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Mixed BagThis would be good as a gift for someone who is new to lubes and wants to see what a variety are about. For people with experience with lubes, I found it to be quite disappointing and would not buy larger bottles of them.
Good details on ingredients, nice packaging.
Some of the lubes don't work as intended, not long lasting, tacky and greasy.
Given that these are just sample tubes, you probably won't be doing much experimenting with this set. I used them in a fairly standard manner vaginally and they worked, somewhat. If you are sensitive down there these products may not be the best for you. I had a badish reaction from the silicone lube and there was just not enough staying power for the rest.
Texture / Consistency / Thickness / Viscosity
The textures on most were okay though as they dried out, they got tacky very quickly. It is a little too easy to pour though, often leading to a bigger amount than I wanted to use even with being careful. The silicone one was greasy from the start in a really icky way.
Taste / Aroma
For the most part they had no real smell except the Sensitive one. That one had a really awful smell to it and lingered even after washing it off.
These lubes had no staying power. I had to reapply them often, going through the bottle very quickly. It was easy to reapply them, but I would rather do it less than having to stop every few minutes. They all cleaned up well, except for the smell from the Sensitive one. I did have to wash them off though, since they did not absorb cleanly into the skin.
The lubes were packaged both neatly and securely. It's kind of discreet, but I wouldn't use it for travel since after you open the packaging, the bottles are not very secure. The labels were very clear on the ingredients and are very clearly labeled with what they are. Unfortunately there is no toy interaction warnings on the packaging which could pose a problem with the silicone lube.
Special Features
They have three special lubes, one for Warming, Tingling and Sensitive. Only the warming worked at all, I got no feeling of anything from the other two. The warming one worked really well though, as it was nothing but glycerin.
Personal comments
All in all, I found this set to be disappointing, as someone who is used to lubes and knows what she likes in them. The amount of mess from the packaging really added to it as well.
Follow-up commentary 2 months after original review
What lube that didn't dry up from the packages not sealing perfectly I tried again. I still don't like it. Same problems as in my first review though I avoided the one that I reacted poorly to.
This product was provided free of charge to the reviewer. This review is in compliance with the FTC guidelines.
Yikes! Thanks for the review!
Thanks for the review and the follow-up notes.
thanks for the review!
Thanks for sharing! Good to know that some of the lubes didnt work well
These sound kinda icky! thanks for letting us know!
Thank you for the review.
Bad smelling? Oh dear!
thanks for the info.
Thanks. I like the sampler idea but I'll probably pass after reading this.
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Are Bills, Raiders leaders in McNabb race?
Published: March 25th, 2010 | Tags: Buffalo Bills, Donovan McNabb, Jason La Canfora, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Rod Graves, Steve Spagnuolo
If a race does exist to land Eagles QB Donovan McNabb in a trade, it appears on the surface to be a two-team heat between the Bills and Raiders.
NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora has been talking with executives around the league, and he told NFL Total Access on Thursday the two teams that continue to be connected to a possible trade are the Bills and Raiders.
According to La Canfora, the Seahawks, Browns, Broncos and Jaguars aren't in the mix for McNabb. Steve Spagnuolo put another nail in the coffin in the Rams' reported interest when he denied it to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Cardinals also were reportedly not interested, a stance that GM Rod Graves confirmed in an e-mail to Darren Urban of the team's official Web site.
I learned a long time ago that it's the quiet ones you have to watch. To that end, we haven't heard much about the Vikings or 49ers being connected to McNabb. Just saying.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Interview with Rakesh Agrawal, SnapStream
For this morning's interview, we spoke with Rakesh Agrawal, CEO of Houston-based SnapStream (www.snapstream.com), which develops software which allows users to search within television shows. We caught up with Rakesh to hear about what the firm's products do, how it has transitioned into the commercial market, and where it is going next.
What are SnapStream's products used for?
Rakesh Agrawal: SnapStream is a software company based in Houston. The technology we specialize in lets people record lots and lots of TV--it's like a DVR on steroids. We make it so that people can search inside those shows. Searching inside television is not something most consumers do, but what our customer do is use it to pinpoint when something was said on a television show. For example, if you want to see all the places where Dell is mentioned on television among the recordings we've made, we can find every place that Dell shows up in a transcript, and returns that as a search result. Once that's done, you can create a clip, burn it to DVD, or email a copy of that clip to someone.
Our technology is used by lots of different people, because TV is so influential, and people are interested in what is said on TV. There are three primary places our product is used. Number one is the government, number two is education, and finally, in entertainment and news. Across those three sectors, the search is used in different ways. For government agencies, they want to know what is being said about their agency. For example, a mayor or police department might want to know what's being said about them on the news, so that if it's inaccurate, they can respond more quickly. That allows government organizations to more quickly and effectively respond to any TV coverage about themselves, and ultimately better shape public opinion.
In education, it's used as a tool to get TV into the classroom. We've made it so that teachers can pinpoint content that might be useful to them in the classroom, and pull up educational content more quickly. Say a teacher wants to put together a lesson on a topic in the news, perhaps the elections, they can search for it and pull up relevant pieces of coverage for including in classroom instruction.
Finally, it the entertainment world, it's used all over the place. Once example is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, who are our customers. Anytime Colbert makes fun of something on the show, and pulls up that 15 second clip to make a point, the show has been using SnapStream to find those clips and integrate them into the final show. They're an around-the-click operation, up-to-the-minute, and covering what happened on the news that day.
You started as a digital video record (DVR) firm for consumers--how did you make the shift from the DVR market to enterprise some years ago?
Rakesh Agrawal: We did start out in the consumer market. We made a product called Beyond TV, which was used mostly by geeks, who would set it up in their living rooms. It enabled you to do what you can do with consumer DVRs today, which is to record TV, watch TV, and get a program guide. But, because it was built on a PC and used by early adopters, we had all sorts of cool features--things like the ability to record more than one show at a time, tape shows, and sync them to things like the iPhone and iPad. It's stuff you can't do with off the shelf DVRs you might get at Best Buy. What happened, however, is that even though we've sold a 100,000 units of the software, we found we were running out of early adopters, geeks who were willing to crack open their PCs and install software.
So we said--okay, what do we do next? We tried a bunch of little things. We created a social network for people who watch TV, Couchville, which if you look online got great reviews from people like TechCrunch. But, we built traffic but couldn't figure out how to build a real, scalable business. However, we started getting guys knocking on our doors, saying that they really liked our consumer product, because it does some unusual things--and asked us to build a version for their business. There were the guys at Saturday Night Live, there was someone at ABC Television in Burbank, and so on. So, we sat down, and thought that maybe we could go and talk to them, pay attention, and see what they're looking for. We followed half a dozen of those customers back to their offices, interviewed them, and saw how they were using our consumer product, and realized that there was a big opportunity we had been ignoring. That was exactly what we were looking for.
Why was that the case?
Rakesh Agrawal: It's a market where not lots of people are trying to solve the problem, and we bring unique technology and expertise to solve the problem. So, we went after it, and about three years ago added our TV search technology. We now have a couple of hundred customers using the product and who live inside the software on a daily basis. They rely on it as their pipeline to television. That's how we made the transition. It's not something I would have guessed a few years ago, that we would become more of a B2B company as we have become, even though we originally set out to be a consumer company. The switch has been great, and it's been good to get into business in something other than the consumer market. Now, we've built out an in-house sales team, and really changed our support process to provide enterprise support, and it's been a really successful transition.
It looks like your software is sold as an appliance?
Rakesh Agrawal: Part of what we learned with those handful of potential customers, is that most people using SnapStream and our consumer product in businesses were IT geeks. In most cases, they were spending something like 40 hours--on the low side--tinkering with the hardware to get SnapStream to work the way they wanted to use it. In order to scale this, we had to make it so it didn't require our customers to spend 40 hours to do this, so we built a turnkey appliance. Our customer can get up and running within minutes of receiving SnapStream. The appliance is turn-key, they can plug it into power, into the network, and they're ready to go.
How is the company funded and backed?
Rakesh Agrawal: We have an angel investor here in Houston, and we are mostly self funded. That angel investment goes all the way back to when we were focused on the consumer. Today, we're profitable and growing.
How big is the company, and are you all in Houston?
Rakesh Agrawal: We're a 20 person company, with one in Austin. Otherwise, we're all here in Houston.
What's next for the firm?
Rakesh Agrawal: We just got finished with a major revamp of our software. As we grew out of our consumer product, we found we were doing things on our consumer software that we built which it was never designed for. Things like Active Directory authentication and security--something you'd never ever going to do in a home. Parental control is one thing, but Active Directory is another, completely different security problem. All of that is layered on top of our consumer product. As our consumer product got long in the tooth, we started a rewrite of the core objects that comprise our software. We shipped the first version of that a couple of months ago. The key features of this new version, is it allows us to build scalable, SnapStream recording instances. For example, one box might be able to handle up to 10 channels at a time--which you might think is a lot--but there are lots of customers who need to record 30 or 40 channels at a time. The only recourse they had at the time was to buy additional SnapStream servers, and manage each independently. What we've done with our new clustering technology, is you can now use four SnapStreams talking to each other, with only one program guide to manage, and one place to search for those TV show. It really simplifies the whole process. We've also added mirror configurations for backup, in case something happens to a SnapStream. What's next for us, is we've got a couple of things we're working on, all related to the core TV search idea. Although TV search is not one that gets lots of attention, TV is very influential, and there are lots of people who still get their news from television. We're really looking to take traditional TV, and make it so people can find whatever they're looking for.


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Newmarket: Police and stewards called in after fight breaks out after last race
PUBLISHED: 10:21 04 May 2014 | UPDATED: 10:21 04 May 2014
Two people were arrested after a brawl at Newmarket Racecourse.
It happened after the last race, won by Hors De Combat, when a group of around half a dozen people started fighting.
It took place in the main betting ring at around 6pm and had to be broken up by stewards and police.
A statement posted on the course's Twitter feed later read: "There was an incident in the betting ring after the last race involving a small number of racegoers.
"The incident was dealt with swiftly by racecourse security and police teams. As a result, two arrests were made.
"It is very disappointing that people choose to behave in this way after an otherwise successful day's racing."
They later added the two people arrested by police were released without charge.


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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotelLifestyle hotel in Irvine near John Wayne Airport
Popular property highlights
Business locale
With easy access to Interstate 405, the Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center sits among corporate offices 2 miles from John Wayne/Orange County Airport and South Coast Plaza; UC Irvine is 3 miles away.
Serious exercise
Fitness facilities include a spa tub, preferred tee times and rates at 2 golf courses, and bicycles and a bike path.
Cotton and chenille
The 536 guestrooms at Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center have pool or mountain views, crown molding, tweed carpets, Egyptian cotton duvets, chenille fabrics, commissioned artwork, refrigerators, and free WiFi.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Comfy beds and overall room comfort
Hotel Irvine
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Located 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from South Coast Plaza and 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) from Irvine Spectrum, the 14-story Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center features an outdoor pool with spa, large sundeck, a 24-hour fitness center with cardio and weight-training equipment, an intimate lobby bar, and 2 dining options. Eats Kitchen and Bar is located on the 12th floor and serves lunch, and dinner. Red Bar and Lounge provides a number of options for guests on the go.
Free WiFi is available. A complimentary shuttle takes guests to and from John Wayne/Orange County Airport. Pets up to 50 pounds are allowed, with restrictions.
- Concierge services
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Multilingual staff
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Free airport transportation
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 536
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- ATM/banking
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Grocery/convenience store
- Number of floors - 14
- One meeting room
- Luggage storage
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 3252
- RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
- Snack bar/deli
- Outdoor pool
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Designated smoking areas
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 35000
- Number of meeting rooms - 25
- Garden
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa tub
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Grocery/convenience store
- Snack bar/deli
- Refrigerator
- Microwave (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge), RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Soundproofed rooms
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free weekday newspaper
- Microwave (on request)
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- iPod docking station
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Blackout drapes/curtains
Where to Eat
Eats Kitchen and Bar - Gastro pub serving great burgers and a section of craft beers and wines. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Red Bar and Lounge - Craft cocktails, light bites and, comfy sofas with the best happy hour in town.
Marketplace - 24-hour bar and restaurant venue serving international cuisine including tacos, pizza and thai curry.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Boat tours nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 1 AM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 15.00.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 50 per pet, per night
- Up to 50 lb
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Deposit: USD 100.00
Optional extras
- Self parking fee: USD 24.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 22.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 50 per pet, per night
Hotel Name
- Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center
- Hotel Jamboree
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- Irvine Jamboree Center
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We should mention
Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts.


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Ever wonder what life was like for knights? Tweens 8 to 12 can get a taste of it here this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. For now, consider some table rules that come from Fingers, Forks & Chopsticks:
Do not put your face in your food, snort or smack your lips.
Do not put your whole hand into the pot.
Do not pick your teeth with your knife.
Do not lick your greasy fingers. Wipe them on the tablecloth.
And that's just a start. According to What if You Met a Knight, "Being a knight could be a dismal job." Besides keeping his peasants safe and managing the land, he also has to deal with:
Black Death
No teeth
Smelling because everyone knows baths are unhealthy
Heavy metal (as in armor, not music.)
Of course, we will not reenact all these conditions but we will write like a medieval and eat like one, too; hear a traveling troubadour, make marshmallow catapults and joust with bananas.
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Starbucks® Veranda Blend™ K-Cup® Pods, 48 count
Forty years of coffee-roasting expertise inspired us to perfect Starbucks® Blonde Roast—a lighter, gentler take on the Starbucks Roast. Roasting this blend of specially chosen Latin American beans for a shorter time allows the delicate nuances of soft, cocoa and lightly toasted nuts to blossom. flavourful without being overly bold, this coffee brews a delightfully gracious cup that's perfect for welcoming friends or greeting a new day.
Designed for use with the Keurig® Single Cup Brewing System to provide a premium brewed coffee experience in less than a minute—without the mess. This purchase includes 2 boxes of 24 servings—for a total of 48 single serving K-Cup® Pods.
Keurig, K-Cup, and the K logo are trademarks of Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., used with permission.
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Hollywood Mommies aren't the only ones who will be updating their wardrobes this Spring. Their little mini-me's will get a style update too, of course! Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Jennifer Garner and Nicole Richie are all fans of the adorable kid clothing chain Janie and Jack and Tina Sroat, Head of Merchandising, shares the company's top five trends for Spring.
Color is back in such a fun way for kids. Bold and vibrant prints and plaids look amazing on little ones. Bright pinks, oranges, yellows, greens and turquoise are what you'll see throughout our shops this season.
Classic looks rooted in fun plaids, clean styling and refined details never go out of style. Plaid blazers paired with white shorts and pique polos look fabulous on the little guy. For girls, crisp cotton tops in prints and solids pair perfectly with white wide leg pants and fun colored sandals. Don't forget her classic colored cardigans for a great layering option.
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As someone who is moving to NYC, I'm curious as to the difference (mating habits, dress, you know the anthropological stuff) between the Chelsea Gay & the Hells Kitchen Gay... Educate me
NYC Gays: Chelsea Gays vs Hells Kitchen Gays
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As I understand it the Hell's Kitchen gays are professional or private whores. The Chelsea gays are plastic bitches if they're not drug addicts.
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Hell's Kitchen gays will cut you for comparing them to Chelsea gays.
|by Anonymous
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Chelsea is older because it's more expensive. . HK Is younger as the newer gay hood.
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Gays, gays, you're both uninteresting.
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How can people even afford to live in NY and yet accept those horrid conditions of roommates, bedbugs, big-ass roaches/bugs, or rats?
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AIDS or meningitis? Take your pick.
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Gays are over.
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I'm assuming you're planning to become one or the other, OP. If so, how depressing for the city (we don't need any more of either).
If not, why not consider becoming Ramble riff-raff? or a bathroom perv? or an older, straight-acting, DL gym sauna slut? All are more appealing.
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OP, forget about those two ghettos and move to West Harlem. The rents are more affordable and the population more diverse.
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Chelsea is tired and Hell's Kitchen is full of whores.
Move to Houston.
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50 and up = Chelsea
18 - 29 = Brooklyn
Rich gays = Meat Packing.
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The kind of guys who can be referred to as "gays" or who call other dudes things like "Chelsea Gays" are over, tired. The whole "the gays" thing is so uncool and dated. It's all about brosexuals, dudes, and homothugs now. Masculinity rules.
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Interestingly, there are actually more gays in Murray Hill then in Hells Kitchen. Just more low key so you don't notice.
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"Masculinity rules."
Bwahahahah! In New York City?
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In real estate ads West Harlem is called Hamilton Heights.
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What about the Fuckberry Farms neighborhood? Or at least that's what they're calling it.
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Hamilton Heights is 90% black. Hardly "diverse".
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Morningside Heights has become pretty trendy. There are still some shady streets, but overall it's a safe area to live. It's technically Harlem, but rental agents classify it as the upper fringe of the Upper West Side.
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I always trust people in real estate to give me the straight goods.
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r18, Morningside Heights is NOT part of Harlem. Here are the boundaries - East: Morningside Drive. West: Riverside Park. North: 125th Street. South: 110th Street.
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Morningside used to seem like suburbia....now it's part of the ues!
|by Anonymous
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[quote]"Masculinity rules." Bwahahahah! In New York City?
I couldn't agree more, NY is for nancies
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More pumped gym queens in HK than Chelsea now. The steroided look is so 80's, though some do appear from time to time and look so ridiculous and out of place.
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r22, this is plenty of dude4dude masculinity in NYC. I know lots of it exists in Washington Heights, Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Spanish Harlem. A LOT of it, probably numerically more than the stereotypical types in Chelsea or lower Manhattan, but the kind of NYC gays on DL probably don't see or experience much beyond their tiny, insular ghetto.
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Hell's Kitchen resident here and really you couldn't find a greater place to live than in the 10 blocks on 9th between 42-52nd.
|by Anonymous
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I'm curious R25. How so?
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Everything you need is here, R26!
Plenty of great bars and restaurants, the theater district is an avenue over, you're close to all subway lines and there are enough guys to sleep with that you could have a couple a week and not get bored.
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What about Greenwich Village?
|by Anonymous
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The Village is much too expensive for most people under 40 to afford. That's another thing that's so great about Hell's Kitchen. It's still very affordable to live there and still be in the middle of everything.
You can get away with only having one roommate and paying 1050-1100 a month (each). With prices so dirt cheap I don't know how people complain about living in New York.
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I am 37, live in west chelsea with my partner and we aren't rich. Rent is $2300 a month for a real one bedroom on the top floor of a pre-war building. I have a job making around 70K, he makes about 30K, we make it work. Very low key. I love walking 10th avenue from 23rd down to Chelsea Market. Walking the Highline. Beautiful blocks. THere are enough whores in London Terrace to keep you busy if that's your thing.
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R30, we're neighbors!
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If I lived in NYC, I would definitely fit in better in the Bronx and Washington Heights, which sound much more grounded and mainstream than Chelsea.
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r30, I must ask, what do you do that earns you only 70K? I'm almost afraid to ask what your bf does for his pittance. And how do you survive on only a combined 100K? I make three times that amount and have trouble making ends meet.
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I make about 70K too, working in publishing.
I think rent over 2K/month is hardly "dirt cheap," though. Particularly to be in a neighborhood like HK, which really is the worst of modern NYC: restaurants that aren't as good as they should be, a major hellacious tourist area right on the doorstep (Broadway--which hasn't been more than a horrible pseudo-theatrical corporate whorehouse for ages now), and some of the ugliest architecture on the island.
That people "love" it tells you more about their need to justify to themselves the ridiculous rents they pay than it does the actual neighborhood.
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Anyone on Roosevelt Island?
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Harlem is where it's at now.
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How wonderful to have rats the size of small poodles scurry past your feet and then climb five flights home to your tiny roach-flat, all for the mere pittance of four grand a month.
I tells ya, there's nothing like the New Yawk lifestyle!
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West Chelsea is west of Tenth Avenue.
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What Murray Hill is to generic b-tier bros who share apartments while working their entry level corporate or finance jobs and sleeping with generic PR girls they pick up at horrible post-frat bars on Third Avenue, Hell's Kitchen is to generic b-tier gays who share apartments while working their entry level jobs in PR, "brand management" or in the chorus of Broadway shows (when they're out of work it's back to Astoria or Washington Heights) and sleeping with other generic boys they pick up on grindr or at the horrible gay bars off of 8th and 9th Avenue.
Hell's Kitchen exists as it does now because Chelsea got too expensive. It's now full of older more established gays and straight couples with kids who don't want to live on the Upper West Side (which is now basically Scarsdale with subway access), but who can't quite afford Tribeca.
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Seeing more gays every passing month in the Yorkville area of the UES. Cheap rents if you can handle the far walk to the subway.
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I've lived in NYC (Manhattan) pretty much all my life. I have never heard anyone in the city refer to Chelsea Gays or Hells Kitchen's Gays etc. I've also not noticed trends amoung friends living in different neighborhoods other than it is unlikely for a rich friend to live in Washington Heights or a young relatively poor friend on Central Park West.
That's all.
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You queens who get your kicks, and make you feel better about your dreary lives, by carrying on about the supposed deficiencies of a great city that you don't know much about: why don't you get back over to those McDonald's, KFC, and potato chip threads that you keep starting?
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Bravo, R41!
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[quote] carrying on about the supposed deficiencies of a great city that you don't know much about
They don't even mention Shake Shack! OMGs!!! That's so the best place! It's so New York! It's so cool!
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I've always wanted to go to chelsea NYC. Just because the history of it and i've heard the guys are hot in that area, fit etc.
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West Village guy here, finding it easier to walk up to Chelsea than on up toward midtown. A hot guy's hot, no matter where his roof.
|by Anonymous
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Most of the gay left in Chelsea are Sam Champion-ish. Ya know, 50 and self-fabulous. If that's your type, by all means.
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I especially love it when in the middle of the night I hear crashing in my Chelsea kitchen and I get up and see that it's a giant rat knocking my dishes down.
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[quote] I make three times that amount and have trouble making ends meet.
If you make $300k a year and have trouble making ends meet, you must have a hardcore drug addiction. Because anyone with any common sense and self control could easily live off of $300k. After taxes, that's like $15,000 a month. Even if your rent was 5K a month, you can't make ends meet on a clear 10K a month? You are really fucked.
[quote]West Chelsea is west of Tenth Avenue.
Wrong. West Chelsea is anything west of 8th ave between 14th and 34th Sts. You only have a handful of residences west of 10th and the rest are galleries and commercial businesses.
Chelsea is much straighter now that it has been completely gentrified for over a decade. Hell's Kitchen looks more like what Chelsea was ten years ago although with 10X the number of shitty Thai restaurants.
If I was young and gay and wanted to go out all the time, I would definitely be in Hells Kitchen now. Since I did that in the early aughts I have no desire to now.
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where do masculine White bi and gay dudes live in NYC?
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Brooklyn is the new Manhattan. Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick are teeming with young, hot masculine gay dudes with beards, tattoos and non-attitudes.
Leave the chic-let teeth, perma-tans and steroid cycles to the Westside queens.
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r49 also thinks the West Village begins at Fifth Avenue since it's the dividing line between East and West numbered streets.
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r49, the NYC Planning Department says West Chelsea is 16th-30th, west of Tenth Avenue. Landmark Preservation Commission shows West Chelsea Historic District as 25th-28th, west of Tenth Avenue.
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[quote]If I lived in NYC, I would definitely fit in better in the Bronx and Washington Heights, which sound much more grounded and mainstream than Chelsea.
I guess nobody told you about the filthy, loud, drug-dealing Dominicans, or whoever else is peeing in the elevator EVERY day! Still, real estate agents will welcome your dough!
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R51 is right. There are plenty of down-to-earth gays in Brooklyn who are fully integrated into the community without sacrificing their homosexuality. The gays in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen are too isolated for my taste.
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I'll buy a cookie from Schmakery's and my fruit and veggies from the stand on 9th between 42-43. How much more integrated into the community do you want R55?
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I'd rather be gay-adjacent.
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Sydney, Australia, 2009/01/28 - Qantas has opened a new Centre of Service Excellence in Sydney to provide enhanced training for over 18,000 staff from across the Qantas Group.
Qantas Executive General Manager, Mr John Borghetti, said the $10 million investment was a sign of the airline's commitment to setting new, world-leading customer service standards.
"Qantas has set a wide range of industry benchmarks with the launch of its state-of-the-art A380 aircraft, First Lounges and other domestic and international product upgrades, and we are committed to continuing to refine our service style in keeping with that investment," Mr Borghetti said.
"The establishment of this new, dedicated Centre of Service Excellence allows us to bring together the current elements of our training with additional modules developed with our new fleet and ground product in mind."
The 5,000 square metre facility features:
customer experience zones dedicated to the airline's First class, Business class, Premium Economy class, Economy class and Domestic/QantasLink offerings;
a 126-seat auditorium;
an eight metre central stage with surrounding tables and seating for 125 people;
four cabin crew training pods which simulate those on the aircraft;
a Qantas Innovation Zone, sponsored by Panasonic and designed to capture employees' ideas and initiatives for exceptional service;
an intranet workstation area;
a wine training and epicurean wing;
12 learning and development rooms; and
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Mr Borghetti said the facility would build on the airline's already substantial investment in staff training.
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"Approximately 130 staff, including telesales, cabin crew, pilots and airport staff, will undertake training in the Centre three times each week and staff will be supported with communication before, during and after their training."
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Judas Priest's Rob Halford Does 'The Simpsons'
What happens when Homer Simpson decides to teach Bart the finer points of illegally downloading movies for the families backyard enjoyment? Well, you bring in Judas Priest's Rob Halford to serenade Homer as he tries to stay one step ahead of the law.
On Sunday, January 5th, Halford will come to animated life in the episode "Steal this Episode" where Halford and Judas Priest will live in cartoon infamy by serving up a tasty rendition of JP's "Breaking the Law."
Halford will join the likes of Aerosmith, James Brown, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, and Keith Richards as guest stars over the last 26 seasons.


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E. Bassi | The Case Of Clutter
Clutter is the ToolKit that Shell depend on and together with many Gnome Apps.
Clutter is the ToolKit that Shell depend on and together with many Gnome Apps.
If you want to get into Gnome Javascript programming you will notice that there isn't a documented API. In this post I will show a way to generate one. Probably poor in quality, but anyway ;)
Yesterday was the string freeze date and many Gnome components were updated as you'd expect. From now on, no string changes may be made without two approvals from the Translation Coordination Team and notification to release-team and documentation team. From this point, developers should concentrate on stability and bug-fixing. Translators can work without worrying that the original English strings will […]
This is a response to some high traffic Tech/News Magazines that tend to present Gnome like an unpopular, un-maintain and almost abandoned project. But it is also a response to some people that are pessimistic and negative about the future of Gnome. I believe that things are much different…
Too much development for the Best Gnome Release -including Gnome 2- so far: 3.6! This is the 3.5.90 release cycle that is supposed to be UI freeze, but some changes might take place after. Florian Müllner announced Gnome Shell and Mutter 3.5.90 and Emmanuele Bassi announced Clutter 1.11.12. We also have a nice Gnome 3.6 preview from Matthias Clasen's […]
Clutter Toolkit got another Action. This time is the ClutterZoomAction which commited by Lionel Landwerlin few minutes ago. This is the 17th commit for Lionel in the Clutter Git (at least with that name!) and it's a nice 655 lines patch.
As Tomeu Vizoso posted in his personal blog yesterday, he has been working in the implementation of the W3C Touch Events API in the Clutter port of WebKit recently.
It looks like Tomeu Vizoso has resumed his work on adding support for WebGL acceleration in WebKit-Clutter. You can find his commits on this branch.
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Fodor's To Europe!
Luzern owes much of its development to tourism, and that's because it's so darn pretty. From wooden bridges to the surrounding mountains and lakeside locale, it's got all the things that make Switzerland famous.
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- Natural Beauty
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- Straddling the Reuss river, the iconic Chapel Bridge is a 14th-century landmark graced with religious frescoes and geranium-filled flower boxes.
- Awash in gilt and frescoes, Luzern's Jesuit Church was constructed in 1667 but is crowned with two 19th-century onion domes.
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The holiday season would come unwrapped without some tongue-in-cheek striptease fun, which burlesque queens Reyna Von Vett (aka Cora Vette) and Michelle Baldwin (aka Vivienne VaVoom), the power flirts behind Black Box Burlesque, are happy to provide in the form of Naughty Noel.
"We'll have group numbers and stripping Santa Clauses and live vocals," Von Vett explains. "I like to uncover these weird old songs; one of the songs for this show is an old Ella Fitzgerald song called 'Santa Claus Got Caught in My Chimney.' Expect antics, hijinks and shenanigans basically, if I can twist it and make it dirty, I will." Yowza!
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Get naughty with Cora Vette and Vivienne VaVoom starting tonight and continuing every Thursday through December 17 at 8:30 p.m. at Bender's. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 day of show, and cabaret seating is available but Black Box Burlesque's last show at Bender's was standing room only, so get there at 8, when the doors open. For more info, visit www.blackburlesque.com.
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dist: slackware9.0
$cp /boot/config /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/.config
$make clean
$make xconfig
(here I change processor family to athlon to
accomidate th athlon 1.4 GHz Thunderbird)
$make dep
$make bzImage
after copying the new image to /boot , doing the
necessary file switching with mv and editing /etc/lilo.conf
I run lilo which exits with an error that the image is too
large to be used.
I have searched the web in general and the LDP homepage
yet no kernel tutorials seem to get between the basic five-step
process and the kernel internals.
However, I would like to understand the configuration process
in more depth as I would also like to know
why modifying one variable results in a kernel too large
to fit in the available space of the MBR.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
well by default i don't think that it is the *same* config as the default kernel, that's probably just the default source. so you'd need to customize it properly.
and you did actully copy the correct (compressed) image from the boot directory?
yes, but that was confusing too because it appeared in the
there doesn't seem to be an arch/athlon nor arch/i586 ..i686
it is i386 i.e. intel compliant architecture, as oppose to sparc or something totally different
Thanks for your help Chris.
I wonder if you might know this; I meant to ask you in my last post:
You'd said the actual kernel config file was not /boot/config as I erroneously
assumed. Does it exist as a file then? Does some utility which I am
ignorant to exist with which to query the loaded kernel and cat it's config?
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Article source: UMA Collective
Refurbishment of a 50sqm apartment dating from the 1961, located nearby to several Lisbon Universities in Ajuda. The existing apartment didn't have any relevant feature besides its great location and river view.
- Architects: UMA Collective
- Project: Xadrez Student's Apartment
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- Photography: Rui Cruz, UMA Collective
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Pupils, parents and staff gathered in the sunshine outside Worth Valley Primary School to open a new trail in memory of tragic Riley Turner.
And his twin brother Mackenzie was the first to clamber on to the equipment.
Riley's mum Sharon Smith, who cut the ribbon to launch the trail, said: "I just want to thank everybody for all their support and what they've done for us. I think the trim trail looks great. The kids love it."
Her partner, Guy Earwaker, said: "This will always be a special place for Riley."
Speaking to the pupils, head teacher Cheryl Edge said: "Riley was best known in school for fun and having a laugh so we decided on a trim trail because this is somewhere for children to have fun.
"I want to thank the parents, children and everyone else who contributed. The notion of community is really strong at Worth Valley Primary and we've pulled together at a time of sadness."
Donations for the equipment were offered by Co-op Funeralcare and Keighley West Community First. One anonymous donor gave £2,500.
The trail has been located next to a friendship bench also in memory of Riley. It was made by Worth Valley Primary parent Andrew Willoughby, using materials given by his employer, Hallidays Joinery.


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Penguins' Bylsma signs three-year extensionMarch 10, 2011 3:00 PM
The typical NHL coach has the shelf life of a bruised pear.
Those who work for the Penguins often do not last nearly that long.
Dan Bylsma, who Wednesday signed a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2013-14 season, is the franchise's 23rd coach since it entered the NHL in 1967. Only two, Red Kelly and Ed Johnston, spent three consecutive full seasons and part of a fourth on the job.
But, while the position doesn't have a legacy of security for the guy holding it, general manager Ray Shero seems confident Bylsma is capable of defying those 4 1/2 decades of precedent.
"I think we've got the right coach," he said. "Ownership recognizes that. I certainly recognize that.
"The successful organizations have a plan in place, and a belief in the people they have, and they stick to that. ... Dan is the right coach for this hockey team moving forward, in the short term and the long term."
Bylsma replaced Michel Therrien as coach in mid-February 2009. (Therrien, it should be noted, had signed a three-year contract in the summer of 2008 and will remain on the Penguins payroll for a few more months, even though he hasn't been behind their bench in nearly 25 months.) The Penguins won a Stanley Cup about four months after Bylsma took over and are 104-52-19 under him. He already shares the franchise record for playoff series won (5), which speaks not only to his success but to the frequent turnover in his job over the years.
"I've been made aware several times of the longevity of Pittsburgh Penguins coaches," Bylsma said. "I might not be smart enough to have it dawn on me that that should be something I should be concerned about."
Actually, there doesn't seem to have been much reason for him to fret about it. Back when the Penguins were sputtering through the early weeks of this season, Shero let Bylsma know that the job was his.
"The team wasn't doing very well, but I sat down with him and said, 'Listen, you're my coach. I'm going to talk to you about a new contract at some point here,' " Shero said. "I was pretty sure we had a pretty good team back in October and November. I was 100 percent sure we had the right coach."
The contracts of assistant coaches Tony Granato and Todd Reirden will expire after this season, but Shero said he intends to work out new deals with them. The same is true, he added, of Wilkes-Barre coach John Hynes and his assistant, Alain Nasreddine.
"Both staffs have done really good jobs," Shero said. "We want to move forward with all these guys."
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I'm going to get straight to the point, Borderlands 2 is masterful. I decided to start with a sense of brevity because the next part of this preview will be nothing short of gushing. Ignoring the classic "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", Gearbox makes a point to objectively assess what the original's strengths and weaknesses were, and it is made clear that Borderlands 2 will settle for nothing less than a drastic improvement to something that wasn't hurting in the first place.
Having the chance to pick up any character at level 25, I opted to play Maya, the Siren. The game placed me in the middle of the Sanctuary, a refuge for those that oppose Handsome Jack's self-proclaimed rule over Pandora. With questions running through my mind as to what happened to the original vault hunters, I made my way around town.
I was lucky enough to have most of my questions answered. Players will be glad to know that they will be able to catch up with Lilith, Roland, Mordecai, and Claptrap, the last of which is much to the dismay of the inhabitants of the Sanctuary. With our former protagonists taking a non-playable role in Borderlands 2, it's nice to see just how the old vault hunters are managing after their rightful credit got jacked.
Claptrap still provides his unparalleled levels of personality to the game. My first encounter with the little guy turned into a harrowing quest; he tasked me to traverse the world in order to gain access to his stash, a four-item safe that carries over across characters. Luckily, Claptrap's penchant for exaggeration is still with him. Players should be glad to know that the requirements for the new stash feature are far more reasonable.
The first quest received from Roland sent me out into the Tundra Express to wake up our old hunter mainstay. After waking Mordecai up, he offered to help me make my way over to Tiny Tina's workshop. The path to Tina was littered with enemies, but Mordecai definitely had my back. By tagging enemies with a fire weapon, Mordecai took that as the go-ahead to do the long-range dirty work from the high ground.
Tiny Tina is miniature minx that mixes mayhem with mirth. The first thing I noticed about Tina was her voice. Fans of the "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?" series will immediately recognize Ashly Burch as the voice behind her explosive antics. While her voice was enough to rope me in, Tina's flair for the colloquial and volatile attitude made it very clear that she needed no help in that department.
Tina's first course of business was a tea party, but the party couldn't start without guests, all of which had been kidnapped. In the course of getting the party started, I came across one of the amazing new guns that Gearbox added: The Baby-maker, a SMG that spawned replicas as mid-range throwing projectiles upon reloading. Whether the offspring was a boy, a girl, or twins of either gender was based on US census data, absolutely hilarious.
Going through the game as Maya plays in a stark contrast to fans of Lilith's phasewalk style of gameplay. Maya's phaselock provides previously unforeseen utility, and will be a hit for fans that wanted to take a more proactive role with their siren's abilities. The modification I had the chance to test out was turning my phaselock into a small black hole, pulling surrounding enemies into stasis along with my original target. As I leveled, I also gained the ability for my phaselock to bounce to multiple targets if the original was killed while he was in mid-air.
An interesting aspect that I did not have a chance to explore was in her support/healing skill tree. Maya will be able to revive allies that are fighting for their life with the phaselock ability, an incredible tool in otherwise hairy situations. Veterans of the original will probably say "Your allies shouldn't be dying in the first place", but it's one of those "it's nice to have it and not need it rather than need it and not have it" situations. Maya's support build makes a point to reward her for choosing to take the background role, and it's nice to see Gearbox provide her with the tools to make it seem worthwhile.
One point of note is that parts of the tea party quest series actually had fail conditions, a new addition to Borderlands 2. The guest of honor at the tea party, a gentlemanly chap that went by the name of Flesh-stick, could not be described as a cooperative member of the festivities. Flesh-stick had to be lured into Tina's workshop; she stressed that I not kill him, probably because she wanted that privilege to be all her own. Unfortunately, an errant reload of the Baby-maker gun combined with Flesh-stick's haphazard run pattern caused a coincidental headshot when one of my gun's offspring hit him in the face, resulting in a comical quest failure that I couldn't have planned if I had tried.
Finishing the tea party ended my playthrough, but Level Designer Carl Shedd was generous enough to show me exactly what was up with Axton, Salvador, and Zer0 at level 35. Roland was considered by many to be the most glaringly underwhelming things in Borderlands, and revamping the soldier class into something viable must have been a daunting challenge. Well challenge accepted, Axton's new abilities strive to make the commando class anything but a pushover.
Axton's turret 2.0 has the ability to fire up to 22 missiles per volley, and he can use up to two turrets under the right build. Understanding that the Commando had to provide utility as well as power, Axton retains the long bow ability as well as a new magnet lock skill that lets him attach his turrets to ceilings and walls, the perfect solution to enemies that run for cover.
Axton also features some support abilities, as one of his turrets can turn into a domed construct, protecting the hunters from incoming fire for a set amount of time. Lastly, the wasted turret situation is a thing of the past. Axton can reclaim a deployed turret to significantly reduce the recast of his next one, a key addition that will keep wasted actions from being a concern.
I didn't see much of the Gunzerker, but I do know that his Brawn skill tree would make Rambo blush. Subscribing to the "kill em all and let god sort em out" mindset, the Brawn tree promotes unrelenting aggression and rewards players for not backing down in the face of multiple enemies. The bottom skill on the tree is a taunt ability called "Come at me, Bro!" that provokes enemies and lines them for the slaughter. One of his mid-tier abilities reloads any gun he does not have currently equipped when he kills something. Screw manual reloading, let your trigger flex and you can't go wrong.
Fans looking for the Lilith experience will probably want to try Zer0, as his Deception ability allows him to distract enemies and walk around undetected for a period of time. A mix between the hunter's sniping specialization and the phasewalk experience from the original, Zer0 can only be described as a F'ing Ninja. Players can choose to take the long-range route with him with attributes like piercing bullets and overkill stacking, a skill that takes any damage that you did over the enemy's health and adds it to the damage of the next bullet up to 999 times.
Where Zer0 really shines though is the ability to use Deception to dash around, homing in on enemies, targeting their weak points, and dismantling them in one slice. One of Zer0's melee tree abilities grants him bonus time in Deception mode when he kills an enemy with a melee attack, so massacres will abound and death tolls will rise. His last tree focuses on support, marking enemies with his melee attack (or later, Kunai) will increase any damage the marked enemy receives by 20%. Stacked with the new Slag element that increases all bullet damage, even the toughest of enemies will be quick work.
The last point of note is the level of aesthetic and stat customization you can provide your character. As mentioned previously by David Rodriguez, players can now provide their characters with new heads and skins that they can find throughout the game. With the use of the new stash function, anything found for another character can be sent over to the right recipient, providing characters with unique and fresh new looks.
As for stats, the addition of the Badasss point feature was finally explained. Badass points are an achievement system (separate from the actual achievement system in Xbox Live) within the function of the game. As you complete tasks, your badass rank will increase. These tasks can range from killing an amount of certain enemies to completing certain sidequests to any number of novelty occurrences. As your badass rank increases, you will gain points to provide stat modifiers to your character, from increased base damage to elemental accuracy, providing the player with all the tools to make their character as unique as possible is the name of the game. Badass points and boosts also carry over to the rest of your characters, but Borderlands purists will be able to shut the boosts off if they so choose.
Overall, Borderlands 2 is looking to be a well thought out advancement from the first, and Gearbox definitely pulled out all the stops to provide an innovative, unique, and entertaining experience. Borderlands 2 is slated to release in the US on September 18th and will hit Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Players looking for a gold experience turned platinum will be glad to know that this sequel is up to the task.


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A conference of the Board of Directors of the United Palestine Appeal will take place Sunday, May 22, at the Pennsylvania Hotel.
The call to the conference was issued by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary chairman. Judge William M. Lewis, chairman, Emanuel Naumann and Bernard Stone. The sessions will begin at ten o'clock.
Many leading contributors to the fund were invited, although they are not members of the Board, in view of the fact that the conference is expected to take action on important matters affecting the situation in Palestine.
A. J. Freiman, of Ottawa, was appointed a member of the National Committee for the Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation of Canada.
Mr. Freiman is the Dominion President of the Zionist Organization of Canada and is also widely known throughout the Dominion for his communal interests.


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Using Fruit and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables have a well-deserved reputation for helping our bodies stay healthy. They've also been linked with decreasing the risk of many serious illnesses. A healthy diet is full of a variety of vegetables and experts recommend getting 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables every day.
Get your 2 & 5 without breaking the budget.
- Choose seasonal. There's a reason grapes and peaches are expensive in winter – they are in short supply and have had to come a long way to get to your supermarket. Choose fruit and vegetables that are in season for the cheapest options. See the LiveLighter seasonality charts for fruit and vegetables for more information.
- Buy local when you can – for the same reason. Supermarkets and fruit and veg shops are making more effort these days to tell you whether your fruit and veg come from Australia, saving on food miles and saving you money.
- Forage the freezers. Frozen vegetables are excellent quality and provide as much nutrition as fresh vegetables. Frozen fruit such as berries, can be a great year-round addition to baking and smoothies, cereal and added to yogurt.
- Scan the cans. Canned fruit and veg are convenient to have on hand and are just as healthy as fresh. Make sure you read the label and choose no-added-sugar fruit varieties and no-added-salt vegetables. They're often on special, so stock up when you spot these.
- Apples are a great, inexpensive option for most of the year. Prices vary by variety, so scan the shelves for cheaper options.
- Choose fruit over processed snacks. Even exotic fruits at $7 a kilo are cheaper than biscuits or chips at $13 a kilo.
- Less meat more veg. Halve the amount of meat in recipes and add additional vegetables. More veggies means extra fibre, less saturated fat, and more antioxidants and vitamins for your body, plus more dollars in your pocket! Stir-frys, Bolognese and lasagne are all good dishes to try out this tip on.
- Get a leg-up with legumes. Legumes (beans and lentils) are tasty, versatile and cheap. At only 70 - 130 calories per 75g serving, you can fill up without fattening up. Soaking and cooking dried beans and lentils is the cheapest option, but tinned legumes are also economical. Just watch the sodium content of some brands.
Clever ways to make the most of cheap fruit and vegetables
- Add a handful of frozen berries to a basic apple crumble for extra interest and a nutrient boost.
- Use canned fruit, like peaches and pears, in smoothies. Combine with yoghurt, milk, oats and a banana for a tasty breakfast.
- Keep chopped-up fruit in the fridge in a plastic container, ready for instant snacking. This is especially good for children to be able help themselves too and can stop pestering for unhealthy snacks.
- Make fruit kebabs for dessert. Use chunks of orange, apple, banana and kiwifruit on skewers. It's amazing how much more appealing this makes fruit to adults and kids alike.
- Try a plate of chopped fruit after a meal for the family to graze from.
- Add grapes, sliced apples, pears and oranges to pre-dinner platters and cheese boards.
- Freeze over-ripe fruit for later use. Kids will love the frozen fruit to eat as an icy treat. Or, once defrosted fruit becomes very soft, making it perfect for baking with or adding to smoothies.
- Look outside the supermarket. Other outlets – roadside stalls, greengrocers, farmers' markets – can offer prices much cheaper than the supermarket.
- Keep a lookout for supermarket specials. Supermarkets can run great deals on veges because of their large-scale buying power.
- Frozen vegetables are excellent quality – as good as fresh veges – and can be significantly cheaper and ensure you always have some veges on hand.
If buying frozen veges, stick to single varieties rather than mixes, which tend to be more expensive.
- Got a garden? Great! Growing your own veges is the ultimate money-saver. Yes, it costs a bit to begin with, but once you're up and running and saving your seeds for next year, you'll be eating for free.
- Freeze your own. If you find a vegetable on super-special, buy bulk and freeze some. If you wash/peel/chop it first, you'll save some time, too. Frozen vegetables don't take as long to cook and ensures you always have some veges on hand.


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Letter to Joseph Huey
Joseph O'Brien 10 p.m., Sept. 20
So, I'm tooling through a neighborhood I only recently learned is called Middletown, and I come across a banner at Shakespeare Pub & Grille advertising their 4th of July brunch. Aroo? I'd always been under the impression that "we the" people were celebrating our separation from Britain on this day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
I was totally baffled, but then I went home and checked the restaurant's Facebook page, which stated the following: "Where better to celebrate the declaration of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain than a British Pub?!! Stop by on your way to the beach or your family barbecue and start your day the right way ... join us for breakfast from 8am - 12 noon. We will be serving our full breakfast menu as well as helping you to celebrate in style with $3 Mimosa's."
And then I was like, Oh, I get it! The pub is offering itself up as a hub for some belated gloating in the face of the vanquished. That's really big of them. Way to go, England, you're taking this like a champ. Maybe I'll stop by for one of those mimosa's and a few minutes of feeling smug before heading out to whichever barbecue I end up at. Actually, probably not. But let's take a rain check -- I love your Quiz Nights every month -- how bout I skip the whole "hanging with my parents to celebrate the day I moved out in a huff" and instead, come by for some good ol' fashion family gaming on a less tense holiday? Awesome. See you then.


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Investors have pretty well forgotten about emerging markets over the past three years. The "BRIC" countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China no longer excite. Nor do more exotic non-BRIC locales such as South Africa. The iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (EZA ) is down by roughly 15% since the beginning of 2011, while the S&P 500 has gained nearly 45%.
I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a major Africa bull. It's the last major investment frontier, and the growth is very real. Per capita GDP has more than doubled in the past decade, and according to Deloitte, seven of the 10 fastest-growing countries in the world are in Africa.
One sign of the booming middle class is Africa's surprisingly high cell phone penetration; by Ericsson's estimates, the continent already has 780 million mobile subscribers.
Don't underestimate the significance of this. Africa has harsh geography, which makes building infrastructure very difficult and very expensive. But mobile technology allows large parts of Africa to essentially leapfrog over legacy technology infrastructure — such as copper phone wires — and into the modern world.
This is showing up in some interesting places. For example, mobile phones are giving millions of working and middle-class consumers access to basic banking services for the first time. According to Deloitte, "a 10% increase in mobile phone penetration in a poor country is linked to an increase in GDP of 1.2% due to the ensuing economic activity that people engage in as a result of being 'plugged in' and connected."
For a part of the world that has been more or less in isolation since the dawn of time, this is a game-changer.
Why You Should Buy MTN Group ( MTNOY )By now you might have guessed that my recommendation is an African telecom stock. So with no further ado, here it is: South African telecom giant MTN Group ( MTNOY ).
MTN Group is headquartered in South Africa, but it has more than 200 million customers spanning 22 countries across Africa and the Middle East. Roughly a quarter of its subscribers are from Nigeria alone.
Although most Americans have never heard of MTNOY, its brand has cachet in large swaths of the developing world. MTN's brand made the Brandz list of the Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands in 2013, coming in at No. 79. It's the first African company to make the list.
Looking at the fundamentals, there is a lot to like about MTN Group stock. Revenues and earnings are up by more than a third since 2008, a period in which growth has been hard to come by in most markets. MTNOY trades at a reasonable price/earnings ratio of 13 and pays a respectable, growing dividend currently yielding 4.5%. MTN Group grew its dividend by 10% in 2012 and is on pace to grow its 2013 dividend by 15%. In the past five years, it has grown its dividend by about 45%. (Though fair warning: Exchange rates can skew ADR payouts.)
The bullish case for MTN Group is straightforward:
- It's the dominant mobile provider in the last great frontier market: Africa.
- It provides a service that is essential to the lives of the new African middle classes.
- Its markets are far from saturated, and it has virtually unlimited growth potential due to the inevitable shift to smartphones and higher-margin data plans; only about a third of MTN's subscribers currently use data.
- It's very reasonably priced and pays a high and growing dividend.
Well, first I should state the obvious. MTN Group is based in Africa and does business in the world's most dangerous hotspots. It's a leading provider in Syria, for crying out loud. This is a company that is constantly exposed to macro risk.
But it's also a company that has proven very capable of operating in those environments over its history. There could be short-term bumps, but overall, MTNOY should be able to navigate whatever unexpected surprises come its way. And its willingness to jump into markets that would give most executives heartburn gives it a first-mover advantage in the countries with the fastest potential growth rates.
Next is competition. While MTN Group has the biggest presence in Africa, it's not the only player. Britain's Vodafone ( VOD ), through its subsidiary Vodacom, is also very active in Africa and in fact has a larger market share in MTN's home market, South Africa. But this is the beauty of operating in growing, non-saturated markets. Hundreds of millions of Africans have yet to buy mobile phones … let alone smartphones. A rising tide lifts all boats.
I suggest buying MTNOY stock with a plan to hold for 50%-100% gains in the next 18-24 months. And I expect enough of that to come this year to put me well on my way toward a strong Best Stocks for 2014 outing.
The rise of Africa is real, and you should be investing in Africa. MTN Group gives us direct access to the new middle-class African consumer.
About the author:
Mr. Sizemore has been a repeat guest on Fox Business News, quoted in Barron's Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and published in many respected financial websites, including MarketWatch, TheStreet.com, InvestorPlace, MSN Money, Seeking Alpha, Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine, and The Daily Reckoning.


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I chose this with my GC for Steeped Tea that my Aunt and Uncle gave me for my birthday. It's strong. Really, really strong.
I'm actually not a big fan of it on its own because each sip is just PURE licorice, just rich and dark. I have to sip it slow. (Much like eating those pure black licorice candies – the ones that barely have sugar in it?)
OTOH, if you add a splash of milk to it it becomes quite enjoyable! So, while I probably wouldn't re-stock it, I'll drink this up with no hard feelings.
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A.S. Fricano & Co., CPAs and Daniel D. Wolfe, CPA merged their firms effective October 1, 2011; however, the merger was not officially announced until December 29, 2011. The new firm operates as Byler, Wolfe, Lutsch & Kampfer, CPAs Inc.
The Salem, Ohio, office remained at its current location, and Wolfe's office combined with the East Liverpool, Ohio, office. Overseeing the East Liverpool office are CPAs Denny Kampfer, Daniel D. Wolfe, and Alfred Fricano. Overseeing the Salem office are Eugene Byler and Richard Lutsch, principals and CPAs. There are thirteen employees between the two offices – six CPAs and seven support staff.
The merger has enabled each company to continue providing client service, while allowing room for growth and expansion. "With the impending retirement of Alfred Fricano, we were looking for a new partner to add to our East Liverpool location", explained Byler, President, Byler, Wolfe, Lutsch & Kampfer, CPAs Inc.
"With Daniel's (Wolfe) knowledge and experience as well as his previous relationship with our firm, we knew he was the right choice", added Byler.
Byler said the merger had been worked on for about two years, but "there were other things in place that prevented the name change and we thought it was time."
He added that many people were not aware that he and Lutsch, who joined the company in 1988, have been the major shareholders since 1991.
Byler said Wolfe also had worked for Fricano, but he left to work in private industry before returning to public accounting.
Byler, Wolfe, Lutsch & Kampfer, CPAs Inc. provides a wide range of services to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries. The firm "strives to meet each client's specific needs in planning for the future and achieving their goals in an ever-changing financial and regulatory environment." Among others, the firm's professional services include:
- Tax management services
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- Estate and trust planning
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- Employee benefits, pension, and profit-sharing plans
- Mergers, acquisitions, and sales
- Accounting and payroll services
- Financial and retirement planning
- IRS representation
- Entity selection and restructuring
- Computer consulting
- Debt and finance advising
To learn more about CPAs Byler, Wolfe, Lutsch, and Kampfer as well as about the firm's additional services, please visit the Byler, Wolfe, Lutsch & Kampfer, CPAs Inc. website.


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Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 09:07 PM
Jayaprada speaking in an interview has stated that the present generation has the opportunities of becoming an engineer, doctor , actor or even a cricketer but expressed that it was tough to be an actor then. Jayaprada said that she was a less talkative person and she got the opportunity in Bhumi Kosam movie during her school days . Watch the video to listen to Jayaprada. . . .


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Bryan Adams is going to be a father for a second time with his girlfriend Alicia Grimaldi.
The singer's rep confirmed the baby news, stating, "There's another baby on the way for singer Bryan Adams and Alicia Grimaldi."
Adams' rep adds, "Their daughter, Bunny Grimaldi-Adams, is now 18 months old, and the new baby is due next year."
The singer jokingly tweeted on Thursday, "Alicia's either eaten too much chocolate cake or we're expecting another baby… I think it's a baby…"
Bryan Adams and Alicia met in 2004 when her father, Isle of Wight's deputy lieutenant Peter Grimaldi, helped the 53-year-old Canadian rocker establish his charity foundation.
In March 2011, Adams announced that he and Grimaldi were expecting their first child together.
A month later, on April 22, 2011, he declared, "I'm really proud to announce on 22 April, Mirabella Bunny was born." He gushed, "She arrived like all good Easter bunnies on Easter Friday. Mother and baby are both well and happy. Thanks in advance for your kind thoughts and wishes."
Adams will continue his U.S. tour on December 10 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The singer also is a great photographer and released a photography book called "Exposed" in July.
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