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Inversion of jack ass. When calling someone a jackass is not enough you can refer to them as an assjack
That guy is worse than a jack ass he's a real assjack
作者 libraryguy 2010年3月04日
Nom. adj -- a person who is hopelessly stupid, offensive or socially hindered in the sense that their very presence has become a blight upon the fabric of existence. (Vulgation of the English "jack-ass," reportedly when the coiner of the phrase was too intoxicated to correctly say "jack-ass."
That John Ashcroft is such an assjack!
作者 Lane Haygood 2002年11月25日
Kicking someone directly in the asshole. Perhaps so hard that the big toe gains insertion.
"I'll ass jack you to the moon. My foot will rupture your uterus."
作者 Herschel Quintron 2003年12月29日
Fun inversion of Jack Ass. Instead of calling someone Jack Ass just say Ass Jack.
That guy at work is a real ass jack.
作者 library guy 2009年12月15日
a person that so offends every bodily sense, this person often acts like a buffoon and cannot commit to the social norm. this person is therefore sensually offense, dim witted, physically unfit and is desired by only the most munterish of woman and must have a form of disability that inhibits their motor skills by making their hands constantly click and this kind of person usually has a fat waste of oxygen family.
me: hey assjack
assjack: derpa herpa clickity click
friend: u dumb
assjack: that dont say dumb thats dum B
friend: *punch in face*
assjack: derpa herpa clickity click
friend: u dumb
assjack: that dont say dumb thats dum B
friend: *punch in face*
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A PERFECT LIFE, IN A PERFECT CITY For Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC – a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control – and helping him will throw Shion's life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.
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I wasn't actually planning on powerleveling through with all my characters, but now I'm gonna have to burst through for that lovely Hatespark!
I got mine from the BMAH for 1400g, making Breanni proud by getting another Pet, but making El sad by not getting it from actually fishing myself.
Here's the most important part: He dances all the time when he's standing still.
This pet can solo Aki the Chosen.
Abilities you need: Shell Shield, Magma Wave
Simply put a pet in front you want to level, use one ability, then swap to this pet. Put up Shell Shield and keep it up while spamming Magma Wave, the Shell Shield will completely negate the damage of Swarm. The easy pet (Chirrup) takes less damage and heals itself, while the rest of the team is slowly whittled down, so you don't have to deal with their much more annoying abilities.
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Regional Colleges Lose State Financial Aid
At least a dozen private colleges in the Sacramento area, most of them trade schools operated for profit, are among 154 statewide whose students will lose their eligibility to receive state financial aid this fall.
Jack Robinson, Editor, Sacramento Business Journal , Aug 2, 2012
The California Student Aid Commission on Tuesday issued a list of colleges that do not meet newly tightened requirements. In order to receive so-called Cal Grants, they must transfer to an eligible school.
Under new rules, colleges may not have student-loan default rates above 15.5 percent or graduation rates below 30 percent.
All public colleges and most private nonprofit colleges in the state remain eligible. Some for-profit schools also remain eligible, including Alliant International University and Universal Technical Institute, which have Sacramento campuses. The Art Institute of California's Sacramento campus also remains eligible.
Colleges on the ineligible list include University of Phoenix, a vast enterprise based in Phoenix with campuses across the nation, including Sacramento, Elk Grove and Roseville. Overall, the school had a default rate of 21.2 percent and a graduation rate of 18 percent, the commission said.
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Friday, 01 July 2011 00:00
1. Here's one of the less amusing aspects of Nassau County returning to the same, failed, privatized bus operation that so frustrated decision makers and the public 30 years ago. One difference between a public agency and a private company running operations is that the Freedom of Information and Open Meetings laws don't apply to private companies. If the company writes a report to the county, then it becomes an agency record and you can file a FOIL request. In some other states that are a few years ahead of New York in selling off or leasing everything, the media, the public and the government are having big problems with private companies stonewalling critical information.
2. Last week, IBM issued a report about "benchmarking" (comparing) operational efficiency in 100 American cities. Here are the critical seven words, contained in a subheading: "Management Matters (And It Matters A Lot)."
3. Indeed.
4. The governor reaches an agreement with the largest employee organization. It adjusts salaries and employee health contributions. Now he won't lay off 9,800 employees. It's practically a random number.
5. Late last year, when Commissioner Grannis made it clear that cuts from certain divisions will cripple the Department of Environmental Conservation's ability to fulfill critical functions, he was sacked. Real New Yorkers don't match actual needs to resource allocation. Savings, efficiencies, priorities, improvements, performance? We don't do those here. And talking is not worth the risk.
6. Nassau County is cutting another 128 full-time employees this week. Twenty-one of them come from the division that runs county museums and historic sites, gutting what remains of those functions. Why? Well, why not?
7. A lot of it has to do with revenues generated, and with perceived paths of resistence. Eventually, pieces of ceiling fall into the aquatic center pool.
8. We cannot fix Nassau County and make our local governments work unless we fix our civil service system. Bent by politics, broken by budgets, it makes workers trapped in it and residents trying to deal with it cynical and very tired. Workers and even high-ranking administrators fear being exposed as a source of complaints about civil service. Talking is not worth the risk.
9. We still can't sell off or privatize parks and schools at will. We think of them as "our" high schools and "our" museums or libraries, but actually all educational facilities are owned by New York, and "we" just have the local Board of Regents franchise to run them. They are issued a charter, which is a license.
10. That's the kind of detail that we've taken for granted for a long time, making assumptions and accepting the way things are even if the rationale or the mission melted away years ago. Some of Nassau County's local government structures were considered inadequate when talkies first came in, and here we are a long lifetime later and we've still got the same frontier-style town governments, the same fragmented districts calling shots in critical policy areas, the same "temporary" little designer villages, the same weak planning and missing critical infrastructure.
11. Time's up.
12. Fairies don't take away our sewage. It runs through pipes to inadequate plants, or into the bay.
13. Even small changes in sea level may push more salt into our wells. Try to fix a multi-billion dollar problem with this county's proven decision-making, problem-solving capability.
14. And an irrational refusal to generate new revenues even from the residents of Easy Street.
15. We may be one good, big crisis away from a near-total local government meltdown.
16. I have written many times that if local governments can't figure out how to provide critical services, they should find someone who can.
17. "Can't" and "won't" are two totally different things.
18. During the summer months, this space is largely dedicated to how we got to where we are and the choices we made. We'll continue the floating series about the haunted lake.
19. Independence Day, our national unity holiday, is an appropriate time to think about what America means and what Americans are supposed to mean to each other.
20. I wish you a happy, peaceful Fourth of July.
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Seeds, Cuttings, Divisions, Tubers, Bulbs -- growing in the Coastal South.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
A Spectrum of Hydrangeas
6 comments:
- L. Ambler said...
Beautiful hydrangeas. All the hydrangeas in my neighborhood just started blooming this week.
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- gld said...
Those hydrangeas are simply perfect!
I can't do the mopheads here very well with out lots of extra care.
I can do my Endless Summer because it is right next to the hydrant...
anything else would be a lost cause I am sure.
Yours are stunning.
- Thursday, June 13, 2013
- Janie Jurkiewicz said...
This is my understanding of hydrangeas...if they are white or green...you can't change their color. Do you use aluminum sulfate or is your soil naturally acidic?
- Thursday, June 13, 2013
- David said...
Wow! You grow them to perfection!
- Thursday, June 13, 2013
- NellJean said...
My soil is naturally acidic. The Hydrangeas that have a little pink to them probably got some lime leached from a nearby limestone rock or a piece of urban stone or when I gave the lilies a spoonful of lime.
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My pink hydrangeas are gorgeous, and I love them, but I am always quite jealous of of you acid soil blue hydrangea people! LOL
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1. BBGrind (Posts: 50; Member since: 17 Jan 2012)
Looking great. I am look for my fav aps like Instagram, SlingBox, Skype and Comcast "Xfinity" apps, it have all those I will be set.
6. AliNSiddiqui (Posts: 381; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
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5. andrew1953 (Posts: 175; Member since: 13 Nov 2011)
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7. DOUBLE_BASS (Posts: 44; Member since: 18 Apr 2012)
I felt some lagging once I reached the BlackBerry ID and BB app icon..
8. AmitMajumder (Posts: 86; Member since: 21 May 2012)
The swiping gestures are like Meego from Nokia n9.
9. kartik4u98 (Posts: 511; Member since: 19 May 2012)
How can you be so sure??
It hasn't been released till now.
12. jsdechavez (Posts: 708; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
yup. seen the early demoes.
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BB--black the berries ....they are no.1 fake os maker...Just have a glance on WEB OS by HP you can come to know how they have thefted the idea of multitasking ...Shame on BB
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no worries, BB will end up exactly like Web OS...
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I can't wait for BB10 to come out! More competition is always good.
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The Giant is a friendly non-playable character in the Zombies map Buried. He will help the player(s) if he is provided with the right items.
The Giant is found in a jail cell near the initial Mystery Box spawn. He can only be accessed from the stairs by the box and through the roof. The key to free him is found on the wall by the cell. After freeing him he will turn away, until he is given Booze, where he will then destroy the debris blocking his cell and start to pace between where he was found and the Saloon, ignoring players and Zombies until he is prompted with items.
Hitting The Giant with melee weapons will cause him to sprint for a short period of time. This can be used to make him follow a player with either of his items more closely. Shooting at him however, can wound him, which causes him to retreat to his cell and lock himself in, and must be freed with the key (can be avoided by giving him Booze or Candy).
Items Associated with The GiantEdit
There are a number of items that relate to The Giant and how he reacts to players. These items occupy the same slot as the chalk outlines for wall weapons, so the player cannot hold both at one time.
- The Key - The Key to his cell will open it to initially free him, and any subsequent times he locks himself back in when he is wounded. Whenever this happens, the key can be found on a hanger in the following areas:
- To the left of his cell. It will always be here when first releasing him.
- Hanging off the judge's bench in the Courthouse.
- In the middle room on the second level of the Saloon.
- In the Bank, behind the Deposit Box.
- Booze - Booze can be given to The Giant, which causes him to drink it and run off in the opposite direction of where he was given it. This can be used to clear the various debris blocking certain passageways around the map. The player that gave The Giant the booze will receive a bonus of points depending on the distance he traveled to the debris, ranging from a fairly small sum if he ran a short distance, or a much higher one if he ran a longer distance. The Giant is capable of downing both zombies and players in this state. He is also capable of obtaining Power-Ups for the player whilst he is charging.
- Booze can be found in both The Giant cell and the Saloon, and will spawn there once every round. If a player has already used Booze for one round, another can be bought for 1000 points at the counter in the Saloon.
- Candy - Candy can be found in the Candy Store, and can also be bought from the counter for 1000 points if one has already been used for the round. Candy has a number of uses when given to The Giant, depending on where he is when it is given:
- If given on its own, The Giant will aggressively follow the player who gave it to him around, attacking any zombies and will be unresponsive to any other items until it wears off.
- If given next to a crawler, The Giant will pick it up in his hands and follow the player around with it. Shooting him or knifing him will cause him to kill the crawler by throwing it on the ground and stomping on its head..
- If given near a workbench, The Giant will examine the bench and go off to gather parts and construct a buildable on it, provided he is not shot at whilst gathering the parts. If a buildable is already in construction, he will simply fetch the remaining parts; otherwise he will collect all the parts for a random one. The Giant is able to construct a buildable in one go, but if a player is already in possession of a part, they must manually place it on the buildable.
- If given near the current spawn of the Mystery Box, The Giant will punch the box, preventing it from rolling a Teddy Bear, this will prevent the Fire Sale Power-Up from being dropped by zombies unless the Mystery Box moved before it was punched by The Giant. It will also prevent it from being moved by the Giant again using candy by an empty box spawn.
- If given near the Mystery Box that has just been rolled but the player has not accepted the weapon offered, The Giant will force the box to roll again.
- If given near an empty box spawn, The Giant will go and fetch the Mystery Box from its current spawn, and place it on the requested one, unless the Mystery Box has previously been locked in one spot.
- If given near a Subsurface Resonator without a Turbine, The Giant will find the workbench where the Turbine is built and carry it to the Resonator.
- If given near a Power-Up, The Giant will change it into a different one.
- If given near the chalk in the gunsmith shop, The Giant will take three of them and draw them at random locations.
- If given near the Deposit Box he can obtain the player a power-up for 2000 points.
The Giant is a giant human wearing overalls. He is very skinny and has a 'bowl' haircut. He looks as if he has been starving in the cell he is found in. On The Giant's fingers, it is evident that the word "sugar" (Misspelled "sugr") is emblazoned onto them. He has a slouched and somewhat fearful posture. He will cower and cover his face with his hands if shot while in his cell.
- He reacts negatively when in a gas cloud created by zombies with Vulture Aid.
- He will not enter the haunted manor house. If the player brings him near it, he will run away in fear.
- He is able to enter the maze area, however; he does so by using an inaccessible path that leads to the maze, skipping the Mistress house all together.
- Even though he is needed to access most areas, some can be maneuvered around. An example is getting to the Gunsmith from an underground passage in the bank or from the second floor.
- Occasionally, the player may catch him saying Richtofen's name, suggesting that the two might have some sort of relationship.
- He will not return to his cell if shot with a Ballistic Knife.
- If there are two players holding items for The Giant, he will follow the player who picked up a food item first.
- The Giant will be slowed down if shot with the Paralyzer.
- The zombies he kills will respawn, except the ones that have taken damage from the player.
- If the player stands in his way while he is running, they will get downed.
- When he is next to a player with Candy or Booze, he will motion to the player that he is asking for the item.
- When The Giant is standing still while holding a crawler, he will begin to cradle it as if it was a baby.
- When a crawler is knifed or shot in his arms, he will throw it on the ground and stomp on it.
- He is required for the achievements I'm Your Huckleberry, When the Revolution Comes and Candygram.
- If The Giant is running to his cell after being shot and the player gets there before him, he won't close the door, and the player will not need to get the key to free him and the player.
- However, if the player(s) leave the cell, the door will be closed and the key will have to be found (unless the player is in possession of Booze or Candy).
- In the PC files, he is referred to as "Sloth". This is a reference to Sloth from the Goonies, a large malformed human with great strength.
- The player will not receive points for any chalk drawings done by The Giant.
- The Giant will not build the parts for the Gallows and the Gulliotine in the Mined Games easter egg.


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It seems that the era of cheap oil has ended. As events over the past few weeks have made clear, we all need to either resign ourselves to paying significantly higher prices to fuel our cars, or switch, at least occasionally, to alternative transportation, including biking, walking, taking the bus or rail. There's finally more acceptance of this as a reality. It's even leaching into entertainment, with younger actors in an AMC serial drama portraying an older era, being proponents of high-speed rail and walking the walk by taking public transportation to work, despite being able to afford other options. Two lead actors from the hit television show "Mad Men" throw their support behind high-speed rail in a humorous new online video posted Wednesday on Funnyordie.com.The actors and U.S. PIRG, a national advocacy organization, developed the video in conjunction with the popular online video site as a way to reach new audiences and build excitement for high-speed rail projects around the country.Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell, and Rich Sommer, who plays Harry Crane, born in 1979 and 1978, respectively, according to IMDB.com, are true to their characters on the show, playing Madison Avenue ad men in 1965.The short scene draws many parallels between then and now, which are both funny and disturbing: Japan embracing and still being far ahead of us on high-speed rail; all the ad dollars spent on telling the American consumer how "sexy and powerful" cars are; using traffic and parking hassles as selling points; and comparing them to airplanes. Toward the end, Harry delivers a great line when assuring Pete he doesn't have to worry about selling rail to the public: "But, honestly, I think you can relax on this whole thing. I read that in 40 years, gas is going to cost almost one dollar a gallon." If only that were true. With all the uprisings happening in the Middle East, a primary source of the world's oil, we may have finally seen the end of cheap and easily accessible petroleum, says professor and author Michael T. Klare. The "old oil order," as he puts it in an article published by TomDispatch.com and grist, is dying. While cheap oil "has made possible the automobile, the aviation industry, suburbia, mechanized agriculture and an explosion of economic globalization," Klare writes, and "a handful of major oil-producing areas launched the Petroleum Age — the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela, Romania, the area around Baku (in what was then the Czarist Russian empire), and the Dutch East Indies — it's been the Middle East that has quenched the world's thirst for oil since World War II."So, if we lose our primary pusher for our cheap fossil fuel fix, what's next? Will it be high-speed rail? Personal Rapid Transit? Far into the future, when we're all fossils, and the entertainers of tomorrow make a "video" set in our current era, will eco-conscious actors still be mocking the fact that we can't give up our cars? Or, will we finally have evolved a few steps ahead, with the joke being that high-speed trains is one of those antiquated ways of yesterday?
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Excellent article. My worry is that it will be more than an up-hill battle over the next 6 years. The House is set to bring their Transportation Bill to the Highways and Transit Sub-Committee any week now, likely within a few weeks.....could be very downsized and petty.
If I have to resign myself to accept high oil prices then the transit industry should resign itself to paying higher wages to its workers so they can afford it and the higher cost of living associated with it. Unless we all can work from home. Affordable and accessable transit is one way go.We should demand nothing less.
Interesting that alternative energy autos were not considered as an option, or increased use of existing infrastructure thru car/vanpooling - rather stick to the mantra of HS rail, even though it's tremendously expensive, would consume vast amounts of resources (including petrol)to build and operate, and be useless in most places for commuter travel - not to mention people having to drive to/from the train, since most of suburbia can't be serviced by transit.
You might or might not be right about oil prices, but this is not Europe (thank God). Your whole perspective is wrapped around a presupposition and perhaps a personal desire to see us be like Europe. Personally, I don't take my cues from the mainstream media, Hollywood and most definitely not from the White House. I am just as much a responsible steward as many, but I revere our freedoms way more than a dream for high-speed rail. I admire what Rick Scott did in Florida and I am NOT a nutjob. Why? Because I'm bent on hurting poor shmoes who need from A to B on the train? Of course not. I admire people with spines to protect the tax payer's money even at his own personal peril. Truly, if we can all take off our cynic's hat for a moment, what would Rick have to gain by saying no to $2.4 billion? Would high-speed rail be nice? of course. I'd love it. But are we doing it responsibly by borrowing more money from Communist China? I say no. I say let's continue to tighten our belts, get leaner and meaner and become more grateful for our remaining freedoms...and start concentrating more on taking those back, than trying to emulate Socialist countries.
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I am looking for any and all recommendations for the best Italian spots in San Antonio. Price is not an issue. Location is not an issue. The region of the Italian cooking is not an issue. I love pretty much any Italian food, from the fanciest dishes to the most simple pizza or pasta. So any kind of Italian recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Several restaurants leap to mind when thinking about Italian food in San Antonio. Favorites include ( in no particular order) Ciao Lavanderia, 226 E. Olmos phone 210-822-3990; Massimo's, 1896 Nacogdoches, 342-8556; Piatti, 255 E. Basse Rd. in the Quarry Market at the base of the smokestacks, 832-0300; Grissini, 8594 Fredericksburg Rd. 615-7270, San Remo,8055 West Ave. 366-0416, LaScala, (Continental, but with mostly an Italian flavor) 2117 NW. Military Hwy. 366-1515; Aldo's 8539 Fredericksburg Rd., 696-ALDO and last but not least, Paesano's, 555 E. Basse Rd. 828-5191. One or any of these should satisfy your Italian needs.
little italy at blanco and west avenue on the north side of san antonio has the best italian food in town.
Along with others mentioned so far..... You have to try Piccolo's! Small family owned
Located at Wurzbach and Evers roads (close to 410) Wonderful neighborhood Italian restaurant with delicious food! You just gotta go there!
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Just an FYI in 2013: the reply from 2004 includes a lot of places that are no more...Ciao, Massimos, Grissini, LaScala.
Luce at just off Huebner & I-10 in a little strip mall is quite good. I especially like the arancini there. Aldo's at Wurzbach & Fredericksburg Rd. is good. Grissini's is still around, altho' moved across town. The Calamari there is tops. The Paesano's at L. 1604 serves very good Italian food. And as Sam Spade said, Tre Trattoria, either location, imho is the best place to find Italian in this town. I do miss LaScala, Massimo's and Ciao Lavanderia. Anyone know what went in there after the nice couple closed it?
Whenever go through SA, I try to always stop at Paesano's on the River Walk and order the Shrimp Paesano. It's just one of those perfect dishes I think of fondly and often. I've not found a similar dish prepared as well anywhere else. As marianne says, there is another location of Paesano's but I've not been there.
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I've never been to the riverwalk Paesano's. I like the Lincoln Height's location the best, they have some good veal dishes on the menu. I've tried the 1604 location several times, it's just around the corner from our home, but I've never had a great meal there.
I do like the Shrimp Paesano though, very yummy.
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"It means everything," James said. "It means a lot. First of all, like I continue to say, it means I've been able to be healthy. To be out on the floor and do what I love to do, I love the game of basketball and I try to give everything to the game. And hopefully it continues to give back to me."
James eclipsed both marks before halftime, helped Miami go ahead by 34 points in the third quarter and allowed Spoelstra to rest his starters _ without debate this time _ for the fourth. Dwyane Wade added 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists and Mario Chalmers scored 15 for the Heat, who had lost three of their last four away from home.
David Lee had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Jarrett Jack scored 16 in place of Stephen Curry, who sprained his twice surgically repaired right ankle during Golden State's morning practice. The team said X-rays were negative, and Warriors coach Mark Jackson said he doesn't expect Curry to be out long.
The Warriors, who upset the Heat 97-95 in Miami on Dec. 12, lost consecutive games for only the third time this season. With center Andrew Bogut already out indefinitely recovering from left ankle surgery, Curry's absence turned out to be too much to overcome against the defending NBA champions.
"Disappointing, but we faced a team that remembered what took place in South Beach and came with a mindset to make a point, individually and collectively," Jackson said. "That's what great players do."
James and Wade just overwhelmed the Warriors from the start.
Wade lobbed an alley-oop from halfcourt that James finished with two hands early in the first quarter. James hit Wade slicing down the lane for a dunk moments later for his 5,000th career assist, and James made a 3-pointer after falling hard on his right elbow a play earlier to give the Heat a 23-14 lead.
James, who made 11 of 20 shots from the floor, surpassed the scoring mark when he dribbled from the wing and pulled up in the lane to make an off-balance jumper with 2:45 remaining in the second quarter to give him 20,001 career points. He needed 18 points entering the game to become the 38th NBA player to reach the milestone.
James said he knew before the shot he was a point away from the milestone.
"The best part about it is I was in a rhythm, too, so it wasn't one of those forced shots," he said. "I was able to get the switch on David Lee and get to the elbow and make a shot. It's pretty cool."
Previously, the youngest player to score 20,000 points was Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who got there when he was 29 years, 122 days old. James was 28 years, 17 days on Wednesday.
"He probably would've had it sooner if he didn't decide to come down here to South Beach," Wade said. "It's just a testament to him as a player."
James already was the youngest player in league history to win Rookie of the Year, record a triple-double, score 1,000 points, score 10,000 points and win MVP honors at an All-Star game. Only Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain (29 years, 134 days) and Michael Jordan (29 years, 326 days) reached the latest milestone before turning 30.
James also is the 13th player with 20,000 points and 5,000 assists. The only active players to reach both marks are Bryant and Boston's Kevin Garnett.


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The Autumn Mix Tape: Apple Patches and Pumpkin Trees
Before I start: the original photo used was taken by Eleanor LoNardo, who is wonderfully talented and gracious for letting me mess with her photo for mix tape art like the 14 year old I am.
I got into trouble on Tuesday night.
See, I was home sick and wanted very much to put on Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums. But I was told explicitly by my boyfriend that it was too soon. Too soon for Christmas, Kathleen.
Pish posh! I was raised by a mother who believes that Christmas starts the moment Thanksgiving dinner is over. It should also be noted that our house had two Christmas trees, enough garland to re-foliage all the burn areas in my home state of Colorado, and so many Santa figurines there was almost nowhere to put a cup of coffee down in the morning without playing Kris Kringle Dominoes.
I love holiday music. It's bordering on obsession. Every holiday I trawl through record stores and the internet, searching for The Ventures' Christmas album, or that one time Phantom Planet covered "Carol of the Bells." I relished when The Mynabirds recorded the stinging, poignant "All I Want is Truth (For Christmas)."
I can listen to Otis Redding's "Merry Christmas Baby" in August. By "can" I mean "do."
But it's October, and it's not even close to Halloween, let alone Christmas. Before I could get overruled, I snuck in one listen of "Sister Winter" before conceding that, yes, early October could be too soon for holiday music. The sudden change from sunny to rainy, from shorts to scarves, can tempt me to jump past autumn, and (Manheim) steamroller right into the holiday state of mind. Please forget I made that joke.
I needed to find the True Meaning of Fall. To find music with riffs as open as the breath of changing seasons blowing the summer heat back down to Florida. Songs to remind me of the simmering, russet magic of autumn. For these enchanting months when even the clouds feel restorative, and your skin still holds some of that summer heat under your freshly unpacked sweaters.
There is so much life in fall, in the space between the sweaty magnetism of summer and the woolen comfort of winter. It's a time of harvest and connection to the soil that feeds us, of observance as the world sheds its gaudy summer baubles and falls asleep naked under a cloudy blanket. It is no coincidence that as the weather gets colder, everything turns to warm shades of orange and red to keep us company until the white and gray mutes all our racing thoughts and tosses us straight into 2013.
So I am going to hold off on my holiday obsession and appreciate exactly where I am. This is the playlist that will help me with that. I hope it helps you, too.
But you can bet there will be one hell of a holiday playlist coming your way! DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING! I am my mother's daughter.
PS: My most cherished autumn song by far is Eva Cassidy's "I Know You By Heart", which is not available on Spotify. Please feel free and obligated to go purchase it, because it's an extraordinary song by a singular songwriter who died far too young.


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Written by Carol Frank Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00
In the coming weeks, the trustees of the Great Neck Library will, in public sessions, grapple with honing the budget for fiscal year 2011. In the past four years, total expenditures were kept flat due to the fact that the library had operating surpluses that offset the increases. That is not the case for 2011. Revenues are down by 9 percent and expenses are up.
The Station Branch expansion would result in operational cost increases, which it appears that the board may officially approve soon, and were included in the budget. A Parkville expansion was also included in the budget. With these expansions, the operating budget would go up by 11.9 percent. These costs do not include the costs of renovation, which would come from reserves set aside for the branches.
In order to cover the 3.1 percent increase, the tax increase for homeowners would be 5.7 percent. For a home assessed at $1 million, the tax would go up by about $20.
The proposed $8,676,500 budget breaks down to 57 percent for total salaries; 10 percent for employee benefits; 20 percent for total building operations (utilities, rentals, insurance); 10 percent total materials and programs (books, audio recordings, periodicals and the like); 3 percent for total library operations (office supplies, telephone, audit/accounting fees, legal fees, etc.).
Various service cuts are being considered in order to save money. If the Main library were to open at 10 a.m. on Saturdays instead of 9 a.m., double shifts would not be needed, with a savings of $8,856. Cuts in Sunday hours could also reduce the budget by $8,955. Scheduling changes for circulation staff and reference staff would result in savings as well. Slicing into the materials and programs budget could result in total savings of $51,420.
Retirement incentives are also being considered as cost cutting measures that would affect next year as well as future budgets.
Another suggestion that would result in a monetary wash, would be to close Main on Fridays at 6 p.m. due to decreased usage there at that time and to increase the hours at Station on Fridays until 9 p.m.
The preliminary budget document is available online and at Main and all branches. The next budget meeting where these issues will be discussed is Tuesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. at Main. The finalized budget will be adopted at the April 20 meeting.


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HAGERSTOWN, Md. - A nursing home patient in Hagerstown is charged with second-degree rape for allegedly assaulting an 89-year-old female patient.
Thirty-eight-year-old Lamont Stafford of Bowie was being held Tuesday on $100,000 bond in connection with the incident Friday at NMS Healthcare.
The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown ( http://bit.ly/zILHX5) reports that the nursing director told police a staff member found Stafford on top of the woman in her room.
According to police, when the nursing director asked Stafford about the incident, he said he "just had to have sex."
The nursing director says Stafford had been at the facility for five days.
She says his records indicate he is able to distinguish between right and wrong -- even though he allegedly identified himself to police as Jesus Christ.
Court records say the victim has dementia.
Information from: The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Md., http://www.herald-mail.com
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Homicide victims identified as West Haven father and sonFebruary 13,2014Police photo
Sylvester LabartinoStaff Report
State police arrested Sylvester Labartino, 70, of Hubbardton, this morning on two counts of second-degree murder.
Labartino is charged with the deaths of a father and son, identified by sister Michelle Charron as Shane and Chris Plummer of West Haven, in Labartino's residence at 578 Route 30 in Hubbardton yesterday afternoon.
He is being held at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility for a lack of $1 million bail; and is scheduled to be arraigned at Rutland County Superior Court Criminal Division today at 12:30 p.m.
The investigation began soon after police radio dispatches Wednesday afternoon reported a 911 call about a possible shooting at the residence.
Troopers from the Vermont State Police Rutland Barracks, along with emergency medical personnel and officers from the Department of Motor Vehicles, Fair Haven Police Department and Castleton Police Department responded immediately and located the residence where the shooting occurred; they found two dead men outside the house.
Police began looking for a white Ford Bronco that belonged to Labartino; a short time later the truck was spotted traveling north on Route 30 in Castleton. Fair Haven Police Chief William Humphries said he stopped the Ford Bronco just north of North Road on Route 30.
Labartino was driving the truck; he was taken into custody and later to the Rutland State Police barracks.
The victims were taken to the Medical Examiner's office for autopsy; preliminary assessment at the scene found they had been shot.
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This past weekend was the Battle For Salvation RTT which saw 27 players @ 2K point playing three games over the day. Let's start off with the tournament itself, my games, and then some observations with how I plan to move ahead for the next event with Tyranids.
While it's true that I am a member of the BFS gaming club and do help out with events from time to time, for this RTT I was pure player- show up, play, and leave, so what I say is with a critical eye with no offense intended…
Terrain. Terrain was fantastic on all levels. "Themed" boards with LOS blocking center pieces, and even ruins, area, effect terrain on each side of the board. There was no lopsidedness, the last few boards with little to no terrain, etc. Everything was fair and based so there could be no argument. Visually they were also great being fully painted, modeled, and with details. Most of the pieces made you want to pick them up and borrow them for your army display board. Kudos to Ed and John for painting and building them.
Logistics wise the event started more or less on time, games and lunch went as scheduled, and the missions were clearly defined/NOVA format. Bobby the TO was walking around during each game, keeping an eye on the tables, players, and with rulebook in hand in case there were any questions. Hard to find any complaints about the event for the day.
Onto the armies…
Twenty seven players, three IG, two Dark Eldar, one Ork (!) and one Tyranid player- the rest all power armor. No Tau, Sisters, Eldar, or Necrons, pretty much the state of "competitive" 40K today. List wise everything was rock solid- all mech, lots of land raiders, jacked up terminators, and rifleman dreads- gone are any other tank variant like vindies or predators- also pretty much "competitive" 40K today. What I found very interesting was that Jawaballs brought his four land raider + Mepheston list which I think got rushed ahead a bit of schedule thanks to the changing of the meta that Grey Knights are bringing.
Onto the games…
First matchup was completely random and I drew a Space Marine bike list for Annihilation as the primary battle points and then victory points, objectives, and table quarters for the bonus points. The marine list looked a lot like my Saim-Hann list only for marines at less cost and more effectiveness in shots and the assault. Deployment was dawn of war and I took first turn putting out my HQ and two TROOPS tervigons, deepstriking the trygons, and then walking the rest on turn one, with my y-stealers going dormant…
Tactically I needed to get up there and tie those bikes up right away with spawned gaunts till my trygons could come in and deepstrike. Normally I would have just walked everything on turn one and then marched forward but with the shots and fast moving speed I'd never catch the marines and they would just dink me on kill points and run away- no hard feelings there because I would and do the same thing with my Saim-Hann.
Tarpit the bikes, and then finish them off with the trygons. It's a plan!
Turn one I march the tervigons up and wait, figuring my T6 could hold a round of shooting and then start spawning as the marines move on- four bike groups lead by a captain, a group of scouts in reserve, three rifleman dreads, and three speeders move on and open up on my big bugs dropping two of them- plasma and melta suck. I'm like DAAAMMM this could be the game already since they are now going to sweep into my hive guard and gaunt fodder in the back lurking on objectives, and without synapse I'll run at the drop of a hat.
I need those trygons to come in now, but they don't, at least the y-stealers make an appearance and bust out of the center terrain- the question is now what to do with them? Get greedy? Gamble? I have a tendency to do that in tourneys and it usually costs me. Best example was when I was playing my Necrons once and my opponent deepstruck his termies and chaos lord and got a mishap. Now rather than me placing them far far away and out of the game, I drop them right into the core of my Necrons. Why? Kill points were bonus points and I wanted all those bonus points.
Mine, mine, mine!
On my turn I rapid fire thirty warriors into them and kill nothing. Fire off the monolith…nothing. Shoot six destroyers, kill nothing, charge with the "C'tan and miss! Lord strikes back with a poisoned demon weapon scoring tons of hits, I fail my 4+ saves and the C'Tan goes down. Now on my opponent's turn his termies are running all around in the heart of my Necrons. Needless to say I lost that game.
So that's what I'm thinking about wondering what to do with the y-stealers and since I'm already down so much I'm like let's do it, and assault three bike units. I make lots of hits, but score one rend I think and the bikes win combat by one and then tie me up. Not what I was hoping for but at least I've stalled them.
Captain bike squad swings around and assaults my hive guard and venomthropes- losing one or two bikes on the way in due to dangerous terrain from the venom cloud as the captain takes on the venoms- with lash whips bringing him down to I 1 and poisoned attacks wounding on a 2+. Venoms hit! Venoms wound! Captain fails his 2+ armor saves, swings back, and misses! Hive guard vs. bikes are a wash. 'Nids win the combat, and the bikes fail LD and run! On the stealers side I hit up some awesome rends winning the assault as the bikes break and start running. A round of stupid dice rolling has now shifted the game back to the center and maybe I can come back as long as the marines don't break.
Eventually my last tervigon goes down, my spawned gaunts die, but the trygons finally come in. Most of the bikes run off the table but one squad regroups since I screw up with the massacre roll on the y-stealers and move them into terrain for cover saves pushing them farther away than 6" from a bike squad.
I keep the pressure on, the speeders and dreads continue to fire away, but once my trygons finally do arrive they get into the fight and at the end of the game I've tables the marines and captured all the bonus points.
At lunch Jawa and I grab some pizza and talk about his four raider list. The thinking is this- with grey Knights spamming so much AV 11/12 killing shots per turn, and with the ability to reliably alpha strike your list those points put into AV 11/12 boxes will be wasted. On the other side foot lists will get beat down even worse since all that psybolt stuff will be hitting and wounding like crazy. So what to do? AV 14 is the only conclusion.
Sure you can still get rended by psycannon spam, and will, but if you are not playing Grey Knights with Grey Knights what are your other options? What do you guys think? Only time will tell. In an iron twist currently the worst army in 40K NECRONS has the BEST vehicle in the game vs. Grey Knights- the monolith with living metal. I look forward to GW dropping living metal in the next codex since the monolith is already overpowered just like warriors which need to go down to a 4+ save and 5+ WBB to keep thing fare between them and Space Marines.
So apparently in round one only two guys scored a max/perfect score- Tyranids and a purifier/henchman/psyrifle dread spam Grey Knight list run by a gantleman named Nick. I was hoping to avoid this army and any DE armies, and I know I'm in trouble. I can see he is very confident with the match up, and why not? Pretty much an auto-win, but I'm not going down easy!
Mission is table quarters with bonus points for kill points, objectives, etc. The Grey Knights are all meched up, psybolted out, purifiers, basically a netlist. I'm trying to figure out what to do as we set up. Do I go for the win or be a jerk and play for a draw? I told myself that my goal for the day was to place in the top five with Tyranids. A draw or a loss would not do that, I needed the win. I was also kicking myself for not moving off some of the bonus objectives in the first game and scoring a few points less than max. I should have been smarter. There is no reason why I should have been facing this type of list. I should have been snacking on other Space Marines. Be that as it may, I decided to 100% got for the win, full attack. Zerg rush, punch him in his table quarter, box him up, bring in the stealers from dormant reserve and outflank, and then branch out from the center for table quarters and bonus objectives.
I take firs turn, Grey Knights try to seize twice with the re-roll and fail so the zerg rush is on. I take LOTS of shots going in but the venom cover saves and FNP means only one trygon goes down and a tervibug takes a few wounds. If I had any type of mech I would have been smoked before I got out of my deployment zone.
Zerging forward I finally crash the front lines and go to work on the razorbacks I managed to pop with the hive guard…and I just basically die…
Purifying flame kills my gaunts before I can even assault. Force weapons dink and instant kill my trygons and tervigon. Y-stealers do hit and do some damage which makes me happy, but even they die to purifying flame. Basically my assault army dies before I can even assault and get an attack off. My entire army is tabled without even getting to really hit back. WOW!
To say I was really deflated is an understatement. 100% not my opponent's fault, he was a great guy, everything on the up and up, and played very well from a tactical point of view, but basically vs. Tyranids the core rules of the Grey Knights just wrecked me. What was GW thinking with cleansing flame? What were they thinking with mass force weapons? Might not be bad against power armored armies, but against models with 5+/6+ armor saves? Force weapons instant killing 200 point + bugs with me not having a reliable way to try and stop them? I was pushing the shadows from the tervibugs up and forward but we all know how Tyranid psychic defense is...
So now this means Dark Eldar not only rock Tyranids, which I can live with since it takes a rare player to play perverted space elves and I can play the odds at not facing them in a tourney, but now against Grey Knights which I can bet all WAAC players will be fielding to some extent. Am I being way dramatic here? Time to regroup for round three at at least not finish in the bottom five...
So turn three has me facing an IG army for objectives. Pretty standard IG build with chimeras and support tanks instead of valks, which is actually worse for me since the tanks put out more shots. I take first turn and start zerg rushing with FNP and the venoms up for cover saves. Chimeras roll up and plasma vets with take it down orders zap three of my trygons and a tervigon before I can crash the ranks. With my two remaining tervigons they basically spawn gaunts to glance and stun the chimeras as the tervibugs punch chimeras spilling the troops.
I then try to get them tied up in the assault so they won't be shot to death. Pask plasma Russ rocks my hive guard and everything else it hits till my y-stealers can finally come in and punk it. I do a lot of damage but thanks to the tanks and shots a lot of guard stuff is still up.
I've got two objectives with some lurking gaunts and my opponent has one with some vets. He tank shocks one of my gaunt squads but get immobilized on the terrain on the way in next to an objective, blasts my other gaunt unit off as they fail LD thanks to no synapse, and my last tervigon finally kills a guard unit in the assault and massacre rolls onto an objective to contest.
Game ends and it all comes down to either a tie if an immobilized tank is contesting my objective, or a win for the space bugs if it isn't. Of course I say it's not contested, and my opponent says yes. I don't want to be a jerk, and of course we are both going to say yes/no after such a hard fought game, so we get the TO to make a decision and the bugs have the objective for the win.
So two wins and a loss for the day ends me in 10th place, way short of my original goal, but with lots to really think about moving ahead over the next six months with Tyranids.
Are big bugs dead thanks to Grey Knights? Little bugs sure are. If I drop the big bugs then how ill I bust open all those land raiders that suddenly start appearing as the other marine armies start responding the 'knights. If assault bug lists are dead what about shooting? Just as bad I'm afraid since warriors will get instant killed by pretty much every GK shot with a failed cover save and at the end of the day I can only get three hive guard.
Lot's to think about. Grey Knights are the future of WAAC and I can't count on Necrons or Sisters to offer an alternative to fighting them, so it is going to be a long next year plus till we hit 40K 6th edition and maybe some of the other xeno books...


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These bathmats are the thickest plushest I have ever purchased. You will not be disappointed if you buy these. One word of caution: They have "quality" tags on them and you can't just pull them off because they are attached to the threads. If you just pull on them, you may start a "run" in them. Take a second to go get a pair of scissors and cut the tag off.
I bought these in the color "Linen"and they look exactly true to color as the photo shows. I washed and dried them as soon as I received them which made them thicker and softer. They are nice, heavyweight floor towels. Some people call them bath mats, but I've always called them floor towels. You use them to step on when you get out of the shower. I prefer floor towels to rugs because they are washable and hold together much better if they are washed frequently, which most people do. I don't like rugs in the bathroom because they fall apart if they are made out of that yarn stuff with rubber backs, plus rug tend to get lint-y. These are not those rugs...these are the thick, comfy towels that don't slip and are fresh and clean each time someone bathes since they are much easier to take care of. Love that they come in sets of two, and I will be buying more in the future. Buy these, you won't be sorry!
Love the quality of the cotton and the feel underfoot The pale blue has not washed well and just a few weeks later the dye is becoming splotchy.
Ordered the white bath mat, good quality, thick and yet soft, holds up fine with washing.
These are actually much nicer than I anticipated. Very thick, well made bath mats, the quality you'd find in finer hotels. I bought these BECAUSE they don't have the non slip rubber backer - they're just terry toweling. Those rubber backers smell bad, fall apart over time, and are very hard on your washing machines. Highly recommend.
I ordered white and I am pleased with the quality. The mats are nice cotton and even after laundry look great. Getting a set of two for this price is a great bargain.
These mats are NOT superior and luxurious in any way. They are thin and are not safe...standing on them Is akin to ice skating....they will move with every step (my flooring is tile). They could easily be mistaken for bath towels, although my bath towels are heavier than these.
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Have used these rugs for outside the shower and tub. These are the answer! No worries when washing often and they are very absorbent but yet dry quickly.
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23 July 2010
You couldn't find shoes with a smaller carbon footprint than these beautifully sewn, hemp and cotton ballet flats from small-run Etsy seller The Generation. Tread lightly in a natural pair like these ones pictured above, or browse for more colourful styles,
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3 November 2009
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You'd never guess that these beauties were orginally bought in Primark, but a closer look at the image reveals that in a previous life, these were a pair of very ordinary pumps, transformed by shoe dresser extraordinaire Miss Bunny into a pair of really funky,
11 December 2008
The current trend for bows owes a lot to the styles that were around in the 1980s, and this is an exquisitely well-preserved pair of cream pumps from back in the day. They recently came into the possession of shoe addict Almighty Vintage Venus, who is now selling
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