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ORONO, Maine - The University of Maine fell behind early as New Hampshire took a 40-14 halftime lead, but battled back in the second half for the 50-36 final score at Alfond Stadium. The Black Bears were led on offense by Ron Whitcomb, who passed for a season high 422 yards and four touchdowns, while Arel Gordon had nine catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns. The Wildcats were led by wide receiver David Ball with nine catches for 172 yards and three touchdowns, as quarterback Ricky Santos was 18 of 33 for 249 yards. Maine finishes the season at 5-6 (3-5 Atlantic 10) and New Hampshire improved to 9-2 (6-2 Atlantic 10).
"With an interception, blocked punt and fumble early in the game, it was too big of a whole for us to truly recover from," said head coach Jack Cosgrove. "We came back in the second half and had a chance once we made it a one score game, but they broke the game with the touchdown run with about a minute remaining in the game. Our effort in the second half had me believing that we would win the game."
Maine received the opening kickoff, however on the second play from scrimmage Ron Whitcomb (East Rochester, N.Y.) was intercepted by Corey Graham at the Black Bear 35-yard line. The Wildcats scored on a six yard run by R. J. Harvey to take a 7-0 lead at 12:30. The Black Bears were forced three-and-out on their next possession, and Mike Mellow (Stonington, Conn.) had his punt blocked by Sean Lynch, which was recovered by Keith LeVan in the endzone to give the Wildcats a 14-0 lead. Maine was forced to punt on the following possession, and the Wildcats drove 79 yards in six plays for a drive capped by a Ricky Santos to David Ball 22-yard touchdown reception at 6:22. The misfortune continued for the Black Bears, as a fumble on the kickoff game the Wildcats the ball at the Maine 33-yard line. The Wildcats only needed one play to take advantage of the turnover, as Santos and Ball combined for a 22-yard touchdown to take a 27-0 lead, as the extra point failed.
The Black Bears were able to take advantage of a New Hampshire turnover as Whitcomb hit Arel Gordon (Rochester, N.Y.) for a 28 yard touchdown reception for a 27-7 score at the end of the first quarter. New Hampshire added a 32 yard field goal and a 38 yard field goal by Connor McCormick in the second period to stretch the lead to 33-7. Maine countered as Whitcomb again found Gordon for a 24-yard touchdown catch at 2:11 in the second quarter. Before the half ended, the Wildcats added a touchdown as Santos and Ball combined for a 45 yard touchdown catch to give New Hampshire a 40-14 lead at the half.
In the third quarter, New Hampshire took the opening possession to the Maine 12-yard line before adding a 39 yard field goal by McCormick to take a 29 point lead at 43-14. The Black Bears began to rally back, as a Mellow punt was downed at the five-yard line. On the next play, Jermaine Walker (Teaneck, N.J.) tackled Chris Ward in the endzone for a safety. Following the Wildcat free kick, Maine scored as Montell Owens (Wilmington, Del.) had a three yard run to cut the lead to 43-23 at the end of the third quarter. Maine continued to rally, as Whitcomb connected with Christian Pereira (Bronx, N.Y.) on a 37 yard touchdown pass, however the point after was blocked and Maine was down 43-29.
The Black Bear defense held strong, and forced a punt on the ensuing Wildcat possession. Maine's passing game came up big again, as Whitcomb found Ryan Waller open deep for a 45 yard touchdown completion. With the point after, Maine cut the lead to seven points with 7:10 remaining in the game. The teams traded punts, and New Hampshire got the ball back with 4:24 remaining in the game. John McCoy was able to break loose on a run and went 24 yards for a touchdown to give the Wildcats a 50-36 lead with 1:06 remaining in the game. The Black Bears got the ball back, however Whitcomb was intercepted on the fourth play of the drive.

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LOCAL Freemasons will be celebrating a major fund raising campaign on Saturday when a cheque for more than £1.5 million will be presented to one of their four major charities, the Freemasons Grand Charity, which has donated more than £100 million to support people in need since 1981.
Each year the charity provides grants totalling nearly £8 million to medical research, support for vulnerable people, youth opportunities, hospice services, air ambulances and disaster relief in the UK and across the world.
It also provides assistance for Freemasons and their dependants in financial need and in the five years to December 2012, more than 100 people in Staffordshire received assistance totalling £221,000.
Freemasons who meet in Leek have contributed £18,000 during the five years the appeal has been running.
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All the money has been contributed by the 3,000 members of the 100 lodges in Staffordshire and the Provincial Grand Master, Dr Sandy Stewart, TD, will make the presentation to the President of the Grand Charity, Richard Hone, QC, before nearly 500 members and their partners who are attending the cheque presentation dinner at Keele University.
The Freemasons Grand Charity also funds hundreds of nationwide charities each year and they are chosen because they all aim to make a significant difference to people in need.
In recent years it has donated more than £200,000 for research at Keele University into agerelated hearing loss, which is producing impressive results.
Last year it donated £5,000 to the Prince's Trust in Staffordshire to help young people access jobs in the construction industry. And during the last 29 years the seven hospices in Staffordshire have received more than £300,000.
The Midlands Air Ambulance has also received grants of £132, 500 since 2007 as part of a nationwide Grant Charity initiative to support the vital work carried out by air ambulances and the West Midlands region of the British Red Cross was given a new Responder emergency response vehicle to provide support to UK emergency services and first aid cover for local communities.
The chief executive of the Freemasons Grand Charity, Laura Chapman, said: "We hope it is clear to see from the range of causes we fund that the Freemasons Grand Charity is dedicated to providing support for a wide variety of charitable services each year.
"We are immensely grateful to Freemasons and their families in Staffordshire for their contribution to our funds."
Staffordshire's Provincial Grand Master Sandy Stewart said: "It has been our intention to raise as much as we could to further the marvellous work of the Grand Charity. It has been a difficult time financially for many of our members and our numbers have fallen during the past ten years.
"We set no target and I am so proud of all our members and their families for their generous support and the enormous efforts they have all made.
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The salads are decent; absolutely nothing special! If you don't want to spend $15 on a mediocre salad, don't go here
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This chain is making huge money and I have to blame myself for trying it over and over and always feeling ripped off- it's near where I work and today I had a loaf of bread, wanted a salad, and tried it AGAIN. spinach and shitake- all I got- $9. I tried a new dressing the chipotle citrus which defines "cloying sweet" and this was what I found in my 2 item salad: a peapod, a blackbean, multiple onions, raisins, and a tortilla chip. sloppy. This is my testament, I promise myself to never waist another 10 dollars here.
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Is it me, or does it seem crazy that i was the only one in the place and had to wait 10 minutes while the guy filled the delivery orders? to make matters worse, i 'ordered' from the woman at the cash register & while i was waiting for the guy to make my salad, she sat there looking at me. I asked her if she could 'go light on the dressing' and she said i should have said that before she put my credit card through... what?! Since when is it crazy that i should have face to face contact with the person making my order? strange... i will not return.
Posted by never calling again on 09/17/2008
The food from Tossed is not so bad, I actually love the Tarragon Chicken Salad sandwich and would order it every day if I could. Ordering online is pretty reliable, but never again will I call Tossed to place a phone order. Twice I have talked to a man/boy who is obviously miserable in his existence, so rude the exasperation in his voice was palpable, and quite humorous. I know it CAN be stressful to be in the service industry but c'mon, screaming, "Good god! I can't believe this!" because I ask him to please hold on a moment while I ask a coworker what she wants for dressing." Chill out man. Either lighten up or quit.
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you'd think a salad place would have good salads they sound exciting on the menu but they were bland and boring
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I got a caprese sandwich on a baguette, and this for $9.70??? THIS IS a sham! it's just 3 slices of cheese and 3 slices of tomato with 3 leaves of basil, and this is gourmet???!!! it's b/s. The ambiance is really cool though! they have a big screen tv with trivia, and horoscope which keeps even the loneliest diner entertained. I am not going there again though. beautiful people going in and out, so plenty of eye candy, other than that if you're hungry for something good and inexpensive this is NOT the place to go.
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I ordered delivery, the food arrived promptly. But I am very disappointed with the quality of the food. The fruit salad I ordered look like it had been sitting there for days (it's all soggy and watery). The fresh salmon sandwich tasted ok, but looks like someone just slapped two pieces of bread together with tiny pieces of cucumber (and cucumber skin!), salmon is over cooked and dry. Overall, they over charge for the quality of the food they offer. Maybe their salad is worth trying next time...


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Shelby is a mouthpiece for the banking, construction, agriculture, and real estate industires. He needs to go, and now, but he has a political war chest that no opponent can match, so he will be re-elected.
Someone needs to tell the governor that for anything to be accomplished, he needs to get off of his behind and start things himself. because our legislators in Montgomery are owned by the insurance industry.
I don't care if the business is owned by an alien from outer space. This is an example of the "good old boy" network that has run the business of this city for years.
It's a case of the "good old boys" taking care of the good old boys. If Nodine is found guilty, he will make a plea bargain to reveal things that his other political friends in Mobile and Baldwin County have been guilty of doing and they are scared to death of that happening.
You won't hear much about this as USA has enough political pull to silence this quickly.
This an example of the "good old boy" network taking care of one of their own. Nodine knows too much about other elected officials in both Mobile and Baldwin County for him to be found guilty and be offered a plea bargain in payment for information on his friends.
This "fine man" was blocked from becoming a federal judge by his own Republican congressional members. And try to get his supporters to explain how he has voted in the past for more, more, more military spending on two wars that we have lost ..... Iraq and Afghanistan. He also supports no more taxes on corporations, or wealthy people, and wants to cut back on medicare and social security benefits like his other Republican memebers of congress do also. Their motto ..... take care of the wealthy, the corporations, the wasteful military spending (like a 400 million dollar plane that won't fly), and put it to the middle class of America.
Redneck goober is a great description of one of Alabama's finest elected Repoublican politicians put on a pedestal by George Talbot.
In the Boy Scouts, he should have been eligible for the "tenderfoot badge", nothing more!
His comment, "unsustainable debt is the greatest threat to our lone term future. We simply cannot continue to live beyond our means, or disaster till ensue" is a threat to the Good Lord striking him with lightning when he and "his president" ruined this country with eight years of uncontrolled spending. If a reader believes this article, I have a bridge that I need to sell them.
Frances is just doing what a "good employee does when she wants to keep her job".
He'll get probation and community service just like the "special people" do versus what the ordinary citizen gets when they do this same thing.
Big piece of "fluff" written by someone on his Washington staff and published by this dying newspaper about a grown man who is still a "boy scout" by the way he acts in congress.
Simple solution. Legalize casinos in Alabama where corruption cannot buy politicians and the field will be even for everyone to participate that wants to buid one.
Simple. Many of the yahoos in this state consider wearing a seat belt caving into the federal government and prefer not to wear them in protest and die!
When my paid subscription runs out for the Mobile Press-Register expires, I will not renew ..... plain and simple. What used to be a good newspaper has gone from bad to worse in the last year, and I will not tolerate three times a week printing.
I was being facetious when I said that social security and medicare were "entitlement programs" but the Republican party wants to cut these instead of raising taxes or cutting the defense budget. I'm on social security and medicare also, and I paid into them all of my working career. It's just that some people in Washington consider other industries that have give them campaign money more important than you or me.
I am good and tired of seeing food labeled "distributed by". You see it all over our friendly Walmart stores as well as other grocery stores. Congress needs to make it mandatory to put on the label the country of origin. Of course, you know this will not happen because congress is owned by the large multi-national corporations who get their products from overseas.
There is no global warming. It's a cool 88 degrees outside in May.
Yep. Let's keep making as many ships as they can turn out, and how about some more of those 400 milion dollar planes that the pilots pass out in when they fly them. We can do all of this if we cut out social security, medicare, medicaid, and all forms of "entitlement programs" that the Republicans consider a waste of money. No taxes for corporations, low tax rates for millionaires, and stick it to the middle class to pay for it all.


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A Bitcrusher is a digital audio effect, which produces a distortion by the reduction of the resolution or bandwidth of digital audio data. The resulting quantization noise may produce a "warmer" sound impression, or a harsh one, depending on the amount of reduction.
A number stored digitally has a resolution given as n bits, where there are possible values of the number. If one reduces the number of bits used to store the number, the number of possible values of the number is decreased, and thus the resolution decreases, producing quantization distortion. For example, a standard CD has a resolution of 16 bits, thus there are 216 possible values for any given part of the musical waveform. If this is reduced to approx. 8 bits, distortions can be noticed, reducing the quality. These distortions add to the original overtone in such a way that the wave shape becomes angular. This can produce a "warmer" sound impression than the original waveform, especially if the wave is rounded off in certain ways.[citation needed] Often this is used with electronic music consciously, without regard to fidelity.
An example of a sound distorted by a bitcrusher is in the introduction to the song "Chemicals" from the album "Shrink" by The Notwist.
The samples used in the Roland TR-909 drum machine, for example, have a resolution of 6 bits, leading to a similar sound.
In the musical genre Hardstyle, bitcrushing has become an essential effect in many tracks.
In harder versions of the electronic music genre Dubstep/Drumstep, bitcrusher "yah yah" and "yoi yoi" effects have become more popular in the recent years of the genre with some artists using the effect more than the genre's signature "bass wobbles".
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Dark, gothic, haunting and captivating have always been words in the Alexander McQueen vocabulary, under the watch of its founder and his successor, Sarah Burton. It seems fitting then that animator Sarah Beeby took the same inspiration for her film featuring an A/W12 Alexander McQueen clutch, with skull clasp, available from NET-A-PORTER.COM. The film's sinister tones are perfectly in-keeping with the recent ghoulish Halloween festivities and this evening's bonfire celebrations.
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The striking animated short, handdrawn by Beeby, opens with a flock of birds flying out of gothic ruins. Birds are a frequent motif in the McQueen back catalogue. In S/S95, McQueen dedicated his collection to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, showing suits and skirts printed with bird silhouettes. In his breath-taking S/S01 show, which recreated a photograph by Joel-Peter Witkin, McQueen's models watched themselves in a two-way mirror, walking around an inner cube which opened to reveal a naked body covered in butterflies and moths. Maggie Rizer appeared in a striking bird ensemble with a headpiece. In his A/W09 show entitled 'Horn of Plenty', McQueen revisited his past collections including The Birds. Garments made entirely of gull and crow feathers made models into bird-like creatures.
AnOther's current obsession, the McQueen enameled flower box clutch, is a fascinating object in itself. Its metal frame structure takes its inspiration from art deco designs, when women would favour hard case purses as opposed to soft leather ones. Its red, purple and pink enameled paillette roses contrast with the sinister Swarovski crystal and enamel-embellished skull lock fastening – a typical McQueen juxtaposition.
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Jamaican Usain Bolt after finishing first in the men's 200 meters. Warren Weir, left, was third, and American Wallace Spearmon, right, was fourth. / Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY Sports
LONDON -- When the stakes are the biggest, the spotlight most bright, Usain Bolt is as good as gold. Good as there's ever been.
Putting the field far enough behind that he could slow up over the last few strides and put his left index finger to his mouth to tell any critics to shush, Bolt won the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds Thursday, making him the only man with two Olympic titles in that event.
He added it to the 100 gold he won Sunday, duplicating the 100-200 double he produced at the Beijing Games four years ago. The only difference? In 2008, Bolt broke world records in both.
This time, Bolt led a Jamaican sweep, with his training partner and pal Yohan Blake getting the silver in 19.44, and Warren Weir taking the bronze in 19.84 -- more than a half-second behind the champion.
"The guy is just on another planet right now," Wallace Spearmon, the American who finished fourth in 19.90, said between sobs of disappointment.
Afterward, Bolt had plenty of energy left, dropping to the track to do five push-ups -- one for each of his Olympic gold medals so far. Ever the showman, he bent down and kissed the track, then did it again a few minutes later.
Bolt's stated goal heading to London was to become a "living legend" and, well, he's making a pretty good case for himself, even if International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said a few hours before the 200 final that it's too early to make such determinations.
"Let him participate in three, four games, and he can be a legend," Rogge said. "Already he's an icon."
His 19.30 in the 200 final at Beijing still stands as the Olympic record -- and certainly would have been eclipsed Thursday with a full-fledged sprint through the finish -- but Bolt bettered that with a 19.19 at the 2009 world championships, where he also set the current 100 record.
Now he'll try to make it 6-for-6 over the past two Olympics in the 400-meter relay, where Jamaica can't count on the injured Asafa Powell, the former world-record holder in the 100 and the anchor man in 2008. Still, with Bolt, Blake and Weir presumably on the squad, there's no question who will be favored. Qualifying starts today; the final is Saturday.
Men's 800: David Rudisha won his first Olympic gold medal with the kind of world-record performance that has made him almost unbeatable the past three years. The 23-year-old Kenyan won Thursday's final in 1 minute, 40.91 seconds, shaving one-tenth of a second off the mark he set in 2010, and setting the first world record on the track at the London Olympics. Nigel Amos of Botswana took silver in a national record 1:41.73, and Timothy Kitum of Kenya got the bronze in 1:42.53. Americans Duane Solomon and Nick Symmonds finished fourth and fifth.
Men's 1,600 relay: American runner Manteo Mitchell ran the last 200 meters of the opening lap of the relay preliminaries with a broken leg. Mitchell told the Associated Press he had about half a lap to go when he felt a popping in his left leg. He helped the Americans to a tie for first with the Bahamas in 2 minutes, 58.87 seconds. A few hours later, doctors told him he had a broken left fibula. The relay final is today. "I figured it's what almost any person would've done in that situation," Mitchell said.
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Norfolk, Va. – A little rain was not going to stop 73-year-old Joe Kight from showing off his new ride!
Two days ago, Joe's hoveround mobility chair was stolen, leaving him confined to his Suffolk home.
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Her mother passed away last year, leaving behind a barely used mobility chair.
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"I even wrote in my journal this morning, you know dear mom, I told her what I was going to do," Tripoli says. "You know I can just feel it. She would have been happy."
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Big news coming out of Microsoft's Build conference, which kicked off in Redmond, Washington today: Microsoft has surpassed four million copies sold of Windows 8 since its launch last Friday.
The aforementioned number only counts the number of copies of Redmond's latest operating system in the hands of consumers (either physical or digital), and possibly also those currently sitting on retail shelves (Microsoft very clearly says that it's sold four million copies; not that four million people have upgraded). If we include those that have been shipped to its partners, Microsoft ups that number to "tens of millions." Of course, many of these haven't found their way to the end user yet: most are for PCs that will start shipping in short order for the upcoming holiday season. There could also be millions of copies still sitting on retail shelves.
How does this compare with other major operating system releases? For the most recent release of Mac OS X — 10.8 — three million copies were sold in the first four days. While we don't have exact numbers, Ballmer claims sales of Windows 8 are outpacing sales of Windows 7 during the same period.
It's hard to directly compare sales of Mac OS and Windows due to the fact that their installed bases are so wildly disparate. Considering Apple has somewhere in the region of 5% of the PC market, versus Microsoft's 90%, you would think that Microsoft should've sold a lot more than 4 million copies, though. Are Apple users more switched on? Or are they just more willing to fork out $20 for the latest groundbreaking innovations from Cupertino?
Conjecture aside, though, if Ballmer is right — if Windows 8 is indeed outselling its predecessor — consumers are responding well to Microsoft's attempt at modernizing the Windows experience. This couldn't be more welcome news.
Microsoft's biggest hurdle to modernizing Windows is getting the legions of users still on Windows XP to upgrade. Windows 7 did quite well among this set, and helped to bring down XP's share from 74% in October 2009 (Windows 7's launch) to 41% as of September according to NetMarketShare. Still, with four in ten computers using XP some 11 years after its launch, that's way too high.
Considering any type of support for XP from Microsoft is done as of August 2014, these folks will have to upgrade. No doubt PC makers — and Microsoft too — can't wait for that day to happen. If anything, the not-so-gentle push to ditch XP will help accelerate Windows 8 sales even more.
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I think it's a case of "If it's not broke, don't fix it" with XP.
Vista was awful (Wow*) and hurt Microsoft's ability to survive in a more tech savvy age.
I don't think it's too long till we see them move out of the computer operating system market.
*Do you get the reference?
Vista was ok after sp1 and win7 is wayyyy better than xp as is ubuntu. Xp users are missing out, it's a POS.
Win7 is way better than Ubuntu. And Ubuntu is not better than XP.
BUT Windows8 is an atrocious lazy crap fraud of a product. It's a silly joke.
At Microsoft they must be under some heavy drugs to come up with such a childish thing that the Metro/ModernUI really is. Which by the way got only 2-3% market share on WindowsPhone7.x which means people all over the world already rejected it multiple times.
And they think to be so smart even forcing such an unusable interface on Windows Server 2012. I mean… the business/enterprise OS got the little kids interface that is Metro. That is more than retarded. It's just plain crazy in the worst possible way.
http://twitter.com/jerm1027 Jeremy Garcia
From the 3rd line on, I agree with you, but you must be on some of the same drugs as MS if you're going to say Win7 is way better than Ubuntu and that Ubuntu can't even best XP.
"By category, Ubuntu leads with three wins (File Copy Times, Multimedia,
and System), while Windows has the upper hand in none. On a per-test
basis, Ubuntu wins 11 out of 19 tests and Windows wins eight. Of those,
Ubuntu holds six significant victories over Windows' five. Any way you
want to cut it, Ubuntu 11.10 beats Windows 7 in cross-platform
performance testing."
And 11.10 isn't even the most refined version of Ubuntu.
z Simmons
I would say Ubuntu 12.04 (I've got it installed) is between XP and Windows 7 in quality – that means I think it is a solid, nice OS. That is a matter of personal opinion, based on: I think Ubuntu's stock Unity shell looks better than XP, and looks almost as good as Windows 7; I've found Ubuntu 12.04 to be buggier than Windows 7; there is less software available for Ubuntu; there is very little in-built customizability for the stock Unity shell for Ubuntu (Windows 7's stock shell has more built in customizability); I find Windows' family safety feature useful, which Ubuntu does not have as stock (perhaps there is some software like that out there for Ubuntu).
Sure, Ubuntu might use hardware better than Windows 7. But a lot of people are willing to give up slight performance improvements to get a UI and ecosystem that they prefer/are familiar with (for example, many Windows 7 users are currently rejecting Windows 8 because they dislike the UI and/or the ecosystem, even though Windows 8 has many slight performance improvements on Windows 7).
I think Ubuntu is sufficient for many people's wants/needs. They just need to know about it (I've met many people who are reasonably knowledgeable with computers, but who have never heard of Ubuntu, let alone seen it).
I myself have found Windows 8 to be a nice product to use (on a desktop computer). Windows 8 being optimized for touch was obviously meant to target tablets, which are a growing market (I think that Microsoft knows that if you don't like Windows 8, then they have the solid "traditional desktop" Windows 7 product to fall back on for you). I think the Modern UI is really clean-looking (I love the full screen apps). I learnt how to use it very quickly; and, contrary to popular belief, my brain has not been reduced to the level of a 2 year old by using it. I find the app store very useful (as I do on Ubuntu 12.04); and it's only set to get more apps. Obviously, I dislike how uncustomizable it is. And I dislike the legal burden that Microsoft's products bring with them.
But I find it pathetic how some people get riled up over other people preferring some software over other software. I actually don't care too much that youse all aren't on Windows 8, or that youse all aren't on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Honestly, the only thing that kept me from Linux was game compatibility. That's vastly improved and Opengl is known to run 20+% faster on it. W7 is a means to an end, once I get a new ssd Linux is going on it.
People are more tech savvy now than before, and more than willing to try out new things as having gotten used to phones they expect more out of their computers.
The future for linux will be making sure that most devices can be hooked up properly. With GBN and Valve against w8 it's probably already dead in the water.
The best thing about w8 is ssd boot times with an hdd but truth be told an ssd is cheaper than a copy of w8 so I expect most of the public/corporations to stay xp/7/vista (for those who can't update).
You are perfectly right Jeremy. Anyway i think Ubuntu has still to grow. Canonical took the right way and it seems Ubuntu, thanks to Valve, Unity3D and the forthcoming Cryengine (it seems they will support Linux in a near future), will become a great game machine. Anyway, Ubuntu will be ready to fight with Windows7 or 8 in 2014. We are not so far!
i agree with your comments ,, after using win 8 for 3 mins i said what is this after using win8 for 15 mins i said FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET FOOK ET from now on when ever i want to use the word FUCK i will type win8
Vista was good after the hardware community bothered to get their drivers working under the new system, nothing to do with SP1. Vista was also the start of the winmin kernal rewrite, Windows 8 is the first to use the completed kernal. From a technical point of view it's superior to all previous Windows and has some very nice low-level features imo. The design sucks, but design was never MS' strong point.
Anyone is kidding themselves if they think a desktop OS will stick around though. As a programmer I'll be one of the last to abandon the desktop completely, but for 99% of consumers they only need an OS/interface that they can learn in seconds and be near impossible to screw up. History has shown time and time again, make it simple and cheap, and you have a mass market. With the rising of India and China's middle class you can bet they're going for mobile computing over a desktop.
Im soon to upgrade from win xp to win7 actually, not gonna bother with 8 for now.
I am going to continue to use Windows XP. Still find it brilliant. It's better than 7 in some cases.
Seriously…please explain with some real examples how XP is better than win7?!
John Hadley
Windows XP comes with Outlook Express and Windows 7 does not.
Windows XP requires less RAM to run and does not require a DirectX 9 video card so it works on a lot of old machines that Windows 7 cannot be install on, especially old laptops or that have no upgrade path because there's no way to change their video card.
Some old games are compatible with WIndows XP but not with Windows 7 due to hard-coded install paths that changed in Vista and 7. There are a lot more games not compatible with Windows 7 than not compatible with Windows XP. The games that don't work on Windows 7 are very old games by now so this doesn't matter much anymore, but it did when Windows 7 was first released.
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Not in some cases. In SO MANY cases. In fact, can you tell me a single point in which 7 or Vista are better than XP, from a user perspective ? I don't mean changes "under the hood" like kernel tunings or adaption of new hardware technologies. I'm strictly talking about usability. What can 7/Vista do better, easier or faster than XP/2003 ?
But there are lots of things I can do with XP/2003 which I cannot do with Vista or 7, and much less 8.
Karim Harvey
Maybe you need to use Windows 7 first before making crazy statements. First off, the Kernel means everything. Windows 7 is more stable than Windows XP, less DLL hell, larger HCL and better memory management. I can understand your a XP zombie, it's time to step outside, smell the roses and get on the band wagon.
http://twitter.com/adianton80c186 adi anton
By the time sp1 appeared in Vista nobody gave a damn :) still rocking on xp 64 bit edition ( not so good on heavy multi tasking ex: 100 instances of the same app. ) it does the job great it's simple and it works :)
Windows 7 will be the new XP. Yes if it ain't broken don't fix it.
In fact after trying to use the W8 previews for over a year I'd rather use XP or Vista.
4 million sold to who? Shops that will sell the copies then?
Maybe 400,000 out of those 4 million have actually really been sold.
The rest is still in shops.
And if people for once won't drink the marketing kool aid those copies will remain on retail shelves forever just like Vista.
who cares how it sold 4 million, the fact is it sold more than Windows 7 in the same period which went on to sell 600 million. Windows 8 will sell more.
John Nemesh
Personally, I am hoping Microsoft's strategy with Windows 8 dies a horrible death. They CREATED the software industry by being an open platform to develop on, and now they are aping Apple and their walled gardens. NO THANKS! I would rather go back to DOS than have this abomination forced on me! (actually, I will probably go Ubuntu once Valve releases Steam on the platform)
z Simmons
You may hope that. Being an early adopter of Windows 8 (yes, on desktop, with mouse), I can't say I've regretted it. In fact, I really like the full screen Modern UI experience. And I find centralized software distribution to be very easy and useful.
But I have no ill-will to openness and legal freedom of software. All power to Ubuntu (which I have installed) and the free software community.
http://www.facebook.com/TheBigSaxon Daniel Stutzman
What eff are you talking about? Microsoft was never an open platform; it was it's own software ecosystem designed to run on their OS. Me thinks you are simply talking out of your arse.
Don't believe Ballmer! Microsoft will say anything to sell Windows 8 just like the politicians that are running for office this November. They said the same thing for Vista!!!
Windows 8 is GR8! ;)
http://www.facebook.com/giles.cookson.9 Giles Cookson
i would agree with you if you are just being fantastically sarcastic
I've upgraded one computer. Two more to go. Power meets convenience. If you take the 5 minutes to learn how to use the new operating system then there's nothing not to love. Complainers are stuck in muds that don't want to learn something new.
http://www.facebook.com/dan.revas.5 Dan Revas
Nonsense, most users aren't tech heads, it will take them a lot longer than 5 minutes to learn the new interface, if they don't just give up after the first five minutes that is.
Just because YOU happen to like it doesn't mean everyone would or should.
I like it as a Tablet OS, but not on the Desktop, at least not without a touchscreen. Have you priced a decent 24″ LD Touch Panel? They are SPENDY! I mirror a lot of the opinions I've seen here and will stick with Windows 7 until I get a better reason to upgrade than this. And with Steam bringing support for Ubuntu, I would sooner jump on that.
http://www.facebook.com/juliette.bornholm Juliette Bornholm
I am a "tech head" – I am a power user of PCs, I earn my money working with the most complex programs and different OSes (Windows ME, XP, 2003 and 7, plus Linux Ubuntu Studio 12.04 LTS). I got a smart phone, stereo, TV, consoles, etc. etc.
Adn precisely because I know my way around technology and computers in particular, I don't want a stupid kindergarten OS like 7 or worse, 8. I don't need a digital nanny. I need to get work done, fast !
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000661443070 Antonio Damian Garrison
People want to say "if it's not broke, don't fix it." If that was the case there would be no innovation, no moving forward, just stagnant technology. Because the rotary phone worked, we shouldn't fix it, but in order to fix it we had to improve on it.
Windows 8 so far has been a solid operating system, I was on of the early adopters myself. I have had no issues, and the metro interface is quite nice. It feels as if it flows more now than previously in the consumer preview. We can question four million copies, but that is a good start. All innovations are question at the start, there is no question that quite a few questioned the capabilities of the cloud when it first appeared. When Vista came out people were like "XP!"
Ah, but you cannot have "innovation" and "Windows 8″ in the same sentence. Not for desktop/laptop users. Slight performance/software tweaks are not nearly enough to make me "upgrade" to Windows 8 and have to deal with the crap that it is – those ugly and useless tiles mostly.
z Simmons
Well, obviously you can have those words in the same sentence. In fact, Windows 8 is quite new. It certainly stands out and is in some ways not like other equivalent products – so then, innovative? Remembering that innovation isn't necessarily a good thing.
You are right that capabilities-wise, the Modern UI is behind the desktop mode. But then, Windows 8 still has the desktop. Actually, though, the Modern UI has sufficient capabilities for most casual users.
And then, the basic side-by-side multitasking offered by the Modern UI, is a step up for tablet users.
Also, of course, your dislike of the look of Windows 8, is just that – yours. Not mine. Some people's, and not other people's – a matter of opinion. And tiles are not useless. They are shortcuts, which you use to access apps. Just like those "useless" little pictures called "icons" that populate many people's desktops. (Let's all start using command line interface. 'Cause it's so great.)
It's also fine that you don't care to use Windows 8 – your decision to make.
As far as I am concerned, I have found Windows 8 to be nice to use.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Grr-Time/100003094494939 Grr Time
You call the UI "modern", says who's? Honestly, this UI has been on the WP7 devices for 3 years, and look at what a disaster that is…
You going to fix fire Antonio?
How about water?
An operating system is a means to an end. The programs laid upon it and how they are used is what general computing is all about. With the exception of Windows 7 (64 bit) I can see no reason for anyone to 'need to' upgrade. Innovation comes from necessity not conformity and 4 operating systems within a decade and all of them using the WIMP model doesn't sound much like innovation to me anyway.
It's cool to always innovate and move forward; how about if it ain't broke don't break it.
Refine W7 don't break the interface and replace it with something that actually makes most people turn into the angry german kid on youtube.
http://www.facebook.com/negg.mansons Nigel Manson
Lets remember that alot of these '4 million copies' Will be preinstalled copies from out of the box PC's.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Nunez/100000489002817 Rick Nunez
"Microsoft sells four million copies of Windows 8 in four days" or Four million of user will go back to Windows 7
Windows 8 looks beautiful but I'm not sure if it's going to be a success. I mean, touch-friendly interfaces on a desktop PC??
I'm totally sticking with XP. I find it
really stable, solid, and still works like a charm. Not sure if I'm ever
going to upgrade!
http://www.facebook.com/juliette.bornholm Juliette Bornholm
XP and its server twin 2003 both ROCK ! The best OS Microsoft ever built, and sadly it looks like there will never be a worthy successor. If MS only took the complete GUI, incl. all menus and features and shortcuts etc. etc., and created a Windows XP 2.0, I would buy it, definitely.
It should look like and work exactly like XP; they can make technological changes "under the hood" as they see fit, as long as I, the user, don't notice them. Maybe addd the Vista/7-style Aero desktop as an option. But that's it.
http://www.facebook.com/giles.cookson.9 Giles Cookson
YES!! TOTALLY Agree :-) Windows 8 is a depressing load of CRAP – depressing because you spend half your time battling with the metro just to get to simple things like control panel items etc… that were so easy to get to before. Even Vista was a luxury to use compared to this, and Vista is generally one of the worst OS's ever. Windows 8 is just shit in general. Not a very technical argument I know, but I do know my stuff and flippin hate windows 8. Awful with a capital A, for ARSE
4 million beta testers, God bless em'!
Getting some friends and neighbors comfortable with Win XP and Win 7 building about 8 computers for them hasn't been too difficult as those who use computers at work have the same interface whether it is XP or 7. Moving them to Windows 8 isn't in my plan if or when anyone wants a new build. They are all capable in their careers (except for the 11 and 13 year old) but don't know much about computers nor do they care. So, what to do. A Linux distro seems the next step as the interface will be similar to what they're used to.
These are the people that MS might lose. No complex documents or spreadsheets or presentations, open office works great. Firefox, Thunderbird and others will meet all their needs. I could teach them to get around in 8 but why? If I had a small business and was looking at training costs, what's the return on investment?
I don't hate people who seem to love Windows 8 but it ain't for everyone.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Grr-Time/100003094494939 Grr Time
Friends don't let friends upgrade to Windows 8
Not having a touchscreen for my desktop yet; not will to upgrade until I Windows 8 is fully debug by the 4 million potential users of it. May buy the upgrade package and hold on to it and load it afterwards in 6 months or a year from now.
Walter Underwood
Windows 8 may have been successful, but that doesn't mean it good. I think its a pile of shit.
http://www.facebook.com/noelle.dalton Noelle Dalton
Win 7 is OK but I still love XP I dont think its right that Im FORCED to move into a new OS
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DIYEGH4QK4WSNO27BNEX2Z7EAA Bob
Windows 8 has turned out to being a total flop. No one cares or is talking about windows8 except these paid ad's oops i mean articles which talk about an OS system no one needs or wants.
Aside from the sometimes annoying tile-thing, it works well in desktop mode. It actually seems to perform better in general than Windows 7, but since I'd put in a ssd it might be the same. The cheap upgrade made it worthwhile…I think they've made some new mistakes but not in the Vista sense.
Gil Bates
"consumers are responding well to Microsoft's attempt at modernizing the Windows experience." I'm not sure that dumbing down the user interface with a kid's picture tile would actually be considered "modernizing". Going from DOS to Windows 95, or Win95 to WinXP I will give you are examples of modernizing. This is a step backward to me, and yes, I have used the Metro interface extensively before making this conclusion.
http://www.facebook.com/BeyondTheLionsDen Trent Slack
I agree, I really don't understand peoples hate for Windows 8, they just need to give it a go
Just because your a noob and afraid of change, doesn't mean its a bad OS
Karim Harvey
Same here. I love Windows 8, I really do. It reminds me of the golden days of using 3.1. And that version of Windows didn't have a Start button. I'd hate to see MS throw the Start button back in due to the noobs and all the QQ out there. I'm excited about Server 2013 and all the good stuff it's going to provide me :) that's right, I said ME.
I got Windows 8 for 40 bucks. Installed it but I found it an utter crap. (I am a software developer with 15 years of serious enterprise background.) After install even the mouse stopped working. Reverting back to Windows 7 now. I wish I could get a refund but user license refuse to give back money for online purchase… But its the best 40 bucks I ever spent. It opened my eyes to Linux as a viable alternative once Windows 7 dies out…
criticism criticism all over for those who fear great change and what it will do to them. change is good tell these people to read who moved my cheese and tell them to judge themselves which characters they are in the book. i love the windows 8 and the kind of innovation and creativity put into it people smart up
plotinus veritas
Steven Sinofsky, the guy that created this ABORTION, was just FIRED by Microsoft for a good damn reason, this OS is pure Sucks, its trash, its garbage, its laughable its so horrific.
Win 8 as a replacement for Win7 on a desktop is a TOTAL PoS!
I tried it for a week now as a replacement for Win7. I'm normally an "early-adopter" type of person, so I'll willingly put up with a learning curve, and the odd idiosyncrasy – PROVIDED that the end benefit of the change is REALLY there for me.
In a nutshell, it isn't.
The interface is surprisingly unintuitive. I keep on finding I'm getting into places I don't know how to get back out of. The new windows does not in any way anticipate my newbie dilemmas, and provide helpful tool-tips at the very point where I need them most. The "escape" button doesn't seem to work, and right-clicking on my mouse might as well not exist. I was dumfounded to find that media players are not natively installed, and that I have to forage around and sort out this oversight myself. Why?
In short, instead of being delighted and enthused by a positive new experience, I'm frustrated and annoyed as hell at every point I turn in this software.
Whoever approved this PoS, has NO clue about satisfying the ordinary user, and DESERVES to be FIRED. Unfortunately so far, that has not yet included Balmer. Although there seem to be no tears over Sinofsky's departure, in my opinion, the really worrying part is that they've PROMOTED the apparent designers of the PoS into Sinofsky's position.
THESE very designers(?) should be FIRED. They have NO clue about designing an INTUITIVELY, USEFUL, interface that DELIGHTS the customer with the change. These idiots think that change for change's sake is quite acceptable. And Balmer and Sinofsky bought into this nonsense.
There clearly was NO proper user-lab testing of these concepts with the target market demographics.
Anybody who has had a try at the NEW (whew!) Office 2013 RTM will also discover that the interface is awful. A blinding WHITE everywhere with very little contrast. And clearly designed by and for women. Want a frilly design to obscure useful info and make it difficult to read? Oh yes, we have that here! Not happy with "Blinding White"? Then you have 3 choices (white, pale gray, and dark gray). Except that their version of dark gray is almost actually lilly white (I kid you not).
The target market for Window's success in the corporate market HAS to include OLDER and more experienced people whose prime focus for keeping their job, is to get their daily tasks done quickly and easily. Not whippersnappers who have yet to come to this realization.
These are design and executive-decision blunders of the very worst order. Windows 8 is the new Vista.
I know I am not alone in my angry opinion about Win 8.
It is the same story I have heard in several computer shops I have been in, where the staff are selling their customers Win 8, but advising them to rather install Win 7 instead. So MS will, on the back of the erroneous figures coming back from these stores, point to the illusion of a Win 8 sale, when in fact MS have turned their own market against them.
Watch this space in 6 months time. There is a firestorm of discontent in the making. Sinofsky is not going to be last departure at MS wrt this fiasco.
http://www.facebook.com/tommytoxen Tommy ToXen
After testing Windows 8, I've just backed up my favourite music & games, formatted my harddrive and installed Linux Ultimate Edition. I have a computer. Therefore I require a computer OS. I use my telephone to make telephone calls. I do not want to use my telephone as a computer, I want to use my computer as a computer, since Windows no longer provides a computer OS (WinBLOWS 8 is a mobile phone os. NOT a computer OS) I've had to move to Linux. Permanently.
http://www.facebook.com/juliette.bornholm Juliette Bornholm
Microsoft seems to believe that as technology progresses, the users become more and more retarded and unable to use a computer properly. For some parts of the population, this may be true. But for me and millions upon millions of other power-users, it definitely is not true. We work with our computers on a daily basis and get more and more tech-savvy with every single day.
I don't want a dumbed-down OS which tells me what to do and what not to do, or which does not give any choice in the first place. This dumbing-down of MS OSes started very lightly with Windows ME/2000/XP, when system files were by default not shown in the Windows Explorer, accessing system folders required clicking on a confirmation message, file extensions were not shown by default, and so on …
Of course you could still disable all that nanny crap in the settings menus, but that was the first step taken towards dumbing down the OSes.
Vista and its twin, 7, upped that dumbing-down a coupple of notches, and in their case, it was more difficult or impossible to get rid of the virtual nanny built into the OS. Many features found in all Windows versions from 95 to XP/2003 were completely removed in Vista and 7.
You can see the lists of the removed features here:
And the worst of all up to now is "Windows" 8 – while both Vista and 7 still rudimentary usability, though being castrated in comparison to XP and 2003, 8 is totally unusable in any business, professional and enthusiast environment:
I will stick to using Windows XP Professional, both 32- and 64-bit, as well as Windows Server 2003 R2, both 32- and 64-bit, until I die.
Or switch to Linux, or even Mac.
I already got Ubuntu Studio 12.04LTS installed, and it's a nice hobbyist system, definitely better than 7 or Vista, not to mention 8, but still coming far short of Windows XP/2003 – installing new programs is a pain in the ass, and some nanny stuff is also present in this OS – like the Explorer shifting back into the HOME directory after you click on a folder of a specific disk or drive. Hello, Ubuntu guys, I got several HDDs and thumb drives on my system, and I know where I got which files, and when I select Drive C or Drive K, I want the Explorer to stay there, not jump back to HOME mode ! Nanny bullshit keeping me from getting work done.
Windows XP Professional SP3 and Server 2003 R2 SP2 are still pure OSes, giving the user all power and little or no restrictions when it comes to tweak, tune and modify. Little or no nanny crap there !
Karim Harvey
You might want to head on over to the Department of department of the treasury. From what I hear they're actually using Windows 8 in a enterprise environment successfully.
http://www.facebook.com/giles.cookson.9 Giles Cookson
wwoooo, bully for them Karim. They need more ways to waste more time and money I guess thats what they like doing best !
http://www.facebook.com/juliette.bornholm Juliette Bornholm
Microsoft seems to believe
that as technology progresses, the users become more and more retarded
and unable to use a computer properly. For some parts of the population,
this may be true. But for me and millions upon millions of other
power-users, it definitely is not true. We work with our computers on a
daily basis and get more and more tech-savvy with every single day.
I don't want a dumbed-down OS which tells me what to do and what not
to do, or which does not give any choice in the first place. This
dumbing-down of MS OSes started very lightly with Windows ME/2000/XP,
when system files were by default not shown in the Windows Explorer,
accessing system folders required clicking on a confirmation message,
file extensions were not shown by default, and so on …
Of course you could still disable all that nanny crap in the settings
menus, but that was the first step taken towards dumbing down the OSes.
Vista and its twin, 7, upped that dumbing-down a coupple of notches,
and in their case, it was more difficult or impossible to get rid of the
virtual nanny built into the OS. Many features found in all Windows
versions from 95 to XP/2003 were completely removed in Vista and 7.
You can see the lists of the removed features here:
And the worst of all up to now is "Windows" 8 – while both Vista and 7
still rudimentary usability, though being castrated in comparison to XP
and 2003, 8 is totally unusable in any business, professional and
enthusiast environment:
I will stick to using Windows XP Professional, both 32- and 64-bit,
as well as Windows Server 2003 R2, both 32- and 64-bit, until I die.
Or switch to Linux, or even Mac.
I already got Ubuntu Studio 12.04LTS installed, and it's a nice
hobbyist system, definitely better than 7 or Vista, not to mention 8,
but still coming far short of Windows XP/2003 – installing new programs
is a pain in the ass, and some nanny stuff is also present in this OS –
like the Explorer shifting back into the HOME directory after you click
on a folder of a specific disk or drive. Hello, Ubuntu guys, I got
several HDDs and thumb drives on my system, and I know where I got which
files, and when I select Drive C or Drive K, I want the Explorer to
stay there, not jump back to HOME mode ! Nanny bullshit keeping me from
getting work done.
Windows XP Professional SP3 and Server 2003 R2 SP2 are still pure
OSes, giving the user all power and little or no restrictions when it
comes to tweak, tune and modify. Little or no nanny crap there !
http://www.facebook.com/CollectiveSoul4U Michael Craft
Lmfao…..the whole point behind W8 is to get off tradditinal desktop and into the mobile realm … , I guess while you are still using W XP and tied to your PC I and everyone else will be moving with the times and actually expanding our flexibility to the business world…if you think things will stay the same just because some are closed minded…think again…those are the ones left behind….lmaso
I never thought I liked Vista until I upgraded to 8 a couple days ago. I'm dying to go back to Vista on my laptop. ugh


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Maggie's Character: Jude
Release Date: 20 January 2005 (USA)
Directed By: Don Roos
Screenwriter: Don Roos
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music | Thriller
MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexual content, language and some drug use.
Runtime: 128 min.
Box Office #'s: here
Cast Highlights:
Lisa Kudrow
Tom Arnold
Jesse Bradford
Sarah Clarke
Mamie Toll is an abortion clinic counselor with a massage therapist lover, Javier, and a secret: when she was younger, she and her gay stepbrother, Charley Peppitone, had a child she gave up for adoption. One day, Nicky Kunitz, a sleazy filmmaker, shows up and plans to blackmail her with information on her child's whereabouts so that he can film the reunion and use it to get into the AFI. Charley now runs his father's restaurant with his lover, Gil, and suspects that their lesbian friends, Pam and Diane, lied about using Gil's sperm to create a child so that they wouldn't have to share him with them. Jude has been kicked out of her cousin's house and is now living with the latent Otis, who lives with his widower father, Frank McKee, who has become infatuated with Jude. What Jude didn't count on was actually falling in love with Frank. In the end, will anyone have a happy ending?
From the Gallery
- Features Tom Arnold's first sex scene
- Ray Liotta turned down the role of Frank McKee.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal was not the first choice to play Jude. Gwyneth Paltrow was originally slated to play the part, but dropped out and was replaced by Jennifer Garner. After Garner left the project, Gyllenhaal was awarded the role.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal does her own singing in the movie.
Character Quotes
Jude: What's the matter? Boy trouble?
Otis: Fuck you, Jude!
Mamie: I'm not pro-life, though.
Jude: Who is, once you start to pay attention?
Jude: Hey, do you guys mind if I ask you something?
Alvin: She's not in rehab for drugs. It's just booze. Plus, she's a vomiter.
Miles: A fat vomiter, which is fucking useless.
Jude: No… just, why is Otis the leader?
Jude: [singing] How lucky am I?
Jude: We're breaking up.
Otis: What?
Jude: Look, I'm not gonna screw you *and* your dad.
Jude: I think your Dad's home. You totally owe me, dude. He doesn't think you're a 'mo anymore.
[as he pulls his shirt on]
Otis: Hey, I am not gay.
[pointing to the bed]
Otis: Hello?
[Jude turns on his TV, revealing a gay porn video]
Jude: You "hello".
Jude: What's going on?
Nicky: He knows you're just after his money. And I told him what you had over me, and he doesn't care that I'm gay.
Frank: I care, I care, of course I care. It's not good news.


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Orioles add Belfiore, Britton to help bullpen
Orioles season on the line vs. the Rays
After using 10 pitchers in Friday's 18-inning loss, the Orioles added two more.
Mike Belfiore and Zach Britton were both added to the roster for Saturday's game against Tampa Bay.
Fortunately for the Orioles, both were about 45 minutes away at the Orioles' spring training complex at Sarasota, Fla.
Belfiore was twice called up this season, including once for a game at Tampa Bay, but didn't pitch either time. He was 2-1 with a 3.18 ERA at Norfolk.
After allowing four runs on six hits in 2 1/3 innings at Cleveland on Sept. 4, Britton was sent back down. In seven starts with the Orioles this season, Britton was 2-2 with a 5.45 ERA. At Norfolk, Britton was 6-5 with a 4.27 ERA.
The Orioles have 18 pitchers on their 36-man roster.
Of the four players on the 40-man roster who aren't with the team, two are on the disabled list (pitchers Eric Beaulac and Dylan Bundy). The other two available are Henry Urrutia, who's in the Instructional League and Tsuyoshi Wada, who might pitch next weekend if the Orioles are eliminated from playoff consideration.


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Zeppelin Construction Photography
Some photos of the construction of zeppelins (above = USS Macon / below = USS Akron / far below = Hindenberg on a visit to NJ) and the ridiculous ladders that it took to get there.
from b3ch:
In the first half of the twentieth century, there were great airships that sailed the skies, quite majestically. They were used both for transportation, and also in war in world war I and II. The German Zeppelin Airship company built the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg for transcontinental and transatlantic travel. They were the cruise ships of the sky.
In the early days the Zeppelins were inflated with hydrogen gas for bouancy which worked very well, but was also very dangerous. Later the Americans found a way to effectively produce helium gas, so we had much safer airships. Although hydrogen has better bouyancy, it is highly explosive. In times of war, we would not share our safer helium with the Germans.
The German Zeppelin Airship LZ-126 "Hindenburg" had it's famous flaming crash at the Lakehurst National Airport in New Jersy in the USA.
via b3ch.com
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Its fucking beautiful@@@!!!!!#@
it's not as dangerous as it appears. I understand that once they reached the top of the ladder, they would push their testicles in between the rungs, as their testicles were large enough to hold them securely while they proceded to work with both hands.
Great pictures. Small quibbles: The Hindenburg was hull number LZ 129. 126 was what eventually became the USS Los Angles, 127 was the Graf Zeppelin, and 128 was never built.
Also, no rigid airships took part in WWII. The Graf Zeppelin II was used for some attempts at radio espionage against Britain before the war, but it and the GZ I were broken up for scrap before the start of hostilities.
The US employed many non-rigid blimps during the war, mainly for convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol, but no rigid ships.
It looks like it's glowing son :D