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Celebrity Solstice Cruise Review by edofmaui: Repositioning, or crew training?
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Repositioning, or crew training?
Destination: Europe - Western Mediterranean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
The night prior to embarkation, we stayed at an Embassy Suites in Boca Raton. Good price and very good choice for the convenience to the port, while away from the congestion. We dropped our luggage at the ship and turned in the rental car at the airport. The cruise line along with the car rental agencies arranged a bus from the airport to the pier. All rental agencies and all cruise lines qualified I believe, and the driver did check your rental receipt.
Check in at about 2PM was a breeze and we soon found ourselves in the stateroom with our luggage awaiting us. So far, just wonderful. However it came apart quickly.
The room was crowded. A couch blocked access to the closet and there was a shortage of drawer storage. We do not travel with a lot of clothes, so we were surprised. Concierge class, indeed. We did have a wee bit larger veranda because it is an end room and we enjoyed watching the other ships depart from our balcony. Very cool, but then we went to register for More an internet package which offered a bonus for first day sign up. We had a discount because of being Captain's Club members, but no coupon to give the internet people. The sheets of coupons wee not in our room and the coupon must be presented at sign up. A pain, but resolved.
The food and dining were the most disappointing. Good food poorly prepared and the wait staff "couldn't get it right" for anyone at our table. Condiments and utensils were constantly missing and the waiters pushing wine and drinks were simply rude. We spent more time than we planned at Passenger Service.
The entertainment was fine. One lecturer in particular was very good, but the shops were a waste of space. The staff attitude was fine, but the competency level was severely lacking. We cancelled our fall reservations on Solstice and will try another boat or cruise line. Less
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Pottery Barn Donovan Bar Stools
Donovan Bar Stools
The bar stool footrest can break, posing a fall hazard to the user.
For more information, contact Pottery Barn toll-free at (844) 211-5403 between 7 a.m. and midnight ET daily. Consumers can also visit the firm's website at www.potterybarn.com and click on "Safety Recalls" at the bottom of the page for additional information.
About 1,000
This recall involves Donovan model bar stools made from mahogany wood and have a 15-inch round woven banana bark swivel seat that rotates 360 degrees. The stools were sold in five colors: red, mahogany, Tuscan chestnut, antique white and black. Each color was sold in two sizes: counter height at 24 inches tall and bar height at 30 inches tall. SKU numbers are printed on the box, as the item number on the shipping receipt and online in the customer's account history.
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Bar Height: Red
Bar Height: Mahogany
Bar Height: Tuscan Chestnut
Bar Height: Antique White
Bar Height: Black
Counter Height: Red
Counter Height: Mahogany
Counter Height: Tuscan Chestnut
Counter Height: Antique White
Counter Height: Black
Pottery Barn has received 26 reports of the footrest breaking. No injuries have been reported.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled bar stools and contact Pottery Barn for a replacement stool. Pottery Barn is notifying all known consumers.
Pottery Barn Outlet stores nationwide, online at PotteryBarn.com and through the Pottery Barn catalog from March 2014 through June 2014 for between $230 and $250.
Pottery Barn, a division of Williams-Sonoma Inc., of San Francisco, Calif.
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anyone else noticing advertising within the site have started playing music or having other audio sound effects?
anyone else noticing advertising within the site have started playing music or having other audio sound effects?
I haven't noticed the audio, but I did notice the Rome Orgy ad or something like that.
I didn't expect an ad like that here, but whatever.
I usually don't even notice the ads.
Wow, I just saw this today but didn't realize it was an ad on here. Was it Gymboree? I need to know which ad it was.
The one I saw I remember Roma, but I don't remember Gymboree.
I'm guessing the question was about my post and not the Moe's post?
Both. Thanks for the Roma, that helps.
I haven't notice it happening since I posted this thread - and I don't recall specifically what the ad was for, all I know is that it was a box in the extreme lower right corner of the screen.
I can't find this in our list. A screenshot or clicking on the ad and providing the final URL will help me greatly. Let me know if you see it again.
Just got another one. This one was from biblemesh.
I did a couple of screen captures. This is what it looked like as the ad played:
Notice the sound indicator on the first one. It played some music for about 5-10 seconds, then stopped.
I've blocked Biblemesh.com. Let me know what else you find. Our ad company that serves those in the lower right (Google) doesn't have a way to block all ads with audio. Frustrating. Have to block individual URLs. Again, if you have the destination URL of the ad after it's clicked, that helps most.
Sorry, I'm just not going to click on that ad to find the url.
I took a screenshot and I will attach it here.
*by the way, I have seen this ad about 15 times this morning.
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Looks like it's an online game. I've blocked the URLs for the main game but unless I can get the end URL of the ad, it may not work. Let me know if you see it anymore.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has concerns about the safety of two New Zealanders in Japan following last Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
But, there have not been any reports of New Zealand deaths or injuries, the ministry said today.
The quake triggered a tsunami that flooded the coast of northeast Japan.
Up to 10,000 people are missing, with thousands feared dead.
Authorities are also racing to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns, with more than 180,000 people evacuated as fears mount about the spread of possible radioactive contamination.
So far, 1570 New Zealanders have registered as being safe and well in Japan.
MFAT consular staff are based at Narita International Airport in Tokyo and Sendai in the northeast to provide assistance to New Zealanders.
Meanwhile, the 46-strong New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue team are due to arrive in the northern Japanese coastal town Minami Sanriku, where many thousands of people are missing, about midday today (NZT).
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Regarding this species, Brown (1965) states:
T. pusillus appears to be a soil dweller in cultivated and pampas areas as well as in forest (Kempf, 1961). It also seems to exist at higher elevations (e.g., in a coffee plantation at Venecia, near Medellin, Colombia). Probably it is strongly subterranean in foraging and nesting habits.
In Costa Rica I have collected this species from the north slope of Volcan Barba at 800m, just west of Monteverde at 900m, Cerro Cacao in the Guanacaste Conservation Area, and Pittier Biological Station at 1670m in the Cordillera de Talamanca. The Cerro Cacao collection was from beneath a stone under the stunted forest of Cerro Pedregal. The other collections were from Winkler samples of sifted litter from the forest floor. The collection from near Monteverde contained workers and a dealate queen.


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How Federal Retirement Benefits Are Taxed - Part I: CSRS and FERS Annuities
In a series of six My Federal Retirement columns, the rules regarding how federal employee retirement benefits are taxed by the federal and state governments will be discussed. This first column discusses how the Civil Service Retirement Systems (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) annuities are taxed by the federal government.
Before discussing the mechanics of how the federal government taxes CSRS and FERS annuities, it is important to review how and how much CSRS, CSRS-Offset, and FERS employees contribute to their respective retirement systems.
CSRS employees. Employees contribute each pay date 7 percent of their after-tax salary to the CSRS Retirement and Disability Fund. Employee CSRS retirement plan contributions are returned tax-free to annuitants as part of their monthly CSRS annuity payments and until the total CSRS contributions are paid back in full during the annuitant's retirement. The procedure to calculate the tax-free portion of the CSRS annuity is presented below. Consider the following example:
John, a CSRS employee, earns $104,000 a year or $4,000 gross salary each pay date. After federal and state income taxes and Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance tax (1.45 percent) are deducted, John's after-tax salary each pay date is $2,500. Seven percent of $4,000 is $280. The $280, John's contribution to the CSRS Retirement and Disability Fund, is deducted from John's net pay (after all taxes are deducted) of $2,500.
CSRS-Offset employees. Same as CSRS employees except that they contribute 0.8 percent (.008) of their after-tax salary to the CSRS Retirement and Disability Fund and 6.2 percent of their gross wages is contributed to Social Security (FICA tax). CSRS-Offset employees also receive back their CSRS contribution during their retirement as part of the CSRS annuity check and until the contributions are paid back in full. The same procedure for receiving back their CSRS contributions is used for CSRS Offset annuitants as is used for CSRS annuitants. This procedure is presented below.
FERS employees. Employees contribute 0.8 percent (if hired before Jan. 1, 2013)or 3.1 percent (if hired after Jan. 1, 2013) of their after-tax salary to the FERS Retirement and Disability Fund. The 0.8 percent is contributed on an after-tax basis. Employee FERS plan contributions will be returned tax-free to FERS annuitants as part of their monthly annuity and until the total FERS contribution is paid back in full during the annuitant's retirement. The procedure to calculate the tax-free portion of the FERS annuity is presented below. Consider the following example:
Joan, a FERS employee, earns $78,000 a year or $3,000 gross salary each pay date (26 pay dates during the calendar year). After federal and state income taxes, FICA and Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance taxes are deducted Joan's net pay is $2,000. 0.8 percent of $3,000 is $24.00. The $24.00 is deducted each pay date from Joan's net pay (after all taxes are deducted) of $2,000 (not from the gross pay of $3,000).
Rules for Determining the Taxable Portion of a CSRS or FERS Annuity
Shortly after a CSRS, CSRS Offset or FERS employee retires from federal service, the employee will receive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) an annuity statement showing the date of approval of the employee's annuity. The statement will also show: (1) The commencing or annuity starting date; (2) The gross monthly rate of their annuity benefit, and (3) The annuitant's total contributions to the CSRS Retirement and Disability Fund, to the FERS Retirement and Disability Fund, or to both funds. CSRS employees who voluntarily transferred to FERS in 1987/88 or in 1998 with at least five years of CSRS service -- these are called TransFERS employees - would have contributed to both funds. These three elements are explained below:
- Annuity starting date. If an employee retires from federal service on a regular annuity, then the employee's annuity starting date is the commencing date on the retired employee's annuity. Delays in payment of the retired employee's annuity such as a because of a late application do not affect the date the retired employee's annuity begins to accrue or the annuity starting date.
- Gross monthly rate. This is the amount a retired employee is to receive after any adjustment for electing a survivor's annuity or for electing the lump sum payment under the alternative annuity option but before any deduction for income tax withholding, insurance premiums etc. The gross monthly rate is adjusted annually by any cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs).
- Employee "cost" (or contributions to CSRS and/or FERS). The "cost" of a retired employee's CSRS and/or FERS annuity is the total of the employee's contributions to the CSRS and/or FERS retirement plans via payroll deduction (as discussed above) during the employee's federal service, as shown on the retired employee's annuity statement from OPM. . If an employee made a deposit for service in which no retirement contributions were deducted such as prior military service or redeposited contributions that they had withdrawn from the CSRS and/or FERS retirement plan when they left federal service, then the entire deposit or redeposit (including interest paid), is included in the employee's "cost".
- Recovering employee cost tax-free. How a CSRS or FERS annuitant calculates the tax-free recovery of the employee cost of the CSRS or FERS annuity depends on the annuitant's annuity starting date. In particular: (1) If the annuity starting date is before July 2, 1986, either the Three-Year Rule or the General Rule applies to the CSRS and /or FERS annuity; (2) If the annuity starting date is after July 1, 1986 and before Nov. 19, 1996, then the annuitant could have chosen to use either the General Rule or the Simplified Method; and (3) If the annuity starting date is after Nov, 18, 1996, then the annuitant must use the Simplified Method.
Since all employees retiring this year and in the future must use the Simplified Method, the discussion will be on the Simplified Method.
Under the Simplified Method, each of an annuitant's monthly payments is made up of two parts, namely:
- The tax-free part that is a return of the employee now annuitant's CSRS or FERS retirement contributions; and
- The taxable part that is the federal government's contributions to the CSRS and/or FERS retirement contributions and accrued earnings within the CSRS and FERS retirement funds. The tax-free portion of a CSRS and FERS annuity is a fixed dollar amount that remains the same, even when the CSRS and FERS annuity is increased by COLAs.
The tax-free portion of a CSRS and FEDRS annuity continues throughout the annuitant's life and the survivor annuitant's life if the annuitant is providing a survivor annuity. This will continue until the "employee's cost" - the employee's total contributions to the CSRS and FERS Retirement and Disability Funds and deposits/redeposit - is paid back in full. The Simplified Method below discusses how the tax-free portion of the annuity is computed.
A deduction is allowed for the unrecovered cost of the annuity if the cost of the annuity has not been fully recovered at the annuitant's or the survivor annuitant's death. The deduction is claimed on the annuitant's (or the survivor annuitant's) final tax return as a miscellaneous itemized deduction and not subject to the two percent of the adjusted gross income limit.
To determine the taxable portion of a CSRS or FERS annuity, an annuitant must use the Simplified Method to calculate the tax-free portion of the annuity. OPM routinely determines that the taxable portion of the annuity as shown in the following 2012 CSA 1099-R issued by OPM.
Sample CSA 1099-R
The following worksheet and accompanying tables are used to compute the taxable portion of David Brown's annuity, starting date was April 1, 2012, and whose first annuity check was May 1, 2012.
Note the following about Dave's retirement annuity:
- Dave was age 65 at the time of his retirement;
- Dave is providing a full survivor annuity to his wife Arlene, who was age 57 at the time of Dave's retirement;
- Dave completed the worksheet below. To complete line 3 of the worksheet, he used Table 2 and found that 310 is the number in the second column, opposite the age range that includes 122 (his and Arlene's combined ages). Dave calculated on line 4 that the portion of his annuity -- the return of his "cost" in the retirement plan -- is $100 each month. If Dave lives to collect more than 310 monthly payments, he will generally have to include in his gross income the full amount of any annuity payment received after 310 payments have been made.
If Dave does not live to collect 310 monthly payments and his wife begins to receive monthly payments, she will also exclude $100 from each monthly survivor annuity payment until 310 payments -- a combination of her payments and Dave's -- have been made. If she dies before 310 payments have made, then assuming Dave has filled Form 2808 (CSRS) or SF 3102 (FERS), Designation of Beneficiary for CSRS or FERS contributions, then the beneficiary(s) will receive in a lump sum payment any remaining CSRS or FERS contributions.
Dave keeps a copy of the worksheet in his files in order for Arlene to know what portion of her survivor annuity is tax-free. This is important because OPM does not provide the taxable portion of a survivor annuity. This will be explained in the next column discussing how federal retirement benefits are taxed.
Posted: 02/18/2013
About the Author
Edward A. Zurndorfer is a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Financial Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, Registered Health Underwriter, Registered Employee Benefits Consultant and Enrolled Agent in Silver Spring, MD -- and the owner of EZ Accounting and Financial Services, an accounting, tax preparation and financial planning firm also located in Silver Spring, MD. Zurndorfer is also is an instructor at federal employee retirement seminars throughout the country and writes numerous columns and books on federal employee benefits.


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Well, Charlie Morton wasn't absolutely awful. His fifth loss and the 6 runs may indicate otherwise, but tonight was a big step forward for Charlie.
Morton lasted six innings and allowed three earned runs, which technically qualifies as a quality start. He allowed a two-run shot to Andre Ethier in the first, and loaded up the bases with one out in the sixth and escaped with just a sac fly.
The other three runs came in the third, when two runners reached on routine-ground-ball-errors by Crosby and Clement. Morton got a huge strikeout of the dangerous Matt Kemp, but then placed that big "fall-off-the-table" curve too high and inside to James Loney, who hit it out for a three run bomb. That essentially became the difference in the game, but the three runs were all un-earned.
Morton also showed his infamous "stuff" … looking very impressive at times tying a career high with 8 K's. All in all, he was still inconsistent and maddening, but at least managed to keep things together for the first time this year. I'm encouraged.
The offense, once again, was pretty quiet after scoring early on. The Bucs strung two doubles together in the first (Aki and Cutch) and the fourth (Church and Doumit), and that was all. Doumit is still red-hot, now up to .324 with a 3-for-4 night. Andy LaRoche, meanwhile, is hitless in the two games so far in LA.
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MVP: McCutchen (+.106) / LVP: Morton (-.400) / Key play: Loney's HR


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Where Do YOU Hope The PCH Prize Patrol Goes On August 29?
Hi blog readers!
It's me again! Now that the entries for the "Forever" Prize are all in, the PCH Prize Patrol is gearing up for the big award on August 29th! We absolutely cannot wait to "crown" someone out there – possibly even one of you – the next "Forever" Prize winner!
There's just one thing I want to know…where do YOU want the Prize Patrol to go for the big prize? Remember, if you win, you'd receive $5,000 a week for your life, PLUS after that, those $5,000 a week payments would continue for the life of someone special you choose! We're DEFINITELY giving away $5,000 a week "Forever"!
So tell me…should we head North, South, East or West? Should we drive, fly, or take a train? Comment below and let us know the CITY and STATE where we should bring the Big Check on August 29th!
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Waipahu, Hawaii
It would be great to see someone from Hawaii win.
I agree Charles!!! Lets get them out here!!! 😉
Come to Chicago IL
I hope to win the prize it would really help my family! It would be a dream come true us!
If you're leaving from New York, I suggest that you fly west out to Reno/Tahoe airport. Rent a van and continue northwest to Cold Springs, Nevada. then at the Bordertown exit (not before)….take the spiral roads of rights…right into my driveway 🙂 please come to Cold Springs and tell Dave that in Reno this weekend is the big chicken wing cook off at the Atlantis if you want a nice hotel/casino in Reno to stay while you came to town…should you find yourself here…..Aug 23-25 "Winner Winner Chicken Wing Dinner!" thought we could start a new saying Dave, Danielle, and Todd! 🙂 Especially since now 2 bucks won't do it!!! not even for wings!
Appleton, MN 🙂
Rockford, Tennessee! 🙂 i'd take a plain too much faster to get here!! hope to see you all real soon!!! 🙂 i truely hope this is my chance to win i know i have just as good as chance as anyone who enter i faithfully enter everyday follow the blog & facebook!! Come on PCH i'm waiting for you!!!
I would love to see you fly down south to Houston, Texas and see me, Mary Craig. It would truly mean so much to me to meet y'all in person
I would love to see you fly down south to Houston, Texas and see me, Mary Craig. What a blessing it would truly be!
portage indiana please i i will have coffee ready !!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!
Uh, Virginia Beach would probably be a great place to go. We've been having some pretty nice weather lately, it's a peaceful city, its beach life is quite nice, and, umm, I live there. So, yeah!


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Chet has directed and choreographed original new musicals with unwavering success, as well as having mounted extraordinary recreations of classic musical productions in close collaboration with shows' original creators. His original works range from Cirque Du Soleil, to original dance pieces created for Compania Internacional de Teatro Musical, the international Jazz/Musical Theater Dance Company which he co-artistic directs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jacob's Pillow where he serves as Director of the Jazz/Musical Theater Program.
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EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment AB (EA DICE), an Electronic Arts' wholly owned video game and video game engine developer, has confirmed on multiple pages of its web-sites that the company is not only working on Frostbite 3 engine for major video game platforms, but also on Frostbite Go engine for major mobile platforms.
The official history of Frostbite engine claims that one of DICE's "most exciting current projects is called Frostbite Go, a mobile division empowering EA game developers with Frostbite's proven excellent workflows and features to bring true Frostbite experiences to all major mobile platforms". The engine is developed in Stockholm, Sweden, by a dedicated group of developers, according to the official description of DICE team sites.
Frostbite 2 engine was used for different genres of games, including such titles as Battlefield 3, Need for Speed: The Run, Medal of Horor: Warfighter and some other titles. Frostbite 3 will be used by Battlefield 4, Dragon Age III: Inquisition and numerous forthcoming games. According to the official description of Frostbite engines in general, "runtime in Frostbite supports a highly scalable model in order to appeal to the diverse array of platforms available on today's market". Efficiency in Frostbite's "runtime memory and runtime performance are both key factors to enabling code and data systems to deploy content to diverse targets from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 to iOS and Android".
The addition of Frostbite Go-related information was noticed by a member of NeoGaf forums. Considering the fact that the EA DICE already mentions support of PlayStation 4 by Frostbite, the company added mentions of Frostbite Go for Apple iOS and Google Android relatively recently.
The Frostbite Go engine will power the forthcoming mobile installments of next-generation mobile games by Electronic Arts studios. While Frostbite is used exclusively by EA and is not available for third parties, the Frostbite Go will most likely serve the same purpose as Unity and Unreal Engine for other developers: speed up adoption of content for various platforms from Apple iOS to next-generation video game consoles to high-end PCs.


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Freshman forward Grant Jerrett is joining part of the Arizona Wildcats' practice today and may play Sunday against California, UA coach Sean Miller said today.
Miller said Jerrett has been making progress with what he has described as a low-grade stress reaction in his left foot.
"He's virtually pain-free," Miller said. "When he does some activity it gets sore but it goes away, which is a good sign."
Miller said Jerrett has been able to do some non-weight-bearing conditioning work already, and will practice partially today and more substantially Saturday if he does not have a setback. If he is still OK in Sunday's pregame shootaround, Miller said, he will play against the Bears.
"I anticipate Grant playing," Miller said. "If he doesn't play, then from this period of time to the game he would have to experience, not necessarily a setback but for whatever reason, pain. He's making progress and we have a firm grip on his situation.
"We fully expect Grant to rejoin us for the long haul and have the same or similar role that he's always had. It's just that we wanted to make sure initially that we knew exactly what was going on with his foot and that the pain that he would have would start to decrease, which it has."
Miller wouldn't say whether he would change his starting lineup for Sunday – most likely inserting Kevin Parrom and sliding Solomon Hill to power forward, with one of the big men out – although he's likely to use a smaller lineup at times against Cal as he did with Stanford.
The reason Miller is considering a change is the fact that UA has started slowly in three of its past five games, to UCLA, Washington and Stanford. But he also knows the Wildcats are 18-1 with their current starting five (UA's only other loss came when Parrom started in place of Brandon Ashley at Oregon).
"One of the things we have to make sure of is that we're putting five guys out there at the beginning of the game who can perform and give us a good start," Miller said. "I'm going big picture. I think I have the answer that those guys have done very well through the course of a season but recently they have not and we have to address it. I'm not sure if we'll address it prior to this game or not… At this point I'm not prepared to say whether we'll start the same five or not."
Although the Wildcat took sole possession of first place in the Pac-12 when Colorado beat Oregon on Thursday, Miller said the Wildcats are not focusing on others and the Pac-12 race as much as themselves.
"There's no given we can win the championship but we want to be one of those teams that's vying for it," Miller said. "The way we do that is not to get caught up in anything you can't control.
"If Oregon had beaten Colorado last night that has no bearing on how we're going to play on Sunday against Cal," Miller said. "That's something we can control, today and tomorrow, in getting ready for them. That focus is going to have us have the best chance to get there."
Miller said Nick Johnson is "100 percent" recovered from a virus that struck him at Washington State last Saturday and kept him weak on Wednesday against Stanford. Johnson had just eight points over those two games but made defensive contributions.


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Hey guys, Would anybody be interested in Gilbert Arenas? If we trade Willie G., Pops, and Gray, then we might be able to snag him. Thoughts? Poll? Anybody?
Sorry was being discussed in a journal. http://www.hornets247.com/journals/2010/10/14/the-contract-again/
My bad ToTo. I didn't read the f****** journal.
this is being discussed in the trade thread in the forum. I am not going to restate the discussion, but the few of us who have commented seem to think he is too pricey for his contributions. My personal take is if he were around $4 Million less a year, then maybe. But, if "if" was a skiff we would be on a boat ride.
You do realise that Gilbert Arenas is has about a zillion dollars left on his contract right? (Okay - more specifically, about $80 million). On a team that couldn't find $500,000 more for Louis Amundson, hell will freeze over before we trade for him. Or were you joking?
Why so frosty Icebird? I just heard he was up for grabs, so I asked the question. That's all.


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text: The Terrifying View From Inside A Dakar Buggy RolloverStef Schrader1/12/15 4:32pm253EditPromoteGo to permalinkDakar's desert stages look like they're on a completely different planet if you've never been anywhere near big sand dunes. What happens when the sand on said planet is steeper over a crest than expected? Well, you roll, as Dutch touring car driver Tom Coronel found out today.


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Using multiple hardware devices in a single subsystem is a popular trend on the PC market. Enthusiasts often build graphics subsystems out of two or more graphics cards whereas users who need high computing performance can go for multiprocessor workstations. This approach works for the disk subsystem, too. It is very easy to increase its performance by combining two or more hard disks into a RAID. Data is distributed among multiple disks on level 0 RAIDs, so the resulting data-transfer speed can be increased substantially by reading from or writing to several disks in parallel.
As a matter of fact, users would often argue what RAID it would take to match the speed of an SSD when the latter was just coming to the consumer market. Of course, things are different now. The SATA 6 Gbit/s interface and the new generation of controllers have raised the performance bar of modern SSDs far above that of conventional hard disks. This gave rise to another question, though. Can we increase our disk subsystem performance by combining multiple SSDs into a RAID?
Indeed, there seem to be no reasons for RAID technology not to be beneficial for SSDs. SSDs are fast with small chunks of data whereas chipset-integrated RAID controllers offer direct communication with the CPU at data-transfer speeds which are many times that of SATA 6 Gbit/s. So, SSD-based RAID0 looks like a viable idea, especially as it doesn't involve extra expense. The total capacity of a RAID is the sum of the capacities of its constituents whereas the price of an SSD is directly proportional to its capacity. So, if you use the free RAID controller integrated into your mainboard's chipset, you will end up with the same cost per gigabyte of storage as with a single larger-capacity SSD.
So, SSD-based RAID0 looks attractive in theory, but we are going to check this idea out in practice. Kingston was kind to offer us two 120-gigabyte and one 240-gigabyte SSD from its top-end HyperX series so that we could directly compare a dual-SSD RAID0 with a single SSD of the same capacity.
Kingston's HyperX series is comprised of rather ordinary enthusiast-oriented SSDs based on second-generation SandForce controllers. They employ the well-known SF-2281 chip and 25nm NAND flash memory manufactured by Intel or Micron. In other words, The HyperX series is the top-performance version of SandForce's current platform, identical to Corsair's Force Series GT or OCZ's Vertex 3 in its internals.
The only thing that differentiates the HyperX series from the competitors is the eye-catching design of the case and the exclusive Toolbox utility that helps you view SSD-related information including S.M.A.R.T.
The utility resembles OCZ's Toolbox without firmware update (Kingston offers a special tool for that) and Secure Erase functions.
As is the case with other SandForce-based SSDs, the HyperX models of 120 and 240-gigabyte capacities differ in performance. This fact is reflected in their official specs:
The difference is due to the number of NAND devices in each model. Each 25nm MLC flash die having a capacity of 8 gigabytes, the 120GB model contains 16 flash devices whereas the 240GB model, 32 flash devices. Considering that the SandForce SF-2281 controller has eight-channel architecture, the 120GB and 240GB models can use 2-way and 4-way interleaving, respectively. The higher level of interleaving means higher performance as the controller can go to another NAND device without waiting for the current one to complete its operation. This is in fact similar to RAID0 but within a single SSD, on the level of the SandForce controller.
The testbed we are going to use for this test session is based on a mainboard with Intel H67 chipset which offers two SATA 6 Gbps ports. We connect our SSDs to these particular ports.
Here is the full testbed configuration:
We are going to build our SSD-based RAID using a standard SATA RAID controller that is integrated into modern chipsets. Such controllers work well with single SSDs and suit the purpose of this test session just fine, especially as they are available on most mainboards and thus do not require extra investment on the user's part.
Our testbed is based on an LGA1155 mainboard with H67 chipset whose SATA controller supports RAID. You only need to change the controller's operation mode from AHCI to RAID in the mainboard's BIOS. However, changing the BIOS option is likely to make your OS unbootable. You'll be getting a blue screen of death as you try to boot your computer up because the RAID driver is off by default in Windows. There are two ways to solve the problem. One is to reinstall Windows after you've switched to RAID mode. The necessary driver will be enabled automatically during installation. The other way is to find the Start variable in the system registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Iastorv) and set its value at 0 before changing the SATA controller settings in your mainboard's BIOS. Then you just reinstall the Inter Rapid Storage Technology driver, being already in RAID mode.
With RAID mode turned on and the required drivers enabled, you can proceed to building your RAID. You use the Intel RST driver for that and are only required to specify the disks you want to combine and the RAID level. It's RAID0 for our test.
The rest of configuring is performed automatically but you can change the stripe size (128 KB by default) and enable the driver's write caching (if enabled, this can lead to data loss in case of a power failure).
We wouldn't recommend you turning the write caching on, especially as the OS itself offers such functionality. As for the stripe size (it's the size of the fragments data are broken into when stored on a RAID), it is not quite reasonable to rely on the driver's default of 128 kilobytes. A large stripe size makes sense for conventional hard disks which are much faster at reading or writing large blocks of sequentially placed data than at processing small data blocks because the latter operation involves too much repositioning of the read/write heads. SSDs, on their part, boast a very low access time, so choosing a small stripe size should ensure better performance with small files.
It must be noted that a single Kingston HyperX 120GB can process larger data blocks faster but there are other things to consider.
The Intel RST driver can intellectually process the data request queue, ensuring that the SSD-based RAID0 be fast even at a small stripe size. We've carried out a brief test of a RAID0 built out of two HyperX 120GB SSDs using different stripe sizes.
Data stripe size = 4 KB
Data sripe size = 8 KB
Data stripe size = 16 KB
Data stripe size = 32 KB
Data stripe size = 64 KB
Data stripe size = 128 KB
The results of AS SSD Benchmark suggest that the performance of the RAID0 doesn't vary greatly as the stripe size changes. On the other hand, this parameter really affects the speed of sequential operations as well as the processing of small data blocks at a long request queue. The RAID0 seems to deliver its best performance with 32KB data blocks, so the driver's default doesn't look optimal. We will use the stripe size of 32 kilobytes for our today's tests and recommend you to use this setting, too, if you build a RAID0 out of SSDs with second-generation SandForce controllers.
There is one more important thing to be noted here. As soon as your RAID is built, it is identified by the OS as a single whole and you cannot access its constituents separately. This may be inconvenient. For example, you won't be able to update the firmware or view the S.M.A.R.T. information or perform a Secure Erase for the SSDs in your RAID. But the biggest problem is that the OS won't be able to use the TRIM command which is supposed to protect SSDs from performance degradation.
We benchmark the speed of random and sequential reading and writing with CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1. This benchmark is handy as it can measure the speed of an SSD with both random incompressible and predefined compressible data. So, there are two numbers in the diagrams that reflect the maximum and minimum speed. The real-life performance of an SSD is going to be in between those two numbers depending on how effectively the SF-2281 controller can compress the data.
The performance tests in this section refer to SSDs in their "fresh" out-of-the-box state. No degradation could have taken place yet.
The 120GB SSD is considerably slower than its 240GB cousin but the RAID0 array built out of two 120GB SSDs beats the latter. As we see, RAID0 technology helps boost performance in linear operations and during processing of small data chunks at a long queue depth. On the other hand, the RAID0 is somewhat slower than the 240GB SSD at processing random-address 4KB data blocks.
Unfortunately, SSDs are not always as fast as in their fresh state. In many situations their real-life performance goes down far below the numbers you have seen in the previous section of this review. The reason is that, having run out of free pages in flash memory, the SSD controller has to erase memory pages before writing to them, which involves certain latencies.
This is best illustrated by the following diagram. We are writing data to our SSD and watching the write speed change.
The write speed plummets at a certain moment. It's when the total amount of data written equals the SSD's capacity. Of course, users are more interested in the consistent performance of their SSDs rather than the peak speed they are going to show only in the first period of their usage. SSD makers, on their part, specify the speed characteristics of fresh SSDs for marketing reasons. That's why we test the performance hit that occurs when a fresh SSD turns into a used one.
The catastrophic performance hit illustrated by the diagram above is somewhat artificial, however, and only reflects the case of incessant writing. When it comes to real-life scenarios, modern SSD controllers can alleviate the performance hit by erasing unused flash memory pages beforehand. They use two techniques for that: idle-time garbage collection and TRIM. TRIM doesn't work for RAID0s, however, as the OS has no direct access to the SSDs. Therefore it is quite possible that a single SSD can turn out to be better than a corresponding RAID0 after both have been used for a while.
We are going to check this out in practical tests according to the SNIA Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification. The point is that we measure write speed in four different cases: 1) the RAID and SSDs being in their fresh state; 2) after the RAID and SSDs have been twice fully filled with data; 3) after a 30-minute pause so that the SSD controller could restore performance by collecting garbage; and 4) a final test after issuing a TRIM command.
We measured the speed of writing of random-address 4KB data blocks at a request queue depth of 32 commands using IOMeter 1.1.0 RC1. Test data were pseudorandom.
Performance degradation is a real problem indeed. As you can see, the SSDs do suffer a terrible performance hit. And, most unfortunately, the SF-2281 based products do not benefit much from the garbage collection technique. The reserve pool, which amounts to about 7% of the full capacity of these SSDs, doesn't help them at all. It is only the TRIM command that can bring performance back to a more or less normal level. However, TRIM doesn't work with RAIDs, so single SSDs are going to be eventually much faster at writing than an SSD-based RAID0.
It means that the write speeds shown in the diagrams in the previous section of our review only reflect but a fragment of the overall picture. As soon as fresh SSDs turn into used ones, their performance changes completely. Their write speed is different. The next diagrams show this speed as benchmarked by CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1.
You can see the SSD-based RAID0 slowing down over time so much that it becomes slower than the single 120GB SSD with 4KB data blocks, the single SSD benefiting from the TRIM command. Thus, the real-life benefits of an SSD-based RAID0 boil down to its high read speed which does not degenerate over time as the SSDs get filled with data.
PCMark 7 incorporates an individual disk subsystem benchmark which is based on real-life applications. It reproduces typical disk usage scenarios and measures how fast they are performed. Moreover, the disk access commands are not reproduced one by one, but with pauses necessary to process the data, just like in real life.
The benchmark reports an overall disk subsystem performance rating as well as the data-transfer rate in particular scenarios. Take note that the speed in these scenarios is rather low due to the pauses between input and output operations. In other words, PCMark 7 shows you the speed of the disk subsystem from the application's point of view. Rather than the pure performance of an SSD, this benchmark will show us how good it is in practical tasks.
We ran PCMark 7 on used SSDs, i.e. in the state they are going to have most of the time in real-life computers. Their performance is thus affected not only by their controller or flash memory type but also by the internal algorithms that fight performance degradation.
The overall PCMark 7 score can serve as an intuitive benchmark for users who want to know the relative standings of SSDs in terms of performance but do not care about learning the technical details. Judging by the results, the RAID0 is overall faster than the single SSD of the same capacity. Considering that a computer's disk subsystem is mostly used for reading in typical scenarios, these results seem to be true to life.
You may want to take a look at the individual subtests. The gaps between the contestants are quite impressive in some of them.
There are scenarios that are very difficult for RAID0s based on SSDs with second-generation SandForce controllers. It is when the disk subsystem has to process a lot of small data blocks: Gaming and Windows Defender.
Yet another disk subsystem benchmark that uses real-life usage scenarios, Intel NASPT reproduces predefined disk activity traces and measures how much time they take to be performed, just like in PCMark 7. Together with the latter, this benchmark helps get a general notion of a disk subsystem's performance in real-life applications. The SSDs are tested in their used state again.
Intel NASPT prefers the RAID0 consisting of two 120GB SSDs to the single 240GB SSD. The RAID0 is almost twice as fast as its opponent, but this success of RAID technology can be somewhat marred by the results of the individual subtests.
All goes well until the SSDs switch from reading to writing. The single 240GB SSD is a clear winner at writing.
Unfortunately, our today's tests do not provide a clear answer to the question if building a RAID0 out of modern SSDs makes sense. This solution has its highs and lows and we can only do as much as lost them all and let you be the decision maker.
RAID0 is a traditional method of boosting your disk subsystem performance. The trick works with SSDs, too. Combining two SSDs into a RAID0 helps increase linear read/write speeds as well as the speed of processing small data blocks at a long request queue. We did notch very impressive sequential read and write speeds in our tests, getting much higher than the SATA 6 Gbit/s bandwidth.
However, we should keep it in mind that modern SSDs have a tendency to get faster as their capacity grows even within the same product series, so a two-disk RAID0 may turn out to be slower than a single large-capacity SSD. More importantly, SATA RAID controllers, including those in modern chipsets, do not support the TRIM command. As a result, the array's writing performance degrades over time whereas single SSDs are less susceptible to this problem.
Thus, a RAID0 will only be superior to a single SSD at linear operations whereas random-address operations will expose its weakness. That's why we can't prefer the RAID0 solution to a single SSD without reservations. On the other hand, most of our lifelike benchmarks do show the RAID0 to be overall faster. In other words, the RAID0 is better on average, especially as it doesn't involve any investment: the cost per gigabyte is the same for a RAID0 and an SSD of the same capacity.
There is some inconvenience about running an SSD RAID0 that should also be mentioned. You cannot monitor the health of your SSDs in a RAID0 or update their firmware. A RAID0 will also have lower reliability since a failure of any SSD causes the loss of all data stored on all the SSDs in the array.


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"I'm just happy we got to play," said Kenedy head coach Lin Havron. "It was a close game. The game could have gone either way and it was a fun game."
Junction drew first blood in the contest with 15 seconds left in the first quarter on a 5-yard run by Justus Young, though the missed extra point left the score at 6-0.
The Lions roared back in the second quarter with three unanswered touchdowns. The first came at the 9:28 mark on a 3-yard run by Dominic Cruz, with Jordan Valdez adding the extra point to give Kenedy the 7-6 edge. The second came with 5:59 on the clock on a 44-yard run by Cruz with another PAT by Valdez. The third score of the second quarter, and final score before halftime, came with 1:58 left as Cruz connected with Jacob Asebedo on a 10-yard passing score, though the missed PAT left the score at 20-6 at the halftime break.
The Lions scored their final touchdown of the contest with 10:36 left in the third quarter as Cruz connected with Seferino Villarreal on a 69-yard passing touchdown, but another missed extra point left the lead at 26-6.
Unfortunately for Kenedy, the Eagles scored three unanswered touchdowns of their own, starting with a 5-yard run by Austin Rivas and the extra point by Clay Dennis with 15 seconds left in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, it was all Eagles as Danny Perez scored with 9:19 on the clock with a 5-yard run and Dennis kicked the PAT. Junction retook the lead with 4:58 to go on a 12-yard run by Rivas with Dennis' extra point giving the Eagles the 27-26 edge. The Lions attempted a comeback, but the Eagles defense held their ground as time expired.
Statistically, the Lions gained 335 yards of total offense, with 196 yards rushing over 38 carries and 139 yards passing over nine completions. The Eagles, by comparison, gained 313 yards of total offense, with 301 yards rushing over 48 carries and one passing completion for 12 yards. In terms of penalties, both teams committed five penalties with the Lions giving up 35 total yards and the Eagles giving up 55 total yards.
"They were relentless and they wore us down with their style of offense," said Havron about Junction.
This week, the Lions will close out non-district as they host the San Antonio Hawkins Wolfpack.
"We're just looking to get back in the win column," said Havron. They have improved and they have speed. We just have to keep playing, keep improving and stay healthy."
Kickoff in Kenedy is set for Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m.


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Love & Hip Hop Star Arrested for owing a Million Dollars in Child Support {MediaWatch}/
According to TMZ, Stevie J was arrested at his home in Georgia for owing over $1 million in child support in New York.
"Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star Stevie J just learned a hard lesson about being a baby daddy ... you rack up a million-dollar child support debt and you go directly to jail.
Here's what landed Stevie J behind bars. He and his live-in GF had a kid in '97 and '98. In '99 Stevie was ordered to pay around $6,600 a month in child support, which eventually was raised to $8500K.
According to the criminal complaint, Stevie J stopped paying in 2001 -- he's never paid a cent since then. So now the tab is a whopping $1,107,412.
Cops nabbed Stevie J in Georgia (check out the video). He'll probably bail out soon but then has to face criminal charges in NYC.
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Man oh man, what a lot of devastation in the east right now, from Hurricane Sandy. It's like watching an epic science fiction movie, except it's real and those aren't special effects. Those are real homes, real boats, real buildings, and real people. I know some of them.
Seeing sea water pour into Manhattan, flood the subway system, and cascade down into the Ground Zero sight may seem like an overblown sci-fi flick, but it's real.
This is where we all need to stop our mundane lives for a second and take a step back. Stuck in traffic and aggravated? Relax and realize how good you have it. And do something. Right now, millions of people are effected by Sandy but the real things they need aren't necessarily "stuff" related. They need assistance, they need protection, and they need help to rebuild.
A lot of funds and charities are going to pop up in the coming days, and you never really know how the money flows out to where it's needed, so my advice is to donate what you can to the trusted American Red Cross. They are always there in times of need, and this is one of biggest. I just donated and it's easy.
Barbara and I have many friends and family members all through that region, so we're hoping everyone is okay. More directly, my teammate Nick Casertano lives in New Jersey. His wife Shannon and their little girl Ally are safe, but without power and without much hope they'll have power for days. As for Nick, I'm not even sure where he is. Thousands of flights were already being cancelled on Sunday, so there was no way for him to get back to Philadelphia (where his car was parked) and when I said goodbye to him as the race ended, Nick was weighing options ranging from just going to Indy where he has a lot of friends, or maybe trying to fly in somewhere south of the damage so he could rent a car and drive home, to who knows what. I'm not sure which option he chose...
Bottom line: A lot of people are going to need a lot of help.
Meanwhile, let's take a quick look back at the Las Vegas weekend, in rambling fashion. With all the Sandy stuff going on, I don't feel much like being goofy, and I hardly feel like blogging at all, but the show must go on so here we go...
The weather? Perfect.
The crowds? Very nice on Friday, huge on Saturday, enormous on Sunday. I don't recall the last time we had that many people in the huge Vegas grandstand on any one day, much less over the course of three. Fantastic turnout. And that's a good sign in many ways. My actor buddy Buck and I were talking about how the Vegas crowd is different than most, because it doesn't rely as heavily on the locals. The Vegas races are far more "destination events" for people who travel there from far and wide, so it's not just the cost of a ticket that plays into attendance, it's also the cost of air travel, hotels, and meals. To see a gathering that big makes you feel pretty good about the direction the economy is moving.
The racing? Pretty exciting, although not for us. That final round in Funny Car, though, sure was dramatic and it set up what's going to be a pretty stressful and possibly down-to-the-wire Pomona. That was a classic example of what a "40-point round" is, in vivid detail.
The event? Hectic as can be, for us. We didn't have hospitality, so we were in our old-school single pit set-up, but just like the overall crowd was huge, our collection of friends and family was enormous as well. It was crazy, but a good kind of crazy.
We had our friend Gerald and his girlfriend Kari with us, and once again Gerald kept us well fed and happy with delicious meals every day. Always great to have Gerald and Kari in the house, and also cool to be able to congratulate them on winning the NHRA "Nitro Gene" video contest. How great is that? Just take a look...
It was about a total non-stop weekend of conversations and photos, meeting great people and a million of you loyal readers, plus our good friends like Crazy Jane, Chris, Tom FWL, Doug and so many others. It seemed like my head was spinning all weekend.
The top story, though, was the one about neighbors, friends, and Jersey Boys.
Neighbor Dave and his wife Nichol joined us for the weekend, and it was Dave's first race appearance in well more than a year. I gotta be honest, it was like he never left and it was so fantastic to have them both with us. As we left on Sunday I felt the natural compulsion to say "So when is your flight to Pomona?" but I caught myself before doing that. I know he had a great time, and the guys on the team were thrilled to see him, so hopefully he can get out to a few more next year. We need you Dave!!!
Buck came out to the track all three days, bringing little Gibson with him for a bit on Friday and then again on Sunday. Buck and Gibson watch all the races on TV, and Gibson can instantly spot the LRS car and recognize Tim. He had a ball, and was just buzzing about his first drag race. That's why he came back out on Sunday with his dad, because after Friday's experience he was begging for more! We have a new NHRA fan on this planet, and he'll be a lifetime member of the fraternity.
On Saturday, Buck came out with some friends from his world, including a couple of other stage actors, and most of them were also seeing their first drag race. Like little Gibson, I think we have a few new die-hard fans in the fold. Neat people to meet, and a great experience for all of us.
On Monday, I booked my flight for early evening so that I'd have the day free, and that was reserved for a trip over to the Hujabre home in suburban Vegas, to see Buck and Gibson again, to give Mary a huge hug for both Barb and me, and to meet little Hudson for the first time.
It's hard to believe, now, that Gibson took his first steps while the Hujabre family lived with us during the Minneapolis run of the Jersey Boys touring show, because he's now running around the house at light speed like a little whirling dervish and he has a little brother who looks up to him. I think it's safe to say that both little Hujabre boys are pretty much amazing and adorable, and that comes from two loving parents who are a lot of fun.
We played the NHRA slot car set for a while, Gibson gave me a tour of the whole house (including his race car bed) and Mary made us all an incredible lunch. They have a wonderful home, and I'm a more than a little honored to have seen and heard from Buck how he was taking mental notes at our home back in Woodbury while they were there, and a lot of how they have their new Las Vegas home decorated came from those cues. The dominant framed pieced in the living room (which also houses a rack of guitars, a keyboard, and a set of drums) was a large piece that included a couple of autographed shirts from Dave Rieff and a winner's jacket I gave Buck, along with other racing photos, his credentials from the race, and various pieces of assorted NHRA memorabilia.
I headed for McCarran Airport a little early, from Buck and Mary's house, thinking the place would be a zoo with all the cancellations, but instead it was just the opposite. I guess, with so many flights being cancelled ahead of time, there actually weren't that many people stuck at the airport without contingency plans. So instead of dealing with huge lines and massive congestion, I walked right up to the ticket counter to check my bag, and then (for the first time EVER) walked right up to the TSA agent at security without having to stand behind a soul. I ended up being about two hours early...
Two flights and four and a half hours later, we were touching down at GEG, and an hour later I was home. So nice to hug my wife, snuggle with the boyz and sleep in my own bed. It's just plain good to be home...
Do you remember Colin Doyle? Colin is my nephew from Slippery Rock University, who did a two week internship with me at St. Louis and Reading. As the final piece of his practicum assignment, he wrote a blog for me about the experience, so I'm going to include that in the next installment. It's really well done, and I think you'll enjoy hearing from Colin what his two-week stint in the NHRA world was like. Look for that coming up in the next one...
Until then, do what you can for the people on the eastern seaboard. Helping is what we Americans do best...
Wilber, out!
PS: Good news via text arrived right after I finished this blog. Nick Casertano finally got on a flight to Philly and is safely there. He's now on his way home to his wife and daughter in Sandy-ravaged New Jersey.


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Solomon was actually portrayed by two Rhesus Macaques: Rosie and her understudy/stunt monkey, Poppy. Learn more about Rhesus Macaques and how one might have ended up in a lavish townhouse in 1936.
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Rhesus Macaque monkeys are ubiquitous throughout mainland Asia and have an enormous geographic population across the globe. In India, they inhabit diverse environments, including even dense urban centers. They are omnivores who raid crops in agricultural areas, pick through garbage in highly urban areas, and eat fruits, flowers, leaves, roots, bark, mushrooms and insects in the wild. In India, many dwell in temples and are fed offerings ranging from bananas to ice cream by locals as a form of worship. Solomon, Maud's monkey in Upstairs Downstairs, is partial to sweet tea and thick-cut marmalade.
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Like so many women of her generation and class, the intrepid Maud Hallam voyaged to the Indian subcontinent and set up home for Mother Country and her diplomat husband. As a "memsahib" (the respectful address for a European woman during India's colonial period), Maud experienced many adventures, but endured a separation from her son, whom she had to send back to England for school. Hence the need for a loveable companion: Solomon the monkey.


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Shy Cemetery, Smithton Township, Pettis County Missouri, Section 9(S 1/2), Township 45N, Range 20W, East on Highway 50 to Pony Path Road. South on Pony Path Road to Locustgrove. This is the Old Priceville Cemetery. Many stones have been moved to other cemeteries. Transcribed by Laura Paxton
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Thinking of trading with Fred Jackson owner. I want his Hakeem Nicks.
I was thinking of offering Alfred Morris and Denarius Moore for Hakeem straight up. Is that too little?
I also have Steven Jackson, Trent Rich, Stevan Ridley(trade pending), Roy Helu, Malcom Floyd, Dexter McCluster, James, Jones.
you have a ton of RB depth but not necessarily anybody i'd really want to rely on. ppr league? mcculster is obviously more valuable there. james jones or james, jones?
anyway, it might be too little but it doesn't hurt to try. it's sometimes better to start low and work your way up. he'll be itching for a short-term RB solution and there aren't many better than alf. if that doesn't work, maybe offer up your best next WR. i'm saying this without seeing your roster so idk.
general rule of thumb...start a lowball. work your way from there and ask him if he'd like to counter. many owners aren't dumb but they're willing to work with you. just don't completely bs them. historically, i'd have to say most of the trade talks i make in my money leagues completely fall apart. they either get flat our rejected or we don't see eye to eye.
i do think that trade is very good for you if you make it happen. throw in f jax's age to your advantage. you can work other RB's into the convo too. i'm not that high on trent so if you can grab one of his other RB's along with nicks, that could help you. it might be hard for him to even reject a trent + bench player for nicks. don't know if you want to go there but there's that.
honestly? i've been waiting for fantasy football to add a 3 team trade feature. i guess that's too complex
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Troy is the son of an abusive father. His father was hardly around to raise him. When he was around, he made him do chores and if he didn't do them he would beat him. One time, after Troy tied up the mule, just as his father told him to, he went off to the creek with a girl to "enjoy himself.†The mule got loose, and his father found out. His father came looking for him. When he found them at the creek, he had the leather mule straps; he started to beat Troy. Troy was naturally scared so he ran away. He looked back at his father and realized that his father didn't care about beating him, he just wanted the girl. Troy came back; he ripped the straps out of his father's hand. He then started to beat his father with them. His father, not afraid of Troy, beat up Troy. Troy was left there, his eyes were swelled shut. He didn't know what to do. He couldn't go back to his father's house, so he went to another town 200 miles away. This is when Troy became a man at the age of 14. .
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