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More than 100 people at Microsoft and from the IT industry in the world today have become Microsoft Certified Architects since the program was launched about two years ago. For people who are interested to become an MCA, they may wonder what it is like to go through the certification process. In this interview with Biff Gaut, who earned his MCA title during the pilot phase of the MCA programs, Dr. Zhiming Xue "Z", Architect Evangelist of the Microsoft DPE East Region, and George Cerbone, Microsoft MCA Program Manager and an MCA himself, interview Biff Gaut about the untold aspects of the grueling interview process, the trade-offs candidates have to make, and the key things to do before the interview day.
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Jordana Brewster has babies on the brain – yes, you read that right: plural.
The Dallas star, 32, who has been married to movie producer Andrew Form since 2007, tells Latina she "definitely" wants two kids and is "enamored" by the idea of having twins.
"My dad was a twin, so it runs in the family," she explains. "Fingers crossed. We're thinking about having kids but I don't know when it'll happen. I feel very ready now."
When the couple does eventually expand their family, the children will be raised in a loving home.
"We FaceTime all of the time," Brewster says, of keeping the romance alive long distance. "We love that. There are times when I just say, 'I need to see you now.' And so we FaceTime a lot, or I surprise him and visit him or he does the same. It's super important … Couples shouldn't be apart for too long. We've been married for five years now and we know how important that is because otherwise you just lose touch with each other."
A big part of their bond has come from the way Form inspires his wife on a professional level.
"It's so amazing to have a husband in the business who can challenge me and we can talk about his work and my work and understand each other in that way," Brewster says. "I love getting his feedback and he likes getting mine. And of course, that has pushed me more to consider producing in the future."
And she's not just talking about babies!
Jordana Brewster Is 'Enamored' with the Idea of Having Twins
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NFL Mock Drafts are in season. The only problem is that they do little to brighten the cloud of an ugly labor dispute that is threatening to prevent these players from playing in their first NFL season in 2011.
However, we aren't here to dwell on the bad but instead we are here to fuel optimism that the draft can provide.
This year we have an incredible amount of defensive line talent with the likes of Da'Quan Bowers and Nick Fairley, but there is plenty of talent at other positions too.
The two most interesting prospects to pay attention to are quarterbacks Blaine Gabbert and Cam Newton. Both guys can be rather polarizing but with many teams in need of quarterbacks I don't expect them to drop too far. However, the real quarterback prize, Andrew Luck, isn't even in this draft. It will be interesting to see who picks a quarterback knowing that they could potentially get a better one next year.
Overall, I know the NFL is a sad discussion right now because of the lockout, but it is still really fun to speculate.
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2. Denver Broncos: Da'Quan Bowers, DE
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18. San Diego Chargers: Adrian Clayborn, DE
19. New York Giants: Gabe Carimi, OT
20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Justin Houston, OLB
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6. Cleveland Browns: Julio Jones, WR
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8. Tennessee Titans: Nick Fairley, DT
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22. Indianapolis Colts: Danny Watkins, OG
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10. Washington Redskins: Cam Newton, QB
11. Houston Texans: Robert Quinn, DE
12. Minnesota Vikings: Jake Locker, QB
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26. Baltimore Ravens: Rahim Moore, FS
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burst, with surprise
When I heard that, I almost plotzed!
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to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
fruitcake tarafından 26 Ekim 2003, Pazar
From Yiddish, to fall down from extreme excitememnt or abhorance.
When i heard she had slept with my roommate, i was about to plotz!
rosedanose tarafından 22 Haziran 2005, Çarşamba
to faint, fall over, shit pants with excitement. Word is famously used in the film "Donnie Brasco" when they arrive at the King's Court in Miami.
"Wait until you get a load of the banquet room. You're gonna plotz!"
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to burst, as from laughter.
Moishe told a joke that was so funny, I almost plotzed.
Slouchy McGoon tarafından 15 Aralık 2012, Cumartesi
To shock, surprise, take aback, astound to the extent of fainting or "shitting oneself" .
Krusty: I opened for The Who at Woodstock. I came out in a Beatle wig with a ukulele. Hendrix said he almost plotzed -- his exact words.
Joe tarafından 13 Kasım 2004, Cumartesi
The act of farting or accidentally pooping while urinating or cumming. Often used to express extreme responses to humour, pleasure or fear.
That Youtube video was so funny I plotzed myself.
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A fallen boulder temporarily stopped northbound traffic on Colorado Highway 3 on Saturday evening. The boulder, about half the size of a small car, did not hit any vehicles or people, and it was removed by crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The California Tahoe Conservancy has released a draft plan for a proposed restoration of Lake Tahoe's largest remaining wetland, the Upper Truckee Marsh.
The restoration project would be the largest ever in the Lake Tahoe Basin, according to CTC Executive Director Patrick Wright. The nearly 600-acre marsh is located just west of the Tahoe Keys and should act as the last defense against the thousands of tons of clarity-reducing fine sediment entering the lake every year, according to the agency.
"Beginning in the late 1950s, portions of the Upper Truckee River through the marsh were straightened and channelized to facilitate construction of the adjacent Tahoe Keys development," according to a statement from the CTC. "A primary goal of the draft plan is to reconnect the river with the marsh, and to restore the natural processes that filter fine sediment and other pollutants before they enter Lake Tahoe."
Five alternatives are included in the plan. A preferred alternative has not been selected and the CTC is receiving public input on the proposed project.
Once an alternative is selected, the multi-year effort could head to construction as early as 2015 if it receives the necessary approvals and funding, according to the CTC.
Comments on the proposals must be received no later than April 8. Comments can be submitted by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. More information on the project is available by calling Victoria Ortiz at 530-542-6063 or visiting http://tahoe.ca.gov.
A separate restoration project along the Upper Truckee River, known as Sunset Stables Reach 5, gained approval from the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board last week.
That restoration project may be in front of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Governing Board for approval as soon as April. If the TRPA signs off on the restoration, that project could begin this summer.
Upcoming public meetings and hearings on the Upper Truckee Marsh restoration
- Wednesday from 1:30-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Inn by the Lake, located at 3300 Lake Tahoe Blvd.
- March 13 at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Advisory Planning Commission meeting. The meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. at TRPA offices at 128 Market St. in Stateline.
- March 27 at the TRPA's Governing Board meeting. The meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. at TRPA officers at 128 Market St. in Stateline.
- March 28 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Community College Board Room. The college is located at 1 College Way in South Lake Tahoe.


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To laugh so hard that you wizz in your pants; a combination of laughing and wizzing. Taken from an episode of 30 Rock.
"That episode was so funny I was lizzed all night."
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To be extremely wasted, and make out with random guys, as well as pee in inappropriate places
Boy 1: oh my god did you see that girl pee in the shower last night??
Boy 2: yeah she was totally lizzed
Boy 2: yeah she was totally lizzed
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A disorder affecting girls of all races that causes them to look as if they pee on themselves all the time- basically, the girl has a dirty, uncultivated look about her.
Jupiter Jones has it, as well as ashanti (without make up).
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|New Crystal Structures Lift Fog around Protein Folding
Nature's proteins set a high bar for nanotechnology. Macromolecules forged from peptide chains of amino acids, these biomolecular nanomachines must first be folded into a dazzling variety of shapes and forms before they can perform the multitude of functions fundamental to life. However, the mechanisms behind the protein-folding process have remained a foggy mystery. Now the fog is lifting: a team of researchers from Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has deciphered the crystal structure of a critical control element within chaperonin, the protein complex responsible for the correct folding of other proteins.
Chaperonins promote the proper folding of newly translated proteins and proteins that have been stress-denatured—meaning they've lost their structure—by encapsulating them inside a protective chamber formed from two rings of molecular complexes stacked back-to-back. There are two classes of chaperonins, group I found in prokaryotes and group II found in eukaryotes and archaea (organisms with no cell membrane or internal membrane-bound organelles). Much of the basic architecture has been evolutionarily preserved (conserved) across these two classes but they do differ in how the protective chamber is opened to accept proteins and closed to fold them. Whereas group I chaperonins require a detachable ring-shaped molecular lid to open and close the chamber, group II chaperonins have a built-in lid.
Biologists had known that the binding of ATP and subsequent hydrolysis promotes the closure of the multi-subunit rings where protein folding occurs, but the mechanism by which local changes in the nucleotide-binding site are communicated between individual subunits was unknown. To attack this problem, the research team studied the group II chaperonin in the archeon Methanococcus maripaludis, using ALS Beamlines 8.2.1 and 8.2.2.
They determined crystal structures at sufficient resolution to allow examining, in detail, the effects that ATP binding and hydrolysis have in this group II chaperonin. From these structures, they identified a region called the nucleotide-sensing loop, which monitors ATP binding by the protein and communicates this information throughout the chaperonin. Functional analysis further suggested that the nucleotide-sensing loop region uses this information to control the rate of ATP binding and hydrolysis, which in turn controls the timing of the protein-folding reaction.
Group II chaperonin structure. The nucleotide-sensing loop synchronizes conformational changes in the three domains (apical, intermediate, equatorial) for the proper folding of proteins. The diagram indicates the rearrangement of the nucleotide-sensing loop between two states: Cpn–AMP–PNP (magenta) is chaperonin in complex with AMP–PNP (an ATP analog) and Cpn–ADP is chaperonin in complex with ADP.
The double-ring chaperonin complex features multiple subunits that are grouped into three domains—apical, intermediate, and equatorial. For group II chaperonins, the closing of the lid for protein-folding causes all three domains to rotate as a single rigid body, resulting in conformational changes to the chamber that enable the proteins within to be folded. The synchronized rotation of the chaperonin domains is dependent upon the communication to all the subunits that is provided by the nucleotide-sensing loop. In identifying the nucleotide-sensing loop and its controlling role in group II chaperonin protein-folding, the researchers believe they may have opened a new avenue by which modified protein-folding activities could be engineered.
The strong relationship between incorrectly folded proteins and pathological states is well documented. In humans, misfolding of proteins has been linked to many diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and some forms of cancer. Since ATP hydrolysis is required for protein folding, it could be possible to engineer a nucleotide-sensing loop that promotes slower or faster protein-folding activity in a given chaperonin. This could, for example, be used to increase the protein-folding activity of human chaperonin, or perhaps reduce the cellular accumulation of misfolded proteins that can cause disease and other problems.
In the belief that chaperonins have evolved to work on specific substrates and that the rates of protein folding may vary greatly between chaperonins in different organisms, the team will next apply what they have learned to study the human chaperonin TRiC.
Research conducted by: J.H. Pereira and C.Y. Ralston (Berkeley Lab); N.R. Douglas (Stanford University); R. Kumar, T. Lopez, and J. Frydman (Stanford University); R.P. McAndrew (Berkeley Lab); K.M. Knee and J.A. King (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); and P.D. Adams (Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley).
Funding: National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: J.H. Pereira, C.Y. Ralston, N.R. Douglas, R. Kumar, T. Lopez, R.P. McAndrew, K.M. Knee, J.A. King, J. Frydman, and P.D. Adams, "Mechanism of nucleotide sensing in group II chaperonins," EMBO J. 31, 731 (2012).
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TV talking heads. Many offering view concerning politics.
George Will is a pundit
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an Indian word for master.Also known as "Guru"
He is a programming "Pundit"
He is a programming "Guru"
He is a programming "Guru"
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A person who claims to be an expert and markets him or herself as such, but has no discernable income or prior background being a practitioner in the subject matter they purport to represent. These individuals are usually offered talking points and a buried stipend (read: paid off) by a special interest group, such as a political party or industry lobby then go on to blog or make media appearances promoting their point of view to the detriment of people who are real-life practitioners and subject matter experts.
Andy is a pundit on technology issues but doesn't seem to have any real-world experience doing the things he promotes. Through some digging we can discover he is actually an industry shill.
av hot east 1 augusti 2012
a person who speaks with the tone of authority but is often found out to be just a big gasbag handing you a lot of stuff.
He is a political pundit.
Sports pundits predict landslide for home team.
Sports pundits predict landslide for home team.
av Crabby Old Goat 6 november 2012
a person who habitually uses puns in conversation; an asshole.
"Hey did you see my new Urban Dictionary word? I totally PUN-DIT."
"You're an asshole."
"You're an asshole."
av Merryman Webster 31 maj 2013
A portmanteau of pun and bandit, signifies someone who tells far too many puns. May optionally imply particular cleverness or skill.
The pundit strikes again! That's the third terrible pun this evening!
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A pundit is a comedian who sucks at making people laugh.
As stated by Enormo from http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/10/nbc-stars-whimper-ab.html#comment-435381 which is in regards to Jon Stewart versus NBC's Jim Cramer and Joe Scarborough on stock losses:
"Scarborough is a pundit. A pundit is a comedian who sucks at making people laugh."
"Scarborough is a pundit. A pundit is a comedian who sucks at making people laugh."
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A late night meeting/booty call to a girl's house with the intention of having unprotected anal sex resulting in chunky shit on the tip of a man's dick upon pulling out.
Man, I called Paloma Montero for a drunken peanut butter night cap on Saturday after I got out of the club!!!
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A man who reportedly admitted to burglarizing South Shore Bikes was arrested Sunday at Barton Hospital.
The burglary occurred about 9 p.m. Sunday, according to a press release. Police reportedly discovered someone had entered the business through a roof vent and exited through a window at the front of the shop. Blood, which indicated the suspect may have been injured during the burglary, and other identifying evidence was collected at the scene, police said. About 1 a.m. Monday, officers responded to Barton Hospital, where they contacted the suspect, South Lake Tahoe resident Lee Sparks, 34, who reportedly had several fresh cuts on his arms. Sparks admitted to the burglary and taking one bicycle from the business, police said. He was arrested and charged with burglary and booked into El Dorado County Jail.


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A 47-year-old Town of Alexander man who agreed to house-sit for his hospitalized friend and neighbor died after being pulled unconscious from the burning former one-room schoolhouse late Sunday night, Genesee County sheriff's officials reported.
Scott A. Cramer, the only person inside 11000 Sand Pit Road, was pulled from the cottage by Alexander volunteer firefighters and taken to United Memorial Medical Center in Batavia, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities late Monday still weren't sure whether the homeowner's cat, which was being cared for by Cramer, made it out safely or died in the fire.
Genesee County records show that the small home was an 844-square-foot cottage that dates back to 1850, when it was built as a one-room schoolhouse.
The cobblestone structure, with a small wood-frame addition in front, had two possible exits: the front door and a basement trap door, authorities said.
But flames and smoke in the front of the home blocked Cramer's first-floor exit, and authorities don't know whether he considered the other one.
"I don't even know if he knew it was there," County Fire Coordinator Timothy Yaeger said of the trap door Monday.
A volunteer firefighter driving by the house, a responding sheriff's deputy and two neighbors attempted to get inside or put out the fire with a fire extinguisher and a garden hose, Genesee County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jerome E. Brewster said. But their efforts weren't successful.
The first firefighters responding to a 911 call at 10:07 p.m. found flames showing in the front of the house. Those firefighters searched the home, found Cramer about 12 feet from the front door and pulled him out.
"He was seriously burned, and he was unconscious when he was brought out," Brewster said.
Both Brewster and Yaeger cited the quick work of volunteer firefighters.
"They made a quick knockdown of the fire and a quick search," Yaeger said. "They brought him out to safety, but it was pretty much too late."
A preliminary investigation points to an electrical cause of the fire, possibly an improperly installed electrical panel, sheriff's officials stated. Fire officials provided a preliminary damage estimate of $20,000.
Smoke detectors were found in the home, but authorities don't know whether they were functioning.
Assisting Alexander at the scene were members of the Attica, Bethany, Darien and Town of Batavia volunteer companies, along with Mercy EMS Ambulance.
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SALEM-It's not every day the message board in front of a school changes lives.
But two teachers will be forever tied to Buckeye Elementary after Friday morning.
Instead of the standard welcome back from Christmas vacation, the message board on Friday proclaimed a marriage proposal from first-grade teacher Ryan Barrett to fellow first-grade teacher Chelsea Green.
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Ryan Barrett and Chelsea Green, first-grade teachers at Buckeye Elementary in Salem, became engaged Friday after Barrett proposed marriage with the aid of the school's message board.
She said yes.
"This is a tight knit staff and I thought it appropriate to include the staff and students," Barrett said. "It's been something that everyone has enjoyed."
Barrett said he got the idea when he noticed that the sign had not been change since Christmas break. He said he spoke with Principal John Lundin and custodian Kellie Wright on Monday and had the occasion set up for Friday morning so that it would be lit up when they arrived for work.
Barrett said he drove Green to work and pointed out the sign as they pulled up out front. He got out and went around car, got her out and asked her to marry him on the sidewalk in front of the sign.
"We're both teachers, this is our life and we share it together," Barrett said. "We'll always remember Buckeye School."
Students in Green's class made a sign that said "Miss Green said Yes" and hung it in the window of her classroom so passers-by would see her answer.
Barrett has been at Buckeye for five years and Green three. They said their relationship started as a friendship with common interests and grew into a romantic one. They have been dating for approximately 18 months.
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5 Thanksgiving Disasters You're Probably Not Prepared For
When you're a kid, Thanksgiving is something Mom or Grandma takes care of, and "dinner parties" in general are things fancy people on TV do. But sooner than you think, you will reach an age where you'll be expected to host meals for other people. And there is never more pressure to get this right than on Thanksgiving. If dinner parties are like group sex, Thanksgiving is like starring in porn. The lights are on, the camera is recording and everyone's good time rests entirely on your boner.
So the day has arrived. The food is bought. You've spent a full work day cleaning up empty beer cans and strategically placing furniture over wine-colored vomit stains. You are ready to eat and thank the shit out of some shit.
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#5. If You Fuck Up the Turkey, People Will Die
Maybe you're in your 20s and are having to throw your first Thanksgiving away from home. Maybe you're older, and Mom finally got taken to jail for dog fighting. Either way, you've laid down the turkey gauntlet and decided to throw everybody a Thanksgiving that will make your Mom's look like a big pile of shit.
So it's less than a week before the holiday, and before you read another word of this article, you need to have a frozen turkey in your possession. You don't need to be physically holding it right now while you're reading, though I'd prefer it if you were. At the very least, it needs to be in your freezer. There are a couple of reasons for this.
Don't get ahead of us, asshole.
The first is that people tend to procrastinate on the holidays. Two days before Thanksgiving, you won't be able to enter a grocery store without having to cancel your plans for the evening because every person in town will be making a last minute mad dash for the same core ingredients that make up every Thanksgiving dinner in the country. And it doesn't matter how small your list is. The 15 people in front of you with full carts dictate your time spent in line.
But more importantly, most stores carry frozen turkeys because they go bad really fast. If they sell you a bacteria-contaminated turkey, that can put a motherfucker in a hospital bed as fast as an escaped dog fighting champion, and that's generally frowned upon by most business owners. People in America consider it rude to sell poison meat. Turkeys are also pretty big, so they take a while to thaw. Setting it out on the counter at room temperature, thinking the warm air will help speed things along, is a pretty good way to make everyone at your party shoot liquid filth out of every orifice of their body for the next several days.
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The challenge is what makes Thanksgiving special.
The safest way to thaw one out is to put it in the refrigerator about four days before cooking it. Yes. Four fucking days. That's how long you have to plan ahead for just that part. To be more precise, it's 24 hours in the fridge for every 4-5 lbs. of turkey.
You've done all of that. It's the night before, and you're now cooking your bird. Awesome. "Wait, what's that burning plastic smell," you ask? It's the fucking plastic bag full of guts they crammed inside the turkey. Yes, they do that. They bag up the extra parts like the neck, gizzards, livers, testicles, etc. and cram it back into the body cavity. Most even come with a bag of concentrated gravy made out of the bird's tortured soul. And unless you pull the legs apart and cram your hand up inside, you'd never know they were there. Note to editor: I have done the research, and there is no joke that can be made about that last line.
None at all.
Oh shit, did you take into account any vegetarian guests? Those people are all over the place now. It's not just a matter of, "Well, they can eat the sides and leave the turkey for us." Uh, you remember how the baked beans have bacon in them? And the noodles were made with chicken broth? And the green bean casserole has bacon in it? And how Grandma's cranberry sauce recipe has bacon fat in it? And how the bacon punch is nothing but ground up bacon? You're going to have to take a moment to make sure those guests aren't sitting there with a roll and some corn. And you have to plan all this ahead because you have to...
#4. Stock Up on the Three B's: Beer, Butter and Toilet Paper
Let me give you a quick scenario. It's 8:00 p.m. Everyone is finished eating, and you're all gathered around the TV, screaming obscenities at a football game that doesn't involve your favorite team but that everyone watches out of tradition, because it's an excuse to not have to talk to each other.
Uncle Mitch walks into the room with an empty beer box, and he's pointing at it and crying. At the same time, four people stand outside of a closed bathroom door, clutching their stomachs and weighing the pros and cons of dropping a deuce into your sink. Grandma finally exits the bathroom and announces, "You're out of toilet paper. I had to wipe my ass on your shower curtain."
"Honestly, I was going to do that anyway."
"Fuck," you gasp. "Mitch drank the last beer."
If you're lucky enough to live in a town that has a store that stays open on Thanksgiving, then awesome -- you just have to deal with the other thousand people in line who all forgot to stock up on shit and then get back to your party. If you live in a small town like mine, it means driving 30 minutes to the next town that does have an open store, spending another 30 minutes getting the stuff and another 20 minutes waiting in line at the register, and then another 30 minutes back. Those people outside the bathroom needed to go 20 minutes ago. The beer drinkers are now cooking something with leftover cranberries, yeast and the copper pipes that they removed from your sink.
In a family of drinkers, things get ugly fast. At one of my family's gatherings years ago my uncles and I found ourselves organizing a trip to the next state because it had the only place that sold booze on Thanksgiving. And they were only open for another two hours. We were like Jack Bauer in 24 racing across town to defuse a nuclear sobriety bomb.
"ALCOHOLICS ... mount up."
What we learned that day is that you have to overstock everything. A case of beer in my family lasted about 40 minutes. Hell, back then, I could take care of a case all by myself. Plan out what you think you need and then triple that order.
Especially butter. Yeah, it turns out that pretty much everything you cook on Thanksgiving requires butter. So by the time the rolls are passed around, you have none to put on them because you've used it all in cooking.
And toilet paper. Have I mentioned that? If you're male and you're in charge of shopping, this is something you'll overlook. ("Ah, we're fine, there's most of a roll left there.") We're used to needing it once, maybe twice a day (depending on our levels of Tabasco use in the previous week). We forget that women need it every time they go. And that kids use 10 times too much. And that Uncle Mitch has chronic diarrhea from his constant drinking and from eating all that butter.
"Can I get another one of these except without all that toast?"
#3. You Don't Have Enough Dishes, and You Sure as Fuck Don't Have Enough Chairs
When you think of Thanksgiving, you always picture the eating part, not the preparation. So when you're going over the dishes situation you think, "OK, I have eight people coming over, so I'm going to need eight plates, eight forks and I have a dozen glasses if you count the collectible Shrek glasses I got from McDonald's eight years ago ..." Nope. The cooking and serving parts of the meal mean you're off by about 50 percent.
My first Thanksgiving dinner I ever cooked was pretty ambitious -- if you're going to do that shit, you do it right -- that is, until I got about halfway through the preparation and realized that I didn't have nearly enough bowls and dishes to serve the food in. Of course by the time I found that out, it was too late to go buy more, so I had to just start removing items from the menu instead. It was either that or piling green bean casserole and scalloped potatoes directly on the table.
Yeah, you probably have enough plates -- when you buy plates you get like eight of them and you probably have that many more odd mismatched ones you've wound up with on accident. But how many serving dishes do you have? This is something you literally never use in bachelor life because you're never going to serve an elaborate family-style dinner for yourself, I don't care how fat you are.
"Happy Tuesday!"
In a panic, you'll think, "Well, I can just serve the food out of the pots and pans I cooked them in, but there's a problem with that. Putting a shitload of hot pans on a table isn't wise. Especially if there are kids around. Not to mention that you'll probably be short on pans and have to reuse some of them to make different sides. After all, how many sauce pans do you own? Enough to hold five different side dishes that all have to be heated at the same time?
And you can't carve a turkey and just drop the meat back into the disgusting looking disposable pan. The bottom of that thing is filled with grease and nasty looking floaty things. So you'll need to find a big-ass plate to pile all of the meat up. No, you can't just leave the bird intact and let the guests carve their own. Ninety percent of humans can't take a piece of meat apart without either destroying the meat or their own hands. There's a reason Uncle Mitch drinks so much and only needs one and a half gloves in December.
He's the only guy in the family who can count to decimal places by using his fingers.
OK, so maybe you've taken care of all that. Once you have all of your food in its respective serving bowls/plates, you're going to find that you don't have enough big spoons to dip it all up. And before the meal is even served, you'll open your cabinet to find that every glass in the house is now dirty. People have been at your house for hours, the ones not pounding beers need something to drink, and they'll be damned if they'll actually keep track of their glass so they can use it at meal time. Kids especially have a tendency to use a glass once and then promptly lose it or put it in the dirty dishes pile.
The easy solution to this is to buy an assload of plastic cups. You can do the same with plates, but you have to be careful with what type you choose. Don't make the mistake of buying paper plates. Half of what you're eating is prepared in some sort of liquid, and that shit will soak right through. Styrofoam isn't much better because any pressure you put on those things will crack them -- and the time you saved by not doing dishes will instead be spent cleaning up the floor that is now covered in meat juice. This is the one area where you'll want to spend a little extra and buy the sturdy plastic disposables. It's Thanksgiving, people. Don't be afraid to get fancy.
"Holy shit, John, did you get a promotion?"
Oh, and you don't have enough chairs. What do you got? Four chairs around your dining room or kitchen table? A rolling office chair at your computer ... and then what? You don't have 10 goddamn dining room chairs -- why would you? But you better figure out something. You think people want to eat Thanksgiving dinner sitting ass-to-ass on your sofa, trying to balance that shit on their lap? What if all of the sofa people hate each other?
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Charleston County
The transactions listed below include properties sold for $150,000 or more and recorded between Oct. 7-11.
Adams Run
James E. Glinski sold 8055 Bird Pond Road to Robert F. and Jennifer M. Marshall for $190,000.
Judy Anne Hinman sold Unit 32, 76 Society St. to Dale and Zach Dellacqua for $525,000.
Fred and Joyce S. Rappaport sold Unit 306, 175 Concord St. to Kathy and Gregory J. Gardner for $909,000.
Yasutsugu Nishikawa sold Unit 2G, 14 Lockwood Drive, Ashley House to Clayton B. and Karen H. Hallmark for $150,000.
Robert Kelly Haselden sold 11 Killians St. to Ari B. and Mabini C. Piezas for $329,000.
Nathaniel Grant sold 17 Larnes St. to Ryan Burton for $298,000.
Kurt Mechling sold 46 Poinsett St. to Gillian Nicole Mechling for $225,000.
Leonard C. and Jean F. Fulghum sold 652 King St. to King Street Holdings LLC for $6 million.
Palmetto Home Investments LLC sold 898 Ashley Ave. to Kenneth R. Ingersoll for $260,000.
Folly Beach
Robin S. Thomas and Thomas V. Bessent sold 283 Little Oak Drive, Little Oak Island to George F. and Patricia D. Schneider for $764,000.
Isle of Palms
James P. Shannon sold 40 Waterway Island Drive to Jonathan M. and Kara J. Lecker for $3.1 million.
Gabrielle P. and Gregory A. Porter sold 7 47th Ave. to JFROne LLC for $800,000.
James Island
Zollene and Kathryn J. Reissner sold Unit 323, 1025 Riverland Woods Place, The Retreat at Riverland to John J. and Nancy J. Robinson for $191,000.
Silvia F. Peters sold 1083 Quail Drive, Lawton Bluff to Gerald Christian Kaeser for $252,000.
Michael Crotts sold 1161 Montgomery Road, Lawton Bluff to Gregory R. and Elizabeth Lantz for $258,000.
Donna and Emily A. Adams sold 1726 Santee St. to John C. Rice for $205,000.
Damon O. Pride and William M. Burdick sold 1741 Ashworth Lane, Queensborough to Robert B. Bouronich and Kimberly D. Footer for $235,000.
William T. and Kathryn N. Freeland sold 416 Planters Trace Drive, Planters Trace at Seaside Plantation to John McGraw Sullivan and Whitney Austin Dunham for $237,000.
Leslie D. and Cynthia L. McBride sold 593 Clearview Drive to Jon McGough for $340,000.
Cline Construction LLC sold 608 Cloudbreak Court, Woodland Acres to William M. and Cynthia W. McLean for $433,807.
Anne H. Harrelson sold 609 First Mate Court, Parrot Bluff to Haris A. and Helen S. Michael for $482,000.
Lloyd A. Whitnack sold 822 Harbor Drive, Harbor Place to Mary B. Laurence for $315,000.
Jessica P. and Josh Evans sold 867 Quail Drive, Lawton Bluff to Marc D. Fisher and Melissa Quarles for $275,000.
Joan A. Czarniecki sold 966 Carmel Drive, White Point at Lawton Bluff to Robert L. Tomlinson III and Rebecca M. Tomlinson for $305,000.
Johns Island
Charles P. Sumner sold 1126 Rearick Road, Swygerts Landing to Leslie D. and Cynthia L. McBride for $280,000.
Mungo Homes Coastal Division LLC sold 1817 Towne St., The Cottages at John's River Creek to Jacob Randall Hendrickson and Lindsey Jeanne Felkl for $224,609.
Aaron and Caroline A. Taylor sold 2111 River Road, Waterloo Plantation to Shane Delaney Hayre for $150,000.
Scott M. and Catherine P. Westerberg sold 2984 Maritime Forest Drive, Hope Plantation to Holly K. and Steven M. Ash for $295,000.
Edward J. and Sharon Brogan sold 319 Legareville Road to Robert A. and Quyen P. Yancey for $315,500.
Robert L. Greenwood sold 3215 Waverly Lane, Hope Plantation to Diane G. and Byron A. Malogrides for $360,000.
Timothy C. and Theresa K. Bennett sold 4036 Gift Blvd., Gift Plantation to George I. and Kimberly K. David for $1.2 million.
James P. and Brett M. Van Dorsten sold 5148 Chisolm Road, Ravens Point Plantation to William S. and Angela R.l. Shelton for $1.5 million.
Kiawah Island
Marshall and Donna Mize sold 1116 Duneside Road, Duneside Villas to Peter B. and Mary B. Freund for $1.5 million.
Nancy S. Kohl sold 13 Green Meadow Lane, The Settlement to Steven Y. and Katherine S. Goldberg for $335,000.
England-Kinsler Properties LLC sold 20 Surfsong Road, Vanderhorst Beach at Ocean Park to Kevin P. and Mary S.R. O'Donnell for $1.4 million.
G. Steven and Virginia W. Orban sold 39 Salt Cedar Lane, Falcon Point to Robert C. Lawrence III and Mary S. Lawrence for $1.8 million.
Mount Pleasant/ East Cooper
Wayne Sherrill sold 2002 Basildon Road, The Battery at Park West to The Brouwer Living Trust for $152,500.
Mark P. and Elizabeth A. Foxworth sold 1115 Talisman Road, Rosemead to Daniel J. and Buena V.W. Messervy for $190,000.
Andrew J. and Tiffany H. Narcisso sold 1159 Old Course Lane, Westchester at Charleston National to Arthur C. and Marion E. Stecklow for $250,000.
Paul and Cathleen Murphy sold 1212 Knightbridge Lane, Churchhill Park to James R. Sidbury and Catharine F. Grow for $289,900.
Michael and Jennifer Beard sold 1217 Copper Penny Court, Water's Edge to Robert D. and Jennifer O'Harra for $275,000.
Mark E. Milligan sold 1225 Hidden Lakes Drive, Hidden Lakes to Kathryn Milam for $445,000.
Erick A. Arroyo sold 1266 Horseshoe Bend, Sweetgrass to Fiddler Cay Properties LLC for $278,000.
Jung and Won Woo sold 1309 Divot Court, Westchester at Charleston National to Rex E. and Karen L. Kummer for $405,000.
Rodney K. and Deborah L. Haselden sold 1374 Wavespray Court, The Colonnade at Brickyard Plantation to Richard M. and Tammy M. Gnegy for $337,500.
Hannagan Holding Company LLC sold 1400 Stuart Engals Blvd. to Annan Holdings LLC for $248,000.
Cline Construction LLC sold 1444 Gunnison St., Carolina Park to Christopher S. and Tifany S. O'Neal for $498,641.
George L. Rosebrock III and Julie C. Rosebrock sold 1516 Wellesley Circle, Wellesley Place at Park West to Michael A. and Suzanne G. Kaufman for $289,000.
Weekley Homes LLC sold 1556 Watoga Way, Carolina Park to Thomas W. and Patricia A. Hunter for $480,034.
DR Horton Inc. sold 1563 Capel St., Masonborough at Park West to Matthew B. and Karen W. Yeates for $635,000.
Carol Brooks Corbisello sold 1606 Cullowhee Circle, Wando East to Leila J. Schardt for $226,000.
Joseph P. and Nancy M. Doyle sold 1705 James Basford Place, Wheatstone at Park West to Melissa B. and James A. Torykian for $475,000.
James H. and Ellen P. Auten sold 1712 Monk Place, Tennyson at Park West to Andrew C. and Susan P. Heinold for $535,000.
Michael R. and Michelle L. Anderson sold 1816 Hall Point Road, Pembroke at Park West to John T. Swanson III and Nicola E. Swanson for $430,000.
Jonathan S. and Susan M. Kane sold 2002 Shields Lane, Rivertowne to Paul S. and Helena Rousseau for $439,000.
Daniel R. and Cynthia S. Sobus sold 2161 Beckenham Drive, Masonborough at Park West to Robert P. and Lisa O. Molinowski for $650,000.
Salvatore Imburgia sold 2427 Draymohr Court, Keswick at Park West to Susan A. Kelly for $270,000.
George M. Ogorek III and Debbie Ogorek sold 2505 Deer Walk Way, Deer Walk to Robert Giamattei for $365,500.
Frederick K. and Deborah A. Dutcher sold 303 Shoals Drive, Grassy Creek to Daniel A. and Allison C. Nussbaum for $478,500.
Hunt LLC sold 3069 Intracoastal View Drive, The Sound at Hamlin Plantation to Andrew and Patricia Davis for $760,000.
James W. and Hillary B. Gardner sold 3146 Morningdale Drive, Ivy Hall to Suren Paravyan for $270,000.
Wells Fargo Bank N.A. sold 3229 Cottonfield Drive, Dunes West to Chihchun Huang for $550,000.
Susan E. Cox sold 3259 Wendell Court, The Village at Park West to Betty Anne Scalise for $265,500.
Jeffrey K. and Lauren B. Carper sold 3482 Stockton Drive, Westchester at Charleston National to John K. and Valerie Harvey for $363,000.
Robert M. and Patricia J. Tykal sold 3541 Hartford Village Way, Hartford Village at Dunes West to Ira R. McElhaney Jr. and Amber R. McElhaney for $400,000.
James H. and Tina N. Royal sold 3578 Passfield Lane, Commonwealth to Leslie R. Riggs for $383,000.
Charles Clifford Bourquardez Jr. sold 383 Evian Way, Evian to Ryan P. and Jennifer B. Riddle for $160,000.
Beverly A. Baliko sold 659 Fox Pond Drive, Fox Pond to Eva and Milton Stratos for $270,000.
Deborah Bealer sold 674 Hobcaw Bluff Drive, Hobcaw Creek Plantation to Amy Y. Lucas for $1.1 million.
North Charleston
DR Horton Inc. sold 2490 Stadium Drive, University Park to Keyonna Takashis Phillips for $159,800.
Navy Yard New Market I LLC sold 1360 Truxton Ave. to South Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Public Railways for $5.5 million.
The Noisette Co. LLC sold 1690 Turnbull Ave. to South Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Public Railways for $3.2 million.
10 Storehouse Row LLC sold 2120 Noisette Blvd. to South Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Public Railways for $1.3 million.
Robert E. and June D. Sageser sold 4759 Holbird Drive, Wando Woods to Eric C. and Sharon J. Wieters for $290,000.
DR Horton Inc. sold 7612 High Maple Circle, Brookdale to Jonna and Dominik Kienzl for $182,500.
DR Horton Inc. sold 7630 Haywood St., Brookdale to Tiffany L. Matthews for $174,500.
DR Horton Inc. sold 7698 Haywood St., Brookdale to William Dawkins for $218,650.
Gerald M. Hiott II sold 4016 Rantowles Court, Rantowles Shores to Thomas G. and Rebecca A. Philipkosky for $667,000.
Ed Ravenel & Sons Construction Co. LLC sold 5950 Rocky Top Lane, Whitetail Meadows to Charles R. and Diane L. Leeper for $327,500.
Seabrook Island
Anna Ramsey Falls sold 2766 Old Oak Walk to Ernest C. Payne III and Kellie F. Payne for $267,500.
Sullivan's Island
John Brunty sold 414 Patriot St. to William J. Carroll III for $1.2 million.
West Ashley/ St. Andrews
David L. Michel sold Unit 2M, 2494 Etiwan Ave., Melrose Park Townhomes to Filomena J. Dunn for $210,800.
Carolyn C. Russell and Dan P. Jones sold 1 Notlee Place, South Windermere to Harriett Steinert for $550,000.
Jason and Christy Roberts sold 1066 Shipton Court, Hunt Club to Amber D. and Daniel F. Coen for $398,000.
Peter and Francis Neumayer sold 1087 Orange Grove Road, Northbridge Terrace to Davis and Suzanne Auld for $208,500.
Colleen O'Rourke Sample sold 13 Charlestowne Road, South Windermere to Todd J. and Lisa C. Beatty for $330,000.
John H. Rudloff III sold 1347 South Edgewater Drive, Edgewater Park to Christopher A. Stenger for $715,000.
David A. and Pamela J. Lyn sold 1601 Wayah Drive, Providence Common to Daniel P. and Bonnie E. Kuhlman for $269,900.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 1639 Seabago Drive, Bolton's Landing to Richard B. Pettican II and Lisa K. Pettican for $231,615.
Jeffery P. and Peggy M. Tober sold 176 Larissa Drive, The Commons at Grande Oaks to Leah H. Rudloff for $161,000.
Centex Homes sold 1859 Heldsberg Drive, Bridgewater of Carolina Bay to Williams Pontel and Monica Giulia Commisso for $172,465.
Madison Properties LLC sold 20 Craven Ave., Byrnes Down to Katherine B. Whaley for $220,000.
Anne M. Romanelli Johnson sold 2310 Parkstone Drive, Park Place to Jonathan A. Chaplin for $152,000.
Centex Homes sold 2922 Rutherford Way, Creekside of Carolina Bay to Kevin D. and Margaret H. Wolfe for $267,031.
Marie E. Herrin sold 2944 Sugarbush Way, Hickory Hill Plantation to John Michael Tabakian for $226,000.
Centex Homes sold 3102 Floral Bank Lane, Creekside of Carolina Bay to Jesica Archie for $340,440.
Centex Homes sold 3114 Floral Bank Lane, Creekside of Carolina Bay to Kenneth S. and Rachael E. Smilowitz for $391,540.
Jennifer M. Ewart sold 438 Cabrill Drive, Sienna at Bee's Landing to Eric D. and Kristin K. Partin for $200,000.
Linda L. Pranger sold 447 Cessna Ave., Citadel Woods to Paul Gilbert Rogers for $173,750.
Boonruan Mogg sold 6 Penn Ave., Avondale to Morgan M. Herlocker and Elizabeth Rose Wolf for $214,000.
Caroline MacDowell Bailey and John G. Morey sold 706 Arcadian Way, Avondale to Robert Jamison Blackwell and Michael A. Farrell for $595,000.
Carlisle and Lisa Carter sold 718 S. Westchester Drive, Essex Village to Jacob Bridges for $165,000.
Berkeley County
The transactions listed below include properties sold for $150,000 or more and recorded between Sept. 30-Oct. 4.
Bank of New York Mellon sold 1120 Old Camp Road to Michael and Catherine Critser for $417,000.
Jeffrey W. Gratzmiller and Cathy L. Aderman sold 1018 Bennington Drive, Cain Crossing to Aileen T. Pullaro for $198,000.
Daniel Island
Ciaron Charles Mullaney and Sara Mullaney sold 110 Mellish Court to William G. and Erica M. Stooksbury for $355,500.
659 Island Park Drive LLC sold 659 Island Park Drive to Paul Alan Ansell and Audrey Anne Ansell for $1.3 million.
Dana H. Disinger sold 969 Etiwan Park St. to Brittany Leigh Stockman for $407,500.
JW Homes LLC sold 2522 Daniel Island Drive, Old Landing at Smythe Park to Francoise M. Parker for $676,452.
Weekley Homes LLC sold 2429 Louisville St., Old Landing at Smythe Park to Benjamin H. and Shelba S. Dorman for $475,686.
William F. Rice sold 1321 Elfe St. to Timothy Falzone for $435,000.
Goose Creek
Brian J. and Janessica L. Gary sold 102 Carlyle St., Planters Walk to Robert P. McCall for $190,000.
Griest Chase Broderick sold 115 McKelvey Place, Laurel Hill to Michael C. Raynes for $215,000.
Heidi K. and Ralph F. Haile sold 105 Dresden Drive, Crowfield to John P. and Maurie R. Johnson for $238,900.
Ryland Group Inc. sold 302 English Ivy Drive, Liberty Village to Heather and Patrick Hajes for $218,512.
Centex Homes sold 218 Old Savannah Drive, Fosters Creek to Jason M. and Allison C. Suddeth for $170,315.
The Ryland Group LLC sold 203 Stone Crop Drive, Liberty Village to Mathew Jonathan Salego and Michele Marie Salego for $259,900.
The Ryland Group Inc. sold 8006 Seastar Lane, Tanner Plantation to Kristie and Lawrence Lobo for $258,904.
The Ryland Group Inc. sold 1927 Wild Indigo Way, Tanner Plantation to Nilanjana Bandyopadhyay and Eric M. Snyder for $266,372.
Weekley Homes LLC sold 1202 Pasture View Drive, Tanner Hall to Eileen and James O. McIntosh for $423,703.
Weekley Homes LLC sold 1200 Pasture View Drive, Tanner Hall to Elisa P. and Thomas E. Furse for $410,189.
Carole Ann Williams sold 4004 Broken Arrow Drive, Hunters Bend to Kenneth Brian and Jennifer A. Long for $199,000.
Moncks Corner
Johnny L. and Misty R. Litchfield sold 4016 Carolina Bay Drive, Oak Hill Plantation to Cecil H. and Tiffany J. Douglas for $162,000.
Kenneth D. and Linda H. Wagster sold 213 Land O Pines Circle, Land O Pines to David W. Weaver for $327,000.
Springbank Ventures LLC sold 507 Pendleton Drive, Foxbank Plantation to Cynthia B. and Steven C. Query for $209,745.
Sabal Homes at Foxbank Plantation LLC sold 536 Crossland Drive, Foxbank Plantation to Terence L. and Marsheila Harmon for $230,235.
Robin W. Nichols and Morgan Brinson sold 116 Bonnertt St. to Richard Doug and Amy Elizabeth Reichley for $240,000.
Sabal Homes at Foxbank Plantation LLC sold 232 Foxbank Plantation Blvd., Foxbank Plantation to Trenton B. and Kelly P. Smith for $265,844.
Charles Ray Henson sold 107 Waylon Drive, Weatherstone to Dwight Leonard Nettles for $192,000.
Gilbert N. and Randal A. Longo sold 394 Decatur Drive, Cane Bay to Holly A. Mathis for $210,000.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 300 Mondo Court, Felder Creek to Brian Michael and Danielle Rene Holt for $189,545.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 605 Ravens Wood Road, Felder Creek to Jennifer L. Shilo for $169,415.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 195 Meadow Wood Road, Felder Creek to Justin E. and Kim M. Thompson for $190,150.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 6187 Ravens Wood Road, Felder Creek to Lisa Ann Smith for $174,815.
Centex Homes sold 247 Decatur Drive, Cane Bay to Renee Morales for $225,515.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 601 Ravens Wood Road, Felder Creek to Ronald B. Bowerman and Christine E. Ciezadlo-Bowerman for $208,651.
Beazer Homes Corp. sold 606 Ravens Wood Road, Felder Creek to Ronald J. Swackhamer for $211,632.
Robert J. and Victoria L. Thaman sold 187 Southport Drive, Weatherstone to David J. Murphy and Azucena Ponce for $202,500.
Dorchester County
The transactions listed below include properties sold for $150,000 or more and recorded between Sept. 30-Oct. 4.
North Charleston
Hillary A. Jackson sold 4127 Club Course Drive, Coosaw Creek Country Club to Thomas E. Decillis for $350,500.
James L. and Patsy J. Galemore sold 8649 Arthur Hills Circle, Coosaw Creek Country Club to Clifford L. and Rosalyn H. Stanley for $375,000.
John Hethcox sold 4219 Buck Creek Court, Coosaw Creek Country Club to Terrance D. and Katrina L. Leshorn for $347,150.
Marie Laurence Filo sold 4214 Buck Creek Court, Coosaw Creek Country Club to Darrell M. Brown and Bernadette Y. Simmons Brown for $330,000.
Edward M. and Judith Carol Hall sold 5504 Rowsham Place, Indigo Fields to Jason K. and Misty L. Caldwell for $180,000.
William and Scott Shaughnessy sold Unit 902, 8800 Dorchester Road, Villas at Charleston Park to Kevin and Somia Schell for $155,000.
Adolphus Lee Wilkes and Brenda Wilkes Pullen sold 817 Ridgeville Road to Sean Arthur Milligan for $187,500.
David K. and Theresa L. Gregory sold 650 Haven Road, Haven to Pushpal and John Bradley Harriott for $218,000.
Fannie Mae sold 1013 Willington Drive, Winterseat to Timothy L. and Julie Ann Smith for $305,000.
Jessica Bryngelson Clark sold 215 Hill Branch Road to Alyssa Jane Eadie for $150,000.
St. George
Theresa and Theresa Rojas sold 207 Bryant St., Bryant Acres to Kathleen E. Wilson for $150,000.
Phyllis A. Watson sold 1208 Congressional Blvd., Pine Forest Country Club to Donna Davis for $319,500.
Charles T. and Karen R. Wagner sold 104 Laurels Curve, Irongate to Eileen Bazzano for $153,000.
Cheri B. Baruch sold 103 King Charles Circle, Newington Plantation to Antonio M. and Aurelia C. Mallari for $315,000.
Crescent Homes SC LLC sold 1009 Legacy Lane, Legend Oaks Plantation to Andrew T. and Annie M. Mitchell for $310,431.
Debra S. and James Kenneth Whitley sold 123 Blake Drive, Newington Plantation to Richard D. and Brittney Marie Darnell for $162,500.
Donald J. and Judy Lynn Walker sold 105 Corral Circle, Legend Oaks Plantation to Ronald L. and Kathryn S. English for $239,000.
DR Horton Inc. sold 185 Silver Cypress Circle, Legend Oaks Plantation to Francis W. and Jody M. Worden for $370,100.
Eldridge C. and Judith K. Smith sold 5000 Wigmore St., Leatherleaf at Woodlands to Tiffany F. Chesley and Dale C. Mattingly for $185,500.
Myers Mill LLC sold 1222 Cosmos Road, Myers Mill to Alexander P. Moultrie for $175,000.
Adeline Rentz sold 4979 Wyman Blvd., Wescott Plantation to Barbara J. Chapman for $191,000.
Liberty Oak Inc. sold 213 Balsam Circle, Madison Ridge to Cory J. Perun for $228,105.
Judy Parsons sold 124 Garden Grove Drive, Bridges of Summerville to Eldridge C. and Judith K. Smith for $185,900.
MLJ sold 4000 Chadford Park Drive, Victoria Pointe to Gregory G. Brennan for $174,407.
Murriel Shelton sold 731 East Butternut Road to James B. Van Huss and Jeanneine K. Gabriel for $220,000.
MLJ sold 5007 Shelbourne Court, Victoria Pointe to Kent L. and Helen S. Miller for $211,816.
Quality Properties Asset Management Co. sold 128 Hickory Ridge Way, Hickory Ridge to Shawn and Shannon Cote for $239,900.
Paul A. Huddleston sold 218 Dogwood Circle, Twin Oaks to Jorge and Ruth Martinez for $209,000.
Rafael A. and Rebecca Marie Chapa sold 1108 Flyway Road, Drakesborough to Kim R. and Luanne M. Desjardins for $175,000.
Robert O. and Nancy B. Lanier sold 800 Long Bow Road, Legend Oaks Plantation to Wendell C. and Joyce K. Richards for $265,000.
Ruth E. Holmes sold 561 Barfield Drive, Walnut Farms to Adam L. and Helen P. Boatwright for $345,000.
Sabal Homes at The Ponds LLC sold 160 Lotz Drive, The Ponds to David L. Moreland for $419,120.
Susan S. Thomas sold 109 Towhee Drive, Oak Knoll to James L. and Patsy Jean Galemore for $215,000.
The Ryland Group Inc. sold 6003 Liddington Court, Victoria Pointe to Scott A. and Melissa M. Leister for $289,356.
The Ryland Group Inc. sold 4001 Chadford Park Drive, Victoria Pointe to Sean R. and Stephanie B. Bernard for $205,564.
Verden D. Brown sold 9136 Wildflower Way, Meadows Farm at Wescott to Ronald W. and Kysia T. Kessler for $160,000.


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Reader Rabbit Reading Learning System Product Details
The Learning Company Reader Rabbit Reading Learning System (2009)
The Reader Rabbit® Reading Learning System uses a winning combination of lively lessons, delightful songs and creative games to teach and reinforce critical Language Arts skills. Your child will love playing with Reader Rabbit® and friends while strengthening essential reading and writing skills. Dont worry if your child is having trouble with an activity. Reader Rabbit® and Sam the Lion are always around to ensure your child never gives up!
The activities become more challenging as your childs skill level advances and progress reports are available so you can monitor your childs progression over time. A Reader Rabbit® workbook is also included for learning on the go!
The Reader Rabbit® Reading Learning System includes:
Reader Rabbit® I Can Read with Phonics
All aboard the train to reading imagination! Engaging activities featuring Vowel Owl and the Crooning Caterpillars will make it fun and easy to strengthen critical literacy skills.
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Learn about word families, consonant blends and more while helping to gather enough prizes to save Reader Rabbits® and Sam the Lions high flying show at Wordville Fair!
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Join Reader Rabbit®,Sam the Lion and the rest of the Wordville critters as they dash through town on an alphabet race to the finish!
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The Reader Rabbit® Reading Comprehension workbook is packed with even more activities to help build reading and writing skills!
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Abby Wolf Weiss Interiors
After nearly 20 years in film, Abby Wolf-Weiss could no longer deny her passion for design and quietly launched her eponymous firm. Looking for studio space, she was introduced to one of LA's most sought-after floral designers, who happened to be looking for someone to share Floret, her shop in LA's charming Larchmont area. Out of this serendipitous meeting came an exciting storefront design studio with a lovingly curated group of vintage furniture, vessels, and objets.


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Javier's LP at Spanish Nationals
Love his LP! he's just adorable!
Seems like Javi's got a new EX program, possibly choreographed by Kurt.
With Kurt 1
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Huh? Superman's costume
What in the world is this? Could be very entertaining. Looking forward to this.
Congratulations to Javier for winning the Bronze Medal at Worlds and the first for Spain!
Adored Javier's ex. Didnt know he was such a comic. I heard that Kurt did it for him.
My stomach was hurting with my laughter.
Big big congratulations to Javier! What an accomplishment!
Reminder that Fernandez is skating on the Today show (NBC) at approx. 9:50 am this morning.
Congrats to Javier on a brilliant year! I'd also like to thank him for proving that you can do 3 quads in a program but still have all the other goods to boot. Loved both of his programs this year too!
hmm... I surprized there aren't more posts...
Congratulation to Javier for a 2nd straight European Championship Gold!


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Softballs MAC Tournament Run Ends With Loss To Miami
AKRON, Ohio - - The top seeded Ball State softball team saw its run at the 2012 MAC Tournament title come to an end Friday night with a 4-2 loss to No. 2 seed Miami at Firestone Stadium.
In Friday's loss to the RedHawks (36-18), junior center fielder Amanda Carpenter (Santee, Calif./Santana) led the Ball State (40-15) offense with a pair of hits (a single and double), two walks and she scored one of BSU's two runs.
Also collecting hits in the game for Ball State were sophomore left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney), senior designated player/catcher Amanda Montalto (Las Vegas, Nev./Palo Verde) and sophomore third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean).
Gilbert and Montalto recorded back-to-back doubles leading to BSU's final run in the bottom of the fifth, while Bickel singled in the bottom of the seventh.
Senior pitcher Kim Mazzapica (Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake) turned in another strong outing, allowing just three earned runs and nine hits over seven innings. She also struck out a batter. With the loss, Mazzapica falls to 23-4 on the season, with her .852 winning percentage being the second-best in Mid-American Conference single-season history.
Miami opened the scoring in the top of the fourth thanks to a RBI single from Kayla Ledbetter and a Casey Drees sacrifice fly.
Ball State retaliated with a run in the bottom of the frame, thanks to a one-out double from Carpenter who came around to score on a Miami error later in the inning.
The Cardinals tied the score in the bottom of the fifth thanks to the back-to-back doubles from Gilbert and Montalto.
Unfortunately, Miami would push the eventual winning runs across the plate in the top of the sixth thanks to a two-run pinch hit double from Megan Mattera.
Ball State would load the bases with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but could not capitalize as RedHawks' pitcher Jessica Simpson struck out the game's final batter. In picking up her league-leading 28th win of the season, Simpson limited the Cardinals to two runs (one earned) on five hits.


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quote: but i think it will take the PC less time to catch up to console graphics than when the PS3 launched. the easy porting between the two platforms will mean that PC users will get an equal graphics experience right from the start, and then in two years the PS4 will be left in the dust...
quote: by FITCamaro on February 1, 2013 at 12:29 PM Even with older, less powerful hardware, being able to perfectly optimize to a platform and a set of hardware is good for at least a 20-30% boost in performance vs that hardware in a Windows or Linux based PC.
quote: This is also assuming you're not comparing yourself to the PC high end.
quote: When the 360/PS3 come out they could easily match a high end PC graphically, even though PC hardware was technically more powerful.
quote: A better comparison is that a 2006 PC would be able to pump out WAY better graphics than the PS3 released the same year.
quote: They really are a bunch of dumb stupid idiots.
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Friday's unexpectedly high snowfall snarled road conditions in Hancock County for most of the morning and afternoon, especially on U.S. Route 30 and state Route 2 on Station Hill in New Cumberland.
Hancock County Sheriff Ralph Fletcher said deputies were kept busy responding to fender-benders and assisting stranded motorists. A single-vehicle accident on Route 30 damaged a utility pole and strew live wires across the road at about 4 p.m. Friday, forcing closure of the highway.
"We've had nothing but trouble all day," Fletcher said. "We've had a lot of accidents all over the place. It's been a mess."
Conditions on the Route 30 hill south of Chester got so bad that crews with the West Virginia Division of Highways had to work in tandem to keep the heavily-traveled route passable.
Hancock County Highway Garage Administrator Jim Witherow had one word to describe conditions at noon Friday: "Horrible. ... They're doing all they can do, but it's coming down faster than we can get it off the road. We're having problems everywhere."
By 4 p.m., conditions had improved, Witherow said. "We did the best we could. It just kept coming today," he said, noting that tractor trailers especially had trouble on the Route 30 hill and on state Route 2.
State crews applied a salt and cinder mix to main routes early in the day, only getting to secondary routes after the snow tapered off late Friday afternoon.
"Where we had vehicles stuck, we were in constant communication with 911. ... We had a good rapport today," Witherow said.
In New Cumberland, crews concentrated their efforts on Station Hill, which can be dicey for truck traffic even in good conditions. Mayor Richard Blackwell said state crews handle Station Hill because it is a state route.
"They finally did get a truck down here and made numerous passes up and down, spreading salt," he said, "It was coming down so fast nobody could keep up."
One of the heaviest snowfalls of the winter came at an inopportune time for the city, which lost its street department employee, Ron White, on Friday. White, who previously had tendered his resignation, drove the city's snow plow and salt spreader until 2 p.m. Friday, after which time a water department employee had to take over, Blackwell said.
"He used to do the snow removal before. He's very familiar with everything," Blackwell said, noting that the city is advertising to fill the street department vacancy.


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This past weekend, there were two very different homecoming stories playing out across the country. One occurred in West Branch, Mich., and one here in our neck of the woods. First, let's look to the Michigan story, where high school sophomore Whitney Kropp was nominated for her school's homecoming court as a cruel prank by her fellow students.
Kropp was targeted for being different. She told media outlets she contemplated suicide after learning the truth behind her nomination. However, with the support of her community and others who learned of her plight, Kropp attended homecoming this past weekend with her head held high.
While she didn't win the title of homecoming queen, she did earn a standing ovation from many in the crowd. Kropp also showed great courage in the face of overwhelming adversity: a shining example for other youths facing a seemingly impossible challenge.
Now, let's look at the homecoming story that's closer to home. In Mill Creek this weekend, it also was homecoming. Tygarts Valley High School celebrated the annual tradition, and its student body also selected a young lady for its homecoming court because she is different.
In this case it was senior Kasondra Robinson, who happens to be autistic. Her mother, Nicka Robinson, in an interview with the Inter-Mountain said the following:
"Kasondra has a very happy disposition and has taught even myself to appreciate the smallest of things," she said. "Now, her spirit has touched a complete senior class and has motivated them to nominate her as their senior representative for homecoming queen.
"Even though I can understand their love for her, their actions are notable because they are completely unselfish and commendable.
"A lot could be said for a small-town school such as Tygarts Valley High School," Nicka continued.
"I have had my faith restored in our youth and extremely touched by their love and support. They all have my sincere gratitude."
These students have our gratitude as well. Not only was Kasondra nominated for homecoming court, she won the coveted title of queen. The senior class at Tygarts Valley chose to celebrate the unique and special individual Kasondra is by embracing her differences.
As a community, we have a lot about which to be proud when it comes to these future leaders. In fact, they are leading by example right now. It's an example that should receive the same type of national attention as the school in West Branch.
Unfortunately, too often no one cares when children do the right thing. That's why we wanted to ensure our Tygarts Valley kids know how very proud we are of them and their actions.


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KHARTOUM, 28 April 2012— The Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Kandeh K. Yumkella, is meeting with government ministers and representatives of the private sector to discuss technical assistance for the modernization of priority industrial sectors in Sudan.
During the three-day visit, Yumkella will meet with the ministers of industry, international cooperation, oil, science and technology, and foreign affairs, with representatives of the Sudanese Chamber of Industries Association and with representatives of other international and regional organizations. Talks will focus on proposed UNIDO technical cooperation to help modernize the six priority sectors identified by the government of Sudan: leather, fishing, edible oils, cotton and textiles, food, and agricultural machinery.
Also included in the itinerary is a meeting with the Soybean Group from the vegetable oils unit of the Agricultural Research Corporation, which has begun using seeds originally from countries such as Egypt, Brazil and Nigeria to produce seeds adapted to local conditions. The edible oils sector has good investment opportunities, and development programmes can potentially be linked to existing projects on investment and technology promotion. The UNIDO Director-General will also meet with representatives of the DAL Group, the largest and most diversified conglomerate in Sudan.
In addition, Yumkella will discuss the possibility of UNIDO technical cooperation in the framework of South-South cooperation to improve the competitiveness of Sudan's marble and granite sector, and projects to modernize the country's leather tanneries and to improve the sustainability of fishing cooperatives in the Red Sea state in north-eastern Sudan.
The UNIDO Director-General will also visit the Halfayat Vocational and Technical Training Centre, established by UNIDO, in cooperation with the European Commission, as part of UNIDO's Youth Entrepreneurship Development programme.
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Q&A With Offensive Line Coach Nick Tabacca
What's it like to go from being a former letterwinner at Ball State to coaching at your alma mater?
It has been a great experience. I have coached a couple other places now, and I really think coming back to your alma mater is a special experience. As a former Ball State player, I can relate to the experiences our players are going through right now. More than anything I just am really excited to do anything I can to help this program achieve its goals.
Coach John Strollo was the offensive line coach last season. Is there a big difference in the way you approach things as the new offensive line coach?
With any transitions there are always things done differently from one coach to the other. I got to know Coach Strollo during my time at Butler. He is an innovative offensive line coach, and I learned a ton from him. I think the techniques I learned from him are a big reason I was a candidate for the job.
Who impressed you the most during the spring?
We have some good veteran players in this group. I was impressed with the unit as a whole. They have been through a lot. The amount of position coaching changes they have been through is really unbelievable. I was impressed with their resiliency and attitude. We must continue to improve as the season approaches. This unit has high expectations, and we are working to meet those expectations every single day.
Have you been watching a lot of tape on our offensive line from last season?
That is always part of the transition. I went through and watched our cutups from the fall. You learn a lot about the group just by watching them on tape. It helped me in the transition to learning Coach Skrosky's offense. It also gave me a feel for the personnel we have returning.
What adjustments have been made to the offensive line since you inherited this group last spring?
Technique and scheme wise it has been a pretty smooth transition. As I mentioned before, as with any coaching change, there will be differences. I really think this change has been uniquely smooth because of the time I spent getting to know Coach Strollo. When it comes to communication and scheme we have changed some things, especially in pass protection. There is always is a transition in adjusting to different terminology. I might call a technique something different, but we are talking about the same thing.
Our starting center Kreg Hunter was lost due to graduation, how is this spot progressing for the fall?
With Kreg Hunter graduating, there was a big spot to fill at center. We tried some different combinations this spring. Finding the right combination to get the best five offensive linemen on the field is always a challenge. Dan Manick right now has done a good job of moving from tackle to center. Ideally you like to have a guy at center who can communicate well and also has some leadership ability. Dan is a fit in these areas. He made strides consistently in the spring in becoming more comfortable playing as a center. Jake Richard and Taylor Hoke have also done a great job of providing depth at that position.


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#3. Avatar Fleshlight
Someone deserves the legal Nobel Prize for working out that you can call things "This Ain't THING IT BLATANTLY IS XXX."
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I wish this was even nearly the weirdest porn the Internet has shown me.
That's the parody equivalent of splitting the atom: It's enormously powerful, and it makes everything that came before look silly. The fact that we even still have copyright courts when someone can paint themselves blue, write "Avatar" on the cover, and start screwing without getting sued is bizarre and confusing. Another combination of screwing the bizarre and confusing is the Avatar-themed "Alien" fleshlight.
Fleshlights are polymer-filled flashlight tubes. I've got nothing against them, either physically or in mockery. If you're going to have sex with inanimate objects anyway, this is probably better than bulk-buying cotton socks. If people can spend an extra hundred dollars on a collector's edition of the Halo 3 helmet, I'm not going to mock anyone buying a cheaper tool for their tool. At least the fleshlighters are paying for something they can actually fit their head in and screwing something instead of being screwed.
Halo Legendary Edition comes with an entirely different type of helmet. (Also a different type of "comes.")
The crazy is when you remember that this is a product for people who want to pretend to have sex with alien cats and realize how they catered to that. James Cameron achieved it with a quarter of a billion dollars in special effects on a 22-meter screen. Fleshlight did it with blue dye in a 10-centimeter cock-socket. That's not attention to detail; that's a terrifying lack of imagination. If you're already pretending that a tube of plastic is an alien female from beyond the stars who is alive, biocompatible, and willing to use both of those facts on your penis, you really shouldn't need color-coding to keep that fantasy going. That's a worse failure of imagination than having a wet dream about pissing the bed.
Apparently aliens are full of bubble wrap -- no wonder people want to poke them so much.
On the upside, the imaginary outside comes with a double clitoris. Whatever else you say about the alien Smurf pussy-prodders, at least they want their dicktubes to be happy.
#2. Dicks Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
It's well-known that the Internet is full of dicks, but that's not insulting the people in comments sections. Because these dicks are useful and women like them. I won't say that some of my best friends are dildos, but I know for a fact that a couple of my best friends' best friends' are dildos. And an army of online erotic engineers have realized that constructing artificial genitals and then sticking to the standard human design is like using virtual reality to simulate watching TV.
"My God, it's like I'm really sitting on my ass with a screen in front of my eyes!"
Necronomicox Toys crafts the first to rise from the Stygian depths, only to descend to another Stygian depth (both related to nether regions): The "Mythos."
It doesn't actually name Cthulhu, because:
a) you're really not meant to do that; that's the entire point of Lovecraft's stories.
b) the only thing more terrifying than the R'lyehian horrors from beyond sanity are the same horrors plus Earth lawyers.
If your mind can't encompass the full scale of the Mythos, it might not be the only thing. At 11 inches long and 2 inches across (not around -- across, and ouch), this thing is terrifying in entirely understandable and normal biological ways.
Alien Dildos takes it to (or rather, from) the stars, offering your choice of xenomorphallus.
Strangely, the "Alien" dildo looks less like a penis than that movie's monsters.
For fantasy todger, there's Bad Dragon, as long as you understand that here "fantasy" doesn't mean "tall dark stranger," it means "giant humanoid dragons with terrifyingly anthropomorphized penii." It's sexual science fiction, using 3-D fabrication to print imaginary dragon dicks and selling them over a global computer network. It's about as Internetty as a company can get without selling routers. Every product even comes with a full story and truly terrifying fan art, and I do mean they come in both.
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Honestly, you wouldn't even be able to tell which prong was his prong if it wasn't dripping.
#1. The Hammer
The Hammer is the most amazingly nerdy sex toy ever constructed. Someone realized that male and female electrical connectors have adapters and thought, "Why should they have all the fun?" It's an electronics project, light show, double-ended dildo, orifice adapter, and test-your-strength machine all in one (hole). And those fairground "Test Your Strength" games only display your manliness by implication.
Nothing phallic about this at all.
This one is a bit more direct about showing off your cybermanhood.
The Toymaker Project
But it uses the exact same ways to draw attention to itself: bright lights and flashing colors!
The Toymaker Project
The bulb measures your clenching strength, lighting the shaft from base to tip. (Using an Arduino system, for the electronics makers out there.) Higher intensity causes people to see brighter lights and swirling colors. Since the bulb can be inserted into any orifice, and the dildo section can be inserted into any orifice (that's what dildos are for), this genital converter has at least nine possible permutations and can work between two people of any combination of genders. If you think you've got a pair where it won't work, you're really not thinking hard enough. Or otherwise being hard enough. Either way, the Hammer can help with that. It's also the best possible response to anyone who wants to turn the lights off before sex.
In movies, the stereotypical sci-fi sexbot uses electronics to make it easier for men to screw women. This reverses that polarity. Just to max out the nerd quotient, inventor and demonstrator Kristen Stubbs of the Toymaker Project wears a Captain Hammer T-shirt while showing it off. But considering that she built a big electronic system designed to make everyone look at how big and brightly colored her dick is, she's really more of an Iron Man. This Toni Stark of sexuality said, "I wanted a glowing penis, so I built one."
That's a real problem-solving attitude: taking things in hand and enjoying them, even if you have to make them yourself.
Luke meets a steampunk superstar in an interview with Professor Elemental and looks at the ultimate video game movie. Luke also tumbles and responds to every single tweet.
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on February 4, 2013 - 11:49 AM
A woman was charged with a felony count of DWI for driving while intoxicated with a child under the age of 15 in the vehicle, Erie County Sheriff's officials said.
Mary Jankowiak, 50, was stopped Sunday night at a checkpoint on Grand Island Boulevard run by the Sheriff's Office in cooperation with the Erie County Office of STOP-DWI.
Jankowiak was charged with misdemeanor common law DWI and a felony count of DWI under Leandra's Law, which makes it a crime to drive drunk with minors in the vehicle.
She refused to submit to a chemical test and was released on appearance tickets for Town of Grand Island court.


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Inside Windows Phone #39 | What's new on the Windows Phone Developer Center
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Just last week we took the wraps off the new Windows Phone Developer Center, an enormous new release of our developer portal, that replaces the old App Hub.
We thought we'd talk to Dev Center Program Manager Ash Wahi, to get the full scoop on what's new and different on the Dev Center.
For more information, check out What's New in the Dev Center.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions!
Larry Lieberman, @larryalieberman
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Its a shame you guys have not taken on full Integration With PubCentre. As PubCentre requires its own Tax Forms, ITIN codes and payment details, which are difeerent to the Dev Centre. So much for Microsoft Integration for developers !
Since most of us only get revenue out of Ad supported Apps, its a real pain that Microsoft PubCentre is so behind in its Tax, ITINs and Payment set up, and not integrated into this Devepment centre. So you only get 5/10.
Actually PubCentre site has been broken for thelats few day !
There are so many broken links, would please solve these problems? Thanks.
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Whether the Defense of Marriage Act violates equal protection by denying married gay couples recognition under federal law.
On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that section three of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) is unconstitutional and that the federal government cannot discriminate against married lesbian and gay couples for the purposes of determining federal benefits and protections.
Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer shared their lives together as a couple in New York City for 44 years. After a 40 year engagement they were finally married in Canada in May 2007. Two years later, Thea passed away, after living for decades with multiple sclerosis, which led to progressive paralysis.
When Thea died, the federal government refused to recognize their marriage and taxed Edie's inheritance from Thea as though they were strangers. Under federal tax law, a spouse who dies can leave her assets, including the family home, to the other spouse without incurring estate taxes.
Ordinarily, whether a couple is married for federal purposes depends on whether they are considered married in their state. New York recognized Edie and Thea's marriage, but because of a federal law called the "Defense of Marriage Act," or DOMA, the federal government refuses to treat married same-sex couples, like Edie and Thea, the same way as other married couples.
With representation by the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Edie is challenging the constitutionality of DOMA and seeking a refund of the estate tax she was unfairly forced to pay. Edie alleges that DOMA violates the Equal Protection principles of the U.S. Constitution because it recognizes existing marriages of heterosexual couples, but not of same-sex couples, despite the fact that New York State treats all marriages the same.
On October 18, 2012, the Second Circuit issued an opinion striking down the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" in the ACLU and NYCLU's Windsor v. United States case. The court decided that when government discriminates against lesbians and gay men, the discrimination should be presumed to be unconstitutional and the government has to have a very good reason for the discrimination. This is the first federal appeals court to decide that a higher standard of review applies to sexual orientation discrimination. On December 7, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Edie Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Oral arguments took place on March 27, 2013.
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Shorten for schizophrenia. It could be used to denote a person being paranoid for no reason, imagining stuff or similar, rather than clinical condition of real schizophrenia.
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As created by Microsoft Sam and later on addopted by Master Chief From arby and the chief, "hog hag" is a way of laughing. When you type in "haha" in Microsoft sam's speech bar, he will automaticly say "hog hag"
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SanDisk has unveiled a new SSD today called the
Ultra that is now shipping to retailers.
The Ultra
SSD is sized to work in a notebook or a desktop computer and is designed
for a drop-in upgrade to a machine for users. The SSD reads up to 280MB/s
sequentially and up to 270MB/s sequential writes are supported.
The drive has a mean time between failure rating
of up to a million hours.
"Replacing a computer's hard disk drive with
the SanDisk Ultra SSD is more cost effective than buying a new PC," said
Kent Perry, director, product marketing, SanDisk. "Our new SSD delivers
greater speed and reliability than a hard disk drive at an affordable
The SSD is offered in three capacities with a 60GB
for $129.99, 120GB for $219.99, and a 240GB for $449.99. All three capacities
are available right now in the U.S. and can be purchased from Newegg and other
quote: However as others have stated it is not the same as DDR2 v DDR3 as NAND is all about die size. So the market actually behaves the opposite, the drives get cheaper to produce each generation NOT more expensive. Hence why the last gen SSD is not a bargin like DDR2 was when DDR3 came out.
quote: Well yes but that's because of market forces. As demand causes production to ramp up, your margins from each unit can be lower. The more mainstream and less niche SSD's become, the better for everyone because it lowers prices.