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Westport Firefighters saved a golden retriever's life after it had wondered onto thin ice and fallen into a pond.
The Westport Fire Department received a report at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday that a dog had fallen through the ice on a pond in the back of 18 Hales Road.
"Firefighters immediately donned their cold water suits and went out to rescue the dog while tethered to a rope from shore," Assistant Fire Chief Robert Yost said in a news release.
The dog was rescued and turned over to an Animal Control Officer who then took the dog to a veterinarian for evaluation.
"The Westport Fire Department would like to remind you to never walk on ice unless you are absolutely sure it is safe," Yost said.
If you see a person or animal that has fallen through the ice, immediately call 911, he said.
"The successful outcome of this rescue was due to the immediate call to 911 and not attempting to rescue the animal. There is a national figure of 67 percent of would be rescuers become victims themselves," Yost said.
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Walking into a room of people whispering about chain mail, corset gowns, and Dungeons & Dragons is confusing. Are we at a Renaissance Fair? Or in an episode of The Big Bang Theory? No, just backstage at Rodarte's spring collection. Makeup artist James Kaliardos for Nars focused on skin care with layers of hydrating toner, Brightening Concentrate, and Total Replenishing eye cream. He dabbed concealer down the center of the face, then brushed on light pink blush in Sex Appeal and sheer eyeshadow in Himalayas. Clear Triple X lipgloss on eyebrows, lids, and lips added a radiant glow. Hair guru Odile Gilbert and stylists from Kérastase smoothed on Fibre Architecte before flat ironing. They made a part across the back of the head and pulled all hair from left to right for an illusion of a shaved side. Then they piled Exilir Ultime oil on top and finished with hair spray for a wet, shiny appearance. Michele Huynh and a team of CND nail artists created the lattice fingertip toppers with a base of Desert Suede mixed with Frosting Cream, followed by Super Shiney top coat. On wax paper they spread a blend of the first two colors and Chocolate Milk, added a matte top coat, and let it dry overnight. Then they cut strips and applied one to each nail. www.rodarte.netPhoto: Courtesy of Rodarte
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A new online tool will help you measure the strength of your company culture.
I talk a lot with business leaders about company culture and employee engagement--and the connection they have to financial performance.
I often get asked questions like these: 'How do I know if my employees are truly engaged?' 'I want to build a great culture, but where do I start?' 'How can I determine what gaps I need to fill?' 'How can I track results of my culture efforts over time?' 'How does our company culture compare to that of other organizations?'
To help answer these questions, I've developed a new tool. It's a simple, two-minute online test that allows you or anyone in your organization to test your company's 'Culture IQ,' or 'CIQ' score. The test rates your response to 10 statements on a 1 to 10 scale, and gives your company a total score of 1 to 100.
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I've seen thousands of responses so far, and the results have amazed me. I've noticed that executives at different levels of companies look at culture differently; generally, the higher the position, the better the score. And just taking the test seems to help teams reveal what areas they could work on.
So I encourage you to take the test, too, and forward it to your peers and your colleagues. It's quick--and free. Just click here.
Once you've taken the test, I encourage you to enlist the members of your team to take it too. This will help you determine whether you and your staff are on the same page about your company culture today, set a baseline of your current position, and an action plan you can then measure going-forward.
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At the 2011 Annual Conference, economist Alan Beaulieu gave an update of the state of the economy as it affects the fluid power industry. The report was mostly positive with Alan forecasting that 2011 should like similar to the recovery of 2010. The overall economy is cooling off a bit but will still stay in the positive territory in the 12-month running comparison to the previous year.
Private sector employment is increasing and this is a good sign for the economy. About 100,000 jobs per month is the increase that is needed to keep our nation's unemployment figure moving in the right direction.
Alan projects that in 2012 we will see inflation of abut 4 to 5% which means that the prices of components and materials should be going up then. The other bit of good news is that the construction market has seen a 14.2% increase.
Overall, I found this report to be encouraging news. Combined with the comments that I hear from manufacturers and distributors, my conclusion is that the fluid power economy continues to grow and gain stability.
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As those less affected by Sandy search for ways to help those most affected, the tech community in New York City has decided the best way to do its part is by offering up its expertise.
Free tech support. That's what the Big Apple's tech community is offering businesses and organizations that've been displaced or disrupted by Sandy.
NY Tech Meetup, a nonprofit that helps promote and support the New York tech community, is reaching out to its 28,000 members and asking them to offer up whatever IT type help they can.
"Many of these organizations needed additional administrators or help with some of the web development that they were building," says Jessica Lawrence of NY Tech Meetup. "We've also helped a number of different government entities with projects to help people find things like office space to work in if they've been dislocated from their office spaces, reporting price gouging for any price gouging people may be encountering in the tri-state area."
Among the projects volunteers are working on include a way for parents to find out the status of New York City schools that've been damaged or left without power.
Right now, more than 800 people are registered to volunteer, some from companies you might recognize like FourSquare or Verizon. Noel Hidalgo is a volunteer from the lesser known New Amsterdam Ideas.
"One of the most amazing things is seeing the community saying 'I have an open door. Please come in. We understand that you've been affected by this. We understand that your business may not survive a week or two weeks without power, without internet. So come back, get back to work, reconnect with your community, recharge and be prosperous again,'" Hidalgo says.
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The Trial of Levi Weeks: Or, the Manhattan Well MysteryIn 1799, the murder of a young woman caused a terrific stir in the city of New York. The victim was Gulielma Sands who, on December 22, left the boardinghouse where she lived, never to return. Her bruised body was found several days later in the Manhattan Well, a 20-minute carriage ride from her home. The accused was Levi Weeks, a fellow boarder who, Miss Sands had claimed, was to marry her the night she disappeared. Two of the attorneys for the defense were Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, friends of the defendant's brother. The citizens of New York raised an enormous hue and cry over the murder: the body was displayed in the streets before the trial, mobs shoved their way into the courtroom, and--when the verdict was read--few felt that justice had been done. This book includes the entire transcript of the first American murder trial ever recorded.--From publisher description. |
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(Source: Mary Ellen Podmolik Chicago Tribune (MCT) — The Federal Housing Administration said Wednesday it has tapped the Chicago area, along with three other housing markets hit hard by foreclosures, for a pilot program designed to stabilize neighborhoods and slow the increase in abandoned homes.
The agency's Distressed Asset Stabilization Program is a complicated effort. Pools of defaulted, FHA-backed loans already in foreclosure will be sold to investors at market-determined prices but generally for less than the amount due on the mortgage. The loans' new investors must delay foreclosure proceedings for at least six months so the mortgage's new servicer can try to find an alternative to foreclosure, such as a loan modification or a short sale.
Of the 3,500 defaulted mortgages for sale in September in the four metropolitan areas — Chicago, Phoenix, Newark, N.J., and Tampa, Fla. — the Chicago area has the most, with 1,500. They could be single-family homes or one- to four-unit buildings. The FHA has contacted Chicago and Illinois officials about targeting specific neighborhoods, said acting FHA Commissioner Carol Galante.
"These are all communities where there is a high concentration of FHA loans in the pipeline for foreclosure," Galante said. "These are also in metropolitan areas where there is significant interest by both nonprofit and for-profit investors. And these are communities that allow the FHA to test the strategy in what I would call different geographies with different market conditions, both markets where the market is recovering more rapidly and in areas where it is still weak."
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the FHA had conversations in December with Illinois officials about including the Chicago area in the pilot program, said Mary Kenney, executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority. "We are going to look at what HUD is making available and align it with existing efforts," she said.
The Illinois Housing Development Authority is already working in six Cook County communities — Berwyn, Maywood, Park Forest, Riverdale, Chicago Heights and South Holland — to ease foreclosures. The city of Chicago has centered its foreclosure recovery program in nine neighborhoods, mostly on the city's West and South sides.
Last year, more than 64,000 residential properties in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties went into foreclosure, according to the Woodstock Institute. Foreclosure actions were completed on more than 20,000 additional properties, and 93 percent of them became bank-owned.
Chicago, Newark, Phoenix and Tampa were chosen for the program because each has a large number of seriously delinquent loans that could boost an already high number of bank-owned properties. No more than 50 percent of the loans sold in the four cities can be vacant bank-owned properties.
The program's goals are to assist homeowners, lower the number of vacant buildings and shift the cost of dealing with these properties, vacant or not, from the FHA to qualified private investors and nonprofit groups with a record of success in neighborhood preservation efforts.
An FHA-backed loan can be assigned to the agency if the homeowner is at least six months behind on mortgage payments and in foreclosure, the borrower is not in bankruptcy, and efforts to preserve the loan have been exhausted.
The FHA began selling distressed loans to investors in 2010, and more than 2,100 have been sold to date. Plans for a formalized, national loan pool sale effort were announced in June, when the FHA said it planned to sell 5,000 loans per quarter. Because of interest by potential bidders, that number has been raised to 9,000 this quarter, Galante said.
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Today, Justin and Lindsay got married! They're slowly putting up pictures on Justin's facebook so keep your eyes open. Congratulations to the both of them!
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My first show back in Malaysia and I get to see Motion City Soundtrack and Boys Like Girls alongside local bands Lab The Rat, An Honest Mistake and The Azenders. I'd say that's a pretty good score card. I LOVED Motion City!! They were just as I remembered them when I saw them play at Soundwave '10. Playing their only South East Asian date on this run, they let everything out onstage. Their setlist included some new material but mostly old songs for the fans who'd been waiting for their arrival for over a decade now.


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Regulators from five countries including the US FTC have announced a crackdown on six scareware operations that imitated tech support agents to trick unwitting users into paying for the removal of fake malware. The scammers were mostly based in India and targeted English-speaking computer owners in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Five of the six operations used what the FTC describes as telemarketer boiler rooms to call users. The sixth focused on bogus Google ads.
Posing as support from companies such as Dell and Microsoft, the scammers directed victims to Windows' Event Viewer to use what were generally innocuous warning and error logs as proof of an infection. Once convinced their systems harbored malware, victims paid clean-up fees of $49 to $450 and aided the criminals with establishing a remote connection. The scammers then pretended to remove the viruses and installed free programs (presumably real security software, but the FTC doesn't say).
Surprisingly, there's no mention of the culprits using the remote connection to install malware, which probably would've been more lucrative. The FTC has identified at least 2,400 cases related to these firms in the US alone, though the agency has heard over 40,000 complaints about this type of fraud. The scammers reportedly used 80 different domain names, 130 different phone numbers and virtual offices that were actually just mail-forwarding facilities to dodge authorities, but it seems their luck ran out.
"The FTC charged the defendants with violating the FTC Act, which bars unfair and deceptive commercial practices, as well as the Telemarketing Sales Rule and with illegally calling numbers on the Do Not Call Registry. It asked the court to permanently halt the scams and order restitution for consumers," the FTC said. Seeking to permanently halt the operations and win restitution for victims, the agency has filed six cases against 14 corporate defendants and 17 individual defendants in a New York district court.
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That was a laugh.
Good. My grandma almost got scammed by some guys claiming they were "Windows", who were trying to get her to buy a $300 "safety pack". Luckily, I'd just built her a PC a month before, so she deferred to me before making any stupid decisions.
We got a call almost EVERY day from one of our customers saying that Microsoft just called them and told them their computers are infected.
We even had a guy accuse us of installing a virus on his brand new pc lmao!
I'm glad they finally nailed these bastards!
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Here's a full converstation from some scammer:
I'm nearly A+ certified. I got a call from one of these scammers a few months ago. He told me he "sent messages to my computer" because of an infection. I asked him what my ip was, and of course, he immediately just restated that my computer is badly infected. I then asked him which one. He then said something like "sir, this is urgent your computer is badly infected!" I just told him he was bad at what he's doing and if he wants to trick me into giving away my money he will have to do better than that. Then I ended the call.
LOL I usually waste as much time as possible on those fools. So they have less time to scam other people and yeah.
LOL I usually waste as much time as possible on those fools. So they have less time to scam other people and yeah.
I haven't gotten one of these yet (got ones that looks for SS info or CC number) but they are fun to play with. Just pretend you are dumb and falling for it without actually giving anything away and you can be entertained for as long as you want spinning them in circles. Of course in the end you give them nothing and just hang up leaving them frustrated and with less time to try again so everyone wins
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OMG that is awesome, that guy who recorded that conversation is just awesome. I'm gonna need to remember some of those lines in case I ever get one of these calls.
I screen all of my calls at home with my answering machine so I can't say if I've ever gotten one of those calls. Telemarketers typically hang up and don't leave a message when they hear my machine pick up. It's not as if I would return their call if they did anyway.
My wife got one of these calls, luckily I was there to have fun with this lady. said the neighborhood was downloading malware without our knowledge. automatically assumed I had a windows pc, so I was playing with her that I had a mac instead. if I didn't have to go to work I would of spent more time trying to see where they wanted me to go on the comp. I tried to ask where she was calling from and all she would say is I'm calling from "the help desk" or "computer maintenance dept". lol
I once got called by one of these guys claiming my Windows PC was infected... so I told him I had a Mac (I don't :P ) and he was flabbergasted, he literally didn't know what to say and kept claiming my Windows PC had a virus. I told him to f**k off and I hung up on him.
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Mena Suvari, Anna Kendrick, Stacy Keibler & More Stars Heat Up The Art of Elysium Gala
January 14th, 2013 7:00pm EST
The Art of Elysium held its sixth annual "Haven" black tie charity gala in Los Angeles over the weekend. Actors, artists and musicians give their time to the non-profit organization to help children who are battling serious medical conditions.
Mena Suvari showed off her curves in a strapless black dress with a sheer skirt, while Anna Kendrick looked lovely in a simple, bright green dress.
George Clooney's main squeeze Stacy Keibler was tan and sexy in a strapless white, beige and purple floor-length gown, and Camilla Bell shone in a multicolored polka dot dress.
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And let's not forget about a having a landing page that is nothing but an image or useless Flash.
The concept of a website being just a sales slick is long past. You must treat the site as a living breathing organism.
I really hate slow loading website even if it is a good site with all the important information at one loading. I reader search all over the internet one information a a time laoding from fast sites than wait for slow loading site that may or may not have the information that I need.
Everybody want their sites to be the first page search of search engines Because it mean more time people visit their site SEO is help but in long times High Quality Sites is the best way to get more traffic and people love to read good articles and not have too much fluff ,Ads that very interrupt
A lot of things have been missed out I guess. Below, I had listed a few:
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Good point – we know bad websites deter leads, but dont think about the havoc its wreaking in SEO ranks as well.
thank you for information.
i like this article.
article is veri good, -
did u mean the un optimize sites can do rocking in SEO?
I would add "bad link and page structure". I certainly agree to your list. You need also a descriptive title.
Slow loading sites make your reader sucks.. They will not go back to your site again.. These post really helps a lot what to avoid in one site. Thanks!!
agree with this article, too much banner ads make me bored
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Yes. I agree with you. If there are more number of ads present on our website, it looks ugly and Spam. It is also important to maintain the website with valuable content so that we may get good results for our SEO services.
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"Our newest Rainbow laser iteration still features the high-energy pulses of user-selectable, visible-wavelength output that researchers can use to deplete dye fluorescence in super-resolution microscopy experiments," said Dr. Gregory Keaton, Mobius Photonics chief scientist. "But it has additional advantages over the prior version. Among these is a considerably more compact laser head to save valuable lab space. And for added flexibility, the new Rainbow can be externally triggered."
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In 1653, Richard Cromwell, son of the newly appointed Lord Protector of England, holds a wild party and is arrested under the 1647 legislation banning the celebration of "Christ-tide".
Christ-tideHe commits suicide in jail. His father Oliver is heart-broken and dies of natural causes on September 3rd the next year.
As new Lord Protector, Parliament chooses General John Lambert, whose thirty-year service as First Citizen of the Commonwealth fixes England on the staunchly republican path it has followed to this day.
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Offering Japanese event singing pikachu UT, looking for 2 shinies, prefer umbreon and shelder. Pm me for offers.
Offering Japanese event singing pikachu UT, looking for 2 shinies, prefer umbreon and shelder. Pm me for offers.
Looking for GameStop deoxys w/ at least a decent nature.
Offering spring meloetta, 10 aniv celebi, and movie arceus.
(Arceus was traded to me by a close friend who was visiting Japan during distribution time, so make a good offer for this one.)
Pm me if you're interested.
Please & thanks
Hello! I'm Looking for a EVENT Scizor. MUST be in event ball. I have lots to offer, most legendary and every starter. I am willing to offer multiple for one! thanks!
Looking for unused DW Sinnoh starter serial codes, have Shiny Wish Bagon and Leech Seed Oddish (non-redis, see sig for more details on them), shiny Red and Green Pichu (the 2008 event here, non-redis) Japanese DW Pan monkeys with proof, English and German DW Gothorita with proof, English and German DW Pikachu (PGL event, not bred) with proof and English DW Turtwig/Chimchar/Piplup with proof to offer (my own OT, not the hacked OT Enyalio ones going around).
I need Team Rocket's Meowth event :3
I have event Meloetta and Keldeo to trade up for it! Just VM me for their details. Plus Meloetta can be any Nature ye want it //.^ nya~
I got back into Pokemon early this year, and as such, I missed all of the B/W events, and since I haven't even jumped into B2/W2 yet, I was wondering if anyone had any extra (not cloned) events that I could have. I might be able to trade you something worthwhile, so just PM me and we'll work something out.
Winner of the June shiny competition, with 15 points! (three 1/8192 shinies)
Latest shiny! Found without hunting!
Spoiler:- Shinies:
"Strong Pokemon. Weak Pokemon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."
-Elite Four Karen
Looking for
GBA events you obtained yourself and is still in 4th gen.
Events not from DJ
PCNY events from a,b,c and d i don't have in 4th gen. must be legit checked by an event checker
Wish Events I don't have. again must be in 4th gen and legit checked.
GCEA events i don't have in 4th gen( i would prefer gcea getting legit checked before trading them to me)
More jp guidebook gothorita with proof
More DW Starters with proof
French, German,Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish DW Eeveelutions with proof
More DW Events With Proof
Proof of legitimacy means :- Picture of PGL , Befriending board , picture of serial code , and picture of already claimed DW friend board.
other natures korean cinema celebi
other natures of single strongest battle class events
other natures of kanto sicker events
other natures of Multirama events and characteristics of multirama zoroarks i don't have
french aura mews and italian channle jirachis not from dj( will keep nft if requested to)
natures of Colosseum Ho-Oh i don't have from each language and in gen 4
more summer league pikachus with proof
natures of 10 ANIV events i don't have in gen 4
natures of super strong events i don't have from any statiion
other dated pal parked jeremy events and any not from dj and in gen 4
natures of channel jirachi i don't have from each language and is in gen 4.
complete characteristic sets of english and foreign crown beast event
complete nature set of German Winter celebi
Nature set of Spanish Day Pikachu ot VER2012
natures of french, german, italian day pikachu i don't have.
other natures of gcea i have
PCJP events i don't have)4th gen)
Natures of Hadou events i don't have(4th gen)
unused codes for english sinnoh dw starters( will trade 10 gen 5 events for a code, excluding dw events with proof)
Spoiler:- PCNY:
Spoiler:- GCEA:
Spoiler:- DW Events with proof:
1000s of events in my shop in my sig.
pokecafe are only for trade for other japanese dw events with proof
proof is not pokecheck analysis. read the highlighted bold part for what proof is. i do not trade for dw events that don't have proof
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White 2 FC 0562 8697 9735 Kevin
soul silver Fc 1507 7626 4983
X Fc 3067 5372 2038 Kevin
Events Update
Gen 6 Shinies
my good nature iv shinies
I'm taking offers for the upcoming Wifi Deoxys Event.
I'm able to obtain 3 of them, with natures per request.
In return I'd like Flawless Shiny Pokemon with matching Natures (so no +Sp. Atk Machamp for example).
I have extra 10 aniv pokemon that I OBTAINED MYSELF 100% legit. I'm looking for LEGIT TRU shaymin.
Im willing to trade most of them, but some i MUST keep...
Pm me if you're interested!
will give anything for Meloetta Keldeo or Genesect
F.C. 5458 5440 4714 black
F.C. 3869 7091 3939 black 2
Looking for any Celebi, rarest Pokemon I'm willing to trade would be my UT Mystery Mew.
looking for PC Nagoya magikarp offering 10 anniv entei
Looking for the following (MUST be legit, no cheated/hacked, no clones preferred but flexible):
Have to trade:
Any of the GameStop WIN2011 Shinies
Tornadous - regular black form
Last edited by AChillingSight; 1st May 2013 at 3:03 AM. Reason: got Mew and Jirachi
Black 2 FC: 3697 9249 6677
RE: Event: In-Game: Trade:
Looking for upcoming Deoxys and the upcoming korean meowth
they have to be uncloned
offer events,dwf,rng and more
Looking for dw sinnoh starters codes, korean events and gbas
have many legit super rare events
I'm looking for an unused Walmart starter code. Can offer RNGing services as well as DW events such as DW Chimchar and Turtwig of my OT that can be RNGed to your preference. Other DW starters with proof like torchic and bulbasaur, and Korean DW jumpluff and DW dragonite that are uncaught still in entree forest can be offered too. Will also offer an RNGed copy of the Piplup from the code. Drop me a pm if you have one please.
Looking for a unused code for the sinnoh starters, I can offer:
- Shiny Adamant Metagross
- Shiny Adamant Breloom with Technician and egg move Bullet Seed.
- Timid Shiny Manaphy from Pokemon Ranger (legitimate) with good IVs.
- Event Genesect.
- Event Keldeo
- Event Timid Gothorita with Shadow Tag and Hidden Power Fire
- As many RNGs, Leveling and EV training services as you want for one code.
Looking for Dw sinnoh starters codes,upcoming deoxys and upcoming korea moewth
Looking for dw sinnoh starters codes, korean events and gbas
have many legit super rare events
Looking for a legit darkrai. No clones, hacks or anything like that...
LF Shiny Flawless and events I don't have
OF: Flawless events/shiny flawless/non-shiny flawless/events/dwf's/ shinies
I also have EVERY tradeable item, and I can clone/ev train/ev removal(berries)/level up e.t.c.
pm/vm me if your interested clones are fine but no hacks/pokecheck pokemon
Also got my hands on a semi-redis naive flawless dw bulbasaur(meaning I can trade it to you but you can't trade it to anyone else check out my sig for more)
White 2 FC: 0820 3759 9704
FlawlessEvents: Movie14dw(HPice)AbramGAMESTPDW(HPice)SMR2012SPR2013
CHECK OUT MY SHOP-----> http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthr...s-Trade-thread
Badges I've won:
I am one of the elite four at the wifi league, check it out if you want to become a leader or get some badges
I'm still interested in any UT WIN2011 Celebi or UT Shaymin; I can offer any of the following:
UT Timid SMR2012 Keldeo
UT SPR2013 Meloetta (which I can soft reset for IVs and natures)
UT Dream Radar Relaxed Giratina
UT Dream Radar Rash Ho-oh
UT Dream Radar Lonely Lugia
UT Dream Radar Relaxed Palkia
UT Dream World Gothorita Event
UT Dream World Porygon Event
PM if you are interested.
Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later cause we wasted all our free time alone
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Looking for a unused code for the sinnoh starters, I can offer:
- Shiny Adamant Metagross
- Shiny Adamant Breloom with Technician and egg move Bullet Seed.
- Timid Shiny Manaphy from Pokemon Ranger (legitimate) with good IVs.
- Event Genesect.
- Event Keldeo
- Event Timid Gothorita with Shadow Tag and Hidden Power Fire
- As many RNGs, Leveling and EV training services as you want for one code.
I have the Pikachu Coloured Pichu from the event in 2010
It is shiny and knows volt tackle and has never been used
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Static
DEF: 22 Charge
SP.A: 27 Volt Tackle
SP.D: 29 Endeavor
SPD: 47 Endure
Looking for a low level UT shiny. Nothing specific in mind, but preferably a good nature and defiantly legit!
Looking for a Modest Genosect with 5 Flawless(31/x/31/31/31/31) or Flawless IVs. I'm willing to open up my entire collection to anyone that can help me with this in time for the Friendly tournament. I've been collecting for quite a while and I've got all of this to offer:
-Any of the DWFs released(I can RNG these, with a little patience.)
-I've got a little over a box of mixed events. You'll have to message me and I'll send you a list of what I have. Not sure of the EVs on some. Most are UT. Not quite sure of the IVs either, but I've compared them to the event database here on Serebii and they all check out.
-Random Ledgendaries, sadly none with impressive IVs, but I would be willing to loop trade them for Dex entries and let you keep a few for your troubles.
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Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry (born 19 September 1982) is the founder of WikiFur, lead administrator of Inkbunny, and editor-in-chief of Flayrah.
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[edit] Fan activities
GreenReaper spends much time researching and writing news and articles on furry fandom. He leads furry encyclopedia WikiFur, which he founded in July 2005, and online furry news magazine Flayrah, which he took over in January 2010.[1] He also edits furry articles at Wikipedia and Wikinews,[2][3][4] advises the Anthropomorphic Research Project,[5] and runs the Open Directory's furry and MUCK categories.[6]
GreenReaper was made a moderator for furry art community Inkbunny before its launch,[7] and became its owner and lead administrator in November 2013.[8] He also maintains the Yerf Historical Archive[9] and takes convention photographs[10] – releasing them as free content.[11]
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GreenReaper worked in Con Ops at Anthrocon 2007–9 and Furry Connection North '09, but no longer staffs conventions due to conflicts of time and interest. He has attended:
At conventions, GreenReaper is often accompanied by a puppet; most commonly a raccoon[12] or a red panda.
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GreenReaper participates in furry multiplayer worlds,[13] including FurryMUCK, Tapestries and SpinDizzy, as a Kai norn, from the Creatures a-life games.[10]
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GreenReaper's fursona is a happy-go-lucky explorer who likes cheese and carrots. The norn has a natural affinity for Pokémon, and is sometimes mistaken for a Simisage.
GreenReaper resides in a scale model of Albia on the rim of SpinDizzy, and maintains a shared cave on Isle Timat in the oceans south of Layleaux.
The creature often carries a CrayolaPad, a device resembling an electronic Etch A Sketch which runs LumOS, a berry-themed operating system.
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GreenReaper is British, and grew up in Maidstone, Kent and Caterham Hill, Surrey. He graduated from the University of Bath in 2004 with a first in Computer Science, and student awards for being "Most Geeky", "Worst Dressed" and "Most likely to become a serial killer".[14][15] While there, he participated in the juggling club, and acted as a producer for University Radio Bath.
GreenReaper spent almost a decade in the Creatures fan community. His final university project revolved around the game's music,[16] and in 2005 he co-founded the Creatures Wiki.[17][18]
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While in Bath, GreenReaper worked for Motorola as part of a bursary; after university he moved to the USA[19] to work as a software developer for Stardock in Plymouth, Michigan, with whom he had a long history as a software skinner,[20] beta tester, support volunteer, and utility coder. In breaks from programming and testing, he founded the Galactic Civilizations Wiki.
In August 2011, GreenReaper began working for GameStop in Irving, Texas after their acquisition of Impulse from Stardock.[21] As of October 2013, he is taking a career break to further develop the websites he maintains, and Metapix, an online gallery management program targeted towards the needs of furry fans.
[edit] Transgender pronoun controversy
In December 2013, GreenReaper mentioned that he "has a different opinion... as to the proper use of pronouns",[22] and might not use the preferred pronouns of some transgender individuals. Discussion with those who considered this evidence of transphobia revealed instead that, to him, pronouns implied sex, not gender,[23] and using 'he' or 'she' to refer to those who had not undergone sex reassignment surgery could "[convey] an inaccurate fact".[24]
When pointed out to him that misgendering a transgender person can out them and put them in danger of violence, GreenReaper responded, "Ultimately your wish to feel safe does not trump my wish to feel honest."
While engaging with those experienced with the impact of such usage on transgender individuals,[25] GreenReaper maintained his wish to avoid "what I believe to be false factual statements",[26] but said he was "willing to make accommodations"[27] by avoiding use of gendered pronouns for those in transition[28] in favour of their name, or the singular they.[24] He also said that, if anything, he identified as female gender-wise.[29]
In March 2014, GreenReaper once again came under fire for his trend toward misgendering transgender individuals by AdjectiveSpecies,[30] this time also making comments with regards to WikiFur. Though WikiFur's policy about pronouns is to use those the subject of the article, GreenReaper stated, "Consider one practical problem: We have over 10,000 articles about people at WikiFur. We want these articles to be accurate, as far as possible. If you base pronouns on a person's gender identity, then at any moment an article may need to be rewritten throughout to account for a change in that identity. If you base them on third-party observations of gender, they're subject to differing opinions as to what is masculine/feminine...."[31]
[edit] Hosted works
- WikiFur - A home for the furry community
- WikiFur: By and for the furry community
- On Making History - accepted submission for the Anthrocon 2006 con book
- Coming of Age - submission for the Anthrocon 2007 con book
- Con reports: Midwest FurFest 2005, 2006 and 2007
[edit] See also
- A Tale of Two Wikis (full text) - presentation at Wikimania 2006
- GreenReaper at the Creatures Wiki, Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia (with more information on wiki-based activities)
[edit] References
- ↑ Flayrah relaunches with new software, editor-in-chief - GreenReaper, Flayrah (11 January 2010)
- ↑ GreenReaper's contributions - Wikipedia
- ↑ Furry fans flock to Further Confusion 2007 - GreenReaper et. al., Wikinews (6 February 2007)
- ↑ Anthrocon 2007 draws thousands to Pittsburgh for furry weekend - GreenReaper et. al., Wikinews (17 July 2007)
- ↑ Advisory Board - Anthropomorphic Research Project
- ↑ Society/People/Furry, Adult/Arts/Genres/Furry, Games/Video Games/Roleplaying/Massive Multiplayer Online/Furcadia and Games/Online/MUDs/By Codebase/MUCKs at the Open Directory Project
- ↑ Tips for success on Inkbunny - GreenReaper's journal, Inkbunny (10 June 2010)
- ↑ Site ownership change - Starling, Inkbunny (19 November 2013)
- ↑ ArtSpots to close January 2; Yerf archive preserved - GreenReaper, Flayrah (17 December 2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Record of the Archivist - interview of GreenReaper by Phil Geusz, Anthro #28 (26 April 2010)
- ↑ Furries - soon to be the latest UK teen fashion craze? - GreenReaper, furrymedia (28 March 2009)
- ↑ Photo of GreenReaper's nameless raccoon at a Michigan furmeet - GreenReaper (31 October 2009)
- ↑ The GreenReaper Interview (archived) - Furry 101 (3 December 2008)
- ↑ And the winners are . . . - greenreaper (15 May 2004)
- ↑ So yeah . . . - greenreaper (2 July 2004)
- ↑ A Scripted Sample-Based Music System for Game Environments using .NET - GreenReaper (May 2004)
- ↑ From Wikipedia's Creator, A New Site for Anyone, Anything - Vauhini Vara, The Wall Street Journal (28 March 2005)
- ↑ Editor activity - Creatures Wiki, Wikia (accessed 26 January 2014)
- ↑ Letter from USAia - greenreaper (8 July 2005)
- ↑ GreenReaper on WinCustomize
- ↑ Moving to Texas - greenreaper (4 April 2011)
- ↑ @coyoteseven It's true that I have a different opinion to neolucky as to the proper use of pronouns. I also spell colour with a u." - GreenReaper, Twitter (27 December 2013)
- ↑ @MizDanaClaire Not true. When someone says "he" to me, I expect that person to be physically male. That is what the word means, to me. - GreenReaper (28 December 2013)
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 "@Brefin My concern is using a term which I think conveys an inaccurate fact about a person. I'm happy to use "they" or their name instead." - GreenReaper, Twitter (29 December 2013)
- ↑ Such as Dana Simpson, Egypt Urnash, and Fluffy
- ↑ "@MizDanaClaire I will not make what I believe to be false factual statements about someone, even a friend who is FTM or MTF." - GreenReaper, Twitter (28 Decemeber 2010)
- ↑ "@randomfox @ribnose @MizDanaClaire I'm willing to make accommodations for people's feelings which do not require me to say something untrue." - GreenReaper, Twitter (28 December 2013)
- ↑ "@silvermink That's why I try to avoid using 'he' or 'she' in relation to transgender people. Not going out of my way to be aggravating. :-/" - GreenReaper, Twitter (31 December 2013)
- ↑ "@the_macbean The irony is that if anything I identify as female gender-wise. But I am physically male, so have no problem being called "he"." - GreenRepaer, Twitter (27 December 2013)
- ↑ Why Pronouns Are Important, written by JM. Retrieved March 6, 2014
- ↑ Comment by GreenReaper made March 3, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
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Today WMNF continues our series of interviews with all ten candidates for City Council with the District 5 race.
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The fascinating part of Twilight at Monticello: An Evening with Thomas Jefferson is not the hour-and-45-minute monologue that serves as the main attraction but rather the short question-and-answer period that follows in which actor-creator J.D. Sutton answers questions about the show's subject. He does this first in character as the octogenarian Thomas Jefferson, then -- after removing his shoulder-length white wig -- as Jefferson's assistant, who responds to queries with modern-day elements. (Read: DNA testing and Sally Hemings.) One audience member asked T.J. if he had thought about putting his performance on tape. Jefferson answered that it had never occurred to him to put his speech on a cloth tape. (His assistant later commented that a videotape project may be in the cards.)
One the one hand, the experience of sitting through Sutton's monologue is akin to a visit to Colonial Williamsburg or Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts where costumed characters explain how they make candles from beeswax or, in the case of Jefferson, come to possess a seat at the Second Continental Congress. You can talk back to the performer and get some clarification on, say, why Jefferson never freed his slaves during his lifetime. (Sutton, an unabashed apologist for the third president, says it's because the slaves would have been at risk for capture and resale to other owners. Apparently Jefferson's reasoning had nothing to do with the impossibility of running his plantation without slaves.)
On the other hand, the National Park Service and real-life-history sites such as Williamsburg have moved light years ahead of Sutton when it comes to accommodating the attention spans and political complexity of the MTV era. Colonial Williamsburg, for example, strayed from the safe path of never offending anyone a few years ago by staging a slave auction. Meant to explain how African Americans kept themselves occupied in the Eighteenth Century, it displeased many. Other historical sites are being adventurous in other ways. At the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow house, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I once enjoyed a tour in which the guide pointed out the very spot on which Mrs. Longfellow backed into a gas lamp, caught on fire, and burned to death. Living history, indeed.
Sutton, an Orlando-based actor who also wrote the Twilight at Monticello monologue, aims to bring to life the Jefferson who can be reconstructed from his writings. The problem with putting together a person from parts, as Doctor Frankenstein can surely tell us, is that you may end up with all the limbs, but you can't guarantee you'll capture the personality. This Jefferson tends to speak in ponderous statements culled from his letters and documents. We all relish the poetry of the Declaration of Independence, but do we want to sit through two hours of its language? Sutton isn't a supple-enough actor to infuse the familiar phrases of Jefferson's best-known writing with fresh energy or to give us a sense of what spending an hour with the statesman might actually have been like.
Sutton's historical fidelity has a certain charm (who wouldn't like to ask old Tom a question or two?) but it severely limits his character to those aspects of his life Jefferson himself wrote down. For example Sutton makes use of Jefferson's journals on gardening, which are rich with the day-to-day detail in ways that his writing about, say, the founding of the University of Virginia are not. But instead of the genius who dotted the Virginia landscape with choice samples of Palladian architecture and created a model of liberal-arts education, Sutton's audiences are given a man who likes to plant beans.
The Jefferson who emerges in Twilight at Monticello is not Jefferson the architect, the amateur musician, or the inventor, much less the Jefferson who probably had an affair with Sally Hemings, a slave he owned who was also the half sister of his then-deceased wife. Nowhere does the monologue attack the contradictions inherent in the life of a man who tacitly condoned slavery yet penned the very documents that would allow future generations to give birth to both the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights movement. Indeed far from grasping the contradictions of Jefferson's life, Twilight at Monticello doesn't have much drama in it at all.
The play's conceit seems to be that audience members are evening visitors at Jefferson's Charlottesville home, though no attempt is made to build a story from beginning to climax to end. Sutton has no statement to make or, as far as I can tell, any particular point of view about Jefferson other than that we should find him interesting. At the Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Jerry Waxman directs Sutton on Floyd Mitchell's low-rent set depicting the interior of Monticello. Amy Hungerford-Sutton's costume design of breeches, waistcoat, and wig, seem astoundingly authentic, at least to this Virginian who spent four years as an undergrad at Jefferson's alma mater in Williamsburg.
Jefferson is a perennial subject of fascination, a multifaceted personality whose biography continues to give off new interpretations of our national history. He's been depicted in any number of dramas from the popular Broadway musical 1776 to the more recent film Jefferson in Paris, but each generation remakes him in its own image, and each biography is supplanted by the next.


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Windell Beneto Edwards became the singer known as Gyptian when he left his rural home in St. Andrew, Jamaica, and traveled to Portmore, the town where the promoter known as Mr. Wong ran his studio. Gyptian had grown up singing in his mother's Adventist church and listening to his Rastafarian father's music. His father had been a promoter himself for a time, so he understood the grooming and networking that would be involved in turning Gyptian's passion into his profession. His parents trusted Ravin Wong, having seen the promoter turn many an unpolished talent into reggae stars, I Wayne being a recent example. Under Wong's direction, Windell became "Egyptian," then "I-Gyptian," and finally just Gyptian. The smooth singer was eventually presented with a song that would suit his conscious upbringing, "Serious Times," and after adding his own verse to it, he cut the track in Wong's studio. Combining hypnotic nyahbinghi drums with lyrics that plead for an end to violence and crime, "Serious Times" exploded across Jamaica, putting Gyptian in the company of Jah Cure and Fantan Mojah, two other artists who were becoming popular by fighting for peace and justice in a roots reggae style. By the time the single had become a Jamaican number one, numerous producers were contacting Gyptian in hopes he would appear on their tracks, but the roots-minded singer refused most of the offers since their lyrics were filled with gun talk and misogyny. After being presented with enough socially conscious music and old-school lovers rock to fill a full-length, Gyptian made his debut in 2006 with My Name Is Gyptian on the VP label. Two years later he returned with I Can Feel Your Pain, an album heavily influenced by contemporary R&B. In 2010 his massive Jamaican hit "Hold You" put him back in the spotlight. It was followed by a soca remix of the track, a hip-hop remix with rapper Nicki Minaj as guest, and a full-length album of the same name. ~ David Jeffries
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The pool players from Yakima headed to Lincoln City Oregon for the 8-ball Regionals for the BCA-Tim Desmarais and Larenda Davis beat out 125 other Scotch Doubles teams to take the title. Clayton Foran gets 5-6 In the Men's Master Singles. Nick Lopez gets 5-6 in the Men's Open A Singles. We had 50 players from Yakima go to the tournament-that had over 1200 entries. You can see the results on the BCA website-westernbca.org.
Pool Players Head to Lincoln City
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