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ø Ignore JVisgaitisRevised GSL TODAY!
Just got an email from Scott Rouse. The revised GSL is going live today. There isn't anything else I'd want from this. It's perfect. Thanks to Scott for finally getting this to us. It is greatly appreciated.
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Monday, 2nd March, 2009, 11:09 PM #2
Thanks very much for the heads up! I put a link to this post on RPGnet, since I know that forum is also very interested in the GSL release.
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Sweet Baby Demogorgon! It looks great, thanks WotC!
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ø Ignore RechanMorrus posted this in the "Any word on the GSL" thread. He said this was sent in a letter along with the GSL to Publishers:
Publishing friends,
I just wanted to let you know that the revision of GSL that we announced back in August 2008 is going live today (it should go up around 4PM PST). I have posted a copy for your reference.
Also a revised SRD, logos, and updated FAQ are being posted to: http://www.wizards.com/d20
Highlights include:
- Removal of section 6, which set terms & conditions for 4e compatible product lines that may have been previously published under the Open Game License (OGL).
- Inclusion of a provision for a Notice of Termination, allowing publishers to end their use of the GSL at their choosing. This includes the addition of a 6-month inventory sell off period after executing a Notice of Termination.
- Modification to imagery clause that clarifies use derivative art work.
- Additions to the SRD from Players Handbook® 2, Monster Manual® 2, and Adventurers Vault including:
- Barbarian, bard, druid, and sorcerer class options
- Alchemy, alchemical formula template, and alchemical items
- Vehicles, mounts, and the vehicle template
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I hope you find the revisions to your liking and I want to thank you for your patience as we revised the GSL.
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ø Ignore RechanSo. Any publisher want to explain what the real changes are? Or rather, what changed that was objected to for the most part?
What stayed that people dislike?
Do the new changes help?
How do people feel about this all?
I just know many people were unhappy with the previous GSL and calling doom and gloom, so I want someone who groks all this to explain it in layman.
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Monday, 2nd March, 2009, 11:50 PM #9
I'm still reading through it, but, as far as I can tell, since the old section 6 is out, we can now support our titles in both OGL AND GSL, so long as we are very careful not to violate the existing GSL (which supercedes the ogl),
So, as an example, if I decided I wanted to convert my Touch of Evil Game line, or Blood Throne, to 4e (which I'm now seriously considering), I could do so, as long as I don't redefine any of the terms in the SRD. Additionally, I can keep selling Blood Throne as a true20 product.
I'm going to need to check with a lawyer on that, but I believe I'm reading it right.
If anyone else interprets it differently, please speak up.David Jarvis, Gun Metal Games
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Now that statement, by Someone un-elected by the vast majority of the population, really gets my goat.... If High Speed Rail Links costing Billions are the answer to kick start the economy... Then why oh Fucking why are they reducing all the speed limits on the roads .....Fuckwits. ....and relax.
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put more freight onto the rail network, the roads would
a) Be clearer
b)Wear out less quickly
c) Provide jobs for people who live here, spend their wages here rather than foreign transport companies.
Another concern is: Why do people always need to move to various parts of the country for meetings? If the information superhighway was up to speed, could video-conferencing not save a lot of time, money and unnecessary journeys/fuel usage?
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Of course it will stimulate the economy, as any building program would. The more traffic carried by rail the less congested the roads.
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ultra fast fibre optic broadband would be far better - why the need to 'be there'? - surely a lot 'greener' to not go and use video conferencing.
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Phil simply said the EU idea lives on and you jumped down his throat.
Get serious, you say? You don't really think we'll get the promised referendum, do you?
I do think the UK often meekly obeys the European Parliament regardless. Look at the debacle over Test Centres where common sense failed and we built expensive and unpopular sites so that learners could meet the 50kph (31mph) speed requirement. Why didn't we ask for a UK-specific clause allowing 30 mph, or even just do it whilst sticking to the spirit of the European test?
Back to the HST, Ministers love these big projects, it feeds their vanity. The idea of London as simply a European terminus is less attractive and doesn't feed the developers' hunger. I don't think Birmingham or Manchester really need super-fast passenger trains to London but the London-centrics do.
I'd like to see long-distance freight off the roads and onto the railways, and investment on existing infrastructure instead of a new, parallel, top-tier, passenger-only railway. The guys here make a good point about thebenefits of improved telecommunications too.
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20 years to build the f*cking thing The Victorians would have cracked it off in half that time,Brunel built Bristol to London railway in 5 years with the longest tunnel in Europe (at that time),no doubt there will be 5 years of enquiries lining the pockets of lawyers etc.The money would be better spent on improving the road network,get some motorways built with realistic variable speed limits,up to 150mph dependant on conditions and time of day
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Why a passenger only line ? the UK roads are clogged with trucks & this smacks of an elite rail link for those who can afford it. Get to a destination half an hour quicker ? what difference is that going to make ?an extra cuppa in the commons tea rooms before a hard days slog seeing off the public.
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Tell them that quicker means of transport are not required and they will kickback by banning motorcycles as not being necessary as who needs a cuppa with their mates.
I mean thats tantamount to being pleasurable and they won't stand for that.
just been a furore about the cost of normal train tickets, with above inflation price rises on many routes. So, even if they build a 'Zil lane' train service, no-one will be able to afford to use it.
Public transport is fine, IF the public can afford to use it. The State subsidy for rail in the UK has been less than our European counterparts for years.
If you want people to leave the car at home, make public transport regular and affordable. The pricing structure at the moment penalises those that use it to the point where in some cases, its cheaper to drive, and park then use the train. Joined up thinking? Not yet it seems
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... means different countries making their rail systems suitable for each other's rolling stock, rather than having to stop and change locos at the border - compatible signalling and train control systems, that sort of deal. Gosh, that's scary big brother stuff.I'd rather see proper investment in ordinary-speed rail and goods traffic, although my views are a bit coloured by the chosen route for phase 1 ploughing up places that are big in my childhood memory. The time savings aren't enough to be significant until they get the thing up to Scotland.
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£32billion either....Cambridge has recently had a guided bus way finished, original cost was meant to be £118million, then revised to £150million, but final cost nearer to £200million, for a mere 25miles!!!!!!!....so final HS2 cost?....pick up a number
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Can we attribute these improvements in health and longevity to the sharply higher intake of dietary supplements? Not according to mainstream medicine, which is still waiting for the results of large-scale trials. Existing human studies, on the other hand, demonstrate a significant correlation between supplement use and increased life span.(4-7) The FDA argues that if women ate more fortified foods, they would obtain enough folic acid. The facts are that most people won't change their diet, but many will consume a low-cost folic acid supplement. Members of The Life Extension Foundation decided a long time ago to take matters into their own hands and consume supplements that have been shown in scientific studies to protect against disease, aging and death. 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After threatening to file an appeal of the Court's decision that allowed the folic acid health claim, the FDA just announced it would not contest this issue further. After eight years of intensive litigation over this one narrow health claim, the FDA has finally capitulated on this fundamental First Amendment issue. Another government agency often at odds with the FDA is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the March 16, 2001 issue of their publication called Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC reminds women of reproductive age that they need to take at least 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. According to this report, a survey of women of child-bearing age found that only 30% of women were aware that taking folic acid can prevent neural tube defects. Most of these women did not know that folic acid consumption on a regular basis is important to them.(8) The CDC advocates that more information be disseminated to women of child bearing age about the importance of folic acid, while the FDA has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress the truth about this critically important B-vitamin. The result of FDA censorship of folic acid supplements is that more babies will be born with horrendous birth defects such as spina bifida and other related neural tube defects. The FDA argues that if women ate more fortified foods, they would obtain enough folic acid. The facts are that most people won't change their diet, but many will consume a low-cost folic acid supplement. For women to know to take folic acid, the FDA has to let supplement makers advertise that folic acid can reduce the risk of certain kinds of birth defects. The FDA is now under Court-order to allow a claim that folic acid supplements are more effective than folic acid obtained from food.It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and took eight years to force the FDA to recognize this one health claim. If the FDA continues this pattern of censoring scientifically-based health claims, most Americans will not learn what they can do to reduce disease risk.Few people read medical journals. That means that if more Americans are to take advantage of the evolving knowledge about disease prevention, supplement companies must be allowed to advertise truthful, non-misleading health claims to the public. FDA censorship equals death to the uninformed.As a subscriber to this publication, you are updated every month about the latest scientific methods of preventing disease via the use of diet, hormones, drugs and supplements. 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T. Brooks Rice
Lt. Thurman B. Rice, December 30, 1944
Recent Address:
44277 Blueberry Lane, California, MD 20619-4060
Family Information:
Parents: Thurman and Ruby; Wife: Margaret (deceased), Agnes (wife)
Indianapolis, IN
Date Entered Service:
November 20, 1943
Service Number:
Bomb Group:
468th Bomb Group
793rd Bomb Squadron
Location of Unit:
Tinian; July 1945
Missions Flown:
Hump Missions Flown:
Kawanishi Aircraft Plant at Takarazuka, city of Saga, Hikari Naval Arsenal and Power Display Mission over Tokyo on Sept. 2, 1945.
Distinguished Unit Citation, American Theater Service Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with 3 Battle Stars
Service Schools Attended:
CTD Kent State Univ., Kent, OH Jan-Apr 1944; Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA Sep-Dec 1944;
Military Specialty(ies):
MOS 1034-Navigator
Rank Upon Discharge:
1st Lt.
Crew Type:
Flight crew
Airplane Serial No.& Name:
Were you a POW?
Were you interned?
Date Transferred from the 58th:
October 10, 1945
Date Discharged from the 58th:
June 18, 1946
Post-WWII Military Service:
Post-WWII Civilian Occupation(s):
Student until Feb 1951 -- DePauw Univ. BA degree 1949 and Purdue Univ. BS degree, C.E. 1951; Structural Engineer from 1951 to retirement
Thoughts on the 58th Bomb Wing:
While I would not want to go through it again and I hope that my grandchildren never have to go to war, it was a truly wonderful experience to be a part of the effort to win WWII. I was only 19 years old and yet had very great responsibility. It was a very maturing experience. I would not trade it for anything. I am proud to have served my country -- I hope well.
It also enabled me to receive five full school years in college through the GI Bill of Rights.
I was part of a very good crew: (photo below) Back Row (L to R) Flight Engineer, Harold Hartman; Radio Operator, Vincent Yanuchi; CFC Gunner, Gordon D. Clark; Gunner, Bobby Fowler; Gunner, Floyd Eckman; Tail Gunner, Karr Roe; Front Row (L to R) Bombardier, Paul V. Callahan; Pilot, Julian Jensen; Aircraft Commander John W. Woolsey; Navigator, Brooks Rice; Radar, Robert McLane.
Mr. Brooks passed away April 12, 2013 and is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH.
A very good crew!
T. Brooks Rice, c.2000
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Will e-books kill reading?
by Jane Fagan | 7 Mar 2014 |
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A recent study by the UK National Literacy Trust found that those children who read only e-books on a daily basis are less likely to be strong readers than those who read in print. The report recognised the advantages of technology but called for a healthier balance in using technological devices and books.
The UK National Literacy Trust did research with 34,910 young people, ages 8 to 16. The influence of this technology on children's reading abilities and their enjoyment of reading were examined. It found those who read daily only on-screen are nearly twice less likely to be above average readers than those who read daily in print or in print and on-screen (15.5% vs. 26%). Those who read only on-screen are also more than three times less likely to enjoy reading very much (12% vs. 51%) and a third less likely to have a… click here to read whole article and make comments
Alien spaceship lands in Utah
by Jennifer Minicus | 3 Mar 2014 |
tags: adventure, science fiction Captain Justo from the Planet Isby Stephen Millerwritten for ages 11-14 | recommended with reservationspublished in 2008 | TriQuest Publishing | 421 pages
Twenty-one-year-old Marion Justo has finally finished his training and is ready to assist his father, Admiral Ezra Justo in the family business. Their first task is to recover the Isian, an extraordinary spaceship stolen from the Admiral's own father by space pirates decades ago. Now Admiral Justo plans to buy this ship back to restore family honor.
The Isian is indeed extraordinary, having the unique ability to use music in order to travel to distant galaxies. Thus it is not surprising when other space travelers try to capture the ship for themselves. Marion suddenly finds himself wandering from one universe to another accompanied by a robot from the ship's original crew. While desperately searching for planets inhabited by humans, Marion finds Earth. He lands in the hopes of obtaining help to return home and soon becomes entangled in the lives of the Sterling Family with whom he may have more in common than their species. Determined to help them as… click here to read whole article and make comments
Best seller presents heavy topics with optimism
by Jane Fagan | 28 Feb 2014 |
tags: heroic boys, humor I Funnyby James Pattersonwritten for ages 9-12 | highly recommendedpublished in 2012 | Little, Brown and Company | 320 pages
Middle schooler Jamie Grimm has dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world, and he isn't going to let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his way. Winning the New York State Finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest is what Jamie wants to do. A sadder story lies beneath this: Jamie has come to be in a wheelchair through a car accident in which his entire family were killed. He doesn't wish to dwell on it, but he does eventually talk about it to his "cool girl" girlfriend. Their relationship revolves mostly around communication, with one kiss in the twilight.
Some critics have asserted that the book is disagreeable due to the fact that it is a wheelchair-bound boy winning a comedy competition, and that he is punched to the ground by a bully. Yes, this is heavy stuff in a light form, but such things can and do happen. Such critics maintain that in… click here to read whole article and make comments
When should a child be told he is adopted?
by Jennifer Minicus | 25 Feb 2014 |
tags: adoption, family Tree Castle Islandby Jean Craighead Georgewritten for ages 9-12 | recommendedpublished in 2002 | HarperCollins | 256 pages
Fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins loves the Okefenokee Swamp. He visits Uncle Hamp as often as he can in the summer in order to spend time paddling through the waters, discovering the wildlife and hidden islands of the region. This summer is particularly special since he has brought the canoe he made himself and is determined to prove to his father that the little ship is "sea worthy".
Legend says that the Okefenokee is bewitched with Sun Daughters who lead visitors astray with special calls and visions. Jack begins to wonder if he himself has fallen prey to the swamp's wiles each time he finds evidence that someone or something is out there with him. His fears are allayed, however, when he meets Jake. Jake is no ghost, but a real live boy, just like Jack. So much like him, as a matter of fact, that the two teens are convinced they must be twins, separated at birth.
In the same vein… click here to read whole article and make comments
How much do you value books?
by Jane Fagan | 21 Feb 2014 |
tags: picture books, war The Treasure Boxby Margaret Wild, illustrated by Freya Blackwoodwritten for ages 7-10 | recommendedpublished in 2013 | e-penguin
Grace and style are in abundance in this picture book which would equally appeal to adults as well as children. The reader feels he is holding a lovely treasure in his hands as he turns the beautifully designed pages. This is no computer generated quick mock-up, but instead a carefully thought-out and well-designed picture book where even the lighting has been done perfectly.
The story is set in war time. The "enemy" has bombed and then burned down the local library. Peter's father cherishes the one book he has left which had not been returned to the library. In the weeks and months ahead, he does all he can to keep the book safe. He would rather give up his blankets when travelling along a war-torn road than give up his book. Eventually he has to leave the book but never forgets it and returns to it when wartime is finished.
Students of picture book illustration or art and design… click here to read whole article and make comments
Unwanted children sold as slaves
by Tim Golden | 18 Feb 2014 |
tags: historical fiction Coram Boyby Jamila Gavinwritten for ages 13-16 | recommendedpublished in 2000 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 336 pages
In 17th-century England care for unwanted (often illegitimate) children is the responsiblity of the parish which is often underfunded and ill-disposed. When the Coram Hospital is set up in London with many benefactors, everyone wants their child to go there.
However there are only 20 places, and unscruplous operators take money off people to deliver their children and then leave the babies to die and sell the older ones into slavery. Otis Gardiner and his simpleton son Meshak do this while peddling round the countryside. Otis also blackmails the better-off women whose illegitimate children he disposes of. Alexander Ashbrook is disinherited by his landowner father and makes his career in music having unwittingly fathered a child on his sister's best friend. Meshak leaves his father and takes this son, Aaron, to Coram. Years later Alex is making a name for himself in London and meets his childhood friend Thomas. Aaron has made friends at Coram with Toby the son of… click here to read whole article and make comments
Award winning author churns out one that lacks passion
by Jane Fagan | 14 Feb 2014 |
tags: fantasy, science fiction Fortunately, the Milkby Neil Gaimanwritten for ages 9-12 | recommended with reservationspublished in 2013 | HarperCollins | 128 pages
Perhaps I expected more from a previous Carnegie and Newbery award winning author. I was a bit let down with Fortunately, the Milk. Our children deserve better writing, better stories, more character development and less of the quick-fix, computer generated, graphic novel type. The blurb of the book states that the author has also written two episodes of Doctor Who and appeared as himself in The Simpsons. That, in a nutshell, is what this book reminded me of: a not very well constructed Doctor Who story crossed with a not very funny Simpsons show.
The plot is that Mum has gone away for a few days, and Dad is in charge of the children. He goes out to buy the milk and has a series of zany action-packed adventures. He meets a dinosaur in a time-travelling hot air balloon; gets abducted by space aliens and; meets intergalactic police, pirates, and volcano gods. He then returns to his children and narrates… click here to read whole article and make comments
Mastodons sighted in the American colonies
by Jennifer Minicus | 11 Feb 2014 |
tags: The Lost Kingdomby Matthew J. Kirbywritten for ages 9-12 | highly recommendedpublished in 2013 | Scholastic Press | 352 pages
Unlike his three older brothers who have struck out on their own, Billy Bartram has always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. John Bartram is a botanist with a world famous garden. Billy assists him by drawing the plants in the collection, but the boy longs to accompany his father on his frequent expeditions. It never occurs to Billy that his Quaker father might have interests beyond the natural sciences until one night a group of French spies break into John's office clearly searching for something specific.
Billy's courage during the incident does not go unnoticed by his father. When Benjamin Franklin visits to discuss the botanist's next trip, John suggests that Billy come along. Franklin, seeing Billy's artistic talent, agrees, and the young man is promptly initiated into the American Philosophical Society, a group of brilliant men who have put their talents at the service of the British colonies. Their next mission: to find the descendants of the… click here to read whole article and make comments
A story that needs to be told
by Jane Fagan | 7 Feb 2014 |
tags: autobiography, history, prejudice, war The Boy on the Wooden Boxby Leon Leysenwritten for ages 11-14 | highly recommendedpublished in 2013 | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 240 pages
Leon Leysen was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and his family had to move to a ghetto. Years later after surviving the death camps, he is prepared to speak about it all in this book. He tells his story without malice, without bitterness. It is not too dismal or dark, so children of nine years and up would be able to cope with it. It is something students need to study to be aware of what happened and to negate historians who even now make a career out of alleging that the Holocaust never happened. Above all it is a tale of hope, of getting up again and starting again despite the worst.
Generous was the word his daughter chose to describe him at his funeral years later: generous with his time and generous with his children - generous in so many ways. This is why I enjoyed reading this book so very much. It made… click here to read whole article and make comments
Sweet story, sour delivery
by Jennifer Minicus | 4 Feb 2014 |
tags: Eleanor and Parkby Rainbow Rowellwritten for ages 15-18 | not recommendedpublished in 2013 | St. Martin's Griffin | 336 pages
As the only Korean in school, Park has always felt like an outsider. As a matter of fact, most of his peers' parents grew up in his neighborhood, even his own Irish father. Park's parents met and fell in love in Korea, so he is really only half Korean, but many of the other students treat him as if he were from another planet.
When Eleanor gets on the bus for the first time, Park realizes he is not so different from his classmates - not compared to Eleanor. She wears a jumble of clothing items, most of them discarded men's garments. But Park knows what it is like to be the target of cruelty, so he lets her sit next to him. Park's sense of decency gets the better of him, and slowly he befriends the girl, sharing comics and music. It takes a while for him to get past the series of barriers Eleanor has established to protect… click here to read whole article and make comments
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For those of you into stoner/doom, but are more interested in the music aspect rather than the vocals, this is the band for you.
Absolutely perfect. One of the heaviest and loudest bands live. http://bongripper.bandcamp.com/albu...orshipping-doom |
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THEM!!! Words can't describe how good they are (not as good as Nile or Maiden though but you can't compare them).
I bought the Satan Worhipping Doom record a year ago and listen to almost every day since then. "Satan" is definitely in my Top 5 Favourite Songs ever. This is also pretty damn awesome And this is the best thing that happened to mankind Everytime I'm studying I just listen to Bongripper and somehow it really gives me more concentration and a higher focus on the stuff I'm learning. I don't even want to know why it is like that because that would destroy the mysticism about that. SHit |
Been in a doomy mood lately, I'll be sure to check them out, however I do love some vocals with my doom.
Opened thread thinking the title read " Dongripper".
Fuckin bongripper! On a somewhat related note I slept through sleep's performance here the other night. I was pissed.
DUDE.. Fuck yes, this is absolutely fantastic shit. Thanks for the rec. I have a lot of catching up to do. I think they'd do good with some minimal vocals - do they have any on any of their albums?
EDIT - There are some vocals on Hippie Killer. They're great, I really wish they had more of them. Quote:
Heh. Where you at the show and slept through it? If so: how? |
I think the vocals don't fit with the music. I really appreciate those bone crushing wall of sound, it's cooler when it stands for itself. Also I can't imagine what kind of vocals someone can do to tracks like "Doom" :/ |
I think it might add some more intensity, but its totally fine without it. I've been listening to them non-stop. My god that fucking guitar tone... jizzjizjzizz. Excellent, excellent recording on Satan Worshiping Doom. |
Listening to Hippie Killer now. Reminds me of Pelican a lot.
Good stuff; great recommendation. |
nah, just had the intention of going and took a nap without waking up. bummed though, was supposed to be a great show. |
I hate naps even more now.
I love Napster though; I'm streaming Hippie Killer as we speak :beer:
Hippie Killer isn't that awesome. You gott get the other records dude !
Satan Worshiping Doom... over and over and over.
Just found out they're playing NYC this month! Cannabis Corpse is playing next week also.. Stoked!
Napster only has Hippie Killer.
Exactly. Or see the link I have posted The Great Barrier Reefer. It's awesooooome. Quote:
Cool fuck you :mad: Live vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0X73A4DDl4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qJ...feature=related (especially this) |
You can stream Satan Woshipping Doom (along wiht all of their other albums) for free on their bandcamp page. |
Hmm, I'll check it out. Cheers, Dylan!
not Bongripper but pretty close An also be sure to check out their new EP "SNUFF FILM/ SEX TAPE" Sex Tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ8-XakS8Fw Snuff Film(!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R7u...feature=related |
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The Transylvania County Sheriff is reminding people to lock their car doors after a rash of break-ins over the past month. The Sheriff's Office has there has been nearly 30 break-ins.
Jessica Fisher says she came home late Tuesday night and left for work early Wednesday morning. She says she reached for her purse and noticed it was missing. Fisher says whoever the thief is got away with $60 in cash and her credit cards. Fisher says her car and home will be locked tight from now on.
The Transylvania County Sheriff's Office says the thieves seem to be targeting unlocked cars. If you have any information about these break-ins, call Crime Stoppers at 86-crime.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Rock legends Aerosmith will round out the musical entertainment at this year's Greenbrier Classic PGA golf tournament, resort officials announced Thursday.
The Greenbrier announced on social media Thursday morning that the multi-platinum artists -- known for hit songs "Dream On," "Janie's Got a Gun" and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" -- will perform July 6, a Saturday, at the West Virginia State Fairgrounds in Fairlea.
They join a Fourth of July weekend entertainment slate that already included country superstar Kenny Chesney.
Greenbrier owner Jim Justice said it made sense to bring the band, sometimes referred to as "America's greatest rock 'n' roll band," to the resort during the holiday weekend.
"What could be better than having the most legendary American band of all time rock the 4th of July weekend at America's Resort?" Justice said in a statement. "Aerosmith has provided the soundtrack of American summers for decades, just as The Greenbrier has been the ultimate summer retreat for generations -- and both have never been better!"
While the last three Greenbrier Classic concert series have featured three concerts during the week of the golf tournament, officials have trimmed this year's concert series down to two acts.
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Algo en esta menuda y femenina joven te cautivará por completo...
Puede ser que te rindas ante sus suaves y rellenos labios, sus grandes ojos castaños o su naturaleza romántica. ¡Pero definitivamente te conquistará su cinturón azul de karate! Adora el kick-boxing, la música trance, las flores y los atardeceres y dice que su estilo al bailar se llama "plastic." No sabemos a ciencia cierta lo que esto significa pero debe ser muy sexy de ver.
Aunque estudia administración de empresas, dice que no le gusta nada y que le parece aburrido. Con su cuerpo juvenil y cara hecha para el mundo de la moda, podría pensar en las pasarelas de Paris...
Por suerte para ti, es demasiado bajita para eso, ¡así que aquí la tienes desnuda!
Victor Double Canada | So naughty yet so adorable at the same time! What a wonderful set! |
B Estados Unidos de América | What I like about her is she really enjoys showing off her gorgeous pussy. Liked her two figures gallery also. She looks like alot of fun to play with. |
KOMET Estados Unidos de América | IRISKA AU NATUREL et EN GARDE For such a slim and sexy woman, Iriska has a nice, fleshy, and shapely derriere, as her recent massage video attests to so well. (Pity her derriere wasn't more prominently displayed in this photo series.) |
James Michaels Estados Unidos de América | Iriska's pussy play I think we need a film of Iriska getting herself off. I think she would be adept and vocal. |
BobS2940 Estados Unidos de América | IRISKA SLIM, SEXY, BEAUTIFUL. IF SHE'S HALF AS SMART AS SHE IS GORGEOUS, SHE'S A GENIUS! |
wheeler Estados Unidos de América | What James said!!! |
Pete Reino Unido | Devilish Iriska looks like a proper little devil to me and I love those puffy little tits. If she wants to be really naughty Petter who are you to stop her. Thea type video would be a great start! |
wheeler Estados Unidos de América | lovely! |
badgerhun Estados Unidos de América | Iriska Beautiful model, Great lighting. Whet happened to your Phase One P65? She deserves better. So Hot. |
Voyeur Estados Unidos de América | Yummy! |
GetTheBroncolor España | RE: Iriska Believe it or not, this is how a p65 back looks in low light high ISO. |
The Guy Estados Unidos de América | Truly Perfect. |
John Reino Unido | Lovely Not crazy about the cheap props, but loving this girl. |
wheeler Estados Unidos de América | what props? |
wideangle Estados Unidos de América | Definition of Images Looks like a genuine "location" project. Especially revealing is the connection for electric or telephone service on the wall. Most noticeable is the lack of definition in the images. Appears the images are not in the usual critically sharp focus ordinarily presented, which in some instances appears to be camera movement. This is hard to imagine as flash ordinarily arrests this motion. Is the Hasselblad and Elinchrom (?) equipment out of commission? |
Bruno Estados Unidos de América | Iriska More Iriska.... |
Pete Reino Unido | So shy Great body, just one complaint, pity she is so shy!! |
vslrodrigues Brasil | She is almost perfect, but i would prefer sharper images... |
GetTheBroncolor España | Depth of field and the 3:4 aspect ratio tell it is in fact the p65+ camera (or a secretly cropped and resampled image). The most probable explanation is the use of high iso and further noise reduction. I choose Hegre for it's perfect technical execution, apart from the artistic vision. I just hope we get to see Iriska in a proper set, in-studio with good glass and Petter's signature massive sources lighting. |
Lars Dinamarca | Nice, she smiles a bit, no tatoo and only one small piercing. Umhhh |
wheeler Estados Unidos de América | super sexy!!! We have a frisky one here!!!! |
alex Reino Unido | iriska very sexy |
Spatz Alemania | Was für eine schöne Rosette, mein Spatz steht steif hoch... |
The Guy Estados Unidos de América | Delcious! Hate to say it but AnnaS now has a competitor for my affections. I may have a new favorite if she sticks around and is as prolific as Anna. |
Nibbz Reino Unido | Iriska This is the best photo set, yet. Iriska is perfect. The setting is perfect. Iriska, you're my new favourite. Thanks. |
jenesais Estados Unidos de América | Iriska Fabulous girl ... love the look on her face ... |
D.L. Estados Unidos de América | Smoking Hot This is a delicious looking girl and I totally love the new penetration photography. If she had have managed to slip a pinky into her ass at the end, that would have been the end of me. |
daniel Estados Unidos de América | IRISKA IS SEXY IRISKA IS SEXY WITH HER 2 FINGERS! |
Wookie Estados Unidos de América | WOW! Best gallery in a long time! What a hottie with excellent poses. |
Jewel Reino Unido | Words fail me How about exquisite to be starting with? |
Pete Reino Unido | Big attitiude Wow, she may be a tiny model but Iriska certainly does have a big attitude, she works the camera as Yanna did, so she really could be big on Hegre |
Voyeur Estados Unidos de América | This girl has the most kissable lips - both sets. Lovely and forward, a great combination. |
Greggor1 Estados Unidos de América | Wonderfully Erotic Iriska is a delight. Her cute face and hot body have great appeal. She shows it all with her very sexy posing. The shots with her fingers in her pussy are wonderfully erotic. I hope to see more of her in the future. |
wheeler Estados Unidos de América | lovely introduction to what APPEARS to be a lovely lady! Hope we get to see what's on top, next time! |
Catull Alemania | Iriska Eine wunderbare Frau mit einer echten Ausstrahlung.Von ihr würed ich gern mehr Bilder sehen. |
Stromboli421 Francia | Bene le nuove modelle! Grazie Peter per queste nuove modelle: ne avevamo bisogno-:)) |
Hadto Estados Unidos de América | sweet petite Iriska I can't wait to see this exciting, new petite model standing upright. Although she looks mighty nice lying down too! |
Pablo Estados Unidos de América | Love Okay I'm in love, great set. |
dgt99x Estados Unidos de América | Welcome Iriska! PLEASED to make your acquaintance, Iriska, and EAGER to see much, much MORE of you SOON! |
JP Estados Unidos de América | Awesome debut! Wow, almost saw everything in only her first gallery. Can't wait to see her tits in a Part 2. Her thumbnail shows that she has cute little tits - can't wait to see some full size images. |
Voyeur Estados Unidos de América | Wow, what a beautiful new model and teasingly sexy too. |
daniel Estados Unidos de América | SHE HAS A REALLY NICE BELLY TO KISS! SHE HAS A REALLY NICE BELLY TO KISS! |
daniel Estados Unidos de América | VERY SEXY NEW MODEL! VERY SEXY NEW MODEL, SHE IS CUTE! |
Jewel Reino Unido | Iriska What an amazing debut - she is stunning. I'm looking forward to seeing much more of her... |
The Guy Estados Unidos de América | I wish every girl introduced herself this way! |
knightwing49 Estados Unidos de América | Iriska She is so absolutely adorable. I hope we get to see more sets of her very soon. I think she needs an Orgasmic Massage. |
Pete Reino Unido | Iriska Not quite in the Ira Yanna, Antonina, Thea catergory but a great start from Iriska and look forward to seeing a lot more of her. Well done Petter for getting her on your site. |
simon Suiza | Can we please have her back? Very nice. |
Karl Alemania | At last. This is what I've been waiting for. At last the masseuse joins in. |
Joey Reino Unido | Quite a party I don't blame the masseuse for getting carried away. I know I was. |
Bennythebear Estados Unidos de América | Way to go Go girl go. This is the future of massage for me. |
Roadrunner Estados Unidos de América | Party girls Maybe it was a real massage maybe it wasn't. Who cares? It sure was fun for them both. |
Marksey Reino Unido | Real deal I wonder if I can get this masseuse down at my gym. I can dream can't I? |
KOMET Estados Unidos de América | IRISKA and The Masseuse - Role Reversal What a delightful tableau! Two women (au naturel) enraptured in a sensual massage. I trust that more videos of this genre will be forthcoming. |
Man Estados Unidos de América | brilliant. simply brilliant. kudos. |
Bob Estados Unidos de América | Body to Body Massage The lighting could have been better. You are finnally getting down to the nitty gritty. There are so many different thing you can do with just this massage movies. Please continue along this line and I will be a life time member. It would be nice to have a big stud doing the same thing to one of your beautiful models. Keep going you are really getting my attention. |
echoblues Canada | Wow! Great clip! Finally some massage action... Would have been nice to have some kissing and 69 action....Both seemed to enjoy each other. Also need better light... All in all, best massage clip yet as it is not "passive" as all previous. Well done! |
rick1501 Estados Unidos de América | Boring First of all, it was very short and very artificial, overall a drop in quality of the other massage films. I loved the blond woman's body, but it was not was not very good. I can watch something just as noninspiring on a soft porn station. |
Maggie and Pete Estados Unidos de América | Beautiful and.... This was simply gorgeous... as were the last couple. Wonderful women, and so sexy!! Now its time for another guy. Uncircumcised (our taste) and finishing with his climax, yes please? |
njc75 Reino Unido | Very dissapointing Looks like I'm disagreeing with most her but i think we've lost a lot of the eroticism amongst all the requests for both parties to be naked, active and involved. This isn't really a tantric massage anymore, it's a hurried series amateur rubs and lacks the tease and slow build up of previous ones. This isn't a complaint because I know we all like different things and I have loved some of the previous massages that haven't involved climax for example. I just thnk this feels rushed. The excitemnt is in the exploration for me and there isn't enough here. |
artistpg Estados Unidos de América | Technically not your best work, as already mentioned. Nice to see the therapist naked, but since Iriska is so responsive, why not treat her (and us) to the ministrations of your regular therapist.. or Zana. Both are at a much higher level |
Beat Suiza | Body Body Massage with Iriska Really one of the best massage videos. Iriska and also the masseuse are very fine ! |
Big Ed Australia | Oh My This film was just plain yummy. Well done. |
Tony Blond Holanda | Dit is degeilste massage die ik hier ooit heb gezien. |
Torquaus Estados Unidos de América | Body-body massage This is one of the most beautiful videos I have seen! It was breathtaking. Clearly the therapist and the client were both enjoying themselves as they should. My own level of pleasure, intense as it was, probably came no where near what they experienced together. |
Cowcheese Estados Unidos de América | Body Body Massage... Wow! Wow. That is all that can be said about this video. There are many beautiful films here but this has just become my favorite. Good job! |
fred Reino Unido | body body massage Can you get the blonde woman to have a massage. A nice film,pitty the lighting was poor |
Todd Estados Unidos de América | Body to Body I liked it. The young model was very beautiful, and the masseuse had a great rack on her. And then the masseuse really knew how to finger the young model's pussy. Very nice indeed. |
erotic Estados Unidos de América | The placement of the lighting is just dumb. It's a turn off watching half part of the screen in shadow and no fault of the girls. They were wonderful. |


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Amazon hiring fully underway in Middle Tennessee
May 30, 2012 | Posted by: roboblogger | Full story: Business Journal
Online retail giant Amazon.com is kicking off the broad hiring push necessary to fill 1,000 jobs at distribution sites in Middle Tennessee.
Where is Amazon located at in Lebanon?
Not sure on the location of the one in Lebanon. I applied for the one in Murfreesboro last week and have an interview with them this coming Monday. So they are defiantly starting the hiring process. I live in Sparta so I'll be looking to move IF I were offered a job.
Where do apply for the one in Murfreesboro and what are the hiring for and what shift?
Try this link: www.workatamazonfulfillment.com Click "Opportunities" then click "Apply Online" It's supposed to be for the one in Lebanon and/or the one in the Boro. |
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it's 11 an hour for the regular position, it's 13 an hour for lead. And that is decent money for the area. Not to mention they off benefits. As far as the copies of diplomas or whatever, they never asked me to do that.
. Is that a phone interview or onsite |
I've already had a phone interview haven't received any word back. Does anyone know how long it takes?
after you have your phone interview, did they ask you to fax your high school diploma? If so, after you fax it to them it may take another month before you hear from them. thats what they told me anyways. Jobs may not be ready until august or september.
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. No she said to keep checking my email for the next step. I haven't received anything. I don't even know how to get in touch with them or anything. Thanks |
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Has anyone had an on site interview yet??
Saturday I took them a copy of my diploma, and they sent me an email yesterday to set up a direct hire interview. I go next Monday for that. So HOPEFULLY Ill get some good news. As far as actually starting work, the guy on the phone interview told me it could be august or september before jobs are ready. Now that's just what they said on the phone. I've not read that from a news site or anything.
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I go the 26th for a direct hire interview. Did anyone work with them during peak season?
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which site is that? |
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Is that for the murfreesboro site?
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It's just after 3:30 p.m. and uniformed students are fleeing ConneXions Leadership Academy, a middle school in northwest Baltimore, at an alarming pace. In the lobby, a fluorescent light spastically flashes on and off the backpacked masses and the cinder block walls as a pair of spiders scour the floor for remnants of lunch.
A dozen high school students fight the tide and make their way to the stairs and up to a large room on the second floor. It's a geometry classroom, but you wouldn't know it: The half-painted walls are bare except for one small bulletin board where photocopied pages of a young-readers book on African American heroes have been stapled.
The older students, many of whom wear buttons that read "No Education, No Life," are greeted by younger counterparts and they all begin unloading textbooks, blocks, and checkers. Most teachers and administrators have left the building, but the two dozen students assembled sit down for the better part of an hour to try and get their heads around concepts like ratios, fractions, and proportions.
This is the Baltimore Algebra Project in action. They are the local chapter of a national group that trains and pays students to tutor their peers in math. The tutors, who must pass a test to get a job, use a teaching method that employs real-world physical examples to demonstrate concepts before translating them into mathematical notation.
"Their methods work sometimes when mine don't," says Geneve Garcia, who teaches algebra and geometry at ConneXions. The school pays the tutors and encourages struggling students to work with them. "The test scores almost always improve," Garcia says. Since Algebra Project organizers trained their first 10 Baltimore tutors in 2000, the program has grown to include 150 tutors helping more than 300 students at six schools around the city.
But tutoring is only one method Algebra Project offers students to improve their education. The national group encourages its members to organize to overcome all learning barriers, even governmental and institutional ones. And while chapters in places like Boston and Chicago have kept their focus on tutoring, students in Baltimore have embraced the activist agenda: Largely by word-of-mouth, Baltimore Algebra Project has attracted smart, disaffected kids from every corner of the city and transformed them into a bloc of advocates channeling their frustration at the institutions they're convinced are holding them back. And recently those advocates—some of them in college now—formed a coalition called Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises with 22 other student-led organizations in the city, to try to broaden their power base and pool their resources.
Chris Goodman got involved in Baltimore Algebra Project in 2001, a year after the group began tutoring. As an eighth grader at Stadium School, he didn't pay much attention to his school work, preferring to play basketball and video games. His teacher recommended he go to the Project's tutoring sessions and he agreed, mostly because they had free snacks, he admits now. The extra help improved his grades and the next year, as a freshman at City College, he began working as an Algebra Project tutor. But the event that truly changed Goodman's life was an Algebra Project trip to Eastern Tech, a public high school in Baltimore County. "There were cars in the engineering room, two gyms, and a library filled with books," he says, eyes still widening at the memory. "That just blew my mind. They always told us City is one of the best schools in the country and I was like 'Wow. They're lying.' I got angry."
Soon after, Goodman helped launch the Algebra Project's advocacy committee and became its chairman. He and other committed students went to school board and City Council meetings, met with superintendents and legislators, and ultimately decided they couldn't rely on public officials to fight for them.
"I used to think, yeah, schools are pretty messed up, but people are trying to change it on North Avenue, down at City Hall, [and] in Annapolis," says Goodman, now a sophomore at Morgan State. "We went down there and found out they're not trying to change it. A lot of them feel like they can't change it. They're satisfied with the schools not having toilet paper. They don't lose any sleep over the fact that 50 percent of males that go into high school don't finish. So I thought, you have to spread the word, you have to let people know because the people sitting in those big comfortable chairs, they're not trying to hear this."
In its activism, the Algebra Project employs the tactics of the civil rights movement: They staged their first major demonstration in 2006, a "die-in" during which 400 students sprawled out in front of the state Department of Education offices to protest a plan to consolidate schools and to demand resources comparable to those elsewhere in the state. On subsequent days, they repeated the scene in front of the city Board of Education office and City Hall, carrying signs that read "No Education, No Life"—their enduring slogan. They galvanized hundreds of students and community members to speak out at public hearings and ultimately moved the state to scale back its consolidation plan.
In February, they carried a coffin up the steps of the State House in Annapolis to protest the "historic under-funding" of city schools: 25 protesters were arrested, but others earned a meeting with Governor O'Malley.
And in May, they camped outside City Hall to demand that $3 million in funding for after-school programs like the Algebra Project that had been cut from the budget be restored. Mayor Sheila Dixon met with the students and suggested that instead of working as tutors, they could get jobs at the new Target in the Mondawmin Mall. Undeterred, they launched a hunger strike and brought 200 angry students to a gala the mayor had planned to promote youth programs in the city, turning it into a mass protest. As a result of the ongoing agitation, Mayor Dixon last month announced the creation of the seven-member Youth Employment Opportunities Task Force, to include three representatives from Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises, that will likely help fund several youth-employment programs in the city, including the Baltimore Algebra Project.
The connection to the movements of the 1960s is no accident. Nationally, the Algebra Project was founded by Bob Moses, a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s and a chief architect of Freedom Summer, the 1964 movement to register African-Americans in Mississippi to vote. He took the ideas of that movement—empower the underserved to advocate for their own rights—and applied them to education.
Jay Gillen, a former city math teacher who helped bring the Algebra Project to Baltimore and is now the city schools' facilitator for the group, says that, contrary to popular opinion, students want a better education, but either don't know that higher standards are possible or lack the access to demand it. "The typical stereotype is that young people are apathetic about education—they don't do their homework, they drop out, their families don't care—and that's used as an excuse for us to tolerate an ineffective school system," he says. "The Algebra Project's approach is that students are able and willing to organize themselves in whatever ways they need to, to overcome obstacles to their education so that, instead of appearing apathetic, they're demanding what everyone says they don't want."
Gillen organized the trip that took Chris Goodman and students at the city's public schools to Eastern Tech, in part, to see that better facilities are possible. Cherdaya Allen, a senior at Western High School, was one of the students tutoring at ConneXions. She joined the Algebra Project last year to earn money but, through her involvement, learned how poorly city schools stacked up against others in the state. "You don't know what's going wrong with your community unless someone tells you—if you see it from birth, you figure there's nothing you can do," she says. "But working with the Algebra Project taught me I have a voice. I can make a difference. I can make change."
Allen tutors with the Algebra Project two afternoons a week and spends virtually all of her free time attending meetings or other events for Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises. Like some of the most involved kids, she is strongly supported by her parents—her mother is an organizer with Service Employers Industrial Union (SEIU). "She doesn't like me working long hours," says Allen. "But she understands what I'm doing and she's supportive."
The creation of Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises has united Algebra Project tutors like Goodman and Allen with like-minded students from other organizations. Nicole Cheatom got involved in debating as a middle school student at Lombard. "I like to talk a lot so my teacher told me I should join the debate team," she says. When she moved on to Western High School, she joined the Baltimore Urban Debate League, one of Peer-to-Peer's member groups. She was quickly drawn to the group's activism. "You get inspired by seeing other people working to improve schools," she says.
Cheatom, now a freshman at Coppin State, still coaches debate teams at local high schools and is one of the most active organizers in Peer-to-Peer. She was serving hot dogs and macaroni salad in October at the coalition's Block Rock Extravaganza, a festival held behind the School Board headquarters on North Avenue, where all the different Peer-to-Peer groups have a space to showcase their work. A group called Wide Angle Media, which trains young people to use technology to tell their story, had a laptop where they showed student-produced videos. The Algebra Project was using the game Connect 4 to teach a lesson about ratios, and the Legal Aid Youth Council was distributing flyers about the November elections. The Hip-Hop Congress sold CDs of student-produced music.
Days later, at a weekly Peer-to-Peer planning meeting, a decidedly more workmanlike phase of the movement is apparent. The coalition's primary goal is to raise money for an investment fund to support the member groups. So far, they have raised about $60,000 from foundations and private investors. At the meeting, a couple of students present a proposal to form a promotion committee, which would take $27,000 of the group's capital and use it to promote events that, they argue, would help raise money more quickly
The 20 or so students in the room, who represent several of the coalition groups, go back and forth debating the merits of the plan, moderated by Ralikh Hayes, a junior at Poly (they rotate who leads the meetings each week). The few adults in attendance, mostly advisors to groups in the coalition, strain to keep themselves from interjecting in the discussion and let the students hash it out.
"Our job is to make sure that the young people are the ones who are doing the leading," says Gillen. "It's the hardest work to do, to not step in, to not make decisions on their behalf, but to help them learn how to advocate for themselves."
The students have been heartened to find allies among adults. Besides the very active advisers, they cite several teachers and some administrators and local legislators as supporters, including councilpeople Mary Pat Clarke and Bill Henry and schools superintendent Dr. Andrés Alonso.
After 40 minutes of discussion, the students ultimately vote to table the discussion of a promotions committee until the next meeting. To an outsider, it might have seemed like a waste of time, but the students relish the opportunity to consider such lofty questions—and to make their own decisions. Fred Ihezie, a junior at Poly and one of the students who proposed the promotion committee, says he's not at all disappointed that it wasn't approved. "It's okay," he says. "This is a long process."


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