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Four score and seven years ago (or thereabouts) the Oscars burst onto the world. With this year's ceremony fast approaching, let's take a look back at the highs and lows of Academy Award history…
1927: World War I based thriller Wings wins the first ever Best Picture Oscar. It is the last silent film to win until The Artist wins in 2012.
1933: In a scene reminiscent of the early scenes of Zoolander, comedian Will Rogers opens the Best Director envelope and says "Come and get It Frank!" Unfortunately, there were two directors called Frank nominated in that year. Frank Capra was half way to the podium before Rogers clarified that it was Frank Lloyd, director of Cavalcade who had won, not Capra. Happily, Frank Capra wins for Mr Deeds Goes To Town in 1936. In future years, the awards are always announced in a heavily scripted way, to avoid such a cock up happening again.
1941: How Green Is My Valley beats Citizen Kane, subsequently the most critically acclaimed film of all time, for Best Picture.
1968; A tie in the Best Actress category! Barbara Streisand wins for Funny Girl. Katharine Hepburn also wins for The Lion In Winter (her third).
1970: George C. Scott wins Best Actor for Patton. He chooses not to attend and instead watches a ball game on the other channel.
1972: Native American Sacheen Littlefeather picks up Marlon Brando's Oscar for him to promote Native American issues (it is Brando's second. This one is for The Godfather). She is actually not a political activist herself but a small time actress and later appears in Playboy.
1973: David Niven remarks of a streaker at the ceremony that "the only laugh that man will ever get is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings".
1974: Robert De Niro wins his first Oscar playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II. Marlon Brando played the same character in 1972's The Godfather. It is the only time two actors have won Oscars for playing the same (fictional) person.
1980: Robert De Niro also wins his second Oscar for Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. The timing is awkward as President Reagan has just been shot. His attempted assassin John Hinckley was reportedly inspired by Scorsese and De Niro's 1976 film Taxi Driver.
1981: Katharine Hepburn wins her fourth and final Oscar for On Golden Pond. No other actor, male or female, has ever won four. Cate Blanchett later wins one for playing Hepburn herself in The Aviator in 2004.
1992: Rumours abound that Jack Palance read out the wrong name during his announcement of the Best Supporting Actress winner Marisa Tomei. In fact, this is impossible: only one name is ever on the card, the name of the winner. Marisa Tomei in fact thoroughly deserved to win for My Cousin Vinny (even though it was a surprise result). That said, Palance did seem to be in a somewhat "tired and emotional" state as he announced the award.
1995: Tom Hanks wins two Oscars in consecutive years (a feat not achieved since Spence Tracey in the 1930s) for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Both times he delivers excruciating acceptance speeches inadvertently "outing" a high school teacher ain the first (a moment which inspired the Kevin Kline film In and Out) and in the second stating "I feel like I'm standing on magic legs."
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King becomes the third film to win eleven Oscars. The others are Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997). All About Eve (1950) and Titanic remain the most nominated films (14 each).
2012: Meryl Streep wins her 17th nomination (and her third win) for The Iron Lady. No actor has ever been nominated as many times as she has. In 2014, she won her 18th nomination for August: Osage County. Her other wins were for Kramer Vs Kramer and Sophie's Choice.
2013: Daniel Day Lewis wins his third acting Oscar for Lincoln. Only five other actors have achieved this: Katharine Hepburn (who won four), Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan and Ingrid Bergman.
Trying to guess who will win this year's Best Picture Oscar? Why not let the past be your guide?
Sixteen of the last fifty Best Picture winners were based on true stories (for the record, I am counting The French Connection as "true" but not Shakespeare In Love). This, of course, means that around 68% of the last fifty Best Picture winners were entirely fictional. The most recent "real life" winners were The King's Speech in 2011 and last year's Argo.
Of this year's nominees, American Hustle is a fictional take on real events, Captain Phillips, 12 Years A Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena are all based on true stories. Only Nebraska, Gravity and Her are entirely fictional.
Comedies hardly ever win the Best Picture Oscar. Only around six of the last fifty Best Picture winners were comedies. Tom Jones, Annie Hall, Forrest Gump, The Artist, Shakespeare In Love and American Beauty. And some would dispute that American Beauty or Forrest Gump are comedies.
This year, both American Hustle and Her are comedy-dramas while The Wolf of Wall Street is a black comedy.
Twenty two of the past fifty Best Picture winners (44%) had either a British director, lead actor or actress, a British setting or has other heavy British involvement. Of this year' s nominees this only really applies to 12 Years A Slave (which has a British director, lead actor and other cast) and Philomena. There was also a substantial British role in the making of Gravity.
No science fiction film has ever won Best Picture. A win for Gravity or Her would be a first. Avatar, Star Wars and A Clockwork Orange were all nominated but didn't win in this category.
Only two sequels have ever won. The Godfather Part II (the first Godfather film also won) and the third Lord of the Rings film. No sequels are in contention this year.


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EXPORTERS are continuing to lead the way in the Humber's recovery, with more than a quarter of companies increasing their export sales in the past quarter.
According to Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce's Quarterly Economic Survey (QES), 26 per cent of firms in the region increased their export sales in quarter two, whereas only 15 per cent said they decreased.
And export orders proved stronger still, with 29 per cent of companies reporting an increase – up ten per cent from the previous quarter – while the number reporting a decrease more than halved, to 14 per cent.
These figures, published today, give the best balance since quarter two 2006.
Neill & Brown Global Logistics in Hessle provides UK, European and global logistics services, including warehousing, distribution and abnormal load services for most sectors of business and industry.
The company's main market is Europe, in particular Italy and Belgium, but it also has growing business in the US, India, and the Far East.
Managing director Peter Brown said: "We have definitely seen a growth in export orders over the past few months.
"There is not as much coming into the country as there is going out, whereas it always used to be the other way around.
"This has got to be good for the region, and for manufacturers in particular."
The Hessle-based firm, which was founded in 1907, moves about 35 transport vehicles a day, including 25 in and out of Europe across countries such as Germany, France, Denmark, Spain and Switzerland.
Mr Brown said: "We are certainly very busy at the moment.
"We have customers, not just in Hull, but all over the north east, and the growth we are seeing is not just regionalised here in Hull.
"This is great for the economy, although how long it will last I'm not sure."
David Lilley, international trade team manager for UKTI, who is based at the World Trade Centre Hull and Humber, said the QES results very much reflected trends UKTI was seeing across the region.
He said: "In the past month, we have seen something like a 60 per cent increase in inquiries about exports coming through our office.
"The strength of the Euro against the pound is clearly helping, however UKTI has also undertaken new initiatives to increase the number of exporters.
"The Government is looking to get more companies exporting, to try to rebalance the economy away from services towards manufacturing, however a lot of companies don't know there is free, impartial help available to them.
"These latest figures are good, but if we can get out and work with more firms, they could be even better."
While the QES figures revealed exports were strong, the findings did show that domestic orders were much weaker.
There was a marked improvement on the previous quarter's dip in performance – due in part to the treacherous weather that saw the region almost grind to a halt.
However, the results overall were negative, with 29 per cent reporting increased sales (up ten per cent) compared with 31 per cent reporting a decrease.
In orders, a quarter of Humber firms reported an increase, but almost a third (32 per cent) reported a decrease.
Turnover and profit expectations both improved on Quarter One's lows, but stayed below the previous 18 months' results, and cashflow increased for 21 per cent of firms, but decreased for 30 per cent.
Richard Kendall, the Chamber's head of policy and communications, said the results showed the recovery remained "fragile".
He said: "The results overall are positive and have largely corrected last quarter's dip, but the pace of the recovery is too slow.
"It is good news that exporters are leading the way, but the weaker domestic performance leaves us more exposed to the slowdown in global growth that some analysts are predicting."
"Turnover expectations show there is optimism around. Companies do expect to grow, but the poor profit expectations are a sign of fierce competition, low margins and the soaring cost of raw materials. Investment plans are still weak and expectations are that workforces will continue to grow only very slowly."
Almost four out of ten firms (39 per cent) said they expect to increase their prices over the next three months and only eight per cent expect to decrease them.
Mr Kendall said: "Pressure on prices is continuing, so many of the companies which have held off increasing their prices will be looking to do so soon if they can."


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FBI agents 'abused Patriot Act powers'
The FBI repeatedly broke the law by secretly accessing information about US citizens under a law passed to curb terrorism, according to the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General in a report that prompted a sharp rebuke from legislators and civil libertarians. The violations included demands for personal information …
Never mind...
So what's the problem?
After all, I'm sure none of the people whose information was illegally obtained has anything to hide, so they don't have anything to worry about.
Do they...?
Why do people wear clothes?
"I'm sure none of the people whose information was illegally obtained has anything to hide, so they don't have anything to worry about."
Why do people, even in hot weather, even indoors in warm shopping malls, wear clothes? They have nothing to hide, so why don't they strip off and walk naked? Even if you ask them to strip, they don't, why is that? Shouldn't a police officer be able to ask a person to strip in the street just in case they have a concealed weapon, WMD etc.?
Are people ever arrested, charged and then found innocent?
How can that be? Isn't the arrest process perfect? How can there be dispute as to whether they were doing anything illegal? A police officer says they were doing something illegal so of course they must be! Ahh, but the police officer could be wrong.
Are people ever arrested, charged, found innocent, then the police claim they are not looking for any other suspects? A smear that affects that person for the rest of their lives! So are police perfect, or do they have nasty human traits like racism? Sexism? Anger? Hate? malice?
So we're watched by an imperfect system, and given rights to protect us from those imperfections. Nixon is dead but his ghost lives on.
Freedom vs "security"
Once we give up a freedom, we will never get it back. And when our freedoms are gone, those who wish to forcibly change our way of life will have won.
I have nothing to hide, but if a cop asks to look in my car, I will say no.
I'm not sure the issue is about having anything illegal to hide really. I think the worry is what an FBI individual could do with the information, such as blackmail a closet homosexual Mormon for example.
Abusing the system ? naaaaaahh .. they'd never
They operate above and beyond the law.
Like any other spying agency.Law dosent interrest them .
All they are interrested in is to acheive the results they are
told to acheive by the White House.
They dont care about laws .. never did , never will
Anything else you hear is feed for the fish.
Going round to Graham Marsden's place...
Gonna take all his curtains down
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Who's with me!
Want your freedom back?
Pick up a gun! That's what it took the first time around.
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Planned Giving Offers You Flexibility
- Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Planned gifts are typically in some form other than cash and are usually relatively large gifts. Recipient organizations usually use planned gifts to meet their future needs, such as for capital improvement projects and endowments.
Be creative as you consider all your available resources for giving. You can give stocks, bonds, treasury bills, mutual funds, promissory notes, royalties, life insurance policies, land, buildings, cars, boats, jewelry, art, furniture, clothing, timber, livestock, gifts in kind from manufacturers or retailers, or professional services (such as transportation, tax preparation, catering, medical care, and legal advice).
Also try to be innovative as you consider flexible ways to donate, many of which can offer you benefits that can enable you to donate significant amounts to help a particular organization. Some potential benefits of planned giving include allowing you to take a charitable income tax deduction, minimize capital gains taxes, reduce estate taxes, or receive an annual income for the rest of your life.
Here are some of many planned giving options that you can consider when making a donation:
- Outright gift of appreciated property. You transfer stock that has increased in value to an organization.
- Bargain sale. You sell an organization some real estate that has appreciated greatly since the time you bought it, but when you sell it to the organization, you only charge the price you originally paid.
- Charitable remainder trust. You establish a trust for an organization and transfer stock to that trust, retaining a certain percentage per year as annual income for yourself or a beneficiary. After you or a beneficiary die, the trust assets pass completely to the organization.
- Gift annuity. You transfer stock to an organization in exchange for the organization's agreement to pay a specified annuity to you, either starting immediately, or sometime in the future (such as after retirement), for the rest of your life.
- Remainder trust in residence. You transfer a residence an organization but retain the right to live in that home for life.
- Life insurance. You name an organization as the beneficiary of an insurance policy.
Adapted from Planned Giving Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success by Richard D. Barrett and Molly E. Ware, copyright 2002 by Aspen Publishers, Inc., Gaithersburg, Md., www.aspenpublishers.com, 1-800-638-8437.
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Posted by murphyy on Aug. 22, 2012
Freaking awesome
Epic I tell ya Epic
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Jestem dumny z Tego, e jestem Polakiem. :D I'm proud that I'm Polish :D
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Wow only white people in this whole video. Poland looks like a great place to live!
FAKE ! the Polish Spiderman wears a batman costume
-.- How original. Bet nothing like this has ever been done before.
Funny video
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lol if he were to try that in the us. cops woulda shit his ass or beat the shot outa him
better than the shit I paid to see a couple of months ago.
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Life should be more like this.
FKIN aye....
You won't find police in America that'll tolerate that.
right, you'd be getting your ass clubbed and tased in seconds!
LOL! Very Kool... Funniest thing I heard..... "A polish spider man would save the green goblin and kill Mary Jane hahaha" I didn't say just quoted... Still funny as hell
Kool with a K is Kooler than COOL. Good call on the K.
I like the way he busted up the hippie drum circle. I'll remember that move!
Best spiderman ever! ^^
Ever? Boy, you lead a sheltered life.
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How to Tell if a Contractor is Overcharging for Materials
A few simple tactics can prevent contractors from overcharging you
By Glyn Sheridan
When your contractor is on the job, he or she is buying materials and using them to construct your project. Unfortunately, not every contractor is trustworthy and if you think you're getting overcharged for materials, you may be able to find out. The best remedy is prevention; hire a local contractor only after checking his or her references, but if the project is underway, a little sleuthing might help.
- What You Need to Know
- Contact the National Association of Homebuilders for reputable contractors in your location.
Step 1:
Ask for a detailed labor and material breakdown before paying your contractor. This is the first step in determining how much a contractor is spending on materials. On this sheet, the contractor should list the number of items he or she purchased for your job and the price they are charging you. For instance, one charge might read, "22 dimensional pine studs, $8.25 per item, total $181.50."
Step 2:
Figure in the contractor's material handling markup. This is the percentage of materials that the contractor charges for determining, ordering and arranging for delivery of the materials. Many contractors charge between 10 to 20 percent markup, but your contractor may charge a different rate. If the markup is not visible on the invoice, ask the contractor what they charge.
Step 3:
Contact the lumberyard where your contractor purchases materials and find out the price of the items your contractor is buying for your project. Add the cost of the items, plus your contractor's markup cost to see if he or she is padding your bill.
Step 4:
Request a copy of the original material receipts if you sense something fishy is going on. An unscrupulous contractor may charge you for high-quality materials, and then funnel less expensive ones into your job. With a copy of the material receipt, you can compare the items listed with the ones used in the construction of your project.
Step 5:
Count items if you're pretty sure your contractor is cheating. This is a last ditch effort because you must be able to monitor the job closely in order to determine how much material is going into the project. However, the most likely places where a contractor can overcharge you include items that may be quickly hidden from view, including insulation, wiring, plumbing and studs that are hidden once the contractor installs drywall.
Step 6:
Take discreet photos during the various stages of the project if you're concerned that your contractor is overcharging you. That way, you have documentation that a judge can view if you later decide you really were overcharged and you want to pursue a legal avenue.
Step 7:
Remember that a contractor can only overcharge on a job where he or she submits an estimate or if the contractor has agreed to charge for time and materials -- but not on a bid. When contractors submit a firm bid, they are bound to do the job for that amount of money, whether they allotted more than the going rate for materials or less.
- Tips & Warnings
- Remember, you have no say about materials if you asked for and received a firm bid. In addition, you can't even salvage excess materials without permission from the contractor.
- If you're hiring a contractor to complete a job on a "time and material" basis, it's wise to sign a contract that details the contractor's markup charges and his additional overhead fees before the job starts.
- If you accept a contractor's bid, you will pay the face amount of the bid no matter what.
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Krishi – International Agriculture Trade Fair & Conference is being organized since 1998 in the Mecca of agriculture – Nashik. Over a period it has proved to be a platform of congregation of the tilling hands and brilliant minds from the industry, who work together towards a more sustainable and successful agriculture, vis-a vis for the exhibitors from different parts of the country and abroad to meet the potential farmers and dealers from more than 7 states. With every passing year, the event sets a new benchmark for itself to match the reputation it has made so far. The event based on the foundation of The KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION & BUSINESS has its forthcoming exhibition in 2014 that is as customary going to be an international extravaganza offering ample opportunities in business, networking and knowledge sharing and technical up gradation. The huge response and positive feedback from more than 2 lakh farmers and 300 exhibitors over the years, has enforced us to make it an annual event unlike a biannual event as it used to be.
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Rockwood First Christian will celebrate 125 years of ministry to the community on Oct. 17.
The celebration begins at 10 a.m. with a welcome by Pastor Kara Foster, special singing and a brief presentation on the church's history, with pictures from the past and present.
The worship service begins at 11 a.m. with preaching from the Rev. David Fulks, who grew up in the church and in Rockwood.
The celebration will continue afterward with a luncheon in the fellowship hall.
Children's Health Week is a yearly event in Tennessee, and Roane County students joined in the Oct. 4-10 celebration with special events at many of the schools.
Each of the 18 schools has a Healthy School Team responsible for planning and implementing such initiatives and other healthy-focus campaigns throughout the year for both students and staff.
Roane County Schools Coordinated School Health Program will have its second annual 5K race/walk on Nov. 6 at Fort Southwest Point, Kingston.
Proceeds from the race will supplement students' health and wellness initiatives.
October is the month for trick or treating, and this year the Rockwood Public Library is giving its patrons a treat.
The library will have Amnesty Week Oct. 25-31.
Patrons with overdue library materials may return those materials and have overdue fees waived, said Margaret Marrs, library director.
"Please bring in any book, audios, videos, CDs or DVDs that you have misplaced or neglected to return — and no matter how overdue they may be, you will be forgiven," Marrs said.
The town of Oliver Springs will have its annual fall cleanup Oct. 25-Nov. 5.
All items to be picked up should be left near the street for easy access.
The town will not accept tires, paint, batteries or other hazardous/toxic chemicals, refrigerators or appliances that use coolants.
The schedule for Oct. 25-29 is:
• Monday and Tuesday — Midway Drive, Fox subdivision (including side streets) and Sleepy Hol-
Back before the weather finally backed down from the brow-mopping range, I popped in to visit one of my favorite couples in the neighborhood.
June answered the door.
"Come on downstairs," she said. "We're in the basement."
I followed her appreciatively, knowing it would be cooler there.
June and Marion Dinkins have a bright, cheery basement — the kind of place you might actually enjoy doing household chores.
Roane County Commissioner Ron Berry had three pages of questions about the county's 2010-11 budget he wanted to get answers to Tuesday night.
He never got a chance to ask them — his motion to reconsider the budget failed 8-7.
Afterward, the commission voted 13-2 to accept the certified tax rate of $2.19, adding the last element missing from the budget process.
Commissioners Berry and Benny East voted no. 2010 was a reappraisal year for Roane County.
Another situation involving a health-impaired driver in Kingston narrowly avoided becoming a disaster.
A 78-year-old Knoxville man drove his car through a fence at Kingston Elementary School on Tuesday while students were outside playing.
Roane County Director of Schools Toni McGriff said no students were hurt.
Kingston Police Chief Jim Washam said he viewed video of the incident.
"The driver came through the fence, kind of did a doughnut if you would say, and was headed back out when he came to a stop," Washam said.
The Kingston Lady Jackets managed to shake off a sluggish start and use a trifecta of goals by Christina Neal to take a 4-0 win Monday afternoon over the Oliver Springs Lady Bobcats.
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looking down at the road ahead… Island Capri, Italy
and today i realized that Chisinau has many fir trees and they look wonderful with all the snow!
together with a friend, for a couple of hours, been today outside the city… and what a beauty!
while some friends living in other parts of Europe are posting pictures with snow… today in Moldova were 20-22 degrees! and mostly sunny.
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An anonymous reader writes Google has expanded its search engine with the capability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel on the right-hand side of Google's search results page will offer more information, including the series it belongs to, initial release date, supported platforms, developers, publishers, designers, and even review scores. Google spokesperson: "With today's update, you can ask questions about video games, and (while there will be ones we don't cover) you'll get answers for console and PC games as well as the most popular mobile apps."
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An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times reports that Alan Eustace, a computer scientist and senior VP at Google, has successfully broken the record for highest freefall jump, set by Felix Baumgartner in 2012. "For a little over two hours, the balloon ascended at speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute to an altitude of 135,908 feet, more than 25 miles. Mr. Eustace dangled underneath in a specially designed spacesuit with an elaborate life-support system. He returned to earth just 15 minutes after starting his fall. ... Mr. Eustace cut himself loose from the balloon with the aid of a small explosive device and plummeted toward the earth at a speeds that peaked at more than 800 miles per hour, setting off a small sonic boom heard by observers on the ground. ... His technical team had designed a carbon-fiber attachment that kept him from becoming entangled in the main parachute before it opened. About four-and-a-half minutes into his flight, he opened the main parachute and glided to a landing 70 miles from the launch site."
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oxide7 (1013325) writes "In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet's future that has only gathered force subsequently. Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views."
274 comments | 2 days ago
itwbennett writes German publishers said they are bowing to Google's market power, and will allow the search engine to show news snippets in search results free of charge — at least for the time being. The decision is a step in an ongoing legal dispute between the publishers and Google in which, predictably, publishers are trying to get compensation from the search engine for republishing parts of their content and Google isn't interested in sharing revenue. The move follows a Google decision earlier this month — and which was to go into effect today — to stop using news snippets and thumbnails for some well-known German news sites.
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Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes: Facebook threatened to banish drag queen pseudonyms, and (some) users revolted by flocking to Ello, a social network which promised not to enforce real names and also to remain ad-free. Critics said that the idealistic model would buckle under pressure from venture capitalists. But both gave scant mention to the fact that a distributed social networking protocol, backed by a player large enough to get people using it, would achieve all of the goals that Ello aspired to achieve, and more. Read on for the rest.
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An anonymous reader writes The better question may be whether it will ever be ready for the road at all? The car has fewer capabilities than most people seem to be aware of. The notion that it will be widely available any time soon is a stretch. From the article: "Noting that the Google car might not be able to handle an unmapped traffic light might sound like a cynical game of 'gotcha.' But MIT roboticist John Leonard says it goes to the heart of why the Google car project is so daunting. 'While the probability of a single driver encountering a newly installed traffic light is very low, the probability of at least one driver encountering one on a given day is very high,' Leonard says. The list of these 'rare' events is practically endless, said Leonard, who does not expect a full self-driving car in his lifetime (he's 49)."
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An anonymous reader writes Now that its file synchronization tool has received a few updates, BitTorrent is going on the offensive against cloud-based storage services by showing off just how fast BitTorrent Sync can be. More specifically, the company conducted a test that shows Sync destroys Google Drive, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Dropbox. The company transferred a 1.36 GB MP4 video clip between two Apple MacBook Pros using two Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapters, the Time.gov site as a real-time clock, and the Internet connection at its headquarters (1 Gbps up/down). The timer started when the file transfer was initiated and then stopped once the file was fully synced and downloaded onto the receiving machine. Sync performed 8x faster than Google Drive, 11x faster than OneDrive, and 16x faster than Dropbox.
124 comments | 3 days ago
itwbennett (1594911) writes Oracle, Microsoft and Ask.com are facing suits alleging that they conspired to restrict hiring of staff. The suits appear to refer to a memo that names a large number of companies that allegedly had special arrangements with Google to prevent poaching of staff and was filed as an exhibit on May 17, 2013 in another class action suit over hiring practices. The former employees filing lawsuits against Microsoft, Ask.com and Oracle have asked that the cases be assigned to Judge Koh as there were similarities with the case against Google, Apple and others — and it maybe doesn't hurt that Judge Koh thought the $324.5 million settlement in that case was too low.
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Z80xxc! writes: The Gmail team announced "Inbox" this morning, a new way to manage email. Inbox is email, but organized differently. Messages are grouped into "bundles" of similar types. "Highlights" pull out and display key information from messages, and messages can be "snoozed" to come back later as a reminder. Inbox is invite-only right now, and you can email email@example.com to request an invite.
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CBC reports that a man pulled up to the War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, got out of his car, and shot a soldier with a rifle. The Memorial is right next to the Canadian Parliament buildings. A shooter (reportedly the same one, but unconfirmed) also approached Parliament and got inside before he was shot and killed. "Scott Walsh, who was working on Parliament Hill, said ... the man hopped over the stone fence that surrounds Parliament Hill, with his gun forcing someone out of their car. He then drove to the front doors of Parliament and fired at least two shots, Walsh said." Canadian government officials were quickly evacuated from the building, while the search continues for further suspects. This comes a day after Canada raised its domestic terrorism threat level. Most details of the situation are still unconfirmed -- CBC has live video coverage here. They have confirmed that there was a second shooting at the Rideau Center, a shopping mall nearby.
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An anonymous reader writes: After rumors broke last week, Magic Leap has officially closed the deal on a $542 million Series B investment led by Google. The company has been extremely tight-lipped about what they're working on, but some digging reveals it is most likely an augmented reality wearable that uses a lightfield display. "Using our Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, imagine being able to generate images indistinguishable from real objects and then being able to place those images seamlessly into the real world," the company teases. Having closed an investment round, Magic Leap is now soliciting developers to create for their platform and hiring a huge swath of positions.
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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from VentureBeat: Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a Google website. The feature is available in Chrome: Instead of typing in a code, you can simply insert Security Key into your computer's USB port and tap it when prompted by Google's browser. "When you sign into your Google Account using Chrome and Security Key, you can be sure that the cryptographic signature cannot be phished," Google promises. While Security Key works with Google Accounts at no charge, you'll need to go out and buy a compatible USB device directly from a Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) participating vendor.
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found a way to deliver a malicious app to Android users by hiding it into what seems to be an encrypted image file, which is then delivered via a legitimate, seemingly innocuous wrapper app. Fortinet malware researcher Axelle Apvrille and reverse engineer Ange Albertini created a custom tool they dubbed AngeCryption, which allows them to encrypt the payload Android application package (APK) and make it look like an image (PNG, JPG) file . They also had to create another APK that carries the "booby-trapped" image file and which can decrypt it to unveil the malicious APK file and install it. A malicious app thusly encrypted is nearly invisible to reverse engineers, and possibly even to AV solutions and Google's Android Bouncer." (Here's the original paper, from researchers Axelle Apvrille and Ange Albertini.)
113 comments | 4 days ago
cryptoz (878581) writes Apple is now adding barometers to its mobile devices: both new iPhones have valuable atmospheric pressure sensors being used for HealthKit (step counting). Since many Android devices have been carrying barometers for years, scientists like Cliff Mass have been using the sensor data to improve weather forecasts. Open source data collection projects like PressureNet on Android automatically collect and send the atmospheric sensor data to researchers.
79 comments | 5 days ago
mrspoonsi writes Google has announced changes to its search engine in an attempt to curb online piracy. The company has long been criticised for enabling people to find sites to download entertainment illegally. The entertainment industry has argued that illegal sites should be "demoted" in search results. The new measures, mostly welcomed by music trade group the BPI, will instead point users towards legal alternatives such as Spotify and Google Play. Google will now list these legal services in a box at the top of the search results, as well as in a box on the right-hand side of the page. Crucially, however, these will be adverts — meaning if legal sites want to appear there, they will need to pay Google for the placement.
156 comments | 5 days ago
Martin Spamer writes with word that the BBC is to publish a continually updated list of its articles removed from Google under the controversial 'right to be forgotten' notices." The BBC will begin - in the "next few weeks" - publishing the list of removed URLs it has been notified about by Google. [Editorial policy head David] Jordan said the BBC had so far been notified of 46 links to articles that had been removed. They included a link to a blog post by Economics Editor Robert Peston. The request was believed to have been made by a person who had left a comment underneath the article. An EU spokesman later said the removal was "not a good judgement" by Google.
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HughPickens.com writes Jim Edwards writes at Business Insider that Google is so large and has such a massive need for talent that if you have the right skills, Google is really enthusiastic to hear from you — especially if you know how to use MatLab, a fourth-generation programming language that allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java, Fortran and Python. The key is that data is produced visually or graphically, rather than in a spreadsheet. According to Jonathan Rosenberg , Google's former senior vice president for product management, being a master of statistics is probably your best way into Google right now and if you want to work at Google, make sure you can use MatLab. Big data — how to create it, manipulate it, and put it to good use — is one of those areas in which Google is really enthusiastic about. The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. When every business has free and ubiquitous data, the ability to understand it and extract value from it becomes the complimentary scarce factor. It leads to intelligence, and the intelligent business is the successful business, regardless of its size. Rosenberg says that "my quote about statistics that I didn't use but often do is, 'Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it the samurai.'"
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An anonymous reader writes: As promised, Google today released the full Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK, along with updated developer images for Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (2013), ADT-1, and the Android emulator. The latest version of Android isn't available just yet, but the company is giving developers a head start (about two weeks), so they can test their apps on the new platform. To get the latest Android 5.0 SDK, fire up Android SDK Manager and head to the Tools section, followed by latest SDK Tools, SDK Platform-tools, and SDK Build-tools. Select everything under the Android 5.0 section, hit "Install packages...", accept the licensing agreement, and finally click Install. Google also rolled out updated resources for their Material Design guidelines.
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retroworks writes WSJ blog reports on Austin, the third city to get fiber-optic high speed internet networks laid down by Google (Kansas City and Provo, UT were the first and second). The service averages 1 gigabit per second, about 100X the average US household speed, and costs $70-120 per month (depending on television). Google promotes the roll-outs by holding "rallies" in small neighborhoods. The sign-up process starts in December, focusing on south and southeastern parts of Austin, a Google spokeswoman said Wednesday. It was announced that fiber was coming to Austin back in April.
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Getting Over My Ex-Girlfriend Took Way Too Long
Getting over my ex-girlfriend was a long road for me, literally! There was a nine-hundred mile stretch from her house (where I found her cheating) to mine.
I was once a quiet, painfully shy kind of guy. I didn't venture out much. Meeting a girl in general public was virtually non-existent for me.
So, way back when open chat rooms were ridiculously popular, I found myself self-confined to my dark and dreary house, additively glued to the front of the computer monitor every day after work.
That's when I found her.
She was the love of my life (or so I thought at the time). We spent months on the phone together. She'd whisper sweet nothings into my ear every night as I sat there absorbing it all up into my lovesick heart.
The time came. I had to visit.
The first umteen trips went great.
I had it in my mind that I was going to move there; replant myself in a foreign state where I knew no one but her. I was going to marry her—the love of my life!
It just so happened, after scraping the bottom of my piggy-bank, I found just enough money for a (yep, you guessed it) surprise visit.
Oh, how surprising it was, indeed.
I drove sixteen hours to find the one who swore would never lay her eyes on another man…on TOP of another man. I'm not sure if her eyes were open or not, but I had a feeling it didn't matter much to her.
I never said a word, never made a sound. She never even knew I was there.
I was stuck in her driveway because my car wouldn't start. I was crankin' on that son-of-a-bitch like I was stalled on a railroad track and I could see the train coming at a hundred miles an hour.
I hold the record for the longest stretch of road-rage in history; nine hundred miles of red-eyed, mind-blowing madness.
Surviving the breakup was difficult. For months afterward, it seemed as though I was dreaming. She was all I had consumed for a solid year. Suddenly, she was gone—an emptiness words can't explain.
But, in the end, I pulled myself out of the mud and soldiered forth.
Since breaking up, she has tried to contact me several times, trying to win my heart back. Ha! Dream on, hooker!
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What if you already know all there is you need to know?Posted: September 1, 2013 Filed under: Life, Posts in English | Tags: 9 life questions, afest, awesomeness fest, bali, documentary, len branson, life lessons, movie, superwise me, superwise telesummit, wisdom 9 Comments
I guessed it was around 9.30 pm. I had just refilled my glass with another dose of gin and tonic, then stood there near the pop-up bar for a while, examining the room while adjusting the green snake around my neck. In front of me, Gods and Goddesses–as well as Devils of all kinds–were dancing happily and conversing loudly, as if that evening Heaven and Hell opened up their gates for each other. That was when I noticed a guy standing alone, fifteen steps away, with a wooden fan. He didn't seem like a God or a Devil. So I walked into his direction to find out. Turned out, he was a God slash Devil in disguise.
I wasn't high. I didn't imagine this thing.
This was exactly how I met Len Branson, in a costume party in Nusa Dua, Bali, during an event called Awesomeness Fest (I know, the name of the event may sounds a little bit odd and peculiar to you, but bear with me for a while on this one, and I'll write more about Awesomeness Fest in a few days!). That evening, I simply walked up to Len and smiled. "Hey, we haven't met!" I shouted to beat the thumping music at the background, and introduced myself. This was something I wouldn't do two years ago. Walk up to a stranger and introduced myself would give me the creeps. I could have done it, but I would have chosen not to. I realized how much I've changed since then.
During my conversations with Len, I found out that he had produced a spiritual-experiment documentary called Superwise ME!, where 9 'gurus' from various backgrounds and 9 'witnesses' spent 9 days in a monastery in Andalusia, Spain, in an attempt to answer 9 important questions in life. "Watch it and let me know what you think," said Len. "I really want to hear your opinion about it."
I watched the documentary this morning, on my dining table, with a cup of white tea. My eyes welled up with tears at various scenes. It was such a profound way to begin my Sunday. The documentary Superwise ME! posted some questions I should have asked myself more often; questions I wish to discuss more openly with my closest friends when we spend our time together, lazying in a coffee shop:
- Who am I and what is God?
- How do I deal with illness and mortality?
- How do I get rid of my fear and handle the negativity in me and around me?
- How do I know what I really want?
- How do I become happy and stay in balance?
- How do I love myself and others?
- How do I forgive myself and others?
- How do I let go and release?
- How do I get in touch with my inner wisdom?
What if we already know all the answers to these questions, because we are all superwise? :) I can't remember the last time I asked you to do something for me, but this time, I am asking you to please, take your time to watch this documentary and spread it around to those you think would benefit from watching it*. I believe it will evoke something that has lain dormant inside of you for quite some time. Let's go back to the times when we were young, when we were still questioning things while enjoying life's simple pleasures.
*)I know for some of you (especially if you're in Indonesia), watching this movie in YouTube sounds like a nightmare, considering the Internet connection and all. If you're in Jakarta and are interested to watch this movie together with a bunch of friends, probably we can arrange a movie night :)
And don't forget to also check out Superwise Telesummit if you're craving for more (sign up from that link), where you can listen in to a bunch of great speakers online, for free! Each speaker in this event has traveled the road to self-discovery, been where you are, and have lovingly agreed to join together in creating ripples of awareness, giving you a look, into the world of possibility. This free virtual event is featuring one speaker each day, who will share their own personal experience, tips, tools and techniques that you can begin applying immediately, as you step into your own personal power and discover what has been within you all along.
Raining RomancePosted: January 25, 2013 Filed under: Leisure, Life, Posts in English | Tags: 2013, adam, bright star, january, like crazy, movie, movie selection, restless, two lovers 10 Comments
Gloomy January with its dark cloudy skies and constant downpours made me retreated into my comfy bed, entertaining myself with a bunch of blankets, pillows, cups and cups of hot chocolate and a stack of DVDs. These are some of the movies I would put under my movie selection post this month. I'd call it Raining Romance.
1. Two Lovers
After hailing this movie as one of my all-time favorite, I found out later on that it was inspired by Dostoyevsky's short story White Nights. And I said to myself, oh, no wonder. It's a lonely story about Leonard, a guy with a suicidal tendency who falls for his neighbor, Michelle. Everything about this movie is lonely. From the gloomy opening act to the photographs Leonard are taking, the scene at the club where Leonard goes out dancing with Michelle and her friends. I love it when Sandra, a daughter of a family friend, comes along to Leonard's life. I love it when Michelle's boyfriend, who happens to be someone else's husband, talks to Leonard at a restaurant. I adore the twists and turns a little bit too much.
2. Restless
I love Gus van Sant. I love reading his interviews. I love books and movies with misfit characters. I guess those are enough reasons for me to love this movie. It's about a teenage boy, Enoch, who loves going to strangers' funerals and befriends Hiroshi, a dead Japanese kamikaze pilot from World War II. On one of the funerals, Enoch meets a curious girl, Annabel. Like, seriously, aren't you going to be intrigued just by knowing these snippets? The movie is visually stunning; and I love every small details of Enoch and Annabel's lives: the things they do, the things they wear, the things they talk about. And you can read Hiroshi's love letter here.
3. Bright Star
It's a beautiful movie and beautiful love story between the poet John Keats and his "girl-next-door" Fanny Brawne. And I love this movie so much because I love letters. Hand-written letters. Hand-written love letters, to be exact. And I am in love with John Keats. And Fanny Brawne's cat. I am in love with the two of them. I love the recited poems during the movie and the scenes where John and Fanny walked and kissed in the woods. I can relate to Fanny. I can relate to Keats. I want that red sealing wax for my letters. I can't stop indulging myself to read the selected love letters written by John to Fanny here.
4. Adam
Beth moved in to a new apartment building where she met Adam, her 'strange' neighbor. It is a very grounded yet beautiful movie about loving someone; and whether there are boundaries or limitations in doing so. I love all the small details in the movie: the raccoons, tea, the cleaning of the window, the theatre, those talks about stars and galaxies… and I love Adam, too!
5. Before Sunrise
Jesse and Celine met for the first time on a Eurail train and decided to get off in Vienna and spend one day together. I love the quotes from the movie, the premise of being young and stupid and carefree, the artsy shots around Vienna, the fortune teller, the street poet, the bartender, the cemetery… I'd like to go to Vienna and do my Before Sunrise tour. There's a sequel to this movie, Before Sunset, but if I have to choose, Before Sunrise is a lot better, and stronger.
6. Like Crazy
Jacob and Anna need to struggle with their long-distance relationship that spans between US and UK. But as it turns out, maybe it's not really about the long-distance relationship at the first place. Maybe it's just about the relationship itself. I love the fact that the movie feels real, instead of just plain romantic or pretty. I love the characters' mean words as they are fighting with each other. I love the silly thoughts Anna has. I love the matter-of-factly way of Jacob. I like it because this is what happens in real life. Sometimes, love sucks.
A Kamikaze Pilot's Love Letter.Posted: May 1, 2012 Filed under: Love, Posts in English | Tags: kamikaze, love letter, movie, restless, unsent letter 9 Comments
Unsent letters are sad. Depressive. Melancholic. But these letters are hopelessly romantic as well. I have a stack of unsent letters in my drawer. Sometimes, though I have expressed my feelings to a particular person, the unsent letters I wrote for that person remain unsent. Maybe I'll send it one day. Or maybe not :D
The ocean breeze feels so cool on my skin. That very ocean is soon to be my grave. They told me I will die a hero. That the safety and honor of my country will be the reward for my sacrifice. I pray that they are right. My only regret in life is never telling you how I feel. I wish I were back home. I wish I were holding your hand. I wish I were telling you that I have loved you. And only you since I was a boy.
But I am not.
I see now that death is easy. It is love that is hard. As my plane dives, I will not see the face of my enemies. I would instead will see your eyes. Like Blackrock frozing in the water. They tell us that we must scream 'Banzai!' as we plunge into our target. I will instead, whisper your name.
And in death, as in life, I will remain forever yours.
*) by Hiroshi Takahashi—a Kamikaze pilot. This unsent letter dies with him.
[From Gus van Sant's movie, RESTLESS, 2011]
**) the picture is an edited snapshot from the brochure of my Lomo Super Sampler.
sequencePosted: July 14, 2011 Filed under: Posts in English | Tags: art movie, daniel, heartbreak, katie herzig, Love, movie, movie project, nadia, nia, project, short movie, sunday and sunflowers 12 Comments
So, this is my first short movie video project with Nanath, called "Sequence"—that falls under our independent movie project Sunday & Sunflowers. I did the shots with my Canon 550D camera and developed the story/script, while Nanath took her part as the heart-broken girl in the movie and did an amazing effort in editing and deciding on song selection.
The song is Wish You Well by Katie Herzig (which was suggested to us by Nia). And the lyric is just awesome:
I, I want to wish you well
I didn't watch you go
Cause I suppose I don't know how
I, I will remember you
Not the way you left but how you lived
And what you knew
I, I want to feel your hands
I want to feel your fire burning
Right from where I stand
I'll find my way
Cause you showed me how
I, I want to know it's you
When I hear your voice inside my head
Inside my room
I, want to touch the sky
I want to see the stars twinkle
Like they were your eyes
I'll find my way
You showed me
I'll find my way
Cause you showed me how
I, I want to smell your scent
I want to breathe the air I did before
Before you left
I, I want to wish you well
The only reason my heart beats
Is cause you showed it how
I'll find my way
You show me
I'll find my way
You show me
I'll find my way
Cause you showed me how
You show me how
You showed me how
Also, thanks to Daniel, our own national rugby player, for his performance as the heartbreaker :D


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County administrator Clifton Johnson said the Board of Supervisors approved and he delivered to the tax assessor an actual millage of 66.49 on county property (except in Robinsonville). In the town of Tunica, the actual rate is 66.24 mills, slightly less than the proposed increase.
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how many outlets can 1 GFI protect
I have been told to locate my GFI at the end of a run of outlets. That way all of them before it will be protected.
But is there a limit to how many they can protect??
Seriously, I am curious who told you. I'd say 90% of the time when we hear: "I was told....", what ever follows is BAD advice.
NO, a GFI can go at the beginning of the circuit, and if it is wired the right way it can protect every other device or outlet downstream of it. It can also be wired to protect nothing downstream from it.
There is no limit, but most electricians stay at around 5-6 max on the load side.
Be careful of where/how you put the GFI, you don't want your refrigerator downstream of the GFI.
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Hi, I'm Char! I tend to blog about nothing in particular. This is my personal tumblr so anything I think is cool, cute, inspiring, interesting, totally wicked or downright sick goes here. I also draw..... sometimes.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have several stories I like to pull up at the absolute wrong occasions. 'Stall material' I use to either buy time in an awkward situation or make people leave me alone. This removes the awkwardness altogether, as you can imagine.
Here's a short story about bones, saws and cool ranch Doritos that I haven't told nearly enough people yet. Certainly not enough of my personal friends anyway as most of them are still excited for the possibility of cramming a Dorito Taco down their smooth muscle highway.
The details of the room aren't very important other than there are 6 cadavers lined up in 2 rows of 3. A group of 4 students are assigned to one cadaver each. We, the students, are given a human dissection manual as assigned reading. The manual is a step by step instruction set on how to properly dissect every part of the human body without ruining every nerve and or lopping your own arm off in the process. We aren't allowed to bring [it isn't suggested] our own personal copies to the lab. Within a single day of having the books out among the dead bodies they were covered in a grease similar to chicken stock. The pages would turn transparent by the end of the quarter, making the books hard to read and cause some sloppy mistakes in hand-eye coordination.
On this, particular, sloppy no-good-very-bad day we line out the copies of our books in front of us. Instructions on how to remove the muscles of the scalp, slice through the bone and maneuver your fingers around to flip out the brain, all covered in adipose gravy.The instructions are simple and straight forward. Cut off the muscles where they insert, grab your favorite color sharpie and draw a dotted 'cut me here!' line around the circumference of the skull and stab your bone saw into it like a lumberjack.
A bone saw [for those unaware] is a small saw with a shallow blade that vibrates back and forth. It makes a lot of noise, heats up fairly fast and throws all sorts of material everywhere. Eye protection is required.
The saw is relativity tiny, the mess is produces is not. This is important.
Donning our checkerboard shirts and overalls, the group of us set to meleeing the skull with considerable difficulty. The saw is slipping everywhere and no one can draw a straight line. Artists are horrible people. Eventually we get a steady enough hand to puncture into the skull and create a fissure to navigate on.
As we saw through the skull bone dust begins to spew out from the saw's 'delicate' oscillations. We are soon covered in a cloud of delightful people powder. This is where all the fun begins.
The people powder, cutter cloud, skull spew, whatever you want to call it smelled…
The worst part of this story is that there is literally no way to prove this to anyone who hasn't sawed a human's head in half before. I can tell you the scent is completely uncanny. It doesn't 'maybe' smell like cool ranch Doritos. Or "yeah I could totally see that smelling like—-" it was EXACT. Scent for smell, Dorito powder.
My labmates and I spent the rest of the day completely covered in the cool ranch cologne. We had to attend several classes afterwards with it in our hair. We probably looked like we had some amazing smelling dandruff. All because there were no showers in the bio medical building. Figures. Put all the stinky things where no one can shower.
This doesn't lead me to any conclusions or conspiracies like: cool ranch is people. That would be silly. Actually.. there is really no punchline to this story. I set up way too much detail for it and made you waste a ton of your tumblr hours reading about something I could have said in one sentence.
'The human skeleton smells like Cool Ranch Doritos'
On the topic of smells and why I don't like them: let's talk about Snuggle.
I hate the smell of Snuggle because it's what we had to pour over the cadavers in order to keep them 'moist' for the next outing. 1 part Snuggle, 3 parts water. As a sick joke, or incredible error in judgement, my mother actually bought me a large pack of Snuggle dryer sheets to use when I came out to California. I either threw them away or they're still hiding in an unpacked box somewhere, waiting.


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@karlawhoo, and @betzyyaniree made snowmen. I had the pleasure to destroy them with Karla hahaha
This luminous road of nothing is changing me. So isolate horrendous words spoken or written in time. In order to consolidate our eternity. Let nature illustrate us to become beauty
Close my eyes. Sudden movements at this moment mean nothing. Time to dream, drop my head, and feel distance
Your integrity on being humble confuses me.
My heart is leading itself to it's own destruction. Cause I can't stand to face what I may regret. And I will never be happy with my decisions. I make mistakes constantly. For I am, what I make everyday.
And when I die, burn my body, and dispose of the ashes. I never want to deal with this pain again.
Even then I'll still be suffering.
My wife got me this awesome camo jacket for a anniversary present. She knows I have always wanted one. She also took me to Rainfest where I saw Oblivion, Expire, Incendiary, Rotting Out, and Comeback Kid! Day prior she took me ghost haunting, which was pretty creepy. I'm thankful for this past weekend as a gift from her
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