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Hi. This is Mango. Mango is very sweet and makes a great pet. He is a handsome white face mosaic male with possible pie markers and 100% Het for Leucistic. He has a beautiful white tail, white face, large white collar, and spotted ears. OOP: 01/15/2015. Mom is a powdered ...
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Clyde is a beautiful white face male sugar glider. He is very friendly and looking for his forever home. He is 6 months old and is intact!
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greys start at 250 (pet only)
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I have 6 sugar gliders .5 foot tall cage safe wheel.. Cage is collapsible . there are 2 males and 2 females I am unsure of the sex of the other 2.. I will not separate the colony.. (I will separate them from cage) $900.00 or best offer..
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TPM sugar glider male. Requires a deposit to hold until weaned that goes towards the total. Pet only price $650. With pedigree $950. Please email me for details.
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These are two very pretty and healthy female sugar gliders. They are just about 1 years of age. The $350 rehoming fee includes both of them, their cage, toys, hamic and food.
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Here's some information about myself. I live in Western Ma. I'm an experienced pet owner. I have experience with a variety of animals, but I'm interested in owning a pair of gliders. I have had experience with ferrets, rats, parakeets, dogs, and cats. At one ...
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The Lady Bulldogs cruised past the Lady Patriots in the first two frames, but needed their stars to pull them through in the end to complete a 3-0 sweep of Group I.
Dindin Santiago tossed in 14 points and Myla Pablo had 13 for the Lady Bulldogs, who rallied in the final set by winning four of the last five points.
"We never think that we are favored," said NU coach Edjet Mabbayad. "We always think that we're at a disadvantage so we would give our best every game."
In Group II, Perpetual kept its semifinal hopes up with a 1-1 slate after a 25-19, 25-27, 25-23, 25-22 victory over San Sebastian.
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Since 2002, the Department of Energy (DoE) has been organizing fuel economy drive events not only for its fuel-efficient driving campaign but also to provide a validated chart that may guide car buyers whenever they want to compare fuel consumption of various makes and models of vehicles.
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In the 2009 edition, the DoE made a historic decision to fill up all participating vehicles with the more environment-friendly E10, gasoline variant blended with 10 percent ethanol.
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These DoE tests also highlighted the fact that vehicles belonging to the same category carry different price tags (diesel variant is usually priced much higher than their gasoline counterpart), built as well as designed differently that a would-be car buyer should also consider the so-called "payback time" whenever he or she evaluates or compares models. Payback time refers to the point at which one's savings on fuel will exceed the extra money forked over in order to get a more fuel-efficient vehicle.
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Suzuki Celerio subcompact hatchback (manual 1.0L gasoline)—34.34 km/L; you spend just P1.15 per km
Suzuki Alto subcompact hatchback (manual 0.8L gasoline)—34 km/L; you spend just P1.38 per km
Suzuki Celerio subcompact hatchback (automatic 1.0L gasoline)—21.92 km/L;
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Chevrolet Spark subcompact hatchback (manual 1.2L gasoline/manual 1.0L gasoline)—22 km/L
Chevrolet Spark subcompact hatchback (automatic 1.0L gasoline)—19 km/L
Kia Motors' Picanto subcompact hatchback (manual 1.1L gasoline)—20.8 km/L
Honda Jazz compact hatchback (automatic 1.5L gasoline)—27.58 km/L; you spend just P1.43 per km
Honda City compact sedan (manual 1.3L gasoline)—20.67 km/L; you spend just P1.91 per km
Ford Fiesta compact hatchback (automatic 1.6L gasoline)—21.86 Km/L
Hyundai Getz compact hatchback (manual 1.5L diesel)—25.22 km/L; you spend just P1.82 per km
Hyundai Accent compact sedan (manual 1.5L diesel)—23.38 km/L; you spend just P1.97 per km
Toyota Prius mid-size sedan (automatic 1.8L gasoline-electric hybrid)—24.23 km/L; you spend just P1.63 per km
Toyota Corolla Altis mid-size sedan (manual 1.6L gasoline)—15.48 km/L; you spend just P2.54 per km
Toyota Vios compact sedan (automatic 1.5L gasoline)—15.44 km/L; you spend just P2.55 per km
Ford Focus compact hatchback (manual 2.0L diesel)—21.39 km/L; you spend just P2.15 per km
Isuzu D-Max 4×2 pickup (manual 2.5L diesel)—20.57 km/L; you spend just P2.24 per km
Toyota Hilux pickup (manual 2.5L diesel)—19.12 km/L; you spend just P2.40 per km
Mitsubishi Strada 2×4 pickup (manual 2.5L Diesel)—18.57 km/L; you spend just P2.48 per km
Mazda CX-7 mid-size SUV (automatic 2.5L gasoline)—18.17 km/L; you spend just P2.17 per km
Isuzu Alterra 4×2 full-size SUV (manual 3.0L diesel)—19.44 km/L; you spend just P2.37 per km
Kia Carens multipurpose vehicle (manual 2.0L diesel)—19.25 km/L; you spend just P2.39 per km
Toyota Innova multipurpose vehicle (manual 2.5L diesel)—18.41 km/L; you spend just P2.50 per km
Isuzu Sportivo Asian utility vehicle (manual 2.5L diesel)—18.03 km/L; you spend just P2.55 per km
BMW 320d compact luxury sedan (automatic 2.0L diesel)—20.53 km/L; you spend just P2.24 per km
BMW X3 compact luxury SUV (automatic 2.0L diesel)—16.63 km/L; you spend just P2.76 per km
Volvo S40 compact luxury sedan (automatic 2.0L gasoline)—13.52 km/L; you spend just P2.91 per km
Those who love fast cars ridicule them, and those who admire SUVs find these two diminutive rides too claustrophobic for comfort. But things have changed. Increasingly worried over frequent rise in the prices of gasoline, Filipino car buyers have fallen in love with these two cute offerings from Suzuki that offers not only very low price tag but also higher fuel efficiency and lower running cost. And carmakers are quick to take note of this trend.
It should be interesting to note that another subcompact model proved that with small engine, compact and light weight body would result in fantastic fuel-efficiency rating. This time, Chevrolet Philippines teamed up with rally cross and rally racing events organizer Roadwise Motoring Foundation and Automobile Association of the Philippines to make the fuel-efficiency test possible.
The Picanto topped last year's edition where the 28 participating vehicles drove 162.8 kilometers starting from DoE office in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City to Lipa City Hall in Batangas and back. This is the model that achieved a 26.2 km/L fuel efficiency rating in a field test conducted by Kia Philippines.
Apart from the DoE-organized fuel-efficiency run, the Jazz also made headlines in the Petron Xtra Mile Challenge especially in the 2008 edition, when an automatic 1.3 Jazz ran 1,402.4 km on a single tank of fuel. This figure broke the previous records set by motoring icon Pocholo Ramirez (1,114 km) in 2005 and Team Zayco Hermanos (1,400 km) in 2006.
The Fiesta recently made world headlines when this Ford gem traveled more than 800 km on a single tank of gas, driving from Chiang Mai to Bangkok in Thailand. Two models were used, 1.6L Fiesta Sport 5Dr hatchback model and 1.6L Fiesta Sport 4Dr sedan model. The Fiesta 5Dr Sport achieved a 19.79 km/L.
The Korean automaker has attracted the attention of car buyers, thanks to its models' innovative, edgy designs. But even before this, Hyundai became famous for introducing diesel-powered engine in passenger cars here in the Philippines.
Introduced in 1997, the Prius has become the best-selling hybrid in the world with more than 3 million vehicles already sold worldwide. As the world's first mass-produced gasoline-electric hybrid, the Prius helps curb emission levels or global warming carbon dioxide—by approximately 18 million tons—equivalent to what would have been emitted by gasoline-powered vehicles of similar size and performance for 14 years.
Coming up with reasonably priced, long-lasting vehicles has made Toyota the best-selling brand here in the Philippines. What made the 2009 edition of the DoE fuel economy run more interesting for Toyota is the fact that these two models, belonging to two separate segments, finished with an almost identical kilometers per liter fuel consumption.
In the 2010 Ford Focus Coast to Coast Challenge (Sorsogon in Bicol to Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte), this model set a new fuel economy record of 25.9 km/L after covering 1,432.3 kilometers on a single tank of diesel.
These three heavy duty and ubiquitous diesel-powered workhorses from the country's most trusted brands should merit car buyers' attention because despite their powerful engines, they could still deliver great savings for their owners.
It's interesting to note that in an Isuzu Philippines Corp.'s organized fuel-efficiency run held last year, a manual 4×2 D-Max averaged 24.26 km/L after running 1,844 kilometers on one full tank of diesel.
Another interesting result in the SUV category of the 2008 DoE Fuel Economy Run was the fact that despite its 1.775-ton weight and big engine displacement, the Alterra still exhibited an excellent mark when compared with the rest of the participants powered by more advanced or smaller displacement engines.
Looking for a reasonably priced family transporter? Consider these three top fuel misers as tested by the DoE.
Of course, the DoE fuel economy runs also invited a number of multimillion-peso luxury models. While fuel-efficiency rating would likely be the least of their would-be buyers' concern, it is interesting to note that these three models made significant marks in besting their equally expensive counterparts.
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Episode PremiereJanuary 03, 2013
Show Period2007 - now
Production CompanyCBS, Warner Bros. TV
Cast and Crew
DirectorMark Cendrowski
ScreenwriterSteven Molaro, Bill Prady, Steve Holland
Main Cast
- Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper
- Johnny Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter
- Kaley Cuoco as Penny
- Kunal Nayyar as Raj Koothrappali
- Simon Helberg as Howard Wolowitz
- Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler
- Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski
- Kevin Sussman
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- Margo Harshman as Alex Jensen
Sheldon's assistant, Alex, flirts with Leonard a little more openly, and he finally picks up on it. Leonard is intrigued by the prospect of being liked by two women at the same time, but he has no feelings for Alex whatsoever; he just likes the attention. When he discusses how to handle this issue with the guys, Sheldon immediately voices his displeasure with the scenario, feeling that Alex should focus on his work alone. Sheldon covertly tries to get advice from Penny, Amy, and Bernadette about what to do, but Penny figures out that he's referring to Leonard and Alex and gets irritated. Sheldon tries to talk to Alex about it directly, but his suggestions come across as completely inappropriate and wind up getting him sent to Human Resources. While there, he dishes out dirt on some of the inappropriate things the other guys have done in the past, and they all get in trouble. In the end, Sheldon is forced to take an online sexual harassment course, and Leonard smoothes things over with Penny.


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Picking up a child flying aloneDec 2, 20141I am picking up my 15 yr old granddaughter and want to know the procedure I need to follow to get approval to meet her at her plane since she has never flown before.MRTTue, Dec 2
My mother is handicappedOct 16, 20141Some will be dropping my mom off and she has heart problems and needs help ! Will there be someone at door to help her to ticket counter and gate?AMomsonThu, Oct 16
NEED CAB OR RIDE. CALL 609.598.1020Dec 11, 20130CITY CAB IS AVAILABLE 24/7 AT YOUR CONVIENCE TIME. personal drop off and pic up at the air port, to home local and long distance. a great service and cheap price. drivers are nice and friendly, enjoy the beautiful car ride in high powered vehicle. call 6095981020 or text to reserve your pick up for cheap fare, comfortable ride and great service. call now. Available 24/7.CITY CABWed, Dec 11
Dining, shoppingNov 9, 20131Can you buy breakfast food at terminal and can you take food on flight with you?BlondjoniFri, Nov 8
Never any helpJun 6, 20131No one ever answers the phone, Have bags missing and no help from this airport at least on the Airlines side of the house,PaulWed, Jun 5
No control tower - is that safe?May 29, 20133I have to fly out of TTN on Frontier this week. I just heard somewhere that the "Sequestor" has closed their control tower. I'm sure that there's a way to take off and land without one.. just looking for reassurance from someone that knows how that's done. :-(jclMon, May 27This recent news article regarding Frontier expansion at TTN should reassure you. (at several airports throughout the country, the 'sequestor' was recently reversed).tumay13Tue, May 28Frontier has jus extended its services at TTN - you are safe!tumay13Tue, May 28Un-towered airports are no big deal, they just require talking to different people. The pilots will get a clearance into controlled airspace and a release time from the controlling ARTCC or TRACON (instead of the Tower), that ensures traffic separation once they leave the immediate vicinity of the airport. Takeoffs, landings, and the tiny bit of airspace around the un-towered airport are coordinated between the pilots via radio and eyesight (some aircraft are not equipped with radios.) If the weather is so low that you can't see, then no one can takeoff without a release time and an IFR clearance, which insures traffic separation but also greatly limits how many aircraft are able to land per hour (which is why busy airports have a control tower.) Is it safer with a tower? The short answer is yes...but at less busy airports, its analogous to wearing a helmet while driving a car. Wear your helmet on a motorcycle (busy airport.)Capt CrunchWed, May 29


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I have twin sons who are a bit unusual. Perhaps I should've posted this in Special Needs Parenting, but I'd mostly like opinions from other moms with kids in this age-bracket. The boys were born extremely premature, have developmental delays and are mildly Autistic. They go to regular school, but although they're 15, socially/maturity-wise they're more like 12-year-olds. They're still in 8th grade, so their classmates are 13 or 14. Basically, let's address my question as though we're talking about 12-year-olds.
Their best friend, for the last 2-1/2 years, is a kid I have come to really dislike. He's very insecure, which is sad, but he takes advantage of my kids, manipulates them and tries to isolate them from other people, to have them all to himself. They will be going to different schools next year and I am eager for the friendship to (hopefully) fade away, as they meet new kids. But in the meantime, he's in all their academic classes and eats lunch with them, so he's a big part of their lives.
An incident happened several months ago (November), where he was acting like a jerk and his parents, in catering to him, acted inappropriately with my kids. I told his mother what I thought and tried to be balanced and not sound like I was on a daytime talk show. I emphasized that I have always liked her and always enjoyed spending time with her and that my problem was with how she handled this one incident, not a blanket criticism of her. Nevertheless, she got very defensive, gave me a piece of her mind about my parenting and is now "not speaking to me". So, the boys are not getting together at each other's houses anymore, though they still Facebook and call each other.
This boy's birthday is next weekend. My sons believe (from what their friend said) that they're invited, but evidently their friend says his mom will not communicate with me, even to send them an invitation, addressed to my house. Basically, what I've told my sons is this: Although I don't like their friend much anymore and I'm not comfortable with them hanging out at his house, I understand that they still like him and that a birthday is a special occasion. So IF I had the information parents are entitled to have (where and when the party is, who will be supervising, in general what they'll be doing...), I'd consider letting them go. However, I cannot call their friend's mother and say, "Are my kids invited to the party I hear you're throwing?" And, even if their friend winds up telling them when he wants them to show up at his house, I cannot simply drop them off and wait for them to call and tell me when to pick them up. (Especially since the incident in November involved the friend's parents saying they were taking my kids one place, when it turned out they actually planned to take them somewhere else, where I had said they couldn't go.) For all I know, the kid's parents are taking his friends camping overnight somewhere, for the party. Besides, we don't actually know that my kids are invited.
But I feel bad for my kids. They're really disappointed. And they don't get invited to a lot of parties. Am I doing the right thing, or should I call this woman and try to make up with her somehow, to get my kids invited to the party?
One woman in a house full of men: my soul mate: or... twin sons:(HS seniors) ... step-son: (a sophomore) ... our little man: (a first grader) ... and there is another female in the house, after all: our.
I would just keep it simple and say that until you get notice in any form of the party, that they should just assume that they are not invited. I would not go out of my way to make up with a person that I don't care for.
I would not call her. If she wants to invite your kids then she will. If you don't hear from her then I would assume they aren't invited. And truthfully, even if they were invited I would not let them go. If she intentionally took them somewhere they weren't allowed to go in the past then I would not trust her to be responsible for their care. If she cannot responsibly supervise your kids while she is speaking to you then how could she possibly do so when she's not speaking to you?
What exactly are you asking? I'm not really sure after reading the post.
I'll just say that there is no way I'd send my kids to a party where the adult in charge refuses to speak to me and I have no evidence they have been invited. Mainly because I wouldn't trust her with the care of my children from what you have posted. I'd tell my kids that too. No I'm sorry, I can't leave you in the care of someone that is not on speaking terms with me.
1. Your kids weren't invited, so it's not polite to ask.
2. Even if you had the info. the parents don't sound trustworthy for you kids to be with anyway.
I would suggest that your boys invite the birthday boy out for his birthday-- they could take him out to a movie or whatever and give him a gift.
but everything has pros and cons
Sorry! I'm too verbose.
If this were only about me having a spat with another mom, I would feel selfish and petty about letting that spat ruin my kids' favorite friendship. Although I haven't declared to anyone, "I'm not speaking to Sam's mom, either!", I also haven't been the bigger person and called her to smooth things over, so our kids can start getting together again. Basically, my question was whether I ought to. As my kids and their friends go into their teens, and high school, how should my opinions about their friends (and their friends' parents) stack up against my sons' own choices about who they want to befriend? How grave an offense warrants me deciding that my kids can't hang out with their best friend anymore? And, after I decide that, should birthday parties be an exception?
But the simple, straightforward responses I've gotten make things so clear that I feel kind of silly for having raised the subject:.
* Of course, there is no polite way to try to get your kids invited to a party, if they weren't invited.
* And of course I don't want my kids supervised - even at a party - by adults who have made it clear they have no respect for me, as a parent, and who will not communicate with me.
It's hard to watch my kids be disappointed. But in the big picture, I wish they'd invested their energy in a friendship with someone else, from the beginning. I don't really want to invest energy trying to save this friendship, now.
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And truthfully, even if they were invited I would not let them go. If she intentionally took them somewhere they weren't allowed to go in the past then I would not trust her to be responsible for their care. If she cannot responsibly supervise your kids while she is speaking to you then how could she possibly do so when she's not speaking to you?
I know it's hard for your boys, but you already know she's not responsible with them.
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Disappointment is part of life. How you talk to your kids about this situation will help with deal with other situations in their lives. And while your son's are young for their age, you implied that you like to deal with this as if they were 12, and that would mean (to me) to use it as a learning experience.
As our kids get older, I do feel that how we feel about other kids parents has VERY little to do with whether or not the kids can be friends, but that needs to go hand in hand in our kids becoming more responsible and making good choices. Both my kids have cell phone and take them when they are with other adults. Part of it is so that if that want me to come get them for ANY reason, I can. Part of it is so that if they plan changes, they can call and let me know. I think that until child/teen can be trusted to do these things, then they can only be under the care of an adult that I trust. Are you son's capable of those things?
Second, I think that we can teach our kids to nurture friendships in other ways beside play dates and birthday parties. Talking on the phone or communicating via facebook lets the child/teen have their own friendship and leave mom out of it.
Last, I do my best to separate how I feel about the parent from how I feel about the kid,mostly because I have really horrid parents and wouldn't want that held against me!
but everything has pros and cons
I hear you. It is hard.
If you want a sort of bright side AKA positive spin it can be a learning opportunity for your kids on setting boundries. Of course we all wish that our kids never had to be put in these types of situations, so I understand wishing that things could have turned out differently.
Take the birthday party out of the equation, it makes everything clearer.
Should you try to smooth things over with this mom for the sake of your kids? This woman lied to you about where she was going to take your son, right? Her son treats your boys poorly. She's giving you the cold shoulder. There are 2 to 3 months of school left. They see each other at school and communicate on Facebook. That's good enough. The friendship is going to die naturally, and it seems that's what you want for your sons anyway.
Bring them someplace fun the night of the party to take their minds off of it and have something exciting to talk about on monday, so they do not feel left out. I think it is a good way to show no matter what happens, family is always there to have fun with and find comfort in.
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I actually think it's safe to assume that your boys are not invited to the party. The mom may have told her son that she would send the invitation and then not do it; or told him that he can't invite them (but he really wants them to come, thus the "just show up" comment, that's a perfectly logical plan for 12/13 year olds!).
What I would say to your boys is that unfortunately you and BF's mom don't get along, and she probably does not want to have any of you show up to the party. BF really wants them to go, which is why he's asking for them to come anyway, but as a parent you are going to honor the wishes of the hosting parent. Maybe they could make their friend a card or give him a small gift at school on his birthday, and remind them that you can can be friends with someone even if you don't go to the birthday party.
Under no circumstances would I show up with my kids in tow, or call the other mom. There are many reasons why a child might not be invited to any given party. I think you're probably correct in your hunch that your kids aren't invited because you and the other mom had a tiff (and to be honest, whenever you criticize another person's parenting or child, that is a potential happening, and I suspect that perhaps you don't hide your dislike for this other child as well as you think you do). I don't think you need to go into terrible detail. Just tell your kids that the party invite didn't show, not everyone can be invited or go to all the parties they would like, you'd be happy to facilitate them making something or giving something to their friend to celebrate his birthday party or no, and hey, let's do something fun as a family on that day. If they are sad, I would let them be sad. Or if they're mad or whatever. It *hurts* to be excluded, esp. when it is because something someone else has done and not behavior on your end. I think taking the pressure off the kids and putting this on the adults is the best way to go here because A) it's the most true thing, more likely than not, and B) you're not going to engage defensiveness or anger towards yourself if you make this be about the mean BF not inviting them (because HE has).
Their best friend, for the last 2-1/2 years, is a kid I have come to really dislike. He's very insecure, which is sad, but he takes advantage of my kids, manipulates them and tries to isolate them from other people, to have them all to himself. They will be going to different schools next year and I am eager for the friendship to (hopefully) fade away, as they meet new kids.
I think you answered your own question with this statement- why put effort into a relationship you actually hope will end? it's just prolonging unhappiness,and if it isn't working, this may be the answer to what you're wanting. I'd just let it go,and help your boys use it to learn about relationships.
Well, with the Autism, it takes my kids a long time - and lots of repetition - to process and deal with changes or disappointment. So, we have talked about these issues A LOT, over the last couple of weeks. But, by the time their friend's party rolled around, they seemed pretty OK with everything. DH and I left our toddler with Grandma and took the twins and their step-brother (who's been a best friend of theirs much longer than this other kid, anyway!) to Dave & Buster's. It was their first time there, but they've been wanting to go, forever. They had a blast! Then we took them to the bookstore, to pick out some new books and a movie. We made homemade pizzas together and they stayed up late, watching their zombie film and playing video games.
Their friend kept texting them during his party, to tell them what a great time he was having. After a while, I told them to just ignore his texts and they could all tell each other about their Saturday nights, at school on Monday. Whether their friend intended to rub it in, or whether he just really wished they were there, it just wasn't fair, if they weren't invited, for them to have a play-by-play of what they were missing. Surprisingly, neither of the twins got hung up about it. They were fine with ignoring his messages for the evening and seemed to really have a good time!
Although I'm having trouble with the "quote" function, one PP cautioned me not to judge my kids' friends based on their parents, as she would not have liked being judged based on her own. Just to clarify, my main issue is with this boy himself. He puts tremendous pressure on my sons not to talk to, or to join him in making fun of, their other friends and family members (their stepbrother and me), so he can be their #1. And the twins are particularly ill-equipped to deal with that garbage. They want to please whomever they're with. He also drags the twins into his conflict with other kids. For example, there's a popular, good-looking boy in their class, who has known the twins since 1st grade and is nice to them. When one of my sons was logged onto Facebook, this kid said, "Hey, let me type something!" and posted some scathingly mean stuff about the more popular boy. Of course, it looked like my son had said those things. And my sons are FB friends with a lot of their classmates, so who knows how many of them read it, before I found out and made them erase it and post an apology? My problem with the parents is just that they side with and cater to their kid, to the extent of undermining me with MY kids, in hopes of getting THEIRS what he wants. But I wouldn't try to end a friendship with a nice kid, just because his parents were problems. I'd probably try to invite him over more often.
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Jeanine, sounds like your sons had a really great evening!
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America is a country at war. While the war in Iraq ostensibly drew down in December 2011, the United States has been quagmired in a war in Afghanistan for more than a decade.
But we're also in the midst of a number of other wars — cultural wars. It started with Nixon's War on Drugs, then quickly escalated.
President Barack Obama's environmental regulations on coal mining caused proponents to claim he had declared a War on Coal. The Affordable Care Act's mandate that companies pay for employee contraception caused many faith groups to claim a War on Religion.
Statements from Republican politicians about "legitimate rape" and "binders full of women" caused some Democrats to claim the GOP had declared a War on Women.
And the ever-vigilant conspiracists news hounds at FOX News have exposed a scheme by Jesus-hating liberals to wage a War on Christmas for trying to remove constitutionally questionable dolled-up trees and pastoral scenes of babies in unsuitable barn-life cribbery faith-based displays from public property.
But by far the most heinous altercation being waged originated with Republican Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus, who has declared a War on Babies.
As first reported by The Enquirer, conservative groups this week sent out a press release vilifying Niehaus for killing tons of babies in a mass effort to wipe out the state's youth population a 17-month old bill that would give Ohio one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation.
Niehaus moved the so-called Heartbeat Bill — which would ban all abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat — from the Health Committee to the Rules and Reference Committee to avoid a forced vote on the legislation. He also removed staunch anti-abortion Senators Keith Faber and Shannon Jones from that committee.
"I'm shocked by Tom Niehaus' war on pro-life women," wrote Lori Viars in the news release. Viars is the vice president of Warren County Right to Life and vice chair of Warren County Republican Party.
Viars called for Republicans to remove Niehaus from Senate leadership. Niehaus is term-limited and will not continue on in office after this year.
Niehaus blamed Romney's loss for his decision to kill the bill, saying that the Republican's victory would have increased the likelihood of a U.S. Supreme Court lineup that would uphold it against a likely challenge.
As cities rush to solve major problems with water infrastructure, newer technologies are being touted by city agencies as cheaper, cleaner solutions. In two different local projects, the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) and a City Council task force are looking into green ways to solve the city's water needs.
On Wednesday, CityBeat covered some of the benefits and downsides of green water infrastructure. According to the report reviewed Wednesday, green water infrastructure is cheaper and does create a boon of jobs, but it faces some funding and education problems. However, it was unclear how the green ideas would translate into Cincinnati.
Tony Parrott, executive director of MSD, says despite the challenges, green infrastructure is clearly the cheaper option. The organization is partnering with local organizations to adopt a series of new projects — among them, green roofs, rain gardens, wetlands — to meet a new federal mandate that requires MSD to reduce the amount of sewer overflow that makes it into local rivers and streams.
"That is a very costly mandate," he says. "Our belief is that green infrastructure and sustainable infrastructure will allow us to achieve a lot of those objectives a lot cheaper than your conventional deep tunnel systems or other gray type of infrastructure."
Of course, conventional — or "gray" — infrastructure still
has its place, but adopting a hybrid of green and gray infrastructure
or just green infrastructure in some areas was found to be cheaper in
MSD analyses, according to Parrott.
Plans are already being executed. On top of the smaller projects that slow the flow of storm water into sewer systems, MSD is also taking what Parrott calls a "large-scale approach to resurrect or daylight former streams and creeks that were buried over 150 years ago." This approach will rely on the new waterways to redirect storm water so it doesn't threaten to flood sewers and cause sewer overflow, Parrott says.
The programs are being approached in a "holistic way," according to Parrott. MSD intends to refine and reiterate on what works as the programs develop. However, that comes with challenges when setting goals and asking for funding.
"We think that if you're going to use a more integrated approach, it may require us to ask for more time to get some of these projects done and in the ground and then see how effective they are," Parrott says.
If it all plays out, the ongoing maintenance required by the green approach could be good for the local economy, according to Parrott: "With the green and sustainable infrastructure, you're creating a new class of what we call green jobs for maintenance. The majority of those jobs are something local folks can do as opposed to the conventional process." Additionally, the green jobs also tend to benefit "disadvantaged communities" more than conventional jobs, according to Parrott.
The argument is essentially what Jeremy Hays, chief strategist for state and local initiatives at Green For All, told CityBeat on Wednesday. Since the green jobs require less education and training, they're more accessible to "disadvantaged workers," according to Hays: "They require some training and some skills, but not four years' worth because it's skills that you can get at a community college or even on the job."
While MSD fully encourages the use of rain barrels, recycling will not be a top priority for MSD's programs. Instead, that priority goes to the Rainwater Harvesting Task Force, a City Council task force intended to find ways to reform the city's plumbing code to make harvesting and recycling rainwater a possibility.
Bob Knight, a member of the task force, says there is already a model in place the city can use. The task force is looking into adopting the International Green Construction Code (IGCC) in Cincinnati. The code will "prescriptively tell" architects and engineers how to design a rainwater harvesting system. In other words, IGCC would set a standard for the city.
Deciding on this code was not without challenges. At first, the task force wasn't even sure if it could dictate how rainwater is harvested and recycled. The first question Knight had to ask was, "Who has that authority?" What it found is a mix of local agencies — Greater Cincinnati Water Works, MSD and Cincinnati Department of Planning — will all have to work together to implement the city's new code.
The task force hopes to give its findings to Quality of Life Committee, which is led by Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, by the end of November.
In the letter, the Democrats say they would find voter fraud to be a serious problem if it was happening, but they also note recent studies have found no evidence of widespread voter impersonation fraud. An Oct. 4 Government Accountability Office study could not document a single case of voter impersonation fraud. A similar study by News21, a Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project, found a total of 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation since 2000. That's less than one case a year.
Tim Burke, chairman of both the Hamilton County Board of Elections and the Hamilton County Democratic Party, says the faulty voter registration forms, which groups like TTV typically cite as examples of in-person voter fraud, never amount to real voter fraud.
"Those nonexistent voters never show up to vote," he says. "(The forms) were put together by people working on voter registration drives. Frankly, the intent wasn't to defraud the board of elections; the intent was to defraud their employer into making them think they're doing more work."
In other words, people aren't submitting faulty voter registration forms to skew elections; registration drive employees are submitting the forms to try to keep their jobs.
To combat the seemingly nonexistent problem of voter impersonation fraud, TTV is planning on recruiting one million poll watchers — people that will stand by polling places to ensure the voting process is legitimate. The Democrats insist some of the tactics promoted by the group are illegal. The letter claims it's illegal for anyone but election officials to inhibit the voting process in any way. Most notably, Ohio law prohibits "loiter[ing] in or about a registration or polling place during registration or the casting and counting of ballots so as to hinder, delay, or interfere with the conduct of the registration or election," according to the letter.
Burke says state law allows both Democrats and Republicans
to hire observers at polling booths. However, the observers can only
watch, and they can't challenge voters. Even if the appointed observers see suspicious
activity, they have to leave the voting area and report the activity
through other means.
The tactics adopted by TTV have an ugly history in the U.S. Utilizing poll watchers was one way Southern officials pushed away minority voters during the segregation era. By asking questions and being as obstructive as possible, the poll watchers of the segregation era intimidated black voters into not voting. In the post-segregation era, the tactics have continued targeting minority and low-income voters.
The Senate Democrats make note of the ugly history in their letter: "It has traditionally focused on the voter registration lists in minority and low-income precincts, utilizing 'caging' techniques to question registrations. It has included encouraging poll watchers to 'raise a challenge' when certain voters tried to vote by brandishing cameras at polling sites, asking humiliating questions of voters, and slowing down precinct lines with unnecessary challenges and intimidating tactics. These acts of intimidation undermine protection of the right to vote of all citizens."
TTV has already faced some failures in Hamilton County. Earlier this year, the group teamed up with the Ohio Voter Integrity Project (VIP), another Tea Party group, to file 380 challenges to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Of the 380 challenges, only 35 remain. The vast majority were thrown out.
"For the most part, they tried to get a bunch of UC students challenged because they didn't have their dormitory rooms on their voter registration rolls," Burke says. "All of those were rejected. We did nothing with those."
But he said the group did bring up one legitimate
challenge. Some voters were still registered in a now-defunct trailer
park in Harrison, Ohio. Since the trailer park no longer exists,
Burke says no one should be voting from there. The board didn't purge
those voters from the roll, but the board unanimously agreed to ensure those voters are challenged and sent to the correct polling place if they show up to vote.
Still, TTV insists on hunting down all the phantom impersonators and fraudulent voters. In partnership with VIP, TTV is continuing its mission to stop all the voter impersonation that isn't actually happening.
VIP is brandishing the effort with a program of its own. That organization is now hosting special training programs for poll workers. The organization insists its programs are nonpartisan, but Democrats aren't buying it.
Burke says it's normal for Democrats and Republicans to hire poll workers, but if the Voter Integrity Project program puts the organization's anti-fraud politics into the training, it could go too far.
"The job of the poll worker is to assist voters in getting their ballots cast correctly," Burke says. "It's to be helpful. It's not to be belligerent. It's not to be making voters feel like they're doing something evil."
He added, "If poll workers are coming in and deciding that they're going to be aggressive police officers making everybody feel like they're engaged in voter fraud and therefore trying to intimidate voters, that's absolutely wrong."
Faced with the choice between job layoffs or a second round of unpaid furloughs for employees, executives at the financially troubled Gannett Co. announced today they were selecting the latter course.
Gannett, the parent firm of The Cincinnati Enquirer, announced a furlough program that will require most non-unionized workers to take at least five days of unpaid leave sometime in April, May or June. The move is expected to save the company about $20 million.
An organizer of Greater Cincinnati's Tea Party movement is telling its members the Ohio Republican Party chairman is trying to manipulate potential candidates in the race for Ohio auditor to pit two Teabggers against each other and split the vote, clearing the path for the chairman's cousin to be the GOP's nominee in the race for another office.
Republican Brad Wenstrup, a podiatrist and U.S. Army veteran who unsuccessfully ran for Cincinnati mayor in 2009, announced today that he will challenge incumbent Jean Schmidt next year in the GOP primary to run for Ohio's 2nd Congressional District seat.
Wenstrup ran against incumbent Mayor Mark Mallory, a Democrat, two years ago. Wenstrup lost 54-46 percent, but many local Republican leaders were impressed by the showing of the first-time political candidate.
Humana announced Wednesday that they'll be adding 700 jobs to their Cincinnati operations by 2010. With the struggling economy, this is welcome news.
Despite the economic troubles affecting the state, Ohioans are smoking more than ever, according to a study that found the highest percentage point increase of any state. An official with the Ohio Department of Health attributes the increase to the stress people are under, though the Ohio General Assembly also cut funding to the state's smoking cessation help line, so there's that. Ohio ranked as the 36th healthiest state in 2011, down from 33 rd in 2010, while Indiana came in at 38th and Kentucky 43rd.


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Snowmobilers ride snow-covered trails last year in Mount Holly. The start of snowmobile season this year in Vermont is set for Dec. 16.
MONTPELIER Its December, winter is on the horizon and Vermonts snowmobile season is set to open if theres enough snow.
Snowmobile clubs across the state are putting up signs, fixing bridges and trimming brush on the 4,700 miles of groomed corridor trails and 1,500 miles of less-well maintained feeder trails in anticipation of the Dec. 16 start.
Snowmobile season is legally timed to start after the last possible day of the fall deer hunting season and the December muzzleloader and archery seasons. They end Dec. 15.
In years when deer season ends earlier, trail groomers begin packing the trails in the days before the snowmobile season opens. Matt Tetreault, the trails administrator for the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, which oversees snowmobiling across the state, said that cant happen this year because snowmobilers want to respect the rights of hunters to be in the woods.
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Were trying to get our message out there and respect our landowners and fellow sportsmen with the deer season, he said. We need to stay out of the woods until the 16th.
About 24,000 people registered to use the trails last year, and Tetreault said his group is hoping to exceed that number this year.
While Vermonts ski industry, which has extensive snowmaking systems, gets most of the attention, snowmobilers dependent on natural snow also add to the states economy.
In the past, VAST has estimated that snowmobiling contributes about $555 million in revenues to businesses across the state, including convenience stores, hotels, restaurants and gas stations that allow riders to drive their machines to the pumps.
VAST is branching out beyond snowmobile trails. The organization is administering a federal grant to upgrade portions of the 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, which runs across northern Vermont from St. Johnsbury to Swanton.
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xbox live rewards question
so ive had xbox live gold for a few years and i never heard of the xbox live reward program untill a few days ago, and im wondering how it works
do i need to sign up for something else to get those points ? do i get them for all the time ive been a member? or does it just start when you sign up for it?
thanks for the help
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no need to waste your time now, they are no longer giving out points
While it is true this is the first month without a free 20 point survey, it is far to early to claim anything.
To answer your questions TC, you do need to sign up. Once you do you will start earning points doing some things, most involve buying stuff from the market place. Do note however anything you have done before signing up will not be counted. Take for example the first market purchase. That had to be your first purchase EVER.
Also note unless they decide to change it, points are deposited into your account around the 15th and end of the month IF you have 100 or more built up points.
Regardless of missing out on a few opportunities, I would still say sign up. Free points are free points.
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While it is true this is the first month without a free 20 point survey, it is far to early to claim anything.
This. Look into Bing rewards too.
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Milk bing rewards while you can, they are discontinuing MS points in a few months. Xbox rewards no longer gives points because of this as the poster above said.
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Bing rewards will be giving out Microsoft credit still, just wont be in MSP. I believe sometime in September they will change it and you can still use Bing rewards to buy stuff from Amazon and many other places as well.
Xbox live rewards will be going under a change as well, here is a part of an MS email
As you may have heard from the announcements at E3, major changes are coming to Xbox Live. One of these changes is the switch to local currency for purchases on Xbox. That means Microsoft Points will soon be retired and you'll instead be able to use money to purchase content on Xbox (see Xbox.com Points FAQ for more info).
With all these changes, it's become necessary for us to evolve the way we reward you. Starting August 1, 2013, you will not be able to earn Microsoft Points through Xbox Live Rewards any longer. Not to worry, though! Since this currency change is impacting the structure of the program, we're taking the opportunity to make Xbox Live Rewards even better. You'll continue to get rewarded for doing the things you love on Xbox Live just not with Microsoft Points. So come back to rewards.xbox.com on September 1, 2013 for the full scoop. You can also follow us at @XboxLiveRewards on Twitter for the latest updates.
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Sharks center Patrick Marleau tied things up in the third period for the Sharks when he beat Dennis Wideman to a loose puck in front of the net, and banged home the deflected puck past Tim Thomas. The score is tied 2-2 with 13:19 to go in an evenly-matched game that's lived up to the billing.
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Lo threw himself on the floor to throw a tantrum and my 2 yr old dd told him like the bug sister she is "well don't do that"
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text: reclaiming range lead? [Archive] - Glock Talk Glock Talk > The Armory > Reloading > reclaiming range lead? PDA View Full Version : reclaiming range lead? JDSTG5804-25-2011, 18:38....... mmerrill6404-25-2011, 18:43Tire shop. I save the lead wheel weights from my shop for a friend of mine that casts his own bullets. Makes good fishing weights too! WiskyT04-25-2011, 18:44I think sand would be about as good as it gets for a cheap solution. Our indoor range has a steel backstop with a trough at the bottom the catches the lead, so no sand etc to deal with. It's made out of expensive steel though, and steel doesn't win any awards for ease of maintenance in the outdoors. If you were a JMorris type, you could build a steel trap and then build a shed over it to protect it from the weather. I would just use sand. The smaller the target area, the less you have to do to buld the trap (sand) and the more concentrated the lead content would be. vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2015, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.