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Just in time for the advent of severe weather season, Spencer Public Library will be joined by representatives from Chasing4Life on Monday, April 25th at 7:30pm for an exciting and informative program. Learn about storm chasing, severe weather history, and current climate challenges. Chasing4Life's mission is to educate the public about disaster awareness and how to be prepared in the event of the emergency that you never thought would happen. Whether it is a tornado, flood, blizzard, or even terrorist attack, there are things you can do to protect your family!
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I would really like to do some storm chasing this spring but I would need a partner. I'm disabled and have quit driving because I have COPD and if I cough too hard I pass out. Except for wheels I have most of the other equipment. I have a lot of camera equipment and a laptop with GPS. This class might teach a little meteorology. That would definitely be handy. I would like to do it just locally. Can't go to Kansas or anything, but I would be willing to split expenses and if we could sell videos or stills I would split the profits. But I'm in it for the fun and excitement. So if anybody is of the same mind, I'll be the one with a beard, ponytail, and a cane. I have to bum rides from a friend and whether I get there or not depends on his schedule but I'll try. I'm really pumped up about this. I wonder if there is a certificate or anything. Maybe there are other classes more tuned for storm chasers somewhere near by. I think I saw something on Sioux City TV about one down there but maybe there is something closer. Did I mention that I'm pumped up about this? See ya there.
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Website Performance Evaluation and Estimation in an E-business Environment
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Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
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This thesis introduces a new Predictus-model for performance evaluation and estimation in a multi-layer website environment. The model is based on soft computing ideas, i.e. simulation and statistical analysis. The aim is to improve energy consumption of the website's hardware and investment efficiency and to avoid loss of availability. The aim of optimised exploitation is reduced energy and maintenance costs on the one hand and increased end-user satisfaction due to robust and stable web services on the other. A method based on simulation of user requests is described. Instead of ordinary static parameter set, the dynamic extraction from previous log files is used. The distribution of existing requests is exploited to generate the actual based natural load. By loading the server system with valid and well-known requests, the behaviour of the server system is natural. The control back loop on the generation of work load assures the validity of the work load in the long-term. A method for identifying the actual performance of the website is described. Using the well-known load in simulation of usage by a large number of virtual users and observing the utilisation rate of server resources ensure the best information for the internal state of the system. The disturbance of the service website usage can be avoided using the mathematical extrapolation method to reach the saturation point on the single server resource.
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Joe Manchin makes U-turn, supports Reid
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"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything." — Alexander Hamilton West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, whose term ends in 2018 (barring recall), waded into hot water a week ago....
Was no u-turn. Manchin ALWAYS supported radical Reid/Pelosi/Obama!!!
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THis is my shocked face. :-O
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RECALLS across the nation are ousting these deceitful and pathetic liars. Manchin's days are numbered. He's NOT getting re-elected. ANd neither is his mini-me Natalie Tennant. Two from the same mold.
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Manchin doing what all radical socialist and progressive dems do; like John Kerry did when running against George Bush...."I was FOR IT before I was against it!" What a group of brainless wonders.
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SO what's new? Nothing! Joe Manchin was, is and always will be UNTRUSTWORTHY and a DISPICABLE disappointment to WV voters. We know how deceitful and lying he is. His word means NOTHING. His handshake means even less. WHich is why WV voters have had enough already of this traitor. He's history and he knows it. And NO, we won't be voting for his hand-picked mini-Joe version in female form....Natalie Tennant either. SHe's a Joe Manchin in female form!
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ALBANY - Fourteen days before being sworn in as governor, George E. Pataki traveled to Buffalo in December 1994 and took in a Bills football game. On the field, the New England Patriots were annihilating the Bills.
But in a box above, Pataki huddled with owner Ralph Wilson. While the two supposedly talked only football, Pataki found himself becoming involved in efforts to keep the team from leaving when the lease on the county-owned stadium expired three years later.
"We want the Bills to be here for a long time," Pataki said after that game, committing to do "everything we can" to cut a deal.
His involvement in reaching a 15-year agreement for the Bills helped endear him to many voters in the Buffalo area during his two re-election contests.
Now, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has the opportunity to keep the team and New York's only state-based NFL franchise from leaving a small-market region for more fertile financial opportunities in larger cities.
But for Cuomo, whose administration was recently criticized for being slow to get into the increasingly urgent talks over a new Bills stadium lease agreement, these negotiations also present potential political pitfalls.
"Some politicians have been fried when a city loses a pro team on their watch," said Andrew Zimbalist, an economist at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., who has studied stadium construction deals struck with the help of public financing by politicians desperate to keep a sports franchise from leaving.
Two weeks ago, senior Cuomo administration officials questioned whether the Bills were truly committed to staying in Buffalo, a worry that seemed to disappear a couple of days later when Cuomo, for the first time, became directly engaged with top Bills executives about a lease extension.
While Cuomo's popularity in the region has improved since he lost all Western New York counties in his 2010 election, a successful outcome with the Bills would almost surely give him a political bump with some local voters.
Failure would present another challenge.
Cuomo or any politicians who get enmeshed in a high-stakes matter like the Bills' future "is risking some of their political capital" if things do not work out, according to James Campbell, a political scientist at the University at Buffalo.
"I think a lot of people would blame him if the Bills left," Campbell said. "There would be blame all around, locally as well."
County Executive Mark Poloncarz would be among top local officials getting political heat if the team moves, most observers say.
If Cuomo does have his eyes on a 2016 White House run, his re-election contest for governor in two years needs to be a cakewalk with all regions of the state - Democratic and Republican - embracing him.
"I believe he has his eyes on the nomination in the next presidential election, and he doesn't want any ink on a big public failure or perceived failure," Campbell said.
On the flip side, there will be some voters, maybe more so outside Western New York, who will be angry with any deal Cuomo strikes involving public funding for a team valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Huge amounts of public money have been spent in recent years to help build new stadiums and arenas for the New York Yankees, New York Mets and the now-Brooklyn Nets, who are moving from nearby New Jersey to the city's most populated borough.
And while Cuomo has pledged $1 billion for unspecified economic development projects for Western New York over five years, the state has spent far more on helping finance construction of high-technology facilities in the Albany area or the $5 billion that Cuomo estimates a new bridge over the Hudson River near New York City will cost as his signature public works project.
For the Cuomo administration, which is considering upwards of $200 million in public money for various renovation work at the Bills' stadium, the tricky part will be balancing that spending with how long of a commitment the team makes to Buffalo, experts say.
"I suspect that Cuomo is trying to accommodate Buffalo because the city has been deflating for so long. It would be a difficult psychological blow if the Bills were to leave. They are a significant part of the city's cultural fabric," said Zimbalist, who has served as a consultant to a variety of professional sports' legal, financial and collective-bargaining matters, including stadium financing and team relocation issues.
Cuomo ought to be able to get a 15-year commitment from the Bills if he fashions the right financial deal, Zimbalist added.
"Spending $200 million for 10 years [of commitment], I'm not sure if that is the right formula," he said.
Even if the talks don't work, Cuomo can come out looking strong, the economist said, if he puts out a plan that is "very concrete and makes sense."
"If he is wishy-washy, and he gives away the store, I don't think he comes out OK. He might make people in Buffalo happy, but he makes the rest of the people in the state angry," Zimbalist said.
The Cuomo administration declined to comment for this story, although a senior Cuomo administration official recently told The Buffalo News that the governor has been in direct talks with a top adviser to Wilson, and Cuomo also has offered to fly to Wilson's home in Michigan to discuss the stadium issues.
Concerned about the sensitive nature of the talks, some Republicans, including Erie County Republican Party Chairman Nicholas Langworthy, declined to comment on how the Bills staying or leaving might affect Cuomo.
With the governor now publicly committing to be fully engaged on the Bills matter, Democrats say Cuomo has made clear the state will financially help to make a deal.
"I don't see any pitfalls for the governor," said Assemblyman Sean Ryan, a Buffalo Democrat. "The Bills are not holding a gun to our head saying, 'We are going to leave if this doesn't happen.' They are saying, 'We want to stay here, we need some help.' So, the county and state are going to come in and provide the funding to make that happen."
Others who have studied stadium financing deals question the involvement of politicians in such matters.
"I don't know much about the motivation of politicians, other than they think that having a sports team makes them look like leaders," said John Siegfried, professor emeritus of economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
There is a long line of cities that have lost professional sports teams, with much subsequent finger-pointing among politicians. Some cities have later attracted other professional teams to locate to their communities as replacements for lost franchises.
But no one is suggesting that another team will replace the Bills should the team leave.
"There's a lot of good reasons why Cuomo would enmesh himself in something like this, particularly for Western New York," said UB's Campbell. "He's had his political problems in Western New York, where there is a very strong commitment to the Bills, and losing them would be deflating for a lot of reasons."
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FREEPORT — Local officials believe Gov. Pat Quinn's recently announced transportation plan could have a huge impact on rail service in Freeport.
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FREEPORT — Local officials believe Gov. Pat Quinn's recently announced transportation plan could have a huge impact on rail service in Freeport.
"We've been working on this for a couple of years now," said Community Development Director Shelly Griswold. "It's important for residents to have connections to bigger cities."
Griswold said that the economic impact of commerce between Freeport and Chicago could be substantial. She added that she was excited for a planned multimodal station at the Rawleigh Complex and believes it could be the beginning of a larger redevelopment to the riverfront area.
"To have the multimodal hub included in the six-year plan, we're thrilled," Griswold said. "The station is part of a broader set of goals near the riverfront."
Freeport, along with Galena, were originally part of the "Blackhawk" Amtrak line that previously ran through the area, beginning in 1974 and discontinued in 1981.
"This really shows that we have a good connection with Gov. Quinn and downstate," said Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp. "It's really a partnership with Quinn. Shelly deserves a lot of credit for the grants. She went after them hard."
The rail project is planned for fiscal year 2014-15 and is anticipated for completion by the end of 2015.
"The rail system improvements will make it easier to travel across northern Illinois and will continue to bring economic development to the region," said David Blanchette, spokesman for Quinn. "The governor is pleased. This is a good thing. It's an important priority for the region."
Illinois Department of Transportation spokesperson Jae Miller said a grant of $500,000 to fund the design of the multi-modal station has been awarded to Freeport as a part of the upcoming rail line.
"The Rockford-Dubuque corridor is a high priority of Gov. Quinn's, so much so that he set aside $60 million of Illinois Jobs Now capital funds to pay for the infrastructure improvements needed to begin passenger rail service on the corridor," Miller said. "IDOT is now in negotiations with the host Canadian National Railroad on a final infrastructure improvement budget. The goal is to reach an agreement with CN soon so that design and engineering can be completed in time for construction to begin in spring 2014."
Quinn's total plan is a six-year, $12.62 billion project for fiscal years 2014-19. It will be funded by an anticipated $7.2 billion in federal funds and $1.9 billion in state funds.
"This will enable rail to come from Chicago through Freeport all the way to Dubuque," Gaulrapp said. "It's a good thing."
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The Chicago-Rockford-Dubuque passenger rail service is just one of several projects that will influence northwest Illinois.
Others include:
- Resurfacing, reconstruction bridge replacement, realignment, shoulder repair, culvert removal and replacement and land acquisition of U.S. 20 from Logemann Road east of Elizabeth to west of Rush Street in Stockton. Cost: $16 million.
- Bridge replacement and construction of U.S. 52/Illinois 64 over the Mississippi River and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad in Savanna. Approved for Illinois Major Bridge Program funding.
- Galena to Freeport U.S. 20 lane expansion and land acquisition. Cost: $5,63 million. (State and/or local match required)
- Resurfacing of 1.1 miles of Illinois 26, West Avenue in Freeport, from north of Business U.S. 20 to Empire Street. Cost: $770,000.
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a person usually a bf or gf who never pays for anything and who is always with money of their own. The always relay on somebody else to pay for them....but the mooching is okay because he or she is your friend.
muff muff muff muff from Carleton University always mooches off her friends.
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A scab or freeloader who comes to your house uninvited and overstays his welcome (For more than about 3 days) and proceeds to eat all your food, stink up your bathroom, take all your drugs and just generally leech all the blood from your body during their stay.
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Someone who wants something for free .. someone who takes and takes but doesn't give back.
Matt is the biggest MOOCH ive ever seen
dari Noodle Minggu, 16 Januari 2005
A sponge. A schnorrer. A person who shows up every evening at dinner time. A person who wants other people to pay his way.
Here's how we got rid of a mooch. We fed him dinner. After dinner, we called in the dog and let the dog lick our plates and silverware. Then we put the plates and silverware back in the cupboard. After the mooch left, we had to wash everything, but that schnorrer never came over again.
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1)walking randomly and aimlessly around, or just hanging out with nothing to do
2) something to say when you're not sure really what to do
2) something to say when you're not sure really what to do
girl 1: what are you doing?
girl 2: nothing, just mooching
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girl 2: i don't know, let's just mooch.
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Steves a mooch!
dari mooseknuckles Rabu, 13 November 2002
Someone who wants something for free ... someone who takes and takes but doesn't give.
Potluck type of thing scheduled at work and only 1/2 the people bring stuff yet they wanna eat the grub. Not cool ... definately a freeloader.
dari Milton Kamis, 17 Juni 2004
A person who takes everyone elses shit; sometimes the mooch will ask for something (like one chip from the bag), and then continue to eat those chips until the bag is completely finished. This also known as a Mathew Hunter Cullen.
My friend came over today and he Mathew Cullened all my food! What a Mooch.
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The scare over insulin pens has given rise to a legal battle over their use – a lawsuit by three people who contend that they contracted hepatitis at Olean General Hospital.
The three former patients are suing Olean General, as well as several insulin pen manufacturers, alleging that they were infected with hepatitis because of the hospital's reuse of other patients' pens.
"Employees of the hospital were misusing the pens by reusing them on multiple patients," said Donald P. Chiari, a lawyer for the three former patients.
The lawsuit comes several weeks after public health officials in Cattaraugus County reported that at least eight people had tested positive for hepatitis after undergoing screening by Olean General.
The suit accuses Olean General of using the same insulin pens on more than one patient and thereby putting other patients at risk of contracting hepatitis.
"They're making an allegation they're not sure of," Dennis J. McCarthy, spokesman for Olean General, said of lawyers in the case. "They're just looking for an opportunity."
McCarthy said there's no proof that the people who tested positive for hepatitis contracted it through a reused insulin pen.
The suit was filed more than a month after Olean General warned 1,915 former patients that they might have been exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and hepatitis B and hepatitis C through the possible reuse of the pens between November 2009 and Jan. 16 of this year.
Hospital officials suspended its use of insulin pens and urged former patients to get blood tests.
"One man went into the hospital for hernia surgery and came out with hepatitis," said John V. Elmore, a lawyer for the three former patients.
The hospital ordered the screening after reports of inappropriate insulin pen use surfaced at Buffalo VA Medical Center.
At the time, Olean General said a review of its insulin pen use indicated that the practice of using one patient's pen on another patient was not permissible but might have occurred at some point.
Hospital officials say that the practice at Olean General was to label insulin pens for each patient and that no evidence exists that a pen was used on more than one patient.
"Making a direct connection back to an insulin pen just doesn't match," McCarthy said Tuesday.
The practice of using a single pen on more than one patient conflicts with a 2009 Food and Drug Administration warning and a similar January 2012 alert from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Insulin pens were designed for at-home self-injections by diabetics but, since their introduction in the 1980s, have been adopted by hospitals, as well.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Already known for his regular outreach to the local community, Summerville Orthodontist, Dr. Britt Reagin, has announced his latest plans to give cash donations of up to $1,000 to three Summerville-area schools.
By opening voting to local residents, the community-at-large has a rare opportunity to choose three schools to receive either $1,000, $500 or $250. With voting open until April 30, each member of the community is urged to act soon to make their voice heard.
"The spark for this campaign came to me after reviewing the donations made to schools over the past year. Many campaigns were launched by parents and the financial need in the local school system became obvious," says Dr. Reagin, owner of Reagin Orthodontics.
"This inspired me to put forward some money so that students, parents and local groups could mobilize and help their schools earn a donation. I want to help cast light on a worthwhile cause while simultaneously motivating other businesses in the community to enact similar actions," Ragin said.
Social media is Dr. Reagin's publicity vehicle of choice due to its ease of access and high adoption rates in the local area.
By voting online, the local community can choose which Summerville-area schools will benefit from Reagin Orthodontics' generous cash donations.
Voting is easy; simply visit the practice's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/ReaginOrthodontics) and select the school of your choice by clicking the 'Supporting Schools- Vote Here' icon.
When voting closes on April 30, the three schools with the most votes will enter a final round, where one will be drawn to win a $1,000 donation. The second-drawn school receives $500, and the third $250.
"I highly value my own education and want to make a difference to the futures of others. By involving the local community I believe we can strengthen our spirit and do good collectively. Cast your votes now," Reagin said.
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NEW ORLEANS – Dennis Dixon is on the Baltimore Ravens' practice squad.
Though if the Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, Dixon will have earned his championship ring.
Dixon has been the Ravens' secret weapon, imitating the 49ers' hard-to-replicate quarterback, Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick is difficult to prepare for. He has a big arm and is a threat to run in the 49ers' read-option offense. Dixon is familiar with the read option from his days at the University of Oregon.
"That guy has been doing a major job," Ravens cornerback and Turner-Carroll alum Corey Graham said of Dixon. "You'd think he might want to go somewhere that runs that offense so he can have an even bigger role in this NFL.
"But he's done an outstanding job. He's run this offense at Oregon. He knows it, and he's done an amazing job of preparing us for this stage."
In two playoff games, Kaepernick has thrown for 496 yards and three touchdowns with one interception and has run 18 times for 202 yards (only 7 yards behind Frank Gore for the team lead) and two touchdowns.
"We've got to stop the run," Graham said. "We can't allow [Kaepernick] to get out there and make plays with his legs.
"We've had an opportunity to not just see it, but go against it for the whole week. We had an opportunity to make those mistakes against this offense, and that's important in football. Sometimes you need to be out there and make those mistakes in practice so you don't in the game."
The influx of running quarterbacks could help keep Dixon employed. The 2008 fifth-round draft choice has played only four NFL games, but he's proving valuable.
Dixon also helped the Ravens prepare for Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III in Week 14. The Ravens lost, 31-28, in overtime. Griffin had a relatively modest day: 58 percent completions for 242 yards and one touchdown and seven carries for 34 yards and a fumble.
San Francisco has a great weapon in punter Andy Lee.
He set the NFL single-season record for net punting average in 2011 by posting a 44.0-yard mark. He also has topped the 40-yard net average mark four of the last six seasons.
No NFL punter ever had broken the 40-yard net barrier until 2007. That year, Oakland Raiders punter Shane Lechler (41.1) and Lee (41.0) both did it. The next year four punters did it. In 2009 six did it. In 2010 it was three, in 2011 nine and this season 15 punters did it.
That's 39 times the 40-yard mark has been broken in the last six seasons after never having been cracked in NFL history.
"I think it's once something happens, then it goes crazy," Lee said. "There's been more speed on the coverage teams. So the returners are not able to run around guys as much maybe.
"The balls are really good. They're getting a little better than when I first came in the league. They were getting real slippery and nasty. They're a little better, which is good for us because you can catch 'em, they're not slipping out of your hands. You get a good grip."
Perhaps the biggest factor: Punters are getting better at directional kicking, pinning return men near the sideline when the ball is caught. It makes coverage so much easier.
"I think punters are better," said Niners special teams coach Brad Seely. "I think we're just in a golden age of guys who can really kick the ball a long ways, and they're doing a very good job of placing it on the field where it's easier for the coverage team to squeeze the return man.
"More directional punting has helped. I think the punters are kicking it farther, so you've got to do directional punting or you're going to be out there in space with a lot of field."
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4 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About the Holidays
#2. Christmas for a Child Revolves Around a Single Toy
As Seen In:
A Christmas Story; Jingle All the Way; The Santa Clause
You've seen it a hundred times. In some movies, a kid desperately wants a toy for Christmas and the plot revolves around the parent or parents going to great lengths to get that present, because if they don't the kid will be for the purposes of this movie, devastated. Or, you'll see a movie about some grouchy adult who doesn't believe in Santa and doesn't buy into the Christmas spirit because he or she didn't get the toy they wanted so badly as a child. In The Santa Clause, Judge Reinhold didn't get the whistle (or whatever) that he wanted as a kid and it may as well have been his own private Kennedy assassination. The message in these movies are simple: if the kid doesn't get one, specific present, say goodbye to his or her innocence. That kid will be a jaded cynic for the rest of her life, (or until a future Christmas movie, when it will be convenient for them to suddenly rediscover their Christmas spirit again).
"When you gaze into the abyss, you'll notice there are no toys there."
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You know what I wished for every Christmas? Yes, of course you do: Spider powers. After chasing down a number of dead ends, (I played with radiation, I ate spiders, I went to parks and fought vultures, and so on), I decided that the only way to get the spider powers that I wanted and-- let's all be real for a second-- clearly deserved, I was going to have to turn to Santa, or someone else with magic on their side. So I asked for spider powers every year and never got them, even when I turned 17 and was really good that year. You know what happened every year when I didn't get spider powers? I got the hell over it.
Even if I didn't get a non-spider-power-related gift that I'd wanted, I still got over it. I really wanted the Power Ranger Megazord one year and didn't get it, but I was fine, because I was mature and reasonable and could find mature and reasonable solace in the pile of other toys.
I know there's some merit to movies like Jingle All the Way, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad, (Hahaha. The nineties.), spend the entire film trying to track down a Turbo Man Doll, only to find it sold out almost everywhere. I've heard horror stories about the time when Tickle Me Elmo dolls were so in demand that folks were physically beating one another in stores to make sure they got one. Parents want their kids to have everything, I get it. Clearly, Jingle All the Way isn't totally out of left field.
Except for its use of jetpack technology.
But these movies that treat not getting the perfect toy like the most traumatic thing a child can live through are just insane. So many Christmas movies have some stern businessman who hates Christmas, and his backstory almost always involves the year he didn't get the one toy he wanted more than anything else. Like, "From that moment forward I knew: I was destined to be an asshole. Anyway Christmas is cancelled!"
Get over it, guy.
#1. Christmas Makes People Change Drastically/Confess Love
As Seen In:
Love, Actually; Elf; A Christmas Carol
Something like ninety percent of the characters in Love, Actually confess their love to someone and the justification for the abrupt burst of honesty is "if you can't say it on Christmas, when can you say it?"
If people aren't using Christmas as an excuse to declare love, they're making Christmas-inspired major life changes. Scrooge is overcome by the holiday spirit so he changes himself entirely and totally adjusts his money-collecting business, (which incidentally I'm sure would have a drastic negative socioeconomic impact on the town, but I guess they're saving that for the sequel).
But who cares about that? Who cares about any of that? Aw heck, it's Christmas, and we're all going to live forever!
In Reality
Look, I'm not a scrooge. I mentioned just last week that I spend every minute between Thanksgiving and Christmas listening to Christmas music. I wreck house on some Candy Canes even though they're objectively the most awkward and, if you wear them down enough, sharpest things one can eat. I hang a Christmas stocking for my dog and fill it with special treats even though he's made it clear that he'd just as soon eat some strange poop if given the opportunity. I know I'm complaining about it in this very entry, but I watch Love, Actually every single time Christmas rolls around, (also Die Hard). I lose my shit over a dope Christmas tree.
No one gets more into the Christmas Spirit than this guy right here. Nobody. I am Mr. god damned Christmas, you got me?
"Mr. Christmas." Copyright Price Stern Sloan, respectively. -Editorial
Still, as much as I love Christmas, it has never moved me to rethink absolutely every decision I've ever made in my life, and it's never driven me to convince my love for someone. Do the people who profess love strictly because "it's Christmas" know that, eventually, it won't be? The reason I never change who I am or proclaim undying love on Christmas is because I know that, sooner or later, it'll be the day after Christmas, and I know I'll like to go back to my normal life of not changing who I am completely and not loving anything that isn't my dog.
Hollywood does this because they want people to believe that magic is real, (no need to convince me, guys), but it's dangerous, because it convinces people that Christmas exists in a weird bubble where you can go crazy and make sweeping declarations and expect no consequences on the other side. If you change completely and declare your love for someone "because it's Christmas," what happens when Christmas is over, and you realize that you actually like being a Scrooge, and that the town, whether they want to admit it or not, relies on your business to keep the economy going? What happens when the woman you declared your Christmas love for abandons you because you lose that Christmas High that made you seem so exciting and energized? She'll leave you, and THEN who are you going to kiss on New Year's Eve?
You DO have someone to kiss, right? Oh, you poor bastard.
Daniel O'Brien is Cracked's Senior Writer (ladies), and believes that love actually is all Die Hard (with a vengeance).


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Originally, 174 residents had to be moved to area motels and hotels, Public Affairs Officer Mike McAleer said. That number was reduced to 103 as residents graduated from the program or transferred to other VA centers, he said.
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Staff and residents cut a ceremonial ribbon Friday welcoming home veterans to the Martinsburg VAMC's domiciliary that was closed for mold abatement and remediation. Pictured are, front row from left, Dr. Tonia Bagby, Medical Center acting associate director; Ann R. Brown, Medical Center director; Steven Crum, a resident; Susan E. George, associate director, patient care services; Michelle Cooke, acting director of mental health; and William Hall, a resident. Back row from left, resident Willie Hudson; Dr. Jonathan Fierer, chief of staff; resident Randall Riffe; resident Chester Sutton; and resident Leon McLeon.
Crum, 58, a U.S. Navy veteran, who served from 1973-75, is enrolled in the Center for Addictions Treatment program at the VAMC. He lives in D Pod of the domiciliary while attending classes and receiving medical treatment.
"The VA bent over backward to transport us to our doctor's appointments and to our classes," he said.
Crum stayed at the Days Inn and Comfort Suites while abatement and remediation work went on at the VAMC's domiciliary.
The facility was closed Aug. 24 after mold was discovered behind air conditioner units in some of its rooms.
"There was some drip pan action behind the walls (that caused the mold)," McAleer said. "The mold was removed and the wall board and insulation has been replaced and new, state-of-the-art AC standalone units have been installed in each room."
Work on A, B and C pods is still underway, he said. In two weeks, the staff expects to welcome back another 50 veterans to C Pod, he said.
The entire abatement and remediation process is expected to be finished in about 60 days, McAleer said.
Extra recreational and community activities were made available to the residents while they were displaced, he said.
McAleer did not know how much the abatement and remediation process cost, nor how much it cost to house the displaced veterans in local lodging facilities.
Ann Brown, director of the Martinsburg VAMC, greeted the returning veterans. She thanked the residents for bearing up under the displacement and choosing to remain in the program.
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Evidence of college basketball zaniness is strewn from Coral Gables to Spokane, and here in the Lowcountry on both sides of the Cooper River.
Ohio State and Marquette were unable to open the season at the Carrier Classic in November because of moist hardwood on the Yorktown flight deck.
Now it's NCAA tournament time, and the dance floor is just as slippery. Kansas is a No. 1 seed that just this month lost by 23 points to Baylor, which lost a home game to the College of Charleston, which lost to Anderson College at TD Arena.
Louisville, another No. 1 seed, appeared at TD Arena in December for an 80-38 win over the Cougars.
The Cardinals, among other things, have superior guards (Peyton Siva and Russ Smith), a reliable big guy (6-11 Gorgui Dieng, back after missing the Charleston game and six others with a broken wrist) and A-list head coach Rick Pitino.
At the Final Four fitting finish to a strange season, it's hard to pick against an ACC-bound Big East team in SEC-mad Atlanta during a year sprinkled with Big 10 dominance.
Around the bracket:
Midwest Regional
Top seed: Louisville
Regional final site: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
Best first-round game: No. 5 Oklahoma State, coming off a 15-18 season last year, vs. No. 12 Oregon, coming off a Pac-12 tournament title.
Bracket buster: No. 13 New Mexico State over No. 4 Saint Louis.
Star power: Creighton junior forward Doug McDermott, the sharpshooting son of Blue Jays head coach Greg McDermott, is the nation's second-leading scorer.
Unsung legend: Liberty guard John Caleb Saunders torched Charleston Southern for 27 points in the Big South championship game.
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Officepoolology: Go with point spreads over seeding.
Best nickname: Albany Great Danes
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West Regional
Top seed: Gonzaga
Regional final site: Staples Center, Los Angeles
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Officepoolology: When looking for upset winners, choose a No. 12 or No. 13 for minimal risk (you didn't really expect that No. 5 or No. 4 to get past a top seed, anyway).
Best nickname: La Salle Explorers
Sweet 16 picks: 1. Gonzaga, 2. Ohio State, 3. New Mexico, 5. Wisconsin
South Regional
Top seed: Kansas
Regional final site: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington
Best first-round game: No. 8 North Carolina vs. No. 9 Villanova, if only to see if Roy Williams and the Tar Heels can stage an upset bid against Kansas, where Williams was head coach from 1988-2003.
Bracket buster: No. 11 Minnesota over No. 6 UCLA
Star power: Kansas freshman shooting guard Ben McLemore might be the first pick in the 2013 NBA draft.
Unsung legend: South Dakota State's 6-4 senior guard Nate Wolters (22.5 points per game) is the Summit League player of the year.
Geography madness: Poor No. 5 VCU. The Rams are likely to face No. 4 Michigan in the second round, in Michigan (Auburn Hills).
Officepoolology: Beware teams that rely heavily on 3-point shooting (Creighton, for instance). You can absorb cold streaks over the long regular season but not now.
Best nickname: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
Sweet 16 picks: 1. Kansas, 2. Georgetown, 3. Florida, 4. Michigan
East Regional
Top seed: Indiana
Regional final site: Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.
Best first-round game: No. 3 Marquette vs. No. 14 Davidson. The Wildcats don't sneak up on foes and Marquette has six top 50 wins (zero for Davidson). But Jake Cohen, De'Mon Brooks and friends are a tough out.
Bracket buster: No. 10 Colorado over No. 7 Illinois.
Star power: Miami sophomore point guard Shane Larkin was named ACC tournament MVP as Miami became the first non-North Carolina school to win the ACC regular season title outright and tournament title in the same season.
Unsung legend: Bucknell's 6-11 senior center Mike Muscala is a force inside (19 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.4 blocks).
Geography madness: The UNLV-California winner won't be far from home for a second-round game against No. 4 Syracuse in San Jose.
Officepoolology: Work backward, picking your Final Four first to protect those picks against ill-advised upset impulses.
Best nickname: LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds
Sweet 16 picks: 1. Indiana, 2. Miami, 4. Syracuse, 6. Butler
Final Four: Louisville, Ohio State, Kansas, Miami
National championship: Louisville over Kansas
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Besides the egg hunt, there will be face-painting and activities for children.
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The Agricultural Technologies program is designed to prepare you to work in the field of agriculture and its related occupations. The agriculture industry provides jobs that require workers with a wide range of knowledge and skill. The curriculum at HCC will teach you basics in theory, principles, and techniques employed by the agricultural industry. You have course options available in the Sustainable Agricultural Course Track as well as the Agricultural Technology Course Track.
Our programs will prepare you with a range of skill and knowledge useful for jobs in agriculture and related occupations. The agriculture industry provides a variety of employment opportunities with some needing only minimal skills and others requiring in-depth knowledge and decision-making abilities. If you continue your education and complete a bachelor's degree, you may work in a number of industries including insurance, agricultural research, and agricultural supply/repair companies.
Learn more about wages in this field of study at salary.com.
This program has no special admission requirements. See the general college admission requirements.
You will be studying proper field management, maintaining equipment, caring for animals, plant science, soils and fertilizers, precision agriculture, sustainable, environmental and organic agriculture, and computers in agriculture. You can earn an associate of applied science degree in two years if you maintain full-time status. See the Academic Plan for more information.
The HCC Land Lab is partnered with Beck's to provide hands-on experience for HCC agriculture students. It also serves to provide yield data results from the crops grown.
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Henderson Community College offers a local collegiate chapter of the Kentucky Young Farmer Association. Contact Laura Winstead for more information.
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For the fifth consecutive year, the preterm birthrate in the U.S. continued its slow but steady downward trend, good enough to earn a �C� on a new March of Dimes report card.
The nation�s premature birthrate is 11.7 percent of all live births � the lowest in a decade, according to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. The March of Dimes has set a goal of 9.6 percent by 2020.
�We�re on the right track,� having reversed a trend that included increases every year for decades, said Jennifer Howse, president of the nonprofit pregnancy and baby health group. Its 9.6 percent goal reflects the adoption of measures such as getting mothers to stop smoking and providing access to prenatal care.
In 2006, the nation�s preterm birthrate peaked at 12.8 percent after rising steadily for more than two decades. Preterm birth (before 37 weeks of completed pregnancy) is the leading cause of infant death during the first month of life.
Having 64,000 fewer preterm babies born from 2006 to 2010 resulted in healthier babies as well as a potential savings of roughly $3 billion in health care and economic costs, the report says.
Key signs of improvement in this year�s report:
Four states (Vermont, Oregon, New Hampshire and Maine) earned an �A� for meeting the 9.6 percent goal; in 2010, only Vermont earned the top grade.
45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico posted improved preterm birthrates from 2009 to 2011, earning 16 of them better grades.
The states with the highest preterm birthrates � Mississippi (16.9 percent), Louisiana (15.6 percent) and Alabama (14.9 percent) � are among 48 states, along with Puerto Rico (17.5 percent) and the District of Columbia (13.7 percent) that have all formally set goals to lower their preterm rates 8 percent by 2014 from their 2009 rates.
Although the preterm birthrate �is not good enough yet,� Howse says, �there now is genuine national momentum and leadership to just stay at it until we get the job done.�
Key factors that continue to drive the rate of premature births in the U.S. include maternal smoking, insufficient access to prenatal health-care services and late preterm births (infants born between 34 and 36 weeks of gestation).
Though late preterm babies are usually healthier than babies born earlier, they are three times more likely to die in the first year of life than full-term infants, the March of Dimes says. About 8 percent of deliveries are late-preterm, sometimes the result of medically unnecessary elective inductions and cesarean sections.
�It�s very, very important to try to support pregnancies so babies can be born as close to 39 to 40 weeks as possible,� said pediatrics professor Deborah Campbell, director of Neonatology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Just because a baby makes it to 37 or 38 weeks, �what we call full term,� doesn�t mean that they are fully developed, Campbell said. �These babies are more likely to end up in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), more likely to have acute health issues, and now we�re finding, more likely to have issues as they reach school age.�
�Babies need those extra weeks for full development of the brain and lungs,� Howse said, adding that unless it is a medical necessity, women should wait until at least 39 weeks to schedule an induced labor or C-section.
Worldwide, 15 million babies are born too soon each year and more than 1 million of those infants die as a result. The U.S. ranked 131 out of 184 countries in premature births according to a May 2012 report by the March of Dimes, Save The Children and others.
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Sculpting ice is Paul Strada's sideline. Working with a chain saw, handsaw, chisel and even a conventional clothes iron, Strada carves fast, furious and is cool as the ice he is sculpting. His detailed creations have earned him medals in competitions around the world, although the meat of his business is weddings and commercial events.
Born in Buffalo's Lovejoy neighborhood, Strada graduated from Bishop Timon High School and Buffalo State College before he started his sign business 32 years ago. Today, Strada is 55. He runs both businesses from NAS Signs on Elmwood Avenue.
People Talk: How much does a block of ice cost?
Paul Strada: A crystal clear block of ice is about $80 to $100. It weighs about 270 to 300 pounds, and it's made just for sculpting. The average piece I sell runs from $450 to $550.
PT: Do you monitor the ice's freezing process to guard against impurities?
PS: Well, yes, but I don't make my own ice. The ice that I buy is high quality made from a special process so that it's very clear. It looks like crystal with very little or no bubbles at all. Ice Is Nice is made in Wyoming County. In the old days I used to buy it from Happy Ice. The ice business is a micro industry, and bigger than you think. Most of the tools I get online.
PT: Do you ever forage for your own ice in winter?
PS: I do not, but some of the competitions provide their own lake ice. The world championships are in Fairbanks, Alaska, at the end of March every year. In Wisconsin, Alaska and in Europe they use lake ice and the blocks are much, much larger. Ottawa has a big winter festival. I won a bronze there.
PT: Tell me about your largest creation.
PS: I did a piece in Japan that was 21 blocks of ice. It was Japanese anime. We did it in Karuizawa, up in the mountains east of Tokyo. I was invited to compete. I've been to France, Toronto, New York. I'm a world- class competitor. I have three bronze medals. Ice sculpting is the entertainment for winter festivals, so when a ski resort wants to draw tourists they have ice and snow competitions. Once you reach a certain ranking you are invited, but you still have to submit photos and drawings to qualify because they want the best.
PT: What is your signature?
PS: I like to have some movement, lots of extension. You want to build it like it's almost ready to fall down.
PT: Are the competitions timed events?
PS: They have one-hour competitions. They have two-hour competitions. The bronze medal I won in Ottawa was a two-hour, one-block competition. They have 36-hour competitions.
PT: Is it a competitive industry?
PS: I would say so, but some of us stand alone.
PT: What elevates your sculptures?
PS: The process that I use. The detail; how I finish it. It takes me longer now with all the years of experience to do certain things because of my technique. My initial competitions I went to learn. I watched them, their techniques, and I saw their designs.
PT: Tell me about one of your unconventional ice-carving tools.
PS: I use a household iron to smooth and for eyelashes. I use it for doing lips. There are many other tools. I use grinding tools, die grinders, chain saws, handsaws, chisels. It's physical. I work up a sweat. It's just like working out. One competition in Japan was 28 hours straight.
PT: Do ice sculptors have nicknames?
PS: Ice monsters. Ice heads.
PT: Do you work well under pressure?
PS: I kind of dig the spotlight.
PT: Do you remember your first block?
PS: Yeah, one of the first things I did was for one of Jim Kelly's golf benefits. It was a rather difficult piece that I would be embarrassed to show now. It was Neptune holding a seashell. Some of the work I do I've done numerous times. I've done a thousand swans, a thousand seashells, hearts.
PT: Do you use a walk-in freezer for a studio?
PS: I do most of my carving in room temperature.
PT: How volatile is ice?
PS: It's fragile, and the colder it is the more brittle it is. You can freeze parts together so I could make a clown and freeze a nose on if I need to make it in components.
PT: What are nightmare weather conditions to work in?
PS: Hot and humid – 80 to 90 degrees and rain. Rain melts ice immediately.
PT: Any sculpting bloopers you'd like to share?
PS: I've delivered swans with broken necks. I'd fix them on site. I have a little can of Freeze Spray. It's actually a gum remover so it's freeze in a can.
PT: Do you create ice sculptures for personal enjoyment?
PS: When the Sabres were in the Stanley Cup playoffs I made little ice Stanley Cups for everyone. Birthday numbers for some of the kids in the family.
PT: Who are your biggest customers?
PS: Salvatore's, Buffalo Sabres. The brides. I do a lot of grand openings, anniversaries for businesses.
PT: What is the average life span of one of your creations?
PS: The average wedding piece will look good for three to six hours depending on the detail, the size and the heat and humidity. To create, it takes two to five hours.
PT: Do you look forward to each block?
PS: It's like working out. You may not look forward to it, but once you get into it it's always a buzz.
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One who falls into the label of the punk scene. Traditional punkers wore 501 levis or tight plad pants known as bondage trousers. They usually have their hair in some sort of spike form, be it "Plain spikes", a 'hawk or liberty spikes, although the hair can be anything, these are the most popular. Most punkers are againts "Selling out", the act of giving into main stream things, such as buying high priced clothes or being "trendy". To day, being a "Punker" dosent have the same meaning that it did 30 years ago. Most "Punkers" to day will buy high priced "Punker clothes" at trendy stores or with hold the "Fuck the goverment and society" idea.
"Most punkers today would'nt know what punk is if the Sex pistols walked up and kicked them in the ass"
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(n) A person who has an interest in punk rock music
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1) One who punks.
2) Person who listens to Punk Rock music, dresses or/and acts in the general style of a punk.
2) Person who listens to Punk Rock music, dresses or/and acts in the general style of a punk.
IkeM가 작성 2003년 10월 25일 (토)
A fierce individual with a bone to pick with the world doesn't matter how you look or how you dress as long as you stay true to your self and as long as you love punk more then anything your a PUNKER but don't try hard to be a punker because that's just TRENDY
Bill joel armstrong isn't a punker he's a total hot topic display Sellout!!!
the anti trendy가 작성 2010년 10월 15일 (금)
When you take a shit that is so massive it fills the toilet bowl to the point of making an island that sticks out of the water.
Dude after not shitting for a week or so i just took a massive Dobie and it converted into a Punker by the time i was finished. It was epic.
darklord477가 작성 2009년 05월 21일 (목)
punkers are people who listen to, and live for punk rock. punkers are usually anarchists who hate the government.
punkers rule, charvas and the government suck
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Not a punk, get over it. Used for a person that a non-punk person would think of as a punk (but usually isn't). Isn't it some little boy that screws old men, too?
You're like such a punker!
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Although WPF is less than a year old, we're already putting the finishing touches to an update that will add some neat features and improvements, improve internationalization support and increase performance. In this video, Charles Torre (and Dr Sneath, when he finally turns up) sit down with Kevin "Bag'o'Tricks" Moore as he provides a whirlwind tour of the improvements and changes you can expect to see in WPF 3.5 (which ships as part of "Orcas").
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After reading about the proposed new development at Squaw Valley, I am mystified that anyone would support it other than those with a direct financial interest in it. Do we really need a hugely out-of-scale "Mountain Adventure Center" near Tahoe? Do we really need a water park and more than a thousand new condos?
The irony of a water park at Tahoe ... is it only me?
Squaw's Chevis Hosea invites us to have a look at KSL's (the owner of Squaw) website, so I did. In it, they say they:
• Calibrate operational efficiencies to produce industry-leading margins.
• Enhance existing revenue bases through market re-positioning and employing specialized sales resources. Cultivate new business opportunities to maximize real estate.
• Optimize real estate development opportunities.
This is clearly a big developer who's all about the money, not the environment, and who doesn't give a hoot about this area's history or the unique mountain ambiance that has been part of the Tahoe area since time immemorial. And agreeing to reduce some building heights seems to me to be simply that shopworn ploy of giving a little to get a lot.
Lastly, one of KSL's long-time development partners is East West Partners, who not so long ago lost The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe at Northstar to foreclosure. That seems to me to be a pretty clear signal that this area does not need and cannot support gargantuan new projects that destroy the character of this beautiful place in a greed-fueled attempt to put more money into big development's pockets.
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5 Cover Songs That Stole the Show from the Originals
#2. "Try a Little Tenderness": Otis Redding Stole It From White People
There were several versions of "Try a Little Tenderness," dating all the way back to the early 1930s. Here's Ray Noble and his Orchestra, performing what sounds like theme music for sad, old-timey hobos to shuffle on down the road to:
Here's a Bing Crosby version from a few years later, most appropriate for cartoon blue jays to listen to while they help Cinderella get ready for the big ball. Later covers would also be performed by Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra and even Rod Stewart. In short, the whitest white people possible have sang this song for nearly a century.
And now for something completely different ...
Holy shit. Turns out "Try a Little Tenderness" was a lot like a Kardashian: It's only really happy with some black in it. It makes complete sense that Otis Redding would steal this song from generations of white people before him. The piece is about a poverty-stricken woman, and the only way to console her is through boning. That is not White Guy problem solving. Our pallid wangs only cause trouble. We whip 'em out and it warrants trials, injunctions and search warrants. No, boner-based healing is the exclusive realm of the black man. Which is why it took Otis Redding to truly understand this song, and he understood it so hard that it walked funny for days.
Bonus evidence:
Here's Otis Redding simultaneously ruining the career and confidence of an MC forever, while also teaching a white girl how to spell "multiple orgasms."
#1. "Hurt": Johnny Cash Stole It From NiN
Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" was a song about the disillusionment, pain and depression of addiction. As little as I personally cared for or understood Mr. Reznor's music, you have to recognize and concede authenticity when you hear it. And "Hurt" was definitely authentic. It might have been a little trite and overwrought in places, but it was an accurate and unflinching document of serious, deep psychological pain ... that skinny white boys could fuck to. No matter what I'm about to say, Trent Reznor, you need to know that we all really, really appreciated that, man.
Ultimately, "Hurt" was about the fragile psychological state of Trent Reznor -- and wow, it probably did not help matters at all when Johnny Cash roared up on a Harley, stole that manifesto of emotional agony right out of his shaking, bleeding hands, then threw a whiskey bottle at the wall and fell asleep on top of his girlfriend. Yes, you still gave birth to that song, Trent, and we all know it wouldn't exist without you, but it very clearly loves Johnny so, so much more now. Cash's cover was a testament to a lifetime of hard living and regret, from the lips of a man who's lost nearly everything he's ever loved and is now facing down death himself. No matter how real you think shit got in your 20s, your goth/industrial problems are just never going to compare to the lifelong issues of Liquor: The Cowboy. Cash had about five decades of pain on Reznor when he first performed "Hurt"; you're just not fighting in same weight class.
It's tragic, really: You raised that music up as best you could, Trent, and sure you had your problems, but you tried your best and you really loved it. Then mom's cool new boyfriend came along with his speedboat and an autographed picture of that time he met Dolph Lundgren at the driving range and shit, man, you never stood a chance.
If you find that your neurotically chewed, black-painted fingernails are just dancing across the keyboard with rage right now, you should know this is the one entry that cannot be contested. In the words of Mr. Reznor himself:
"I pop the video in, and wow ... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps ... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore."
Game. Set. Cash.
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Jurors on Tuesday convicted a teenager of first-degree manslaughter for participating in the fatal stabbing of another teen last summer in North Buffalo.
Seventeen-year-old Ezeiekile Nafi faces up to 25 years in prison when sentenced May 1.
The July 5 stabbing of 16-year-old Darren Brown was one of the most grisly killings in Buffalo's recent history. His throat was slashed and his body stabbed 54 times before one of his attackers set his corpse on fire on an old railroad right of way near Colvin Avenue.
The jury did not convict Nafi of second-degree murder, as prosecutors asked, nor find him guilty of the lesser second-degree manslaughter count, as his defense lawyer requested.
"The proof in this case warranted manslaughter two, but I respect the jury's decision immensely," said Emily Trott, Nafi's defense lawyer.
Throughout the weeklong trial, Trott minimized Nafi's role in the killing and focused on two others who she and prosecutors said also were at the stabbing scene.
Jurors heard Nafi's statement to a homicide detective that he stabbed Brown five times in an attack in which he said the two others inflicted more stab wounds than he did with a small knife.
Trott had told jurors that Nafi was present when Brown was stabbed and that he did what he had to do to save his own life.
"I'm not arguing my client bears no criminal responsibility at all," Trott told jurors during her closing argument. "My client was extremely reckless."
But she pointed to the two others involved in the killing: Demetrius Huff, 18, who previously pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Brown's death but then abruptly refused to cooperate in Nafi's prosecution; and Antoine Sanders, 20, also known as "Deuce," who prosecutors say participated in the attack although he has not been charged.
Trott called Sanders "the mastermind behind this entire thing."
The stabbing is still under investigation, and Sanders remains a potential suspect, police say.
Both Huff and Sanders took the witness stand during the trial before State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia and cited their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Jurors saw Huff take the stand but not Sanders.
Homicide prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable scoffed at defense efforts to convince jurors that Nafi inflicted only five nonlethal wounds.
No evidence proves that five of the less-serious wounds are the ones Nafi inflicted, Curtin Gable told jurors.
"Was it really only five times as he claims?" Curtin Gable asked jurors. "Who knows? That really doesn't matter. He was an active, willing participant, intentionally aiding the others in killing Darren Brown, and for that, he must be held accountable."
Even if Nafi stabbed Brown just five times, the wounds he inflicted came after a serious beating, blunt-force trauma, a slit throat and other stab wounds, she said.
"That's not just intent to kill, that's overkill," Curtin Gable said.
She asked jurors not to be distracted by what happened – or did not happen – to the others involved in the attack.
"This is the only case you're here to decide – not the State of New York against Antoine Sanders, not the State of New York against Demetrius Huff," she told jurors. "That is for a different day and a different jury. Your focus must be on this defendant and the evidence against him."
The night before he died, Brown had talked to Huff, who mistakenly believed Brown belonged to the same gang as he did – and the two smoked marijuana together on Hertel Avenue, according to prosecutors.
When Sanders, a fellow gang member of Huff's, learned of the friendly encounter, he reacted furiously, according to Erie County Assistant District Attorney Michael P. Felicetta, who, with Curtin Gable, prosecuted Nafi.
"Why did you bring him around here? If that kid comes back here tonight, we're killing him, and you're helping," Sanders told Huff, according to Felicetta.
However, statements from others questioned by the police cited different reasons for the attack: retribution for a stolen video game player and even a gang initiation.
Huff later returned with gasoline to burn Brown's body, according to the prosecution, because Nafi had spit on Brown during the attack, and Huff wanted to ensure none of Nafi's DNA remained on the body.
Huff was allowed to plead guilty in early March to a lesser charge for his role in Brown's killing. One condition of the plea was that he testify against Nafi, who has been his friend since childhood.
But when Huff took the stand, he refused to tell jurors what happened last July.
"As was stated in open court and upon the record, Mr. Huff pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree in exchange for his cooperation and truthful testimony," District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said. "He did not live up to his end of the bargain. Accordingly, the [District Attorney's Office] will move to revoke his plea of guilty to man one and, if that motion is granted, will proceed to try Mr. Huff for murder in the second degree."
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