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Since rehearsal dinners are often thought of as the aesthetically boring yet necessary "other half" of the wedding celebration. Our next inspirational shoot breaks that misconception and showcases an event that acts more as a balancing counterpart to the wedding. Instead of it's dull pre-show.
See this fun distillery rehearsal dinner in its entirety in the full gallery here, captured by Sean Money and Elizabeth Fay. One thing we know you will love is the entire shoot uses only local Charleston vendors and products. Love that!
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This Styled Shoot planned and designed by Party.Love.Birds and shot by Sean Money and Elizabeth Fay Photography is the first shoot in Charleston to showcase one of our new distilleries The Striped Pig as a bridal event space in addition to using only local vendors and products. As you will see it is an extremely detailed shoot full of DIY projects that not only offer a very personalized element it also makes this event a very affordable one to reproduce and customize. The venue is an operational distillery so it naturally contributed a very industrial feel with it's fantastic mixed metals and large "bare canvas" spaces. I wanted to find a way to embrace those elements while bringing in some warmth, color, and whimsy. In order to do that we brought in a midnight blue, coraly orange, teal, and mint color palette fused with a typography design theme, which naturally added black and white to our spectrum as well.
EventHaus played up the industrial feel of the warehouse while bringing in a modern touch with an Edison Bulb lighting installation over the bar and the Bronze Radial Chandelier hung above the hops wrapped wine barrel table topped with a cake shaped structure composed of delicious doughnuts from Glazed Gourmet. In order to balance the very colorful palette, whimsy decor, and soft floral choices we focused on bringing in a harder yet neutral element in our rental pieces. EventHaus provided an excellent selection with their leather lounge pieces, reclaimed wood tables, wine barrel pieces, and metal accent tables and chairs.
Starting off our many notable DIY projects JLV Creative installed an amazing black and white stripe draped entrance piece along with 16ft long ribbon wall panels that were hung from the rafters to serve as a non-traditional dual functioning backdrop that both provided decor and coverage of the Striped Pig's work spaces. Party.Love.Birds added unique DIY touches to this scene as well with a hand bent copper wire balls and cake topper, paint dipped concrete coasters, homemade oil cloth pillows, napkin wraps and geo shape table decor from newspaper, nightlight canvas signage, and sheet metal runners that served as the menu for the dinner. Inspired by Italian marketplaces with flower bunches hung from the ceiling, Tiger Lily Weddings installed floral chandeliers with groupings of wildflowers suspended with decorative wire balls from copper toned dried vine lamp shades.
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To the tunes of the Big John Belly band Fresh Foods Market Catering served a 32 course menu that was modeled after a very popular culinary trend that consists of a dinner composed of a seemingly endless amount of mini dishes that consist of 1 or 2 bites each. This type of service not only went along swimmingly with our out-of-the-box style and whimsy theme, but would be an excellent idea for a real rehearsal dinner since that type of event is usually more of a "meet & greet" setting and in it's nature it is quite the conversation starter.
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Photography: Sean Money & Elizabeth Fay
Venue: Striped Pig Distillery
Flowers: Tiger Lily Weddings
Cake: Glazed Gourmet Doughnuts
Hair: Patrick Navarro for Elysium Salon
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Eating a fiber rich diet can increase years to your life. In fact, in accordance to a team of research workers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute, consuming a high fiber diet decrease your chance of death from any cause by twenty-two percent. The information of the research is available in the online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Of the most popular compression methods (7z, RAR, Zip, GZip) is there any of them that allows to retrieve the uncompressed data from a partial file?
Imagine there is only one compressed file, and it is a plain text log. Would I be able to read some of the log if the compressed file wasn't written to the end?


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When Jesus said "love your enemies", he probably didn't mean kill them.
You know, with one certifiably cr@ppy Plan Commission meeting coming up tonight, THAT made my day. Hallelujah and thanks, Habanero!
Batter up!
Can you say "Amen" for that today? Tee hee. That was fun!
Praise Jebus!
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I can't find cheats with assassin's creed brotherhood mac standard edition, i have mac osx 10.8.2. When i was playing the game it said cheat un,ocked etc. when i completed a sequence. Then i was searching on the internet and people with a pc or ps3 or xbox 360 could activate those cheats. I tried it for my self but it didn't worked.
I got to Options and i don't. See cheats i tried database nothing the inventory again nothing and i just couldn't find it.
That's odd, you should see the Cheats in Options. You need to be in replay mode (it won't be available in a memory you're playing for the first time), and the memory you're playing needs to be within a completely synchronized sequence. Then the ability to use a cheat you've unlocked should be there.
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Fiat introduces the new Viaggio at the ongoing 2012 Beijing Motor Show. The new sedan from the Italian manufacturer will be initially sold in China only with the 'Fei Xiang' moniker, but might soon become available in other markets as well. The car was designed at the Fiat Style Center in Turin and measures 4,679 mm in length, 1,850 mm in width and boasts a wheel base of a 2,708 mm. The model will be positioned in the C-segment and has been developed on the same CUSW platform (Compact US Wide) that generated the Dodge Dart and is an evolution of the Compact platform that spawned the Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
The Viaggio will come with a supercharged 1.4-litre T-Jet engine available in two power steps (120 and 150 hp) that can be coupled to either a 5-speed manual transmission or a 6-speed dual clutch gearbox. The Viaggio will be produced in Changsha, in the Chinese provence of Hunan.
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We weren't planning any tropical vacations this spring, but we may have to work one into our schedules, STAT. This Kate Spade Tropica Jezibel Canvas Tote ($275) belongs in just one place: on our bare, sunscreen slathered arms as we stroll down the beach. What beach, you ask? We'll take any, we answer!
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Gillette Stadium sings 'Happy Birthday' to ALS Ice Bucket Challenge founder
At halftime, the Pats had something special planned for Pete Frates.
At halftime, the Pats had something special planned for Pete Frates.
"I would just like to say that a lot of people in New York would like to drop buckets of various things on Jim Dolan," said Joe (…)
The list of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge participants runs endlessly, like the water which has been cascading upon shoulders since June. Paul (…)
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Actress Tori Spelling is no stranger to the New York Times best-seller list. The thirty-six year old mother of two has already released two books, and is currently working on her third. According to People Magazine, the book is tentatively titled unchartered terriTORI, and will be published under the Simon & Schuster Gallery Books imprint.
In the upcoming book, Spelling will dish about a variety of topics, including her family life and marriage, last year's media scrutiny over her weight, her recent reconciliation with her mother and whether or not she and husband, Dean McDermott, plan to have any more children in the future.
Spelling admits that her greatest challenge as a writer is finding time to sit down and commit her ideas to paper. Between motherhood and her busy career as both and actress and a fashion designer, many people would complain about not finding time to sit down and relax, but when asked about the challenge of finding time, Spelling said, "The biggest joy was appreciating how lucky I am to have that challenge!"
Her prior two books were well-received by readers, achieving a combined print run of around 800,000 copies, and she noted that she was excited to have the opportunity to share her life and thoughts with her fans once again. me is scheduled to hit bookstores June 15, 2010, so be on the look out!


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Postman Pat: the Movie, the British CGI animated film serving big, overseas box office appeal, will bow stateside on Friday, June 27, 2014. Los Angeles and New York audiences will have the chance to see what the United Kingdom, Sweden, Poland, Malta, and the Netherlands have known for a few weeks now: the Postie with the mostie rocks.
Besides a package of winning, shipping-themed standards, such as the Postman Pat TV series theme song, Please Mr. Postman, and Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours, the very singable soundtrack features song stylings of Rupert Grint, a.k.a. Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise. A few weeks ago, the internet was abuzz with tales of Grint's turn as the voice of Josh, Postman Pat's rival in the movie's fictional You're the One talent competition. Grint's stellar rendition of Lightning captivates both tykes and adults alike. A simple Google search chronicles the corresponding evidence.
The London premiere of Postman Pat: the Movie on Sunday, May 23 attracted a significant pre-show crowd of rabid Grint watchers (yes, Grint himself walked the red carpet), plus miscellaneous fans of the 30-something-year-old iconic mail carrier. Judging from the admirers and their enthusiasm, one might conclude that a similar frenzy awaits the lucky venues hosting Postman Pat's maiden voyage to America (Rupert Grint notwithstanding).
The conclusion is thus: prepare! In New York, AMC Loews Village on 3rd Avenue and 11th street will screen both the stereoscopic and non-stereoscopic versions of Postman Pat: the Movie. In Los Angeles, the AMC Burbank Town Center 8 welcomes the film. The limited engagement is one week in duration. Additional theaters and cities will be determined at a later date. Showtimes and admission prices are live at the above sites, and tickets are available online for purchase.
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Released: May 01st, 2001
Running Time: 113
Director: Drew Warner
Company: Sports & Recreation Video
Cast: Dean Phoenix, Troy Michaels, Chad Savage, Corey Summers, Jack Ryan, Tuck Johnson, Jessie Martin, Junior (I), Jay Raven, Zach Richards
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gay and Bi
There's no cuter cover boy than Phoenix; this won't have a problem moving.
Sure, Dean Phoenix is the star here, but in the opening scene, it's Tuck Johnson who puts the "me" in threesome, making viewers forget the other guys are even there. For almost 30 minutes, Johnson sucks and Johnson gets fucked. And his dick stays solid the whole time. Watching it slap against his chest - whether getting plowed from behind by Phoenix or mounting Chad Savage, who hammers him like a jackrabbit - is true beauty. And his little moans will have viewers biting their lips in ecstasy.
Scene two will torture you some more. Savage - whose gorgeous dick doesn't get enough screen time - is back, and he teases Corey Summers' cock masterfully: brushing up against it, getting close and exhaling a warm breath, grabbing the base with his hand, licking it for a brief second, then dumping a huge wad of spit on the head and watching it drip down - still with us? - before finally grabbing that bad boy in his mouth and getting to work. Those two scenes alone are enough, but there's also a seven-man Jacuzzi orgy with Troy Michaels' sweet sword to look at, and some nice chemistry between Junior and Phoenix.
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Matt Damon Kidnaps Jimmy Kimmel, Says His Show Sucks + Takes It Over Himself [VIDEOS]
Pretty much every night for the past decade, late night host Jimmy Kimmel has said Matt Damon would be a guest on his titular show -- and then at the end of each program, Kimmel always claims Damon's appearance had to be scrapped for time reasons.
On Thursday night, Matt got his revenge. He kidnapped Jimmy and completely took over his show, thus ending the running joke that was told a total of 1,205 times.


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Watford sign Liverpool striker
Watford have confirmed the signing of striker Jerome Sinclair from Liverpool on a five-year contract.SkySports.com » 40m
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Hidden in the back corners of the world is a scattered population of millions of nobodies, citizens of nowhere, forgotten or neglected by governments, ignored by census takers.
Many of these stateless people are among the world's poorest; all are the most disenfranchised. Without citizenship, they often have no right to schooling, healthcare or property ownership. Nor may they vote, or travel outside their own countries – even, in some cases, the towns-where they live.
They are stateless for many reasons – migration, refugee flight, racial or ethnic exclusion, the quirks of history – but taken together, these noncitizens, according to one report, "are among the most vulnerable segments of humanity."
Without the rights conferred by citizenship, they have few avenues for redressing abuses, and little access to resources that could help them build better lives. They have few advocates, because human rights groups tend to focus on the types of abuses they suffer – trafficking, exploitation, discrimination – rather than the roots of their problems, their statelessness. In their variety, they share the lack of a basic human need: a place to call home.
About two million of them are in Thailand, mostly members of ethnic minority groups and hill tribes, perhaps the largest stateless population in the world. Many were born in remote areas along the border with Burma, out of touch with the government, and lack documents that could prove that they, or one of their parents were born in Thailand.
"Everything is affected, all my rights," said Saidaeng Kaewtham, 38, who works as a gardener. "I can't travel, go to the hospital, do business or get an education. You can't choose your job, only labour." "Why can others do these basic things and I can't?" he asked. "If I had been a citizen I might have finished my education. I might have earned a master's degree already. Some of my friends have master's degrees."
The number of people like Saidaeng is rising today with the shifting populations of a globalised world, experts say. The emergence of new democracies is also a factor, particularly in Africa, where the granting or removal of citizenship is used as a political weapon. "The very fact that democracy makes people count makes citizenship a more important social and political fact, and that has given an incentive to some political leaders to use citizenship as a tool to disenfranchise opponents," said James Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative.
By the most common count, there are 15 million stateless people in the world, but by its nature, this is a number nobody can know for certain. "Statelessness is a global phenomenon but each of the stories is different," said Philippe LeClerc, an expert on the issue with the UNHRC in Geneva.
The stateless include some 200,000 Urdu-speaking Bihari in scores of refugee settlements in Bangladesh, where they are barred from many government services and subject to harassment and discrimination.
Formerly a prosperous and land owning community, they were stranded in Bangladesh when it separated from Urdu-speaking Pakistan in 1971. Although Pakistan at first offered refuge to fleeing Bihari, neither nation offers citizenship today to those who stayed behind.
The stateless also include members of the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority from western Burma, where they have been stripped of citizenship and denied civil rights and face exploitation, forced labor and religious persecution. More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled in recent decades to Bangladesh, where they live in camps or on the streets.
They also include ten of thousands of Filipino and Indonesian children in the Malaysian state of Sabah over the past three decades. There are now 750,000 of them, nearly one third of the local population, and the authorities are forcing many to leave. Because their children often lack documentation, an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 have been left behind to fend for themselves.
In Thailand, the government has embarked on an unusual and ambitious program to determine its stateless people's rights to citizenship, checking documents and interviewing witnesses and local elders. "You have hundreds of nationality decision taking place every month in these provinces," said LeClerc. "It's going in slow motion, but it demonstrates a consciousness on the part of Thailand that they have to address the issue."
The only documentation Boon Phnoma, 43, could offer was a birth date scribbled on a palm leaf by her mother. She said she was turned away by officials who said, "No you're not Thai." Like some others without papers, she then presented officials with the results of a DNA test that she said was accepted as proof of her right to Thai citizenship.
"I found out I have a whole big family here, 335 people," said Boon who now works to help other stateless people. "I am a Thai confirmed, a Thai since birth."
Adapted from: "Citizens of Nowhere, Asia's Stateless Remain Hidden." Cambodia Daily. 3 April 2007.
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Library's holiday craft bazaar proves to be popular event
Vendors, shoppers and kids all enjoyed the Lindale Library's Holiday Craft Bazaar held last weekend at First United Methodist Church. The 6th graders from E. J. Moss Intermediate School sold some really tasty soup to help raise funds for their spring trip, and we want to wish them good luck.
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Three people are arrested in Canada in connection with the world's biggest maple syrup theft.
11:04, UK, Wednesday 19 December 2012
Police in Canada say they have made three arrests in connection with a massive maple syrup theft in the summer.
The exact amount of syrup taken has not been disclosed but it was large enough to dent global supply.
Quebec accounts for about 80% of the world's production and it is thought the warehouse held nearly £20m worth of product.
Those arrested will face charges of theft, conspiracy, fraud and trafficking stolen goods.
Officials say they have interviewed 300 people so far and are searching for five more suspects.
The extraordinary robbery was discovered by officials when they noticed empty barrels on an inventory check.
Police have also seized vehicles suspected of being used in the illicit trafficking of the syrup.
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March 21, 2000
LOS ANGELES - The defending NCAA Champion Bruin softball team will play a doubleheader against the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team this Saturday, March 25, at Easton Stadium. The doubleheader will include two seven-inning games governed by international rules, and is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
The 2000 U.S. Olympic Team includes six former or current Bruins among its 15-player active roster, including Christie Ambrosi, Jennifer Brundage, Sheila Cornell-Douty, Lisa Fernandez, Stacey Nuveman and Dot Richardson. Fernandez, the 1999 Amateur Softball Association Female Athlete of the Year, is currently an assistant coach for the Bruins, while Nuveman, the 1999 NFCA Catcher of the Year, is the only player on the team with NCAA eligibility remaining. She plans to return to the Bruins in 2001 to play her junior season.
The seventh Bruin associated with the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team is one of the team's four alternates, sophomore Amanda Freed. Freed will participate with UCLA in the doubleheader and is on the Bruins active roster for 2000.
Tickets for the doubleheader will be $6 for adults, $4 for children, and are available through the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-UCLA-WIN.


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Is the subject of racism addressed in the Bible?
One would assume if God created people in His image, it would reflect the same variety as presented in the Bible with the creation of plants, animals, and sea creatures. The capacity for the development of all races from the prototype two in Adam and Eve in the creation narrative is more probable than the evolutionary narrative.
Environment, genetic precondition, and even food played significant roles of basic physical characteristics being prominently displayed as generation upon generation of humans demonstrated Mendel's Theory that a reshuffling of the genetic code already present produced changes by micro-evolution. That capacity to change and adapt had already been pre-coded in our genetic structure by God.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
Our physical characteristic should not be of any real consequence because if God wanted no intermixing of people, then there would be a distinct barrier as stipulated by "animals or creatures reproducing after their own kind". It is not genetically possible for reproduction between species to take place. Even with the manual manipulation between horses and donkeys, the hybrid off spring of the two in a mule is sterile.
There has never been a problem of offspring coming from two racially different individuals. The only problem has been the manufactured issues that come from having race related prejudices from humans.
The Bible has an example of God dealing with a case of racism when Moses married an Ethiopian woman after the death of his first wife. One can debate the new wife came from the Ethiopian peninsula nearby and was possibly Arab, but more than likely the new wife was black from Ethiopia.
Oh horror of horrors, Batman!!
Now of course it was unseemly even back then to speak directly about any racist ideals, so Miriam used the smokescreen about God also speaking though them as an excuse for Aaron and Miriam's rebellion against Moses' interracial marriage. More accurately God did speak through Aaron because of the speaking impediment of Moses, but God did not ever use Miriam. Gossiping against Moses about marrying an Ethiopian woman and claiming God spoke through her was about to get Miriam into trouble.
God came down to the entrance of the Tabernacle Himself to take care of this outrage in a pillar of the cloud, perhaps it was the shekinah glory. After God's verbal rebuke of Aaron and Mariam, the cloud departed and Miriam became leprous as white snow. There is such a thing as being too white.
This brings us to current day reality because the specter of racism continues to exist in the progressive Silicon Valley, which is turning out to be not so progressive for minorities. Perhaps this is why Jesse Jackson and entourage came to this technology region to address the issue.
Buried on page nine on June 26th of the edition of the San Jose Mercury was a telling story about worker diversity involving Facebook's racial makeup of employees. Reporter Sarah Frier of the Bloomberg News published a story about Facebook releasing a diversity report which set the percentage of white or Asian employees at a robust 91% of the workforce.
This means African Americans and Hispanic heritage workers combined make up 9% of Facebook's workforce.
Splitting equally the leftovers means 4.5% blacks and 4.5% Mexican-Americans establishes a much lower representation than the population.http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/expertise/status-update-facebook-not-so-diverse-20140626-zsn4z.html
It is no wonder this shameful result was put on page nine. The actual numbers of blacks at Facebook is far worse than admitted by Facebook management.
The demographics from Yahoo, Google and LinkedIn are hardly that much different. In typical fashion the small story in the Mercury talks more of the lacking of females in the workforce than the poor minority representation. The lower percentage of females in the four model Silicon Valley businesses is reasonably acceptable while numbers for blacks and Hispanics are not.
Facebook's blog posted yesterday an update from Maxine Williams, Facebook's global head of diversity with this comment, "Since our strategic diversity team launched last year, we're already seeing improved new hire figures and lower attrition rates for underrepresented groups."
So, you are saying that the diversity figures were actually worse last year and those small percentages that Facebook carried were having blacks and Hispanics leaving? It would be more effective to know why the small percentage of blacks and Hispanics were leaving these jobs.
Perhaps blacks and Hispanics lack the "necessities" for advancement as claimed by a Los Angeles Dodger executive, or blacks and Hispanics "can't swim". Or maybe blacks and Hispanics should not be allowed to associate with other ethnic groups as required recently by the words of the Los Angeles Clippers owner. These comments are decades apart, but the result of articulating them appears to be the same.
Accidental racism has been retreaded time and time again and there remains a basic conclusion that supersedes all excuses given for the continued under representation of minorities and that is:
Any hiring process that creates an under representation of minorities whether intentional or not intentional is classified as DISCRIMINATORY.
This describes Facebook's, Google's, LinkedIn's, and Yahoo's hiring practices who have established their workforces long after this discrimination standard came into being.
It is amazing the track record of accidental racism.
We have already seen "good old boys clubs" and it is a travesty that our technology companies that are allegedly leading the way to enlightenment would have the sin of preferred treatment present in their work force. Facebook's own records reveal a lack of blacks and Hispanic workers, plus a problem of losing what little blacks and Hispanics that are employed by attrition.
The Silicon Valley is producing the same work environments as a confederate redneck carrying a gun rack in the back of his pickup with a dog named "Blue" is no different. Yes, hopefully you dropped your electronic device in shock.
Losing minority talent by attribution is hardly a ringing endorsement for the corporate culture concerning Facebook, particularly when a strategic diversity team at Facebook is created a year ago to "deal with the problem".
The lack of hiring or promoting of minority employees is really not that complicated to figure out.


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The Weimar Secretary gives me to understand, as his unhesitating tho' private opinion, That even £50 for the Goethe Autograph would be a greater benefit to Eckermann than a mere failure in the negociation.1 Magnanimous Eckermann has indeed written to the Secretary (who read me his Letter) That, at the bottom of his heart, he was glad Lord Ellesmere had not purchased the sacred Paper; that it was too sacred to be sold; that, in fine, the Secretary must give it—to Carlyle, who would keep it, and transmit it to posterity, with the due devotion! This magnanimous catastrophe, of course, both Carlyle and the Secretary have at once rejected; hopeful still that some act of beneficence might be done to poor Eckermann in lieu thereof.
We farther agree that if anybody will keep this Paper, it ought to be the King of Prussia; he, the actual or virtual King of Germany, before all others. But it appears there is one thing to be very specially noted; namely that his Majesty has already done some kindness to Eckermann,—some Gift, a year or two ago, on solicitation of Von Humboldt:2 and it is left to your benevolence and sagacity to judge, Whether, by any skill in making the application you so kindly proposed, all danger of doing Eckermann a mischief on this side, either with the Baron3 or the King, could be avoided? He knows nothing of any such application: but would that fact, and the distinct statement of it, be enough? On the whole, it is left wholly to you, and to the Genius of Charity in you: what you decide shall be good and best, for me and others.
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It's called 'Up Late,' and it starts next month.
As rumored, Up Late with Alec Baldwin will air on Fridays at 10 p.m. and starts next month. "After two seasons of my WNYC podcast, I've developed a fondness for hosting a show that involved talking with smart, talented and engaging people in every imaginable field," said the new dad and anti-paparazzi warrior in the announcement. "I'm grateful to MSNBC for helping me bring a similar show to television." The podcast in question is actually pretty good and has featured varied guests including Lena Dunham and New York Times editor Jill Abramson. Although they share a temper, Baldwin is not quite Keith Olbermann — in the good or bad sense — so this thing just might work.


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July 2014 — Montgomery Cantsin from Furtherfield recently interviewed Lori Emerson about her ideas on today's world of technology and the release of her new book, Reading Writing Interfaces (recently published by University of Minnesota Press). "Emerson's work celebrates and calls for a 'frictional media archeological analysis' aimed at the continual 'unmooring' of the accepted conventions of reading and writing. Towards this end, she critiques consumer-oriented trends in computing–trends which unfortunately seek to 'efface the interface' in the name of so-called user-friendliness." Read the full interview.
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Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production
In Reading Writing Interfaces, Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.
This is the first book to bridge the fields of media archaeology and literary studies, specifically poetry and poetics. It offers new readings-and sometimes a first reading-of important texts, it performs historical spadework that adds to the existing narratives of how the personal computer has evolved, and it contributes to current critical conversations by making the category of interface central to its explorations of textual materiality.


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Nine goals and six points from two home league games sees Manchester City move up to third place in the Barclays Premier League. If Arsenal or Chelsea drop points in the upcoming games, Manuel Pellegrini will want to take full advantage as he looks to bring the title back to the Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City have won six of the last seven league games with West Brom, drawing the other one. Looking at this run of results the 8/13 on an away win in this game offers great value - especially if Vincent Kompany is fit enough to return to the first team. His appearance is sure to lift fans and team-mates and may add some defensive solidity on the road.
Edin Dzeko scored all three goals in City's two league wins over West Brom last season. If he starts this game, then you can back him to score first at 11/2. If he comes off the bench, you can back him at the same 11/2 price to score last. Considering his three goals in two games against the Baggies, the Bosnian striker is worth a look to score anytime at 6/4.
Although he didn't find the scoresheet in the 3-0 win over Swansea at the Etihad Stadium, Sergio Aguero is still the top scorer in the league and he's the strong favourite to score first in this game at 16/5. He scored a brace against West Brom in City-s 4-0 in April 2012.
His regular strike partner Alvaro Negredo has played in every league game this season and has bagged six goals of his own, including his 25-yard free kick against Swansea. He's another one worth looking at in the anytime scorer market at 13/10.
Looking at the respective record of the two sides, City's eight away goals and West Brom's eight home goals, they don't indicate a high scoring affair. Only one of the last 17 games between these two sides in all competitions has seen more than three goals, so all roads are leading to there being under 3.5 goals at 4/9.


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A Monongalia County man learned Friday he'll spend the next three years on probation for his part in a robbery and shooting last May.
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Can you camp on water? You've heard of walking on water, but camping? First, let's define "camping." According to Oxford American Dictionary, to camp is to live for a time in a camp, tent, or camper, as when on vacation. So camping on water would involve doing the same thing on water.
How can you do that? Most commonly, you could camp on or in a boat or on some sort of platform that floats. That can be done on rivers, lakes, canals, coastal areas and open oceans. The U.S. provides thousands of opportunities for such experiences, literally from sea to shining sea. A boat can be docked in a marina, nosed onto a beach, or anchored out in a lake, a gulf or coastal bay.
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Camping on a boat is fun and convenient, and even travel trailers mounted on floats are seen in some waterways. But perhaps the most unique accommodations for camping on water are the chickees in the Florida Everglades National Park, available with a back country permit (click here for permit info), just like a campsite on land, and reachable by canoe, kayak or motorboat. (To see website click here.) The chickees are modeled after the Seminole Indians' structures, which compensated for the lack of dry land in their habitat. Originally made of wood and thatch, most now provided by the National Park Service are platforms built of wood and metal, a couple of feet above the water level, with a roof covering a camp space, with a porta-potty on an adjoining platform, or a longer platform with two camp spaces, one at each end and a porta-potty in the center. (Click here for back country info.) On the platform, you can pitch your tent or hang a hammock and feel secure in your temporary home, while you watch the herons or listen for a dolphin to swim past.
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The hundreds of retirees and bemoaners of winter are not the first to have journeyed to Florida in search of some great treasure. But before the Magical Kingdom set up shop and the retirement communities took root, one man in particular came searching.
Juan Ponce de León was one of the great Spanish explorers during the late 15th century and into the early 16th century. In the early 1490s, he was an accomplished soldier who saw action during the battles against the Moors in Granada and other conflicts in reclaiming Spain. With the control of Spain back in the hands of the Spanish monarchy, Ponce de León was in search for a new career. He joined Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World where they discovered Puerto Rico. In time, Ponce de León would lead many expeditions of the island and eventually became governor. His political career lasted less than three years and he soon returned to exploration.
In 1512, King Ferdinand of Spain (of Ferdinand and Isabella fame) gave Ponce de León a contract to search for the Islands of Benimy. A year later, he would land in Florida and claim it for Spain. He named it Florida since it was the Easter season, which the Spanish call Pascua Florida (Feast of Flowers).
The Islands of Benimy that Ponce de Leon searched for were supposed to hold another treasure more unique than natural resources. That would be the Fountain of Youth. As far back as the ancient Greeks, age-restoring waters have always been sought after. During the Age of Exploration, the mysterious Benimy was said to hold the Fountain of Youth. Though Ponce de Leon did not mention the Fountain of Youth in any of his writings, this has not dissuaded countless people from tying him to the legend.
No site takes advantage of this unconfirmed connection better than the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. Here you can wander through the reconstructed Timucuan village and walk out to the location where Ponce de Leon is said to have landed and claimed the area for Spain. The first stop for most visitors is the Discovery Globe building. Here you can follow the many journeys of early explorers of North America and Florida. On a busy day, it fills up quickly so it might take you a few tries to get in. In the Planetarium, you will be able to see the stars as they were in 1513.
In an unremarkable building, lies the fabled Fountain of Youth. Mannequins of Juan Ponce de León, dressed in his conquistador regalia, and the friendly Timucuan tribal members stand over the bubbling spring. An employee stands nearby, offering free samples of the supposed elixir which has a bitter sulfur taste. In the corner is a sort of Hall of Fame, framed pictures of the famous people who have visited the Fountain of Youth. After tasting the magical waters, it doesn't exactly fill you with confidence as you view the famous visitors. Quite a few are dead (Bob Hope, Gregory Peck). And one even disappeared off the face of the earth (Amelia Earhart). Not very reassuring!
With its wide open lawns, the park is a perfect place to bring a picnic and soak up the Florida sun. There are peacocks all around the grounds. You may even hear a rustling above and find some peacocks perched in the high oak tree branches.
A visit to the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park is something you have to do when visiting St. Augustine. It is a stop on the trolleys that take you all around the city and it's an entertaining way to spend a hour.
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"Sweet Home Alabama" aired the season four finale tonight and Kelsey Smith has picked her guy. On this Jan. 10 episode, fans wanted to know who she picked and if they are still together. Keep reading for the latest on this show.
At the end of the show tonight, Kelsey Smith told Collin Varillo that he was the one for her. She wants to stay in Alabama with her man. They have both agreed that they are falling in love with each other. The show did not end with a proposal, but he did tell her that he has been looking at rings and thinks that is something they should pick out together.
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Okay - So I lied - I'll start today instead
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The best of intentions went out the window this week. Okay that's a bit harsh. Why is it that when I have a good plan to start something new all kinds of crazy things come my way. It's the proverbial BIG TEST OF GRIT!
I had my veggies and salad and beans and all that stuff stocked up on Monday morning. The day went just fine and I was right on track... and then wednesday rolls along and someone has quit at work and they need me in as many evenings as I can cover... and I need the money .... so off I go.
Now I work in a group home for adolescent youth - and as much as we are working on feeding them healthy foods - it is lots of foods that were not on my Eat to Live plan. So my days went fine and then I would find myself at the table with them.. and not doing well with " not eating all that meat and starch." Why is it that even those yucky sidekicks that I normally don't like - were so temptingly tantalizing to me when they were off my list?. My god! I haven't eaten side kicks for over a year, never really liked them and there I was snarfing a bowlful with the boys at dinner time.... Buffalo wings - last night I was smacking my lips on spicy buffalo wings - having an out of body experience seeing myself in the kitchen chomping down the wings - what was that all about???
Here's the thing. My own fault. I failed to organize my own food to take with me because during the day I was working on my own business stuff and then I was running to work my 4 - midnight shift. Just another excuse at poor time management. And why is it that as soon as I say I'm laying off the meat for a couple of weeks - That is all I can think of putting in my mouth!!!!!!!!!
Okay so now its plan B today. It is almost 2 pm - I am going to go make a big salad, throw some chick peas on the bottom of the glad container throw salad on top and pack a small container of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Today I am ready. Today I am back on track.
I guess I have to look at the past 5 days as a trial run - got it right maybe half the time... but I have to admit I am having a real tough time with all the food that is on hand at the house. It's stuff I don't keep in my house so I'm not tempted. This is a true test of pure will. Because when I close my eyes and remember how good I felt in my body when I was on EAt to Live last year - It is a great feeling. I need to work through all the crazy up and down emotions and sink into healthy eating.
I've been stressed financially and I"m eating my feelings. I have to switch back to working out the stress physically. Walking. DVD's with big bad bob harper. That's what has to happen. I need to get myself back on track. Today. I start again today. And isn't it true that the more times you try to build that skill - the more likely you will be successful????
Someday soon I'll be a Pro!
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I really can relate to your blog! So often i have the best intentions, usually Monday morning, and then I get side tracked! You did a great job identifying some of your issues. Keep going!
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I think sometimes just sitting back and reflecting can be a great gift. We can either forge ahead - not paying attention to what leads us down those paths or we can pay attention - and adjust our sails.
I like how you just get up and do what you need to do. It may have been one step back - but it definitely is 2 steps forward!
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Congratulations on getting back on the plan TODAY vs. tomorrow or later. That's an important skill to learn. The rest will come in time. You CAN do it! It took losing the weight 4 times before I felt I had the skills and determination to keep it off, and I still have times that make me fearful of regaining.
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So much of the world's population is cut off from the natural world. Many have forgotten their origins. Their eyes no longer have the ability to seek out beauty from the concrete jungles. They no longer connect to the depth of their soul nor do they reach out to another. Our world has become encased in a cement of suppressed feelings and disowned emotion. Many have become living robots spending day to day living in rectangular structures, working in rectangular structures, transported in rectangular structures to finally end one day entombed in a rectangular structure. They may get lucky enough to feel something real, but it is usually short lived. And we wonder why we have wars.
We can only change ourselves, we are told. Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Are you going to spend each week far from the peace of nature, or will you save yourself by visiting your own soul in the real, natural world? Will you be with animals? Will you find a natural setting to soothe your soul?
All of us have our origins within Mother Nature. We are not separate from that which most humans destroy. We cannot deny that most of us contribute to the destruction of the planet. But, we do have choices. Everything is interrelated. We are all connected on a base level.
What if a young woman from the Western World went to Africa and saw a small child fighting for his/her life? Afflicted with starvation, the mother begs, "Please feed my child." Would this young woman go home to her country and consciously choose to have her own children or would she save her money to help feed the ones already struggling to live?
Having seen the destruction of the rain forest and the chopped down trees, would someone planning on building a house of new wood think twice? Would they consciously choose to build differently using reused cartons, recycled tires, straw, mud and other sustainable materials? Would they downsize and use part of their land to plant an organic garden? Or would they mindlessly keep doing what the previous generations have done?
Would the ones choosing to be part of the military decide instead to protect trees and wildlife, enriching the soil and planting with seedlings to feed the world instead of killing the ones already living here? It is all a choice.
What can one person do? A lot. One person can help other children and choose not to have their own. One person can create an organic farm instead of learning how to operate a gun meant to annihilate someone. One person can go to a straw bale house building class and save many trees. One person can reduce, reuse and recycle. One child going to school can choose to not buy candy at recess and instead save that money to help feed the starving. One person can pick up trash on a beach that might have killed a sea turtle. One person can plant a tree instead of chopping one down. One person can share the ride and reduce the use of gasoline. One person can do a lot. That one person can be you.


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Rubus moluccanus L.
Common Queensland Bramble
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- Recorded In Australia
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Rubus is a large genus of about 250 species found in many parts of the world. They are often known as brambles because of the rambling, prickly nature of the arching stems of some species. The best known members of the genus are probably the blackberry raspberry, loganberry and youngberry. The blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and related species) has become a serious weed in temperate parts of Australia because its seeds are spread by birds and the nature of the plant makes it resistant to control by grazing animals.... source: Australian Native Plants Society (Australia)
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|Rubus moluccanus
|Rubus haskarlii subsp. dendrocharis Focke Focke Focke
|Published in: Focke, W.O. 1910, Bibliotheca Botanica 72
|Rubus dendrocharis (Focke) Focke (Focke) Focke (Focke) Focke
|Published in: Focke, W.O. 1916, Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik 54
|Rubus moluccanus var. dendrocharis (Focke) P.Royen (Focke) P.Royen (Focke) P.Royen
|Published in: Royen, P. van 1969, Phanerogamarum Monographiae 2
|Rubus dendrocharis (Focke) Focke
|Published in: Kanehira, R. & Hatusima, S. 1938, Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 52
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Broad-leaf Bramble.
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- Magnoliidae
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- Rosanae
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- Rosales
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- Rubus moluccanus var. moluccanus
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"old White Men Getting Laid"
40 replies to this topic
Posted 2005-09-27 02:21:48
by Hanna Ingber
During last month's visa-run, I met an old white man who said he moved from England to Pattaya for the sole purpose of getting laid. He said he's been in Pattaya for eight years, has slept with at least one different woman each day, and has calculated that if you add in his years as a taxi driver in England, he's slept with more than 4,000 women in his life.
He told me this during lunch in Cambodia. We were sitting at the Holiday Palace Casino and Resort with a motley collection of foreigners waiting to get their passports back.
"Aren't you embarrassed?" I asked, surprised he felt comfortable discussing his sordid - and expensive - sex life with strangers. Well, we weren't total strangers. Standing outside Thai immigration for three hours in the rain can be quite the bonding experience, but still.
"Why should I be embarrassed?" he responded.
"That you had to pay for it," I said. "I've never had to pay for sex."
"In Pattaya," he went on, sounding thrilled to educate the young American, "everyone does it. That's why we go there. You should come and see."
No, thanks. I'll stick to Chiang Mai. But there are quite a lot of old white men here, too. Why? What are they doing here? Also getting laid?
Some are.
John (all names have been changed), 69 and originally from Michigan, moved to Thailand more than three years ago. He used to own a bar behind the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar. "If you live in Chiang Mai and you're single," he said, "all you do is go to the bars and chase girls."
His friends, other retired white men, agreed that most single men in Thailand spend their free time having sex. (And if you are retired, you have a lot of free time.) One old white man - a very large American - reminisced about his days being single: "I was what you call a 'player'. We had an expression: 'Hog, dog, or frog.' I'd go after whatever - all girls."
Hmm. Pleasant.
And by "all girls", he probably means all Thai girls. His friend, Frank, said there is no need to bring foreign women to Thailand. It would be, as he put it, "like taking a sandwich to a banquet."
Sleeping with prostitutes - or what these men call renting bar girls - is so common for single men, there is an assumption they're all doing it. Phil, 58 and from Canada, said: "My friends around the world expect that it's happening for me as a single male."
And, indeed, they're right. Phil - on occasion - does pay women to sleep with him. Though, his friend Harry maintains, there's nothing wrong with that. Harry, originally from England and married to a Thai woman, made sure I wrote down all the reasons why prostitution should not be scorned, like it is in the west. For starters, he said: "Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and it's been going on since the beginning of time."
Slavery has been around for a long time too. Does that make it a time-honoured tradition? Many would say no. What determines if a behaviour should be preserved or eradicated? Who makes the decision and on what basis? Furthermore, if such arguments reflect morals and values - sacred principles - why do they change when someone moves?
Harry also argued that these women left school at age 12 and therefore have no qualifications. "If she's good-looking," he asked me, "what can she do? She performs for other people and then sends 80 percent of that money home. You can't say it's wrong - they're doing a bloody job."
Another retired American - fondly referred to as Young Joe because he's only 41 - ventured to explain the economics of dating in Thailand. He said that in the United States, a man might sleep with a prostitute once or twice and then never see her again. In Thailand, foreign men sleep with prostitutes and then "they all try to get the girls out of the bar, into the home, and make 'em a wife." He contended that this is problematic because the so-called bar girl was making 40,000 - 50,000 baht a month. To marry her, you need to give her that income so she can support her family or herself. Another problem, he said, is the so-called bar girl will have multiple foreign boyfriends, each of them sending her about 30,000 baht a month. She'll rotate their visits to Thailand so they never know about one another.
After a while, Young Joe and the others grew tired of the chasing.
"I've been here long enough," Young Joe said, "to know I can't make a bar girl work [as a girlfriend] - too many headaches, and I can't afford it."
The solution? These old white men settled down. John has sold his bar and - like most retired foreigners - married a Thai woman. He now socialises by going out to lunch at Chiang Mai's hotels or by dining with friends. When the young American looked bored by the old American's social life, he said: "Now, you really want to get boring?" He then pointed at his wife across the table and said: "She's a farmer!" His wife grows rice, soybeans, and vegetables.
Now don't get me wrong - not all old white men moved to Thailand to have sex. Some came here as businessmen and stayed. Others chose to retire in Chiang Mai because of its beautiful scenery, cosmopolitan feel, great restaurants, live music, tropical climate, relative safety, and/or high standard of living. Some said they travelled around the world before choosing Chiang Mai as the best place to live.
Other old white men settle down with a Thai woman, but continue to socialise by visiting the bar scene. Daniel, originally from California, drinks every night with his Thai girlfriend. They frequent the bars his friends own on Loi Kroh Street, known for its string of bars, drunk foreigners, and prostitutes. Daniel and his American friend, George, said foreign men quickly tire of sleeping with a different woman every night.
"It's not real fulfilling," George said. "Because we're old men and we have hearts, believe it or not."
Not all old men tire as easily. After lunch in Cambodia, our group of foreigners stood in line - in the rain - to get back into Thailand. The man from Pattaya started making passes at me, presumably trying to make me woman 4,001. "Don't go back to Chiang Mai just yet," he said. "Stay the night in Bangkok."
He was three times my age and not exactly picky. I snapped back: "I'm American, I don't sleep with old men."
Of course, in the United States, young American women sleep with old men too. But if the old guy had to pay for it, he'd keep it to himself.
Posted 2005-09-27 02:31:24
good grief i didn't go to thailand for sex. i went for the cultural experience and
the beaches.
Edited by bakachan, 2005-09-27 02:32:22.
Posted 2005-09-27 07:07:55
Each new generation comes along and thinks they have discovered some new phenomenon. Oh well.
Posted 2005-09-27 07:15:34
If they want to spend their time shagging ugly Issan hookers up to them!!! Each to their own. That's what they're there for.
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Posted 2005-09-27 08:13:32
Seconded.. Thirded and fourthed all at once.
Posted 2005-09-27 08:38:13
you sound like a sweet boy
Posted 2005-09-27 08:48:17
Posted 2005-09-27 09:02:40
I see Buff-horns is still trying to be someone, and failing miserably.
Posted 2005-09-27 10:34:20
I think the nick says it all
Posted 2005-09-27 12:47:37
ooops, I was abit slow there
I like it.....
Posted 2005-09-27 17:06:20
You been living in a monastary? They probably came here to get away from judgemental hags like you.
Posted 2005-09-27 17:39:55
Posted 2005-09-27 17:40:08
This is what we call a TROLL posting. Designed to bring out all the same old useless BS.
Posted 2005-09-27 18:37:48
Didn't anyone come here for the culture? I'm baffled.
Posted 2005-09-27 19:05:07
Not sure about the but think I do hear the sound of a troll line being tossed out.
Posted 2005-09-27 19:37:01
Luckily I don't feel embarassed to hire a gorgeous girl for sex. It's nice to go sometimes to a bar not having to talk too much with girls and buy drinks for them but go straight to the business. Persuading girls is a hard job and you can skip that with money
Posted 2005-09-27 19:39:55
Posted 2005-09-27 19:55:55
Ah, an honest man. Thank you. My dad always told me to watch out for men, that they were only after one thing and you have just proved him right.
I guess, in a way, it is easier than having to chat a girl up. Cuts out all the superfluous conversation crap
Posted 2005-09-27 19:58:07
The man does have a point!!!
Posted 2005-09-27 19:59:27
That comment assumes one has the ability to converse with the opposite sex.
Posted 2005-09-28 01:27:01
I just love it when people try to justify prostitution....
Now try to explain to the kids of expat families why their parents are splitting up because daddy couldn't keep it in his pant. Or even better, explain to their mothers why is she being punished with STDs for being a loyal and faithful wife, a good mother to her children.....
I've been "fortunate" enough to have grown up here in Bangkok, and these stories are all to familiar. I do believe that prostitution is a business, and like other businesses it's a matter of supply and demand. Point is, you can't make a living supply something that there's no demand for, can you?
I'm not a disgruntled teenager who has a lot to vent about, I've moved back here because of work but that doesn't mean I don't have anything to be disgruntled about. So the next person that tries to justify prositution to me, can get truely acquainted with my fist!
Posted 2005-09-28 01:54:51
You know exactly what youre going to get ! Nothing wrong with it , just think if Thailand didnt have this profession here , how bad would the economy be ? You cant tell me any guy in here hasnt done it at least once . if you say no , youre a liar ! Just the truth !
Posted 2005-09-28 02:33:45
They way I read it, was that the guy wasn't trying to justify prostitution but rather to justify why he uses the services of prostitutes.
Chiuey I assume your refering to the post by Lampaani.
Edited by Pie Boy, 2005-09-28 02:36:16.
Posted 2005-09-28 02:51:51
No reason to even try to start justifying a perfectly acceptable industry.
The next person who comes trying to tell me that only men can´t keep it in their pants and only women are victims, well... they can get acquainted with my fist....
What a load of crap.
Chiuey.... Get a life.
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Detroit's famous Anime con, Youmacon, finally launched their 2010 site. Along with it, there was quite a bit they had to change. As mentioned in a previous article, the con changed locations, moving to Detroit's GM Renaissance Center. When booking hotel through the website, the Detroit Marriott is offering rooms at $108 per night.
Pre-registration for the convention is now available. Registration from now until the end of June is $35 for all three days. Registration from July 1st until September 15th is $40, and registration at the door is $45 for all three days.
Also, the hours seemed to have changed for the convention. The con starts later on Friday and ends earlier on Sunday with the following hours: Friday- 11am to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 7pm, and Sunday 9am to 2pm.
So far, two guests have been mentioned- the popular geek rock group Lemon Demon, and voice actor Vic Mignogna. Vic was most famous for voicing Edward Elric in "Fullmetal Alchemist".
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the other day i went into the chinese resteraunt and said to the cashier "chi shi" and i got kicked out.
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Means excrement eating. Can be also interepted as 'get away' 'get me a break'.
a*hole: dat gal so wholesome, i wanna commit chi shi on her.
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Venice, Italy
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A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted pastEdit Place
Poveglia was constructed on a permanent fortification built by the Venetian government, and from 1793-1814 was used as a plague quarantine station, or "lazaretto" - one of many in the Venetian lagoon.
The tiny island is said to have hosted over 160,000 infected souls living out their final days and hours there - so many that there are whispers that 50% of the soil consists of human remains. Recently, mass graves have been found on the nearby islands of Lazaretto Nuovo and Lazzaretto Vecchio containing the remains of thousands of plague victims. Poveglia has yet to be fully investigated.
Finding the location of Poveglia to be small and easily missed, Napoleon also used the island for a darker purpose, and stored weapons there. The location was discovered, and many small battles took place as the island claimed even more lives.
In 1922, a mental hospital was opened on Poveglia. Local legend says that one doctor at the hospital tortured and killed many of his patients, butchering them horribly only to later die by falling from, or possibly being thrown off of, its bell tower. The hospital closed in 1968, and the ruins are still there, slowly being reclaimed by greenery. And while it is professed to be a former retirement home, evidence that it housed mental patients is still evident.
With a past like this, it's not surprising that Poveglia is believed to be haunted, attracting the attention of ghost hunters and paranormal investigators.
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Neatly tucked away in a peaceful spot on the shores of Calgary's Glenmore Reservoir, Heritage Park authentically re-creates a bustling town of 1910, complete with a Town Hall, General Store, Hotel, snooker parlour and one-room school. Nearly all of the buildings have been preserved in their original state, and many are open to the public, with artful displays in each room featuring period tools, furniture and fashions.
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Among the numerous attractions on-site are the Canmore Opera House, built in 1898 and perhaps the only log opera house on the planet, a fort-like Hudson's Bay Trading Company Post circa 1860 and the Claresholm General Store, which dates back to the Crowsnest Pass' boom-town era of 1905. Cabins and teepees represent those who roughed it in the wilderness, and stately homes of sandstone several storeys depicts the lifestyle of upper-class city folk. The park's charming amusement park has period rides such as a ferris wheel offering great views of the park, a colourful carousel that dates to 1904 and the breezy Dangler Swings, which seem to make day-to-day worries just float away. The park can be enjoyed on foot, by horse-drawn carriage, or even aboard a chugging, whistling and heaving steam train.
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I am trying to find some reference materials to write up something about stacked memory's future. I take this to mean memory that is stacked on the processing chip that allows to faster access time, less latency, etc.
Is this a technology that is likely to be adopted by major manufacturers, and is it worth keeping tabs on as a "future technology?" Maybe it even already exists and I am just unaware of it, but if you google for "stacked memory" you get a few whitepapers and that is about it.


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Troubled mobile phone maker Nokia has turned to that Finnish tech success. Angry Birds, in the hope that some of that pig-hating magic will rub off.
The official Nokia blog reports on an exclusive version of the game for the Nokia C7 that uses the phone's NFC [Near Field Communications] capacity to add a twist to the much-loved game.
Five of the levels are as normal. But at that point you need to find a friend with an NFC-enabled phone, as the remaining levels are inter-spliced with ones that can only be unlocked when you touch phones with someone else. Finding one friend will unlock five more levels. A second friend will unlock another five, and a third the remaining five.
There is an obvious problem. What happens if no one else has a C7 phone?
There's also a second way to unlock levels: through using NFC tags – which might be embedded in any item or object. We understand clues as to their locations will be forthcoming…
It is hard to imagine that even the most dedicated Angry Birds aficionado is going to change their phone just for a new version of the game, but it is a good marketing move by the Finnish phone giant as it tries to keep its brand relevant in the transition away from its own Symbian platform to the Windows Phone operating system.
Angry Birds Free with Magic will come preinstalled on the Nokia C7 as part of the Symbian Anna update. It will also be included on all of Nokia's NFC-enabled devices in 2011.
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Rihanna released an official remix of her hit single "Diamonds" featuring Kanye West.
West's verse on the remix is a minute and a half long and features references to Brad Pitt, Kim Kardashian, a Richie Akiva party, Jay-Z's label Roc Nation, and how he missed the 2007 Victoria Secret show due to his mother's death. The remaining three minutes of the remix features Rihanna singing the pre-hook, hook, and second verse of "Diamonds".