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What is Pre-employment Testing? 09/12/2011
Internet is gaining acceptance whole over the world. Along with the gaining acceptance of the internet the potential of online work is also increasing day by day. Thus for doing the online work potential workers must also be found. The task of recruiting potential online workers is the most difficult part. These sorts of recruitments for online workers are commonly known as e-recruitment. pre employment testing is one of the initial stages of e-recruitment. There are a large number of online users looking for jobs on the internet, recruiters and HR personnel are finding it difficult to do the e-recruitment. So for easing the pain of e-recruitment the Pre-employment testing has been given stress so as to screen out unqualified candidates and poor matches early on in the recruitment process. So Pre-employment Testing has been made compulsory for online jobs and owing to this many companies have come forward with Pre-employment Testing software.
Pre-employment Testing is usually done with the help of automated web based profiling application. Thus pre employment testing saves time and reduces cost of the online recruiters. The cost is reduced owing to the removal of the screening process. Owing to the process of Pre-employment Testing the recruiters can focus on the potential candidates from the beginning itself. Thus Pre-employment Testing programs have become a benchmark for online recruitment process. So the online users who are having a Pre-employment Testing certification enjoy the privilege of getting screened in over the others who don't have the certification.
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The Importance of Excel Practice Test 08/01/2011
You would have already come across hundreds of small businesses, which have opted to conduct own home based Excel practice test. The nice thing about these courses is that they will be highly affordable and will have flexible timings. Hence, there is nothing to be surprised when you find hundreds of people joining this course. In addition, these courses will be well equipped with a highly qualified staff section. The Microsoft instructors whom you find in such courses will be highly knowledgeable of all Microsoft Excel aspects. In fact, it is said to be the best way to begin with the learning process of MS Office.
Obviously, no matter what your job is, it is very much important for you to know the basics about Excel and other MS Office applications. Since this type of professional training course will also be having flexible timings, adjusting with it along with your office or college hours will not at all be a difficult task. For those people, who find it difficult to travel for venue where these courses are being conducted, there is a great option of choosing Excel training. Therefore, all that you need in this case is just interest to learn about Microsoft Excel practice test. If you are seriously looking forward to improve your MS Office skills, then there is no doubt that surely you have to choose a right Microsoft Excel Training. In fact, this type of course is said to be the best way to begin with. Hence, if you are new to MS Office, choosing this type of course is a must for you.
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Online data entry testing can help you 07/05/2011
Gone are the days when the offices used to be filled with files and there used to be a lot of paper work that used to be done. Now even if a company has to make a file about the stationery being bought by them they prefer doing it on the computer. This is because it not only helps in getting easy access to data or reduces the amount of storage space required but also helps in reducing the errors that may occur. However, at the same time to attain the results it is important that when you are typing the date you should not be doing any errors.
There are a lot of companies who hire people so that they can take care of their data work and make sure that they are not making any error while doing the same. Even the simplest of mistake can lead to losses depending on the nature of work and the severity of the report one is working upon. Therefore a lot of companies while hiring a professional prefer to get an online data entry testing. This is a professional certificate which will help you and the company in knowing the specialization that you have and to judge it with there requirements.
However, if you want you can take these tests on your own so that you don't have to wait for the company to get it conducted. This way you will not only look more professional but will also be able to show that you are serious about your work.
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Certificates are used to validate what we know. Some people might call them as a piece of paper that are expensive but at the same time one cannot deny the fact that it helps in getting a standardizing to our knowledge. Now a days every thing that we related to computers and therefore it is necessary for us be have a great sped so that we can d it in a right and speedy way. Every organization uses them from the smallest to the biggest reports and likes to make sure that the employee that they are planning to hire has a speed and accuracy that will help the organization.
This is the main reason when a company hires you they make sure that they ask you about your computer skills as ell as the typing speed. So the next time you go for an interview you can be prepared with an answer that will be validated with a certificate. You can take an online typing test which will help you in getting a typing test certificate to prove that you are just not saying things but also mean them.
While going for an interview it is important that you should look prepared and professional in your answers. And once you will hand over all the certificates that are required to show your excellence there is no way possible that accompany will be able to reject you. Professionalism is a quality that everyone looks for and is appreciated as well.
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Excel practice test to check your excellence 06/20/2011
If you have worked somewhere earlier you would know that no work can be done in the office without the help of Microsoft Office. And to narrow it down you need to be brilliant in excel if you want to be on top of your peers. Your everyday working requires excel in depth and even if you notice or not you have been working on excel for the maximum time that you spend in office. The reason for the same is that the system is so wide and has so much to offer that you can't even think of one difficulty that you might face while working on the same.
With the increase in trend of using Microsoft excel in the office there are a lot of companies that make there employees take the excel practice test periodically. This means that they want to check the excellence of their employees on the software that they work on for the entire day. Apart from this they also tend to conduct the same while hiring a new associate to see if he or she matches to the standards of the company and are comfortable with the type of work that they will be doing.
If you want you can conduct these test n your own as well as there are companies who work to help you take these tests so that you apply somewhere, you should be full prepared with all the answers that you will be asked for and are able to back it with the help of a certificate.
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Clerical test will add value to your resume 06/18/2011
We all want to work with good and reputed organization. This means that when we opt to work we look at two things one how much compensation we will get and the other is the difference that it will make on our career. At the same time when an organization hires you it looks at the ability you have and the difference you will bring to the organization.
It is not possible for us to tell everything about yourself and all the skills that we have in one meeting that is an interview and this is where our certificates play an essential role. A certificate is not only a piece of paper but it also validates our capabilities. There are a lot of companies who have been looking into the same and have designed certain tests that will help you show your capabilities when you go for an interview. Although certain organizations make you take a few tests to judge your knowledge, you can also do the same on your own. This will make you look professional and the same time focused towards your goals.
You can do a Clerical test online which will help you get a certificate of your excellence. You can choose to tae one depending on the nature of job you is looking for. These tests are designed to check your knowledge and are acceptable by all the top organizations. By adding them on your resume you will be making your self worth being hired and nicely compensated.
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Excel Practice Test-Key to Success 04/29/2011
In order to succeed in any Microsoft Office Certification whether it is Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint you ought to excel practice test. If you have not had enough time to prepare for these certifications but wishing that you could clear these exams then in that case the best way to do keep up your hope is to excel practice test. With a little attentiveness & appropriate training, you can promptly get through these certifications & move ahead in your career.
If you are working in an environment which requires you to have a thorough knowledge of the various Microsoft Office applications so that you can add more value to the organization in that case if you have a proof to demonstrate your expertise everybody would be impressed. Hence taking Microsoft certifications becomes a need for you at this point of time.
Before taking the actual certification exam, it is always suggested that you take some practice tests. Once you excel practice test you will find yourself confident enough when you take the actual exam. There might be a question running in one's mind as to how one can excel practice tests. There are many tutorials, videos, guides, and eBooks available on the worldwide web which will help you to excel practice test & subsequently the actual certification exam. So it is always suggested that you have the motto to excel practice test & definitely you will make it to the actual certification exam with flying colors. Once you clear these Microsoft certifications you will get many excellent job opportunities offering high packages.
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Microsoft Office test preparation is time consuming & challenging. Microsoft Office test prep can be easier & enjoying if you consider the below mentioned few suggestions:
MOS's i.e. Microsoft Office Specialists are people who play a very important role in the tech world. The skills possessed by these people are of utmost demand in the business industry. MOS's are individuals who have cleared any one of the exams monitored by authorized Microsoft testing centers on Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word or any other Microsoft Office XP products. These are people who always want to expertise in various software packages that come with Microsoft Office.
In order to become a MOS, you need to clear various levels. In order to become an expert you ought to take various Microsoft certifications. To begin with you have to first clear Microsoft Word Certification. If you pass the Microsoft Word certification, you need to then clear Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint exams & an additional test for accessing Microsoft Outlook. If you are familiar on the basic of Microsoft Word it is not very difficult for you to pass the Microsoft Word certification.
You have to take the pain in clearing the Microsoft Word certification because that is the basic certification on your way to become Microsoft Office Specialist. If you are looking around for a job in an office atmosphere, then definitely being a MOS will make you have an edge over other job seekers. Having such skill and being a certified proves to the employer that you are really good, and the good thing is, having such skill is really in demand for many companies and firms. So to conclude with one can say that Microsoft Word certification is the stepping stone to become a MOS.
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Air Force could ground U-2 in favor of Global Hawk
By BARRIE BARBER | Dayton Daily News, Ohio | Published: May 5, 2014
DAYTON, Ohio — Tony Bevacqua flew secret missions in U-2 spy planes to peer into the Soviet Union, China, over the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam.
The Cleveland native first climbed into a U-2 cockpit in 1957 at a secret base in Groom Lake, Nev., surviving three flame outs on a training mission over the desert before flying the jet around the globe on highly classified flights until the mid-1960s.
"With our altitude above 70,000 feet, you could see way in with the camera," said Bevacqua, who also piloted Mach 3 capable SR-71 Blackbird in his two-decade Air Force career. "You didn't go in over Russia and China because of the promise (President) Eisenhower made to (Soviet leader) Kruschev of no overflights."
Decades later, the SR-71 has long since retired, while the glider-like U-2 still flies miles above the Earth, but could be grounded because of Air Force budget cuts, and replaced by the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft.
Looking past the Iron Curtain
The long-winged U-2 played a crucial role after the Soviet Union imposed the Iron Curtain and gathering intelligence over the enormous expanse became "practically impossible," said Douglas Lantry, a curator at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
"They did a really good job of buttoning up their borders in that way," Lantry said. "We were initially in the early days of the Cold War practically blind to what those guys were up to."
Bevacqua flew the jet on high-altitude air sampling missions to detect nuclear weapons tests along with photo reconnaissance flights.
The high-flying pilots sometimes suffered from the bends, or decompression sickness. The Air Force eventually pressured the aircraft at lower altitudes to ease the problem, said Bevacqua, 81, of Yuba City, Calif.
Pilots found the jet a challenge to fly because it "can be tough to land especially if you have any cross winds and you have the fatigue factor as well as a landing coming at you."
The Air Force did not initially want the unsolicited Lockheed proposal for a high-flying glider, known as the CL-282 that became the U-2. "Lockheed's design was really radical," Lantry said.
In the early 1950s, the service set its sights on a twin-engined B-57 Canberra with longer wings for a high-altitude, long-endurance mission but got behind the glider-like, single-engine U-2 after the Eisenhower administration chose it as a secret Central Intelligence Agency plane, Lantry said.
The Soviets shot down CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 in 1960 and Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson was killed in a U-2 over Cuba in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It was a U-2 flight that confirmed Soviet missiles in Cuba during the perilous standoff between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev. The Soviets pulled the missiles out of the island nation after a U.S. naval blockade.
Still flying
Six decades since the first U-2 flight, the plane, reborn as a larger model with new a range of sensors instead of a single high-resolution film camera it originally carried, has a key role in aerial reconnaissance today.
Richard Aboulafia, a Fairfax, Va.-based Teal Group analyst, said the decision to sideline the U-2 is "risky."
"But with a budget environment as constrained as it is, the Air Force is forced to take risks," he said.
Rene Freeland, a Northrop Grumman spokeswoman, said in an email the federal government has recognized the significance of Global Hawk's capabilities, which recently set the longest military endurance flight — longer than 34 hours — without refueling.
"Global Hawk has the safest record of any aircraft in the Air Force's active inventory and provides the most cost-effective and efficient means of gathering high altitude long endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information over a wide geographic area," she said in the email. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has a Global Hawk office at Wright-Patterson.
Loren B. Thompson, a Lexington Institute defense analyst and an aerospace industry consultant, said it's unlikely the U-2 will leave the fleet for several years.
"First of all, it will take that long to transfer the most important sensors from the U-2 to the Global Hawk and even after that happens the Global Hawk will not be able to accomplish some of the missions the U-2 can," he said.
The Global Hawk can fly longer than the U-2, but has a smaller payload, and can't fly as high, he said. "The Global Hawk was conceived to replace the U-2 but it's so different that they really are complimentary systems," he said.
(This story replaces an earlier Associated Press version.)


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In an encapsulating gel or thermoset composition, the material's cured mechanical consistency is particularly sensitive to the final crosslink density. In other words, materials with low-crosslink density (like silicone gels) are greatly impacted by inhibition. Weak cure inhibition on a substrate's surface causes the gel to appear cured in bulk, but "wet" at the substrate interface. Modest cure inhibition results in a lower final cured durometer (i.e. softer) than expected, while severe cure inhibition can lead to complete cure elimination (the mixed gel's form exhibits little or no perceptible viscosity increase after the nominal cure time).
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It is imperative to analyze adhesives, plastics, and elastomers for cure inhibition prior to selection for use near or in contact with a silicone compound. This analysis should include materials used in any transfer containers, dispensing hoses, or utensils that come in contact with the silicone components. The following list gives a partial inventory of suspect materials:
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Testing candidate materials that may contact a curing optical gel for compatibility is the most effective way to eliminate "poisons." It is important to test each material's particular manufacturer's grade. For example, some vinyl electrical tapes show no cure inhibition at all, whereas others may exhibit inhibition. Placing fragments of the suspect material into uncured silicone can reveal whether or not an adverse reaction has occurred (after the silicone has undergone the proper cure schedule).
The use of silicones in HBLED encapsulating applications can provide device developers with significant benefits. Understanding the proper use of silicone systems, and, more specifically, the elimination of cure poisons, can ensure the smooth transition from prototype to finished product.


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August 8, 2007
MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source)
In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.
Back in December 2006 I pondered on the changes with the MySQL database splitting into two offerings, the enterprise and community editions:
The source for the enterprise edition will still be available:we will continue to make all releases available over our BitKeeper tree and as source code tarballsSo it appears that those willing to compile from source will still have access to the enterprise edition. This is very important (in my eyes) to keep MySQL in the open source space. Without it MySQL AB becomes a commercial company that has an open source offering.
So where does that leave MySQL now, are they still an open source company, or have they crossed the line? Today's announcement has this point about GPL compliance:
The GPL requires us (like anybody else) to hand out the code to those whom we give the binaries, which in the case of MySQL Enterprise Server is just the customers.
So this may be true technically, but it doesn't seem to fit with the spirit of open source. When I think open source I think freely available source, not source I can get once I've paid for a license. Is this just a lack on my part of really understanding open source?
I'm sure that folks will point out that the announcement confirms that enterprise source is still available on Bitkeeper. If true, the source is technically still available, but it is now just a little more difficult to get the source and turn it into a working binary.
And I can only guess, but somewhere in the MySQL master plan there must be another blog post planned to ease folks along about closing off the enterprise source in Bitkeeper. After all, we should not expect to get the code for enterprise software like MySQL for free, it is for paying customers.
And then there's only one thing left in the plan to convert folks to paying customers...cripple or do away with the community edition. The marketing message (one example) already suggests that the community edition is experimental and not for production. This might deter some folks from using the freely available community edition, but there are definitely more serious measures that would ensure it won't be used in environments where a licensed version could be used. Perhaps it is the long release cycle, or letting the community server get unreliable with community contributions. Perhaps it is introducing limits in data storage or server capabilities. Am I just being paraniod? Why is it easy for me to imagine this coming down the road?
Why does this matter to me? I don't know. I admit I'm not anything special in the open source community. I've been using open source since the early days, but haven't made any earth-shattering contribution or raised a flag of commitment or dedication to open source. I suspect it has something to do with having used MySQL since it first appeared in the open source stack and having been an advocate of it for many years now. I'm still sorting out why these changes at MySQL seem to always touch a nerve. I have many friends who work at MySQL and respect them a great deal. They are bright folks who work hard. This is definitely not about them.
[I also realize that the enterprise licenses are not expensive when compared to other proprietary software vendors. But that's not the point is it, the relative cost of a license isn't a factor in whether software is open source or not.]
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Howard the Duck Returns This September In 'Spider-Man: Back in Quack'
While Disney's relationship with Marvel regarding Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik's Howard the Duck hasn't historically been, shall we say, awesome, the publishing pair's merger seems to have already had a positive effect on Howard's productivity. This September writer Stuart Moore and artists Mark Brooks, Joe Suitor and cover artist Skottie Young are on board to begin shining at least a little bit of Marvel's spotlight on its most iconic anthropomorphic fowl in "Spider-Man: Back in Quack" #1.
What's in store for the Web Slinger and his fine feathered (sorta) friend? Marvel sorts it out this way:
"Presenting two of Marvel's finest: Spider-Man and … Cynical Duck (TM)? Yes, Howard the Duck's brain has been thoroughly scrubbed, his hard-edged humor carefully dulled down for maximum demographic acceptance. It's up to Peter Parker to set the duck straight — but does the world prefer Howard this way? Guest-starring the villainy of SOOPhI, the utter cluelessness of Mayor J. Jonah Jameson, and the unnerving eroticism of "Swizzle," SOOPhI's whip-wielding corporate spokeswoman. So wrong it's … well, no, it's still wrong, courtesy of Stuart Moore (NAMOR) and Mark Brooks (YOUNG AVENGERS). Plus: a tiny-size Man-Thing backup feature by Stuart Moore & Joe Suitor (MARVEL BREAKOUT)!"
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Publisher: Eindhoven University of Technology 2010
Number of pages: 363
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Universal Avionics (Booth No. 4702) has done it: created a way for helicopter pilots to keep their hands on the collective and still have "point and click" cursor control. The avionics manufacturer's new device is a cursor slew hat-switch mounted on the collective of the MD 902 Explorer equipped with the Universal Avionics Next Generation flight deck, which is on display at the MD Helicopters booth (No. 6922).
Grady Dees, director of technical sales for Universal Avionics, is excited about the Next Generation flight deck capabilities. "Flight decks of the future need to provide functionality and safety features while reducing pilot workload," Dees explained. "Giving cursor control to the light-twin helicopter market should revolutionize it," he said. The cursor currently gives the pilot access to the avionics system's most-used features.


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Mon | Far East flavor
My friend Karen has perfected this recipe for the perfect hot-cold Asian salad. Before you go to work, mix cubed, uncooked chicken breast with bottled hoisin sauce mixed with a little hot sauce to marinate in the fridge. When you get home, make a green salad with whatever you'd like in it and put it in a wide, shallow serving bowl. Dress lightly with Annie's Naturals Shiitake & Sesame Vinaigrette. Cook angelhair pasta. While noodles are cooking, saute drained chicken pieces. Drain the noodles and dump on the salad; then add the chicken.
Tue | Teen challenge
They may not admit they're bored but you'd sure like them to do something. Tell them to surprise you then leave the recipe for Indoor BBQ Chicken Skewers, below, taped to the TV and hope they don't get into a sword fight. (You can cook the skewers when you get home if your kids aren't broiler-adept.) Ask them nicely to make a veggie-full green salad, too.
Wed | Rotisserie chicken
How easy is this idea from Fine Cooking magazine? Make Chicken Reubens by layering shredded chicken with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing on rye bread and grilling it until the cheese is melted. Potato salad, German-style, is a perfect accompaniment.
Thur | Classic grill
The price of beef is coming down a bit, so grab your favorite steaks for the grill. Brush them with olive oil and season generously with coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper. A small baked potato and an ice-cold iceberg wedge smothered with blue cheese seal the deal. Take an extra long walk tonight.
Fri | Crabby patties
It'll only be TGIF if you don't have to cook . . . from scratch. Prepare crab cakes (frozen or from the fish market) and serve with corn on the cob and a creamy macaroni salad. When you're ready to splurge, order the best crab cakes on the planet from G&M Restaurant outside of Baltimore at gandmrestaurant.com.
Read Stir Crazy online at www.blogs.tampabay.com/food. Submit your ideas for quick weeknight meals to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dinner inspirations: chicken skewers and more
Mon | Far East flavor
Indoor BBQ Chicken Skewers
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/2 pounds), cut into 1-inch chunks
1 cup barbecue sauce
1/4 cup cider vinegar, divided
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
Adjust oven rack to highest position (about 5 inches from broiler element) and heat broiler. Set wire rack over rimmed baking sheet. Combine sugar, paprika, cumin, cayenne and salt in large bowl. Add chicken and toss to coat. Thread seasoned chicken onto four 12-inch metal skewers.
Whisk 3/4 cup barbecue sauce and 2 tablespoons vinegar in small bowl. In a second bowl, combine sour cream, cilantro, remaining barbecue sauce and remaining vinegar. Set aside for serving.
Brush each kebab with barbecue sauce-vinegar mixture. Broil until lightly browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Flip kebabs, brush with remaining sauce and continue to broil until chicken is lightly charred and cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes. Serve with sour cream.
Serves 4.
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Takenobu Katagiri received a Ph.D. degree from Kitasato University (Tokyo, Japan). He served as a Research Associate at Showa University (Tokyo, Japan) before performing postdoctoral research at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Tex, USA) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Mass, USA). Katagiri currently works as a Professor at Saitama Medical University. Dr. Katagiri has also served as Division Head of pathophysiology, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism. His research focuses on molecular mechanisms of musculoskeletal tissue interaction, particularly bone biology in both physiological and pathological conditions.
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Cambridge Medical Center recently welcomed Anastasios Pappas, MD, to the medical staff.
Dr. Pappas is a board-certified dermatologist and began seeing patients at Cambridge Medical Center on Jan. 12.
Dr. Pappas is interested in all facets of dermatology and has a strong commitment to providing quality patient care and customer service.
"My basis philosophy is simple—I work for my patients and the providers that refer to me," Dr. Pappas said. "In the end, it is their happiness and health that I try to satisfy."
For the past three years, Dr. Pappas has seen patients on a part-time basis at Allina Medical Clinic in North Branch. He will expand his appointment schedule to full time at Cambridge Medical Center.
"The supportive nature of the referring care providers and the opportunity to serve their patients is something I look forward to," he said.
Dr. Pappas received his medical degree from the University of South Dakota. He completed an internal medicine internship at Mayo Clinic and a dermatology residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is certified by the American Board of Dermatology.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Pappas, call Cambridge Medical Center at 763-689-8700.


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KORS Michael Kors – Bleeker (Black Vacchetta) , $169 on sale (reg $199) at Zappos.com
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Ok, so Jess's are missing the signature red sole, but I think I could sacrifice that to pay only 10% of the price.
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Get ready for another good soaking. At least this one will come during the week.
The system:
An unseasonably strong and (slow moving) low pressure system is spinning out of the Rockies into Minnesota this week. The system will send several waves of showers, and a big "straitform rain" shield into Minnesota tonight through Wednesday.
Storng surface low pressure and a warm front moving north.
The system is unusual for June in that it looks more like a springtime weather system on the maps, featuring a large, widespread "wrap around" rain shield and a tight pressure gradient which will generate a steady northeast wind. Late June
Flood watches are in effect for much of southern Minnesota.
Bands of rainfall will increase and spread north into Minnesota today, tonight and Tuesday. It looks like the heaviest bands of rain will comer after midnight tonight and through Tuesday. The system may linger through Wednesday and into Thursday in some areas.
Models bring rain in early Tuesday through at least Wednesday.
It looks like the bulk of the heavy rain will come in after midnight into early Tuesday morning in the metro.
–Latest Twin Cities radar loop
Rainfall totals:
This one looks like another super soaker, with the potential to cause some flooding in some areas. Rainfall totals could easily exceed 2″ to 3″ in much of Minnesota over the next 72 hours.
The NAM model is cranking out 2.5″ of rainfall at MSP by late Wednesday!
Tropical connection:
This massive weather system is pulling in a moisture plume from the tropical Pacific Ocean.
GOES water vapor image shows tropical moisture plume feeding into low pressure over Kansas.
When this happens in mid-latitude cyclones the additional injection of moisture can "supercharge" moisture, and that can lead to tropical downpours with enhanced rainfall totals of several inches.
Severe risk?
It looks like the biggest risk for severe storms will be south through tonight. A moderate risk for severe weather extends through western Iowa to the Minnesota border.
Lake Minnetonka water discharge into Minnehaha Creek reduced in advance of potential flooding rains:
MCWD has reduced the flow from the Gray's Bay Dam on Lake Minnetonka into Minnehaha Creek to help reduce flood risk along the creek. The story here.
"The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District controls the headwaters structure at Minnetonka's Grays Bay, the outlet of Lake Minnetonka to Minnehaha Creek. And according to MCWD, the discharge at Lake Minnetonka's Grays Bay Dam was reduced to 50 cubic feet per second earlier today, in order to build capacity in Minnehaha Creek for the rainfall expected this week.
On June 20, the lake level of Lake Minnetonka (Lake Minnetonka's elevation above sea level), as measured at Minnetonka's Grays Bay, was 929.65 feet. That's just above the lake's ordinary high water level of 929.40 feet. To reduce flooding on Lake Minnetonka, the MCWD tries to keep the lake level stabilized between 928.60 and 929.40 feet."
Want some good news? Right now at least, it looks like we could dry out and see the sun return Friday and into the weekend. There may be a chance of more rain by Sunday.
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UK Release Round-up: No More Waiting
March 14, 2008 - It certainly took its time, but Grasshopper's Wii debut No More Heroes is finally with us in the UK, accompanied by a glut of curiosities on shop shelves this Friday.
Bomberman Land Review
February 12, 2008 - If you've played a handful of Wii games in the past, you're more than likely familiar with mini-games on the Wii. Bomberman Land is yet another mini-game collection that takes advantage of traditional controller schemes as well as motion controls to deliver a relatively straight-forward experience, with some goodies on the side. While you certainly won't see anything revolutionary on this disc, there are quite a few notable elements to Bomberman's Wii adventure.
Hudson Entertainment's Bomberman Land Series For Wii, PSP & DS
January 29, 2008 - Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of Hudson Soft, today announced Bomberman Land for the Wii and the PSP (PlayStationPortable) system, and Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the Nintendo DS are now available at retail. Published by Hudson and distributed in North America by Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., all three versions are now available for a suggested retail price of $29.99 each.
Bomberman Land Hands-on
January 9, 2008 - If you've been keeping tabs on Hudson's Bomberman series over the last few years, you've undoubtedly seen a shift in the franchise's direction starting in 2006. With a successful first Bomberman game hitting DS back in mid-2005, there seemed to be hope that the franchise was returning to its roots with a very Super NES-like offering on Nintendo's handled, offering up eight player, dual screen battle mode to boot. The problem: This amazing multiplayer package lacked online. Fast forward another year and the acquisition of the series by Atlus spawned Bomberman Land Touch!, which dropped traditional gameplay and instead favored touch-based mini-games for single player (always the weaker aspect of Bomberman anyways), and coupling online multiplayer into the "Battle Mode" portion of the game. It was a hit.
Bomberman Land Goes Gold
January 4, 2008 - Hudson Entertainment, the North American publishing arm of Hudson Soft, today announced Bomberman Land for the Wii and PSP (system, and Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the Nintendo DS have gone to gold master. Published by Hudson and distributed in North America by Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., all three versions are planned to ship on January 29, 2008 for a SRP of $29.99 each.
Bomberman Land Hands-on
November 1, 2007 - Remember when the Wii was revealed back at the Electronic Entertainment…
Bomberman Land Heads to Wii
September 19, 2007 - After the huge success of the DS version, publisher Hudson Entertainment has decided to take the Bomberman Land franchise and run with it, releasing a Wii and PSP (system-specific) version along with a full-on DS sequel, all slated for January of 2008.
New Wii Titles Announced
September 13, 2006 - Nintendo's Japanese conference hints at many new games to come.


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Welcome to Il Felice! A Fine Italian Restaurant Serving Northern Italian Cuisine located in the heart of Seaford, New York.
Il Felice always offers a wide selection of pasta, chicken and veal, as well as succulent desserts, fine wine and specialty cocktails.
Il Felice is an ideal setting for all occasions – whether an intimate setting for two or a party for 100 guests.
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Nosferatu Waltz
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
needs guitar though
I think so too but I really wanted to make a piano song so I didn't add guitar
Rated 5 / 5 stars
keep it instrumental man,
maybe have the guitars kick in with some vocals after the creepy piano bit?
i think so too if you have an idea let me hear it
Rated 3 / 5 stars
sounds like zelda at the beginning
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I like it.The progression you make at 24 seconds is awesome.It would be pretty brutal if you added in a distorted guitar into the mix.But it should be limited of course.
Anywho.Keep up the good work.
probrably wouldn't sound bad if i did but I wanted to make a piano piece, although... if you give me the idea I will try to see if it fits, because I don't see how guitars would go in this piece, I can hear vocals but not guitars
Rated 5 / 5 stars
You The-man!
you better than stupid hania! we both in hell so,goth on!


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Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom, 2009/10/05 - A Knutsford-based business is looking to revolutionise the transport industry.
The company, deliveryQUOTEcompare.com, has just launched from offices in Chelford Road, Knutsford, and the website is designed as a single point of reference where consumers and companies who need anything from removals, couriers and vehicle transporters to haulage, shipping and freight transport can now go to find the best deals quickly and for free. Customers can input their requirements and receive the best-priced quotes from hundreds of transport businesses, saving them time and money.
Daniel Parry, the websites managing director, said: I got the idea from running my other company Garden (GB) in Shotton which imports and distributes garden and aquatic products. I always found it extremely time-consuming and hard work contacting dozens of transport companies to get quotes. Its essential, particularly in this financial climate, for individuals and small companies to make sure they get the best price and transport costs can vary considerably from operator to operator.
So I came up with the idea for the website which can cover the whole market making it quick and easy to get a quote, regardless of whether you want a courier to get a parcel from Chester to Aberdeen or whether you need to import stock from the other side of the world.
Mr Parry explained the key to success lies in the service being easy for consumers and businesses to use when searching for transport services, as well as making jobs quickly and easily available to transport operators who can register for free to find opportunities to suit their businesses.
Mr Parry added: We have put a huge amount of thought and design time into developing the service to make sure it is very user friendly and can deliver real results for users quickly and easily.
There is a huge gap in the market for a website such as this and currently consumers and small businesses have to spend a huge amount of time looking up the transport services they need and calling round to obtain quotes. On deliveryquotecompare.com this is all done quickly and easily in one place.
We have just launched, but we have had a rush of transport operators sign up to the system, including some of the biggest in their fields and so customers can benefit from the best prices from potentially hundreds of suppliers.
The service is targeted at individuals and small to medium-sized businesses which require courier, shipping, haulage, removal, transporter (car, van, motorcycle or boat), air freight services and specialist services such as hazardous cargo transport. These customers can list all the appropriate details of their requirements on the website; this request is then instantly sent to all registered companies on the site which provide that service. Operators interested in the job can then simply quote a price they will do the job for. The quotes are then forwarded to the customer who chooses a quote thats right for them. Upon acceptance the customer pays a booking fee via the website and once the job is complete they pay the balance direct to the transport company.
All the transaction work takes place quickly and easily through the website, including detailed requests for quotations, the quotation process, acceptance, invoicing and payment processes saving businesses and individuals time, effort, paperwork and money. Customer details are only passed to an operator once that customer has accepted a quote, both for security and so users of the site cannot be inundated by sales calls.
The website makes its money by charging the transport provider a small commission on successful bids for work. There are no sign-up fees, no subscription costs and businesses whose quotes are not accepted by the customer pay no charge.
deliveryQuotecompare.com launched this week and is backed by a six figure investment. The service is designed for everyone looking for delivery quotes and is free to use.
Anyone who requires a courier, shipping, haulage, removals, transporter, or air freight quote, can complete the websites online form which is distributed instantly to the relevant member businesses who can then submit quotes back to the customer.
Transport businesses can register on the site instantly and registration is free of charge. Suppliers only pay a small commission if their quote is accepted by the customer.
About Daniel Parry
Daniel was born in Frodsham and has lived in Chester for the last five years. He was educated at Kings School, Chester and attended Sir John Deanes College in Northwich before going to the Surrey Institute for Art and Design.
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Senior Spotlight for Sept. 1
September 1, 2010
The trees are starting to change their green leaves to shades of yellow and orange, a good sign that autumn is nearly here.
School has started, so I'll get to see children go by carrying their backpacks and whatever else they take along.
I wonder if someone watched as I went by on my way carrying Big Chief tablets, crayons and pencils.
What a difference time makes.
Speaking of time, this week I have belated birthday wishes for Anthony Zurita, Rose Gomez, Marie Greenwald, Irma Knudsen, Dena Price, Twilla Holmes, Wayne Mohrstadt and Jennifer Rose Van Grandt.
Get well/speedy recovery to Bob Klenda, Mary Baylie, Tim Collins, Al Gloeckle, Paula Espino, Mildred Nienaber, Becky Grabowski, Rose Maria Sandoval and Alberto Ugalde.
Recommended Stories For You
Rain or shine, the noon potluck is scheduled for Friday at Sunset Meadows I, 633 Ledford St. See you there.
There will be no meal or bus service Monday at Sunset Meadows due to the Labor Day holiday weekend.
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Not sure if im being realistic about this - just know my body and brain are so annoyed by loud noises, constant chit chat, loud singing and dancing (my daughter and my mom), etc while im nursing. Also having trouble with my daughter wanting to be right in the baby's face while he's trying to latch and nurse. I appreciate my parents helping out but it's getting annoying having the chaos around all the time. I keep hinting they could take her somewhere but so far no go.
As for the noise and such, first I would tell your mom "take dd on a walk/to the park/for ice cream". I'm sure if you tell her what you need, she'll do it, but I do think it is a tad unrealistic to expect her just to know. Also, perhaps there is a more quiet/private space in your home you can retreat to when having dd out of the house isn't possible. I totally understand though- I am home with five kid's all day every day and I don't think the word quiet is in their vocabulary. Add to that my husband whose normal volume is equal to that of a megaphone and I am out of patience with the constant cacophony! My dd was walking around last night just making noise- she wasn't talking to anyone, wasn't singing, was literally just making noise. For my own sanity, I have to be short and sharp with them when it comes to noise. And don't even get me started on the tv- does the whole neighborhood have to hear the broadcast? Maybe they wouldn't need it up so loud if everyone could just zip their lips.
5 kids??!!!! What was I complaining about ? :) - Glad to hear Im not the only one bothered and feeling invaded - i feel awful that im 'excluding" my daughter and want her to feel important- but it does irk me!!!
My oldest is always asking to turn up the volume, I try to explain that if she would just sit still, pay attention and stop talking she would be able to hear! Drives me crazy!
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Students excavate 10,000-year-old Bison kill site
Published on September 4th, 2012 | by Admin0
A group of students from the University of Oklahoma helped uncover bison bones and weapons at a 10,000-year old bison kill site.
This was the second year the team had been excavating the site, so they knew what to expect when they were digging around in the sticky red dirt, but that didn't take away from the excitement of finding something, she said.
"[Finding remains] is a cool feeling," she said. "It's always neat to see butcher marks because that's the human element of the kills."
The exact number of remains and artifacts that were found is undetermined at this time because the team is still analyzing its findings, Bement said.
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Car shows are different in Tijuana
"You do not have to babysit the people from leaning or touching the cars."
Mike Madriaga 2:30 p.m., Sept. 19
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Run, Rico, Run!
This is concerning Rico Gardiner's letter (October 16) in response to letters from other Reader readers who took exception to his rather harsh views of San Diego.
Mr. Gardiner, you failed to address the question posited by one, if not both, of your critics, which I will now restate: if you hate it here so much, why don't you leave? You are obviously a person of discernment and sophistication who doesn't fit in with San Diego's lowbrow beer-and-burrito culture (or what passes for culture around here). How it must gall you to be surrounded on a daily basis by such a knuckle-dragging bunch of rubes, yokels, and slack-jaws.
You need to spread your wings and fly, man, fly! Off to the big city you should go, the sooner the better. Why waste your life in this Podunk when you could be basking in the refinement and culture that is the essence of that shining city to the north, Los Angeles? While we San Diegans lack the necessary wit to appreciate such things, you obviously do not.
Again, I must return to the original question of what is it that keeps you here, moldering in the provinciality that defines San Diego? Is it a job? No problem, there are jobs aplenty in L.A. An ankle monitor? Don't worry, parole doesn't last forever. Whatever it is that keeps you here, I hope for your sake that you can overcome it and escape from this awful place.
A few caveats about L.A. They also have "silly sports teams," as do most of the other "real" cities in the U.S., so you will still have to live with that. They also occasionally eat burritos, as well as drink beer up there, but I'm certain that a bon vivant such as yourself will be able to cope.
Run, Rico, run, while you still can! And don't let the door hit you in the a**.
David Lathrap
Pacific Beach
Brown Has Big Feet
As Matt Potter was preparing his October 2 story ("Breaking News") about the referendum challenging secretly negotiated changes to Stockton's general plan, I wish he had taken the time to call the Alliance for Responsible Planning. The alliance was the group sponsoring the referendum, with the support of the Stockton Peace Officers' Association, community and business leaders, the A.G. Spanos Companies, and myself. We came together because we were outraged that the Stockton City Council, by a 4–3 vote, had dramatically changed the City's general plan that took five years and hundreds of public meetings to prepare.
Jerry Brown rode into town, threatened a costly lawsuit to a financially strapped city, and left no time for public input.
Just so Mr. Potter does not fret about it, he should know that Mr. Spanos did not support me for mayor. He supported my opponent.
Attorney General Brown's overambitious quest to be California's next governor has led him to trample local planning efforts.
Fortunately, more than 25,000 Stockton residents signed our referendum petitions — nearly the same number of people that voted in the last municipal election — and the imminent referendum led to a settlement with the City that guarantees the public will be able to participate as changes to the general plan are discussed in the future.
Gary A. Podesto
Former mayor of Stockton, 1997–2004
Matt Potter responds: The item never said anything about Spanos supporting Podesto for mayor. We fully reported Spanos being behind the measure and Attorney General Jerry Brown's role in the planning controversy. A follow-up item noted the City's settlement.
The Dreaded Santee Bloc
Re Reader Puzzle. I have stopped submitting entries because of the huge Santee bloc of entries each week — the people who don't add a comment line.
And when the Santee bloc gets one letter wrong, they are all wrong.
Something underhanded is going on — several entrants have voiced that even in their comment line.
Entering the puzzle is no longer fun, when you see such a large bloc of people from the same place all winning together and each one never makes a comment.
There are always those people who ruin it for all the rest because of greed!
Ray Baterich
North Park
According to a phone call to the Reader, many of the entrants come from a Santee nursing home. — Editor
LL Dull J
I find it baffling that you continue to pay Josh Board for his "Crasher" column on a weekly basis. It commits two journalistic sins that should be unforgivable: it's very poorly written and is insufferably dull.
By all means, the column should be an interesting one; the premise of it is, in theory, wide open to a varied and entertaining column each week. But the pedantic manner in which Mr. Board describes the parties he attends might as well be the result of an autistic person describing their trip to the DMV. Focused on minute and unimportant details and written in one-sentence paragraphs, a style more befitting the "See Dick Run" series of reading primers, the columns turn parties at James Cameron's mansion or a record-release party for LL Cool J, events at which interesting things conceivably must be occurring, into deadening affairs of soul-crushing tedium.
Mr. Board's tendency to focus on his own actions during these parties (his most recent column diverged from the party to explain how he left, went to a Mexican restaurant, and tried to order a series of items only to eventually leave without eating when none of them were available) only further serves to suggest that he is uninterested in the parties and would be better off updating a Twitter feed instead of writing about them. Journalism that is primarily focused on the journalist can work. Hunter S. Thompson routinely turned himself into the story. But the life-sapping diversions into Mr. Board's own affairs are reminiscent of what Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would have been like had it been written by Andy Rooney.
I attended two of the parties that Mr. Board "crashed" for columns within the past six months. One was for his column "Sumo Follies" (August 6), where Mr. Board spent a substantial portion of the column talking about how he played another partygoer in horse on the outskirts of the party. The other party was the recent Intense Individual party (October 23), in which Mr. Board begged out of paying the charitable cover charge and went on to write up an eclectic party in a manner in which I imagine that a blind person's fed-up personal assistant would describe it to them minutes before quitting in disgust.
Sorry, Fred. I'm all ablush. I typed too quickly, prior to reading your proclamation of adoration. Forgive my whiplash-like jealousy. I'm sure it happens all the time, chicks fighting over you and all.
So Conor, tell me what ya really think.
First, a few things. Could you REALLY be this bitter that I spelled your name wrong in the first column? Someone left a voice mail at the Reader saying you were ticked about that and the fact that I didn't mention more about your band, but geez. Didn't think that meant I'd read an email like this.
Second, Hunter S. Thompson is highly overrated. That dude was paid big bucks by Rolling Stone to cover the biggest boxing match in history, and instead turned in a thing about him getting drunk at the hotel pool and never going to the fight. Figured you like him.
Third, I had a great conversation with your parents at the party (Thanksgiving in July). And many other people. There's only limited space I can put all that in. And, when I play basketball with a girl, and have to chase a basketball into a swarm of bees, hey...that's interesting to me (and a few other people out there, one being the waitress at BJs in La Jolla, who went nuts when she saw the name on my credit card, saying how much she loved the column). I'm sorry you don't. Or, that you wish YOU were writing it.
And, on that last line, let me add...you seem to want a lot. My girlfriend (who doesn't dislike anyone), mentioned to me how odd she found it that when we talked to a few of the people that claimed to be the "founders" of the Thanksgiving in July, you wanted to make it clear, that it was really YOU that came up with the idea yourself. And you said, "I mean, if they want to take credit for it, fine let them. But it was me that started this." And, you said that a few times.
Bizarre, that a friendly, annual gathering in July for neighbors, family, and friends, is more about YOU wanting credit for starting it.
Fourth, regarding the Intense party...the music was too loud to talk to the guests, so I "filled in space" talking about my trip to the Mexican joint. Sure, people there (like you and your guests), would've rather read about their cool costumes, etc. And, in regards to not paying the entrance, I get invited to many "charity" party/functions, some being $500 to get in. If I paid for all those, I might have to go out and get a real job. But sometimes I do donate at those events (like one in which I bid over a thousand bucks on a guitar, etc). I like to admit when I didn't pay, though. And I figure the charity is getting some ink out of it, so no worries.
And now, you writing to say you don't like how I covered it.
And lastly, to answer your question about openings grabbing the readers, hey...sometimes I play around with things. Sometimes editors edit, and want to get right to the point. Other times, I feel the column just doesn't lend itself to starting like Moby Dick.
Dude, you gotta chill out. Enjoy life. If my column makes you that upset, I'd say skip it. And be glad I didn't mention how dorky you looked wearing that fez the whole party.
I'll be skipping your Thanksgiving parties in the future, so tell Lisa not to bother sending me the evite.
Josh Board Crasher
Down with the Crasher!
Up with Remote Control King!
Woo Hoo! Sounds like its gonna be a party so swell, that Josh won't even be board. Looks like I have no choice but to attend if I want to have a good time partaking in San Diego's drunkin debauchery and electioneering. And if there is a Julie Parrots imposter from the Gloria campaign wearing a monty Python prop, I will have no choice but to follow him around with a pair of empty coconut shells making the sounds of horse hooves. Portraying their "high and mightiest" selves.
Down with the remote control tyrant. Down with bored Josh!
Up with Abnormal Heights!
(Next up, Fred reviews the fight of the year. Ollie and Josh both go in the cage, but only one comes out...no rules!)
Hey, Josh. Be sure to bring your biased reporting and navel gazing skills on down to Golden Hall, Tuesday November 4th, to watch the election returns.
Party with the Parties, candidates, and ballot propositions...be sure to wear your "I Voted" sticker or you'll get beaten up by elderly party activists.
Ollie, you're invited too, old friend. If you can't get off the couch, though, just watch the local live news feeds as the results come in.
You can skip quickly from station to station to get a combined 3D view of Golden Hall. It's almost exactly like being there in person, except for your body being someplace completely different.
Now, the sound might be off, but that could be fun:
We're here live at Golden Hall where:-:talking with supporters:-:led to the city's financial crisis:-:with a bonus if you order now!:-:Corruption scandals:-:marching around with signs and chanting:-:make the decisions that will lead this city forward.:-:We're showing Aguirre:-:joining the Republicans in Congress, where my father's party:-:ought to pay their fair share:-:when we're back in five minutes, after these important messages.
Looking forward to election night at Golden Hall, everyone!
In response to post number 5. ...(still smiling) That is hilarious and Entertainment in writing!
Thank you JulieParrots, you might enjoy:
I always enjoy reading your Abnormal Heights section. I also find your comments (to other fellow San Diego Readers, most notably to the infamous fumbler) quick-witted and very entertaining. The comment about your band Fred Williams and the corrpulent carcasses had me chuckling.
Oy. Should I invite Ollie? At least he loves you.
JulieParrots, you are gorgeous. Wow! Never thought you'd look like this in person...
I love Fumber, like a brother. A special education brother wearing big braces and a plastic helmet, but a brother nonetheless.
When I get compliments on my writing, especially from an exotic woman with a parrot riding on her shoulder, pirate costume awry, a saucy wench we old sailors merely dream about on long deployments, well I can barely restrain myself from from inviting you to my big party at Golden Hall on November 4th.
I've personally reserved the entire Golden Hall at the Civic Concourse in the heart of downtown for my lavish Election Night Celebration.
Naturally, all the media will be there to cover my party. So will the parties, guaranteeing a heluva party. We gonna party, oh yeah!
The chair of the Republicans will be handing out pirated copies of the latest video games and charges of voter fraud, while the head of the Democrats will be drunkenly slapping Obama stickers on random surfaces, including television cameras, discarded campaign signs, and Duncan Hunter, Junior.
Sure, I'll be followed around by Fumber all evening, whining that his mother expects him back home before ten o'clock, but we can ditch him and find someplace where you, me, and the parrot can get acquainted.
I'm just suspicious that fake JulieParrots from the Gloria campaign will strap an old Monty Python prop on his shoulder and pretend to be you.
You know, I've invited the entire City of San Diego...oh, heck...make it the whole dang County!
Come on down to Golden Hall, meet the candidates, see them shout and cry, watch upper echelon staffers from your city government get s***faced drunk in public...oh, it's great.
Bring the kids so they can see democracy in action.
Golden Hall, Downtown San Diego, November 4th, 2008.
The election year party crash you'll never forget...look forward to seeing you there.
MsGrant, don't tell Ulysses, but I have a thing for you too...
Oh, my, God. Stay tuned and see Fred and Julie GET IT ON!! HERE, LIVE AND SUCKING UP!
MsGrant, no offense; there's more than enough Fred to spread around...
You, MsGrant, Julie, and her Parrot can all join in with the Fredliness goin on live and in person at my gala Election Night Downtown Party at Golden Hall. I haven't yet gotten clearance for Fred and the Corpulent Carcasses to play a short set, but I'm hopeful.
Everyone is invited. Party with the Party People!
Election Night Downtown at Golden Hall...
Now, girls, there's no reason to fight over me. You can share.
Julie, I'm so glad you solved the impostor problem.
Any woman wearing a pirate's parrot who also has another parrot wearing woman following her and making clop, clop, clop noises with coconut shells is NOT JulieParrot, but might be an African swallow.
Meanwhile, any women wearing parrots who eschew the coconut clopping escort are probably also NOT JulieParrot, who would have been the coconut clopper who is subject to said eshewing.
Therefore, only women with parrots neither encumbered nor eshewed with coconut cloppers is the genuine JulieParrot, who will promptly join MsGrant in wanton displays of feminine wiles, pirate jargon, and blatant parrot abuse.
Golden Hall on election night has never seen the like of what awaits San Diego next Tuesday. I hope the Mayor has arranged for extra security...and someone to clean up after all the parrots.
Indeed! You nailed it! As for the abusing of parrots, well, these feathers are permanently painted on. So they can be plucked at all you want. Brilliant. This pretty bird is going to be in attendance November 4. Everyone is ready for a change in San Diego. This election is just what we need. By the way, Im sure it was not only your highly creative mind that aided into your crowning of Mesa's "Man of the Year", but a list of other attributes as well... Cheers.
Mesa College Man of the Year...oh, so long ago...brings back memories, indeed.
They say I won because I convinced the Community College District to expand library hours for working students...but we all know it was really just because of my handsome legs.
Wow! I can't believe it was so long ago...1990. I'm getting old.
Perhaps, but aren't we all aging. Besides, with age comes wisdom and experience. :)
I think I just witnessed a comment menage a trois. You can't have Ollie at your party, Fred. He'll be busy "crashing" my "Elation Day '08: Barack to the Future" soiree. I'll organize a smoke signal off my terrace in the direction of Golden Hall. I'll be wearing my brand new red, white, and blue boa (purchased at Party City) to demonstrate my patriotism. ;)
Barbarella, be sure to blow some of that smoke signal my direction...hanging out with politicians, I'll be needing something to soothe my nerves.
Aww, shucks Fumber dear, looks like ya caught me.
"that smoke will be probably be massive amounts of ganja"
Well, Fumber, we can only hope...here at the Reader, where I share a luxury office with Don Bauder, we're burning so much ganja we can barely see through the smoke clouds to teach the children how to roll properly.
That's the reason we take the students, and their teachers, to the park for their smoking lessons. See, the gentle breeze clears a little of the haze, allowing us to carefully inspect for stems and seeds, break up the pot into appropriately sized chunks for rolling, and ensure that each joint is carefully and lovingly inspected for shape, firmness, and a smooth draw.
Our biggest problem, naturally, is finding kid-sized rolling papers. The orange zig-zags are just too big for their little fingers, but every time we let them use the bong they end up spilling water everywhree. Ahhh, kids.
It's so important to teach the little ones about drug abuse. Dropping good bud on the floor, boggarting, or leaving too much saliva on the joint are all serious problems facing youngsters today, and we must teach children not to abuse their drugs in such a wanton manner. Similarly, we must all take responsibility in teaching our kids how to drink alcohol responsibly. Did you know that some children don't can't even tell when it's their turn to buy the next round? The importance of our work cannot be overstated.
With time,patience, and generous funding from Mayor Sanders and Police Chief Landsdowne, we've taught so many students the importance of respecting drugs, carefully inspecting for color and smell before laying out cash for supposed "kind", and never paying too much for ditch weed. We've saved countless students from the frustration and disappointment of buying oregano, and are very proud of our work in the community.
Fumber, it's always wonderful to know how much you support us in our important work. Those of us here at the Reader, although we are paid princely sums for our work, always appreciate positive feedback from the residents of America's Finest City, and I know I speak for Barbarella, Potter, Board, Ollie, and Bauder when I say that we love you and are all wishing you the very best when you eventually graduate from your current courses and move up to middle school.
Fred Williams CEO and President San Diego Chapter Drug And Recreational Education (D.A.R.E.)
How fortuitous Mr. Williams! It appears you have a new disciple. I have been under the assumption that Fumbler only was commenting simply to spite you, yet it now seems as though Fumbler's search for the most magnificent education has finally been realized!
I just came back to this thread and read all the posts. Even though it veered away from Conor hating my writing style, I want to go back there. Since, he and his homies are now sending all kinds of letters to the Reader.
I Googled him, and saw a lame website he has. Wow...his attempts at humor. He tries to write like a mix of Ollie, Jim Gaffigan, and Dave Barry, yet doesn't pull any of it off.
One of his bits involves writing about bacon flavored mayonaisse. Brilliant, Conor.
Another has him reciting the alphabet. Wow, that's comedy gold.
He also has created, along with the Thanksgiving in July, a "National High Five Day." You're brilliant, Conor.
I saw he also wrote a cover story for the Reader, in which for a few days, he listens to 91X and 94.9 and compares them. I thought that piece actually worked, even though there were tons of letters at the time, saying it sucked.
Keep trying, though Conor. You'll come up with something funny.
An easy write at best. Listening to two radio stations and rehashing the play list in print does not a Pulitzer prize winner make. The guy is gunning for your job and his need to be SOMEONE is embarrassingly obvious. Getting all his friends to write in - REALLY? That's pathetic, and honestly, in very poor taste. Reality TV would be a better place for someone of this ilk. Your grasp of pop culture is written in a wry style, which some people can't get. They want to be out and out salivating over every little detail and do not understand irony. Masters of the obvious always think they can do a better job.
One more thing. If Mr. Lastowka is indeed a bona fide writer, I suggest he consult in his Stylebook the chapters pertaining to libel and defamation. Expressing an honest, heartfelt opinion is one thing. Launching an out and out campaign to discredit another individual for the sole purpose of obtaining their position of employment is quite another.
Conor currently works as a comedy writer with the former creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show universally loved and recognized as one of the funniest ever. He won the Fiction 101 contest in the CityBeat with an incredibly wry and ironic short.
He is funny, and from what I've seen, you are not. He does not want your job, he just wants the column to be good. The same goes for me and a lot of other people.
I am noone special, just another San Diegan. Even though I don't know Josh or Conor personally, I find Josh's columns well written and one of the main reasons why I read his blogs and stories religously. Thanks for the daily laughs. :)
Hey, thanks Julie.
Well, jfeala...Conor working with someone else that was successful, really doesn't mean much. What do they write that we've seen? A short story in City Beat? And, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is one of the lamest shows ever. A great concept, that had one laugh every 10 jokes. Not a good ratio considering they throw so many jokes out there, and have so much to work with!
It's funny that I never heard from Conor BEFORE he felt his party was attacked (ie me mentioning they must've lost money, etc). Believe me, I could've said worse things about his party. They were promoting art, and yet they had merely 4 or 5 pieces of art for sale. And all upstairs, where nobody even went.
But, if Conor is as funny as you claim, why not post something he's written here, and let us all judge. His saying the alphabet bit, surely wasn't (nor was it original).
And for you guys (in the most recent letters section) to post typos I have in my daily blog (spelling "stared" instead of "starred" or whatever it was), is bush league. People care about the content, not a spelling error in a blog.


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11 things to remember when you start to regret who you chose to marry
Posted September 8, 2016
Marriage is a huge decision that forever alters a person's life. It involves two people coming together and vowing to love each other through both the good and bad times that lie ahead.
But when the "bad" times come, it can be all too easy to start to look for a way out. You may have doubts about the direction your relationship is headed or begin to regret your decision of who you chose to marry.
Eventually, the word "divorce" might even find its way into your vocabulary. While some things can't be reconciled, separating from the person you vowed to spend the rest of your life with should always be a last resort.
Here are 11 things to remember when you start to regret your choice of who you married.
- You didn't marry your spouse because they were perfect. You married them for who they were and who they could become.
- It takes a lifetime to truly love and appreciate someone.
- Divorce isn't the only solution and most issues can be fixed if you are both willing to change.
- It is never too late to forgive. Never.
- Your spouse used to make you happier than any other human being in the entire world.
- Whether they've expressed it or not, your spouse probably has similar feelings to those you are experiencing. Try putting yourself in their shoes and look at things from their point of view.
- The most important things in life aren't things at all. Your husband or wife should always be more important than money, a career or any other worldly attainment.
- You too have flaws and do things that upset your spouse.
- Ultimately, only you and your spouse can make your marriage work—no program, counselor, therapist or anyone else can do it for you.
- Retaining your pride or "being right" is NEVER worth ending your marriage over.
- Your spouse was once the first and last thought you had in a day. They were your everything. Nothing meant more to you than they did—remember that.
Barbara de Angelis is an American author and relationship consultant. She does an exellent job in descring what marriage truly is.
"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make–not just on your wedding day, but over and over again–and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife." —Barbara de Angelis
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