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Oh yeah! Bro watched his roommate webcamming with a bunch of random guys online. He filmed her in secret, scoping that sweet teen ass. When she caught him peeking, Megan stopped masturbating and let her audience watch guy banging her tight hole!
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Ashley Sinclair was ready to hook up with her new dude when her BF came back in and dude had to hide in the closet! Lucky for us, he had his camera ready to film that amateur slut as she made a homemade voyeur sex tape with her big dick boyfriend!
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Who put the squirt guns in the hands of these college sluts? They bet the bros they were partying with they'd come out on top in a water gun battle. Once they were done getting their tits hosed down, they ripped down to the hotel room for a wild fuck...
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Dakota James sucks so hard at golf she should quit betting to flash her tits every time she misses a putt! Dakota had to show that juicy little pussy, and even lifted her skirt so dude could eat her ass right on the green before racing home to fuck!
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Megan wanted to show off her sexy new lingerie, so her BF grabbed a camera and recorded her teasing him with her natural tits and big round booty. Dude fucked her in all of her holes, making her cum while he was balls deep in her amateur asshole!
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I get home one day and my girl's best friend is videotaping my gf as she tries on outfits for her modeling gig tomorrow. Now, I always thought my girl's best friend was hot but I NEVER thought I'd get the chance to fuck her! It's true what they say: ...
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Alaina and Anastasia soap each other up in the shower before playing with each other's pussies and trying on pretty bright lingerie. They didn't realize they were being taped on the fly, but didn't mind when they noticed. In fact, blowjobs and good f...
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To have an unforgettable vacation, dudes here brought these amateur sluts along for the ride. All three of these hoes were willing to do fucked up stuff on camera! Once they started going wild, there was no limit to the nasty stuff we got on camera.
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Woah! Our buddy in Hungary found a Canadian girl traveling, and chatted her the hell up. It wasn't easy, but he convinced Jemma to stay and talk, and opened her mind to the possibility of doing crazy sexual things with him for a stack of Euros!
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She's A Freak
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Unfortunately, as New gets to the 20th century, he lets his historian's objectivity slip and takes more of the role of a critic. That is fair enough as long as the author is clear in revealing his shift in roles even if it does create an awkward juxtaposition from the first part of the book to the last. More troubling is the fact that New makes assertions that he fails to back up with evidence. The veracity of some of his claims seem highly doubtful (although this reviewer did not devote the time to thoroughly investigate each of them).
If the reader is looking for "ammunition" to combat Fundamentalism, this might be the book for him or her to read from cover to cover. On the other hand, a reader looking for fair-minded analysis could surely find something better.
My rating is two stars -- based almost entirely on the value of the early chapters.
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Practicing counter steering,the only way a bike turns is counter steering.
Not exactly. Countersteering is the way to handle the centrifugal forces of the turn. The bike doesn't have to lean to turn, but it must lean to handle the centrifugal force.
The poor alternative is for the rider to shift body weight to the inside of the turn direction to handle limited centrifugal force (not hanging off, but an unconscious shoulder lean), then steer the bike around the turn. This works but is very limiting. This is one good reason why, "the bike can't make the turn." This is one case where the arms are trying to wrestle the bike around the turn, and it just won't go and maintain balance.
A less poor alternative is to do the usual hidden countersteer where upper body movements push the arms for a secret countersteer--which the rider vehemently denies, 'cuz everybody knows you can't turn left by steering right!
And, of course, the correct way where the bike is steered the "wrong" way to make it lean, then the front wheel drops into the turn to actually get the bike turning for the curve--after the bike is steered right for a left turn and leans to the left, the front wheel turns to the left to make the turn. It is so empowering to feel for the first time tightening the turn radius by pushing forward on the inside grip.
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.I draw mainly on my Lap top with windows 7 and corel painter 10.When i paint on my lap top my image is clearly visible but when I transfer my PC which is windows xp color has nothing to do with those of lap top me, especially when you keep in CMYK.Now I paint job for a client and is responsible and this problem is simply imperative to fix.I think he see different on his computer and can be seen so differently, and if he sees bad will my agreed upon my work.What you advice me me?
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I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but I will mention that you should not be painting in CMYK. Paint in RGB. You're severely limiting your color gamut by working in CMYK.
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The only real way to fix this is to make sure your monitor is properly calibrated. However you can't really calibrate a laptop monitor to be color accurate, so if you can, I would switch to painting on the desktop and buying/downloading a program to calibrate your monitor. Then you will see the image in "true color" or as close as you're going to get.
Unfortunately, this won't fix your client's monitor, or the difference between PC and Mac colors. (I'm surprised that there's such a difference between XP and Windows 7 though...) Possibly send a print-out, if you want to give him an accurate reference?
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Food heroin
Some arch-villain in my family brought this home.
There are a few different brands of speculoos spread on the market. Go ahead. Try some.
If Costco set up a tasting booth for this, they would sell this by the barrel. The first hit is free.
"Speculoos" is Belgian. I've know the Dutch equivalent, speculaas, because my Dutch grandfather used to buy the cookies for us and my dad used to snarf them.
Seriously, this spread is dangerous. It will strip you of any shreds of civilization and make you claw the jar with your fingers. Child 1 couldn't find bread so used old hot-dog buns on which to spread this. I scrape icing off cupcakes and replace it with this spread.
I've been slowly and steadily losing weight for a year and a half. I have a few setbacks: when my mother comes to town, when I visit friends in Oregon and have little to do but eat, and when this infernal, tasty cookie spread entered my home.
Don't buy from AA Electroménagers
Our washer has had a slow leak for a while, but Sunday it stopped spinning, too. A washing machine that stops spinning probably has one of the following things wrong with it:
- A slipped or broken belt
- A broken or jammed rotor
- A burnt-out motor
- A burnt-out or shorted circuit board
The first two items are easy and inexpensive home repairs. The latter two cost $160 or so each for parts – and then there would be labour. Our washer is a 14 years old so our best option is to buy another one.
We looked at Kijiji and Craigslist and performed a Web search. The best deals seem to come from an outfit called AA Electroménagers, which refurbishes equipment. They offered the exact same model we had for $350. New washers start at $700, more or less.
It was 8:30 p.m. at that point and the place was open until 9:00 p.m., which was enough time to call but not to go there. We called the to say we'd but that washing machine and asked if we could pay online. The owner said no, but that we could come by the next day to pay for it and they would deliver. We agreed that I would show up at 12:00 noon.
I showed up at 12:00 noon. The owner said he sold the washer to somebody else that morning. I was not pleased. he said they might have another one in a week.
I asked him why he did that and he said he had no guarantee I was coming. I explained that some people stick to their word. I asked why he didn't hold the washer until noon and tell whoever wanted to buy it to wait a few hours, or to come back in a week. He then yelled at me, "Are you telling me how to run my business?"
I yelled back that I wasn't, I was telling him how to be a decent human being.
I decided to write my experience in a review or two. What do you know? Others have also had poor experiences. Here's the Google Plus page for AA Electroménagers with five negative reviews and no positive ones. The Yelp page has three negative reviews and no positive ones. Uh, make that six and four, respectively.
And then there's this YouTube video, which has no reason to be a video, but the comments are enlightening.
I especially like this comment (I paste it here unedited).
I worked for this shit whole company doing deliveries. I had so many complains about fridges not working after 1 or 2 days, They would deliver a Oven and when we plug it to see if it works at the clients well it wasnt working at all. Also this motherfucking muslim piece of shit is refusing to pay me what he owes me for my last week of work. When I finaly received my check it was missing the holiday (8hours) and some hours he owed me in bank. This business is a RIP OFF I STRONGLY recommend to stay away from it. Most fridges will work for a week or 2 and youll have to exchange it and lose your food again. And IF you are lucky and get passed the 3 months of warranty itll break soon after that and youll be stuck with no fridge and your money gone STAY AWAY FROM THIS place
What a miserable and non-ethical person, with crappy products (big surprise). Avoid this place at all costs.
Winter photos
Since my finger has sort of healed (it's still a bit sensitive), I have lived an uneventful life, and that includes a week in Oregon.
Here are the salient points of my life in photos since December 1.
The removal of the stitches was the most painful part of the whole ordeal. I assume the physician did not use dissolving stitches because he wanted the cut sealed for ten days.
That was a lot of blood!
If you're squeamish, do not scroll down or read further.
The Bantam A team I'm helping out this season had a full-ice practice last night but only one goalie, so I threw on my pads and took a net.
Aside from the incredibly tiring effort that it takes to face shot after shot after shot (repeat 150 times), it went well. I was too tired to drag my gigantic goalie bag into the house when I got home so I left it for this morning.
This morning, around 9;45, as I was hauling my bag over the raised threshold of our front door, the plastic handle of the bag snapped. One sharp edge sliced a joint of my poor left forefinger. I dripped a considerable amount of blood into the sink while Elvi bandaged my finger with gauze and tape. That seemed to stop the bleeding, so we went to to brunch with my mom, who's visiting this week.
We got home before noon and I decided to check out the wound. Upon removing the tape and gauze, my finger started pouring blood again. I got Elvi to patch it back up and off to the emergency room I went.
In triage, the nurse wanted to look at the cut. I told her to bring over a garbage can because I was going to bleed all over her office otherwise. Good thing she listened to me.
A doctor finally saw me around 4:45. He took the triage nurse's bandage off and, yes, blood started pouring out of my finger again. There was no way he could see inside the wound to check for damage or sew it up without stopping the flow of blood. The first thing he tried was to put my hand in a rubber glove and roll back the glove finger of my wounded finger so that the tight roll would form a sort of tourniquet. As you can see below, that didn't work.
What did work, finally, was using a strip of the rubber band normally used on the bicep for IVs. I would have a pic of that, but my phone ran out of battery. In all, I lost about half a cup of blood. That pool of blood in my palm inside the glove clotted into a cool jelly-like mass.
I have no tendon or nerve damage, but I do have four new stitches. I did almost throw up, but only after the doctor had finished all the sewing. There's been surprisingly little pain after the original slice.
Either, Eller
Morgan Rielly's temporarily tying goal lies on the shoulders of Lars Eller, but not because it bounced off his torso and trickled through Carey Price's five hole.
Eller had two decisions to make before Rielly got near the puck, and chose unwisely both times.
(Pardon the screenshots with the faded play button in the middle. I'm not patient enough to wait for this to appear on YouTube so I used the NHL highlight.)
Fifteen seconds before deflecting the puck into the net, Eller took control of loose puck along the left boards in the defensive zone.
He makes his first poor decision in choosing to swing in front of his own net instead of taking the puck behind it. Taking the puck behind the net, he has a potential outlet pass on either side or can run a set play. By taking the puck through the slot, he boxes himself in between the two forecheckers and his net. The Maple Leaf players can predict his path in the short term because he can only keep skating left.
The Leafs see this and block Eller's further movement right and can intercept any pass to PK Subban. Eller must take the puck behind the net now, but the pursuit is much closer than it was when he first picked up the puck.
Ever since both Leafs followed Eller, Alexei Emelin has been standing all alone. He sees Eller swing around the net and prepares to accept a pass they will lead to an easy breakout along the left with three Leafs in on the right side. Eller, though, is fixated on Subban and looking back at him. Eller never sees Emelin. Eller instead dishes the puck backwards along the boards to Subban, his second major error. It's not a strong pass given that he's skating hard in the opposite direction.
By the time Subban gets the puck, a Leaf is on him and another is about to join the scrum.
The Habs lose possession of the puck, which will eventually lead to the tying goal.
I have been retired from coaching the kids so you'll have to put up with me doing this. Sorry.
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Seriously, Apple (Store)?
I just got off the phone with David, a genius – well, an Apple genius. Let me backtrack….
I hadn't heard about my expected two to three-day repair by Friday so I called the Apple Store, twice. The tinker geniuses were too busy to call me back so I made do with a receptionist genius. He checked my file to see why my repair was taking so long.
He told me that the store was waiting for delivery of a replacement video card. Apparently, that had died. He assured me that my comatose iMac would need both a new logic board ($708 after tax, remember) and a new video card (cost unknown).
I'd been biding my time, taking advantage of my kids' absences to use their computers to do work and stay in touch with the world. A replacement used iMac, according to my research, would have cost $700, give or take $100. (In my research, I discovered that you can find the best deals on Kijiji.) I would have much rather kept my repaired iMac than risk buying another. But if the cost was rising to $800 or more, I would bite the bullet and pull the plug on my old machine.
As I was looking for replacements on Kijiji Saturday morning, a near clone of my machine popped up. The only difference was that mine had a better video card. I quickly decided I could live with that downgrade for the $400 it would cost me.
I owned it by 1:00 p.m. The case is a little dinged but it's otherwise perfectly good. It was good enough to let me surf to that Kijiji page and find one of these on sale for $700. Wow! Faster, bigger, better.
I could not pass that up. I bought it this morning. I can always sell the one I bought Saturday at a profit so my net would be a faster machine with a much bigger monitor at an outlay (after reselling the first one) somewhat less than $700.
Yeah, so I just got off the phone with the genius David. It turns out that the problem with my original iMac was the power supply. They discovered that the replacement power supply they tried was faulty. My Mac is up and running but they want to test the hard drive because they think it might fail. If the hard drive is fine, I can have my old machine back for the $160 cost to repair.
Right now, I am out $160+$400+$700=$1,260. But if I succeed in my self-appointed mission, I will earn back $800+$700=$1,500 by selling my old iMac and the first used one I bought at market prices. That $240 difference will either be profit or pay for a new hard drive and a new backup hard drive (my current one is only 1 TB which is not enough to archive a 1-TB drive through Time Machine).
And I'll have upgraded to a monster.
Computery badness
It's the logic board that's shot, not the power supply. I'm not sure why Apple doesn't call it a motherboard like the rest of the world – uh, scratch that. I do.
It'll cost $708 after taxes to repair. That's still less expensive than buying a comparable used iMac off eBay, but a lot more than a $160 power supply.
Child Three is in Ontario somewhere or possibly LaSalle. Regardless, I can use his Windows 7 computer and his superchunky gaming keyboard while he's gone. It practically sounds like a typewriter.
Upon opening Chrome on the boy's computer, I was besieged by ads and in-page dialogue pop-ups. He had adware/malware infecting his system and this was not an easy problem to solve.
Some of it was branded as from the YTubeAdsRemover extension but when I opened Chrome's extensions page, I got a message that it was "Installed by enterprise policy" and there was no way to disable it there.
It also doesn't show up in Windows' "Uninstall or change a program" panel (snappy name, that). What does show up there are some suspicious programs. I deleted those but it didn't solve the problem.
A Google search leads to a number of dubious choices, especially when this insidious adware is planting false links.
After a couple of false starts, I found one thing that did work – maybe two.
The first thing I did was download and run Junkware Removal Tool, which a few reputable sources recommended. It did this:
~~~ Services
Successfully stopped: [Service] backupstack
Successfully deleted: [Service] backupstack
~~~ Registry Values
Successfully repaired: [Registry Value] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\\AppInit_DLLs
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I'm sure that rid the computer of all sorts of crap, but it didn't solve the YTubeAdsRemover problem.
This Malware Tips page, however suspicious it seems, did. Thank you, Stelian Pilici.
I stopped at Step 4. Step 5 is downloading more software to make sure there's nothing else left and that was a step I wasn't willing to take. I figured if the problem had not been fixed, I'd know. So far, so good.
My superpower
I appear to manifest power failures. I told Child 1 that I feel like a mutant X-Man. She said I would be the crappiest X-Man of them all.
It started yesterday when I was at the dentist. Not at the dentist, though – the power failure happened at home. When I got home, I discovered the damage, and damage it was. My iMac, my beloved Bender, would not boot.
I couldn't get the chime to even sound. I would unplug the thing and plug it in again to reset the SMC, but the best I could manage from that was a whir that died after a second. I'm not sure if it was the hard disc or a fan. Does the 27″ iMac even have a fan in it? Regardless, this was obviously a hardware issue and not something I could fix myself.
I learned you can't call an Apple Store directly to make an appointment so I hung up the phone and went to Apple's Web site to make an appointment with the store I jut hung up on. This was around 3:00 and I snagged an appointment for 4:30 – not too bad.
At the Apple Store, the genius (I can't type or say that without sounding sarcastic even if I'm not) plugged in and tried to start the iMac. He got the startup chime, but nothing else. On his second try, the chime eluded him as it had me.
The genius (snicker) laid out the options for me. The best-case scenario is a blown power supply that would cost $130 to replace. The middling-case scenario is a blown logic board, which would cost me about $600. We all know what the worst case would be, but I do have everything backed up on a Time Machine archive as far as I know.
I'm oddly optimistic. It's like I'm paying $130 for a forced staycation. All my clients are understanding and none need anything right now.
So, as part of my forced time off, I decided to catch a movie tonight with Child 1, the only family member who was both home and willing to go see "Snowpiercer", an apocalyptic SF tale that's a cross between "The Road Warrior" and "Murder on the Orient Express".
The first two-thirds of the movie captivated me despite some wooden acting on the part of the lead, whom I didn't recognize but whom Child 1 informs me is Captain America. Everything else worked.
I can't say I'm disappointed with the final third of the film because the theatre and the mall it is in suffered a – yes – power failure. We sat in the dark for 15 minutes before the theatre staff decided that there wouldn't be time to show the rest of the late show. They gave each of us a free admission and an offer to come see the rest of the movie at another time.
All I need now is a mutant name. I'm thinking of the Brown-Out Aura.
101 things about 101 Squadron
1. A few weeks ago, I spoke with my co-author Alex Yofe. He's working on books on the P-51 Mustang and Mosquito in the Israeli Air Force and hope to have them out by the end of the year.
After that, we are going to – drumroll, please – work on a second edition of the S-199 book. He has some new material that we will incorporate.
10. I hope to convince him to put out our book, and possibly some of his other work, in an e-book format. He said we should look at that after the second edition comes out in paper. I'm skeptical. He's sensitive to people stealing his artwork.
11. I think I have tracked down one of the "lost" pilots of 101 Squadron. No one has been able to pinpoint who Al Wolfe was. He didn't stay long with 101 Squadron, and maybe he didn't spend much time in Israel. His name appears on one or two of the squadron's mission debriefs. That's all anybody has ever figured out.
But, to quote from the Facebook page of the 359th Fighter Group: "Capt. Albert E. Wolfe of Nanticoke, Penn., flew with the 370th Fighter Squadron, 359th Fighter Group, from August 1944 through May 1, 1945, when he ended his tour of duty."
That's him to the left. He flew P-51D CS-H 44-14979.
100. After years of rumours, Spielberg has finally produced a film on 101 Squadron – but it's Nancy Spielberg. Her documentary, "Above and Beyond", is making its premier this week or two ago and is making the rounds of film festivals this summer. Click the link for a trailer.
Nice job, Nancy. I wish you would have taken me up on my offer to help. Alex is also a bit perplexed about not being contacted.
101. There are no flying S-199s and even if one could fly I doubt anyone would try. Spielberg rented a Hispano Buchon from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and filmed there, as you can see from these production stills. As the page states, "After scouring the globe for a flying Avia, we came up empty handed. An almost identical cousin is the Bouchon which, as you can see below, we painted with period IAF markings."
If they painted the freaking thing, WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT ACCURATELY? It's not hard to find out what the Avia S-199's looked like. The one at the Israeli Air Force Museum is painted more or less properly – and the documentary uses it as background. You can see it in the trailer.
I just don't understand. If you're going to be allowed to paint somebody else's airplane, why not do it the way you want?
Even better, why use a real airplane at all? From further down on the page comes this gem: "Thanks to an incredibly generous in-kind donation of services from George Lucas' special effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, we will be combining our live footage with computer generated imagery of flying planes."
Why not do it all in CG and use a mock-up on the ground? This photo drives me nuts:
That's four Buchons with Israeli markings. It could have been four Avias…. Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, renting that Buchon was a waste of money.


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Ruger's got their own AR it appears. MSRP of $1995.
Damn that's sweet
Yeah, it looks pretty hot. If I didn't already have an AR and if the damn money tree hadn't died, I'd take a serious look at one.
I'd seen those a short while back. They do look nice. I'd like to see one out in the wild nad e how it did.
I really like the looks of that too! Seems everyone is now jumping on the gas piston operation.
Still like my LWRC M6A2 though - the original gas piston (mine is all EVIL black)
Taurus is supposed to have one in the works also.
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Taurus is supposed to have one in the works also.
With their shoddy customer service record, I don't think I'd be willing to drop $1k-$2k on a gun with them.
So does this mean that the 1911 is next on their list of products?
I've been happy with everything I've bought from them so far.
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The Bridgeport Soundtigers added Defensemen Steve Oleksy on a Professional Tryout Offer (PTO) this afternoon to add to a defensive Corp already missing Mark Katic and in need of some extra depth with Benn Olson banged up.
Standing 6'1 and 195 pounds, the Chesterfield, Michigan native fits into the average size of the Bridgeport defense and is more a grit player than a puck moving helper. Most impoortantly, he's healthy. While a short-term signing, Oleksy will provide useful minutes as Olson gets healthy.
Oleksy comes to Webster Bank Arena by way of the ECHL's Idaho Steeleheads where he enjoyed his best professional season last year notching 21 points in 55 games. This season he's picked up an assist and 20 PIM in 5 games for the Steelheads. He's being added to be a fighter more than he's being added for his offensive prowess.
Oleksy has tallied 17 games in the AHL prior to this season recording 4 assists in those games for the Lake Erie Monsters and picked up another in 3 playoff games last spring.
Michael Fornibaio of the Connecticut Post also mentioned that Alaska is sending another player to the Soundtigers if C Chris Langkow is unable to go, F Dan Kissel. Kissel's PTO was announced on the Bridgeport homepage this morning.
The Notre Dame grad and Crestwood, IL native comes from the Alaska Aces and Coach Thompson's former tutelage. Though he's small (5'9 and 178 pounds according to Hockeydb), he put up pointsin the ECHL last year to the tune of 46(20 G and 26 Assists) in 72 games, splitting time between Gwinnett and Alaska. It will be interesting to see how Kissel adjusts to the AHL. Some small guys excel, others, not so much.
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|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
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|Dried thyme
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|Black peppercorns
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|Celery stalks
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|1⁄2 Medium, sliced
|Minced fresh parsley
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So I was like "We shall teach you some respect to the bit and my leg!"
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Hey man just thought I would let you know Zombie has come back to SoS and we are back too work.
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yeah its like the only legit site out there
Well actually hes wearing a mask, a ninja mask!
cool, I thought the head looked a bit different, too young, long hair and such, though it's hard to tell with the Squished pic
I think its the orginal zero, It was a good year or 2 ago when I made this avatar
yeah its zero with another characters head from some n64 fighting game.. I forgot the name
Sorry about that, yeah Im a KOF Freak so what, anyways cool avatar, is that Zero or Original Zero?
hey AttorneyAtPaw, You have some serious nerve and or case of severe stupidity for your statement. One Your Avatar looks like it was made by a kindergarden student, and two KOF is the best Fighting Game series of all time. So, Allow me to be the first (But hopefully not the last) to say "GO TO HELL!!!" and, If your still standing, "Are you OKAY!!? BUSTER WOLF!!!"
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Spoiler for I'll get less than this....
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Thousands, I suppose! But you probably mean just in this language...
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Total cash flow from operating activities for the year was $417
million versus $368 million in the prior year. The company utilized
its cash flow to pay dividends of around $101.8 million, repurchase
shares of $161.1 million and $135.2 million toward capital
Fiscal 2011 Performance
Bemis reported fiscal EPS of $1.99 in 2011, a 6% drop from $2.12
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company's guidance of $1.90 and $1.96. Net sales improved 10% year
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partially offset by lower unit sales volume.
2012 Outlook
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unit sales volumes in 2012 to be similar to 2011.
Management expects adjusted EPS n the range of 43 cents to 49
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Cash provided by operating activities for 2012 is expected to
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Featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, this glass-and-steel classic is the place to go for top-notch diner fare, including creative specialties like the omelet stuffed with roasted portobello mushrooms, Brie, and asparagus. The steamed cheeseburgers are another favorite. Arrive early for lunch, as the lines are often out the door.
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I went with my wife and 2 little boys (3 and 8) after seeing this diner on the food network. It was pouring outside when we arrived, and when we walked in, we were greeted with a very surly waitress who said "There are people already waiting for a table ahead of you".I was taken aback by this greeting, but replied with "that's OK, we're happy to wait". Her response? "You can't wait inside the diner, you're blocking the exit for my customers who are
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MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 4: Owner Steve Bisciotti of the Baltimore Ravens watches warmups before play against the Miami Dolphins in an NFL Wildcard Playoff Game at Dolphins Stadium on January 4, 2009 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
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Sewing Together the Outside of Tote:
- Place outside fabric cuts, right sides together.
- Sew the sides & bottom, leaving the top and corners open (zigzag or serge seams, after sewing, to make them more secure). You don't have to worry about lining up the pockets; it was designed so no pockets will have to match at side seams.
- At the corners match seams (side & bottom) and sew, zigzag or serge all seams to make them more secure. Turn tote right sides out.
Lining- Corners & Sewing Together:
- Take the 2-15" x 15" lining cuts (I used a durable canvas fabric), cut out a 2" x 2" square at each corner on one side.
- Place right sides together, sew sides and at the bottom leave a 3" opening for turning. Leave corners and top open. Then, sew the corners the same as the outside of the tote. (zigzag or serge seams to make them more secure) Leave wrong sides out.
- Take the 2- 4" x 20" strips of fabric for straps, place raw edges to the middle, the long way and press.
- Fold again and press, making a 1" strap. Sew close to both long edges.
- Place the raw edge of one side of the strap to the raw edge of the tote, 3" in from one seam, pin and zigzag in place. Make sure the strap is straight and place it on the same side, other end, 3" in and zigzag in place. Sew the other strap to the other side of the tote the same way.
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- Take the outside of the tote and place it (right sides together) inside the lining with the 3" opening at the bottom. Pin and sew all around the top of the tote, backstitching over the straps to make them more secure.
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I am strictly a hobbyist; no commercial aspirations, and years ago I needed to photograph some paintings. After looking at the "official" stuff, I happened to be walking through one of the big box home centers and saw 500 W halogen worklights -- with folding stands -- for something ridiculous like $14.99 apiece, so I bought two. They seem pretty close to actual photoflood color temperature, but OY! you can fry yourself working around them. I also used to feel a bit worried and maybe even guilty about sticking one KW worth of load into an unknown receptacle in some third party's gallery space.
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I also dabble in the ceramic arts and like to photograph my own stuff. That prodded me into acquiring one of the tents mentioned upthread. It is free standing, designed to twist and fold and store in a compact bag. But it never goes back in that bag as easily as it comes out! It's about a 30 inch cube, and I find for pottery it isn't really big enough; it would probably be OK for jewelry.
If I ever get the one end of my basement cleaned out, I think I'll put some sort of shallow closet with double doors that can be opened for an "instant studio." I suspect for many of my activities, some sort of curtain rod to suspend a huge white cloth to create a sort of indoor open sky effect might be in my future. So far it looks like an eternal work in progress.
The comment upthread about still life not necessarily needing lots of light is an excellent point, and for just B&W, color balance is not especially important. I do shoot color, more "other" than film, but both work with my daylight CFLs.
There are ePrey vendors with all manner of fascinating gizmos -- reflectors with sockets to hold as many as five CFLs -- little table top single bulb reflector units -- background stands that could be used with cloth for diffusers ---- ARGH! Quick -- hide my wallet!


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1855 $50 Wass Molitor Fifty Dollar VF30 PCGS....
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Impressive 1855 Wass Molitor Fifty Dollar, VF301855 $50 Wass Molitor Fifty Dollar VF30 PCGS. K-9, R.5. These fifty dollar "slugs," as they were nicknamed, were minted in large quantities by the private coinage firms of California between 1850 and 1855, although only a small fraction of the original number still exist. This 1855 product was from the only fifty dollar issue of Wass, Molitor & Co., a refining and assaying firm established by two Hungarian immigrants. Their "slugs" were round, unlike the octagonal fifty dollar coins that had emerged in large numbers from the U.S. Assay Office between 1851 and 1853.
The company had minted five and ten dollar gold coins in 1852, which were found to be of superior quality and fineness compared to similar issues from competing firms. Wass, Molitor were also praised by the San Francisco Herald for their prompt customer service. Adams quotes the Herald from November 25, 1851, saying: "It will be seen from the announcement of Wass, Molitor & Co. that the public have a prospect of being relieved from any great addition to the torrent of cumbrous slugs that has for the last nine months been inundating the country" (referring to the products of the U.S. Assay Office of Gold). Kagin comments that making change for these was so troublesome to merchants that the fifty dollar slugs were often discounted 5%. By January 8 of the following year, the same newspaper announced that the need for smaller gold coins had been met by the firm, which was issuing some five dollar pieces, and lots of tens.
This example is well struck, although Liberty's hair detail is typically flat, and the design elements are evenly positioned on the planchet. The rims are well brought up and the denticles are crisply outlined, which was not always the case for many privately minted coins. The green-gold surfaces exhibit traces of luster near the devices. Both sides of the piece are moderately abraded, indicating that it probably saw extensive circulation. Listed on page 362 of the 2008 Guide Book. (PCGS# 10363)
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This story in my film is really about being poor, uneducated, and in the South, and being stuck and in a cycle.
The gun-control debate is not a new one, and the voters who care about it are not uneducated on the subject.