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A Unique 3 Bedroom Apartment-Athens
Size135 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Indoor fireplace
- Parking available
- Disabled access
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|Rodou, 15122 Marousi, Greece
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Your host George is a genuine , openhearted Athenian who will treat you with the traditional Greek hospitality and can arrange for you tailor made day trips in and around Athens. Number of services on request available, including personal trainer and spa treatments.
Finally there is a private car parking inside the building at no extra cost. Airport or any other transport is available upon demand at an additional but very reasonable cost.
The apartment lies very close to the train station of HSAP. Only 200 m away from the apartment you can take the train and reach Athens center in less than 20 mins or the port of Piraeus in about 25 mins.
Marousi is a suburban city NE of Athens, Greece. The Athens Olympic Sports Complex, the largest sports complex in Greece, is also located there. Its main street is Kifisias Avenue, and also contains four ISAP train stations and two of the Suburban Railway.
Marousi, a quiet northern suburb of Athens, was strictly a family housing area until the 1980s. During the 1990s and due to the development of excellent transportation substructure, (namely the Attiki Odos, Athens Metro, Urban Rail), the availability of land, and a public authority friendly to businesses it has been transformed into what is now known as the Financial District of Athens. At the turn of the new century the area now houses increasing areas of modern low-rise office buildings serving the Greek corporate elite, as well as many a number of facilities and infrastructural developments. The city remains a highly regarded domestic suburb in all areas, apart from the commercial Kifissias avenue. It offers a colourful range of activity to residents and visitors and a very comprehensive and modern variety of facilities, cafes, restaurants, multiplexes,sporting venues, shopping areas,
Marousi is road serviced by OASA (blue colour) buses and also runs its own small bus shuttle network (red colour). As for rail, Marousi is served by ISAP (green colour, line 1) with 4 train stations, KAT, Marousi, Neratziotissa, Eirinis, and byProastiakos (yellow color, suburban light railway) with 2 train stations, Neratziotissa and Kifissias.
House rulesThe guests in general must respect the property. Smoking is allowed. Pets are welcomed upon prior arrangement.
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I have been in the flat for 5 nights. The situation of the flat is okay. It's a little bit far to the centre but therefore it is really quite and there is an other centre/big streets with a lot of stores really near. Still, it doesn't take too long to get to the centre (Akropolis). Wheter you can take the bus/metro and it takes you 10-15min or you take a Taxi, which is also not expensive and only takes 10mins.
The elevator is helpful, the balcony is a nice place to sit and the room are also clean and well furnished. The wifi Router is directly next to the bed but still it is slow or sometimes not even usable.
All in all it was a great stay in Athens and I would totally recommend this flat.
Apartment address has been entered inaccurately - as Merarchias 0, 185 35 Pireas, Greece.
The search for appropriate address it took approx. 20 minutes. and another call in roaming to the host, who gave the correct address 2as Merarchias 19.
Adres mieszkania podany został nieprecyzyjnie - as Merarchias 0, 185 35 Pireas, Grecja.
Poszukiwanie właściwego adresu zajęło ok. 20 min. i kolejny telefon w roamingu do gospodarza, który podał właściwy adres 2as Merarchias 19.
Beautiful apartment to relax. Close to a supermarket and public transport. Many shops close by for shopping. Good advice from the host to find a restaurant.
Bel appartement pour se détendre. Proche d'un supermarché et des transports en commun. Nombreux magasins tout proches pour faire du shopping. De bons conseils de l'hôte pour trouver un restaurant.
Beautiful appartment, clean, confortable... In a very good location in Athens, i highly recommand!!! George was very accomodating and friendly. Thank you very much :-)
Excellent apartment and location. Everything was as it was seen on website! Thank you
We have been welcomed by a friend of George at the airport. He drove us to the appartment when it was already in the evening. The moment we came we were surprised by the service of all the things that were present in the appartment. The tools in the kitchen were very complete. Sugar, coffee,tea and the supplies were present and ready for using. A little garden at the backsite was complete and looked very charming. The only thing was that cats made it also to a place of there own, so you could smell as soon as you opened the door.
We enyoied it very much.
Thank you for the great hospitality.
Our stay in Athens was excellent. The apartment meets all the conditions: the photos are accurate and representative. No surprise.
The area is very nice and you can magner there, drinking ... 20 minutes from the center (040 bus) which is 5 minutes walk from the apartment.
George thank you for your help and for sure we will return!
Notre séjour à Athènes était excellent. L'appartement répond à toutes les conditions : les photos sont exactes et représentatives. Aucune surprise.
Le quartier est très agréable et on peut y magner, boire... 20 min du centre (le bus 040) qui est à 5 min à pied de l'appartement.
Merci George pour ton aide et c'est certain, nous reviendrons !
After a week in this flat, 5 adults (parents and three grown up "kids"), we just have positive words to say about the flat and the host. We are pretty active travellers and we found the the flat well situated to be a good starting point for excursions in Athens and the neighbourhood. The flat is well equipped, very clean and the hosts responds quickly on any questions. If you need a large flat with more than two bedrooms, you don't need to hesitate about this alternative. But remember Athens is a big city, there's a lot of cars and a lot of noise, this flat is not quiet, but probably one of the better places to stay at.
We stayed 4 people in George's apartment for a long weekend in Athens. I only have good things to say about the flat and George as a host. The flat is very modern and luxurious. There is everything you need from kitchen supplies to bedsheets and towels. Bedroom and living room was very comfortable to stay in. We enjoyed the view to Acropolis from the balcony. The location was perfect - right in the center and walk distance to the main sightseeings and interesting spots. Only a few minutes cab drive to clubs and evening restaurants.
George was a great host who welcomed us with a bottle of wine and tips to Athens. We had a easy and smooth communication over email and he was always polite, friendly and ready to help if needed. We will definitely stay in this flat next time we visit Athens.
everything was perfect.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by rcaldw, Jan 12, 2013.
Stupid Harbaugh... can't coach.
Yeah he should be fired and unfairly criticized!
Only difference is his kicker came through.
Wasn't Bailey's kick from 51 yards?
If he had had those those four extra years, his kick might've been good.
Um, we never ran three times and then missed a long field goal this season.
The missed kick that people complained about came when we mismanaged the clock and then tried a 51-yard field goal on second down (after passing on first down).
yeah 47 to 51 is actually pretty significant in terms of percentage, but we don't want to bring that up because someone has an agenda.
It's all fun and games until someone misses a field goal.
Why the hell didn't try to get more yards for his kicker?he should have went for a td instead. Why would he trust a stupid kicker...smh...lol,does that sound about right?
And BOOM goes the dynamite. Back to the drawing board when it comes to defending Garrett.
Yeah, I couldn't remember what game he was talking about.
Pretty sure Dallas tried passing against the Ravens. A pass to Dez where the entire team jogged back to the huddle and Dallas essentially wasted time.
Play calling was criticized here as well.... not just clock "mismanagement"... and there have been people complain when Garrett called runs 3 times and kicked it, it just wasn't in Baltimore, and (my memory is foggy, but I definitely know I've heard it) Bailey probably made it.
In fact, now I remember, it was discussion about how stupid Garrett was to put Bailey in that position. Even though he made it and even though we won.
That's how bright our guys are, they are mad when we win with it.
That was my impression of events.
It wasn't the decision to kick that posters were criticizing. It was the clock management.
He has done the same thing to end games when Bailey has made it and still took criticism.
We can acknowledge that Garrett could've managed that particular sequence of events better without necessarily thinking he should be fired.
Like it or not, there's going to be learning process with any young coach.
My memory is foggy as well. Perhaps a specific example would help clear it up for everyone.
At best it looks like where taking criticisms from different scenarios and applying the criticism to a scenario that didn't exist for Garrett.
Then if the Cowboys have to settle for a 49-yard field goal, fine, but no coach in his his right mind chooses to win a game with a kick that long.
From a JJT article, Dec. 5th, 2011, loss to Cardinals.
Fox kneeling on the ball with 30 seconds left at the regulation was the head scratcher for me. You got Peyton Manning and one of the best long distance kickers in the league, and you don't even take good healthy swing at it? It never ceases to amaze me how inherently risk averse most NFL head coaches are.
You think JJT is reading your thread?
It was the Cincinnati game this year, when he ran Demarco Murray, we got the first down, Bailey made the kick, and we had a whole host of Garrett is an idiot posts in here afterwards. Any way, you guys all know (cmon be honest), if Garrett had called 3 runs into the belly to set up a 50 yard FG, he would be heavily criticized around here.
I agree Roshi.
I don't know, but that is a funny line in view of what happened today.


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Do you fog all your hives, or just 6. Would be interesting to see half the hives fogged, and the other half not fogged as a control and drop counts for all.
Do you fog all your hives, or just 6. Would be interesting to see half the hives fogged, and the other half not fogged as a control and drop counts for all.
Well everyone things are changing with my mite counts and 20 and over on the sticky board in 24 hours all happen real fast about a week any way I ordered a oxalic acid vaporizer and going to do all my year plus hives I don't want to lose my hives and I am not waiting for PMS or DWV show up I know how fast the VARROA can take over so I don't think I will be fogging my year old hives any more this year the next 3 weeks is going to be oxalic acid treatment and get them ready for winter.
I'm still going to fog my nucs and maybe next year fog them with essential oils of some kind but for this year no more fogging the big hives .
I'll post the mite count when I do a oxalic acid treatment .
Thanks everyone and I must say all my bee are healthy and much better then last year and i'm sure fogging helped but I don't think it will work alone got to remember i'm am on small cell for most my hives also and all but one had a brood break .
Happy beeing.
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My 2 strongest hives are going down hill fast, I had only fogged once, started too late. I'm with you Glock, not going to wait until they collapse to start treating them....
I look forward to the results of your mite count.
Bill...in Southeast Ohio Zone 6A, Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up
I have 12 hives in my back yard and fog them all. My first fogging was May 17; and then fogged every two weeks. However, when I saw that one hive with a 50 mite count /24 hours, I started fogging every week.
I should have monitored every hive - just too lazy.
I do not know why the spearmint oil is added to the FGMO. I suppose that it adds a smell so that the bees will groom more.
12 hives zone 5
I've got freeman beetle traps under 5 out of 6 hives and I've really eliminated my SHB threat with them. Beetles get chased down there and drown, any larva that try to climb out to reach the ground, drown. I was hoping for some effect on the mites. Doesn't look like it, They obviously don't crawl back up and re-infect much. All my bearding had stopped on my two largest hives. No sign of swarms. So I was really getting concerned about mites.
I changed my oil last week and I used NEW, unused oil so it was nice and clear, And I fogged for the first time. I went out and fogged yesterday (2nd time) and pulled the oil trays back on the two largest hives. After a week, I found 1 SHB in each. Dozens of roaches in each, and tons of mites. I've never done a mite count as I keep oil trays on all the time. But I was really surprised. No doubt my numbers are dwindling due to heavy mite infestation. I'm seriously considering using check mite, I don't want to lose either of my big strong hives. No way to tell if the large mite drop was caused by the fogging, thou I'm sure it had some effect. I may pull my trays and do some drop counts. I just can't kill bees to count mites. I'll most likely break down and use check mite before something really bad happens. When you've only got 6 hives, it doesn't take much to put you out of business….
Ok everyone it like this I did oxalic acid vaporizer treatment on my year old hives that have been fogged every week since may and the mite drop on the hive I gave a brood break first this past spring has dropped around 600 mites since WED. night this is SAT morning .
Then the hive I had not given a brood break dropped the next highest at around 300 . The hives that where queenless the longest seem to have the lower mite counts but all are dropping more mites then I was seeing with fogging . Plus the mite that are dropping now look darker .
I don't think fogging and brood breaks alone are enough to keep your mites in check but oxalic acid vaporizing may be just what will work for VARROA It pretty easy to do and there are lots of dead mites on the sticky boards . After a 3 week treatment I will do alcohol washes on all my hives and post the findings. Peace.
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Glock, the hives you are treating with OA, are they broodless? Can vaporized OA be used at anytime?
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Glock, that is an impressive mite drop, I vaporized my hives in September of last year and during a quick inspection last weekend I pulled more than a dozen drone brood and found only 1 mite. All my best to you with your hives.
Bill...in Southeast Ohio Zone 6A, Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up
And I have brood in all my hives right now and all are healthy.
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GLOCK - thanks for reporting your results on the mite drops with the OA vaporizing. I gotta say, I was skeptical about the efficacy of fogging, but was hoping your experiment would prove otherwise. However, a 600 mite drop on a hive that has been FGMO fogged weekly For 3 or 4 months doesn't sound to me that all that fogging has done much good.
Seems to me that with how effective the OA treatment is, the fogging, at best, is just background noise. Do you still feel that the fogging is helping enough with the mites to be worth continuing?
(6th year, 15 hives, Zone 5b, 5500')
Glock, by what you have described it would appear that the FGMO fogging kept your hives healthy enough to just barely avoid pms, dwv, and other related symptoms but at the same time the bees may not have had the ability to make it through the winter ok. Perhaps this has always been what was behind the question of whether FGMO really works. Your summer of fogging has been an eye opener.
Bill...in Southeast Ohio Zone 6A, Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up
Thanks for sharing all of this especially when the results were not what you hoped for. I really wonder now what would he happened if as mentioned ( by Reader I think) you could have used half of your hives as a control. I completely understand why you didn't though. We all do what we judge to be best, and very few people are able to sacrifice half there hives to get better science out of our experiments. We do whatever we do because we hope it will work on all of them.
Thanks again for the contribution to the community and good luck.
Since '09-75H-T-Z6b
Thanks for taking the time to report your findings with fogging. Some do just fine with fogging, while others can have catastrophic results. I guess if someone is going to try it, they need to be vigilant and have a Plan B ready to go in the event it does not work for them.
For OA Vapor use in our region, three treatments one week apart in August, then one more treatment on a warm day between Thanksgiving and Christmas when they are broodless, should do the trick.
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Just to let everyone know all the hives I have been treating with oxalic acid vaporizing are dropping mites like rain . I can not beleave how many mite my bees had they all seemed healthy but man a lot of mite have dropped off all my hives.
Two have had over a 1000 mites drop since this past WED. .
I had a 3 deep nuc that I put in a DBL deep less then a month ago and I treat it and even that one is dropping mite like over 50 a day {I did that one on SAT}. I might have to treat my nucs.
I am a isolated beekeeper there are no other beekeepers for miles so I wonder did the mite population just grow in my beeyards? Where do the mites come from? Any way to all the beekeepers thinking about fogging as your only weapon against VARROA better rethink it . Reason I did this fogging thread was so that all that follow BS know the truth about fogging It dose not work alone for sure I kinda wonder if it worked at all but my bees where acting healthy the whole time but they where VARROA infested and I go by experience and facts.
Well I am getting ready for winter with oxalic acid vaporizing and making sure all have honey and happy healthy bees.
Thanks and all I have wrote is facts straight from my bee yards fogging did not fix my VARROA problem but oxalic acid vaporizing kicking but .
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GLOCK- Thanks again for reporting your experience with fogging with FMGO. It is valuable information to the beekeeping community.
Based on your reports, I am ordering an OA vaporizer.
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(6th year, 15 hives, Zone 5b, 5500')
Glock, do you give up fogging or not? Studies I read showed as much as 30% fewer mites. At half that, is it worth fogging? It doesn't cost a lot, and it's pretty easy. But if you are going to be driven to treatment anyway, is it worth it? Or is it worth it between treatments to keep mites down?


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every time we turn around Osi is wanting either a new contract or a pay raise and its gets old because the guy is never satisfied but he was mentored by Strahan who pretty much did the same thing but at least Strahan had the overall talent to back up his worth and Osi is pretty much a one trick poney...
Why do people continue to answer a question that's already been answered?
Why is this still a thread
Coughlin and Osi always had a bad relationship, and Im sure there was a lot more going on then what got to the media. I would take Osi over Tuck any day of the week, and twice on Sundays (poor attempt at humor).
I disagree with some who think Osi lost his pass rushing skills. I think a lot of GMEN fans are going to be upset when they see what we let go.


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Rockbox has been around since 2000 when the first version was released for the Archos Jukebox 6000. The firmware on these early MP3 players was markedly lacking in many ways, and dissatisfied hackers soon noticed that the Jukebox firmware was simply a file named "archos.mod." Given such an obvious hint, it didn't take long before the Rockbox project was born. An interview with the original developers describes their thinking at the time:
"Fortunately, the Archos Jukebox used firmware updates in the form of a plain binary archos.mod file that you copied to the root of the hard disk," Stenberg says. "At boot, the firmware would look for the file and load it if found. This, combined with the fact that the USB connection was fully handled in hardware, meant that there was basically no risk whatsoever of damaging or 'bricking' the player by feeding it a bad firmware file.
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After taking the device apart and analysing its components, it was found to be using a Hitachi SH-7034 CPU. The next step was analysing the archos.mod firmware file. "It was obvious that it was not just a plain binary code file. It was purposefully obfuscated — challenge accepted!"
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There are two possibilities:
The pistol's feed ramp is rough, and needs to be smoothed out, or
The magazine's feed lips are a little out of spec, and they aren't "aiming" the cartridge properly.
Of the two, with a new pistol it's more likely that the feed ramp needs "breaking in." But you can test this, if you own a spare magazine or two.
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Try shooting with one or more other magazines. If the same thing happens with all (both?) other magazines, it's the feed ramp. If it happens with only one magazine, it's that magazine, so discard it.
Most pistols (well, their feed ramps anyway) need a break-in of perhaps 500 rounds. That's good, because you need the practice.
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Having just completed presentations in Germany, Hawaii and Taiwan, Jamshidi, the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will host the first Engineering, Science and Biotechnology Student Conference in the new Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering (BSE) Building at the UTSA 1604 Campus on Oct. 20.
Edward Tunstel, a NASA engineer on the Mars Rover project, will provide the welcoming address. Tunstel is one of 105 master's and doctoral students educated under Jamshidi when he led UNM's Autonomous Control Center program, a center that helps provide answers to solve NASA's problems.
Among the 40 student presentations at the conference is an exhibit featuring the rover robotic swarms on which Jamshidi's students have worked since he arrived at UTSA in January. The projects will assist the military in the war on terror. Equipped with biosensors, the rovers can go into dangerous areas to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and biological or chemical weapons. To test the effectiveness of the rovers, the students use a rough-terrain environment at the Southwest Research Institute, a co-sponsor of the conference.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by TheeTFD, May 17, 2008.
ESPN.com: MLB - Baseball's antitrust exemption: Q & A This was pretty informative.
Roscoe...Don't hold back. Tell us how you feel...
Sorry. I just get so upset when the government decides to regulate against industry, but they never regulate themselves. I can pretty much guarantee that if the government ran the major sporting leagues, everyone would be into bowling or tiddly-winks.
I really do not want to see the Spurs again either. What people do want to see is someone score 50+ points in a Finals game. Neither Duncan or Lebran can do this. At least not against a proper defensive team. I wonder if they hyped LBJ way too early and have already made him too unlikable for most fans. Thing is if you are selling a product as one thing but its really another then that is Fraud and Fraud is and should be punishable by law. Its a case of basic consumer protection and the fact that they are in the Entertainment industry does not make them exempt. I also have selfish reasons. If Max was ever convinced that it was not a competivive sport then Max would have to stop watching the NBA. Seriously, I could not watch it if I thought it was corrupt. No complaints there about who regulates the law makers. I guess thats supposed to be us but few have the time for it. I really cannot get into all my complaints of the ruling body here in this capacity but I will say that I do happen to agree with Consumer protection laws and Business does need some regulation. Seems like whever they trust a certain industry to govern themselfs they fail and there is always a high cost to pay in the end.
Max, I told you the refs are weak minded, they may even be hypnotized. All Stern has to say is Boston has a nice halftime show. Then what do you know no one can breathe on Rondo. - Beer, this is an election year, we will try and govern our system. Don't try an say a vote for Obama isn't a "no" vote for big unbridled business and WAR economy. That's why they call you Liambrains. What about that phathom call on Beer back in '90. You don't even remember. A "no" vote is a yes. Same as not voting. - Aura, that's the only reason I like the Spurs they're the anti-Stern team. Kind of like the Pistons. That's why if the Spurs don't make it the Pistons have an obligation to represent. Besides watching Timmy stare down a car salesmen is good stuff. See they can even find a way to sell staring. But if it's a call between Lakers and Spurs, the league usually gets it right.
Okay it was mildly entertaining. But still it was entertaining because even the ref that ejected him recognized that the break in Timmy's usual deadpan stare could only mean he was "showing up" the ref. I mean it was so unprecedented that it elicited the overreaction from the ref. Anyone else, it would have gone unnoticed.
LOL, TheeTFD. You are funny....in a disturbed sort of way...
It's an even year (08') The Spurs are of no impact on the title.
The NBA wants a Laker Celtics finals and it couldn't be any clearer.
Yea, and if the Cavs would have won, then it would have been....The NBA wanted LeBron in the finals and it couldn't be any clearer.
Not quite. Lebron had no chance in this series. He was playing by himself. I have been calling a Celtic Lakers final since Garnett was traded. The NBA can only do so much to fix games. Sometimes a player steps up and hit a crazy shot that the refs can't fix.
If you watched this game, the Cavs were getting more help from the officials than the Celtics. This was a 1-point game with 1 1/2 minutes left. Only someone who either doesn't understand the game or has an extremely active imagination would say this game was fixed.
I suppose you missed all the tripping the Celtics were doing and how KG stood around in the paint. Or how KG pushed everyone and was never called for the foul. You are going to get those same calls ignored against the Pistons. Just wait. KG is going to be able to do what he wants and so is Pierce and in the end it will decide the series.
Stern ordered the Cavs to miss a few rebounds near the end so the Celts could get some 2nd chance points.
You might have something here, Max. I'm pretty sure Stern ordered Big Z to shave his head, as well.
It's a bad poll. I only got 14 people to acknowledge my dementia.
This thread was supposed to be whimsicle. - Originally Posted by ESPN - Prosecutors say Donaghy should get break for fessing up to gambling - NBA In the letter, dated May 8, prosecutors asked a judge to consider giving Donaghy a break on his sentence to reward his "substantial assistance" in an investigation that resulted in the indictment and guilty pleas of a professional gambler and a middleman, both former high school classmates of the referee. - Donaghy, who pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to charges of betting on games he officiated, told FBI agents "league officials would tell referees that they should withhold calling technical fouls on certain star players because doing so hurt ticket sales and television ratings," the document said. Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were "company men" acting in the interest of the NBA conspired to extend a playoff series in 2002 to a seventh game. The referees allegedly ignored flagrant fouls committed by the team that needed to win. They also reportedly called "made-up fouls" against the other team which led to the ejection of two of their players. The team favored by the refs won that night and the next game to win the series Lakers/Kings 2002 WCF Game 6 ? Qoute G26 - Even when I'm joshing I'm die on.
I didn't expect this stuff to start coming out until around Donaghy's sentencing next month. I hope Stern's now pooping his pants in the middle of his Celts-Lakers Finals. The following sounds like complete BS to me. Just how powerful does Stern think he is? Donaghy says 2002 playoff series rigged - NBA - MSNBC.com
This article names another playoff series in 2005. Houston vs. Dallas. Ex-NBA referee: playoff series manipulated - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
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Ice Fishing Extravaganza is a go
The 23rd annual Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza will go on as scheduled Saturday, Jan. 19, after 16 inches of ice were found on Hole in the Day Bay on Gull Lake.
Given the weather forecast of high temperatures in the teens and single digits, organizers are convinced more ice will be made in the next week.
"There's no reason to keep anyone in limbo. We're good," said Crow Wing County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Goddard after he and Sheriff Todd Dahl drilled a couple of holes at the contest site Thursday, Jan. 10.
The sheriff agreed to issue the permit needed to hold the contest after ice depths in two different spots measured 15 1/2 and 16 inches. The 16 inches were found in the northwest corner of the contest site, where ice is traditionally the least deep.
"We're in better shape than last year. All the praying worked," Dahl said.
"There's been a lot of that," said Cori Wrobel, event chair this year.
Last year's event was postponed a few weeks because of concerns over ice thickness.
Extravaganza participants are urged to use the transportation provided the day of the event. Shuttle sites will be located north and south of Hole in the Day Bay, in the open field near Sportland Corners (Holiday and Schaefer's Foods) and at Brainerd International Raceway.
"If traveling by lake, we ask that they use ATVs or snowmobiles to keep the complete impact down," Goddard said, noting they don't plan to restrict travel by lake unless ice heaves should suddenly form.
The fishing area will open to the public at 8 a.m. with the competition from noon to 3 p.m. Winners will be announced right afterward, around 3:30 p.m. at the stage on the ice.
Tickets are still available online, at Brainerd area outlets and at Mills Fleet Farm for $45.
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apricots made my bottom explode
i have an embarrassing confession and seeing as this is all a bit anonymous on here i feel like i can confess to you all
to put it bluntly i suffer from constipation. a friend of mine at xmas said to eat dried apricots. so i got a little tub of them from this health food place and ate the lot
well after about half an hour all hell was trying breaking loose in my bowels. i was in a really long and boring meeting that was dragging past 6pm, and all i could do to keep control was to cross my legs, tense my bottom cheeks and pray nothing forced its way out
when i got a 'comfort break' i dashed to the loo and something like hiroshima exploded down the u-bend, and my poor stomach was groaning all weekend (i just about made it home without pebbledashing my knickers) and thank the lord no-one else was in the next cubicle... i think
on the plus side, my motion (scattered as it was) was nice and dark - which i hear is a good thing
but not so sure the whole botty bomb thing was quite right
is it just me?
#2 Mon 15 Jan 07 4:03pm
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
I once drank a half litre of Muller Strawberry yogurt which had much the same effect apart from;
a) I was in the garden
b) I didn't run fast enough
This was a long time ago though.
#3 Mon 15 Jan 07 4:08pm
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
I recently bought a bag of dried apricots and got rid of all the junk food.... literally! I almost chocked on my tea reading your posts, lol!
#5 Mon 15 Jan 07 7:49pm
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
(sorry for laughing when I read your post...)
When I was a child my mother told me to not eat too much of this dried abricots!And that good child I was,I never made your experience....
#6 Tue 16 Jan 07 3:03am
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
I don't suffer with this problem .. so far I have been able to eat anything in any quantity and not be placed in an embarrassing situation like this.
Very funny .. makes me think of that scene in the first American Pie movie
#7 Tue 16 Jan 07 11:19am
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
I usually just eat a couple of prunes.
#8 Tue 16 Jan 07 11:24am
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
I had a shocking experience years ago after eating a huge lentil salad the night before and then going down Lewisham market in the morning.
No disaster, but I had to waddle home like a penguin!!
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#9 Tue 16 Jan 07 2:33pm
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Re: apricots made my bottom explode
A watermelon and lime freeze does it for me...like no other...icky but it really is a colon cleanser.
Just blend up fresh watermelon,ice cubes,fresh lime juice and a bit of honey,then sip it,lie back and watch the fireworks...exploding downward of course...
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If you consider yourself a graphic designer, you've probably heard of Joshua Davis. As one of the first adopters of Flash, a significant new media artist, an author, and one of the design world's weightiest members, Joshua Davis is a name that rolls off many tongues during discussions regarding progression, experimentation, and development. A pioneer in the word's most technological sense, Joshua has never been one to find a niche and stick with it, instead choosing to find what's next — or in what's often his case, to create it. We chatted with Joshua about things like Praystation, philosophy, and his plans for the future, and wound up feeling a little bit like we do when we look at one of his mathematically composed graphics. In other words: utterly enthralled.
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JD: I actually started with Netscape 1.1 in 1995, but I didn't get serious until Netscape 2 came out in early 1996 (which for me was an environment about embracing the computer to create work). It wasn't until Netscape 3, HTML and JavaScript, that I had an understanding about how exciting work could be. I remember learning how to create image rollovers and thinking, "holy shit." In retrospect, in comparison to how things have evolved for today's standards, image rollovers we're pretty lame, but at the time it seemed like the heavens had opened up.
Over the next few years I remember being frustrated about spending so much time writing code just to sniff out what platform (Mac or PC) and what browser (Netscape or Explorer) the end user was using to present them with an interactive experience. I got turned onto this product called futuresplash (pre-Macromedia acquisition) but I didn't really consider myself an animator. So, after getting familiar with the application I got back into diving into PERL, DHTML, CSS, and HTML. Then Macromedia acquired futuresplash and was renamed Flash 1. After getting familiar with several releases over the years, it wasn't until Flash 3 and "tell target" that I spent more time than usual poking around Flash. Flash 4 hit, and the rest was history. Flash introduced ActionScript and my shifts changed drastically – a programming language in an interactive, animation environment. If they had the plugin , they'd see exactly what you intended – no more sniffing code "" and that's when me and Flash got married.
But I have to remember Flash is just a tool, and while I'm grateful for it existence, it's what we bring to the tools – our ideas, our craft. Give Stevie Wonder a shitty pair of drums and he'll still wreck it.
JS: You were named one of the 'Ten Most Creative People' by the Internet Professional Publishers Association. That's a heavy honor, but one that appropriately demonstrates your dedication to your occupation(s). How do you condition yourself for creativity, and have you managed to reach a point where you feel in control of it?
JD: I hate to say it — I'm not a big fan of titles, accolades, or awards. My agent writes that crap in my bio for the whole damn world to see, but I don't really give a shit. I want to make work for love or personal growth, not for acceptance. I'm glad some people like my work, but it's not for them… I think there might be something wrong with me. There's a whole planet of people who communicate with words, but I need to express myself visually. Point being, I'd still be doing this even I didn't get paid to do it, I'd still do it even if every last person on the earth hated it.
In Ayn Rand's book "the Fountainhead," the main character, Howard Roark, an architect, builds this structure that's not well received, and someone says to him, "Look at what you've done… who's ever going to let you build anything?" And Roark replies, "Who's going to stop me?"
JS: How do you condition yourself for creativity?
JD: Being creative, for me, is just a way of seeing the world hyper-sensitively. It's not something I can turn on or off or something I learned.
Now, if I ever reach a position where I feel in control, I'll know that I'm dead. I don't ever want to understand. The more I learn, the more I create, the more people I meet, the cultures I get exposed to, all help me grow and reach out for new ideas. Confusion is a great motivator to explore that which is unknown.
JS: It seems as though you approach design philosophically; as if the whole design process is a very meaningful, almost religious pursuit. Can you tell us what art and design are to you, and what you think they do?
JD: The classic art vs. design debate. I'm not a big fan of labels, but if I had to use one, I'd probably say I'm a designer who, on occasion, shows Design as Art. To refine things even more, I'd say what I'm doing is Illustration. My character Maruto (who has been on Once Upon a Forest for the past few years) has been creating interactive and static environments that, from my perspective, are illustrations in a children's book. So, illustration minus the text of the story (which was the responsibility of the viewer to create).
I agree that the process by which the work is created is very meaningful to me. Even though the process itself is rooted in meaningless. Philosophical? I've often said I'm trying to remove the graphic designer from graphic design.
It's definitely a religious pursuit. In computational/algorithmic systems, you're getting to play god for a few moments. You construct a micro-universe based on rules and boundaries, set things in motion, and see what sort of visual results you get. Sometimes I get things that look horrible, and sometimes I get things that look amazing. I'm living with these systems, tending to them to refine the results, waiting for that "Beautiful Accident."
The process does lack narrative — the story is the process. If you don't explain the story of the process the system is completely meaningless. That, on occasion, creates random unexpected compositions, exquisite or disastrous.
And finally… I love being a designer. In my opinion I think doing "design" is harder than "art." Lets preface this by saying, of course there are exceptions. However, my perception is that art is self-masturbation, because the only person who has to understand, like, or appreciate the art, is the artist. For a long time, I have felt that art is wonderfully meaningless and doesn't usually serve any universal need other than being "art." I love Mathew Barney, and I'm glad that he exists and creates work, but I can't brush my teeth with The Cremaster Cycle. Design on the other hand is usually created to be wielded by and for the public to server some sort of purpose. We forget that your toothbrush is design, designed to serve the oral hygiene of your mouth.
I have commercials clients who hire me to create systems for commercials purposes. I feel it's harder because you need to take the rules and boundaries of the clients project and brand, try to breathe a bit of yourself into those confines, and hope you create something new and exciting that benefits your growth as a designer and helps elevate the clients brand. Also as a designer, as I take on new commissions, I get to wear new hats: new client, new project, new rules, new boundaries, new challenges; paths into discovering new things about myself. If you look at a book of paintings by Rembrandt, you can't deny he was an amazing painter, but I often feel that "If you've seen one Rembrandt, you've seen them all." Now go pick up Stefan Sagmeister's book Made You Look. Each turn of the page reveals a new creative solution specific to the project/client's needs that's undeniably Stefan, yet also a blueprint or timeline into Stefan's creative process. It's diverse and visually invigorating.
JS: Whom do you admire?
JD: I'll name drop the usually suspects… Ben Fry, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, Robert Hodgin, Toxi, Marius Watz, Lia, Amit Pitaru, Jonathan Harris, Martin Wattenberg, Jared Tarbell, Josh Nimoy, Mark Napier, Manny Tan, Ed Burton, lennyjpg, Simon Geilfus, eskimoblood, James Patterson, Geoff Lillemon, Niko Stumpo, 123Klan, Matt and Mark Owens, Craig Swann, Mike Young, Mike Cina, Marcos Weskamp, Thierry Loa, Drew Trujillo, Jer Thorpe, Evgeny Kiselev, c86, Yoshi Sodeoka, Auriea Harvey, Michael Samyn, Commonwealth, Paul Pope, Francis Chan, Kozy and Dan, Nando and Linn, Chuck Anderson, Patrick O'Brien, Dustin Amery Hostetler … these are friends and peers who, consciously and sub-consciously push me to be a better designer, but I'd like to single out a few people specifically…
Erik Natzke: We always managed to connect and exchange ideas and push each other into the unknown. I truly respect his opinions.
Branden Hall: I'd find it hard to have gotten as far as I have with programming without the guidance of Branden Hall. He truly pushes me to be a better programmer (even though Eric Miranda and myself want to write the official Branden Hall, Demystified book). His knowledge of programming, computer science, design patterns, mathematics, and his energetic passion to immerse himself into your ideas is a gift.
John Maeda: I put him on the spot in Toronto; I said I thought he was the front man in our rock band. A talented programmer, a beautiful designer… but he also has written so eloquently about our community, has really brought it into the spotlight, and has given many of us the platform to show our work to a broader audience.
Stefan Sagemeister: Stefan has told me about his experiences learned from Tibor Kalmen, and my conversations with Stefan have been the same for me. How I conduct my studios philosophy and business is based on conversations I've had with Stefan. For me he's the perfect role model; he's the guy you could only hope to become. I first met Stefan in Singapore and I found him sitting on the ground, in a courtyard, surrounded by 40 people, whom he didn't know, talking about design, answering questions, listening to other peoples stories. I guess I didn't expect him to be so humble and accessible. He's simply a beautiful human and designer.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Texture, collage, color and randomness; he's the man, and it's sad to have lost him so young.
Cy Twombly: I wish I could write programs that captured the tactility and flow of his paintings and drawings (specifically "Poems to The Sea").
Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800): I strive daily to create a compositional harmony that exists in Ito's work. Chaos, calm, space, color, flow, texture, form, level of craftsmanship, and the obsession of the details are the goals I desire to attain in my own work.
Mathew Barney: Thank God someone gives you money to make art, you crazy fucker. I got sober 14 years ago, and thanks to you, a mind-altering experience is only an installation/performance away.
Eric Miranda: "So, there's that one." Eric's my Best Friend and personal Sherpa "" he's turned me on to Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead, and Napolean Hill's book Think and Grow Rich (my 2 bibles). He calls me too much, calls me on my bullshit, and speaks to me without filter. Someone I admire him so much I'd put his needs ahead of my own. He's also a truly gifted musician. Watching his band MingDynasty evolve and being involved in his creative process has been an honor.
JS: Where did the name "PrayStation" come from, and what are some interesting things that have developed from the site?
JD: My first computer was the Commodore 64. Ever since the C64 I've been collecting gaming consoles, and for my website I wanted to pay homage to gaming but also have it be a play on words. So I kicked around ideas like dreamblast/dreamcast, nofriendo/nintendo, and praystation/playstation. I finally picked PrayStation because I thought it pays homage to gaming, and also has that play on words, but also has this semi-religious undertone (which I thought was hysterical).
Year one of PrayStation played on these ideas. It was about video games with religious undertones. For example, Virtual Voodoo, a collaborative project between Richard Pasqua and myself, was a Director APP that allowed you to put someone's name on a Voodoo Doll, poke the doll with pins, and then mail the results as a greeting card.
After a year of this I felt the work becoming hollow inside me. It would never be about my own artistic endeavors, it would only steal from popular video game iconography and mash it up. So PrayStation year two presented itself as a calendar based diary (pre-blogs) within which I'd daily archive the things I was experimenting with. I'd offer almost everything I was experimenting with as open-source downloads. I was teaching new people Flash and I was learning from other Flash developers and programmers. PrayStation ran for several years under this format and in 2001 won the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz Austria. Winning the Golden Nica gave me this feeling that I had taken PrayStation as far as it could go, so three days after returning from Linz I took the site down. The archives are still up, but if I decide to return to PrayStation I would need to work out a new concept and format.
JS: What is the concept behind once-upon-a-forest.com, and what is the site accomplishing?
JD: While PrayStation was a place for Joshua Davis to work out ideas, Once Upon a Forest was a place for me to get away from Joshua Davis. I created a character, Maruto, who has certain rules and parameters, and I create work through this character. Much like an actor gets into character and acts in a movie for 2 hours, I've been getting into this character for the past 9 years (since 1999).
PrayStation was about the research and development of ideas using programming. These ideas didn't have much of a visual style, though, so Once Upon a Forest is a place where I can take ideas I learned on PrayStation and use them to create visual design.
At the time the trendy thing was to have a short catchy web address like pop.com, boo.com, etc. So in response to this I wanted to register as once-upon-a-forest-and-many-blades-of-grass-ago.com, only to find out that, at the time, there was a 32 character limit to a domain name. I dropped "-and-many-blades-of-grass-ago" and settled for www.once-upon-a-forest.com.
The current build of once-upon-a-forest.com contains 23 plates of artwork generated by programs I've written, and if you view the source on the site, there are comments in the HTML that outline the concept and foundation of the project.
Does it accomplish anything? For me? Absolutely! A personal project where there's no budget, no deadlines, no client, etc. a place where I can meditate and work out visual ideas.
JS: It seems as though, with any job, the goal is to get the day's work done, then make it home as quickly as possible. You must have crazy workdays, yet you're consistently involved in personal side projects. Where would you say the energy, creative and otherwise, for all of this comes from?
Nope, no crazy work schedule – I work Monday through Thursday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Fridays I teach at the School of Visual Arts from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Remember that my studio consists of 3 people, so if we have more than 3 or 4 projects in for the year we're slammed. The rest of the time we spend working on research and development. It's this experimentation that will later become the foundation for future projects.
The personal side projects I engage in — like gallery shows, installations, and performances — give my studio an opportunity to showcase our design in an art context. A kaleidoscope engine for Motorola became the foundation for showing new artwork in the engine in an exhibition at TAG in the Hague Netherlands. Personal projects like limited edition prints also supply the studio with a bit of revenue here and there and is also a nice break from doing corporate commissions. Limited editions also help me get my work off the screen and into the hands of people who want to hang it on their walls. Getting these programs into an edition also timestamps a visual aesthetic of the algorithm I've written and also timestamps a moment in time in the program's animation/evolution.
Teaching at the School of Visual Arts also helps me pass what I know and have been through on to a new generation. This exploration helps them arrive at new ideas and processes that they might not have initially had the opportunity to utilize (teaching painting majors to program; FUN). Watching 20 new students each semester work through the same problems I went through, yet arriving at the solutions via diverse paths, also helps me to see different paths towards common goals.
JS: You've been know to prefer clients to stay out of the creative process while working on jobs- why do you feel this way, and how do clients generally respond to this?
JD: Ha, let me clarify this a bit. In the past I worked for a studio and we had a situation happen with a particular client. This client was trying to control the creative process so much that they nullified anything exciting from ever happening. So we fired the client. This situation was mentioned in an interview I did for the Industry Standard Magazine. This interview was read by CNN, and then CNN asked if they can come film a spot for a program of theirs called "Business Unusual." (And the rest is history.)
To this day, I still have people who contact the studio with an RFP that lists several projects, saying things like, we'd like to take this from this project, and this from this project, and maybe this could happen from this project when this happens from this project. We respectfully decline these projects. If you want a project that looks like another project than the client should hire the studio that did the project they want to replicate.
I'd like for my studio and the projects we take on to attempt to innovate and not replicate — set the trend, rather than following it. A lot of time this refers to the fact that clients often aren't thinking about innovation, they're just looking at what's already been done. My studio is in the business of trying new and unexpected things. If my client makes shoes, they should make shoes. If my client makes shoes, and they act like a design agency, then they're blocking the design agency from being the design agency.
Because I've been in this business long enough, I'm pretty fortunate to have worked up a reputation of working my ass off if you give me the freedom to present new ideas. So now most of my RFPs usually present a theme, I have free reign to work out ideas, and my clients are receptive to the collaborative process.
JS: Are you working on any new projects you can tell us about?
JD: A few things: Working with Thinkware in Korea to do graphics for a car GPS system; working with Absolut in Sweden on their campaign "In an Absolute World"; Commonwealth and myself had our show, Tropism, showcased at Art Basel in Miami (as part of the "Fragiles" show curated by Die Gestalten Verlag); the past few months I've been working closely with Umbra in Toronto to create a new visual line of contemporary design products for the home; and I've decided to embark on the arduous task of porting my entire portfolio to wordpress. I've had a great time getting back into CSS and PHP and hacking wordpress to get it to do things that's a bit of a juggle using Flash and XML. The CMS and CSS possibilities of WordPress make it too easy — hooray for easy — to update.


text: OK, I'm finally getting around to putting up my "home" page! I live in southeastern Connecticut, halfway between Boston and New York. We're on the coast, a stone's throw (and we've got plenty of stones!) from Long Island Sound, at the eastern end where there is free passage to the Atlantic Ocean. The area is old New England, one of the earliest towns in Connecticut and therefore a very old piece of this relatively young country. The city was started in 1646 as a corn-farming colony called Pequot Colony. The name New London came along years later, after the colonists applied to the King of England, declaring themselves worthy of this hefty name. Some of the streets in town, including the one I live on, were laid out as early as the 1600's. Through the 1700's and mid 1800's the city grew into an important whaling port and shipping center, carrying the trade of the day, be it rum, wood, coal, whale oil, or passenger service. There has always been an important junction here of land and sea travel. The Thames River (not pronounced Tems as its British counterpart is) was the last piece of the puzzle for continuous rail service when its first bridge was built in 1886. That bridge was briefly the longest train bridge in the country, hard to imagine now but today we have far better construction technology. Today the city lies on the major train line from NY to Boston, carries freight north on two separate lines to different parts of Canada and northern New England, has a major deepwater port, pier, and warehouse facility, and joins together passenger service from rail, taxi, bus, and ferry service to 4 ports in 3 states! In town is the Coast Guard Academy, where young men and women train to be skilled officers. America's Tall Ship, the Eagle (actually a WWII war prize we confiscated from the Germans!) is home-ported here and is a daily sight in our harbor. There is a working Coast Guard station with working vessels, and soon to be built the National Coast Guard Museum! Across the river in Groton is the US Navy Submarine Base New London (NLON) and directly across from our city piers is one of only two plants in the country where our nuclear submarines are built, Electric Boat (EB, part of General Dynamics). These days, its comforting to know that EB is actually hiring skilled workers! Submarines are seen at least weekly departing the river for secret missions, and heading up the river on returns from successful sea trials and long deployments. There are often families waiting to wave off or welcome home the sailors from various waterfront points. It's a sight you can see in few other places in the country, and I'll bet darn few of them can you watch from a waterfront deck enjoying a coffee and danish in the bright morning sun. The streets in New London are mostly old and narrow. A lot have cobblestones or something worse underneath. The city does enforce building codes requiring granite curbs on all streets throughout downtown, which maintains a certain vintage look to the place. They've also put in a lot of old cast-iron style lamps along with underground utilities throughout downtown. Here's my place and my street: My house is from the 1890s. The house to the left of me is from 1850, and the one to the right, from about 1800. My hosue was a "fill in" on a postage stamp of a lot, but I have everything I need without any grass to mow. The end of my street has the oldest house in the city, from 1650, and the second oldest, built by the 2nd generation of the same family. The entire area was once farmed, and old streams once ran down the hills here to a big cove in the middle of the city. This cove has been mostly filled in, and turned into a major section of downtown. I work in a paper mill, in a nearby town. This mill is the oldest continually operating paper mill in the country. The old paper machine, in use from 1870 to 1995, made box cardboard, like for cereal boxes. Grey stuff with white facing that can be printed on. They made the boxes, printed and punched them, and shipped out to manufacturers. They also used to pollute the local river with waste. The new paper mill, a huge structure up behind the original, makes brown paper for cardboard boxes. We no longer produce the boxes but other locations of our company make boxes, and we supply dozens of other box plants around the east and into Canada. All of our product is recycled from old boxes, and we even use reclaimed water from the town. I do maintenance here and work on electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems, as well as keep forklifts running when I have to. I ride my Worksman INB around in the plant as an efficient way to travel to different parts of the plant quickly. Getting back to New London... One of the best times of year to be here is in July, when we host Sailfest. It's a big party downtown where all the streets are blocked off and there are vendors and food and rides. It's a 3- day festival leading up to a huge fireworks display on Saturday night. There are bands playing on 3 stages and the entire waterfront park area is filled with 200000 people visiting to see the fireworks display over the river. If you've never seen fireworks done over a big harbor like this, the sight will be one you'll never forget. This year, I managed to get into a secret spot between the train tracks and the Coast Guard piers. There was a small rocky beach with nobody in front of me, and I got better pictures than the local paper. That spot is actually quite close to a state park with this memorial, which is the Merchant Marine WWII memorial. Thats all in a section of town known as Fort Trumbull, which unfortunately is also where New London won, but the people lost, in a civil lawsuit that went all the way to the federal Supreme Court. That was all about the state power of eminent domain. Let me tell you, it's stressful being a test case. The fort and state park itself are beautiful. The rest of the neighborhood is a wasteland. Part of it is where the CG will build their museum, and the one standing office building to the left in the above picture, is the only sign of success in the region. Nice: Not nice: There's much more to tell, about art galleries, successful building restorations, cool bars, a sweet beach at the south end of the city, great restaurants, and a performing arts theatre which is second to none. But like this post, it's a lot squeezed into a small space. We're only 6 square miles, and with 27000 residents it's pretty packed. I will update this with more pics as I locate them. Hope you all enjoy it. Rat Rodders and other friends are always welcome to visit whenever they're in the area! --Rob (NLCTVWguy)


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Santa Barbara Elopement from TEAM Hair and MakeupAs I sit here at my computer on a otherwise normal Monday afternoon, tears are slowly trickling down my face. Those tears? They are from reading this Bride's description of not only her beautiful big day, but also her love.
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text: This is a community service post on things you should never say to your spouse or significant other. It is meant to be humorous of course, but real advice is always welcome to. I will start with a few. 1. Yes, those jeans do make you look fat. 2. I love you for your money. 3. I do. 4. I left work early and went drinking with the boys. 5, Yes, her boobs are bigger than yours.


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by Griffin Smith May 20, 2008
The act of putting white pre-chewed gum into a buddie's ear while he sleeps, then Jazzin in it to seal it off. By the time they wake, it'll be set, and partially solid.
While your friend name is sound asleep after passing out at a party you are thinking of giving him a White Stallion. You stick your peice of chewed white gum in his ear. Soon after, you ejaculate in the same ear to seal it off. He wakes up in the morning not able to hear anything through that ear, he wonders why...
by Erichcc April 03, 2007


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Admissions · Advising · Catalog · Financial Aid · Registrar · Scholarships
Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice
Welcome to the Criminal Justice Bachelors of Science Programs
Dr. Alex del Carmen
Executive Director and
Professor of Criminal Justice
Tarleton State University is nationally recognized in the field of academic education. The Bachelor of Science degree is designed to merge academic knowledge with applied experience. The program offers courses encompassing a variety of components that prepare students for career entry, promotion, federal employment and/or graduate study.
Admission Requirements
The Bachelor of Science degree is structured as a 120 credit program. Admissions to the Texas A&M University System and any of its sponsored programs is open to qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or educationally unrelated handicaps. Classes are offered at the main campus in Stephenville, the Forth Worth, Midlothian and Waco campuses. Many classes are offered online.
The program has nationally recognized faculty members who are known for their teaching, research and experience. Classes are taught and internships are directed and supervised by highly credentialed academics. Many professors have backgrounds and practical experience in areas of policing, corrections, security, military, law, probation and homeland security. The scholars teaching in this broad-based degree program prepare students to enter a chosen profession, law school or a graduate program with appropriate skills and confidence.
Texas is Changing
Over the last decade Texas has experienced an increase in population, development and commerce. Criminal Justice and homeland security issues and problems have become more complex. The challenges associated with this change directly affect the Criminal Justice system including new law enforcement issues, lack of correctional resources, cultural conflicts and international urban stress. These challenges are among the many that contribute to necessary transformation, change and progress for personnel within the Criminal Justice system.
The Criminal Justice degrees provide qualified students with an educational environment that is rarely available at other colleges and universities. The highly credentialed and practical experienced faculty are coupled with a curriculum that has been designed to provide students with a relevant quality education.
Tarleton State University is a supporter of, and participant in, the process of providing higher education to present and future employees of the Criminal Justice system. It is committed to providing a quality education to the men and women seeking to enter, improve, or advance in this honorable profession.


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The famous 24 hour race, a gruelling test of man and machine. A race so long that 23 hours can go right but in the end you still might not survive. Taking place at the Cirque De La Sarthe in France this race has been considered the most prestigious form of racing in the world for manufacturers. Le Mans stands next to Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship in europe for history and just as Rallying is unique for the different distances and terrains and Formula 1 is unique for its driver skill and technology Le Mans is known for its long distances and great engineering.
Current Champions ADT Champion Audi
Joining the ranks of the famous Bentley Boys,
the Aston Martin DBR1, Ferrari, Ford and Porsche.
Joining the ranks of the famous Bentley Boys,
the Aston Martin DBR1, Ferrari, Ford and Porsche.
by GMQ July 14, 2005
Cleveland Steamer Plush
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
Endurance road race with 4 classes of cars running at the same time. Located in France, the original Lemans has spawned the American Lemans Seris (ALMS) and such terrific automobiles as the Audi R8, Corvette C5R, and Prodrive 550 Maranello. Real racing, not Nascar oval track.
by Anonymous October 29, 2003
A 24 hour endurance autorace in France. Ironically, it is usually taken over by foreigners. Dominating teams are/were the Bentley Boys from England, the Ford GT40 teams from the USA, the Audi teams from Germany, and the Corvette C5R teams from the USA. A famous movie was made based on the race.
by KlubMarcus August 04, 2005
"I'm going to the movies with my leman later tonight"
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Houghton to lead Airbus Training Center in Miami
With more than 30 years of commercial and military flight operations experience, Joseph T. Houghton, 52, will join the Airbus Americas leadership team as Vice President of Training and Flight Operations Support, effective May 7, 2013. Houghton will oversee financial and technical operations at the Airbus Training Center in Miami to fulfill customer requirements for flight and maintenance training throughout the Western Hemisphere. The position reports to Ken McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Customer Services at Airbus Americas.
Houghton joins Airbus after an illustrious career in commercial aviation that spans three decades. He most recently served as Vice President of Flight Operations and Director of Operations at Spirit Airlines, where he was responsible for strategic oversight and direction of flight operations, including the operations control center, training department, standards and quality assurance, flight dispatch, FAA regulatory compliance, operations engineering and crew resource department. Prior to his tenure at Spirit, Houghton founded and served as President and General Partner of the aviation certification consultancy group Locked On. Houghton was also a founding officer and Chief Pilot at Virgin America, where he led the airline's Operations Control Center, and was an Assistant Chief Pilot at US Airways.
Before working in commercial aviation, Houghton served for the Maryland Air National Guard for more than 20 years, achieving several notable ranks, including Lieutenant Colonel, Squadron Commander, Operations Officer and Flight Commander. Houghton also completed two operational tours in Bosnia and one in Iraq.
With nearly 12,000 flight hours, Houghton is a graduate of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He resides in South Florida with his wife Elizabeth and three children.
"We couldn't be more pleased that someone with Joe's stellar career in aviation will now be leading our training operations in Miami," said Barry Eccleston, President and CEO of Airbus Americas. "With increasing customer requirements for quality flight and maintenance training, Joe is perfectly suited to ensure our customer needs are met and exceeded."
The $50 million Airbus Training Center in Miami provides training for Airbus customers' flight and cabin crew, as well as maintenance personnel. The custom-designed, 110,000-square-foot complex has a total of six full-flight simulators, as well as cabin door and slide trainers, state-of-the-art computer-based training classrooms and aircraft system trainers.
More than 1,000 trainees take Airbus courses annually at the Miami training center under the direction of more than 100 Airbus employees. Most of the facility's trainees come from Airbus airline operators in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
Airbus manufactures the most modern and eco-efficient family of airliners available, ranging from 100 to over 500 seats. At its facilities in Wichita, Kansas and Mobile, Alabama, Airbus Americas helps engineer the entire product line. Additionally, Airbus supports, trains and sells to customers in the Americas from its centers in suburban Washington D.C. and Miami. Airbus has spent more than $140 billion in the U.S. since 1990 with hundreds of American suppliers in more than 40 states.