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U-Haul of Mountain View
62 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 965-3151
- Mon - Thu7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
- Fri7:00 AM - 8:00 PM
- Sat7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
- Sun7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Latest reviews
- 1/8/2013I was in and out of this place with no hassles. Called at 2pm to reserve a truck for 5pm. Showed up and was out in 10 minutes. Picked up my new couch and was back there a couple of hours later. They had me checked out in about 5 minutes. I read through the negative reviews for this location, and almost all … Read full review
- 10/26/2012I hate going to places like U-Haul, dealing with rude sales people, etc. But my visit last weekend was fantastic. The guy I spoke with on the phone was professional. They fixed a little problem with a U-Haul installed hitch. It could not have gone any better. Read full review
- 8/11/2012My rental made two days ago was for 3:00pm at the postal Annex, which is run by a nice man. Uhaul changed the time and location of my rental, which was unnacceptable. I called to compain about this and the woman at this location basically told me take it or leave it. When I asked who I was speaking to, I was … Read full review
- 7/24/2012Lots of haters for this location but I'm not one. The +'s: + Reception always pleasant both on the phone and physically. Somebody went through training apparently because the representative explained charges to me clearly and helped me choose my rental van vs truck. Yes it's $0.99 per mile on weekdays … Read full review
- 7/8/2012Nationally reservation system is designed to be as difficult as possible for the customer, forget about easy and hassle free- it is the opposite. Of course not the fault of this location. But on my 3rd or 4th try, I got a great women who made my rental easy, if the first few times I tired had been like that, I would … Read full review
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Have had good success with International two pack Perfection varnish over epoxy coated plywood. Has proved very tough in use.
A water based two pack varnish would be much nicer to apply in terms of fumes and brush cleaning. One such as this
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Actually, it's amazing to see how many great journalists are still working in Philadelphia, despite everything. It's an honor just to be on a list with these people.It would be cool to win an award that's essentially named for a bar, though.
I was offline, at least metaphorically, when news broke that Nelson Mandela had passed away. Thus, I had the luxury of reflecting for a couple of days...and watching a flurry of other stories whiz past in a blur. It's remarkable how in our digital 21st Century that any global event -- but especially the passing of such an iconic world leader as the freedom fighter who became South Africa's first black president -- becomes a prism through which we funnel our view of the world, no matter how narrow. Sometimes it can be silly -- Mandela the movie inspiration, or Mandela the rugby enthusiast -- and sometimes it can be frustrating, especially when people with polar opposite beliefs try in some way graft his greatness onto their own cause.
But at heart. the music of Nelson Mandela and his life is what another icon of the so-called Third World, Bob Marley, might have called a redemption song, for his ideals and for the rest of us and came to believe, or at least accept, them. His notion that freedom and justice would happen for the downtrodden black people of apartheid-era South Africa -- and his ability to hold onto that belief during 27 remarkable years in prison -- never once wavered. That's because he never lost faith that the rest of the world -- the people who were calling him a "terrorist" and dismissing his pleas for equality as "communism" -- would come to the rightness of his view.
The last time the Eagles were SUPPOSED to play a snowstorm, it was a life-changing experience. On Dec. 26, 2010, the Birds famously wussed out and postponed a would-be snow game against the Vikings, ruining the karma of what had been feeling like a Super Bowl-bound season. I wrote a front-page piece the the Daily News on "the wimps who stole Christmas" and ended up tag-teaming with Ed Rendell, who so loved the phrase that he coined to describe the cancellation -- "a nation of wusses" -- that he used it for the title of his book. I was also inspired to write a book -- an Amazon Kindle single called "Give It to Steve" that showed the mid-20th-Century American grit that allowed the great Steve Van Buren and the 1948 Eagles to win the NFL championship in a raging blizzard at Shibe Park.
Today, they played (perhaps because the forecasters got it wrong, but still...). And it was a thing of great beauty. The Eagles beat the slip-sliding-away Detriot Lions 34-20, with a furious 4th quarter comeback. And how's this for full circle?..Shady McCoy rushed through the white stuff for 217 yards to set the team's all-time single-game rushing record, eclipsing...Steve Van Buren.
Blogger's note: It's been a few years since we had a guest post here at Attytood, but here's a GUEST POST written by my friend and colleague Sandy Shea, the editorial page editor of the Daily News. She went up and over the Delaware River today to catch anti-poverty expert Frances Fox Piven, and her report goes something like this:
Today, Rutgers-Camden's Center for Urban Research and Education hosted Frances Fox Piven, whose status and occupation can best be described by the title of her most recent book: "Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven: The Collected Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate."
This says it all -- don't you think?
I'm trying to write a story (!) and get out of town, but I'll be back if I have something to say.
So says Noam Chomsky the guy who runs Goldman Sachs, the giant money-sucking vampire squid of American capitalism.
The Huffington Post flagged this comment earlier today, and understandably so.
Who knows why something goes viral on the Internet? That's not a rhetorical question...seriously, who knows? I don't. I'm still a little baffled that my various Twitter feeds. etc., filled up today with an artifact from 1982, as reported in a book that was published in 2001. Maybe because it is just so unbelievable to our modern ears -- the remarkably callous reaction of then-President Ronald Reagan's press secretary, Larry Speakes, and to a lesser extent the White House press corps to news of "a gay plague"...the then-newly-discovered disease called AIDS,
Here's a mind-boggling excerpt:
MR. SPEAKES: What's AIDS?
Q: Over a third of them have died. It's known as "gay plague." (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it's a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the President is aware of it?
MR. SPEAKES: I don't have it. Do you? (Laughter.)
Q: No, I don't.
MR. SPEAKES: You didn't answer my question.
Q: Well, I just wondered, does the President—
MR. SPEAKES: How do you know? (Laughter.)
Q: In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?
MR. SPEAKES: No, I don't know anything about it, Lester.
Yes, I'm still boycotting "60 Minutes" until they do an independent probe of their Benghazi hoax, which I guess they're not going to do....truly appalling. For better or worse, every Sunday night when I do my weekly editing shift here at the Daily News I get to "watch" the CBS program through the stunned reactions in my Twitter feed, where people react with increasing revulsion as what was once a great journalistic franchise become a joke, alternating big-corporation puffery with right-wing propaganda.
Last night, Twitter tells me they went the puffery route...with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, the new owner of the Washington Post.
There were oohs and aahs, I'm told, from credulous CBS reporters as Bezos revealed Amazon's bold plan to deliver books to your door by a drone, a plan that seems wasteful, ridiculous and might even be illegal. But if Bezos wants to learn more about journalism, he may eventually learn the term for what else he accomplished with his free ad on CBS, what we call "burying the lede."


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10/3 is fine.
Most single wall ovens are a 120/240v-30A circuit.
I just want to make sure before I do this. This is a low-line Kenmore singe wall oven. Spec plate in door says: 120/240 3.4Kw. Installation guide calls for a 30-amp breaker. 10/3 is rated for 30 amps. Approximately a 20' run.
Does this sound ok, or should I go for #8/3 or #6/3?
Btw, thats 10/3 w/grnd.
10/3 is fine.
Most single wall ovens are a 120/240v-30A circuit.
Thanks Pete. Now I know why they call you "speedy".
At the last minute, I decided to upgrade to 8/3 w/gnd. There will be about 12' that will run through the attic, (going across a now-enclosed carport roof), here in a Florida home. NEC 310.15 (A)(2) says something about reduced ampacity if a high-temp section exceeds 10 ft.


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Meteorites can reveal a lot about the composition and formation of their parent bodies, but such postcards from beyond come with no return address, making their provenance difficult to establish. Often, astronomers must observe the object's inbound trajectory and then trace its orbit backward through time to nail down the region of space or the specific parent body that a meteorite sprang from. (In one unprecedented case announced in March, a group of researchers had the added advantage of having spotted the object in space before its atmospheric entry.)
In 2007 a sky-watching program known as the Desert Fireball Network tracked a streak of light over Australia that led researchers to meteorite fragments on the ground. Through an analysis of its composition and orbital characteristics, the meteorite, known as Bunburra Rockhole, has revealed itself to be out of the ordinary, one of a small family of its kind to not originate from a large asteroid known as Vesta. The research, led by meteoritic and planetary scientist Philip Bland of Imperial College London, appears in this week's Science.
Vesta resides in the solar system's main asteroid belt, a rocky ring between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It may have once harbored an ocean of magma, as Earth's moon is thought to have had in its early history. That would explain the basaltic nature of the meteorites that originate from Vesta—basalt forms by magmatic or volcanic processes.
But the basaltic Bunburra Rockhole meteorite, named by convention for a feature near where it was found in Australia's Nullarbor Desert, appears to have sprung from a different parent body in the inner asteroid belt. Neither its orbital path nor its chemical signature, as measured by the relative prevalences of oxygen isotopes, agree with a derivation from Vesta or one of its related bodies. (An isotope is a traceable version of an element whose atoms have a different number of neutrons.)
Along with the three other such known meteorites, Bunburra Rockhole provides evidence for the existence of more bodies in the asteroid belt that harbor basaltic rock. Although asteroids such as Vesta—large enough to melt and then differentiate into distinct rock layers—are rare today, the solar system may have once had more of them, whose leftover fragments in the asteroid belt would explain the source of the anomalous meteorites.
Image of a fireball over the Nullarbor Desert courtesy of the Desert Fireball Network; funding from STFC and the EU
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I Wear A Mask - each time they ask whats wrong i put on a smile and say its nothing. i am like a wall. i show no emotions of my pain but deep down it is tearing me apart. the anger that builds up inside of me because i have to pretend that everything is ok and that i have a happy...
Jul 11, 2012
Rotting - aren't my outsides pretty? look how much i'm smiling.. yet i feel like i'm rotting..i am EXTREAMLY angry, EXTREAMLY upset...you think i really trust you? how the **** could i? ive been drugged, poisoned, nearly drowned by my freind when i was 4 she thought it would be...
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Feb 1
:D Smile D: - "Say cheese"
No one sees you past that. Just look happy, just look pretty. No one really cares. You can be dieing for all they care. And that whats happening. I am dieing slowly but surly. I dont care that they dont care but I would like someone to see behind my...
Nov 26, 2011
Always Done It, Its Just Me I Guess - well sure i have always smiled to hide the pain away, its like a reflex. every time something bad happens, BAMa smile. But another thing is i want to help my friends, i don't want to think about my life, my problems, my fears.when i help...
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Dec 3, 2011
A Glass Rose - A shattered vase in the midst of rose petals.
What do I do? I'm screaming in a room filled with people but no one even flinches to look at me. Can you hear my battle cry?
Can you hear the beginning of the fight; the drums drumming, the war cry of my people, the...
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Aug 17
I Hide My Pain - I don't know why I hide my pain. Some how I have become good at it. I don't like people to ask me how I'm doing. For i know that there is nothing that they can do to help me. I like to hide that fact that i'm hurting. I know that I shouldn't do...
Sep 1, 2010
I Just Can't Handel It All - For some odd reason i always hide my pain by smiling, fisicall or emotional . Its like im afraid of something but don't know what mabey its the fact that im actully weak so i act strong. if im sad upset or sick i still smile like no tomorow . I have...
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Aug 26, 2012
I Do It All The Time - At times when I am aching the most in the inside and I see other people wether it be family, friends or strangers I don't want them to see my feelings.. meaning I don't want them to see how much pain I am in so I do I hide behind a smile. and then just go...
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Oct 18, 2012
The Man Of Perfection But - I have tried to become the man of perfection. whatever I did, I did it with sincerity. I did it with dedication. I have received a lot of appreciation from people around me. But the only thing that I could not change... u know. You can guess. It is...
Feb 25, 2012
A Poem By My Bestfriend - My smile is my bushel basket
My tears the flame
I hide them under the basket
When all the sudden psi is too much
The dam breaks
Before I can save anyone
The wave leaves heavy damage behind
And I put the smile on and the tears again build
Mar 26
I Brought It To Myself. - 26 yrs old male, no job, still studying for about 10 years now after i graduated in high school.
My parents are so kind to me that they let me finish another course. after i procrastinate and went so easy in my first course, it was a 2-year course that...
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Jan 17
That's How I Was Brought Up - I don't know how to let someone see my pain.
Throughout my childhood it was drilled into me that you never let anybody know feel bad, be it in pain, depressed, or angry. If you aren't happy, don't show it. Pretend you are happy.
I was told when I...
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Sep 28, 2012
Searching For Rainbows - Years ago I had told my best girlfriend (who has since passed on; may she rest in peace) that so long as we laugh as much as we cry we will be okay. We worked together, side by side, and shared some "giggle attacks" together as a result of things that...
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Oct 18, 2012
I Hate This Effing Disease - Just had a wonderful night w a wonderful person. I had to leave early cause my stomachs hurt so bad. I got home and automatically took my nausea medication but the pain and nausea was to intense. I scrambled around downstairs and brought myself 4...
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Aug 27
If You Really Knew My Past - I wear a mask, a mask that covers the truth about my past and people. A smile that laughs at every joke aimed at me to show I don't care, A smile that smiles at everyone to show I don't care Any more.
I fight back tears and try to keep that glint in...
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Aug 20, 2012
My Smile - I wake up every morning with a smile but a darkness within...People believe that I'm a happy go lucky girl...but I'm not I only cover my pain with a smile so my mom won't put me in therpy. So even if I'm sad I cover up everything with this sick fake smile, that I hate...
1 Response
Jul 26, 2012
Only Because... - ... people don't take the time to see behind a smile... smiles are all they need to assure them that you're ok, it just means they don't have to sit down and listen to your problems.So it's easier to just put on a fake one and assure them I don't need anything...
Feb 20, 2012
The Other Day. - The other day I was very suicidal. But my friend came over despite my complaints that I was "sick". She convinced me to take a walk with her, so I did. While we were walking and making conversation she missunderstood something I said with "I just want to die" She...
3 Responses
Nov 1, 2012
Faking It .. - I cant recall the last time I've truly been happy . I have this smile painted on my face daily , faking like I'm happy . But the truth is , I'm very unhappy and haven't been happy in a long time .
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Jul 15
Confused - For a while I feel like I've been sinking. This just feels like the last straw. It's about a boy I have really liked for years now. My friend encouraged me to start up a conversation with him, she said that I deserved to give myself a chance. Then yesterday she said...
3 Responses
May 18, 2011
I Hide My Pain By Smiling But The Smile.... - is slowly dying...
I don't know if this is even the right group. I have read a few and it seems like more of you'll are just hiding your painful emotions. I am hiding the true pain that is within my body. (Not to say that you aren't...
Aug 2, 2011
The Strong One.. - "You're strong, Crystal, you never let anything bring you down"
Aha.. I'll never forget those words. That's obviously what every body thinks when I don't care about all the **** that they do to me. I even think I should be an actress, I would be the best...
Aug 15
Smile so nobody know I got a F - Sitting in my desk n teacher hands out graded essay homework I spend 4 hours on. My heart beat fast n im super nervous my hands skakeing bad my anxiety getting worst. Then my paper land on my desk. I look round ppl have different looks some...
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Feb 28
It's A Defense Mechanism - Whenever i feel pain and start feeling like crying, i tend to smile and laugh a bit while tears starts to fall down on my cheeks. That's why i'm calling it a defense mechanism. Each and everyone of us has our own way of hiding our true feelings...
1 Response
Jun 3, 2010
I Feel So Lonely - I am so lonely.I have people around me but no one wants to listen.
I have good days and days when I feel so low.The good days are great but they don't come around very much any more.Everybody just says " cheer up "....why didn't I think of that.
Low days...
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Nov 6
I Want To Be Honest To Myself And Others - For some odd reason i always hide my pain by smiling, fisicall or emotional . Its like im afraid of something but don't know what mabey its the fact that im actully weak so i act strong. if im sad upset or sick i still smile like no...
5 Responses
May 12, 2012
Never Been So Unhappy - I can't even remember the last time I actually smiled because I felt happy all I do now is put on a fake smile so everyone around me thinks I'm okay. I haven't smiled for real since the last time I saw my boyfriend. 4 months ago, the love of my life was...
1 Response
Aug 1
I Am Hurting Inside - I am hurting inside! I try to smile i try to laugh. But it's not possible. I hate it so much. I think i am in depression. I cry 99% of my time because of my parents. They are always fighting and i just can NOT take it anymore. I realize that i will never be...
1 Response
May 5, 2012
Smiling But Hurting - You see the girl, sitting there smiling
She has her friends, they're all laughing
You're jealous, you look on with vain
But little do you know, her world is all Pain.
She doesn't want friends, they've let her down
Not understanding her life when no one's...
Feb 28
Too Easy - I don't wanna show you my ungratefulness about life. I don't wanna show you my pessimism.I don't wanna show you that you hurt me a lot. I don't wanna show you that I'm mad at you. I don't wanna show you it hurts me so much that i have to cry on my own in front of the...
Aug 19, 2012
Sometimes........ - .....It hurts so bad to smile when on the inside I am breaking and shattering like a china dish. I wish there was some one in my life who really understood how I feel. People will tell you they do understand but sometimes I wonder if they actually do...
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Jan 3
If They Only Knew - the real me and how much pain i go thou everyday of my life i joke with people to try to make then feel good and i am sometimes misable
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Jul 14, 2011
My Fake Smile - I smile infront of my relatives and my family just to pretend everything is ok which is not reality. My soul is dead inside. But I didn't finish my ***** body because I need this body to pretend everything is all right......sigh.........
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May 8, 2011
The Masks We Wear - When the kids make fun of you, learn to laugh with them. That's what I was told over and over again. I retreated into myself more and more, leaving all the hurt behind a wavering smile with tears wanting to escape from my eyes. All though...
1 Response
Aug 11, 2011
When I Am Asked Are You Ok - when iam asked are you ok ? even when someone hurts my feeling i just smile and say yes
iam fine even when iam not deep down
1 Response
Jun 2, 2010
The Fake Smile - The fake smile is in place
The tears are well hidden
My eyes show nothing
My voice struggles with a story to tell.
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Feb 22, 2012
A Teen Age Girl Have Dreams Need To Be True - just like a teen age girl i have dreams to became the only star in all the skies the only ward in all the books the only one in the wholl world but who i am kidding i don't deserve any of that i don't believe in my self i have a...
Dec 5, 2011
Every Day -
i hide the pain of myself by smiling . the pain of my past , present and this is all physical and emotional and just being too hard on my self.
Jun 2, 2010
I Just Don't Want Anyone To Worry About Me - I never want to talk about my inner problems because i don't think i should burden anyone with them. So i just wear a smile everytime i see everyone to pretend like everything is fine. Talking about what really troubles me takes a long...
1 Response
Aug 22, 2012
Why? - Sometimes I ask myself how I'm still alive,how come I could still take all this pain and still be alive.
Oct 11
Often - Sometimes it's just easier to put on that smile. To just keep the illusion up. Why spread this sadness that I feel around?
1 Response
Oct 26, 2012
Friend, Foe, Or Other? - *Sigh* Dear Lord where do I even begin?...My Ex boyfriend and I have been broken up for almost a year. And throughout that we have tried to be friends and failed...miserably. We didn't talk for MONTHS. He even has a new girlfriend and adores her. Now...
Mar 11
The Dark Feelings I Hide Away From My Mother -
I know I can be full on and I can act up!
But there is a lot of feelings I hide away inside...
I feel you don't put in enough time to get to know me and brother..
You give us money and phones and tablets but it's like you are trying...
Nov 30
The Guy Of My Dreams Suffers From Chronic Pain. - I met my husband over six years ago and married him in 2008. Initially, he desperately tried to make me understand how difficult it might be to love a person who suffers from chronic pain. I did not care. My husband had...
1 Response
Dec 3
Weird Pain In Body - I hate having this pain. It's always at night I have back pain and at times I have boob pain I really don't know what's going on in body I always get weird pain in my body. And when I go to the doc it's nothing!
1 Response
Nov 27
Pained by Pain - I won't lie. There are loved ones that this applies to slightly more for me but this is a particular weak spot of mine. Seeing pain in someone's eyes stirs something deep inside of me. It will make me lash out at whatever or whoever the cause is. That's why it is...
Dec 4
I'M In Pain Constantly - Ok so here's my story. At age 15 I went into high school being top of my class both academics and sports . I wanted to be a pro soccer player and was in training for that. December 2009 a little later, I fainted and fell off a stool hitting my head on the...
5 Responses
Nov 12
Painting My Toe Nails - in a 20 year old guy in college and i love painting my nails. I am straight and have a girlfriend but always liked taking care of my self and making my self look presentable. I started with clear polish on my nails but over the years i experimented with...
1 Response
Nov 13
My Best Friend, The Gangster. - Okay, this is a long Story, but if your prepared to read it, this is for the parents out there who have suffered watching their kids being bullied, become drug addicts, criminals, or both. This is my personal story, its long, but its your choice if...
Dec 1
I need advice about love, but first hear me out. It's going to be a wild ride, but don't worry, I'll make it interesting.
I'm a girl. And she's a girl too.
The very first moment we met was in 7th grade, being in the same class, and we weren't friends at the time. Hell, I don't...
Dec 2
I need advice about love, but first hear me out. It's going to be a wild ride, but don't worry, I'll make it interesting.
I'm a girl. And she's a girl too.
The very first moment we met was in 7th grade, being in the same class, and we weren't friends at the time. Hell, I don't...
Dec 2
It's Been A While - It's been many years since I last self-harmed. And I still have the scars to show, although I hide them under wristbands that I wear almost every day. Hardly anyone knows of what I put myself through. I cut myself too deep once and damaged the vein in my arm...
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Nov 26
I Don't Feel Ready. - I am 16 and in college, almost finished with my first year. If you would ask how was it, well... it was torture. This college course I am studying isn't what I love; however, I am planning to shift to my dream course next semester. However, people...
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Yes! - Smiling is a attractive! Not because you might look cute because idk it just shows you don't mind smiling! Smiling is important so that's why I think it's attractive(:
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Truth - Okay, so this post hits home a little, it's about my past situation that I just recently got out of. No, I wasn't abused at least not physically. Mentally, emotionally, yes. I was with a guy for over a year.. Three of those months we lived together. It was mostly sex he...
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What's Wrong With Me? - I have been on anger rampages, sleepless nights with hours and hours of crying. I wake up with swollen eyes and never-ending questions about them. I either eat very little or too much. I've been skipping because I've been so tired and filled with headaches...
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I Was Traumatized - When I was a little girl, I was always manhandled. I was very thin and rarely ate. My mother ordered all kinds of supplements but I would always spit it out, so she would recruit family and strangers to $natch me up and force me to eat. It was crazy. But they...
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I cant take it. People dont understand. So i hide it say im okay. But im really ******* not. I wish somebody would understand ;~;
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"My mom is an opera singer and my dad is a music professor."
That is the line I tell everyone when I'm asked what my parents do.
Though I feel I've conquered the fluctuation in my voice just enough to make it sound like I have normal parents with normal jobs, I still get some sort of surprised response followed by the question of the existence of my own musical talents.
Music was an inevitable family activity in my household growing up. All four of us kids played some sort of instrument. Some more than others, like my brother who can play any instrument you throw at him. All four of us sang. Some better than others, like my Whitney-Houston-sound-alike sister.
If there was one thing my parents taught me it is that there is more to music than meets the ear.
To my dad everything was worth sounding good for. I credit him for taking birthday parties to new heights with the many five-part-harmony Happy Birthdays sung in my house. He also influenced annual Christmas caroling as a Carter family requirement, resulting in me knowing every word and variation in harmony to every carol ever composed, including verses we invented ourselves.
Much to the sway of my conducting father and my singing mother, I sat through countless rehearsals, choral concerts and symphonies growing up. First with impatience and numerous coloring books, then, eventually, with an open mind and a brochure that didn't turn into a piece of origami by the end.
All my friends were welcomed into the Carter house by the sound of my mother's loud and operatic voice as she vacuumed, or cooked, or did anything really.
My room was right next to the bathroom, and while my mom was showering I'd experience my own private recital. She was always practicing for whatever next concert was coming up, and my neighbors always knew when she was home thanks to her uncanny ability to make very large sound to come out of a very small woman.
Though her old poofy opera dresses took playing "dress-up" as a little girl to a new level, I didn't think my mom's talent really affected me. But, in an era where performing arts are just a budget cut away from being forgotten, I strongly believe music did more than just raise me.
I grew up seeing my parents perform. I grew up seeing my family be proud of their talents and really be able to please the community. They received applause, standing ovations and countless displays of appreciation.
I learned how to talk to people, mainly because we couldn't go anywhere without my dad or mom knowing someone somehow tied to music. I learned how to appreciate a talented voice, making "American Idol" a completely different critiquing experience to our family.
I became a performer myself. I played in orchestras and concert bands. I sang in choirs and acted in musicals. I was the drum major of my 250-member high school marching band, and I could probably sing the national anthem backwards.
To me, music is a given thing and it is easy for someone like me to take it for granted. But, since I've been here in Plumas County I have missed it, and I haven't just missed the mental stimulation and the aesthetic contentment that comes with it.
I can't think of any other way to help a person not be afraid of people then by giving them a chance to battle through stage fright.
There are people out there who think they are not good at anything, and really they've just never picked up an instrument or sung a note.
I was spoiled in my music escapades growing up. Though I don't really do it anymore, I haven't lost my appreciation for it. Whether we are born with it in our gene pool or not, there is no denying the influence it has on our life and our culture.
So when people say they love music, it sounds like such a generic statement, but to me, it sounds like music to my ears.
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Chocolate Coconut Candies Recipe
- 1-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1-3/4 cups flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped almonds
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- Optional ingredients: flaked coconut, chopped almonds, Diamond of California Sliced Almonds and sprinkles
- In a large bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, coconut, almonds and milk. Shape into 1-in. balls. Refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
- In a microwave, melt semisweet chips and shortening on high for about 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth.
- Dip balls in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Coat or garnish with ingredients of your choice. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
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I left out the almonds and the candies still turned out good, but Extra sweet. I think they would have been way better with some nutty crunch. I 'd also suggest that you chop up the coconut a little before mixing it in.
i love (LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) coconut (at first i spelled coconut wrong)
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I had to add a little more sweetened condensed milk than the recipe called for. Really easy to make. :)
Oh my GOODNESS! These are delicious. I hope they make it to my job tomorrow. I toasted sliced almonds whiched broke easily when mixing. I uses small pampered chef scoop- too BIG- will find smaller ballet maybe melon ballet next time
I only gave this 4 stars because it didn't seem like 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk was enough. Mine was so dry that I added a little extra. Next time I would try the 1/2 cup and mix it with the powdered sugar first then stir in the coconut. I also skipped the chopped almonds and put a whole almond in the center. These are so rich but very tasty! I coated half the batch in Hershey's milk chocolate chips and the other half in bittersweet chocolate for a contrast like the name brand candy bar.
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This article is based on the upcoming HD 8000 series but as I was read, I found this comment in the quote bellow. This is already facts, but I would like to start conversation. http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jules/amd-radeon-hd-8970-and-8950-launch-plans-revealed/
Yes that in combination with poor PC Games sales. The companies can`t justifie porting let alone separate development.
PC games are starting to take the lead again. look at games like battlefield 3. DX11 exclusives with features no current console can touch. very soon we'll start seeing PC exclusives that the consoles want, and thats when the consoles will launch.
Who voted None of the above? I think it's a combination of both crappy old consoles and lazy developers doing these cheap console ports. PC digital downloads such as services Steam offers is blowing console sales out of the water. PC Gaming sales is alive and kicking and by late 2013 and going into 2014, PC Gaming sales will surpass console sales by $ Billions
until wii u launches and we get more direct ports nothing will change though and even then it won't change because we still have the lazy ass developers that port them just to say "hey we did it, plz buy"\ dropping sales margins and lazy devs = terrible ports for us
Developers are FAR from lazy. It just doesn't make financial sense with the cost of development to create PC exclusives when 90% of your revenue comes from consoles.
What Whos talking about PC exclusives? I was trying to point out design on PC then port to console so consoles wont blog down the picture quality. PC game downloads are eiter equal or killing console games in sales. Prove me wrong.
You should check the number of users that play specific games on Steam since there is actually a feature for that. It would show you that for example Call of Duty MW3 has had a PEAK of 32,000 users online today now compare that to how many units the game has sold(6.5 million) it might make you realize just how much of those numbers consoles make up. The peak amount of users even on Steam today is only 4.7 million. Even if that cannot directly compare to the 130+ million xbox 360's/PS3's that are out there. If you honestly believe what you said then you are either delusional or stupid.
You do know that MS has made it so their development for X360 compliant games is made using a PC & console based dev-kit which requires DirectX, right? The IQ is standard to an extent with textures because it costs money to PAY the artists to draw up the graphics. You know where the money comes from? Publishers for the most part. Without the money... the ports can't be "upgraded" to PC texture quality. ::EDIT:: All derogatory terms man. Not everyone has all of the 'pieces of the puzzle' and so their picture is incomplete. If you started up a conversation with your peers only to be called a dumbass for striking up a subject you might not want to hang with them on a regular basis amirite?
Well delusional and stupid are quite a bit nicer than dumbass But besides that when you are asserting a point you are expected to have all the pieces of the puzzle especially when you are literally asking someone to prove you wrong. Besides it is common knowledge that pc gaming in general is an extremely smaller although generally older market than consoles.
I've worked in customer service for more years than I care to count. Most people don't like being wrong, and definitely trust their own understanding of what information they possess. It's something people easily get defensive over, and you as the argument to his logic/understanding are burdened with proof as much as he is. Works both ways so just because you don't feel you need to be as responsible as the OP for being 'correct' does not mean you have any right to casually refer to someone as stupid (lacking intelligence and not facts) or delusional (lacking the ability to perceive reality in a common way). tl/dr? Do you think your logic is sound? Draw it out for him and don't be a smartass about calling someone a dumbass.
me too, i think the next generation of consoles will have a minimum of room for improvement ... and it will go for a long time !
I don't think there is anything really wrong with the quality of the graphics of games for the PC and it is nice to be able to have a mediocre PC and be able to play a game at enjoyable frame rates on high settings. Sure maybe the graphics cards are not being pushed but who cares if the game is enjoyable which leads me to the game devs. If game devs also includes game design, I believe there needs to be more innovation. So many clone games out there. Military shooters, GTA type games which all have a very similar feel. Sure some of them are great but still would like to see more variety and no more zombies or vampires.
console porting saved pc gaming, the side effect is that bleeding edge hardware goes unused. Seeing as those extremes make up a small portion of the market it's only annoying for extreme pc games. Regular ones don't care unless they also f up the interface. Sure it would be nice to be able to tap into all that power and see the games look more and more real, it doesn't make financial sense to do so. Plus modding has been a nice stop gap solution.
Enjoy the Read You can find a DUMP load of info showing PC Gaming will dominate. And according to this data and it's beautiful representation, PC is now winning. http://www.gamefront.com/pcs-projected-to-outpace-consoles-in-revenue-next-year-infographic/
There is more No Contest : PC Pummels Console http://www.darkmattermag.com/june03/dark_games.html Compared to the same period last year, PC game sales were up 230 percent. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2758966&posted=1#post2758966 PC games sales up 230%. Console game sales down 28% http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1089847-pc-games-sales-up-230-console-game-sales-down-28/ PC games sales up 230%. Console game sales down 28% http://www.destructoid.com/nvidia-pc-game-sales-will-surpass-console-game-sales-212102.phtml I believe you owe nt300 an apology. In regards to MONEY, both PC & Console gaming are making over $18 Billion per year and growing. There is money to be made by both. But remember, The PC is up against all console sales. PC Gaming needs to be respected IMO.
Your own information is showing that PC gaming brought in 80 million compared to 517 million for consoles.... not quite sure what your trying to prove their? PC gaming sales may be up and console sales may even be down but no matter how you swing it consoles are making more money and selling more units overall.
Thats meaningless if you dont have the numbers of how many consoles are being used "today" , as it may be less?
Not my info, just posted FACTS and LINKS. $80 Million? $517 Million? They would be out of business if that was the case. Or you mean: - PC Gaming Software Revenue = $18 Billion in 2012 - Console Gaming Software Revenue = $23 Billion in 2012 ------------ Growth Projections - PC Gaming Software Revenue = $20 Billion in 2013 - Console Gaming Software Revenue = $22 Billion in 2013 ----------- Growth Projections - PC Gaming Software Revenue = $22 Billion in 2014 - Console Gaming Software Revenue = $21 Billion in 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngau...-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/03/06/gdc-2012-pc-games-raked-in-18-6-billion-in-2011/ 2011 was PC gaming's biggest ever year, says The PC Gaming Alliance WHO's SELLING MORE? http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/07/2011-was-pc-gamings-biggest-ever-year-says-the-pc-gaming-alliance/
LOL yeah... They make all the big title games it seems, they are clones of one another and they all suck bullcock. Although, one of my favourite devs, Piranha Bytes recently failed big time trying to adapt their PC centric RPG, Risen, to a more console friendly format with the sequel, Risen 2. So consolitis has a lot to answer for.
In terms of hardware usage: I think people forget that not everyone has an awesome super-powered PC that can run games at 2560x1920 with 32x anti-aliasing. Think of all the people who just buy a PC at their local electronics store and expect games to run on that. And then there are the laptops... Face it, most of us here are not the average PC gamer. Lower hardware requirements allows more people to play. PC user interface is more capable than consoles. Anything the latter can do, the former can. But the reverse is not true. So it makes sense to build with the limitations of the latter in mind when you're doing a multi-platform release. The days of doing distinctly separate ports (barring those for portable consoles) are coming to an end due to the rising costs of production. Remember the days when the SNES and Mega Drive got one version, the NES got another, the Game Boy got yet another, and the Game Gear got still yet another version? It's has a "race to the bottom" effect due to trying to lower production costs. In terms of game "quality": Gaming has become more mainstream. This includes people in their 60s and 70s. It's no longer just a niche thing for young people with a lot of free time. Also, those young people are now older and have jobs (well... before October 2008 anyway) and family to deal with and thus less free time to spend on games as well. Developers (or more likely, their publishers) are trying to broaden the appeal of their games in an attempt to capture more of an audience. It the same thing with movies and TV shows. Cue games with a simpler learning curve, lowered complexity, easier difficulty, etc. Also, as mentioned before, games are more expensive to make nowadays. Developers and publishers want a safe investment. Cue "sequelitis" and other sorts of re-hashes. In North America, Call of Duty is probably the most blatant example. TL;DR PC gamers love brandishing "consolitis" because it's an easy scapegoat, but it's more due the game developers and publishers wanting a safe investment and trying to "capture a wider audience". They've become mainstream and are suffering the same things ("dumbing down") as movies and TV shows.


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400 years of apocryphal nonsense (the silence of God which is just as inspired as His voice) preceded the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It could be that 400 years of preaching (the of the final purification of the word of God-the AV 1611 King James Bible will precede the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. See how it works out 1611+400=2011. Check that out. The Tribulation is 7 years long so that means the rapture is indeed imminent if the Revelation of Jesus Christ to His enemies at Armageddon will transpire in 2011. It would not surprise me if the rapture occurred this year and an unknown interval of time (perhaps one year because 2004-2005 is when the roadmap ends with a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) passed then the covenant is confirmed with many for 1 week. Our calendar is off by about 4 years so 2004 is the real year 2000-2000 years since the birth of Christ is dated at 4 B.C. Hosea 2:2 says After two days (2000 years) will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." Interesting because the roadmap ends next year 2005, one year after the 2000th year-the beginning of the third day. The church will not be present when this covenant is confirmed by the prince that shall come. The church is the body of Christ-the Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the third day-His body the church is going to follow suit after two days (2000 years of New Testament church history) the Lord Jesus will take his church-bride to heaven and then He will deal with His brethren (the Jews-Israel) during Daniel's Seventieth Week. We are indeed the generation of Christians that shall not see physical death-for the Lord Jesus will return.

My uncle told me about this and I read about it in a commentary on the Gospel of John. The rapture indeed will not occur in the manner most people think. Read 1 Thess. 4:15-18 15: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Now brethren why do you suppose Paul emphasizes the fact that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep? That means the dead in Christ are going to rise before us. and the dead in Christ shall rise first-it is indicated twice to make sure we get it. Read Matthew 27:52-53 52: And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

53: And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Now brethren what happened to these saints? There are two possible conclusions. 1) this saints lived and died again. or 2) they were raptured to meet the Lord Jesus in the air at His ascension. Number 2 makes perfect sense right? How many days did these saints appear unto many. The Lord Jesus taught for forty days after His resurrection so there's the answer. That's the Biblical precedent that shows how the rapture of the New Testament church saints will occur. The dead in Christ are going to rise first-that will herald the beginning of the rapture. This is the last day that Martha referred to in John 11:24-the last day of the church age-age of grace. This is consistent with imminency because we don't know what day or hour this will occur. Imagine seeing our saved loved ones in Christ who were dead in their glorified resurrection bodies and 40 days later being changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye! the bodies they will have will be the kind of bodies we will get 40 days later then after 40 days we will which are alive and remain shall be caught together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Even on that 40th day we will not know the hour he will come to change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body. Is the time and season for the rapture revealed in Scripture you better believe it-it is the springtime of Israel. Song of Solomon 2:11-13 says

11: For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12: The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13: The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away

Song of Solomon is about physical love but the spiritual application is it is Christ's love for His church-His bride. Solomon's bride is a Gentile bride-it typifies the bride of Christ for it consists of saved Jews and saved Gentiles On a certain feast day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended-it may be that on a future day of Pentecost perhaps the one this year in late May the Holy Spirit will leave and as a result all whom He indwells-every born again Christian. It could be that the dead in Christ will rise and walk the earth for 40 days appearing to their loved ones and many others then on the Jewish feast day of Pentecost our gathering together unto the Lord Jesus Christ will occur. The feast day of Pentecost is seen as the "birthday" of the church so since our calendar is about 4 years off-this upcoming Pentecost will be the 2000th one. Another time to look is the Feast of Tabernacles which is a feast that concludes with solemn assembly at the end (the rapture is an assembly of the Christians in the air to meet Jesus Christ face to face) That feast falls in September-October which is interesting as well because is Solana term's supposed to end at about that time? I read that it is possible that the dead in Christ will resurrect on the first day of the feast and the living believers will be changed on the last day of the feast. There is nothing wrong with watching. I'm not setting dates and I could be completely wrong but as I said-It is just a theory. What do you think brethren? God bless and let's be about our Father's business Amen? AMEN! Let's get real like Brother Herb said.

In Christ, Nick (avbiblebeliever)


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I just tried to sign into the RBN and got the above error. Anyone able to get in?
I just tried to sign into the RBN and got the above error. Anyone able to get in?
I'm getting a 500 as well. Hopefully it gets fixed today so that I can submit a few more reviews/playtests.
Same here. Thought it might simply be down for the night (patching?), but I figured it'd be up by now. Hopefully later...
Something is wrong. We will probably be out of commission till Monday.
That's why its a beta. :-)
Thanks for the feedback, Mister_Game. Best of luck in getting things back up and running quickly. I had a good time yesterday playing and reviewing some of the songs up there.
Yup I got this error. Sent them an email. Also was wondering I thought we signed up for free trial, we gotta get XNA premium membership for $50/$100?
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...sigh... figures after 2 months of recuperatig from a stroke surviving christmas AND new years the first time I goto login to creators.rockband.com to do some work and catch up on my reading and perhaps do some playtesting on a fine winters Sunday morning I get application error 500... guess I will go play lego rockband with the kids
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Navigating the Airfare Maze Online Gets Tougher
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Published: January 7, 2011
With online travel sites battling with some airlines, where does that leave travelers shopping for flights online? The simple answer is that theyre going to have to do more digging. Airlines are pulling their fares from travel Web sites amid a standoff over the fees that carriers pay to list their flights.
American Airlines removed its flight listings from Orbitz.com last month, when the companies could not agree on a new contract, and Delta withdrew its fares from CheapoAir.com, OneTravel.com and Bookit.com. More recently, Expedia.com dropped American flight listings. Delta has also notified Airfare.com, CheapAir.com, Vegas.com, AirGorilla.com and Globester.com that it will no longer allow its fares to be included on their Web sites in the United States and Canada after Friday.
The moves represent a standoff over the fees that airlines must pay to list their flights with online travel agencies. And at least one major fare distributor, Sabre, which runs a computer system that allows travel agents to see flight and fare information, joined the fray on Wednesday, announcing that it would end its distribution deal with American in August a month before the end of its contract and, in the meantime, would make American fares harder to see in its displays.
But American and Delta are not the only airlines becoming more selective about where their fares appear online. JetBlue, Virgin America and Spirit have increasingly been offering special fare sales only through their own Web sites. And some low-cost carriers, including Southwest and Allegiant Air, have long refused to list fares at online agencies or fare aggregators like Kayak.com, requiring travelers to visit the airlines own Web sites to see their flights.
So whats the best way to search for fares now? Currently, there is no one-stop shopping site that includes all fares, but it is possible to cover your bases using only a few sites.
Start with ITA Software, which provides the technological backbone for many air fare shopping sites. It offers an easy way to narrow down the cheapest days to fly by allowing anyone to scan an entire months worth of fares for the cheapest rate. Click on search airfares now in the middle of the home page, then enter your departure date and destination and select see calendar of lowest fares to see which travel days yield the lowest rates. Travelers can also narrow searches by the number of stops and length of trip. But to book the actual ticket, users must go to another site, like the airlines.
Cover your bases by adding a so-called meta-search site like Kayak.com, Fly.com or Farecompare.com, which dont sell plane tickets but search hundreds of travel sites at once. Doing this will give you an idea of the best rates available from various sites. Each meta-search site configures its technology and accesses fares slightly differently, which can affect results. The sites also tend to differentiate themselves through special partnerships. Kayak.com, for example, receives fares from ITA Software; Amadeus, a global distribution system; and some airlines directly, including American and Delta. FareCompare licenses air fare data from more than 500 airlines via the Airline Tariff Publishing Company, which consolidates and distributes airline fares worldwide.
Before you hit the buy button, check out Airfarewatchdog.com, a site with actual people who manually search for fares and will sometimes uncover cheaper fares than the other sites. It often captures sales from Allegiant and Southwest, as well as special, last-minute fares that airlines often save for their own Web sites, like JetBlue Cheeps which are put on sale on Tuesdays via Twitter and listed only at jetblue.com/cheeps.
For trips to Europe, consider Momondo.com, a Danish travel search site that scours the airlines own Web sites as well as online agencies that focus on low-cost carriers, like LyddAir, which operates flights from Lydd Airport in Southeast Kent in Britain to Le Touquet in France. It also compares rates with more than 4,000 high-speed train routes across Europe a valuable service, as trains are often more convenient in Europe than planes. One caveat: Because of the way Momondo pulls fares, it may show expired fares in its results.
To help evaluate prices, consider Bing.com, which offers a Price Predictor that uses algorithms to determine whether a fare is likely to rise or fall in the next seven days; this can help when trying to decide whether to buy now or wait for a better rate. Students can also consult STATravel.com or StudentUniverse.com, which offer special deals for anyone enrolled in college or graduate school.
And for those who care most about the quality of the flight experience, there are a couple of notable mentions. Rather than a long list of fares, Hipmunk.com sorts fares according to an agony index that factors in price, length of flight and number of connections. In a similar vein, InsideTrip.com, evaluates flights by 11 criteria, including legroom, aircraft age and on-time performance.
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Cooties on planes and elsewhere
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Airlines are deploying state-of-the-art filtration systems to contain flu and cold viruses from spreading. Scott McCartney joins Lunch Break to discuss how to avoid getting sick while flying. Photo: AP.
Air travelers suffer higher rates of disease infection, research has shown. One study pegged the increased risk for catching a cold as high as 20%. And the holidays are a particularly infectious time of year, with planes packed full of families with all their presentsand all those germs.
Air that is recirculated throughout the cabin is most often blamed. But studies have shown that high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters on most jets today can capture 99.97% of bacterial and virus-carrying particles. That said, when air circulation is shut down, which sometimes happens during long waits on the ground or for short periods when passengers are boarding or exiting, infections can spread like wildfire.
One well-known study in 1979 found that when a plane sat three hours with its engines off and no air circulating, 72% of the 54 people on board got sick within two days. The flu strain they had was traced to one passenger. For that reason, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an advisory in 2003 to airlines saying that passengers should be removed from planes within 30 minutes if there's no air circulation, but compliance isn't mandatory.
Much of the danger comes from the mouths, noses and hands of passengers sitting nearby. The hot zone for exposure is generally two seats beside, in front of and behind you, according to a study in July in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A number of factors increase the odds of bringing home a souvenir cough and runny nose. For one, the environment at 30,000 feet enables easier spread of disease. Air in airplanes is extremely dry, and viruses tend to thrive in low-humidity conditions. When mucous membranes dry out, they are far less effective at blocking infection. High altitudes can tire the body, and fatigue plays a role in making people more susceptible to catching colds, too.
Also, viruses and bacteria can live for hours on some surfacessome viral particles have been found to be active up to a day in certain places. Tray tables can be contaminated, and seat-back pockets, which get stuffed with used tissues, soiled napkins and trash, can be particularly skuzzy. It's also difficult to know what germs are lurking in an airline's pillows and blankets.
Research has shown how easily disease can spread. Tracing influenza transmission on long-haul flights in 2009 with passengers infected with the H1N1 flu strain, Australian researchers found that 2% passengers had the disease during the flight and 5% came down within a week after landing. Coach-cabin passengers were at a 3.6% increased risk of contracting H1N1 if they sat within two rows of someone who had symptoms in-flight. That increased risk for post-flight disease doubled to 7.7% for passengers seated in a two-seat hot zone.
The epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-03 suggested a wider exposure zone, however. On one flight studied, one passenger spread a particular strain to someone seated seven rows away, while people seated next to the ill passenger didn't contract the disease.
That said, most people sitting near someone who is ill probably won't get sick. "When you get aboard an aircraft, most of us don't have a say on who we sit next to. But that doesn't doom you to catching the flu," said Mark Gendreau of Boston's Lahey Clinic Medical Center.
In 2005, he was part of a team that published a paper in the Lancet that concluded the perceived risk for travelers was higher than the actual risk, and that's still the case today, he said.
Even so, there are some basic precautions passengers can take to keep coughs away.
Hydrate. Drinking water and keeping nasal passages moist with a saline spray can reduce your risk of infection.
Clean your hands frequently with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We often infect ourselves, touching mouth, nose or eyes with our own hands that have picked up something.
Use a disinfecting wipe to clean off tray tables before using.
Avoid seat-back pockets.
Open your air vent, and aim it so it passes just in front of your face. Filtered airplane air can help direct airborne contagions away from you.
Change seats if you end up near a cougher, sneezer or someone who looks feverish. That may not be possible on very full flights, but worth a try. One sneeze can produce up to 30,000 droplets that can be propelled as far as six feet.
Raise concerns with the crew if air circulation is shut off for an extended period.
Avoid airline pillows and blankets (if you find them).
"If you take the proper precautions, you should do quite well," said Dr. Gendreau. "In most of us, our immune system does what it was designed to doprotect us from infectious insults."
Hidden Dangers in Security
You think the plane is bad? Security checkpoints harbor a host of hazards as well, researchers say.
Jason Schneider
Airport security areas can make it easy to get sick. People are crowded together, and plastic storage bins that hold personal effects are not cleaned after each screening.
People get bunched up in lines, where there is plenty of coughing and sneezing. Shoes are removed and placed with other belongings into plastic security bins, which typically don't get cleaned after they go through the scanner.
A National Academy of Sciences panel is six months into a two-year study that is taking samples at airport areas to try to pinpoint opportunities for infection.
With limited resources, airports and airlines have asked researchers to help figure out where best to target prevention, said Dr. Mark Gendreau of Boston's Lahey Clinic Medical Center who is on the panel. Check-in kiosks and baggage areas are other prime suspects in addition to security lines, he said.
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The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat
American Airlines, United and Other Carriers Are Wedging an Extra Seat Into Each Coach Row
By Jon Ostrower and Daniel Michaels
Updated Oct. 23, 2013 8:57 p.m. ET
Airlines' push to lure high-paying fliers with flatbed business seats and premium economy loungers is leaving economy-class passengers with less space.
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No, you're not going crazy: airline seats really are getting smaller. For airlines, the reason is simple: the lighter and smaller models cut costs and widen profits.
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A push over the past decade by carriers to expand higher-fare sections has shrunk the area devoted to coach on many big jetliners. But airlines don't want to drop passengers. So first airlines slimmed seats to add more rows.
Now, big carriers including AMR Corp.'s AAMRQ +9.52% American Airlines, Air Canada, AC.B.T +0.57% Air France-KLM SA AF.FR +1.41% and Dubai's Emirates Airline are cutting shoulder space by wedging an extra seat into each coach row. That shift is bringing the short-haul standard to long-haul flying.
For almost 20 years, the standard setup in the back of a Boeing BA -0.03% 777 was nine seats per row. But last year, nearly 70% of its biggest version of the plane were delivered with 10-abreast seating, up from just 15% in 2010.
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Of the airlines that have bought Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamlinera model touted as improving passenger comfort90% have selected nine-abreast seating in coach over roomy eight-abreast. And 10 airlines around the world now fly narrower Airbus A330 jetliners with nine 16.7-inch seats in each rowamong the tightest flyingrather than the eight it was designed for, according to the unit of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. EADSY +1.96%
The new trend in economy seating reverses a half century of seat growth in economy class. Early jet planes like Boeing's 707 had 17-inch seats, a dimension based on the width of a U.S. Air Force pilot's hips, says Airbus marketing chief Chris Emerson.
That standard for long-haul flying increased to 18-inches in the 1970s and 1980s with the 747 jumbo and the first Airbus jets. It widened to 18.5 inches with the Boeing 777 in the 1990s and A380 superjumbo in the 2000s. Now, cost-conscious airlines are moving to lighter 17-inch-wide seats on their Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliners and 18-inch seats for A350s.
This doesn't sit well with many travelers, particularly those who are large or overweight. Arm rests and aisles are also getting slimmed to wedge in the extra seat, meaning more elbows get bumped. And while seats are now being designed more ergonomically, with better cushions and head rests, the improvements don't stop people from rubbing shoulders.
"I felt that I was kind of stuck in the seat" of an Emirates 777, said Ben Goodwin, a marketing manager at Birmingham University in England, who recently flew to China through Dubai. On his connecting flight, an Emirates Airbus A380, the seats were one inch wider. "I felt like I'd been upgraded, even though I was still in economy," he said.
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The squeeze can help cash-squeezed airlines. Air France recently expanded the premium sections on its 777s while cutting the floor space in economy class. Yet the carrier kept the number of economy seats constant by switching from nine- to 10-abreast in the back, a spokesman said.
"On a 777, ten-abreast is the way to go," said Emirates President Tim Clark. "You'd be nuts to do it any other way."
Pressure in economy cabins also lets airlines upsell coach passengers. Air New Zealand Ltd. flies 10-abreast 777s on which fliers can book three economy seats that convert into a couch by raising the arm and leg rests.
Passengers aren't happy facing decreased shoulder room, more frequent bumps from service carts in narrower aisles and less overall comfort, said Andrew Wong, regional director of travel website TripAdvisor LLC in Singapore. Based on feedback to the company's SeatGuru website, he said, fliers "are becoming aware of increased seating abreastparticularly for the 777."
Plane makers deflect criticism, noting that seat width is up to airlines. Boeing designs its jets for airlines to do "whatever they want to do inside the cabin," said Mike Bair, Boeing senior vice president of marketing. Boeing designers focus on "creature comfort that can't be violated by the airlines," like bigger windows, larger overhead bins and mood lighting on every jet, he said.
Airlines and airplane makers are aware that passenger hips and waist lines aren't shrinking along with the seats dimensions.
"We are mindful that we serve a wide range of customer types and our aircraft need to be configured accordingly," said senior vice president of marketing and loyalty for United-Continental Holdings Inc., Tom O'Toole, who says the airline brings in real people of all shapes and sizes to help test and select its seats.
But United says seat width isn't the sole focus of passenger comfort. The airline's nine-abreast Dreamliner cabin has received higher marks for passenger satisfaction49% higher than the average rating of its other long-haul jets, owing to the higher overall marks for the 787's new cabin features, he said.
Airbus is publicly siding with coach fliers by running ads touting the width of its traditional economy-class seats. The tagline: "Personal space isn't any less personal on a 12-hour long-haul flight."
But the European plane maker, like Boeing, is also helping airlines cram more seats in the back of its planes.
When Airbus introduced its two-deck A380 superjumbo a decade ago, it boasted that the lower deck was 12 inches wider than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet but would offer the same 10-abreast seating, giving each passenger up to 19 inches of hip space. Now Emirates and some other A380 operators aim to put 11 seats across, at about 17.2 inches each, the same standard used for smaller jets like Boeing's 737.
"We've tried it," said Mr. Clark. "It works."
Airbus officials say they don't promote the configuration for intercontinental flights. "On long haul, we believe it needs to be a minimum of 18 inches," said Airbus's Mr. Emerson. "If it's a regional flight, we can accommodate one more seat abreast."
Mr. Emerson said seats on an Airbus superjumbo at 11 abreast are about the same width as a Boeing 777 at 10 abreast.
But the packed A380 would have an extra drawback because the center bank of seats, between the two aisles, would be five abreast: In every row, both of the window seats and the center seat would be two seats from the aisle, an arrangement known to frequent fliers as the 'double excuse-me.' That means three passengers in each row could face "this horrendous position of having to cross two people to reach the aisle," said Mr. Wong at Trip Advisor.
Airbus, like Boeing, is making high-density seating easier. On the new Airbus A350 model, now in development, the company is proposing either nine-abreast seating or 10-abreast.
Airbus dubbed the model "XWB" for extra-wide body, because the A350 is wider than its A330 and Boeing's Dreamliner. But Boeing officials note that Airbus is proposing to put the same number of passengers in each row of an A350 as Boeing traditionally put in rows of a 747 jumbo jetinside a cabin roughly 21 inches narrower.
Boeing's future 777 promises some relief. The proposed 777X's cabin will be 4 inches wider than current versions, giving almost half an inch more per seat at 10 across. But that space won't arrive until about 2020.
The solution, said Mr. Clark at Emirates, is to offer distractions like big meals, frequent snacks and lots of electronic entertainment. Mr. Goodwin, the Emirates passenger from Birmingham, said attentive service did distract him from the seating.
"With food and TV," said Mr. Clark at Emirates, "people are mesmerized."
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Connect the toilet to the country
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Okay, world travelers, a different sort of test for you. Guess (or know) which country the toilet is
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AN urgent investigation has been launched into the death of a patient believed to have been given the wrong gas during a procedure at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
It is not yet known if the error resulted directly in the patient's death and bosses at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust say they cannot release detailed information about what happened while the investigation is ongoing.
But the trust is treating the incident as a suspected "never event" which, if confirmed, would be its second in less than six months.
Chief medical officer Mark Wake said the trust is currently "reflecting on all the circumstances and evidence available" and that the results of any investigation into a never event would be shared externally as well as with patients, families and carers.
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Several changes were made to ensure there is no repeat, including the number of patients on one surgery list being reduced from eight to seven.
Nationally there were 299 never events reported during the last financial year and, starting next month , NHS England plans to publish quarterly lists revealing how many and what type of incidents have occurred at all NHS trusts.
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text: Last summer, the State Department convened a number of Iraqi exiles to advise the United States government on the problems that Iraq would face after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was called, rather grandly, the Future of Iraq Project. Among the topics was democracy, and among the Iraqis invited to join was a dissident named Kanan Makiya. He seemed a natural choice. In 1989, under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, Makiya published a book called ''Republic of Fear,'' which relentlessly dissected the totalitarian nature of Saddam's regime. The pseudonym wasn't a whim; in those years Iraq's overseas dissidents were frequently bumped off. Ignored upon publication, the book became a best seller the next year with the outbreak of the Persian Gulf war, and Makiya, the son of Iraq's most distinguished architect and a trained architect himself, was thrust into the turbulence of Middle Eastern politics. At the end of the war, during a forum at Harvard, the author revealed his identity for the first time and urged President George H.W. Bush to finish the job the war had left undone by getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Makiya's ideas cut deeply against the grain of Arab intellectual life and won him both powerful admirers and powerful enemies.


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East Lansing � For the past two weeks, all the talk surrounding Michigan State�s struggling offense had subsided.
The Spartans won two straight to open Big Ten play and did so behind an offense that was suddenly finding its way, making big plays and seeing its passing attack grow exponentially from the way it played in the nonconference season.
Connor Cook was getting comfortable as the Spartans� starting quarterback and the receivers were playing as well as they had since before last season. On top of that, the running game, which had been solid all season, was rolling along and the offensive line was playing outstanding.
It seemed the production would only continue Saturday with Purdue in town to face the Spartans. But as the old clich� goes, that�s why they play the game.
And that�s why Michigan State had to revert to its old formula � rely on its defense.
It did just that in a 14-0 victory over Purdue in front of an announced crowd of 71,514 at Spartan Stadium as linebacker Denicos Allen returned a fumble 45 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter to spark the victory.
It was the only score of the game until Michigan State � which didn�t get inside the Purdue 38-yard line until the fourth quarter � was able to put together its first solid offensive drive, icing the game on a 5-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Tony Lippett to tight end Andrew Gleichert on a reverse pass.
�Well, we won the football game and I�m never going to apologize for winning,� coach Mark Dantonio said. �It�s a step forward. It�s not a step back. A step back is when you lose. It�s a step forward. There are plenty of people that take a step back and usually have an �L� beside it.
�So we�re 6-1. You can cut it any way you want. We can sit there and say, we�re not in the top 25. We can moan and groan about it, or we can stay focused and do something about it.�
The win keeps Michigan State (6-1, 3-0 Big Ten) atop the Legends Division and made the Spartans bowl eligible, something they didn�t achieve until the final game of the regular season last year.
But this team has much higher expectations, which made the offense�s play all the more disappointing. Cook finished just 13-for-25 for 107 yards, but entering the final two drives of the game, he had thrown for only 33 yards and appeared on the verge of being lifted from the game.
Before Michigan State�s nine-play touchdown drive, backup Tyler O�Connor was warming up on the sidelines and taking snaps from center Travis Jackson. Dantonio admitted he considered making the move, but decided to ride Cook for another series.
�There was a little bit of thought, I�ll be honest with everybody, because as we move forward you have to win the football game,� Dantonio said. �I wanted to stay with Connor Cook. I forced that issue a little bit. You never say never, I think that�s just part of competition.
�He played well that last series. We kept him in and he played well. He took us down the field and scored, which was big. When you come in fresh off the sideline, it�s difficult. We�ve been down that road before.�
The decision to stick with Cook paid off with the score as he connected on passes of 18, 25 and 26 yards.
�I wasn�t really stepping into my throws and I could have been a lot more accurate,� Cook said. �The best thing is we finished strong, came together as a group at the end and ran the ball great the whole game. Our offensive line � no surprise � did another amazing job and have been doing a great job all season long. We came together and finished strong, that�s what matters.�
It also matters that Cook feels far different than he did against Notre Dame when Andrew Maxwell came on for the final drive.
�I saw (O�Connor) warming up and stuff,� Cook said. �But I know it means the coaches believe in me and they continue to believe I�m the guy and have faith in me. So that reassures me.�
While Cook might be reassured, the offense�s performance � at least in the passing game � can�t be reassuring to many.
�It was very disappointing,� offensive coordinator Dave Warner said. �We talked all week about not being satisfied with a couple good performances and the need to take it to the next level and step forward and we didn�t do that today. We�ll keep working on it, we�ll be OK.�
As much as the passing game struggled, the running game continued to be a strength for the Spartans. Jeremy Langford carried 24 times for a career-best 131 yards, the second straight game he�s gone over 100 yards.
And the defense was outstanding in the second half, allowing just three first downs after giving up 11 in the first half. The Spartans allowed just 66 yards on the ground and held the Boilermakers (1-6, 0-3) to 226 total yards, including minus-5 yards in the fourth quarter.
�We haven�t been able to finish drives all season long, and that was the case again today,� Purdue coach Darrell Hazell said. �We�d get a penalty or a loss-yardage play on first down and then all of a sudden, we�re second-and-12, second-and-13, and it�s hard to overcome some of those as a young football team right now. But we need to be able to finish those drives better.�
Michigan State heads to Illinois next week with a chance to head into a difficult November in the driver�s seat in the Legends.
�Hopefully, our football team is maturing as we move forward,� Dantonio said. �We�re understanding that nothing is easy and we mature and we grow. With every game we grow. That doesn�t mean we�re always going to have success, but we grow with that. That�s reality and if you�re able to do that, you�re going to have a good football team.�


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Registers of Deeds Listing (PDF, 51 KB); Map (PDF, 87 KB) (June 2013)
Registers of Deeds file and issue:
Milwaukee and West Allis City Vital Records Offices Listing (PDF, 13 KB) Map (PDF, 94 KB) (January 2013)
Milwaukee and West Allis City Vital Records Offices file and issue:
County Clerks Listing (PDF, 16 KB); Map (PDF, 104 KB) (January 2013)
Note: See Reference Materials for County Marriage License Fee information. (August 2012)
Note: See Reference Materials for Domestic Partnership Declaration and Termination Registration Fee information. (April 2010)
Clerks of Court Listing (PDF, 13 KB); Map (PDF, 583 KB) (November 2012)
Coroners/Medical Examiners Listing (PDF, 19 KB); Map (PDF, 62 KB) (July 2012)
County Coroner/Medical Examiner Fee information (for special services like issuing cremation releases). (PDF, 20 KB) (July 2012)
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Last Revised: June 21, 2013