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Coming from the fifth qualifying position, Hall of Famers Brian Voss of Alpharetta, Ga., and Diandra Asbaty of Chicago, won four consecutive matches to capture the PBA Bayer Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles Sunday at Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge.
Voss, a member of the PBA Hall of Fame, and Asbaty, a member of the World Bowling Writers Hall of Fame, defeated No. 1 qualifiers Jason Belmonte of Australia and Michelle Feldman of Auburn, N.Y., in the Baker format championship match 234-212.
For Voss it was his 25th career Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour title ranking him 10th on the all-time list and his first in four years. It was the second PBA Women's Series presented by BOWL.COM title for Asbaty.
"Diandra bowled so well it took a lot of pressure off of me," said the 51-year-old Voss. "Once we got to match play our strategy was that she would start and I would finish and we stuck with that the whole tournament.
"This was special not just for myself but also because you have an opportunity to share it with someone."
The Baker format requires each member of the team to bowl alternate frames in a game to combine for one score.
"Believe me, I couldn't have done it without Brian," Asbaty said. "We had good chemistry right from the start. Even though we qualified fifth for the finals, we had a lot of confidence and the fact that we jumped out to big leads in the first two matches helped make us feel we were in control."
The Voss and Asbaty team had a scare in the championship match when Voss missed a 10 pin spare in the eighth frame.
"I hadn't thrown any shots on the right hand part of the lane all day and just threw a bad shot," Voss said. "Fortunately it didn't cost us."
Voss and Asbaty shared in a $50,000 first prize and Belmonte and Feldman split $26,000 for second.
"I thought after bowling really well at the start it would eventually end for them but it didn't," said Belmonte. "That's the cruel part of bowling one game for the title, but if it's your day it can be the beauty of it as well."
Voss and Asbaty began the finals by defeating 2009 PBA World Championship winner Tom Smallwood and Jodi Woessner 276-224. In the second match they defeated Rhino Page and Shannon Pluhowsky 276-227, and in the semi-final reigning PBA Player of the Year Wes Malott and Shannon O'Keefe 224-202 to get to the championship match.
Brunswick Zone Wheat Ridge, Wheat Ridge, Colo., Feb. 21
Final Standings
1, Brian Voss, Alpharetta, Ga./Diandra Asbaty, Chicago, $50,000.
2, Jason Belmonte, Australia/Michelle Feldman, Auburn, N.Y., $26,000.
3, Wes Malott, Pflugerville, Texas/Shannon O'Keefe, Arlington, Texas, $16,000.
4, Rhino Page, Dade City, Fla./Shannon Pluhowsky, Kettering, Ohio, $12,000.
5, Tom Smallwood, Flushing, Mich./Jodi Woessner, Oregon, Ohio, $10,000.
Stepladder Results (Baker Format)
Match One – Voss/Asbaty def. Smallwood/Woessner, 276-224.
Match Two – Voss/Asbaty def. Page/ Pluhowsky, 276-227.
Semifinal – Voss/Asbaty def. Malott/O'Keefe, 224-202.
Championship – Voss/Asbaty def. Belmonte/Feldman, 234-212.


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- NAME: Frédéric Chopin
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Pianist
- BIRTH DATE: March 01, 1810
- DEATH DATE: October 17, 1849
- Did You Know?: Frédéric Chopin was composing complex musical pieces at age 7.
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Zelazowa Wola, Poland
- PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
- AKA: Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen
- Full Name: Frédéric Chopin
- AKA: Fryderyk Szopen
- AKA: Frédéric François Chopin
- Nickname: Frycek
- AKA: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
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Born on March 1, 1810, in Zelazowa Wola, Poland, Frédéric Chopin, grew up in a middle-class family. He published his first composition at age 7 and began performing one year later. In 1832, he moved to Paris, socialized with high society and was known as an excellent piano teacher. His piano compositions were highly influential. He died of tuberculosis and ill health on October 17, 1849, in Paris, France.
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!"
Early Years
Frédéric Chopin was born Fyderyk Franciszek Szopen on March 1, 1810, in the small village of ?elazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw (now Poland). His Father, Nicholas, was a French émigré who was working as a bookkeeper when he met and married Justyna Krzy?anowska. Soon after Frederic was born, Nicholas found employment as a tutor for aristocratic families in Warsaw.
His father's employment exposed young Chopin to cultured Warsaw society, and his mother introduced him to music at an early age. By age 6, young Chopin was ably playing the piano and composing tunes. Recognizing his talent, his family engaged professional musician Wojcheh Zywny for lessons, and soon pupil surpassed teacher in both technique and imagination.
Child Prodigy
By 1818, Chopin was performing in elegant salons and writing his own compositions, including the Polonaise in G Minor. By 1826, he had composed several piano pieces in different styles, and his parents enrolled him in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, where he studied for three years under Polish composer Josef Elsner.
Sensing he needed a broader musical experience, Chopin's parents sent him to Vienna, where he made his performance debut in 1829. Audiences were enthralled with his highly technical yet poetically expressive performances. Over the next few years, Chopin performed in Poland, Germany, Austria and Paris, where he settled in 1832. There he quickly established relationships with other young composers, among them Franz Liszt, Vincenzo Bellini and Felix Mendelssohn.
Life in Paris
While in Paris, Chopin found his delicate style didn't always enthrall the larger concert audiences, who had been exposed to the works of Franz Schubert and Ludwig Van Beethoven. A fortuitous introduction to the Rothschild family opened new doors, however, and Chopin soon found employment in the great parlors of Paris as both recitalist and teacher. His increased income allowed him to live well and compose such pieces as Nocturnes of Opp. 9 and 15, the Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31 and the Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35.
Relationship with George Sand
Though Chopin had had youthful love affairs and was at one time engaged, none of his relationships lasted more than a year. In 1838 he began a love affair with French novelist Aurore Dedevant, aka, George Sand. The couple spent a harsh winter on the island of Majorca, south of France, where Chopin became ill. In March 1839, Sand realized that he needed medical attention and took him to Marseille, where he was diagnosed with consumption (tuberculosis). There, a skilled physician helped him recover.
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Battle of Borovo Selo
Battle of Borovo Selo | |||||||
Part of the Croatian War of Independence | |||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
SAO Krajina White Eagles |
Croatia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Vukašin Šoškoćanin |
Josip Džaja Josip Reihl-Kir |
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unknown | c. 180 policemen | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
unknown | 12 killed 21 wounded 2 captured |
The Battle of Borovo Selo on 2 May 1991 (known in Croatia as the Borovo Selo massacre, Croatian: Pokolj u Borovom Selu and in Serbia as the Borovo Selo incident, Serbian: Инцидент у Боровом Селу) was one of the first armed clashes in the conflict which ultimately became known as the Croatian War of Independence. The clash was precipitated by months of rising ethnic tensions and armed combat in Pakrac and at the Plitvice Lakes in March. The immediate cause for the confrontation in the village of Borovo Selo, just to the north of Vukovar, was a failed attempt to replace a Yugoslav flag, hoisted in the village, with a Croatian one. The unauthorised effort by four Croatian policemen resulted in the capture of two of them by a Croatian Serb militia in the village. In an effort to retrieve the captives, Croatian authorities deployed additional police who drove into an ambush. At least twelve Croatian policemen and three Serb militiamen were killed in battle before the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) intervened and stopped the fighting.
The fighting resulted in a further deterioration of the overall situation in Croatia, leading Croats and Serbs to accuse each other of overt aggression and of being enemies of their nation. For Croatia, the event was provocative because some of the police killed in the incident were subsequently mutilated. In consequence, the clash in Borovo Selo eliminated any hopes that the escalating conflict could be defused politically and virtually made the war inevitable. The Presidency of Yugoslavia met days after the fighting and authorised the JNA to deploy to the area and prevent further conflict, but skirmishes quickly spread in the region regardless of their intervention.
In 1990, following the electoral defeat of the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, ethnic tensions in the republic worsened. The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) confiscated Croatia's Territorial Defence (Teritorijalna obrana – TO) weapons to miminize the possibility of resistance following the elections.[1] On 17 August, the tensions escalated into an open revolt of the Croatian Serbs,[2] centred on the predominantly Serb-populated areas of the Dalmatian hinterland around Knin,[3] parts of the Lika, Kordun, Banovina and eastern Croatia.[4] They established a Serbian National Council in July 1990 to coordinate opposition to Croatian President Franjo Tuđman's policy of pursuing independence for Croatia. Milan Babić, a dentist from the southern town of Knin, was elected president. Knin's police chief, Milan Martić, established paramilitary militias. The two men eventually became the political and military leaders of the SAO Krajina, a self-declared state incorporating the Serb-inhabited areas of Croatia.[5] In March 1991, the SAO Krajina authorities backed by the Serbian government started to consolidate control over Serb-populated areas of Croatia. The move resulted in a bloodless skirmish in Pakrac and the first fatalities in the Plitvice Lakes incident.[6]
In the beginning of 1991, Croatia had no regular army and in an effort to bolster its defence, it doubled the number of police personnel to about 20,000. The most effective part of the force was the 3,000-strong special police deployed in twelve battalions adopting military organisation. In addition there were 9,000–10,000 regionally organised reserve police. The reserve police was set up in 16 battalions and 10 companies, but they lacked weapons.[7]
In 1991, the village of Borovo Selo, situated on the right bank of the Danube opposite Serbia, was a part of the Vukovar municipality. While the city of Vukovar itself had an ethnically mixed population of 47.2% Croats and 32.2% Serbs, smaller settlements in the area were more homogenous—14 were predominantly populated by Croats, ten, including Borovo Selo, by Serbs, two by Ruthenians and the remaining two were ethnically mixed.[8]
Amid the worsening ethnic tensions, Borovo Selo was barricaded on 1 April, one day after the Plitvice Lakes clash. Two days later, the JNA garrison in Vukovar increased its combat readiness to the maximum level.[9] In early spring, an agreement was made that Croatian police would not enter Borovo Selo without explicit consent from local Serb authorities to do so.[10] The situation became more volatile by the end of the month, following a political rally in Borovo Selo on 14 April. Speakers at the rally—Vojislav Šešelj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Serbian National Assembly member Milan Paroški and Stanko Cvijan, Serbian Minister of Diaspora—spoke in favour of the creation of Greater Serbia. The same speeches were repeated by the trio a week later in Jagodnjak, north of Osijek, complete with an open call for dissenting Croats to be killed.[11] In addition, White Eagles paramilitaries arrived to Borovo Selo in mid-April, at the request of Borovo Selo militia commander Vukašin Šoškoćanin.[12][13] The paramilitaries were armed by the Serbian police directly,[12] or the SAO Krajina-aligned local militia under approval of the Serbian officials.[13] By the end of the month, the White Eagles in Borovo Selo were joined by Dušan Silni paramilitaries, linked to the Serbian National Renewal party.[14]
Aiming to inflame the situation,[15] three Armbrust rockets were fired from Croatian positions outside Borovo Selo into the village in mid-April. One of the missiles hit a house and another landed in a field, failing to explode.[16] Nobody was killed or injured,[17] but the already tense situation was made worse as the unexploded rocket was shown on Serbian Television as evidence of Croatian aggression against Serbs. The rockets were fired by a group of men including Gojko Šušak, a high-ranking official of Croatia's ruling Croatian Democratic Union at the time. They were led to the site by Osijek police chief Josip Reihl-Kir, even though Reihl-Kir initially objected to the idea.[16] Šušak later denied he had anything to do with the incident, but admitted he was in the area at the time.[12] Josip Boljkovac, Croatia's interior minister at the time, claimed the group included Šušak, Branimir Glavaš and Vice Vukojević.[18]
In the evening of 1 May, four Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo,[19][16] in an unauthorised attempt to replace a Yugoslav flag, hoisted in the village, with a Croatian one. The attempt resulted in an armed clash.[15] Two of the policemen were wounded and taken prisoner, and the remaining two managed to flee,[20] sustaining minor injuries—one a wounded foot and another a grazing wound to his head. According to the Croatian Ministry of the Interior, the police had been on patrol on the Dalj–Borovo Selo road at the time of the incident.[19] Even though the police officers were assigned to Osijek police administration,[21] Vinkovci police administration, which was assigned authority over the Vukovar municipality, requested Vukovar police station contact Šoškoćanin regarding the incident. Vukovar police contacted him at 4:30 that morning, but Šoškoćanin reportedly said he knew nothing. At 9:00, Vinkovci police chief Josip Džaja telephoned Šoškoćanin only to receive the same answer. Reihl-Kir contacted Šoškoćanin half an hour later, when the latter confirmed the incident saying the police had shot at members of the local population wounding one, but Reihl-Kir failed to secure release of the two captured officers.[19]
Reihl-Kir and Džaja concluded that a party should be sent to Borovo Selo,[19] and Šoškoćanin agreed to grant the police safe passage under a white flag.[22] However, when the force of 20 to 30 policemen[23][19] entered Borovo Selo under white flag, the local milita and the paramilitaries ambushed them.[22] Approximately 150 police were deployed as reinforcements by buses,[23] arriving from Osijek and Vinkovci. While the reinforcements sent from Osijek via Dalj were stopped at a roadblock north of Borovo Selo and failed to enter the village, the force dispatched from Vinkovci entered Borovo Selo and was ambushed. The ensuing firefight lasted until 14:30, when seven JNA armoured personnel carriers (APCs) moved into the village from Dalj. Another convoy of APCs deployed by the JNA through Borovo Naselje, just south of Borovo Selo, was stopped by a crowd of Croat women, refusing to let them through.[19]
At least 12 Croatian policemen were killed in the ambush, and 21 were injured.[6] The two captured policemen were ferried across the Danube and transported to Novi Sad, but released and returned to Osijek by the evening of 2 May.[24][19] Several Serbs in Borovo Selo were killed in the fighting, and the figure was never officially released.[25] Sources disagree on Serb casualties—the figure ranges from three dead,[15] to seventeen militiamen and 20 civilians killed.[26] Šešelj claimed only one civilian died in Borovo Selo, while a 22-strong defending force he led in the battle killed a hundred policemen. Residents of Borovo Selo interviewed by reporters claimed 13 policemen were killed after they took women and children hostages and that the residents defeated the police unassisted, freeing the hostages while sustaining one fatality.[23]
Some of the police killed at Borovo Selo were found to have been mutilated, their ears cut, eyes gouged out and throats slit, making the incident provocative in Croatia.[22][15] The act was meant to inflame ethnic hatred.[27] The clash led Tuđman's advisers to advocate an immediate declaration of independence from Yugoslavia,[24] and retaliation against the JNA which was viewed as pro-Serb.[6] On 3 May, Tuđman said Croatia and Serbia were virtually at war,[24] but refrained from retaliation, hoping the international community would stop the violence.[6] The outcome of the fighting reinforced the cautious approach of the Croatian leadership towards long-term decisions. According to Croatian historian Davor Marijan, Tuđman's decision not to retaliate against the JNA was often interpreted as cowardice bordering treason at the time, leading to public criticism and the resignation of General Martin Špegelj from the post of defence minister. Nonetheless, the decision afforded Croatia much needed time to prepare for war, as acknowledged by Yugoslav Navy Fleet Admiral Branko Mamula.[28] The incident shocked the Croatian public causing a massive shift in public opinion, supported by the media, towards demonisation of Serbs.[29] They were collectively labelled "Chetniks", "terrorists" and "enemies" of Croatia. Similarly, Serbs referred to the Croats as "Ustaše" and "enemies" of the Serb people. In turn, chances for a political settlement to avoid an all-out war were greatly reduced.[25] After the clash, a war appeared to be unavoidable.[30]
On 8–9 May, the Presidency of Yugoslavia met to discuss the events in Borovo Selo and a JNA request for a military intervention. Presidents of all Yugoslav constituent republics were also present at the meeting where the Croatian leadership accepted the decision to deploy the JNA in crisis areas of Croatia.[31] On 9 May, representatives of the federal and Croatian governments visited Vukovar. The federal representatives also visited Borovo Selo, unlike the Croatian government officials who stated that they "refused to talk to terrorists".[32] In response to the Borovo Selo clash, the JNA redeployed a part of the 12th Proletarian Mechanised Brigade from Osijek and the 1st Mechanised Battalion of the 453rd Mechanised Brigade based in Sremska Mitrovica to the area of Vukovar. At the same time, the 2nd Mechanised Battalion of the 36th Mechanised Brigade was moved from Subotica to Vinkovci.[33] Yet despite the deployment of the JNA in the area, ethnically motivated skirmishes persisted until the Battle of Vukovar in late August.[6]
During the 1996–98 United Nations administration established pursuant to the Erdut Agreement in order to restore the area to Croatian control, three Croatian non-governmental organizations erected a memorial on public property at the entrance to Borovo Selo, but the site was quickly vandalised. A new monument was erected in the centre of the village in 2002. The new monument was also vandalised soon after completion. A new plaque was added to the monument in 2012,[34] the names of the 12 Croatian policemen killed in the incident, but it was soon vandalised as well.[35] Although the vandalism was condemned by local Serb politicians, they complained that the memorial is offensive to the Serb minority and imposes guilt on the entire community because it brands the Serb forces at Borovo Selo in 1991 as "Serb terrorists".[36]
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Title: | William MacKenzie |
Document type: | Oral history |
Accessibility: | Free Only |
Repository: | Rutgers University. History Department. Oral History Archives of World War II |
Collection: | Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II Web Archive |
Description: | An Interview with William H. MacKenzie, for the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II. Interview conducted by G. Kurt Piehler and Sandra Stewart Holyoak in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on February 8, 1996. Transcript by Althea Miller and Tara Kraenzlin and William H. MacKenzie and G. Kurt Piehler. Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II. |
URL: | http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/mackenzie_william.html |
Original Language: | English |
Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1996 (Year of interview) |
Speaker: | MacKenzie, William H. |
Speaker gender: | Male |
Speaker race: | White |
Speaker occupation: | Military personnel |
Document location: | New Brunswick, NJ |
Document date: | 08-Feb-1996 |
Interviewer: | Holyoak, Sandra Stewart; Piehler, Kurt |
Organizations discussed: | U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Force, 1918-1947; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Navy |
Historical events discussed: | Great Depression, 1929-1941; World War II, 1939-1945 |
Locations discussed: | Asia; Europe; Germany; North America; Russia; United States |
Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Asia; Draft; Emigration and immigration; Europe; Family--History; Germany; Great Depression, 1929-1941; Military service, Voluntary; North America; Oral history; Pogroms--Russia; Russia; Soldiers; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Force, 1918-1947; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Navy; United States; United States--Armed Forces; United States--Military history; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--War work |
ASP release: | 2005-06 |
Document code: | OHI0024996-26816 |


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Nope, just taking dd to choir practice this afternoon, getting in some study time and going to work. My dd is in a Seussical play this next week. So excited! Last year of middle school, on to high school next year. ADS ds starts middle school next year, in cross-category class. We shall see how he does. Most of his current class is moving with him so he won't be alone. Thank God...
I'm so exhausted, I was tattooing all day. I'm so glad to have the next 2 days off.
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This script is by JD Smith and updated for GIMP 2.3+ by Alan Stewart. Main website: http://turtle.as.arizona.edu/jdsmith/exposure_blend.php After installation, you can access the script from [Toolbox]/Xtns/Photography/Exposure Blend...
exposure-blend makes quick work of blending 3 bracketed exposures into a detailed, realistic, extended contrast image. It has many features to save you the drudgery of assembling contrast blended stacks yourself:
'watermark' by Doug Reynolds allows the user to add text as a watermark into an image. The watermark text is done as a lighter overlay of the background of the image. Besides the text itself, the user can choose the font from a pull-down menu, size (in pixels), location (one of the four corners), and opacity (in percent). After installation the plugin script is availbe under the menu: Script-Fu/MyScripts/Watermark.
A simple plugin (my first) to run the cartoon effect on multiple images. It took me a while to write whilst trying to edit a lot of photos (for a short film about geography)
it is available from /Xtns/Misc/Batch cartoon effect
This program creates stereoscopic 3D anaglyph photos from a stereo pair. In order to make use of this program you will first need a pair of images from slightly different angles or the same object. You then need to place both images as different layers in the same image window in Gimp with the right image as the Bottom layer and the left image as the next layer above it and no other layers in the image (if you use this script in other circumstances then it probably won't work properly).
Sets the selection to a sunray-like pattern, taking parameters such as inner and outer size, whether or not to have flowery edges, thickness, amount of rays, and a randomize switch.
Script to make polar array from active selection within image.
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;Copyright (c) 2008 Anton Lopatin ; ; DESCRIPTION: ; this script will create a .imageset definition file, each visible layer will be treated as a separate image and exported ; then the script will create a duplicate image, merge it down, and save with provided filename (and extension). ; ; INSTALL: ; copy to ~/.gimp /scripts/ ; refresh scripts (Gimp->Extras->Script-Fu-> Refresh) ; ; USAGE: ; make sure your image is of the size 2^n ; click Export -> CEGUI Imageset ( Found in the top image menu)
I noticed that the scanlines script-fu was not present anymore, so I cooked up a new one. This one is completely self-contained. Has a few enhancements to it, making it easier to work with. Thanks to Federico Mena Quintero for his work on the original "Erase Every Other Row" script-fu which served as part of my guide.
The script-fu will install in "<Image>/Script-Fu/Enhance".
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Oh, and the original tutorial this is based on can be found here:
Based on Tone mapping script. If you want to see some examples of what my script does, please read my blog post about the Advanced Tone Mapping script.
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Nurses would come in and look at me in same time tell me I have to be wait. By mid day on Saturday June 19th I could not take it anymore. When doctor came in I told him my body feels weird and I can't bread right. No one could believe me by the time shift changed and new doctor came in to see me at 7:00pm I told her how much pain I was in she said let me look at it. She found out they put the epidural in wrong spot. When they were talking about it my husband recorded there voice with his phone. They moved the epidural to new spot.
At that point my body want into attack mode. So my hart beet start going up and I was in so much pain that could not breed. None of the doctors or nurses listen to me by Sunday 7:00pm on 20th my body blow up so much I gained 40 pounds of air and water. My hart beet was very high so when next shift doctor came in. He looked at me and said emergency c-section. They had to put me sleep since my body was in really bad situation. At 10pm when I had my son. They put me into Dark room because of my hart beet and blood pressure. 5 hours later they toke me to the room. I started bleeding from back where the epidural injection was and I lost lot of blood. So still 2 years later I am still anemic.
I lost the moment that I was waiting for all my life. The minute of seeing my son in his first moments. They had to give my son to my husband since I was i dark room. I was in huge amount of pain for 3 days NO one believe me and in top of it no one cared. They were so short staffed. There was one Epidural anaesthesia doctor in floor all those 3 days. He was over packed and toke few minutes in each room. Nurses were running from one room to another room. No one carried about the patient and they toke the only thing i was looking forward too away from me.
I am so scarred that I don't want to have kids anymore. My husband refuses to go to hospitals. My husband has a recording of doctors and nurses what they said and acknowledging that made a mistake and anaesthesia doctor putting the injection in wrong spot but we signed documents. When you are think you may die and don't know what to do. We were about to sign anything off to make me feel batter. I will never forgive them for what they put me through! They made most special and memorable day of my life to Hell. I can't even talk about without crying about it.
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The potential impact of nanoparticles on marine life concerns Southern Methodist University toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, who recently completed a study involving captive large-mouth bass. The tiny particles may be small enough to lodge inside their brain tissue. In 1941, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital made an unsettling discovery: Inhaled nanoscopic particles could travel into the brain. When chimps and rhesus monkeys breathed air laden with poliovirus cells, some of the particles followed the path normally reserved for smell signals, thwarting the protective blood-brain barrier. Polio has since been contained, but lifeless specks the same size or smaller will be churned out by the ton in coming years as nanotechnology becomes an industrial mainstay. Though the nano boom will likely yield countless commercial benefits-ultraprecise drug delivery systems, improved superconductors-it could also give way to an insidious form of air pollution. Mass production will likely bring environmental exposure, and experts are now examining the potential for toxic nanoparticles (objects typically smaller than one billionth of a meter) to end up inside plants, animals or people. The potential impact of nanoparticles on marine life concerns Southern Methodist University toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, who recently completed a study involving captive large-mouth bass. Oberdörster exposed the fish to various concentrations of a dome-shaped molecule called Carbon-60. After two days, signs of an immune response to the invaders were found inside the fishes' livers. Evidence suggests the molecules may have even breached the cells protecting the brain and central nervous system. Carbon-60 is part of a family of precision-engineered nanoparticles called fullerenes, named after architect R. Buckminster Fuller, famous for his geodesic domes. The structure of the molecules and their resistance to heat, among other properties, make them suitable for use in fuel cells, high-temperature lubricants and other products that could wind up in landfills, says nanochemist Vicki Colvin, director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University, where fullerenes were first discovered. But not all fullerenes are toxic, Colvin points out. The type used in the fish study lacked the protective coating often applied to fullerenes to render them nontoxic to living tissue. "Fullerenes have extremely stable surface coatings," she says. More than merely shellacking the sphere, the coating process chemically bonds the surface material to the carbon. Colvin adds that fullerene pollution will likely pale next to the nanoscopic airborne pollution already in existence, from the carbon particles in car exhaust to the manganese oxide in welding fumes. "We're exposed to multi-ton quantities of incidentally created nanoparticles," Colvin says. Oberdörster's father, Günter Oberdörster, director of the University of Rochester's EPA-funded Particulate Matter Center, has probed the toxicity of those inadvertent particles for years. His most recent research project shows that rats, like monkeys, may be subject to contamination by inhaled ultrafine particles via the olfactory tract, a pathway also found in humans. Günter Oberdörster cautions against alarm, too: Nanoparticle toxicity is not a given. "Surface chemistry is very important," he says. "Most of the engineered nanoparticles may be harmless. Of course, we don't know that. We need to find out." |
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Jonny Flynn AP All America Honorable Mention
March 31, 2009, 6:00PM
Jonny Flynn was named to The Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention Team. Flynn joins 45 other players on the team. 45! The AP must be taking notes from the Big East, which had 11 players on it's All Big East First Team last year. Flynn led the Orange in scoring (17.4), assists (6.7), steals (1.4) and minutes-played (37.3). He finished... Full story »
Jim Boeheim doesn't like idiots and then comes the glare of death
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As I'm sure you've read by now, Mitch Lawrence from the New York Daily News reported LeBron James has been calling Jonny Flynn on behalf of his agent, Leon Rose. Flynn told Lawrence that he spoke to James, but never told him why or what the conversation was about. The pitch wouldn't be difficult, though: Jonny, Leon Rose signed DeSagana... Full story »
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Plenty of analysis from Syracuse's loss in the Sweet 16 to Oklahoma - here's another opinion to add to the mix. Sooner beat writer Gurin Emig joined us on Talkin Smack. Emig touched on a number of topics including his surprise at the outcome, impressions of Jim Boeheim and thoughts on Jeff Caple's future. 3.28.09 - Guerin Emig, Tulsa World.MP3... Full story »
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Blake Griffin has been capable of single-handedly dominating games this season. But when the superhero has a sidekick, the Sooners have been unstoppable. It was billed as a battle between Syracuse backcourt against Oklahoma's frontcourt (a.k.a. Blake Griffin), but the Orange's trio of Flynn, Devendorf and Rautins was outscored by OU's starting guards Tony Crocker, Austin Johnson and Big 12... Full story »
SU just lost but does seeing Blake Griffin in drag make you feel any better?
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March 27, 2009, 9:44PM
Syracuse's 84-71 loss to Oklahoma in Memphis in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament was everything we thought could happen but just didn't want to believe would happen. All week long, Syracuse fans everywhere wore their "Marathon Men" T-Shirts and talked themselves into ways that Syracuse could overcome mighty Blake Griffin and Oklahoma and take a step closer... Full story »
Syracuse vs. Oklahoma - Sweet 16 Preview
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vs.28-9Record29-5 80.4PPG79.1 48.8FG%49.2 64.4FT%67.7 34.63PT %35.6 71.4Opp PPG67.3 40.7Opp FG%39.4 29.2Opp 3PT %34.1 39.9Rebounds39.3 18.2Assists14.5 15.3Turnovers13.7 7.7Steals6.8 5.2Blocks4.5 Think to yourself for a minute how great Jonny Flynn and Eric Devendorf have been in the postseason. Well, the backcourt duo combined for 58 points in the first two rounds in Miami. Griffin scored 61 points by himself in two victories.... Full story »
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I ended up eating at the restaurant the SU team was at in Fort Lauderdale before they headed to the airport after the win over Arizona State on Sunday. After dinner, Kris Joseph wanted to get something off his chest and poured his heart out about how CitrusTV, SU's campus television station, doesn't give him any "love." Here are some... Full story »
T.O. no-show in Buffalo but an Owens sighting in Miami!
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Sunny south Florida or Buffalo, New York? Working out with sweaty 300-pounder or dancing with girls? South Beach or Lake Erie? Tough decision. When I got home from Miami I saw on SportsCenter than Terrell Owens was absent from the Buffalo Bills' voluntary workouts on Monday. That's because he was busy clubbing in Miami (where he lives). Definitely saw T.O.... Full story »
Back from Miami: 46 hours of driving and a Sweet 16
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24 hours down and 22 hours back....not driving time, total time. I was supposed to drive to Miami for the NCAA Tournament with Wesley Johnson (the team cannot pay for a transfer student's travel to road games) so we could bond and strengthen our friendship. I even had a Flip video camera to post a video blog about our... Full story »
Jim Boeheim Interview (Sweet 16 Edition)
March 24, 2009, 8:13AM
Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim was a guest "On the Block" with me on ESPN Radio 1260 in Syracuse on Monday. We covered a number of issues in our chat including: *The win over Arizona State and how Syracuse solved their 3-2 match up zone *Why Arizona State's James Harden struggled versus the Orange *Andy Rautins' great game vs... Full story »
SU-Arizona State Recap
March 22, 2009, 2:23PM
Sometimes you do get what you wish for. In chatting with fans on my radio show and here in this blog before the season, the clear consensus of what kind of team the 2008-09 Syracuse Basketball Orange could be if they played to their potential, even with a 2-year absence in the NCAA Tournament in play, was a "Sweet 16... Full story »
Jonny Flynn and James Harden grab dinner together
March 21, 2009, 3:49PM
The Syracuse players had a chance to unwind after yesterday's first round win. Jonny Flynn spent his free time on Ocean Drive, meeting a friend at a "nice little restaurant" to "reminisce" about their "dream relationship." No, no, Flynn didn't go out on a date in Miami last night. He united with buddy James Harden, as in tomorrow's enemy... Full story »
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My parents divorced when I was 10 over some drunkin brawl assed thing. Dad drank a lot & when dad walked out he said, I'll see you again in divorce court. Mom started to cry un-controllably. Hell, I didn't know what to do. I took mom's hand & tried to console her as best I could. She & I just sat there. I started to talk to her. I said, "Mom "We'll make it. We will be alright"
"We will be fine mom, it will take some hard work but we'll be ok, besides I know dad drinks too much and never once did I hear him say so, he will always get violate when he was about to pass-out & you don't need that in a man. From now on I am your man. What do you think"
"Oh Matt, at 18, you are so mature for your young years, I love you son"
I love you also Mom. She leaned over my shoulder while still crying and kissed my cheek. I said, "here mom take these aspirin and go to bed. We can talk about this again in the morning" I followed her to her bedroom. I laid her down and removed her shoes. I covered her with the sheet and a blanket. I kissed her forehead. "Night Mom, love ya". I went off to my room. I was lying there thinking about her issues with dad and his constant drinking for hours, thinking of how we were going to get by. A year went by. Then two. We were doing all right. Mom was working again to make ends meet closer. I had a part-time job as well. Over the next couple of years we had gotten real close. Mom & I were doing ok. We never heard from dad again. It's like he dropped off the face of the earth.
Mom is a looker! She is 38 years old, kind of auburn blonde hair and pale green eyes. Thin wasted, firm boobs and a nice round butt. She always carried herself like she was full of confidence, and she is. I know mom was pretty lonely and needing some male company. I would try to get men I knew to come over and meet her. Things just didn't work out right for her. She would just say she wasn't interested in men anymore.
When I was 18 maybe 19, I started to wake up with a good stiff hard on. "Mom!" I screamed "MOM" Come here! Something is wrong with me"
"Coming" I heard her say. Mom stepped in my room and asked me what was so wrong. I flew off my covers and said, "Look mom, this happened yesterday also. What's wrong I asked her.
She snickered a little and said. "Now you're becoming a man, and quit a man I might add". It looks like we need to have a talk, this is a man to man talk your father should have done".
My dick was standing up like a shoulder about 6" above me. Mom just smiled at me and said, "Your penis will go down when you get up and moving around. Ca, mon Matt, It's time to get up anyway"
"but why am I doing that" I asked. She sat on the edge of my bed and started to explain my questions. She softly rubbed my dick a couple times and it really stood proud. As she explained what was happening she said this happens to all boys my age. "It is nothing to worry about Matt, It just shows you are becoming a man"
(I knew all about sex thru the neighbor girt but, I wanted Mom to explain it to me) as she talked to me about the sex I would some day have with a female to share this with. Mom kept looking at my hard-on. She lowered herself to the floor as I sat on the bed. Moved in closer to my dick. She said, the flesh of a female's vagina is smooth like my hand. She rubbed me again and again. She said I would love the sexual sensations that a female would give me. "Like What Mom?" I asked.
She said she couldn't show me because of she was my mother. But she could tell me. Mom is one of those people that needs to talk with her hands. She couldn't show me with out touching me. As leaned over and licked my dicks under side. "Matt, we have to forget all about this event away from this house. I can get in a whole bunch of trouble. Do you understand?" You can't tell anyone about this. "I mean anyone" Yes Mom I hear you. I me do you understand?" "Yes Mom"
She took my hard cock in her hand and started to pump it while lightly squeezing it. Mom kissed the tip of my dick lightly and looked up at me with a smile on her face. "Matt this is called a blowjob or giving head. She then put my dick in her month and began slow up & down sucking movements. "Oh Mom that feels good" She increased her speed and depth. "Matt, she said, this is called "Deep Throating." She swallowed my dick into her throat. Mom, mom that makes my dick hurt a little" She said, It will feel better in a minute" She kept it up for a while longer. My dick started to explode this creamy substance. I was sweating profusely and lost my breath. Now that is you're cum sweetie. Deep inside of your cum there is sperm; this sperm will make a girl have a baby, so you can't put it in her until you have a girl to marry. do you understand?"
"Oh Wow mom this is interesting. Tell me some more" My breathing was returning to normal. She explained my penis has to be inserted in a female's vagina. "How Mom" how does that happen" She started to rub me again and she lazed her nightgown. My first look at this naked female's body made my dick hard again. She lay on her back and told me to get on top of her. I did and she aimed my hard dick to the entrance of her pussy. Matt this is called sexual intercourse. Now slide your pee pee in me. She was extremely wet as I inserted my dick in her pussy. "Now Matt" Start pushing down and I will push up" This is called fucking or intercourse. I think she was enjoying this more than I was.
She was thrusting up and up as high as she could with her eyes closed. "Oh Matt, You are about to make me cum. Keep pushing down. "Mom do you have sperm in there also"? No, no son I will explain in a while". Now push up on me. "Oh Yeah Baby, make me cum, it's been so long. It feels so good. She clenched her teeth together her eyes we closed light. She started her movements real fast. I followed her lead and did the same.
"Oh Mom, it's my dick again its like before" Yeah Matt go ahead and leave me your cum in my pussy. I'll tell you when. She pumped a few more times. "NOW Son, Love your Mamma, give it to me. Sprit after sprit I left all I had in her hairless pussy. You have just had sex with a female and you did just fine, "Now Matt, we can't tell anyone about this Ok?" " Yes mom I told you I wont tell" " I can show you more in a little while. "Now lets go down and make us some breakfast hun" I had just had sex for the first time with my mom.
Matt, you can't tell anyone about this Ok? All during breakfast I kept up with the questions. How, When, Why, Where. She said she would tell me all I needed to know. After breakfast Mom took by the hand. She told me about her sexual intercourse encounter positions. Spooning, Missionary, Cow Girl, Reverse Cow Girl, Side by Side, Gapping & Doggie style. "Yeah I understand Mom, but can I see them"?
"Sure, Matt. Lets go up to my bedroom" She removed her nightie & she had me lay down on her bed. She went around to the other side and got on top of me. Slowly crawling down to my dick. "Now Matt, this is called 69 or Oral Sex" she started to suck me off again. I just did as she did. I sucked her wet hole as best as I could. No, no Matt Here do me this way. She instructed me lick and rub her slit until her clitoris was hard. "It's right, here son She pushed the flesh away from her clit. And it stuck its little head out of her folds. There ya go Matt suck my clit real slow at first and hard later. She kept up her sucking my dick and soon it was hard as I could get. It hurt it was so hard. Now, Son she tuned around and lowered her pussy on my dick. This is cowgirl. She rose up a little and back down. My dick seamed to grow while it was in there. She turned around. This is the Reverse Cow Girl. She continued her movements. She did the missionary, then the Spooning. She said, I saved the best for last. This is my favorite. Gapping.
She had me stand up, she lay face up on the edge of the bed with her butt nearly off and spread her legs as wide as possible. Now son come here. Put your young manhood in me. Hold on to my feet. And fuck me hard. I did as she wanted. She went into some kind of trans. Her eyes were closed, and moaning loud. "Oh Yeah Matt. Just like that! Make your momma cum". She thrust up as I went down and in. Her instruction was great. She was so patient with me. I felt my dick feeling like it did earlier. I started to speed up as she did.
" Mom" Mom I am going to loose it again. It's ok Matt do it, let it go. My pee pee started to cum as my mom was reaching for every inch I had. She was thrusting up as she started to cum also. ". FUCK ME! I'M CUMMING!" Pleaseeeeee......put it in Hard .....Fuck me hard Matt. I did as I was told. We had cum together. We lay there for a long time just cooing and petting.
"Matt" she said, "I will make you one hell of a lover for your wife when you are old enough" We dozed off with me lying between the wetness of her legs. Mom woke up first. I didn't know she had gotten out of bed. She was in the shower. She came out a few minutes later. "Well it's about time you woke up. It's time for dinner. What would you like me to cook up for us"?
I said, "Some more of that pussy it just fine for me" She smiled at me. "Maybe later Matt". With that we walked downstairs. I noticed a different look on mom's face. It has kind of a glow to it. She just smiled and said, I Love you so Matt"……….
We spent very few nights in separate beds. We didn't always have sex, but just cuddled each other with touching, kisses and rubbing until we got each other off. We were extremely close after that. I would be sleeping and she would come in my room while I was out, she jacked me off until I was hard. And mount me cowboy stile and ride me until I awoke with my yelling out. "Oh Mom" make me come. You can have all I have. Grind that sweet cunt on me. Soon I was giving her me cum deep in her hole. Later I noticed that I had grown another inch or so. She really enjoyed more of me then. I could feel contractions better also.
I will be graduating high school in the spring and off to college in the fall. She told me she had ranged a surprise party for me after my graduating from high school. She wants me to know how to satisfy two women at the same time. So the word couldn't get back to someone else, she arranged for two women to come to our house. Now that is another great story…….. "Damn I am going to miss all that these women taught me for a little while anyway………
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Sayah and his team did a top-down assessment of the ED flow and found multiple bottlenecks at CHA's three Massachusetts EDs in Cambridge, Somerville, and Everett, which together saw 96,712 ED visits in FY 2010 and 97,381 ED visits in FY 2011. It was not an ED capacity problem, they found, as there was plenty of ED bed capacity. Too many steps were happening consecutively that did not need to. CHA undertook a reengineering of its patient flow process, resulting in huge improvements in patient satisfaction and other key metrics in just six months.
The first step was eliminating traditional triage and registration. CHA hired "patient partners," multilingual nonclinicians whose role is to greet ED patients when they walk in the door and collect three pieces of information: name, identifier such as Social Security number or date of birth, and chief complaint. Answers are entered by the patient partner into a "computer on wheels" and CHA's Epic-based electronic health record. The process takes approximately two minutes. "With those three questions, the patient is registered; they are in the computer, I can take care of them in the ED, and they're brought right in," Sayah says.
The next step is the merger of what used to be registration, triage, and what was called express care into rapid assessment. The patient partner brings the patient directly into a room in the rapid assessment area. The patient is seen by a nurse and usually an ED tech first, says Lisa Kingsley-Rocker, RN, BSN, emergency department nurse manager at CHA's Whidden Hospital campus in the densely populated, working-class city of Everett, adjacent to Boston. Triage ranks the patient according the AHRQ Emergency Severity Index score of acuity from 1 to 5, with 1 being the most acute and 5 the least.
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Great article and in total agreement with the process. But, there was no mention of point of service collection for patients who were at the ED for clinic level of care. How is that handled at these 3 hospitals? Unless we develop access to care at the appropriate site and expect payment when appropriate post medical screen, patients will continue to use their local ED for what could be seen in a clinic thus encouraging high cost of care and lack of accountability. I would love a response to this comment. Thank you.
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01-12-2011, 02:06 PM #12Thanks for the compliment.
Body lifts on the GMT-900's looks great. They show probably less frame than the stock 2500's do and as long as you use some type of gap guards and raise the bumpers (which most kits come with all necessary parts) it's difficult to tell that they're there. I removed my spare and my hitch, because it's extremely rare that I tow so there really aren't any blatantly obvious indicators that I have a body lift.
Aesthetics aside, a body lift leaves the factory suspension completely untouched, which in the grand scheme of things is good. Especially when comparing it in terms of price and quality to any of the 3" "suspension" kits out there. Kits like the RC 3" and the Ready Lift 4" are incomplete and a waste of money IMO.
As far as the RC 5" kit, it's the best thing RC has going for it. I wouldn't buy it because I have been burned by RC's lack of quality and customer service but I think it's an okay kit.
01-22-2011, 07:39 PM #13Hey ajarman, Did you put anything in the back end on your '08?
01-23-2011, 09:14 AM #15So a question.. what does raising the back after leveling the front 2" really do for u? Wouldnt it give it that "rake" look again?
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01-23-2011, 09:48 AM #16I only leveled the front to fit larger tires with out the big cost of a lift kit. When I hook up to my trailer now or have a few hundred pounds in the bed, the truck looks weak. Putting some blocks in the rear will help with some of the sag from the load. Yes, some of the rake will be back but not like from the factory. I got closer to 2.5" of lift from the 2.25 level kit and the rear blocks are just 1" larger than factory rear blocks.
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01-23-2011, 12:37 PM #17awesome... thanks for the pointer.
2010 Chevy 1500 LT Z71 ext cab
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01-25-2011, 08:28 PM #18thanks ajarman, I just ordered my ready lift 2.25 front and 3 inch rear for my '08 crew cab. Gonna leave the stock 18" Bridgestones on till they wear out, which might be quicker then normal once i have the lift on.( gonna want the 33's bad) I'm new here but i'll get some before and after pics up here for those who are interested.
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after some reading i dont think i would personally go with anything other than Bilstein.
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01-26-2011, 01:10 PM #20Skyjacker makes a true 3" suspension lift for the NBS trucks part # C7361PK-N. A picture of the 3" lift on a NBS is on there website. Put in yourtrucks info and the picture will come up.
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Posted by haveuseenmystapler / Nov. 1, 2010 This is the world's strongest dog, pulling a tractor. When he humps your leg, you just close your eyes and hope he doesn't want to cuddle when it's over.
Posted by stupidvidiom / Nov. 1, 2010 This math teacher is reprising his Halloween projector trick from last year for this year's class, but he has upgraded his projector trick to Windows 7. One nerd in the back is thinking how much cooler it would've been in Linux.
Posted by mizzanimal / Nov. 1, 2010 The mimic octopus can change its shape and form with the greatest of ease. If you think that's impressive, you should see the Gilbert Gottfried impression it did at the last Comedy Central Roast.
Posted by Charlie01 / Nov. 1, 2010 This is video proof that only one in ten parkour enthusiasts is stupid enough to actually do try it.
Posted by mellifluent / Nov. 1, 2010 "Remember, honey, we parked next to the twitching kid."
Posted by Videokie / Nov. 1, 2010 You can actually trace the moment this guy became a loser back beyond his early celebration at the finish line all the way to the moment he put on a pair of rollerblades.
Posted by thedestroyer / Nov. 2, 2010 Nothing goes right during the opening moments of this news broadcast. Some people are on their way to the news station with regional news Emmys... to beat them over the head.
Posted by mxwrestler / Nov. 2, 2010 Swinging into the side of the boat, this guy shows he's not exactly sailor material. If you count each of the ribs, this guy just had three Spring breaks.
Posted by biggiesmallz / Nov. 2, 2010 The other guy could've won if only he could've thought of a rhyme for urination. The guy who went #1 but came in #2 is from the Argyle Pimps.
Posted by scrfce / Nov. 2, 2010 She's just reached that awkward stage where she's too old to be playing on a see-saw and too young to drive herself to the doctor for an X-Ray.
Posted by smellthis / Nov. 3, 2010 This guy's performance of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" gets cut short. He'd always considered himself his own worst critic, but, nope, his worst critic was the dude with the weaponized empty case of beer.
Posted by THEKINGOFEUR0PE / Nov. 3, 2010 You'd laugh like an idiot, too, if you found a cheap way to improve your looks without resorting to plastic surgery.
Posted by jdahla / Nov. 3, 2010 Nikki has a lot in common with the ghost chili she's been tricked into eating. They're both pretty hot but after a while you kind of want them to go away.
Posted by philmc12 / Nov. 3, 2010 A massive torrent of giant hail is unleashed and dropped on an Arizonan backyard.
Posted by therockbottom / Nov. 3, 2010 This woman ties a rope to her kid, lowers her down a story, and lifts her back up. Look, we get it, lady. You're a strong woman who doesn't need a man to help you raise your kid. Way to be too literal.
Posted by theladyzman / Nov. 4, 2010 This is a (mostly) undistorted version of the laughing webcam girl. They say laughter is the best medicine, but I say get this girl some medicine so she'll stop laughing.
Posted by mellifluent / Nov. 4, 2010 The next time this happens, he'll bring a pillow. It will make the sleep a little more comfortable and will soften his landing when the bus stop's doors open.
Posted by bigmny / Nov. 4, 2010 A girl falling off a boat is the only interesting thing that could happen in a group of people doing the Cupid Shuffle.
Posted by bignblk / Nov. 4, 2010 Russia is training tactical hand-to-hand combat attack rodents? This is an arms race that is going to be hilarious to watch. America is already working on a gerbil that can do a rear naked choke.
Posted by usukit / Nov. 4, 2010 The car is the only device he's bad at operating.
Posted by mellifluent / Nov. 4, 2010 Their black belts are just for decoration-- as are their new bruises.
Posted by helloexactly / Nov. 4, 2010 This girl attempts to sing "I Will Always Love You," and just gets madder and madder. This video will be the first and only exhibit in the class-action lawsuit T-Pain can look forward to being served with.
Posted by crazycowproductions / Nov. 5, 2010 If you've ever had a conversation with a Mac-owner about computers, you've probably wanted to explode a mac yourself. This is your chance to live vicariously through this video.
Posted by NubTV / Nov. 5, 2010 He was aiming for the chest, but this is just how he lives his life: Aim low, and you'll always be surprised when you go higher.
Posted by mellifluent / Nov. 5, 2010 This is an excerpt from the rarely-seen KGB training video, "Knowing When To Duck."
Posted by Videokie / Nov. 5, 2010 A Mr. Moviephone impression and a rap? It looks like someone is gunning for that Employee of the Month spot.
Posted by TitsMcgee06 / Nov. 5, 2010 Hey, kids, she's not saying you have to check out a Jonas Brothers show while you're there, and if you do see a Jonas Brother, she's not saying you can't hit one!
Posted by arnaz1 / Nov. 6, 2010 I'm pretty sure this is more action than Carlton saw during the entire run of Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Posted by BobZamuda / Nov. 6, 2010 The Autotune the News Guys have given us what we all knew was inevitable, an awesome autotune of Jimmy McMillan, the guy behind the Rent Is Too Damn High Party.