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"I was supposed to tell you the case of a cult / It's called the cult of inspiration and it is rewarding", Vic Chesnutt sings on his fourth record, Is the Actor Happy?, referencing the artists' collective he belonged to along with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and others. The full member list has never to my knowledge been revealed, but Chesnutt has had a knack over the years for fruitful collaborations and partnerships. Is the Actor Happy? was produced by Athens, Georgia swami John Keane (R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Indigo Girls), features a duet with Michael Stipe, a song co-written by Rob Veal (Dashboard Saviors), and is performed by the Vic's Skiffle Group, comprised of Jimmy Davidson, Alex McManus (Lambchop, the Bruces), and wife Tina Chesnutt.
Chesnutt has called Is the Actor Happy? "songs to play in front of a hostile audience". Many of the songs were culled from the Skiffle Group tours that preceded it, though it's hard to imagine crowds not enjoying what they heard. All of that road-testing resulted in tighter performances, and what many call Chesnutt's best-sounding record. With additional remastering for the New West reissue, Is the Actor Happy? does indeed sound great. Chesnutt's trademark nylon string guitars are washed in reverb, giving the album a lush, liquid feel. The arrangements are more carefully conceived than his prior releases, but come off no less spontaneous. It stands at about the midway point in his recorded output, a bridge between the rawness of his earlier recordings and the layered production of his later work.
Vic Chesnutt
Is the Actor Happy?
(New West)
US: 31 Dec 1969
UK: 5 Jul 2004
Is the Actor Happy? is made up of two distinct halves. The first half of the record is mostly major key and upbeat, while the latter is darker and slightly edgier before closing with the gentle Chesnutt/Stipe duet, "Guilty By Association". The whole affair kicks off with "Gravity of the Situation", which is also the subtitle of the star-studded Sweet Relief tribute album in his honor. Each of the four verses focuses on an image or detail whose significance is more than it would seem: "We blew past the army motorcade / And it's abnormal load haulage / The gravity of the situation / Came on us like a bit of new knowledge". Exactly what that gravity entails is never explained, only that it's crucial to note that life is worth giving your attention. "A fat hungry English crow / Picking at a carcass" is a sight millions of people drive by and ignore every day (or an American crow if you prefer). But the implications of the event, though "hard to focus and harness", have potential to be staggering if considered. Poet Forrest Gander makes the point in his introductory notes that Chesnutt avoids "I-love-you-I-need-you-I-just-don't-know-what-to-do-since-you-left-me clichés". Are badger carcasses, onion soup, and freakish nipples any less worthy of song?
"Sad Peter Pan" skirts romantic woe, though the recipient of lines like "You touched me and then you ran / And left some sad Peter Pan" isn't nominally a lover, nor would it have to be for the song to make sense. An encounter (of whatever kind) may have left the song's narrator "all alone and awkward", but "a transformation, I swear it will occur". This is not the language of a thousand sad sack guitar-slingers. There aren't too many sensitive rock guys who would admit they "just want to be Aaron Neville", much less with a "denim shirt all dark with sweat". "Onion Soup" is an exploration of friendship stretched across distance: "I wrote you an eloquent postcard once about this most exquisite onion soup / But of course I never mailed it though 'cause it was your turn in the loop". What's interesting from a songwriting perspective is that though most people haven't experienced the details of the event, they understand the underlying emotions immediately. The specifics are what make Chesnutt's songs rich, fun, and engaging.
As its title portends, "Free of Hope" is Chesnutt as his most cynical. It's the first song on Is the Actor Happy? in a minor key, with wordless vocals that sound as if issued from a distant, underwater minaret. "Bricks are dirty, lakes are dead / The family dog is mad / Baby brother's science beakers are all broken / Now the yard peacocks are all sad". What would be an ideal suburban nuclear family is revealed as worthy of little more than escape. The choruses crash, and the overall mood is ominous, but the song is anything but heavy-handed. "Big brother's at Columbia University / Quote unquote he's tanning beaver pelts" sets a new standard for mixing creepiness with humor. "Betty Lonely" is an overlooked masterpiece, as mysterious and beautiful as the old woman it describes. Punctuated by lyrical guitar figures that bookend the song and separate the verses, the song makes palpable the sweltering and spooky, hanging moss-draped ambience of the Gulf Coast. Backed by an "angel chorus" of a multi-tracked Liz Durrett and haunting slide guitar work, Vic sings "Betty Lonely just talks to her grandbaby / Everybody else she blots them out / But her words stick like a flounder gig". In turn, so do his.
Per usual, the bonus tracks are numerous and well-chosen (though I'd give anything to hear a solo version of Brute's "Sewing Machine" on record one day). "Assist" is a plea along the lines of "Aunt Avis", blues-like in its structure though not in melody or tone. "Duck in a Tree" and "Parameters" both recorded live in 1995, and 4-track versions of "Thailand" (with "heroin" tellingly preempting the word "contraband") and the unreleased "What Surrounds Me" are all classic Chesnutt. Finally, there's "Fun Party/Shoestring Store", a collaboration between Lambchop and the Skiffles. As the final track on the fourth and last of the reissues, it's a unique choice. My friend calls it a "cheap suit of a Tom Waits song" for its loopy, cabaret-like noodle 'n' stomp. As far as nonsense goes, it's a not particularly engaging curio—but its inclusion here is appropriate. I've been exhausting superlatives for each of these four re-releases, probably exemplifying one of the "little loonies / With a salient obsession" Chesnutt is wary of in "Guilty By Association". I've seen Chesnutt stop to burp mid-song during a live set, and heard him sing of a man in love with his dog. For all the literary depth, melodic strength, and honest performances included here, it's essential to know that Chesnutt's songs are equal parts silly and serious, heartbreaking and hilarious. That's the gravity of the situation, and that's why you should listen.
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Tips for Consumers to Save Water and Money
With drought conditions continuing to persist, and water costs rising throughout much of Texas, consumers are looking for ways to save both water and money.
Taking advantage of a few simple tips can help you save thousands of gallons of water, and hundreds of dollars, each year.
- Use Less Water - One easy step is to take shorter showers. With a new water-efficient showerhead, a five-minute shower uses less water than a bath. Also, instead of letting the water run while shaving or brushing your teeth, run it just to wet and rinse your razor or toothbrush. Turning off the tap can save up to 2,400 gallons of water a year.
- Check Faucets and Toilets for Leaks - A faucet leaking at a rate of one drop per second can waste up to 3,000 gallons of water per year, and a leaky toilet can waste about 73,000 gallons per year. Fixing hot-water leaks can save up to $35 per year in utility bills.
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- Invest in a New, Water-Efficient Toilet - Toilets are the main source of water use in the home, accounting for approximately 30 percent of indoor water use. Replacing older toilets with water-efficient ones can save 4,000 gallons of water and more than $90 per year. If 25 percent of all Texas households reduced their water consumption by replacing one older toilet with a 1.6-gallon-per-flush toilet, it would reduce water consumption throughout Texas by more than 875 million gallons annually.
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Reviews - Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel4
149 Kings Road, BRIGHTON, BN1 2PP
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36% would recommend it to a friend
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Dated room
The room was hot and stuffy,even though the heating was off,had a 70s feel to the room.
To be honest, for £241.00 for one night, I expected to see more than a brick wall out of my window!
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Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel
Absolutely fantastic staff went out of their way to make it a perfect stay.
Thank you so much. It was the 2nd time staying here and wouldn't stay anywhere else.
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our stay
The staff were pleasant and helpful , both in the braserie and at breakfast.........
swearing drunks outside our room after midnight didn't help a good nights sleep , swearing the F word loudly because they had trouble finding their room .......we shan't stay again I'm afraid
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Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel
Myself and my partner stayed in one of the privilege rooms with sea view for one night.
It did have two large windows where you could see the sea and old pier. However there was nothing special about the room. A large space with random furniture and two sofas stuck in for good measure. Not a lot of thought had gone into placement. No bedside plugs. No mini fridge. The bathroom was disgusting. Grouting was going brown with bits of black mold, flaky ceilings, floor tiles were just grimey and fitted poorly, the shower looked like it could have been taken from an old prison, although hanging over a bath with water stains. Air conditioning came in the form of a desk fan which we had to stick on a side table to feel it in bed. The room was boiling hot despite being in October. I stayed in the travelodge a few months before with friends - and despite the room sizes being smaller - I would rather stay there. I think the only privilege part of the room was complimentary robe and slippers in addition to the old crouton I found on the floor. Disappointing room. Disappointing outdated hotel. Look elsewhere!
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The hotel was a real disappointment.
I regularly stay at The Mecure in Sheffield and was expecting the Brighton one to be of a similar standard, how wrong I was. The room I had was a classic standard but it was probably one of the most depressing rooms I have ever stayed in. The room felt grubby and tired: the carpets looked unclean, the decor was shabby, the kettle had black specks of something in it and the shower head had looked as if it had never been clean so as a consequence I did not use the kettle or the shower. The room was hot and the windows did not open and there is no air conditioning (although there was a fan in the wardrobe). Plus points: the toilet and sink were clean and the staff on reception were pleasant. I couldn't wait for the morning to come so I could check out,luckily I was able to cancel the second night I was booked in for as I couldn't have faced two nights. I do appreciate the hotel in Brighton is an old building but I was expecting much more for a 4 star hotel. I for one will never be staying there again.
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The worst 4 star hotel I have ever stayed at
The room we had was grubby.
the dust on the radiator was that thick, it looked like it had never been cleaned. The entrance was dirty. staff smoking on front steps.
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Not great customer service, expect llong wait to check in and out
The rooms are basic with no air conditioning.
Shortage of staff, at least 40 minutes wait for any thing in reception. Only ONE person on reception over the whole Bank Holiday weekend with hotel that is full packed. Not a great experience. I will definitely not use it again
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First - reception was really dusty
Second - room 115 it will be great if you put more ventilation in bathroom
Three - for me like a vegetarian, breakfast ( £11 per person) was very, very poor, disappointed
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very dirty not up to standard disappointed bath room not even serviced when we got to our room, had to move rooms second room was better but still not up to standard!.
room need a pick me up looking very old. not quite as described but the is from the hotels side.
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WASHINGTON (May. 16)
A restriction limiting the Presidential authority to approve sales of American food surpluses to Egypt was adopted yesterday by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.
In reporting out the 1965-65 Foreign Aid Bill, the committee retained the earlier prohibition under which no sales of surpluses can be made to Egypt "unless the President determines that such sale is essential to the national interest of the United States." But the committee added a further restriction, should the President make such a determination. Even in such a case, "no such sale shall be based on the requirements of the United Arab Republic for more than one fiscal year," the committee ruled. Until now Egypt has received American food surpluses under a three-year agreement which is expiring this year.
The bill, as approved by the House committee, further stated that "the President shall keep the Foreign Relations Committee and the Appropriation Committee of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, fully and currently informed with respect to sales made to the United Arab Republic."
(Apparently fearing the possibility of restrictions on further U. S. aid to Egypt, President Nasser has written a personal latter to President Johnson, dealing with this issue, according to press dispatches from Cairo. Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad handed the letter yesterday in Cairo to United States Ambassador Lucius D. Battle.)


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Except the code is not indented, which is completely ridiculous.
Somebody at "<<OP doesn't care anymore>>" needs to read this:
Paragraphs, Lines, and Phrases
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
If you learn from that mess, you're learning a load of rubbish.
All the ones with void main are wrong.
All the ones which assume string literals are writeable are wrong.
All the ones which assume evaluation order are wrong.
All the ones which assume specific sizes for int, pointer etc, are compiler specific (without you saying which compiler it is, though I can guess it's probably TurbidCrap).
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Salem, Its my friend's website.Can you help with your valuable comments in a positive way.He actually wants someone to correct and help him in posting good quality articles in that website.You can post your valuable comment in that website. Thanks to you in advance for my friend...
Worse than that, these puzzles look like they were written by somebody using the undead Borland Turbo C compiler. This sounds like shameless self promotion. For anybody attempting to learn from that site, don't! There are numerous problems. In my first read-through of the questions, I noticed the following problems:
- Cprogramming.com FAQ > main() / void main() / int main() / int main(void) / int main(int argc, char *argv[])
- far pointers haven't existed since the 16-bit DOS days
- #2 has an incorrect leap year check. It's years that are divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 unless they're divisible by 400
- #9 assumes 16 bit integers, which is highly unlikely, and big-endian, which is system dependent
- #20 is wrong, the order in which function parameters are evaluated is unspecified
- #23 is wrong, if printf doesn't have enough parameters for the format specifiers, the behavior is undefined
EDIT: I just noticed your friend has 3 other pages full of bad examples. He ought to take down those things before they cause any harm. I applaud the effort, but your friend is just not ready to share his "knowledge" of C with the rest of the world. And I doubt anybody here wants to read through 100 examples of horribly formatted code with things like "void main", that make most respectable C programmers want to vomit. Tell him to get an up to date compiler, compile all his examples with the strictest warnings on and read the standard to verify that what he's trying to teach is actual proper C.
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You are correct Anduril. I think he has collected these questions from some placement papers used by some Indian software companies.Its really shame that still our top IT companies use outdated questions and forcing people to be fools.Present job placement tests are not enough to measure the actual programming skills.
I would like to consider this as a positive opportunity to find mistakes and strengthen our knowledge by discussing and correcting the errors.
Sure, I will communicate all these corrections and suggestions to my friend.He will correct them soon.
So another words, it's just another Indian cheat your way through school and into the workforce site? Nice. There's certainly a shortage of those. How pathetic.
OP no longer interested, so nothing more to add.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.


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Saudi Arabia has discovered another 17 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as the total number of confirmed infections of the SARS-like disease has jumped by a third in the past week.
King Abdullah replaced the health minister, Abdullah al-Rabeeah, yesterday amid growing public disquiet at the spread of the disease, which was discovered two years ago and kills around a third of sufferers.
Rabeeah said on Sunday he did not know why there had been a surge but said it might be part of a seasonal pattern.
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However, the jump is of particular concern as Saudi Arabia is expected to have a large influx of pilgrims in July during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, followed in early October by the arrival of millions of people to perform the annual Haj in Mecca and Medina.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second-largest city where many of the new cases have been discovered, is the main entry point for pilgrims visiting nearby Mecca, site of the holiest places in Islam but where there have been no confirmed cases so far.
Last year's Haj passed without any new infections being identified.
The 17 new cases, announced late yesterday on the Health Ministry website, bring the total number of Saudi infections to 261, of whom 81 have died. Combined with the other 49 cases announced in recent days, they represent a jump of 34% in the number of laboratory confirmed infections within a week.
Saudi authorities last week issued several statements aimed at reassuring the public that there was no immediate cause for concern.
But Labour Minister Adel Fakieh, who has been appointed as acting health minister, was pictured yesterday touring a hospital in Jeddah, a display that seemed aimed at countering accusations from some Saudis on social media that the authorities had not taken the situation seriously enough.
MERS has no vaccine or anti-viral treatment, but international and Saudi health authorities say the disease, which originated in camels, does not transmit easily between people and may simply die out.


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I Paid 800+$ for Jevederm. Is It Too Much? How Long It Last?
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Juvederm Cost and Results
Depending on the type of product, results can last up to 18 months (Volift). Generally speaking, however, how long your results last also depends on the area treated.
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Juvederm Charge
Fees will vary greatly from area to area and will even vary significantly among practices in the same area. We currently charge $600/syringe for 1.0 cc Of Juvederm XC.
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Cost of Juvederm
Was this a 0.4 cc syringe or 0.8 cc? In NYC many of us charge more and other cities, less. It is different in different cities and within the same city, different doctors charge differently. Many patients have subtle changes that they like to obtain with fillers and they have different doctors treating them over the years until they find one that seems to listen to their concerns and wishes, and who has a good artistic sense and a gentle hand. You are paying not for the filler, but for the filler and the physician/sculptor. You can't just shop for price!
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Normally $650 per syringe, lasts 6-9 months
Normally Juvederm is $650 per syringe, but this may vary depending on your city and the level of expertise of the physician. Juvederm lasts 6-9 months. If your treatment cost $800 I would find out how many syringes your doctor used. No matter what it will last about 6-9 months.
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How much does Juvederm cost and how long does it last
The cost of Juvederm or any cosmetic procedure varies by different parts of the country and by who does it. The cost around here ranges from 600 to 700 dollars a syringe.
Juvederm lasts approximately 1 year, although duration may vary in different anatomic locations on the face.
Juvederm -- what does it cost?
OK. I charge less than this per syringe. But charges are based on the doctor's overhead, training, and geographical differences. Juvederm is cleared with the FDA to say that it usually lasts 12 months.
Juvaderm cost
The cost of Juvaderm depends on what city you live in and who actually did the injection. Results can last up to a year. We charge $550 for Juvaderm. I only use Juvaderm for right around the lips or for superficial scars. You get much more bang for your buck with Radiesse (but this is more complicated to inject, and you need to let either derm or plastics inject---NOT a "spa")
The Cost of Juvederm
I charge six hundred dollars for each syringe of Juvederm that is injected. I generally expect Juvederm to last for approximately one year. However, the duration of effect of Juvederm for the lips is somewhat shorter because of underlying muscle movement. Please remember that your decision on who you choose to do your Juvederm injections should not be decided upon by price. Your results depend upon the skill and experience of your physician injector.
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Juvederm™ prices per syringe can vary but generally start at $550 per syringe.
Juvederm™ is priced per syringe, starting at approximately $ 550 per syringe, so whether you paid below average or above average for your treatment would depend on how many syringes you had injected. The results achieved typically last between 9-12 months with some patients maintaining results for up to 15-18 months.
Juvederm is around $650 per syringe
We charge $650 for a syringe of Juvederm and $750 for the Juvederm Ultra Plus. Juvederm and Restylane last about 6 months or so, the thicker (more cross limnked) fillers like Perlane and Radiesse tend to last longer (9 and 12 months respectively) but are meant to be placed in the fatty tissue layers only, so shouldn't be used in the lips or the lower eyes where no such layer exists
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Toxic Chemicals Found in 75 Percent of Car Seats
According to Tech Times, the nonprofit Ecology Center in Michigan discovered that 75 percent of manufactured car seats contain chemicals and toxins that are harmful to children.
Harmful Chemicals Found in Car Seats
Healthystuff.org tested 15 vehicles for the presence of halogenated flame-retardants and nonhalogenated organophosphate flame-retardants. Although they protect the child from catching on fire in a car crash, these chemicals can be extremely harmful to health.
Experts tested 2014-model car seats for arsenic, lead, bromine, chlorine, and other metals. Researchers have concluded that all of these car seats have at least some traces of the harmful chemicals.
The two chemicals present in the car seats that stand out the most are chlorine and bromine. These chemicals are used as flame-retardants. They have adverse health effects that can remain in the body for a long time. These chemicals are activated through exposure to UV rays and heat.
The substances found in the car seats can induce thyroid problems, cancer, reduced fertility, behavioral problems, memory loss and impaired learning.
Next Step to Car Seat Safety
Research director, Jeff Gearhart, from the Ecology Center informs consumers, "Car seats save lives. It's absolutely essential that parents put their children in them while driving, regardless of the rating a particular seat received at HealthyStuff.org."
Gearhart went on to claim that their research facility has discovered certain brands of car seats have higher levels of harmful chemicals than others.
The study found that the top-rated car seat companies with the least amount of harmful chemicals are Britax and Clek. The best models of Britax are the 2014-2015 Marathon Convertible and Frontier car seats. Clek's safest model is the Foonf convertible car seat.
The worst-rated brands with the most dangerous traces of toxins are Graco's My Size 65 convertible car seat and Baby Trend Hybrid 3-in-1. Healthystuff.org is currently petitioning to stop Graco from using toxic flame retardants in their car seats for children.
Brands Tested in This Study
- Orbit Baby
- Chicco
- Eddie Bauer
- Peg Perego
- Cybex
- Evenflo
- Safety First
- Harmony Juvenile
- Britax
- Clek
- Graco
- Baby Trend
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$30.2 MillionExpenses: $39,576.15 | Attorneys Fees: $10,060,980.00 | Net to Client: $20,121,960.57


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Parsons International
Parsons has been recently awarded to carry out the Construction Management and Supervision for one of Qatar's major development programs in Doha. The projects include roads, infrastructure, cooling plants, parking structures, pumping stations, parks, open spaces, a reverse osmosis plant, and other infrastructure works.
Senior Construction Manager/Deputy Program Manager:
The selected candidate will:
•Acts as Deputy Program Manager for Group A or Group B projects. Acts as the Parsons consultant representative's deputy in accordance with the contract terms and conditions and scope of services in Appendix A.
•Provides focal point for all construction management activities throughout the program
•Primary liaison between Parsons and clients Lead Project Engineer
•Plans, directs, coordinates, and manages construction projects and contracts through a staff of qualified field construction specialists and support staff, with direct responsibility for success of the Resident Engineers.
•Supervises multiple projects simultaneously through assigned field construction staff.
•Manages the prequalification, tender, selection, and award process of general and trade contractors.
•Manages the claims process from initiation to resolution.
•Oversees performance of assigned contracts and ensures work is completed to required contract specifications, quality, and schedule.
•Assists with obtaining necessary permits and licenses and ensures compliance with building and safety codes, other regulations and requirements.
•Oversees delivery and use of materials, tools, and equipment; worker safety and productivity; and quality of construction.
•Participates in conceptual development of the construction project and oversees its organization, scheduling, and implementation.
•Ensures LEED construction practices and commissioning are carried out in accordance with required standards, contract documents and other referenced requirements.
•Participates in construction project meetings.
From a programmatic standpoint and in cooperation with Resident Engineers:
•Serves as construction manager for matters relating to field activities performed by separate contractors, suppliers, and consultants.
•Collects and presents data regarding all initial and regular deliverables. Works in concert with other Sr CM to produce deployment plans, PMP (and related deliverables) and all deliverables, billings/invoices and reports.
•Responsible for proactive management of staffing efforts to ensure timely arrival of the best qualified staff
•Ensures progress of site work is in conformance with project objectives for quality, safety, schedule, and cost.
•Functions as the lead member of the Parsons team for construction management, interfacing and coordinating with plant operations for training, commissioning participation, and final handover of completed facilities.
•Responsible for and manages efforts to resolve conflicts in any of the engineering documents or site conditions and pursues timely resolution of such issues so work can continue unimpeded and without delay.
•Assesses current work fronts and rates of progress and anticipates any obstructions that could arise and adversely affect the progress of work. Initiates corrective actions.
•Responsible for and manages process for review of technical information for completeness of design and constructability with discipline leads.
•Liaises with design consultants, contractors, and other entities for clarifications, changes, and problem resolutions.
•Prepares and reviews drafts, including drafts prepared by others, of field change notices and non-conformance notices.
•Facilitates resolution of requests for information submitted by contractors and assists in preparing and releasing scope clarifications.
•Oversees verification of field installation progress and assists in processing contractor progress billings.
•Supports preparation and release of contractor variation orders.
•Maintains awareness and accountability for the safety and QA/QC programmes and develop Safety and QA culture throughout the program.
•Supervises Core Team
Reports to Program Director an asset proven ability to develop and/or revise 3D models and drawings within the capacity of Electrical Engineering
Min 15 years Project Management and construction experience of underground structures
Bachelors Degree in technical discipline
Min 15 years technical/construction experience
Min 7 years supervision
Additional Experience:
Min 10 years infrastructure construction experience
Expert level computer skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Superior organizational skills
Solid understanding of engineering concepts related to infrastructure projects such as; Landscape, Underground Car Parks, District Cooling Plants
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Parsons is a leader in many diverse markets such as infrastructure, transportation, water, telecommunications, aviation, commercial, environmental, planning, industrial manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and homeland security.
Parsons provides technical and management solutions to federal, regional and local government agencies as well as private industries worldwide.


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The Video Bay is The Pirate Bay's newest project that makes use of new HTML 5 capabilities to stream video and audio on the Web. The site will apparently have no copyright restrictions, which isn't likely to help The Pirate Bay's case in fighting its copyright conviction from earlier this year.
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I love these guys. They have balls.
I realize this is directly from the website, but it is not quite right. Ogg is a container format, like MKV. Theora is the video format, Vorbis is for audio (including the audio tracks in videos).
The phrase "go over like a lead baloon" comes to mind here.
free media, free culture, freedom...keep at it
searching or browsing on the site doesn't work yet, but you can see a bunch of videos already up under "recent". apparently you need to register to view the videos though.
I'd honestly be afraid to know how much illegal (and yes, I mean "illegal" and not "infringing") content shows up in the next few weeks.
Free Willy.
This. A fast and completely uncensored streaming video service is pretty much guaranteed to get a fair bit of CP content. And once the journalists discover that, getting popular support for TPB will become extremely difficult.
There, thread over.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's one thing to pay for a tracker's bandwidth, and it's another thing to host streaming video.
I don't understand how this thing could possibly work.
Beyond that, I don't see how they can avoid getting hit for copyright infringement if they don't even have the "it's not hosted here" argument.
One can practically count on those clowns to shade such videos under the cloak of "free speech" or some other such nonsense. Guaranteed.
This might be too illegal. There's really no loop-hole like in P2P.
They're alraedy a counterexample of the P2P loop-hole theory .
Or did you mean "This might be illegal too?"
You guys are not the brightest bulbs are you? TPB already removes CP from their site - why would this be different? Also how stupid are you to try and use the "think of the children" line on Ars? People here are not dumb enough to fall for that any more.
Had their right to a fair trial been upheld and it came out the same way, then yes, they would be.
I have high hopes to be able to watch weekly Anime releases that arn't yanked from Youtube right away cause a company has US distribution rights, I'm not watching your dubs coming out in three years, I want to see what's happening NOW.
If you mean really nasty stuff (like child pr0n), The Pirate Bay has shown that it can be tough and moral ... and quick! (I cannot believe that IFPI used that in its case against The Pirate Bay, though.)
I have no idea how popular this site is going to be of even if it will be able to stay up when Big Content has it between the cross hairs. Going so far as to actually hosting the content is treading on thin ice.
I for one hope they do something technologically awesome and still tread on the big gray area that is copyright. Something like P2P streaming that actually works! (although this doesn't seem to be the case)
Anyway, just wanted to repeat the comments regarding TPB and Child Porn. They already take down those torrents, I don't see them doing anything different with their new experimental site.
No one said a damn thing pertaining to "think of the children" or anything even remotely close to it. Its just that some of us would rather see TPB live on a bit longer and have at least some residue or moral backbone (unlike yourself, perhaps?).
^^ What they said re:CP. That aside, hosting actual content is a different animal than torrent trackers, which are essentially merely signposts. Eh, good luck to them, but this seems to me to go beyond simply pushing it.
It'd be nice if this will prod content owners to open up services like Hulu worldwide though. Bastards need a fire lit under their asses to get anything done. Come on guys, give us some legit services already. I'm tired of being forced to torrent something because it isn't available here.
Hell, just recently I went through some of my old favourited videos on YouTube, and got a bunch of nice large "This video is not available in your region" notices slapped in my face. What the FUCK? Last I checked, theatres do simultaneous worldwide releases just fine. It's moronic stunts like this which makes me feel no remorse at simply torrenting gigs of stuff.
Big freaking brass ones, lol. But I can't help feeling that this experiment is going to end badly...
"They were recently handed a guilty verdict with jail time from a Swedish district court for assisting copyright infringement, even though The Pirate Bay hosted none of the files in question."
Did the author even read both parts of this sentence? Yeah, they were found guilty for *assisting* copyright infringement. It makes no difference whether they hosted the files, they provided a service to assist users in committing copyright infringement.
Need examples? Napster didn't host the files. Grokster didn't host the files. TorrentSpy didn't host the files. That loophole simply doesn't exist.
The Pirate Bay has been sold... how will this affect things???
Let me repost one of the quotes you explicitly agreed to:
What do you think CP means? How are you saying that using that argument is not a "think of the children" one? Either you used that argument knowingly or you didn't even bother to read what you agreed to - not so very smart either.
It means Pirate Bay is dead more or less. Funny
All those big words and speeches and in the end they sold out same as everyone else.
But i guess they need money to pay Big Content fine.
Ah well another shall rise in it's place same as allways.
No. It's a "drop a bag of weed in a highschool rival's locker to get him expelled" one, a "plant a gun and some crack on the guy you and your squadmates just beat the shit out of and shot" one, and (most obviously) a "put some CP on a site you disagree with to snare the stupid 'think of the children' fuckwits into rioting" one. There's no better way to deal with a problem that has public support than to link it to something people find morally reprehensible. Smear tactics 101.
Many services can be used to facilitate copyright infringement, but many services don't necessarily come under accusation of assisting copyright infringement. P2p has been the premier form of technology to be slapped with that. Really, it is the people uploading the files that are infringing upon the distribution rights, and those downloading who are infringing upon the reproduction rights. Unless someone can prove that The Pirate Bay (or any other p2p service) was made with the explicit reason to have people upload copyrighted content and others to then download it, then the service is not assisting. It simply is.
That is where I think this whole issue has gone wrong. The Pirate Bay may not have been the best p2p service to prove this point, given many of their stances and actions. But then, that's likely precisely the reason they were brought so thoroughly under the gun by the IFPI. But still, without proving a hosting of files or proving a clear-cut intent for copyright infringement to be the primary use of the service, one cannot simply say they obviously assisted in infringement.
I don't understand how this makes sense given that The Pirate Bay is following the Napster route and going legitimate. Maybe this is the part where the current TPB administration is superseded by the next group, just like they said (re: decentralized ownership)?
Well the problem there is that it's blatantly obvious that The Pirate Bay intended to allow its users to commit copyright infringement - the creators themselves have never been shy about that, and like you said, they're a bad example of the 'oblivious p2p service provider'. But even in the other cases I mentioned, where it was less clear, the courts were still able to apply enough common sense to say that the service providers were condoning mass piracy on their systems, and that was unacceptable. The point is that you don't just get a get-out-of-jail free card by saying you didn't host the files or you weren't aware of the infringement, because narrow loopholes/excuses like that don't actually fly in a real court.
And before anybody uses the stale "stealing" or "pay or don't watch it" arguments, if the content owners won't give us a legitimate way to pay them then they haven't lost a thing. We're back to the old control basis for their copyrights enforcement.
I love TPB. Not particularly their site (which has the worst search functionality I've ever seen), but what they stand for. All the mess with the
I hope TPB's new owners do it justice, and don't try to turn it into another Napster.
In Kazper's defence, Windsong is a fundie Christian that always pipes up with creationist arguments when anything scientific is discussed. I assumed Windsong was supporting the "think of the children" argument, too.
Damn good point, I hadn't thought of that.
It does feel too good to be true, though.


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Manchester City have confirmed the signing of free agent midfielder Owen Hargreaves on a one-year deal.
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The 30-year-old has barely played a game since being forced to undergo operations on both knees to cure a debilitating tendinitis problem, but has now been given a chance to prove his fitness.
A statement on the City website read: ''The England midfielder joins as a free agent having left Manchester United at the end of last season. He has put pen to paper on a one-year contract and will train on Thursday.''
City defender Joleon Lescott backed the proposed move on Tuesday. He said: "Owen is an experienced player, he has played in the Champions League, is an international. It is only going to be good for the City squad if he signs.
"I've worked with Owen at England level and he is a great professional. People ask if it represents a gamble but the club know what they are doing, Owen knows what he is doing. He is still a good player.
"He hasn't played as much as he would have liked over the last couple of seasons but the medical team we have is very good and very strong.
"If we can get him fit, I'm sure it won't be very long before he is back to his best. He will be a player with a point to prove after his injuries.''
Joe Hart also voiced his support for the deal, adding: "It would be a good signing. Obviously, Owen Hargreaves has done great for Bayern Munich. He has struggled a bit since he came to Manchester United but that is not down to ability, just his fitness.
"If he can get himself fit and does sign for Manchester City, it can only be a positive. He was a very important England player. If he can get back to that form, obviously he would be an asset.''
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The Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Retail Association and the Associated Industries of Florida should send a thank-you note to California. Legislators in the Golden State, in negotiating a deal that requires Amazon.com to lobby Congress to pursue a national sales tax collection system, have provided the best chance yet to create a level playing field in Florida and elsewhere for bricks-and-mortar retailers. Never mind that Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Senate President Mike Haridopolos, in recent weeks, have both conceded that Florida's current sales tax policy is unfair and outdated; both men have followed the lead of their predecessors and done nothing to change it.
The deal struck between California lawmakers and Amazon.com was a truce. The nation's most populous state earlier this year passed a law that would require Internet-only retailers to collect sales taxes on goods sold in California. Amazon.com countered by pouring millions into a campaign to put a petition on the ballot to negate the law. Finally, in the waning hours of the legislative session last month, lawmakers agreed to delay implementation of the tax requirement for a year as long as Amazon.com dropped its ballot drive and pressed Congress to pass national sales tax legislation in the meantime.
That is significant. For more than a decade, as e-commerce has gained more and more of the retail sector, squeezing bricks-and-mortar retailers and robbing state coffers of revenue by refusing to collect sales taxes, Amazon.com has been a primary opponent of new tax rules. Now, thanks to California forcing its hand, the mega-merchant has agreed to lobby for the "Main Street Fairness Act," a proposed federal law that would clarify how states might levy sales taxes on out-of-state online-only retailers. The effort builds on the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, an effort by more than 20 mostly small states to unify their tax codes to make such a national collection system possible.
For years, every major Florida business group has pushed for the state to join the Streamlined group, rightly arguing the outdated tax code discriminates against their members. While any business with a traditional store in Florida must collect the 6 percent state sales tax on goods, out-of-state online-only merchants don't. That gives them an enormous pricing advantage. Florida TaxWatch has estimated the shift to e-commerce has cost at least 100,000 Florida jobs. And a University of Tennessee study estimates Florida will lose more than $800 million in uncollected sales taxes this year for goods bought through merchants like Amazon.com.
Even Republican-controlled Texas has joined California and New York in championing this cause of tax fairness. Meanwhile, in Tallahassee, favoring out-of-state carpetbaggers over businesses that employ Floridians is far more acceptable. Thank goodness for California.


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"We are very happy to see her and very proud. We believe she can manage our country; we believe our current government cannot. Many people are poor and they cannot afford to go to the hospital. They die too early there." Han Win Aung said, adding, "She is our mother."
It is his hope that she will be able to change things in Burma. Thirteen years ago, Han Win Aung, now 45, his wife, Nyo Nyo San, now 37, and their two young children came to the United States from a refugee camp along the Thailand-Burma border.
Han Win Aung was part of the student uprising in Burma on Aug. 8, 1988, and it changed his life forever. For the next several years he became a freedom fighter, a member of the All Burma Students' Democratic Front. At age 20 he trained as a fighter and lived in the jungles. It was during this time he met Nyo Nyo San in a village in Thailand. His wife went into the jungle with him, and Han Win Aung, a medic, delivered both of their children there.
"A lot of people had nothing in Burma and the government was killing people. We wanted human rights. But the government didn't care if they killed men, women, children or Buddhist monks," Han Win Aung said.
Han Win Aung and his wife are both very modest about their accomplishments, but sitting in their small but beautifully kept ranch home, it is plain to see that the two have come a long way from the jungles of the Burma-Thailand border.
Now they have added another son and a daughter to their family, and both parents have gained their citizenship. That is a huge accomplishment considering Han Win Aung spoke very little English when they arrived and his wife spoke none. It took months of classwork and memorization to take the citizenship test.
Terri Noone, who was Nyo Nyo San's citizenship class instructor, said she made verbal tapes for her so when Nyo Nyo San was sewing at her job she would listen to the tape and follow along in her notebook to learn the 100 questions she would face on the test. The couple saved up three times the cost of the exam, $600, so that she could take it three times if necessary to pass. But she passed it on the first try, Noone said. Nyo Nyo San is looking forward to Suu Kyi's visit, but is still amazed it is really happening.
"I am very surprised; she is my hero," Nyo Nyo San said.
She had never thought Suu Kyi would ever be able to come to a free country to visit. Suu Kyi was elected prime minister in 1990, but the dictatorship refused to recognize the election results, and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was put under house arrest for more than a decade the following 20 years.
"I have only seen pictures of her," Nyo Nyo San said.
She will not be going because her 2-year-old and 1-year-old both are sick, but the two older children – a son, Pai Pai, 19, and daughter, Cheri San, 15, – will be going with their father.
Cheri San, a South Side High School student, said what she knows about Aung San Suu Kyi she has learned from her father, and she is excited to see her.
"We believe in her. We believe she will bring change and manage our country," Han Win Aung said, adding, "I am surprised they freed her, I still worry about her."
Some of his friends recently went over to Burma but they didn't feel safe and left. They told Han Win Aung that the government is still arresting people.
"That's why I still worry about Aung San Suu Kyi and other political figures," said Han Win Aung
He and his wife would like to go back to Burma, to see family and friends; they still send money to Han Win Aung's mother, who is 80.
Nyo Nyo San said she does not want to live there; she likes America where she has her freedom.On the north side of Fort Wayne in a subdivision off Wallen Road, Ei Ei Phyu, a Burmese immigrant is equally excited to see Suu Kyi.
Unlike Han Win Aung and his family, Ei Ei Phyu, now 29, and her family came from Burma in 1999 on a visa looking for better educational opportunities. She now has two sons and a husband. She is close to finishing her RN degree, after getting her LPN in 2006. She currently works for the St Joseph Community Health Foundation.
"We are so proud of her, Aung San Suu Kyi is my personal hero and the hero to millions of people around the world," Ei Ei Phyu said.
She said she was speechless when she found out Aung San Suu Kyi was coming to Fort Wayne.
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Some of her friends from New York City invited her to see Suu Kyi there and she had planned to go, but when she found out Suu Kyi was coming to Fort Wayne, she canceled those plans. She said most people around her age, whether American or Burmese, seem to know who Suu Kyi is and are really happy about having an opportunity to hear the Nobel Prize winner speak. Ei Ei Phyu said she has heard a lot of people from the local community may not attend because it is a workday, but she is hoping they come anyway.
"I am so proud of her, she is the only Burmese who has ever been to the Oval Office, Ei Ei Phyu said smiling.
Some of her family's friends went back to Burma to find out what they can do there. Ei Ei Phyu said in the speeches Suu Kyi gave in London and D.C. she told Burmese who no longer live in Burma that they will have to make their own decisions on if they will return to Burma or not. She told people if they want to go back and they have an education, they could help educate people, or if they have a lot of money they could donate money.
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The light of day reveals an icy mess on Utton Avenue in Pawtucket.
It was around 4am when heavy smoke and flames broke out inside the multi family home on Saturday, and went to two alarms before firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze.
Katarina Rivera lives in the neighborhood, and she talked to NBC 10 about the initial intensity of the fire, "I got nervous cause I was like do you smell that? We were watching movies; that's how much smoke was coming from the house at first, and then you could see all the flames shooting out."
Fire officials tell me the home was occupied at the time, but everyone got out and no was hurt; including no firefighters despite working in a deep freeze.
Pawtucket Battalion Chief Robert Neill told NBC 10 that luckily they did not have to deal with any water lines freezing up, they just had to keep the water flowing. "All the hydrants were good, so that was the best part. Shutting down lines is an issue, you've got to keep the water running through and that produces more water on the ground and creates a slipping hazard"
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Overreaction Theater: Hold on to the ball
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Wide receiver Andre Johnson needs to be taken off your fantasy football draft board. He is never going to see the field again!
Or, that would be the case if Gary Kubiak treats his receivers the same way that he treats his running backs. Kubiak has a quick hook and zero tolerance for running backs who put the ball on the ground. Does anybody think he will punish Johnson for his fumble on the team's opening drive?
Yeah, I do not either.
If Arian Foster — who raced 21 yards on his first attempt — fumbles the ball, he goes to the bench. If Dre Johnson fumbles, you pat him on the butt and tell him better luck next time.
Of course, the fumble was overruled. So none of this matters.
That will not stop me from overreacting to some of the early developments.
- Juggernaut alert: The Lions looked pretty good moving the ball against the Steelers. RB Jahvid Best had a couple of nice runs, averaging nearly 5-yards-per-attempt. The only problem –as pointed out by one of the editor's on the news desk — is that Best is wearing a number normally reserved for a fullback. Reminds me of Gaston Green wearing No. 44 for the Los Angeles Rams. If you are asking, who is Gaston Green? That is my point exactly.
- Jake Delhomme will save Cleveland: If you were an alien who never watched football before, you would think that Delhomme was the best Browns quarterback since Otto Graham.The sad truth is that the interception-prone Delhomme of the past couple of years would still be the best Browns quarterback since Bernie Kosar.
- Line woes: The Steelers offensive line was not impressive against the Lions offensive front. Not sure whether to give that to the Lions improved defensive line, or if there's trouble brewing in Pittsburgh.
- No chance: One quick look at the Cardinals offensive line and it is apparent that even the slightest chance of Kurt Warner ever returning is gone.
This concludes this act of overreaction theater. Now, I want you kids to start giving me your overreactions in the comments. Trust me, it's a lot of fun.
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Tea Party, meet the DDP Party. The death of sugar-sweetened Dublin Dr Pepper has set off a protest — nay, a movement — bewailing the end of a Texas tradition.
On Thursday, in stores and restaurants across the state, on Facebook and Twitter, and in the small Central Texas town about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth, it was easier to find unhappy Dr Pepper fans than a bottle of their favored beverage.
The day before, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Dr Pepper Bottling Co. of Dublin had announced the end of a licensing agreement first signed in 1891. The protesters' complaints sounded like a caffeine-fueled version of the Occupy demonstrations: A big company was acting like a bunch of soda jerks, crushing a small town's business and its identity.
"This is all about the 99 percent," said Robin Dennis, drinking her Dr Pepper at Torchy's Tacos in Dallas, part of a chain that serves the Dublin-labeled beverage.
On the official Dr Pepper Facebook page, a visitor left this note, alluding to the number of flavors the drink boasts: "Now I have 23 reasons to hate Dr. Pepper. All 23 is because you shut down Dublin Dr. Pepper because y'all still can't make soda better than they can. Way to ruin childhood dreams."
The legal issues seemed more on the side of Goliath. Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple wanted the Dublin bottler to stop adding "Dublin" to the official Dr Pepper logo and stop selling the Dublin-emblazoned soda outside its designated six-county territory. Lawyers for the two sides disagreed about the particulars for more than six months. On Wednesday, Dr Pepper Snapple agreed to pay an undisclosed amount for the license to make the soda, immediately ending the production of Dublin Dr Pepper. The bottler changed its name to Dublin Bottling Works.
Fans of the taste of the sugar-only soda won't be left in the lurch, said Dr Pepper spokesman Chris Barnes. A bottler in Temple produces enough of the exact same formula to ensure a supply for any store that was selling the Dublin version, he said.
Despite the legal wrangling, much of the tale of Dublin Dr Pepper is not in dispute. The original drink was born in Waco in 1885, created by pharmacist Charles Alderton. By 1891, a bottler named Sam Houston Prim was selling the stuff from his plant in Dublin.
By the 1980s, most bottlers were switching from sugar to the cheaper high-fructose corn syrup. But the Dublin plant, then run by Bill Kloster, stuck with Imperial cane sugar. And a steady stream of visitors headed for Dublin for a taste of the olden days.
At some point — neither Dr Pepper nor Dublin Bottling Works will comment on the timing — the plant started amending the Dr Pepper logo on its cans and bottles and selling T-shirts and other doodads with the Dublin-ized version.
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In the grand scheme of soda sales, the Dublin plant is a flea on a hippo. It produces fewer than 2,000 bottles, every other week. But the Dublin company worked out an agreement with a bottler in Temple to produce more of the sugar-only formula — labeled with the "Dublin" insignia. Neither Dr Pepper nor the Dublin company will say how many Temple-produced "Dublin" sodas were being sold.
A few other bottlers across the country also regularly produce sugar-sweetened Dr Pepper, Barnes said. But only the Dublin bottler created its own special identity. By 2008, corporate officials at Dr Pepper started asking the Dublin company to stop altering the logo and selling beyond its territory.
That led to Wednesday's agreement, which turned the Dublin-marked merchandise into potential collectors' items. One six-pack of Dublin Dr Pepper bottles had an eBay bid of $45.99 on Thursday.
For many who were unhappy, there was more to the mystique of the Dublin drink than mere taste. It represented a link to small-town Texas.
"It's very sentimental," said Courtney Hildinger, who was also in Torchy's. She was thinking of sodas she'd sipped at her grandfather's house near Dublin.
It was also sentimental in Dublin, where the plant's impact went far beyond the bottles of soda sold. The town branded itself as the home of the oldest independent bottler of Texas' local soda. Visitors showed up to buy the drink, visited the Dublin Dr Pepper museum, shopped for Dublin Dr Pepper souvenirs in the stores, came for Dublin Dr Pepper festivals.
All of that is literally being shredded, said Sheran Weible, co-owner of the Buckboard Cafe. Anything that had the Dublin Dr Pepper logo was being taken down and destroyed, as part of the legal agreement.
"To us, it's like this big pirate coming in and saying, 'We don't care about Dublin,'" she said. "It's like we are all in mourning over a death."
As for the public outcry over the end of Dublin Dr Pepper, it's not the corporation's fault, Barnes said.
"It's certainly a difficult situation, but that's really a question for the Klosters. It was our hope that Dublin would honor its agreement and continue operating as a Dr Pepper bottler. Instead, they ignored their obligations," he said. "This led to the lawsuit and ultimately their decision to sell."
Jeff Kloster, vice president of Dublin Bottling Works and the late Bill Kloster's grandson, said he couldn't comment on the terms of the agreement. But he had a message for the well-wishers who bought out his last supply of Dublin Dr Pepper in less than two hours and their comrades in carbonation: The plant will still be making other sodas, he said.
"I support everybody's ability to voice their opinion," he said. "We are still the same friendly people we've always been. I hope that they come see us."
Dr Pepper is taking an avoidable public relations hit, said Daniel Howard, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University. He's not exactly a disinterested observer: Dr Pepper had given him a retainer to research whether the Dublin-ized logo was leading people to believe the soda was superior to other sugar-sweetened Dr Pepper.
The study was never done, but Howard thinks the company had the law on its side.
"You have to vigorously defend your trademark. You can't fault them for that," he said. "But you sure wish they could have managed it a bit better. They didn't anticipate correctly the amount of negative reaction, or they would have worked it differently."
On the other hand, not everyone who mourned the end of the Dublin soda worried about the battle between a company and a small town. Some just wanted their sugar-sweetened pop.
"It's all about the taste," said Charles Gaut, another Torchy's Dallas patron. He's been hooked on Dr Pepper since high school and simply wants his sugar, no matter what the logo says.
"It could be al-Qaeda Dr Pepper," he said, "and I'd drink it."


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No Comparison
Comparing Jessica Simpson to the gorgeousness that is Michelle Pfeiffer is like comparing a beautiful diamond to a rancid kidney stone. Often times I will refer to Angelina Jolie as The Most Beautiful Woman In The World but I'm pretty sure it's actually Michelle. Look at her. LOOK AT HER. Flawless. She makes Demi Moore look like Quasimodo. But she's wrong about something. She thinks "Grease 2″ is a crap film. I think "Grease 2″ is the most magical of filmmaking. F*ck "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee". Howabout "We're Gonna Bowl Tonight" and "Cool Rider" and "I'll Be Your Girl For All Seasons"? Jesus Christ, I'm almost weeping. Talk about cinema that changed the world! If you ever get the chance, please re-watch "Grease 2″ and note Michelle's amazing performance of "Cool Rider". Note her "Cool Rider" dance, and how after she dances away from the school you can still hear her crazy Stephanie ass singing. It's a howl. Anyway, they're allegedly going to remake the first one with Jessica Simpson's braindead self as Sandy and Michelle (who must have had a few cocktails or was feeling particularly generous at the time of this interview) thinks it's a good idea. Why?
Michelle said: "It's a great idea and I hear they would like to get Jessica Simpson for the role of Sandy, she would be good.
"I would love to play the school principal. She is fun and has some great put-down lines. I think I would like the part now that I have been asked."
Michelle regretted taking the part of Stephanie Zinone in 'Grease 2′ and believes it set her career back 10 years.
The 'Hairspray' star is quoted by a British newspaper as saying: "I hated that film with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was. At the time I was young and didn't know any better.
Michelle, you don't mean that! That's just your TV guru husband David Kelley speaking! You loved playing Stephanie! You loved working with Adrian Zmed and Lorna Luft! And Rex Manning! I seriously need to leave the f*cking house once in awhile, huh?
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do u have bedtime routine with your hubby ?
we do.before we sleep we watch daily mass.then we talk especially the things i or he get upset with or we need to clear up something.
I love to watch tv in bed and I get up much earlier than him, so I am in bed around 9 to watch a little tv (MY SHOWS) and sleep by 10....he stays up much later watching golf or fishing. To me watching either one of these kinds of shows is like watching paint dry so i choose not to watch with him.
We didn't use to sleep in the same bed. But he has a cpap machine now and it makes it so much better for me. He likes the fan on and I sleep with the tv on. I ignore the fan and pile blankets on. He ignores the tv and wears ear plugs. We are making compromises and it has helped us immensely.
We used to have our separate routines. I would go to bed when my DD went to bed...usually around 8:30 or 9. I would read while she slept and then usually fell asleep around 10 or so. DH would be in the other room playing video games. We realized recently that we needed to spend more time together, just me and him, so I will put DD to bed around 8:30 and then go to the den and watch tv with him, talk, etc. I usually fall asleep around 9:30 or 10:30 on the couch and he will wake me up and tell me to get in the bed when he gets ready to go to bed.
i know the feeling :)
Quoting pink8272:
Quoting Dontchawishuknu:
First I have to fight him to GO to bed (worse than a 2 year old sometimes) because he wants to sleep all day and stay up all night. Then I brush my teeth and get undressed and get into bed and wait....And like a 2 year old, he will drag his feet and do everything possible to avoid going to bed....Gotta have a smoke, grab a snack, get a drink, take his medicine, go to the bathroom, get another drink, get undressed and finally....when he can avoid no longer, he will lay down....and just like that 2 year old, it's a 50/50 shot whether or not he'll stay down....LOL
wow hahaah ,,u made my day! thats intense routine.
Now that he's deployed, we still have a routine. Though 12hrs apart, he works night shift, so it fits perfectly with us ... He gets back from his shift, DD & I Skype with him and then we all head to bed :)


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Back in high school, I was honored to accept the role of a folly girl in the musical "Crazy For You." Honored, I say, because I can't hold a tune to save my life, and am convinced the only thing that landed me the part was dynamite facial expressions and killer jazz hands. Regardless, having a part in the chorus line of this adorable show was one of my best high school memories, and I played the musical's soundtrack in my car's CD player months after our 3 night run. Even today, the lyrics to the musical's hit numbers, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "Someone To Watch Over Me" come flowing out as easy as my jazz hands.
You can imagine my excitement when I was invited to see the Broadway production of Nice Work if You can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and a host of other fabulous names. There's something about a jazz age musical that has you singing along in your seat, high-kicking your way out of the theater, and cheering for a happily ever after ending that actually comes true in all its rumble, tumble, outlandish Broadway glory. "Nice Work" is just that…a heavenly little slice of theater that every New Yorker should indulge in.
The show is a feel-good farcical love story, bubbling over with dance numbers set to the songs of George and Ira Gershwin. Wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter (Broderick) is about to say "I do" to his fourth wife, when he meets bootlegger Billie Bendix (Kelli O'Hara) on the eve of his wedding. The duo dance a little ditty, sparks fly, and the audience can clearly see this pair of Roaring Twenties lovebirds will be together by the show's finale. After all, it's nice work if you can get it, and Winter will certainly give it the ol' college try!
Along with the songs, the choreography is a perfect tribute to the musicals of the good ol' days…a sheer slap in the face to anyone who says they don't make musicals like they used to! I was rolling out of my seat with laughter during the prohibitionist aunt's (Judy Kaye) chandelier swinging number "Looking For A Boy", in which her lemonade was laced with gin and her guard was anything but up.
The chorus girls were a delicious little addition to the show…spunky flappers with cherry red lips and legs for days that carried the energy of the show from start to finish. Not gonna lie…they made me pine for the old days of high school theater and stage makeup. So much so, I went home after the show (high-kicking, of course), downloaded the show's soundtrack from iTunes, and did my own little ditty in my living room. My neighbors have "Nice Work If You Can Get It" to thank for that.
WHERE: Nice Work If You Can Get ItImperial Theatre 249 West 45th Street New York, New York


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Parkinson's Australia is the national peak body and charity representing Australians living with Parkinson's.
Did you know an estimated 700,000 people are directly impacted by Parkinson's? They either have Parkinson's, provide care to someone with Parkinson's,
or have a family member or close friend affected by Parkinson's.
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Young Guns, 'Echoes' – Exclusive Song Premiere
Get a listen to Young Guns' latest song 'Echoes' from the album of the same name.
Get a listen to Young Guns' latest song 'Echoes' from the album of the same name.
Get a look at the energy Young Guns put into their live set with the new 'Rising Up' video.
Frontman Gustav Wood recently spoke with 'Loudwire Nights' host Full Metal Jackie about the how the band is progressing musically, their live show + more.
Here's your chance to win a Young Guns signed 'Ones and Zeros' CD, t-shirt, poster, candle and dog tags.
British rockers Young Guns have unleashed a brand new song titled 'Speaking in Tongues' off their upcoming album 'Ones And Zeros.'
Young Guns' Gustav Wood recently took a few minutes to speak with 'Loudwire Nights' Full Metal Jackie about 'I Want Out' and their new album hopes.
Young Guns are in the process of finalizing their new album, but will spend the fall touring North America.
Anyone who's seen Young Guns live knows that the band brings it onstage. The British rockers, who scored a huge hit in 2012 with 'Bones,' kicked off the year as part of this year's ShipRocked lineup.
As the last day of ShipRocked got under way and the Norwegian Pearl began its descent back to Miami, it was time to make the most of what was left of our festival on the ocean and reflect back on what could best be described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience for any rock fan.
With all new digs aboard their new home on the glorious Norwegian Pearl, the 2014 ShipRocked cruise set sail on Jan. 25 for a four-day, nonstop rock 'n' roll extravaganza. Offering up six on-board stages and a private Bahamas island beach stage, the excursion lived up to all expectations of rocking the high seas.


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The fruits and milk should be giving the strength, energy and they should be healthy to eat and drink but few greedy people are turning fruits into chemical fruits by ripening them with chemicals and preparing milk from chemicals. The police has raided these godowns and arrested few and also arrested those involved in supplying adulterated milk in Hyderabad. Watch Teenmaar news.


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Chapter 1 (v.1) - The ward
I'm sorry to say that English is not my mother tongue, so there may be some mistakes. I have looked though this chapter as well as I could, but if you find some mistakes, then please tell
Sadon looked out the window with a sigh, if not a thunder cloud was over his head right now, he didn't know what was wrong with him.
The sun were slowly going down, letting the dark come slowly on the land. The forest was almost glowing from the sun and the birds were flying around the castle like they were searching for a good place to land. The servants were doing the last chores before going home, the prince was training the knights, the children were playing the last game before bedtime and the women was hanging their clothes to dry so it was ready for the next day. There was a benefit to have your chambers so high up.
And yet he had no idea what to do, he had never been more bored in his life. Edward was training the knights, even though it was pretty late and Elizabeth were brushing her hair or something like that, the truth was that he didn't want to be with her right now, do all those girly thing wasn't his strong side. Josselyn and Evan was of course doing chores, like always so he didn't wanted to interrupt them.
He looked at Edward there was training the knights, seriously did they ever get a break? Poor them. Their sword hit each other and Edward was giving them ordered he couldn't hear. What if one of them got hurt? He shook his head.
He walked away from the window and to his table and sat down and looked around his chambers, to find something to do. His eyes traveled to the the bookcase and he consider to read but he didn't feel like it. Then his eyes found the desk and he consider to write a letter.
He sighed, to who?
He didn't knew many people outside Esteria, not anyone wroth writing too anyway. His eyes found the door and then considered go outside for a while, and do what? He asked himself.
He groaned and let his head fall down on the table, he had never been this bored. He then thought about read a book again, he could go to the library to find a book but he didn't really had the energy to move from his seat, so he dropped that plan.
He took his head up and with a sigh he looked around again but again with no luck. How can you be so bored? How was it possible to be that bored? It really should be illegal to be this bored. He stood up and walked over to his bed and threw himself on it. He closed his eyes and felt the soft mattress under his back. He could sleep to it was dinner time, Evan would wake him up when he came so it couldn't hurt. There was nothing else to do anyway, so why not? He laid more comfortable and then felt asleep.
He felt someone push his shoulder. Annoyed he opened his eyes and found the smiling face of his servant.
"Evan…" he muttered and then turned around to sleep again.
He heard Evan groan, which made him smile a little.
"Come on sire, the king have asked you to dine with him, Lady Elizabeth and Prince Edward" Evan said.
He groaned and sat up in the bed. He really didn't feel like it, he had slept so good that he would rather lie back down again and sleep but he knew he couldn't do that and he was hungry.
"I'm up" he said with a yawn.
He got out the bed and went to the mirror behind his screen and then flattened his sleepy black raven hair.
"Will you find some clothes to me?" he asked.
He heard a hum as a reply and took it as a yes. He waited for the clothes. He could go in the clothes he was wearing but he better change it, since he was eating with the king, Elizabeth and
Edward. He didn't really wanted to go to dinner but he had too otherwise the king would be disappointed and he hated when he got disappointed, you could it in his eyes.
He came to think of his parents, he missed them so much. They day they died, a part of his soul died with them. He could clearly remember what had happen that stormy raining night.
He woke up and heard the bell ringing. Where was mother and father, where they okay? Should he hide or stay in the bed? He looked around and saw only darkness. He wanted mother and father, he wanted them with him. He felt his throat close and gasps where coming out of his mouth. Why was the bell ringing and why weren't anyone coming after him?
Suddenly the door opened and his mother stepped inside with a with a lighted candle in her hand. She ran to him and sat on the bed. She sat the candle stander on the night table beside the bed.
"Listen closely Sadon, we're going on a long trip okay?" she asked with a smile, however he noticed it wasn't her usual smile.
He however nodded instead of asking to many question, even though he had a dozen inside his head. Why wasn't she smiling her normal smile? Why was the bell ringing? Where was father? What was going on?
"Good, now get out of bed" she said and then ran to the closet and opened it.
He got out of the comfortable bed and then waiting for his mother to find whatever she was looking for. Shortly after she came back with his dark blue cloak his her hand. She took it on him and took the hood over his head.
Suddenly a scream came outside the door, a woman's scream. He looked at his mother, he was scared. He didn't want this anymore.
"Mother, I'm scared" he cried.
She gave him a sad smile and took her hand on his chin.
"I know my child, I know" she said.
She then took his arm and dragged him to the bed.
"Go under the bed" she instructed.
He did as she said and then her head came to his sight.
"Listen closely, all this is a game and it's all about being quiet okay? Just be quiet no matter what" she said with a smile, even though tears were steaming down her face.
Why was mother crying, if it was just a game? Instead of asking he just nodded.
She smiled and took her head under the bed and kissed him on the forehead and then went out the bed again.
"Stay here" she said and then stood up.
As she had just stood up the door opened, though it was impossible to see whom it was but he could see man's boots, however he didn't recognize them.
"You!" he head his mother spat, "this is your doing?".
He felt his throat close again. If this were a game then why was his throat closing? and why was his palms sweaty? And why did his mother sound so angry?
"Where is he?" the man asked.
He saw the shoes of his mother walked backwards as the man's walked forward.
"Safe, from you!".
He heard the man chuckle and suddenly he threw himself forward and then a second after his mother felt down on the floor. He took his hands to his mouth to stay silent as his mother had told him to do. He could see the lightning lighted his room up, he could hear the rain and thunder from the outside but it all faded away when he saw blood coming from his mother's body. Her head was turned towards him and she was gasping for air.
This was no game, he knew that now but he also he knew that his mother wanted him to stay quiet. He felt something wet on his cheek and then he realized he was crying.
She smiled though her gasping and then she stopped gasping, her eyes half-open looking straight into his yet, with no light in them.
Shortly after the man had walked out but he didn't come out from the bed, he just kept looking at his death mother's body.
Sadon had found out later that his father died in battle, he had protected his mother from a sword when they were on the way to his chamber but his father failed to protect himself. He never found out who the man was there killed his mother that night. The only thing he saw that night was his boots and that wasn't enough. When the man had walked a maid had found him and since his parents were now lying in their grave he became his father's friend's ward.
He felt a tear streaming down his chin so he wiped them away fast and took the clothes there was now hanging over the screen.
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This is an good start :) I really love the style. I'm a middle-earth lover too!! :D But I'm more to JRR Tolkien's style :) don't worry, your english is great, though there maybe a couple of mistakes, but nothing major :) just try to revise and you'll notice them. Anyways, this is good! Great job! :)
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