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In a fundraising e-mail sent to its supporters Thursday, Citizens for Community Values (CCV) gloated about what it termed were Election Day victories over "the homosexual agenda."
The e-mail, entitled "A Surge of Votes for Traditional Marriage," implies the issue of equal marriage rights was the deciding factor in numerous races.
A new Saperstein Poll suggests Ohioans have dramatically shifted on same-sex marriage,
with 54 percent now supporting a new amendment to legalize gay marriage
and only 40 percent against it. FreedomOhio's amendment would repeal
Ohio's 2004 same-sex marriage ban and instead grant marriage rights to the
state's many LGBT individuals. CityBeat covered the same-sex marriage amendment in further detail here and the inevitability of gay rights here. Last week, Gov. John Kasich reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage and civil unions, which likely holds bad political consequences because of changing demographics.
Will Portman, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's son, wrote about coming out to his father and the experiences that followed in today's Yale Daily News. In the column, Portman explained why his father took two years to shift on same-sex marriage: "Some people have criticized my dad for waiting for two years after I came out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay couples. Part of the reason for that is that it took time for him to think through the issue more deeply after the impetus of my coming out. But another factor was my reluctance to make my personal life public."
If the Ohio Department of Education adopts the more rigorous school report cards demanded by lawmakers, many of the state's charter schools will get F's. Most schools would fall under the new standards, but 72 percent of charter schools would fail — an unwelcome sign for alternative schools often touted by Republicans for offering more school choice. The schools' advocates claim the discrepancy between charter schools and other traditional public schools is driven by demographics and greater diversity.
But Ohio's charter schools are also safer for LGBT individuals than traditional schools, according to StateImpact Ohio.
City Councilman Chris Seelbach announced Friday that City Council is poised to support a motion that will prevent companies and other groups from discriminating if they take public funds. The initiative is coming together after the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was prevented from marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Western & Southern has launched the next phase of its ongoing legal attack to run the Anna Louise Inn out of the Lytle Park neighborhood: The financial giant is now accusing ALI and the city of lying and discrimination. In a letter to City Solicitor John Curp, Western & Southern's attorneys claimed ALI can't take federal funds and continue refusing services to men. The city and ALI are so far unsure whether Western & Southern has a case.
Cincinnati's Catholic schools have grown into the sixth largest Catholic schools network in the nation, serving 44,732 students in preschool through 12th grade.
New condos are opening in Over-the-Rhine.
Thousands of jobs are opening at Ohio's insurance companies.
Ohio gas prices are up this week.
A comet, not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs. The study may provide fuel to those worried about an impending apocalypse: There are about two million asteroids more than one kilometer wide in the solar system, but scientists estimate that there are up to one trillion comets.
President Obama came to town yesterday, rolled up his sleeves and told a group of 1,500 supporters to tell Congress to get to work on passing his jobs bill. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell reportedly stayed in Washington, called the speech "political theater" and then ate some steaks. These mopes fact-checked the speech, finding that the major points were accurate, including the fact that all McConnell and Boehner really want to do is defeat Obama and eat steaks.
In an ad accusing Josh Mandel, a Republican, of lying, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown's campaign team may have lied, according to PolitiFact. The U.S. senatorial campaign for Ohio's senate seat has been filled with dishonesty, but it usually comes from Mandel. The dishonesty seems to be hurting Mandel more than Brown; Mandel is currently down 7.5 points in aggregate polling numbers.
Mandel is being taken to court by liberal blog Plunderbund. The blog claims Mandel has made it extra difficult to get public records.Preliminary data for Ohio schools was released yesterday. Some data is still being held back while an investigation into fraudulent reporting from some schools is finished, but the data gives some insight into how schools performed during the 2011-2012 school year. The data can be found here. From a local angle, the data shows Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) did not meet "adequate yearly progress," a federal standard that measures progress in student subgroups, such as minority groups; but CPS did meet standards for "value-added growth," which measures the expected progress in state testing for all students between the third and eighth grades.
City Council approved the $29 million financing plan for the streetcar yesterday. The plan will use $15 million from the Blue Ash airport deal to move utility lines and pipes. The city claims the $15 million, which was originally promised to neighborhood projects, will be reimbursed by Duke Energy once the city settles a conflict with the energy company. Duke and the city are currently arguing over who has to pay to move the utility lines and pipes.
An Ohio state representative is asking the federal government to monitor the election more closely. Rep. Alicia Reece, a Cincinnati Democrat, is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to send monitors to the state to ensure no funny business goes on in voting booths on Nov. 6. The request is partly in response to a recent court ruling that forces Ohio to count provisional ballots if the ballots were brought around by poll worker errors.
Ohio's ability to stop political lies was upheld yesterday. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) tried to put an end to the government power, which COAST claimed was censorship, by taking it to court, but a U.S. judge upheld the ability. The judge, who is a former chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, said COAST did not properly display that its speech was held down by the law. Considering some of COAST's tweets, the judge is probably right.
E.W. Scripps Co. will host a job fair in Cincinnati Oct. 10 to fill 100 digital jobs.
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the rights of lesbian ex-couples to set visitation times. The court said non-parents are allowed to participate in visitations during child custody proceedings.
Ohio might expand Medicaid, but not to the extent asked for by Obamacare. That's what the state's Medicaid director said yesterday, anyway. A previous study found Medicaid expansions improved and might have saved lives in other states, and other studies have found Medicaid expansions may save the state money by cutting uncompensated costs.
Pundits really dug into Mitt Romney the past few days over his poor poll numbers in Ohio. The Business Courier asked if Romney has already lost Ohio. Politico said Romney's biggest hurdle to the White House is Ohio. The New Republic ran an article with six theories as to what led to Romney's losses in the state. The Cleveland Plain Dealer pointed out both presidential candidates were stumping at a pivotal time in northern Ohio yesterday. Aggregate polling paints a consistently bad picture for Romney in Ohio; he is currently down four points.
But Romney probably isn't helping matters. In an Ohio
rally Tuesday, he admitted President Barack Obama didn't raise taxes in his
first term.
Gov. John Kasich signed a series of bills shoring up Ohio's public pension system yesterday. The laws will cut benefits and raise eligibility requirements, but state officials insist the new laws will mostly affect future retirees.
NASA wants samples from Mars, and it has a plan. The new plan may require a robot-to-human hand-off in space.
The military's infamous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy has been repealed for over four months, outlawing exclusion and discrimination against LGBT populations in the military service. When seeking housing, however, LGBT populations across the country still face arbitrary prejudices and inequality.
That's why on Jan. 28, Shaun Donovan, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary, spoke to nearly 3,000 LGBT rights advocates at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change in Baltimore, Md., announcing a new policy to combat discrimination against LGBT people in federally supported housing programs.
Mitt Romney won a sizable victory in Tuesday's Florida primary, capturing 46.4 percent of the vote to Newt Gingrich's 31.9 percent. In all, Romney got 240,548 more votes than the ex-House Speaker.
"The size and breadth of Romney's win provide the first real evidence that he has the potential to coalesce a party that has been deeply split …" wrote Karen Tumulty in an analysis for The Washington Post.
With the prospects for repealing the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy looking ever dimmer, two local groups will hold a vigil to remember the men and women discharged due to the policy.
The Greater Cincinnati Human Rights Campaign and the Alliance, a student group at Xavier University, will hold the vigil Nov. 15 at the greenspace area on Xavier's campus.
Ohio's unemployment rate remained at 7 percent in February, unchanged from January but down from 7.5 percent in February 2012. The stagnant rate comes despite a generally positive national unemployment report in February — a sign that Ohio may be falling behind national growth rates. Both the amount of employed and unemployed grew, but growth in employment wasn't enough to completely outweigh rises in unemployment. The job losses were mainly in construction, state government, trade, transportation and utilities, while professional and business services, educational and health services and financial activities had particularly strong growth.
A state transportation budget that will raise rural speed limits to 70 mph and leverage the Ohio Turnpike for statewide transportation projects cleared the legislature. The bill received bipartisan support and opposition as it moved through the Ohio House and Senate. Supporters say the bill will create jobs and address the state's infrastructure needs without raising taxes, but opponents are worried potential toll hikes at the Ohio Turnpike will hurt northern Ohio to subsidize projects for the rest of the state.
Earlier in the day, Gov. John Kasich seemed to support same-sex civil unions, but his spokesperson walked back the comments to clarify the governor is still against changing the Ohio Constitution to support same-sex marriage and civil unions. The initial comments from Kasich sparked a response from Ian James, co-founder of FreedomOhio, which is pushing an amendment that would legalize same-sex marriage in Ohio for 2013: "I hope Gov. Kasich understands civil unions are banned by the Ohio Constitution as well and they are a cruel substitute for legal marriage." The Republican Party is currently undergoing some soul-searching on the gay marriage issue, with a Republican National Committee report recently pointing out a generational divide on the issue and Sen. Rob Portman coming out in favor of marriage equality last week.
Tea party leaders are threatening the Republican Party for recent moves supporting LGBT rights, including Portman's acceptance of same-sex marriage. The group also opposes the expected appointment of Matt Borges to chairman of the Ohio Republican Party because of a 2004 misdemeanor ethics conviction that was later expunged and Borges' work as a lobbyist for Equality Ohio, an LGBT group.
Cincinnati's year-over-year home sales were up in February, but growth wasn't as quick as January. There were 1,662 homes sold in February, up 11.9 percent from February 2012 and more than the 1,600 homes sold in January. But January year-over-year sales were up 27 percent from 2012.
Kasich's sales tax plan, which was criticized for raising taxes across the board, may be dead, but Ohio legislators are still planning to carry out changes to the income tax with the 2014-2015 budget. In the past week, Policy Matters Ohio has pushed for the earned income tax credit, which CityBeat found could be a progressive alternative to an across-the-board cut to the income tax. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal in further detail here.
The Ohio Development Services Agency says state tourism reaped $15 for every $1 put into marketing. In 2009 and 2010, the returns were $13. In 2011, the return was $14.
Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Gmoser indicted Punxsutawney Phil, a famous groundhog, for the ongoing bout of cold weather. The groundhog predicted an early spring.
The universe's estimated age has been bumped up to 13.8 billion years.
In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
The vice presidential debate is tonight. The debate will be between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan. After the last debate, some pundits are saying Biden needs to win this one to slow down the Romney-Ryan momentum. But keep in mind political scientists say debates have little to no electoral impact in the long term, so it's possible most of the post-debate polling in favor of Mitt Romney could indicate a temporary bounce. The debate is at 9 p.m. and will be aired on all the big networks. The full schedule of presidential debates can be found here.
Romney might campaign in Lebanon, Ohio this weekend. Ohio is considered a must-win for the Republican presidential candidate. Even with a post-debate bounce, Romney still looks to be the underdog in Ohio. The latest poll from NBC, Wall Street Journal and Marist shows Romney down six points to Obama among likely voters in the state with a margin of error of 3.1. The poll does show the race tightening from the eight-point gap measured on Oct. 3, but it's apparently not enough. By itself, the poll could be considered an outlier and too optimistic for Obama, but it actually echoes the latest CNN poll and aggregate polling taken after the debate. In aggregate polling, Romney is down 1.6 points in Ohio after the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll. Before the latest poll, he was down 0.8 points.
A new poll shows a slim majority of Ohioans now support same-sex marriage. The poll found 52 percent of Ohioans support it, while 37 percent want it to stay illegal. The poll gives a shot of optimism to Freedom to Marry Ohio, an amendment that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Supporters say the amendment could be on the Ohio ballot as soon as November 2013.
State Auditor Dave Yost wants to put the attendance fraud investigation in context. When talking with Gongwer yesterday, Yost explained that the potential data rigging going could have cost schools additional funding for at-risk students: "I suspect we probably have schools in Ohio that ought to be getting that extra money for those extra services to help those schools that are most at risk, and that money is not flowing because the data is not accurate."
Will county budget cuts hurt public safety? As the county
commissioners try to sort out the budget without raising taxes, Hamilton County's sheriff
department could see some cuts, according to Commissioner Greg Hartmann. He insists the cuts will not hurt public safety, however.
An Oct. 1 analysis by left-leaning Policy Matters Ohio found the casino tax will not be enough to make up for cuts in state aid. Even in cities hosting casinos, the extra tax revenue will only cover about half of cuts.
Only a few weeks remain in Hamilton County's free electronics recycling program.
A Nuns on the Bus tour is encouraging voters to support politicians that provide for the poor. The tour will avoid being partisan and mentioning candidates' names, but the general vibe of the tour implies support for Democratic candidates.
Josh Mandel, Ohio's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, has gotten another rating from PolitiFact Ohio. This one is "Mostly False" for Mandel's claim that opponent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has missed more than 350 votes in the Senate. Brown has only missed 21 out of 1,779 votes since he joined the Senate, and he hasn't missed any votes this year. The Mandel campaign claims the ad was keeping track of Brown's entire public career, but 83 of the votes Brown missed in that time period were in 2000, when Brown was in a car accident in which he broke his ribs and vertebrae.
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll also had some bad news for Mandel. He was found to be down 11 points to Brown among likely voters. Mandel is now down 4.2 points in aggregate polling.
The right-leaning Tax Foundation ranked Ohio No. 39 for business tax climate. The conservative research group gave Ohio good marks for unemployment insurance and the corporate tax rate, but it criticized the state for its individual income tax and property tax. New York, New Jersey and California were at the bottom of the overall rankings, and Wyoming, South Dakota and Nevada were at the top.
Jobless claims fell to 339,000 — the lowest in four and a half years. Coupled with last week's employment numbers, the news indicates that an economic recovery is truly underway. However, jobless claims are very volatile, so it's uncertain whether the drop will stick.
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The theory of Flower Constellations consists of a general methodology to design axial-symmetric satellite constellations whose satellites all move on the same trajectory with respect to a reference frame rotating at assigned constant angular velocity. Due to the complexity, the Flower Constellations theory as introduced by the authors, is incomplete, leaving open several problems, such as the equivalency and the similarity. In this article, the foundations of the Flower Constellations theory are revisited from a mathematical perspective, and three new important invariants of these constellations are found constituting fundamentals toward the complete theory. These are: the -space, the flower anomaly, and the configuration number. Using these elements, we provide a theorem giving the necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalency problem in the -space and an algorithm allowing to generate all the similar Flower Constellations to a given one.
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When my gf plays, this has been happening with Slither (Poison Spray) at least once a game for the last week. Seems to be when the ult and the spray are both on the enemy hero at the same time.
This happened with me as well, i was playing Pestilence and a friend was playing Predator.
No other heroes were attacking the Moraxus that just died without giving us any credit.
bubbles silence killed 5 mobs in a wave but did't get any gold for it
I don't know if it's the right thread because the kill was awarded to Legion, if it's not please redirect me to the proper thread.
Match ID 65086734.
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Replay time 7:10
Being sure i would kill nh on my next attack I used taunt on him, too bad for me the melee hits and two projectiles from legion were flying in.
What should have happened imo is kill credited to FA but no smackdown (happened before). Alas, the kill was credited to Legion... They changed this in a recent patch didn't they? I mean, I did some damage and was the only hero dealing damage, so kill goes to me, right?
All you people who whine about hon servers being down all the time, remember this: S2 could have shut down all hon servers, stop the updates and so on months ago. PvP games don't always last long, and the company running might get bored of it and say **** it. S2 is still keeping hon up, be happy with that. They are small company so they don't have the resources of say EA or Activision Blizzard. I'm sure that they are working hard to get this stuff fixed, but it takes while with their amount of employees in the engineering department.


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Larry Johnson takes plea in domestic violence case
Former NFL running back Larry Johnson pleaded no contest to charges that he choked an ex-girlfriend into unconsciousness and left her only in her underwear in a Las Vegas hotel hallway in October.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Johnson, 33, was adjudicated guilty yesterday of domestic violence battery and assault, which are both misdemeanors. A felony charge was dropped as part of a plea deal.
Johnson was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $345 fine. He must also perform 48 hours of community service and attend six months of counseling.
"I'm just happy to have this behind me and go back to Florida and stay out of trouble for once," Johnson said after the hearing, according to the newspaper.
Johnson was arrested on Oct. 5 at a Bellagio hotel room. According to a police report, he and the woman had been drinking before the altercation, and the woman had marks on her face and bruises on her neck. Johnson had marks on his face that police attributed to the woman fighting him as he choked her.
The woman told officers she passed out and awoke in a 10th floor hallway and knocked on doors until someone called hotel security.
Johnson, who starred for the Kansas City Chiefs but most recently played for the Miami Dolphins in 2011, was arrested several times during his nine-year NFL career.
• An Arizona appellate court said Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash might have to pay additional child support for his three children and that he and his ex-wife can't say bad things about each other through social media.
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Charges dropped against Florida linebacker
The State Attorney's Office dropped misdemeanor charges against Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison.
Morrison was arrested on Sunday and charged with barking at a police dog and resisting arrest.
State Attorney Bill Cervone said the "dismissal is based on the lack of evidence to warrant much less legally sustain those charges and the complete inappropriateness of pursuing court action against Morrison … under the circumstances involved."
It was Morrison's second arrest in five weeks, prompting coach Will Muschamp to suspend him for at least the first two games of the season.
• The Big Ten will have a team in either the Heart of Dallas Bowl or Armed Forces Bowl each year through the 2019 season.
As part of an extension with the Heart of Dallas Bowl, the Big Ten also will send teams to the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas, rotating between the two games over a seven-year period.
This season, the Big Ten will play a team from Conference USA in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. That game is on New Year's Day at the Cotton Bowl.
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• Arizona sophomore safety Patrick Onwuasor was cut from the team after being arrested and accused of drug dealing and having a weapon.
• Mississippi backup quarterback Barry Brunetti was cited and charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in May.
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze released a statement saying "We addressed this incident internally."
Devils hope Jagr, 41, can provide boost to offense
The New Jersey Devils signed forward Jaromir Jagr to make up for some of the scoring lost with the recent retirement of Ilya Kovalchuk.
The one-year contract is worth $2 million.
Jagr, 41, split last season with the Dallas Stars and Boston Bruins, posting a combined 16 goals and 19 assists in 45 games. The NHL's active leading scorer added 10 assists in helping the Bruins reach the Stanley Cup Finals, but he did not score a postseason goal.
Nigerian soccer fixing results in lifetime bans
Players, team officials and referees were banned for life and four amateur clubs for 10 years after Nigeria's soccer federation found they fixed two lower-league playoff games that ended with scores of 79-0 and 67-0.
The Nigerian Football Federation ruled that there was "a fraudulent conspiracy among the teams" to fix the games after Plateau United Feeders and Police Machine figured out that they needed to boost their goal tallies to beat the other to promotion to the lowest tier of Nigeria's professional league.
Plateau United Feeders defeated Akurba FC 79-0 and Police Machine was allowed to defeat Babayaro FC 67-0 in the fixes, which were played at the same time earlier this month.
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A sharp drop in Apple's stock pulled the Nasdaq down with it after the tech giant warned of weaker sales. Other stock market indexes eked out gains.
Apple sank $63.50 to $430.50. With iPhone sales hitting a plateau and no new products to introduce, Apple said sales will likely increase just 7 percent in the current quarter. That's a letdown for a company that has regularly posted growth rates above 50 percent.Even after its recent slump, Apple still ranks as the world's most valuable company, at $423 billion, putting it $7 billion ahead of runner-up Exxon Mobil.By contrast, Netflix jumped 42 percent, adding $43.60 to close at $146.86. Netflix said late Wednesday that it turned a profit with the help of 2 million new subscribers. Analysts were expecting a loss.Microsoft fell in after-hours trading after reporting that its earnings slipped 4 percent in the last quarter of 2012.Union Pacific dropped $1.51 to $133.84 as the country's largest railroad company posted weaker revenue than analysts predicted. -- The Associated PressHave more to add? News tip? Tell us


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Everybody knows that the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving, right? Well, probably not, but it was the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving that gave us our Thanksgiving holiday as we know it today.
The Pilgrims came to the New World looking for a way to worship God as they wished. They were not Puritans. Puritans wanted to change the Church of England to do away with its bishops but keep its ties to the government. The Puritans went on to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony were Separatists.
This rhyming read-aloud with lovely pictures tells the story of the thanksgiving feast celebrated by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims in the New Plymouth Colony.
After a journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower's passengers were saved from destruction with the help of the natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years, peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Natives worked together. But that trust was broken with the next generation of leaders, and conflict erupted that nearly wiped out English and natives alike.
[From the publisher's description]
In October of 2000, Plimoth Plantation cooperated with the Wampanoag community to stage an historically accurate reenactment of the 1621 harvest celebration. This book describes the actual events that took place during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.
This is the true story of the Pilgrims and the native people who met them and taught them their ways. The book has beautiful illustrations.
This is the story of the first Thanksgiving from the point of view of Squanto. Squanto belonged to the Patuxet tribe. Before the Pilgrims came, he was sold into slavery by English fisherman. When he found his way home, he discovered his people were all but wiped out by disease. Yet Squanto helped the Pilgrims survive in their new land. This is his story.
Where do the words pilgrim, harvest, and musket come from? What other harvest celebrations are celebrated around the world? Who was on the Mayflower? The fascinating answers to these and other questions are found in Gobble!
Young readers can discover the history of Thanksgiving for themselves. A Step into Reading book, Step 3.
Marcia Sewall's name can be found on the covers of tons of classic fiction and folktales in the library. She has a simple drawing style that conveys the rhythm and characters of the stories without overwhelming them. Whether the subject is a family issue such as the death of a loved one (Saying Good-bye to Grandma by Jane Resh Thomas) or something more light-hearted (The Leprechaun's Story by Richard Kennedy), Marcia's drawings give the books a simple clarity.


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{ Alton Towers By Robin}
Nemesis This £10 million roller coaster whisks you around the track in just 90 seconds. The track includes a corkscrew at 50mph and one turn where you feel space style weightlessness for 4 seconds! Riders hang from underneath the track with their legs dangling in the air below in skilift style chairs even on the vertical loop with pulls you out of the way of a cliff and under a bridge which has a blood river just below your feet! An extreme ride, for adrenaline seekers only!
Ripsaw This ride is very like a ride we have in Dublin called the Terminator. People looking for their thrill, sit in 2 long rows…You are hosted up over 50ft in the air and then spun 5 stomach churning times through 360 degrees, leaving you hanging upside down as water jets spray up at you from below! The lack of a change of clothes gave me a good excuse to miss this one out!
Oblivion When I visited Alton Towers, Oblivion was not open. But still I will tell you what I have heard from friends and from the information I have picked up. This ride sits it passengers in two rows of 8 and once at the edge of a 55m drop pauses just before dropping meaning allot more suspense for the riders. The car drops at 110km/hr into a small hole in the ground that has smoke pouring out. At the bottom of he hill, you will experience up to 4.5G, (9G is all a human can handle before blacking out). Riders appear from under the ground away from the entrance having the effect of disappearing for ever for people standing in queue!
Black hole This is a roller coaster in complete darkness. You spiral upwards and then hurtle down a drop at 45mph for 50ft reaching 2.5G's. Good fun, exciting and different!
Haunted House I absolutely loved the effects on this ride. You start off walking through corridors with photographs with moving eyes and the floor is uneven and tilting. There is hologram of a small girl in a doll house, it all looks very real. Then onto a train, and you are whisked through the house, with holographic ghosts and other such scary sights!
Log Flume The Alton Towers log flume has the largest flume drop in Europe, and catches you just at that second of terror with a camera grabs a shot of your horror. There are portions of the ride that you go through in a low wooden tunnel. I kept trying to duck thinking I would hit my head! It is scary when in darkness in a low tight tunnel and you can hear water and then you drop! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!


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Glutino Table Crackers -- 7 oz
One of the better gluten free crackers we've had.
I wouldn't want to eat these alone, but with your favorite topping, they're really quite good. It's a nice departure from the usual rice crackers!
December 4, 2013
Tastes great
I love the texture and taste of this cracker. Just right amount of saltiness.
November 19, 2013
Very good and tasty product
These crackers are amazing! They are light, with a nice texture and very good taste. I enjoyed them with cheese, pate, humus, and even plain cucumbers. Planning to order more, because even my 13 years old son loves them.
October 17, 2013
The best gluten free table crackers
My son has gone gluten free for more than a year and we have tried many table crackers, until we savor glutino's. They are the best, no doubt about it. I will not even try another one again.
September 18, 2013
Good "vehicle"
I would compare these crackers to water crackers. They are a good vehicle for cheese, meat, or a spread of some kind. They are sturdy and crunchy, but not too much taste on their own.
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PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD |PERSONALS | MOVIE CLOCK | REP CLOCK | SEARCH Ambition and empire shape Cecil Rhodes's early years in The Colossus of Rhodes. By Robert Avila NOBODY EVER ACCUSED Cecil Rhodes of thinking small. In 1877, as a 23-year-old student at Oxford, he dedicated himself in his "Confession of Faith" to becoming an instrument for the English "race's" domination of the globe. He fell short of the mark, but there's no denying he made a hell of a start. Rhodes came to be considered the personification of British imperialism: he cornered the South African diamond market, wrested control of much of its gold, and out of his immense personal fortune and successful political career, built a whole country in his name, Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). In taking on the sickly vicar's son turned "colossus" as the subject of her playwriting debut, American Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff is thinking pretty big herself. But while her semifictional story touches on many of the grand historical themes that were part of his adult life colonialism, the global expansion of corporate power, racism, and the foundations of apartheid, to name a few The Colossus of Rhodes is shrewdly confined to Rhodes's early years around the Kimberley diamond mines, exploring the relationships that shaped Rhodes (Allyn Burrows) in this crucial period. The most important is Rhodes's nonphysical romance with Randall Pickering (David Adkins), a young aesthete who has fled the repressive, homophobic environment of London for a new beginning in Africa. Rhodes, in denial about his own sexuality, finds himself alternately tempted by Pickering's celebration of beauty and by the worldly concerns urged on him by business partners Charles Rudd (Rufus Collins) and Dr. Jameson (Robert Parsons). Pickering, who wins a job as Rhodes's secretary by coining the slogan "a diamond is forever," is also responsible for Rhodes's ultimately successful attempt to gain admission to Oxford despite his lack of Greek. Oxford don John Ruskin's (Parsons) call for Englishmen to civilize the globe in turn lends a larger scope to Rhodes's African diamond exploits. And spurred by further suggestions from Pickering, Rhodes moves into political maneuverings and territorial annexations. The play's action, which takes place on Hisham Ali's elegantly spare set, is interspersed with a handful of vaudevillian songs sung by Barney Barnato (Paul Vincent Black), the colorful East End Jewish showman and boxer who became for a time Rhodes's chief competitor in the diamond business. The short musical numbers are unmemorable, but Black gives a buoyant performance as the ever cheerful and resourceful Barnato, whose love affair with an African woman, Fanny Bees (gracefully rendered by Kathleen Antonia), forms a counterpoint to that between Rhodes and Pickering (the pair clash over Pickering's love for the native Africans and Rhodes's contempt for them). At the same time, the story line plays on the outsider status of both couples and the possibilities for them to control their own destinies that have been opened up by an Africa in a chaotic state of flux. Rhodes's steady self-aggrandizement can seem increasingly like a backdrop to this theme, and therein lies a problem. Burrows delivers a nicely layered Rhodes, combining youthful insouciance and vulnerability with steely reserve that once or twice gives way to mammoth rage. But Colussus doesn't quite succeed in pinpointing what makes Rhodes tick. By opting for a human-sized Rhodes, the play misses the larger-than-life dimension that might explain the ferocious ambition that was evident, dating back to the 1877 plan for a so-called secret society of English-speaking imperialists hatched at Oxford. The answer might be rooted in a congenitally weak heart that apparently gave Rhodes an exaggerated sense of his own mortality making British imperialism, which promised a kind of immortality, hard to resist. But in Colussus, his defining characteristic is his role as an outsider (an Oxford gate-crasher), and his ambitions are inflamed by others: Pickering, who fed Rhodes suggestions for strengthening his hand, and Jameson, who bullied him into adopting an aggressive, macho drive for conquest. Instead of delivering a strong sense of what animates Rhodes, the play focuses on the contrast between two couples and their respective legacies. Barney and Fanny relinquish empire-building for a family of their own, while the failed relationship between Pickering and Rhodes ultimately births sons and daughters in the form of Rhodes scholars (with a tacit irony in the fact that many of the scholarships established by Rhodes's will would go to persons Rhodes never intended them for, including the Africans for whom Pickering sacrificed himself). Still, in mining this rich vein of history, Colossus can't help but come up with a few gems that make it a fascinatingly human portrait of the multiple legacies of imperialism. 'The Colossus of Rhodes' runs through Feb. 1. Tues.-Thurs., 7 p.m. (also Thurs/16, Jan. 30, 1 p.m.); Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m. (also Sat/18, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.; Feb. 1, show at 2 p.m. only); Sun., 2 p.m., Zeum Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens, Fourth at Howard Sts., S.F. $14-$24. (415) 749-2228, www.act-sfbay.org. |


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NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday issued a whip to its Lok Sabha MPs for the July 22 trust vote even as it made all out efforts to garner support of smaller parties to topple the UPA government in the crucial vote of confidence.
"All the NDA constituents are together and we are confident that the UPA government will fall. The BJP has issued a whip and we are talking to the NDA constituents like SAD, JD(U), BJD and others," Deputy Leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha V K Malhotra told reporters.


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Lessons Learned
You with the past at your back and the future unsure Asked for the chance to try love once more Well aware of the consequences should the dream fall through You threw down your last defenses wanting to try something new Wanting to try something new
You found me in a sea of confusion drifting with the tide Living on love that had long since died But every time that I touch you, baby I feel a little more alive And I'm reminded how much you've made me Believe in the love that survives You know, we must believe in the love that survives
Oh lessons learned are like bridges burned You only need to cross them but once Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain? Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt? Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Borne on the first warm winds of feeling newly found Fly but remember don't look down Take as much as you think you ought to Give just as much as you can Don't forget what your failures have taught you Or else you'll learn them all over again Or else you'll have to learn them all over again
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Not long ago, as I was preparing one of my favorite dishes, I got to thinking about you. No kidding, I really did. As I was mulling over my short list of quick and easy recipes that make me look good, I made a mental note that I need to share these recipes with you. They're quick, easy, very inexpensive and sure to make you look good.
Three-Packets and a Roast
This recipe makes me look like a much better cook than I really am. Give it a try soon, and you'll know what I mean. You can use any cut of meat for this one, the tougher, the better, as that's the one that will have the most flavor. Get ready to be amazed because this it makes its own gravy. Seriously.
- 1 packet dry ranch dressing mix
- 1 packet dry Italian dressing mix
- 1 packet dry brown gravy mix
- 1 beef roast, any cut
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Spread the Word to End the Word
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Farinon Atrium
Spread the Word to End the Word is a national movement to raise awareness about the derogatory use of the word "retarded" and to encourage people to use other words instead. This will be an informal event that people can come and go to, in order to learn about the issue and have a chance to take action.
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8 months post-op and look worse than before - Planning revision tt this fall
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Oh Lynn I'm really sorry to hear this... :( I've been wondering how you were. I used Dr. Ponnuru from KU med and he was amazing. I had some complications from a seroma but, he saw me once a week for 4 months until I was healed. He even did a small surgery on it in his office to save me a surgery and more time off work...he did all of that at no extra charge. He just wanted me to get better. Thats just a suggestion for your revision. I'm sorry you have to go through all of this but, hopefully you get the results you want the second time around. I know what you are saying about gaining the weight...I was headed that way while I was healing...eating all kinds of crap and I couldn't exercise cause of the wound but, I'm on track now and feeling so much better! Keep your chin up!!! -
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Just an FYI but, in my case I couldn't bend correctly to wipe myself...probably TMI....but, it was my mom who was here helping me...and she was very good about everything...I was embarrassed but, she kept a box of gloves in the bathroom and came in and helped me when I needed it. so, if you're having someone you are super comfortable with you might keep that in mind. :) -
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Congrats!!! Reading your story is kind of like mine..I had my pouch since I was 10...always wanted to wear cute jeans w/o that roll in the front...NEVER got to until now. Clothes shopping is dangerously fun now. :) So happy for you that you are on your way. Take care of yourself and enjoy the journey!


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Some rearsets offer multiple positions for the best of both worlds. Many also allow the shifting pattern to be reversed (GP style), which can make for easier gear changes during track riding or drag racing. Regardless of how you configure them, aftermarket rearsets look trick, can be more comfortable and are an easy modification to customize the efficiency in how you shift and brake.
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Tyler Beasley and Justin Robinson, two of our hometown boys, are on their way to Las Vegas in a few weeks to compete in the Re/MAX World Long Drive Golf Championship and they could use our help! They have put together a golf event to help fund their trip out West this Saturday, Sept. 7, starting at 3:30 p.m. at the Palms in Rotonda at 266 Rotonda Circle in Rotonda.
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Commentsplease repost after buying a star -lancasterjl Gotta lurve that <BR> tag!. & only a snip at a mere $35 per yr (free T-shirt inc.) http://www.techcomedy.com/users/star_member.php -Digital Dogcow He's a member, she's a member, wouldn't you like to be a member too? -ab1normalh
CommentsOh yeah forgot to mention. This guy had the balls to mention in his email that FTS not having the ability to send him an email was probably against some kind of ADA (Americans with Disabilities) regulations. -firebird2k2 The resonable Americans with disablities should lart this guy. -Wolffarmer Lack of oxygen is a disability now? Boy, are they ever getting specific -teivrann Weird, wondering if it was the same guy I spoke to a few months ago. Same story. He started screaming at me how we don't even beleive in our product that we don't email anyone, and we are lying sacks of crap...etc.etc. Im really not sure exactly waht he wanted, but after the obscenities and rudeness, I woudn't email him out of principle. -HissyFish
CommentsNot to defend the stupidity of said agent, as they are clearly in the wrong, but are you really so dense as to believe that bad techs and pathetic fixes are country specific? I've spoken to numerous techs from around the world, and find that regardless of the country they work out of, some are great and some are downright incompetant. The country doesn't seem to make a difference. -Disallowed calm down.... it's a JOKE. -bluesclues I agree with Disallowed. However, the person that came up with that particular fix needs a serious larting. -firebird2k2 That's right, everybody north of the border, grab your Clue by four and proceed to lart the moron who proposed this solution. Sounds like they belong more in sales than tech support... -Disallowed and if bad techs and dumb fixes were really country specific.... I'd have to point to India ;) -bluesclues wow they found out microsofts secert fix -postal tech bluesclues: If it was a joke, it was one in poor taste. -grahamwboyes I don't think BC said anything out of line. I've said "Only in America" or "Only in Indiana" many times as a statement of exagerated disbelief, knowing full well that idiocy is a wordlwide epidemic. I don't think he was deliberately targeting anybody; so I'd cut him a little slack. -RiffRaff I fully agree with RiffRaff. BC was just kidding around. I live in Canada and I believe that it isn't country related. It's the companies big honchos who make the bad decisions. -Dean241 definitly, hey dean you think he works in our call center -alexcorvice as a Canadian I take full offence into the story. As a TS'er, I'm insulted as they give us a bad name. Chances are, they are a monkey who reads from a script. Not all Canadians are bad, maybe it's our massively strong beer -Bunglehawk069
CommentsLike a "brainsfree computer" ... or dehydrated water... -teivrann Look, to avoid getting the MSBLAST virus, they have been typing with there nose, just like the BOFH told them... (It's amazing what a user can be forced to do once you get them into DUMMY MODE(tm) ) ;) -Wonko The Sane Wonko - so that would be the "hunt and peck" method of typing? (-8 -K1W1 how do you guys get the hunt-n-peck lusers? i just get the hunt lusers. they never get to the peck. -catman1229 Cat- Are you saying you're looking for your pecker? -LaserGuru
Commentsi have the same thing with win me and dsl.using ie 5.5 -postal tech email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and ill see if i can help you out -snaggle is it wireless if so try ditching any 900 mghz phones you may have -micko210 My hub does that all the time....I just do a tcpip Release/Renew and it comes right back up. -Brf Had the same problem with my NE router. Id do a Release/Renew on my XP machine and it seemed to work again. For some reason it seemed to lose DNS because if I was already connected to something streaming(online game for instance) it would keep a connection, but surfing web pages was a nightmare. Ended up getting a new laptop I bought a wireless D-Link router...works like a champ and only 40 bucks after a 20 dollar rebate. -DemonicAngel Some questions? DHCP or PPPoE? Are you able to reach the router after that point, but not the internet? Or... something more specific? -namor Well, I have the router acting as DHCP server. I can release the IP but I cannot renew the IP. Nothing changes, the Addresses are all the same, it's just as if someone has unplugged the cable (still has link light). I don't see it being a prob with the router, my 98 machine is working jsut fine. I was thinking either my OS is shot or its a bad NIC. -WickedClown Never heard of NetworkEverywhere -- what is it, 10BT or 100BT over phone lines? Power lines? Or wireless? My immediate guess would be net card... but if it's something funky, I'd throw the whole thing out and put in a nice solid run of Cat-5e or Cat-6. And a D-Link net card, if you're strapped for dollars. Linksys cards seem to die, 3Com and Intel just go on and on and on... but are pricey. -chazz Had a customer once who's net would sometimes work sometimes not. sometimes just stop. Went to the properties of the Net Adaptor Card and there was a "Power Managment" tab. (may be different in various cards) took off power managament. She hadn't call back in last time I checked and I gave her my email and never heard from her again. I would call that a fix. -Wolffarmer NetworkEverywhere -is- Linksys, and I'm willing to bet it's a NC100V2 card. Try using the ADMTEK drivers provided with windows, or the Linksys LNE100TXv4.1 drivers. *squints* I have one of these beasties in my comp right now, and it's fine using anything -but- the NetworkEverywhere drivers. -iFox I read one of the few reviews on the net of NICs, - the fastest turned out to be the Netgear FA311. Intel & 3Com are usually solid, as are D-Link but I avoid any NIC that is based around RealTek chips - 8029 was especially poor,easily the worst NIC I've had the misfortune to work with. Its' throughput was simply terrible given that is was a PCI card, causing a LOT of "stuttering" from data from a CDServer. I was told to fit these by a typical starfishy mangement moron ("but we've bought them now!" Did they consult anyone even vaguely techie before purchasing? Not farkin' likely....now they know why they were cheaper than the 3COMs we usually use) After fitting 17 of them & then displying to said starfish how lousy they were I promptly replaced them with ISA £coms we had previously used. I've no reason to believe the current 8139 is any better...I've found they are cheap, nasty & unreliable. In NICs as in many other hardware related things, you get what you pay for. -lineswine Lineswine- "cheap, nasty & unreliable" also sounds like some of the field techs I've had to deal with. -LaserGuru lineswine- absolutely, the 8139 is better than the 8029, but, I think the problem may be in the router's settings..IE: "logoff if idle after xx minutes" is what it sounds like to me, just log into the router, and see what it's set for, also, I believe that dsl is always gonna give you a static IP, it may depend on the provider tho, not sure on that part... -Spyder19 spyder - not always, no. we have dynamic pools for residential users, static IPs (well, as much as can be with PPPoE) for business. Lots of ways to configure this stuff. -namor Actually Micko210, it's the 2.4GHZ phones that will interfere with 802.11B and G. 802.11A runs on 5.4GHZ -Bunglehawk069 chazz--NetworkEverywhere is made by Linksys. Anyway, I got the prob fixed. Turns out I had a botched install of 2000. Wiped it clean, reinstalled, problem fixed. Can only assume it had problems with the networking software installed. Thanks to everyone for the help. -WickedClown Spyder19: router? What farkin router? This was on a LAN - I was doing a "proof of concept" before we sold all this stuff to school as part of the UK's National Grid for Learning (NGfL)....8029 were just plain crap, I think it was a lack of buffering, or maybe the bus mastering was badly implemented - my point was the ISA 3com cards (slow bus) were beating the pants off the newer, supposedly better PCI (fast bus). -lineswine
Commentsmurphy's law? -crackshot Yeah I shoulda not bothered with the training, that's probably my mistake! Training just means people stop thinking for themselves -wedge They stop thinking the instant they start talking to a TS person, with or without the training. -scooby111 When did they start thinking? If there's a stopping point to thinking, there has to be a beginning point. All that is assuming they're capable of thought. -testing123
CommentsThe solution we use in my school: No more than 1 session by user. When they cant log, they learn pretty fast how to logout. Amazing how braindead lusers can learn when forced to... -wastedtime they never learn dude, trust me on this, best thing to do is to set up a session time limit, if they go idle fro longer than an hour, have the Terminal Server automatically log them off. OR you can watch them with the tsadmin and wait for the farkers to go idle and log them off. It's a pain in the ass, but there is no educating them. They're just to stupid to understand the concept of "Log Off". Chances are they don't even know how to log off of their local machine (even after showing them 12,894,389,290 times). Good luck. -testing123 testing 123, in my school, tech support is based on free will of the helper (aka me) to help. There is no one the luser can complain about me. If they dont learn, they won't use a computer, that'all. Wuhahahahahahahahaha ..... wuhahahaha . And even if they go see someone at school, they will be answered something like : "you re going to become an enginer, you should be able to do this". And i don't like tellers, so they get their profile flushed since i have administrator rights ;)) -wastedtime testing 123, in my school, tech support is based on free will of the helper (aka me) to help. There is no one the luser can complain about me. If they dont learn, they won't use a computer, that'all. Wuhahahahahahahahaha ..... wuhahahaha . And even if they go see someone at school, they will be answered something like : "you re going to become an enginer, you should be able to do this". And i don't like tellers, so they get their profile flushed since i have administrator rights ;)) -wastedtime damn, i was fast to make my first double post, sorry -wastedtime ahhh I see now :) At least you can do something like that. I wish I could just restrict access from people for a week till they learn how to log off properly, alas, working for a company, they won't let me :( Bastards! -testing123 can't you tell your management that those slow witted luser are lowering the competitivity of the whole company , and therefore should be fired ? -wastedtime The only way to fix this is to set the server to end disconnected sessions. For company-wide terminal servers, I have it set to 5 minutes. That way, if a (l)user gets disconnected by accident, they can immediately reconnect to the same session. It works like a charm and it was an easy sell to management since some (l)users were complaining about how slow the server was. -scooby111 i would try that arguement with them wasted, but the problem is even the board of directors are PC illiterate, or at least semi-pc literate, not so advanced to know how to log off properly. So either way it's a losing battle. Which is why we let the server do the booting. The minute they disconnect, they're booted automatically, no grace period. -testing123 Scooby11 your suggestion is the most appropriate in the long term, but one sesh per user will be used (thanks wasted) to Teach them about logoff. I will not be beaten. I will Teach. With God as my witness, all lusers will learn to logoff, otherwise be caught in the wilderness of their local workstation, unconnected from the great application server in the sky. Well, atleast I'm gonna try! Thanks for the suggestions! -wedge
CommentsAnd how many computer techs are needed to know why the light bulb still does not work? - None, it's a management problem! -Dr Jerkyl How many MCSE's does it take to change a lightbulb?...None. M$ has just defined darkness as the new industry standard. -Digital Dogcow How many EU's does it take to change a lightbulb?...319 . (1 to hold the bulb still, & 318 to rotate the room). -Digital Dogcow How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?....2. (one to do it & the other to brag about how much faster, cooler looking & more energy efficient neon is compared to tungsten fillament). -Digital Dogcow How many jewish son's does it take to chaange a lightbulb?...None!, dont trouble yourself, I'm happy sitting here in the dark, why should it bother me?, the woman who spent 19 hours in labour to bring a son into the world who could care less when his poor forgotten mamma has to go without light?. -Digital Dogcow How many sorority girls does it take to change a light bulb? All of them: 1 to change the bulb and the rest of them to sing and clap. -RiffRaff How many Deadheads does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They wait for the lightbulb to burn out and then follow it around the country for years... -technaround How many college football players does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but he gets 3 credits for it. -sassicatz Q: How many tech writers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None, no one ever RTFM anyway! -K1W1 Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two. One to hold the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly coloured machine tools. -K1W1 Q: How many Yorkshiremen does it take to change a lightbulb ? A: Four. One to change it, one to hold his racing pigeon, one to hold his greyhound, and one to drink his pint of bitter. -K1W1 A: One. Q: How many psychics does it take to change a lightbulb ? -K1W1 Q: How many seventies disco dancers does it take to change a lightbulb ? A: Two. One to boogie up the ladder and one to say "Get daaowwwwn !" -K1W1 Q: How many nannies does it take to change a light bulb? A: None, They don't make nappies small enough. -K1W1 Q: How many New Zealanders does it take to change a light bulb? A : 2 - 1 to change the bulb & 1 to shag a sheep! -lineswine How many shrinks does it take to change a light bulb? Only 1, but the light bulb has to really want to change -PCRaevyn http://lightbulbjokes.com -PCRaevyn
So, Little Miss Attitude from my earlier Customer E-Mail post (#18955) evidently discovered she could not log in earlier today, and called our office. Of course, we were closed for the holiday, so she got shunted into voice mail. I called in around 21:00 to see if there were any problems needing immediate attention, and decided to return her call to see if being without service all day had adjusted her attitude somewhat.
Sure enough, she was as sweet as pie, especially when I informed her that had our logs actually verified that she has been experiencing connection problems for a while, she would have gotten a free month's service. Apparently, all the fight went out of her, because when I mentioned her reply e-mail to me, she said, "Yeah, I'm sorry I was so harsh." CHA-CHING!
RiffRaff to Red Leader... RiffRaff to Red Leader... LART impact confirmed... Attitude adjustment verified... Mission accomplished... RTB... Over.
[By: RiffRaff / 2003-09-02] Comment on Story
Commentsnice -KuroTaka It's always nice to be right. -namor *steaples fingers* "Excelant." gotta love it when someone THAT nasty realizes they can't get away with treating you like shit. -wolfprince Yes. Very nicely done... -hkypipe Final score : Nice techie 1, neeping starfish 1 (well, she WILL get a free month out of you...) -lineswine Whoops, my bad.....Tesch 1, NS 0 - after a recall (a bit ike California, innit!) -lineswine You let her back on? I'm disappointed in you. Some people deserve to be on AOL. -scooby111 Ice up a cold one boys I'm commin home </Clint> -Digital Dogcow <a-team> I love it when a plan comes together </a-team> Good Job Riff :) -Spyder19 <Ace Rimmer> Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast</Ace Rimmer> -K1W1
only thing I can think of is customer lying, or demonic posession. [By: KuroTaka / 2003-09-02] Comment on Story
Commentscorupted bios? -wolfprince Is it the ME splash? Could be the BIOS splash -- some laptops have a BIOS splash screen as well. I would actually bet on CPU fan, or CPU fail, those being the two big things im my experience to cause random lockups... -chazz Bad internal memory? If it really had no memory then it wouldn't even get through BIOS. -rurwin It was the white ME splash screen (I'm a co-worker of KuroTaka and tried to help on this one but I am not on good terms with any deities) -Wolffarmer Got pictures? -TechnoVampire Windows ME isn't that far off from demonic possession. Sprinkle it with holy water and install Linux. <g> -RiffRaff I also vote for CPU fan - I recently had a Dell laptop do the same thing... -hkypipe THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE! - 'nuff farkin said! -Digital Dogcow overheating would be my first guess, but I'd check the BIOS settings, and ensure they're ok, RAM second, then Video Card third. If it's a laptop, some motherboards have onboard RAM, if the onboard RAM is acting up, game over. Best of luck. -testing123 I did a packhard Bell laptop recently, I had a devil of a job finding the HDD - it turns out it was integrated with the FDD! It maybe that the item you are T/Sing the same design of kit. As for the lockups? My best guess is heat related, so as others have said look for duff fans, loose heatsinks etc. -lineswine CPU is overheating. Either the fan is dead, or you will need to reseat that heatsink (with a fresh layer of thermal paste) -HotGreenMeat Since you've eliminated everything else, I'd have to agree with everyone here. It's got to be hardware or BIOS. The most likely culprits are: On-board memory; CPU (fan or processor); and BIOS. If all that fails, sprinkle it with hold water and bury it in an unmarked grave on holy land. -scooby111 Many years ago I came across a Toshiba Laptop - It had a RAM Drive (384k) and the OS in a ROM Drive (size unknown, but it was DOS on this PC Compatable (And it was 8086 or 286 cpu) the Rom drive looked at the ram drive for an autoexec.bat when booting.... And all the memory was soldered in... -Wonko The Sane Going back a bit...if it's a (l)user, they are probably lying. Recommend following TSC advice listed above, just in case the user is telling the truth. :) -snowcrash Wound up throwing mem, mb, proc, hdd, touchpad, keyboard, and some screws at it. hehe. don't have a part number for holy water. will have to talk to someone about that. -KuroTaka IT IS THE DEVIL, I MEAN BILL GATES,SAME PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!! -VispaTech
Comments*blink* Ya think?!?!? -scooby111 Hmmm... I'm falling out of a plane. Maybe I should go get a parachute. -teivrann
A bit of background....one of our prized databases has been transferred over to finance. THEY now handle the support for it and administration of it. I'm glad to see the back of it since it's the most buggy piece of Access I have EVER seen. Majorly unreliable.
So I am surprised to get a call from the new Finance-Part-Time-DBA who says 'the users are asking questions!'. Ermmm, that's a problem how? says I. 'Because I didn't know they'd ask questions! I thought all I'd have to do is run a few macros now and then, I didn't expect to have to deal with them!'.
Knowing me as you lot do, do you think I... A. Sympathised with this bean-counter, put aside all my coding work for the day and offerred to help or... B. Laughed evilly and told them 'welcome to tech support'.
CommentsUmmmm, a bean counter becomes tech support. I would call that sweet justice. -Wolffarmer Hmmm a neeping tech support person - thats just proves once a beancounter, always a beancounter...and they say techies lack people skills? This tosser doesn't even want to TALK, never mind T/S! Tough shit beany, welcome to our world <EG> -lineswine Every now and then, the universe has a way of setting things right, if only for a moment... -hkypipe Erm...?.......A? (buhwa ha hahahahahahah) -Digital Dogcow Ok, my money is on the bean counter drinking and smoking heavily by the end of the week, and by the end of the month, he'll be about 30 lbs heavier, and his diet will consist of sources of caffine, sugar and fat. Next monday, he'll even have his glasses taped together (after the other bean counters realize what's happening to him). Any takers? -garwain Garwain -- No bet; he may be able to hide it well enough that the other bean counters don't tape his glasses. As to the rest of it -- it may take longer than you predict, but that is certainly the course he is on. CD: Supremely evil. I love it. Is Miss Crybaby now going to be asking _him_ questions as well? That would be just too rich... -chazz *blink* You take over part of MY job because they say that they don't need a full-time DBA and you're calling me up to complain that you actually have to work?!?! And you expect sympathy?!?! Bwahahahaha!!! Welcome to tech support. Check your soul at the door and abandon all hope, ye who enter here. -scooby111 Welcome him to tech support aka the 30th level of hell, and be sure to inform him that the rules of becoming a tech are similiar to that of joining the Mafia..only way out is death, if he quits, he would soon find himself in another support position, with less pay. -testing123 How long do you think it will be until he posting stuff here!!! (just joking CD) -RTFM It's true. Once you get stuck in a "support" position you literally have to change careers and omit that part of your life on your CV/resume before it will stop haunting you. This guy's in for it. I wonder what he did to deserve this. >:) -snowcrash I still have a soul Scoob. It's really really small now, but it's still there dammit! -KuroTaka C = put them on hold, make and then leisurely drink a nice cup of tea, return to phone and if they're still holding -->Option B -K1W1 I lost my soul last friday when I blew up at work and threatened to strangle my manager. (he a nice guy realy, he just happened to be close while I was ranting and raving. He bought me a pop and I felt a hell of a lot better) -Wolffarmer
CommentsI have yet to work at a company where the computer guys aren't also the phone guys. -scooby111 I've already learnt that when I given SysAdmin duties, I became responsible for many things I didn't know existed. A general rule is if it plugs into a power socket, YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT! Even the water cooler, the coffee maker, and the microwave oven. -Wraith556 Woops! The first sentence should read "I've already learnt that when I was given SysAdmin duties,... " -Wraith556 learnt? Are ya'll from the south? -Hellion Hellion, learnt, learned... sometimes the fingers can't keep up with the brain. As for being from the south? Further south and west than the Mason-Dixon line. Try the far side of the big pond, over the Tasman from K1W1. Next stop Antarctica. -Wraith556
Comments"but the plug wasn't in"..... -Dr Jerkyl My kids once snatched out the tray to my wife's CD-RW, like completely pulled it out of her PC, walked into the living room with it, playing tug of war with it. Needless to say that when I saw that, they got disciplined, and they NEVER touched an optical device since. Amazingly I was able to get the tray back in there and the CD-RW still works. Just makes a noise when opening and closing, but functions fine still (luckily). -testing123 I hate to say it but, it was your fault. A 4 year old and a 5 year old in the same room with electronic equipment unsupervised??!? That's asking for trouble... <G> - - My kids are very well behaved around computers, but I would never trust them near my laptop. -scooby111 It's my fault my mom was too damn lazy to get up and get a pepsi herself? -catman1229 I've had to ban Magenta from having drinks near my computer area. I love her dearly, but she's a klutz, and she spilled an entire glass of Pepsi on my desk the other day and ruined my digital camera. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... -RiffRaff Which is why my keyboard at work is a nice brown colour. From all the tea I keep spilling on it. -CommanderData killed my keytronic with coke. 5 keys not working anymore, try to disassemble and clean with apporiate product, but didnt work. So i keep using it and when i went an a i do alt+97 ... ASCII is my friend now... -wastedtime
Hey, they say practice makes perfect... now to figure out who the hell is trying to call me for non-computer related sales pitches... and issue a severe LARTING[By: garwain / 2003-09-02] Comment on Story
CommentsSomeone needs to develope a tone generator that will fry this things when they call. -scooby111 Captain Crunch time. -Wolffarmer my bet is that the good Captain has already done so... -Spyder19 Now all you gotta do is sell yourself as sounding "soothing" and you should be able to get a nice job reading scripts for companies who want to play commercials instead of hold music! ("Thanks for calling about your service. The next agent will be with you shortly. While you're waiting, why not check out our website at www.company-name.com?") It's gotta be better than actually TALKING to the users! :) -snowcrash Got your solution: LEt it think you are human, then when someone comes on the line be prepared with an extension phone with the output from the speaker of a tape player wired straight to the mic in the handset and play recorded modem noise at max volume (while holding the phone away from you ear of course). Or try to seel them something and don't take no for an answer! -GargoyleTS Try a police or referees whistle - a real ear-drum buster. Wait 'til they answer & then let rip! -lineswine There is such a tone generator... It plays the Bee-doo-beep That you get when you dial a disconnected/wrong number. Automatic dialers are configured to remove those numbers that give that tone from the list of numbers to call. -Myrkul999
CommentsI know Americans who speak English worse than that. Welcome to TSC. And might I take this opportunity to point out that a star membership would do wonders for international relations. -RiffRaff i will consider star menbership after moving to ireland, if i can find a rent cheap in Dublin ( i can't find anything under 400€ (450$) per month) btw, if someone knows about something to rent cheap near dublin, i will be glad to know ... -wastedtime € read euro -wastedtime Yes welcome! Just becuase you are smart enough to work around the idiot's screw up does not mean he did not f-up. -MightyMouse Welcome. Now I may have to give up all my preconceived notions about the French and technology. <g> -scooby111 OK ! all you american's being nice to a french guy, step outside & raise your hands. A van from the Dept of Homeland Security will be there to arrest you ASAP. ! :0) . Bienvenue Wasted'. oh & you're gonna love Dublin, that town is MAD!. -Digital Dogcow Even if we've switch from "French" to FREEDOM fries, and FREEDOM kissing?! What does a person have to do to show patriotism these days??! -pennywithahole Uhmmm... Fly the flag in front of your house and treat people with respect? -LaserGuru Oooh, oooh. I know!! Mount a flag on your car and drive it until it looks like a tattered grey+black dishrag. -scooby111 hey can u send us some freedom fries lmao -postal tech English is a difficult language. You're doing great! :) -snowcrash Bonjour WastedTime. Ça va? I'm sure you've noticed by now that lusers are the same around the world. -K1W1 Uh, LaserGuru, flying the flag doesn't indicate patriotism, it indicates nationalism. And as to treating people with respect, who respected the rights of the 3000 innocent Iraqis that died in this last war? Flying the flag does NOT indicate patriotism, it indicates "see, I'm patriotic, neener neener." TRUE patriotism comes from questioning if your government is truly standing up to the principles of your nation. It is NOT unpatriotic to question the actions of your government -- indeed, it can be the most patriotic act of all, asking "Do I want them to do this? Or should I take my constitutional right to vote against them the next election?" Nationalism, on the other hand, is simply "My government tells me what to think, and I will do so." In other words, patriotism is open-mindedness, and nationalism is what most of us saw in the past year or two -- everyone hanging "me-too" flags. -Captain Trips Welcome, wasted! I've talked with more (l)user's here in Indiana who did much worse with the english language. You did pretty good for an amateur. :) -rokitt Welcome! Having done a pile of data and phone cabling myself, I know just how easy it is to cross wires. I do it all the time. But to certify it as being tested when you know you havent done the testing is just wrong. -Snakeeye thanks for the welcome everybody. And postal, i could send french fries, but they will be held by us custom, since it is not allowed to import food without going through a lot of paperwork. And scooby, don't forget a french invented the plastic card with EEPROM on it 20 years ago, and now, it is used worldwide... But I do agree thaht lusers are the same all around the world and I have some idea of lart that would be great, as a tetsubo (japanese, a plain metal stick of 1.5m with spikes all around) I will try to post a photo of it on my ridiculous site -wastedtime CT- Let's not get into a flame here. I posted a short and trivial answer, not a thesis. I am painfully aware of the differences between patriotism and nationalism, having seen both up close. [FYI- I've had a US flag flying since I moved back home in '93. I also promote proper retirement of flags with a group I work with.] -LaserGuru I fly the American flag outside my apartment. It is not flown for any political party, but fot the men and women who faught under it's banner. Since I have put it up, others have appeared in the apartments. The Candian flag, the Union JACK, and even the Tri-Color of the French. It is not support of the current war, but a rememberence of that , which has come before. Not the politicians, but the people who have died, defending that they belive in. I may not believe your belief's, but I will support your right to belive it. -fadedglory
CommentsBwaaahahaha! Time to make sure it takes at least 40... -scooby111 Only 20 hours? Surely you can work less efficiently than that. Afterall, those that are non-technical wont know the difference. -firebird2k2 Any jobs going? -RTFM why u leaving? -postal tech So you're buying the next round? ;) -snowcrash
CommentsUMM.... I think the story is expired. Because I click the link and type the address in. It comes up for a second, then is rerouted to a generic page. -MightyMouse That story is so old, it is turning into urban legend. It has been posted many, many, many times before. -Gecko If anybody wants to read this story, I found it on another page. http://technology.nzoom.com/technology_detail/0,1608,205377-113-380,00.html grrltechie -grrltechie Welcome to Hell India -burrkiss Shurely shome mishtake burrkiss, shouldnt that read Welcome to India Dell ??? -Digital Dogcow And people wonder why I won't bash them! I've got a cold beer and a sympathetic ear for anyone who has had to do night shift on a help desk, especially while speaking a language that isn't native to them. Good luck to any tech from India who reads this site (despite the India bashing that sometimes occurs). You're gonna need it! -snowcrash I actually spent a month in New Delhi last year training techs for an outsource company... I have to say, once you put a human face to the voices and actually make friends with them it really changes your attitude. I don't begrudge those Indian technicians their jobs. What pisses me off is the American companies that send the jobs over there in the first place. -D311LinuxGuy Or New Dell-i -K1W1 My attitude all along has not been to blame the Indian techs (hell, wouldn't you jump at the opportunity, in their situation?) but rather to lambast the farkin' mgmt. types over here who send call centers elsewhere. -chris98b
CommentsWindows NT crashed? How about Windows ME (spell out each letter instead of saying 'me') -catman1229 Yesterday it worked./ Today it is not working./ Windows is like that. ---- HEHE wish I could get my callers to believe that -KuroTaka
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Stock ModelsIf your motoring needs are more immediate, check out the wide range of new US spec BMW models currently in stock.
Our LocationsIf you're stationed in Germany, Italy or Spain, why not pay a visit to your nearest Pentagon Car Sales sales outlet.
Our ProfilePentagon Car Sales is proud of its status as the world's largest agency representing the BMW Military Sales and MINI Military Sales Programs. Take a look at our company profile and get acquainted.