays – the fact that a lot of players are returning home is a good sign. I thought we'd have hockey by now (wrong), and I still think the puck drops on a 40-50 game season. If for no other reason than that hockey wouldn't survive a full season lockout. Based on team financials, I'd wager at least two or three teams would have to fold up shop without significant financial assistance from the league.
How have you been using your additional free time thanks to the lockout? I have been following the NBA and NFL a lot more closely (the NBA in particular). I have also used the free time to study for the GMAT exam (business school). As boring as that has been, it trumps reading daily quotes from Bettman, Daily, and the Fehr brothers.
Oh, and who in Canada isn't excited about the Blue Jays?
PM Bouchard is "pretty much" symptom free. Love the confidence there. I've given up hope that he can return to the NHL – it's a shame, as he's a great fit with all of the big scoring forwards the Wild have.
Here is a WJC Pool that is getting set up on the DobberHockey forums.
DownGoesBrown scouts the WJC tournament. As always, a hilarious read from DGB.
Craig Leipold saw the word "ufa" and immediately offered the tournament a 14-year contract he had no intention of honoring
DefendingBigD ranks the Dallas prospect group at the midseason mark. Impressive performances from Jamie Oleksiak and Brett Ritchie bump them up the list, while Jack Campbell's struggles in the AHL continue.
Brett Ritchie
It seems that every season one of the Stars top prospects puts together a magical year; this time, it's Ritchie's turn. The 2011 second round pick is one of the top scorers in the OHL and has all but locked up a top six forward spot for Team Canada. A superb blend of size and skating ability, Ritchie needs to show these offensive outburst is more than just a hot streak.
Alex Edler (back) and Jason Garrison (groin) are both cleared to play. Great news for the Canucks and their fans, but not for the players. Why? Well both of them are now officially locked out, which means they stop receiving biweekly paychecks. Garrison and Edler (along with injured teammate Ryan Kesler and other injured NHLers) had been receiving their full NHL salaries thanks to their injury status.
There is some concern regarding Edler's back – some speculate it may never be 100%. I've got news for you – most NHL players have chronic injuries that will never be perfect – the key is training around the injuries to minimize the risk of a chronic problem. The nature of a contact sport like hockey is that it leads to injuries.
Edler has only one year left on his contract and the Canucks weren't in any sort of rush to sign him to a long term deal this past summer – it will be interesting to see how this situation plays out, as he is obviously an important part of the team.
Sidney Crosby, ball hockey goaltender? This is a really cool story – I remember seeing some clips of Crosby in goal before – he's quite good (naturally).
A group of dek hockey players from Pittsburgh experienced that last Friday, when Crosby made an unannounced and anonymous appearance at Dek Star for a rec league ball hockey game.
Breaking news – Seth Jones is good.
When asked for his assessment of Jones, who many project to be a top-two selection in the 2013 NHL Draft, the veteran mentor smiled and shook his head.
"I'm kind of speechless," he said. "He's got that wonderful combination of athletic ability, hockey sense, size, and character. When you get all of that in one package, it's pretty hard to find a better prospect. I know this kid very well, know his leadership abilities and calmness under pressure, his confidence level and upside. He's a very rare U.S. talent."
One significant downside of the lockout (to go along with a million others) has been the charities that rely on NHL donations throughout the season. One of these is Canuck Place. Canuck Place Children's Hospice provides specialized pediatric palliative care for children living with a life-threatening illness and support for their families throughout British Columbia.
It's one of the best charities you will ever come across. The work they do is incredible. I have been lucky enough to be able to raise money for them in recent years. I know there are countless other charities like them across North America that are also feeling the pinch from the NHL lockout.
So if you are trying to think of a gift to give to a friend, or you are thinking of something that you would like to receive, try donating money as a gift, or asking for a donation for your own gift.
"We've received calls from 23 different businesses, mostly sports bars who last year collected food for Sun Youth and this year, because of the strike, they have to lay off people," said Tommy Kulczyk, director of emergency services at the Sun Youth community centre in Montreal.
"They're not in the mood to do any kind of collection."
He also noted that wives of Montreal Canadiens players had in past years organized a successful food drive at a Habs game tapping a potential 21,000 donors.
"It's not going to happen this year."
We should be watching Brian Burke and Pavel Datsyuk on HBO right now. Shame.
My latest fitness post – my gym "essentials" – clothing, shoes, and more.
I tend to wear the compression gear put out by 2XU, which is an Australian company. 2XU is starting to enter the hockey market a bit, and they rep Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne. I have also worn compression gear from Under Armour and Nike, and the 2XU stuff lasts a lot longer (which is a huge benefit considering most compression gear is expensive).
After the last lockout, the NHL painted the message "Thank You Fans" on the ice in each of their 30 rinks. What do they paint this time? "Oops?"
A WJC preview for the 2012 champs:


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Sheriff Bill Masters Plans Ahead
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Colorado's historic vote to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana passed at the polls on Nov. 6 by nearly 55 percent, despite opposition at high levels.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper opposed it, as did State Attorney General John Suthers, who called it "very bad public policy," but assured voters that his office would work nonetheless to ready "this new provision in the Colorado Constitution" for implementation.
San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters, a longtime and vocal critic of the War on Drugs, has his own concerns about the passage of Amendment 64.
"I'm not thrilled," says Masters, who describes himself as believing "pretty strongly in state's rights.
"I wish the state legislators had had the courage to sort these regulations out without the force of a Constitutional amendment," he says, suggesting that state legislators declined "to change the laws as the people demanded, because they didn't want to get branded as soft on drugs."
On Thursday, Nov. 8, two days after the election, Masters sent out a memo anticipating possible problems as the state government begins to implement a new policy regarding marijuana cultivation and sales for recreational use, while those activities remain illegal under federal regulations.
In that memo, Masters urged officers to not report marijuana violations to federal authorities without his approval.
"I don't think the feds would ever prosecute," he says, "but it's still illegal, under federal law, to distribute marijuana."
Masters, who like his deputies speaks Spanish, also wrote, "If a person is in possession of 1oz. or less of marihuana [sic] and you are arresting them for an offense unrelated to the marihuana, try not to take the marihuana into custody with them….Get them to leave the marihuana in a car, home, to give a friend for safekeeping etc."
In a recent interview, Masters described his reasoning on that front: "I don't want to get into this game of, well, we gave him his marijuana back and he went out to the parking lot and drove away and got into an accident and we are somehow responsible.
"I also don't want to be responsible for [marijuana] if we seize it" and hold it, he explained.
To that end, Masters wrote in the Nov. 8 memo, "If you come across marihuana [sic] that a person over 21 has in their possession and you inspect it for weight, etc., try to avoid handing it back to them directly…. Although unlikely, I don't want anyone to get in trouble with the federal government for distributing marihuana [sic]."
There are some positives in the state's vote to legalize marijuana, Masters observed.
One is the fact that marijuana is "the number one" cash cow for the Mexican cartels, "so this is going to kind of ruin their business, at least in Colorado," he said.
To that end, he wrote in the Nov. 8 memo, "Continue to arrest persons who are transporting bulk quantities marihuana for sale (load cars) that once again do not have the state issued permits for transportation. "
Another positive: "The state is going to be able to license testing centers, so that people can know how much THC," or tetrahydrocannabinol, the active chemical in marijuana, "is in a particular type of marijuana."
Masters predicted that, eventually, vendors could label marijuana "much like the labeling that's required for alcohol."
The result could be a resurgence of more "marijuana light" on the market.
"If you're smuggling marijuana," he observed, "instead of having 200 kilos on the market," it's preferable to have, say, one-half that amount, with a much higher THC content, a fact that has led to a market flooded with increasingly potent marijuana.
"The same thing happened during Prohibition," he said, of the years from 1920 to 1933, when the sale of alcohol was illegal. "During Prohibition, nobody drank beer – it was too bulky; you couldn't hide it."
Instead, "everybody drank hard alcohol – and that has never stopped."
On the sales front, he predicted "some rather difficult requirements" for parties seeking to cultivate and sell marijuana for recreational use, from the state, so that "in the end, you're going to have background checks and licensing insurance.
"Only the strongest stores will be able to survive," he said, once the "proper regulations are set, so that the ones that survive will have their act together.
He anticipates that the state "is going to require some type of video cameras" and other controls similar to what "we have now in medical marijuana dispensaries," Masters said. "They'll probably demand that every sale is recorded, so that we know it's not being sold to underage people.
"I certainly plan on enforcing the regulations diligently – whatever the state requires," he said, "much as we do with bars."


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Delaware Friends of Folk is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of folk music and folk musicians in our area.
We stage coffee houses, concerts, and monthly pick-ins where people gather to play music together.
This program is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
No March Coffee House, Early April Coffee House
A few notes about our coffeehouses:
- Coffeehouses are a non-alcohol, family oriented event
- The event is a listening event, so please keep chatter to a minimum, and mute cell phones and other electronic devices. Don't we all prefer children who are well behaved & stay with their adult(s)?
- Doors open at about 7:00 p.m., music starts around 7:30 p.m. (except December, we start earlier)
- Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and sweet treats are available for a reasonable rate
- Fresh cookies are baked at the Coffeehouse with proceeds going to the Maurice Shockley Acoustic Stringed Instrument Scholarship Fund.
- Many performers have CDs available for sale
- Payment at the coffeehouse for admission, refreshments, and merchandise can be made via cash or check only - we do not accept credit cards.
- Most shows do not require advanced payment, except for some "special events". Check our shopping page to see if we're accepting advanced reservations.
You can use this calendar with your own Google Calendar by subscribing to our calendar! Then, you'll always know what is happening with Delaware Friends of Folk!
On your calendar at google.com/calendar, in the left column - see "Other Calendars", pull down the arrow, choose "add by URL", then, paste this in:
Now, our calendar events will be added to yours and you have control of what color or what calendars you can see inside your own calendar. See Calendar Help for more. https://support.google.com/calendar/
If you use Apple's built in calendar, the instructions for adding the above google calendar address for Delfolk is on that support page, too. I believe the same would apply to Micro$oft Office calendar, but I don't use that, so your mileage may vary!
At all of our events, we support the Food Bank of Delaware. Please bring a non-perishable food donation to help the Food Bank of Delaware eliminate hunger in our area.
NEW! Bring goods to our upcoming Coffee House and receive a free ticket to a future Coffee House performance! The Food Bank needs not only non-perishable food, but also new (in a sealed package) personal care items that are not covered by food stamps.


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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
This quote is about enemies
Search on Google Books to find citations of this quotation.
Bruce Junfan Lee (November 27, 1940 July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist and martial arts actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century. Lee's movies, especially his performance in the Hollywood-produced Enter the Dragon, elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity, paving the way for future martial artists and martial arts actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chuck Norris. Bruce Lee sparked the first major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of Bruce Lee's movies have forever changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and China, and the rest of the world.
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I'm female, say nothing
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Living Off Campus
There are a variety of apartments located near the UC campus. Students can obtain information from the Utica area Yellow Pages under the listing "Apartments" and from the apartment ads in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.
Students seeking roommates or apartments often post signs on bulletin boards around the campus. The Residence Life Office staff also keeps an updated list of area off-campus apartments and typical living expenses incurred off campus.
For information regarding off campus housing, please email Monica Hodkinson.
The Office of Residence Life and Utica College assume no responsibility for determining whether these listings comply with local building codes or ordnances. They have not been inspected by the College. Students are cautioned to inspect the condition of the property, looking especially for fire safety measures (smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguisher, fire exits, etc.). If the property you are considering is in the City of Utica, you should ask the landlord to provide written proof of current rental registration with the City of Utica, which does inspect rental properties for fire safety compliance; the other neighboring jurisdictions do not yet have such a requirement for rental properties. Students are also advised to review the landlord's lease very carefully before signing, as leases vary significantly in terms and conditions (whether certain utilities are included, etc.). The Office of Residence Life and Utica College assume no responsibility for the condition of these properties, and cannot intervene in disputes that may arise between student tenants and landlords of off-campus properties.


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