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What we all knew has now been revealed. All this Gun Control stuff was "on-the-shelf and waiting for a big incident in order to dump it on the people.
After Aurora: How Mayor Bloomberg Planned to Make the Next Massacre Count
By Hunter Walker 3/12 8:00pm
When the smoke cleared at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in the wee hours of a Friday morning last July, 12 people were dead, 58 were injured and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in New York, readying an assault of his own.
The campaign that Mr. Bloomberg and his gun team came up with in the hours and days after Aurora involved carpet-bombing Washington with millions from the mayors immense fortune and a media blitz that would be deployed following the next massacre.
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CHICAGO, IL (July 13, 2005)--- With the luck of the Irish, Bobby Hitz of Hitz Boxing Promotions found a four leaf clover when Match Maker Jim Borzell contacted him about introducing Duddy to Chicagos strong Irish community. Jr. middleweight contender John IRISH Duddy (10-0, 9 KOs), whos good looking, soft-spoken, quick and exciting, took a chance relocating to the US when he began his professional career in 2003.. Hometown of County of Derry, Northern Ireland, at 511, 160-pounds, Duddy is a non-stop puncher. His popularity is evident and growing with each match. I never knew how lucky I was to be Irish till I came to America. Said Duddy. Promoted by Irish Ropes, Managed by McLoughlin Brothers and Trained by Harry Keitt, in 2004 Duddy didnt know if his boxing career was finished or if hed ever return to the US. He was forced to take a seven-month hiatus in 2004 because of Visa complications and was mentally reawakened when he returned to the city of New York. Duddy will face the glory again as he takes on Pat Coleman (29-11, 20 KOs) at Chicagos All State Arena, Friday July 22nd at 8pm, ESPN2. His biggest fight to date was against Leonord Pierre (16-0) on March 18, 2005, Duddy took him down in a minute twenty-three outside New York. Included in the action, heavyweight Malachy Farrell (9-0 7 KOs), who is also Irish-American and once in training for the Chicago Police Academy, Managed by Mike Joyce, Trained by Marty McGarry - Farrell will be fighting Giuseppe Kidd (3-0 2 KOs). Also featuring welterweight Female Lois Theobalb (14-0 0) and super bantamweight, Armenian, Artyom Sismonyan (36-3 0) and Jr. middleweight Rudy Cisneros (4-1 4 KOs) and welterweight and Nelson Romine. To order tickets for the July 22 event, phone: (630) 787-6600 or Ticketmaster: (312) 559-1212 or at the All State Arena box office. Ticket prices are $100 VIP, $50 ringside reserved and $25 general admission. Doors open at 7:00pm, first bout at 8:00pm.
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Kelsie Jean Schelling: Billboards, search party focus on missing, pregnant Denver woman
Schelling's boyfriend, and the father of her unborn child, has been identified as Donthe Lucas. His Facebook page is loaded with photos of him playing basketball for Northeastern Junior College. Here's an example:
In her statement, shared at the news conference and on view below in its entirety, Laura Saxton, Schelling's mother, revealed that her daughter got confirmation of her pregnancy on February 4. Doctor's records confirm that she was eight weeks pregnant.Donthe Lucas.
What happened next? "Cell phone records show that Kelsie sent picture messages of her ultrasound pictures taken that day to family members and also to Donthe and his mother," Saxton stated. "Cell phone records also show that Donthe asked Kelsie to come to Pueblo when she got off of work that night because he needed to speak with her in person.
"We know that Kelsie made it to Pueblo and did meet up with Donthe," Saxton continued. "No one has seen or heard from her since."
Saxton didn't come right out and accuse Lucas of wrongdoing, but she came close. "We are not satisfied with Donthe's original account of the events leading up to Kelsie's disappearance," she said, adding, "We are informed that he has since refused to speak with the Pueblo Police Department."Laura Saxton at yesterday's press conference.
In an attempt to move the investigation forward, Schelling's family is offering a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone who can help lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons behind Kelsie's disappearance. Such folks are encouraged to phone the Pueblo Police Department on a special line devoted to Schelling: 1-855-4-KELSIE.
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Vibrio in Chesapeake Bay sickening people Dangerous bacteria found in salt water is sickening some people in Maryland. WDEL's Amy Cherry reports. Vibrio bacteria is occurring at a high rate in the Chesapeake Bay, sickening more than a dozen people so far this summer. "The whole vibrio population also increases with the temperature," said Kathy Coyne, an associate professor of marine biosciences at the University of Delaware. Coyne also attributes the rise in vibrio to the rainy summer. "They're very closely linked. If there's an algal bloom, you're more likely to see higher vibrio numbers," said Coyne. She cautions you to stay out of the water if you have an open wound or scab--because vibrio can get in and make you very sick, even kill you. But otherwise, the bay is safe for swimming. But that's not the only way you can get sickened... "For people who eat raw oysters, for example, if the vibrio is present, then you'll also be ingesting them," she said. |
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Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomato Orzo
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Sun-dried tomatoes and Romano cheese pack a flavorful punch along with the tantalizing aroma of fresh marjoram in this rustic Italian-inspired dish. Serve with sautéed fresh spinach or steamed broccolini.
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Calories | 457 |
Total Fat | 12g |
Saturated Fat | 3g |
Cholesterol | 68mg |
Sodium | 372mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 54g |
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- 8 ounce(s) orzo, preferably whole-wheat
- 1 cup(s) water
- 1/2 cup(s) chopped sun-dried tomatoes, (not oil-packed), divided
- 1 plum tomato, diced
- 1 clove(s) garlic, peeled
- 3 teaspoon(s) chopped fresh marjoram, divided
- 1 tablespoon(s) red-wine vinegar
- 2 extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed (1-1 1/4 pounds)
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) freshly ground pepper
- 1 frozen artichoke hearts, thawed
- 1/2 cup(s) finely shredded Romano cheese, divided
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I think Splash Mountain does, but not necessarily Critter Country as a whole... I've always just seen it as a land dominated by "critters"... And Lion King could fit either there OR Adventureland to my mind...Critter Country is supposed to represent the south. The American south.
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Ive always felt like there werent enough references to some of the older Disney movies in the parks. Maybe a nod to Lady & the Tramp along Storybook Canal, or a swampy area between NOS & Critter Country for the Rescuers. I can think of a thousand ways to add The Jungle Book to Adventure Land. Fox & the Hound in Critter Country? Aristocats could fit in several lands. What a fun topic to think on!
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I liked the Incredible A LOT. It's my favorite Pixar movie of all time. Sadly I don't see it getting an attraction anywhere. The Wall-E thing makes sense.
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I've been seeing a bunch of these small bugs in the bathtubs of an apartment building. I assume they're coming out of the drain, since it's in the city, and no grass around. At first, I thought they looked like deer ticks, which is strange where they're coming out. But when I saw a close up of it, I noticed the rounded shape, and antennaes. I don't think it's a tick, but what can it be. Can you please identify it, and if it bites. A tenant had a tick bite and needed antibiotics, I'm trying to figure out if this thing bit him. My first post on this site, thanks. Evan |
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maybe if we saw its face.. we might get a better idea.. as compared to its butt ... whats it on.. a fake teal wig??? i know.. not much help ... lol ... ken |
Sorry about the quality of the pic, but that's what the tenant sent me. It's actually on her green bathroom carpet, I guess. The one's I've seen before were not big at all, I'd say about 1/8". This pic is really enlarged. Thanks for the help. |
Don't assume it's coming out of a drain. Tubs and sink basins are often traps for crawling insects who fall in and can't get out because of the slick sides. There are lots of bugs in urban environments, with no grass or trees around, and if you're seeing them in bathrooms, it may be because they like or need a moist environment. Sometimes some have population explosions where you do see large numbers of certain insects at certain times of the year. It's not a tick or bedbug. |
Thanks Calliope for your info. I'm very glad that it's not a tick or bedbug. Is there anything special that we can spray for them, or just the normal insect spray? thanks. |
Sorry, the bath tub bugs aren't at all similar to the tomato critters. Those on the tomatoes look like weevils. (We don't have them here so I don't know what to suggest..) Edit to add: See the link below - |
Here is a link that might be useful: spider beetles
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Jean, I think you've nailed it. I've never see this little guy, but that sure looks like it. If it's being seen in several apartments, it makes sense that an infestation within the walls exists. Sounds like it will be a challenge to get rid of in an apartment building. |
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UPDATE: Lindale manhunt suspect identified, arrested trying to break into homeowner's shop
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Lindale (KETK) — The man who led authorities on a manhunt in Smith County on Thursday night has been arrested while attempting to break into a home, Friday morning.
Smith County Precinct 5 Constable Kenneth Bibby tells KETK, Justin Langrum, 23, of Rowlett, was taken into custody around 9:30 a.m. on Friday. He had been trying to break into a shop, which was alarmed.
On Thursday, the man allegedly tried to shoplift from Walmart in Lindale. He walked out without paying and drove away in a stolen car, hitting another vehicle in the parking lot as he left.
Authorities searched for some time using infrared imaging technology in wooded areas around Smith County Roads 4200 and 431, before eventually calling the search off around 8:30 p.m.
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The suspect will be charged with theft, an accident involving damage, and possession of marijuana.
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0Jul 20, '13 by dottimur, MSN, RNI started in May. Congratulations on getting accepted. Applications were higher I heard. What course(s) do you start with? I started with Adv Pathophys
0Aug 4, '13 by caterina123I am starting Graceland FNP in Sept 2013..I also would like to establish contact for this long and challenging journey.
0Aug 4, '13 by dottimur, MSN, RNHi Caterina! I am Dotti and I am 14 days away from finishing my first class. What class(es) do you start with? I am in Advanced Pathophysiology. Glad to meet you.
0Aug 4, '13 by caterina123Hello Dotti, nice to meet you. I will be attending an on campus orientation at Graceland on Sept 9-11 and they will go over a bunch of info, but I believe that my first two classes are research and BSN to MSN transition or something of that nature.
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0Aug 5, '13 by Luvarn7009Caterina, Nice to meet you. My name is Sharon and I guess I will see you in September. I am in North Carolina, where are you?
0Aug 5, '13 by caterina123Hello Sharon,
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0Aug 5, '13 by Luvarn7009Yes, I booked my air, hotel and car the day I recieved my acceptance letter!! I am staying at the Drury Inn that was listed on the information they provided. I just left Florida Saturday, Santa Rosa Beach . It was beautiful!!
0Aug 6, '13 by caterina123Awesome, I will be booking my flight and hotel tomorrow. I will pick the Drury Inn so maybe we can meet up there. I am glad that you enjoyed FL, I love it here!!!


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A man is hospitalized with burns and 10 other residents are temporarily displaced because of an early morning fire at the assisted living unit of a Mesa retirement complex.
The fire sparked in a third story unit at "The Springs" near Recker and Broadway Road around 2:45 a.m. on Monday.
Mesa Fire Department spokeswoman Larissa Dvorak says the man has second- and third-degree burns on 50 percent of his body.
Dvorak says the other residents are displaced because of water damage from sprinklers that had already put out the fire when firefighters arrived Monday morning.
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1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none make himself unclean for a dead person among his peoples, | 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die, |
2 except for his immediate relation, who is near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother; | 2 except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother, |
3 and for his sister, a virgin, that is near unto him, who hath had no husband, for her may he make himself unclean. | 3 or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband--for her he may make himself unclean. |
4 He shall not make himself unclean [who is] a chief among his peoples, to profane himself. | 4 He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself. |
5 They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. | 5 " 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. |
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they present Jehovah's offerings by fire, the bread of their God; therefore shall they be holy. | 6 They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the LORD by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy. |
7 They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God. | 7 " 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. |
8 And thou shalt hallow him; for the bread of thy God doth he present: he shall be holy unto thee; for I, Jehovah, who hallow you am holy. | 8 Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy. |
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire. | 9 " 'If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire. |
10 And the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his garments. | 10 " 'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes. |
11 Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother; | 11 He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, |
12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah. | 12 nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD. |
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. | 13 " 'The woman he marries must be a virgin. |
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a dishonoured one, a harlot, these shall he not take; but he shall take as wife a virgin from among his peoples. | 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people, |
15 And he shall not profane his seed among his peoples; for I am Jehovah who do hallow him. | 15 so he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy. ' " |
16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, | 16 The LORD said to Moses, |
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of his God; | 17 "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. |
18 for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other, | 18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; |
19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, | 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand, |
20 or hump-backed, or withered, or that hath a spot in his eye, or hath the itch, or scabs, or his testicles broken. | 20 or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. |
21 No man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath defect shall come near to present Jehovah's offerings by fire: he hath a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his God. | 21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. |
22 The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat; | 22 He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; |
23 only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw near unto the altar; for he hath a defect: that he profane not my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them. | 23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.' " |
24 And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. | 24 So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites. |
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My neighbor who has a chain link fence has undesirable looking hollyhocks next to the fence that are spreading to my yard. I am spending a lot of time digging and removing the tubers. Is this going to be an ongoing task for me-if so, is there anything I can do to prevent the tubers from coming into my yard? Thanks, |
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You can sink a root barrier along the bottom of the fence. The hollyhocks I grew didn't have tubers, so I am not sure exactly what plant you are referring to, but you could get the black plastic edging that's about 4" deep (if that is deep enough) at big box stores. |
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A completed water application, a $100.00 meter deposit, a copy of ID, and a copy of proof of service address are required in order to set up service. All rental houses are required to pay a $50.00 rental inspection fee and have a rental inspection completed through the Community Development Department before water service may be established.
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Bank draft payments are sent to the bank for collection and posted to the water accounts on the 20th of each month. If the 20th falls on a holiday or a weekend, then the account will be drafted on the next working day after the 20th. A copy of a voided check must be attached to the Bank Draft Form for account information verification.
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I give the marinade high marks, but I only gave 2 forks for recipe because I think it completely overwhelmed an expensive cut of lamb. I will definitely use the marinade again....with pork.
This is my new favorite way to prepare lamb chops! The flavors are so unique especially with the lamb. Served with Lemony Sugar Snap Pea stir-fry, and Jasimine rice with Garlic, Ginger, & Cilantro (from this website). I started with Thai Cucumber Salad with Roasted Peanuts and Mussels with Coconut Curry Sauce.
We have a lamb marinade that is tough to beat but this one came in at a close second. WE enjoyed it, didn't find it too sweet at all. Yum.
I really didn't care for these. They just didn't taste very good. I still like marinating lamb chops in olive oil, garlic and rosemary.
I substitute curry spices for the five spice powder and throw in a little red pepper.
This is a fantastic recipe as is. I love just grilled lamb chops with salt and pepper but at times like to change it up a bit. The marinade does a great job of cutting the richness of the high fat content in lamb chops. I like one of the reviewer's idea of doing them as double chops. I'm going to try that next time.
We love this - I'm actually getting it to copy into my database. This, a bok choy salad, sesame asparagus and some grilled sweet potatoes - I served that to many a guest over the summer. Yum!
Excellent. Followed the recipe exactly except could not get the French lamb chops. Trimmed my chops well and marinated 24 hours. They were a hit with everyone. Served after the Halloumi cheese with fava bean and mint salad and alongside braised baby bok choy. Dessert was lime and lemon posset. Wonderful meal.


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"There was like this big buzz," he remembers. "And Agents of Man, they said, 'I can't believe it. You're a hit in the hood.'"
And what qualified this section of Jersey as the hood?
"I guess it's a real rough neighborhood," Maris says. "It's poor. There's a lot of crime. At night, when I went to sleep, I would hear all these cars zooming by and screeching their brakes. And the guys in the band would say, 'Oh, that's just another car that got stolen.' I was just like, 'Oh, my God, that's kind of scary.'"
Scary? For chrissakes, Maris, you're a zombie -- and you live in Aurora. Don't make us send you to remedial monster school.
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Can some of you please look at this hosta August Moon photo in the link listed. The one with the yellow blooming groundcover. I'm trying to i.d. the groundcover.
Here is a link that might be useful: Groundcover with yellow bloom
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Sheila: It looks like creeping buttercup (ranunculus repens) to me. Take a look at the pictures on the link. - June |
Here is a link that might be useful: Creeping buttercup
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Oct 6, 2010
Chris Brown on the 106 & Park 10 Year Anniversary
Just a reminder, Chris will be making an appearance on the 106 & Park 10th Anniversary Show. The show airs tonight at 6 PM EST on BET, so don't miss it!
Chris Brown makes me scream whenever I see him out on television!!!by CBFan2011 on Jan 9, 2011 am31 1:01am
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chris brown did his thing on the 106 & Park 10 Year Anniversary. I love you chris brown and hopefully i will see you one day. Keep it fresh!by shanese eaton on Oct 12, 2010 am31 9:09am
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i cant wait because i love chris brown so much and i alway watch 106 & park everydayby Catherine0621 on Oct 11, 2010 pm31 1:01pm
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I would 'interview' him, and if it seemed ok, give him a ride. I've needed help and been given it by others, so would pay it forward if the gut said he's OK.
This is a discussion on Ride or Too Busy within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I would 'interview' him, and if it seemed ok, give him a ride. I've needed help and been given it by others, so would pay ...
I would 'interview' him, and if it seemed ok, give him a ride. I've needed help and been given it by others, so would pay it forward if the gut said he's OK.
The one thing I forgot to mention - and this is old age cynicism at work!
The best con-man (read potential BG) is the guy who comes over as so genuine it seems he could not possibly be other than OK!
Dang - I hate mistrusting folks - but ya just never know. I'll add too, if I am in a fix I sure would appreciate some help - so can hardly complain if someone leaves me out in the cold!!
To quote my boring fave - ''play it as ya see it''
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is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
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Interesting post. This morning I am leaving the liquour store in the supermarket shopping center. Got the usual situation awareness going on: look both ways before stepping out the door onto the sidewalk, survey the parking lot, step out onto the lot, look behind me while I'm approaching my truck. Put the package in the bed while I unlock the door, put my package in and climb in.
Out of nowhere, an Asian woman comes up to me and asks me if I'm heading in a particular direction. I said yeah, can't help you, shut the door, started the truck and backed out. She looked stunned that I wouldn't give her a ride. As I was pulling out, I saw her approach another shopper loading groceries.
The last thing I'm going to do is give a stranger a ride, especially a female who may accuse me of sexual assult.
The thing that really bothered me was that she got right up to my door and I didn't realize it. Couldn't have gotten to my ccw as it was under oversized shirt which I'm now sitting on.
Gonna have to train on this one a little harder.
ccw9mm brings up an excellent point, Why leave your wife and kids alone and up to a possible attack. If he really is a just stranger in need, that would be in the back of my head the entire time.
Vet to Vet, our BS meters work pretty good. Any vet knows and will tell you that we can verify truth in a claim of prior service fairly easy with some basic questions, the answers only another vet would know. Sometimes its not what is said, but how the question is answered.
This situation at face value, I would not have given him a ride. Maybe an offer for a cab, IF I felt comfortable that he was telling me the truth.
"Just blame Sixto"
What a strange coincidence. I had an experience very similar to this.
I was fueling up at my gas station, just as I was getting back in my car a male about 45 years old approached me and said "HEY...YOUNG MAN...YOUNG MAN! HEY...YOUNG MAN!"
First of all he came up behind me and was yelling pretty loud, so I immediately jumped to orange.
"What do you need?" I asked
"How'd you like to make 15 bucks" He said..."all I need is a ride somewhere"
"No thanks buddy."
He looked pretty pissed as I drove away.
No reason he can't call a cab with 15 bucks...as long as he's not going somewhere he shouldn't be.
I feel bad telling someone I can't give them a ride, but the world is a dangerous place and I don't really feel like putting myself at an unnecessary risk.
"Life exists at a level of complexity almost beyond our ability to comprehend. It's a well known fact that if you try to take apart a cat to see how it works one of the first things you have on your hands is a non-working cat" - Douglas Adams
"All things are governed by law" - Hippocrates
No ride.
I might call a cab but I'm not paying for it.
And he comes no closer than the sidewalk.
Just because he is ex-mil does not mean he is a good guy. He could be trying to get you away from the house or get you to drive into a situation. Such as you get to his car and a bunch of other folks are there to do you ill.
I know a lot of those on here would feel bad for the old guy. But, that is exactly what he / they want you to feel. That makes you more likely to help them and puts you at ease. You are thinking how nice you are and how this is a good deed and them you are hit / stabbed / shot before you know it.
So, a long time ago, I decided that people in general are scum and I pretty much killed any sympathy I had for my fellow man. Now, this is not to say that I wouldn't come to the aid of an innocent third party who is getting beaten or robbed or whatever. But when someone just walks up to me and asks for a ride or something, I am immediately on guard and ready to defend myself.
I also don't help these folks out. I have to stop every morning at the end of an off ramp where a guy I refer to as "Homeless Joe" stands with his little cardboard "Homeless, hungry, ex-military, please help. God Bless" sign and I have never given him anything and I never will. I have seen this joker walk away from the curb and go to his hidden backpack and pull a sandwich out and eat on it while he takes a break from his job. He probably pulls down several hundred dollars or more a day. That's more than I make a day. So, screw him.
I don't help anyone that I'm not related to by blood or marriage.
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no ride, but I'll call the police to see if they can help you.
Yea...I would call him a Cab,if that wouldn't do,would call the local PD to assist a citizen(with his bad knees and such).
Well here is how it actually went.
I don't have any stickers or anything saying support our troops or whatever on my vehicles. The only thing that is on any of them is a sticker for a jeep website and a K of C license plate that says In God We Trust in my Jeep, Truck and Van are bare. So he would not have a clue that I was either prior military or that would play on any sympathies.
BTW, I was wearing my iwb, tucked as I normally do, so didn't have to bother with going to get weapon or whatever, already had it.
I finished up the repair to the jeep and we talked a bit, nothing in particular. Said he wished he was mechanically inclined. To finish up took only a couple of minutes to connect the two hoses and such, filled it up with coolant.
I told him to hold on a minute while I went inside to wash my hands. We always keep the front and back doors locked and deadbolted even when we are home. The garage door and door to the garage are usually left unlocked when we are home since that is how we enter and exit the house.
Any way I washed my hands went out, locked door behind me,and he was still in the same place he was when I went in. I left the tools and the hood on the jeep up, and walked towards wife's truck and said lets go. He proceed to the passengers side of the truck while I opened the drivers side and hit the unlock button so he could get in. I had forgotten that I had been to the parts store and was playing some Def Leopard at about 100 db, so when I turned the key, the music blared and I quickly shut down the stereo. I told him that he probably didn't want to listen to that did he, and he said no, not that loud and it didn't sound like church music.
Anyway, got in and buckled my seatbelt, and he struggled to get in, Truck is 4x4 and he was having a bit of trouble with his size getting up into it. I noticed he was going to have a hard time with it and he realized that the seatbelt was a futile effort so didn't even attempt it.
I hit the button to shut the garage door, as I always do when leaving the house. We back out head down the road and talk a bit more, we start to approach the destination and he starts to dig into his pocket along side the door. Alert level goes up just a touch but then think hell, he don't have no seatbelt on, if something is going to happen, his head will either be in the windshield or side window, anyway he is pulling out a bank card or something and starts to talk about opening a new account etc.
I see what is coming next. As we pull into the convience store where he is supposed to meet the other person a couple of hours from now he asks about helping him out with some cash. I stop the truck in the parking lot and tell him that I don't have any cash on me. He says ok, thanks and proceeds to exit the truck. He leaves a small bag on the seat in the process, so I pick it up and tell him not to forget the bag. He says thanks again and shuts the door.
That it, It took all of about 3 minutes to get him to the store and get back home. Wife and kid were still asleep. If anyone had tried to get into the house it would have either taken some time or wife would have heard it and she knows where there is a loaded 44-40 with 200gr cast lead bullets if needed. On the way home I did however figure I was going to post this just to see how many would and would not give the ride.
This guy was surely no threat to me, he was 10 to 20 years older, and 100lbs heavier, and definately not in any shape to do much. Regardless if he was prior military or not, don't really care if he was lying about that, or not, I would have given this guy a ride. Someone different, maybe not. All depends on the person. This time there was no threat of danger that I saw. Some others may feel different.
Just remember that shot placement is much more important with what you carry than how big a bang you get with each trigger pull.
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Farronwolf, I'm glad it worked out safely for you, and also your family.
I would not have wanted to give the guy a ride, and that's rough on me because my inclination is usually to help people.
It sounds like although this guy was harmless in the end, he was full of it. Was he ever met by his supposed contact? You don't know, because he said it was "a couple hours from now." His story can't be verified in any way, right?
I take a bit of issue with what you said about him being no threat. Just because he's older and heavier than you are, that doesn't mean he can't plunge a palmed knife into your chest when you've come to a stop somewhere, right? There's a lot of trouble he could cause you in a sudden instant. Even if it's a sloppy attempt doomed to not succeed, he could still make you crash your car at the very least.
Idunno. It's always a tough call; and people who are practiced at this kind of thing make it difficult for good people like us to say no. It's their game. They know the "tricks." It's hard to know which approach to use when you want to decline for your own safety: sometimes you want to seem polite, other times you want to seem like a badass that they shouldn't with. It's like trying to figure out a football defense for an offensive play that is a secret to you. How do you know that you won't gear up for a pass defense when they plan to run the ball?
I favor the approach of questioning him until his answers either make perfect sense or they expose him as being full of crap. If the latter, then I will get indignant, ask him why the hell I should help a guy who won't tell me a straight story (fill it in with, "Why shouldn't I go believing you plan to jack me?!") and tell him he better hit the road hard or there's going to be trouble.
He was FOS. Unverified car out of commission; friend coming in several hours; zero cash. Sort of like Jake Blues' line of excuses ("There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts ... It wasn't my fault!").
Glad he was benign. Glad it worked out okay.
What a world. Some say, it's what we make of it. But here we are having to be in condition Orange and so concerned over the risks to our families that even what turns out to be a simple helping hand is questioned until we're blue in the face. I'd like to think it's not of our making, being external pressures that have caused the risks to rise, the brutality and mindlessness of some criminals' actions to skyrocket. Sad what it has come to.
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Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: The Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Interesting thread! Lots of good responses. I don't have problems like that when I'm home. Could be the my patrol unit parked in the drive, or maybe the 5' chainlink fence with the locked gate-----------or maybe the dogs----------. In my opinion, the best option is a call to your local LE agency to get the gentleman some assistance. Or the proper attention if required. It's sad but true, three out of five times a well meaning individual is going to get burned trying to help a stranger!
Stay safe,
And where do the figures of 3 out of 5 times, come from. And what do you mean by burned. Are you implying that they will be a victim of a crime by the individual or just taken advantage of?
Doesn't LE have better things to do then to respond to call for people needing rides, I sure would be pissed if that was the call I got from the dispatcher every half hour or so.
That has not been my experience glad to say. Never been a victim when helping some out.
Just remember that shot placement is much more important with what you carry than how big a bang you get with each trigger pull.
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The three out of five comes from first hand knowledge, thankfully not first hand experience. Having taken reports on enough of these incidents to establish a pretty good feel. I meant at best, they would be taken advantage of, at worst, they would become a victim of a strongarm crime. Anyone who is ligit would be happy having the nice officer give an assist. If this is not an attractive option for them, you have your answer.
And no, helping citizens is part of the job. Not as much fun as a felony stop, but still needs to be done.


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Tough to chalk it up to recent college grads worried about how to dress for their first "real" job interviews, since sometimes the questioner has a hundred or more posts to his credit, and has been a member here at SF for some time.
It's strange, all right. But I genuinely try to be polite and helpful. I admit sometimes I fall short of that goal, but I do try.
Oh well, they're still better than the threads where the OP explains that he's getting married in 2 weeks, and his bride and her mother and their wedding planner have ordered him to go suit shopping at the mall with his groomsmen, presumably because if bridesmaids have to wear identical unflattering dresses, fairness dictates that groomsmen should likewise have to wear identical ugly suit uniforms.
So where at the mall can he find fully canvassed ultra-slim green suits w/grey pinstripe, available in a sufficient size range so as to accommodate both his future brother-in-law (who's 6'2", 310 lbs., and wore a size 54T when he last bought a suit in 1998) and his best friend from college (who is 5'4", 110 lbs., and wears a size 34S)? (The suits have to be green and grey, because he and his bride are huge Harry Potter fans, and everyone at the wedding must wear Slytherin house colors.) And is it okay to wear identical sandals, because he's already 6" taller than the bride, and she doesn't want him to wear shoes with heels, lest he tower over her and make her look short in the wedding video? Besides, sandals will make the suits look less formal, which he likes.


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West Indian Summer
Patrick Eagar and Alan Ross
Hodder and Stoughton
3.5 stars
By David Taylor
08 Jul 2012
The name of Alan Ross was mentioned in these parts only last week. The poet and cricket writer, who died in 2001, wrote better books than this one, in all honesty, but here he is the lesser half of a double act. The acclaimed cricket photographer Patrick Eagar, son of Desmond, a Hampshire captain of the 1950s, gets the first name credit and the larger photograph on the inside of the dust jacket. The differentiation is appropriate, for this is largely a pictorial account of the England - West Indies series of 1988, which the tourists won 4-0 after losing the one-day series 3-0 and being held to a draw in the first Test.
The West Indies tourists of '88 do not seem to be recalled with the same awestruck tones as their predecessors of 1976 and 1984, although they were actually more successful than Clive Lloyd's first team, which drew the first two Tests of the series. Perhaps after being on the wrong end of successive "blackwashes" the English cricket fan was expecting to see his side lose anyway, and by the end of the summer was disappointed but not particularly surprised. In addition, as this is remembered as "the summer of four captains" the emphasis over the years has been on England's travails rather than the tourists' dominance. It seems that everything started to unravel for England once Mike Gatting had been replaced as captain after an indiscretion with a hotel barmaid. I've never tried to dig deep into that particular episode, and I wasn't much better informed after reading Ross's account of it here, a single page of which half is taken up with copies of newspaper cuttings. But the successive appointments of John Emburey, himself none too sure of his place for the second Test, Kent's Chris Cowdrey ("a disastrous gamble" says Ross) for the fourth and Graham Gooch for the fifth tells its own story.
The book deals entirely with the international fixtures played that season - no mention is made of the other eleven first-class matches played by the visitors, and in any case I doubt if Eagar would have followed them all around the country. There is a match report for each game by Ross, accompanied by several pages of photographs - and, in the centre, 16 pages of colour photographs. This was, in 1988, a bigger deal than it sounds today - Wisden only started using colour pictures the same year, and I note from perusing other books from the mid-1980s that black and white photos were the rule rather than the exception. Anyone who is familiar with Patrick Eagar's work will not be surprised to hear that the photography ("yes, one does watch every ball, but no, one doesn't photograph every ball" he states in his introduction - the answer, no doubt, to a much-asked question) is superb throughout. The captions, written I assume by Eagar, range from the observant and technically informative to the whimsical. Ross does an efficient job with his match reports but they are a little score-heavy for my liking; the pictures are the stars of this book. There are a number of English batsmen evading fast deliveries, and of West Indian fast bowlers celebrating wickets, with much high-fiving - the story of the summer, indeed. For now, at least, the boot is very much on the other foot. As for the rating, I would not claim that this is an indispensable addition to any cricket library; I have awarded 2.5 for the text, 4.5 for the pictures, and taken an average.
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I thought I had a pretty nice location for my rhododendron and camelias as planted them early this spring. I have them running in an east-west direction along a tree line on a sloping hillside (maybe 7 degree grade--so pretty steep) with a large--maybe 50-foot yard in front of them up the sloping hillside (i.e. it's open to the sky). Very sheltered from the wind, very good drainage.
The difficulty I've found is that my yard is literally surrounded by a forest of mature deciduous trees. In the winter, I get sunlight. From late spring and early summer, however, I'm at best getting a few hours of dappled sunlight and indirecte light. I made sure they rhodies and camelias were planted where grass was growing (moss and ferns fill in behind them), but sunlight is tough to come by on my property. Am I going to need to consider replanting these guys if I ever want to see them bloom? Like I said, over the winter and into early spring, there will be sun. After that, well, only in very small doses. |
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The rhododendron flower buds form in mid-summer the year before they bloom, so you will need varieties that don't need too much light to bloom. Wait and see how these do, then if they need more light, you can move these and get some that require less light such as: 'Boule de Neige' "P.J.M.'s" They include the following: 'Black Satin' |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rhododendrons for Shade
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might be damp, but think snakes in the desert. Misfits at Thirty Thousand Feet: Dorks on a Plane.
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Not dorks on a plane - too trite.
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Did you pick a name? Are you just giving us something to talk about?
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OK, I drilled and punched two holes in my kettles with a drill/Greenlee punch, all went well. But, I cannot get one of the kettles to seal. This scheme has an O-ring inside the kettle with an nut. I've reset the element three times with varying amounts of torque...cannot make it seal. Any ideas that use my hardware configuration? Thanks
Can you not put the oring on the outside and try that?
I had to put my oring on the outside of my keggles too when mounting my elements. It leaked when I put it on the inside.
Wow, worked like a champ. Now I wonder if I should reverse my 'non-leaking' kettle. I also forgot on the first kettle to use teflon tape.


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Good evening all. I have had my first stuck fermentation. I have tried swirling, heating and all that and nothing. I have yeast to repitch but not sure which of the two to use. I have Belle Saison and I have EC-1118. Appreciate any insight. O.G. 1.057 Current Gravity: 1.028
Perhaps it may help to provide more information on what you are brewing and your process. Was it all grain? If so what mash temperature did you have? What yeast strain was pitched, was there a starter made and how many viable cells did you pitch? What temperatures has the fermentation taken place under? I just wonder if this is yeast issue or something relating to the mash and the resultant amount of unfermentable sugars in the wort.
I have yet to use it but the Belle looks to be a monster with reports of 90% attenuation. Might be the right yeast to finish the job. If I could suggest: maybe brew your next batch and pitch on that yeast cake to clean up the stuck fermentation. See this HBT PSA on stuck fermentations.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/psa-...t-fixer-72072/
All grain mash temp were at 150. It is a belgian blonde using WLP530 I aerated the wort using the shake to carboy method. Fermentation started at 68 and then after four days I brought the temp up to 86. it sat at 86 for two weeks. I did not make a starter for this beer unfortunately .
Wine yeast will do nothing for beer. Edit: I take that back. It will not accomplish what you're hoping to accomplish (i.e. finish a stuck fermentation). I can provide a method of carbonating a high ABV beer that's too inhospitable to beer yeasts. If you have the means that I would look at building up a starter and pitching it at high krausen (at 75F), into a warmed beer (~75F), and maintaining this temperature for a week or more. Pick a highly attenuating strain that can tolerate high gravity. It seems like the Belle Saison fits the bill for the most part, but I WOULD look at getting that stuff into a high krausen state prior to pitching the entire starter.


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Christy Buck and her team from the Mental Health Foundation just returned from a school district in Ohio. They were invited by the school after an incident that grabbed national headlines. Ten-year-old Jetta Fosberg was bullied after she cut 14 inches off her hair to donate to Wigs for Kids, in honor of her grandparents. The bullying got so bad, she had to be pulled out of school. Eventually, the school reached out to the Be Nice team to bring the program to its students.
Buck says evidence shows the Be Nice program is working to change the culture in schools and prevent bullying. To learn more, visit the Be Nice website.
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Interesting how one of the "darlings" and unoffical Poet of this administration can state this and not get "knocked around" by the the MSM. She showed no responsibility in her actions with a weapon, but no one points THIS out. She also lied to Law Enforcement doing a investigation.
She had every right to protect herself from criminals (Like all of us), but it is that kind of reckless behavior that taints the subject of self defense and protection. If she had been Republican/Conservative, this (and gun rights in general) would have been attacked
all over the MSM and present W.H. administration. I guess it is true. "It's not WHAT you know, but WHO you know."
Poet Maya Angelou Blasts Gun at Home Intruder
Obama supporter and famous poet Maya Angelou was asked by Time Magazine if she had ever fired a gun in her life.
Her answer was surprising — "Of course!" Angelou then recounted a time in which she fired upon a home intruder.
TIME: Your mother — she was your protector. She often carried a gun, she seemed to be very fond of guns. Did you inherit your mother's fondness for guns?
MAYA ANGELOU: Well, I do like to have guns around, I don't like to carry them. But I like -- if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
TIME: Have you ever fired a weapon?
ANGELOU: Of course!
TIME: At a person?
ANGELOU: I've fired it period, not at a person I hope!
I was in my house in North Carolina. It was fall. I heard someone walking on the leaves. And somebody actually turned the knob. So I said, "Stand four feet back because I'm going to shoot now!" Boom! Boom! The police came by and said, "Ms. Angelou, the shots came from inside the house." I said, "Well, I don't know how that happened."
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Gwynne Dyer: Can India surpass China as Asia's fastest growing large economy?
Soon after winning an absolute majority in the Indian parliamentary elections, prime minister-elect Narendra Modi promised "to make the 21st century India's century".
If he can avoid tripping over his own ideology, he might just succeed.
"India's century" is a misleading phrase, of course, because no country gets to own a whole century. It wasn't ever really going to be "China's century" either, although China is a huge country whose economy has grown amazingly fast over the past three decades. What Modi meant was that India, the other huge Asian country, may soon take China's place as the fastest growing large economy—and it might even surpass China economically, in the end.
At first glance this seems unlikely. India's GDP is currently less than a quarter of China's although the two countries are quite close in population (China 1.36 billion, India 1.29 billion). Moreover, the Chinese economy's growth rate last year, although well down from its peak years, was still 7.7 percent, while India's grew at only 4.4 percent.
But China's growth rate is bound to fall further for purely demographic reasons. Due partly to three decades of the one-child-per-family policy, the size of its workforce is already starting to decline. Total population (and hence total domestic demand) will also start to shrink in five years' time. And this doesn't even take into account the high probability of a financial crash and a long, deep recession in China.
India's growth rate has also fallen in recent years, but for reasons like corruption, excessive regulation, and inadequate infrastructure that are a lot easier to fix. And the reason that Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by a landslide was precisely that voters thought he would be better at overcoming these obstacles to growth than the worn-out and deeply corrupt Congress Party.
Modi did not win because a majority of Indians want to pursue divisive sectarian battles that pit Hindus against India's many minorities, and especially against Muslims. That has always been part of the BJP's appeal to its core voters, but its new voters were attracted by Modi's reputation as the man who brought rapid development to the state of Gujarat, which he has ruled for the past 13 years. They want him to do the same thing nationally.
They overestimate his genius: Gujarat has always been one of India's most prosperous states, and the local culture has always been pro-business. It was doing very well even before Modi took power there. Nevertheless, he might well be able to fulfill the hopes of his new supporters, for he arrives in New Delhi without the usual burden of political debts to special interests.
The BJP's absolute majority in parliament means that Modi will not be constrained by coalition allies like previous BJP governments. This could lead to a leap in the Indian growth rate if he uses his power to sweep aside the regulations and bureaucratic roadblocks that hamper trade and investment in India.
He also has a golden opportunity to crush the corruption that imposes a huge invisible tax on every enterprise in the country.
Unfortunately, his extraordinary political freedom also means that he will find it hard to resist the kind of sectarian (i.e. anti-Muslim) measures that the militants in his own party expect. He cannot use the need to keep his coalition allies happy as an excuse for not going down that road. Nobody knows which way he'll jump, but it might be the right way.
Even some Muslims in Gujerat argue that Modi has changed since he failed to stop the sectarian riots that killed around a thousand Muslims there in 2001. Moreover, the election outcome makes it clear that a considerable number of the country's 175 million Muslims must actually have voted for him. If he can keep his own hard-liners on a short leash, everybody else's hopes for a surge in the economic growth rate may come true.
What might that mean over the next decade? It could mean a politically stable India whose growth rate is back up around seven or eight percent—and a China destabilised by a severe recession and political protests whose growth rate is down around four percent.
While neither political stability in India nor political chaos in China are guaranteed in the longer run, by 2025 the demography will have taken over with a vengeance. China's population will be in decline, and the number of young people entering the workforce annually will be down by 20 percent and still falling. India's population will still be growing, as will the number of young people coming onto the job market each year.
That will give India a three or four percent advantage in economic growth regardless of what happens on the political front. In the long run both countries may come to see their massive populations as a problem, but in the medium term it looks increasingly likely that India will catch up with and even overtake China in economic power.
The US owed the 20th century.
Always look forward to reading your columns. Keep up the good work!
India is at an interesting spot now. With an active and progressive minded government at center, India is poised to do well in the next 5 to 10 years.
There are hundreds of millions of young people in India. They will keep the domestic economy chugging along nicely.
Let us see.
'While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy since the late nineteenth century, and by a margin that has generally widened over time' - from Wikipedia
"According to the World Bank, 32.7% of Indians subsist below the international poverty level of $1.25 daily, and 68.7% on less than $2 daily. Aid agencies say 33% of Indian children are malnourished."
Citigroup predicts that the economies of China and India will have surpassed that of the United States by 2030.
Back to economics, the real problems holding india back are red tape and a horde of marxist-socialist parties halting every industrial project


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Jamie Foxx Stares Down Spider-Man in First Official Photo of Electro
First Look By Adam Bellotto on July 10, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWe've already gotten a few glimpses at Jamie Foxx as the supercharged villain Electro in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but they were just that – glimpses. A shot of Foxx as mild-mannered (and cartoonishly ugly, with buck teeth and a bad comb-over) Max Dillon. A shot of Foxx in blue makeup with some LED lights shining on his face. Now we've got the real deal. The cover of an upcoming "Entertainment Weekly" provides the first real look at Electro in full effect, and he's looking pretty fearsome. The glowing white eyes and charred left ear seem like especially nice touches. Plus, this cover also confirms which of the many Electro incarnations the upcoming Spider-sequel will be taking inspiration from. That insulated costume he's sporting is the same one Electro wore in the 2008-2009 cartoon adaptation The Spectacular Spider-Man (that costume, in turn, was based off of his Ultimate Spiderman design).
Jamie Foxx Really Doesn't Want to Wear Green and Yellow Spandex in the 'Amazing Spider-Man' Sequel
Movie News By Nathan Adams on December 17, 2012 | Be the First To CommentNow that Jamie Foxx is official to play the villainous Electro in Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man sequel, it only makes sense that he should start talking about the role in interviews. People are pretty crazy about superheroes, after all. Who could avoid trying to pry some information out of him? From the sound of things though, getting info about his new role isn't much of a challenge. Foxx seems to have pretty loose lips when it comes to all things superhero. And, more specifically, he seems to be doing everything he can to make sure that everyone knows he won't be wearing Electro's traditional (and awesome) green and yellow outfit in the upcoming film. First off, in an interview with Black Film, Foxx made a point to address the outfit in the movie by saying, "It won't be green and yellow. It will be a different color. They (the producers) want something for the future. They want to have it more grounded and not as comic book-y, so it won't be green and yellow. They want to try new things, like a liquid rubber and things like that, and there are all these bolts and stuff in my arms when they are hanging me upside down and trying to figure out what happen. How did he become this way? So, it will be some new stuff." It doesn't end there though. In an interview with MTV, the actor had similar comments regarding the suit. At the notion that he might […]
Max Insanity: Jamie Foxx In "Early Talks" to Play Electro in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2′
Casting Couch By Kate Erbland on November 1, 2012 | Be the First To CommentConsider the slow news days over with this amazing bit of casting buzz. Variety reports that Jamie Foxx is currently in "early talks" to take on the main villain role in the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man 2, with Foxx reportedly looking to take on the epic super-villain role of Electro. The outlet provides a bare bones explanation of the character, telling us that "Electro is the alter ego of Max Dillon, an enemy of Spider-Man who gains the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in 'The Amazing Spider-Man #9′ in February 1964." With Dr. Curt Connors' own alter ego super-villain, The Lizard, finally getting his chance to wreck havoc on ol' Spidey's life (after he was hinted at heavily during Sam Raimi's previous trilogy), Electro seems like a natural fit. Variety also notes that, in "The Amazing Spider-Man's" post-credit sequence, background lightning plays a major part, leading many fans to already speculate that it would be Electro to next take center stage at the main baddie. To add fuel to this speculation fire, Foxx has already tweeted about the news…sort of. This afternoon, the actor issued this tweet:
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