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Released: Feb 01st, 2006
Running Time: 105
Company: Cherry Boxxx Pictures
Nubia, Mya Mason, Jasmine (I), Others, Candice (I), Juicy
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Gonzo
Bashful when the camera starts, these freakz lose inhibitions quickly and display veteran fuck skills beyond their "teenage" characters.
Shy Jasmine stays on the bed, but Mya Mason is all over the room and furniture (even standing up). Dark-skinned Juicy takes a glistening frontal load, while Nubia turns the other cheek to get ass plastered. Only Candice seems indifferent to her suitor in these typical boy/girl pairings.
PS: Make sure to watch the opening penis enlargement infomercial.
Retailing: Series continues with typical boy/girl action, but not much "teen" focus.


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December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
by gritfish - Jam EntryFirst, pick your hero, victim, and villain characters (you can be man, woman or goat!).
I ran out of time, so here's what's missing:
No sound
No score display
No indication of what you're holding
Game now reloads after win/lose screen (thanks Marco Jonkers)
You can hold the arrow key to keep moving in a direction (thanks Flai and rinaka)
When you get caught by a hero, all heroes are cleared from the screen to stop them getting you again as you respawn (thanks rinaka)
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#57 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.44 |
#92 | Overall(Jam) | 3.36 |
#98 | Humor(Jam) | 3.00 |
#123 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.47 |
#140 | Fun(Jam) | 2.94 |
#176 | Mood(Jam) | 2.77 |
#1012 | Coolness | 26% |
I liked it, but moving felt a bit annoying because it didnt move continuously
Beautiful pixel graphics! Also, I like that you can select the villain and hero in any combination of women, men and goat.
Took me a little while to get used to the tile-based movement. Also, sometimes the heroes spawn too close and grab you right away. On the other hand, I loved it when a hero saved a victim just before the train reached them.
I've put up a quick update - you no longer need to refresh to restart the game (it just goes back to the start screen on its own)
Loved the graphics and I'm partial to tile/train games. Sometimes the hero would drop right on my head, and at first I found it hard to figure out where the tracks needed to start and stop.
Nice work!! You got much farther on graphics than I did, they are great. You've also introduced this frantic arcade element instead of going with a pure Pipe Dream clone like I did. How do you get a train to run on the tracks?!
Damn cool!!! Full marks, all over the place!
Humor and presentation was awesome (especially the winning screen)
You can say the game has two parts: one in which you complete the train track and one in which you tie the victim to the rails and make the train run over him/her. In the first part, I felt there was no way to lose. It's more of a sandbox game in which you can build tracks in the way you like, using the given resources. Getting hit by a hero didn't penalize me in any way...
In the second part, it's somewhat easy to grab the victim and place them right in front of the train before he or she can be saved by the hero.
I loved the fact that you can select the gender (and well, species) of the hero, victim and villain.
The movement is a bit too slow, which makes the controls overall pretty frustrating, but I do really like how you made this concept into a speedy action puzzler :).
Nice graphics and style! Some sounds really would have helped, and perhaps making the spawn points of the start/end of the track non-random would have helped, too. You could start them near each other the first time and further apart for subsequent "levels".
Well done!
Feels very polished! It's kinda tricky to tie the victim to the road und build it at the same time. But fun!
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All, by Paul A. Offit (Basic, 288 pp., $27.50)
From experience I know that it is best, when reviewing a book about the vaccine question, to declare a financial interest, or in my case, a lack of one. As far as I know I own no shares in vaccine companies, except perhaps through mutual funds whose holdings I havent examined closely. I dont think, therefore, that my economic future depends to any great extent on the sale of vaccines. In view of what I am about to say, conspiracy theorists will have difficulty believing this, but its true.
The worlds children are, taken as a whole, the healthiest who have ever lived, in no small part thanks to immunization against the common infectious diseases of childhood that, not so long ago, caused misery, morbidity, and death. In my own case, I suffered mumps, measles, chicken pox, and whooping cough. I remember them all (and can still feel my painful swollen parotid glands in my minds soma). I came through unscathed, but my best friend, from whom I was inseparable, contracted polio in the months immediately before the introduction of immunization against it. He was paralyzed from the waist down.
No child today need experience these diseases. Surely this is an unequivocal example of progress, but strangely enough, many people are highly suspicious of the triumph of preventive medicine. It is as if they had lost all historical memory and could not imagine that things were ever any different. We are now so safe that all hazard appears anomalous to us, a deviation from natures normal course. It must be someones fault.
In his eloquent and bracing book, Paul Offit, an expert on child immunization, traces the intellectualor perhaps I should say the emotionalhistory of the modern anti-vaccination movement and its consequences. If progress in preventive medicine has been remarkable, so in its own way has been the persistence of prescientific and even anti-scientific thought in modern society.
The author correctly draws attention to the similarities between the anti-vaccination movements in modern America and in Victorian England. The Victorians, however, had the excuse that they were facing a new and unprecedented situation, which the Americans do not. The Victorians knew nothing of bacteriology, virology, and immunology; their epidemiology was rudimentary. Moreover, smallpox vaccination was a crude procedure, sometimes genuinely dangerous; arm-to-arm vaccination, which was eventually abandoned, could spread syphilis.
Offit underestimates the range, both social and intellectual, of the Victorian anti-vaccination movement. While it might have started off as a popular agitation against Parliaments decree of compulsory vaccinationwhich was in practice mainly directed at the poorit quickly spread to the middle and upper classes. It produced an astonishing range of literature, including a mass-circulation magazine that ran for 70 years. Not all of its adherents by any means were willfully ignorant cranks (such as George Bernard Shaw). Converts to the cause included Charles Creighton, an eminent pathologist and the erudite historian of epidemics in Britain, as well as the first person to hold a chair in bacteriology in Britain, E. M. Crookshank. Vast and learned tomes were produced on the noxiousness of vaccination, and while some of the wilder claimssuch as that vaccination had led to a recrudescence of leprosy in Europewere absurd, attempts to prove vaccinations dangers by statistical means helped spur the development of the science of epidemiology.
Still, the Victorian anti-vaccination movement discovered, and maybe even invented, a fundamental principle of modern pressure-group politics: always make lots of noise. It is noise that makes the world go round as much as money, with truth coming in a poor third; and noise is difficult to counteract. Its true that the adventure novelist Henry Rider Haggard produced a good pro-vaccination novel, Doctor Therne, in 1898, after Parliament surrendered to pressure and repealed compulsory vaccination. But it seems that there is a quasi-law of politicking that the noise of opponents is always louder than that of proponents.
As with any medical procedure, things can go wrong with vaccination. But modern vaccine scares are generally not the consequence of genuine problems. They are the result of unproven scientific hypotheses given echo, and magnified and coarsened, by campaigners. The idea, for example, that the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine causes childhood autism gained currency when a British surgeon, Andrew Wakefield, claimed to have found evidence that the vaccine could damage the intestines of those to whom it was giventhus giving a portal to neurotoxic substances.
It was an error of judgment on the part of the medical journal The Lancet to have published this research in the first place. The experimental group was completely without a control group. Even odder, the principal author of the research, Wakefield, held a press conference to announce the findings even before they were published. The most likely explanation of his conduct is that he was a highly ambitious man, desperate for a scientific coup like that of Barry Marshall, who established the bacterial causation of peptic ulceration, which had escaped thousands of previous researchers. The difference, of course, was that Marshalls research was valuable.
Nevertheless, the autism rumor soon swept the world. Many distressed parents thought they had found the explanation for the otherwise inexplicable condition of their child. Some people underwent a quasi-religious conversion, and made Wakefields cause their own. When it was established beyond reasonable doubt that he had feet of clay, they turned him into a martyr, someone condemned for his heresy rather than for his conduct.
Even some of those who did not worship at Wakefields shrine acted on the no-smoke-without-fire principle. They declined to have their children immunized, with the result that measles epidemics returned where they had been almost eliminated. In Britain, the refusal of Prime Minister Tony Blair to reveal whether he was having his own child immunized with the MMR vaccine led to a further fall in the immunization rate and suggested that at least a section of the population does not take its decisions on purely rational grounds. Whooping cough has returned in California, thanks to a reduction in vaccinations.
When scientific research refutes the rumor that started a scare, the scare does not die straightaway. The first response of adherents to the cause is to find a paranoid explanation for the research findingsfor example, that the government is in league with the vaccine manufacturers and the doctors. Thus starts an endless Russian-doll regression of ad hominem arguments, and thus a pseudo-religious faith, which gives meaning to the lives of many, is upheld. Offits book is therefore not only an interesting scientific saga in itself, but a kind of cultural X-ray of our society.
Theodore Dalrymple, a physician, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.


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On February 10, 1998, two armed men robbed a Denny's Restaurant in Costa Mesa, California.
Two days later, a man wearing a Los Angeles Lakers cap robbed a juice bar in Irvine, California, at gunpoint. An employee of the juice bar recorded the license plate of the getaway car and it was stopped by Costa Mesa police. Shawn Kaiwi, the driver, was arrested.
At the same time, a police officer spotted Arthur Carmona walking down the street nearby. Carmona, then 16, matched a partial description of the gunman and was taken into custody by Irvine police and brought in for identification.
Two employees of the juice bar were not able to identify Carmona until the police had him put on a Lakers hat. The hat had been used in the robbery and found in the getaway car, but had not been linked to Carmona.
Similarly, two Denny's employees were then brought in to identify Carmona, but could not do so until Carmona put on the cap.
In an effort to obtain a confession, police interrogated Carmona, telling him that the other defendant claimed Carmona carjacked him, and that he had been caught on videotape, but Carmona maintained his innocence.
At trial, the prosecution presented the eyewitness testimony of the four employees. Carmona's defense attorney failed to interview key witnesses, including those who might have supported his alibi.
Kaiwi, the driver of the getaway car, pled guilty and ultimately said that Carmona was not involved.
In October 1998, despite the lack of physical evidence, an Orange County jury convicted Carmona of both armed robberies and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Investigation by a journalist prompted two of the eyewitnesses to come forward and express doubts about their identifications. One witness stated that she had been pressured by the prosecutor to testify as she did.
In January, 2000, the law firm of Sidley & Austin took on the case for free and in February persuaded the California Appeals Court to order the lower court to hold a hearing on the new evidence.
On June 30, 2000, a judge set a hearing to determine whether to overturn Carmona's conviction.
On August 21, 2000, the prosecution agreed to vacate the conviction, the charges were dismissed and Carmona was released.
After his release, Carmona began working to enact legislation to improve eyewitness identification procedures and implement changes to interrogations and the use of informants. He also was involved in starting a non-profit organization to help the wrongfully convicted and enrolled in a program to become a firefighter.
On February 17, 2008, he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. In May 2011, Felix Abreu pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
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Carnival Dream Cruise Review by chochoanche: Smelly and too crowded
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Smelly and too crowded
This ship is huge but the common areas are so small that there are people everywhere. It's hard to find a deck chair when the sun comes out unless you wake up early in the morning. The pools are too small and the smell are terrible on the Lido deck.
The good thing is the service in the Main Dining room are good, but the food is just OK. The buffet food is so so and is comparable to Home Town Buffet.
I just wish they have more choice for lunch in the main dinging room. It's the same menu for the entire week :-(
Breakfast in the main dining room is nice.
The BBQ lunch on the Lanai deck is good but you have to pass through the smokers to get to it :-(
There is not much to do during sea days (we have more sea days then port days). Either you read a book in your room (since you may not be able to find a deck chair) or lose your money in the casino :-(
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With only 5 hours or so at this port, we went to the public beach (Cabbage beach). The beach is clean but has no restroom. It's next to the RIU hotel on Paradise Island. We rented jet skis there for $50 for half an hour. There are some white clear fish around when we drop some bread down. This beach is not much different than the private beach at the Atlantis hotel.
Our large group went to Orient beach in the morning. The beach is nice with white sand and sun, but it is too strong by the young kids in our group.
There are some topless women who should not even show their ware. It's so painful for my eyes :-(
After 3 hours at the Orient beach, we decided to go a more calm beach for the young kids. We went to the Le Gallion beach. It is inside a cove and very quiet. There are not much tourists there. Mostly locals.
Snorkel there is fine with some small and clear fish. I even found a conch :-) This place is very nice for young kids.
The only gotcha is there is no taxis to go back to the ship. Either you have to ask the restaurant to call for a cab for you. If you a small group (like 2 or 3 people, good luck :-(). We arrange for a cab driver to pick our group up and a designated time. She gave us her card to call as well. When our driver picked us up, we also let a family of 4 to join us in the van since they could not get any cab back to the ship.
Did a 2 tank dive in St Thomas through the Carnival excursions. It was a waste of time since there is not much live underneath the dive site. There are some corals and some fish. There is not much to write about.
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After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers
Controversy still surrounds one of the world's worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India.
At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas — a chemical compound used to make a pesticide marketed as Sevin – led to about 50,000 people being treated for severe injuries to their eyes, lungs, and kidneys.
An estimated 15,000 to 25,000 may have later died from exposure to the gas.
Union Carbide, now part of Dow Chemical, settled a lawsuit in 1989 by paying $470 million in compensation to the Indian government. In return, the government agreed to drop criminal charges against the company.
"Union Carbide worked diligently to provide immediate and continuing aid to the victims and set up a process to resolve their claims — all of which were settled 18 years ago at the explicit direction and with the approval of the Supreme Court of India," a statement on the Union Carbide website says, adding that in 1998 the Indian state government of Madhya Pradesh took over full responsibility for the site.
A 1999 study found that the area around the plant site was still contaminated with toxic chemicals. Bhopal residents continue to contend with the effects of the disaster, which include health problems and contaminated groundwater.
The Bhopal Medical Appeal, launched in 1994 and based in Brighton, UK, argues that survivors have not yet received meaningful medical aid.
A new report commissioned by the group found at least 16 contaminants on the Union Carbide site at levels exceeding World Health Organisation safety guidelines.
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I wrote this in collaboration with John Rankin, a prominent New Orleans guitarist. He provided most of the backing track and I put the vocals and lyrics on top of it.
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This is pretty funny..
But Im not sure it is funny in the way you would like it to be, Im pretty sure you didn't hit a single note through the whole song. I sort of sounds like you have been singing it without monitors or something like that.
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You've got a good voice...
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With pineapple, cherries and pudding, this creamy dessert from Angela Oelschlaeger of Tonganoxie, Kansas has lots of layers of flavor. It's inexpensive and impressive, and just right to take to a family or church gathering.
- 3 cups cold fat-free milk
- 2 packages (1.4 ounces each) sugar-free instant chocolate fudge pudding mix
- 1 prepared angel food cake (8 to 10 ounces), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 cans (20 ounces each) reduced-sugar cherry pie filling
- 2 cans (20 ounces each) unsweetened crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 carton (16 ounces) frozen reduced-fat whipped topping, thawed
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1. In a large bowl, whisk milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set.
- 2. Place half of the cake cubes in a 4-qt. trifle or glass bowl. Top with half each of the pudding, pie filling, pineapple and whipped topping. Repeat layers. Sprinkle with pecans. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 18 servings.
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one of my friends THINKS she knows Justin Timberlakes number, but she has been too scared to call it. so i took her phone adn got the number she has, and then im going to spoof as that number then i will call her and ask her on a date, and she will show up with no JT! MUAHAHAH..that might be crossing the line?
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03-31-2009, 11:38 AM #22Aig
I disguise my caller ID as a Government issued phone number, act as an aid to the present then I'd call all those guys at AIG and tell them that if they gave their bonuses back, or distributed them to worthy causes in their community, I'd see to it that they were Trippled next year.
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ooh, how much i love this one.. ooh.. would be awesome if i win!!
i would call everybody on my phone book, from different numbers, and ask them to come to a designated place at a precise given time.. because their facebook account has been randomly selected by MTV for a special new episode of "prank your friend" !! i will keep a lot of lousy pastries, food and ofcourse drinks and music.. so when they finally show up.. all at once.. we could indulge in a massive drunk food fight.. hehe..
ooh.. i wanna win!!
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i would call my wife and say that for the past couple years, that her sister's kid, who was supposed to be from a fertility clinic, was actually mine, and that she wants me to help take care of it, with her help.
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03-31-2009, 12:09 PM #25Great prank
great prank. if i'll win i will do that do my parents.
i'll call them as i be a teacher and i'll say how smart, how calm, how perfect i am and they should buy me a car.
after that i'll use for my friends. i'll call my best friend and pretend to be the girl he loves.
hmm. if i win i'm sure i'll figure it out how to use them properly to have fun.
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I'd call Rush Limbaugh, and say that his family tree reveals that he and President Obama are brothers and their dad was from Mexico.
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03-31-2009, 12:15 PM #27best prank of all
change my voice to a woman and call my wife tell her in a womans voice tell her that her husban been seeing me dateing me for over a year while recording everything then come home and get put out sike play the recording april fools
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My friend lives in the apartment across from me and I have a key to his apt. A long time ago we had an argument because I said I would be good at being a thief (as we were watching It Takes a Thief on TV). I'm going to get into his apartment while he's at work, take most of his expensive stuff over to my apartment (computer, stereo, etc.) then call him using 123Spoof and the voice changer. I'll claim to be the maintenance supervisor and let him know he needs to be home right away, then watch the havok begin.. lol
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I have a couple:
1) the first one is to use ATT's number to call a friend who I know has a jailbroken phone (cause I jailbroke it for him) and tell him that ATT's technology has improved and detected his phone as being jailbroken and that he is in possession of an illegal phone and require him to buy a new phone.
2) Get the number to the lottery commission and call a friend informing them they won the lottery but they only have a short amount of time to call back in order to get their prize.
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The way this prank would work, is if the person that you would like to prank, owns dog,a small non-aggresive is preferable.
In my case my friend had a chihuahua.
My friend went for a vacation and left her dog in a dog daycare.
What you would do is call the person, saying that you are a representative from the daycare.
Your going to say is that her dog is going crazy, biting everything and everyone. That it had bit 3 other dogs, and 2 staff members and even left one person bleeding. You then are going to tell her, that you r calling to let her know that all the staff members have agreed to put the dog to sleep (euthanize) due to it's severe aggresion.
Very funny prank if done right. It's priceless to hear the reaction of the person being pranked when they know that its pretty impossible that their tini little dog, being acussed of being very aggresive, and whats even worse is when u tell that you r going to kill the dog, because of it. Mean but funny joke
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There are quite a few new members with their first posts being in this thread. Makes me wonder if they're all just signing up to win the prizes or if they're the same person...
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Let me say there are prank calls and then there is the fbi, so try not to be too creative.. Here is an example.
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Three more individuals have admitted they participated in a series of phone phreak hoaxes that prompted raids by armed special weapons and tactic police teams on the homes of unsuspecting victims.
Jason Trowbridge, of Louisiana and Texas, and Chad Ward of Texas pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, including conspiracy, access device fraud and unauthorized access of a protected computer. Each faces maximum penalties of five years in prison, fines of $250,000 and costs for restitution.
As previously reported, Stuart Rosoff also pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the pranks, which over a course of almost five years snared more than 100 victims and resulted in as much as $250,000 in losses, according to court documents. Angela Roberson, who was charged alongside the trio, also entered a guilty plea but court documents did not elaborate.
A sentencing hearing for Trowbridge is scheduled for late February. Hearings for Ward and Roberson are scheduled for mid March.
Swatters, as the malicious pranksters are referred to, use a combination of social engineering, phone phreaking prowess and computer hacking to spoof the phone numbers of individuals they want to harass. They then make emergency calls to police departments and report crimes in progress, in many cases prompting a response from SWAT teams who conduct emergency raids on the homes of people whose numbers were spoofed.
In many cases, the victims were fellow participants in telephone party lines, which largely act as the phone equivalent of internet relay chat groups. Trowbridge, who went by the names "Jason from California" and "John from California," furthered the scheme by mining personal information about the victims from a host of sources, including consumer reporting agencies, pizza delivery records and newspaper subscription records, according to court documents signed by the defendant.
The personal information Trowbridge provided allowed the gang to make fake emergency calls that had the ring of authenticity. In one case, they posed as an Alvarado, Texas man whose daughter was a party line participant. They told a police dispatcher that he had shot and killed members of his family and was armed with an AK47 machine gun. The caller, who claimed to be high on hallucinogenic drugs, then threatened to kill his remaining hostages unless he was given $50,000 and safe passage out of the country.
Police responded by sending police to the residence of the real man.
In September of last year, Ward himself was swatted by members of the gang. But just a month later, as he admitted in court documents filed last month, he offered money to anyone who would carry out a Swat attack on the Alvarado family. Ward, who went by the name "Dark Angel," also confessed to obtaining personal information on victims by socially engineering telephone company employees.
The documents provide other colorful details. Among them, Rosoff threatened to have the phone service of a Cheboygan, Michigan woman disconnected unless she agreed to provide him with phone sex. When she refused, Rosoff used social engineering to terminate her phone service. He also made false reports to police claiming the woman's children were being abused and discussed ways of having her falsely arrested.
During the course of the conspiracy - which lasted from late 2002 to June of this year and involved as many as 20 individuals - the participants also initiated calls to employers, landlords, families and friends of party line members they held a grudge against. Some of the members who refused to stop using the line found their friends and families swatted.
The case was investigated by the FBI field office in Dallas and prosecuted the the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.®
as a previous victim I wouldn't use this app if I had too
I would call my girlfriend under one of her x-boyfriends numbers and see if she wants to meet up
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Great Prank.
I would call a classmate of mine saying they were accepted to Harvard Law.
can some 1 help, both ispoof and 123 spoof app crash every min on my iphone, i have cycontact, intelliscreen and mcleaner, 5 icon row and springboard installed, any tips?
i cant disable them all, and dont fancy uninstalling them all,
ive checked permissions, and changed all to 0755 but still no luck.Last edited by metaljay; 03-31-2009 at 01:15 PM.
03-31-2009, 01:15 PM #38this ones great (:
call one of the girls from your schools father , and say ur her bfs dad and thts shes prego , lmaoo
harsh but always a good one
i think tht deserves some free mins
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I would call my co-worker from my boss' number and tell him he's fired!!
If you like what I said....Hit thanks
If you don't like what I said....Hit thanks anyways
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I would call my girlfriend with her own number and say "stop calling yourself, stop calling yourself"... Childish, but still funny
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Green, M. (2007) '"Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro" : degenerative and regenerative patterning in the final books of Paradise Lost.', Modern language review., 102 (3). pp. 654-671.
In the final books of Paradise Lost Milton exploits the rhetorical possibilities of typology to organize his survey of human history and propel his narrative forward through time to eternity. This typological framework may prove to extend further than previously recognized once the prefigurative value attached to Deucalion and Pyrrha, from the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, is fully acknowledged. Milton's pivotal positioning of this Ovidian myth, in the opening lines of Book XI, looks backwards as well as forwards: it gathers Adam and Eve into the same pattern of typological fulfilment—moving from death to new life, from destruction to recreation—in which the faithful few are set against the faithless herd.
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Goldman Sachs bucks tradition by opting for a drop-in, commercial clustering tool to handle its exponentially growing data.
When Goldman Sachs faced an important build-versus-buy decision on a project to add clustering to one of its Java-based trading solutions, the renowned investment house decided to buck tradition and actually look for a commercial solution that would suit their needs. After a bake-off of competing offerings, Goldman decided on San Francisco-based Terracottas clustering software as the foundation for its system upgrade.
Terracotta simplifies the scale-out of Java applications by adding needed services to the Java run-time, said Ari Zilka, president and chief executive of Terracotta. By delivering these API-free clustering and caching services, Terracotta dramatically improves the availability and scalability of production-level Java deployments, Zilka said. The Terracotta product suite provides powerful tools to help enterprise organizations design and develop clustering and caching, he added.
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"We do scale-out, as opposed to scale-up," Zilka said. "Scale-out is commodity hardware," he said, adding, "Were not a hardware vendor so were not talking about hardware, just a deployment model." David Campbell, vice president for principal investments at Goldman, said the company had experienced a flood of new demands for its ever-increasing pool of data and decided to upgrade its systems to accommodate the need. So around the middle of last year, "The team was tasked with taking the existing system and scaling it by an order of magnitude and delivering the services," Campbell said. "They were looking at their applications and considering ways to tune those. The data began to grow ... and they were partitioning the data by hand. "On top of this, the problems continued to grow exponentially with the growth of the data," Campbell said. "So they said they wanted the data in a single pool across the application that would allow them to build clustered services that could scale and move things independently based on which way the business was going."
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years ago." Meanwhile, "being able to get the results our guys wanted without having to do any work essentially was just really very, very impressive," Campbell said. At the time, Goldman was the first Terracotta customer interested in doing this massive data scale-out, Zilka said. "And we found some things that Terracotta hadnt thought about at that scale, and over the next two months, Terracotta gave a series of releases that addressed our concerns," added Campbell. Zilka said Terracotta is a drop-in solution that requires no intervention to the users business logic or existing code. "Things like Spring and Hibernate are meant to simplify your business logic," Zilka said. "So you have to go to frameworks like Spring, which are not clusterable, and then to Hibernate. And all of these tools get complicated in the world of scale-out. Clustered app servers are expensive, and they dont scale. Our layer is a physical server as a set of JARs [Java Archives] that fit on your server."
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The act of painting over wallpaper is – without a doubt – one of the most regularly proclaimed "no-nos" in home improvement. In many cases, I'd be right there with the majority, recommending that you remove the wallpaper for the sake of achieving the best possible painting finish. But here, this situation's a little bit different, and if you've been thinking about simply painting over existing wallpaper, well, who am I to judge? Just maybe it's the right course of action for you too.
My kitchen, caught up in the '50s, is the space that I committed to making over in 2014. Its textured wallpaper is decades old (possibly not '50s, but certainly something that has faded with the age of the house). It's not a decor choice that I would be thrilled to live with for years, yet I have a hard time pulling the trigger and removing it all prior to painting because my husband and I envision being able to remodel the space to suit our family. For us, painting over the wallpaper = a big, temporary cover-up.
Painting over wallpaper can look really bad. No, like, really, really bad. If you have long edges of wallpaper unrolling or air bubbles beneath the surface, you will be better off removing it completely. But if not, with a little wallpaper preparation and a few tricks, you can be left with a finished result that you're happy with. Here are my best tips for you.
Clean up loose corners and edges. If your wallpaper is as old as mine, you're bound to find a corner here or a seam there that isn't adhered as well as it should be. This shouldn't be enough to deter you entirely, but should be handled carefully. I recommend using a strong adhesive to re-affix those pesky corners. Allow the adhesive to dry before you paint.
Clean the walls well. There are lots of general cleaning tips for keeping your wallpaper in prime condition.
- Vacuuming is widely recommended for all types of wallpaper. You'll want to remove as much dust from the surface of the wallpaper before painting as possible.
- Check to see if your home has a coated wallpaper. You can find out whether or not your wallpaper is coated by getting it lightly wet in a hidden area to check if the colors bleed or moisture is absorbed — if it's absorbed or bleeds, it's likely uncoated.
- If your home has an uncoated wallpaper like grasscloth, wallpaper dough should be your go-to.
- Tips for using wallpaper dough: This product is sold at many home improvement and painting stores. I haven't had the pleasure of testing it out, but have heard that it's best for getting stains and residue off uncoated wallpapers. As the outer side of the dough ball gets dirty, kneed it until the outer edge is once again fresh. Reuse to your heart's desire.
- If your wallpaper is a coated texture, you can wash the wall with a damp sponge.
- Tips for washing the wallpaper with a sponge: Use a damp (read: not drippy) sponge and dishwashing detergent that has grease-cutting power to clean the walls. Avoid wiping horizontally, because the sponge will be more likely to catch on any loose vertical seams. Try with all your might to keep moisture from getting into the seams.
Once the walls have been glued, cleaned, washed and have air-dried, you should be set to begin testing paint. You might want to start in a hidden wallpapered area (for me, this was behind the fridge) to get a better sense of how the paint is going to look over the wallpaper and also to observe how many coats of primer and paint will be necessary.
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Ipod 4 vs Ipod 1
my charger cord works fine for my Ipod 1. but when i plug my ipod 4 into my computer, it wont read it. It was completely dead, and i just got it from someone on ebay. so idk if there was any internal damage during the mailing process, OR if the guy that i bought it from sold my a bogus ipod that he knew wouldnt charge. either way, the ipod 4 wont charge. i have it plugged in and it shows a battery with a little red bar and a lightning bolt under it. do i need a knew cord for a 4th gen ipod vs a 1st gen? and what do i need to use to clean my port without damaging it further? gah. ive never really knew much about apple products.. needin some help from an apple genius :3 haha
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Have you tried using the Apple branded wall charger?
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i did actually. it did the same thing. the only thing i can think of is internal damage or needs a new battery? idk.
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Use some compressed air to clean out the port. If you can still see stuff in there, very carefully use a toothpick to loosen it and blow it out again. I have had cables that work on some iPods and not others. Try using a newer cable if you can.
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Now it's in restore mode. And every time I try to restore it, it stops part way thru and says session timed out. Ad it won't charge so I can't downgrade the iOs.. It's like I can't do anything? And I bought it off eBay (my firsts mistake) so I don't think taking it to the apple store will be of help unless I'm ewilling to dish some more money out.
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Man, you are really flying blind with this ipod, having purchased it without knowing it's history. I'm thinking you should contact the seller and see if you can get your money back. If not, maybe it's your version of iTunes, or maybe it's corrupted and needs to be reinstalled. Maybe. I hope you didn't pay too much for the device.
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Though reports of parapsychological phenomena can mostly be relegated to the Looney Tunes museum, The Bitch has nonetheless has been fascinated and occasionally plagued by the minor X-Files manifestation known as Street Light Interference. Basically, SLIding happens when an internal power surge in a person (or a dog) creates an electromagnetic disturbance causing weird stuff to happen, kind of like in Poltergeist.
Certainly the energy at the relocation party for TOFF, a sliver of a boutique that held its relocation party on September 6 in its new power plant at 710 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, was hyper-hyper, with an extra added kookiness boost from the incipient full moon. Apricot-haired fashion director Juan Carlos Cajigas rose to the occasion, deciding at the party's crowded apex to rearrange a phalanx of seven-foot-tall mannequins into a more animated fashion. "They need to be facing toward the door, and not in a line," Cajigas commanded a trepidatious assistant as red-wine imbibing guests squeezed through racks dresses and skirts in the $200+ range, many of the garments dangerously pastel colored.
Fortunately owner Carla Estrada was all smiles and relaxation, her Cleopatra curls bobbing and amber eyes radiating cheer as she smoothed traffic flow and help wrest control of some platters of cheese and wine from a cadre of Momserazzi who had settled down for some good eatin'. The Bitch arrived in such an adrenaline-cranked state of the flight half of fight-or-flight that she gained entry by simply vaulting the velvet rope, immediately surging toward the assortment of clear liquids.
At the exact moment the panting dog began threading her way toward easy-going DJ Aulden Brown, there was a pop and a crash, the sound of several of the boutique's recessed sodium arc lights exploding and hurtling down like fashion-seeking missiles. The nearly molten minimeteors mostly hit the ground; whereupon The Bitch used an unfortunate copy of Bomb magazine to scoop them up. (These artifacts are now on display with the hound's other trophies of weirdness.)
Brown kept his cool but looked at The Bitch accusingly.
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Guests began pointing at the ceiling. Leemor Rhodes, Miami's brunet version of Sienna Miller boho-chic and who totally rocks the whole arm-warmer thing, magically appeared, defusing the disturbance by declaring: "It is so time for fall. People just need to put on boots and black and brown and get over little things like this."
Tensions eased as Pucci-print wearing Daniela, a 23-year-old from Caracas, agreed: "Yes, the Wilhelmina models are back in town, so it's officially time for the season to begin. People will be cool."
A Wikipedia entry on Street Light Interference says: "The phenomenon is more likely to occur when the SLIder is in a stressed or emotional state. SLIders are often relieved to find that others share their ability."
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Well, if they're to do justice to the game, they need to use another engine - or do something very serious to "Creation" (I think it's called now?).
Fallout 3 was a great game once you applied mods - but it was a pretty weak shooter. Well, I think it was a decent shooter/RPG - but as a pure shooter, it wouldn't have worked.
That said, I'm a MUCH MUCH bigger fan of RPGs and exploration than shooters - and I'd much rather have those elements expanded in STALKER - and then I could probably live with a weaker shooter. But that's kinda selfish - and I think many shooter fans like the shooter bits more.
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For the sixth time in six tries, junior Alex Faust of the Muhlenberg track and field team won the pole vault at the Centennial Conference
Faust was one of three Mule women to place in the pole vault on the first day of competition at the CC outdoor meet, hosted by Franklin & Marshall.
The 10,000 was the only other event to be completed.
Faust's winning vault of 12-½ broke her own meet record of 11-1¾ set last year. She hit the NCAA provisional mark for the third time
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Sophomore Lindsey Weidmann finished sixth in the pole vault, and freshman Melissa Miller tied for eighth.
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Toiling by day at an insurance agency in the 1970s, Tom Clancy dreamed of writing bestselling action thrillers.
Unlike most would-be novelists, Clancy, who died on Oct. 1 at age 66 in Baltimore, had two things going for him. First, he had a great idea for a story (inspired by a newspaper article about Soviet sailors who'd tried to defect), in which a Red submarine captain stages a clever ploy to switch sides, with the help of an intrepid CIA agent named Jack Ryan. Second, he was a dogged researcher, reading everything he could find on submarines and talking to scores of people who'd actually served on them to make the details of his fiction vividly authentic.
In 1985 he sold The Hunt for Red October to an obscure publisher of military books for a mere $5,000. Incredibly, through word of mouth and rave reviews, the first-time novelist soared up the bestseller lists.
That was the start of the amazing career of a novelist who became a one-man industry, churning out dozens of bestselling military thrillers – some solo, others with co-authors. But Clancy became even more famous thanks to the movie blockbusters based on his novels about Ryan, who's been portrayed by some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Here's a rundown:
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What's the number one word used to describe amusement park rides? Fun! And fun will be the number one word used to describe Answers VBS's newest program, IncrediWorld Amazement Park!
Everywhere they turn in our society, children hear the same story about earth's origin—they're told it's not God's world but the result of millions of years of evolutionary processes. The same rerun plays in movies, TV programs, classrooms, and books: this incredible world, filled with such amazing beauty and designs of creatures, is the result of dumb luck.
The Bible opens with a completely different account. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
With IncrediWorld Amazement Park, kids learn the truth: God deserves the glory for who He is and what He has made! They'll take a thrill ride through God's creation, learning about amazing creatures like the tiger beetle. The fastest bug on the planet, this tiny critter can reach speeds that would feel like 500 mph to us. (It's actually 5.6 mph, or 9 km/h, at his scale.) Incredible!
And how about the Arctic tern? Talk about a frequent flier! This bird logs about 50,000 miles (80,500 km) each year, including flights back and forth for summer and winter vacations at the North and South Poles. It leaves the North Pole and heads south to avoid the harsh winter. Then before winter arrives at the South Pole, it knows to head north again. Incredible!
Each day IncrediWorld is dedicated to showing kids how to connect the Bible to the "real world" where they live. A simple phrase reinforces the "big idea" for each life-changing day.
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IncrediWorld includes all the things you'd expect in a top-notch VBS program: great music, fun games, yummy snacks, clever crafts, and solid Bible teaching. As they dig deeper into the Bible, kids learn that true science supports and honors God's account of the universe. Most importantly, IncrediWorld teaches them to trust the Bible and God's glorious salvation message, which is woven throughout.
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The Girls Beauty Cake Decorating Kit includes: 1 beauty case, includes lip gloss, body glitter, hair brush, glitter flower shaped mirror and key chain.
Please note: Cake & Frosting not included, Decoration only, food colors sold separately.Individual cake kits are not returnable. Individual cake kits do not include instruction / picture cards. Instructions are provided online only. Instruction / picture cards are included with the bulk packaging (6 sets a box) only.
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