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JACKSONVILLE - Steve Diebenow had orange and blue on one side of him and red and black on the other. But the chief of staff for Mayor John Peyton knew the only color that mattered was green when attempting to reach a new deal that would keep the annual Florida-Georgia football game at Alltel Stadium.
The city would have to accept a lower rent payment. It turned out to be a lot lower - $49,999.
When the contract extension begins in 2007, the schools will pay just $1 to rent the stadium, significantly less than the $50,000 the schools currently pay.
That's correct - $1 to rent the stadium.
Four quarters.
Because the game will draw about 82,000 fans, that's about .0000121 cents per seat. Call it some pretty slick negotiating on the schools' part.
When representatives from the schools were negotiating a contract extension for the game with Diebenow, the three main issues were rent, parking and advertising revenue. Before the second two could be attacked, however, the first issue had to be resolved.
So Diebenow, knowing that the city had lowered the rent from $100,000 to $50,000 for the current contract, tried the same deal.
"They were seeking a rent reduction the whole time, and I said, 'Well, let's just reduce the rent in half again (to $25,000),' " Diebenow said.
"The guys on both sides kind of shrugged their shoulders and raised their eyes and said, 'C'mon, $25,000 is nothing for the economic impact (for the city). It's ridiculous.'
"So then I said, '$5,000,' and they laughed. And, '$1,000,' and they laughed. And then I said, 'I'm not going to give it to you for free.' So it's a buck."
Naturally, that amount met with approval, especially with Georgia, which has approximately twice the expenses than Florida because the Bulldogs must bus to Atlanta and fly to Jacksonville.
Florida officials liked the deal, too.
"It's a good deal," Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said. "(Senior associate AD for internal affairs Greg) McGarity is paying 50 cents this year, and I'll pay next year."
Financially, playing in Jacksonville still makes sense for both schools.
Each will make about twice what they would in a home-visitor setup. While a home game nets $1.3 million-$1.5 million to Florida, McGarity said, the teams cleared $2.8 million for last year's game at Alltel Stadium, with each school getting $1.4 million.
Why $1, though? Why not just let the schools use the stadium rent-free?
"Nothing's free," Diebenow said with a laugh.
Then he explained the reasoning.
"In contracts, there's always consideration from both sides, giving back and forth," he said. "Back in the days when contracts were written, if you were giving an easement to a neighbor and it was worth nothing, you would agree to give it to him and say it was worth $1."
Though the contract calls the rent figure a token, it will appear on the financial spreadsheets and invoices the city gives to Florida. Since Florida handles the operations for the game every year, the school handles all the expenses and then sends a check to Georgia for their portion of the profits.
"At some point, we'll get a bill for a buck," Foley said. "We handle all the expenses, and then we'll settle up with Georgia."
Another major concession the city made in the new lease is giving up an additional 2,000 parking spaces to the schools. The city previously had given the schools 200 but now will give up 2,200, which - at $15 per space - equates to an additional $30,000 in lost revenue. With the $1 lease, the city will lose $79,999 in revenue when the extension begins in 2007.
That isn't as bad as it sounds, Diebenow said, because the city will reap more revenue from advertising and the sponsorships of the fan experience, which runs for much of the week outside Alltel Stadium. Plus, the city keeps an event that generates an estimated $20 million in local impact annually.
Diebenow said the city hasn't done any studies to determine how much increased revenue the city will earn, but that he believes it will cover the losses from the rent and parking reduction.
"You can't just look at one item in a vacuum," Diebenow said. "You have to look at the whole lease. The three fundamental components that are important are rent, advertising and parking revenue. If you look at those three things together, you see it's pretty close to a wash."
Under the new contract, the city and the schools evenly split the advertising revenue, not including a title sponsor. If a company decided to be the title sponsor for the game, Florida and Georgia would split that revenue.
"The rationale behind the entire lease is really to give more revenue opportunities for the university and for the city to be able to not make a profit on the game but to offset their game-day costs," Diebenow said. "I think the lease strikes that balance."
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I once knew Fedaykin98 as a hard-hittin', game playin', P&C dwellin', forum postin' fool. Now I just know him as the guy who put a Peter Cetera in my head for twelve hours, and I hate him with the fury of the wild Jovian winds for it. You'll see.
If you feel like Fedaykin98 is everywhere you go at GWJ, then you're not wrong. From Gears and Beers to World of Warcraft; from Everything Else to Politics and Controversy; from the pile of shame to, well, the Employee Profiles you just can't escape him. We don't want to say Fedaykin98 is a staple of Gamers With Jobs, but perhaps we could call him a classic accessory, like a nice handbag or a really snazzy fedora.
Fedaykin's on the left, and Duffman, who appears to be sad about getting drunk with Fed, on the right. Without further ado, here's Fedora ... I mean Fedaykin98!
1)Who the devil are you?
I am a man who will fight for your honor. I'll be the hero you're dreaming of.
2) What are you supposed to be doing during the day when you're reading GWJ?
You know, I work all day to get you money, to buy you things. And it's worth it just to hear you say you're gonna give me everything.
3) How about family? Kids? Pets? Particularly meaningful inanimate objects?
I married a hot night elf chick back in February. She's a hunter, so she has a pet owl named Cupcake. Also, I have a brother who who has played Gears of War with the GWJ crew a couple times; his handle is Joshua SQ3 03, although his name is not Joshua. What?
4) What was your favorite game over the last year or so? Why?
If we're talking about games that came out in the last year, then it's definitely Gears of War - anyone who hasn't been violated by a drunken Gumbie both before and after they're downed just hasn't lived. An honorable mention should probably be given to the Wii Bait-and-Switch game, also known as the "Great System / Oops No Games LOL!" game. I got pwned on that one a bit more badly than Gears, though.
And if we're talking about games that didn't release last year, I've currently gotten back on the WoW. No, I don't know what I was thinking, either, but I seem to be having a good time. Once again I'm more concerned with making money through enchanting and disreputable use of the Auction House than actually levelling up. Sometimes I engage in Auction House arbitrage. Okay, you got me, I really just wanted to use the word "arbitrage". My work here is done.
5) Which game are you looking forward to most?
Either Unreal Tournament 3 (or whatever they're calling it) or Age of Conan. I have always loved the fast-action FPS games like Quake and Unreal Tournament, particularly in CTF or other team based objective gametypes. I had a great time with UT2k4, but at the time, I hadn't found GWJ yet, so I don't think I quite maxed out its fun potential. I'm eagerly anticipating experiencing the genre that was my first multiplayer love in the full glory of the Goodjer experience.
Age of Conan because I'm a fan of the movies, the comics, and the original Robert E. Howard stories. By the way, he was from Texas, and we do indeed all have a thing about Texas. Can't be helped; we get all this outside reinforcement from people like John Steinbeck and AC/DC. But I digress...I'm hoping that Conan will bring the gritty flavor of that world and more realistic art to my MMO experience. The idea of action-based combat seems likely to increase my satisfaction with smacking thousands of mobs with my sword. I like that the races are not divided up between factions, so if my friend really wants to play a Stygian, we can still quest together. The PvP with guild-built cities sounds very interesting. When the whole enterprise collapses after a couple of months, I'll probably shrug and return to my attempts to conquer the financial district of Ironforge.
6) What is your fondest gaming memory?
Either the original Wing Commander or Quake 1 with the Threewave CTF mod. Way back when I didn't have a computer at all, I used to browse the PC games section just to torment myself with what I was missing; the games seemed so much more complex than my console games. The top of my wish list was Wing Commander. When we finally got a computer, I bought the game, but couldn't run it because I had no "Expanded memory", which is far different than "Extended memory". Far different unless you whisper to your computer, in a way it wants to hear, that they're secretly the same thing. This led to me returning the game and waiting another six months before buying it again, my confusion alleviated and the panacea of emm386.sys having been discovered.
It was fantastic - the first game that I had ever played that really was that cinematic experience, with me as the main character. Nevermind that it slowed down to 1 FPS during a heavy firefight near a capital ship. Forget that I didn't even have a sound card - the game was totally compelling even in its PC speaker bleeps and bloops. Soundtrack? I made my own soundtrack. I'd recently gotten Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion albums, so I made an entire, dual-sided mixtape that just alternated "You Could Be Mine" with "Don't Cry". You'd be amazed how well the intro to the former fits with the animated scramble sequence at the beginning of missions - probably got me keyed up better than the real music would have. And "Don't Cry" provided a poignant counterpoint to all of the violence going on around my ship (by the time it came on, I was usually in the sh*t); it brought home the deep pathos of this unhopeful interstellar conflict.
It was an awesome experience. When I finished Wing Commander, I felt like I had blown up the Death Star.
Quake 1 CTF was the yang to Wing Commander's yin. When Wing Commander came out, the idea of multiplayer combat was nearly unheard of. Fast forward through Wolfenstein and Doom, the latter of which introduced me to the joys of "online" multiplayer by way of 3am one-on-one matches over the modem. Quake 1 was ugly. There were no fancy 3D accelerator cards when it released, and the only colors in the game were brown and red. You might think there was yellow in there somewhere, but it was a brownish yellow. If Romero hadn't been so obsessed with blood and satanic imagery, they probably wouldn't have bothered with red either.
One look at Quake and I was ready to go back to Duke Nukem, which had replaced Doom 2 as my modem game of choice. Enter TheWalt, who wanted to get together over Christmas break for a LAN party. Good idea? Sure, fine, whatever. Let me know. What? Everyone else already bought a network card? (Who owned a network card back then?) TODAY?!?!?! Alright, let's do it.
TheWalt was hot to trot with Quake as our network game of choice, but god, it was ugly, and had none of the fun items and weapons of Duke Nukem. Additionally, Jim had a particularly slow computer and kept pulling for the older games. We tried some Quake deathmatch, but it had no personality, and it had been beaten near to death by the ugly stick. TheWalt, ladies and gentlemen, would not be denied. I finally agreed that I would try this "Capture the Flag" mod that he had downloaded IF, and only IF, he personally installed it on all six computers while the rest of us were taking a pizza break.
Enter a new world of custom graphics, drawn with colors that id had apparently included but felt no desire to actually use. Custom maps. Custom items, gameplay mechanics, a grappling hook - and the flag actually shows up ON YOUR BACK when you have it? They can DO that?!?!? And my god, the revelation of teamplay...friends, I fell hard. Upon returning to college, I learned that you could play this game over a little thing called the Internet, which was just taking off. It did require you to be running Windows 95, so after years of keeping myself pure, I immediately sold out and downgraded into Bill Gates' master plan, because the thought of Quake CTF whenever I wanted it was too good to be true. And you know, it was that good, for as long as it lasted. Did I mention id Software is in Texas?
7) Finally, why do you play games at all? Why haven't you outgrown them?
I can't thing of a funny answer or a song quote that goes here. Seriously, I just never stopped. I think that as more and more people who play video games reach adulthood, it will be more and more normal. Any stigma attached to game playing will disappear because everyone will have played them at some point, with lots of people never having quit.
8) Thanks for taking the time to answer our hard hitting questions! Any last words?
I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting
"Do you see the beast?"
I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting
Hey, there's that one picture where he doesn't look like Spud. In it, he looks like Spud's brother. Possibly a twin.
We've already had the Spud discussion in the "post a picture" thread, nothing to see here...
shiho: When it came out (and before that, when it was announced), Quakeworld seemed like the heavens had opened and were smiling down on me. I can't really express how big Quake was for me at the time; I was addicted to Bluesnews (even got credit for tipping him off to an update of the Threewave site once!). I remember anticipating Threewave 4.0 like no other piece of software ever - sadly it was a near-total bust; I think I only liked about 3 of the maps. A couple of them were unplayably large.
You guys are so right, Threewave CTF was IT. Man, I fricking LOVED the use of the grappling hook, i got to where i couldn't enjoy Quake without it. Just thinking about zipping around levels with that thing makes me misty.
I also loved the character mod that made you all into The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. Such camaraderie! /sniff
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I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting
Hey, there's that one picture where he doesn't look like Spud. In it, he looks like Spud's brother. Possibly a twin.
His brother is the dead ringer for Dirk Nowitzki. And his brother is a baller (or was during highschool for a while).
Enough has already been said about the Spud-like qualities.
Great interview! It reminded me that I need to get off my butt and get my tickets to Seattle for PAX.
I for one welcome our new desert overlords.
The spice is life!
The spice must flow!
Now his ego will never fit through the door.
Congrats man! Now put down the sundae spoon and go and play some Gears this weekend. :)
Wait.. you mean it fit through the door in the first place?
Fed's the meaning in my life. He's the inspiration.
Wordy.. you are like my brother. And not the good one. That sick, dark twisted one whom I have to go on an elaborate quest and kill.
Fed: Like the bossman said, you truly are a must have accessory. I think of you like the ribbon in FFVII when you're trying to save up enough battle points for Cloud's ultimate limit break. If you don't have it, then it's 10x harder to get the limit. Well, that part doesn't really matter, just the part about needing it to get the limit break thinger.
Fed when you coming to BCS next? I know you are missing some original good ole fashioned Freebirds. When you do drop me a note or something. 98 PUSH!
We've already had the Spud discussion in the "post a picture" thread, nothing to see here...
Enough has already been said about the Spud-like qualities.
Well, now I just feel like an ass....
Great interview! It reminded me that I need to get off my butt and get my tickets to Seattle for PAX.
All Gary's couch belong to me.
Please to meet you, Fed.
Nice to meet you Fed'. Have a good one with you and yours.
Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.
Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.
Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.
Nice to meet you Fedaykin
Hey Fed, if you put on those glasses and cut your hair back do you think you could pass for Ewen Bremner?
And the ultimate thread skimming award goes to ...
And the ultimate thread skimming award goes to ...
Yea yea.. f*ck me. Just three posts above my previous post. Rudeness
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Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.
Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.
Really, if I'm supposed to be your evil twin, then maybe this works out well. Still, you sound like me but with a penchant for wearing unitards and eyeliner.
I'm just sayin'.
Fedaykin98 wrote:LeapingGnome wrote:
Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.
Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.
Really, if I'm supposed to be your evil twin, then maybe this works out well. Still, you sound like me but with a penchant for wearing unitards and eyeliner.
I'm just sayin'. :twisted:
Who wears the stirrup-pants in that family?
Who wears the stirrup-pants in that family?
Stirruped pants get such a bad rap! Next time you meet an Oi boy with two-tone stirrups over his wife beater, maybe you'll change your tune.
On a potentially related note, are you coming to PAX, BS?
Btw Words, on the evil twin front, are you aware that Farscry and I are also nearly the same person? Although it seems like we might be nearly the same person in different ways than you and me. Hmm....
Hooray! One of my favorite (and contemporary) Goodjers!
Well done. Glad to see you on the front page, Fed.
Btw Words, on the evil twin front, are you aware that Farscry and I are also nearly the same person? Although it seems like we might be nearly the same person in different ways than you and me. Hmm....
Is that because he and you are both, erm... cats, in a sense?


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Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Really impressed by this board. Finally I feel Voile has come through with something that doesn't feel like a 2X4 strapped to your feet. The switch from skin to board has become easier with the now flush interface. In ride mode I feel this is Voile's closest production to a resort board yet. Light and easy to rely on the tail with a lot of mobility throughout the deck which is a far cry from the split-decision of yore. The board also boasts quick and precise turning for run outs where it counts. Thank you for listening to your riders via feedback or market demand.


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Everyday if i turn on my computer it will crash on the first boot. But if i hold in the power button to turn it off completyly then back on itl work. When it chrashes it restart when it gets to the windows loading screen, and if i let it restart windoes start up manager i get a blue screen. thanks
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navigate to c:/windows/minidump and zip up the .dmp file... attach it to your next post for analysis...
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I have two files what one is it. Thanks
Edit: and what do i open the file with as when i use notepad it says access denied
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just zip both of them up and attach it to your next post
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On Wed 1/6/2010 2:14:26 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: tdx.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x50 (0xFFFFF880035221B8, 0x0, 0xFFFFF88002D16C2F, 0x0)
Error: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\sevenfoums\010510-20576-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\tdx.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: TDI Translation Driver
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
Update your wireless network card driver ... this should take care of your problem..
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Thanks i will check tommorrow if it does it again.
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It happened again this morning but when it gets to starting windows it freezes instead of restarting
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Mom 'Accidentally' Leaves Dad at Behind on Family Vaction
I remember watching "Home Alone" thinking that no one could leave their kid behind going on vacation. Well, it turns out it is entirely possible to leave the dad of the family behind.
A family driving from Texas to Tennessee stopped at a gas station for snacks and to fill up the old family truckster. All was well and the family was back on the road, except for one problem: Mom left Dad back at the gas station!
The man tried to contact his wife, but he left his own cell phone in the mini van that ended up driving off without him. "Six different cellphones and nobody answers," the dad explained to WBIR. "So I started imagining the worst-case possible scenarios. So I called the cops."
Finally the stranded dad was able to get through to his family through Facebook 100 miles down the road.
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We have favorite colors, favorite movies, favorite bands. But does anyone have a favorite tax? I do. Mine is the motor fuels tax in Texas. Here's why:
•The vast majority of dollars raised through the motor fuels tax go right back to where the tax is collected: our roads. The Texas Constitution requires that 25 percent of it go to public education, too. Pressure is on officials to phase out other diversions, but they are less than 5 percent of the pot.
•You control how much you pay. The more you drive, and the bigger vehicle you drive, the more you pay. You want to pay less? You have dozens of possible ways to cut your own taxes: carpool, move closer to work, drive a more fuel-efficient car, take public transportation, avoid rush hour, etc. It's very fair like that.
•It encourages good behavior that cleans our air and eases congestion on our roads. When gas prices go up, and our gas taxes go up with them, people change their habits.
•It's transparent and stable. Taxes usually grow with the economy, giving state officials more money to play with while still insisting that they have kept the tax rate low. Since 2000, revenue from the state sales tax, hotel tax, cigarette tax and alcohol taxes all grew by more than 50 percent. But the motor fuels tax is different. Revenue has been comparatively stable since 2000 - growing only 15 percent - for a variety of reasons: more efficient cars, changing habits, more shopping options in the suburbs, etc. As the economy grows, our need for new roads grows. That forces officials to either raise the rate or let traffic get worse. Lacking courage or foresight, most of our elected officials have chosen worse traffic, but at least our gas taxes aren't giving them a blank check year after year.
•There are few exemptions. Generally, businesses can't get cushy deals that spare them from paying their fair share (while shifting that burden to homeowners), as with the property tax. Exemptions for the motor fuels tax in 2009 totaled $130 million (for off-road diesel vehicles that don't burden the roads, for example). We exempt more in sales tax ($30 billion) than we collect ($22 billion). Comparatively, with its exemptions equaling only about 4 percent of its revenue, the motor fuels is a straightforward burden shared by all.
•It's automatic. No paperwork. No filing. Traffic engineers have worked their tails off coming up with high-tech toll roads that can charge based on mileage and road conditions without the use of toll booths. Guess what? We already have that in the gas tax. More miles, more tax. Congestion pricing is built in. If you sit in traffic, you burn more fuel and pay a higher tax. How innovative.
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If I go UA in the marine reserves, What happens? from what Ive seen/heard at drills UA marines who havnt been to drill get Admin. Seperated. I want to just go to college for now, but i want to eventually reenlist into the army. Can I at least apply for college? what can i do? Id rather put on the uniform and wear it with pride rather than get treated/pushed around by everyone else
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Going to drills does not conflict with your desire to go to college. Not sure what you mean by putting on uniform and wearing it with pride instead of being pushed around. You should be wearing with it pride now.
The difficulty of you going UA and being administratively discharged is that you may never be able to enlist again. The may code you as RE 3 or 4 which would require a waiver or never being able to enlist in any branch.
Wear your uniform with pride and finish out your enlistment. If the Marines aren't working out look at a transfer to Navy Reserve, AF reserve, Air Guard, Army Reserve, or National Guard...before you mess up any possibilities of the future ...
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Hmmm... this blowout seems very interesting - I'm a sucker for 'drama' like that. Wonder why it wasn't shown...
Hmmm... this blowout seems very interesting - I'm a sucker for 'drama' like that. Wonder why it wasn't shown...
Just a guess, but it seems likely it was an argument over the whole laziness thing. She probably was glaring at the three of them (T, D and R) and opened her mouth. Ryan would have been the only one to get back up in her face about it and from there, it probably was a blowout.
That would explain why it was such a big issue that Christa felt the need to say as much as she did at TC, because she was still furious. Neither T nor D seemed that upset by her comments beyond saying they'd get wood when they felt like it.
Also makes you wonder if the Girl Power Alliance (or the beginnings of it) and the Ryan/Christa fight were why T & D didn't even bother to give Ryan sympathy votes.
Every time I see Jon, I want to flip him upside down and break his legs like a wishbone. I never knew I had such violent tendencies, lol.
I don't think this is a spoiler but if it is I'm sorry. I read on another board the recaps of the Premium Yahoo Insider that the morning after the merge feast that Rupert got up and said there were 6 bananas left and now there are 4. then someone said there were only 5. Someone blamed Ryan and Christa and Ryan had some words with each other. When will the survivors learn that eating more than your share of food is a big no-no.Originally Posted by pink_princess
I also suspect that that the thinkg between Christa and Darrah at tribal counsel may have been staged to hide the beginning of a girls alliance.
I think that was female bonding righ there. Like mom washes daughters hair and braids it, or like girlfriends fix each others hair before going out. Under the circumstances they are in there is not much they can do...Originally Posted by Maveno
ps. This is just my opinion in the matter.
The blowout that Ryno elaborated on was Christa accusing him of stealing her orange, which she realized she'd eaten herself! It sounds lame to us in the civilized world, but when you're in a place where food is the only thing you can think of all day, an orange is a treasure!
"If the only prayer you say in your entire life is Thank You, that would be enough."
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"God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can ever dream for yourself."
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Originally Posted by PrincessRight
I love my oranges too! However, it may have to do with the fact that they are some people in life we just can't get along with no matter how hard we try.
She has that nauseating voice which could grate on anyone's nerves IMO. Christa seems like a team player though and she had gotten further than I expected.
If someone had accused me of stealing some food out there, I wouldn't take it either. I'd probably get upset too.
I don't blame Ryan one bit for that.
I'm sure they are both capable of washing their own hair, but come on....think about it.......it's called strategy time! When you're on Survivor there is little opportunity to go off with someone and talk about the game without ALL the others getting paranoid. Being out in the open as they were in the water where everyone could see them surely seemed harmless to the others.Originally Posted by Tirlittan
It's not like they were out there washing each others bodies like Jenna (ugg) and Heidi (ugg ugg) were. I mean....give Christa and Sandra some credit. With that said.......Jenna and Heidi.....by using that time together did manage to go far in the game with Jenna (ugg) winning it all (wwWWWWWWAAAAAA!!)
Maveno.....I find it a little odd that you were so disgusted by the whole thing. I mean after all......when you go and get your haircut haven't YOU ever had someone else i.e. the hairstylist wash your hair? Explain to me the difference because there is none that I can see.
Edit: Oh, and BTW....You might respond by saying that you wash your own hair at home, and then have them cut it. Fair enough....a lot of people do it that way as well. Myself, when I get my hair cut....I also take a shower before hand and wash my own hair, BUT I still get it washed at the hairstyling place simply because my hair cuts and responds better when getting cut that way. Many people do it this way as well. My point being....people all over the world get their hair washed by someone else everyday so I can't figure out why you found it so offensive. I'm not busting on you.....not at all. I am just curious as to why you see it differently.
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I know your question is directed to Maveno but thought I would respond. For me, I don't like people touching me except my immediate family. Even going to a hairstylist is...not uncomfortable but not something I actively look foward to doing either. For me there are other ways of bonding besides touch. That is my perference. My kids and husband are exempt, of course.
Oh, I know what you're saying. That's why I mentioned in my post that people are all different. I just thought the majority of people would find it harmless, and I was more or less intriqued that someone found it so distasteful. I don't agree or disagree with anyone's viewpoint of it. I'm just a curious guy when it comes to how people react differently under the same circumstances etc.Originally Posted by livin4reality
In any case I respect everyone's opinions on it. We are all different and to each his own. That's what makes life so interesting to live.


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Have you ever felt lonely? I'm not talking about the lonely that happens when all of your friends go away for Labor Day weekend or take vacations frequently and you're at home thinking, Man. I miss everyone. Guess I'll just rent a movie and stay in tonight. No – I'm referring to the type of lonely you experience when something goes awry in your life and the only solace you have is praying to God to get you through. The type of lonely where you wish someonewould just call you, email you, or even text you and ask how you are doing or if you would like to get together. If you don't receive any of those from anyone you feel a deep sadness and possibly experience depression because you are deep down – lonely. In the spirit of easy-reading articles go, instead of giving you my experiences in loneliness so you can relate and feel sad for me, I plan on taking a route of listing out some helpful ways to fight loneliness. And no, I'm not going to quote the Wilco song. #1 – Go volunteer somewhere. Every town has somewhere you can volunteer whether it's a soup kitchen, the American Red Cross, or even your local church – find somewhere you can volunteer your time and give back. You'll find that your loneliness will take a backseat when you're hearing and seeing other people's stories where you can play a part in helping out. #2 – Get back in shape. This is a no-brainer for most people, but for some of us working out is not as much fun as the fitness gurus try and convince us that it is. But in the spirit of fighting loneliness, I've found that one of the most therapeutic things you can do is join a local gym, go running around your neighborhood, or rent/buy some workout videos and get back into shape. #3 – Get out of the house. I know it sounds contradictory to the last one, especially if you do decide to work out at home, but just be smart about your time. If staying inside makes you lonelier, work out during a time when you've been outside all day or away from your home and then work out. Go run errands, peruse books and magazines at Barnes and Noble, or even go drive somewhere you haven't been to before. Just get out! #4 – Take up a new hobby or get back into an old hobby. One of the things I love to do is play basketball. I play every Wednesday at a church where no one is a true "baller," and I stay until it's time to go. There are a lot of great factors that helps loneliness. For one, you end up talking to people you don't know, even if it's something such as, "Hey – play defense!" Secondly, you're exercising. And lastly – you're out of the house. #5 – Go to your local coffee shop and read. Not everyone loves to read, but when you're experiencing loneliness one of the best ways to fight it is to read at a coffee shop. Most baristas are friendly. You get to people-watch. Finally, your mind can be engaged in a book. It's a win-win if I've ever seen one. #6 – Fill up your calendar with events to do. One of the most frequent things I do when I'm experiencing loneliness is to look up my city's calendar of events and find out about stuff I can do. Community calendars have a list of concerts and other events that can be a great way to spend your time. If that isn't your thing you can even plan a trip out of town to see old friends. Doing this will help tremendously in getting over that hump of loneliness that everyone has experienced at one time or another. Also remember that in doing any and all of these suggestions to keep praying over the situations you're dealing with. Remember, everything happens for a reason. It might be months or years down the road, but one day you'll understand it and might even be joyful that it happened. If all else fails grow a mustache (if you're a male), get a tattoo, go buy twenty cheeseburgers and give them out to the homeless, or take up a second job to stay busy. I've done two of those things and it proved to take my mind off the loneliness incurred in my life!


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If you posted this as a joke I applaud you. I took the hook, line and sinker.
damn that's a lot of $ for custom ci boards that are all relatively the same (eps have to be custom right?). Also you must weigh a like 150lbs or so huh? Do you love Dane R? How much'ya bench?
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It's easy to ride those little boards when you are a 5'3" 97lb 12 year old right Big Monkey T!ts?
Sep 4, 2014, 08:15 PM #17
He's obviously doing jet ski step-offs with those size boards. BigMoneyT knows what's up.
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Don't forget to bring your passport when travelling abroad. Hawaii (Jaws area) is a really nice country. Another thing, when you get to Mavericks (in California) don't even think of taking any waves smaller than 23 feet. If you do the locals will know you're a kook. Snap some KFC turns for me, brah!
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My only question is, when you are landing things like Lien 360's, why did you put such a lame picture of you as your avatar? Seems like you could do much better.
Also, I get 'Big Money,' since you obviously have cash with a quiver like that. But what does the 'T' stand for? Big Money Trader? Or maybe Big Money Tranny?


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The rival Di Cosola and Stramaglia clans were locked in a bloody battle for control over territory in Puglia, police said. More than 600 policemen in the southern city of Bari were involved in the operation to carry out 93 arrest warrants.
The arrested have been charged with links to mafia and drug trafficking. About 40kg of drugs and guns were seized.
Italian authorities have carried out a string of high-profile mafia arrests in recent months, including one of the biggest recent crackdowns on organised crime in July that led to the arrest of more than 300 mafiosi with ties to the feared 'Ndrangheta group based in the southern Calabria region.


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I have been coming across many del.icio.us tools to visualize usage during my daily researching hours. So many, that I have decided to start making note of the ones I come across. From the span of about two weeks, I have been collecting as many as I could find. I will list each one along with a description. Enjoy!
- HubLog: Graph del.icio.us related tags – You can graphically browse related del.icio.us tags as mind mapping in this Java applet.
- Extisp.icio.us Text – Gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the number of times that they've used each of them, and leaves you to draw your own insights from the overlapping entrails.
- Extisp.icio.us Images – Displays a random Yahoo images search result for each of a user's tag words (excluding those which they've only ever used once).
- Revealicious – A set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account that allow you to browse, search and select tags, as well as viewing posts matching them.
- del.icio.us tag clouds – Lets you cluster your del.icio.us bookmarks into tag clouds. You can check the results and adjust the clustering later.
- Delicious Soup – A tool that reveals your del.icio.us activities. This visualization looks excellent, it's fun, and uses Macromedia Flash.
- Vox Delicii – Flash application to help you visualize the most popular sites being added to del.icio.us.
- Del.icio.us Popular Treemap – View the popular bookmarks at del.icio.us in a cool treemap
- Cloudalicious – Watching tag clouds over time for a given URL
- Del.icio.us Mind Map Maker – This service will make a Clustered Mind Map out of your delicious entries. Note that it will be able to be seen by anyone.
- Mapping with Anthracite and OmniGraffle – Ruben R. Puentedura's tutorial on making maps with Anthracite and OmniGraffle.
- LiveMarks - Don't know if you consider this as a visual, but I do. It is the activity of del.icio.us, but live.
- HubLog: Graph del.icio.us subscriptions network – Another HubLog visualization to browse the network of del.icio.us users as defined by their inbox subscription lists.
- Del.icio.us direc.tor – An alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us that uses AJAX. Provides a good way of searching and sorting through your bookmarks.
- DeliciousMind – A neat tool to create an XML structure of your bookmarks so you can import it into FreeMind Mind Mapping software.
- Mapping Del.icio.us – Plots locations on the world map from del.icio.us geotags.
- Your del.icio.us top sources – Nivi had proposed a $50 bounty to who can make a del.icio.us tool to see your top bookmark sources. Looks like it is a done deal!
There's a couple more that I have in mind, but they don't seem to be working at the moment. When they are working again, I will be sure to update the list. Also, if you know of any more, please feel free to comment or contact me! Hope you enjoyed my little roundup!


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Reporting from Washington — President Obama has said he will have plenty of time to campaign for reelection in 2012, but his fledgling campaign team is wasting no time.
Days after leaving his post as White House deputy chief of staff, campaign manager Jim Messina spent the last week hopscotching across the country to hold sessions with prominent donors in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston.
His outreach is part of an intense push to rebuild the finance operation that helped Obama raise a record $745 million in 2008. Republican campaign finance lawyers have predicted Obama could top $1 billion in 2012.
The donor gatherings come weeks before the campaign is expected to register with the Federal Election Commission and set up a mechanism to accept contributions. The goal for now is simply to reengage with the party's big financial backers, emphasizing the administration's focus on building the economy.


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Denim brand Hard Currency from Aru Enterprises is buoyant about the festive season ahead. As Paresh Chandan, Director, Aru Enterprises, "The market has been growing in terms of sales. I am hoping the fair season goes off well compared to the beginning of the year. Apart from the states we are present in, we have started distributing in Bihar and Maharashtra and have launched our first season in Gujarat; Madhya Pradesh is next in the pipeline."
With denims as its core range, the brand has been playing around with different styles in denim to fulfill the consumer demand. As Chandan points out, "We are a brand that caters to all age groups. We have a range of core products that include silky denim and ecru -- a stretch garment that comes in various colours. We make 80 per cent stretch garments and 20 per cent non-stretch and have changed our fits, designs, washes, to cater to the north Indian market."
Hard Currency also uses a lot of accessories like leather, rivets, buttons, labels, tags, fancy back patches, tags and fancier washes. The fashion of subtle looking garments, according to Chandan, is no more in vogue so brands use brighter threads, printing and embroidery on the garment.
Hard Currency collection is present in more than 500 MBOs across India. The focus is more on distributors and agents and less in direct retail side of business. Commenting on the previous dull seasons, Chandan says, "If we were faced with low demand last year, I am sure even others retailers did the same. Now that consumers have accepted higher prices, I am sure retailers will benefit from it. Since there isn't much difference between prices of similar products, sales should be stable."
The brand enjoys considerable popularity in smaller cities and the share of sales from Tier II cities is higher compared to metros. Citing the reasons behind this, Chandan says, "First is that our prices are reasonable. Second, not many brands are present in Tier II cities moreover Tier II consumers don't like too many fancy washes on the garment since they believe that constant washing will increase the chances of garment getting torn easily. When they buy a product they want value for money and durability, which our collection provides."


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Here's an interesting turn of events. Despicable Me 2 hasn't reached theaters yet, but Universal Pictures is already gearing up for a spinoff film starring the yellow, goggle-sporting minions.
According to Deadline, Mad Men star and all-around versatile performer Jon Hamm will lend his voice to a character in the rapidly-developing Minions movie, which is targeting a December 19, 2014 release date. The trade notes that Hamm will "star" alongside Sandra Bullock, who was added to the voice cast earlier this year.
The source also has some new details about the plot. The premise used to establish Minions explains that the henchmen have been around for decades, and this story picks up in the 1960s, long before they teamed with Steve Carell's Gru. Without a true evil leader to follow, three depressed minions go in search of a "gig," and end up serving Scarlet Overkill (Bullock), a "stylish, bad-ass super villain." Hamm, meanwhile, will voice Scarlet's husband, Herb Overkill, an inventor.
I'm on the fence when it comes to Minions. It's good news that Universal feels there's franchise potential in the series, and it probably means that Despicable Me 2 is very good if the studio's willing to expand the brand. Obviously, the sequel due in theaters in July isn't going to poison the well, so to speak.
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Experiment in Terror
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Crime, Thriller
Lee Remick, Ross Martin, Glenn Ford
Blake Edwards
Plot Synopsis:Experiment in Terror (1962) is director/producer Blake Edwards's chilling excursion into atmospheric neo-noir, focusing on a San Francisco working girl (Lee Remick) stalked by a wheezing psychopath (Ross Martin) intent on forcing her to rob the bank where she works…or else. Fearing for the safety of her younger sister (Stefanie Powers) even more than for her own, our heroine pluckily makes secret contact with an FBI agent (Glenn Ford), hoping to foil the psycho before he can carry out his sinister threats. Featuring lush black-and-white cinematography by Philip Lathrop and a smoky, jazz-inflected score from Henry Mancini, available here as an isolated track.
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Reflective coatings when applied to modify the soil surface were effective in maintaining favorable soil temperatures and in suppressing evaporation for establishing plant stands. A high inverse relationship was obtained between soil temperatures at planting depth and stand establishment of fall bell peppers. Soil temperatures at 45 C to 47 C at planting depth prevented germination of peppers. Certain coatings were effective in suppressing soil temperatures below 43 C at planting depth and in providing a favorable environment for germination of fall peppers. The data suggest that the use of 41 to 61 liters/are (10 to 15 gal/1000 ft2) of better reflective coating materials adequately suppress evaporation and insure desired plant population of peppers. Pepper yields were a function of stand with the peppers growing under the better coatings producing about 5 metric tons per hectare or over five times the yield on the multi-irrigated bare plots.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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The history of the PGA Tour stop in Atlanta is a reminder that the big bucks that it took for the old Atlanta Classic to gain a permanent spot on the tour would be nothing but peanuts in today's big money game.
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By committing to a purse of $100,000 Atlanta got a permanent date on the tour schedule. This afternoon the guy who finishes 10th will take home that much.
Life on tour these days is pretty much easy come, easy go for most of the players, but even if you win a million-dollar tournament, you have to keep winning to maintain the good and easy life.
For all those who make it big, there are the many who are struggling on some tour somewhere to move up in the rankings and at the bank.
As we watch the BellSouth Classic come to a close today, we observe scenes, which cause one to ponder about the present tour and that of days gone by.
"Why do they make such a fuss about Jesper Parnevik's wardrobe?" said Peacock Doug Sanders not long ago. "I've thrown away better looking clothes than he wears on the tour."
It is interesting that Sanders still has celebrity connections and is planning a big tournament that would involve George Bush, the elder. In his prime, Sanders was a good player. Very good, in fact, but he was better known for his flashy dress and hell raisin' lifestyle.
The aging process calms everybody down, eventually. Now Dapper Doug is a born-again Christian, which seems to be a fashionable exercise with the jet setting celebs. My question is this: If they still had their youth, what would they be doing after sundown?
While I am not opposed to an upgrading of any person's spiritual life, I do wonder about those who never met a drink they didn't like in the old days and now preach abstinence. Those who caroused every night in bygone times, seem now to be big into testimony about how to live a life without sin.
Although it doesn't happen every year, it looks like the weatherman is bringing good weather for Masters week. After getting introduced to this grand event while in college, I became conditioned to the fact that Masters week would always be sweater weather. Always, it seemed in the past, that you could get up for breakfast, read the Augusta Chronicle, which covered anything that took place at the tournament, put on a sweater over your golf shirt and be dressed for the day.
It was years before I realized that it is always best to carry a rain garment to the golf course, that landscape gem which blooms so beautifully in April.
We'll all be rushing to Augusta this week to see what the lengthening of the course has done for the tournament. And this parting shot for Charles Barkley, the outspoken critic of the Augusta National for changing the course, saying it was a blatant racist act designed to inhibit Tiger Woods.
Sorry Charles, but when Jack Nicklaus overpowered No. 18 so dramatically from the tee, that is when club officials put in those fairway traps on the left side of the final hole.
All that did was make Nicklaus adjust. He kept on winning and that is what is likely to happen this week and in the future. The best players won't be bothered by the changes. They'll adjust and keep on winning.
Loran Smith is a contributing columnist for the Banner-Herald.
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I was born terminally handsome.
It's a malady too sickening if you were to contemplate it, but it's true and it's one of those in-your-face debilitations that is worth thirty-three cents a day on one of those late-night Feed The Ugly Children infomercials.
How much would you pay to keep me from being handsome for the rest of my life? I'd say it's worth $10 a month. I mean, think about it. I have to endure all of the negative traits of being handsome. Mechanics cut me deals on transmission repairs, teachers want nothing but to give me the best scores on my tests in spite of having no academic prowess, and most importantly, women can't keep their hands off of me.
"Waah!" you mock me. But imagine that every time you went to a supermarket women kept "inadvertently" bumping their shopping cart into your and chatting you up with their flirtatious ways. "Excuse me then, can you tell me how to choose eggs?" "Pardon me, but how can you tell if the pickles are ripe?" It's a horrible ailment! I don't much enjoy the supermarket; I just want to get in there and get out without a whole to-do.
But being terminally handsome, this is the kind of penalty I've had to bear ever since my inception.
Sure, there have been a few spans of my life where I was able to avoid drawing sexual attention to myself – I've gained weight here and there, I've grown beards and mustaches, I've had wacky hairstyles, I've developed a repulsive personality, but women are amazing and glorious creatures who can see clean through that contrived debris and who lust after me for what I am – an intelligent devil accursed by my intolerable handsomeness.
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UFC newcomer Darren Elkins (9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) was today confirmed by the UFC as the final part of "UFC on Versus 1: Vera vs. Jones."
Elkins meets veteran Duane "Bang" Ludwig (19-10 MMA, 2-1 UFC) on the evening's preliminary card.
The 11-bout event takes place March 21 at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield (near Denver), Colo. The main card airs live on Versus.
Elkins replaces original opponent Spencer Fisher, who was forced to bow out with a back injury suffered in training.
Elkins comes to the UFC on a two-fight winning streak built after
suffering his first career loss in September 2009 via 13-second TKO. An
Indiana native, Elkins has seven finishes in his nine career wins and
most recently fought this past Novemebr in a unanimous-decision win
over three-time UFC veteran Gideon Ray under the Hoosier Fight Club
Ludwig, a Denver native, finds himself in a pivotal fight. The 10-year
veteran, who returned from a near-four-year absence from the UFC to
replace Sean Sherk at January's UFC 108 event. There, Ludwig suffered a
first-round submission loss to Jim Miller. It was the Strikeforce
veteran's second loss in three fights and moves him to 6-6 since June
Prior to the loss, Ludwig had earned a 2006 win over Jonathan Goulet
and a 2003 win over Genki Sudo in his two previous octagon appearances.
With the official addition, UFC on Versus 1 now includes:
- Jon Jones vs. Brandon Vera
- Junior Dos Santos vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
- Paul Buentello vs. Cheick Kongo
- James Irvin vs. Alessio Sakara
- Shannon Gugerty vs. Clay Guida
- Eliot Marshall vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
- Darren Elkins vs. Duane "Bang" Ludwig
- John Howard vs. Daniel Roberts
- Chase Gormley vs. Brendan Schaub
- Julio Paulino vs. Mike Pierce
- Jason Brilz vs. Eric Schafer
For complete coverage of "UFC on Versus 1: Vera vs. Jones," stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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The local nonprofit Catholic War Veterans will hold its gala dinner Friday to raise money to help needy veterans and their families with food, rent, utilities, transportation and clothing.
The dinner, along with a silent auction and raffle, will be from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday at the Suncoast Grand Ballroom, 9090 Alta Dr.
"A percentage of the funds will also be used to help fund the building of the Fisher House," which will provide lodging for families of wounded veterans and others recovering from illnesses at the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas, said Jim McCawley, commander of Catholic War Veterans Post 1947.
Tickets for the semi-formal affair are available for a $100 donation per person. Table sponsorships are available for $1,000 to $10,000 donations. They can be purchased online at www.cvnc-foundation.org by going to "Events" and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
Donations by check should be made payable to CVNCF VCAP and sent to CVNCF VCAP, 6955 S. Durango Road, 1115-252, Las Vegas, NV 89149. Tickets can be mailed or picked up at the event.
The CVNCF Veterans Assistance Care Program is a qualified, tax-exempt entity.
For more information contact Teri De La Torre at 702-494-9212, or Jim McCawley at 702-686-5666.


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VideoSurf is like Shazam, but for video
Most people with an Android phone remember the first time they used Shazam to tag a song they heard on the radio. It was one of the coolest apps in the early days of Android and probably one of the most used when people wanted to show off what their new smartphone could do.
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My house is 18 years old, and I have lived in it for seven years this March. I love my house. It's in Columbia County, in a fairly new development where it's quiet and peaceful.
My second year in the house, the controls on my refrigerator stopped working. It was less than five years old and I couldn't believe it. Soon after having it repaired for $200, something happened to the ice maker. I got frustrated and called the company, and I didn't get much help there either. It was a problem I thought I could live with, so I chose to do so.
A recent Saturday night, I heard a noise in the garage coming from the hot water heater, which I purchased less than two years ago. I didn't know how something could be wrong with that as well. I called an after-hours plumber who told me I could just turn the water off for now and get someone to look at it.
When the plumber came, he was shocked with the water pressure in the house. He told me that it should read about 65, and it was actually 300. He told me that it would affect everything – my pipes, the water heater, the washer, even the refrigerator if it had an ice maker.
Wow, he hit the nail right on the head. He looked at my refrigerator and told me that, because of the ice build-up, it could have started a fire.
It got me to thinking, I could have burned in a fire, and they would have determined that I had a faulty refrigerator. He had to replace a unit in the ice maker, and that was another $160.
When I got to work the next day, I started talking to some of my co-workers, and was horrified to find out some of them had the same thing happen to them.
This is a health hazard, and with the home inspections they do, should this not be a part of it? I worked in construction years ago and helped build a few houses, and I know all about codes. Why is this not part of keeping up to code from the contractor?
I hate to think about all the people who lived here before me and how many times they've had to switch out appliances. And what about my neighbors? Are they in danger as well?
This is really something that needs to be looked into. The co-workers whom this happened to are in other neighborhoods, so it's not just mine. I would urge everyone to know the pressure of the water coming into your home, in case it's at an unsafe level. Have it checked out for your and your family's safety.
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ALICEVILLE, Ala. (WCBI) — Straight-line winds from Sunday night's storm have damaged an Aliceville, Alabama home.
Several large trees toppled over the house, while the homeowners inside rushed to get to a safe place.
Fortunately they weren't hurt.
The homeowners tell WCBI insurance will cover the cost of the damage, but the home still has sentimental value.
Dean and Jean Lewis built their Aliceville home more their 40 years ago.
The front of it doesn't seem to have a lot of storm damage. The back yard though, looks like an obstacle course.
"I couldn't believe it because I love working in my yard, and I had a pretty yard, but it's not pretty anymore," Jean said.
"We love our trees, and most of them are gone now," Dean said.
Now, many of those trees that surrounded the home have fallen inside of it.
It all happened so quickly, the couple says they didn't have enough time to get scared.
"I came heading towards the bathroom in the middle of the house and hollered for her to come, and she didn't come. She didn't come, but she went around the inside of the house and got there, and by the time we got there it was over," Dean said. "It was that quick. I mean, quick."
Jean was cleaning up in the kitchen. Dean was all the way in the bedroom. Both of them were just feet away from where several trees fell into their home.
"I was running for my life I thought," Jean said. "I went through the dining room because I didn't want to go through the den because I knew trees were falling. You could hear them bang, bang, bang, falling."
The Lewis' say they're just grateful they weren't hurt. It was a miracle they were safe.
"God was with us for sure," Jean said.
"He sure was," Dean said.
The couple says they'll be renting a friend's house for the next couple of months while they redo their home.
They also have family nearby.


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Hayden Panettiere candidly opens up about struggles with postpartum depression
Nashville and Heroes star Hayden Panettiere walked her first red carpet since seeking help for postpartum depression last year… now she wants everyone to know they are not alone.
You've got to give it to Hayden Panettiere, not only is she a celebrity that attracts a lot of media attention but she has the guts to do something pretty inspirational... Speak about something that is rarely spoken about.
The 26-year-old opened up last year about how she experienced post-natal depression after giving birth to her daughter in 2014.
The actress hit the red carpet at the Critics' Choice Awards telling reporters she was "feeling great" after completing treatment. The Nashville star told eonline that she refuses to be silent about her battle with postpartum depression:
"It made my life better.
"I do feel and hope it's made other people's lives better and more of an understanding because postpartum depression was not something that I ever understood. You could never understand it unless you have a personal involvement with it.
"I didn't realize how much of a stigma it had about it," she said.
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The young mum spoke about the journey to recovery:
"It's a long process and it's really interesting because part of therapy for me was really finding my true self and the ability to say no.
"[It's] so difficult, so difficult. On one hand they're telling you, you're teaching yourself to really just expose yourself and be real and be honest and be open and let those emotions flood through, and then on the other hand you're having to like keep it bottled up," Hayden said.
"You're bound to make mistakes and you're bound, you have to find that balance, and I'm still trying to find that balance," she added.
Well said, Hayden. If you think you have post-natal depression, or know someone who has, please reach out and get the support you need.
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Havana (AFP) Sept 1, 2008
Hurricane Gustav damaged 100,000 homes and devastated schools, power supplies and tobacco crops in western Cuba, officials said Monday, as Fidel Castro hailed preparations that prevented any deaths.
Gustav, which killed more than 80 people in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, tore through western Cuba late Saturday as a huge Category Four storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson Scale, with winds gusting up to 340 kilometers (210 miles) per hour.
It crashed into the US Gulf Coast Monday as a Category Two hurricane near New Orleans, where Gustav's torrential rains and storm surge were threatening to inundate the city.
Gustav damaged more than 100,000 houses, 370 schools and hundreds of kilometers of electricity and telephone cables in Cuba but only injured 19 people, officials said Monday.
Former president Fidel Castro warned that the island's recovery would be slow, but hailed preparations for the storm.
"The task we have ahead needs time and experience," he said in a newspaper article. "Nothing is more devastating than the destruction and damage after a hurricane."
Castro, who has not been seen in public since a July 2006 stomach operation for an undisclosed illness, maintains influence through comments in newspapers, although his brother, Raul, is now president.
Fidel personally directed hurricane emergency procedures when he was in power and praised the "hundreds of thousands" of Cubans who helped in storm preparation and recovery efforts.
Cuban authorities said Monday they had evacuated some 467,000 people across the country, including 77 percent of the population of the western Pinar del Rio province and the Isle of Youth, which was hit first.
In Pinar del Rio, 86,000 homes were damaged, 90 electricity pylons and 1,200 electricity and telephone poles were knocked down, daily Granma reported.
"This blow is hard, very hard," said vicepresident Jose Ramon Machado.
Radio Rebelde reported that 87 percent of homes on the Isle of Youth, with 86,550 inhabitants, had been damaged.
"The situation is much more complicated than we imagined in the beginning," said Ana Delgado, Communist Party first secretary for the low-lying island.
In a blow to the key tobacco industry, more than 3,414 fragile warehouses were also destroyed, said Olga Tapia, first secretary of the Communist Party in Pinar del Rio, adding that heavy rains had soaked 906 tons of tobacco leaves.
Tapia said the leaves could be dried out but did not give a value for the estimated damage to the harvest.
She also said 372 schools were damaged in the province, delaying a return to classes.
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I also dislike,and found shocking,the tone of this article. Use of slang,especially street slang,is distracting and unprofessional..
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I have been using ketamine for more than 30 yrs as an anesthesiologist. It is a safe induction agent in critically ill patients, a an very good agent for sedation/analgesia for burns. Since the products for anaesthetic induction is now becoming limited , as barbiturates are no more, ketamine is a good alternative as propofol always drops the blood pressure . The abuse of ketamine in Hong Kong has restricted the normal usage of ketamine. The bladder dysfunction is only seen with addicts. The hallucinations and bad dreams in children and older patients can be obtunded by the use of benzodiazepines..
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Apple's new 12W power adapter significantly faster than old 10W model [Video]
In its iPad mini event last Tuesday, Apple hardly shined the spotlight on its brand new 12W power adapter that is now available for many iOS devices. And with good reason, I mean, it's not the most astounding new piece of technology, is it? Nevertheless, Insanely Great Mac has posted a video on YouTube showing the difference between the new charging device and its 10W brother, and found that the 12W model charged an iPad 30-45 minutes faster than the old model, revealing that Apple told the truth when it (briefly) announced the power adapter just over a week ago. One thing to note if you're considering buying one of these for your iPod or iPhone though, and that's that these devices will still only take 5W from the machine, leaving no difference in charging speed.
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Fanman wrote:Vijaydevani:Also, my question is not about the existence of God. He may exist or he may not exist. That is a debate that can keep going on. My question is, what is the relevance of God assuming he exists? What difference does God make to the lives of people today which other than psychological?
The fact that you don't believe God exists, and there are no arguments for God's existence which for you have veracity. Demonstrates that you're asking about the relevance of a being which you don't believe exists. This is a massive oxymoron. How can something which doesn't exist have relevance? How can something which doesn't exist have a psychological effect? What you're asking people to do, from your stand point and perspective (as an atheist), is to tell you their delusions, after which point you, due to your position, will call them delusional, you can't do anything else. Why do you want people tell you their "delusions?"
Is that what you call philosophy.
This is what I call evasion. You believe in God. Yet you have no idea what the relevance of God is. That is why you cannot answer my question. You can see that I am right and that except for the psychological, there is no relevance to God. And that bothers you very much. I can see that in your answer. So I will not engage with you anymore. Good luck.


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September 12, 2003
Preventing kids from becoming bullies and intervening to get bullies back on track can not only protect children from the pain that bullying inflicts immediately, but can protect all of us from crime later on, says a new report by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national advocacy group. Fortunately, programs have been developed that can cut bullying by as much as 50 percent.
- The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program developed in Norway produced a 50 percent reduction in bullying and other antisocial behavior there, and cut bullying 20 percent in a South Carolina test.
- Compared to Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) participants, fifth graders whose schools did not receive the program were by eighth grade 59 percent more likely to drink alcohol regularly, and two times more likely to have been arrested during middle school than those who received the program.
- The Incredible Years, which was originally designed for children ages two to eight with high levels of aggressive behavior, stopped aggression in approximately two-thirds of the families receiving help.
Bullying prevention programs are relatively inexpensive for the results they deliver, says the group. The upfront training and supply cost for delivering both the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program and LIFT programs throughout a school district are only a few thousand dollars. Moreover, these investments will more than pay for themselves by reducing special education costs and future crime.
For example, special education classes for 12 years for one child with emotional problems can cost $100,000 more than regular schooling. Professor Mark A. Cohen of Vanderbilt University estimated that each high-risk juvenile prevented from adopting a life of crime could save the country $1.7 million.
Source: James Alan Fox, Delbert S. Elliott, R. Gil Kerlikowske, Sanford A. Newman and William Christeson, "Bullying Prevention Is Crime Prevention," Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, September 4, 2003.
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GREEN BAY, Wis., March 21 (UPI) -- A hooded Houdini of sorts, Packers wide receiver James Jones is done in Green Bay.
The Packers informed Jones' player rep that they have "no interest" in re-signing the 31-year-old wide receiver, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"They're going to go with the young guys," Jones' agent Frank Bauer said.
Jones played his first seven seasons with the Packers before signing with Oakland in 2014. The New York Giants released Jones before he was reunited with the Packers.
He returned to Green Bay in 2015, to amass 50 receptions for 980 yards and eight scores.
Jones led the league, with 14 touchdown receptions in 2012. He has 433 career catches for 5,861 yards and 51 touchdowns in nine NFL seasons.
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Legal Question in Consumer Law in India
I had got a Vodafone 3G connection for monthly rent of Rs. 250 in which I got 1gb data download free and my dynamic credit limit was Rs. 2500. I paid the a security deposit of Rs. 250 at the time of taking connection. I paid the 1st bill of Rs. 250. After 4-5 days, I mistakenly downloaded a file of 2.5 GB and the total usage by then reached to approx. 4gb. I received a call that day about over usage and rep told me that my current unbilled amount has reached to Rs. 6,800. I told them that if my credit limit is Rs. 2500 how can you let my bill reach to Rs. 6800 and directed him to immediately deactivate the services. Next morning when I called customer care, they said the unbilled usage has reached to Rs. 7,500 whereas I didn't use internet between the two calls.
On receiving the bill, I paid Rs. 2,500 out of Rs. 6700 as that was my credit limit. They didn't even adjust the Rs. 250 security deposit in the final bill which I directed them in my first email when I received the call from Vodafone. Now they are saying that they will be following the collection procedure.
Please let me know if I will be liable to pay the amount over and above my credit limit and what legal action I can take if they work through any recovery agency.
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Dear Sir / Madam,
You are good at making up figures ... and you seem to be making too many mistakes. If one analyses your query itself, you say the rep called you up and said your bill amount had reached Rs. 6,800/-. Then just two sentences later, you say that you paid Rs. 2,500/- out of Rs. 6,700/- So at one point you say 6,800/- and at another point you say 6,700/- Vodafone is India's leading service provider with state of the art high tech metering and billing systems, which makes them miles ahead of all the other service providers. So I see absolutely no reason for Vodafone to do any hanky-panky as far as customer billing is concerned. And they are well aware that there are such "one off" brand loyal customers of their arch rivals Airtel or Aircel or Idea, who come and raise a "hue and cry". The customer service representative was very polite to you in telling you that the routine collection procedure will apply. You ought to have settled the entire bill by adjusting your security deposit amount of Rs. 250/- from the final bill. YES. You are liable to pay off the balance outstanding on your bill ... and I see no way in which Vodafone is going to let-go the balance outstanding recovery from you.
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What I'm seeing is people are just feeling a lot more comfortable now with .11n because it has these capabilities and it gives you the tools you need to be able to deploy with peace of mind. So within an enterprise, a huge push toward CleanAir.
InformationWeek: Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby talked about how people have seven devices now, but soon they're going to have 11. We see the whole open office movement, that people want to be able to walk around. Do you see us cutting the cord to the desktop?
Calhoun: I think .11n has that performance that you generally need [to do that]. Even if you have 11 devices, chances are you're not using 11 at the same time. But what we've seen in the industry over the past 10 years is that as the capacity demand increases for the network, generally you reduce your cell size. By reducing your cell size, you're reducing the number of users on an access point, and that gives you that performance boost that you need, because you're sharing less spectrum per user. So that definitely is a strategy that the industry has adopted and I think is going to continue to adopt.
When I take a look at the seven or 11 devices--I don't know if I'm ever going to have 11 devices on me, I mean, just plugging two in for battery is a pain--but video is where the challenge comes in. It's video more than anything. Normal applications generate a fair amount of traffic, but not to the point where it can actually congest a network. Video, on the other hand, definitely can present a lot of challenges from a Wi-Fi standpoint. And that's one of the reasons why, with CleanAir, we've optimized our platform for video delivery. Whether it's multicast traffic or unicast traffic, we actually have the means to transmit the traffic in a way that's highly optimized, and we're actually definitely seeing a significant increase in the amount of video going on over wireless.
InformationWeek: How are you optimizing? Can you give us any details?
Calhoun: There's a couple ways, but one of them is, obviously, it's recognizing that you have video to begin with. And that in itself is a difficult technical challenge. But once you've actually gotten through that, we have ways where, if multiple endpoints are actually trying to access the same video contents--let's say this would be a live streaming event, as an example--as opposed to sending multiple instances of the same video to the multiple users on the same access point, we have a way to deliver the traffic through a single stream. That requires us to have a lot of understanding of the type of traffic and the type of video traffic. That type of video content doesn't work for all types of video content. For instance, if you're going to YouTube, it's not all that useful, right? Because even if we're watching the same YouTube video, you're watching it before I am, so we're offset, so I can't really do that. But in a live streaming event, we can absolutely do that.
If I can add one thing, you were asking a second ago about wireless controllers. A wireless controller was announced yesterday as part of the ScanSafe news: Cisco Flex 7500 Cloud Controller.
InformationWeek: Can you tell us something about that?
Calhoun: That would be our next-generation service module for wireless; this is the first next-generation platform that actually fits inside a Catalyst switch.
We actually announced a customer--Bass Pro Shops--that's deploying the 7500 Cloud Controllers. They're able to take the controller out of each one of their retail shops. There are 54 retail shops in the U.S. and Canada that have one 7500 Cloud Controller from that to the corporate headquarters that manages the wireless networks.
InformationWeek: It's a little bit against the trend of where things are going, decentralizing the control.
Calhoun: There's two trends, and we support both: We have platforms that allow a customer that wants to have local controllers in the branch, obviously. We have controllers that fit in the ISR as well as smaller appliances. But then there are some customers that really are looking to centralize everything and try to minimize the number of devices that actually sit in the branch, or a retail store in this particular case. So either one, we actually have the offering for people to do that. In this particular example, very large stores, lots of access points, so the scaling properties required on the controller itself is extreme high. That's one of the reasons why we're seeing a lot of traction, is the fact that it can support so many access points.
InformationWeek: One question we're asking everybody is, leaving aside your products, as you've walked the show floor, what has struck you as the most interesting trend that you're seeing here?
Calhoun: I'm actually going to be walking the show floor this afternoon, so that's a tough question. I've only spent time inside the Cisco booth because I had a lot of meetings yesterday.
But one thing I'll actually mention that I've seen as I was walking around, I've seen a significant number of people get really excited around was Identity Services Engine that we talked about earlier, but also our new NCS Prime, our new network management platform that we just announced. If you have a chance to go down there and take a look, you'll see that Cisco is definitely taking a huge leap forward in terms of providing a network management platform for our customers to be able to get visibility and do troubleshooting of potential issues that may exist on their networks, both wired and wireless. It's an opportunity for them to really treat both wired and wireless as a single network.
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Offbeat Traveler: Komodo National Park, home of the world's largest lizard
Eco-tourists and herpetophiles (reptile lovers), as you plan your summer vacations, consider visiting Komodo National Park and its unique inhabitants. This group of islands in Indonesia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of 28 finalists for the New7Wonders of Nature, which will be announced in November. Oh, it's also the only place in the world where you'll find Komodo dragons, the world's largest extant lizard species. They're about as close as you'll get to living dinosaurs. Read more... A type of monitor lizard, Komodo dragons grow about 10 feet long and can weigh about 300 pounds (more than a baby elephant). They eat pigs, deer, carrion and even each other. About 5,700 of these prehistoric-looking lizards roam the national park created to conserve them. If you're not up for chasing these massive lizards (or being chased by them -- they're quick on their feet), Komodo National Park is also known for its diverse marine environments. Its waters are popular for diving and host over 260 species of reef-building coral, 70 species of sponges and over 1,000 species of fish. -- Jason La
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I worked with El Porvenir during my May term study abroad. It was for a leadership class so we looked specifically into certain types of leadership on our month trip.
When working with this group I felt safe and felt as though our leaders were helpful and organized. I had a great experience working with them and with the people we were serving.
Just from the way we were greeted when we entered a village in an El Porvenir truck, I knew that this group makes a difference in the lives of those they serve.
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After we left Nicaragua, El Porvenir leaders kept in contact with my class and professor through e-mails. We were sent a couple pictures just the other day to show us the stoves that we build and the use the families were getting out of them.
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I can't think of any! I just hope they have enough funding to keep expanding the work that they do!