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Vietnam memories still strong after 40 years
March 30, 2013
The last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam 40 years ago Friday, and the date holds great meaning for many who fought the war, protested it or otherwise lived it....
Why werent local VN COMBAT VETS interviewed for this story. Instead a private contractor who made God knows how much money on a war offers his experience. Tells you how far we have come since electing the ultimate War profiteer Mr Cheney and his Haliburton goons.
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Dear Ross Blowhard:
How's that day of reflection going? How about a cite for that internet-based description you gave in your fantasy comment below? Come on, bud. Man up. And in talking about your "best friend" do you see how many times you referred to YOURSELF? There is much I can say but I will let it go for now. Just please do provide that "defending the rice paddies" cite. (Spit.)
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90% reported a favorable homecoming? That, to me, seems woefully low. It should be 100%, regardless of the politics behind the war (or "engagement"). Soldiers do not make the choices as to the wars in which we engage.
Hippies. The idea of living on a commune is fantastic, as long as mom and dad or the trust funds keep paying the bills. I'm so glad I'm too young to have lived through that counterculture movement at its apex. I hate Hippies. Get a job.
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Tony Lam: "I went from being an industrialist to pumping gas at a service station," said Lam, who now works as a consultant and owns a Lee's Sandwich franchise, a well-known Vietnamese chain.
Another example of how times have changed. Mr. Lam came here (presumably legally) with virtually nothing. He obtained a minimal job and worked his way up to be successful. I doubt he was looking for a handout, just an opportunity.
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We always seem to mention Vietnam when it comes to the possibility of getting involved in an armed conflict with other nations, but rarely heed the lessons learned from that war when sending our military into harm's way. The only words I want to hear out of any commander in chief when the time comes to get involved with another war is "Follow me".
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The US government should be ashamed the way it treats our men and women who are called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice. If it weren't for our veterans, it's hard to imagine what this country would be like. I am forever grateful to those who have served and continue to do so. Thank-you for the sacrifices you have made that most of us cannot even begin to understand.
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There are many people whose sense of inadequacy prompts them to make false claims regarding their military service. Amazingly, some who were old enough to have served during the Vietnam Era, opposed it then, did not serve, and now pretend otherwise. Some of these folks are very clever. Take Ross Ballard, for instance. Read his comment closely. He says he lost his best friend to the war but misspells his best friend's last name. It is McMicken, not McMickens. But that's hardly all. His best friend was KIA in 1967, a significant age spread, given that Ballard claims he volunteered for military service in early 1973 and cutely avoids saying whether he served. But his profile says nothing about service and, instead, says he was working for a mining supply company in 1974. And the the "great book" that he refers to? It's description reads thusly:"Bill Blake encounters fragging, racism and ****** addiction while defending soldiers in court-martial trials…." Some people make me sick.
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I was only 10 years old when we heard that a fellow kid from the neighborhood had been listed as KIA in Vietnam. He was 1LT James C. Adams. He was always good to everyone in the neighborhood. It was one of those moments as a young kid when you realize that tragedy is real and that the loss of someone you know, respect and like is suddenly gone forever. I joined the U.S. Army in 1978 served 8 years and then went on to serve for 22 more as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. I salute 1LT Adams and all MIA's, KIA's and veterans of this war.
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The great book by Dan Dane, 'Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order' by was one of our toughest audio books to produce. It brought back so many memories for me. I lost my best friend to the war. After his death and trying to make sense of it all I volunteered (once I was old enough), took my physical, only to be told my service was no longer going to be needed in Nam. It was early in 1973. After the production I still had so many questions about what happened to him and how he died. Now that the internet is available I finally got my answers. He was killed by mortar fire while defending the rice paddies his Army unit had taken the day before. He had just retrieved a wounded buddy from behind a burning hut and was headed back for another when he was hit. He died a hero. He was that kind of West Virginian probably scared out his mind yet still doing his duty. To PFC. Harry 'Lyle' McMickens - your friends still miss you. I'm Ross Ballard. I think I'll spend the day in quite reflection.
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6 Insane Sex Myths People Used to Teach as Facts
Considering how obsessed people are with their junk, it is amazing how long it took humanity to finally figure out what it was all used for. The clitoris wasn't fully mapped until 2005, which you may recognize as being about 160 years after the general layout of the solar system had been mapped. To be fair, at least we don't treat the clitoris like a campfire ghost story, or set people on fire for having an extra nipple, or assure women that the cause for all of their ailments was a powerful need to masturbate. If you'd been born in a different time, you'd have been 100 percent invested in all three of those ideas, plus a handful of other wacky beliefs about the human underwear zone.
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Testicles are ridiculous. They can't stand it when it's too hot or too cold, and they're located in a dangerous place where they can get knocked around or sat on. They're like a biological self-destruct button dangling around inside a pouch in the least defensible area of your entire body.
Because most of the people in history who were allowed to study the human body were men, and therefore were obsessed with the functioning purpose of the groinal meat-and-two-veg, we've known basically what testicles were for since at least around the time of the ancient Greeks. But the Greeks decided that firing babies into a woman's body simply wasn't awesome enough to be the sole job of the noble testicle and decided to add a bunch of completely unwarranted features to it, like an insurance quote on the GEICO website.
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"And put a ribbon on it, too. Why the hell not?"
Aristotle believed that the testicles were weights connected to the vocal cords through blood vessels. As a boy reached puberty and started to produce sperm, his testicles descended, thus pulling on the vocal cords and causing his voice to deepen, because "science" has worn many strange and fanciful masks over the centuries.
The Greeks were in a good position to test this hypothesis, considering they castrated people all the time. A castrated boy's voice never dropped, which apparently proved Aristotle's theory that the weight was no longer there to pull on the boy's vocal cords. The idea was eventually discarded, and that is the last we will hear about male genitalia in this article, because men nailed down that scientific mystery a long time ago and were more or less content to leave the female anatomy confined to the realm of cryptozoology and superstition.
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Here we see the female human absorbing her new breasts through the mighty boob tree.
#5. The Disappearing Clitoris
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You would think a simple anatomical examination would make it pretty clear that the clitoris is a real thing that exists. Nevertheless, its existence has been the subject of scientific debate for thousands of years (and is often left out of sexual education classes even today). For example, the Greeks thought that all sex acts required a penetrative aspect, so they assumed that all lesbians had giant clits, large enough to have vaginal sex with another woman. Where they thought these women were hiding their shoehorn-size clitorises is unclear -- perhaps they assumed the vagina was like a switchblade.
While the Greeks were obviously wrong, at least they acknowledged the clitoris' existence. In the 1500s, a Belgian anatomist named Andreas Vesalius decided the clitoris didn't exist, despite the fact that he was a physician who had seen several of them throughout the course of his career. He was like the Agent Scully of female anatomy, stubbornly refusing to believe even though the evidence was literally staring him in the face all the time. In order to explain away all the clitorises he had seen, he simply came to the conclusion that all women who possessed them were hermaphrodites with tiny little goblin penises, and that normal "healthy" women didn't have them.
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She's a huge horror fan, so her unhealthy discovery was like winning the masturbation lottery.
The reason Vesalius was so anti-clitoris was because he had a theory that men and women's genitals were exact opposites of each other, with the penis being the reverse of a vagina and the testicles the opposite of the ovaries. However, men don't have anything that looks like an inverse clitoris, so instead of admitting that there was a serious flaw in his theory, Vesalius decided that all women who possessed clitorises were genetic anomalies, which makes us wonder exactly how many women he bothered to examine during the course of his research.
#4. Sideways Vaginas
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Thousands of Chinese immigrants landed in California during the 1800s. Since America was a beacon of hope and freedom and had been founded by immigrants, the Chinese were accepted into the newly formed Gold Rush communities with open arms and- HA, wow. OK. There's no way we can finish that with a straight face. They were totally treated like shit, forced to live in slums while working the worst jobs for slave wages. And that was just the men. Many of the women went into prostitution, since the double whammy of racism and sexism meant it was basically the only employment option open to them (when they weren't being sold or kidnapped into it against their will, that is). America is a shady sumbitch every now and then.
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Subtlety isn't really our thing.
Anyway, at some point a rumor started among white male brothel patrons that Chinese women had a "sideways slit," meaning their vaginas were oriented horizontally instead of vertically. Despite the fact that this would be an enormous disability that, at the very least, would make it very difficult for Chinese women to walk, word of these "exotic" prostitutes and their impossible vaginas spread far and wide. Ahem.
How this rumor managed to continue once someone had actually seen these women's decidedly non-sideways vaginas is unknown. But it didn't stop in the 1800s -- American men fighting in the Korean War claimed afterward that the prostitutes they had visited overseas had the same sideways slit of legend. A quick Yahoo search reveals that this is something many individuals still believe today, which in the grand scheme of the Internet is honestly not that surprising.
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Home crowd favorites Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi of Germany grabbed a
narrow lead in the short dance as the Nebelhorn Trophy kicked off in Oberstdorf
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Home crowd favorites Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi of Germany grabbed a
narrow lead in the short dance as the Nebelhorn Trophy kicked off in Oberstdorf
on Thursday.
Good Grief !!!..Another egregious costume crime , and they're repeat offenders ! I'm so opposed to SD's being taken in this direction..it's not a Halloween party. I'm hoping to see video from Nebelhorn eventually.. but as for now , having seen the costumes of the top 3 , I have to say that Hubbell & Donohue should get a huge bonus for tasteful , appropriate costumes and be in the lead by a mile.
I find this really depressing because every year , I find much to like in Z/G's actual skating , and have a hard time ignoring their horrible costumes. This may be the worst yet.
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Lol. "Good grief!" is probably warranted. I love the "Halloween party" analogy.
THAT SAID ... my impression of Z/G has been that they have a pretty well defined "uniqueness" about them, in particular their approach to programs, costuming,... really the whole "package" It is like they have an affinity with Ice Theater or Cirque du Soleil sensibilities. And I kind of respect them for that. Very likely, their "package" does tend to stray from "convention" and will probably not fall into what would typically be considered "tasteful" I guess I sort of welcome them for their originality actually.
As for who leads who by a mile, a glance at the protocols indicates that Z/G had trouble with twizzles actually. This field is actually very weak. Probably the weakest Nebelhorn in years, which is making for a good opportunity for many teams. Not a single team in the top 10 at Worlds or with meaningful Grand Prix series experience or success.
Were the knives necessary? I'd do a costume deduction for that.
Being new to ice dance, I watched several of the team's programs from the past on Youtube. To me it seemed that Z/G's programs look more like Theater on Ice than they do actual ice dance-is it only me?
I hope there will be videos posted of the event-how long does it usually take before they start to be posted? Looking forward to seeing new partnership Hubbell/Donahue.
The videos from the Junior Grand Prix events are posted during the actual event!
However, since Nebelhorn is not as far as I know being streamed or televised, we are relying on spectators to have filmed the event. And they may not have. Or if they do, they film only a couple of skaters.
I do hope someone has filmed Z&S's performance, though & Hubbell & Donahue, for sure.
lcd.....I was only joking about H/D deserving to be ahead by a mile. I meant if the costumes decided the outcome. we've seen Z/G's in the picture accompanying the article..This pic of H/D was posted on FSU,( I think it's OK to post here)...sort of " classy Latin"
I can't find a photo or video of R/H , and it's possible , from Kharis' comment about the costumer adding sequins , that it's now more covered than at Thornhill. I hope so, because it was far too naked.From the back she looked naked from the hip up (Kharis is a little bit zahftig, and from the back, little love handles were visible ).Most of her midriff was bare , except for a sequined strip down the centre. There was no real skirt, just a few rows of beaded fringe ( 2 or 3) that only reached the very top of her thigh. I really hope the costume is now more covered.
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An Editorial in the Dec. 11, 2007, Tomahawk Leader:
Anglers had better be aware of state DNR rules established to halt the spread of the deadly fish virus Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) before taking to the ice this winter. Under extended statewide emergency regulations that went into effect this summer, anglers can no longer leave any body of water with live minnows – regardless of whether the bait has been used or kept in the bait bucket. Instead, regulations require that all bait be dumped on the ice and water drained from containers before returning to shore.
There's little doubt with a $329 fine for leaving the lake with live bait and a $228 penalty for removing water, the DNR is ratcheting up its efforts to protect our fish populations. However, the new rules anglers will be required to follow, and DNR game wardens will be asked to enforce, in several cases go against simple logic. Like the Madison bureaucrats who dreamed up these rules, we, too, don't want to see VHS reach our waters. But by putting in place questionable rules and backing them with harsh penalties, the DNR is only creating confusion while offering regulations that aren't logical and in the long run will do little to protect our waters.
A recent question-and-answer sheet posted on the DNR's web site offers these responses to the new regulations. And then we offer ours.
Q: Can I leave the bulk of my minnows in my vehicle at the landing and take a few minnows out on the lake at a time so I will not have to kill all of them at the end of the day?
A: Yes, Any minnows that are never possessed on the water or the shore or bank of the water can be transported to other locations, such as home at the end of the day. Any minnows possessed on the water, bank or shore, may not be transported away live …
Our response: The DNR suggests anglers leave bait buckets at boat landings and return when additional bait is needed. This idea is by no means ideal because nomad anglers would have to pull all their equipment out of the water and return to a distant shore during the period when fish are most actively feeding. Or, the DNR suggests anglers only purchase as much bait as they intend to use that day. Perhaps those who devised this advice have reached the pinnacle, but most anglers aren't usually sure if they'll even catch one fish. Maybe if we were all overpaid, or fished as little as the ones who came up with these rules, killing $5, $10 or $15 worth of bait each outing wouldn't be such a big deal.
Q: Are minnows that are brought onto the ice still considered on the lake and do they have to be killed before I leave the shore?
A: Yes, when you bring minnows to the shore, whether water is open or frozen, those minnows may not be transported away.
Our response: You don't want to get ticketed for this one. If caught leaving the lake with live minnows and water, you could face fines exceeding $500. That's a lot of frozen cod.
Q: Can I leave unused bait in a container under the ice of my ice house for use the next time on the same lake?
A: Yes, you may submerge a container holding live minnows under your ice house as long as you have a way to retrieve the container …
Our response: Yeah, like we enjoy paying the heating bills for our houses so much that paying to heat the ice shack sounds like a great idea.
Q: Do I have to drain the water from my drinking water containers and coolers, including melted ice in coolers used to keep fish or food and beverages cold?
A: This rule does not apply to beverage containers, including bottled drinking water. Melted ice in coolers used to keep dead fish fresh also needs to be drained, but the ice which has not yet melted may be kept to keep your fish, food or beverages cool.
Our response: So the goal is to keep water from leaving lakes. The last time we checked ice was made from water. Maybe we all need some of what the DNR bureaucrats were drinking when they came up with this one – we're sure it wasn't the bottled water eluded to in the answer.
While we all want nothing more than to protect our waters and the fish that inhabit them, the DNR needs to rethink these new regulations before they start handing out tickets. Don't make a debacle of what was one of our state's greatest pastimes.


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on December 30, 2012 - 12:48 PM
Buffalo police are investigating a home invasion from early this morning at a home in the 200 block of Colvin Avenue.
The homeowner told Buffalo police that an intruder with a hand gun entered his home unlawfully and stole an undisclosed large sum of money that apparently was kept in a brown paper bag, said police spokesman Michael DeGeorge.
The incident happened at 1:20 a.m.
The police described the suspect as a black male, with dark skin tone and a bumpy face.
Anyone with information is asked to call or text the Confidential TIPCALL Line at 847-2255.


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Margarita Nafpaktitis will join SUL in September 2016 as Curator for the Slavic and East European Collections. Margarita comes to Stanford from UCLA, where she has been Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, Librarian for Linguistics, and Research Library Instruction Coordinator (2011-2016) and Interim Western European Studies Librarian (2015-2016). Prior to beginning her position at UCLA, she was an Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Virginia (2004-2011).
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
This year, at SLA's Annual Coference in June, Stanford will be recognized for its outstanding scholarly article output by Stanford Libraries' subject specialist librarians.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The Libraries' Communications and Development Office publishes issues of ReMix: The Stanford University Libraries Newsletter, a monthly newsletter created to inform readers about distinctive aspects of SUL including its collections and services, media coverage about SUL, and campus events of possible interest.
Alanté Kavaïté's Summer of Sangaile is a drama about following one's dreams, love and relationships. The film was the Lithuanian entry for the Academy Awards 2016 (Best foreign language film).


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Tips for seller on preparing your home for a buyers home inspection provided by WIN Home
House Exterior
• Remove soil or mulch from contact with siding. Six or more inches of clearance is best.
• Clean out dirty gutters and any debris from the roof.
• Check to make sure all water from downspouts, sump pump, condensation and basement entry drains is diverted away from the house.
• Trim trees, roots, and bushes back from the foundation, roof, siding and chimney.
• Paint weathered exterior wood and caulk around the trim, chimney, windows and doors.
• Repair any failing mortar in brick or block.
• Remove wood and/or firewood from any contact with the house.
• Caulk all exterior wall penetrations.
House Interior
• Clean or replace heating and cooling filters, clean dirty air returns and plenum.
• Test all smoke detectors to ensure that they are working.
• Have the chimney, fireplace or wood stove serviced and provide the buyer with a copy of the cleaning record.
• Replace any burned out light bulbs.
• Have clear access to attic, crawl space,heating system, garage and other areas that will need to be inspected.
• If the house is vacant, make sure all utilities are turned on. This includes water, electricity, furnace, A/C and the water heater because they will need to be inspected.
• Ensure ready access to all rooms and crawl spaces. Clear all furniture, boxes, clothes, toys and other personal items that may block access to the furnace, water heater and electrical panel.
Basement, Crawl Spaces and Attics
• Check to ensure that the crawl space is dry and install a proper vapor barrier if necessary.
• Remove paints, solvents, gas, wood and similar materials from crawl space, basement, attic and porch.
• Update attic ventilation if none is present.
• If windows are at or below grade, install window wells and covers.


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Salem Community Hospital
Daughter, Olivia Lynn McCulley, born at 7:25 a.m. March 1, to Michael and Christy McCulley of Salem.
Olivia weighed 7 pounds and 15.4 ounces. She joins a brother, Owen McCulley, 2 1/2.
Maternal grandparents are Kim Alan and Shirley Shutler of East Rochester.
Paternal grandparents are Raymond and Brenda McCulley of Salineville.
Great-grandmother is Delores Stoffer of Beloit.


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Thank You, Philadelphia Cultural Fund!
The Philadelphia Film Society is thrilled to have recently received a grant from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (the Fund) to go towards our general operating expenses. We deeply appreciate the generosity of the Fund and the City of Philadelphia and look forward to working with them this year to enrich the film community within Philadelphia.


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Charleston Jazz
The Charleston Jazz Orchestra will open its fifth season Saturday night with Coltrane: The Music of John Coltrane.
The CJO will pay homage to the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer with a musical journey through Coltranes remarkable career and life.
Bandleader Charlton Singleton worked with members of the band as well as the community when composing the performance, reminding us all once again of the immense local talent in Charleston.
For the Johnny Hartman vocal pieces featured in some of Coltranes work, the CJO has recruited renowned jazz vocalist Anthony Burke.
The band will perform two sets, 7 and 10 p.m., with no intermission, at the Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
Adult tickets are $30-$40; senior and student tickets are $25-$35. Students qualify with valid school ID. Seniors qualify at 65. All student and discounted tickets must be purchased in person.
Tickets are available online at thejac.org; by telephone at 641-0011; or in person at the Charleston Jazz House, 185-A St. Philip St., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. On-site box office sales the day of the show begin at noon at the Charleston Music Hall.
Yonder Mountain
The Colorado-based progressive bluegrass quartet Yonder Mountain String Band returns to Charleston this year behind its 2009 release with veteran producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Foo Fighters).
The Show consists of 14 compositions and features several guest appearances, most notably Elvis Costellos sideman, Pete Thomas, on drums for six of the albums tracks.
With five studio and five live albums since its inception more than 14 years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band, like most bluegrass and jam bands, has spent much of its time touring and playing the festival circuit.
But unlike many bluegrass and jam bands, its albums have steadily found success on the charts. All but one of its past six releases has made the top five on the U.S. bluegrass charts, with the most recent three reaching No. 1; all but one of its past five have cracked the top 100 on the U.S. country charts.
Perhaps Yonder Mountains album success has a lot to do with its ability to be creative without confinement from any one genre. The Show showcases songs ranging in influence from traditional bluegrass to alternative country and pop-tinged rock hooks, all of which culminate to a well-rounded and highly contagious set of fun, feel-good songs appealing to a range of tastes.
Yonder Mountain String Band will perform Tuesday at the Music Farm, 32 Ann St. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $22.50 in advance, $25 the day of the show, and are available at the door or online at etix.com.
Call 577-6969 or go to musicfarm.com.
Big Gigantic
Colorado-based electronic duo Big Gigantic began its journey in 2008 after saxophone/keyboard player, DJ and composer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken decided to join forces after separately playing the Colorado music circuit for a number of years.
The pair began combining their influences of jazz, electronic, funk and rock into one animated sound often referred to as jamtronica due to its tendency for improvisation.
A great live show is a must for bands on the electronic circuit, and Big Gigantic provides just that. But what has set Big Gigantic apart from other electronic acts is its expansively creative compositions and mixture of both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Big Gigantics unusual musical style and spirited live show quickly caught the attention of some of its better-known peers, such as Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Xaphoon Jones of Chiddy Bang and Adam Deitch of Pretty Lights/Break Science. The support from peers like these significantly boosted Big Gigantics popularity in its short time together and landed the band opening spots for such acts as Umphreys McGee and Widespread Panic.
The duo is touring behind its latest album, last years Nocturnal.
Big Gigantic will perform Wednesday at the Music Farm, 32 Ann St., with Two Fresh. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $24 in advance, $25 the day of the show, and are available at the door or online at etix.com.
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ORLANDO, Fla.
Cody Journell kicked a 22-yard field goal on the first possession of overtime to help Virginia Tech beat Rutgers 13-10 in the Russell Athletic Bowl on Friday night.
Virginia Tech (7-6) won its third consecutive game to avoid its first losing season since 1992.
Rutgers (9-4) had a chance to tie it in overtime, but Nick Borgese missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt to the right.
Virginia Tech trailed 10-0 at the half, then rallied in the final 30 minutes thanks to some timely turnovers and explosive offense.
Quarterback Logan Thomas struggled in the first and finished with a pair of interceptions, but also had 192 passing yards and the game�s only passing touchdown.
Virginia Tech cornerback Antone Exum, selected the most valuable player of the game, picked off Gary Nova�s pass early in the fourth quarter to set up the tying score � Thomas� 21-yard pass to Corey Fuller with 10:56 left as steady rain began to fall.
Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31
HOUSTON � D.J. Johnson returned an interception 39 yards, and Ryan Bustin made a 28-yard field goal as time expired to give Texas Tech a comeback victory over Minnesota on Friday night in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
Seth Doege found Eric Ward on a short pass, and he outran a defender for a 35-yard scoring play to tie it at 31 with just more than a minute remaining.
Michael Carter intercepted two of Doege�s passes in the fourth quarter before the tying score, but Minnesota couldn�t convert either of the turnovers into points.
The Red Raiders (8-5) got their third consecutive bowl win.
Ohio 45, Louisiana-Monroe 14
SHREVEPORT, La. � Tyler Tettleton threw for 331 yards and two touchdowns, Beau Blankenship scored four touchdowns, and Ohio cruised past Louisiana-Monroe at the Independence Bowl on Friday.
Chase Cochran caught three passes for 162 yards and a touchdown as the Bobcats (9-4) won their second consecutive bowl game.
Blankenship�s four rushing touchdowns set an Independence Bowl record. He added 104 yards rushing.
Tettleton especially was sharp in the first half, completing 9 of 14 passes for 215 yards and two touchdowns as Ohio built a 24-7 lead.
Louisiana-Monroe (8-5) struggled in its first bowl game after 19 seasons in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Kolton Browning completed 21 of 39 passes for 219 yards and two touchdowns but also threw three first-half interceptions.
Ohio broke several Independence Bowl records, including the 31-point margin of victory and 556 total yards.
Ohio lost four of five games to end the regular season � including the last three � but looked crisp in a complete performance against the Warhawks.
Baylor 49, UCLA 26
SAN DIEGO � Routing the UCLA Bruins almost seemed like a sidelight for Baylor Bears quarterback Nick Florence.
Nabbing one of Robert Griffin III�s school records? Now that was a big deal.
The Bears overwhelmed the No. 17 Bruins in the Holiday Bowl on Thursday night as Florence threw for two scores and ran for another. Glasco Martin ran for three touchdowns.
Florence completed 10 of 13 passes for 188 yards, giving him 4,309 for the season to break RG3�s school record of 4,293 set in his 2011 Heisman Trophy-winning season.
Baylor (8-5) won its final four games and five of six.
Lache Seastrunk rushed 16 times for 138 yards and one score for Baylor, which outgained UCLA 494-362. The Bears came in leading the nation in total offense with 578.8 yards per game.
Baylor�s defense came up big, too. The Bears sacked Brett Hundley six times, including two by Chris McAllister, and shut down UCLA�s career rushing leader Johnathan Franklin.
Overall, the Bruins gained only 33 yards on 28 carries. They came in having averaged 202.9 yards rushing.
Hundley was 26 of 50 for 329 yards and three touchdowns to set UCLA�s season passing record with 3,740 yards.
UCLA (9-5) lost its final three.
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to take a dump and bust your load on somones chest while yelling out the name of your childhood pet
eeww you totally drumhellered on me
by butters88 November 04, 2010
A valley in the middle of Alberta, where sweet people live, and the drug population is low 85:15 (bitches!). Which helps to make for a wonderful town to raise a family in, providing that you keep your children away from Hanna. As for Hanna, they have weak sports teams that are constantly shit kicked by Drumheller, due to the lack of awesome that isn't found in Hanna water. Drumheller,
Drumheller people: Hanna eats shit.
Hanna people: WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Hanna people: WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
by no skanks in this town June 27, 2009
A whole in the ground full of drunks and drugs.
It's a town called Drumheller, in Alberta Canada where the only explantion I can come up with for these drunks is imbreading or the water.
by Not from Drumheller Thank God! March 24, 2007
A royally f****d up town. Full of dirty whores, and shitty sports teams. Drumheller sucks dick at every sport out there. Hanna kicks asssss!! Drumheller has extreme amounts of alcohol and drugs. They wish the could be as great as Hanna!
Hanna: wow, drumheller sucks dick
Drumheller: we know :(
Drumheller: we know :(
by JustAHannaRandom February 22, 2011
Drumheller has Large amounts of booze, drugs and whores. 80% of 14 year old girls have lost their virginity. Half an hour a way lives the town of Hanna which in comparison kicks ass
Drumheller Girl:wanna go get wasted shoot up and have sex
Hanna dude: get away from me skank.
Hanna dude: get away from me skank.
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OCZ SSD 64GB 'Core series' Solid State Disk
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Read all about it HERE.Quote
Nice review, but the forum link at the end doesnt work Quote
Originally Posted by name='Hassan'
Whats the G Sensor for? or did u just crack a joke?
Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
These SSDs don't seem to offer enough over HDD to warrant spending the extra £££... I think I'll get a velociraptor or two after reading this
Originally Posted by name='teknokid'
they do 74 and 150gb velociraptors now
Im waiting on two of these drives - OCZ 32 GB Core-series, and a controllercard..Now i get a bit worried about the results...Have i made the right desition when i bought these?
Also im thinking, will my AMD Dual-core 6000+ processor be a bottleneck, or does it matter at all?
Anyway, at least i was fast and bought these before when the price was a bit lower, now they cant get me to pay the extra 69.73 dollars.
I cant wait to see the results, but when reading this i get the feeling that high expectations is unnecasary. Still waiting and hoping - at least boot-up time will be lightning-fast, that´s a thing i learned when i had a 8 GB samsung ssd, even though it was extremely unstable, but i blame that on the small size....but just to be sure i´ll never ever buy another samsung ssd Quote
Taken from Benchmarkreviews.com - if the reviewer didn't disable AHCI then seems this review is pretty much useless. There is no mention of him having done so in the intro to the article.Quote
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Benchmarks that actually work are those that are not geared towards quick and dirty assessment of a HDDs performance based on optimization of the test algorithms to meet the typical HDD architecture. Examples are PCMark Vantage, Winbench 99 2.0 "Drive Inspection Test" or ATTO.
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if the reviewer didn't disable AHCI then seems this review is pretty much useless. There is no mention of him having done so in the intro to the article.
Originally Posted by name='FlyBy'
Taken from Benchmarkreviews.com - if the reviewer didn't disable AHCI then seems this review is pretty much useless. There is no mention of him having done so in the intro to the article.
With regards to the benchmarks, I was actually asked to run benchmarks that were more favourable to the OCZ Core drive but I questioned the validity of this as, by an OCZ employees own admission, the Core series does not appear to handle small files well, which naturally made me curious.
HD tune rightly or wrongly picks up on the 'issue' of the small files being written(which btw are not there with the original OCZ SSD) and therefore the results were included in the review for comparison purposes. The validity of the write results was however questioned, so to quote myself:
If these small files fall into a single block all is well, however if the files straddle over 2 blocks then the performance appears to be affected but this is not indicative of 'real world' performance. To verify OCZ's claims we also ran a quick test of the OCZ with ATTO:
As you can see. I openly admit that the issue with HDtune write readings are not indicative of real world performance, at least not to the extent it shows. However this does show that the Core series drive DOES have issues where a stall appears when writing small files. Some benchmarks do not represent this - PCMark being one of them, ATTO being another, which if you read the review again you will see was used for clarification purposes. Not only that but we also tested the drive in 'real world scenarios'. Compression/decompression & file creation were also used, again emphasizing the drives capabilities. Synthetic benchmarks will always be a contentious issue and hence we also ran some 'everyday' tasks to see how it performs with the aim to present a balanced and informative review. Sometimes though the latest hardware is difficult to benchmark as there are simply no benchmarks written that take advantage of it and reflect its true performance!
To Quote OCZ:
Every benchmark uses different methods of measuring performance and some benchmarks appear inadequate for measuring SSD performance, others are somewhat better but there are no benchmarks out there that are specifically geared towards SSD's.
Oh and I nearly forgot :
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Originally Posted by name='FlyBy'
Benchmarks that actually work are those that are not geared towards quick and dirty assessment of a HDDs performance based on optimization of the test algorithms to meet the typical HDD architecture. Examples are PCMark Vantage, Winbench 99 2.0 "Drive Inspection Test" or ATTO.
Taken from Benchmarkreviews.com
Originally Posted by name='magicmerlin'
I had a regular Raptor before, but i sold it. And i thought i wouldnt notice a great difference when i had a regular drive, but i was very wrong on that point...That was a 150 GB Raptor...A question: In the test one SSD was tested, how much different results will i get when i do a raid-0 configuration with a good controllercard (ADAPTEC SATA RAID 1220SA SINGLE)? It must be like 30% better then?
The OCZ CORE_SSD (32G works fine on a JMicron JMB36X controller, in tandem with a Samsung MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA (32G, in a RAID0 configuration. In this configuration, I see a considerable improvement in load times, etc. over a pair of 150GB WD Raptors on the same controller and in the same configuration. Unfortunately, this controller does not write cache, nor does it overlap I/O across SATA devices, hence my desire to use another (better) controller.
Over the next week, after they arrive, I'm going to try a Promise FastTrack SX4 in place of the Adaptec 1220SA, and also a pair of Patriot Extreme Flash Warp (32G SSDs (which were on sale) on both controllers.
Finally, I have replaced a Samsung MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA (32G SSD with a OCZ CORE_SSD (64G on a two-disk bay HP Pavillion DV8219ea -- 32GB is just too small for Vista 32. Unfortunately, performance has gone to hell as a result. Vista hangs, with the disk activity LED pegged, from time to time. I've tried the "Windows Steady State" fix, but that makes no difference. Again, this may be a generic OCZ problem, or unique to my SSD.
I'll update as I find out more.Quote
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still to expensive for em i stick to samsung f1 drives :P
I got the Patriots on sale for £80.55 (ex VAT) each. Not very big, but 64GB is fine for a C: drive. My D: drive is 2TB (5-x-500 WD Caviars in a RAID5 config) on an Intel IH9.Quote
Recognized OK on an ASUS P5N-E SLI, but that already has an NVIDEA RAID controller that is working fine with a pair of Raptors in a RAID0 cionfig.
I'l try it in an old (RAID-less) server next.
I've now got an HP LSI SAS3041E SAS SATA RAID Controller on order. I'll wait to see how it fares on the DFI MoBo with a pair of Patriot SSDs, before upgrading my old server.
That leaves me with a spare Adaptec 1220SA with nowhere to go but eBay.Quote
None of the three SATA/RAID controllers were able to support the OCZ or Patriot SSDs!
The Adaptec 1220SA, hung when it had a Patriot Extreme Flash Warp (32G or OCZ CORE_SSD (32G, but not a Samsung MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA (32G, SSD plugged into either port.
The HP LSI SAS3041E SAS SATA RAID controller rejected the Patriot Extreme Flash Warp (32G SSDs ("Wrn Typ") for inclusion in a RAID array.
The Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 was not recognized by the MoBo.
So I bit the bullet and removed 2-x-500GB drives from the RAID5 array (6 drives -> 4 drives) on my integral Intel ICH9 RAID/SATA controller freeing two ports for an ICH9-based RAID0 array (32K stripe, with write-back caching) employing two Patriot Extreme Flash Warp (32G SSDs. This, except for losing a Terabyte of storage, was a great success!
Under Vista Ultimate X64, an ATTO benchmark (with a 256MB file) reported a 60MB/sec read & write transfer rate for 1KB blocks. The write rate got no better, but the read rate peaked at 180MB/sec on > 8K blocks. An HD Tune benchmark reported average read rates of 190 MB/sec with a min of 170MB/sec and a max of 195MB/sec, an average access time of 0.2 ms (vs. 10.2 ms for a 2-x-150GB Raptor RAID0 array), and an 886MB/sec burst rate.
I then tried the HP LSI SAS3041E SAS SATA RAID controller on an ASUS P5N-E SLI MoBo. With 4-x-36GB Raptors in a striped (64KB - no alternative) and mirrored RAID10 (IME in LSI terminology) array, the performance was so bad that I gave up. I then tried the 4-x-36GB Raptors in a RAID0 (64KB stripe - no alternative) array. Under Vista Ultimate X64, an ATTO benchmark (256MB file) reported very poor small block read and write performance (1 MB/sec with 1KB blocks), with write performance peaking at 240MS/sec on >= 64KB blocks, and read performance reaching 230MB/sec on >512KB blocks). HD Tune benchmarks reported an average read performance of 76MB/sec and a max burst rate of 91MB/sec. It is worth noting that this controller only supports write through (as opposed to write back) caching.
Finally, I tried the Promise FastTrak S150 SX on an MSI MS-7091 MoBo in a RAID5 (16KB stripe) array with three 500GB HDs. Under Win Server 2K, an ATTO benchmark (256MB and 32MB file) reported quite weird results. Small block read/write performance was good (16MB/sec for 1KB blocks), but read performance peaked at 57MB/sec on 16KB blocks and then dropped to 38MB/sec on larger blocks. My guess is that this controller cannot support parallel operations over multiple SATA ports. It is effectively operating SATA ports as if they were PATA ports. Write performance peaked at 50MB/sec on >64KB blocks. An HD Tune benchmark reported average read rates of 35MB/sec with a min of 28MB/sec and a max of 63MB/sec, an average access time of 13.2 ms, and a 90MB/sec burst rate.
These results were very poor when compared with a 4 HD Intel IH9-based RAID5 (32KB stripe) array on my DFI MoBo. Under Vista Ultimate X64, an ATTO benchmark (with 256MB file) reported a 53MB/sec write, and an 83MB/sec read, transfer rate for 1KB blocks. The write rate peaked at 112MB/sec > 4KB blocks, and the read rate peaked at 162MB/sec on 16K blocks, before dropping to 120MB/sec on > 64KB blocks. An HD Tune benchmark reported average read rates of 165 MB/sec with a min of 106MB/sec and a max of 207MB/sec, an average access time of 16.8 ms (vs. 10.2 ms for a 2-x-150GB Raptor RAID0 array), and an 871MB/sec burst rate.
This is probably much more data than anyone wants! The results are pretty clear. Low cost RAID/SATA controllers are a bust on most SSDs. They also don't perform that well with conventional HDs. Integral Intel and NVIDIA RAID/SATA controllers seem to be fine with SSDs and deliver much better RAID performance with both SSDs and HDs. An integral JMicron JMB36X-based RAID/SATA controller falls somewhere in between!Quote


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MORGANTOWN - Ken Herock, an outstanding tight end on the West Virginia University football teams of the early 1960s, has the most impressive resume I've ever seen athletically.
The Pittsburgh-area native spent 38 years in various National Football League-related positions, including seven years as a player with Oakland, Cincinnati and Louisville. He even coached a year with the legendary John Madden, then the head coach with the Raiders.
"But I really did not like to stay in coaching," Herock recalled last week from his Gainesville, Ga., home. "I wanted to be working in front office jobs."
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That's what he did for some 30 years. His most frequent role was director of player personnel. Others included vice president, scout and general manager (with the Atlanta Falcons organization.)
After retiring in 2001, Herock started his own football-related business. It's titled "Pro Prep" and, at age 70, he still runs the show. It is designed to prepare college players for the NFL combine and the eventual player draft.
"We tell them exactly what they need to know before the combine and how to handle themselves in interviews," Herock explained. He actually held the first-ever combine.
Before this year's draft, The New York Times did a front page article about Herock's business and his long, interesting career. What's more, the newspaper sent him a copy of that story in keepsake form.
He sounded both surprised and grateful.
After a standout four years at Munhall High School, Herock was recruited by Art "Pappy" Lewis, then WVU head coach. He played on the 1959 freshman team, and then started for the varsity in 1960-62.
"I loved my years in West Virginia," he said. "Not winning a game in my sophomore year (0-8-2) felt awful. But we were somewhat better when I was a junior and pretty darn good my senior year when we went 8-2."
Herock enjoyed his years in Morgantown so much that he'd loved to have come back and contributed to his alma mater as athletic director or in a similar role.
But he never applied for any opening here.
The 6-foot-2, 215-pound tight end is credited with 24 pass receptions, 292 yards, and two touchdowns as a Mountaineer. He also was a hard-hitting blocker.
For his seven seasons as a professional tight end, Herock had 64 receptions, 924 yards, and he scored four times.
Ken and wife Barry were high school sweethearts. They have two grown sons and five grandchildren.
"What's ironic," Herock said, "my middle name also is Barry, same as my wife's first name."
Son Shaun has been with the Green Bay Packers for 19 years as a scout. His father had been executive director of the player personnel for the Packers previously.
Son Ken owns and operates a restaurant in Atlanta.
Ken Herock (Sr.) has received numerous honors for his outstanding achievements.
He is in both the Pennsylvania state and Western Pennsylvania Halls of Fame.
He's in Munhall High School Sports Hall of Fame and the WVU Physical Education Hall of Fame.
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The sister of the dirty sanchez. During sex, when the male licks or kisses the butt of the female, then comes up to kiss her on the mouth. Usually not appreciated.
If I could give just one dirty lopez, it would be to jennifer lopez. Man, would that piss her off!
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When one inserts two fingers in the pink and a fist in the stink.
Brian totally just gave that slute the Dirty Lopez...and she liked it!
the dirty lopez tərəfindən 15 İyul 2009
Laying on your back while recieving a BJ right before busting a nut, lift your legs up, lock your feet, and push your feet in. This forces the girls head down, making her deep throat. Then bust in the back of her throat. Don't let go until she swallows everything.
I was getting some head, and totally gave my girl a Dirty Lopez.
Raul Lopez tərəfindən 02 May 2008
The act of sexual penetration in the eye socket of a skull.
While David was decorating for halloween he gave the skull a Dirty Lopez.
ecvbub tərəfindən 09 Fevral 2011
When a man eats out a woman as fast as he possibly can.
Yeah dude she wanted to go all night but i just went down and gave her a dirty lopez bro.
aarpero tərəfindən 23 Aprel 2010
When one individual has sex on consecutive nights with two different girls who are best friends.
- Dude I pulled a Dirty Lopez with those Brynn and Ashley!
- Aren't those two best friends?
- Yeah! And neither one knows I did it with other!
- Aren't those two best friends?
- Yeah! And neither one knows I did it with other!
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The act of leaving a shit eyebrow on a girl's forehead.
That bitch at the salon used so much eyebrow pencil that it looked like she gave me a Dirty Lopez.
My cock was so covered in shit that I could give her a Dirty Sanchez and a Dirty Lopez.
My cock was so covered in shit that I could give her a Dirty Sanchez and a Dirty Lopez.
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When you stick your penis up a girls nose and jizz in it. Then you make her blow it out with a tissue and the cum comes out.
I gave Lauren such a bad nasty cold. She was blowing my cum out of her nose for like two hours!
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To justifiably steal something, usually from an employer, especially after losing one's job.
"Dude, where'd you get that laptop?" "I compenscated it after Inacomp announced they were closing. I mean, they're screwed anyway, they'll never miss it, and I deserve it."
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5 Seemingly Crazy Behaviors the Internet Says Are OK
They say wondering if you're crazy is the first step of sanity. And when I say "they," I'm referring to the green men who live inside expired sour cream containers. There's about nine of them. One of them's Mexican. Anyway, the other day, as I was washing the bloodstains out of my Tickle Me Elmo doll, I wondered just how crazy I might be. I mean, I was a husband/father/productive member of society. I paid taxes and obeyed most traffic laws, so it seemed I was off to a good start. Still, I had to wonder: Am I nuts?
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Well, that's not a picture of me. Off to a good start so far.
So here's the deal. I compiled a list of the most insane things I do and then looked them up online to make my diagnosis.
#5. Talking to Myself
Do you talk to yourself? I do. And not just because David Bowie doesn't take my calls. I speak to myself almost every day and almost always in the shower. I know what you're thinking: big deal. I mean, anyone who sees Gladstone naked and wet, including Gladstone, is bound to exclaim wild sexual approval, but those are not the things I say in the shower.
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Also not me.
Usually, they're sudden exclamations that I'm not aware of on a fully conscious level until I hear them leave my mouth. Really extreme things. Things like:
"Think I need to kill someone."
"God, I love you."
"You're the best."
"You're the worst."
"Everyone hates you, please leave."
"Oh God, that makes me die."
Then I'll hear it and say, "What the hell were you just thinking about?" I usually can't trace it. For the more negative ones, it's usually me remembering something I screwed up recently. Tiny mistakes. The type of things that someone would tweet about, like "Ugh, forgot to get eggs, fuck me." But in the shower it comes out extreme and crazy. Like most things I do. So. AM I CRAZY?
Well, the Internet Says ...
No. Now, you might not trust mental health decisions to unqualified Internet answers, but what if I told you that this response was considered "Best Answer"? Yeah, I thought that would shut you up. According to an unnamed dude, talking to yourself is only a problem if you hear responses or if you think you're talking to someone else. Now frankly, that sounds stupid to me, because if I were talking to imaginary friends, I would have Googled that, I mean Yahooed that, but I searched talking to "yourself." But what do I know? No one ever told me I had the "Best Answer." I'm just some guy talking to himself in the shower while he poops into his own hands. Oh wait, I didn't include that in my search. Whatever. Probably not a sign of anything.
#4. Mentally Screaming at People Who Are in My Way
I hate other drivers and pedestrians. I should rephrase: I don't care about 98 percent of them at all. It's the ones I notice that drive me nuts. I've written about them in other columns, so I won't repeat the complaints here. We all know the other drivers we hate. Anyway, I know most people scream sassy insults out their window when they get cut off in traffic. They flip the bird or whatever. I know that doesn't make someone nuts (just a bad candidate for being an elementary school bus driver). I'm not talking about that.
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Here is someone I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about what I do. I engage in a nonstop, politically incorrect litany of hatred as I'm stuck behind someone in a vehicular or public sidewalk traffic situation. It's not even funny. Just a nonstop tirade of junior high school contempt. And when I say junior high school, you have no idea. You cannot comprehend the number of pedestrians I have mentally addressed as "Douchey McFuckface" as I laser-bore my contempt into the back of their skull. So. AM I CRAZY?
Well, the Internet Says ...
No. In truth, I had to do a bunch of searches, but ultimately I came to this site, which wanted me to take a whole bunch of tests. And although the tests did have things about yelling and being verbally abusive, I didn't see ANYTHING about silently calling pedestrians "Douchey McFuckface," so apparently I'm as right as rain. Mentally, verbally abusive rain that calls you "Douchey McFuckface" if you scurry in front of me when I'm in a rush and then suddenly slow down once I'm trapped.
#3. Checking the Alarm Clock Repeatedly
I have small kids, so I haven't religiously set an alarm for years. No need to. When someone's stepping on your head at 6 a.m., you have substantially less need for BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. But occasionally, when I have an especially early morning or something that just can't be missed, I'll set the alarm. And check it. And check it again. And then check it again, because maybe I unset it the last time I was checking. And then again. So. AM I CRAZY?
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This is a picture of an alarm clock. At least I hope it is. It was an alarm clock when I uploaded it,
but maybe I selected the wrong image off my desktop ...
Well, the Internet Says ...
OK, I was a little worried about this one. Because checking something obsessively over and over again? Yep, sounds like a telltale sign of claustrophobia, right? But I checked. Apparently, being obsessed with details and repeating actions compulsively are not the signs of a claustrophobia disorder! Yep, and I was so worried. Just like I am after I touch a public restroom door and I have to wash my hands 300 times to prevent illness.


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Cleary scored 33 points last year, one more than Selanne did with the lanche
Cleary's two best seasons were 46, and 42 points. 33 points was a decent season for him, even with the knee.
Selanne has hit 100+ points 3 times, is over a ppg for his career, and he got 40 goals and 90 points after his 32 point season. Like I said they are not comparable.
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In July, three high-ranking officials at the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources were kicked out of their offices and told to work at home, amid questions over a DHHR contract awarded to the high bidder.
Mountain State residents still are waiting for an explanation. To date, taxpayers have shelled out more than $80,000 in payments to the three, who remain on "administrative reassignment."
Those sent home were DHHR Assistant Secretary John Law, General Counsel Jennifer Taylor and Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs Susan Perry. The latter two have filed lawsuits alleging they were retaliated against for raising questions about the agency's awarding of a marketing contract valued at an estimated $3.5 million. It went to an Ohio company that submitted the highest of four bids for the work.
Weeks after the reassignments, the DHHR obtained a search warrant seeking information from office records, email accounts and cellular telephones used by Law, Perry and Taylor. The warrant accused them of illegally interfering with awarding of the marketing contract.
Yet none of the three has been accused formally of any crime.
What on earth is going on here? DHHR acting Secretary Rocco Fucillo and other officials refuse to talk about the controversy. Yet they continue to extend the reassignments, which amount to paid suspensions.
If Law, Perry and Taylor were guilty of wrongdoing, they ought to be prosecuted - not paid to stay home. But if they were merely making honest attempts to prevent the DHHR from an error in awarding the contract, they should be welcomed back to the office and an investigation of the bid process should be launched.
But more than four months after the three were shown the door at the DHHR, Mountain State residents have no more idea of which scenario is the truth than they did in the beginning.
Taxpayers may have to wait until trials on the Perry and Taylor lawsuits before learning the facts behind the controversy. That should prompt West Virginians to ask a question in addition to "what happened?" It is why the DHHR is so reluctant to let the public hear its side of the story.
Does the agency have something to hide?
Whatever the situation, taxpayers have a right to know more about it.


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I feel bad for Murph. I had no issues with him.... But, all I can think is - WHY couldn't it have been Pierre McGuire that we are hearing this about? I have to mute the TV every time that guy is between the benches. I don't know how he still has a job because I can't imagine that everyone else doesn't loathe him as well.
people in society like stupid things for no reason. they get brainwashed or something.


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How to Be a Happier Person For the Rest of Your LifeCasey Mullins
Awhile back I wrote about 10 things all kids should learn before moving out or becoming adults. But what about the people who never learned simple things like don't crowd the baggage carousel and let people get off the elevator before trying to getting on? Are they doomed to a life of being unhappy and obnoxious adults? Not at all, anyone can change assuming they want to and are given the opportunity. I'm not a very big fan of specific resolutions on New Year's because I have crashed and burned with so many of them (Make my bed every day? Pffft, that one was cute.) But being happy? I can manage that one just fine, thank you.
I am really happy here at the beginning of 2014, really my only goal is to end the year just as happy, if not happier. But how does one do that, being happy in today's society is so haaaard. It's actually pretty easy, it's just about making a few changes in yourself and your lifestyle and building upon them throughout the year until kindness is second nature and before you know it? Boom, you'll be a happier you come 2015 (heck, before next week if you're ambitious. Happiness is contagious like that.)
Help a crying stranger 1 of 18Most people feel uncomfortable around someone who is crying, especially if that person is a stranger, yet a lot of us want to help but aren't sure how. I've learned the absolute best way to help a crying stranger is to have a little pack of tissues on your person at all times. You can hand them off silently, you can offer them with an "Is there anything I can do for you?" or if you're comfortable you can even add in a shoulder pat. No one wants to resort to using their sleeve when they're crying, stepping in and simply saving a shirt from snotty future is a very good thing indeed.
Help the needy 2 of 18I always disliked driving by people asking for money at the end of an off ramp or downtown, I disliked it even more once Addie was old enough to (loudly) ask what they were doing, read their signs and wonder what I was doing to help them. Somehow telling her I contribute my money to charities that help people without homes didn't seem like enough so I started handing out bottles of water or granola bars when I came across someone asking for help. Since I always have them in my car or in my purse, why not share? More than once I have received the response "I don't want water, I want money" and it certainly caught me off guard, but I know I'm at least trying to help.
Walk away 3 of 18How often does someone bring up a heated topic of debate around you? How often do you fire back? A long time ago I chose what I would stand up for and turned away from the rest. Arguing with people (especially online) just made me angrier and never brought about real change in anyone (including me.) I choose to stand up for mental illness (ESPECIALLY with pregnant and postpartum women) and for women who are not physically able to breastfeed, everything else? I just ignore it or walk away. (There are other times I rant and rave to Cody until I feel better, Cody? You're the best.)
It could be worse, but it's not 4 of 18There isn't anything I dislike more than people undermining other's suffering. I was once having a really rough parenting day and my dad's response was "Think of all the women without babies because they're dead." Well, yeah. That totally helps (No, it doesn't.) However, I've learned that when I acknowledge how much worse the situation could be for myself? A lot of the self pity washes away. Vivi barfed all over herself during a 3 hour drive last week, my first thought? "Good thing we're only 5 minutes from the next town and not in the middle of the desert!"
Avoid the media 5 of 18I would be willing to place a generous bet on how much better you would feel after a week without the violence, terror, anger and despair multimedia brings into your life. Turn off the news, avoid violent movies and television shows, read uplifting books and articles. My brain simply cannot process violent imagery or gore which is why I stopped partaking in all of it several years ago and nothing has made a bigger difference in my demeanor and spirit. If you simply cannot turn off the news and you do hear of a terrible story, look for the helpers. Look for the little bits of humanity that shine through tragedy, bonus points if you can be one of those shining bits for another person.
Rescue an animal 6 of 18If you find yourself with an abundance of love to give, but aren't sure where to direct it, rescue an animal. Rescue an old animal no one else wants, let them grow old in your home and live out their life in your home's sunny spots. Let them be loved by you and let them be a part of your family. To my right is a brown tabby who sleeps with my eight year old every night and lays on my feet when they are cold. To my left is a one eyed cat who spent more than eight months alone at the Humane Society because no one else wanted him. My "deformed" cat is basically the best cat to ever exist and I simply cannot imagine my life without either of them. Rescue pets know when they are saved and their gratitude comes through in a special brand of unconditional love.
Acknowledge others 7 of 18Think of the last checker you had at the store, what did they look like? Can you even remember if they were a man or a woman? With technology and the rush of everyday life I think a lot of us forget to actually look people in the eye and acknowledge them. I'm not expecting you to ask the guy bagging your groceries about his favorite football team, but perhaps you could at least look him in they eye and smile when he asks if you found everything okay. You never know when someone is having a terrible day, and something as simple as a genuine smile and actual eye contact can make a huge difference.
Practice random acts of kindness 8 of 18I once had a $20 gift card to Starbucks and when you don't drink coffee, $20 is a lot of hot chocolate. Rather than making myself sick on hot chocolate and caramel apple cider, I bought myself and Addie a hot chocolate and left the gift card with the cashier to pay for the person behind me. I have no idea how far it spread or if it spread at all, but I have to believe that restored at least one person's faith in humanity, even if it was the shocked cashier I left the gift card with. Look for chances to commit random acts of kindness and follow through without any expectation of reward.
Ditch the road rage 9 of 18If someone is driving slower than snot tell yourself they have a wedding cake in the backseat and if they go too fast it will topple. If someone is driving like a complete jerkface, tell yourself they probably just found out a loved one is in the hospital. Chances are neither story will be true, but they may be and there are times when we all deserve the benefit of the doubt, even the jerkfaces.
Hug yo' kids 10 of 18At some point my mom stopped hugging me, which sounds like a terrible opening to an autobiography, but it's true. When we hug now it feels awkward and forced, which is sad. My dad on the other hand has always been a hugger, to this day he can hug me for no reason at all and it is comforting and familiar. I make a point to hug my kids everyday and often if for no other reason than to keep it from becoming awkward.
Show affection like a boss 11 of 18Hug like you mean it. I used to hate hugs and hugging, but I think I was both hugging wrong and hugging the wrong people. I love hugs now, and not to toot my own horn but I'm pretty good at them. There's something so trusting and comforting about a hug, but when you half ass it it comes across as fake and forced. No one likes a fake and forced. No one. Same goes for handshakes, look the person in the eye, keep your hand taught and squeeze just hard enough so they know you mean it when you say "Nice to meet you." I once had an OB who had the handshake of a warm dead fish, which is a good set of hands to have when it comes to my vagina, but in a handshake? Nope. It's honestly one of the reasons I left his practice, I didn't like his handshake (neither did Cody, worst handshake EVER.)
Respect yo' family 12 of 18I was (and still occasionally am) very guilty of disrespecting my spouse and children. How can I insist that my kids treat me with respect when I'm just as guilty of rolling my eyes and snapping sarcastic remarks at them? Oy. It's shameful. It has been unspoken in our relationship over the past few weeks, but Cody and I are both working on respecting each other a little more each day. Saying thank you for mundane things, taking care of things for each other and not rolling our eyes or responding with snide comments. I would never snap at a stranger with a mean dig or heavy sigh, so why on Earth so I occasionally do it to my own family?
Honor the elderly 13 of 18Last month I offered my table to an elderly couple in JFK airport, they had already positioned themselves and their luggage against a wall so as they moved towards the chairs, I moved their luggage towards the table. "You didn't have to do that, but I'm glad you did." the old woman said. "I didn't know there were still nice people out there." said the old man. You guys, these are the people that raised our parents, who have made it through an entire lifetime of radical changes and have seen more war than we could ever imagine. While we have our faces buried in our phones and computers talking to the people who live inside them, most of the elderly are still out here in the real world alone. Pay attention to them, respect them, offer them your seat or a smile. Okay? Okay. (If it's not asking too much, teach your kids the same thing please, one day we're going to be old and need those young people to move our luggage at the airport too.)
Peace and quiet, quite 14 of 18Many of us are inside for so much of the day, we rarely have the chance to breathe in nature or feel the sunshine on our faces. With it being the dead of winter right now sunshine is a rare commodity in the Midwest so when it shines? I am in it. We call it "lizard time" and everything stops in order for us to enjoy it. When you've been trapped inside under gray skies, lying in a warm sunny patch on the floor with your eyes closed for five minutes will restore and recharge your sun starved soul. If you live somewhere where it is sunny all the time? Invite me over. But really, take a moment to enjoy nature, even if it's the sun on your face through a window or closing your eyes on the beach and breathing deeply. A Sioux Indian once told me that when we feel that connection to the air and nature around us, it's Mother Earth welcoming us back to where we started from.
Keep a gratitude journal 15 of 18Don't write down the negative things, even if they are at the forefront of your mind. Write down the positives, the good memories, the moments worth remembering, even if they are miniscule in the grand scheme of the day. In a year when you look back at the things you are grateful for, as well as the things that went well and positive, you will realize how blessed your life has been as the memories and their positive feelings wash over you as you read your words. Write something negative down? All those negative feelings will wash over you and drag you down faster and harder than the positive ones can revive you. Start in a blank journal or if you like more form and function in your life buy one that is already meant for this very purpose like The Happiness Project One-Sentence Journal.
Send snail mail 16 of 18I love getting mail, like real mail from my real friends. Not my so called friends at the power company or mortgage lenders. There's something about getting a handwritten card or letter in the mail, it means someone thought of you when they saw the card, thought of you as they wrote the card and thought of you as they walked/drove/skipped to the mailbox. When you have a moment, stop at a Hallmark, or even the grocery store card aisle, and read the cards. I can promise you'll be inspired to send at least one to someone, even if you haven't talked to that someone in months. Chances are your intuition was right and your card will arrive exactly when it is needed most in that someone's life.
Give often 17 of 18Keep only what you need, save something for a proverbial rainy day and give away the rest. I have a terrible habit of giving things away, or loaning them under the impression that I will one day get them back. However it's only a terrible habit when I look at it from the perspective of my husband because it's his money and his stuff too. I take care of our obligations and save what I can, but I also realize that $20 or a spare printer I have lying around my house may make a lot more difference in the life of someone else. I've spent so much of my life trying to acquire things but it never brought me any happiness until I could start giving some of them away. I also know for a fact that the more you give away, the more you will receive (assuming you continue to pay it forward.)
You are magnificent 18 of 18Go out into the world realizing you are just as important as everyone else, if not more so. You could be the one person to say one thing to someone else that could change their entire life. I love that saying "While you may only be one person in the world, you may be the entire world to one person" or something like that. You make a difference, and when you cultivate kindness and an attitude of love and giving your ability to change the world magnifies exponentially. "If you work hard and are kind, amazing things will happen."
Equally important? Surround yourself with good people.
If you're angry and downtrodden after being with someone? Phase them out, check in occasionally with them, but do not spend your precious time and energy allowing them to trample your spirit. You should walk away from your friends and family feeling uplifted, not dejected. The same goes for you, how do people feel after they walk away from you? Good, I hope.


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A British bookmaker is encouraging that speculation – a firm called Coral halted all bets on the possibility of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announcing baby number two this month, after a series of bets were placed online Monday night.
"When bets come in at once late in the evening, it sets alarm bells off," Coral's Nicola McGeady told PEOPLE. "It's been quiet and then all of a sudden, a week before Prince George's birthday, this happened. The bets sealed our opinion that someone knows something we don't."
Coral was offering odds of 10-1 on Kate announcing a second pregnancy in July. But the odds were cut to even money before the firm pulled the plug entirely.
Kate, 32, is likely ignoring the speculation as tiresome. She has other things on her mind. She will leave George at home when she heads off on her first solo tour to Malta in September.


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This is so sick. I had to put this on the front page for everyone to see. Thanks Siren for bringing this to my attention.
CINCINNATI -- Jurors convicted former Bengal Nate Webster on sex abuse charges but acquitted him on others.
Prosecutors accused Webster of having sex with the teenage daughter of a Bengals employee when she was 15 years old, sometimes at gunpoint.
After nearly eight hours of deliberations, the jury convicted Webster on four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor but acquitted him of gross sexual imposition, sexual battery and one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
The jury also did not attach any gun specifications to the four counts for which Webster was convicted.
Webster admits to conducting a sexual relationship with the girl, who is now 18 years old, but claims they never had sex until she was 16 years old, which is the age of legal consent in Ohio.
Prosecutors offered him a plea deal that would have put him in prison for four years and required him to register as a sex offender upon his release.
Defense attorneys argued that the girl was mentally unstable, and Webster's friends, family and neighbors said the teen sold marijuana to some of them and claimed to have been molested by her father, which witnesses said they did not believe.
The 34-year-old Webster was a linebacker for the Bengals in 2004 before being sidelined by an injury and then was picked up by the Denver Broncos in 2006. He played for the Broncos through the 2008 season.
He served as a defensive coordinator in 2010 for the Bellevue High School football team but left the squad at the end of the season.
Webster faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced June 6. Judge Ralph Winkler said Webster would likely receive a prison term, so he was taken into police custody and will remain jailed until the sentencing hearing.
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This whole story makes my skin crawl. Dude is sick. And they say this went on for two years.
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Am I the only one who thinks NFL players are wayyyyyy messier than NBA players?
@AllyNWonderland I think in these guys' mind that the younger the girl is, the higher chance of her being a virgin or not involved in sex as much, perhaps? I am not sure myself why would any "man" would want to mess with jailbait or a teenage girl unless it's a fantasy that he is trying to turn into a reality. =/
B*******! He's just a NUT......AT GUNPOINT!?!?!
I don't understand. Like Ally said, puzzi being thrown at you from every different direction and you risk it all to be with a child? Ugh!
This is really sick ...
Ummm where were her parents like really for them to exchange phone numbers and for them to meet up and have sex cause if she is 15 she isnt driving....
I agree w/Ally. You have women throwing themselves at you daily and you have to rape a child? I just don't understand that. I don't think there's a cure for someone like that. Jail seems like the only and permanent option.


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Bills great Jim Kelly underwent successful surgery this morning and is resting comfortably at Erie County Medical Center, according to the hospital.
Here is the statement released by ECMC's Thom R. Loree, clinical director of the Head and Neck Surgery Department, and Dr. Maureen Sullivan and Dr. Mark S. Burke:
"At Mr. Kelly's request, we thank everyone for their concern and well wishes for him and his family. Today, Mr. Kelly underwent a partial maxillectomy to remove a squamous cell carcinoma of the upper gingival caused by chronic irritation at the gum site. He underwent reconstruction with a dental obturator. The surgery went very well.
"We are hopeful for and anticipate a speedy recovery and successful outcome.
"Mr. Kelly is recovering comfortably at this time. He is in the capable care of the great nurses and staff here at ECMC. He will remain here at the hospital until he feels comfortable to go home."
It remains to be seen whether chemotherapy or radiation treatment will be necessary. Kelly, the Bills Hall of Fame quarterback who helped lead them to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s, revealed Monday he had been diagnosed with squamous-cell ceancer in his upper jaw bone.
Kelly said doctors told him his prognosis for recovery was good, based on computed tomography scans of his head. Tests showed cancer had not spread to other parts of his body.
Head and neck cancers account for about 3 percent of new cancers in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. The overall five-year survival rate is above 50 percent, but it's difficult to make broad generalizations about such cancers, doctors say, because the treatment and prognosis can vary by site and stage.
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Did you find Part One of British Jesuit John McDade's reflections on judgment and purgatory interesting and thought provoking. Here's Part II.
In the interest of equal time for the cousins across the Irish Sea, here's a link to the Irish Jesuits' daily prayer site. You might want to bookmark it for daily prayer during this month of the holy souls. It's available in many languages/


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In this interview we asked Lenny Fenster of Microsoft Consulting Services to show us the recently released "Connector" for Team Foundation Server 2005 and Project Server 2007. This connector makes it easier for organizations to manage their development projects by providing a synchronization and workflow between Team Foundation Server and Project Server.
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quote: What caused organisms to differentiate cells into the types needed?
quote: Did the first organism to have a bone begin with having just a single mutated bone cell that somehow didn't cause it to die and things just went from there? If it went from there, how did it come about to have multiple bones with joints instead of just one long bone?
quote: So there are organisms which only have a cell membrane with nothing inside that makes it alive? Sorry I am a chemist not a biologist, I just know that from a chemical standpoint that the structures of that complexity do not happen easily if at all.
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Netflix's Q4 Restores Its Investment Luster
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Netflix has re-emerged as a stock-market star after a fourth-quarter performance that demonstrated its success in broadening the appeal of its Internet video service despite stiffer competition.
The results announced Wednesday served as a resounding endorsement of Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings, who has been spending heavily to license more compelling movies and TV shows in hopes of warding off intensifying competitive threats. Companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Coinstar Inc.'s Redbox have expanded into streaming video to Internet-connected devices to compete with Netflix.
Hastings' strategy has been met with widespread skepticism, but it paid off during the final three months of last year.
Netflix gained 2 million video-streaming subscribers in the U.S. during the quarter, propelling the company to a profit during a period that was supposed to produce a loss. In a letter to investors, Hastings credited the gains to people's interest in watching a wide range of entertainment on the tablet computers and Internet-connected TVs that they got as holiday gifts.
"As the sales of tablets go, apparently so go the fortunes of Netflix," Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.
Investors were euphoric. Netflix's volatile stock soared $36.24, or more than 35 percent, to $139.50 in extended trading after the numbers came out. If the rally carries over into Thursday's regular trading, Netflix's stock would hit a new 52-week high. It would also mark a nearly 80 percent increase since the company's early December announcement of a licensing deal with The Walt Disney Co. for exclusive streaming rights to new movies beginning in 2016.
The upturn in Netflix's stock has been a boon for billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who began accumulating a 10 percent stake in the company in early September when the stock was trading below $55.
Despite the recent rebound, Netflix's stock remains well below its peak price of nearly $305 reached in July 2011. That was around the same time the company outraged subscribers with a change that increased prices by as much as 60 percent for those who wanted to stream video and still rent DVDs through the mail. Hastings has been scrambling to make amends since the backlash triggered mass cancellations.
"There is still an echo and a bruise," Hastings told analyst during a Wednesday conference call. "We are still extremely thoughtful and careful about what we are trying to do. It wouldn't take much for the issue to flare up again or for us to lose trust. You might say we are on probation at this point, so we are out of jail."
The fourth-quarter surge in new customers left Netflix with 27.1 million U.S. subscribers to its streaming service, which costs $8 per month. Hastings said he believes the U.S. streaming service eventually will have 60 million to 90 million subscribers, although he hasn't set a timetable for reaching that goal.
"We have a long way to go, but we are very happy with the quarter," Hastings said in a Wednesday interview.
Netflix's international expansion also picked up steam as the company ended the quarter with an additional 1.8 million subscribers outside the U.S.
That gave Netflix 33.3 million video-streaming subscribers worldwide as Netflix began the new year, up by nearly 10 million from the start of 2012.
Netflix also still has 8.2 million customers signed up for the DVD-by-mail rental plans that launched the company's early success. Although Netflix is phasing out the disc service, the company hung on to more of the DVD subscribers than it anticipated during the fourth quarter. Netflix lost 382,000 DVD subscribers during the quarter.
Netflix seems confident it will build upon its recent momentum in the current quarter, which will be highlighted by the Feb. 1 debut of a much-anticipated TV series called "House of Cards." The series is produced exclusively for the video streaming service and stars Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey.
In his letter, Hastings described "House of Cards""as a defining moment in the development of Internet TV." Netflix is releasing all 13 episodes of the first season simultaneously on the hunch that the added convenience will foster more subscriber loyalty instead of encouraging people to sign up for the service for just a month or two to watch exclusive series such as "House of Cards."
The company, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif., forecast that its video streaming service will pick up 1.35 million to 2.1 million in the U.S. during the first three months of this year.
Netflix also expects to break even or generate another profit during the quarter. Analysts previously thought the company would lose money to start the year as expenses for the international expansion and video-licensing fees outpace revenue growth.
Although he applauded Netflix's fourth-quarter performance, Pachter still believes Netflix's rising bills to license video will hobble the company.
"I think the company is genuinely mistaken in how it thinks it is going to manage content costs," Pachter said. "This is truly a house of cards and it's going to come crashing down this year."


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The Doctor has an intense confrontation with the Weeping Angels. Meanwhile, Amy collapses in the forest…