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TORRINGTON -- John Henry Decker, a Republican running for Connecticut's 1st Congressional District, made himself publicly available Tuesday, promoting his plan of improving Washington politics through a platform that includes cutting governmental jobs and spending, repealing the Affordable Care Act and relying on the federal government not to create jobs, but to create a workable economic climate.
Decker will face-off with Democratic incumbent John Larson, who hasn't lost his seat to Republican contenders since 1998. The 1st District encompasses the larger land mass of Torrington, all of Winchester and Colebrook, then cuts across the northern border of Connecticut in a gerrymandered fashion to hook around, inclusive of Windsor Locks, Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester, down to Kensington and looping back up to Bristol.
Although the district hasn't gone to a member of the GOP since 1959, Decker is coming into a race he said took him some time to consider, but feels the push is worth fighting for.
"I'm kind of an unknown candidate," Decker admitted, adding later that, "It's kind of a shame I have to do this."
But Decker is setting his aim at Larson, whom he deemed a "career politician" by pushing his platform of cutting governmental spending, removing a number of bureaucratic jobs in the public sector, repealing Obamacare, leaving education decisions up to state authorities and stimulate economic growth not by governmental-created jobs, but by initiating an encouraging economic climate.
Decker, an financial advisor in his mid-forties, said economic growth can come through cutting the corporate tax rate and removing tax loopholes he believes were created to address lobbyist concerns. Decker additionally supports domestic drilling, opening up the Keystone XL pipeline and to stop using "crony capitalism" by awarding federal dollars to solar energy companies like Solyndra -- a topic House Republicans tackled Tuesday, voting to block similar future Department of Energy-backed loans for companies. Although the "No More Solyndras Act" passed the GOP-dominated House of Representatives, it isn't expected to get through the Democratic U.S. Senate.
"We've got to reduce governmental regulations on businesses," Decker said to the meager group assembled at Northwest Connecticut's Chamber of Commerce conference room.
The roundtable discussion, which numbered about a dozen participants including press and Chamber executives, was the first of six candidate forums of similar nature. 5th District candidates Elizabeth Esty and Andrew Roraback will take their turns on Sept. 25 and Oct. 2, respectively; followed by U.S. Senate candidates Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy on Oct. 9 and Oct. 23, respectively; while Decker's opponent Larson will appear on Oct. 16.
State legislators are expected to discuss their opinions on Oct. 4.
"I know what's going on," Decker said. "I just couldn't sit back and let this continue.
Adding later, "This has to be done. We have to realize what's going on in this country," Decker said. "Our politicians are failing us."
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24th November We returned to the embassy to complete the applications, then drove to El Mansouria, where we stayed at a campsite. Not only did we get showers, the water was hot!
25th November We took the train into Casablanca. I went around the medina with Alyson and Carr, then up to the Grand Mosque Hassan II with Carr. Unfortunately we couldn't do the tour around the inside of the mosque (open to non-muslims, which is rare) as we had arrived just before prayers. I then went to the Blarney Irish bar to meet up with Dan, Gillian, Daz and Mark to watch the Spurs vs West Ham game. The had beer on tap, and supplied us with free food throughout! We returned via crazy taxi-ride to the campsite, where I picked up my laundry, which hadn't been dried. Our tents had dried out, though!
27th November We returned to the Ivory Coast embassy, where we entertained ourselves by doing limbo by the truck.
28th November We put the tents away dripping wet. It was bitterly cold again. We set off on a different road to the gorge, but soon had to turn around again when we hit snow at approx 1600m altitude. We set off for Marrakech, stopping for lunch at a supermarket. I got locked in the toilet, but managed to spring the lock with a credit card. We camped outside Marrakech.
30th November Back to the centre of Marrakech and the medina and square. Cheap food again, but this time in torrential rain. Back to our now drenched campsite, and wet tents.
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By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Once again the fans have spoken.
For the third time in the last two years, a major professional sport was shut down.
And for the third time in the last two years, the fans have protested by … showing up.
In other words, the leagues really don't need to learn anything from their mistakes. The players, the same thing.
Sports in America is bigger than labor disputes, bigger than owners and bigger than players.
Last year football took some time off early, but opened the season on schedule. Despite early fan grumblings, they showed up and watched the games just like always.
By the time the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, all was forgotten and forgiven.
Even this year, when the officials were replaced, that was forgiven, though some of the calls the subs made will never be forgotten.
This is not just football either.
The NBA took on water last year, holding up the start of its season until Christmas Day thanks to a lockout/strike/work stoppage. But the league hardly sunk.
When the finger-pointing had ended and all the signatures were signed on the dotted lines, the game hardly missed a beat.
LeBron James won his title and the fans watched, both in person and at home. The NBA Finals proved witness to the fact the fans had forgotten or forgiven. Maybe both.
Now came the biggest of these tests — hockey.
No longer getting the attention it once received, the NHL had another ugly labor dispute.
Back in 2004, the league was forced to cancel its entire season when the players and owners were at a impasse. With the season lost, the professional sport in America looked doomed.
Yet the fans saved it from itself, showing up the following year and telling the players and owners they were over the mess the two sides had created.
But you figured not again. So when the two sides were at each other one more time this summer, you figured the sport was doomed.
Not so.
After 119 days and the loss of 510 games, the season finally got started last Saturday. Those expecting to see empty arenas were surprised.
The buildings were jammed, the noise at record levels and the fans happy to forget and forgive. They just want their hockey.
And you wonder why nobody takes the fans seriously any more.
Professional sports, both players and owners, have long turned their backs on the fans. They have created new stadiums where big business goes to mix and mingle while cutting a few more deals.
The average guy who wants to take his kids to the places he watched games with his parents have long been priced out of the market.
But you would think that this, with all the ugliness of a mid-70s hockey brawl at center ice would have led to at least a little booing from the fans. If so, I didn't hear it.
The crowds rose to welcome their boys back on the ice.
The buildings were packed once again and the buzz was back in the air. In fact, with the season cut from 82 to 48 games, there was an added sense of urgency that filtered through the arenas.
The fans realize that every game in this shortened season means that much more in the standings.
The NBA learned this last year, when they cut games off their schedule and it worked.
This goes to show you that life is a lot like sports, the rich get richer.
And the fans, they keep coming back for more.
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Here's all you need to know about the Miami Dolphins' outrageous scheme to publicly finance renovations at Sun Life Stadium:
Donald Trump thinks it's a great idea.
The team features a quote from the ubiquitous gasbag in a big advertisement touting the football stadium makeover.
They've also attacked auto tycoon Norman Braman, who fought a fierce fight against the Marlins Stadium rip-off, and is poised to do the same against Sun Life.
The Dolphins insist their stadium package isn't nearly as stinky as the one that produced the new baseball park in Little Havana. They say Sun Life needs $199 million in state funds and tourist-tax revenues as part of a $400 million project to upgrade jumbo monitors, reconfigure the seating and construct an open-air canopy.
The team plays only eight times a year at Sun Life, unless it makes the playoffs, but the renovation isn't being done for local die-hard fans. The mission is to attract another Super Bowl.
And, just like the Marlins, the Dolphins will do anything to prevent a public referendum on the project. They know it's unpopular. They know it would get crushed at the polls.
The team's only hope is to keep the decision with the politicians, whose judgments can be cosmically affected by lobbyists, campaign donations or VIP treatment in a skybox.
That's how the Marlins ballpark got built — by strenuously avoiding the voters, while avidly courting city and county commissioners.
Supporting that deal was one reason Carlos Alvarez, then Miami-Dade's mayor, got recalled from office. He has since taken up bodybuilding, which is one way to discourage former constituents from hassling him about the stadium.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is trying to distance himself from the Marlins debacle in a PR blitz. He proposes using public dollars to finance 49 percent of the football stadium renovations, compared to the 75 percent public funding of the Marlins' stadium and parking garages.
However, the new baseball facility belongs to the public, at least on paper. Ross privately owns Dolphins stadium.
He wants a $3 million annual subsidy from the state's general fund (to cover the team's property taxes), and an overall hike in Miami-Dade's mainland hotel tax to 7 percent from 6 percent.
That extra 1 percent would go toward remodeling. Ross says he'd commit $201 million in private funds, although some of that would likely come from the NFL's brimming coffers.
Despite anemic attendance, the Dolphins are still making a profit. Yet the team also has a heavy debt load, partially left over from a $210 million face-lift done in 2007 by then-owner Wayne Huizenga.
Annual debt payments are soon set to jump from about $9 million to $20 million, but Dolphin executives assert that no money from the proposed new project would be used to pay down the old loans.
No matter how you dress it up, Braman is right — it's just welfare for billionaires. He speaks from experience, having accepted public funds to add stadium skyboxes in Philadelphia when he owned the Eagles.
In city after city, tax money has been used to subsidize the sports palaces of wealthy team owners. And one economic study after another shows that the promised windfall never materializes, and that state and local governments end up getting screwed.
Yet the scam never changes. Seriously — we're supposed to be grateful that the Dolphins want the public to pay for only 49 percent of the stadium upgrade?
Taxpayers are gagging, but guess what? Recently, the Miami-Dade commission voted 9-4 to ask the Legislature to pass a bill launching the Dolphin stadium project.
The resolution is nonbinding, though portentous. The county's already sitting on a dog-pile of debt from the baseball fiasco, yet nine gullible commissioners are ready to take on a football subsidy.
If this boondoggle goes through, they could all end up pumping iron at the same gym with ex-mayor Alvarez.
The current mayor, Carlos Gimenez, has been instructed to commence negotiations with the team. Gimenez, who won office because of his staunch opposition to the Marlins project, has vowed not to let the Dolphins obtain a similar deal.
There's only one way to make sure that won't happen: Put it on a ballot.
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When it comes to basketball betting at Diamond sportsbook there are a lot of options to consider. You can bet sides and totals, money lines, halftimes, quarters, futures, propositions and more. And these options are available for NBA betting, college basketball betting and not to be left out is WNBA betting and European basketball betting.
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Football is still the king when it comes to betting on sports, but you can make a pretty penny by wagering on basketball as well. Hoops has been getting more and more popular every year as basketball has some of the more recognizable stars in the world of sports, which means there is a larger spotlight on their teams and their odds.
Here are the three league you need to pay attention to when betting on basketball in North America along with some details about each of them.
The NBA is obviously at the top of the list as it is the top level of basketball not only in the United States, but in the world. It was founded in 1946, but started to get steam in the 1970s and then there was the boom of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era in the 1980s, which went into the Michael Jordan era of the 1990s and here we are.
Now, the game is dominated by the likes of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and a deep pool of talent (arguably the deepest in the history of the NBA), and you can find odds on the NBA all year around, from futures on the NBA championship for all 30 teams to game-by-game odds and player props for their season, which is November to June.
There are many ways to be on the NBA, which includes betting on the outright winner of games, who will cover the spread as well as totals (the combined score of both teams). One of the most popular ways to bet on basketball these days – all types – is live in-game betting as it allows you to bet on the action as the games are going on.
If you're looking for something a little more long-term, you'll find different types of odds in the preseason such as who'll win the championship and odds on how many wins a team will have. Those types of bets usually offer a bigger payout than anything else but keep in mind that they also take a long time to settle. Your bet will be pending until the season is played out and your bet is fully decided.
The WNBA is the women's edition of the NBA and it came to be in 1996 as the NBA wanted to expand the women's game. Eight of the 12 teams in the league share an arena with their NBA counterpart, and there are a number of players worth watching for young girls to look up to as well, such as Maya Moore, Tina Charles and Elena Delle Donne, along with many more.
Like the NBA, the WNBA gets most of their talent from the college ranks, but more foreign players are starting to come from overseas as they look to extend their professional career. Again, you can find championship futures as well as player props and daily odds for their season, which is usually held from June to September.
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This was just posted by @theanonmessage, a twitter account affiliated with Anonymous' Operation Ferguson, a member of which I interviewed last night. According to @theanonmessage, this recording contains audio excerpts from St. Louis County police dispatch over several hours on August 9, 2014, the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. The dispatcher starts talking about the Brown shooting around the 10-minute mark, while intermittently handling other calls. See below the recording for an updating list of interesting moments, with time stamps included.
If you want to try to decipher the dispatch codes, here's a dictionary for that.
9:35: "Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control . . ."
10:58: "Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn't know any further. . ."
11:20: "We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting . . ."
11:30: "Be advised, this information came from the news . . ."
11:55: "We're just getting information from the news and we just called Ferguson back again and they don't know anything about it . . ."
20:00: ". . .destruction of property . . ."
21:55: "They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?"
43:55: "Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time . . ."
Update, 4:40 p.m. ET: I tried to verify the dispatch recordings with St. Louis County Police but their media contact, Brian Shelman, did not answer the phone and his voicemail was full.
Update 2, 5:05 p.m. ET: Mashable is confirming that the St. Louis County Police Department is "aware of this and currently investigating."
Update 3, 6:05 p.m. ET: A twitter follower of mine points out that the dispatch recording probably comes from Broadcastify, a database of public safety radio audio streams that's available to anyone who pays for a subscription. It's "far from a hack," he says.


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Article Date: 1886-1-17
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Duer Balloon and Promotions used my company and refused to pay when the job was complete. We worked seven hours and Mr. Duer would only pay for two hours.
I lost money on this job, and I still had to pay two men for seven hours, and pay for fuel.
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Tensions between Team Garbrandt and Team Dillashaw reached a boiling point on the sixth episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption.
Ramsey Nijem fights out of two submissions to earn
The animosity between Team Alpha Male's Cody Garbrandt and
Istela Nunes relishes her role as underdog heading into
Certainly not a robbery or miscarriage of justice but I think they got it wrong last night. I scored it a draw. Henderson won rounds 1, 2 and 3. Rua won rounds 4 and 5 with the 5th being scored 10-8.
If round 5 wasn't a 10-8 round then I don't know what is. Dan offered zero offense and spent nearly the entire round flat on his back, a good portion of it mounted.
The CSAC needs to take a serious look at the way they score fights as it seems they have a policy against handing out 10-8 scores.
I Dont like Hendo but Id give him this fight. The 5th round wasnt a fight at all they both just held each other.
Jordan Breen from sherdog scored it 47-47 DRAW
Fightmetric had it 47-47
Dave Meltzer had it 47-47
I know it's not the fight people want to talk about, but I couldn't believe Kampmann almost got another split decision. Apparently, it was later determined a mistake and a unanimous decision for Kampmann, but at the time, I was thinking, "who in their right mind scored that fight for Story?"
Great fight – Kampmann has a lot of potential.
With regard to the main topic, can't it be said if you were going to give Rua a 10-8 for the fifth, that Hendo should have gotten a 10-8 in one of the earlier rounds. I realize that Rua "knocked" Hendo down, but it wasn't really anything but a glance. It really did just seem like Hendo won that fight. (And just as an FYI, I am a huge fan of both of these guys, but do not go nuts over either of them, so I am not just trying to root for "my guy")
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From: Leigh Alexander
To: Quintin Smith
Subject: Re: Re: dyad
Quinns --
Oh, right, TWO buttons. How could I be even slightly confused when your explanation makes it sound so crisp and intuitive?
Some of my favorite games are the ones where it's hardest to explain why they're good. Or why I like them. So here's another question: Are "I like this" and "this is good" the same thing?
Because I'm having a hard time deciding something about Dyad. I want to say "it might be good, but I don't like it" or "I might like it, in spite of the fact it isn't good," and I can't decide which of these is true.
That's part of the reason I'm picking your brain about why you like it. Because it's so absurd it makes you laugh? That's what you said about music. You also said that about sex. Do you get the same absurd humor from sex as you do from, say, your vivid mental image of Brendan falling into a wet, rubbery cleft?
Maybe you really were a junkie as a kid and this is the consequence.
I think people laugh a lot to avoid intimacy. That's also why they get high, incidentally, because feelings are scary. That Bounce House was scary. Dyad is scary! Like a broken carnival ride. I don't think you were that far off.
As I write this you're at my place, in my living room on my marigold corduroy couch and you are making incredibly tortured noises. I can hear you even though my door is shut. You are distinctly not laughing. I once saw a guy shoot up at a party, rubber strap between his teeth. He made a noise like that.
So it gets you high to throw yourself against absurd infrastructures. Does that mean Dyad is a good video game? Do you like it?
If I went in there right now, slapped your face, erased all things Dyad from my PSN account, would any part of you, however small, experience secret relief?
Jonesing for your reply,
PS: "You've got to travel deeper down our tunnels?" What were you thinking when you wrote that?!
From: Quintin Smith
To: Leigh Alexander
Subject: Re: Re: Re: dyad
Dear Leigh,
I stand by the fact that sex is funny. It can be tender, yes. It's an expression of love, sure. It's also a haphazard meeting of tumescent organs and cardiovascular exercise that we should be warned about by our parents in the same breath as running with scissors. I know a guy who twanged his boner against a bedframe during sex and couldn't walk straight for a week.
As far as the question of whether "liking" something necessitates you thinking it's good, you like something that's a much stronger case study than Dyad. I enjoy Dyad, and think it's pretty good. You, though, will tell people you adore the Twilight books and films, even though you "know" they're shit.
You've told me you're interested in them for their cultural relevance, and how they represent a fantasy that's interesting for its disregard of contemporary feminism. But I don't think that's entirely right. I also know you love Kristen Stewart. I think your love of Twilight is complicated, but I think, Leigh Alexander: Pro Hipster feels the need to justify what she enjoys.
This is why Dyad bugs you. Is it cool? Well, it's got this badass logo, and it's kinda beautiful and abstract, but you're also repulsed by it. Is it a good game? You don't know, because it's not your thing. I love it because I like its intensity and enjoy chasing high scores, but you're on uncertain ground. Is it innovative? Hmm. Well, it's a tunnel racer. And they've been done before, but not for a while, so...?
In Tim Rogers' amazing Dyad infomercial there's the following exchange:
"Dyad will blow your mind."
"Will it give it back?"
I think Dyad's blown your mind, and you want it back. Or, to put it another way, you want to pin down a game that's more interested in being abstruse. Me? I'm happy to just laugh at it, to squirm beneath its neon, and call it a funny game.
Write me back!
From: Quintin Smith
To: Leigh Alexander
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: dyad
Whoa. You kind of went to a weird place fast -- I'm going to delicately ignore your friend's tumescent accident, and how you choose to get your cardiovascular exercise is entirely your business.
You brought up Twilight!! And KStew. Hang on. Need to Google some pictures of her before I can continue. Okay. Phew, needed a hit, good now.
Yes, I am a Twilight fan, despite the fact that by any metric, Twilight is shit. To any intelligent person, let alone to any forward-thinking feminist, Twilight is shit. But it's explosively popular shit. You might have noticed that I'm obsessively interested in finding out why other people like things, and so I dug into Twilight to find out why such shit was so explosive.
I decided it's because the story of an utterly plain, embarrassingly unremarkable girl stumbling helplessly into a war among supernaturally beautiful men who threaten her with their anger and sexuality is probably an escape for women from the powderkeg of modern feminism.
In an era where we must embrace the mantle of strength we've fought so long for and finally earned -- it's our responsibility, our obligation -- Twilight is a fantasy that lets some women admit that they're still scared of boys, that they might want a man to take care of them forever, even when sex is off the table.
That they might want to wear heels and not go in the scary house. Or to NOT be the one to buy the carnival tickets for the boys --
Er, um, where was I going with this?
Right. Dyad, but we need to talk about the "Pro Hipster" thing. "Hipster" is one of those words I don't really care for, because it doesn't really mean anything. On one hand, it accuses people of being defined by their external interests, of borrowing cultural signifiers without understanding what they mean.
But people tend to only accuse others of being hipsters based on some constellation of external factors ("aha, that young man's curly mustache is definitely 'ironic!'") when they can't possibly guess at what those things might mean to that person. Borrowing and repurposing aesthetics is an important way today's twenty-somethings define and understand each other in the social media age, anyway.
I don't really care for this conveniently-recent New York Times op-ed that seems to suggest that all cultural borrowing is cynical and insincere. But one thing it does do is come closest to defining what people mean when they say "hipster" -- a person who, when asked to explain why she likes something, can only shrug and say "because it's cool", and "because it's funny." Seeking good justification is kind of the opposite of a Pro Hipster trait.
If "hipster" is a thing, then it's someone who likes awful things because he thinks awful things are funny; someone who decorates himself with terrible allegiances from eras he never himself experienced because it helps him avoid intimacy and the frightening challenge of being truthful about what he really likes, loves, wants at present.
So back to Dyad, this terrible thing that you insist on locking horns with because it makes you laugh.
Yesterday you were playing it again, and you said something like how it looks like the kind of game people in the 1990s thought we'd be playing today: Abstract, inscrutable, minimalist, fast. The whole "whoa, he's in the game"-type stuff from the 1990s movies that began glamorizing gaming and normalizing futurism as totally hip and radical.
You even talked about how you wanted to do some kind of humor video where some neon hat guy in leather pants and goggles challenges a girl he wants to date by going "HEY BABY, DO YOU DYAD?" as a reference to that sort of era. I know how you liked Tim Rogers' humor video.
Weren't you four years old in 1990?
Holy shit, you're an ironic Dyad fan! You hipster!!
You like Dyad despite the fact it's got a poor experience curve, is weak at communicating with the player, has poor feel, has a weak matrix from which to derive a sense of mastery, weak at all the things I'd associate with a good game. I've decided I think it's actually ugly and uncool to look at, too. That MDMA aesthetic is for small-town kids, or something. It's tacky.
But I'm kidding about calling you a hipster. Your relationship with the game is clearly genuine and personal. It's pleasing you. And you know I refuse to write "reviews" most of the time because our relationships to games, whether they satisfy us or not, tend to have little to do with whether or not the game is shit.
I think "good or bad" is an irrelevant way to discuss games; it ignores the context of how we play them, think about them and talk about them. That's why I asked you to do these letters with me.
Talking with you helped me decide I don't like Dyad. Maybe you're right and it, like, totes burned a hole in my brain, brah. But I see why you like it, too. I like seeing you having fun, even if your fun seems to involve wincing, roaring, and laughing to yourself.
I consent to allow you to show me that last level you've been going on about.
Also, would you like to take me to the movies to see Breaking Dawn: Part 2?


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MO Mosque Burns For 2nd Time This Summer
A mosque in a Missouri town hard hit last year by a tornado has caught on fire for a second time this summer.
FOX News Radio's Paul Stevens reports:
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The Islamic Center of Joplin, Missouri burned to the ground early Monday morning. It's the second blaze to hit the mosque, which also suffered minor arson damage from a fire on July 4th. No arrests were made in that case despite a $15,000 reward from the FBI, $10,000 from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and security video of a man starting the fire.
The mosque's sign was also torched in 2008. The FBI has not determined whether Monday's fire is another case of arson.
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I want to make this point, but before I do, I want to make it clear that neither myself or my companion Vinny subscribe to Backpacker Pretention. It's not something we rate highly - any pretension that is, but particularly Backpacker pretension
We have met, for example, those that say things like "Oh, God, you're staying in a place listed in Lonely Planet? That's, like, so, I don't know..."
"What Lonely Planet's for?" We would ask at this point
And don't get us started on the "Oh, sure, yah, that's a nice place... but you really had to be there ten years ago, you know? Before it got too... you know".
It's the stupidity of it we can't stand. The self-fulfilling don't-go-to-nice-places-or-they'll-become-tourist-destinations twattery of the whole thing.
"Oh!", they would remark, looking up from their laptop, "you're staying at a hostel? What, with running water? I'm staying with a native tribe of wild field mice, we only eat things that die of natural causes... or, you know, cheese and stuff".
To really be in with these people you have to roll up to places at the beginning of time and barter a good price for a mug of primordial soup that at some stage in millions of years will evolve into a small stall selling chess sets and tea towels.
Anyway, that's out of the way
Dubrovnik, for example, is a hundred times nicer than Zagreb. Mostar puts Sarejevo to shame, although it's the latter that has been rebuilt after the war. And here in Romania, Brasov and Sinia are fantastic compared to the rather seen-one-eastern-european-city-seen-them-all Bucharest.
So if you have the mind to go, then you would do well to consider these places as they are gems..... Plus, there's nothing surer to piss off Pretentious Backpackers than beating them in a name-dropping game, so it's a win-win situation.
So we've been staying in Brasov, and yesterday we had a day trip to Sinia with some guys from the hostel. It's an hour on the train, and was reported to be much prettier than Bran Castle, where Vlad the Impaler lived and Stoker based Dracula. Although he had never been there.... and wrote the book in Whitby... and Dracula wasn't published in Romania until 1989.... but that's another story.
Stoker, that was, not Vlad. Vlad was rubbish too, but for different, impaling type reasons.
We hiked up a hill in Sinia to see a couple of castles that the Romanian King is taking back in a couple of weeks
We took a cable car up 1400 feet and then climbed a little higher (as there was a bar up there) to sit and look back out over the valley of Sinia. A ski resort in the winter, it's a beautiful thing to behold. The pictures don't really do it justice, but, well, what are you gonna do?
As we sipped our beverages and cooled down from the climb, and shared a silent moment looking over the rolling virgin forests and avalanche scarred mountainsides, Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World came on the radio.
The six of us sighed contentedly.
Then they played the Romanian entry from the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Sir Alex Ferguson will retire "after next season" due to health concerns, according to Dave Whelan, the Wigan Athletic chairman.
Whelan, who is a close friend of the Manchester United manager, told ESPN: "After next season, Sir Alex will call it a day. The pressure is telling, especially when you are at the top for so long. The older you get the harder it is to cope with all that pressure, and eventually it will affect you. Sir Alex is resilient and I know he will want to carry on until he drops, and I respect what he has achieved as everyone does."
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After Copenhagen's dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here's what happened.
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This hoodie just floated by my desk this morning and I must say – it is to good not to share. It features a water repellent bonded fleece exterior, warm cozy Sherpa lining throughout and A faux-fur hood brim for extra style point. To top it off all off the DC Trillion Hoodie also has zippered pockets and Media pocket for your for your phone or iPod. This DC Hoodie does run a tad small, so if your trying to decide between an L or an XL the XL.
Congrats go out to this Twitter Follow Friday Freebie giveaway winner, Tyler Morris. He won a collectors item autographed Forum Eddie Wall Pro Model Snowboard. Next week we're giving away a fresh DC Kupress Hoodie so be sure to follow us on Twitter, mention or retweet @houseboardshop for a chance to win.
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Then ride south for an hour to Kent to get Jake and Brett. They are ready and waiting by the curb. Sleeping bags, packs, oh geez boys, your packs will have to sit on your lap.
We cram everything in and the drive begins. We've got 75 miles to cover, over way-too-crowded mountain roads. Everybody is talking about school. High school, junior high, elementary, sports, ROTC, the WASL test. I'm beaming, my grandkids all are really SMART.
Oops, now we're hungry. Did I build lunchtime into our schedule? The traffic in Monroe isn't moving. Good grief please show us a sign.
Ah, there it is, the golden arches of Mickey D's. It feels good to get out of the car.


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Josephine County Records Inventory
County Budgets
Series documents the annual allotment of funds for county government operations as agreed to by the board of commissioners. Information includes total amount of funds budgeted for each office. Later budgets may include organizational charts and a narrative of each county office function.
Records at the Josephine County Courthouse, Clerk's Vault:
[County Budget-includes trial and estimated budgets], 1935-1950 (.50 cu.ft.);
[County Budget-title varies], 1944-1987 (ca.3 cu.ft.);
Josephine County Adopted Budget, 2008-2010 (3 volumes);
Josephine County Annual Operating Budget, 2000-2003 (3 volumes); 2004-2005 (1 binder);
Tax Levies and Budgets [County], 1913-1951 (.70 cu.ft.).
Records at the Josephine County Courthouse, Finance Department Office:
Josephine County Budget, 2006-present (6 binders).
Records at the Josephine County Courthouse, Finance Department Office, Vault:
Budgets [County-title varies], 1972-2008 (2 cu.ft.).
Records at the Josephine County Historical Society Barn, Records Storage Room:
Miscellaneous Items [Josephine County Budget], 1983-1985 (2 volumes).
Records at the Josephine County Web Site:
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Jay-Z May Have A Secret Love Child With Model Shenelle Scott
Every rose has its thorn, such is the case with Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby news. But before we get all preachy on Hova, let's remember what the source is: Star Magazine. The Daily Mail (those silly Brits) reported this as if it actually happened – which remains to be seen.
The trusty tabloid alleges that Jay-Z fathered a child with Trinidad model Shenelle Scott nine years ago, and that while Beyonce was furious at first, she's come to terms with it. Jay-Z acknowledges the kid as his own, and even gave Scott money to purchase a home for her and the boy to live in. FYI-Beyonce and Jay-Z, who watched the Jets play the Cowboys from the sidelines at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 11th, started dating eleven years ago.
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Malik Sayeed, he who thought he fathered the boy, told his father (who then told the magazine) that he had his doubts about being the father, mainly because the kid looked nothing like him. After a DNA test, it was determined that Jay was the father. Sayeed's dad said, "Shenelle told me that Jay-Z gave her $1 million to keep her mouth shut. My understanding is that he's paying her child support."
Another source told Star, "Everyone knew she was sleeping around and sleeping with Jay. There was a good chance it was his."


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Veterans Surprised with Silver Star Banner
They fought in America's wars that are more most recent and most distant in memory.
Two of North Central Florida's heroes-- linked forever by the memory of war... and the honor of their sacrifice.
A veteran of World War II and a veteran of Iraq thought they would be sharing their wartime experiences tonight.
TV 20's Duke Carter reports...the tables were turned.
"a hero, i am not a hero."
His friends say army Sgt. Caitlin Mixson of Williston is selling himself short.
"the guys losing their lives fighting for our country those are heroes."
After speaking about his experience in Iraq to the Military Support Group of Alachua County…
"we will be forever grateful."
Mixson was badly wounded in a roadside bombing in Iraq in 2007.
He was surprised with a new award to go along with the Silver Star he earned the Silver Star Banner.
"you goin make me wanna cry. "
But he wasn't the only one
"we'd like to present to you the silver star banner."
Marine veteran Bob Gasche also spoke about his experience.
He fought in the battle of Iwo Jima during WWII and the Korean War.
" one of the great privileges of my life to serve my country during WWII and the Korean War."
Both were surprised to receive their awards.
"it brought tears to my eyes and i don't cry, i'm a man."
"i had no idea this would take place so i'm truly honored this flag given me and this banner."
And they will be forever grateful to a community that supports those in combat.
Volunteers say they'll honor another veteran with the Silver Star Banner in April.
That ceremony will be a surprise as well.
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It is a fact that not all companies are healthy. Some are hanging by a thread, while others are breathing their last breath. Is it because of poor management or terrible working conditions? Is it a lack of monetary compensation? While all of these things contribute to the success or downfall of a company, the core problem of all these is the culture of a company or organization as a whole.
If you have studied management or attended management trainings and seminars, you will often hear experts say that productive employees are those who are empowered employees. This means that if a person knows his worth and value in a team, he will perform more efficiently and productively. This kind of empowerment comes from a strong and effective company culture. If you are a leader, how do you build such?
The first step to a successful company always starts on the leadership – the ability of the leader to understand and acknowledge the needs and desires of the people under him. A true leader will always take the time to ask what motivates a person. This is very crucial because each person is unique; therefore, it takes discernment to know what works for each by learning how to listen.
Listening, however, isn't enough. You also need to do something about it; thus, the next step is taking action to the problems and expectations that were presented to you. This part is crucial and the most difficult as it can overwhelm you to take action immediately. In order not to fail in this area, focus on each one and giving priority to the most important.
Once you are able to identify the needs and priorities of the company, do not be afraid to ask the cooperation of your employees. Gather their ideas and suggestions how to improve and strengthen the company. Once your employees feel that their opinions matter and that they are part of the success of the company, it will be easy to keep the ideas coming. Entertain all ideas even if you think differently about it.
You can further strengthen this collaboration by making them follow through their own ideas and suggestions. This, of course, happens under your guidance and leadership to avoid chaos. Get the idea across that you are willing to test their ideas using concrete methods to make it more effective and workable. Under this phase, make sure that you do not forget to properly reward and appropriately praise those people who really did well. On the other hand, do not fail to encourage those who don't to do much better next time as failure is not the end but another way of finding a more effective solution for success.


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Over at The Monkey Cage, Joshua Tucker wonders about the actual size of the daytime cable news audience: "When people say that cable news audiences are only in the hundreds of thousands, does that mean the same hundred of thousands? Or are lots of people watching infrequently?" His colleague Markus Prior answers:
We don't know for sure how the average audiences add up over the course of a day or a week because [cumulative] audiences are rarely reported by Nielsen. But it's a good guess that concentration is pretty heavy.
I think that's a good guess too. This is just anecdotal, but I recently received an email from a reader that began like this:
I just finished a two week visit by a family member of sorts who is about as standard issue Fox conservative as they come. He's 68, retired (since 49) and his daily regimen consisted of waking up and turning on Fox News / CNBC all day — with friggin 2 and 5 year olds running around. (News is not for children and Fox News in particular). At the end of the day, when I get home, he's armed with the talking points and diverts every conversation back to venting and victimization.
And this one from another reader who is temporarily living in his mother's home, where Fox News is "blaring off two TV sets in the house virtually 24/7":
Watching my mother go into a spin cycle with every new "revelation", it occurred to me that it is not even necessary for Fox to spin anything — their job is "rinse and repeat". The FNC watchers let their fevered imagination fill in the gaps, going way beyond FNC's feeble reporting when they describe the issue to their friends and relatives. Because FNC is always on, it is not necessary to actually watch and listen — one can pass in front of a TV, catch a glimpse and a few words of the topic du jour and just make up the rest.
Like I said, this is just anecdotal. But I suspect that Fox watchers (and perhaps other daytime cable news watchers) tend to be people who basically turn it on and listen all day as sort of background noise. If that's true, it means that Fox's daytime audience is (a) really, really small, and (b) almost purely made up of fever swampers. Plus, of course, a few hundred DC political junkies who don't realize how limited its reach is. I'd welcome any actual data that either confirms or contradicts this.


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Project Childhood launched in Lao PDR
An initiative to combat the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism sectors of the Greater Mekong sub-region was presented in Lao PDR. Project Childhood is a $7.5 million Australian AID (AusAID)-funded initiative focusing on Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam.
Project Childhood is implemented on the ground by UNODC, INTERPOL, and World Vision in two complementary pillars - the Protection Pillar and the Prevention Pillar. The Protection Pillar, being implemented by UNODC and INTERPOL, will strengthen the capacity of local law enforcement to identify, arrest and prosecute child sex offenders through a package of capacity building activities. The Prevention Pillar will be implemented by World Vision and will strengthen the protective environment for children in travel and tourism - including building community awareness and resilience to sexual exploitation of children.
Project Childhood was recently introduced with a workshop in Vientiane, the capital of Lao PDR. The 80 participants to the "Workshop on Anti Human Trafficking: Universal Periodic Review Recommendations and Combating Child Sex Tourism" included representatives from Lao PDR government ministries, international experts, and representatives from international and national governmental organizations and the media.
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First-year McNeese State baseball coach Justin Hill meets with his players during the first day of practice for the new season. (Rick Hickman / Special to the American Press)
Last Modified: Monday, January 27, 2014 12:59 PM
By Alex Hickey / American PressThe differences are subtle, such as the stenciling on the front window of the McNeese State baseball complex listing the years the Cowboys have won Southland Conference titles or reached NCAA regionals.
The message being delivered is clear, though: it is possible to win at McNeese.
No matter how subliminal, that positive reinforcement is something McNeese's players say they are taking to heart under rookie head coach Justin Hill. The Cowboys completed their first practice of the season on a crisp Saturday afternoon at Cowboy Diamond.
"It's definitely a new attitude," said senior outfielder Jackson Gooch. "There's a (heck) of a work ethic on this team this year. We've got a lot of upperclassmen on this team, and I think we're all in it for the same thing: make it as far as we can and make the most of these last years."
The team has already been acquainted with Hill's ways through fall practices.
"He's really good connecting with guys," Gooch said. "He's got a lot of good relationships with each and every one of these guys. You can tell everybody's reacting to his presence much better than we did last year. Everyone's happy and excited."
Gooch said the spirit of those fall workouts carried over.
"The pure competition carried over, for sure," Gooch said. "Everyone's fighting for spots."
Regardless of the circumstances, a coaching change usually brings a renewed sense of competition to a team.
Players who felt pigeonholed under their previous coach tend to feel they have something to prove to the new guy. And, if things are executed properly, that puts the pressure on entrenched starters to show they are worthy of being in the lineup every day.
Hill said he gets a sense that is what he is seeing.
"You're probably not going to see the same lineup Friday, Saturday, Sunday, because we're going to have more than nine guys who deserve to play," Hill said. "The hard part is finding ways for those guys to have roles, whether that be spot starts or late-inning defense."
He said he's particularly happy with the team's conditioning on Day 1.
"The kids were in good shape, which tells me they worked over the break," Hill said. "The biggest thing for us right now is reps. Like everyone else in the country, we've got three weeks to prepare."
The Cowboys had their opening day of practice pushed back a day due to Friday's winter weather, but in the long run they figure to have far more opportunities to get outside than season-opening opponent Chicago State.
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Date of Stay: May, 2009
This is a brand new RV park conveniently located off Exit 158 of I-65. Quiet country location even though it is close to the interstate. Everything is new and sparkling clean. The park is well laid out with easy access to the long pull-through sites. We were lucky to be the first customers at this great park. The owner was friendly and helpful. He bent over backward to make sure we had everything we needed for our stay. We will definitely stay again whenever we are in the area!
Date of Stay: March, 2007
Managers not very polite, They have a large pet restriction. A cat climbing on your vehicle and leaving a mess should be a restriction. I doubt a large pet is going to climb on your hood.
Date of Stay: January, 2005
We came to the I-35 RV Park for an eight-month stay while doing work at the Waco Airport. This is the cleanest, best laid-out, safest, least expensive park we have ever stayed at, and we have stayed in parks all over the country as we travel and work. The owners are pleasant, friendly and very helpful. They are constantly working on the facility to keep it clean and well-maintained. Just before we arrived in November they had just finished paving all the interior roads. The sites are level and graveled. We stayed in the back under the cover which helps protect our rig from the elements. We will be leaving in June for another job in Florida, we only wish we could take this park with us!


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Re: st: Nearest distance (spatial) and shp2dta question
Austin Nichols <email@example.com>
Re: st: Nearest distance (spatial) and shp2dta question
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:50:43 -0400
David Torres<email@example.com>:
Each of (1) and (2) is easy to do (if time-consuming) with a single
loop over observations.
Note that the main trick in my code was to do
a nonmatched -merge- to get both datasets in memory at once. You will
have to be a bit more clear about what you want to get more specific
advice: "calculate distances between census tract and county centroids
to the nearest [school] with population of the tracts or counties used
as weights" sounds like you want the final dataset to have one obs for
each institution with some kind of average distance to potential
students, but (2) says you want one obs per centroid. What are these
calculations to be used for? Maybe that answer will help clarify what
you need.
On (3), what data do you have? Polygon vertices? How big are the
polygons (i.e. is the curvature of the Earth important)? Is this for
calculating centroids for use in (1) and (2)?
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, David Torres<email@example.com> wrote:
> Three comments/questions:
> 1. I was just browsing the web looking for something similar to Cox's
> nearest .ado file and stumbled on the example Austin Nichols gave for
> calculating distances between two different sets of xy coordinates,
> originally from two different data sets. I am not familiar with the code he
> gave so I have to ask: Is there an .ado file that can do all that work for
> me? I mean, if I already have two data sets that I've merged, is there a
> simple command I can input that will give me additional distance variables
> to work with?
> What I'm trying to do is calculate distances between census tract and county
> centroids (for the entire US, AK, and HI) to the nearest postsecondary
> institution (of all types and by sector and control of institution: public,
> private, proprietary, pub2year, priv2year, prop2year, pub4year, priv4year,
> prop4year), with population of the tracts or counties used as weights.
> 2. I also would like to produce variables for the total number of
> institutions that fall within a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100 mile radius of
> each tract and county centroid.
> I can do all of this in ArcGIS, to be sure, but with eight years of data,
> and ten different .dbf/.shp files per year, this would be a tedious chore.
> I would prefer to spend an hour and write a .do file that will do in
> minutes what it will take hours to do in ArcMap/ArcInfo.
> 3. The shp2dta command produces xy coordinates for area centroids that I am
> not familiar with. Does anyone know if the code in the .ado file can be
> changed to produce what I want--regular xy or lat/lon coordinates?
> With regard to the first two parts of my questions, here is Austin Nichols'
> code, the first part of which I don't really care about:
<snip> Any help anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> David Torres
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Email Obfuscation
Email obfuscation is an attempt to make an email address difficult for spam bots to harvest and begin spamming. There are two forms of obfuscation: manual obfuscation and HTML-code obfuscation. In manual obfuscation, the user manually breaks up their email address using text that a human can easily read and decode but that wouldn't form a valid address a spam bot could harvest. Thus, an email address like firstname.lastname@example.com might be written like someguy AT somehost DOT org; a human could read that but it wouldn't register as an email address if a bot was scanning for a typical *@*.* email address format.
The other type of obfuscation, HTML-code obfuscation, relies on using the HTML codes for letters, numbers, and symbols (as opposed to plaintext) in order to throw bots off. Thus the same firstname.lastname@example.com would appear (in the HTML code of the web page) as
email@example.com. The benefit for this method is that it's easily read by humans with no amount of decoding and ignored by all but the most sophisticated spambots.
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An Enchanting Decanting Incantation
"And with these words shall a demon rise! Bodega Iaccarini Cabernet Sauvignon!"
You rang?
"It worked! It worked! I summoned you in a cloud of cedar, spice, and vanilla from the depths of the Stygian wastes beyond all that is-"
Look, I got things to do. What's it going to be?
"Uh, OK, uh, go forth and destroy my enemies!"
Not really my thing.
"All right, lemme see, uh, OK: bring the heart of my beloved under my irresistible sway."
Sorry, can't help you there either.
"So what can you do?"
Fill your palate with a balanced, intense flavor, pretty much. Oh, there might be some side effects, too: a sense of well-being, a loss of physical coordination, lowered inhibitions. Pretty standard stuff.
"Oh. Well, OK. I'll give that a try, I guess."
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Netflix gets Disney movie rights
Netflix's video subscription service has trumped pay-TV channels and grabbed the rights to show Disney movies shortly after they finish their runs in theaters.
The multiyear licensing agreement announced Tuesday represents a breakthrough for Netflix as it tries to add more recent movies to a popular service that streams video over high-speed Internet connections.
Netflix will have exclusive U.S. rights to offer the first-run movies through its streaming service during the period normally reserved for premium TV networks such as HBO, Starz and Showtime. That period starts about seven months after movies leave theaters. The exclusivity does not extend to DVDs, a service Netflix is trying to phase out.
FedEx to offer buyouts with up to 2 years' pay
FedEx said Tuesday that it will be offering some employees up to two years' pay to leave the company starting next year.
The voluntary program is part of an effort by the world's second-biggest package delivery company to cut annual costs by $1.7 billion within three years.
The restructuring is a response to a shift by customers away from premium package-delivery services and toward slower, less expensive modes.
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Darden Restaurants Inc. is cutting its profit forecast for the year, with the owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster blaming failed promotions and negative publicity generated by its tests to limit health care costs for workers.
The company's stock tumbled nearly 10 percent.
Darden Chairman and CEO Clarence Otis said Tuesday that the company's promotions didn't resonate as well with "financially stretched" diners as those of competitors during its fiscal second quarter. He said the disappointing results show the need for bold changes and that Darden would revise its promotional calendars to better fit with the financial realities of diners.
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Switch Wiring
Hello all, I have a threater room with six overhead lights as pictured below.
These are recessed lighting and the back three is connected with 14/3 cable. A 14/3 cable also comes from the back set to the first light in the front set. The power in (14/2) cable comes in at the center front lights.
A 14/3 comes from the center light to the switch with the white wire labeled as hot.
my issue is, there is two regular toggle switch to control each set separately, however, is there anyway that this can be wire so I still have a neutral wire at the switch or do I have to pull in a separate neutral?
This is in a finnish environment. I have remote control dimmer switched that needs a neutral wire to operate and i need to control both sets with two switches.
I have all the recessed fixtures out and have access to all the connections.
I'm pretty sure your gonna have to run another wire to your switch to get your neutral. As i understand you have a 14-3 running to the switch from one of the lights. One wire is the hot and the other 2 are switchlegs controlling the 2 sets of lights. The only way around this that I can see is to make all the lights operate on 1 switch which you will be able to eliminate one of your switchlegs and turn it into a neutral to send down to your switch. You will have to retie in your cans accordingly. If you decide to just run another wire to send a neutral down to the switch just tie your neutral in with one of the neutrals in any one of the cans. You can just cap off the black wire because you dont need another hot
Yeah...you're stuck. I HATE when they wire like that.
If you decide to just run another CABLE to send a neutral down to the switch....
ok, I remove my baseboards, cut out the drywall thats not visible when the baseboards are back in place and ran a 14/2 to a nearby outlet and use that neutral and it works, is this acceptable?
Same circuit?
Heh heh...I was just posting on this exact scenario in another thread.
All of the circuit conductors should be run together. Just grabbing a neutral, even if it is from the same circuit, would not be correct.
"Correct" as in "code compliant"?
Code violation or just unorthodox? Just curious. I honestly don't know.
He could also simply rewire and use the new feed from the outlet and disconnect it/remake up at the light JB. Of course "simply" is a relative term ESPECIALLY with recessed cans.
You could also just use a different style of dimmer.
You are OK as long as it is on the same circuit. There shall be no 'jacking of neutrals from other circuits.:huh: :)
Thanks, same circuit = ok:yes:
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Red Wine
Author's note: I wrote this when I was living with my father. Artemis has to decide what to do and whether to... Show full author's note »
Chapter 1I'm not the nicest person alive, but I don't think I'm horrible either. Everyone makes the occasional joke, and everyone makes mistakes. Personally, I don't think I've done anything wrong. I don't understand why my parents sent me to a boarding school in Rennes, France. Who in their right mind would want to send their child over four thousand miles away from home?
It figures that this would happen to me, of all people. Ever since I was four years old I've been on my own. My
I know that I am not the best at tenses, but please bear with me.
My parents each own large million dollar businesses, so I never get to see them. They don't even tell me when they go on business trips across seas. On the rare encounter that I do see them, I don't call them mom or dad. It's always Linda and Josh or Mr. and Mrs. Carlton. That shows you how close we are.
Whenever I have time off of my school work, I have to find something to do. I take karate classes at a local dojo and go on hikes in mountains that are a few hours away from my home. I don't have many friends and the few I do have are the people who work for my parents.
I am closest to our butler, Joseph. He goes everywhere with me. We even have our own code. If something is wrong we each have a certain word to tell the other person to get out of the area. The head of the cleaning crew is quite a nasty lady. She often yells at Joseph and me for pointless things. When Joseph and I speak our code, not even she knows what we're talking about.
"Miss Carlton?" asked Joseph trying to get my attention. He was sitting next to me in the limo. He came with me to the new boarding school, and I was relieved to have someone to talk to the whole plane ride.
I looked over at him. His brown hair was slicked back, and he was wearing his butler suit. I tried to tell him he could wear whatever he liked, but he said it was 'improper'. "I told you to just call me Liz. What is it?"
"When I'm around fellow workers I have to call you Miss Carlton," he whispered so the driver couldn't hear. Then he cleared his throat, "I'm afraid our driver can't take us any further. Apparently, they aren't letting any cars on the road that leads up to your school. I'm afraid we'll have to walk from here on."
I opened the door I was sitting near. I got out of the car and stretched in the moonlight of the warm spring night. Being in a plane for eight hours, then getting into a limo for four hours, made my behind hurt. "Ughhh," I groaned. It felt good to stretch out.
I heard two car doors slam shut. I turned to see the driver and Joseph. The driver was headed to the trunk of the limo. He was probably going to get my bags. I brought four bags, including the backpack I had on my back. The other three were two duffel bags and one suitcase. They were all my favorite color, purple.
"I will grab your bags Miss Carlton," said Joseph. He walked over to the back of the limo, where the driver already set my bags on the ground.
I dashed over there and stood in front of him. "I will take them. You can go home. You have a long way back. You know I have carried much more of this on our hiking trips."
"It is my duty to make sure you make it safely there. I will not leave until I've done my job." Joseph was as stubborn as a mule. That is just one of the many things we have in common.
"I am already here. I will call you once I get settled in the school. You're getting old and need your rest," I gave him a big smile.
"Very well if you say so I will follow your orders." He gave me a gentle smile," Until the sun rises once again." In our code that meant; till we meet once again and I will miss you.
"Until the sun rises once again," I repeated. I leaned in and gave him a humongous hug. Then I pulled away and grabbed my bags. My two duffel bags went over my left shoulder and I picked up my suitcase.
"Make sure you keep me informed. I want to know all the gossip and what you think of your new school." Joseph seemed hesitant for me to go. It wasn't that I don't want you to go because I'll miss you. It was more like something dangerous. "Before I forget," he pulled out an envelope from his inside pocket. It looked like an ordinary envelope with nothing written on it. "This is something you need to read on your way to the school. It was written by your mother and father. It is very true, so please don't panic. Don't worry you will be safe here."
"What do you mean don't panic? What are you talking about? It's just a school." I was very confused by what he said.
He placed the envelope in my hand and gave me another hug. "Just read it, it will explain everything. Now hurry up and get going."
Reluctantly I started down the dirt road. I took the envelope in my hand and tore it open. It was in my mother's handwriting. It said:
By now you have left the country and arrived at your new school. I wanted to tell you in person about this, but we have been busy. You're older sister actually went to this school. It's called Nightwalker Boarding School for Magical Creatures. Now I know what you're thinking. How can that be? There e is no such thing as magical creatures. Well I know you read all those books on magical creatures, so you know all about the different kinds. I want you to know that everything you read is true. All of it will be proven when you get to the school. I wanted you to go here, so you can experience it all. I wish you the best of luck.
Linda and John (Mom and Dad)
For a minute I just stared at the letter not believing a single thing that was written right in front of me. I was deciding whether it was a joke or not. It couldn't be a joke because she mentioned my older sister in it. Whenever she mentioned her it was serious business.
"Duck!" yelled a low but demanding voice. Feeling as if I had no choice I fell to my knees. Then I heard a loud crash above me. I had to cover my ears, because it was so loud.
A moment later somebody was pulling me to my feet. I looked up and saw a hazel eyed boy staring back at me. His hair was jet black and his facial features were quite handsome. "Are you alright?" he asked in a soothing voice.
"I'm fine, but what was that all about?" My knees kind of hurt from falling to my knees like that. It was kind of like falling on concrete. My knees were already sore from my recent hiking trip.
"Just keep quiet and stay behind me." For some reason his voice was very stern. He positioned himself in front of me.
I looked past him and saw a large, muscular, bald man. If anything he had to be a body builder. "What are you doing here?" he said in a scratchy voice.
"John told me that he wanted me to watch over her. He had suspicions about a few people." He was a skinny person and looked like no match for the bald man. He gave me the impression of a cool laid back guy. The girls defiantly flaunted all over him. He was gorgeous.
"Well we can just share her. There is enough blood to go around." The bald man advanced closer to us. The look in his eyes frightened me.
I took a step back. His eyes darted over to me. "Just stay still!" said the guy standing in front of me. "You need to go back now before I make you. She is here to help us all out not to be eaten on her first day. I am assigned to protect her and that's what I plan to do."
"They assigned you to protect her after," he was cut off.
Two identical looking people came up on either side of the bald man. They each had on a plain white tee shirt and jeans. The color of both of their hair was light brown. They had some muscle, but not near as much as the bald man. "Well hello Arron," said the person on the left. "I suggest you get moving," said the one on the right.
The guy named Arron took off in a blink of an eye. I almost thought he wasn't here in the first place. "What are you two doing here?" asked the guy in front of me.
"Well John said you might need some help," answered the guy standing on the right. He seemed more of the hyper one while the other person seemed more serious. The guy standing on the right looked at me. "So this must be our new human student. Hello my name is Shawn Degrindle Galway and this," he motioned to his right my left. "Is my twin brother, Ocean Christopher Galway."
"Nice to meet you," I said quietly.
The guy with the black hair turned to face me. He was even more handsome now that I got a better look at him. "I'm Vadicus Gabriel Tremaine."
"Why do you all use your full name? Why not just introduce yourselves with your first name?" I asked.
"For us it's how we introduce ourselves," answered Ocean. "We find it disgraceful if we don't."
"If that's the case then I'm Artemis Elizabeth Carlton, but people call me Liz." My voice was calm, but my head was screaming at me.
"Ocean and Shawn, can you grab her bags and take them to the school?"
"No problem Vad,"answered Shawn. Then Shawn and Ocean walked over to the bags on the ground. I dropped them when I fell to my knees. Shawn grabbed my duffel bags and Ocean grabbed my suitcase. "We'll see you guys in a little bit," said Shawn. He was staring at me in particular.
Ocean put his hand on Shawn's shoulder. "Let's go before you get overwhelmed." He gave Shawn a slight tug. Shawn looked away from me quickly and was gone in the blink of an eye. Ocean soon followed after him.
Vadicus put his hands in the pockets of his slacks. "We need to start walking it's going to be a while till we get to the school."
Feeling as if I had no choice, I followed behind him. I noticed that I was clutching the letter, from my mother, so tightly that my knuckles were turning white. "Is it true?" I asked my voice slightly shaken.
"Is what true?" Vadicus seemed annoyed that I was talking to him. I kind of wanted to slap him.
"Is this really a school for magical creatures?"
"Yes it is," he said it with no emotion at all. "Didn't Linda and Josh tell you before you got here? You seem quite surprised by this news."
"How do you know my parents?"
"I've talked to them many times and I have met up with them multiple times. They seem like very hard working people. I admire them for that." Vadicus said everything like it was no big deal at all.
"Well for your information I didn't know anything about this school till five minutes ago. My mother wrote me a letter." I shoved the letter against his chest and he took it gently out of my hands. "Apparently you have seen my parents more than I have. Actually I think that you have talked to them more than me. You're more of a son to them than I am a daughter."
Vadicus opened the letter and started reading. When he was finished he just handed me back the letter. Silence filled the air around us for a few minutes. "So you know about different magical creatures?" he finally asked.
"Yeah I have read books about them. It's something I could do in my spare time that wasn't boring." I started thinking, "What are you and the other guys that were here?"
"All four of us are vampires. You should stay away from Arron at all cost. Be cautious around Shawn and don't be alone with him at all."
"Why should I stay away from Arron and Shawn?"
"Arron, to put it simply, is dangerous. I told you that you should be careful around Shawn, not to stay away from him. He is new to the whole no human blood. Sometimes he can loose control."
"How can that be? Ocean is his brother and he seems fine with it." It was unbelievable that I was actually talking about human blood like it was some kind of snack.
"Ocean came here a couple of years ago while Shawn just joined us a couple of weeks ago. You'll have to ask them about it."
"Why are you here?"
Vadicus took a deep breath, "You sure ask a lot of questions." He couldn't really blame me for asking questions. I just figured out that the school I was going to was full of mythical creatures found only in books. "I came here to get away from my family."
For the moment I knew that he wasn't going to say anything more than that. "Are there really mythical creatures like kelpies and nagas?"
"I thought we already established this. Yes there is. Everyone hangs with their own kind though. I don't know where you tend to fit in considering you're the only whole human. Of course I have to watch over you for a while."
"I don't need you to watch over me. I can take care of myself. I always have and I always will." He was starting to get on my nerves. I didn't need somebody to follow me everywhere I go. It's like my own personal stalker.
"It's not my decision to make. John told me that I would be the one to take care of you while you are here. I actually don't think you'll last very long here. You should just go back home where you don't have to work and live a life of ease."
"I'm not going to drop out. I can handle more than you think. My life is far from relaxing and easy. I'm constantly pushed by my teacher to get a better grade, which is hard when you already have a four point oh grade average. I was put in advanced classes since I was little. I have to practice piano, violin, guitar, and singing everyday. Once I finally get away from that, my idea of relaxing is going hiking. You don't even know that half of it, so stop judging me before you even know me." Vadicus and I were not going to get along at all. I'll ask that John person to switch people when we get to the school.
For the rest of the walk we were silent. I suppose Vadicus didn't have anything to say after I went all ballistic on him. Soon a large, three-story, red brick building appeared in front of us. There was a large pond in front of the old style building. It looked very nice, almost like a mansion.
"Welcome to Nightwalker Boarding School. You're now entering our world," said Vadicus. I walked towards the school getting ready for my new life to begin.
Join the DiscussionThis book has 2 comments. Post your own now!
laurakay1995 said...
May 10, 2011 at 3:29 pm
May 10, 2011 at 3:29 pm
this story is fubuloso!!! Vad and Artemis' relationship is a little stony, but thats how the best love stories are. SOOOO much better than Twilight!!!
CrAzYaNn replied...
Jul. 9, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Jul. 9, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Thanks .. still needs a lot of work though


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