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Terry Stogdell is not the kind of guy who blends easily into the background. Whether organizing a rock-climbing outing for his HIV positive buddies with hemophilia or denouncing Bayer Pharmaceuticals at a demo, Stogdell, 32, isn't like to escape attention.
"I'm a boat-rocker," he says. "I always have been and always will be." But in 1984, when this self-described "pissed-off hemo" found out he had been infected with HIV from the clotting factor he had injected, he didn't even know where to direct his anger. Having no grasp of the politics of AIDS, Terry leapt to the conclusion that his infection was all the fault of gay men who had the virus and had donated blood. "When I first tested positive, I wanted to go out and kill every faggot I saw," he says. "Then I started to get educated."
Terry began a long struggle to get off crystal meth and to become a better father to his daughter, Desiree, who was born HIV negative in 1985. In 1990 he started a peer program for HIV positive people with hemophilia and was later elected to the board of the Northern California chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF). But Stogdell found the work both frustrating and emotionally draining. "I was networking with these wonderful HIV positive hemophiliacs," he says, "and it never occured to me that they would get sick and die." Now Terry estimates he has lost as many as 70 friends since 1985. "I learned that half of the hemophiliac population was infected with HIV in the early '80s because the drug companies didn't take blood-screening precautions," he says. "It infuriated me."
Yet every time Terry tried to push the NHF to take a stronger stand against the blood-products industry, he was told by his fellow board members to back off. "These companies give money to the National Hemophilia Foundation," he says. "The industry literally sold us HIV, and now they think they can buy our silence."
Terry's AIDS diagnosis came in 1993. With sole custody of his daughter and mounting political discontent, he quit the NHF board and turned to ACT UP/Golden Gate, a treatment activist group composed mainly of gay men who shared his sense of urgency. But Terry never left behind his hemophilia community; he sees his work as primarily about building bridges.
Terry admits that both communities have prejudices to overcome. "Many people who got HIV through shooting drugs or gay sex still feel their stigma comes from taking part in an activist society condemns, and part of their struggle is about that," he says. Meanwhile, as Terry sees it, many HIV positive people with hemophilia need to get rid of the "innocent victim" mentality. "We're stronger fighting together than separately."
In addition to his organizing around the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act, Terry plans seasonal offensives against Bayer and other pharmaceuticals. He and fellow ACT UP activists are demanding that the drug giants pay the medical costs of those infected with HIV because of their negligence. "I'd like to go to bed tonight knowing that if I die tomorrow, the cost of my burial will be covered, and my daughter will be provided for," he says. "That the least they owe us."
And Terry is passing the activist torch to Desiree, age 11, another up-and-coming boat-rocker who takes part in protests and lectures classmates on AIDS. "She's something else," he says. "Don't be surprised if you read about her in the papers someday."
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Terry Stogdell passes the activist torch to daughter Desiree
Terry Stogdell is not the kind of guy who blends easily into the background. Whether organizing a rock-climbing outing for his HIV positive buddies with hemophilia or denouncing Bayer Pharmaceuticals at a demo, Stogdell, 32, isn't like to escape attention.


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By Brian Homewood
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino said a wind of change was blowing through soccer's scandal-plagued world governing body after announcing a sponsorship deal with China's Wanda Group on Friday.
FIFA has been battered by a series of scandals and the deal, which runs until 2030 and includes the next four World Cups, came one day after the Swiss-based federation announced a $122 million loss for 2015, its first deficit since 2002.
The deal could help Infantino, elected last month to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, fulfill ambitious promises of greater funding for FIFA's 209 member associations which he made during his campaign.
FIFA has been thrown into turmoil in the last year with criminal investigations underway into the sport in the United States, where several dozen former soccer officials have been indicted, and Switzerland.
Blatter has been banned by the federation's own ethics committee for six years after being engulfed by the scandal.
"I cannot change the past but I can influence the future and make sure we will face all the challenges," said Infantino after chairing his first executive committee meeting.
Wanda Group, China's largest commercial property company, last year bought a 20 percent stake in Spanish club Atletico Madrid and Blatter's nephew Philippe Blatter is chief executive of its subsidiary Wanda Sports Holding.
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Day 4Mature
Oliver Mitchell lay there in his double bed exhausted, staring at the blackened damp celling. After last night he and his wife had gotten into a huge argument over her treatment of the others yet as most of their arguments went this way, the fury turned to an intense passion after a long session of love making they fell asleep on top of each other.
Oliver expected his wife to be in a relaxed and loved up mood that morning, yet as he went to put one of his large arms around her, he could see that she was already sat up in bed an angry look on her face.
"C'mon hon" Oliver murmured knowing he was going no where sure enough his wife pushed his loving arm away.
"Not now" she snapped.
Oliver lay back down, and continued to stare at the celling, when the silence grew too heavy he finally asked. "What's a matter Steph?"
She had been awaiting this question as she answered briskly.
"Everyone here, I've been up hours worrying about what they could do to Stan, if, if..." she got no further. "They all seem fine" Oliver said on instinct yet his words rang hollow and he knew it.
"Really?" Stephanie said cocking an eyebrow upwards as Oliver shrunk in her glare, she turned away from him and ploughed on "That Heather's a nasty piece of work, that Spanish Guy never takes off his mask so there's something not right with him and Mariam murdered a woman to get here! Delilah's too quiet, Quincey's an idiot plain and simple, what if he gets Stanley involved in one of his stupid games? and..."
"Stan's not that stupid, his a bright lad and we both know it from the amount of times his pranked us" Oliver reassured her.
"But his a growing lad, he'll want to take risks" Stephanie told him.
"Hell, he does turn fourteen next week". Oliver noted after a short pause in which he thought about his son, Stephanie nodded at his words "But I'm head of this little group Steph, I can watch over Stan and the other's will warm up eventually"
"I hope" was all she could say before she smiled lightly "You might be right about them, but there's one person, (her expression changed after this) who we both know should be kicked out if given the chance".
"Steph" Oliver warned. "If we kick that man out you know we kill him, that's too radical!" He shouted. "We both know Camden's mad! That man is seeing people in his head! He must be a schizophrenic! Those people are dangerous!" she shouted.
"He might just have been through a lot of trauma he seems like a quiet guy you never know" Oliver argued.
"We can't afford to take the risk, if he does something..." she began.
"He won't and what do you want me to do!? Chuck him down the staircase, right now!" Oliver bellowed.
"I want you to keep a close eye on him, make sure he does nothing funny around Stan, this is our son were talking about..."
"I know! I know! But..." Oliver seemed to deflate as his words dried up on his tongue as he finally sighed out "Fine, I'll keep an eye on him"
Stephanie smiled, as she fell back onto the bed.
"Thank you" she said.
Oliver beamed back at her, before lifting the blanket of himself, slowly standing he agreed it was time for a clothing change and too become a more firm leader. He had his doubts in his mind, which he cast away while floating leaves in a pond yet they always returned, slowly but surely.
He couldn't buckle, not now.
Yet as much as it seemed Stephanie had nagged him to it, there was something Oliver didn't like about Camden either.
"... He looks like a potato"
"Rose! This is Wayne Rooney! One of the greatest English footballer players, ever too..."
"Yeah, yeah whatever I'm bored"
Stanley groaned out loud as he put his latest football card down. "Trying to teach you football is like trying to teach a elephant to tap dance" he spat out in frustration.
"You've never taught an Elephant how to tap dance, so you can't judge" Rose told him matter of factly.
"It was figure of speech, you're just stupid because you're younger than me" Stanley teased.
"AM NOT!" Rose yelled.
"Are too" Stanley jested back.
Rose didn't have much patience, she leapt onto Stanley and began to pull his hair using his free hand, Stanley slapped Rose's face an unflinching Rose kicked his shin, Stanley used his football trained legs to kick her back...
The small fight had finished almost as quickly as it had started. Both of them were littered with a few bruises, but there was no malice behind it. By the end of the fight the two were laughing. "Your fight like a girl" Stanley said.
"I am a girl!" Rose yelled. Yet both were too exhausted to carry on fighting, so they simply laid back.
"I wish I had a football, I'm bored in here" Stanley muttered after a while.
"At least it would take our minds off Quincey and your parents fighting all the time" Rose said solemnly.
"It's annoying, I don't know why they all can't just get on" Stanley vented.
"Yeah..." Rose echoed.
There was a long silence between the pair as the morning sun rose through the windows, Rose and Stanley lay side by side in the empty corridor.
"You know it's my birthday in a week" Stanley said at last.
"Really? Is there going to be cake?" Rose asked right off the bat.
"I dunno" Stanley muttered.
There was another lull in conversation as Stanley rose, into a crouching position, sweeping up his football cards that were scattered across the floor. Strands of his thick beach blonde hair gleaming in the sunlight as his cool blue eyes inspected each card. The thirteen year old was in a state of chronic boredom yet the distant noises of the dead, still unnerved him slightly.
"Hey, Stan, do you know something cool?" Rose said suddenly her eyes lighting up, as she sprung up from where she lying on the dusty floor.
"What? You found a football somewhere?" Stanley asked without a lot of hope.
"Nope, but I saw Camden before all this..."
Camden had a fairly decent night's sleep, so he shouldn't have been feeling on edge like he was. Yet Oliver seemed to be tailing him today, as a prickly feeling rose from the back of Camden's neck, trying to dismiss it, he sat at the main kitchen table. (The "Centre Hub of Operations" as Quincey had nicknamed it this morning) yet despite his cheery attitude Camden knew he hadn't gotten lucky with that Delilah girl.
"How'd you sleep?" Camden asked Bradley, as he sat down before he realised this was the first time he spoke to him since last night's revelation. Camden's throat tightened as he awaited a response.
"Okay" Bradley responded simply, he had no bible on him today, yet it was close at hand. Camden could bet, Ian's form lingered like a shadow over Bradley. He still looked the same to Camden, even in the same clothes, a green coat with a woolly scarf draped around his neck.
"You might want to change your clothes, you'll get hot in those" Camden noted, as Bradley cast his eyes over Camden's new attire of a plain white T-shirt, and black jogging bottoms he had no cap on today, as his bald head shone.
"No, I'm okay" Bradley said. Camden noted that seemed to be one of Bradley's key phrases an obedient, simple saying, yet Camden knew he was trying to hide something behind it.
He shared a worried glance with Ian. Oliver was peering into the scene like a hawk.
Delilah liked being alone.
Right now she sat on the staircase shivering, right in front of the barricade that held thousands of "those monsters" back. She gazed at their faces as tears slid down her cheeks. She wondered if her Mother or if Philip were like them. Right now. Rotting and hissing like rats down a gutter.
She sat there blankly, not really knowing what had drawn her to this spot but after everything she had been through she was still in a numb haze. Watching the others through a filter, that game yesterday, the arguments, everything. It just felt like a blur, the others may have been concerned with each other and their little safe haven.
But Delilah's head was elsewhere, a robot controlling her body right now.
"You need to pull yourself together" She told herself to no avail, she needed some sense of closure some one to talk too. Quincey may have slept next to her last night, but he felt as distant as any of the people she loved, she was trapped in her own grieving world right now. Not really sure whether just to remain rooted to the spot crying, Or just too throw herself over the railings and end it all to stop more suffering she would have to endure.
She didn't know how much time had passed, She didn't even hear him approach, She only knew he was there when he asked.
"Are you alright?"
Quincey, the white haired man seemed rather persistent on checking on her. Not that Delilah cared of course She turned back to him, Still crying.
"It's been four days" she began, her voice still strong despite her state "and they haven't dehydrated they should be dead by now but their not, which means..."
Quincey's look of horror told Delilah he had figured it out. Delilah knew this epidemic of "The Black Dead" was going to go on for a while longer.


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That afternoon - that horrible, horrible afternoon - Joey was far less high than I was. And so he and Jamie held me together there on the sofa while we waited for news of Chrissy. I'm sure my emotions were intensified by the high, but I did not expect to be so upset by my fear for Chrissy, nor did I expect to feel so protective of her.
Oddly, Joey was almost showed more concern for me than my own brother did. It was sweet of him on some levels, but it made me wary of him. Wary of him, and wary of me. I didn't know why he was being so kind, or what he hoped to get from it. What scared me more was the thought that it would be terribly easy for him to get exactly what he wanted from me. I was tired of being used and tired of being ignored, which I felt sure would be the end product of anything between me and Joey. I simply must not let myself fall for him.
Coming down from my high sucked, but the snuggles I was getting from Joey certainly made it less terrible, combined with the phone call from Iso that Chrissy was okay. As soon as I felt semi-normal, I wanted to run. I hurried to the door, but a word from Joey stopped me.
Turning, I saw that Joey looked kind of upset. He was struggling with what to say, but what came out next didn't appear to be what he meant to say. "When are we gonna work on that Psych project?"
I stuttered indeterminately. "Uh, I don't know. When's it due? End of the semester, right?"
"Yeah, but it's a lot of work. We gotta work on it before then." Oddly, he had never struck me as the scholarly type. At the moment it was a headache.
"Okay. Meet me during our free period and we'll decide what to do it on and draft an outline and maybe a schedule. Then... we can do the research each on our own and put it together later on." I sounded like such a nerd, but I wasn't going to waste time when this project was so important.
"Okay, sounds good." I walked out the door. Then I realised that I had no way of getting home. Turning around, I stuck my head back in awkwardly.
"Uh, Jamie... how sober are you?" He winked at me.
"Sober enough to drive." I grinned. I hardly had to ask him. He'd do anything for me. Sure, he'd bitch and moan, but that was expected.
The car ride was practically silent. About halfway there he asked the inevitable question. I was glad not to wait any longer for it.
"How's Mum?"
I looked out the window. "She's okay." But I know the look on my face told the truth. "I'm less worried about Mum than the bills. I pick up food and some utilities with my job at the 7-11, but nobody pays rent, I mean, Mum can't, and I don't, and we do have insurance but I'm not sure where it's coming from and nobody bothers us for rent. I've asked where it comes from but they won't tell me. I just don't want to owe whoever it is money, cause I'll never be able to pay it. I just hope it's not..." I trailed off, looking at him. I hadn't expected to say that much, but he had a right to know. I just didn't want him to worry.
Too late. "It's not Dad." He stated a fact. I didn't know how he knew, but I knew he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt. He looked at me sideways. "He comes asking me for money sometimes. He'd ask you, but he doesn't know where you live."
I let out a sigh of relief that I didn't know I was holding. I looked at him guiltily.
Guiltily. I didn't know why I felt so responsible for everything, why I felt like it was always my fault.
Probably because it was.
Jamie jerked me out of my black thoughts with an observation. "Joey seems to like you."
He gave me that you're-an-idiot look. "Yes. He does."
"I dunno. We'll see."
He rolled his eyes. We rolled into the driveway. Hopping out, I waved goodbye. I slowly pushed open the door, and realised I hadn't taken care of Mum today.
"Mum?" Silence. As expected.
I went down the short hall off our crowded white kitchen and hesitated before her door. "Mum?" I pushed it open.
My eyes took a moment to adjust to the dark but I could see that she hadn't gotten out of bed since I'd seen her last night. This wasn't unusual, but it was happening more frequently. The room was a mess, as usual, and the blinds were closed almost completely. The mirror was fogged with old cigarette smoke, but lately she'd gotten so bad she didn't even smoke anymore.
My mum was curled up in five week old sheets with the blanket up to her eyes. Her back was toward me, and I wasn't sure whether she was awake.
"Mum?" She groaned and rolled over a bit.
"I'll get you breakfast." She didn't reply, and probably wasn't even aware that it wasn't exactly breakfast time. Shit. I am a horrible daughter. I didn't even feed my own damn mother this morning.
Frustrated, I started to make her two hard yolk fried eggs. Lost in thought, I pushed the eggs around roughly, knowing she wouldn't care that I broke the yolks. A sharp sensation coursed through my hand, and I looked down to see that it was splashed with hot oil. God fucking dammit.
Running my hand under the sink faucet, I stared out the window at my dead end life in my dead end neighborhood. Who was I kidding? When I was with Iso and Chrissy, they didn't see the real me. I might have moved, changed schools, but I was still the outcast. Still the girl who was poorer than all her friends. Iso and Chrissy would never be able to understand how out-of-place I felt in their homes.
Turning back to the stove, I slid the offending eggs out of the pan onto a paper plate, then got out the orange juice and my mother's Celexa... Two little pink pills. Sixty milligrams of citalopram hydrobromide that didn't work anymore. I just couldn't get her out of the house to go back to the doctor to fix it. And she absolutely refused to see a shrink.
My mum's depression had gotten better after we stopped living with my dad. She'd even held a job for a while. But that proved to be too much for her, and she was fired a few months in. She came out of her room less and less, and eventually stopped coming out nearly completely. Now I rarely even saw her face. It was a horrible situation, but there was nothing I could do to help her if she didn't want to help herself. Trust me, I'd tried everything.
After making sure she finished her medicine and eggs and trying to make some conversation, I took the plate and glass and checked them in the overflowing sink, then headed upstairs for an early night with far too many thoughts whirling in my head.
As I settled onto my upstairs mattress, I worried about my future, and my mum. If she, with her privileged start, ended up like this, where the hell was I headed? The stresses of the day - Chrissy, Aaliyah, Joey - and the worries of the night didn't look like they would let go of me any time soon.


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When the staircase stops, Snape sweeps in front of us and says over his shoulder to me, "We're going down to the Slytherin Common Room. Remember the way." I follow him and Malfoy, who has charmed my trunk to wheel along beside us. He points out the Great Hall as we walk past, and my stomach rumbles at the delicious smells. Snape turns left and heads down a staircase which leads towards a door. I look up and see about 300 staircases changing directions. I gasp at the sight, and Malfoy steadies me as I trip down a step. Snape opens the door and walks into what appears to be a classroom. Malfoy confirms this for me by whispering in my ear, "Potions dungeon." Then, to my surprise, Snape walks over to a wall, hesitates, and walks straight through it. Malfoy follows, and I'm left standing in the dark, wondering stupidly where they went. Suddenly, making me jump, Malfoy's head appears. "Just walk through, or run if you're nervous." He says, and disappears again. Tentatively, I press my hand against the wall and it falls straight through. Something grabs it from the other side and I follow my hand as I am yanked through the blank wall. I regain my balance to find Malfoy laughing at me, lounging on a chaise longue, and Snape wiping his own hand on his robes, a hint of a smile on his thin lips. I assume that he was the one who pulled me through the wall and gesture to him wiping his hand clean,
"I'm not that bad. I had a shower last Thursday." I say dryly, which sets Malfoy into another set of hysterics, as today is a Thursday. Snape ignores me and turns to Malfoy,
"Get up and show Miss Nelsky to her dormitory." He instructs bluntly, then turns, and walks out through the wall again. Malfoy gets up and swaggers towards me, loosening his tie and undoing the top button. He drapes an arm around my shoulders and steers me towards yet another staircase, motioning to my trunk to follow. I am led into another room, furnished in dark green, with more people, and more chairs. Some stare at us as we enter, and I notice a few girls, one especially who looks like her head's been smacked with a shovel, glare at me. Malfoy lets me go and steps up onto a chair.
"This is Amelia Nelksy. She's been Sorted into Slytherin just now..." This brings a round of cheers and I can't help but smiling slightly, "...And is new to Hogwarts. Make her feel welcome or you'll have me and Snape to answer to." He says importantly, and jumps down. A boy about a head taller than myself walks over to me.
"Hi. My name's Blaise, Draco's friend. If you need anything, give me a shout." He winks at me and wanders off. I raise an eyebrow and look at Malfoy. He shrugs and calls over the girl with the smashed face.
"Parkinson. Are there any girls in your dormitory? So I'm going up." Malfoy says, and walks away. He replaces his arm around my shoulders again and drags me up the stairs and to the right. I can feel glares penetrate the back of my head. "This is the girl's dormitory." Malfoy says, pushing open a door and stepping into a room which has four beds with curtains. "Normally I wouldn't be allowed up here, but your arrival permits me." He leads me over to a tidy bed, as opposed to the others which are unmade, and sets my case next to it. "As I believe it, the others in your room are Parkinson," he shoots me a sympathetic glance, "Greengrass, and Bulstrode. Don't be surprised if they seem a bit hostile. I argued with Dumbledore to put you in a different dorm, but he wouldn't allow it. Anyway, I'll wait outside while you get into your robes. I'll escort you to breakfast when you're ready." The prospect of food spurs me into action and I look at the school uniform that has been layed out on my bed. I change quickly, but having never had to wear a tie, I leave it, and walk out with it in my hand. Malfoy looks at it quizzically.
"I don't know how to tie it..." I say, a little embarrassed. He lets out a short laugh and takes it from me.
"I'll show you." He walks behind me and ties it, telling me how as he does it. He turns me to face him, and nods in approval. "Green suits you." He turns and walks down the stairs, through the magic wall, and towards the Great Hall. We walk in, the massive doors opening for us, and take our seats on a really long table. I'm sitting opposite the girl with the smashed face, and she introduces herself as Pansy Parkinson. I wonder to myself why Malfoy looked sympathetic and look at him. I recieve a sharp kick on the shins and turn to look at Pansy. She's glaring at me, and suddenly, I don't feel like talking to Malfoy.


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Finalising 12 years of researching the surfing underground, presenting the real characters, what they've got to say and reinforcing what they always held true.The characters in this book, and many others both known and unknown from those times, helped create what surfing is today. Here in one place are many of them....a book that future generations will value for the resource that it is.
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| Divine Protector of Skyrim chapter 6 . 8/19/2014
This is a very unique story, hope you update soon.
| YourGreatestDream chapter 6 . 3/18/2014
Please continue this story. It's the most beautiful, well thought out crossover I've seen of the Hunger Games! I love seeing Percy as a god, and he does his job well. The God of Heroes, with the power to call upon the souls of lost heroes (and friends). Even at the mention of himself in chains, he chuckles at the prospect and it hardly phases him. Having Primrose Everdeen become the messenger of prophecies was a brilliant idea, her young mind is still an open mind, and she can agree to all this mythological madness better than anyone else.
Most of all, I like how you added Katniss' dad. Having him there to see what's happening, and let Percy know that he's the best god out there, really pushes the heart strings.
Thank you so much for writing this! It is great to see Percy live out his entire life, make it to Elysium, and become a God of Heroes. Now every other story will pale in comparison :P
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OMIGOSH! Is Gale... Luke? Has Luke been reborn into Gale? I don't know! UPDATE!
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I know this story is on hiatus...but it would be so awesome if you returned to it at some point! I devoured both of these series this summer, and to see these characters all together makes me so happy :D I really like the third-person PoV, because we get to be inside the heads of numerous characters, something that the original books didn't allow for because they were in first person. I like how you're including lengthy snippets of the characters from each story, so we really understand where they're coming from, and combining them at certain points-I really think that's the best way to do crossover, especially in the beginning when everything's getting established and connected. I think the chapter length is fine, gets 2-3 good scenes in per chapter, and really allows them to play out...though I wouldn't complain if they were a bit longer (but I say that to my friend who writes 30-page chapters for her fanfic too XD). Really enjoying this so far :)
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| BookLover4Ever Yay chapter 5 . 9/30/2012
I love this story. You do a very good job incorporating the gods and the hunger games together.
| Disgruntled Guy chapter 1 . 9/30/2012
Are you EVER going to update ANY of your stories?! It's not right to make stories that are just so amazing, and then stop updating them. It's cruel, it's annoying, and it's rude. And if you are going to discontinue a story, then just SAY SO! DON'T LEAVE US IN ALL THIS SUSPENSE!
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Music Theme is a template for you to build a website to write and record music. It helps you manage music album and tour schedule efficiently. With it, you can add any albums including the songs and the lyrics, and if people are interested in them, they can enter to the download page by clicking the titles. What's more, it allows you to add social media links for the site to attract more people, such as Twitter, iLike, Vimeo and more.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by wahoofan22, Jan 15, 2008.
I don't get it.
Because they're still playing and can't talk to anyone right now.
McDaniels (OC) did have one meeting, forgot which team during the bye week.
Weiss - Notre Dame HC
Crennel - Browns HC
Manginirat - Jets HC
McDaniels has turned down requests to interview for HC.
They lost their lead scout to Atlanta as Head of scouting recently I believe.
Cupboards are bare...they've been raided for about 5 years running.
geez - that's depressing
no he refused to interview, new rules the coaches can interview during playoffs. see soprano and garrett
but yes, they can't leave till it's over
Moreover, don't kid yourself that Bellicheat doesn't hold onto dear life those coaches of his...They've got some kind of odd structure going on in that fascist regime.
McDaniels issued a statement that he was concentrating on winning the Super Bowl. The Pats were raided AFTER they won 3 SBs. This team, the media, and the rest of the NFL was so giddy to see Dallas back on the road to return to glory, that from the owner, to the coaches, to the players, to opposing teams started licking their chops way too soon. Boy genuis has not looked like boy genuis since the Philly game. Our last 2 drafts have looked REAL suspect. But hey, since the media makes everything in Dallas bigger than it is in reality...everyone associated with our regular season is cashing in. We have not won jack and yet it has been so long since we were the big buzz that little fact seems to have escaped everybody...we have not won jack. I mean it sucks...again, the Pats won before they loss Weiss, Crennel etc.....in fact those coaches were overlooked after several Super Bowls? Why, because they do not even create the buzz in winning that Dallas creates in almost winning. It is just the way it is. You would think we were the defending Super Bowl champs that lost they way they are covering our loss. The Colts, the defending Super Bowl champs, are out of the playoffs to Norv freaking Turner...and it has barley registered.
you are right! I don't get it either......amazing
Cause no one wants cheaters.
Cheaters never win.
Unfortunately, that's not true. There's a good chance these cheaters are going to make history with an undefeated season.
The Patriots seem like winners to me.
Not once the Packers beat them in Arizona.
It won't happen. The NFL wants to see history made.
Don't expect a fair game called by the refs. There are going to be some serious head scratching penalties thrown which will change the game.
Which is also why I'm not really not all too upset that Sparano and Garrett are gone or almost gone.
I'm upset because this young team needs continuity...can you imagine our ENTIRE offensive side of the ball having to start over....this really hurts.


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A month ago, a friend announced that if he heard the words "hope" and "change" one more time, he would spew up his own kidneys and eat them for breakfast. As I spoke the fateful words and he hastily retracted his statement, I wondered whether it was overuse of the words he objected to, or their definitions. Both hope and change, while embraced by Americans, are usually treated as suspect packages by Britons, to be handled with care and exploded carefully by the cynicism squad wherever possible.
The only thing we ever want to change is the government, which no one ever likes. You rarely hear people enthuse: "I love the government and everything it does! I want to marry it at Westminster Abbey, make confetti out of its white papers, and pop out its little bureaucratic babies!" The government isn't a marriageable person, it's a goat - a scapegoat for everything from uncollected bins to uncollected guns. If you were to marry it, you wouldn't just be indulging in bestiality, you'd be doing it with the least popular animal ever.
But we don't want to change anything else, no matter how staggeringly inept or useless it is. "I can't believe Woolworths/MFI/that shop I hated and never went to has gone bust," people sigh nostalgically. "I remember stealing stale, over-chewy pic 'n' mix from there/buying a table that didn't deserve the name 'table'/looking in the window absentmindedly and wondering who could possibly want any of that tat. And now I'm shocked that it's gone!"
We're comfortable with things staying just the way they are, even if they're abysmal. It's better than being unsettled by irregularity: "I hate the new font/layout/colour scheme" usually means "I hate the new". Even undeniable improvements are begrudged until we forget that they were ever different.
Still, "hope" is even more painful than "change". I'm generalising, of course - you might be one of those people who, when the cow of chance appears, grabs it by the throat and wrings opportunity from its neck until Peta shows up and flings paint at you. But if you're like me, whenever something amazing happens and you start to allow yourself to hope it might really be that good, any combination of three paranoid thoughts will steal into your head to ruin the moment.
(a) There's been a terrible mistake. It's not me who clinched the interview/promotion/lottery win, it's somebody else, and they'll find out any second now. In a minute, my phone will ring and I'll have to hide my devastation and pretend not to mind as the messenger of doom apologises profusely for the mix-up.
(b) I've been lucky and fluked my way into this situation, but it's only a matter of time before I screw it up and lose everything that brings me happiness. People are going to say: "Oh dear - I thought she was a good prospect, but she's clearly the most stupid human being ever to gain access to a computer keyboard! I shall see to it that she spends the rest of her days unemployed and living beneath a bare light bulb."
(c) This is really happening, but it's the pinnacle of my entire life. Everything I do after this will seem empty and colourless compared to That Thing I Did Back Then, and I'll forever be staring into the past, wishing time hadn't been so cruel. It'll be my Thriller, my Fawlty Towers, except it won't be half as iconic and I won't get any royalties. I can't even revel in it while it lasts, because I'm too busy wondering when it's going to end.
All these thoughts drain every salty, teary drop of joy from any hope I might ever experience, and it's scant consolation that so many people have them.
It's depressing and exhausting being sceptical and expecting the worst all the time, and, for the first time, I wonder whether we shouldn't try to be more like Americans. Maybe we could swap 10% of our witty cynicism for their mindless optimism, 20% of our wry self-deprecation for their reckless overconfidence, and 100% of our prime minister for their president.
Can we ever change? I hope so.
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Earlier this summer, I participated in Convergence 2013 in Paris with Christian Frisch, cofounder and CTO of Data Publica. In our session, we discussed the evolution of open data programs looking at the changing goals of cities and other public sector organizations as well as the persistent challenges they face.
The momentum for open government and open data has certainly grown over the past few years. The initial push for open data was to know exactly where the government was spending money. With the economic downturn of 2008, that was imperative — and still is. In the US, USAspending.gov and Recovery.gov published government budgets and allocation of spending from the US Recovery Act. In the UK, Where Does My Money Go? similarly publishes government spending by department and region. Yet open data does more than increase transparency and accountability. We've seen some great strides in civic innovation — new apps for finding out when the bus is coming or where the nearest toilets are. Open data generates business innovation as well — new lines of business for existing companies and new startup businesses in a wide range of industries from healthcare to real estate to financial services.


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I may have had something similar. this year I've been training for a marathon and 2 days after my first 20 miler, I came down with a cold. took it easy for a few days, then built up again and a fortnight later diid a second 20, and got the same cold again.
I took a full 8 days off, to make sure that I'd really cleared the cold out, and have been clear (touch wood) ever since. Maybe you've taken too much out, and you're just continually relapsing? Take some time out, recover properly and then try getting out.
I find this weather is deceiving, you think you are warm when running but after 15miles you can slow down. This inevitably means that you are cooling down while being outside in small amounts of clothing.
I later discovered of course that the reason for my slowing down was due to not onboarding enough pre-run and during (electrolytes are a special thing!).
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| Princessa Mia chapter 6 . 6/19/2014
LOL these are amazing, great job.
| Princessa Mia chapter 5 . 6/19/2014
Lol, Rest in peace turnip. :)
| THE BACON NINJA WITH WINGS chapter 6 . 1/12/2013
Hello there! Are you still working in this? I really hope so. I think you should do something with The Doctor and a Chinese restaurant. And maybe giraffes. Giraffes come in handy.
| Crimson Clockwork chapter 2 . 12/17/2012
"It got eaten. By a hat eating dinosaur. Ooh, she was naughty. I gave her time out. I specifically told her not to eat the hat store! Told her to eat Rory instead!"
Fav'd for this. :P
| notwritten chapter 6 . 9/15/2012
Interesting. Keep smiling. :-)The Doctor Who esp was good.
| remuslupin31060 chapter 6 . 9/15/2012
I really love this! It was exactly how the character would react in situations like that! Can you write one involving River?
| LNFRARADIANT chapter 6 . 9/15/2012
I like your amusing anecdotes, they always cheer me up :)
I can't wait for the new DW either!
| notwritten chapter 5 . 9/13/2012
Really interesting. Keep smiling. :-)
| LNFRARADIANT chapter 5 . 9/13/2012
"The Doctor? Sane? Like that's ever going to happen."
OOH, there's a mini DW series? I must watch!
Oh and is jim the jim the fish mentioned in "The impossible astronaut"? ;)
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It is likeable. Keep smiling. :-)
| Into The Vortex chapter 4 . 9/2/2012
Keep up the good work!
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I like this story! It's funny.
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|Mate is a thoroughbred racehorse out of Killashandra by Prince Pal. He was born around 1928 in the United States, and was bred by Albert C. Bostwick, Jr..
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Mate (foaled 1928 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1931 Preakness Stakes. From modest parentage, he was bred and raced by Albert C. Bostwick, Jr., whose grandfather was a founding partner of Standard Oil.
Mate was trained by Jim Healy and had to race against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune newspaper called the "big four" in racing which included Twenty Grand, Jamestown, and Equipoise. [1] At age two, Mate won several races including two from the most important for his age group, the Breeders' Futurity Stakes and the Champagne Stakes. The following year, in what was the first leg of the 1931 U.S. Triple Crown series, on May 9th Mate beat Twenty Grand to win Preakness Stakes while equaling the stakes record. [2] That year's Kentucky Derby was then run on May 16 and won by Twenty Grand with Mate finishing third behind runner-up, Sweep All. He did not run in the Belmont Stakes but went on to win the prestigious American Derby in Chicago and beat Twenty Grand for the second time while winning the Arlington Classic in which he set a new Arlington Park track record of 2:02 2-5 for 1¼ miles on dirt. [3]
Racing in 1932 and 1933, at age four and five, Mate won the 1933 Thanksgiving Day Handicap at Bowie Race Track, a race he had previously won as a three-year-old. [4] [5] and had second and third-place finishes in some of the major racing events including the Brooklyn and Metropolitan Handicaps.
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In 1934, the then six-year-old mate was sent to England with the ultimate goal of winning the Ascot Gold Cup at Ascot Racecourse. He first ran in the Newbury Spring Cup in mid April without showing well, then finished third in the City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom Downs and was second on the same racecourse in the Coronation Cup but out of the money in June's Ascot Gold Cup. [6] [7] Mate won his first and only stakes in England on October 19, 1934, capturing the Challenge Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse. [8]
Retired to stud duty, from a limited number of offspring, Mate most notably sired Elkridge, a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who was the American Champion Steeplechase Horse in 1942 and 1946. [9]
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ATTENTION CONNECTICUT… Tonight is YOUR night!!! The American Idols are in YOUR house!!!
On a happy note, Adam's only tweet yesterday was to express his excitement over one of his favorite bands, Muse…
~Adam-SOO excited for the new MUSE album coming out next week. !!!! Just previewed tracks on itunes and pre-ordered my copy~
Isn't it funny that we will be doing that when HIS album is coming out?? It's amusing to see him get excited over a band that HE loves. Does anyone else get the warm fuzzies when he twitters? Kinda like he's talking just to you? Maybe it's just me…
From the sounds of it though, some of them are feeling a little under the weather. Here are some twitters that have been floating around…
~Matt-I'm siiiiiiiiiick today… Booooo. I'm craving some good tea with honey and some Reese's Puffs. Ha Gotta pull it together for tonight!!
~Michael-What up Twitter wooooorld! I hope ur all doing well. I feel like crap today. Boooooo! But we are still bringing it tonight.
~Kris-sorry I havent been on here lately guys. Ive been pretty sick the past couple of days.
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~Matt-Well…I made it through the night and people said they couldn't even tell I was sick out there on stage! perfect! It was rough though.
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A charming Paris hotel, with comfortable rooms and Internet with great transport links throughout the city centre.
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By Roissy-Bus, from Airport Charles de Gaulle: Take the bus to 'Opéra' station and exit at 'Rue de Scribe'. From metro station 'Opéra' you can continue by metro line 3 direction 'Pont de Levallois Bécon', getting off at metro stop 'Villiers'. Exit at 'Avenue de Villiers' and the hotel is at 5 minutes walking distance from the metro station.
By RER/metro, from Charles de Gaulle Airport: Take the RER B (blue) train and get off at 'Gare du Nord'. From there, take metro line 4 direction 'Porte de Clignancourt' for 1 stop and change metro at 'Barbès Rochechouart'. Change to metro line 2 direction 'Porte Dauphine' and get off at metro stop 'Villiers'. Exit at 'Avenue de Villiers' and the hotel is at 10 minutes walking distance from the metro station.
By RER/metro, from Orly Airport: Take the C6 (yellow) SNCF train and change trains at Antony station to the RER B train and get off at 'Châtelet Les Halles'. From there, take metro line 4 direction 'Porte de Clignancourt' and change metro at 'Réaumur-Sébastopol'. Change to metro line 3 direction 'Pont de Levallois Bécon' and get off at metro stop 'Villiers'. Exit at 'Avenue de Villiers' and the hotel is at 10 minutes walking distance from the metro station.
Hotel Prince Monceau, Paris Hotelldetaljer
Located in the north-west of Paris in the 17th arrondissement, Hotel Prince Monceau Paris is set in a young and trendy area with many fashionable shops and cafés. It has the advantage of bordering onto the chic 8th arrondissement and the trendy bohemian 18tharrondissement. A 15-minute walk away, you will be able to visit the poet Paul Verlaine's eternal home at the Cimetière des Batignolles. Moreover, a variety of nearby public transport options, from metro to bus to RER, offer easy and quick access the city's main attractions such as Montmartre, Champs-Elysées and the Louvre.
A charming family hotel, Prince Monceau welcomes guest 24 hours and offers access to guests with reduced mobility. The multilingual staff can provide tourist information and city maps. This fully air conditioned property includes services such as fax, laundry, ironing, wake-up calls and luggage storage. Every morning, enjoy a delicious breakfast in a beautiful ancient Parisian cellars with exposed stone walls. Moreover wireless Internet is accessible throughout the property and paid parking is possible nearby.
The fully renovated rooms at Hotel Prince Monceau Paris have been redecorated to offer a bright and soothing environment. All rooms feature an en-suite bathroom with a bathtub or a shower, a toilet and a hairdryer. For more comfort, the temperature can be adjusted manually and the double glazed windows are fitted with blackout curtains, ensuring you quiet and restful nights. In-room amenities include a direct dial telephone, a safe deposit box and an LCD television with satellite channels. Room service is available during certain hours.


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Advocates for low wage workers say that Los Angeles is the wage theft capital of the united states and that without a properly staffed local office, many workers might not have the ability to earn $15 per hour come January, 2022.
Los Angeles county officials will be voting on the ordinance during their next scheduled meeting.
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According to the UCLA labor study, low wage workers in Los Angeles lose more than $26.2 million dollars each week to wage theft.
Last fall, Los Angeles County officials formed a Wage Enforcement Program to ensure wages are paid fairly and in a timely manner. But with an estimated three quarters of a million workers getting a minimum wage raise, the effort won't be easy.
Tia Koonse with the UCLA Labor Center, said a state agency tasked with investigating such alleged crimes has a serious backlog.
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Anthony Vallecillo works at a warehouse in Wilmington near the port of Los Angeles. He said many of his coworkers are undocumented and often suffer from routine accounting mistakes or don't get paid for overtime.
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Businesses that fail to comply could face thousands of dollars in fines and lose their operating permits.
Gil Cedillo, Los Angeles City Council member, said he hopes that the county's Wage Enforcement Program brings justice to many workers who claim they've been cheated.
[Gil Cedillo]: ""Lets be very clear: wage theft is very pervasive and takes place in ways that we dont necessarily see. it takes place when people dont pay the minimum wage. it takes place when people are asked to work 9, 10, 11, 12 hours and still make the same salary without overtime. and it affects our economy."
Some of the common complaints include violating minimum wage laws, not paying workers overtime and forcing them to work off the clock. Critics of the creation of a county program argued that the state should be responsible for enforcement and that the money could be used for other services.
Advocates say wage-theft complaints previously filed with the California Labor Commissioners Office took too long to be investigated and left workers waiting months to receive their back pay.
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Boleslav Polívka is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright and screenwriter. Polívka played in more than 40 films. ...more
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Ivan Klíma is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera Award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honors. ...more
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Jaroslav Kvapil was a Czech poet, playwright, and librettist. From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory. Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre. He wrote six ...more
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Jiří Brdečka was a Czech writer, artist, and film director. Brdečka was born in Hranice na Moravě to a literary family; his father, Otakar Brdečka, wrote under the pseudonym Alfa. Brdečka studied at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the ...more
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Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his movies were intended for ...more
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A press of the top-mounted tapering power switch and the SX130 IS readies itself for the first shot in just under two seconds, which is reasonably quick for its class. The lens barrel extends from its housing slightly proud of the body to full wideangle setting, whilst the back screen blinks into life with a cute chirping noise. Because this camera is aimed at the less experienced user, capture options here are limited to JPEG stills, written to SD media card with support for the high capacity SDXC newly offered this time around.
A half press of the shutter release button and focus and exposure is determined near instantaneously, AF point/s highlighted in green with accompanying bleep of affirmation that the shot can now be taken. Do so and a full 12 megapixel Large, Fine quality, least compression JPEG is written to memory in just over two seconds, screen briefly blacking out before freezing to briefly display the captured still.
Toggle the zoom lever that surrounds the shutter release button and the optical zoom moves rather slowly and deliberately through its range, a process taking around three and a half seconds, sound-tracked all the while by a low mechanical buzz. Attempt to use it when filming video and timings slow right down, the zoom taking ten seconds to make the same journey, the effect being that the sound of its adjustments isn't quite so pronounced. To give this slight 'fudge' rather than fix a positive spin, it at least avoids vomit-inducing lurching camerawork.
As well as providing manual exposure control, the scroll dial offers the ability to switch from infinity focus to macro focus, or 'dial in' a manual setting in between using the scroll wheel. Again, we found this implementation rather fiddly and had to scroll very gingerly to effect change to the manual focus slide rule on the right of the screen, a central portion of the screen showing an enlarged portion of your intended subject to help determine focus more accurately. We can see most of the SX130 IS' intended audience simply not bothering.
In terms of picture quality we were pleasantly surprised with the results we got from the SX130 IS. With colours veering toward warm straight out of the camera, images avoided looking too flat, even under dull, grey wintry skies. Inevitably when shooting handheld at maximum zoom we got our fair share of soft shots, and it became common sense/second nature to shoot two or three frames of every subject we attempted at the telephoto end to make sure at least one of them was sharp enough. At least we encountered commendably little in the way of barrel distortion at extreme wide angle, and sharpness is well maintained edge to edge. Pixel fringing, although visible under close inspection, is kept well under warps for the most part.
For low light shooting without the aid of the flash, which has to be raised manually, up to and including ISO1600 is perfectly usable, as our test shots show, though of course you'll want to stick blow ISO800 to get a truly noise-free photograph. If you do want to tweak the look of your basic images in-camera rather than at the download/editing stage, the digital effects filters and My Colors modes are just subtle enough to enhance the occasional shot rather than overdoing it. Used sparingly they can in fact become an additional creative tool rather than just a gimmick.
Family friendly in terms of both operation and price, the SX130 IS will extend the photographic opportunities of anyone more used to happy snapping, without forcing them to confront a particularly steep learning curve like a compact system camera or DSLR might. The full-ish complement of manual controls are there if you want them, for when experience and desire to experiment grows. But, if not, it's a case of point and shoot all the way and generally you get decent results with the minimum of fuss and user input.
What's more this camera feels like great value for money if you don't mind a slightly bulkier and more plastic-y feel than usual. The use of AA batteries is also something to bear in mind, though this can be an advantage as much as a hindrance. We'd argue these are compromises worth making as the SX310 IS packs a lot more into its generously proportioned frame than you'll easily find for an equivalent outlay. It may not be sexy, but it's practical.
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CANON Powershot SX130 IS PC1562 12.1 MP Digital Camera 12X Optical Zoom Black$63.99 View Item
CANON Powershot SX130 IS PC1562 12.1 MP Digital Camera 12X Optical Zoom Black$45.00 View Item
I was stupid enough to sell the excellent SX110 IS in favour of the upgrade SX120 IS.
It took me some to time to find out why I was bittgerly disappointed with the upgrade: Canon had removed the Super Fine compression setting.
It has not re-appeared!
What a fantastic camera, the Sx130 obtains exactly the same 8/10 as the G12,
in both performance and image quality !
How that kind of situation may be possible ?
Does anybody agree that the Sx130 has exactly the same performance and image quality as the G12 ?
Or does everybody agree that the G12 HAS TO OBTAIN 9/10 in both performance and image quality ?
Well said, Evilpaul. The whole purpose, and the whole problem, of reviews is that they must be relevant to the typical potential client. If they only relate to the reviewer's personal ideas of perfection they are worthless. The effort here is commendable. Even so I don't understand from where that overall score came.
Even in it's price bracket though, I would hope to achieve images that are sharper than those in this review, they are very soft. This seems to be a trend in current compacts where attempts at controlling noise ends up with nasty flat pictures. Too many pixels crammed into such a tiny sensor doesn't seem to yield great results.
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