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An anonymous letter would arrive. Nothing of the letter would hint at an identity, save the writing itself, which could potentially be forged. The envelope the letter was sealed in was your run-of-the-mill blank white save for the necessary folds and save his name on the front, there's no hint it even belongs to him. "Dear Renekton You have been a very bad boy, GO TO YOUR ROOM, SIT IN A CORNER, AND THINK ON WHAT YOU'VE DONE! Ohwait..." The letter ends there, simply taunting Renekton for being in his prison.
Renekton's eyes darken as he says quietly, "I don't know who or why wrote this... But when I get free from this hell they will see my true anger..."
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A small rumbling would be felt in Renekton's cell. After a moment, a small bottle shot up out of the floor, hopefully landing in the hands of Renketon. Inside, there was a small letter. It read: Why do you wish to kill Nasus. -Nautilus
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Renekton stares at the doll while writing back a reply, Dear Lulu, I can't calm down. I have anger that only can be soothed by cutting the flesh of evil. And what I like for breakfast? Believe it or not but a sallad. -With love, Renekton.
Renekton sat in his stone cell, (duh) thinking... What if he was the corrupted one? Everyone he had meet always said it. Could it truly be that the corruption had taken his mind? Not it can't be possible, he knew his mission was to cleanse the evil humans so that the anger would go away. He knew the anger would go away if he did it, or was it? He didn't actually feel less angry after he killed someone, his own brother ignored him, why? He knew that Nasus was the corrupted one. It couldn't be possible he was the evil one. But why did is brother go free and he was taken to this stone room. When he thought of it the other evil beings like Brand or Nocturne was here to. Was his whole existence for nothing? No he thought. It cannot be that I'm the evil one, or am I? The seeds of doubt was planted into his mind. The next visitor could perhaps change him, if they say the right words. Or did the right actions... ((Some character development for Renekton to make him more interesting.))
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3 "Come!" they say. "We will tear off their ropes and throw off their chains!" | 3 "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters." |
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Napoleon has to deal with another man in the kitchen when a cowboy named Tex Boone shows Kitchen Wench his barbecue ribs.
Barbecue Ribs recipe
Prep Time: 15 Min
Cook Time: 3 Hours
- 1 slabe of baby back ribs
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 tablespoons spice rub
- 1 cup barbecue sauce
1. Rinse the ribs in cool water. Pat dry with paper towels.
2. If the butcher has not removed the membrane from the back side, do it yourself. Insert a butter knife under the membrane, then your fingers, work a section loose, grip it with a paper towel, and peel it off. Trim the excess fat from both sides. If you can't get the skin off, with a sharp knife, cut slashes through it every inch so some of the fat will render out during the cooking.
3. Coat the meat with a thin layer of vegetable oil. Sprinkle enough spice rub to coat all surfaces but not so much that the meat doesn't show through. Spread the spice rub on the meat, rub it in, and let it sit in the fridge for about an hour.
4. Set up your cooker to cook the meat indirectly.
5. Preheat your cooker to about 225°F and try to keep it there throughout the cook.
6. For charcoal or gas cookers, add 4 ounces of wood. On a gas grill, put the wood as close to the flame as possible. On a charcoal grill, put it right on the hot coals.
7. Put the slabs in the cooker on the indirect side of the grill, meaty side of the ribs on top. Close the lid and no peeking!
8. When the smoke dwindles after 20 to 30 minutes, add another 4 ounces of wood.
9. Allow 3 to 4 hours for baby back ribs. The exact time will depend on how thick the slabs are and how steady you have kept the temp. If you use rib holders so they are crammed close to each other, add another hour. Then check to see if they are ready. Pick up the slab with tongs and bounce it gently. If the surface cracks, it is ready.
10. Paint both sides with barbecue sauce and put it directly over the hottest part of the grill in order to caramelize and crisp it. On a charcoal grill, just move the slab over the coals. On a gas grill, remove the water pan and crank up all the burners. On a water smoker, remove the water pan and move the meat close to the coals. On an offset smoker, put a grate over the coals in the firebox and put the meat there. With the lid open so you don't roast the meat from above, sizzle the sauce on one side and then the other.
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I love my old 1920's colonial house and want to retain as many of the vintage aspects of it as possible. We have a tandem bathroom between the two children's bedrooms which has nice old yellow with black accent tiles. Unfortunatley, the previous owner thought it would be a good idea to paint some of the black tiles pink, including the grout in between. They had the tiles painted pink over 20 years ago and upon inspection, there is only one spot where there is a tiny chip in the paint revealing the black underneath. Here's my question, how do I remove the paint from the tiles and grout without damaging them? My contractor says if worse come to worst, I may have to have them painted back. I'm afraid that might look worse than the pink! The bathroom and tile is in good shape but the pink absolutely has to go! Also, any suggestions on what color to paint the walls? The tile goes up pretty high. I'm taking down the tacky and aged yellow and pink floral wall paper. Dove white? |
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- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 7:17
A heat gun might work. Warm the tile up slowly so it doesn't crack, but paint can't take heat like ceramic can. It should blister and peel off. If that doesn't work, start testing paint removers ... begin with the least obnoxious ones, like citri-strip and soy gel. If that doesn't work, go to the stinky ones. You may have to re-paint the grout if the pin soaked in. |
Here is a thread about the same thing...scroll down to comments and maybe will get some other ideas, or at least the name of products to try. |
Here is a link that might be useful: removing paint from tile
- Posted by musicteacher (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 18:15
PPG makes a spray on product called overspray remover (or something like that) Don't know if it will work on something this old, but when vandals spray painted my hubby's truck, it got every bit of it off. You spray it on and it looks like it is doing nothing, then if you keep rubbing with a paper towel it will in a minute or two just start to dissolve. I was amazed at how well it worked. |
Ceramic tile is pretty hard to damage. I'd try scraping off as much as I could with a razor knife (I've done-it no damage). You can use some kind of paint remover-you don't need heavy duty because the paint is just laying on the surface. Get a grout remover tool, scrape out the old grout, you don't need to go deep just removing the paint and giving it some depth to put in the new. Really easy, just time consuming and can be a bit messy. |
All the above would be true IF it is regular (oil or latex) paint. Aren't there companies that will apply epoxy to your old tub an tile to make them look like new? The pics of their work show the tile and grout all the same color as in your pics. It does scratch off, so I think you need to first figure out what is on the tile before you remove it. I have no clue but to razor blade some off and see what dissolves it before you start spraying or whatever. Good luck on that one. -Babka |
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I am a Java developer who is working more and more with javascript. I love Jquery, but am unsure how to architect a largish ajax project.
Each widget I make will need to communicate with the server, so I have put each widget in its own directory and have it pull dynamic content from files in the same directory.
When I want a page (in another directory) to include the widget, I have taken the approach of including the appropriate .js file, creating the objects defined within it, then having the widget write its content to a div on the current page. The problem I am running into is that the objects created from the imported .js files don't seem to know which directory they came from anymore, so they cannot find the server side files they need to communicate with.
What is the best way to deal with this? Is there a better way to architect this? Is there a way that objects loaded from a .js file can know what their original source directory is?
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hard-coding paths makes the scripts very brittle.
based on you description of the task, you can easily detect the current script's file as it loads by using the function below.
Code:function currentScript(){ var t = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); return t[t.length-1]; } //example: alert(currentScript().src);
note that once your page loads, aliens51's advice is correct; code itself doesn't know where it's from...
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react to indications that Argentina is starting to restrict food imports.
Secretary of Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade
Welber Barral said earlier in the day that Brazil is willing to *act in
retaliation* against Buenos Aires if Argentina follows through with a ban
on foodstuffs. Brazil*s Assistant to the President for International
Affairs Marco Aurelio Garcia then tried to calm tensions by saying that
competition between Brazil and Argentina is only consistent with soccer
and that retaliatory measures against Argentina are not an option.
Brazil, along with the rest of Argentina*s main trading partners, have
grown increasingly concerned over a slew of ambiguous statements made by
Argentine officials over a possible food ban. Following claims in the
press that Argentine Secretary of Commerce Guillermo Moreno had proposed a
food import ban, Argentine President Christina Kirchner said May 17 that
there were no restrictions of any kind against food imports. At the same
time, both Brazilian and Argentine press have been releasing reports
quoting Brazilian exporters complaining that Argentine importers, who are
likely waiting for a clear sign from Buenos Aires either way on this
issue, have been cancelling orders for processed foodstuffs, such as
pasta, sauces and olive oil. Argentine press claims that 70 percent of
foodstuffs imports from Brazil alone have been cancelled, but this claim
has not been verified.
Argentina exports roughly $12 billion worth of processed food products
while it imports roughly $900 million. Of that amount, Brazil sells $500
million in food products to Argentina while it imports $2 billion. Though
Argentina has maintained a trade surplus in its food trade and in its
trade surplus overall (Argentina reported a balance of trade surplus
equivalent to $311 million in March 2010,) the Argentine government has a
tendency toward protectionist moves in its attempts to revive the
country*s ailing manufacturing sector.
Though Argentina is certainly no stranger to such protectionist measures,
it remains unclear whether it will follow through with a complete food
import ban and import substitution policy. The country is already in the
middle of a major trade spat with China over soybean oil exports that is
threatening to block Argentina from the biggest soy market in the world
and undercut the profits of farmers who are already engaged in a pitched
battle with the Kirchner government. Brazil, which provides more than half
of Argentina*s foodstuff imports, has an obvious interest in preventing
this brewing trade spat from developing into a real crisis. In addition to
wanting to protect Brazilian exporters, a trade flare-up with Argentina
would also play directly into Brazil*s ongoing presidential campaign.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva and his presidential candidate, Dilma
Roussef, believe that Mercosur, a regional trade grouping comprised of
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, should be strengthened and
expanded as a way to deepen Brazil*s ties with its South American
neighbors. The opposition*s presidential candidate, Jose Serra, however,
regards Mercosur as barrier for Brazilian companies and another
protectionist blow from Argentina would only strengthen his case. Brazil
has in the past succeeded in negotiating a settlement with Argentina over
similar trade disputes, as it did in 2009 when Argentina tried to restrict
imports of home appliances from Brazil. Argentina will likely try to
restrict imports of processed food on a case by case basis and stick to
ambiguous political statements to avoid wide-scale retaliation from major
trading partners like Brazil, there is little hiding the country*s growing
protectionist tendencies.


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Hi all does anyone have any suggestions on some plants that might ward off bugs? We rent but I don't mind planting something perennial, we have a porch that is open underneath and it tends to attract bugs. I know marigolds might work but I was thinking more along the lines of a perennial, maybe mint, lavendar something like that. Any suggestions?
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- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 3:34
Bugs are everywhere whether plant material is available or not. But anything that puts out a bloom might attract a butterfly, a bee, a beetle; plants with no blooms may attract spiders, aphids, leaf hoppers, ladybugs - in other words, plants attract insects of some kind because the insects need to eat and the plants often rely on insects for pollination. Maybe it would be easier to screen in the porch. |
- Posted by terrycinor (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 10:14
Thanks I understand that, and I don't mind bees and the like but it's a haven for spiders and screening it off wouldn't really help what it really needs is to be completely sealed off so it isn't so open but that's not an option costs to much and we rent so I thought a good alternative would be plants as a barrier. Terry |
- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 11:41
No, plants will never be a barrier to bugs. You can spray any of the bug killers in corners which might be a temporary deterrant, sweep away spider webs, knock down hornet nests, etc. but you'll always get flies, gnats, mosquitos, ants, and more spiders in an open area like a porch. I sympathize if someone has extreme fear or allergies - but if that's the case you probably already know the protocols. |
Spiders eat other insects like flies and mosquitoes. They won't bite you unless you step on them. In my book that makes them good bugs to have around. |
Marigolds don't repel those critters, sorry. And there aren't any other repellent plants, either. |
Well, Terri, I've found that the strongly fragrant plants DO help some: chives, mints, pennyroyal, citronella, lavender etc. But haven't found any plants to deter spiders. WD-40 works great to kill spiders & makes rock work look beautiful. I kept it on my porch for those pesky black widows in SO.OR. It seems to me that the plants that do not get attacked much (California poppies, marigolds, violas..) extend their protection some to the area around them. ~marea |
- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 16:16
Guess we can split hairs here all day - and I don't think the OP cared if a plant got attacked by bugs as long as it protected the OP. I did find a list compiled by someone who seemed to know something. Note, however, that these plants were found, by this person, to not be attacked by certain bugs but were not immune from attack by others. Like humans, bugs have their preferences too. If an ant doesn't like pennyroyal, the ant might still like to crawl across your shoe. Ants: pennyroyal, spearmint, southernwood, tansy Insects are our friends - would be a barren world if they didn't eat harmful pests, pollinate our food crops and flowers. |
- Posted by terrycinor (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 18:23
Thanks all but I guess I'm not painting a good picture, don't get me wrong I'm not afraid of spiders and bugs and creepy crawlies but when you walk across the grass and it's moving because all of the spiders that is a bit to much. We have sprayed and that's also a problem because sprays do not always distinguish between "good and bad" bugs the porch is elevated and it's underneath that is the problem. |
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N Korea is about to do a country's version of suicide by cop.
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I was watching a documentary on the Korean War. Had McArthur not gotten greedy and provoked China by trying to crush N. Korea right up against the China border, the course of history would be so different. Has to be one the greatest military f' ups, strategically speaking, in US history.
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Exactly. The judges framed the issues so that a straightforward application of Romer could win the day. Plus, the evidentiary record for the Prop 8 proponents is so bad, the conservative justices just might go by the axiom "bad facts make bad law", deny cert, and wipe their brows in relief that the 9th circuit bent over backwards to limit the scope of the ruling to one state and save the million dollar issue to another day.
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Saw a Kos story and a separate Kos diary stating that the deadline given to the President to make a decision on the Keystone Pipeline might force him to say "no" because they do not have enough information or even a pipeline route to say "yes" to. In other words, the Repubs may have inadvertently killed Keystone by forcing a decision before one could responsibly be made.
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The food here is unquestionably delicious. Very authentic Italian cuisine, just like you would find in Baltimore's Little Italy (and at similar prices). Enjoy.
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Just returned from our dinner in celebration of the New Year. Our dinners' presentations were beautiful, the food delicious and the service impeccable. As I stepped through the doorway, I went from the non-descript shopping center front into old world Italy. White linen tablecloths, lovely music and a serene decor surrounded me. We were offered a price of $55 for... More
i do not unsterstand the negative reviews. i have eaten at alberto's at least 10 times over the years (including last night) and have always enjoyed exceptional food and service. it is true that alberto's is more expensive than many other restaurants, especially in glen burnie, maryland. but you get what you pay for. if you want cheap and ordinary... More
This one has some ups and downs; the food overall was very good, service was generally good while the menu selections were mixed. The appetizer choices were lengthy; the owner stopped by and recommendedw splt 2 pasta dishes 4 ways; it was a great recommendation. The gnocci and fettucine were light, home made pasta with 2 sauces each very good.... More
I will begin by saying I have never been treated so rudely in my life , The staff including I believe the owner were very nasty and ignorant. The food was bland and not seasoned well at all. My entree was dried out and tasteless. In addition the prices are over priced to say the least for bad food and... More
We celebrated our anniversary on a Monday night so the restaurant was not crowded. The service was good if not a bit too much at times. The bread served before dinner was cold, it should have been warm. The oil and spices served with the bread was nothing special. The appetizers, calamari and stuffed mushrooms were good. My veal was... More
Like many others who wrote reviews here, we chose Trattoria Alberto as the location for a special anniversary dinner. We were aware of the higher-than-normal prices and the longer than normal waits, but figured that these were small inconveniences in exchange for quality. How deceived we were. We started with appetizers, the stuffed mushrooms and the grilled calamari; the mushrooms... More
Who would have thought there is a nice restaurant in Glen Burnie in a strip mall? This restaurant has a great wait staff, very attentive and customer service driven. I would prefer the bread served warm instead of cold. I thought the salad was just okay. The main pasta dishes were delicious though. We would go back.
Walking up to this restaurant in a strip mall made me think twice on where we were eating. Once walking inside you were transfered to Italy eating the most amazing meal. The service was incredible. Alberto himself waited on us and then two other servers took over. We were a party of 6 coworkers. We enjoyed the grilled calamari and... More
We were looking for a good place to celebrate my mother-in-law's 70th birthday party that was local for our family. Nobody in our party had never been to Trattoria Alberto before, but we had heard many good things about it. So, my mother-in-law decided that this would be the place where we would celebrate. I made the reservation originally for... More
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"I focus on my patient as an equal and active partner in treatment. I conceptualize psychiatric treatment as a collaboration involving a process of two people thinking and changing what either alone cannot think or change. Overall, I have found medications can be, but are not always a first line choice for the individual. Psychotherapy has been relegated to the backburner as drugs occupy an increasingly pivotal role in patient care. I endeavor to find a middle road of plain old therapy, in addition to medications to help my patients find meaning in their lives and satisfaction in their relationships.
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I listen in a respectful way to help you formulate and work toward your desired goals. In therapy, I partner with you to build on what has worked in your life and to help you understand and transform those thing that have not.
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"Welcome! I believe that labels should be avoided when working with clients as clients begin to label themselves. My approach is strategic, yet, holistic, offering nurturing acceptance, non-shaming suggestions, and non-blaming coping mechanisms. My focus areas include: mood disorders (bipolar disorders), personality disorders (borderline, dependent and histrionic), anxiety disorders and some process addictions. I also work with clients who have been stricken by grief. I have experience working in both Residential as well as Outpatient Centers. I offer a WIDE range of a sliding scale. I believe that having a safe holding environment is essential, even when finances seem to be the issue.
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"Life is messy, relationships are difficult, and struggling alone is overwhelming. We need supportive relationships to get our emotional needs met, and we need awareness of our own relational style to build those relationships. This includes how we engage with others, the assumptions we make about people, and how we manage ruptures in relationships. I enjoy working with clients that are seeking empowerment and have a desire for developing their capacity for leadership. I believe we are only as happy and healthy as the communities that support us, so seeking additional community engagement is an important part of my approach.
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"For the past decade or so, I've built my practice based on a specialty in what many people consider the "darker" side of humanity, self-injury. For reasons I don't quite understand myself, I am drawn to these individuals. I am inspired by their creativity, moved by their self-awareness, and awed by their survival instinct. They've taught me more about human psychology than I ever could have learned in grad school. Through the years, I have been known to argue that self-injuring kids and adults are probably the most misunderstood group of people in our community.
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"Dorit Reichental MA, MFTi, ACC, CSAT-2 is a California Marriage and Family Therapy Intern, Certified ICF Life Coach, and founder of RelationshipWorks(tm) Life Coaching, LLC. She is a partner at The Conversation Group and a member of The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the professional training, certification, public education, research, and advocacy for sex addiction-induced trauma. Dorit employs a multidisciplined approach in the treatment of partners of sex combining Imago Relationship Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Sensorimotor Trauma Therapy.
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Young Fathers Wage 'War' on Haunting Soul-Rap Single
Afro-Scottish avant-gardists plot 'Dead' album for February on Anticon
We've been following Young Fathers ever since the Afro-Scottish rap/psych/pop trio began to make waves Stateside: from their darkly shamanistic TAPE ONE (see: videos for "Romance" and "Sister"); to the soulfully gritty TAPE TWO (via "I Heard" and "Mr. Martyr"); and, most recently, their post-Yeezus ear-splitter "Effigy." The three have been on a steady march toward stranger, more bewitching heights and are at last set to release their proper debut album in the new year via Anticon in the U.S. and Big Dada abroad. Due out February 4, Dead will include 11 songs, one of which is now streaming below. "War" opens with a minimal wasteland of a beat and growled-out rhymes, but soon an almost angelic voice comes in riding chiming xylophone.
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Some of Europe's most promising bands get the recognition they deserve at the European Border Breaker Awards.
The European Border Breaker awards aim to showcase Europe's musical diversity and celebrate solo or group acts that enjoy a fan base outside their home country.
Winners are selected on the basis of their sales and airplay figures at home and abroad, the strength of their live performances and their popularity at music festivals across Europe. This year, pop, rock and dance acts from Germany, Denmark, France, Norway, Romania, Austria, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium all took home awards.
The British entry was eclectic Brit award nominees Mumford and Sons. With their original sound and compelling live shows, the band has garnered a growing following since forming in 2007.
Winners of the special public choice award, based on a poll of fans across Europe, were the Germany-based Baseballs, for their retro cover of the Snow Patrol anthem, 'Chasing Cars'.
The ceremony, on 12 January, kicked off the biggest live music industry gathering of the year – the Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival in Holland, hosted by popular musician and TV personality, Jools Holland.
Several of the winning acts performed live at the event. They were joined by Katie Melua – a former winner who is now an established artist. Many other household names – the Fratellis, Damien Rice and The Thrills – have also received Border Breaker awards.
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An unexpected $600,000 from postseason football helped the Arizona State athletic department move closer to eliminating its deficit, business manager Amy Schramm said.
For the fiscal year 2002-03, the deficit was reduced from $2.3 million last year to $1.2 million to $1.3 million.
Athletic director Gene Smith inherited a deficit of nearly $4 million when he arrived in July 2000. ASU began running red ink when football revenue declined while the budget increased 62 1/2 percent to $26 million because the department grew by more than 50 people during the four years preceding Smith's arrival. Football season ticket sales have dropped from 47,810 in 1998 to 29,648 last year. Efforts to resolve the deficit are beginning to produce results.
"It's gone very well. Very positive," Schramm said. "I'm elated. We are looking to retire the debt."
ASU is moving closer to a balanced budget largely because of money generated by the football program.
The Sun Devils cleared $200,000 from their appearance in the Holiday Bowl and got an additional $400,000 from their share of bowl revenue generated by the Pac-10. All Pac-10 teams share in the revenue from bowl games that include Pac-10 teams. USC's strong season, which resulted in the Pac-10 getting an additional team in a Bowl Championship Series game, helped boost ASU's revenue from postseason football.
In addition, ASU's "preseason'' game in August at Nebraska netted $256,000 more than was budgeted.
Schramm said all the postseason money was used on the deficit as was the additional revenue from the Nebraska game.
The Holiday Bowl is the No. 2 bowl for the Pac-10. Its $2 million payout ranks behind only the Cotton and Florida Citrus bowls among second-tier games.
ASU was able to make money, Schramm said, because of a conservative travel budget and because Sun Devils fans purchased nearly all of ASU's allotment of 11,000 bowl tickets. Schools are responsible, by the bowl contract, to pay for all of the tickets in their allotment that they don't sell.
"We had a small travel party, and we tried to be as conservative as possible," she said. "We cut back where we could."
In ASU's other big revenue sport, men's basketball, season-ticket sales increased by 300 to approximately 5,800, Schramm said. The average number of tickets sold for a men's basketball game increased from 7,046 to 8,429 as the Sun Devils made their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1995.
Ticket sales generated revenue of $1,107,000. The Arizona game, though, was the lone sellout. ASU ranked seventh in the Pac-10 in percentage of seats sold. Wells Fargo Arena was filled to 59.8 percent of its capacity.
ASU budgeted based on last year's figures, but the gross revenue for men's basketball fell $22,000 short of budget because single-game sales fell below projections. An increase in donations offset the shortfall, Schramm said.
The $280,000 the men's team earned from playing two games in the NCAA tournament goes into the Pac-10 revenue bank. Each Pac-10 school receives an equal share from NCAA tournament earnings over a six-year period.
ASU will continue its frugality while hoping to generate more revenue. The budget for the next fiscal year is expected to increase to approximately $29.2 million from $27.8 million.
Earlier this year, in an effort to increase football ticket sales and interest, prices were cut for half the seats at Sun Devil Stadium not controlled by the Sun Angel Foundation, the athletic department's fund-raising organization. Smith said he hopes that increased sales will offset the price drop.
Schramm said ASU coaches are in the process of finalizing their budgets for the next season.
In addition to the unexpected revenue, cost-cutting measures contributed to decreasing the deficit. Citing two examples, Schramm noted football pared $50,000 from its budget and media relations cut $18,000 out of its budget.
"We talked to the coaches and department heads (and said that) if there's money available that they don't have to spend this year, give it back to the department on a one-time basis," Schramm said.
This fiscal year was also the first in which senior management personnel who had been laid off were no longer on the payroll.
A significant expense ASU has incurred recently is in security, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Security costs increased $20,000 per home football game for an additional expense of $140,000.
With several programs enjoying exceptional seasons, there will be an outlay for performance bonuses. Schramm said all but football bonus money is in the general budget. Football coach Dirk Koetter's $25,000 bonus comes out of the bowl budget.
Fund-raising efforts have picked up in recent months to supplement the athletic department. A newsletter from the Sun Angel Foundation included a promotion for donations of $5 to $500 for the tutorial and student services program.
The state subsidizes athletics at the three universities — ASU, Arizona and Northern Arizona — and ASU receives $2 million for tuition waivers to help with 315 scholarships. As a self-supporting institution, ASU is responsible for paying the scholarships.
Establishing endowments has become a fund-raising priority to help pay the bills.
"It could help," Schramm said. "The earnings could, say, offset the operating expenses for golf. (Endowments) would help us to equal the total costs of what we pay for a scholarship."
Keeping expenses in tow and increasing revenue will get the athletic department out of red ink.
"We are still planning to retire the (deficit) next year," Schramm said. "We're going through the process of projecting revenue sources. We're waiting for some information from the conference (concerning possible TV dates). We'll be wrapping that up (in May)."
Several planned building projects have been on hold until the deficit is eliminated.
The 25,000-square-foot annex to Wells Fargo Arena, which will house the gymnastics, volleyball and wrestling teams, and provide practice courts for the basketball teams, was the most expensive project to be delayed.
When first proposed during the mid-1990s, the project's cost was estimated to be $9 million to $10 million.


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A Microsoft 'Evangelist' and Former Employee Think the Company's Marketing Stinks
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Rocco, I was a 10-plus year veteran at Microsoft (until early last year) and my spouse has currently been with the company for 9 years; what your Xbox article mentions is what both of us have been screaming about to whoever would listen for as long as I can remember.
At a party we had back in 2007/2008, we were in our mid/late 20's and the attendees were the same age. Everyone was either single or married without kids and everyone worked at Microsoft. This audience was the absolute sweet spot for the Xbox. But the only thing that people knew the Xbox did was play games. When we told them you could stream music directly from your PC or stream pictures from a connected USB/Zune, no one had any idea ...
Back then, this was not the most elegant UIuser interface , but it showed the capability of what could be done 6-plus years ago. And again, 25-year old males who worked at Microsoft and who had owned an Xbox since its inception had NO IDEA that this was possible.
Microsoft is just absolutely horrible at marketingits hardware ...horrible ... While the current Surface ads are snappy, they still are C+ at best. They need to show how you can play Angry Birds on 75% of the screen and change your music selection on the other 25%. Or they need to show how you can keep track of your entire social network across all apps at the same time. And why haven't they shown SmartGlass in action; that's a game changer in my mind.
That's solid stuff.
When Microsoft introduced SmartGlass, I was excited. But, as the emailer points out, the company dropped the ball big time. Not only does most of the general public have no clue that Microsoft makes Xbox, they probably don't even realize SmartGlass exists, let alone know what it can do.
For the record, this former employee doesn't have sour grapes:And just to make sure you understand my view of Microsoft, I absolutely love the company and their products and have since the mid-80s ... I am a huge evangelist (almost to a fault) and am personally invested in the company (wife's job, investments, and a house in the Seattle market).Steve Ballmer. I know you read this stuff. Are you listening? What gives? Follow @rocco_thestreet --Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.
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We're hearing it from every news source, so I guess there's no way to avoid being reminded that hurricane season starts today. The SIX-MONTH hurricane season. Good grief, that's a long time. Here's a Chronicle video on the beginning of hurricane season, including this year's changes to the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane wind strength. The […]
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Local kids' art featured in Dow Chemical calendar
The Dow Chemical Co.'s 2009-2010 calendar, which comes out in August, will feature art by Pasadena and Deer Park teens. Ten students from the Pasadena school district, as well as two from the Deer Park district, have been selected as winners in Dow's 22nd annual art exhibition and calendar-design contest. The contest is open to […]
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UPDATE May 29: Here is a link to Chronicle business writer Nancy Sarnoff's story today on the Endeavour bankruptcy filing. ORIGINAL POST: Endeavour Highrise LP, the company that built Endeavour Clear Lake at 4821 E. NASA Parkway in Pasadena, was scheduled to be in U.S. Bankruptcy Court this afternoon. According to an order issued May […]
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Last week, I wrote a blog post about Pasadena looking for some recognition from the Port of Houston. Mayor Johnny Isbell said at the May 12 precouncil meeting that he was in no hurry to deannex about 910 acres of the Bayport Container Terminal from the city to the Port Industrial District. Pasadena City Council, […]
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