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Love Stinks: Great anti-Valentine songs
Picking the most romantic songs of the 80s is child's play. But picking the most unromantic songs of the 80s? That's poetic.
Over the last few years, we've featured "Best Kisses of the 80s" and "Best Anti-Valentine Quotes from the 80s." And in 2007, we recorded an entire podcast about "Love Gone Bad." So it was only a matter of time until we got really serious about the living nightmare that is February 14.
So throw those roses in the garbage disposal, pour yourself a large glass of high-proof refreshment and fire up your iTunes. It's time to get nasty.
25 MOST UNROMANTIC SONGS OF THE 80s:
- Love Stinks (J. Geils Band)
- I Used To Love Her (Guns N' Roses)
- Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (The Smiths)
- The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (Asia)
- Don't Tell Me You Love Me (Night Ranger)
- I Don't Care Anymore (Phil Collins)
- I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John)
- You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
- Same Old Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg)
- I'm Not The One (The Cars)
- Answering Machine (The Replacements)
- Only the Lonely (The Motels)
- Separate Ways (Journey)
- Voices Carry ('Til Tuesday)
- Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
- Just Once (James Ingram)
- I Hate Myself For Loving You (Joan Jett)
- Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
- Love Kills (Joe Strummer)
- Don't Ask Why (The Replacements)
- Goodbye to You (Scandal)
- Separate Lives (Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin)
- No More Words (Berlin)
- Love Is A Battlefield (Pat Benatar)
OK, there's my list. Which songs am I forgetting?


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1. Kennedy Center Honors
Steve Martin, Martin Scorsese, Diana Ross, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson, and pianist Leon Fleisher were honored with awards for artistic achievement at this black-tie gala in December 2007. Traditionally attended by the president and first lady, the gala is broadcast on CBS, and Restaurant Associates caters the dinner. Independent event producer Carolyn Peachy of Campbell, Peachy & Associates is planning this year's December 7 event with co-chairs Buffy Cafritz and Ann Jordan.
2. Ford's Theatre Annual Gala
The historic theater has been under renovation for most of 2008, so the 28th annual gala was temporarily relocated to the National Theatre this June. The gala featured performances by Tricia Yearwood, Clay Aiken, and Hal Holbrook. The president and first lady were among the 575 attendees, and Lincoln Medals were awarded to Maya Angelou and actress Ruby Dee. Produced by the theater's associate director of development and special events, Jennifer Kiefer, the gala will return to Ford's in June.
3. SilverDocs Film Festival
One of the nation's largest documentary film festivals comes to the American Film Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, each June. This year's sixth annual festival expanded to eight days, 21,000 attendees, and more than 100 film screenings and panels, including the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, which honored director Spike Lee, and the opening-night party, held at the nearby Discovery Channel headquarters. Festival director Patricia Finneran oversaw the event with director of programming Sky Sitney and Discovery Communications director of global events Elika Hemphill.
4. National Design Awards Luncheon
The National Design Awards are selected by committee and presented at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. As a prelude to the fall ceremony, honorees are feted at an annual luncheon with the first lady in the White House. The June 14 event welcomed 150 guests, including industrial designer Charles Harrison, fashion designer Ralph Rucci, and Seattle architect Tom Kundig. Jodi Imburgia, director of the National Design Awards, planned the event, with food and decor organized by the Office of the First Lady.
5. Virgin Mobile Festival
This massive music festival has quickly become one of the summer's biggest concert events, bringing in 74,000 fans in 2007. The 3rd annual festival, held this year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on August 9 and 10, included big-name acts like Bob Dylan, Foo Fighters, Wilco, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Nine Inch Nails. The concert is produced by Seth Hurwitz of Bethesda, Maryland-based I.M.P., a concert promotion and event production company. The Virgin Festival will return to Pimlico next summer.
6. BET Honors Awards Ceremony
On January 7 the Warner Theatre hosted the first BET Honors, a celebration of black achievement. Cedric the Entertainer served as M.C., and honorees included Alicia Keys, Tyra Banks, and Cornel West. BET executive vice president of entertainment programming, music, and talent Stephen Hill produced the show with vice president of specials Lynne Harris Taylor and John Cossette of John Cossette Productions. Independent event producer André Wells handled a pre-ceremony V.I.P. dinner at Halcyon House and an after-party at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Because BET is planning a presidential inaugural event for January, the 2009 awards have been postponed until December.
7. Will on the Hill
Members of Congress and D.C. bigwigs have a role to play at this annual fund-raiser for the Shakespeare Theatre Company at the Harman Center for the Arts. Some 300 guests turned out for the May 5 production of A Comedy of Capital Errors, starring Senator Patrick Leahy and Capitol File publisher Susan Nixon. Joanne Coutts, the theater's associate director of special events, plans the event with artistic director Michael Kahn. The production is scheduled to return on May 4.
8. Artomatic
This monthlong multimedia arts exhibition began in 1999 and has gradually expanded into one of Washington's largest art events. The May 9 to June 15 run saw a record 52,000 visitors. Artomatic president Veronica Szalus led a large team of volunteers in converting 225,000 square feet at the Capitol Plaza building into a 10-floor art extravaganza, with 1,540 artists contributing everything from music and film to poetry, burlesque, and fire dancing. Artomatic will return in the spring.
9. FilmFest DC
The District's largest film festival brought in 25,000 fans this year, when it showcased independent and foreign films at eight locations around town, including the National Gallery of Art and the French Embassy. Anthony Gittens of the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities serves as the director of the festival, which returns April 16 to 26.
10. Capital Fringe Festival
The July outing of D.C.'s quirkiest festival featured 649 performances at 20 different venues, bringing in more than 9,000 attendees. Executive director Julianne Brienza oversaw the event, which included a "sci-fi rock 'n' roll musical" at Chief Ike's Mambo Room. The fourth annual Fringe Festival will take place July 9 to 26.

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American revolutionary Patrick Henry helped convince young America to cast off the shackles of British colonialism with his famous words "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." He made that demand as part of a pivatol speech 302 years ago today.
This week on Radio M, the sounds of freedom and protest songs. The show will highlight songs about freedom from tyranny, freedom from oppression, freedom to love, freedom to be a child and songs of protest from artists including Bob Marley, Selda Bagcan, Papa Wembe and others.
Also new music from Antibalas, Angelique Kidjo and Wax Poetics.
Plus a re-broadcast of an interview with Andrea Echeverri, one half of the Columbian art-rock group Aterciopelados. They play Friday at House of Blues.


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Samantha Pecoraro, 15, who can't eat, studies to be a chef
A Florida teen who has a disease that makes eating almost impossible is in D.C. studying to be a chef.
Samantha Pecoraro is in Cedar Restaurant's kitchen, surrounded by mouthwatering dishes, even though she can't eat any of them.
Pecoraro, 15, has a rare auto-immune disease called eosinophilic esophagitis, or EOE.
"Very painful," she says. "A lot of food impaction, gagging on food, not being able to swallow, furrowing in my throat."
She has been in and out of hospitals, and gets most of her nourishment through a tube in her stomach.
But she loves cooking and she takes classes at her high school.
Scott McCloud read about Pecoraro and called his brother, the head chef at Cedar.
"I called Aaron," he says. "I say, there's this kid. She's 15, she can't eat and she wants to be a chef."
The Penn Quarter restaurant flew Pecoraro and her parents up here last night to spend a few days learning from the chef himself.
"I call myself the 'blind chef,' because when you're blind, your other senses are heightened," Pecoraro says. "You can hear better, things like that. Well, I can now smell better, since I don't have taste anymore."
"My dream is just to cook and to make people happy," Pecoraro says.
Sunday evening, Pecoraro and chef McCloud will be cooking up a five-course benefit dinner to raise money to fight EOE.
It's at Cedar Restaurant, 822 E Street NW, at 6:30 p.m., December 2. Reservations are required (202-637-0012) and a donation of $150 is requested, but every penny goes to help people like Percoraro, who can't eat.
Click here for more information on eosinophilic esophagitis, which affects 200,000 Americans.


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Red Cabbage with Feta and Mint
Serves 4
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
4 cups (about 1 pound) red cabbage, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste
Juice of 1 lemon
Ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint, plus small leaves for garnish
2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1/2 cup (1 1/2 ounces) crumbled feta cheese
1. In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 4 minutes.
2. Add garlic; cook until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Add cabbage and 1 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring, until cabbage is wilted and just starting to soften, about 2 minutes longer.
3. Remove skillet from heat. Stir in lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in chopped mint, dill and parsley and transfer to serving bowl. Top with feta and mint leaves and serve warm or room temperature.
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The seedings are completed for girls Section 8AA girls basketball with Perham getting the No. 5 seed in the south subsection.
All opening games in 8AA-South are scheduled for Thursday, Mar. 4 at 7 p.m.
The Yellowjackets (11-14) will open the playoffs on the road at Barnesville (17-11). The Trojans swept the Yellowjackets in the regular season winning 64-42 at home Dec. 12 and 50-37 in Perham Feb. 6.
Hawley (18-6) is the top seed and will host No. 8 Wadena-Deer Creek (4-19). Hawley won the only meeting this season 60-17 Dec. 12.
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|Multiple-Dose Pharmacokinetics of BMS-650032 in Subjects With Hepatic Impairment Compared to Healthy Subjects
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- Assess the relationship between the Child-Pugh classification (including its components) and BMS-650032 PK parameters. This will be measured by frequent pharmacokinetics blood samples. [ Time Frame: Day 10 ]
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|Active Comparator: BMS-650032 in Child-Pugh B
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|March 3, 2013, 09:41 PM
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I remember those days when I would just stop in a unkown gunshop because I was working in the area. I would just buy some reloading supplies, because I was there and wanted it, but didn't need it. Now I need it and every thing is off the shelves and they dont know when it will become available again.
|March 4, 2013, 02:41 AM
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2011 wasn't too bad ...... .223 PMC was available at my favorite gunshop or on the internet for $284.50/k.
|March 4, 2013, 02:48 AM
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Back in the 70's we used to take guns to school for show and tell. In the 80's every pick up had a rifle and shotgun in the back window. And some the cars had them in the back seat or in the passengers seat. Heck I always had a .22 revolver on the passenger seat for running my trap lines.
Those were the good old days for me.
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|March 4, 2013, 07:28 AM
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I'm just reacting to what is happening with shortages. Until shortages are alleviated we need to keep as many of us shooting as possible. Maybe we need to make our shots count instead of the "spray and pray" waste.
Equipment technology has never been higher than in the past few years. Gun prices are higher than 40 years ago, but so are wages. I remember buying 20 rounds of 30-06 ammo in 1960 for $12.75. My father was earning $70 per week. In my spare-time job, I earned 50 cents an hour. I saved a long time to buy a Savage 110 for $120.
WalMart was selling the same ammo for $15 a year or so ago. Minimum wage is around $280 a week. That's 18% of wages compared with less than 5% for most people today. (Of course we didn't have cable TV, cellphones, and other ways to spend our money back then.)
|March 4, 2013, 08:04 AM
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Shoot whatever you enjoy, but leave my choice to me.
|March 4, 2013, 08:42 AM
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The good old days when primers were less then $10 per thousand, now they are over $35..............................but I can afford $35 primers now more then I could afford $10 primers back then.
Guns are more expensive now also.............but I didn't have any money when they were cheap.
Use to play cops and robbers and cowboy and Indians with cap guns during recess. If I was to hang around the playground now someone would call the cops on me.
I cut a lot of wood with an ax and bucksaw when I was a kid, now I use a chain saw and can cut a winters supply in one day.
Use to have to squeeze time to go shooting between work and raising a family. Now I walk out in the back yard and can shoot all day. Use to load up a couple rounds then wait for my day off to go try them, then back to the drawing board. Now I load a couple round, shoot them from the window I cut in my shop so I can shoot.
Just a couple steps from my reloader to my range.
I use to think I'd like to have lived 100 years ago, but if I lived 100 years ago, I'd be dead.
Good old days..........it's relative.
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|March 4, 2013, 10:11 AM
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The only thing I miss from the "good old days" is the cheaper ammo and reloading supply prices, and that people were responsible for their actions. I like the present though for ammo and reloading supply choices as there are so many more to choose from, when you can find them. The shortages will pass in time, just like they did the last time and every time before.
|March 4, 2013, 12:00 PM
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Oh yeah, the "Good Old Days". I can tell you that the "Good Old Days" are greatly overrated, and they weren't that good to begin with. Sure, you could buy primers for $5 per 1,000, but back then I made $2.50/hr, so it took several hours' wages to buy those 1,000 primers. Nowadays I make $40/hr, so I can buy those $35/1000 primers with just slightly more than one hour's wages (after taxes, of course). My first rifle was a Winchester Model 94, bought it brand spanking new, and I paid $96 for it. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah, except minimum wage was $1.60, and it took 2 weeks of minimum wage work to earn the $106 it took to walk out the door with it (it actually took me several months to save up enough money to buy the rifle). Ammo was $3 a box (another 3 hours of work), and the gas it took to take a trip to the range was $.45/gallon. Comparatively, it is much cheaper today to shoot.
What has gotten worse is the political environment. Back in 1972, I took the Greyhound to go on my first hunting trip. Had all my gear, including the rifle. Nobody batted an eye. If I had bagged a deer, I imagine I would have had to figure out what to do with it, but planning was not my strong suit back then. Today, showing up at a bus stop with a rifle would prompt a call to SWAT. I would be considered some sort of extremist survivalist urban terrorist or the like, I suppose. Good part, I suppose, is that I would have my 15 minutes of fame and my friends would have thought I was cool (which they didn't, like most of us).
Nope, sorry, the good old days weren't that great. They were maybe a little better in that we had fewer obligations and responsibilities (or in my case because I was irresponsible). But like the OP, I sure miss them. Well, I mean I miss being irresponsible and going shooting all the time, I don't miss being broke. And I do miss being able to buy ammo and guns at a gas station while on the way to use the restroom. Mmmmmm, well, OK, not that much.
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|March 4, 2013, 02:11 PM
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In the good ol' days my car use to get 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
|March 4, 2013, 03:03 PM
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Look 'b'udd, just because the antis have clearly brainwwashed you, does not mean that any type of high round count competition is 'spray and pray'. Nor is a high round count target or practice session.
please Please PLEASE! Stop being a clueless biased sellout.
It is 'supporters' like you that are the reasons why we are having this latest attack on the second amendment.
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|March 4, 2013, 06:04 PM
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Kind of hard to shoot a Service Rifle Match without an AR now days.
Or an EIC (Leg Match) or the "President's Match", or even three gun.
I'm not really fond of those who condemn one sort of gun or shooting just because they don't fit his style of shooting.
I don't bow hunt, (couldn't hit the ground with a bow) but I certainly don't comdemn those who do use a bow.
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|March 4, 2013, 07:21 PM
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Sheesh, I've been part of the culture for such a short time that my 'Good old days' where when my parents said I could finally have a rifle.
Dear lord, the $20 Mausers sounds like heaven.
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|March 4, 2013, 08:34 PM
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I think the good old days were about 15? years ago. I spent hours every week at the range, banging away with 30 caliber ammo. I loaded that myself, and it was dang cheap.
Bulk powder was about $75 for a keg. Primers were $12 maybe? And high quality match bullets (Sierra 168's) were about 15 cent each.
Shot all afternoon (100-200 rounds) for about $20-30 bucks.
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|March 4, 2013, 09:00 PM
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Back in the good old days gang bangers used homemade .22 zip guns instead of Glocks. Everybody wanted a model 70, not an AR. Or a Model 12, not some estupid Mossberg breacher. The world changed, and not for the better.
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|March 4, 2013, 09:42 PM
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In the good ol' days, people bought mil surp rifles for cheap and "sporterized" them, making them look like hunting rifles.
Now we do the opposite, doing our best to make a Ruger 10-22 cosmetically resemble a military rifle with all sorts of bolt on mall-ninja bling.
|March 4, 2013, 09:50 PM
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For the most part, these are the good old days. We have so many more options for guns, commercial ammo, reloading components, reloading equipment, scopes...on and on. Yeah, I will take the way it is today...
|March 5, 2013, 11:35 AM
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"In the good ol' days, people bought mil surp rifles for cheap and "sporterized" them, making them look like hunting rifles.
Now we do the opposite, doing our best to make a Ruger 10-22 cosmetically resemble a military rifle with all sorts of bolt on mall-ninja bling."
Yeah, Ain't that the truth. But to each his own.
|March 5, 2013, 11:49 AM
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"I think we need to get away from the AR and other semi-auto toys/games and get more into accuracy games that don't use either overly expensive ammo or large quantities."
Yeah, let's get rid of those "toys" that you apparently don't care about so they can place their bulls-eye over bolt action rifles and pump shotguns, and whatever else is left. Then they can start on BB and pellet guns.
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|March 5, 2013, 01:27 PM
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About a year ago, I wrote a blog, stating that we were in some of the best of times regarding guns and shooting. There were wonderful new guns, great ammo, plentiful supplies and after-market parts. Laws were the least restrictive in decades.
ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar.
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|March 5, 2013, 09:02 PM
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What worries me, and this just hit me today, and in fact makes me long for the old days of last March, is that I might have to reduce the number of boys that can take the rifle merit badge this summer.
Not to mention how I'm gonna break it to the Scout Executive that a $5 fee per boy is now a thing of the past.
And this isn't really all that high volumn shooting rapid fire shooting either, each kid gets maybe a 100 rounds through the course of the week, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. And has to load it one round at a time, no mag, no tube.
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|March 5, 2013, 11:32 PM
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To the people talking about the great deals of long ago, check this out.
If you play with it you will see that gun prices have actually stayed pretty much the same with inflation. Sure, guns cost less back in the day, but people made less too.
When calculating gun prices, also factor in the advances in technology and manufacturing processes. Today you can buy a rifle that costs less, is more accurate and weighs almost half as much as a 75 year old rifle.
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|March 6, 2013, 07:04 AM
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I remember, in the early '60s (I was a pre-teen) sitting on big cardboard drums of powder in the reloading room of the local Rod and Gun club. Mostly IMR 4895 and IMR 4831, plus Bullseye and Unique. Members could buy it by the pound, but you had to bring your own container and it cost 20 cents per pound. .22LR ammo was almost free, as it was govt surplus ammo, and brass in common military calibers was free for the asking. that is what I consider the good old days, as I was an impressionable 10-year old and thought that the reloading room at that club was as close to heaven as I'd ever get.
Nowadays we actually pay less for ammo than we did in those days, taking inflation into account. However, those guys in those days strived hard for 1" groups with the rifles of the day and a rifle that would shoot consistently into that magic inch was treated like gold and spoken about in hushed tones. Nowadays nearly every rifle we get out of the box is capable of that or better with very little tweaking. This insanity will pass and we'll get back to the point where we were six months ago. Heck, I'm already seeing primers and powder locally.
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|March 7, 2013, 07:53 AM
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The improvements to bullets, factory ammo, and rifles in the past 10 years is incredible! We have plastic-tipped solid copper or gilding metal bullets, plastic-tipped lever-action rounds, a plethora of new powders, great scopes, etc.
Rifles that are guaranteed to shoot MOA out of the box, for less than $500, are a joy. I remember guys spending a month's pay on custom-built hunting rifles that wouldn't shoot better than 1 1/2 MOA.
Accurizing technology and new rounds have resulted in rifles that can lethally hit a target over a mile away. Ballistics computers allow military snipers to make first-shot kills at incredible distances.
I'm in pretty good shape, ammo-wise, but haven't horded ammo, just try to keep enough powder and rimfire ammo to do as much shooting as I normally do. Prior to retirement, I stocked up a bit, just because I wouldn't have as much money to spend. Having handloaded for over 50 years, I have all the tools needed, including casting equipment, so that's a big help. It's nice to also have the time to handload and test ammo.
Although it's discouraging to see nearly empty ammo shelves in sporting good stores. Stuff will sort itself out in time, probably at least a year to do so, depending on what Congress does.
Meanwhile, I noticed plenty of .22-250 ammo in a couple of stores, so if you need a new varmint rifle, it might be a good chambering.
|March 9, 2013, 11:07 AM
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Picher can defend his statements himself if he wishes, but *perhaps* he meant we should slow down and shoot less ammo per setting, something a bolt actioned rifle or similar is good at. The AR is a great rifle in its own right, even though I don't like them much. But even I can see that the right to own and shoot said poodle shooter is paramount.
Anymore, I don't shoot my handloads much, and have resorted to x54r ammo, as that I can still get.
Once supplies appear on the shelves again, we will enjoy what we have.
As far as proposed legislation goes, I'm not seeing a steamroller like the last time we faced the AWB. There is much opposition, and these bills don't seem to be gaining the traction the anti's desire.
But I agree with Picher that the last few years has seen some of the best times to be a firearms owner. Plentiful ammo, components, and a wide variety of firearms. I also agree with another contributor that the quality of many firearms I have purchased since the late 1990's has not been very good. In fact, I used to joke, that whenever I bought an American made firearm in that period, there is no reason to take it out of the box and inspect it, I KNOW that something is wrong, just send it back and save the feeling of betrayal and anger.
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This year I'll lose five pounds overnight, my tennis elbow will vanish, I'll sell my novel and all wars will cease.
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"Because of the doors to various rooms on each wall, there was very little space for furniture in the hall that is approximately only 12 by 12 feet," Manche explains. "The inspiration for my plan came both from the limited space and the existing wallcovering that the owner wanted to remain in the house. The wallcovering almost looked like plates hung all over the walls and was very busy. I didn't want the space to feel overwhelmed with multiple patterns and colors."
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On the grounds of a country estate, two generations worth of Russians mope and love and hate and make a lot of bird-based metaphors. Sound familiar? It's Anton Fucking Chekhov versus the modern world in Aaron Posner's ballsy Midwest premiere. A smash-hit on the east coast and a finalist for the 2014 ACTA Award, this heartbreakingly hilarious sort-of-adaptation of The Seagull takes a baseball bat to one of theatre's most famous works and staunchly refuses to pick up the pieces. Sideshow's signature energy and wit are on full display in this very funny examination of what drives us to make art and find love.
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£5m tax scam accountant Robert Faichney is jailed
An 'immoral' accountant to
Wayne Rooney,
Jeremy Paxman and
Guy Ritchie was jailed for four years after using Gift Aid for a £5million tax scam.
Robert Faichney exploited a loophole in the charity scheme to help wealthy clients wipe off their tax liabilities, syphoning off funds for himself without their knowledge.
The former tax official, 53, gave those on his portfolio 'grossly overvalued' shares in four companies which were then donated to charity using Gift Aid.
Using the scheme in this way enabled the donors to claim back the difference between the higher rates of tax at 40 or 50 per cent and the basic rate of tax at 20 per cent on the total value of their charitable donation.
Faichney, of Pinner, north-west London, used the ill-gotten gains to buy a £500,000 house in Edinburgh, several cruises, several cars and other luxuries.
His partner in crime at the Vantis Tax firm, 48-year-old David Perrin, of Luton, was jailed for 18 months in February. Jurors couldn't reach a verdict on Faichney's guilt over the scam between April 2007 and March 2009.There were no such problems at Blackfriars crown court this time around, though.
On sentencing Faichney, Judge Henry Blacksell QC said: 'You ran roughshod over company law and business ethics.
'If you had a moral compass at any stage, you lost or buried it behind the property purchases, the furnishings and the cruises.
'The general public are sick and tired of men such as you are and schemes such as this fiddling to protect and better themselves.'


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Moving time lapse videos are becoming more and more popular these days. Check out the video below to see Patryk Kizny take the DriveCam Slider for a test.
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That looked like so much fun!!! where and when can I go! I was up till 7AM shooting the stars and there was way too much light pollution, even in the desolate place I drove too!
Wow. Time Lapse + HDR photography, impressive to say the least...Props to the brasilian soundtrack... é nois na fita mané!!!!!
Great video. nice to see these instruments at work.
now *this*, is the best HDR time lapse/video I've ever seen. incredible
Was that HDR? I thought he just used a grad filter to bring the sky down?
looks like HDR, especially at 0:24. Whatever was done, I'd love to know more about it.
Amazing! love the photography!
I want a BTS. The look of the video screams HDR, but I have no idea especially since it was shot as time lapse.
Fantastic and inspiring. Personally I see this type of filming for the very first time.
I cant imagine the PITA editing this must have been.
incredible... The HDResque-style of the video/images appears to be overdone in places, but those clouds...! wow. The movement of the camera(s) adds a lot to the overall feel of timelapse-videos. great stuff!
I loved the time lapse of the time lapse cam, only to be topped by a time lapse of the time lapse of the time lapse cam! There have been a couple of HDR time lapse/non time lapse videos on Fstoppers recently, like Brian said the PITA factor must be massive!


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Call for emergency help if:
- A seizure lasts 5 minutes or longer.
- One seizure occurs right after another without the person regaining consciousness or coming to between seizures.
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This 12-inch (30-cm) cable has 26 AWG wires and a 3-pin female JST PH-style connector that works with Sharp analog distance sensors that have mating PH connectors, such as the 4-30 cm GP2Y0A41, the 10-80 cm GP2Y0A21, and the 20-150 cm GP2Y0A02.
Note: This cable is not compatible with the 2-15 cm Sharp GP2Y0A51, which has a JST ZH connector. For a cable that works with that sensor, consider the 3-Pin Female JST ZH-Style Cable.
The other ends of the wires are unterminated; they can be cut to length to match your application. The wire color scheme matches the Sharp distance sensor pinout: red for power, black for ground, and white for signal. The connector pins have a 2 mm pitch.
You can use our male or female crimp pins and a 0.1" 3×1 crimp connector housing to make a connector for the unterminated end of the cable that is compatible with standard solderless breadboards, perfboards, and the 0.1" male and female headers commonly found on microcontroller boards like Arduinos and Orangutan robot controllers.
We also carry versions of this cable with pre-crimped male terminals and with pre-crimped female terminals.
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EVIL Julia Merfeld desperately wanted out of her failing marriage, but instead of just dumping her husband, she hired a hit man because "it was easier" than getting a divorce.
Thankfully, her sinister plan fell apart when the "hit man" turned out to be an undercover cop – and now the 21-year-old vixen is behind bars.
Julia and her husband, Jake, 27, had been married for four years and had two young kids together. But Julia wasn't happy, so she decided to approach a co-worker about having Jake killed.
Along with getting rid of her unwanted husband, authorities say she was also after a $400,000 life insurance policy Jake had from his days as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard.
When the co-worker realized Julia wasn't joking, he went to the police in Muskegon, Mich., where Julia and Jake lived.
A police officer posing as a hit man met with Julia in his car for two days in April, recording their conversations for evidence.
In the video, Julia can be seen giggling and laughing as she told the cop she'd pay him $50,000 out of the proceeds of the insurance policy if he killed Jake.
"It's something I've been thinking about for a long time," she said.
When asked how she wanted the crime committed, she nonchalantly replied: "Whatever's easiest. If you can get him outside that would be great 'cause it would be messy in the house."
During a follow-up meeting, Julia showed up in a Batman sweatshirt and pink sweatpants and asked the cop to kill Jake "on a Thursday" because that's the day she works. At that point, she gave him a $100 down payment.
She was arrested soon after and charged with solicitation to murder.
"Terrible as it sounds, it was easier than divorcing him," Julia later explained. "You know, I didn't have to worry about the judgment of my family. I don't have to worry about breaking his heart, all that stuff."
Incredibly, Jake has not only forgiven Julia, but he pleaded with the judge to go easy on her at her sentencing.
"I wholeheartedly forgive my wife for all she has done in this act of hatred," he said. "I know that my wife is a wonderful person. She is a godly person."
Julia tearfully told the judge: "I know what I did was wrong, and I take full responsibility for it. My tears are not for pity. My tears are for remorse."
But Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson noted: "I wonder how remorseful she would be if the (murder) had been carried out, if she had gotten the $400,000."
In the end, Julia pleaded guilty and was sentenced to at least five years and eight months, but no more than 20 years, behind bars.


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Among the new products featured at Emteq's NBAA 2002 exhibit (Booth No. 3429) are a series of additions to the Muskegon, Wis. company's light emitting diode (LED) line. It emphasized its new high-temperature, low-loss Teflon 75-ohm coaxial cable and its support capabilities for systems such as the Honeywell AIS2000, Honeywell IHAS/TAS and products offered by Iridium original equipment manufacturers.
In emphasizing its LED credentials, Emteq laid claim to being the first company in the aviation industry to work with "true white LEDs" for cabin interiors. LED components introduced at the meeting included the small (1.75-in. mounting diameter), low-power, lightweight ELR03 reading light; disc-type air gaspers to match reading lights; a new exit sign and marker light; and RGB "mood lighting." In the case of RGB technology, the company stated it will begin offering it as a complement to its full line of already available LED lighting products. Applications for RGB technology include "highlighting 'exotic' interior furnishing, full color capability and full programmability for different moods and ambiance."
(Emteq added that a number of aircraft exhibited at the meeting use its LED devices. These include Bombardier at Booth No.1079, Embraer at No. 5847, Global Aircraft Interiors at No. 6166, Heritage Aviation Services at No. 3215 and Sino Swearingen at No. 2364).
Features of the new 75-ohm coaxial cable, Emteq said, include a high degree of flexibility, Skydrol resistance, low-insertion loss, more than 90 dB of shielding effectiveness and FAA approval for flammability. The company stated the cable can be provided in bulk or as prefabricated and certified cable assemblies.
For its Honeywell IHAS/TAS support, Emteq can offer avionics installation provisions based on the Honeywell installation manual. Support components include FAA- and military-approved RF cables and connectors, equipment trays, MS connectors, wire bundle kits and avionics support packages. At its FAA/PMA-approved facility, the firm can provide testing up to 20 GHz, "lot traceability on each cable, automated strip equipment for precise terminations and one- to two-day turnaround." To support the Honeywell AIS2000 system, Emteq said it provides fully tested and certified RF Ku and L-band cable assemblies, as well as fixed attenuators, installation hardware kits, wire harnesses and 75-ohm coax cable.
Emteq also called attention to its installation support for domestic and international TV systems. That includes providing prefabricated and tested RF cable assemblies configured to custom applications. Cable sets are fully compliant with Airshow and military specifications and standards. Emteq also provides Avionics Support packages that include a 1/2 ATR Equipment tray, Arinc 404 Rack Connector and Arinc contacts.


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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> Are you saying that a value made up of twelve 16-byte values that was
> actually six surrogates would be treated as:
> a) Six characters with unknown sort characteristics, or
> b) Twelve characters, at least six of which would have unknown sort
> characteristics (since the first two bytes of a surrogate would not have a
> defined sort order and the second two byte which might randomly coincide
> with an existing BMP value when treated as a separate Unicode code point.
I can't answer the question, but there is an erroneous preconception here.
Neither of the 16-bit units of a surrogate pair can coincide with any
existing BMP value.
> I would call (a) "surrogate aware", and (b) "surrogate safe", where "safe"
> would be defined as "at least the data did not get corrupted!". Obviously it
> is not entirely safe when you are considering collation and intrinsic string
> manipulation issues.
Every surrogate-unaware application is surrogate-safe in your limited
sense, unless it goes to the trouble of weeding out surrogates (which is
pointless). True surrogate-unsafeness appears when you allow things like
inserting characters into a string, in which case it is unsafe to
allow inserting after a high-part surrogate.
-- John Cowan email@example.com C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
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The Arkansas Choral Society will perform portions of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, at First Pentecostal Church, 1400 Calvary Road (off Interstate 40), North Little Rock.
The 60-voice choir will be under the direction of Music Director Kent Skinner and will be joined by members of the University of Arkansas at Monticello chamber choir and members of the Arkansas Symphony. The concert will also feature selected solos and choruses (including "Hallelujah" and "Amen") from Parts II and III.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students with ID, free for children under 12. For more information, call 376-8484 or visit the website, www.lovetosing.org.
The Choral Society was founded in 1930 and has performed Handel's Messiah in whole or in part every year since.
Dr. Kent Skinner is currently the Conductor of Choral Activities for the University of Arkansas at Monticello, where he leads the choral program and serves as both stage and music director for the university's opera and music theatre.


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Hi, What's the status of this patch I sent two weeks ago? I got no reply last week for the same question. My original mail can be found at http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1034457 Thanks, Jeroen > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeroen van Vianen [mailto:jeroen(dot)van(dot)vianen(at)satama(dot)com] > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 20:01 > To: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org > Subject: [JDBC] Fix for broken JDBC's getColumn() (take 2) > > > Hi, > > Per the recent discussion there's been some code changes in JDBC's > DatabaseMetaData.getColumn(). I proposed a patch that would > change the > number of queries to find out all columns in a table from 2 * > N + 1 to 1 (N > being the number of columns reported) by using some outer > joins. I also > fixed the fact that getColumns() only returned columns that > had a default > defined. OTOH, I did not use to change the code required for > obtaining a > column's remarks (by using col_description() for 7.2 and > requested by Tom > Lane). > > Finally, I have found a way to get all the column details in > a single query > *and* use col_description() for 7.2 servers. A patch is attached. It > overrules René Pijlman's fix for this that was committed just > today, but > still used N + 1 queries (sorry René ;-) ) > > I also fixed the return values for TABLE_CAT and TABLE_SCHEM > from "" to > null, to be more standard compliant (and requested in René's > mail found at > http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1034253). > > As always, the JDBC1 version has not been tested as I have no JDK 1.1 > available. > > Please review, > > > Jeroen
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Now this? This is a Presidential campaign we can get behind 100%! A. Zombie is entering the 2012 Presidential race and vows to restore zombies to televisions everywhere. Read on for the details.
From the Press Release:
The 2012 Presidential race is about to get more lively thanks to something quite dead – the news that A. Zombie, America's first zombie Presidential candidate, is entering the race.
A formidable third party contender for the nation's highest office, A. Zombie is slated to announce his candidacy at a high-energy rally on Monday, August 20, at Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. The candidate and his human wife, Patty Morgan-Zombie, will then commence a cross-country bus tour that will take them to six major U.S. cities including Tampa and Charlotte, where they will bring their pro-zombie message to the Republican and Democratic Conventions.
"My husband is someone who has dedicated his life and his afterlife to bringing equal viewing opportunities to all Americans," said Mrs. Zombie. "He's the right man to lead the fight to bring zombies to everyone in America, and he won't stop — even if it kills him, again."
The A. Zombie for President Campaign is organized by AMC Networks, home to AMC, WE tv, IFC, and Sundance Channel. Satellite company DISH dropped these networks earlier this year because of an unrelated lawsuit and is now in the disadvantaged position of being the nation's only major television provider without these channels and their popular shows.
A one-issue candidate, A. Zombie's mission is to rally zombie fans around the country who don't have access to these networks and shows to find an alternative television provider before the highly-anticipated third season premiere on October 14, 2012, of A. Zombie's favorite show, AMC's "The Walking Dead," the most watched basic cable scripted drama series among DISH subscribers, according to The Nielsen Company.
At present A. Zombie's campaign juggernaut is slated to motor to: San Diego (August 20); Dallas (August 24); Tampa for the Republican Convention (August 28); Atlanta (September 1); Charlotte for the Democratic Convention (September 3-4); and New York City (September 5).
For more information about the campaign, be sure to visit azombieforpresident.com.
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A constitutional monarchy of northern Europe, Norway occupies the western part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, with coastlines on the Skagerrak, the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. Area: 323,878 sq km (125,050 sq mi), excluding the Svalbard Archipelago and Jan Mayen Island. Pop. (1994 est.): 4,332,000. Cap.: Oslo. Monetary unit: Norwegian krone, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of 6.70 kroner to U.S. $1 (10.65 kroner = £1 sterling). King, Harald V; prime minister in 1994, Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Norwegians rejected membership in the European Union (EU) in an advisory referendum on Nov. 28, 1994. It was the second time in 22 years that Norway had voted against membership. The final outcome of the vote was 52.4% against and 47.6% in favour of joining. The percentage of Norwegians who opposed EU membership was the same as that of those in Sweden who had favoured it in a referendum about two weeks earlier. Nevertheless, one week after the referendum, Norway voted to support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the establishment of its successor, the World Trade Organization.
The referendum was an embarrassing defeat for Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who had made winning over the country's skeptical electorate her central political goal of the 1990s. On the other hand, it was a major victory for Anne Enger Lahnstein, leader of the main opposition Centre Party, who announced that she would challenge Brundtland for the prime minister's office in the 1997 election.
The referendum was lost because of the failure by those favouring membership to win over the voters in the north and other outlying districts, who derived their livelihood from fishing and farming; these enterprises were supported by lavish subsidies that were among the highest in Europe. In many regions an even bigger majority than in 1972 voted "no." The EU advocates also failed to win support from women, who feared membership would undermine Norway's cradle-to-grave welfare system. In addition, many Norwegians feared the loss of sovereignty over the country's rich natural resources--fish, oil, gas, and light metals.
The Labour Party government said that because of the outcome of the referendum, the economy, among the strongest in Europe, faced new and demanding challenges, and it pledged to continue its stable course in economic policy to strengthen international confidence. The government said that it would unveil a package of measures worth between 10 billion kroner and 15 billion kroner to shore up business and industry against potential damaging effects of the vote against the EU and that it would continue to reduce the fiscal budget deficit.
In November Norway's average daily oil production reached a record-high 2.7 million bbl. Norway was Western Europe's biggest oil producer, but output was expected to decline sharply after 1996.
In 1994 the economy was strong, with an expected growth of 4.5%. The increase was forecast to weaken to 3% in 1995, and in the longer term a weak industrial base for employment was expected to lead to further problems. Unemployment fell to about 5% from 8% in 1993 and was expected to decline further in 1995 if Norwegian companies did not follow through on threats to relocate to EU countries. Norway's banks emerged from a persistent six-year banking crisis, the sector's worse since World War II. The business community suffered a jolt on December 13 when Erik Jarve, the well-respected president of the Oslo Stock Exchange, was found dead one day after he was dismissed for accepting bribes.
Norwegians continued to bask in the praise of the successful Olympic Winter Games held in February in Lillehammer, north of Oslo. Not only was the arrangement of this major winter event a huge success, but the Norwegians also walked off with a pocketful of medals: 10 gold, 11 silver, and 5 bronze.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
This is why I love my job.
This is the final few seconds of a video created by one of my students. The full video was designed to capture the unique aspects of millennials. I wanted to put the final few seconds on here because it shows some of the craziness, fun, and learning that goes on here. What a way to earn a living!
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- Roberta Aakhus said...
:) they haven't changed all that much since 7th grade!!
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noun, Biochemistry.
a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
(biochem) a long-chain compound occurring in sphingomyelins and cerebrosides, and from which it can be released by hydrolysis. Formula: CH3(CH2)12CH:CHCH(OH)CH(NH2)CH2OH
sphingosine sphin·go·sine (sfĭng'gə-sēn')
A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.
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My brother just passed. As I am absolutely devastated, I am trying to find my own ways to honor him. My husband and I are ttc, and I just got the thought that Mary Ryan (Double First name) would be really cute. Mary for our aunt who just passed and Ryan is my brothers name. I don't normally like boys names on girls, but it's getting more "unisex" and I could see it do about. I just don't know if Mary Ryan is too many R sounds
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Mary Ryan
Mae Ryan
Zella Ryan
And I'm stuck. Can you guys give me some short syllable combo suggestions? I need something to take my mind off of recent events and I thought the berries could be perfect for dishing out some distraction :)


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Korean Sensation Psy Fails To Impress Tommy LaSorda [VIDEO]
It was quite a night at Dodger Stadium for the Korean community of Los Angeles Tuesday night. Dodger pitching sensation Hyun-Jin Ryu, a Korean, was on the mound and pop star Psy of Gangnam Style fame, another Korean, was invited to perform a short dance segment. Former Dodger manager Tommy LaSorda may have been impressed by Ryu but was something less than awed by Psy. Check out the hilarious video and Tommy's reaction.
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MPA Is Not a Race, Its a Marathon!
Saturday, December 12th, 2015 at 10:33 am
Don't ever feel pressured to move to the next Ad-Pack level.
MPA is a marathon that you can run at your own pace.
It is NOT a race where you have to feel like you have to keep up with someone else. You do not!
Christy here, posted pics on how she was building her levels during a 17 day period when she has all 9 levels open.
The first pic is the "before" the 17-day period started and the 2nd pic is "after" the 17 days. Can you see the differences?
Christy maxed out level 8, where it was not maxed before (1st pic), and then she back-filled all previous levels where the ad-packs were maturing before opening up level 9 (2nd pic).
This is a perfect example of how you should be building your levels.
Run YOUR marathon, not someone else's race.
Here's to much prosperity…
~Mike J Anthony