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Adventurous flavours for vodka drinkers
Leighton Levy, Star Writer
Smirnoff Vodka, in a bid to attract an even more adventurous drinker, has added two new flavours to their vodka line, introduced to the local market recently.
Hoping the engage the taste buds of women between 25 and 35 looking for new drinking experiences, they launched the flavours Iced Cake and Fluffed Marshmallow at the Terra Nova poolside event hosted by Miss Jamaica World, Sara Lawrence.
"We're very excited about these flavours. We believe they are going to create a new trend in vodka drinking and how consumers enjoy vodka in Jamaica," said Jermaine Bibbons, brand manager for Spirits at Red Stripe. "Similar to the effect that Apple Vodka had we really believe based on the feedback from our consumers that these new flavours are going to revolutionse the vodka tradition in Jamaica."
Bibbons said vodka is about a fruity, citrus flavour and they have done very well. These new flavours are set to do even better. "This is will be the first time there will be vodka with a cake undertone, a caramel chocolate, a new indulgent flavor. We are going to recruit new consumers who weren't even who were not even interested in vodka before and this is going to excite them like never before."
To ensure the flavours catch on, Smirnoff even introduced a number of exciting drink mixes using the new flavours - Mash-Mellow, Iced Orange Cake, Iced Strawberry Iced Cake and Fruit Cocktail - interesting and exciting to the taste buds and seems destined to become successes with the female clientele.
However, Bibbons believes the flavours will reach beyond the targeted demographic. "Our target is legal drinking age and above. Consumers who want to feel alive, who want to want to have exciting experiences, who want to try new things, people who want to be out of this world and adventurous."
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McMaster asks Anderson Rotarians to help sell his plan to end parole
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is asking for help in his mission to the state's abolish parole program.
Mr. McMaster outlined his plan to the Rotary Club of Greater Anderson during the group's meeting Thursday at Sullivan's Metropolitan Grill.
Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to abolish parole. A piece of companion legislation is being drafted to create a middle court system for nonviolent offenders, he said.
Under Mr. McMaster's plan, solicitors would recommend convicted criminals for middle court. Participants would be under strict supervision. For example, they would be required to attend school or hold a job and take random drug tests. Participants in the program would appear weekly before the middle court judge and could still be sent to prison for not complying with a judge's orders.
The middle court program would cost roughly $1 million to set up statewide and would pay for itself after successfully graduating 73 people, Mr. McMaster said.
He hopes the program would ease overcrowding in jails, save taxpayers money and stop victims of violent crimes from wondering how much time someone who is convicted will serve, he said.
South Carolina's existing truth-in-sentencing law requires violent offenders to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence. But anyone incarcerated before it took effect isn't subject to that rule. As a result, Mr. McMaster said some victims' families are forced to travel to parole board hearings as often as once a month to argue against an inmate's early release.
Other states, such as Virginia, have abolished parole. But 10th Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams, who serves Anderson and Oconee counties, said she wants more details about the proposed middle court and evidence that the system works before she backs Mr. McMaster's plan.
"I'm not against it," Ms. Adams said. "… I need to see the data and the numbers. My main goal and my priority is protecting the people in the community."
Anderson County Sheriff David Crenshaw's reaction to Mr. McMaster's plan was similar to Ms. Adams'. He said the legislation is worth looking at, although it's an unlikely to fix overcrowding at the County Detention Center.
Roughly half of the county's inmates are pretrial detainees, Mr. Crenshaw said. The remaining jail population includes about 30 state prisoners serving their sentence on the county's work crew, inmates serving less than 90 sentences and those being held in contempt of court.
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Andrew Cunanan
The intense fascination that psychotic killers can exert on the public imagination has rarely been demonstrated more strikingly than in the summer of 1997, when – during a few gripping weeks in July – a brash twenty-seven-year-old multi-murderer named Andrew Cunanan held the whole nation, and indeed much of the world, in thrall. From a brazen but relatively obscure FBI fugitive, whose mug shot was familiar only to followers of the Bureau's "Ten Most-Wanted" list, Cunanan – in one shockingly savage act – became an overnight media obsession, his face suddenly featured on front pages and tabloid TV shows all across the country. His name seemed to be on everyone's lips, his snapshots on covers from Newsweek to the National Enquirer, while his shadowy presence was spotted by jittery witnesses in every contiguous state in the union.
Even after he came to his predictable bad end, he continued to preoccupy the public, partly because his motives remained so deeply enigmatic. His case thus raises tantalizing – and significant – questions, not only about the psychological sources of homicidal mania but also about the seemingly irresistible appeal that certain kinds of sensational crimes have for us. What makes a human time bomb like Cunanan tick? Why was the nation so enthralled by him? And why do some criminals – even those who perpetrate acts of extreme, sadistic violence – fail to grip the public's interest, while others achieve celebrity (sometimes even legendary) status?
One characteristic that Cunanan most assuredly did not possess, however, was the virtue implied by his father's first name: Modesto. From his days at the elite Bishop's (prep) School in La Jolla, he behaved in a style that seemed, in part, a healthy (even admirable) display of gay pride, and partly a frantic bid for attention and notoriety. Posing in one yearbook photo like a Calvin Klein model – white shirt unbuttoned to display his chiseled abs – and arriving at a school dance in a red patent-leather jumpsuit provided by his older male date, Cunanan seemed determined to live up to the title conferred on him by his classmates: "Most Likely Not to be Forgotten."
For a young man so hungry for distinction, it must have come as a devastating blow when his Filipino father – after reportedly being accused of scamming money from his clients – fled to Manila in 1988, plunging his family into hardship. Cunanan, then nineteen and a freshman at the University of California at San Diego, dropped out of school to join his father but was soon back in the states, apparently appalled by the squalor in which Modesto was living.
By the early '90s, Cunanan had become a conspicuous, even flashy figure on the San Francisco gay scene. Assuming a variety of guises – Andrew Desilva, a Hollywood hotshot with a Riviera mansion; Lieutenant Commander Cummings, a naval officer and graduate of Choate and Yale – he dined at the toniest restaurants, dressed impeccably in blazers and ascots, puffed contraband Cohibas, and sipped only the finest champagne. He was, by all accounts, extremely good company: a facile conversationalist, self-possessed, vivacious, and well informed. But even those who enjoyed socializing with him often perceived his behavior – his insistence on picking up the tab at every trendy eatery he patronized, for example – as a symptom of his lust for attention, a desperate need to show off, to prove that he was someone of stature.
In truth, far from being a person of any importance whatsoever, the unemployed Cunanan was entirely dependent on the largesse of others, who really did wield the power. Though his mother would later bitterly describe him as a "high-class male prostitute," Cunanan was actually more of a male mistress or giggolo – the kept companion of a succession of older gay men who would lavish clothes, cars, money, and gifts on him. What made Cunanan so appealing wasn't his appearance (as various acquaintances would attest, on the conventional 10-scale of physical attractiveness, Cunanan rated a 5) so much as his personality, intelligence, and social skills. And also – reportedly – his taste for kinky sex: his apparently riveting combination of preppie polish and S&M abandon.
By the fall of 1996, however, something – no one knows or may ever know exactly what – caused Cunanan's glitzy world to come apart. Some former acquaintances have hinted that the problem involved drugs; others point to a crisis in his relationship with his last benefactor, an elderly arts patron who abruptly dumped him. Whatever the case, one thing is certain: the hedonistic, status-crazed Cunanan went, more or less overnight, from a life of extreme comfort and glamour – driving a brand-new Infiniti, living luxuriously in his gentleman-friend's oceanfront home, spending his $2,500 monthly allowance on expensive clothes, fancy food, 10-inch Havanas, and Veuve Clicquot champagne – to a sordid, desperate existence. Always obsessive about his appearance, he let himself go to seed, giving up jogging, putting on weight, showing up at his old haunts looking despondent and disheveled. He moaned about his loneliness – complained to bartenders that he couldn't even "get a date."
There had been only one "perfect" relationship in his life, he told a friend – a handsome Minneapolis architect named David Madson. But Madson had been trying to distance himself from Cunanan, reportedly because Cunanan – to make ends meet after being ditched by his sugar daddy – had begun peddling drugs (and, according to rumor, consuming them in increasing quantities.)
In mid-April, Cunanan told acquaintances that he was moving to San Francisco. At his farewell party at a chic San Diego restaurant, he dined on beef tenderloin, ostrich, and trout. Shortly thereafter – having persuaded his credit-card company to allow one more purchase on his overextended card – he bought a one-way, first-class airline ticket.
But not to San Francisco.
He was on his way to Minneapolis – to "settle some business," as he confided to a friend.
What we do know is this:
On the night Cunanan arrived in Minneapolis, Madson took him out to dinner and introduced him to friends. Some of these were dazzled by Cunanan's charm; others considered him a pompous, name-dropping egomaniac.
Two nights later – on April 27 – Cunanan invited a twenty-eight-year-old friend named Jeffrey Trail over to Madson's loft apartment in a trendy warehouse. There have been conflicting accounts of Trail's relationship with Cunanan. Some have described Trail – a former San Diego navy officer who had moved to Minnesota in November, 1996, to take a job with a propane-gas company – as a "straight arrow" who played the part of a "big brother" in Cunanan's life. Others have suggested that the two men were onetime lovers and that Trail had subsequently become sexually involved with David Madson.
Depending on which of these situations is true, the events that followed may well have been precipitated by one of two causes. According to one theory, Trail had antagonized the increasingly unstable Cunanan by expressing his intense disapproval of Cunanan's drug use. This led to a violent falling – out between the two men. The alternate theory holds that Cunanan was sent into a jealous frenzy by Trail's affair with Madson.
Whatever the case, we do know that just before ten p.m. on April 27, some neighbors of Madson's heard violent shouting coming from his place, followed by several loud thuds.
Two days later, police found Jeff Trail's body rolled up in a carpet in Madson's apartment. He had been bludgeoned to death with over two dozen savage hammer blows to the face and head.
Two days after this grisly discovery, on Thursday, May 1, Cunanan drove with Dave Madson to a lake about fifty miles north of Minneapolis and there – using Jeff Trail's handgun – pumped several .40-caliber Golden Saver bullets into the head of the man he had once described as "the love of my life."
By the time a fisherman stumbled on Madson's corpse, Cunanan was long gone, having fled southeast in the victim's red Jeep. He next turned up in Chicago, where he somehow gained entrance to the home of a seventy-two-year-old real-estate mogul named Lee Miglin. There is no evidence that Cunanan had every met, let alone had a personal relationship with, the older man – though he may have known Miglin by name. What Cunanan needed from the millionaire developer was cash, a change of clothes, and a new getaway car. For reasons unknown – beyond the rampaging homicidal frenzy that now had Cunanan in its grip – he subjected Miglin to a horrific form of torture, wrapping the victim's head in duct tape with breathing space at the nose, then stabbing him repeatedly with pruning shears before cutting open his throat with a gardening saw.
Heading eastward in Miglin's green 1994 Lexus, Cunanan next killed a forty-five-year-old cemetery caretaker named William Resse in Pennsville, New Jersey, shooting the victim in the head with the same .40-caliber pistol he had used to slay Madson, then making off in Reese's red 1995 Chevy pickup. The date was Friday, May 9.
In less than two weeks, the onetime party boy had brutally murdered four men in a cross-country odyssey of death.
That notorious accomplishment still lay two months in the future.
In the meantime, Cunanan made his way southward, stopping off briefly in New York City, stealing a license plate in South Carolina, and then arriving at his ultimate destination – Miami Beach, where he checked into a down-at-the-heels hotel called the Normandy Plaza on May 12. For two months, Cunanan left his room mainly at night to hit the glitzy gay clubs of South Beach. During the days, he holed up in his room, subsisting largely on takeout pizza and subs, and whiling away his time with TV, fashion magazines, and S&M pornography.
In early June, he moved his red pickup truck to a South Beach parking garage – just two blocks away from the palatial residence known as Casa Casuarina, owned by the celebrated fashion designer Gianni Versace.
During a stopover on his way to Cuba in 1991, Versace had fallen in love with South Beach, a fifteen-block stretch of Art Deco hotels and sidewalk cafes facing the oceanfront. Not long afterward, he purchased a pair of run-down Ocean Drive buildings and spent $35 million to renovate them into his spectacular residence. The presence of the ultraglamorous designer had a galvanizing effect on the seedy neighborhood, instantly transforming it into a chic, trendy enclave. Though Versace owned equally spectacular homes in other locales – a magnificent East Side town house in Manhattan, a seventeenth-century palazzo in Milan, a seventeen-room villa on Lake Como – the Ocean Drive mansion occupied a special place in his heart, partly (and ironically) because he felt so safe and free in the neighborhood. He dismissed his bodyguards, unplugged the mansion's security system, and moved around as casually as any unremarkable mortal.
At around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14, Versace – following his usual morning routine – left Casa Casuarina and strolled a few blocks away to the News Café, where he purchased coffee and a handful of magazines. A few minutes later, he was back home. As he was opening the ornate wrought-iron gates to his Mediterranean-style mansion, a young man in a white shirt, gray shorts, and black backpack strode up and shot the fifty- year-old Versace twice in the head with a .40-caliber pistol.
As Versace collapsed onto the stone steps of his palazzo, his companion, Antonio D'Amico, rushed outside and pursued the assassin, who suddenly swung around, aimed his gun at D'Amico, and waved him away without firing. Then the killer dashed into a nearby parking garage.
It was there that police investigators found the red Chevy pickup that had been stolen from the slain New Jersey cemetery worker, William Reese. Inside the truck were the bloody clothes worn by Versace's killer and a U.S. passport in the name of Andrew Phillip Cunanan.
While his family, fans, and seemingly limitless circle of superstar friends mourned Versace's death – and tourists by the busload arrived at the Casa Casuarina to snap souvenir photos of the bloodstained steps where he had fallen – Andrew Cunanan became the most frenetically publicized psycho killer since Jeffrey Dahmer. His face became a front-page fixture on newspapers throughout the country and was blazoned on the covers of magazines from Newsweek to People. TV stations and radio talk shows devoted countless hours to the story. Rumors about the reportedly "cunning, brazen, Jekyll-Hyde" killer abounded: He was taunting the police, playing cat-and-mouse with the authorities. He had purchased female clothing so he could disguise himself in drag. He was taking revenge on people he suspected of having given him AIDS.
Meanwhile, a mammoth manhunt – one of the largest in Florida, if not U.S., history – was launched. But Cunanan remained maddeningly elusive. In the popular imagination, he was quickly transformed into a figure of almost mythic proportions: a shadowy, demonically cunning, cross-dressing serial killer whose ability to outsmart the police seemed nothing short of preternatural.
Among criminologists and other experts, however, there quickly arose one hotly debated issue: Could Cunanan be considered a serial killer at all? On one side stood those like John Douglas (former FBI agent, best-selling author, and reputed inspiration for the Jack Crawford character in Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs), who argued that Cunanan absolutely "fit the classic profile of a sexually predatory killer."
On the other side were people like Douglas's former colleague Robert Ressler – the man who coined the term "serial killer" – who insisted that the "people who are calling [Cunanan] a serial killer are grossly misinformed." The profile that Cunanan fit, according to Ressler, was that of the classic spree killer.
My own position conforms closely to Ressler's. The term "serial killer" was coined to describe lifelong sexual psychopaths like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, et al. To all external appearances, such men lead perfectly normal, even crushingly dull lives – while simultaneously conducting secret careers of unimaginable violence and sadism. They begin to demonstrate their twisted proclivities at an early age, by torturing small animals, practicing juvenile pyromania, etc. As they grow older and embark on their adult crimes, they tend to be obsessed with a particular type of victim (for example – as in the case of David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz – young women with long brown hair, parted in the middle) and to commit their atrocities in highly repetitive, ritualistic ways.
And, as a general rule, they do their best to remain anonymous. They do not want to be stopped, because they get such intense, perverted satisfaction from what they are doing. The public knows that a serial killer is at large when the dismembered corpses start piling up. But they don't know who the killer is, leading the media to come up with catchy nicknames: "The Nightstalker," "The Hillside Strangler," "The Zodiac Killer."
With one exception – the sadistic nature of the Miglin murder – almost nothing about Cunanan's behavior fits this profile. Until the slaying of Jeff Trail – whose savagery makes it seem like a classic crime of passion, not an act of sadistic, ritualistic lust-murder – Cunanan had rarely displayed any particularly violent tendencies. Apart from their common gender, his victims differed in every way, as did his methods of dispatching them. Some of the murders – Reese's, for example, and probably Miglin's – were purely opportunistic, perpetrated because Cunanan needed transportation and money. And far from trying – or even wanting – to remain anonymous, Cunanan was known to the police and public from the very start. Indeed, he left a trail of clues that a blind man could follow (not far from Jeff Trail's corpse, for example, police not only found the bloody murder weapon but a gym bag monogrammed with Cunanan's name and containing an empty holster and a used box of .40-caliber Gold Saber bullets). There has certainly never been a serial killer in history whose face has been on the nightly news while he was still at large.
In short, Cunanan falls into the category of the reckless, rampaging spree killer, who is sent over the edge by some extreme personal crisis and goes off on a wildly destructive, often far-ranging reign of terror that leave a variety of victims in its wake: some of them deliberate targets against whom the killer has some kind of grudge, others who are just unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In the days following Versace's murder, deciding what category of criminal psychopathology Cunanan conformed to was more than just an academic exercise, or a way of filling up time on TV talk shows. There are important psychological differences between the serial sex-murderer and the spree killer (whose emotional state is much closer to that of the Mass Murderer). Identifying Cunanan as a spree killer made it possible to predict, if not his next move, then at least his final one – for the essential fact about spree murder is that it is, ultimately, a form of suicide.
Just five days earlier, Cunanan – who was evidently strapped for cash – pawned a gold coin he had stolen from Lee Miglin. To complete the transaction, he was required not only to fill out an official form (on which he wrote his actual name and the address of the Normandy Hotel) but also to leave a thumbprint, which he did without hesitation. This was not the behavior of a diabolically cunning killer bent on eluding capture.
The diagnosis of Cunanan as a spree killer whose rampage was likely to climax with his own death – either by his own hand or in a shoot-out with authorities ("suicide by cop," in law enforcement parlance) was confirmed on Wednesday, July 25. On that afternoon, Fernando Carreira – the seventy-one-year-old caretaker of a double-decker houseboat docked in a marina only forty blocks away from the site of Versace's murder – entered the vessel and found evidence of an intruder. As he hurried outside to call the police, Carreira heard a single shot.
Within minutes, police had sealed off the area, and heavily armed, specially trained forces surrounded the houseboat. After nearly five tense hours of watching and waiting, they finally fired tear-gas canisters into the house and shouted "Come out! Come out!" The boat remained deadly silent. A few minutes later, at around 9 p.m. SWAT-team members entered the boat.
There, sprawled face up on a bed, they found Cunanan, dressed only in boxer shorts. He had shot himself in the mouth with the .40-caliber handgun that lay on his stomach.
Far from being a master of criminal cunning, moving about with impunity while the world staged a fruitless manhunt, Cunanan had apparently been holing up in two houseboats for more than a week, not even daring to venture outside for food. In the end, knowing there was no escape, he took the route typically followed by spree killers: self-destruction.
An essential fact about spree killers is that they are deeply embittered men, full of barely suppressed rage and resentment, whose lives suddenly fall apart. Sometimes, they are jilted by a lover. At other times, they are fired from a job. Whatever the crisis that sends them plummeting over the edge, they are people for whom life has become an unendurable nightmare – a living horror. Death offers the only escape, and they are determined to go out with a bang. But before they do, they intend to settle scores, to take other people with them – to wreak vengeance on the world by inflicting some of its horror on others.
It's easy to see how Cunanan could have reached the point where his glitzy but excruciatingly empty existence finally turned unbearable. Sigmund Freud once said that the two requirements for a fulfilling, meaningful life are "Lieben und Arbeiten" – love and work. Cunanan, a person of much promise in his youth, had neither. His relationships appeared to be purely superficial and sexually exploitive, and his primary source of income was the money his sugar daddies were willing to dole out for his affable companionship and kinky favors.
His desperate need to show the world that he was someone was undoubtedly a way of compensating for the opposite realization – that he was nothing more than a costly plaything, a man without any real power or status. When Cunanan was dumped by his final benefactor, the desperate nothingness of his life – no career, no love, no accomplishments – must have been brought home to him with crushing force. At twenty-seven, he wasn't getting any younger and was even beginning to lose some of the appeal that his high-flying lifestyle depended on.
In short, Cunanan appeared to have reached the end of his tether. When it finally snapped – when, in a frenzy of jealousy or possibly drug-fueled rage, he lost control and murdered Jeff Trail – he knew that his life was effectively over, and he ran rampant, taking some lives for revenge, others simply for convenience.
In the context of Cunanan's pathology, his targeting of Versace makes perfect sense. Thought published reports indicate that the two men had encountered one another at a post-opera party in San Francisco, it seems unlikely that they had any kind of relationship. Cunanan's rage against Versace undoubtedly stemmed from symbolic, not personal, motives. To Cunanan, Versace would have embodied everything Cunanan so desperately coveted and knew he would never attain – glamour and worldwide celebrity. (It is also possible that the fifty-year-old Versace represented, in Cunanan's unconscious, all the rich older gay men who had used him in their lives.)
In his unleashed rage and insane resentment, Cunanan would get his revenge on the world, and also prove, once and for all, that he was someone special – a person to be reckoned with, a man with the ultimate power: the power of life and death over another. He would finally get his picture on the covers of national magazines and fulfill the destiny his prep school classmates had foreseen: as the fellow student "Most Likely Not to Be Forgotten."
There is one final factor to be considered: the issue of Cunanan's homosexuality. Clearly, this is a sensitive subject, particularly for many members of the gay community, who had justifiable fears that Cunanan would be received in light of negative gay stereotypes. For the most part, Cunanan's sexual orientation has absolutely no bearing on the case. To be sure, the glamorous world of wealthy "A-List" gays was the milieu he frequently moved in and that Versace so glitteringly epitomized. But homosexuality per se clearly had nothing to do with his psychopathology. What drove Cunanan to murder appears to have been some highly combustible mix of rage, resentment, and his terrible sense of failure and powerlessness – in short, the same essential ingredients that have fueled the rampages of notorious heterosexual spree killers, like Charles Starkweather and Paul John Knowles.
If Cunanan's gay life-style has any bearing at all, it may have more to do with the cultural fascination he exerted. People have always found something deeply enthralling about sensational killers. They turn all of us into children again, instilling a kind of deliciously exciting terror at the notion that a big, scary monster is somewhere on the loose.
But not every psycho killer becomes the object of a national obsession. The ones who do – Charles Manson, for example, or Ted Bundy – often achieve that status because they reflect certain characteristics of their time. In our own age of celebrity obsession, trendy transvestitism, and bisexual chic, Cunanan – the gender-bending, celebrity-stalking killer – served as a deeply compelling reflection of certain currents running though our country, a dark mirror of our cultural soul.


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Art SinsabaughAmerican (Irvington, New Jersey, 1924 - 1983, Chicago, Illinois)
Illinois Skyline
1953photograph | gelatin silver print
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3 3/16 in. x 9 11/16 in. (8.1 cm x 24.61 cm)
Acquired 1984
Collection SFMOMA
T. B. Walker Foundation Fund purchase
© Katherine Anne Sinsabaugh and Elisabeth Sinsabaugh de la Cova


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Most Creative Girl Tattoo Design Ideas!
Inking a tattoo anywhere your body is already something that hurts, and you can even have a more painful experience if you embed girl tattoos on side. In fact, there may be no other areas of your body that can match the pain that you will experience in side body tattooing. If you want to know how much does it pain to get you a side tattoo, imagine a person slapping you with a rolled-up towel on your side.
Imagine also when you're pinched by someone on your side. Once you know how it hurts, then, you can multiply that a hundred times coupled with a burning sensation with some bee-stings and you'll realize how it feels to etch a girl tat on your side. Considering that the structure of your side is made-up of bones, piercing it to get a tattoo causes severe pain.
Since no amount of fat is present there to protect your nerves, when the tat artist starts tattooing girl tattoos on side, that's the time that you will realize how painful it is to have it. But if you're really decided to obtain your side tat, then, go get it and just don't forget to buy a painkiller first before you get inside the tat studio.
While reading this article, you'll come across some side tats for girls that are popular nowadays including those that are feminine in design. These side tats include butterflies, zodiac signs, candy-bars, earth wind and fire, baby names, boyfriend names, constellations, stars and flowers. When you have embedded your side tat, keep in mind that the most interested person to see your tat is someone wearing the same thing.
Many of the girls today prefer to have masculine tats for their girl tattoos on ribcage which include pictures of their husbands or boyfriends, and perhaps photos of their kids printed on their left and right sides. Do you still remember the time when you saw the 1st girl stamped with a Gothic lettering along with a sweet artistic design at the middle of her back that looked so cute?
These days, side tats for girls make people interested to see what's in there on your side as you lift-up your shirt a little bit while you're sipping a glass of soda in a bar or night club. The public would be very curious especially the opposite sex, to know what those prints on your side are all about. Don't you like that?
One thing good about getting girl tattoos on side is that plenty of space and air are available to accomplish it. The tat artist doing the job won't have any problem looking for a clear and clean canvas to engrave your piece of fantastic tat on side.
Some of the most popular tat designs for your sides are those that can be wrapped around on your whole body showing both the commitment and passion of what tattooing really is. One of the favorite of girls in choosing girl tattoos on side is the very famous design of hands.
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Join us as we talk to developers large and small in the webOS community. This week: Dan Perlberger. Are you a developer interested in getting spotlighted? Hit us up!
Name: Dan Perlberger
Company: Hedami
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
webOS Apps: Music Player (Remix), GeoStrings, Quick Post, and Web Hopper
Current devices: Sprint Pre on webOS 1.4.5 as my primary, and for development a Pre Plus running 2.0.1 as well as a Pre Plus and Pre 2 both running 2.1
Tell us about yourself. Really, we want to know.
Wow that's an open-ended question! Let's see, where to begin... I've been a software engineer since 1996. Most of my career has been in real-time controls written in C; however in the past few years I've also had experience in Windows development (mostly VB and VB.NET).
I spend most of my free time with my beautiful wife and lovely, yet incredibly funny 23-month old girl. When the weather's nice, we like sitting out on the porch blowing bubbles for my daughter, going to the park, kicking the ball around in the backyard, or having a make-believe tea party. When I'm not spending time with my family or working on my webOS apps, I play in a beach volleyball league.
I'm also a big movie fan. I have hundreds of movies in my collection from all different types of genres. And what may come as a big surprise (ok maybe not), I listen to music all the time...at work, in the car, at home, while mowing the lawn, while vacuuming...everywhere! My favorite musical genres are R&B and Hip-Hop from the 80's and 90's.
What in your background led you to develop for webOS?
I wanted to try something different. I've been working on control systems and C code for ages and have always wanted to get into web development, so when I heard about webOS it sounded like a fun thing to do especially since I nabbed the Pre on launch day.
Your first app was easily one of the most popular homebrew apps: Music Player (Remix). Why did you choose to tackle something like improving a built-in app over building your own?
I never intended to have Music Player (Remix) be my first real webOS project. I wanted to do an app from scratch but I couldn't think of a good idea at first. So while I tried to come up with something, I figured I'd spend some time learning webOS. The best way to learn a new language and development platform is to jump right in and start playing with code.
The reason I chose to play with the music player app was because I really wanted to replace my MP3 player with the Pre, but there were several key features missing from the stock app. So I decided to add a few basic features to help learn webOS. I never thought I would release the app, but then I saw PreCentral launched the homebrew section and I figured maybe some other people might enjoy some of the changes I made.
The reaction I received from the community was amazing. Tons of people started writing in the forum thread excited that someone was working on improving the webOS music experience. A flood of requests came in with new feature ideas. I still didn't have an idea for a new app, so I just went with it and continued working on Remix. Eventually I added more advanced features like flylists and bookmarks and the app really started to take shape. A few months later it was downloaded more than 200,000 times which was incredible! In late October '09 I finally came up with the idea for GeoStrings and I put Music Player (Remix) on hiatus.
Music (Remix) 2.0 is available now in the App Catalog, and it's grown a lot since the first homebrew edition. What was the transition process like?
In the summer of 2010, Palm announced that the media indexing APIs would be released in an upcoming version of webOS. So I decided to dust off Music Player (Remix) and start working on it again. Even though the old homebrew version was incredibly popular and well received by the community, I wanted to treat version 2.0 like it was a brand new app. So I redesigned everything inside and out. I had a bunch of ideas that I had written down back when I was working on the original homebrew version (including autolists, faves, mini-player, etc.) and decided to run with them.
Version 2.0 was finally ready to be presented, so I posted a video demonstrating the new features. The community started giving me some great feedback and again I had a forum thread igniting with activity. It felt like the good ol' days back when I was developing the original homebrew version. So I decided to take the app out of private development and go back into homebrew.
Why do you continue to develop for webOS?
If it wasn't for the community and my love of the platform, I probably wouldn't be. There have been a lot of bumps in the road that have made me wonder whether I should continue. But I still have a lot I'd like to accomplish with webOS and having the support of the community, devs, and Palm Dev Relations folks has helped tremendously.
What's your take on the current state of webOS development?
Right now it's in limbo. Last year, there was a big push from HP/Palm to start developing for webOS 2.0. It seemed like 2.0 was the future. It had a ton of new development features and new APIs, but after February 9th everything changed. It seems now that they'd rather we skip over 2.0 and move straight to 3.0.
I compare it to the Terminator movie franchise in an alternate universe. Terminator 1 was a good movie, but it didn't do that great at the box office. That's webOS 1.x. Terminator 2 was the blockbuster sequel that blew everybody's minds. It's probably one of the best sequels in movie history. That's what webOS 2.x could have been. Now imagine Terminator 2's release was delayed and then eventually the studio never released it. Instead they announced they would reboot the franchise and cast Sylvester Stallone as the new terminator.
That's what it feels like. It feels like we were on the verge of something great and now HP is rebooting and starting over from scratch. It feels like we're missing out on what webOS 2.0 could have been.
Where do you see webOS development going in the future? In particular, how do you see Enyo and devices like the TouchPad running webOS 3.0 affecting your development?
Enyo and the new form factors such as the TouchPad are having a huge impact on my development. If we were still in a Mojo-only world, I'd be moving ahead with my next app and life would be simple. But we're now in the undiscovered country (quoting Star Trek VI). Developers have a big decision to make. Do they continue to create Mojo apps for 1.x and 2.x users (the existing, yet dwindling userbase), or do they create Enyo apps for a possible future userbase?
Plus from what I can gather, webOS 3.0 will only be released initially on the TouchPad. So Enyo won't even be supported on the new phones. This makes me lean towards sticking with Mojo for my next project. However on the other hand, Music Player (Remix) would be amazing on the TouchPad and I already have some great ideas for it. So I'm still debating which path to take for my next big project.
Given the chance, what's the one thing you would change about the webOS development process?
That's easy. I'd improve the communication between developers and HP/Palm. First of all, we have no good way of keeping track of webOS bugs, which is especially important during webOS beta testing. We all post a million threads in the early access forums and a lot of times issues get lost in the mix. Secondly in regards to communication, there have been several occasions where developers were left in the dark and were not informed of important decisions until it was too late.
And just to be clear, I think the Palm Developer Relations team has done an excellent job in working with us. I know they're aware of the issues, but I think their hands have been tied in a lot of situations. Hopefully now that their team is under new management, we'll start seeing some real improvements.
What are you working on right now?
Recently I've been working on a new app called Quick Post that allows you to post to multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts. It takes the hassle out of posting by automatically compressing or splitting long messages, queuing up messages when there is no internet connection, and allowing you to post messages to multiple accounts using webOS's Just Type. Quick Post was just recently made available for all devices running webOS 1.4.5 or later.
I'm also continuing to work on improving Music Player (Remix). The next big feature I'll be working on is Exhibition mode. I have something really cool planned that nobody will expect!
Thank you so much for your time. Any parting thoughts for the webOS community?
I'd like to thank the webOS community for supporting my work these past 2 years. They're a great bunch of people and I'm glad I've had the opportunity to be a part of it all.
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"Terminator 2 was the blockbuster sequel that blew everybody's minds. It's probably one of the best sequels in movie history."
How about Aliens, Star Trek 2, and the 2nd Lord of the Rings movie?
@miles4000: "one of the best sequels"...not "best sequel". The best sequel is "The Godfather Part II"...but that's a whole other discussion.
Dan, if I were you I would've Sprintified my Pre 2 as soon as I got it. I have a Sprint Pre 2, and after using the Pre 2 the first time I got it, it was an easy decision to make. I just can't go back to regular Sprint Pre running 1.4.5 anymore.
@rsanchez1 I was going to but I chickened out in the last minute. So now I carry around my Pre- (phone) and Pre 2 (Remix).
This is such hard times for webOS fans and developers, I wish H/P had released better hardware with 1.4.5 rather than wait this long for webOS 2.2
Thanks for your WebOS support Dan!
Dan - Thanks for sticking with the platform and for the gift of your work. You're a true asset to the webOS community!
Dan, I have really appreciated your dedication and quality of products! Have had Music Remix from day one and have recently fallen in love with Quick Post! Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks for the developer spotlight! And thanks to everyone who's supported my apps.
Dan - thanks for all your hard work!
I'm a big Music Remix 2.0 fan (at least the 1.4.5 HB version). When the day comes that I am able to get WebOS 2.x + purchase 2.x apps in the AppCat -- count me in as a guaranteed sale of the paid version.
I bought another Pre off ebay just so I could install webOS 2.1 on it because I didn't want to mess up my main Pre. The first thing I did was buy Music Remix for my 2.1 Pre. I love the freaking app!!
You are an amazing programmer and a great addition to our webOS programmers. Will definitely support you in the future of webOS!
Thanks, Dan, for what you've given to the WebOS community! You are a classy guy and whenever I see your name in a forum thread I know it's going to be followed by good, clear advice. You have a big heart for people. Thanks!


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Due to the awesome length of the old jokes thread and the subsequent lag it is causing, it has been closed.
Post your new jokes here. I'll start off with one that I'm sure has been here before but remains a favorite of mine b/c I'm such a visual reader and can see the scene playing out before me as I read it.
Garden Snakes are DANGEROUS!
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Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.
It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream.
The husband, who was taking a shower, ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was.
She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold nosed him on the rear. He thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and one of the Emergency Medical Technicians saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man.
He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushion where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband on the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
An ambulance was again called when it was determined that the injury required hospitalization.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.
The ambulance arrived and took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on fire.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving fire truck had started raising his ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and pulled out the electricity and disconnected telephones in a ten-square city block area.
Time passed...
Both men were discharged from the hospital. The house was re-built. The police acquired a new car, and all was right with the world.
About a year later the original couple were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
She shot him...
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Lol great joke. All the negative events sounded like something out of Final Destination!
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This isn't an actual joke, but pretty darn funny. Love stuff like this and I'm sure there are things on programs such as funniest home videos we can ALL relate to.
Complements of my dad (max)...enjoy!
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...I love it being set to Dancing Queen.
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Man arrives at a hotel for a business meeting and into his elevator walks a Drop-dead gorgeous woman. After a couple of floors he gets up the nerve to talk to her and asks why she's there. The woman explains that she's there to give a lecture at the Nymphomaniacs convention, dispelling a number of myths.
"What myths?"
"That Black men are the most well-endowed, in truth it's Native Americans. Most people think the French are the most considerate lovers, but really it's the Scottish. And the men with the most stamina are southern Rednecks." After a moment, she asks his name.
"It's Tanto McTavish, but my friends call me Bubba."
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Housework Is A Woman's Job!
Housework was a woman's job, but one evening, Jenny arrived
home from work to find the children bathed, one load of laundry in
the washer and another in the dryer. Dinner was on the stove, and
the table set.
She was astonished!
It turns out that Ralph had read an article that said,
'Wives who work full-time and had to do their own housework were
too tired to have sex'.
The night went very well. The next day, she told her office
friends all about it. 'We had a great dinner. Ralph even cleaned up
the kitchen . He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the
laundry and put it away. I really enjoyed the evening.'
'But what about afterward?' asked her friends.
'Oh , that ..., Ralph was too tired..'
God is good.
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Why Santa Doesn't Exist
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species
of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are
insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer
which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT
since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and
Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378
million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an
average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million
homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different
time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west
(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is
to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has
1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney,
fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat
whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the
sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8
millions stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course,
we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will
accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of
75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at
least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000
times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made
vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per
second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming
that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds),
the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably
described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more
than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could
pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even
nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even
counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for
comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air
resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as
spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer
will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In
short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the
reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The
entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times
greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)
would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's
dead now. Merry X-mas.
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Everyone knows Santa converts his entire mass to photons to make the rounds that's why have Christmas lights to signify the the change into massless particle waves.
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wow funy santa discussion and the snake story we heard in school lol
i got some these are from another forum i hang out in
1.) A couple of blondes were driving through
Louisiana when they came to a sign that told them
they were almost to Natchitoches. They argued all
the way there about how to pronounce the name of
the town.
Finally they stopped for lunch. After getting
their food, one of the blondes said to the
cashier, "Can you settle an argument for us?
Very slowly, tell us where we are."
The cashier leaned over the counter and said:
"Buuurrrrrr-Gerrrrrr Kiiiinnnnnggg"
2.) A customer walks into a restaurant and notices
large sign on the wall:
$500 If we fail to fill your order!
When his waitress arrives, he orders elephant nuts
on rye. She calmly writes down his order and walks
into the kitchen where all hell breaks loose!
The restaurant owner comes storming out of the
kitchen. He runs up to the customer's table, slaps
five $100 bills down on it and says, "You got me
this time buddy, but I want you to know that's the
first time in ten years we've been out of rye
3.) There was an elderly gentleman who was
suffering from Alzheimer's. His wife
of 40 years loved him very much, but she
couldn't handle him any longer. He
would wander about never knowing where he
was or sometimes even who he was.
Finally she decided that she would have
to take him to a nursing home.
At the nursing home, while the wife was
filling out paperwork, a nurse had
the gentleman sit in a chair. Suddenly
the man starting slowly leaning to
his left. The nurse ran over and put a
pillow on his left side to prop him
up. A few minutes later, he started
leaning to his right. Again, the nurse
ran over and put a pillow on his right
side. Then he starting leaning forward.
This time, the nurse strapped him into
the chair.
About this time, his wife, having
completed the paperwork, walked up to him
and asked, "How do you like the place?"
"It's okay," he said. "But, they won't
let me fart."
When the twin towers still existed, there was a bar on the top floor.
2 men are sitting at the bar, and one turns to the other and says
"Do you know that there is such a powerful updraft between these two buildings, that if you jumped out the window, the wind would carry you back up?"
The other man says
"That's a load of crap."
The first man then says,
"Here, I'll prove it to you"
The man jumps out the window, falls and falls, and then does a loop, and floats back up through the window.
The second man says
"HOLY CRAP!! You were telling the truth! I want to try!"
So the second man jumps out the window, and falls and falls and falls.
Splat, he hits the ground with a thud, and dies.
The bartender, having seen all of this, turns to the first man and says
"Dang, superman, you're a mean drunk."
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one last i didnt feel like fiting abby u might get a kick outa this sence ur a visual reader
**Rrriiiiinnnnggg, rrriiiinnnngg,**
**'Hi honey.**
**This is Daddy.**
**Is Mommy near the phone?'**
**'No, Daddy.**
**She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.'**
**After a brief pause,**
**Daddy says,**
**'But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul.'**
**'Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy,**
**Right now.'**
**Brief Pause.
**'Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.**
**Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs**
**And knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy**
**That Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway.'**
**'Okay, Daddy, Just a minute.'**
**A few minutes later**
**The little girl comes back to the phone.**
**'I did it, Daddy.'**
**'And what happened, honey?' **
**'Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming.**
**Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser**
**And now she isn't moving at all!'**
**'Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?'**
**'He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.**
**He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window**
**And into the swimming pool.**
**But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water**
**Last week to clean it.**
**He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead.'**
*****Long Pause*****
*****Longer Pause*****
*****Even Longer Pause*****
**Then Daddy says,**
**'Swimming pool? .**
**Is this 486-5731?'*
**No, I think you have the wrong number.......**
thats a personal fav its like a candid version of cheaters
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Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call.
The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Katie, a 3-yr old girl to hold
a torch high over her mummy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby.
Very diligently, Katie did as she was asked.
Mum-to-be pushed and pushed and after a little while, a baby boy was born.
The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom.
Baby began to cry.
The paramedic then thanked Katie for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-yr old
what she thought about what she had just witnessed.
Katie quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place... smack his arse again!"[/size]
Re: Jokes 2 One for the men!
Guts or Balls...
There is a medical distinction.
We've all heard about people having guts or balls, but do you really know the difference between them?
In an effort to keep you informed, the definitions are listed below:
GUTS - Is arriving home late after a night out with the boys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: ''Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?''
BALLS - Is coming home late after a night out with the boys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the butt and having the balls to say: ''You're next, fatty.''
I hope this clears up any confusion on the definitions. Medically speaking, there is no difference in the outcome, since both ultimately result in death
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America .
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
(I Love this kid)
TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter o f the alphabet.'
TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand.
TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.
TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
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A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book,
and noticed he had his collar on backwards. The little boy asked
why he wore his collar backwards.
The man, who was a priest, said, 'I am a Father.'
The little boy replied, 'My Daddy doesn't wear his collar like that.'
The priest looked up from his book and answered, ''I am the Father of many.'
The boy said, ''My Dad has 4 boys, 4 girls and two grandchildren
and he doesn't wear his collar that way!'
The priest, getting impatient, said. 'I am the Father of hundreds',
and went back to reading his book.
The little boy sat quietly thinking for a while, then leaned over
and said, 'Maybe you should wear a condom and put your pants on
backwards instead of your collar.'
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Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands! (Probably a son-in-law)
Practice safe lunches,use a condiment!
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How does it go? "Don't try this at home"?
We have the standard 6ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I Heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me; I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest Cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence.
I then used an 8 ft. Long ground rod, drove 7.5 feet into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.
One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Walmart 6hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.
Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 gigavolt fencewire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.
Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my balls trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head.
I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the POS lawnmower was fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.
Science says one cannot crap, pee, and get a nut at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM, BAM, BAM, you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close
together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.
At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I cant let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences...But Dad always had those POS chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 Volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking Im going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.
'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank! Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it.
Covered in poop, pee, jizz and with my balls on my chest I think 'Oh God please die... Pleeeeze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.
So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, and standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day...he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.
I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire... I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it.
I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things.
1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.
2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek, (not the left, just the right).
3- Poop, pee, and semen when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might first think.
4- My left eye will not open.
5- My right eye will not close.
6- The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.
7- My balls are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.
8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still dont understand this?)
That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.
The good news is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
Practice safe lunches,use a condiment!
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wut the heck was that all about common sence says dont go near the flipping wire till you are 110% sure (yes its the right number) you cut the power and then you approach it slowly and carfuly (perferably with rubber gloves the thick kind) and then and only then you pick it up carefuly or try to completly shut off the fence!
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Just so funny 'Abbysue' I was cringing at the oldies so dangerous....something to tell the grandkids lol...Maximus.....
Not had the patience to look at rest but I will kewl....
sanctuary is a friend holding your hand; when theres no floor below youre feet!!!!
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Twins agree to 2014 contracts with every player on 40-man roster
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With the Twins' first spring training game Friday, the team took care of some housekeeping Friday morning.
The Twins signed 27 players to contracts for 2014, meaning every player on the 40-man roster now has a contract for this season.
Here is the list of players the team announced Friday:
Logan Darnell
Samuel Deduno
Scott Diamond
Casey Fien
Kyle Gibson
Edgar Ibarra
Kris Johnson
Trevor May
Ryan Pressly
Brooks Raley
Caleb Thielbar
Michael Tonkin
Vance Worley
Chris Herrmann
Josmil Pinto
Chris Colabello
Brian Dozier
Eduardo Escobar
Pedro Florimon
Jorge Polanco
Danny Santana
Kennys Vargas
Oswaldo Arcia
Aaron Hicks
Max Kepler
Chris Parmelee
Alex Presley
Non-roster players like Jason Kubel already had signed a 2014 contract.
The Twins play the Red Sox at 12:05 p.m. Friday, the first game of spring training for Minnesota.


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City of Phoenix finance chief to be nominated for DC post
WASHINGTON — The chief financial officer for Phoenix will be nominated to the same post in
Washington, said District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray.
Gray announced his nomination of Jeffrey DeWitt on Thursday. DeWitt has served
as Phoenix's chief financial officer since 2009 and has worked for the city's
finance department since 1994. In Phoenix, DeWitt managed a $3.4 billion budget.
Washington's city budget is approximately $10 billion, despite being a smaller
Phoenix has a population of approximately 1.4 million according to the 2010
census. The District of Columbia is home to approximately 600,000 according to
the census.
In a statement, Gray called DeWitt a skilled manager and leader and cited
his experience "working with the Wall Street credit-rating agencies to maintain
and improve a large city's bond ratings."
DeWitt has a bachelor's degree in geology and earth science from Eastern
Illinois University in Charleston, Ill. and a master's degree in water resource
management from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. He was one of
several candidates recommended to the mayor by a search committee headed by
former Washington Mayor Anthony Williams and former U.S. Office of Management
and Budget Director Alice Rivlin.
DeWitt would replace Natwar M. Gandhi, who is stepping down after more than a


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New York
Broadway Stages plans to construct a television and film production studio on Arthur Kill Road in Staten Island. The project is valued at $20 million and will include five state-of-the-art soundstages. Broadway Stages, Attn: Gina Argentino, Project Manager, 203 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn, 11222. DR#12-00479419.
New York
233 Broadway Owners LLC plans to covert floors 30 through 58 of the historic Woolworth Building in Manhattan into condominium apartments. The $150-million project, which will include 40 condo units, will total 155,364 sq ft. 233 Broadway Owners LLC, Attn: Roy Suskin, Owner, 233 Broadway, Room 700, New York, 10279. DR#01-00611205. New York
New York Trades Council plans to construct an office building on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. The project will include 65,000 sq ft for a health center, 70,000 sq ft for office space and 20,000 sq ft for retail. The project is valued at $90 million. Skanska USA Building Inc., Parsippany, N.J., is the construction manager. New York Trades Council, Attn: Dr. Robert Greenspan, Chief Executive Director, 305 West 44th St., New York, 10036. DR#13-00611527.
New Jersey
Levin, Shea & Pfeffer PA plans to construct an administrative office, nursery and wholesale distribution facility for hydroponic agricultural products in Jackson. The project will include 102,300 sq ft of warehouse/greenhouse/office space with associated parking, driveway and a stormwater facility to be built in phases. The first phase will consist of the administration building and about 22,000 sq ft of warehouse space as well as site improvements for the entire project. The overall project is valued at between $25 million and $50 million. Levin, Shea & Pfeffer PA, Attn: Raymond F. Shea, Owner, 2105 West Country Land Rd., Jackson, 08527. DR#13-00420868.
New Jersey
Nestle USA plans to vertically expand its manufacturing plant in Freehold by adding a bottling facility to the existing footprint of the building. The project is valued at between $25 million and $50 million. Nestle USA, Attn: David Meiser, Project Manager, 61 Jerseyville Ave., Freehold, 07728. DR#13-00565911.
New Jersey
Triple Five plans to build a glass-domed indoor amusement park and indoor water park that will be connected by a common area at its American Dream Water Park and Amusement Park in East Rutherford. The Dreamworks-themed amusement park is expected to total 318,000 sq ft. The water park will be about 236,000 sq ft and include a wave pool, river spas, water slides, interactive play structures and areas for lounging and relaxation. The $500-million project will also include food and beverage areas. Construction is scheduled to begin this May. Skanska USA Building Inc., Parsippany, is the general contractor on the project. Triple Five, Attn: Tony Armlin, VP of Construction, Ste. 3000 West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170th St., Edmonton, Alberta, T5T 4M2, Canada. DR# 11-0049606.
New Jersey
Rutgers University Facilities Administration intends to build a 17-story graduate student housing structure. The project will consist of 163 apartment-style living units that will range from studios to four bedrooms with common areas, study areas and laundry facilities. The 263,063-sq-ft project is valued at $71 million. Rutgers University Facilities Administration, Attn: Jeff Livingston, Director of Design, 82nd Street, 1603 Livingston Campus, Piscataway, 08854. DR#13-00527553.
Hawks Ridge of Shelton LLC plans to build a 56-building residential facility in Shelton. The project will consist of 54 single-family homes, a 57-unit condominium/townhouse complex and a 196-unit assisted living facility. The project is valued at between $25 million and $50 million. Hawks Ridge of Shelton LLC, Attn: Albert Grasson, Principal, 15 Beech Tree Hill Rd., Shelton, 06484. DR#13-00478332.
The City of Waterbury Chase Municipal Building plans to move ahead with Phase 2 of the Waterbury Naugatuck Greenway project. Phase 2 consists of a riverfront esplanade and greenway expansion in downtown Waterbury. The project is valued at $34 million. City of Waterbury Chase Municipal Building, Attn: Rocco Orso, Purchasing Director, 235 Grand St., Room 103, Waterbury, 06702. DR#14-00435532.
New York
The New York City Transit Authority is seeking general contractor bidders to rehabilitate the lower level of the 9th Avenue Station on the West End Line in Brooklyn. The project includes replacing or repairing corroded steel columns and beams; the removal and reconstruction of the north portal seal water leaks; repairing deteriorated concrete; and providing additional track drainage. The project is valued at between $10 million and $50 million. NYC Transit Authority, Attn: Contracts Dept., 2 Broadway, Ground Floor, New York, 10004. DR#13-00634759.
New York
True North Hotel Group is seeking bidders for construction of the SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn in Fishkill. The project includes 162 rooms split between two hotels that will be connected by a common lobby area. The project is valued at between $15 million and $25 million. True North Hotel Group, Attn: Brad Weins, Property Developer, 7300 West 110th St., Overland Park, Kan., 66210. DR#00-600695272.
New Jersey
Bergen Community College Purchasing Dept. is seeking general contractor bidders for the construction of a 65,500-sq-ft, high-tech professions teaching center in Paramus. The project consists of a three-story building with smart classrooms; labs; simulation centers; computer facilities; and student support, counseling and administration areas. Work will also include all new electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems. The project is valued at between $15 million and $25 million. Construction is scheduled to begin in June. Bergen Community College Purchasing Dept., Attn: Barbara Golden, Director of Purchasing, 400 Paramus Rd., Room A-237, Paramus, 07652. DR#13-00538504.
New York
MTA Capital Construction's East Side Access Project Office has started construction of heavy civil structures and rail side utility relocations in the Long Island Rail Road Harold Interlocking, located in Queens. Work also includes new tunnel approach structures; construction of the Westbound Bypass Structure; catenary and signal tower installations and relocations; bridge reconstruction at 48th Street and various retaining walls within the right-of-way; and general site work. The project is valued at $104 million. A joint venture of John P. Picone and Schiavone, Lawrence, N.Y., is the general contractor. MTA Capital Construction, Attn: David Cannon, Senior Manager of Procurement, 2 Broadway, New York, 10004. DR#10-00649032.
City of Hartford Public Schools is starting the renovation of West Middle School. The 103,000-sq-ft building is valued at $41 million. Construction is scheduled to be completed by August 2015. Downes Construction Co. LLC, New Britain, is the construction manager on the project. City of Hartford Public Schools, Attn: Mike Midgette, Project Manager, P.O. Box 727, 200 Stanley St., New Britain, 06050. DR#11-00476077.
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAY, SEPT. 17: A special someone will help you understand and use your talents. October brings a career breakthrough. Spend many hours fully fleshing out your ideas before you share them with a potential team in November. You'll find a benefactor in December. Family events forward joint interests in 2014. Gemini and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 22, 13, 29 and 48.
IN THE STARS: Mercury has been causing strife with the likes of Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto, but the messenger attempts to make nice today via an auspicious connection with Mars. If you set out to tackle the big issues, you'll probably get absolutely nowhere. But if you take action on what matters to you, the world will respond to your passion in a big way.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You'll deal in this conundrum today: Struggling to prove your deservedness really only proves that you believe you don't deserve it. Believe in your worth, and the struggle ends.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The phone will keep buzzing, and the emails will keep rolling in - that's just modern life. Don't be bullied by your devices. You're still in charge. Just because it rings or dings doesn't mean you have to respond.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Some people can sit and do nothing at all. You rarely see the value in this, and you see laziness as a fault, not a skill. However, there is great benefit to doing nothing at all for a stretch of today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You will notice the energy that's directed at you, as you are very attractive to people who are outside of your circle. You may talk and open up a bit, but remain protective of your time. It's a most valuable resource.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). People seem to expect something from you that is different from what you'd like to give - a clue that you may be mismatched to your environment. The way to find out is to explore a bit and see whether things aren't better "over there."
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may do nontraditional things with your loved one from time to time, but your relationship itself is quite traditional in terms of the role you expect each other to play. This works extremely well for you now.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There is always a simple solution and the hard way. Being relaxed helps you see and apply the simple solution. If you are not relaxed, you'll notice only the hard way and mistakenly assume it's the only route.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It's one thing to be surprised by a sudden bout of good fortune and quite another to expect it. The latter is demotivating. If you're going to give someone a gift, let it be a surprise.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You're a fast learner. You may get it wrong once, but you won't get it wrong the same way twice. You'll switch tactics at least three times before the day is over.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You want to be independent, but someone will offer to help you, and you will seem like an ingrate if you don't take that help. This is a legitimate assist. And don't worry - if it works out, it will still be you doing the work.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). If you can be still inside yourself, you will be protected from the chaos of the world. It will swirl around you, but you won't be swept up in the momentum. You'll be the eye of the storm.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Those who have not been well taken care of by their families value loyalty just as much as others do. Have patience with those who are still learning the power of allegiance.


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~ Posted by Nicholas Barber, December 17th 2012
It's a tough time to be a film reviewer. It's bad enough that our poster-quote-providing duties have been usurped by every blogger who can sit through an "Alvin And The Chipmunks" sequel and then type the word "fantastic" with a clear conscience, but now Booker-winning authors are muscling in on our territory, too. Exhibit (a): "Midnight's Children", which is currently being advertised all over London with the following endorsement: "I am very proud of this film—Salman Rushdie." Hmmmm.
To be fair, Rushdie knows a thing or two about advertising. Before he made his name as a novelist he wrote copy for Ogilvy & Mather and then Ayer Barker Hegemann, so he must have thought this through. But is his own pride in the film really a recommendation? Just last week, I was very proud of my daughter's performance in her school nativity play, but I wouldn't expect the general public to shell out to see it. Perhaps if Rushdie had nothing to do with the adaptation, and was nonetheless proud of the film which his book had inspired, then his pronouncement might carry some weight. But in fact Rushdie is the screenwriter and the narrator of "Midnight's Children", and he worked closely with its director, Deepa Mehta, so all he's doing is congratulating himself and his friend for having done such a cracking job.
Could this be the start of a trend? It's accepted practice for authors to rave about their own books pseudonymously on Amazon, so maybe the logical next step for them is to do so under their own names. And why shouldn't non-authors get in on the act? Maybe the contestants on "Strictly Come Dancing" should award themselves marks out of ten according to how pleased with themselves they are. Maybe restaurant patrons shouldn't care whether their food is tasty or not, they should just ask whether it gave the chef a rosy glow of accomplishment.
From the perspective of someone who didn't help to make "Midnight's Children", though, the film is drab, plodding and distinctly televisual, so Rushdie might not be his own most reliable critic. I suppose the only way we can gauge his self-appraisal with any confidence is if he tells us how proud he is of the rest of his oeuvre. He should have his books reprinted with their own special Rushdie Rating on the cover.
"Grimus"—"I'm thoroughly ashamed of this novel."
"The Ground Beneath Her Feet"—"I'm not one to boast, but this novel is a work of genius, and Bono agrees."
"The Satanic Verses"—"I admit this novel isn't for everyone."
Nicholas Barber is a film critic for the Independent on Sunday and film previewer for Intelligent Life. His recent posts for the Editors' Blog include Slobs in perfect T-shirts and Bring back the lyricist
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Externship Opportunities
The legal externship program at Mississippi College School of Law consists of three options: a three (3) hour local externship course, a three (3) hour remote externship course, and a six (6) hour remote externship course. Externships are available to any student who has completed at least 45 academic credit hours. Generally, a student has sufficient academic credits to extern beginning in the spring semester of his or her 2L year. 1L students may not participate in the legal externship program.
The local externship course places students in legal placements in Jackson and the surrounding areas. Local externs must work a minimum of 135 hours at the placement (usually 10-12 hours per week). Students are encouraged to arrange a class schedule that allows for two open days to devote to working at the externship. Students also attend a weekly class that will meet at the law school. There is no required textbook and no exam. The local externship course is a three (3) hour, pass/fail class. No six hour local externship is offered. Students wishing to take a local externship should fill out an application, return the completed application and resume to Meta Copeland, and Professor Copeland will match the student with an appropriate placement.
Through the remote externship course, students may extern out-of-state or outside the Hinds/Madison/Rankin County area. remote externs must work a minimum of 135 hours for a three (3) hour placement and 270 hours for a six (6) hour placement. Students also attend a weekly class that will meet virtually through TWEN, and must submit weekly journals. There will also be a mandatory seminar for all remote externs at the law school in the semester before the remote externship which will also count toward class credit. There is no required textbook and no exam. The remote externship class is a pass/fail class.
Students wishing to take a remote externship do not fill out the local externship application. Interested students should contact Meta Copeland to discuss particular areas of interest. The student will be responsible for securing his or her externship placement, after consultation with Professor Copeland.


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30 Edition Hardback Series
Editora Abril
Project Name: Aniversário
Da II Guerra Mundial
Description: Editora Abril,
South America's largest publishing group, needed to
produce a high quality book series commemorating the 70th
anniversary of World War II. Chock full of beautifully executed
color illustrations, maps, and historic photos, the series
consisted of 30 collectible hardback volumes strategically
released weekly at Newsstands throughout Brazil. Assembled
together, a hot stamp on the spine revealed the series logo.
CPS produced the book series over the course of several
months, attending to multiple press checks weekly, and conducting
page-by-page final inspections to ensure top quality for
this significant and high-profile work.
Key Challenges: Each book
in the series contained many crossovers of color illustrations
and rich black or duotone photos. At the same time, a theme
of red design bars ran throughout each book. In order to
assure tight registration and seamless color matching of
those areas, strategic decisions were made regarding press
management and balancing of interdependent pages. Likewise,
a close eye was kept on the hot stamps, knowing that their
alignment throughout the series was the key to the success
of the spine visual effect. To complicate matters, the schedule
was breakneck, with volumes in some cases needing to be
turned from PDF to pallet in one week.
Techniques Used: Custom paper
production, Offset Printing, Hot Foil Stamping, Lamination,
Shrinkwrapping, ISPM certified pallets.