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PITTSBURGH - Duquesne used a late rally to earn a 10-9 win over the 22nd-ranked Pitt baseball team Wednesday afternoon in the final game in the team's long-standing cross-town rivalry.
Junior first baseman David Chester (Collinsville, Okla./Seminole CC) knocked in his 13th homerun of the season as well as batted in three runs and had an additional hit in the Pitt loss.
Each team used five pitchers in the back-and-forth contest, with Chris Happ earning the win for the Dukes giving up no runs and no hits in the final 1.1 innings of action, while Pitt's J.R. Leonardi (Pittsburgh, Pa./Pittsburgh Alderdice) suffered the heartbreaker as he pitched just 0.2 innings and gave up one run on one hit.
After holding the Panthers scoreless in the top of the first, Duquesne got off to a quick start, scoring five runs on four hits in the first inning.
Looking to get on the board, junior designated hitter Kevan Smith (Cranberry, Pa./Seneca Valley) singled to right field. Junior right fielder Phil Konieczny (Phoenix, Ariz./Mountain Pointe) was credited with an RBI single, bringing Smith home from third and cutting the Duquesne lead to 5-1.
In the third, Chester struck with an RBI double, bringing it to 5-2 in favor of the Dukes. Adding another run was Smith with a single to center field with runners on the corners and nobody out. Junior second baseman Travis Whitmore (Burlington, Iowa/Indian Hills CC) brought in Chester to cut the Duquesne lead to one at 5-4.
Getting the Panthers going in the fourth was senior shortstop Danny Lopez (Queens, N.Y./Monsignor McClancy) who led off with a single. Junior left fielder John Schultz (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson) sent a fly ball off the center field fence with an RBI triple, knotting the game up at five. Chester came to the plate with his clutch bat and delivered a two-run homer, giving the Panthers the lead, 7-5.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Dukes were able to squeeze in a run, despite the defense efforts of the Panther outfielders and second baseman Whitmore, who was able to nail to runner heading into third base, ending the inning. Still, the Panthers had the lead 7-6.
Whitmore's efforts continued in the sixth, hitting a triple to center. Senior catcher Cory Brownsten (Lockport,N.Y./Monroe CC) brought Whitmore home to extend the lead to 8-6.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Dukes had the bases loaded twice in the inning and were able to come away with a run, cutting the Pitt lead to 8-7. Freshman pitcher Alex Caravella (Harrington Park, N.J./Northern Valley) came on in relief and got out of the inning by striking out a batter with the bases loaded.
Caravella came back to the mound in the seventh striking out all three Dukes batters in order, all swinging.
Heading into the eighth, Brownsten reached third by reaching on a single, followed by two Duquesne throwing errors, which advanced him to third. On a determined decision, Brownsten charged home on a wild pitch and was ruled safe, making it 9-7.
The Dukes would rally in the eighth, scoring three runs on two hits, including the winning run. The 10th run for Duquesne was scored with the bases loaded for the third time in the game, claiming back the lead 10-9 for good.
In the ninth, the Panthers were unable to muster any offense with Pitt recording no runs on no hits to suffer the 10-9 loss.
With the series split this season, including a 21-9 Pitt victory on April 14, the all-time series between Pitt and Duquesne, which dates back to 1952, will conclude with a 58-22-1 advantage for the Panthers.
Pitt will now travel to Cincinnati to play a three-game series against the Bearcats. Game times are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Final Season Notes: Panthers Conclude 2017 Season
Manny Pazos Signs with Seattle
Mitchell Selected by Kansas City in MLB Draft
Mattson Drafted by Los Angeles Angels
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Hello everyone!
I've joined mothering.com to meet other blogging and traveling mamas! We have spent a summer in Norway with our first when he was 12-15 months, and now we are "moving" to Costa Rica!-- We leave December 31st! Ahh!.. We have a 2.5 year old boy and a 4 month old girl. My latest concerns are.. how am I going to keep the diaper on my wanna-be nudist toddler and travel with baby food??? (I breastfeed, so at least we have that...but I need to figure out how to bring some homemade applesauce or banana mush). =) At least it's not a trans-continental flight! (We are leaving Maryland, USA)...
Planning to spend a minimum of 3 months in Costa Rica (but probably a full year), and then continue to bounce around the world for the next few years. (My hubby works from home, bless him).
I'm tracking my adventures on my blog mommybluebird.com... would LOVE to meet other blogging mommies on here and share our funny stories!
Cheers! (with coffee, not wine..unfortunately)
CDing, BFing, BWing, bread-baking, animal-loving, non-stop traveling Mama of 2 sweeties, and loving every minute of it!
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Hello QueenOfTheMeadow,
Thanks so much for letting me know!
CDing, BFing, BWing, bread-baking, animal-loving, non-stop traveling Mama of 2 sweeties, and loving every minute of it!
I lived in Costa Rica with my babies many years ago (those "babies" are 16 & 17 now!). It was one of the great experiences of our lives. What are your plans? Urban or rural? Do you have income or savings, or will you be looking to earn? Do you speak Spanish? Do you know any one?
We lived in a remote agricultural area, where tourists are rarely seen, and no Americans lived. We were welcomed into the village community, and the neighbors virtually adopted my kids - like a dozen grandparents and aunties and uncles. The climate where (low elevation, inland) we were was pretty miserable by my standards - tropical hot and humid, punctuated by monsoon-style rainstorms. But that supported all manner of wild fruits in the semi-jungle surrounding our house, and the locals shared with us which fruits could be found when and where, and how to eat them. I did miss fresh vegetables other than tomatoes - I was unable to grow anything in that climate. I imagine more would be available in a bigger town.
The most amazing cultural difference I saw was the low-stress "Pura Vida" attitude. Although most people in my area lived at a substainance level, folks generally didn't seem too stressed about it. In America, we (meaning the mainstream, middle class culture) are always striving for more, and bigger, and better. No matter how much we have in savings, it never feels like enough. We worry about retirement, health care, college tuition for the kids. There is no guarantee that out savings will be enough for those expenses. In Costa Rica, university is competitive, but free. Medical care is free. Not always convenient or accessible, but getting a ride to the city for a doctor appointment if you don't have a car is a manageable obstacle, compared to going thousands of dollars into debt, as is common in the US. State-sponsored retirement (like our Social Security) is something like 66% of your income when you retire. So there is just no reason to be stressed. Life goes on at its leisurely pace. Several of my friends worked for the major banana plantations (Dole), and were paid much less than I thought they deserved. But they just shrugged and accepted that life isn't always easy.
Except in the city (San Jose), violent crime was practically unheard of. Theft was not too uncommon, but no one had anything too valuable any way, so it wasn't an issue. Alcoholism and domestic violence are social problems that are not really being addressed. Life is not perfect. But living in a country that doesn't even have an army is an amazing experience!
Rhu - mother,grandmother,daughter,sister,friend-foster,adoptive,and biological;not necessarily in that order. Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I had a good life all the way (Jimmy Buffet)
What a wonderful response! Let me try to answer all of your questions: We have rented a home near Atenas through the end of March. If we love it there (which we think we will), we will either continue on in the home we have rented, or find a different home if we find we need more space, would like to try another town, etc. We will probably stay for all of 2013. We are leaving the future beyond that open. We know we want to continue to travel, but we will decide where and for how long a few months before making a move. I predict we will stay in Central and South America until we master Spanish, and then visit a few more affordable countries in Europe, like Prague and Budapest. Ideally, in the coming years, we will be comfortable enough financially to afford an extended stay in the south of France or in Holland, where my sister and her family live.
We have enough savings to pay for our initial 3 month stay in Costa Rica, but my husband will continue to work from "home." I am hoping to find a way to bring in some income eventually, probably virtually as well.
I studied Spanish for 4 years in high school, and knew enough to carry on a comfortable conversation. I then learned French, and unfortunately lost a lot of my Spanish! I'll describe it as the "new" French word for something actually replaced the Spanish word in my brain. I'm freshening up on the basics of Spanish now before we head out, and I'm hoping things will "click" back after a few weeks of being submerged in the culture.
We do not know anyone there really. We have been introduced via phone to a family down there by our mutual real estate agent. Also, a friend of ours knows another family that winter in Costa Rica, and they plan to introduce us to them as well. I will be looking for mommy groups once we arrive! I'm wondering if maybe I could even make friends with other moms by meeting up for a Spanish-English language swap.
The "Pura Vida" lifestyle is something I'm really looking forward to! I'm much more interested in enjoying life while my kids are growing, rather than stressing about the future!
We are interested in finding a more rural home after we are comfortable in our new surroundings. We decided on renting a gated home in a town with lots of ex-pats and locals to ease into the new place as safely as possible with little kids. It is a higher elevation than you experienced, so the weather should be less humid. It sounds like an incredible place to live, and I really am excited to see how the next year unfolds!
Thanks for reassuring me that this is a great decision for my family!
CDing, BFing, BWing, bread-baking, animal-loving, non-stop traveling Mama of 2 sweeties, and loving every minute of it!
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Audi makes record sales for 25th consecutive month
Audi today reported January sales of 10,056 vehicles, accounting for a 7.5% increase over the previous mark last year. The month also stands as the 25th consecutive month of record sales for Audi of America.
Coming off a record 2012, Audi is showing no signs of slowing down for 2013. Sales of Audi premium category vehicles (Audi A8, Audi A7, Audi A6, and Audi Q7) increased 13% to represent 33.3% share of total Audi sales in January. That compares to a 19% mix for the most luxurious Audi models in 2008. Consumers continue to demand the Audi A8 flagship sedan, as sales soared 56% over the year earlier. Audi A5 sales also performed well, posting a 37% gain from January 2012 sales.
January served as the perfect catalyst for 2013, said Mark Del Rosso, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Audi of America. As we continue to increase the footprint of our brand, we will also continue to deliver more record-breaking numbers throughout this year.
Sales mix for Audi S models finished the month at 16.2% for the S4, 38.7% for the S5/ RS 5, 11.9% for the S6, 20.7% for the S7, 23% for the S8 and 55.9% for the TT S/ TT RS.
Audi A5 sales up 37% compared to January 2012.
Sales of Audi A6 increased 11% compared to January 2012.
Sales of the Audi A8 increased 56% compared to January 2012.
Sales of the Audi Q5 increased 18% compared to January 2012.
Sales mix for Audi TDI clean diesel models finish the month at 38.9% for the A3 TDI and 21.5% for Q7 TDI.
For the record-setting month of January 2013, two Audi models recorded year-over- year sales increases of 20% or more, including the Audi A5 and Audi A8.
Audi Certified pre-owned sales of 2,843 vehicles marks a new record for January CPO sales, surpassing the previous record from January 2009.
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The Buckeyes announced that seniors Bryant Browning, Cameron Heyward, Ross Homan, Brian Rolle, Brandon Saine and Dane Sanzenbacher have all been named captains for the 2010 season.
The last time six players were named captain was in 1982, when Glen Cobb, Jerome Foster, Joe Lukens, Marcus Marek, Tim Spencer and Gary Williams all were so honored. In addition, five captains were selected in the 1974, 1989 and 1990 seasons.
"A leader has a responsibility to take care of business, so now I have to step up to the plate," Heyward, a defensive lineman who has 32 career starts, said in a release. "This is one of those honors you think about since you were a kid, being captain of your team. It's a tremendous feeling."
Last year's squad had three captains, all from the defensive side of the ball, and rotated in a fourth offensive member for each game.
As fall camp began, Saine said he would like the chance to be a captain.
"It would be amazing," the running back said Aug. 5. "We have a captains' breakfast every year and you see these great players come back and speak to us. I wasn't even the captain of my high school team because I'm not a very vocal person. I think that it would be a great honor. I'd love it."
Browning, who has 27 career starts along the offensive line, said he is honored to be a captain.
"I have tried to be a leader throughout my career," he said. "I hope this shows that my teammates appreciate what I have done. Now I am hoping to be one of the leaders of a great team, a championship team."
Rounding out the offensive side is Sanzenbacher, a wide receiver who caught a touchdown pass on his first reception in his first game as a freshman in 2007.
"It's a real honor to be mentioned among these great leaders," he said. "I don't think it will change much for me; I just want to continue to contribute to this program any way I can."
Heyward is joined by two linebackers in Homan and Rolle. Homan is a fifth-year senior.
"I'm excited and humbled," he said. "But because I'm a captain, my role won't change. I want to still be the same hard-working person."
Said Rolle: "When I look at the other seniors on this team, this is such a great honor. It's quite an honor to think that my teammates recognize how hard I've worked. I'm looking forward to a great season."
Not included in the mix is junior quarterback Terrelle Pryor, the Big Ten's preseason offensive player of the year. At the Big Ten Media Days in Chicago, head coach Jim Tressel said he felt the team had enough senior leadership to warrant not bestowing the honor on Pryor.
"A lot of times who the team selects as captain is partially dependent on how many older guys you have that have those kinds of capabilities as well," the coach said. "I would think that for Terrelle there would be some groundswell, but maybe not as much as you might have if you didn't have such a strong senior class."


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How to get rid of unwanted Christmas gifts
15 comments:
- Josiet Castaneda said...
Personally, anime doesn't appeal to me but I find the costumes cute and very interesting. Nice to see that you support your son's interests :)
- January 2, 2014 at 8:36 PM
- jo-anne wong said...
I like all the colorful wigs and costumes, they look so cool and fun.
- January 2, 2014 at 10:56 PM
- chubskulit said...
I am not into anime but this could be entertaining for kids.
- January 3, 2014 at 3:03 AM
- Mai @ MaiThankfulHeart said...
I love Cosplayers! That's mostly because my kids are such in awe when they see a Cosplayer. What I love about them is their passion for their art. It's great to see young ones get involve in something they love with so much passion.
- January 3, 2014 at 5:22 AM
- Fernando Ceballos Lachica said...
Just looking for them like dolls, but I don't really dig into it. Children do love them.
- January 3, 2014 at 6:49 AM
- Nova Joy said...
totally adorable, anime's are great characters, seems like everything is perfect physically on them.
- January 3, 2014 at 7:18 AM
- princess pierre said...
I'm not into anime but I've heard about it from my sister's children. Nice to see kids get passionate about something that they love.
- January 3, 2014 at 7:41 AM
- travelquest said...
Nowadays anime are become popular to kids I've known anime because of their hair style and colorful dress.
- January 3, 2014 at 7:43 AM
- Jonas Labagala said...
In a cosplay, a wig is not enough unless there's a character who dresses simply. But in an event like this, they look so colorful and it's a plus if the character and the cosplayer is identical. :)
- January 3, 2014 at 10:18 AM
- Fernando Lachica said...
Great idea for you...and no unwanted gift for me..sad.
- January 3, 2014 at 5:11 PM
- Jessica Cassidy said...
Awww! your kids Sis had a blast meeting with their Anime idols :-) I do not have clue about them :-)
- January 3, 2014 at 9:48 PM
- Dr. Philip Tan-Gatue said...
if your son ever wants to try the classic robot animes of the 1970s, give me a call.
- January 3, 2014 at 10:26 PM
- Rcel said...
Haha! Looks so fun! Galing naman talaga! I have a half-Japanese niece, for sure she can very much relate to this duper fun kind of day!
- January 3, 2014 at 10:27 PM
- Marie ♡ said...
I was once a fan of anime back when I was still in elementary but my interests shifted into Korean dramas. Cosplay has been a trend these days and we have this party at school too that we have to dress up and cosplay. It's fun! :)
- January 4, 2014 at 12:38 AM
- papaleng said...
Give it to since i have nieces who are fond of anime.
- January 5, 2014 at 12:37 AM
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Hey fans, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and the NFL Santa was good to you!
So, we are now setting up for the road to the Super Bowl. Personally, I expect the number one teams of Seattle and Denver to be there. I know there is usually an upset during playoffs to where one of them gets knocked out but I really don't think that will be this year.
BUT, if my Colts keep it up....they could easily be playing in their first Super Bowl without Peyton. They beat the Broncos once...would love to see a repeat of that game. I have to say that the other two teams that may make an upset would be the Patriots or Saints. No matter what it's going to be fun watching the battle!
Until next time...don't forget to get your PLAY 60
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the colts all ready played a super bowl w out peyton- they had one w unitas
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Seahawks vs cincy or denver
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(F2080) Harvesting rice in lines. On the slopes above and below groups of men and boys, and a few girls of Shoupa's family were cutting the rice. The harvesters cut sheaves of rice-stalks and left them on the ground to be picked up by small boys who in turn carried them to the threshing hut. The reapers worked in lines or semi-circles, shouting as they proceeded with surprising speed. The effect was almost that of a machine, and plots of high waving rice-plants were suddenly reduced to bare ground where only the large leaves of taro plants emerged from heaps of cut rice-stalks. Author: Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Date: 1970-08-29 Harvesting rice at Wakching.


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Barry Gordon (Holiday)
It seems kismet that Gordon was born December 21, 1948, as a holiday favorite would prove to be his biggest hit. The Brookline, MA, native made his TV debut at three years old on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. He also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and Star Time with Benny Goodman.
Recording for MGM Records, seven-year old Gordon was picked to sing the kids' song "Nuttin' for Christmas," written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett. The duo also wrote "Bagel and Lox," "Bullfighter Was a Lady," "The Angel in the Fountain," and music for the Elvis Presley movies Jailhouse Rock, Flaming Star, G.I. Blues, and Blue Hawaii. "Nuttin' for Christmas" b/w "Santa Claus Looks Just Like Daddy" went to number six pop on Billboard's charts on December 31, 1955. His follow-up single, "Rock Around Mother Goose" b/w "Seven" was his only other charting release (number 52 pop, early 1956), though he continued recording until he was in his thirties.
Gordon appeared as a leering paperboy in the 1956 Jayne Mansfield movie The Girl Can't Help It and on such '50s/'60s TV shows as The Jack Benny Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. At 14, he received a Tony nomination for the role of Nick in the Broadway hit A Thousand Clowns, a role he reprised in the 1965 film version of the play that starred Jason Robards and Sandy Denis.
In 1967, he starred in Out of It as a super-smart high school nerd. Donning a nebbish Woody Allen-like persona, Gordon appeared in TV sitcoms The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Don Rickles Show, A Family for Joe, the Barney Miller spin-off Fish, and Archie Bunker's Place. During the '90s, Gordon became an in-demand voice-over actor in TV animation and commercials, and was the voice of the scholarly, blue bandanna-wearing Donatello on the incredibly successful animated cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which first aired in syndication and later ran for several seasons as a part of CBS-TV's Saturday morning line-up. Gordon served as president of the Screen Actors Guild. Gordon's other releases are the MGM Records singles "Girl I Left Behind," "Rock Little Chillun" b/w "Pretty Lil Girl Next Door," "Santa Claus Looks Just Like Daddy" b/w "3," "Yes We Have No Bananas" b/w "Thief," the Dunhill singles "Ramshackle Guy" b/w "Days of Pearly Spencer," "Take Off the Veil" b/w "You Can't Love a Child," the United Artists Records singles "Talk, Talk, Talk" b/w "Sealed With a Kiss," "They" b/w "Katy" for the Era label, "You Can't Lie to a Liar" b/w "You Can't See the Trees" on Cadence, and "Zoomah Santa From Mars." His LPs are the MGM album Rock Little Children and the Telarc CD Distant Songs.
"Nuttin' for Christmas" can be found on the 1989 compilation Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1955-Present from Rhino and Oldies Radio K-Earth 101 FM: Vol. 2-Ultimate Christmas Album from Collectables Records. ~ Ed Hogan
Selected Discography
Track List: 100 Christmas Hits (The Essential Holiday Selection)
Track List: The Christmas Music Anthology, Vol. 12
Track List: Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer: 30 Popular Christmas Songs For Kids
Track List: Have A Fun Christmas
Track List: Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955-Present)
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Organic shops
We are fortunate here in Pezenas to have a wonderful organic shop, Distribio, that carries practically all and everything you need. It is run by Nathalie and François and is within walking distance (7mins). Open Tues-Sat 9:00-12:30 15:00-19:30.
For you coffee lovers, Nikki and Jean Francois, the owners of the Couvent des Ursulines, run a small coffee shop in Pezenas where they roast their own coffee. So for the best espressos, cappuccinos and coffee beans in town drop by, it is located right behind the post office in the centre of town. You can also buy fresh ground coffee for use at home.
The famous Saturday market
Pezenas really comes alive on a Saturday with stall holders coming from miles around to sell their wonderful produce. You can get cheeses, meats, cooked foods such as paella or roast chicken, olives, tapenades, jams and a huge range of local fruit and veg. There is also a good range of clothes, crafts and bedlinens etc.
Food stalls are available from 8:00-12:00 and the rest stays on until 17:00. This is another key reason for our Friday changeover this year as many missed the market last year.
Sunday shopping
Please note that in France almost all shops are closed on Sunday.
Some shops are open on Sunday mornings; a wonderful grocery shop called Clerc, on the main square by the church sells great cheeses, hams, fruits, veggies and many other delicious products. He does not sell organic food nor fair trade and more often than not his products are from the four corners of France. But we cannot deny that he does choose his products with care and they are almost always of great quality, with the price to match.
After 12:30 on Sundays it is next to impossible to go food shopping. You will have to wait until Monday.
There are also way too many supermarkets. We have 5 discount supermarkets, Lidl, Netto, Aldi, Ed and Leader Price. There are two main supermarkets; Carrefour and Intermarché and a small supermarket in town call Huit à Huit. We suggest that you spend your money in Champion as the owner spent 20 years doing humanitarian work all over the world and he sells the most organic and fair trade products ever seen in a supermarket.


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My daughter and I have been CG for about a year now, but we cannot go another summer here in FL with the big poof of hair the humidity causes.
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Selling Your Website
When it comes to selling your website, PayPal is probably your best option. That's because PayPal is available in many countries and it can handle many currencies, as well.
However, there are times when you might want to use another form of payment. If you are dealing with a large amount of money, for instance (which is likely to happen once you get better at creating and flipping sites), you may want to use an escrow service such as Escrow.com.
Still some site flippers choose only to deal with checks, money orders, wire transfers or even payments through Western Union. Whichever form of payment you use is completely up to you, as long as its most convenient. And for most, PayPal offers a convenience that cant be beaten.
Transferring Your Site and Files
Before you transfer anything to any buyer, make sure you have receipt of payment first! This is very important. There are many site flippers who have been burned by scam artists who promise to buy and then never come through. These site-flippers spend all this money, time and effort on creating a site only to hand it over for free. Don't do that. Get paid first (an escrow service will ensure you do) and only then should you transfer to the site over to the new owner.
On the other hand, there have been many buyers that have been scammed by people who promise to transfer a site and then never come through. So you may be asked to show a sign of good will by giving a piece of the site. If this is the case, just send over a file or a template that is useless without the rest of the sites files. For the most part, however, the buyer will usually pay for the site with the expectations that you will just sign the site over to them.
Transferring the site is easy enough to do. You simply send the buyer the site files and then the buyer uploads them to his server. You then push your domain to the buyer's account. The buyer updates his nameserver info and then points the domain to his server. Clean and easy. Or, you can simply provide the buyer with your FTP login and password, as well as your server and account details and the buyer then transfers everything over at his expense.
This should be the easiest part of the entire process. And thats all it takes to create and then sell a website in just a few hours. The best part is that you did it using only a minimal amount of money.
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I have been an academic since joining the University of Natal in 1998 and, following a period as a visiting lecturer in Brisbane in 2001, I joined the staff at QUT on an ongoing basis in 2003. I was appointed as Architecture Co-ordinator in 2006, and this role involves the leadership of the architectur discipline of 17 full time academics. I am currently enrolled in a PhD course in the field of urban morphology. This research proposes a theory on the relevance of mapping the evolutionary aspects of historical urban form to develop a measure for evaluating architecural elements and deriving parameters for new buildings. My participation in a QUT design team contributed to a recent successful invited competition bid for an Urban Transit Centre in Hangzhou, China. The Centre will include retail, business, entertainment, residential and service components at the heart of the Binjiang district on the 11.5ha core area with 32ha surrounding urban design precinct. The project has received the approval to commence and is to be implemented over the next three years!
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In January 1990, Mike Bishop was a military policeman processing 38,000 Iraqi POWs at a camp just south of the Kuwaiti border. Today he is a sergeant with the Orrville Police Department and has a much lighter arrest load.
Bishop, a 1984 graduate of Orrville High School, was named Orrville's officer of the year this week. "It's an honor because the people you work with are the people who pick you for the award," Bishop said. "And they wouldn't have picked you if they didn't respect the job you are doing."
According to Bishop, he was always interested in law enforcement work. After graduating from high school he joined the Army and trained to become an MP. He returned to Orrville in 1988 after active duty service in physical security at the Sierra Army Depot in northern California. Back home he attended the Wayne County Sheriff's Academy and worked as a part-time officer for the Orrville force as well as holding a job with Smith Dairy and serving in the Army Reserve.
In 1990 he was called up and sent to Desert Storm. He returned to the States in May 1991 and in June started as a full-time patrolman. On March 6 of this year he made sergeant.
Bishop said that while in the Army, he was planning to be a police officer. "I like the fact that in this line of work you have to use your brain. You have to think all the time and it isn't the same repetitive job over and over again. I love to be out doing the job.''
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Motley Fool Radio Interview With Jeff Bezos CEO, President, and Chairman of Amazon.com
Founded as an Internet bookseller by Jeff Bezos in 1996, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) now also sells videos, music, electronics, and software. The company is a holding in The Motley Fool's Rule Breaker Portfolio. David and Tom Gardner interviewed Bezos on The Motley Fool Radio Show on January 16, 1999.
David: Back in March of 1996 a little company sprang up and opened its Internet store front and did $875,000 worth of sales, mainly in books. As 1998 closes, Amazon.com will have somewhere on the order of, our estimates say, about $600 million dollars just two years after that opening. That's $600 million in sales of books, music CDs, some consumer electronics and some software, and a few videos, too. Jeff, welcome to the show.
Bezos: Thank you. It's great to be here.
David: I wanted to ask you the first question. Back in the early 1990s you were a hedge fund manager. You'd recently graduated Princeton with a distinguished academic career and we know that you, at a certain point, decided that you should leave Wall Street and go out as an entrepreneur because you had this idea that a bookstore -- a Barnes & Noble, for example, the largest one can hold 250,000 different titles -- you figured you could start a book store that would have 2.5 million titles. Did you ever think that within four or five years you would be on the cover of Time magazine?
Bezos: No. In fact, anybody who would've predicted what has happened today would have had to have been put in a padded room with a strait jacket immediately.
Tom: And none of us are sitting in a padded room, thankfully at this moment, as far as I know. Now, when we look at Amazon, certainly in its first year as a public company there was a lot of debate on our website about whether or not the big booksellers would come along and squash this young upstart business. But before that could ever happen you were redefining what Amazon meant. And I guess one of the questions on the minds of our listeners is whether Amazon is now competing more with booksellers or with superstore discount retailers? Is there a way that we can put this in an industry that we can understand?
Bezos: That's a great question and I hope that one of our objectives right here is to make that very difficult for people, because I think one of the metrics of our success long term will be to the degree to which we're able to defy easy analogy. So, if we can do that we don't want to be the anything of the Internet. We'd rather have others try to be the Amazon.com of something, and [we would rather] go about trying to invent the future of e-commerce. That's part of what we're trying to do, is to be something new that the world has never seen before. So hopefully we'll make that kind of analogy tough. I do think that a year from now Barnes & Noble and Borders won't even consider us direct competitors.
David: Now Jeff, I'm looking at the market cap right now, $25 billion. Obviously the market sees that the company is not yet profitable and yet is willing to accord it an amazing valuation. Now, from our point of view, when we first wrote down some analysis on Amazon.com a couple of years ago, we figured this company is going to have advertising revenues. That's going to be a stream because you're getting so much information on me as your customer when I come in and buy a book about kayaks you now know that I probably have some interest in kayaks -- and it goes from there. So, [many thought that] this company was going to have advertising revenues. Yet right now Amazon has no [advertising] banners anywhere on the site. Do you have some expectation for doing that in the next year or two?
Bezos: The way we think about advertising is that as long as we have lots of traffic doing advertising in an appropriate way is an option that's always open to us. But today, we're investing, you know every pixel is valuable, screen real estate is very scarce. And we're effectively using it. We do have a lot of advertising on our site in effect; it's just that we use it all for ourselves to promote our new product categories, to promote different products that we are trying to sell, and so on. As long as you have the eyeballs, advertising is always a future option. It's not something that gets foreclosed every time, so there's no need to rush on that.
Tom: I sat, Jeff, at a Christmas party of probably about ten people who were all middle-aged, just getting onto the Internet, figuring out these different services and I'd say 80% of them were investors, and they all did some Christmas shopping at Amazon but were all shocked by the valuation of the company. When you point to the fact that you are looking to be a business that... one cannot draw easy analogies about... relative to the rest of the business world, what metrics can an individual, an investor who's thinking about a company like this, look to in terms of valuing whether or not you are succeeding going forward?
Bezos: Well, our strategy has always been one of long term, so we have consistently said that we will sacrifice optimizing for short-term profitability, for example, to have a better position long-term. So the kinds of metrics that you might want to look at to see how we're doing against a long-term plan are things like customer counts, things like market share. Those kind of things are what later can translate into an important and lasting company.
David: That's a great answer. Let me ask you this then, the year 2010, so we're fast forwarding, can you give me a sense of what you expect your profit margin to be then?
Tom: We're tapping into Amazon from a space station and then we're going over to the Edgar spot and looking at your financials. Can you make a projection about what profit margins might look like for this business in 2010?
Bezos: We are pretty careful around here not to make any forward-looking financial projections. Rarely are we asked for [projections] that far in the future, although I think that's actually the right question to ask, but I should stick to that anyway. I cannot give that sort of information.
Tom: OK, now Jeff, we have to confess that one of the primary reasons that we were hoping that you would come on the program, [spend] some time on a Saturday -- although as an Internet company ourselves we know a lot of people are probably working very hard on a Saturday over there in Seattle...
Bezos: By the way, you guys are doing a great job.
Tom: Well, thank you. Thank you. We've got a long way to go. We've got a long way to go.
David: And Tom's been a big handicap for us, so a lot of us have worked to overcome him.
Tom: I've been killing us. I've been killing us on the marketing side.
Bezos: I've pulled up your new book and as of this hour it's the number two best selling book at Amazon.com, the Rule Breakers, Rule Makers book. Congratulations.
Tom and David: Thank you very much.
Tom: We actually have that screen up in front of us right now where the book is number two, and that is one of the reasons we were really hopeful that you would be able to come on the program. We were wondering because Tom Brokaw is number one and we think maybe America's already heard enough from Tom Brokaw, so if you can have your people do something about that...
Bezos: (Laughing) I'll see what we can do.
David: OK, let me shift gears. A lot of people don't realize that Amazon.com owns the Internet Movie Database, an acquisition made last year. The Internet Movie Database today is the most popular site for going and figuring out who was in the cast of a movie back in 1957 or who's going to be in the cast in a movie coming up in the year 2000. You can click on an actor's name and see their entire career, everything they've done. You can click all the way through. And when I was thinking about this business -- and by the way, we do own Amazon.com in our online portfolio so I speak as a shareholder, and an interested shareholder, Jeff -- I was thinking at a certain point Blockbuster Video is going to kind of disappear out there.
I don't think that store space is going to make a lot of sense when we can all download movies online. I'm wondering [about] a video-on-demand future where somebody can click a button on the Internet and watch a movie, and maybe pay a dollar to do it instead of three bucks. Obviously their monitor will be a little bit more impressive and maybe it will be more of a home theater surrounding them from ten feet away. But do you foresee the Internet Movie Database maybe at some point... having every movie that we have on it and anybody can click for a dollar, let's say, you guys get five cents, the studios get 95 cents?
Tom: Or is Dave just losing his mind?
David: Or am I losing my mind?
Bezos: Well, I can't comment on Dave's sanity, but what I can say is it's not just movies. One of the things I believe is that online market share for media products -- not just movies, but also books and music as well -- I think long, long term could be 10 to 15 percent of the whole market. I don't know where I get that number. I sort of pull it out of thin air. It's not something you can actually calculate. But I also believe that when you get to electronic downloadable products, whether it be movies, music or books, that that could invert.
So long, long term -- and that will take a long time before it happens, I believe, because there are a lot of constraints on making those products electronic -- then you'll see that almost all of those products are bought electronically. And if we can do a good job of being the world's most customer-centered company and be the best place to find and discover those kinds of products, then we should be somewhere in the revenue stream distributing those products.
Tom: You know, Jeff, one of the things we've been trying to do at the Fool is to really, for lack of a better word, to humanize the public market, put a face on corporations and let individuals know that right in front of them the greatest investment opportunities exist in the products and services that they use that are created, marketed, designed, and delivered by people. Sort of in that vein, I'm wondering if you could just describe for us what maybe an average Tuesday looks like on your schedule, how you spend some of your time, what an average working day looks like for you if there is such a thing?
Bezos: Well, let's see, I spend a lot of time on e-mail, and at Amazon.com we use e-mail as a very important method of communicating internally as a lot of companies do. I spend a significant fraction of time interviewing people, so it wouldn't be unusual for a Tuesday to have one or two interviews or phone calls to candidates. Sometimes we've already decided we want to hire them and we are just trying to convince them to join us. Those kinds of things, I try to keep Mondays and Thursdays completely free so that those are days I can be proactive. Tuesday would typically be kind of a fully overscheduled day with sort of back-to-back meetings and so on.
Tom: Now, just taking it all of the way back to the beginning, as well as humanizing things again for the average person who's thinking this is a big corporation, I don't know how this sort of thing gets created.
Bezos: They should see my office if they think that.
Tom: Can you talk a little bit about where the idea came from? We have a lot of small business builders that listen to the program, a lot of people coming to the website that are creating their own businesses either online or elsewhere. Can you just talk about the evolution, the origin of the idea?
Bezos: Yes. In early 1994, the wake-up call for me was finding Internet usage, actually Web usage, as measured in number of bytes flying across the Internet in Web format, was growing at 2300% a year and things just rarely grow that fast. So I set about trying to find a business plan that might make sense in the context of that growth, and I made a list of 20 different products looking for the first best product to sell online.
We picked books for the reason that you talked about at the beginning of this show. We have 4.7 million titles in our store now and a physical store just can't have that many, so you can build something online that literally couldn't exist in any other way. That was sort of the founding basis for the company. I was working on Wall Street and actually having a great time and so I had a tough decision to make and finally made the decision.
I'm kind of a nerd. I have a watch that updates itself 36 times a day from the atomic clock, my dog is named after a minor Star Trek character, so I was looking for the right framework in which to make this decision. I finally realized it should be a regret minimization framework, which is just a nerd's way of saying that when you are 80 years old you want to look back on your life and have as few regrets as possible. And I thought to myself, you know, am I ever going to regret having left Wall Street in the middle of 1994?
You get confused if you don't think about when you're 80 years old. You think about things like your 1994 bonus and are you going to care about that. You know, when you are 80 years old, you are not going to care about that at all. But I knew that I might genuinely regret not participating in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a big deal.
Tom: You know, Jeff, listening to you putting it together that way, I've come to a conclusion that, in fact, David is insane. You made so much sense there and you should see Dave, he's already talking about his '99 bonus.
Bezos: If David's insane, I think a lot of us could use a little bit of that insanity.
David: That's too kind. I want to know Jeff's dog's name, though. What is your dog's name?
Bezos: It's Kamala, from an episode of The Next Generation. Kamala was the metamorph in the episode titled "The Perfect Mate."
David: Outstanding! I am, in fact, also a Next Generation fan. Jeff, thank you very much for being on the show. We wish you the best of luck in 1999. It's exciting for us to talk to somebody who went out there and started his own business. So our closing question to you, speaking of business -- this comes from one of our employees, Dayana Yochim, right here at Fool HQ, who wants to know if Amazon ever intends to sell lingerie.
Bezos: (laughing) I don't know, but if we do you can count on us to do it in a customer-centric way.
David: OK, that's a very, very good answer. Well, we covered movies, we covered ad revenues, we covered where the company's going. We got to talk to the man who founded it all, thank you very much Jeff and best of luck!
Bezos: Thank you!
David: Of course, there's a man who doesn't really need any wishes of luck from us.
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-- Amazon.com message board
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I chuckled while reading the post but if the head manager wasn't so cool about the situation you could be out of work.
This is a discussion on Work/knife story part 2! within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Some of you may have read my old thread http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulle...ld-coming.html I have a new story about knives at my work So today while I was ...
Some of you may have read my old thread http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulle...ld-coming.html
I have a new story about knives at my work
So today while I was working a woman about 40 or so came up to me. She held out a bag of candy and asked "Do you have anything to open this with?" I smiled and said "Yeah no problem." I reached into my pocket and pulled out my Gerber Firestorm. I was careful to open it slowly instead of flicking out the blade one handed. I opened her bag and when I looked back at her face, I was suprised to see her in a state of horror. "Umm.. why do you carry a knife?" I almost laughed and pointed to the bag I had just opened. "For opening little things like that mostly"
My manager must have seen the look on her face and walked over. "Anything I can help you with?" he asked. I explained the situation and he asked to see the knife. I showed him and he whistled. "Is this legal?" he asked. "Yes, I wouldn't carry it if it wasn't." The head manager came over. By now I was getting embarrassed that there was 3 people standing around me just because I helped someone open a bag. My head manager asked "What seems to be the problem?" I explained the situation again. He took a look at the knife, folded it back up and gave it back to me. He turned to the customer and asked, "Didn't you want your bag opened by this young man?" "Yeah, I guess." "Well there ya go" my head manager said with a smile.
My (not head) manager said "Well I guess thats that. Be careful with that Rambo" and walked off. Sometimes im simply amazed by what the do.
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I chuckled while reading the post but if the head manager wasn't so cool about the situation you could be out of work.
Gone are the good ole days when boys were given pocket knives as birthday presents for such mundane chores as cutting kite string and whittling sticks.
With all of the Hollywood slasher genre of movies out there it is no wonder that some people view a person with a pocket knife as the second coming of Freddy Krueger.
BTW, my wife carries a Gerber pocket knife in her purse, so not all women are either.
Maybe if you had a small pair of plastic handled shears to open her bag she wouldn't have been so horrified.
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I had a good laugh over this too, sheep are really funny around knives. My parents were always very supportive of learning about knives at an early age. I got a Swiss Army Knife when I became a cub scout and when my grandfather died, I started carrying his old buck 110. For a little kid, that buck knife was pretty good size, lol.
Too bad I live in a hippie state (CA), so people have these "scared" reactions all the time.
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I didn't know what a Gerber Firestorm, looked like so
I just googled it to see some pics. It doesn't even look
like a tactical knife at all?
Wonder what she would have said about a Mantis knife?
So when she asked, she expected you to open the bag with (?) maybe a paper clip?
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The customer no doubt has much bigger knives in her kitchen at home. Sheeple never cease to amaze me.
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I will support gun control when you can guarantee all guns are removed from this planet. That includes military and law enforcement. When you can accomplish that, then I will be the last person to lay down my gun. Then I will carry the weapon that replaces the gun.
Years ago when Spyderco had first come out, one of my friends had one and stuck it in his belt on this Tux going as part of a wedding party. His wife was just raising hell with him about it... he stood his ground and said no one will notice.... Well it got used three times at the wedding, once to cut a string off the brides dress before the wedding started. And that was the end of all his families dirty looks.
My son is nine. He has been collecting knives for the last 3 yrs. Mom collects knives and we both are becoming firearm enthusiast and competitors. I also have a daughter that has just turned 7. Both my son and daughter have their own 22lrs and my son uses a 410 as well.
My point being; there are parents that are raising there children up with a healthy respect for 2 amendment rights and a love of shooting.
people are freakin' stupid...
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Man people are dumb. I carry a 3" benchmade and get so many looks if I take it out and flick it open to open something. People act like I've just pulled a bomb out of my pocket. Then I go home to my smaller town, and all is well again.


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Local Historical Societies Directory
Town of Sullivan Historical Society (SE Region)
Town of Sullivan Historical Society
N 3866 West St
Rome, WI, 53178
Website: rome-sullivanhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/index.html
Phone: 920-563-7171
Email: email@example.com
Society President
Illene Turner-Wagie
N2494 Rock River Rd
Fort Atkinson, WI, 53538
Phone: 920-563-7171
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Former Methodist Church
Illene Turner-Wagie
W 1978 Main St, Rome, 53178
Hours: Open on Memorial Day from 10am to 1pm. Contact any officer or board member for additional times to arrange a tour.
Illene Turner-Wagie
Located in former Rome Elementary School
N3866 West St, Rome, 53178
Phone: (920) 563-7171 or (262) 593-2492
Hours: Open Memorial Day from 10 am to 1 pm and by appointment.
Plan Your Visit: The 127th Memorial Day observance will begin at 9AM. The museum and church will be open from 10 AM to 1 PM.


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KARBALA: Millions of Shiites flooded the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Sunday for the peak of Ashura rituals, which have been largely spared the deadly attacks that struck pilgrims in past years.
Throngs of pilgrims beat their chests and some used swords to make cuts on their heads as a sign of mourning for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who was killed in 680 AD by the armies of the caliph Yazid.
Tradition holds that the revered imam was decapitated and his body mutilated. Hussein's body is buried in the holy city, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, and his death has become a formative event in Shiite Islam.
A man told black-clad pilgrims, many of them in tears, the story of the battle in which Hussein was killed, over loudspeakers near the shrine where he is buried.
Pilgrims later carried out a ritual run to the shrine, striking their heads in mourning and shouting: "We sacrifice for you, O Hussein."
The commemorations, which also included a reenactment of the attack that killed Imam Hussein, officially wrapped up by 3:00 pm (1200 GMT), according to an AFP journalist.
Karbala provincial governor Amal al-Din al-Har told AFP that about three million pilgrims, including 200,000 from foreign countries, travelled to Karbala for the rituals.
The number of foreign pilgrims was down considerably from the 650,000 who were said to have attended last year.
Staff Lieutenant General Othman al-Ghanimi, head of Al-Furat al-Awsat operations command which covers Karbala, said 30,000 security forces personnel were deployed at the northern, southern and eastern entrances of the city to protect the pilgrims.
Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Mohammed al-Hasnawi, the command's spokesman, meanwhile said its forces were also preparing to protect pilgrims on their way back to their homes.
There have not been any attacks on pilgrims in Karbala province so far, Hasnawi said.
Pilgrims are most vulnerable when they are going to and from Karbala, when they are not protected by the heavy security in the city itself.
Karbala governor Har said that there would be 2,400 vehicles from various Iraqi ministries and from Karbala province to help transport pilgrims home.
Source: AFP


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Approximately zero people enjoy flying over the holidays. Not only is it more expensive and the airports more crowded, in many areas, the weather is also just worse. How bad is it and where? FlightAware's Misery Map shows you in real-time.
The map shows the proportion of on-time flights at major airports compared to delays and cancellations. The East Coast is particularly hit hard right now thanks to the Nor'easter wrecking havoc. The map is also interactive, so if you hover over an area, you can see the routes that are particularly miserable.
It might not be as useful a tool for travelers as, say, FlightStats. On the other hand, it could make those of us who aren't flying this holiday season more thankful. Stay safe and calm, all you travelers. And Happy Thanksgiving to all
Update: FlightAware, the live flight tracking tool behind the map, does have more in-depth information, including flight history, real-time cancellations, and much more tracking than what's on the MiseryMap alone.
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