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A layover disguised as a film, "Unaccompanied Minors" tells a John Hughes-ian tale of six kids stranded at an airport over the holidays. It comes from a story (a sharp nine-minute number called "Babysitting," by Susan Burton) originally broadcast on the Ira Glass-hosted radio series "This American Life." With that pedigree you think: Promising. Unconventional. Yet the screenplay apparently went through some sort of airport security scanner that sucked out all the quirks.
Burton's story, which you can hear on www.thislife.org, touched on the theme of children of divorced parents shuttling, routinely, from one city to another. For many kids, an airport on Christmas Eve becomes, in Burton's words, "the transfer point between Mom and Dad."
Screenwriters Jacob Meszaros and Mya Stark flatten that rich seriocomic premise into a terminal variation on "The Breakfast Club." Traveling from Mom's house in Colorado to Dad's in Michigan, Spencer (Dyllan Christopher) and his sister Katherine (Dominique Saldana) find themselves snowed in at an unspecified Midwestern airport. They're joined by a gaggle of other kids in similar situations, including the upscale "Mean Girls" wannabe (Gina Mantegna), the Ally Sheedy knockoff (Quinn Shephard), the Harvard-bound whiz kid ("Everybody Hates Chris' " Tyler James Williams) and the superhero-worshipping loner ("Bad Santa's" Brett Kelly).
Under the stern eye of the passenger relations manager (top-billed Lewis Black, evidently adding little or none of his own material) and the more sympathetic supervision of his No. 2 (Wilmer Valderrama), the kids lead their adult handlers on one antic chase after another, inside and outside the airport. More adversaries than allies, the kids begin by waging class warfare on each other (the rich girl calls the middle-class boy "Kmart"), but end by realizing they're better off as a team.
Screenwriters can't win. If the writers had the guts (and the jokes) to fashion a bittersweet comedy with a fully earned happy ending, "Unaccompanied Minors" probably wouldn't have been made. As is, it's a prefab slapstick-'n'-pathos stew that doesn't taste like anything. Director Paul Feig created the fine TV series "Freaks and Geeks" but can't do much with this material.
Glass receives an executive producer's credit, but we'll have to take "Unaccompanied Minors" as a down payment on the next "This American Life" story expanded for the movies.
MPAA rating: PG for mild rude humor and language. Running time: 1 hour, 39 minutes. In general release.


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This kind of wave refers to the situation where a large drop in interest rates occurs and huge number of borrowers ask for refinancing their mortgage. The fall in long term interest rates causes the borrowers to refinance their loans to pay for lower interest rates. Same type of situation occurs when there is a right in short term interest rates. Borrowers in such a situation refinance their long term interest rates for take benefit of lower rates.
Refinancing doesn't mean that the interest paid will be lower. In several cases, costs of refinancing are included in the loan repayment amount and refinancing may result in higher payments over the long horizon. Refinance Index use approximately 10% from 1348 to 1502 as fall in rates was enough to allow refinancing. The increase in refinancing applications was 58.9%. Main reason for increased participation was due to price appreciation of homes and easier lending agreements encouraging refinancing
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|Chemical arms and suspected bombardments
That there is, yes, a population without forces, a destroyed Nation, it is certainly not a discovery; but what annoys me are the times of the Western military intervention that finally chooses to operate for the respect of human rights while the Assad regime is close to the complete reestablishment of control over the whole country and the Islamic extremist forces are almost ready to slip again in those economic, political and even really underground tunnels from where to go out when there is the possibility of striking the governments or the political opportunity to weaken them with external, secret, often indecipherable maneuvers.
Of course, chemical weapons are a non-excusable crime; and Italy knows a lot, if we think that they were used during the expansion of the colonial regime of Rome in Africa when the sad primacy of the gas bombings was established. But why have we realized only now these shortcomings of humanity, of these sad and unacceptable deaths, of these horrors perpetrated on the skin of the people? Are not the massacres that the Islamic extremists of Boko Haram perform in Nigeria are crimes against humanity? Perhaps abductions, sexual violence, enslavement reductions that kill those against civilian and Christian populations are second-rate violence? Because the Western States do not agree a general gesture of liberation against an army of murderers who in 2013 alone kidnapped over 1,000 children (http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/) and why no real concerted incursion has liberated so many boys and girls killed or reduced into sexual slavery, belonging to the Yazidi minority massacred by the crisis in Northern Iraq (https://www.truenumbers.it/strage-yazidi/)? Are Nigerian and Yazidi children a step below those of Syria or are Syrian children called upon to make it convenient for some Powers?
Articles such as those mentioned that would like to reduce to the reason the "assadisti", I think do not take into account that in the Middle East area is once again consuming a tug of war between the Superpowers. In this case, the game in play on a planetary scale, intends to weaken Russia, surround it and reject it within its borders, posing serious difficulties to its presence in the Mediterranean. At a time when the Government of Moscow seems to be recovering positions from the point of view of armaments, and in which the objective in the production of these armaments appears to be directed to the neutralization of missile control systems, the return to conventional muscle forms is always shown more clear and necessary (Cf. T. MEISSAN, The new Russian nuclear arsenal reestablishes the bipolarity in the world set-up, March 6, 2018, in Voltairenet.org).
In these days, removing the Assad government from full control of the situation on the field a few kilometers from Damascus, and making the region less secure, corresponds to two primary objectives. Militarily, the security zone is tightened around Laodicea, which is the city where the base of Russian ships is located in the eastern Mediterranean area; and it also tries to propagandistically give a further shake to the Syrian regime, in order to isolate it internationally.
The reasons for this phase of the conflict must therefore be sought far from the Middle East, they fit together with the new sanctions studied against Moscow, and tend to remove the Orthodox Power from an area where Christians are still relatively numerous. The agreement between Putin and the Orthodox Church follows the ancient patterns of collaboration between the State and the religious body which remained very influential even during the Soviet regime (Cf. A. ROCCUCCI, Stalin and the Patriarch, Turin 2011); it would be enough to look at the images of the visit to Moscow of the relics of St. Nicholas of Bari and the pious homage given to them publicly by the Russian President, to realize that a support to the Christianity of the Middle East constitutes an exploitable strategy even within Russia; and the same speech would be valid for those countries in which diplomatic diplomacy in Moscow is working to restore a minimum of influence in apparently granitic Europe. I refer in particular to Greece disappointed by the economic powers of the Community and Cyprus, countries in which Russia tries to intervene for now economically.
On the side of the Western Powers, the Arab springs have widely seemed to be the exportation of useless verbal emphasis, of disorders and new exoduses of Christians. Iraq, for example, has lost a substantial part of its Christian, influential and free minority. How not to think of the old history of the American atomic bombs that Freemasonry would have liked to have been dropped on the most Catholic city of Japan, namely Nagasaki, in order to kill two birds with one stone, and free from future, uncomfortable presences (Cf. C. CURRO ', New massacre in Syria and old shadows on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in I Confronti, December 29, 2012)?
If it were true that the bombing of the western coalition caused many new victims, we really have to ask ourselves if the game is worth the candle.
And in the meantime, where are the non-inductive tests of the use of chemical weapons? If then the victims of the bombing were provoked by conventional weapons, nobody speaks, among the politicians aligned: all lawful.


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And I realized that's true: no matter what age we are now, there's some point in the future when we'll look back fondly on this moment in time, today, and think, Wow, those were the days!
So maybe it's time to unplug from the Borg for a minute, forget the %@#!!*$! news, and pay attention to where we are right now.
Yesterday at this time, I had just made a strawberry tart. (From our weekly box of strawberries from Grey Bears' Brown Bag Program!) All day, a hummingbird had been building her teensy nest in our apricot tree.
Art Boy was chopping peppers in the kitchen. We were having friends over for dinner.
In the immortal words of Steve Miller, time keeps on tickin', tickin,' tickin', into the future.
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Great cities have great parks, and great parks have great horticulture. One person who knows the most about this is Lynden Miller, the director of the Central Park Conservatory Garden and public garden designer of many of New York City's other outdoor oases.
Drawing on lessons learned from revitalizing the Conservatory Garden, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park and more in New York City (and other cities), Miller is now sharing her knowledge in the new book, Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape.
The book is partly a case statement on why great spaces and horticulture are important to parks and cities. Miller notes that "The general public, professional urban designers, architects, landscape architects, and city governments need to realize the tremendous importance of beautification to the health and economic welfare of cities. Outdoor spaces with ivy and a little grass to mask the concrete are not enough. Beautiful parks and gardens in the city are not a frill; they are essential to the well-being of citizens." And the book's final chapter is devoted to the "Power of Plants and Parks," noting how New Yorkers flocked to the refuge of city parks, especially the Conservatory Garden after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.
The other part of the book, however, contains brass-tacks advice on how to actually get to the place where there is power in parks: designing gardens and mixing plants correctly, managing soil conditions, maintaining gardens (down to the correct way to cut plants), cultivating volunteers and creating public-private partnerships and funding mechanisms.
Anyone interested in beautifying the urban landscape, and looking for both inspiration and applicable advice to get there would benefit from this book.
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North Portsmouth area. See map above.
The number of men living in Cosham in the list of possible members (below) infers that a patrol existed nearby;
either with their Operational Base on Portsea Island itself (ie: the island of Portsmouth), or in the Cosham area
(which had virtually nothing of the housing it does today), or on Portsdown. It is also possible that some or even
all the names given below may have constituted a Purbrook Patrol, of which Don Beaven has
been attributed membership, and he lived in Cosham during WW2. Sydney Adlam of Havant – West Patrol also lived in Cosham, about two miles from his OB
in Bedhampton (Map: right hand yellow circle. See Havant – West, here).
This was possibly in late summer 1940 (see earliest Joining dates, below). It is highly
likely this patrol had the same instigator/recruiter as Sydney Adlam's patrol: Lieutenant Donald Brownlee; who
lived in East Cosham. If this is so, it is likely that members were recruited similarly to Mr Adlam (see
Havant – West).
It cannot yet be confirmed if any or all of the following constituted a
Hilsea/Cosham/Portsdown or Purbrook patrol or patrols; but they are all likely candidates, living within only a
mile or two from any of these locations that are each suspected to have had a patrol:
The following are the entries found in the Nominal Roll, with research notes etc, given in
[ ].
Exact addresses have been removed by CART.
Nat Reg
Note: D. Seaton reports: Cyril Norman Dean who served in the local HG, according to his son, agreed to join the
Auxiliaries and received training but did not actually become part of a unit. We are trying to establish dates when
he was trained, as apparently the number of Auxiliers were increased in the lead up to the D-day invasion (due to
the perceived risk of a German counter invasion), and this might explain why he didn't actually join a patrol.
A possible location for this patrol's operational base might well be somewhere on Portsdown hill. From such a
high vantage point any enemy landings on the coast could be seen for miles; a tactical advantage surely not to be
missed. However, D. Seaton managed to find someone who recalls speaking to a relative of an Auxilier and the
possible location of an OP [?OB] on the Western side of Hilsea. We are awaiting further information.
Observation Post/s:
Currently Unknown
The following are all very likely:
* The railway triangle at Cosham; an intersection/hub for all rail-lines heading east-west and north-south
(marked with a green X on map). It cannot be stressed enough how vital this feature is for rail access along the
south coast and to and from the essential deep-water port of Portsmouth Dock.
* Hilsea bridges (west bridge – road; east bridge – rail), both highly likely for demolition by the patrol
(orange Xs on map). This would castrate any enemy advance into or out of Portsmouth.
* Portsea Island airfield in the Hilsea area, may well have been a target, should the Germans take the island
(blue cross).
* Portsdown Interdiction Battery (depending upon the date of its construction) emplaced by the regular military
on Portsdown hill (orange circle). The role of such gun batteries was to lay fire over an area to prevent an enemy
advancing to gain possession of it. Destroying these guns to prevent them being used by German invaders may well
have been a priority. One of this battery's tasks was to shell Hayling bridge, should the island be taken; a not
unlikely possibility due to the broad, sandy beach on its southern end, a good invasion point. The gun positions
are on the summit of the ridgeline of the hill and so other shelling targets might have been the A3 road were it
ran through Purbrook, Waterlooville and perhaps Horndean. (See here http://www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk/ for further information on the
Interdiction Battery on Portsdown Hill.)
Currently uncertain; but likely to be similar to Havant (West)
Patrol and Southwick Patrol. The following are estimated
training locations:
* Portsdown Chalkpits. The Southwick Patrol diary (see here) tells of their own training in chalkpits on
Portsdown (probably the western slopes), and perhaps Cosham Patrol trained in similar chalkpits on the southern
slopes (blue circle).
* The two rifle ranges on the northern end of the Isle of Portsea (1919 OS map, above) could have provided
locations for shooting practice that wouldn't raise undue questions from locals (green circles).
* Otherwise, training locations are likely to be similar to the above two patrols. In several instances in the
UK, various patrols local to one another used the same training areas, sometimes even without the adjacent patrol's
Yet to be confirmed, but likely to be the Warwickshire regiment. Some of these regular troops were based at
Bishops Waltham, and may have provided men to constitute the Hampshire Auxiliary Scout Section/s (Source: J.
Budden's memoir).
Probably the usual for a patrol: each man having a .38 calibre revolver, one .22 silenced bolt-action rifle, perhaps a Thompson Sub-machine Gun, or in later years a Sten SMG. Each man would also have a Fairburn-Sykes fighting knife or its equivalent.
a) Sydney Adlam (auxilier) interview. Held in CART's archive.
b) The Nominal Roll; held at The National Archives, at Kew. Copies supplied by Will Ward, now held in the CART
c) J. Budden's memoir of Chalton Patrol. Copy held at Parahm British Resistance
Museum and CART archive.
d) David Seaton's own research.
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India is the best country who celebrate each festival with lots of enthusiasm and happiness. Here we are with Happy Krishna Janmashtami Messages pics, janmashtami status, Krishna janmashtami greeting cards which you can use to send your friends directly from our website. Krishna Janmashtami is a wonderful event which is going to be celebrated throughout the world. Lots of people come from abroad to celebrate this day with their family and related.
This is all about Krishna Janmashtami Messages, Bal Krishna Pics, and Krishna Janmashtami Greeting Cards. You can use our collection to send wishes to your online buddies or you can also use it for your desktop, laptop, and smartphones as background.
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May Lord Krishna always shower his blessings on you.
And may every year Janmashtami bring lots of happiness for you and your family
Wishing you a very Happy Janmashtami
On the auspicious birthday of Lord Krishna,
May the blessings of the Almighty bring joy, prosperity and happiness in your life.
May Lord Krishna's grace always be with you.
And may you get all that you ask for.
Happy Janmashtami
Chandan ki khusbu,Resham ka haar,Bhado ki shugandh, Barish ki fuhaarDil ki ummide, Apno ka pyarMangalmay ho aapko Sri Kirshna Janmashtmi ka tyohar!
Happy Krishna Janmashtami Messages
- If things are happening according to your wish
you are lucky but if not IT'S HAPPENING ACCORDING TO KRISHNA"S WISH…
Happy Janmashtami!
- It is very obvious that there will be victory of truth always,
So always try to do the things told by
Krishna and behave like a lord Rama
- Don't be illusioned by maya.
Maya is the root cause of all pain and misery.
LORD KRISHNA Happy Janmashtami!
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- May Lord Krisna's flute invite
the melody of love into UR life.
May Radha's love teach not only how to love
but to love eternally!!.. Happy Krishna Janmashtami.
- For this, is a special time when family
And friends get together, for fun.
Wishing laughter and fun to cheer your days,
In this festive season of JANMASHTMI and always..
Happy Krishna Janmashtami.
- 'Nand' ghare aanad bhayo
"Jay kaniya lalki"
'Gökul' ma aanad bhayo
"Jay bölö göpalki"
'Hathi' diyo 'ghöda' diyo
"Or diyo palkhi"
'Yasoda' ka 'lal' bhayo
"Jay bolo gopalki"
- Shree Krishna Ki Murli Ki Dhun,
Aapke Jeewan Me Hamesha hi
Such Ka Amrit Gholta Rahe …!!
Whishhing you Happy Janmashtami!
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- Jab jab hove dharm ki hani
Tab tab leve Avtar bhagwan
Kar deve mardan papiyon ka
Mukti deve hum prithvi vasiyon ko
Jai shri krishana
Happy Janmashtami
- JANMASHTMI, is a special time when family And friends get together,for fun.
Wishing laughter and fun to cheer your days,
In this festive season of JANMASHTMI and always!!!!
Happy JANMASHTMI
- Lord Krishna. …let us bask in your shine and mercy which should get peace tranquility d happiness to all parts of the universe. .
- Dahi ki handi
Baris ki fuhar
Makhan churane aaye nandlal
Mubarak ho aap ko janmastami ka tyohar!
Happy Krishna Janmashtami Greeting Cards
- Dahi ki handi
Baris ki fuhar
Makhan churane aaye nandlal
Mubarak ho aap ko janmastami ka tyohar!
- May this Janamashtami shower on you blossoms of love and peace.
May the divine grace of Lord Krishna be with you today and always.
Happy Janamashtami!
- Knahhaiya hamare dulare,
Wahi sabse pyare,
Makhan ke liye jhagad jaye,
Gopiya dekhkar akrshit ho jaye,
Lekin sabke rakhwale,
Tabhi to sabhi ke dulare
Happy Janmashtmi….
- Pavitra parv aaj ka din hai
Liya janam hamare krishna ne
Jiske liye sarvatra brahmaand prassann hai
Jai kishan Jai Kishan
Jai gosh se vishva dhanya hai
- May Lord Krishna's flute invite the melody of love into your life.
May Radha's love teach not only how to love but to love eternally.
Happy Janamashtami!
- May you find your love on this Janmashtmi and Gopis may shower all their love and affection on your body and soul!
Happy Krishna Janmashtmi!
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- May Lord Krishna come to your house &
Take away all ur Makhan – Mishri with all ur worries &
His blessings on u & ur family
Happy Janmashtami
- May Krishna shows you the way in your life as He showed the way to Arjuna in the battle of Mahabharata.
Have a blessed Krishna Janmashtami!
- May this Janamashtami shower on you blossoms of love and peace.
May the divine grace of Lord Krishna be with you today and always.
Happy Janamashtami!.
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- May Krishna shows you the way in your life as He showed the way to Arjuna in the battle of Mahabharata.
Have a blessed Krishna Janmashtami!
As the tiger devours other animals, so does the tiger of intense love and zeal for the Lord eat up lust, anger and other passions. The devotion of the gopis is the devotion of love, constant, unmixed and unflinching. -Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently-Bhaagvad Gita – Lord Krishna.
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In March, i imaged Pluto with Celestron C14 telescope and SBIG ST9XE camera. Where is Pluto in this image? I have attached a chart here (click the image) and you can find it in this crowded star field.
This chart is from TheSkyX Pro which is a premium software used for planning and controlling all modern observatory equipment but i noticed the position of Pluto is a bit different than marked in this chart. Have no clue why it is so.


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Is torturing an insect less immoral than torturing a non-human primate?
Well, both are immoral and indications of bad character traits (and may 'harden' one for worse acts), assuming that the torturing is gratuitous, as the word suggests. But we have good reasons to think that insects do not experience pain and suffering nearly as much as monkeys and apes (e.g., their nervous systems are not as complex). So, if one measure of the immorality or badness of an act is the amount of unnecessary pain and suffering it produces--and that seems plausible on any moral theory--then yes, torturing an insect would be less immoral than torturing a non-human primate. Please do neither!
I take it that being tortured implies the experience of pain or other suffering (physical or psychological) or, at the very minimum, the frustration of the victim's desires. Now, insect brains are surprisingly complex: according to Wikipedia, there are 100,000 neurons in the brain of a fruit fly, and as many as 10 million synapses; no doubt there are many more in mantids. But are insect brains complex enough that insects can experience pain, suffering, or frustration? I don't think anyone knows. But the answer may well be no, in which case your question would rest on a false presupposition.
But suppose an insect can be tortured. If a case of torture is otherwise gratuitous, then its degree of immorality probably varies with the suffering that it causes. It seems highly likely that at least some nonhuman primates can suffer to a greater degree than insects can, making it worse to torture them, all else being equal.


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We are back from holidays! Lots of blog posts to come! Tried to get this out before we left but it didn't happen. Nevermind, here it is :)
Further to my previous post here I have encountered various issues attempting to transfer DVD files in their native format to GoodPlayer to be played. I had hoped that GoodPlayer would be the answer, but sadly it isn't :( It seems there is no choice but to CONVERT the files.
On the up side GoodPlayer does an awesome job of dealing with downloaded content from youTube.
Here are some good links to read through which tell you exactly what to do to get a DVD from the disc onto your iPad.
How to Play DVDs in an iPad, iPhone or iPod
Play DVD on iPad
Essentially their information is the same. Download an open source program called Handbrake, which is free, download VLC media player, again free, then convert and transfer through iTunes.
I tried it out and it worked like a dream on my Mac. I've converted several movies now and have them on the iPad and iTouches. Whilst on holidays i tried it out for my friend on her PC and sadly we couldn't get it to work at all :(
Just so you know, you can now purchase DVD's which have various file formats which don't require conversion. It will say so on the back of the DVD.
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Signs and Symptoms of Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is usually asymptomatic, which means there are no outward signs that the person has the disease. This is why so many cases of sarcoidosis are discovered by chance during a routine x-ray. When symptoms appear, the most common are:
- respiratory (complications with breathing)
- ophthalmological (pertaining to the eyes)
- dermatological (pertaining to the skin).
A person may experience shortness of breath (dyspnea), a dry cough that persists, skin rashes (either erythema nodosum or other types of rashes) or inflammation in the eye. Sometimes, a person with sarcoidosis complains of "feeling sick" and may experience fever or weight loss. Sarcoidosis can affect nearly any organ, with the possible exception of the adrenal gland.
Respiratory Symptoms of Sarcoidosis
In over 90 percent of patients with sarcoidosis, whether or not they show outward signs of the disease, abnormalities almost always show up on a chest x-ray. These include swelling and inflammation of the lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy) in the chest and, less commonly, a mottled (having colored spots and blotches) appearance to the lungs.
Swollen Lymph Nodes (Adenopathy) & Sarcoidosis
There are two sets of thoracic lymph nodes that are commonly affected: the hilar (where the bronchial tubes enter the lungs) and mediastinal (the region in the center of the chest just outside of the lungs).
Swollen hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes are not exclusive to sarcoidosis. There are several other underlying problems that can lead to lymphadenopathy (e.g., tuberculosis, cancer). There are differences in the type of inflammation that help differentiate the diagnoses of these disorders.
Sometimes CT scan provides a more detailed picture that can help eliminate other possibilities. In most cases, if the lymphadenopathy is bilateral (occuring on both sides of the body) and especially if it is accompanied by characteristic skin or eye lesions, it is fairly certain that the patient has sarcoidosis.
Pulmonary Infiltration and Fibrosis & Sarcoidosis
The mottled appearance of the lungs that shows up in a chest x-ray is due to what is known as "pulmonary infiltration." Infiltration refers to the abnormal presence of granulomas in the lung tissue. Depending on how severe and extensive the pulmonary infiltration is, it can cause various respiratory symptoms. The two most common are shortness of breath (dyspnea) and a persistent, dry cough. About 25 percent of sarcoidosis patients experience dyspnea and/or a persistent cough.
Pulmonary infiltration can lead to lung fibrosis (i.e., the hardening and thickening of tissue) that can cause permanent scarring. Fibrosis tends to develop in areas where the infiltration lasts a long time or where it is especially dense. Fibrosis causes the lungs to stiffen, making it difficult to breathe. Unfortunately, fibrosis is irreversible. If extensive, it can cause severe dysfunction and, at its worse, can lead to heart failure.
Although often asymptomatic, granulomas in the lung can cause assorted respiratory problems, including:
- A persistent, dry cough
- Chest pain
- Hemoptysis (spitting up of blood from the lungs)
- Hoarseness
- Nasal congestion
- Pneumothorax (air in the chest outside the lungs, which can lead to a collapsed lung)
- Shortness of breath, or difficult breathing (dyspnea), a normal result of exercise but in sarcoidosis patients can occur without exercise
- Wheezing (noisy, difficult breathing)
In the majority of patients, the inflammation and infiltration in the lungs eventually clears up. There is considerable difference among racial groups in the likelihood of the sarcoidosis clearing up without causing any permanent damage. In the United States, nearly 80 percent of stage 1 cases in Caucasians resolve spontaneously, without intervention, compared to about 33 percent of stage 1 cases in African Americans. The percentage of cases that resolve decreases as the stage increases. Generally, the older the patient is, the more likely the sarcoidosis will become chronic and lead to fibrosis.
Upper Airway Involvement & Sarcoidosis
The upper airways, including the sinuses and the larynx, can be affected with sarcoidosis. Sinus involvement can lead to recurrent sinusitis or, rarely, perforation of the nasal septum. Laryngeal involvement can lead to hoarseness and upper airway obstruction.
Endobronchial Involvement & Sarcoidosis
Granulomas can occur in the trachea or the bronchial tubes leading to airway obstruction that can cause difficulty breathing and obstructive pneumonia.
Extrathoracic Lymph Nodes & Sarcoidosis
In addition to the hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes in the chest, sarcoidosis can affect lymph nodes in other parts of the body. Affected glands are typically painless and often not palpable (cannot be felt). Lymph node involvement outside of the thoracic region is more common among African Americans than Caucasians.
Ophthalmological Symptoms of Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis affects the eyes in about 25 percent of cases. Its most common manifestation is inflammation, a common disorder that is rarely due to sarcoidosis. Usually patients complain of blurred vision in both eyes, sensitivity to bright light, excessive tearing, or pain. In chronic sarcoidosis, more serious eye problems can develop, such as glaucoma and cataracts. If left untreated, sarcoidosis can lead to blindness.


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Aegis Treatment Centers
Nicole Kloncz
201 D St Suite G
Marysville , Ca 95901
Phone: 530-742-7747
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- Outpatient Treatment
- Prescribed Medications
- Narcotic Treatment Programs
- comprehensive treatment services
About Us
- Aegis' goal is to support the successful recovery of its patients and improve the quality of their lives.
- Aegis is committed to providing evidence-based comprehensive treatment services incorporating multidisciplinary modalities.
- Aegis promotes the highest standard of patient care in the treatment of substance abuse and related medical, psychological and socio-economic conditions.
- Aegis and its staff members pursue excellence, integrity & commitment in the provision of effective patient care.
Aegis Treatment Centers, LLC., ("Aegis") operates one of the largest networks of Narcotic Treatment Programs (NTPs), also known as Opiate Treatment Programs (OTPs), in the nation. In 1998, Aegis began implementation of a business plan that would upgrade its network into a state-of-the-art continuum of care, creating a model that has set the standard for OTP operations throughout the country.
The Aegis business plan was instrumental in repositioning the organization into mainstream medical care. Aegis meets and exceeds the most stringent of operating and medical standards in its practice of health care. Aegis employs the most advanced policies, protocols and procedures known to the industry, and is involved with cutting-edge pharmaceutical and behavioral research & development projects with some of the most prominent research institutions (i.e., UCLA, the RAND Corporation),pharmaceutical companies (i.e., Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, etc.) and government agencies (i.e., NIDA, NIH, NIAAA, and CDC).
Aegis provides a comprehensive treatment modality, allowing various staff members to address and sustain the diverse needs of its patients. Along with addiction treatment through "replacement therapy," Aegis has implemented additional protocols and procedures for the treatment of co-occurring mental, emotional and behavioral conditions, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD), Grief & Loss, Stress & Anxiety, Anger, and other personality disorders. In addition, Aegis also provides counseling, case management, social work, referrals to community resources, educational programs, eligibility work, vocational rehabilitation and nutritional counseling.


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Phien's Kitchen was kinda like a diamond in the rough find. We've driven past this restaurant a couple times in the past and have never thought of trying it out. The exterior of the place didn't quite appeal to us. But that one weekend, we braced ourselves and decided to try the place out as we're looking for a place to have fun.
Nobody was dining inside the very simply decorated restaurant. I don't think we're that late for lunch. We weren't sure what we got ourselves into and wasn't just going to leave the place without giving it a chance. So here's what we ordered.
1) Peak Kai /Chicken Wings (Bottom) @ $6.95 – Marinated in soy sauce, garlic and black pepper. This was definitely marinated in some turmeric powder as well. About 6 (or was it 8) pieces of crispy fried chicken wings in an order. It was juicy and so darn good!
2) Lard Nah/Fried White Noodles (Bottom Left) @ $10.95 – With pork, shrimp and squid. Fresh wide noodles with garlic snow peas, mushroom, baby corn and Chinese Broccoli. The price of this was quite steep for noodles in comparison with many other restaurants serving the same stuff. However, this plate of noodles was loaded with lots of mea, seafood and vegetables. Like many restaurants, there are usually more meat/vegetables than the noodles itself. I would appreciate a little more noodles. This noodles, is a little on the sweet side but not as sweet as the ones we've had elsewhere. We like it and had plenty to pack home. So, overall the price of this plate of noodle wasn't that bad since one would eat it for 2 meals.
3) Fer /Beef Stock Noodle Soup (Bottom Right) @ $8.95 – Homemade beef broth with shaved beef, shrimp, squid, meatballs, scallions, celery and cilantro. Served with a plate of bean sprouts, fresh herbs and lime on the side. The husband couldn't resist this beefy noodle soup and had to try it. It was slightly different than the Vietnamese Pho as this had shrimp and beef. Price for this was also steep in comparison to the many places the hubby's had similar beefy noodle soup. For a start, the portion was smaller than most places. Hubby thought this was ok but did not fancy the meatballs. He commented that the meatballs have some odd spice/flavor that he did not quite fancy.
Overall service was ok. There were a couple customers doing take outs while we were there. I guess, we might return in the future for some Laotian meal. I googled Phien's Kitchen and found out that they have a pretty good review on www.yelp.com; 4/5 stars. Apparently, their papaya salad and their sticky rice dessert is good. I'm already eyeing their sticky rice dessert! =)
Want some simple Laotian meal? Head over to Phien's Kitchen:
586 Westford St.
Lowell, MA 01851
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Air Source Heat Pump Market Transformation Workshop
Heat Pumps, Smart Controls, VRFs, Oh my!
Join NEEP in exploring how the region can work collaboratively to accelerate the adoption of air source heat pumps (ASHP) and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems. These renewable heating and cooling technologies are increasingly seen as important solutions to a low-carbon future in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region and beyond and will transform the way we heat and cool our homes and businesses.
This event will convene a diverse group of key stakeholders from across the ASHP/VRF markets, including manufacturers, program administrators, installers, technology experts, state/local policy makers, and others to coordinate effective implementation of regional market transformation strategies. Market transformation strategy reports for ASHP and VRF, developed through NEEP's ASHP and Smart Controls Initiative, will provide frameworks of key strategies for stakeholders to discuss, explore, and debate.
- Explore the role of ASHP/VRF technologies in the context of current policy environment
- Coordinate effective implementation of market transformation strategies for air source heat pump (ASHP) and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems
- Share best practices, lessons learned, and success stories related to promotion of ASHP and VRF systems
- Explore best practices related to quality assurance efforts for ASHP and VRF installations
More information about NEEP's Initiative.
Agenda (updated regularly)
Day 1: ASHP Focus
Tuesday June 18, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Setting the Stage
A high level look at the state of the regional ASHP market will set the stage for the workshop. Where do we stand with market adoption? What is the broader policy context within which the market is now operating? How effective has the region been in implemting regional market transformation strategies?
The ASHP Consumer: Messaging and Resources that work
This panel will explore the elements of successful consumer education and marketing efforts that have led to increased adoption of and satisfaction with ASHPs. What might a regional campaign include?
Integrated controls: When strangers become friends
Once a consumer has a heat pump, how can we ensure they are getting the most benefit from its use? Heat pumps coupled smart and integrated controls are entering the market and popping up in programs. This session will look at the state of this space and provide guidance and examples for the rest of the region.
Developing the right measuring stick: the Future of Product Specifications
This session will showcase the latest thinking around evolving ASHP performance specifications and test procedures to ensure we're recognizing and incentivizing the highest quality systems that both perform in the field and provide the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
Bringing high quality Design and Installation to the masses
High-quality installations of ASHP systems generate referrals, increase sales, reduce callbacks, and improve customer comfort and satisfaction. Design practices also have a major impact on efficiency and performance of an ASHP system. What are best practices associated with sizing, selecting, installing, and consumer operations and maintenance? How are these best practices evolving to help ensure efficient air source heat pumps and happy customers in cold climates?
New Frontiers: potential areas of opportunity
This panel will present a variety of short presentations on emerging areas of opportunity for the ASHP market.
Observations, next steps and adjourn Day 1
Evening reception
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. co-hosted with AESP Northeast Chapter
Day 2: Cross-Cutting and VRF Focus
Wednesday June 19, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
WELCOME Back
Regional ASHP Panel: What can we learn from others?
ASHPs are not just a thing in the Northeast. Other regions of the U.S. and Canada are also actively looking to ASHPs to provide solutions for energy reduction, carbon reduction, and more. What makes these regions similar? What makes our region unique? How can we most effectively work together to drive accelerated, yet sustainable, adoption of ASHPs for the broader North American market?
Manufacturer perspectives on ashps and vrfs
VRF Session: NEEP's new VRF Market Transformation Strategies Report
NEEP and VEIC will present the key strategies included in a soon-to-be completed regional market transformation strategy report. This presentation will lay out the key areas for the regional stakeholders to prioritize market development activity.
VRF Session: Prioritizing regionally collaborative activities
Following the previous session, this panel will discuss which strategies are of highest importance to regionally move forward in 2020.
Debrief and adjourn
Lodging and transportation
This year, we will again partner with travel company TripZero (a Certified B Corp) to offset the carbon footprint created by travel to our event. Attendees can book the Crowne Plaza Boston-Woburn for $159 until May 28. By booking these hotel rooms, we collectively enable TripZero to offset the carbon footprint created by our travel – at no cost to you. Book your room at the Crowne Plaza now. Through the purchase of certified carbon offsets, TripZero funds reforestation and renewable energy projects that remove pollution from the atmosphere. As these projects offset the impact of our travel, they also create lots of benefits for local communities. Learn more here.
Sponsorship Options
From essential coffee breaks to full partner options, you can customize the way you want your organization to be involved in our events. Specifically for this ASHP Market Transformation Workshop, we have several available sponsorship options to gain visibility in front of our attendees. If you would like to sponsor this workshop, please take a look at our sponsorship opportunities and reach out to Jen Wassan if you have any questions.
Are you a NEEP Ally? You get a 20% discount on any sponsorship option! And don't forget to claim your complimentary pass to the event.


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Anyone familiar with his previous books, most notably The Shallows or The Glass Cage, knows Nicholas Carr as one of our greatest critical thinkers when it comes to technologies impact on society. Carr's latest title, Utopia Is Creepy and other provocations, collects a decade's worth of posts from his blog, along with several essays that focus squarely on undermining Silicon Valley's Pollyannaish insistence that technology and the web can solve any problem facing society and will make EVERYTHING better. But Carr is far from a technophobic luddite, he clearly deeply understands the technology he skewers, but he also understands technologies limits. No matter where you land on the techy to technophobic scale, Carr's stinging wit and casual style are well worth checking out.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
The White House Releases Obama's Birth Certificate
VOAVideo: The White House Releases Obama's Birth Certificate
The White House has released the long-form birth certificate of President Barack Obama, to again refute claims that he was not born in the United States. Administration officials on Wednesday released the certificate that says he was born August 4, 1961, in the Pacific U.S. state of Hawaii.
Also watch: wh.gov: President Obama on His Birth Certificate & the Real Issues Facing America
President Obama discusses the release of his long form birth certificate, having long ago released his standard birth certificate, and says that "We've got big problems to solve. And I'm confident we can solve them, but we're going to have to focus on them -- not on this."
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This Week at the Library: July 2-8, 2017
The Boyle County Public Library offers many fun, educational events throughout the year. Weekly programs include a Summer Web Design Class on Mondays at 4:00 p.m., Crafters Who Care on Mondays at 6:00 p.m., and Storytimes on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. In addition to these weekly events, the following Library-sponsored programs are scheduled for this week:
Tween Book Club
Monday, July 3rd at 2:00 p.m.
The Library offers a monthly book club for tweens (ages 9-13). On Monday, July 3rd at 2:00 p.m., the group will discuss The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier. Snacks will be available. Any tweens interested in attending may register for the program by signing up in the Children's Library.
Closed for Independence Day
The Library will be closed on Tuesday, July 4th in celebration of Independence Day.
Summer Science Clubs
Thursday, July 6th at 10:00 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
On Thursday, July 6th, the Summer Science Clubs for kids will meet at 10:00 a.m. (for 5-6 year olds) and 11:30 a.m. (for 7-8 year olds). Each week will feature a different science experiment. Both clubs will be held in the Storytime Room in the Children's Library.
Cookbook Club
Thursday, July 6th at 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. the Library will host the Cookbook Club. Each month will feature a theme. This month the theme is Cookout Foods and will be held in the Library Park. Participants will make and share different recipes with the club. They'll hear what others liked about the cookbook and the recipe they tried, as well as taste-test samples and discover new recipes. For more information or to register, contact Julia Basil at the Library. Registration is required.
"Jane in July" Film Series (Week 1)
Thursday, July 6th at 6:30 p.m.
As part of the "Jane in July" celebration, the Library will host a 4-week film series featuring film adaptations of some of some of Jane Austen's most well-known works. Films will be shown on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Library beginning July 6th.
This week we'll be showing Sense and Sensibility, a 1995 film that tells the story of two sisters who fall in love and whose romances play out in completely opposite ways. An introduction will be given by Stacey L. Peebles, film professor from Centre College.
Teen Crafternoon: Paint Chip Skyline
Friday, July 7th at 1:00 p.m.
Teen Crafternoon will be held on Friday, July 7th at 1:00 p.m. Led by Julia Basil, this monthly program features a different artistic activity each month. In July, we'll be creating ombre wall art out of paint chips. This free event will be held in the Mahan Gallery and is open to all teens (ages 13-18). Call the Library to register.
LEGO Club
Friday, July 7th at 2:00 p.m.
The Library will host LEGO Club on Friday, July 7th at 2:00 p.m. in the Storytime Room. The finished LEGO creations will be placed on display in the Children's Library.
"Jane in July": Tea with Jane and Friends
Sunday, July 9th at 3:00 p.m.
On Sunday, July 9th at 3:00 p.m., the Library will host "Tea with Jane and Friends" in the Reading Room at the Library. Guests will learn from Bruce Richardson about the role tea plays in Jane Austen's writing. They'll meet Mr. and Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, and hear what writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Mark Twain think about Austen (compliments of the Danville Not-for-Primetime Players).
Guests are encouraged to bring a favorite teacup and saucer to enjoy tea provided by Elmwood Inn Fine Teas. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Library, and period costumes are courtesy of West T. Hill Community Theater. This event will also include a presentation of Emily Clark's painting depicting Jane Austen's tomb in Winchester Cathedral. Ms. Clark is donating the work to the Library.


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Caliq has been developing software for businesses for over 30 years. During this time they have implemented hundreds of solutions into companies across the UK, many with overseas operations, covering all aspects of wholesale distribution.
Based near Huntingdon, Caliq approached web2market, a local marketing agency, to assist with a company re-brand which would align with its new focus on multi-channel wholesale distributors operating in the Home, Gift, Garden and allied sectors.
Caliq's requirement identified the need for a new modern brand, revised collateral and website to bring it in line with the consumer focus of its target customer group.
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As photovoltaic technology increasingly penetrates mainstream markets rooftop solar PV system integration based on series configured arrays are becoming antiquated due to new system design architectures enabled by new inverter technologies.
Brent Harris | Sustainable Energy Technologies
When an industry grows as quickly as the photovoltaic industry has been – averaging greater than 30% per year for the past decade – it is easy to lose perspective. New markets emerge swiftly and can vanish even quicker. Suppliers and customers shift from aloof to desperate in a matter of months. At this rate of growth, roughly a quarter of the workforce has yet to achieve their first anniversary in the industry, and more than half of the workforce has less than three years of experience. In such an environment, companies can't help but cling to proven techniques and seek stability wherever they can in order to stay focused on the more clearly dynamic facets of their business. Before long, as the industry matures, these 'classic' approaches can become counterproductive, eventually creating enough distress to drive innovation that promotes a shift in practice. For example, rooftop solar PV system integration based on series configured arrays, which was originally developed in order to enable high inverter efficiency and reliability, achieves this at the expense of requiring detailed custom design, perfect operating conditions, and high operating voltages. As photovoltaic technology increasingly penetrates mainstream markets where such trade-offs are not acceptable, these classic techniques are becoming antiquated due to new system design architectures enabled by new inverter technologies that are proving their worth.
Parallel System Designs
The classic approach to system integration prescribed by inverter designs popularized in the early part of the past decade requires stringing modules in a series or "Christmas light like" fashion and in doing so, increases the voltage and the vulnerability of system performance to less-than-perfect conditions. By connecting each module together this way, if one module outputs less energy due to shading, debris or other 'real world' factors, the entire series of modules operates less efficiently, similar to the way in which a string of Christmas lights will go out when one bulb is blown. Parallel wiring connects every solar module to the system independently, so each may operate at its maximum potential, ensuring maximum power yield for the overall system.
Under the classical approach, 'real world' challenges are usually greeted first with disbelief and then dismay by the system designer whose tools of the trade are not working the way they used to. As the cost of photovoltaic equipment drops and as the industry becomes increasingly dominated by production based incentives, sophisticated structural analysis and fancy racking techniques become unaffordable. Lower equipment costs also drive designs toward greater coverage of the rooftop. In all but the most ideal cases, these considerations preclude rooftop solar PV systems from having the optimized system layout – south in orientation, at latitude tilt, and free from shading all year round – that is described in training guides.
Conversely, a parallel system design can accommodate such constraints without a second thought, allowing a standardized approach to meet a variety of requirements without incurring large upfront design costs or sacrificing performance.
In addition to the ease of project execution and the more reliable performance offered by parallel system configurations, there is a safety benefit associated with keeping the system DC voltages to a minimum. Unlike the basic AC system that permeates the building, it is not possible to turn off a solar power system at the source. This may sound trivial, but it means that first responders and others who may come in contact with the system wiring cannot rely on their standard technique of disconnecting power to the building in order to ensure their safety. While it is not possible to eliminate this risk, it can be minimized by keeping the voltage as low as possible. Parallel systems have an inherently low operating voltage since the system operating voltage is fixed to the voltage of the individual photovoltaic module - whereas in series arrangements the operating voltages can reach levels as high as 600V in North America and 1000V in Europe. The risk can also be minimized by limiting the ingress of DC circuits into the building. This is achieved by locating the inverters near the array on the roof. In effect, the photovoltaic system becomes a self-contained building appliance, like a rooftop HVAC unit, with only AC circuits connecting it with the rest of the building.
Recently introduced micro-inverters and low voltage inverters are now enabling parallel system design that has been standard for off-grid systems for decades but which is incompatible with classic high voltage inverters. Each of these new technologies offer similar benefits in system performance, design flexibility, and safety but achieve parallel system integration in a different way. It is important to examine your needs and the application of the system before deciding on which technology to use.
Micro Inverters
Several companies currently offer a fully distributed power generation option called micro-inverters. A separate micro-inverter is connected to each solar module in the system and delivers the energy from its own module to the AC grid independently. In this case, the parallel integration is accomplished exclusively in the AC circuit. This configuration achieves the highest level of modularity as each solar module acts as its own complete photovoltaic system. Taken to the extreme, this technology could allow the inverters to be mounted directly onto the module during the manufacturing process, creating an easy turn-key solution – an AC module – which can be marketed direct to consumers at home improvement stores, or online direct from the manufacturer. However, this business model has yet to be proven and micro inverters are not the right fit for every project. Micro inverters are most advantageous when used in smaller residential or commercial projects of a few kilowatts. With projects of this size the additional cost of micro inverters is more easily counterbalanced by time savings during the design and installation process.
Low-Voltage Inverters
Commercial building owners, installers of large scale systems and roofers and other trades may want to consider another, less costly approach to achieve parallel architecture: systems that connect the modules in parallel on the DC circuit prior to converting the energy to AC electricity. This type of parallel system solution requires a low voltage inverter that can efficiently convert the output of the system to grid voltage. This approach offers the same benefits of maximized power yield and enhanced safety as micro inverters with the added benefit of being scalable to large commercial rooftop installations while maintaining the installed cost maintenance paradigm that owners and installers of these larger systems require.
SUNERGY low-voltage inverters installed in a parallel wiring architecture in Medicine Hat, Alberta
The key to lower cost achieved by such a system is to avoid adding electronics to each module. This is enabled by an important characteristic of PV module behaviour: variations in module performance affect primarily the output current and not the operating voltage. This means that the output of modules connected in parallel is decoupled, allowing them to operate as individual generators, thereby decreasing the impact of shading, debris, non-optimized system layout and other real world factors, when compared with series arranged arrays. These benefits are well known in off-grid systems, but it is only recently that new inverter technology has allowed the approach to be employed in grid tied systems.
As the industry progresses further, reducing costs and penetrating deeper into the mainstream, we will also start to see more BIPV products coming onto the market. BIPV applications encounter the same concerns as mainstream rooftop applications – only more so. In this case, we are talking about a truly standardized building appliance, and the architects and builders really take over. The system must be able to efficiently convert whatever sunlight it can get and no matter where it is installed. Parallel approaches clearly shine in these applications, but again each of the approaches will be better suited to different applications. For smaller, more accessible BIPV products – like factory integrated photovoltaic awnings – a micro inverter could be a very convenient option. However, in the context of larger, more integrated systems – such as shingled roofs, facades, or semitransparent skylights or windows – it is difficult to imagine how a multitude of micro inverters buried into the structure of the building could be easily serviced. In these cases the low voltage inverter approach is the natural fit.
As photovoltaic technology moves into mainstream rooftop and BIPV applications, standardized systems will become the only way to achieve acceptable installed cost, and systems that incorporate parallel system architecture will be the only ones to offer reliability of performance and flexibility of installation in a variety of applications. These parallel systems will also be the only ones to deliver an inherent level of safety no matter where they are installed. There are currently two different approaches that deliver on all three of these counts, and the decision will ultimately come down to cost and maintenance requirements, and which technology offers the best value for the application. After careful evaluation of your project requirements, you will know which technology is right for your application; either way it is out with the fancy classics and in with safe, standardized, reliable performance!
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--- these chatlogs are a little dated, I admit
Haruhi2: man internet mans are really mean to Ms. Semenya
Haruhi2: i'm not sure that anyone with ambiguous genitalia will ever stop defaulting to "A FUCKIN MAN" on the internet
Mozz: WOMEN default to a fuckin' man on the internet.
Mozz: and in track and field.
--- speaking of ambiguous genitalia
maggiekarp: one time
maggiekarp: my mom found dickgirl porn on the family computer
maggiekarp: and I recall her saying that she hoped it was her brother's instead of her father's
--- Indiana Jones 5?
DK: Jesus FUCK
DK: movies.yahoo.com/feature/access-hollywood-indiana-jones-5.html
DK: no more
DK: no more
DK: Indy looks like a raggedy chew toy
DK: sounds like a devastated Great War survivor
DK: "Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and myself are agreed on what the fifth adventure will concern, and George is actively at work," he said. "If the script is good, I'll be very happy to put the costume on again."
DK: That script: WEEKEND AT INDY'S
DK: MUTT'S ON THE CASE to find THE LANCE OF LONGINUS
DK: But no one trusts him so he has to PUPPETEER his DEAD FATHER
DK: HARRISON can SLEEP the entire time
Myshu: lmao
DK: This goes as far as the DARING FIGHT atop a racing truck in Palestine
DK: The corpse falls off
DK: Five minute shot of it rolling and bouncing along a rocky road, dragged
DK: Mutt laboriously pulling it back onto the truck
DK: The Russians
DK: Mutt finally gets it aboard, and suddenly a CGI SNAKE pops out of the eye socket and makes a goofy face
DK: He nearly drops it off again, but the love interest LUNGES and catches it
Hermit: DK this is horrible and probably the only way I could watch another Indy movie
DK: I do what I can
Myshu chupariffic
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7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
--- these chatlogs are a little dated, I admit
If you've got a good idea...
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
Just do it. Don't waste time polling other people's opinions, or waiting for someone's approval, or sitting on it until whatever conditions you've fabricated are "just right." Stop telling yourself you're not ready, or don't have the skills, or the time, or that the idea just isn't good enough. It's already good because you like it and want to do it, and that's all you need.
None of the things you're doing to procrastinate matter, and they're not going to help make your idea happen. Nothing and nobody can do that but you. You already know it's a good idea, so just get started, even if you're the only one who cares about it--even if nobody else gives a shit about your idea, because an idea is meaningless without action, something to give it life. There isn't anything inherently "good" or "bad" about an idea--it's what you do with the idea that ultimately gives it its character.
So start now. And even when you've done your best and your idea has been fulfilled, if nobody still cares, that won't matter, either. You'll still have done something good.
Because listen, we all know "Furry Red vs Blue" sounds supremely stupid on paper. You just have to roll with it.
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--- The Lurid Origins of Dragon Ball Z
Haruhi: I hate people who think Dragonball takes place in Japan......
Haruhi: It's a fictional world based on china dumbass....
DK: Dragonball isn't based on anything but the despair Akira Toriyama found staring back up at him from the bottom of a sake bottle
L_Cully: There has got to be some kind of homoeroticism involved
maggiekarp: dk's just jealous of toriyama-san's high power level
DK: A sumo was halfheartedly rooting around in his groin for a dropped spring roll
DK: Both were too drunk to kick up a fuss at this indiginity; at least, that's what they told themselves
DK: Oh and he was rooting with his face, I should've mentioned that
L_Cully: lmao revolting, revolting
L_Cully: And what of Mister Popo?
DK: After drinking, Toriyama had a violent walrus in the toilet, and in his convulsions he looked at his own feces and saw the face of God (Mr. Popo is an anagram of Mr. Poop)
L_Cully: why was his walrus BLACK
L_Cully: that aint's natural
DK: Old blood.
DK: You don't even want to KNOW how he came up with the Red Ribbon Army
DK: Piccolo was created because he was dating this chick from Osaka who played the piccolo and was trying very hard to impress her and he was like "I'll name a character after you, just pick one" and she pointed to a rough sketch of Piccolo. And he said "Why don't I name him Piccolo, because you play the Piccolo? ^-^" and she nodded and then said, so casually, so casually, the words like an icepick in his heart. "It's the only thing you've drawn here uglier than your penis."
DK: They broke up shortly afterwards, he made piccolo a bad guy
DK: But he always held a flame so later Piccolo became good again
DK: Any other DB mysteries I can clear up
maggiekarp: dk what kind of junk does piccolo have
Haruhi: not a penis presumably
Haruhi: he's a namek
Haruhi: they use their mouth as a vagina
maggiekarp: :(
DK: In the original test drawings of the series, Oolong was nothing but a pair of diaphnous wings attached to a raging phallus some four feet long. Originally, Oolong was to ejaculate a wide variety of substances such as thumbtacks, ben-wa balls, dumplings, acid, pocky, yogurt, and liquid magma to reflect his mood. Goku was to tame him by pressing a senzu bean into his urethral mouth. This vision did not survive puritan editing.
DK: -Few know that Yamcha is based on an older boy who was on Toriyama-San's track team during high school. Toriyama said of this unnamed figure, "I found him to be beautiful, but dangerous. His assaults upon my body were both welcome and agonizing."
DK: -Bulma symbolizes Toriyama's brief fling with a female engineer, Natsuki Oshimoto. Her general vapid personality are believed to be a direct assault upon Natsuki's character, which Toriyama described scowlingly as "tenacious." When given the first four volumes of the Dragonball manga as a festival gift, Natsuki Oshimoto read them and promptly hanged herself from the shower rod.
DK: -"Begita-san was born at a difficult moment in my life," Toriyama confides over remarkably non-penile oolong tea. "I was alone and isolated, angry following Natsuki's death, yet strangely pleased. There was a local man, Akira-san, with soft lips and slim wrists." At this point, Toriyama defers, but it's obvious he shared some primal connection with this man. "We justified it to ourselves as insect extermination," he explains. "Akira-san would come over. I would writhe on the floor and scream, pretending to be covered in cockroaches. He would kick and beat me until all the roaches were killed." From this tangled web of abuse and lust came the character of Begita.
DK: Obviously Toriyama is a haunted soul
DK: No wonder his art is so subtle and beautiful
maggiekarp: the sad thing is DK just copied that one from wikipedia
DK: -When asked about his primary motivation for creating long-running antagonist Brolli, Toriyama responded cryptically: "Dicks on my face. Dicks on my face and in my mouth, my eyes. World of dicks. Odyssey of dicks."
Mozz: Odyssey of Dicks.
Mozz: including the Island of the Semen-Eaters, Polyphallus the Giant One-Eyed Monster (ho ho ho)
Mozz: 20 years later, having lost all his boners, he finally comes home and shoots a bunch of guys in the face.
DK: -"In many ways Krillin is closest to me," Toriyama admits. The setting sun touches the side of his face, highlights his graying hair. "He is me. A part of me." He goes on to explain: "During a biking accident at university, I severely injured my genitalia crashing into a traffic barrier. My body flew over it and was struck by a car." He laughs, the memory of this past pain long gone. "I lay in stupor, gradually coming awake. There was a jar beside my bed, containing a doughy, dumpling like thing. I didn't understand it. At last I asked the nurse. She told me in no uncertain terms that it was my left testicle." He laughs again. "As I lay there between this world and the coldness of Yomi, my testicle watched over me. Krillin. Who could better serve as Goku's companion?"
maggiekarp: that's beautiful ;_;
* Myshu clap clap clap
Quote Log 12 (NeverSFW)
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
--- Final Fantasy VII
Jack_Bauer: Seto got petrified because he smoked a shitload of weed and the mofo's still stoned, man.
Myshu: helllll yeah
Jack_Bauer: Give him like another decade, he'll come down
Jack_Bauer: Serious munchies though
Jack_Bauer: He'll eat Cloud's big emo character derailed face
--- Blue Screen of Dick
Myshu: ahaha FUCK I bluescreen'd, that was unpleasant
Mozz: i'll bet.
Myshu: Microsoft error report is as useful as ever, I must say
Mozz: "SEND"
Mozz: "DON'T SEND"
Mozz: "SPOILER: THIS IS A FALSE CHOICE"
Myshu: "You received this message because a hardware device, its driver, or related software has caused a blue screen error. This type of error means the computer has shut down abruptly to protect itself from potential data corruption or loss. In this case, we were unable to detect the specific device or driver that caused the problem."
Myshu: This is basically Microsoft telling me, "Your computer ate a dick. We're not sure WHICH one--there's a lot of dicks out there."
Mozz: "It might have eaten several. In a row."
Mozz: "We don't know."
Myshu: Great, and a bulleted list of suggestions too
Myshu: * It could have eaten shit instead. Close any running assholes and restart the application.
--- no shirt, no skateboard, no problem
professor: So I had a student cut my class to play basketball downstairs in the gym today
professor: and as I'm coming out of class, the kid's friend just whores him the hell out
professor: "You got a STUDENT in there!" he says
professor: "A student CUTTIN' YOUR CLASS!"
professor: I just shake my head
professor: and say
professor: "Man, snitches get stitches."
Mozz: XD
Mozz: it's your duty as an educator to tell him this.
professor: lmao I love that kid that skipped the class though
professor: I probably shouldn't but he's just so friendly and belligerent about skipping it
professor: Like I would've just walked past him on the way in but he's all
professor: "HEY MISTER K!!!"
professor: "Are you skipping my class?" I asked, not sounding too interested
professor: "Nah man I'm gonna go get a t-shirt" (what the fuck?)
professor: "You want a t-shirt?"
professor: "No. Later, then"
professor: He skipped my class.
professor: Don't know the status of the T-shirt
Mozz: heh
Myshu: Wow.
Myshu: I love this guy already
Myshu: And you did NOT really say "snitches get stitches"
professor: but I'm not upset about it
professor: I just think it's funny
professor: He makes C's and B's, he's obviously the kind of smart kid who doesn't really want to try that hard
professor: I can deal with that
professor: And yes I did say that but he didn't get a chance to respond because this idiot coach started yelling at him for having a skateboard
professor: then he started yelling at one of my other students who runs the desk in the building for letting the guy in with a skateboard
professor: "DON'T LET HIM IN WITH THAT"
professor: "He wasn't riding it"
professor: "STILL HE DON'T NEED TO BRING IN THIS TRASH"
professor: Anyway, this ass-chewing goes on for like thirty seconds, I'm just watching it
professor: At about this point the kid who cut my class comes ambling out, nods at me
professor: catches the end of the conversation, and says
professor: "I didn't do anything!"
professor: Coach: I know you didn't! DON'T LET PEOPLE BRING SKATEBOARDS IN!
professor: This was just a huge clusterfuck thinking back on it
L_Cully: Why aren't skateboards allowed in college
professor: He brought it in the gym/physical health building
professor: I teach upstairs there
Angahith: because you can't just... dump it outside
professor: Yes this was the impassioned argument the desk guy made
professor: I settled for giving him moral support by shooting him a look behind the coach's back and rolling my eyes
professor: Now I regret not making the "jerk off" gesture
professor: but that would've been tempting fate I guess
Mozz: heh
Mozz: and remember
Mozz: that coach gets a higher salary from the university than you.
Mozz: you are a wise man, and know when it is safe to make the jerkoff gesture
--- a dirty pun
themis56: "Well if it makes you feel better, I submitted a photo of a statue/monument in Gettysburg, on my other user, and they deleted the deviation, suspended me for two weeks and said that I had submitted pornography."
themis56: What is pornographic in Gettysburg
themis56: is there like some statue of Lincoln composing the address in the nude
Myshu: That would be a little awesome
SaintNick: chinstrap pubes
Hermit: Strategically placed stovepipe hat
SaintNick: that's NOT a stovepipe hat
themis56: or maybe there is a monument in tribute to the FORBIDDEN LUV of a Union and a Confederate solider on that battlefield?
themis56: can love bloom on a battlefield? ;___;
Mozz: love IS a battlefield, Themis.
DK: "Four score and seventeen strokes ago, our foreskin slid back to reveal this cockinent, prime for fellation, conceiving a baby, and dedicated to the proposition that all positions are created equal. Now we are engaged with this great civil whore, testing whether that penis, or any penis so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met between the heaving bosoms of that whore. We have come and dedicated a portion of that field, as a final resting place to the millions who here gave their lives and dried into a fine crust that the penis might spew. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
Mozz: oh dear.
* maggiekarp clap
Quote Log 11 (NeverSFW)
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
Buckle up; this one's a doozy.
--- once they get going it's kinda hard to stop them ...bowchickabowow
Myshu: Oh hey CHAT, spot me here
Myshu: I need as many euphenisms for sex as y'all can think of
DK: riding the bologna pony
DK: tripping the light fantastic
DK: making the beast with two backs
DK: schtupping
DK: digging for gold
DK: pressin' mattress
DK: takin' dick drive to pussy lane
DK: hiding the salami
DK: getting to know one another
Mozz: poundit poundit poundit poundit
Alek: Wanging the Chung
DK: having a wet meat party
Mozz: Pink Plains Driftin'
* Agent|FUCK has joined
Mozz: oh, yeah, that's a good one, AT
DK: traversing the chunnel
Alek: Hopping on the good foot and doing the bad thing
bionicfen: VERBING THE NOUN
Alek: Harry Potter-ing your Chamber of Secrets
DK: performing the slick skin symphony
Agent|FUCK: Stabbin the Sarlacc pit
DK: crossing the spoobicon
Alek: Riding the Bomb
Mozz: spoogicon
Alek: boobicon
DK: flesh pretzel
DK: engaging in vigorous carnal discourse
L_Culleany: coiting
Alek: And, uh, Pedro.
Mozz: heh
Alek: Pedro?
Alek: Yes ma'am. Pedro.
Mozz: you've seen Varsity Blues too, eh Alek
Alek: yeppers
* Mozz surruptitiously hides a Kurt Vonnegut novel inside his playbook and reads that instead
* Agent|FUCK is now known as AgentTon
DK: parting the curtain
AgentTon: Parting the red sea
Alek: Around the World in 80 Seconds
Alek: Journying to the Center of the Earth
AgentTon: Prostastic
DK: taking the Big Whale to the Moon
DK: Killing Tellah
DK: Climing Mt. Ordeals
Mozz: reviving the power of the ORBS
Mozz: junctioning the GF
Alek: Impaling Aeris
L_Culleany: Summoning Odin
Mozz: Listening To My Story.
DK: Filling her Journey with Laughter
Alek: HA HA HA HA HA.
Mozz: HA HA HA HA
bionicfen: Effing the Bee
L_Culleany: Finding the Seagull
DK: Satisfying Leblanc
L_Culleany: Plundering the Phoenix Cave
DK: Feeding Cid some Fish
Mozz: Mastering the Job System
bionicfen: Being Captain Basch von Rosenburgh
Alek: Playing the Golden Saucer
DK: Exploring Burmecia
L_Culleany: Finding the Pink Tail
Mozz: we would also have accepted Fighting The Pink Puff
AgentTon: Puff puff~
Alek: Finding the Huge Materia
Mozz: Having Sexual Intercourse.
Mozz: oh, wait.
Mozz: oops.
Myshu: lmao fuck you
Myshu: (ah shit that counts)
DK: Giving the Slab to Dr. Unne
DK: Waking the Elven Prince
DK: Exploring the Marsh Cave (ewwwwww)
Mozz: Giving Matoya the Crystal
Alek: Banging the Odine Bangle
Alek: Playing Bang a Banga
Myshu: Chocobang Hot & Cold
AgentTon: Banging the drum slowly.
AgentTon: Bridge Over the River Thigh.
DK: Putting Cloud in a Wheelchair
L_Culleany: TCELES B GNIHSUP
DK: UUDDLRLRBAStart
AgentTon: Riding the rocket to Erectiontown.
AgentTon: Thinking with Pornals.
Mozz: Raising Ophelia
DK: Unleashing the Id
DK: Crucifying Chu-Chu
AgentTon: Chu-Chu Pocket.
AgentTon: someone out there has to call their vagina that.
L_Culleany: Uniting the Democratic Party
DK: Earning Fifteen Silver Points
DK: Yanking Ozzie's Chain
Myshu: ewwwww
Mozz: Eating the Power Mushroom
DK: Climbing into Kuribo's Shoe
L_Culleany: Finding Schala
DK: lmaso
Myshu: Sleeping in the Enertron
Alek: Mastering the Mastermune
AgentTon: Minding the Gap.
DK: Pouring Wine onto Toma's Grave
AgentTon: Racing Jonny.
DK: Delivering the Beef Jerky
L_Culleany: Breaking the Time Egg
DK: Tickling the Nu
Alek: Beating the Green Jogger
AgentTon: Feeding the pussies.
L_Culleany: Tiger Apricot
DK: Burning the Plant
Myshu: Riding the Epoch
Myshu: Ringing Leene's Bell
L_Culleany: Laying the Master Sword to Rest
Mozz: shooting the silver arrows
L_Culleany: Catching the Fairy
DK: Feeding the Red Yoshi
L_Culleany: adfsdas
L_Culleany: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwuh
L_Culleany: Launching the Shell
AgentTon: Floating the Peach.
DK: Stomping Bowser
Alek: Eating the Shyguy
L_Culleany: Pressing the Witness
L_Culleany: Presenting the Evidence
Myshu: Phoenix Drive
Mozz: Closing The Case, Cully.
L_Culleany: Examining the Scene
AgentTon: Bomping the Bullet Bill.
DK: Cracking the Psyche-Lock
L_Culleany: Channeling the Mentor
DK: Meeting Pearly
AgentTon: Visiting the Mushroom Kingdom.
DK: Entering the Warp Zone
Mozz: Using Cerebro
Mozz: Entering the Danger Room
Alek: Playing the Magic Flute
DK: But Doctor, I fucked Pagliacci
Stellaluna: Blowing the Ocarina of Time
L_Culleany: Feeding Boco a couple of Zeio Nuts
Myshu: Using the G-Diffuser
AgentTon: Kuribo's Blew
L_Culleany: Riding the Hiryuu
AgentTon: Dry Boned.
Mozz: smashing the pumpkins
DK: Waiting for the Blue Shell
L_Culleany: Squatting Down the Pipe
DK: Entering the Toad House
L_Culleany: Refusing To Let The Future Change
AgentTon: Oohmba.
DK: Removing the Limiter
AgentTon: Boo Diddler.
L_Culleany: Shooting the Rabid Dog
AgentTon: Shooting the Duck Hunt Dog.
DK: That'll Do, Pig
Quote Log 10 (NeverSFW)
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
--- no-man's chat
* Cadet56 has joined
* Cadet56 has left
DK: the army makes a man brave
DK: but not THAT brave
--- how viruses think
Sancdar: alirght guys time to do more virus cleaning
Sancdar: boo for trojan dlls that link to every fucking process on my system
Sancdar: "notepad.exe needs to access the internet to download more viruses, is this okay?"
maggiekarp: "no"
maggiekarp: "are you sure?"
maggiekarp: "n- wait a minute"
maggiekarp: "hahhaha fuck you human"
--- mystical chamberpot
Rydia: i'm so glad obama gave the winston churchill bust back to the british
Rydia: img.waffleimages.com/6108e2c659436fa3272250f48dad34f1e5b81c2f/Winston%20Churchill.jpg just look at the fucking thing
Rydia: how hideous
Rydia: apparently churchill was that ceo guy from x-men 1 when he got mutated
Sancdar: he looks like a shit genie
Sancdar: also the dude was a senator
Rydia: w/e
Angahith: XD
Angahith: shit genie
Sancdar: rub the mystical chamberpot
Sancdar: and if you are lucky a shit genie will appear
Sancdar: "I GRANT YOU WISHES, THEY NUMBER TWO"
--- Stone Cold Dungeons and Dragons
Mozz: anyway yeah, what little i've read of dnd/classic d20 seems too rule and tables heavy and puts me off.
Donraj: I didn't think it was so bad before I tried WoD
Donraj: But then the only thing I had to compare it to was, uh
Donraj: 2nd edition D&D
Mozz: the WoD system is at the right level of dice rolling geekery but not getting in the way of storytelling geekery.
DK: Well, the thing with WoD is it is very easy to remember
DK: you add two numbers together, roll that many dice, count the result
DK: of course the 3:16 system is even more minimal
Rydia: is that where you call in steve austin to perform a body slam
--- Final Fantasy Dissidia
DK: Man I can't get behind 589, I'm sorry. It's not even a gay thing, it's a crossover thing. I couldn't enjoy 589 if it were Faris, Selphie, and Garnet placed in some Rube Goldbergian fuck configuration that would get off a damn Venusian.
Alek: Sephiroth only lasts a minute and a half with Ultimecia. But I mean that's with Time Kompression
Alek: So like three minutes
L_Cully: "I see you are a multilayered character," Kefka remarks as Onion Knight bleeds to death at his feet
L_Cully: "LMAO" he dances
maggiekarp: tch fran ain't furry
maggiekarp: she is like boning a playboy bunny on a bear skin rug at worst
themis56: I've been playing some FFX blitzball
themis56: and I sometimes get into it
themis56: I yell at my players
themis56: NO KEEPA YOU FATTY CATCH THAT DAMN BALL
themis56: I'm like their coach
Mozz: sadly themis, in x2 you are their coach
Mozz: and you coach a team of losers
themis56: I prefer my way
themis56: LETTY YOU STUPID STUPID BEARDO CATCH THAT THING GOD ARE YOU RETARDED OR SOMETHING I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU
themis56: I SHOULD STAB YOU IN THE EYES RIGHT NOW SO HELP ME GOD
Mozz: the coaching strategy in X1 is just like that episode of Fresh Prince
Mozz: where will joins the basketball team
Mozz: "what's our imbound play coach?"
Mozz: "...Pass it to Will."
DK: I'm sorry, every bit of humor re: jecht is forever downhill from that hilarious conversation I had about him with Black years ago
DK: Where we postulated that the final battle of FFX should've been a blitzball duel
DK: Jecht vs. your team, with moves like Jecht Shot MK. VI which involves ripping Tidus's head off and kicking it into the goal for a point
--- monster washers
Rydia: okay so i just saw this commerical
Rydia: with a monster truck going up a ramp and driving on top of two rows of washing machines
Rydia: and at the bottom it says * do not try this at home
Rydia: whose home is that
Mozz: Gravedigger's.
Rydia: i guess they have to be cautious
Rydia: but how are you going to get two long rows of washing machines and a monster truck
Rydia: maybe they're warning against driving a truck through a laundromat
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
Quote Log 9 (NeverSFW)
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
--- Aladdin at the opera
Seris: riff-raff
maggiekarp: street rat
maggiekarp: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF THAT WAS STUCK IN MY HEAD ALL DAY SERIS
maggiekarp: YOU DID THIS TO ME
Seris: i dont
maggiekarp: buy that
Seris: if only theyd look closer
Seris: would they see a poor boy
maggiekarp: no siree
Seris: NO SIR-EE
Seris: theyd find out
maggiekarp: there's so much more
Seris: to
maggiekarp: meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
* maggiekarp strangle duet
Seris: my theory is proven
Seris: the reprise is the only song that 1) everybody knows and 2) will sing along to when prompted
Mozz: never heard of it.
Seris: mozz i am going to cum in your hair
maggiekarp: it's only like three lines seris
Seris: exactly
maggiekarp: celes could memorize that shit
Seris: yeah but that bitch would hella ham that shit up
maggiekarp: "warb warb BLAR BARL bler warb BARB WARB"
maggiekarp: (everyone in ff6 speaks in warbles)
maggiekarp: (it's like mario sunshine but arousing)
Seris: she let all that opera star crap get to her head so whenever she sings now shes just a big show off and everybody rolls their eyes at her when she opens her mouth
Seris: "RiiiIIIFF Raaaffff"
Seris: "stlllleeeet raaaaaaat"
Seris: locke is all "EDGAR SABIN get over here and shove your dicks in my ear and drown this shit OUT"
Seris: they oblige, happily
maggiekarp: they like the song that was their favorite movie growing up
Seris: they high-five over locks head
--- sea turtle eggs
DK: God like
DK: it's only ironically but I love Kesha
DK: she's litereally like Lady Gaga's retarded sister who's been into some lead based paints
DK: just eating them all day
DK: just doing deranged shit that makes zero sense
maggiekarp: DK rewrite the Parent Trap to star Kesha and Lady Gaga
DK: who are the parents
maggiekarp: Madonna and Cee-Lo Green
* DK writin'
- a few minutes later -
DK: "Gaga! You GET OUTTA THAT ROOM, it's time for ya show!" Daddy Cee-Lo ranted, flailing his tiny rexarms as if he were trying to pedal an invisible bicycle that you pedaled with your hands. He was wearing his sunglasses like always cause he was high as all fuck even though it was seven am on a Sunday. As he waited for his daughter, he perambulated about the hallway, colliding with doorframes and rebounding, an erratic black meteorite.
DK: The Haus of Gaga (feat. Cee-Lo) was a Narnian warren of secret passages and eldritch chambers, throbbing with strange light, full of body glitter and sex toys shaped like they were made for pleasuring aliens. Cee-Lo had seen many things within its walls, things man was not meant to see, things like loose collections of limbs slapped together, sprayed with liquid latex, and set to dancing to barely concealed Ace of Base Samples.
DK: Thus, when the door opened, he never expected to be surprised. Gaga - Kesha - stood there, wearing lycra bicycle shorts and a pink tank top that read AQUAMAN IS MY PUSSY INSPECTOR.
DK: She wore an LA Clippers cap glued to a NY Yankees cap glued to a Harlem Globetrotters cap glued to a Red Wings cap, bills sticking out from her head in every cardinal direction like the world's most retarded Zelda monster. Fifteen of those metal slap bracelets that were a big deal at school for like three weeks when you were in sixth grade glimmered on each of her arms and she had curled a neon green pool noodle about her midriff.
DK: The crotch of the bicycle shorts had been cut out, but three novelty pushpins of Mount Rushmore driven into the pool noodle held a dishtowel emblazoned with Spongebob Squarepants as a veil over her mons, a crotch hijab both merciful and utterly moronic.
DK: On one leg, she wore an imitation Wolverine boot (blue and black classic X-Men version), on the other a pair of neon green fishnets that a bag lady at Grand Central station had used as a desperate and utterly ineffective maxi pad, Rorschach-blotted with uterine effluvia.
DK: Crackerjack-box rings and coke can pull tabs glimmered on every finger. A nose stud revealed Dizzy, the mascot of the Atlanta Olympics. A combination of school paste and roadie semen cemented painted cheerios on her face in patterns that recalled the angry, inchoate, and incoherent handwriting of a calligraphist-cum-stroke victm.
DK: Pink Hello Kitty hipster glasses. A scarf made out of a Bugles bag. Blue lip gloss. And body glitter, so much body glitter. It hung in the air, a mobile cloud of funk. It stung Daddy Cee-Lo's eyes, even behind their protective glasses.
DK: "How do oi look, Daddyums?" Kesha said, desperately trying to fake a Mother Monster accent but not quite freeing herself of her nasal twang.
DK: "Fuck you."
* Myshu spittake
maggiekarp: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Myshu: How is that poor child able to walk
Myshu: She just has to waddle around, glitter and scraps of cloth falling in her wake like Okami flowers
DK: Well in this version of the Parent Trap she's just well, as she is
DK: it's just totally inexplicable but there it is
DK: why were she and Gaga, as grown women, even at Summer Camp
DK: Meanwhile Gaga is choking down one of Madonna's dinners which is just an ashtray full of cigarette butts and those big, cheap, puffy, virulently orange Cheeze Doodles
DK: "This is your favorite, Kesha, I don't understand!"
DK: "I guess at least you'll have enough room for dessert!" It's store-bought banana pudding served in a glitter-filled woman's pump.
DK: Gaga eats it. The glitter is cutting her gums.
DK: Cutting deep.
Quote Log 8 (NeverSFW)
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
I think I might have found my single favorite video on all of youtube.
But anyway, back to the chat.
Donraj: I always have trouble keeping the Chinese words for 'left' and 'right' straight
Alek: LEFTU
Alek: RIGHTU
Alek: Oh, Chinese.
Donraj: And the only meme I can ever think of to make them stick in my head is the fact that the one for 'right' looks/sounds like the character for 'oil'
Donraj: So I try to remember to just think of the Republicans whenever it comes up
themis56: huh, this one NJ guy named his kids after Nazis
themis56: FATHER OF THE YEAR
themis56: oh lawds: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell,
themis56: Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell
themis56: You can name a girl Aryan Nation now?
DK: "What's the A.N. stand for?"
DK: "Nothing, it's like the S. in Truman"
maggiekarp: more or less stupid than Sephiroth
DK: Less. I mean it's arguably more loathesome, but it does display devotion to a philosophy that actually exists, though it is terrible
DK: Naming a child Sephiroth displays a devotion to Final Fantasy VII
maggiekarp: good answer
themis56: I await the kid named Don Corneo
DK: Also listen I'm just gonna come out and say this
DK: Batman should be fucking ashamed that the Joker can hold his own with him in a physical fight most of the time
DK: I mean Batman like trained with evry martial arts master ever
DK: Joker's a crazy guy
DK: The two shouldn't match up
Alek: Well it's Crazy vs. Karate
Mozz: i don't know karate
Mozz: but i know ka-RAZY
AgentTon: Joker's got that wirey psycho energy.
bionicfen: the joker does not feel pain, man
bionicfen: ever
bionicfen: or rather he likes it
bionicfen: also it's kind of like you know how there was that one kid
bionicfen: back in junior high
bionicfen: who like went out of his way to get beaten up
bionicfen: and then he'd make creepy moaning sounds while it happened
bionicfen: and then eventually nobody wanted to smack him around anymore because it was just kind of gross
bionicfen: well it's like that
AgentTon: Fen
AgentTon: That was you.
Dogu: The Wall is on VH1... and I'm out of drugs...
Mozz: curses,
Mozz: you'll just have to try and enjoy The Wall.... SOBER
* Mozz dun dun dun
Dogu: CANNOT BE DONE!
* Mozz ominous minor chord
--- pawne shoppe
Myshu: So today at work I watched an act of female ejaculation on a customer's computer
Sancdar: why?
Mozz: why NOT
Mozz: oh wait um
maggiekarp: it was just pee shu
maggiekarp: don't get your hopes up, there is nothing good for us
DK: It's sadly a hotly debated topic
DK: apparently it's a pee like fluid
DK: or something I don't even know
Angahith: Supposedly it contains only traces of pee, because it is expelled through the urethra
Sancdar: well
Sancdar: it's a pawn shop
Sancdar: was he pawning the porn?
Sancdar: was he pawning the computer and wanted to demonstrate the video capabilities?
Sancdar: was he pawning her fluids and needed to show the origin?
Sancdar: also i guess if i pawned my computer i would encrypt all my porn
Sancdar: but also i wouldn't pawn my computer
Myshu: Well the customer wasn't there, it was a pulled item and we were "cleaning" it
Myshu: When the owner finished gaping at what we found he asked WHY we were watching that, and I responded, "Well we have to FIND the porn before we can delete it, right?"
maggiekarp: hehehe
Myshu: The video in question is pretty hilarious
Sancdar: describe in vivid detail
* Sancdar takes notes
Myshu: It's a white girl jilling off on a bed while a big black guy crouches at the foot and observes closely, wearing safety goggles
Myshu: We're wondering why the hell he's dressed like so for about thirty seconds before the GYSER kinda answers it
Sancdar: oh
Sancdar: i think i know who the star is
* Sancdar cough cough
* Myshu raised eyebrow
Sancdar: well there's only one porn star who could produce enough force to require safety goggles
Sancdar: just saying
Sancdar: i mean there might be more
Sancdar: but i hope not
Sancdar: someday she will have sex and accidentally puncture the dude's abdomen with her ejaculate
Sancdar: A CRIME OF PASSION
Myshu: Well whoever she was, for the next half hour I couldn't quit chirping "skeet skeet" in front of customers
maggiekarp: why does that sound cute
Myshu: See? It does
Myshu: Actually my first comment on the whole thing was, "I thought that was a myth..."
Myshu: manager: "I... guess not? Oh look, his goggles have little windshield wipers! That's so funny"
Angahith: HAHAHAHAHA
maggiekarp: windshieljlc
A Field Trip To Jack...
7 years agoMyshu chupariffic
...Patillo's Bar-B-Q.
A few of you might recall this establishment being mentioned on podcast #123. It's in Beaumont, TX--and hell, I work in that town--so I'd meant to go check it out for a while.
Since I worked an early shift today, I finally got a good chance this afternoon. As soon as I got off work, I brought my camera and an appetite for BBQ.
Hah, it even has a rooster on top. How ironic.
Weird, it doesn't look open...
Hey, what's that on the door?
tl;dr I'm at home eating a microwave hot dog.
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