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High Speed Dreams
Cigar Aficionado's Contributing Editor Drives One of the World's Hottest Race Cars--and Survives
Everybody dreams of spending his fortune differently. Some people fantasize about building collections of art or wine or miniature soldiers. Some plan to acquire acres of land on which to roam undisturbed. Some dream of traveling far and well. And some of us dream of having toys. Airplanes or yachts or Harleys. And cars. Fast cars. Absurdly fast cars. Cars that can get you in serious trouble.
I have often pledged to my wife that when I am a wealthy man I will own a race car. We'll take it to a different track each weekend, where I'll drive at speeds that in our family car would inspire stern lectures. If I feel like going 120 mph, no highway patrolman or wife or inadequate engine can stop me. Mine, I pledge, will be one hell of a midlife crisis.
You can understand then why I nearly cried tears of joy when the people at Nissan Motorsports offered me a chance to drive their factory race car--the one shown on ESPN every other week or so; the one that costs about $350,000; the one nobody but professional racers get to drive.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Z, one of the world's classic sports cars, Nissan was willing to make an exception.
When I first see the car in person, at Road Atlanta Racetrack in Braselton, Georgia, it is naked, with its engine and gears exposed, stripped of artifice. The #75 body and aerodynamic wings are strewn about the ground, like afterthoughts. In preparation for the Grand Prix of Atlanta, held at Road Atlanta in April, mechanics fiddle with the important parts--the valves and hoses, the innards of the monster. With neither a steering wheel nor tires, the Nissan Z racing car looks like a tamed beast, a defanged tiger.
When the techies fire up the motor, though, the thing roars, the way only a 700-plus horsepower engine can, sending an insanely thrilling rumble through your ears, chest and belly. It shoots a pleasing tingle through your core.
While the crew does last-minute tinkering, I meet team Nissan driver Johnny O'Connell, 33, a redheaded, boyish speed demon who seems tickled to be allowed to drive this preposterously powerful machine. Moments before putting his life on the line, taking Road Atlanta's nefarious corners at up to 170 mph, O'Connell does not meditate. He doesn't pray. He doesn't sit alone in a corner, sulking intensely. All he wants to do is talk about the fun of driving a race car.
"This is a great car," O'Connell declares, motioning toward the V8-powered Z. "But last year's twin turbo..." He smiles widely and shakes his head. "Unbelievable."
Primarily because of the world of auto sports politics, the International Motor Sports Association made Nissan's twin turbo illegal for the 1995 campaign, in an attempt to level the playing field in the GTS-1 class by reducing the allowable horsepower. Still, Nissan Motorsports takes its racing seriously, relentlessly searching for ways to make its cars go just a little bit faster than everybody else's. There's more than just a love of speed involved in this quest: Successful race cars mean increased sales. And fierce drivers like O'Connell and his teammate, Steve Millen, the winningest driver in GTS history, always threaten to take the checkered flag.
For race weekend in Atlanta, my "getting around" car is a '95 300ZX twin-turbo SMZ, a $60,000 leather interior, designer version of the showroom Z, with dual chrome pipes, a big spoiler wing and a stylish T-top. Commuting to and from the track, I take perverse pleasure in revving up the turbos at red lights, blowing away teenage motorheads driving what they previously believed to be muscle cars. (OK, I admit it. I'm having my midlife crisis a little early.)
Tooling around in the SMZ, accelerating from zero to 120 mph in about as much time as it takes to get our family Volkswagen into second gear, I feel enormously cool, as though I--and my finely tooled machine--could handle any conceivable automotive challenge. But that's before the Grand Prix at Road Atlanta starts. Watching Millen race the Z, passing two Oldsmobiles in the first lap to take the lead, it is hard to imagine I'll soon be driving the same car at even half the speed. How, I wonder, can Millen possibly go so fast? How do the tires stay adhered to the pavement? How do the brakes handle such powerful momentum?
Am I insane?
My confidence is further shaken when, a few minutes into the race, one of the worst crashes in IMSA history occurs, a devastating T-bone job that sends steel and rubber flying a few hundred yards from the pits. Although not a Nissan car, the Nissan crew is visibly shaken. Millen, though, seems remarkably placid. "Not the greatest way to see your first IMSA race," he jokes, sitting in the pit lane, waiting for the restart. "These things happen," he says with a shrug.
Shortly after I shake Millen's hand, wishing him good luck on the rest of his race, he touches fenders with a Ferrari and crashes in the back straight, breaking his neck and skull. (Millen is now in rehabilitation and hopes to be racing by the end of the year.)
"Guess what," my wife tells me. "You're never driving a race car again."
After some tense negotiations in which the test-ride venue is moved from the heavily walled raceway to a more forgiving desert track in Rosamond, California--a 1.2-mile circuit, bereft of concrete walls, called the Streets of Willow Springs International Raceway--I receive spousal clearance to drive the fastest car I will likely ever experience, short of becoming pals with Roger Penske.
The car I am going to drive is the IMSA-raced 1993 Nissan 300 ZX Turbo, the "unbelievable" one Johnny O'Connell could not stop talking about. Not only does it produce over 700 ponies, but it spits out more than 600 foot-pounds of torque, close to double what the 1995 V8 can muster. This missilelike acceleration capability comes mostly from the now-illegal turbos, which give a momentary boost that is akin to being kicked in the butt by a rocket launcher. Knowing that a novice driver could easily be overwhelmed by such a motor, the manager of Nissan Motorsports, Frank Honsowetz, has arranged for O'Connell to take me through a series of educational training sessions, starting with slower, more manageable cars and working up to the one with insurance premiums the size of my house.
O'Connell takes me for a track walk around the Willow Springs course, pointing out the ideal spots for braking, downshifting and accelerating. He reads the track like an old salt scanning the sea. Scuffing the pavement with his sneakers, O'Connell tests varying levels of grip, discovering several "trouble spots" that may require extra caution. "You're definitely going to want to keep all the tires on the road here," he says, surveying a tight, 90-degree left-hander. "It's real easy to end up backwards in this car."
To "learn" the track, O'Connell and I begin the day in a stock 300-horsepower twin-turbo 300ZX, the kind you can buy off a showroom floor. My brother, also an aficionado of fast machines, describes this car as "sick." For him, that's a big compliment. With a professional racer at the wheel, the 300ZX handles flawlessly, biting off large chunks of corner without ever feeling "squirrelly," or loose in the back end. Riding in the passenger seat with O'Connell at the wheel is like being on a roller coaster: You feel as though you're about to be hurled off the track at every turn, but somehow you stay on, traveling at the limits of physics, where momentum, gravity and adhesion reach their climax. On the short straights he has the car doing well over 100 mph.
With a dilettante racer at the wheel, driving perhaps a mite more aggressively than his wife would like, the car can become nasty, sliding through turns on smoking tires emitting shrieks of dismay. When the turbos kick in, shortly after depressing the accelerator, the car gets sideways in a hurry if you don't have it pointed in the right direction. "Glad to see this thing comes with dual airbags," O'Connell jokes at the end of my test run, peeling his white knuckles from the door handle.
We switch seats again, and he shows me where I am making mistakes, where I'm a few feet off "the line," where I might consider braking earlier, where I ought to be shifting more quickly. "On a good turn, you're unwinding the steering wheel as you come out of the turn, not dialing in more," O'Connell says. "The sooner you can safely get back on the throttle, the faster you'll go." And that, of course, is what this business is all about.
On my second try in the 300ZX, I more or less hit the right marks, guiding the car more or less where I want it to go. O'Connell pronounces me ready for the Steve Millen-designed "Stillen."
With 465 available horsepower, this $67,000 GTZ is among the fastest production-based cars on the road. Outfitted with fat Yokohama racing tires and a down-thrusting tail fin that bisects the rear window, the Stillen grips the track like a plunger on linoleum. Despite the additional power and speed--reaching 120 mph is almost too easy in this rocket--I actually feel more comfortable than in the stock car. O'Connell says that's natural. "Everything about this car is designed for a racetrack. You wouldn't want to drive this thing as your everyday car, going to the grocery store. It's too wicked."
Indeed, when the turbos kick in, the Stillen sounds vaguely evil, belching out contralto snarls, as though it were an angry lion weary of being taunted by a chair and whip. To anyone who likes fast cars, the Stillen's mean-spirited growls are the automotive equivalent of a Beethoven symphony. It is a beautifully nasty machine.
"You ready for the race car?" O'Connell asks, posing what may be one of the most unnecessary questions ever uttered. I've been waiting for this moment for as long as I've known what a clutch is, from the time my dad let my brother and me sit on his lap and steer his cherry-red Mustang along the shores of Lake Michigan.
The crew gets me outfitted in an official Nissan fire suit and helmet, replacing my clunky sneakers with slim, lace-up racing boots. No matter how amateurishly I may drive the Z, at least I feel like a million bucks, which is only several hundred thousand more than it will take to replace the car if I total it.
O'Connell and Honsowetz, the Nissan Motorsports manager, sit me down for a final briefing, stressing the importance of handling the throttle gently. "This car will jump up and bite you if you're not careful," Honsowetz reminds me. "Have a good time. But be careful." So powerful is the engine in the Nissan IMSA Z, it will produce wheel spin in fourth gear, creating a frightening fishtail effect at over 100 mph. Having the nose settled when the turbos engage is imperative for the novice driver. To do otherwise guarantees an express ticket to spinout land.
Suitably awed by the Z, as though it were a loaded gun pointed at my temple, I clamber in through the "window," settling into a cocoonlike interior, which lacks a radio, cup holder or fuzzy dice. Dials and gauges and switches surround me, like the cockpit of a fighter jet. "The only gauge you need to worry about is the tach," O'Connell says, pointing to the instrument panel above where the steering wheel would be if there were a steering wheel. (At this point there isn't.) "This car likes to run at fairly high revs, but let's try to keep it under 7,500." O'Connell indicates the water and oil pressure gauges. "You probably won't have a chance to look down at these," he says seriously. "If they're overheating you'll probably know anyway."
The crew helps me get hooked into a five-point driver-restraint system that harnesses me to the seat like industrial glue. "You're going to thank me for this," one of the guys promises. Even before the motor is running, before the cockpit warms up to 125°F, I get a sense that the interior of a racing car is not a comfortable place. How guys like Millen and O'Connell endure two and three hours at a stretch straitjacketed into a rumbling sauna is inconceivable. So much for the glamour of being a professional racer.
The crew finally clicks the removable, Frisbee-sized steering wheel into place. My helmet is securely fastened to my head. My body is fastened to the car. The car is fastened to the street by gargantuan, spongy cakes of rubber.
We're ready to race.
Honsowetz instructs me to flip the ignition switch. A light goes on. Nothing happens.
He tells me to push a little button labeled "starter." Neither watching auto racing on television, nor even witnessing the spectacle in person, can prepare you for the roar that you hear inside a race car when the engine comes to life.
It is loud. Gloriously loud.
With crew members pushing the car from the rear, I move the thumb-sized shifter knob into first gear and slowly squeeze the accelerator while delicately letting out the clutch. (In a recurring nightmare, I am unable to get the car out of the pits, alternately stalling the engine and lurching forward like a coughing jalopy.) Mercifully, the car pulls away smoothly, like a colt on new legs. Following O'Connell's guidance, I "scrub" the tires a few times, quickly turning them right and left to build heat. Running down a mental checklist, worried that I may have forgotten something--lights? parking brake?--I realize it is now too late. The first turn is staring me in the face.
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Ordinary Seaman Apprentice John F Auer Navy
Nyack, New York Died 1951 (aged 84–85)
Nyack, New York Place of burial Oak Hill Cemetery Allegiance United States of America Service/branch United States Navy Years of service c. 1882-c.1887 Rank Seaman Apprentice Unit USS Lancaster Awards Medal of Honor
John F. Auer (1866-May 28, 1951) was a sailor in the United States Navy who was one of 193 people received the Medal of Honor during peacetime,[1] a practice no longer authorized by law, and one of only 3,449 recipients of the award.[2]Contents
- 1 Early life and naval service
- 2 Later life
- 3 Medal of Honor citation
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Auer was born in 1866 in Nyack, New York, the fifth of five children of Joseph Auer, a stable owner and harness maker.[3] When he was sixteen years old, Auer joined the United States Navy because he wanted to see the world.[4] After completing basic training he was assigned to the USS Lancaster, the flagship of the European Squadron as a Seaman Apprentice. On November 20, 1883, while the Lancaster was in port in Marseille, France, a young Frenchman who was on a stone pier astern of the Lancaster fell overboard, and disappeared below the water twice. Seeing him, and realizing that the boy could not swim, Auer jumped into the water together with Boatswain's Mate Matthew Gillick, and they were able to rescue the boy.[5] For their heroism, both Auer and Gillick were awarded the United States' highest military decoration for gallantry, the Medal of Honor, on February 2, 1884. Before Seaman Auer left the Navy, the medal was stolen,[3] though he wore the ribbon (and retained the citation) until his final years.[3]Later life
Auer served in the Navy for five years, after which he returned to his native Nyack. He worked as a letter carrier at Nyack's post office, and kept the same route for over twenty years. Auer died on May 28, 1951, and was survived by his two sons. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack.[3] His grave can be found in section K, lot 139.Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman Apprentice, U.S. Navy. Born: 1866, New York. Accredited to: New York.
On board the U.S.S. Lancaster, Marseille, France, 20 November 1883. Jumping overboard, Auer rescued from drowning a French lad who had fallen into the sea from a stone pier astern of the ship.

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By now, many of you may have come to the Oakland Zoo to experience our newest Australia exhibit. It is almost complete, with more finishing touches on the way; the Grand Opening is July 3rd. For those of you have not seen it yet, it is our brand new Emu and Wallaroo exhibit that is located on a lush 3.5 acres at the top of the zoo that is accessible by our train. The train has undergone many facelifts over its history here at the zoo, but this is the first time that the train has immersed guests within an animal habitat, creating an experience unlike any other at the park. It is not uncommon to see the Wallaroo lounging in the grass a few feet away and Emu roaming by as you glide through on the Outback Express train.
To help you experience Wild Australia a core group of dedicated and specially trained drivers have been recruited.
Shauna, Javier, Ken and RJ make up our train driver core and were hand selected to run the Outback Express due to their enthusiasm for the Wallaroo and Emu along with their work ethic and experience in the zoos Operations department. Once selected, they teamed up with the animal keepers in charge of the Emu and Wallaroo to take place in a pilot train driving certification course. This pilot program was designed to prepare the drivers for the challenges of working in an active animal habitat and features three main components, evaluated by the animal management department.
The first stage of the program is centered on general preparation and includes research on identifying individual animals, natural history of the emu and wallaroo, along with learning about how deal with animals in distress.
The second stage of the program is centered on driving the train through Wild Australia and centers around how to handle certain scenarios while driving the train. Common occurrences the drivers must face are emu or wallaroo on the tracks or in close proximity to the train as well as moving at appropriate speeds within the exhibit to make the keepers and animals feel secure.
The third stage actually takes place off of the train and instructs the drivers in an interactive format on common daily and seasonal behaviors they can encounter with the emu and wallaroo. This is also the time where drivers are shown how to interact with the animals appropriately if it becomes necessary to get off the train and move an animal off the tracks or away from an entrance gate.
So far the certification program has been going well and our drivers along with the emus and wallaroos have been doing great traversing their new stomping grounds. Next time you are on the train make sure to let the train drivers know what a great job they are doing.


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EXCLUSIVE: Kim Kardashian 2009 Calendar Photos
These are exclusive photos full of lingerie goodness from Kim Kardashian's 2009 Wall Calendar and, also, some that didn't make the cut. We'll have the rest of the months exclusively on the bright tomorrow, so be sure to check back.
In the meantime, if you want one these babies hanging in your garage/lair/wife's closet (She won't mind.), they're available online through Kim's Official Store. Tell them I sent you. Actually, don't because it's a computer, and people will think you're crazy.
Thanks to Kim for the pics and being surprisingly cool with me calling your sister a Sasquatch this morning. I mean, uh, some other guy did. I don't even know what an Internet is!
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This article was published 24/1/2014 (1304 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Losses are all recorded the same way, but the subtext behind each defeat is different.
Thursday night's 1-0 loss to the San Jose Sharks was far different for the Winnipeg Jets than their last defeat, which came at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets on Jan. 11 and signalled the end of the Claude Noel era.
Did the bubble, created by a four-game win streak, burst? Or was this another step forward in the lives of the Winnipeg Jets under new coach Paul Maurice?
Losing to the Sharks bears no shame. They sit fifth in the league overall and are one of the best teams in the NHL at home. The Jets played them to a near standstill for large chunks of this game and one mistake was the difference on the scoreboard.
Are the Jets ready to compete with the Sharks and the best of the league? Nope. But they're not the rattled and confused bunch they were two weeks ago in the last days of Noel.
Thursday's loss showed as much. The Jets stuck to their plan and adhered to what Maurice is preaching. It didn't pay off in a win, but the Jets will understand they gave themselves a chance to win on the road against one of the league's best teams.
They didn't shoot themselves in the foot, but instead did many of the little things right. They created a foundation for a win. That's much different than beating themselves, as they have so many times over the last three years.
The next step in this group's recovery is to stay the course. Play the right way today at home against the Leafs and don't revert to old habits.
This was the pattern under Noel. The difference now is Maurice has these players believing in his words. The message isn't that different from Noel's, but the air of legitimacy Maurice carries from his previous NHL experience has players both listening and agreeing. When Maurice says it, his players live it.
Will the Jets now lose a few? Maybe. This team still has a long way to go and is only five games into the Maurice experiment. Twenty games or so will give us a much more clear picture of what is actually going on with this group.
But there's been a step forward. The coaching change was warranted and the desired short-term results have been achieved.
Long term is a different story and Maurice will need some roster help to further the progress sought by fans, players and management alike.
There is no arguing, however, 4-1 is a lot better than 0-5, which is the split of the last 10 games between the two coaches.
Welcome to Winnipeg, Mr. Maurice.
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I plan on getting a couple of Rubbermaid/Tupperaware containers to do my marinading in. I was wondering if anyone else uses them and if I have to worry about the plastic absorbing any of the marinade itself.
I think it was in Steve's Rubs/Sauces book that he had listed plastic containers as being nonreactive, but I can't find exactly where it was I thought I read it.


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KINGSLAND, Ga. - Sixteen days of early voting in all Georgia counties ends Friday. All polls will be open 7 a.m to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
There is at least one early voting location in each Georgia county. Voters are required to show one of the required forms of photo identification, such as a driver's license or a valid U.S. passport.
Early voting site have been open Monday through Friday since Oct. 15, along with last Saturday. Unlike Florida, where early voting for this election has broken records, Georgia's early voting turnout was running slightly behind 2008 levels.
Anyone who requested a paper absentee ballot, must return it to the voter registration office by 7 p.m. on Tuesday. When the ballot is postmarked doesn't matter. You can mail your ballot in, or it can be hand delivered by the voter. Disabled or elderly voters can have their ballots delivered by a close family member
Early voting locations in Southeast Georgia:
Brantley County: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Board of Elections and Registration Office, 10305 N. Main Street, SUite 400, Nahunta
Camden County: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Board of Registrar's office, 200 E. Fourth Street, Woodbine
Charlton County: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m., Board of Elections and Registration, Charlton County Courthouse, 1520 Third Street, Suite C, Folkston
Glynn County: Board of Elections, 1815 Gloucester Street, second floor, Brunswick
Ware County: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Ware County Courthouse, 800 Church Street, Suite B68, Waycross
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The 2011 Eat Like a Man Super Bowl Party Guide
ESQUIRE: What should these players expect, walking into Cowboys Stadium?
ASHTON TORRES: I think they'll be amazed. Maybe even overwhelmed. The scoreboard is ridiculous. The size of the stadium sort of swallows you up. Standing on the field, you feel like an ant. But I also think you might see guys play really well because of it.
ESQ: Any advice to the players as they prepare to suit up in Arlington?
CASSIE TRAMMELL: Don't be distracted by the video board. It's funny, even though these guys are pro football players, when they see themselves on it, they all act like children. Especially the younger players. It's hard not to — the thing stretches from the 20 to the 20. So hopefully they'll come in before the game and stare up at it, just to get it out of their systems.
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Liberty Off to Best Start in Program History with Game One Win
Andy Smith's home run broke a 3-3 tie in the sixth inning for Liberty, propelling the Flames to a 7-4 win over the St. John's Red Storm in game one of a doubleheader, Saturday. With the victory, Liberty ran its record to 15-1 to post the best start to a season in program history.
After the Red Storm had tied the game with two runs in the top of the inning, Smith lined a two-out, solo home run over the right field wall to give the Flames a 4-3 lead, they never relinquished. The round tripper was the junior's second in two games. He also scored three times in the contest.
Liberty's 15-1 record surpasses the 1995 Flames, who posted a 14-2 record through 16 games to open their season. Liberty has won eight consecutive games, their longest winning streak of the year. The Flames began 2012 with a seven-game winning streak. St. John's falls to 4-8.
Liberty, which is 12-0 when scoring first this season, jumped out to a 3-0 advantage in the third inning. Shortstop Zack Haley doubled and left fielder Ian Parmley walked to open the frame. After Smith reached safely on a fielder's choice ground ball, right fielder Michael Robertson singled with the bases loaded to give the Flames a 1-0 edge. Host Liberty added two more runs, when Red Storm shortstop Matt Wessinger's errant throw went into the visitors' dugout on a grounder by second baseman Bryan Aanderud.
In the fourth, St. John's plated its first run of the contest. Wessinger was hit by a pitch and scored on a double by left fielder Jeremy Baltz. The run ended Liberty starter Patrick Eckelbarger's consecutive scoreless inning streak at 19.
The Red Storm tied the contest at 3-3 in the top of the sixth inning. St. John's began the frame by having its first three hitters reach to load the bases. Baltz followed with a single, cutting the Liberty advantage to 3-2. After a pitching change, reliever Patrick Bankemper struck out the next two batters, but third baseman Zach Lauricella tied the game with a two-out infield single.
In the bottom of the inning, Smith hit his third home run of the year, putting Liberty back in front, 4-3.
The Flames benefitted from three errors in the bottom of the eighth inning to extend their lead to 7-3. With two outs, Haley scored on a throwing error by Red Storm shortstop Wessinger and more runs scored on an error by St. John's second baseman Anthony Iacomini with the bases loaded.
In the top of the ninth, the Red Storm rallied. After the first two hitters reached to lead off the inning, right fielder Jimmy Brennan brought home a run with a RBI single. Right-hander Trey Lambert entered for Liberty and ended the threat by inducing a game-ending double play to seal the 7-4 win.
Bankemper records his first victory at Liberty with three innings of relief. The right-hander gave up one run on five hits, striking out five batters and walking one. Lambert earned his first save in a Liberty uniform by recording the game's final three outs.
St. John's starter Sean Hagen drops to 1-1. The left-hander allowed four runs on seven hits over six innings. He struck out three batters and walked two.
Liberty collected eight hits in the contest, with Smith having two. Baltz had three of St. John's three hits in the game.
St. John's left eight men on base and made six errors, while Liberty left eight men on base and did not commit a miscue.


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Question submitted on Aug 27, 2012.
I am currently living overseas but I am doing 1099 contract work for a company in the USA and the company does NOT have operations in the foreign country that I reside in.
The company in the USA has issued a 1099 for monies paid to me. Am I obligated to pay taxes as if I were residing in the USA under these circumstances?
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Assuming that you are not a US citizen, please note that you will be treated as a resident alien for US income tax purposes, which means that your income will generally be subject to tax in the same manner as a U.S. citizen. Barring specific treaty exemptions between the US and your country of ciizenship, you will report all income on a US tax return whether from sources within or outside the US, including interest, dividends, wages, housing/car allowances, income from rental property or royalties, etc.
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Here at Cooking Channel, we love us some tequila. Not just because this blue-agave-born liquor is the star of the margarita — arguably our favorite cocktail — but because the sweet, woodsy or smoky spirit (depending on distillery and age) adds its fire to pretty much any mixed drink. This National Tequila Day, salt your margarita glass rims for a different sort of sipper (it's the Mexican vessel of choice for any tequila-based beverage).
5 Ways to Get Your Tequila On:
1. Follow Chuck's lead and turn those lemons into a minty-fresh spiked lemonade (shown above).
2. Mix up a two-tone sangria with a pineapple-tequila base and a red wine topper.
3. Make it meaty, a la our resident Classy Ladies: Infuse with jerky flavor and serve in a spicy-savory tomato cocktail.
4. Sweeten the deal by blending a caramel-vanilla-tequila milkshake (trust us).
5. Let it sparkle by mixing with Champagne in this fruit-filled ponche.
And if all else fails? Just ready your salt and lime wedges — it's only National Tequila Day once a year, after all.
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We've all seen a red oval sign warning of "Danger." Whether a bakery or a metal shop, virtually every business has something with a warning sign: an electrical panel or a machine, perhaps. Many a business owner has wondered: do these signs work? Do they actually do a good job warning people: protecting me, my employees and the public?


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State of Kentucky} County of Allen} SS. On this the 11th day of February 1833 personally appeared in open Court before William Harn William Fitzpatrick Samuel E Carpenter Justices of the County Court and for the County of Allen and State of Kentucky in the courthouse of said county in court sitting George Stovall a resident of the County of Allen and State of Kentucky aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to Obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered into the Army of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated (to wit) Applicant entered into the Army of the United States a private soldier in the militia company commanded by Capt. Peter Rogers in April 1778 in the County of Halifax and State of Virginia and served as a private soldier in said company for and during the term of six months thereafter. Anthony Early was Lieutenant and William McDaniel ensign in said company. Applicant further states that said company was attached to the Reg't. under command of Colonel David Mason and Lew Burwell, adjutant Burwell Jackson. That the company rendezvoused at Dobeys old store in Halifax County and marched from there in April 1778 to headquarters near Charlestown [now Charleston] South Carolina where they joined the Regular Army under Gen'l [Benjamin] Lincoln in May or June following that applicant continued to perform service as a soldier of the Revolution in company and regiment aforesaid until he was discharged in the vicinity of Charlestown South Carolina. Applicant states that he was in the engagement near Charlestown in which the Americans made an attempt on the British fort nearly opposite St. John's Island [sic: at Stono Ferry across from Johns Island, 20 June 1779] but were repulsed. He further states that after his discharge aforesaid, he returned to Halifax Virginia and in 1779 or 1780 he again entered into the United States service as a soldier of the Revolution being there drafted out of Capt. Michael Robertsons or Roberts company to perform a tour of three months service as a private of militia in persuance of his draft aforesaid he marched under Capt. King as far as the neighbourhood of 96 [Ninety-Six] South Carolina. King's company was in the Reg't. under command of Colo. Robert Williams untill they arrived at Salisbury North Carolina at Salisbury or near Salisbury Colo. Williams left us and the command devolved on Majors Ward and Alexander Rose. Near 96 applicant was taken with the small pox and Maj'r Rose caused him to be left in the neighbourhood to remain until cured. When sufficiently recovered, as he supposed, he repaired to the Army under Gen'l Green [sic: probably Nathanael Greene] at Henderson's Mill on Enoree River South Carolina; the officers fearing he would communicate the disease to others in the army ordered applicant to the Hospital at Charlotte town [North Carolina] where he remained untill the term of his enlistment aforesaid had ended. From the doctor at Charlotte town he received a permit to return home, and some short time after his return home Capt. King under whom he had entered the service gave him a discharge he also obtained a discharge from his first enlistment as above stated, at the encampment near Charlestown South Carolina. After the Revolutionary war, the discharges were by negligence lost many years ago. Applicant states expressly that taking into the calculation the time he had the small pox as stated above He served as private soldier in the Revolutionary War nine months for which he claims the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. Applicant was in no other battle but the one above stated. He lived in Halifax County Virginia when he entered the Service as above stated, where from the best information he has on the subject, he was born on the 15th day of November 1761. The family Register in which his birth is recorded is as applicant believes in the possession of Valantine Dickerson of Barren County Kentucky. Since the Revolution applicant continued to live in Halifax Virginia until about fifteen years ago, at which time he migrated to where he now lives, and has lived ever since his removal from Virginia, (to wit) In Allen County State of Kentucky.


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You may be using apps like Foursquare or Yelp to get deals when you check in on your smartphone. Soon all you may need is your face.
A new app could soon start sending you deals to your favorite restaurants and stores just by scanning your face. It is called facedeals.
When users of the app walk into a store, a camera scans their face. Facial recognition software then matches that scan with the person's Facebook profile, and a coupon gets sent to that person's smartphone, based on their online interests.
Tim McMullen is the CEO of Red Pepper, the company developing the facedeal app.
"People are checking in using Facebook and Foursquare already. We're just making it more intuitive for them to check in. The platform's being developed to being as secure as any other platform you'd give information to," said McMullen.
Security measures include, using a double-opt-in system meaning you have to confirm your consent multiple times. You also have to grant the application access to your Facebook profile.
The project is not affiliated with Facebook. Red Pepper says it is still testing the product and seeking funding before the app will be available to the public.
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NFTE NY Metro, in partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), is proud to present NYC Generation Tech (GenTech), a new program that infuses the topics of design, technology, and mobile app development with lessons on entrepreneurship and lean startup methodologies. Open to high school students during the summer and fall, GenTech is built around the following four components that seek to educate and inspire:
1. Summer Tech-Bootcamp: During a rigorous, 2-week bootcamp, students will learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, develop technical skills related to mobile app development, and explore myriad pathways to local careers in technology through experiential learning activities, case studies, guest speaker presentations, and field trips. In the second week of bootcamp, students will address this year's "My City, My Schools" challenge and propose app ideas that "improves the quality of life for students in New York City." Working in 5-person teams, students will start creating an Android mobile app using MIT's AppInventor and a business plan around it
2. Fall Sessions: During the fall, students will attend 9 weeknight sessions to further explore topics in entrepreneurship and technology, finish building their mobile apps, and develop pitch presentations and business plans for their app concept with the help of the program's instructors and mentors from NYC's tech-sector. Students will reflect on their experiences throughout the program using blogs and videorecording equipment.
3. Mobile App Pitch Competition & Awards Ceremony: In December, students will demo and pitch their finished apps and business plans to a panel of judges from the technology and venture capital community. Winning teams receive cash prizes and all students will be honored at an awards ceremony.
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Demi Lovato in a Bikini
Here's Disney star Demi Lovato vacationing in Mexico yesterday, and some of you might be noticing she's 17 and I'm basically showing your her ass. If Perez Hilton posting a picture of Miley Cyrus' vagina for sheer publicity isn't considered child porn, and rightfully so, I'm pretty sure posting half an 18-in-60-days buttcrack falls under the same umbrella. I mean, what's going to happen between now and August that makes this any different? Or is there a class all women go to before turning legal age that teaches them how to use sex to get new shoes? Because there's your real crime. Now if you'll excuse me, Chris Hansen is rappelling on to my lawn from a helicopter. *crosses fingers* Please have brought bagels.
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Kevin Pietersen has brushed off rumours of retirement and has signalled his intention to help England regain the Ashes next year.
The future of the talented, yet enigmatic, batsman has been a key topic of conversation since Alastair Cook's men relinquished the urn following a humiliating 5-0 defeat down under.
At 33 years of age and with doubts over his long-term fitness due to a chronic knee problem persisting, there have been several reports hinting that Pietersen was set to announce his retirement in the near future.
Yet Pietersen has, on numerous occasions, expressed his goal to register 10,000 Test runs - he currently has 8,181 - and has once again committed himself to England for the 2015 Ashes series.
"Very disappointed to lose 5-0, and not to score more runs personally. Tough tour against a top class team. #Ashes," he said on Twitter.
"I want to thank all the England fans for their terrific support. And I'm determined to help regain the Ashes in 2015."
While Pietersen was England's highest run scorer against Australia, his contribution of 294 in 10 innings meant he had an average of under 30 compared with a career average of 47.28.
The manner of some of his dismissals led to criticism from all quarters, with former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott particularly scathing in his role as a summariser for the BBC's Test Match Special service.
Boycott's colleague and former England captain Michael Vaughan has defended Pietersen although he fears the Surrey man may be made a scapegoat for the Ashes catastrophe.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Vaughan, who was captain when Pietersen made his England debut in the 2005 Ashes series, said: "Alastair Cook needs to use Pietersen properly and ask him how he sees his own future, and his view on the style of cricket the team have to play to become number one in the world again.
"I fear England will not do that and decide to get rid of Pietersen. That would be a sad loss for English cricket, the game cannot afford for that to happen.
"He is too good a player. The team will be dull without him. Okay, you have to have the right characters in the dressing room. But if you cannot manage someone such as KP then you are not doing your job properly.
"It would be a huge loss if this England management cannot get two more years out of Pietersen and let him lead them to playing the brand of cricket we want to see. I guarantee if they give Pietersen responsibility they will win more games, win them quicker and gain new fans."


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As the royal babywatch enters what are presumably its final days (or even hours) I admit: I cannot wait for the Royal Windsor baby to be born – not because I'm actually panting to see said heir, but because hopefully it will stop the flood of emails I get every morning heralding yet another fancy baby product. Now, I get that this seems an extraordinary opportunity for the high-end baby market, which is currently one of the fastest growing segments of the high-end fashion market, with brands from Dolce & Gabbana to Gucci, Burberry, and Fendi launching kidswear. I get that the Duchess of Cambridge is one of the most influential figures around when it comes to moving product. But what I don't get is why everyone thinks she is going to move really expensive product. Read more
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Amid an array of black attire, the stars jazzed up this Sunday's MTV Movie Awards with some eye-catching fashion.
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Gardener's September To-Do List
Everything that needs to be done in the dirt this month, wherever you live.
- Plant new fall bulbs so they develop roots before the ground freezes.
- Harvest corn, potatoes, apples, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, and strawberries before a killing frost.
- If tomato vines are covered with green fruit, pull up whole plants and hang them in a basement or garage until fruits ripen.
- After onion tops have fallen over, dig the bulbs and let them cure on the soil surface for about a week before you store them.
- After harvesting, spread compost over the soil surface.
- Rake leaves and clean up plant debris, then add them to the compost pile.
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- On the first of the month, plant spinach for overwintering.
- Use up any remaining compost in your bins to make room for the leaves you'll soon add.
- Dig up and store tender bulbs and tubers, such as cannas and dahlias.
- Pick the seedpods and heads of any open-pollinated flowers you want to grow again next year; store the seeds in a cool, dry spot.
- Set out pansies, mums, and kale for later fall color.
- Plant bulbs and garlic in midmonth.
- Get ready to protect tender plants from early frost with row covers and blankets.
- Look for dry pods on bean plants; save the seed for planting next season.
Zone 5
- Sow seed of next year's biennial flowers, such as forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica), sweet William (Dianthus barbatus), and foxglove.
- Plant spring-flowering bulbs.
- Dig up tender dahlias, cannas, caladium, and gladiolus before frost hits; store tubers and bulbs in a cool, dry spot.
- Start spinach and kale under row covers or in a coldframe for tasty winter salads.
- Still time to patch bare spots in the lawn—cover grass seed lightly with compost.
- Plant perennials to take advantage of cool weather and rainfall.
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- Get fall compost cooking with the last of your grass clippings, spent plants, and leaves.
- As garden beds empty, sow quick-growing cover crops like winter rye.
- Sow spinach midmonth for spring harvest.
- Work spring-flowering bulbs into perennial beds.
- Plant garlic by month's end for harvest next June.
- Dig up, divide, and replant clumps of overgrown perennials.
Zone 7
- Early this month, sow seeds of mixed greens for fall and winter salads.
- Harvest young lettuce planted in August.
- Snip off long stems of parsley and freeze them in a bag or jar for winter use.
- Trim evergreen hedges (such as holly and privet) on the first cool day.
- Set out pansies in a spot that will receive full sun all winter.
- Harvest peanuts as soon as shells become hard.
Zone 8
- Plant transplants of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale; surround them with a thick mulch to cool the soil.
- Direct-seed spinach, lettuce, beets, carrots, parsley, turnips, and kohlrabi.
- Plant pansies, stock (Matthiola incana), snapdragons, sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima), Johnny-jump-ups (Viola tricolor), and pinks (Dianthus spp.).
- Apply a 1⁄2-inch layer of compost to areas of the lawn that are susceptible to brown patch; apply organic fertilizer to the entire lawn at the end of the month.
Zone 9
- Plant winter lettuce, peas, carrots, cole crops, and Asian greens.
- Harvest winter squash and pumpkins before frost, when their skin is hard enough to resist pressure from your thumbnail.
- Set out transplants of calendula, primroses, larkspur (Consolida ambigua), snapdragons, bachelor's buttons (Centaurea cyanus), stock (Matthiola incana), and pansies.
- Refrigerate spring bulbs for 6 weeks to plant later this fall.
- Pick 'Bartlett' pears for ripening indoors, but allow Asian pears and 'Seckel' pears to ripen on the tree.
- Protect grapes from birds and wasps by covering the ripening clusters with brown paper lunch bags.
- Prune poinsettias for holiday bloom.
- As grasshopper numbers die down, plant tuberoses (Polianthes tuberosa), gloriosa lilies, amaryllis, and other subtropical bulbs and rhizomes.
- Plant okra. It's your last chance of the season.
- Seed cucurbits and herbs, and set out transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and onions.
- Repair or replace drip irrigation lines.
- Work in soil amendments, including compost, bonemeal, and greensand.


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I'm attempting to understand how I would properly display a sprite at the current mouse position. On PyGame, I could simply use pygame.mouse.get_pos() and it would return the current mouse position on the screen. However, with that being said, Rabbyt appears to "center the origin" of the screen different from PyGame. For example, on PyGame, the default coordinate draw position is (0,0), but Rabbyt changes that to something else. Due to this, my current code is incorrectly displaying the mouse sprite in the wrong position. In top of all this, Rabbyt appears to have inverted the Y coordinate. When I move the cursor down the mouse-sprite ascends, but when I ascend with my mouse cursor the mouse-sprite descends.
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The Berthoud Transfer Station is located south of Highway 56 off County Line Road, east of the gun club. Coming from Berthoud, go east on Highway 56 and turn south on County Line Road. Travel about 1/2 mile and turn east on the first gravel road. The transfer station is on the south side of the road.
The property is owned by the Town of Berthoud, but the site is operated by Larimer County.
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Call (970) 498-5770 for 24-hour information.
A container for recycling is available here.
The Berthoud Transfer Station cannot accept large items such as sofas or large wire spools. Tree branches or appliances containing refrigerants are not accepted. These items should be taken to the Larimer County Landfill.
Household hazardous wastes like pesticides, paint thinners and cleaners must be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility at the landfill.
Checks are not accepted at the transfer station. All waste, regardless of type, size or weight - even trash in plastic bags - must be completely enclosed with a cover and secured to your vehicle. This policy is strictly enforced. Uncovered loads are charged double fees.
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Did you know?
There are more than 10 million trees in
When you arrive in green Johannesburg by air, you'll be astonished to see a verdant forest below you, stretching almost as far as the eye can see. It's not what one expects from South Africa's commercial hub. Beneath that seemingly endless greenery is a densely populated, highly industrialised city. So how did this urban metropolis gain its green credentials?
There were virtually no trees in Johannesburg when it first emerged as a small town. The discovery of gold, however, heralded the arrival of mining companies, and mines needed strong wood to prop up their shafts.
A horticultural centre was founded at Zoo Lake – still a favoured leisure spot for locals – where saplings were tested for strength. Eucalyptus trees, commonly known as bluegums, were found to be most suited to this task and were planted en masse. The populace chose more attractive trees for their gardens, and the streets of spreading suburbia were planted with pepper, oak, jacaranda and plane trees.
Thus Johannesburg's forest took root and today, on satellite pictures, you may struggle to tell the difference between Johannesburg and a rainforest. Most original trees planted were exotic species, partly because the settlers found them familiar, and partly because indigenous trees, which tend to be thorny, were not suitable for gardens or for lining streets.
But now South Africa's Working for Water project has taken on the task of eradicating harmful alien trees that lower the water table, and actively supports growing trees that aid the environment. Thus many indigenous plantings are replacing the city's thirsty eucalyptus and jacaranda species.
If you need a break from city life, then choose to stroll in any one of Johannesburg's 2 343 parks, all overseen by Johannesburg City Parks.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Johannesburg City Parks
Tel: +27 (0)11 712 6600
How to get here
OR Tambo International Airport is a thirty-minute drive from Johannesburg. Once in the city, you will find public parks and gardens in just about every suburb.
Best time to visit
Spring and summer are best as the trees are at their most luscious and green.
Get around
On foot in the parks
What to pack
Lots of sunscreen and a hat. Comfortable walking shoes are a must if you plan to explore green Johannesburg by foot.
Where to stay
Perhaps the best observation point for viewing Johannesburg's trees is at the Westcliff Hotel, set high on the ridge opposite the Johannesburg Zoo. It also happens to be one of the city's finest hotels.
What's happening
Johannesburg City Parks is continuing the tree-planting tradition in some of the outlying, dusty townships built during the apartheid era.


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by Kevin Goldsmith
June 4, 2010
If you don't have Flash Professional or After Effects CS5 and would like to use the latest version of the Pixel Bender Toolkit, you can now download it (for free!) on the Pixel Bender Technology Center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender/
the latest version of the toolkit includes:
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- Faster GPU execution as well for many Pixel Bender Graphs
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- Up to 4 input images support
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Acquisitions are not generally Opera's style. The Norwegian browser company has done only around five in its 15 years of existence. However, two of those were this year, first the $23m acquisition of AdMarvel, the mobile advertising company, in January and on Friday the purchase of FastMail, the Australian web-based email company for an undisclosed sum.
The modest spending spree represents an attempt by Opera to secure its position at an important technology transistion moment. It has always been a stalwart runner up in terms of desktop browsers, well-liked by a tech-savvy elite, but far behind the likes of Internet Explorer and Firefox in terms of user volumes. However, there is a chance for it to secure leadership in mobile browsing. Read more


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1 = 10?Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
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A MAN was taken to hospital with head injuries after an eight-man brawl in a residential street.
It happened in Princess Street, Great Harwood, at about 4.30pm yesterday and a 17-year-old was in custody last night after being arrested.
Police said one of the males had an iron bar while another was armed with a stick.
A small section of the road was cordoned off for several hours as police investigated.
Officers believe it may have been connected to a mass brawl involving 20 men which happened in the same road in April last year.
Lancashire Police Inspector Des Barr said: "There was a disturbance between eight Asian males fighting between themselves. One received head injuries but they were not life-threatening.
"I can't be 100 per cent sure but we do believe it's a continuation of the problems in the early part of last year."
The injured man was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital and neighbours were left shocked by the incident.
Robert Slinger, 71, a retired textile worker, said: "We heard that a man was lying on the floor for about 40 minutes.
"It's really frightening and you certainly don't need it. We came to live here for some peace and quiet."
Lancashire Constabulary said in a statement last night: "A 17-year-old boy from Great Harwood has been arrested on suspicion of section 18 assault and remains in police custody. A number of police patrols remain in the area and are providing reassurance to local residents."


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A BLIND man was threatened by a female teenager after he refused to hand over a bottle of wine.
The incident happened in Church Road, Malvern, at around 12.3pm on Wednesday, April 23.
The man was with his guide dog when they were approached by two females believed to be aged about 15. The females asked for the bottle of wine he was carrying, when the male refused the girls argued and then walked off one shouting "I am going to get you". Those with information can contact the police on their non-emergency number 101, quoting incident reference 0481s 230414.


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HOUSTON - A DNA test has proved with 99 percent certainty that the man claiming to be the father of a child kidnapped eight years ago is the biological father.
The test results were revealed in court on Wednesday.
Miguel Morin, 8, was kidnapped in November 2004. He was 8 months old when he disappeared.
Miguel was found earlier this month after a woman turned in her sister, Krystle Rochelle Tanner. Tanner has been charged with felony kidnapping.
Fernando Morin has been proven to be Miguel's father, it has not been determined who Miguel's mother is. Auboni Champion-Morin has submitted her DNA for testing and results were expected to be returned on Thursday.
Champion-Morin said she left her son with Tanner, a friend whom she considered the child's godmother. When she went to pick up Miguel the next day, both Tanner and the child were gone.
According to Children's Protective Services workers, Miguel was given a new name and a new birth date and, when shown a picture of Tanner, he identified her as his mother. Officials said he thinks he is 6 years old.
A psychologist said Miguel is frightened, shy and behind emotionally and psychologically. He does not attend school, officials said.
"The child doesn't really know what's going on," Morin said. "He's been lied to his whole life."
Miguel is staying with a foster family.
A hearing will be held on March 28 to determine who will have custody of Miguel.
Champion-Morin said she would be willing to not tell Miguel that she is his mother in order to have the chance to see him.
"As long as it's making him happy, then I'm OK with anything as long as I see my son," she said.
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A joke of a guild on age of conan with raids taking up to 4-6 hours to do tier one raids. Its sad really most actual guild do these in less then an hour.Due to very poor fence jumping leadership of Kardelus the guild has basically became a joke.They are the worst raiding guild in the game. The leader Kardelus is a very sad little monkey who must be very lonely and frequently fantasies about girl players and favors them over all others. This is a poor example of the guilds on conan
Atlantean embers is a good joke on the server.
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3M Canada Company and Mannington Commercial recently announced a joint project in which large format graphics used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be reclaimed and manufactured into high recycled content flooring.
CALHOUN, GA – 3M Canada Company and Mannington Commercial recently announced a joint project in which large format graphics used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be reclaimed and manufactured into high recycled content flooring.
To support their sustainability objectives, when planning for building and vehicle graphics, 3M Canada looked for ways to reclaim the wraps after use, as a material stream for recycled products. About 200,000 square feet of the graphics seen during the games on vehicles and key venues such as the Richmond Olympic Oval and the Pacific Coliseum are in scope. After the games, all of this material will be diverted from landfill and remanufactured into Mannington commercial flooring.
"We learned about Mannington's precedent for recycling mixed waste similar to our graphic materials into flooring," says Richard Chartrand, vice president, display and graphics business, 3M Canada. "Most recycling facilities would quickly turn away from the colorful, irregular shaped lumps that the graphics result in after use, but Mannington was up for the challenge."
"We have invested in technology that puts Mannington in a leadership position in recycled flooring," says Dave Kitts, Mannington vice president – environment. "One of the simplest ways to conserve resources is to reuse what you can. We've found second lives for many flooring products and were intrigued by the opportunity presented by 3M Canada."
Mannington will recycle the graphics into Premium Tile, a product popular in commercial health care, education and retail applications. The Premium Tile product already contains post-consumer waste streams including drywall and VCT reclaimed from renovation sites, and is certified as an Environmentally Preferable Product, meeting the rigorous requirements of NSF-332-2007 certification.
"As we have innovated to grow our recycling capabilities, we have been looking for waste streams to increase the amount of post-consumer content that we can use in our products," says John Emmons, director of commercial manufacturing at Mannington. "The arrangement was not only a great way to support this 3M Canada initiative; it also made very good business sense."
"3M's graphics will create a dramatic visual impact at the 2010 Winter Games, and our partnership with Mannington will help limit our environmental impact after the Games end," adds 3M Canada's Chartrand. "3M considers this recycling program a significant step in the right direction for creating a positive environmental shift in our industry."
For more information, visit 3m.ca/2010.
Mannington Commercial has distinguished itself as one of North America's premier manufacturers of high-quality floor covering designs for hard and soft surfaces. Its range of choices in both categories is unparalleled, and its sustainability platform is built upon innovative measures to improve closed-loop recycling, reduce waste streams and reuse waste materials. Mannington stands upon a better business ethic, better products and a better world for the good of the people who create and use their commercial and residential products. For more information, go to manningtoncommercial.com.


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text: A couple in Southern England has been seriously putting the WHAM! BAM! in the Thank you ma'am! According to Kelly "The Screamer" Norris' neighbors, the 29-year-old comes louder than a freight train. Even after the other apartment residents obtained a court order in 2006 to lower the volume on her bumpin' music, slammin' headboard, and x-rated dirty talk, she still refused to comply when she got down. Now, we here at the Frisky can appreciate a woman who likes to be vocal, but she's been teaching a six year old who lives in the building a whole new set of vocabulary words. And Norris has also been giving them more than just an earful, she's also showing an unwanted eyeful by sunbathing nude in the communal backyard. Man, this chick's got balls! So how did her neighbors finally beat her off? They cleverly decided to apply for an injunction to ban her boyfriend, Adam Hinton, 32, from visiting her apartment. In court earlier this week, the ban was granted and Norris was also fined $600 for loving too loud (but I think we can all agree that finding a man who makes you scream is priceless.) Although, maybe she should think about moving…into a sound proof place with blind neighbors. [The Daily Telegraph via Fark]


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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Flemish
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edit Flemish
Sir ScottPat UnS CUN VFH (talk) 17:12, April 8, 2013 (UTC)
|Not bad. But what I find is that there is mostly one main joke getting repeated all over again in different ways: Flemish and the flu. This joke is introduced at the very beginning and travels throughout the whole article. It is like a parasite which takes away all the light and food from other good jokes (which you have but don't really develop) in order to get bigger and bigger. This article will be greatly improved if the minor jokes (such as EU, colonies under Belgium, Belgian chocolate, etc.) will get separated from the flu topic and will have more attention paid to them. But your article is funny, anyway.
|This is a very good idea to talk about Flemish and present its history the way you did. But here again we return to the same thing I have said in the Humor part. You have only one major idea (flu) and others are unnoticeable because of it.
|Prose and formatting:
|Generally looks like an encyclopedia article. But some sections have to be rephrased: for example in the 3d sentence the sentence construction confuses the reader (maybe it is a grammar mistake). Also sometimes you overuse the proper names (i.e. Spanish, Flemish, French) in a short part of the article (for example, the word Spanish is used 5 times in the section about origins of Flemish, which is rather a short section). At the beginning of 'Development of Flemish...' you say: "powerful, superpower country". Those cannot be synonyms as they have the same root.
|The images give a good impression and the quotes are well-made. But:
|Good construction, really funny connection with the real history (which is a very good common point of most of your articles).
|Final Score:
|The article gives a very good impression. The most important area of improvement is the addition of new jokes or development of already existing ones which will lead to the appearance of other important issues not depending on the question of cold and flu.
|Anton (talk) 13:33, April 14, 2013 (UTC)


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- It's-a me, Mario! Maybe you were-a looking for Category:Quasi-Featured? Woohoo!
VFH can get pretty full, if left unchecked. Removing articles that aren't doing as well as the others keeps VFH to a manageable size. Generally speaking, Uncyclopedia tries to keep VFH around 20 articles up for vote at VFH at any given time since 20 articles is a reasonable number for someone to read in one sitting. This unfortunately means that if a lot of articles get put up in a day, a lot are going to be taken off, as well, since we won't feature them more often if more articles are put on the page. Below is listed the procedure for removing articles from VFH.
edit Removal Procedure
- Darwin rule: This article is the worst in relation to the one directly above and below it on the page, and it thus slated for removal. If there is a tie (ie two articles the same distance from the articles nearest them), the younger article will die. Note, however, that Darwin rule also relates to articles that have fewer votes than an article slated for removal that is younger than it. For example: if a +2 article is nestled between two +6 articles, but there are a couple of +1 articles that are older and have been protecting one another, the two +1 articles would go before the younger +2 article, giving it more time to build up enough votes to stay alive on the page.
- Special protections for day-old nominees: Articles less than 24-hours old cannot be removed unless they've hit -3 (the usual euthanasia for all voting pages).
- Stagnation removal. An article that has received no new for votes for two weeks is slated for removal for stagnating.
edit Practical Example
Below is a practical example of some articles getting removed from VFH. Let's say the articles below are on VFH on December 7, 2005 and some articles need to be taken down (not an accurate representation of the articles on VFH at that time).
edit Anime
- Nom-- Aardvark December 7, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Fuhrer King Bradley
- Nom-- Bulimia December 6, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Euroipods
- Nom-- Cealis December 5, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit War on Terra
- Nom-- Dysentary December 4, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Baby Fu
- Nom-- Epilepsy December 3, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Idiocrates
- Nom-- Failure December 2, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit AAAAAAAAA!
- Nom-- Guillotine December 1, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Fisher Price
- Nom-- Haberdasher November 30, 2005 03:00 UTC
edit Barns and Nobles
- Nom-- Iago November 29, 2005 03:00 UTC
Anime is safe, because it's less than 24 hours old. Every other article has a chance to be taken down, however. In this example, Euroipods and Fisher Price have the worst score in relation to the other articles, with a minimum difference of four from both the above and below articles. As Euroipods is newer, and thus has had less time to accumulate votes to make a difference of this size, it is the one slated for removal (with the edit summary of "rm (+3, Darwin Rule, Level 4)"). There are older articles with lower or equal scores than it has, however. Those articles will be removed first. So in this instance, Idiocrates would be removed first (with an edit summary of "rm (+3, Darwin Rule, older clause)"), followed immediately by Baby Fu (with the edit summary of "rm (+1, Darwin Rule, older clause)"). If only one of these is removed, it would be the older one Idiocrates. When the articles are removed, they'll removed until the article count is back to 20.
edit QFA procedure
As a result of this constant removal from VFH, some very good feature-worthy articles get taken off VFH on a regular basis. These articles, called QFA, or "Quasi-featured" articles, have reached a certain criteria where it will be tagged for possible further consideration as a featured article sometime in the future. QFA is given to articles that have a score of at least 50% of the score of the most recent feature at the time of removal from VFH.


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By Adam May
Mark Hawkes' Chelmsford City side will be looking to gain three more Skrill South points when they travel to 11th placed Basingstoke Town this Saturday (3:00pm KO).
City will be looking to make it a league double over Basingstoke after already tasting victory against the Dragons back in December in the reverse fixture when Rob Edmans emerged from the bench to net the only goal of the game in the 1-0 win.
Edmans is the club's top scorer so far this season having found the back of the net seven times, and he will undoubtedly be looking to further embellish his goal record on Saturday.
He's closely followed by Luke Callander who has made an instant impact since signing from Heybridge Swifts back in December and has five goals to his name.
Callander will be hoping to be fit for this match after struggling with an ankle injury sustained against Concord Rangers on Tuesday 21st January 2014.
And that victory over Town in December was only Mark Hawkes' second league match in charge of the Clarets, and he will be pleased with the form his side have endured since taking the reins at Melbourne Park.
His side have only tasted defeat twice in eleven matches and will want to bounce back from the disappointing result picked up in their last fixture – a 2-1 defeat against promotion-hopefuls Ebbsfleet United.
Saturday's hosts, meanwhile, have picked up two league wins, two draws and two defeats in their last six games and will want to regain some stability as they look to push themselves into the league's top ten.
They will be without Adam Green for this encounter after the former Fulham and Dartford defender serves his one-match suspension after receiving a second-bookable offence just over two weeks ago.
A win for Basingstoke will mean they leapfrog Staines Town, providing they are not victorious in their match versus Ebbsfleet United.


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Unlocked Sony K660i Brings Something New To The Table
This unlocked phone is so packed with future-proof technologies that it will definitely be a device to have.
The cutting-edge design is only the beginning when it comes to this phone, there are a lot of new technologies that even some other phone on the market don't have. 3G technology is onboard to ensure speedy internet browsing even under image-heavy sites. You can play music files with the Walkman Player 3.0 which is a great way to organize your device. A great number of formats are supported with the player that makes it a superb way to keep your multimedia in check.
Technology that speeds you along
A 2 Megapixel Camera is just the tip of the iceberg with this phone and you can take pictures at a great resolution of 1600x1200 with this device. The memory stick micro is available to stock up on a large collection of images and music files. With this camera's great technology, you will need all the extra space you can get.
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text: Cayci Mahaffey, of Rockcastle Middle School, brought 28 students to KET's Media Lab recently for a workshop in Basic Video Editing and Greenscreen Effects. Using Pinnacle Studio video editing software and a Canon VIXIA HF-R40 camcorder, they learned basic skills in timeline video editing and explored how easy it is to apply greenscreen (chromakey) visual effects to videos. Their edited clip below puts a student into a virtual tv newsroom set using a free video background.


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Cinzia goes to Napoli (Episode 2) – Cinzia goes to a Pizzeria
Don't miss this! See a real Neapolitan pizza being made! www.italianpod101.com ItalianPod101 brings you the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Italian language ever! If you've ever wanted to travel in Italy, you'll most definitely have to buy a ticket sometime. In this episode, we see Cinzia going to a real Italian pizzeria in Napoli Stay tuned for the next exciting episode! We'd love to hear your comments. Please let us know what you think. And make sure you check out our iTunes feed and homepage at http for more great tools for learning Italian.
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