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I'm sure most of you are not in school, but you were at one time. So tell me about that teacher that was just insane and went out of their way to make you feel bad. You can name names, I can't tell who you're talking about anyway.
Mr. Pieri: This guy tormented both me and my sister back when she was in high school. He hated us for one big reason. We weren't sports freaks. I was a little nerd who sat in the corner every day and not some big jock. He spoke condesendingly to me. Also I'm (Unfortunatly) in a special education class so Pieri got it in his thick head that I had mental issues. For some reason he didn't like it when I used his pencil sharpener. I don't have a bloody clue why. Now if he wanted me to stop he could have asked nicely or just confront me at all. What he did made me want to knock his teeth out. He went to my special ed teacher. Instead of confronting me he went and talked to her and made it her problem as if I was an animal at the zoo and she was the zoo keeper. I went into a rage. I told him that if he has a problem with me he can talk to me instead of going behind my back and taking it up with somebody else. It's not my case manager's job to keep me under control. I'm a person! My life isn't dictated by my disability!
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I can't think of any teachers I actually hated. However, here are two that I was very unhappy with:
Miss Iverson - 5th grade. She was a former nun and parochial school teacher who transferred to public schools for some unknown reason. I never minded teachers who were "mean," but she was both mean and totally unfair. I was what I would consider to be a "nice, quiet kid" when I was in 5th grade. I stayed out of trouble and got excellent marks in all my classes. But there were numerous times when she scolded me for no reason:
* One time, she told everyone to get a book off the shelf and read it. I already had a book I was reading, so I read that one. After awhile she saw my book and yelled, "I told you to get a book
off the shelf
! That one didn't come from the shelf!" I didn't think she literally meant the book had to come off the shelf . . . I just thought the whole point was for us to read something. It wasn't like I was reading something trashy. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was reading THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER.
* Another time we were on a field trip at the Saugus Iron Works historic site. We were putting on some sort of demonstration and were all dressed in colonial outfits (3-cornered hats and stuff). She started telling people to line up because it was time to go back to the bus. There were a bunch of kids near me who didn't hear her, so I started saying, "Line up! Everyone line up." She came over and yelled at me because she thought I was mocking her. I tried to explain that some kids didn't hear her, but she just put a sour expression on her face and refused to believe me.
* Another time she was playing the piano in class and we were all singing. I have a TERRIBLE singing voice. She ended up yelling at me because she thought I was ruining the song on purpose.
In college, I had a professor I didn't like because he was an AWFUL lecturer and just confused everyone. I can't remember his name, but it was a business ethics class. The guy simply could not put together a series of coherent sentences and everyone in the room would just keep looking at each other as if to say, "What the heck is he talking about?" For example, he would start talking about Plato and ramble on for about 20 minutes. Then he'd say, something like, "And that was Aristotle's philosophy." Someone would say, "Excuse me . . . I thought you were talking about Plato?" He would reply, "No, I haven't said anything about Plato for at least 10 minutes." So, you'd be sitting there with several pages of notes and have no idea which notes were related to Plato and which were related to Aristotle because the guy never made a clear transition and his thoughts just came out in a long, incoherent stream.
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My 1st Grade teacher who made me clean up urine. Nope, not lying about that either. Another kid peed his pants and she made me clean it up. I told my mother who thought i was nutty but I recall it as if it were yesterday. Too bad, she didn't take my word for it because I'd probably be richer now. I think she drank alcohol in class too, kind of explains her violent mood swings. I think I harbor a lot of resentment because of her.
My hippy communication professor in college. People praised him for being such a "nice guy". Sorry, his use as a teacher was minimal. Why would teach an audio production class outside? I have no regrets on walking out of his class and coming back 10 minutes left EVERY day.
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March 09, 2011, 12:07:24 PM »
I had a teacher slap me in the face out of anger because I laughed when she was correcting me.
I told my mom and she walked me back to the school to find out what the hell was going on...
The teacher said this - "I would never hit your son Mrs. P*, he's just upset with me."
So my mom told me to calm down, thinking I was fibbin or I'm crazy... no one believed me.
25+ years later as a man, I stick to my story.
4th grade. I will never forget that or that pile of $h!t teacher.
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March 09, 2011, 12:19:44 PM »
I didn't really hate this teacher, but had little use for her:
Miss Grove was a middle school history teacher would fall asleep often during class. Some kids would wander out of the class and others just sit puzzled at their desks.
I wasn't a student, but was the middle school band director. Her class was close to mine, so my band students who were in her class would wander into the bandroom and tell me Miss Grove was asleep again and ask "can they hang out?"
I would have to stop my class and go down and wake her up, and usually help her corral her students.
I told the pricipal about this several times and the response was basically she was about to retire anyway - so let's not make trouble for her...
She was a sweet lady and she had a breathtaking assortment of wigs - but she probably should have retired long before.
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March 09, 2011, 01:30:39 PM »
In the third grade I had a lovely, sweet, kind teacher whose last name I can't recall (her first was Rebekah, sort of like my sister). She moved mid-year and we got a nasty woman named Mrs. Murray. She HATED Me and I hated her. I was in trouble every day, I learned how to cheat on tests and how to skip school. All at the tender age of 7 1/2. Before this I was a sweet li'l boy who won citizenship awards and asked to read books over recess.
I still hope she's in a low grade nursing home. Its a character flaw I know.
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In 8th grade, I had a teacher named Mr. Brown who wasn't a bad teacher per se but I hated that he always felt the need to yell and bawl at students practically every day claiming they didn't know anything...he tried to put me on the spot several times but I always knew what he was asking for at the time which seemed to leave him befuddled he couldn't yell me out.
In 7th grade, my home room teacher Mr. Small was an incredible bore and it was almost impossible to stay awake in his class. Unfortunately when you did, he had the nasty habit of slamming his metre stick down across your desk giving you a rude awakening.
In the 11th and 12th grade, I had another very boring teacher Mr. Reid who had a tendency to fall asleep himself during class which allowed the class to do all sort of wild stuff like spitball throwing, paper plane throwing, etc.. I hated that because I tended to become a target in that class being probably the smartest student in that particular class.
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my current English III teacher- She always loses my stuff.
yeah no.
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Quote from: El Toro Loco on March 09, 2011, 02:01:09 PM
my current English III teacher- She always loses my stuff.
I can't tell you how many teachers I've had that lose my papers.
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Quote from: A.J. Bauer on March 09, 2011, 02:25:53 PM
Quote from: El Toro Loco on March 09, 2011, 02:01:09 PM
my current English III teacher- She always loses my stuff.
I can't tell you how many teachers I've had that lose my papers.
I had an art teacher in high school who 'lost' several of my projects. A classmate who babysat for her later told me that at least one was framed and hanging on the wall in her house.
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Quote from: Newt on March 09, 2011, 03:17:26 PM
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on March 09, 2011, 02:25:53 PM
Quote from: El Toro Loco on March 09, 2011, 02:01:09 PM
my current English III teacher- She always loses my stuff.
I can't tell you how many teachers I've had that lose my papers.
I had an art teacher in high school who 'lost' several of my projects. A classmate who babysat for her later told me that at least one was framed and hanging on the wall in her house.
Well, if she put it on her wall it must have been good.
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Our religion teacher (Protestant). What a nut case. He was notorious for his screaming fits during class, slapping students on the head, throwing chalk, refusing to let us use the lavatory and making us miss the beginning of our lunch break for no reason ever so often. Years later I found out he had alcohol problems and was having an affair.
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March 10, 2011, 07:19:25 AM »
Ms MacAuley my grade 8 economics teacher.
She was anorexic and had the greasiest skin I've ever seen. Her hair was like straw and she used to wear terry cloth dresses with thin straps and all the bones were sticking out. Her feet were disgusting. She had dirty long vampire like toe nails and always wore sandals
She tried to get me into trouble with principal because a guy who sat next to me cheated off my economics exam (I was crap at it and we both failed lol).
She was boring and I loathed economics. I didn't actually hate her, she was just a teacher that you wanted to avoid because she was boring and gross to look at. Looking back, I feel sorry for her butr when you're 13 you don't naturally have much compassion
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I liked most of my teachers, but there was one Coach who taught us typing that we all disliked. We had him right before lunch. Seniors were supposed to be dismissed on the first bell, then juniors, sophomores, and freshmen at five minute intervals. He insisted on making everyone wait until the last bell, so one day all the Seniors got up and walked out.
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I went to Catholic elementary school, with the nuns, so that was pretty horrific. Two in particular, Sister Theresita and the name of the other escapes me. They established the same atmosphere in their classrooms as R. Lee Ermey did in the barracks in Full Metal Jacket. Except we were little kids and had even less of a clue how to deal with that stuff than young adults do.
I had one college professor I really hated, can't remember his name either. He'd speak very softly and very slowly, like he'd taken a course in lulling people to sleep. I could always hear the professor in the next room better then the guy I was paying money to listen to. But he was an a-hole too, I remember him passing out the syllabus and everybody just stuck it in their notebooks, and he immediately got angry and demanded we all read it right then and there. He claimed to read 10 newspapers a day, and obviously he had a Ph. D., but he'd lose, and I mean really
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Um, you guys, prepare to feel old; everyone's favourite Christmas movie is more than 25 years old.
Yep, it's been a quarter of a century since that iconic "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" line was uttered by 90s golden child Macaulay Culkin - and since we all learned, at a very young age, that slapping aftershave on a freshly razored face was so not the right thing to do.
And then, of course, there was Buzz McCallister, Kevin's bullying thug of an older brother; has there ever been a more torturous sibling in the history of cinema?
Well news.com.au managed to track down the actor who played Buzz, Devin Ratray, and he has quite a few interesting stories from his time in the films.
"I was walking down the street once and I saw this young, attractive woman wearing a T-shirt that said, 'My friend slept with Buzz from Home Alone'," the 39-year-old said.
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Writing about music, like dancing about architecture, is often portrayed as an essentially futile activity. After all, music, if Felix Mendelssohn is to be believed, expresses the inexpressible. Why tread all over pure music with clumsy words?
Well, the task may be difficult, but it doesn't stop countless writers, journalists and musicians having a go. And of this latter group – the performers who attempt to explain or capture something of music in words – it often seems to be pianists who do the best job. Robert Schumann was one of the first, juggling criticism with chromatics in his early career. As the 20th century in particular proved, he was not alone in enjoying this blend of talents.
Charles Rosen's The Classical Style and The Romantic Generation have become classic texts; his recent Music and Sentiment another gem. Meanwhile reflections on life as a chamber musician in Beyond the Notes and Out of Silence, have earned pianist Susan Tomes glowing reviews. Alfred Brendel might have left the concert stage, but his poetry is providing a second career, and that's on top of two books of published essays. Yevgeny Sudbin writes his own programme and CD booklet notes, not to mention recently penning a BBC Music Magazine feature about Alexander Scriabin. Stephen Hough and Jonathan Biss write engaging blogs, while the one-of-a-kind Glenn Gould was a prolific writer about music.
Compare that to the small handful of writer-musicians who play other instruments: cellist Steven Isserlis, a published and popular author, is one of only a few examples. There's a smattering of blogs – violinist Hilary Hahn and singer Joyce DiDonato spring to mind – but not many instrumentalists and singers write entire books about music. Conductors, perhaps, are the other exception. Sir Adrian Boult has several books to his name (although you'll have to delve around in a secondhand store to find them today), and Sir Georg Solti penned a memoir. But then conductors are often seen as a breed apart, and if one wanted to push the point, what conductor hasn't put in hours at the ivories?
So, I've been pondering, what is it about the mindset of the pianist that makes them put pen to paper? I've toyed with a few explanations. Perhaps it springs from the particular demands of playing the piano – a singularly independent instrument that often finds its practioner toiling away alone at the keyboard, separate from other musicians. Of course, that's just one view of a pianist's life – I'm sure chamber musicians, accompanists, orchestral pianists and repetiteurs feel far from alone. But still there's a sense that the pianist is a lone creature. Like the writer.
When allowed to roam free among the other instrumentalists, the pianist is still an unusual species. In chamber groups they are, as Susan Tomes notes in the introduction to Beyond the Notes, the only person to see the whole score. Pianists, like writers, need to simultaneously grasp the overall architecture of a piece and the detail.
Perhaps the writing spark happens because so many of the composers whose music forms the pillars of the piano repertoire were interested in literature, poetry and art. Think of the Romantics – Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. Debussy, who famously preferred the company of artists to that of musicians; Beethoven, who revered the novelist Johann von Goethe (his writing, not the man). Pianists are immersed in the writer's world.
Or could the explanation be more scientific – in a nutshell, music's often thought to help enhance other abilities, why not writing? But, then the argument goes, why would the pianist be any different than, say, the violinist. Erik Levi, reviewing Out of Silence earlier this year wrote, 'In my experience highly gifted performers often find it extremely difficult to articulate their ideas about music and reveal the secrets of their craft through writing.' But some do, and, to return back to my original theory, it's often pianists. Why? Please do add your own thoughts…
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OLIVA, Spain – With an ever-growing list of foreign-born MLS talent saying they may be interested in suiting up for the Canadian national team, new head coach Benito Floro says anyone showing a desire to wear the red and white would be more than welcome.
Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Gershon Koffie already has permanent residency status in Canada, while his club teammate Camilo has already applied. Montreal Impact defender Hassoun Camara also submitted an application for residency, and his club teammate Felipe Martins says he intends to do so next year as soon as he is eligible.
All four players have expressed interest in playing for their adopted country. As Floro wrapped up his first training camp here as Canada's head coach, he said he's in no way opposed if they wanted to join.
"For me, the person is from two places: Where you were born and grew up and then where he decides to live," Floro told MLSsoccer.com through a translator on Tuesday as Canada closed camp. "In my mind, [borders don't exist]. It is a delicate subject but for me – if they are very good players and they love Canada and they want to participate, for me, I'll never have a problem."
For a team as deprived of goals as Canada, players like Camilo (at right) and Felipe, both natives of Brazil, would bring a spark and a flair that has very rarely been seen, if ever, by Canadian players.
And while Ghana-born Koffie, France native Camara and Camilo still have to wait before obtaining a Canadian passport and then sort any issues that may arise due to FIFA eligibility, the fact that all four players and coach are on the same page is a good start.
Prior to officially taking over as coach in August, Floro watched the Canadian national team at the Gold Cup in July and then went overseas to watch some of the Canadians who play abroad. In the recently completed camp alone, he had more than 30 players involved and fielded almost two completely different squads over the two games against Mauritania.
He admits he hasn't watched any of the four in action, focusing instead on getting a look at the players who are currently in the Canadian pool. But that may not last.
"I went to England, Turkey, and watching the Canadian players abroad but I haven't seen especially these players," Floro said in reference to the naturalized MLS quartet. "I want to see all Canadians and all who want to be Canadians as well."


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Although we recognize that often life's success and failures are based on our decisions, we occasionally conclude that some are results from fate, luck, or belief in a stronger power. To this day, Rene Garza is unsure of which of those three was instrumental in this build. Nearly a decade ago, this south Texan attended his first lowrider car show and was intrigued by this automotive art form. "After leaving that show, I knew I had to be part of this" energetically states Rene. His artistic impression would be challenging, as his current canvas on wheels was a 2004 Ford F150. But soon after, and with a little help from his dad, kismet would soon change for this new lowrider enthusiast. "My dad asked if I could take his Cadillac Escalade to Orlie's Tires and pick out some nice wheels" Rene continues, "I knew that only a set of 26″ custom wheels could give it the right look!" And he proudly delivered the fresh looking truck to his dad, which ended with a slight miscalculation in taste. The elder Garza emphasized that he did not like the look, and in alleviating the awkward tension, Rene jokingly suggested "why don't we trade trucks?" and surprisingly his father agreed!
The trade for this 2004 Cadillac Escalade was the incentive needed in customizing this future show stopper. Rene immediately took the SUV to Fabian Villarreal at Kandy Kustoms for a "simple candy paint" to cruise the weekends down in "El Valle". For those LRM readers that are familiar with the Candyman's work, they certainly know that his creativity has never been limited to a "simple candy", and this was no exception. "When I saw the paint job, I was ecstatic! Fabian had gone all out with multi graphics throughout the vehicle". After the addition of a custom interior and accessories, El Mero Mero was soon the top contender in his class throughout the state. In 2006, with some nudging by the Candyman, it was time to see if this Texas sport utility was a true contender amongst the best at the LRM Las Vegas Super Show. The impressive result was the top place in the SUV Semi custom class and Best Truck Graphics.
After continued success at the following LRM Sin City finales, Rene decided to take this show winner to the next level. With only 80 days before the 2011 Super Show, Kandy Kustoms took the task of completing this frame off project. Working around the clock, Candyman and crew successfully completed the revamped Cadi and had "El Mero Mero II" displayed at the LRM Las Vegas event by showtime. "The nervousness never gets old; it's as exciting today as back in 2006" highlights Garza. Paz, Tejas.
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"El Mero Mero II"
Owner: Rene Garza
Vehicle: 2004 Cadillac Escalade
City/State: McAllen, TX
Club: Rollerz Only
Body/ Paint: Body prep and custom work to include molded hood & fender wells, and shaved belly by Randy Rodriguez of Kandy Kustoms. Candyman sprayed the Sunrise Tangerine candy with a pearl and flake combination accented with pinstriping and gold leaf.
Engine/Chassis: Stock 5.3L.
Hydraulics: USA Motorsport installed a two-tank air suspension system controlled on a 10-switch box.
Interior: Candyman designed and painted the cabin custom look, with stitching by David's Upholstery in Corpus Christi
Stereo: David Gutierrez of Victoria installed this Audiobahn system consisting of nine monitors, three 1000-watt amps, and six 12-inch subs housed in a custom box fabricated by Kandy Kustoms.
Mural: Candyman at Kandy Kustoms in Corpus Christi.
Engraving/ Plating: "Eazy" Garcia and Pulido Plating of Dallas.
Tires/ Wheels: 305/30R26 wrapped on Chrome Dub 6-spoke.
Special Thanks: Orlie's Tire & Wheels, the Rollerz Only family, and especially my dad, Rene Sr.


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LOS ANGELES — NASA's Opportunity rover ground into a rock outcrop on Mars, and excited scientists prepared to examine its makeup to learn whether it was formed under watery conditions favorable to life, mission members said Tuesday.
The robotic field geologist used its rock abrasion tool to grind a sixth of an inch (4 millimeters) into the surface of a rock dubbed "El Capitan," project manager Richard Cook said.
The rover then began to inspect the round hole with other instruments on its robotic arm. Those instruments are designed to reveal the mineralogical and elemental composition of the freshly exposed rock, as well as photograph it in microscopic detail.
'Christmas Eve' on Mars
"It's Christmas Eve, and all the scientists are anxious and excited with anticipation for what they are going to show," deputy main scientist Ray Arvidson said of the measurements.
Results were expected to take several days to reach Earth.
The rock outcrop is about the height of a curb and rings a portion of the crater that cradles the unmanned rover. Previous microscopic images show fine layering in the rock, including "El Capitan," as well as mysterious BB-sized granules.
Scientists involved in the $820 million mission continued to mull multiple theories of how the glossy, sandblasted rock formed, including through processes that involved volcanic eruptions, windblown dust or sediments settling out of a body of water.
The new data could settle the issue.
Spirit still rolling
Halfway around Mars, Opportunity's twin, Spirit, continued to roll toward a crater, traveling nearly 100 feet (30 meters) on Tuesday. NASA planned to send the rover a short distance farther, then pause for a few days for science observations, Cook said.
Spirit is between 280 and 300 feet (90 meters) from the crater nicknamed "Bonneville." Scientists expect the rover will reach its rim and peer into it for the first time in mid-March, Arvidson said.
Scientists consider such impact craters "windows" into the geologic past of Mars, since they can churn up rocks from deep below the surface that may contain evidence of past water activity that the two rovers were designed to seek.
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The informal additional sessions of the AWG-LCA, AWG-KP and ADP were held at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in Bangkok, Thailand from Thursday, 30 August to Wednesday, 5 September.
Final press release: Bangkok climate talks make concrete progress on key issues ahead of Doha
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For information on the informal sessions of the AWGs see the in-session websites of AWG-KP, AWG-LCA and ADP.
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Kashmeer – Gemmayzeh
High-end restaurant & bar
Price:Between 20$ and 45$
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Some specialities: Tuna tartar with fresh mango and kiwi, wasabi leaves Duck foie gras with a Sauternes gelée and red-wined candied pear Grilled salmon mi-cuit in a house-teriyaki sauce, white-wined fusion salad Duck magret in a pineapple and ginger sauce, caramelized green apple.
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
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End of Gemmayzeh/Beg. of Mar Mikhail, Beirut.
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Feb 1, 2012 at 04:41At a nice corner side location, Kashmeer shines with amaazing food choices that range from indian teriyaki, to french duck and japanese sushi!! All well made and very good in taste. Bar area is almost always busy. The only bad thing I noticed in both my visits was the choice of music. The DJ at that place needs to be changed ASAP!! Perfect for a pre-clubbing place where you can have your dinner with friends then enjoy few drinks before you go someplace where you can seriously hit the dance floor. I loved my time there.
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Phone Number: 01 57 57 88 or 70 30 60 70
Opening hours
From 7:30 PM until 02:00 AM
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End of Gemmayzeh/Beg. of Mar Mikhail, Beirut.
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Silver by C&G(4 votes)
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Le Hanoi - Ashrafieh(5 votes)
Geniune Vietnamese Cuisine in a Friendly Setting
Pasta Di Casa - Joumblat(12 votes)
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Gigi - Gemmayzeh(1 votes)
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Age: 5-6Y
1. Booking 4 days only, items will be released on the 5th day if no pymt @ deposit from u.
2. Price shown r not including postage unless stated. rm10 deposit is needed to secure ur booking, if MIA by end of the mth:deposit burn
3. Nak hold dulu, nak tunggu next upload or tunggu gaji, pls pay 50% deposit of total items ya?!! i can hold for 1 mth only
4. Cancellation within 24hrs so jgn suka-suki book then MIA @ buat magic dgn sis G, benci3... fikir dulu seblom booking ya?!
5. Pymt via MBB & CIMB, click "Pymt Methods" di knn blog tu.
6. Total purchase will be updated under "Pymt Checklist" di kiri blog, outstanding amount @ grand total ada di situ.
7. Parcels will be sent via Poslaju & Pos Parcel ONLY; sorry, sis G tak guna Pos Register & Pos Setem, harap maklum. * FYI: Poslaju = utk item below 1kg, Pos Parcel = utk item 1kg & above
8. Each customer entitled for 2 FOC, u can choose from "Free Items" di knn blog. FOC items will be uploaded from time to time.
9. All measurements in "inch", sis G guna tape mcm tailor tu...maksud2 shortforms yg sis guna ada di knn blog (click TnC).
10. Click "Items by Category" at right handside of this blog to find your desired items & to ease your shopping process.
11. Sold items can't be returned so check measurement elok2 B4 booking bcoz umur tu anggaran (tak semua label baju stated umur)
12. Sold items will be deleted for fresh viewing & for faster uploading. Tak suka simpan label sold items, menyemak blog jer
13. Back-out buyers are not welcome at GBPC, fussy mommy & perfectionist juga tak perlu buang masa di sini.
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Pentel generously sent me this handsome pen and pencil set known as the Libretto. The pen is a .7 mm and uses the popular LR7 refill, known for high-contrast, consistent, quick-drying lines. The mechanical pencil is a .5 mm size and has a retractable tip, making it safe for pocket carry.
As far as design, the pen and pencil are all metal; they feel well balanced without being too substantial. A small star pattern circles the band around the barrel and a small Pentel logo is just above the band. Other than that, it's all low key.
Curiously enough, the clip on the pencil has a bit more spring to it than the pen, but both are easily to remove from a pocket without snagging.
I mentioned that the pen uses the LR7 refill, which can also be found in the EnerGel line of pens. If you've tried EnerGels, than you probably agree that the ink has some of the best all around properties available.
The pencil comes loaded with Pentel Super Hi-Polymer leads - they are resistant to breaking and perform well.
The pen has a proper grip (rather than just holding onto the barrel) and it not too squishy and doesn't seem to attract too much dust, as some grips tend to do, but having a cap certainly helps. Speaking of the cap, it clicks firmly on both sides of the pen, which I love.
The Pentel Libretto Pen and Pencil can be purchased directly from Pentel and currently retails for $39.95. Given the build construction, quality, and overall lack of any real flaws, I think the price is well worth it.
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I just have to speak up on this atrocity that is being thrust upon me by these people who are running for the top slot on the Republican ticket. Can anyone anywhere tell me why I or any other minority would vote for any of these, these "people"? And I use the term people very lightly, as the old black sentinel would just call them idiots and be done with it. But, I want to save that for later. Not just pointing out that they are all raging mouth foaming idiots right away. I also really want to try and understand what they have to offer.
I watched the debate like any open minded voter who wishes to ensure that there isn't something better than the current Loser in chief. I am interested in alternatives, but damn. These people don't give you anything to work with. I wanted to pull my hair out as it felt like my ears were bleeding listening to this nonsensical drivel that seems to spurt from their mouths like the fountain out in front of the Bellagio in Vegas, but, not at all as pleasing and definitely nowhere near as entertaining.
It's as if these people fell out of Palin's ass or something. She is stupid and they are flaming stupid. So, now that you know how I feel about the candidates, let's begin to break down the talking points for you and how these are why I can't vote for any of them, thus FORCING me to say Obama will more than likely get my vote. No matter how much that last statement gets my goat it just has to be that way.
From Ponzi schemes, two dollar gasoline, no mandates and everything in between is what was discussed in this debate. Where do these people come from, is what I want to know. And not in the literal sense as I know they hail from different states but, where do they come up with these ideas and do they honestly believe them. I just can't fathom that Michelle Bachmann believes she can somehow without government "mandated" pricing bring gas down under two dollars a gallon. Give me a break already. Is this a chicken in every pot statement or what?
Anyhow, Michelle Bachmann says she can get gas prices down below two dollars a gallon. Ok, I'll bite. Anyone with simple knowledge of this so called free market understands that is a joke. She thinks that drilling here at home will somehow reduce the gas prices here at home. Oooookaaaay, right. I guess she doesn't understand that the open markets dictate the price. Or maybe she is saying she is going to mandate or dictate prices for gas at home. Wait everyone on the stage was against mandates.
Ok, so we should all understand by now that you can't as president just say gas should be… and it magically happens. This isn't a Lucky Charms commercial here. Gas prices are dictated by the open market like corn, wheat and everything else. Even if you found oil in your backyard, it goes on the open market and as consumption rises so do prices. India and China are coming on strong for that oil. So, thus prices rise. And even if we somehow flood the market as Canada plans to do with our new pumped oil, OPEC still has a hand in setting the price. And unless Bachmann plans to overtake OPEC, she aint' dictating any prices to them. And any oil she drills out of the Everglades ain't going straight to any gas pumps in the U.S. So, let's call that one bullshit and move along.
Everyone hates a mandate and plans to throw out Obamacare asap. For Romney this is just trash talk. He is basically saying, it's good for my people in Massachusetts but not for others. He even said that Obamacare was trying to cover 100% of the people where he only covered 80%. So, some people have to fall through the cracks to make it Ok? Anyhow, Obamacare didn't go far enough; let's just throw that out there. So, we have all these people saying that the government shouldn't force people to buy insurance. Yet, it was OK, for the government to tell us we HAD to buy car insurance and homeowners insurance. Give me a break.
Why is any of that OK, just not health insurance? And don't tell me it is state instead of Federal, as being forced to do something, doesn't make one iota of difference how you are forced or by whom. It is making me spend money anyway and probably a good thing as well. As if I hit someone's car, I am sure glad I have insurance. Just the way I would be glad to have insurance if I have a broken leg. But, these idiots won't or can't see any of this or maybe they just pretend not to.
Everyone on the stage is hell bent on trickle-down economics. We see that crap never worked. It didn't work under Reagan; it didn't work under George Sr. and sure as hell didn't work under G.W. So, exactly why is it that these fools are advocating doing exactly what we did to get where we are now? Can anyone say insanity? Just like Einstein said, Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. But isn't that what conservatism is? Conservatism is the preservation of traditions. Progressive is change.
Change doesn't happen all at once nor does it happen without any problems. I am not saying that Obama brought about the changes we need nor did he do it without problems. He is inept to me but that is another story. We don't need to go back to the traditions of the conservative party. They have nothing new to show us. It's the same old, I tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas, again. This is a shame. The more I watch these people the more I understand that some people don't want anything to ever change. Let's stagnate like standing water in a bucket. Get all full of muck, stink and filth.
Let's flow or go with the flow and change. Just because we have an idiot in office doesn't mean we can't help him to fix what is broken, not go back to the old broken because the new item isn't quite working right. That doesn't make sense. My new car has a funny smell, so let's get into the old car with the busted engine. Not smart. The conservatives/tea party whoever these people fancy themselves are obstructionists sitting around saying let's ensure no one can do anything different, and then point out how nothing is working. Really smart strategy, NOT. So again, why would I vote for any of these people?


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PHOENIX (Wednesday, May 2, 2012) -- A truck driver arrested in 2011 with approximately $170,000 in cash in a duffel bag tainted with narcotics has been convicted on charges of Illegally Conducting an Enterprise and Money Laundering, Attorney General Tom Horne announced today.
"Every dollar spent on illegal drugs represents an assault on our community," Horne said. "I applaud the DPS and the attorneys in this office for their continued hard work and vigilance to ensure that anyone transporting money that may have connection to the drug trade is brought to justice."
51 year-old Harold Stuart of Covington, Ga., was arrested by Department of Public Safety officers in August of 2011 during a traffic stop on I-17 in which Stuart, who was exhibiting nervous behavior and had irregularities in his log book, was found to be carrying the cash. The money was wrapped in yellow tape and stuffed in a duffel bag. Testing showed Stuart's fingerprints to be on the tape and bag and a DPS canine detected the presence of narcotics. Stuart told a DPS officer that he did not know how the bag got in his truck, and he declined to make additional statements to police about the money.
In the course of their investigation, police learned that between 2008 through 2009 Stuart reported income of only $14,379.00. A review of Stuart's financial records revealed there were large deposits of money into his Maryland bank account while he was in Jamaica. During trial, evidence was presented regarding a financial background investigation on the defendant. The opinion of the investigating officer was that the defendant could not support his lifestyle nor could his income plausibly explain $170,000.00 in cash.
Both offenses are class 3 felonies with a sentencing range of 2 to 3.5 years in prison. The judge has the discretion to sentence the defendant to probation or prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 31, 2012.


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Learning to Say 'No'
This is so difficult for me to do I have the hardest time saying no I wish I could clone myself and help everyone. I found this interesting article and I will work on just saying no for those things I can't do without feeling guilty...
Learning to Say 'No'You can say "no" without giving a list of excuses.by Jill Savage from Focus on the family
"So how do you do it?" she asked.
"Do what?" I replied.
"How do you say no?" she questioned.
"I just say no," I answered.
"No, I don't mean like that. Do you say no and offer an excuse, or do you just say no? I feel so guilty when I say no."
Thus began a recent conversation with a mom who called and asked how to keep a good balance between volunteer activities and family responsibilities. As mothers at home, it is not work and family we need to keep in balance. After all, our family is our work! For many of us the issue is balancing volunteer positions (church, community and school) with our family responsibilities. Some of us figure a home-based business or part-time job into our schedule too. We can easily put ourselves back in the position of working full time, outside-the-home hours without bringing home the pay. We must learn to use the word no effectively.
To keep a balance between mothering and helping others outside your home, here are some guidelines for learning to say no.
1. Keep in mind that you alone know what is best for you and your family. With many mothers working outside the home, there are fewer school, church and community volunteers available during the day. Therefore, you are likely to be asked more often, simply because you are perceived to be more available. Remember, even with church activities, that our families are our first ministry.
2. Never say yes on the spot. Always tell the person you will call back after you've had time to pray and think about it. This keeps you from making an on-the-spot decision you may regret. You can say no immediately, however, if you know that the position or responsibility is wrong for you.
3. When considering a time commitment, make sure you take preparation time into account. Most of us underestimate the time it takes to really do a job. If you have been asked to bake five dozen cookies, look at the calendar and determine whether you truly have that much free time available before the cookies need to be delivered. If it looks too busy, say you're sorry, but you can't do it.
4. When considering long-term commitments, make sure you consider all your household responsibilities and the time constraints that accompany them. It may seem that becoming the president of an organization you really believe in will not take too much time. But after a few months, the phone calls, meetings and errands begin to take up the time you previously used for laundry, housecleaning or paying the bills. These are big jobs that need to be integrated into your weekly and daily responsibilities. Don't allow your family responsibilities to be sacrificed for your volunteer responsibilities.
5. Carefully consider the "brain space" this responsibility will require. Have you ever been listening to your children, but really thinking about a new project or the hundreds of things you needed to do? When your mind is cluttered, you are not mentally available to your family.
6. Remember every minute of your day does not have to be scheduled! If you have a "doer" mentality, you will think of a spare hour or two as a way to fit in one more "yes." Yet we need some time to do nothing. If you need to, schedule in "downtime" each day. Write it on your calendar and say no to anything that would fill this time.
7. Set a limit to the number of long-term commitments you will carry. For instance, within the Hearts at Home organization we encourage women to carry no more than one large and one small long-term volunteer commitment. If they were to take on another long-term commitment, we would encourage them to give up one of their previous commitments. Limiting your long-term commitments allows for more time to help out in short-term service projects. You will be more likely to have the time to bake brownies for your child's classroom or be a teacher's assistant during Vacation Bible School if you take a similar approach.
8. Ask for accountability. Ask your husband, a close friend or your Bible study group to hold you accountable for the number of commitments you will carry. Be open to their insight. If you have trouble saying no, ask them to help you during the first few months while you get things back in balance. When you tell someone you will call him back, check with your accountability partner first before answering. Sort through your schedule with them. Eventually you won't need the partner's help, but it can help you while you are learning to say no.
9. When you do say no, don't feel that you need to give a long list of excuses. You know what is best for your family and for yourself. If you feel you must give an excuse, simply say that it would not fit into your schedule at this time.
10. Keep in mind that you do not have to say yes simply because you are capable. You may have strong leadership skills and will most likely be asked to lead anything you get involved in. That doesn't mean you have to say yes to those responsibilities. You should say yes only after considering your time availability, other volunteer responsibilities, your family commitments and what you might need to give up to properly do this job. Of course, above all, you should say yes only after praying and seeking God's will.
11. If you have too much on your plate now, reevaluate your priorities. Determine what responsibilities you need to let go of. Give a one-month notice to those organizations that you will no longer be able to serve. Although it may be difficult to give up a responsibility, you are not doing the organization or your family any good when you cannot fully commit to the job. As soon as you let go of some of the responsibilities you are carrying, instill new boundaries for your time. Don't let yourself become overcommitted again.
12. Remember that saying no allows others the opportunity to say yes. Don't take service opportunities away from others. Don't forget to make time to have a friend over, take your kids to the park, write a letter or go on a date with your husband. We don't usually schedule these kinds of activities, but they are the first to go when we are overcommitted.
Remember that saying yes to some activities outside the home will be important to your sanity. Moms of young children need to get out of the house to socialize and think about something other than diapers, bottles and coupons. Contrary to popular belief, your brain will not turn to mush. It will just feel like it at times. We need to carefully choose those activities we will be involved in so that our time will be used wisely. You will be amazed at the patience you will have with your family when you find balance in your activity schedule.
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Lost Car Keys
I drive to work, and put my car keys in my pocket. Whenever I sit down in a meeting there is a 20% chance that my car keys might fall out of my pocket (unnoticed). At lunchtime, I reach for my keys and find out they are missing. If I've had three sit-down meetings that morning, what is the chance that the car keys fell out in the first meeting location?
Re: Lost Car Keys
Before checking your pocket, there's a 1/5 chance the keys fell out during the first meeting, a 4/5*1/5 = 4/25 chance the keys fell out during the second meeting, a 4/5*4/5*1/5 = 16/125 chance the keys fell out during the third meeting, and a 4/5*4/5*4/5 = 64/125 chance the keys are still in your pocket. After you check your pocket and find the keys not there, Bayes' Theorem tells us that the probability your keys fell out during the first meeting is the prior probability of that happening divided by the total probability the keys fell out of your pocket, or (1/5)/(1/5+4/25+16/125) = 25/61.
(∫|p|2)(∫|q|2) ≥ (∫|pq|)2
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Electric Aggregation Voting Results, some say Yes, others No
There were several communities in the WGFA-listening area that approved electric aggregation programs. But others, including Watseka voters, defeated the referendum question.
Watseka voters said No….500 voting against it while 392 voted in favor. It was a 56 to 44% margin against.
Clifton and Gilman voted in favor. The Clifton voters gave it a thumbs up, 51 – 49%. Gilman voters approved the measure 316 to 156, a 66% to 33% margin.
Approving the question in Tuesday's election were Fairbury, Gridley, Pontiac, Clinton and Bloomington, and unincorporated Woodford County. The question failed in Streator and unincorporated areas of DeWitt, McLean, Woodford and LaSalle counties.
It passed in the city of Bloomington by a vote of 4,517 to 3,888. In McLean County, the measure failed, 1,515 to 1,222.
The program allows municipalities to bundle Ameren customers' electricity needs to attract the lowest-bidding supplier. Where approved, customers may opt-out if they wish, but otherwise they are automatically enrolled.
Proponents said aggregation would save customers money on their electric bills. Opponents considered the measure an unnecessary government intrusion.


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Baltimore Ravens cornerback nearing ACL injury return
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb is expected to return from the anterior cruciate ligament injury he suffered in October last year, in time for the squad's pre-season training camp at the end of July.
The 27-year-old was building a reputation as one of the NFL's finest all-round cornerbacks before suffering a season-ending injury against the Dallas Cowboys in Week six of the 2012 campaign.
It's not the first time that Webb has torn his ACL either, picking up the same injury - only this time to his right knee - during his rookie season for the Ravens in 2009.
In the 2012 offseason, Webb signed a six-year contract extension, worth a reported $50million - with $20million guaranteed - which highlights just how highly Baltimore rated Webb, prior to his most recent ACL injury.
And, defensive coordinator Dean Pees admits he cannot wait to have Webb back in the reckoning for coach John Harbaugh's side in 2013/14.
"He makes plays," said Pees. "He's a good tackler. It looks like he's a buck-fifty out there, but the guy throws his body around. He thinks he's a linebacker.
"The other part of it is just the way he plays, with the tenacity that he plays with. It just brings an extra spark to that whole secondary."
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text: When it comes to families, is bigger better? Lee Sang Tae (Ahn Jae Wook) lives with his in-laws and has been raising his two children, Lee Soo (Kim Hyun Soo) and Lee Bin (Kwon Soo Jung), on his own ever since his wife passed away. He works as the marketing team leader for a fashion company. Ahn Mi Jung (So Yoo Jin) also works for the company as an assistant manager. She is raising her three children — Woo Young (Jung Yoon Suk), Woo Ri (Kwak Ji Hye) and Woo Joo (Choi Yoo Ri) — alone for the past three years after her husband had an affair with her friend and left her. But Mi Jung has been telling her kids that their father is just working in the United States over the past three years. As Sang Tae and Mi Jung deal with the daily demands of work, extended family and the needs of their children, life can get a little hectic. When they begin to fall for each other, how hard will a relationship between the two single parents be to pull off? "Five Children" is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Jung Kyu.


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SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP)– Officials say a seal that came ashore in central New Jersey does not appear to be injured.
Staffers with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine had responded to Sandy Hook on Sunday afternoon after receiving reports of a possible seal stranding. But they determined that the seal was just taking a break on the beach.
Sheila Dean, the center's co-director, tells the Asbury Park Press that the seal is known to the stranding center, and was identified by a tag on one flipper.
The center had treated the seal last year before releasing it into waters off Rhode Island. The seal then came ashore in New York, where another marine group treated it for an infected cut late last year.
Dean says seals regularly seek land to rest.
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NORFOLK, VA--ESPN.com has selected Old Dominion University junior guard Kent Bazemore (Kelford, NC) as one of the nation's top 20 defenders.
Bazemore tied for first in the CAA with a 1.9 steals per game average and a total of 67 for the entire season. The complete list is on this link:
Bazemore had a season high of six steals in a game against Georgia State and four in a game against Towson, Drexel, Delaware and Northeastern.
Last year, Bazemore was named to the CAA's All-Defensive squad, CollegeInsiders.com All-American Defensive team and the CAA All-Tournament squad.
Bazemore averaged 8.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game in 36 games played. He helped lead the Monarchs to a 27-9 record, the CAA regular season and tournament championship as well as the second round of the NCAA tournament.
The Monarchs will preview the 2010-11 season on Oct. 23rd with the annual Blue-White scrimmage at 12 noon.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED TOP 16 DEFENDERS 1. Chris Singleton, Florida State 2. Kenneth Faried, Morehead St. 3. Venoy Overton, Washington 4. Ronald Nored, Butler 5. Iman Shumpert, Ga. Tech 6. Damian Saunders, Duquesne 7. Jefffrey Taylor, Vanderbilt 8. E'Twaun Moore, Purdue 9. David Foster, Utah 10. Jackson Emery, BYU 11. David Lighty, Ohio State 12. Gilbert Brown, Pittsburgh 13. Kent Bazemore, ODU 14. JuJuan Johnson, Purdue 15. Jeff Allen - Va. Tech 16. Jay Threatt- Delaware State
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For anybody interested, Billy Walker has now changed his twitter handle. Originally, Walker was @westvirginiaslim (or something like that), but now his new handle is @1023sveryown.
Don't ask me what that means, because I have no idea. Also, Walker apparently wants to be called "William H. Walker" rather than "Bill" or "Billy". I wonder what he thinks of people calling him "F&%$*@# Walker!"Follow @tarmosino


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Sometimes, one family is important enough to alter the course of human history.
The Medici family of Florence, Italy, was one of those families. The Medicis were a key merchant and banking family from the 14th through 17th centuries. Four popes and two queens came from the House of Medici.
But the Medicis were also dedicated patrons of art, commissioning works by artists whom we still admire in museums today – Michelangelo, Botticelli, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
They also collected precious gems, paintings, carvings, sculptures and other works of fine art.
Through Sept. 15, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana is presenting "Gems of the Medici," a touring exhibition consisting of 100 objects on loan from various respected institutions in Florence. The show started at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, where it ran from October 2012 through the end of March. It's most likely the only one of its kind to be showcased in the United States. After its run at the Bowers, the objects will go back to Florence.
"It's keeping with our goal of bringing the great cultures of the world to the people of Orange County and California," said Peter C. Bowers, president of the Bowers Museum. "The gems of the Medici are one of the great world legends and treasures."
The show was organized by Linda Carioni, partner and director of international relations for Contemporanea Progetti, an exhibitions company based in Florence. The curators are Ricardo Gennaioli, a well-known expert and scholar on engraved gemstones, and Maria Sframelli, director of the Museo degli Argenti in Florence, one of the principal lenders to the exhibition.
"Most of the gemstones are not on public display; most are in the vaults of museums," Carioni said. "So it was quite a feat to get them out and to get them on the road. It took us a year to get permission from the various lenders and work through all the agreements."
One of the most notable and famous objects in the exhibit is a carnelian intaglio known as the "Seal of Nero." It dates to the end of the first century B.C. to the beginning of the first century A.D., and depicts a well-known mythological episode: The satyr Marsyas is challenging the god Apollo to a musical contest.
While long believed to be Roman emperor Nero's personal seal, the intaglio could have been created for Caesar Augustus. It was owned by Lorenzo "the Magnificent" de' Medici, as well as by other important Renaissance collectors.
Other precious objects on view include a pair of pristine blue vases from the 16th century made of lapis lazuli, gold, gilded silver and enamel; an intaglio bust of Girolamo Savonarola (1498-1516) made of carnelian and gold and considered a masterpiece among Renaissance gems; and a cameo of a chariot with male figure (1530-1545) by Benvenuto Cellini made of chalcedony and gold. Half of it is bare white stone; the other half is covered in gold.
There's also an opulent black and gold vase with handles in the form of swans (1689-1693) made of touchstone, silver and gilded bronze; and a beautiful hardstone commesso, or Florentine mosaic, titled "The Victory of Samson over the Lion" (circa 1612) by Gualtieri Cecchi.
More than a dozen busts of Medici family members decorate the galleries and illustrate how their looks changed and evolved over the generations.
Liliana Leopardi, a guest scholar for the Bowers and a specialist in the Italian Renaissance, says this exhibition is important for the general public to see for two main reasons.
"The first one is that you would not be able to see these objects in one singular place, as you do here, in Italy at all," said Leopardi, an assistant professor at Hobart and William Smith College in New York. "Even if you traveled to Italy, you would not be able to get a sense of the quality of the collections of the Medici and the range of the objects they collected."
The second reason is historical: The Medici family played a critical role in the European Renaissance, and the Renaissance was a pivotal moment in Western art and civilization, she said.
"This is an opportunity for people in Orange County to see where Western civilization changes, or swerves," said Leopardi, who taught at Chapman University for five years. "Basically, all the most famous artists of Florence are commissioned by the Medicis at one point or another. The Medicis are central to the (Renaissance) idea of rebirth."
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This section builds on the conceptual information about deadlocks in Section 22.214.171.124, "Deadlock Detection and Rollback". It explains how to organize database operations to minimize deadlocks and the subsequent error handling required in applications.
Deadlocks are a classic problem in transactional databases, but they are not dangerous unless they are so frequent that you cannot run certain transactions at all. Normally, you must write your applications so that they are always prepared to re-issue a transaction if it gets rolled back because of a deadlock.
InnoDB uses automatic row-level locking. You
can get deadlocks even in the case of transactions that just
insert or delete a single row. That is because these operations
are not really "atomic"; they automatically set locks
on the (possibly several) index records of the row inserted or
You can cope with deadlocks and reduce the likelihood of their occurrence with the following techniques:
INNODB STATUS to determine the cause of the latest
deadlock. That can help you to tune your application to avoid
Always be prepared to re-issue a transaction if it fails due to deadlock. Deadlocks are not dangerous. Just try again.
Keep transactions small and short in duration to make them less prone to collision.
Commit transactions immediately after making a set of related changes to make them less prone to collision. In particular, do not leave an interactive mysql session open for a long time with an uncommitted transaction.
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When modifying multiple tables within a transaction, or
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in a consistent order each time. Then transactions form
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database operations into functions within your application, or
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Table-level locks prevent concurrent updates to the table, avoiding deadlocks at the expense of less responsiveness for a busy system.
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"We'll be back after this message from..." There's a reason why TV and radio announcers use that line. It's designed to help you understand what's about to happen and how it's connected to the programming. In broadcasting it's called a "segue."
How often have you watched a speaker end a sentence, click the next slide, speak, click the next slide, speak, click the next slide... and you're wondering "How is this related to what I just saw?" That's what happens when presenters see their role as giving out information instead of telling a meaningful story.
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The following command displays definitions for all attribute types:
$ ldapsearch -T -b cn=schema "(objectclass=*)" attributeTypes
The -T option prevents the ldapsearch command from folding LDIF lines, so you can more easily work with the output using commands such as grep or sed. If you then pipe the output of this command through the grep command, you can view only the user-defined extensions to directory schema. For example:
$ ldapsearch -T -b cn=schema "(objectclass=*)" attributeTypes | grep "user defined" attributeTypes: ( 18.104.22.168.5.6.7 NAME ( 'blog' 'blogURL' ) DESC 'URL to a personal weblog' SYNTAX 188.8.131.52.4.1.14220.127.116.11.15 SINGLE-VALUE X-ORIGIN 'user defined' )


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need advice: legally enforcing a ban
On a site I help tend to, we have a disgruntled former member who is no longer welcome on our website or game servers along with a few of his friends.
Recruiting on another groups server and abusing the server will tend to get that done to ya even if you are an ex member.
When a thread came up about it in our public forum and some mentioning of bans were put forth by less technical-minded patrons. He created another account to post about it in a new thread, as rebelution. My associate and I humored him just long enough to slap the necessary bans on his areas IP ranges ;-)
We have a few more hits and proxies which we've also made efforts to lock out via our referrer blocking, obviously it's a case of time wasting for all parties (he wants to waste our time and bandwidth).
Much more of this and I think his account will be tied to a Perl script to automatically ban his current IP, delete his site session from the database, and send him a warning message, which would probably annoy him into something more legally entangling.
We didn't bother to delete his accounts because he'll just brush fire into more. The only consistent thing has been his registering with email@example.com -> easy enough to lock out of our system but, then again he'll just find another. At least this way, we know how to track the kid across our site easy enough while looking for other accounts. If any of our members still have a copy of his application form from, we can probably get his real name on file.
Between the web servers access logs and the # of IP/referrer blocks we've processed, since he will not stay off our 'virtual' property, is there any legal action that can be brought against him?
For me, it's mostly the same as trespassing or breaking & entering but i may as well live on the web.
The offender resides in California, USA and our server is on the USA's east coast.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
Unless there is a lawyer on the forums (actively practicing in the area you seek help in) who is willing to offer free advice, I'd recommend seeking real legal help.
Tech geeks are often willing to provide their esteemed legal advice (even me; though I've tried to stop this), but frankly it's not worth the paper (?) it's printed on.
Kill your t.v.
'Tech geeks' as you put it, at least know the technical side of things. With some of the people here, there might also be someone with past experiences.
The legal advice might not be worth the HTML it's reformatted in but it does help me figure out if I would be wasting my time or not.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
I'm Canadian, I wouldn't dare dream to know American law, or even respect it at times, but it's clear this user is effecting your community in a negative way..
If you have his original IP, it makes sense that he wouldn't have tried to mask it when he signed up etc, it might be viable to contact his ISP.
The chances of them giving up private information is negligible, but they might send a written letter to his house.. and if he's a minor, he might get in trouble with his parents at least.
There have been many, many law suits regarding abuse attached to computers. In this instance, the key phrase to Google for is "trespass to chattel."
IANAL, NDIPOOTV. With that disclaimer out of the way, unless you can show SIGNIFICANT financial harm, pursuing this is absolutely not worth the money. Lawyers in the US seem to average $300/hour, and if you want one who specializes in computer abuse cases, you'll be paying a lot more.
Damage and harm, not really. Bandwidth usage has been much higher then normal, which is in fact how we found his last proxy. We have enough bandwidth to spare, that he could use 2*my bandwidth usage per billing date and still not cause problems (I use a big chunk compared to most of our regular visitors) .
He's definitely accessing a website that he has been denied access to with an apparent intent to piss us off and waste [our] resources.
We have his IP's but it's quite possible his current one may have changed by now (which is why the range was blocked). Even if we unblocked it, he's not dumb enough to post without a proxy again.
I would like to "discourage' him, I've actually considered setting things to redirect blocked proxies to a porn site just for the hope of getting him grounded. But that might be a bit of a problem if anyone we want to access the site tries one of them :\
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
An arm for an arm does not work, look at the USA legal system.. death penalty for example.
Sorry, but I'm going to end up agreeing with jggimi, legal costs, is it really worth pursuing? unless he costs you in excess of a few thousand dollars, leave it be.
Usually ignoring the abuser and quietly removing posts and accounts works ... He's just trying to get attention so whatever you do, don't give him ANY attention, just ignore.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
As others have pointed out, lawyers and court costs aren't cheap - unless you find one willing to work pro bono. But, sometimes it is not a matter of dollars and cents - sometimes it's the principle that matters.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that computer - and in particular internet - law is a new and burgeoning field where there's not a lot of set rules. Even if there is no law or legal precedent for your situation, there is always a good chance a single case could lead to new avenues of legalities. This has been a general pattern for the past 10-20 years.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
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« In Which We Do Whatever We Can Get Away With »
Escape to New York
by ELIZABETH GUMPORT
Just as our first romantic relationships impress types upon us, so, too, do our early urban experiences determine if and how we will live in cities. There are people from whom we do not recover, experiences into which we try to fold all others, places we do not leave.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1933, the photographer Bruce Davidson spent his adolescence on the train, riding the El into Chicago. "I've left Chicago," Davidson later told an interviewer, "but Chicago hasn't left me." The experience was "catalytic," he said; as an adult, he would go on to document New York's transit system in the series Subway. On the trains he found "an iridescence like what I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish."
Before Subway, he had submerged himself in South Brooklyn, where he documented the romances and rituals of a young street gang called the Jokers. After covering the Civil Rights Movement, he returned to New York, to its parks and streets, and, for two years the 1960s, its tenements. He set up on the block between Second Avenue and First, working with a large camera on a tripod to capture the street's sidewalks, bedrooms, and the people who used them.
East 100th Street appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970. Nearly twenty years later, my parents and I moved into an apartment a few blocks west, on 100th between Park and Lexington. Both streets belong to the part of Manhattan known as Spanish Harlem, which runs from 96th Street, where well-tended medians on Park Avenue give way to train tracks, up to the northeastern edge of the island and the Harlem River.
The neighborhood is largely Puerto Rican, and home to 24 public housing projects. Last year, the Department of City Planning designated the neighborhood a "food desert," which means its residents have little access to fresh food, specifically produce, and are therefore likely to suffer from diet-related illnesses.
When I was very young, I did not realize people considered my neighborhood unsafe; once I did, I thought they must be mistaken. It was not until after the building next door to mine burned down that I learned it had been a crackhouse. Nobody ever told me anything. If someone was admitted to the hospital, I was informed days or years after they were released.
Now this seems to me fantastical: how do you not talk about things? But my parents and I, we did not talk about things, so for a long time I pretended everything was fine. Then, when evidence to the contrary became impossible to ignore, I decided not to care. This is actually a choice you can make.
The images in East 100th Street do not disclose secrets like a diary, those subjective assessments of material experience. They hold only the brute, dull detritus of daily life: 15-cent pie, a flyer from a camping show, Hart brand bird food. Looking at Davidson's photographs is like visiting someone's apartment for the first time, or reading his blog: I eat a sandwich, I drink a beer, I do not make my bed.
To see the people Davidson photographs is to be reminded that people exist when we do not see them. These are not candids, or stolen shots of animals taken securely from safari caravan, but their subjects accept him without ceremony, as one admits not a stranger but a sibling, someone who has a key and does not care if you have cleaned your apartment.
At the Howard Greenberg Gallery, East 100th Street is accompanied by Davidson's wide, expansive shots of Central Park. In the foreground of one lies the sweating, bathing-suited body of a woman; beyond her, more bodies, and trees, and beyond them the city, the buildings rising together like a great crenellated castle.
In comparison to his photographs of Central Park, the images in East 100th Street are airless and cramped. The exteriors feel like interiors. Rarely do you see the sky, or the spine of the Triborough Bridge, that big animal, lying across the East River. The city resembles a room, a closed space, a closet. The effect is counterintuitive; in Davidson's work, narrow alleys and low ceilings serve as reminders of the city's size, of how much it contains, and conceals.
If you believe people do whatever they can get away with, you might imagine his portraits of people peering out windows or sprawled on beds to be portraits of lust and false-heartedness. Manhattan's geography generates infidelity: ours is a capacious city, a vast island whose size permits isolation and therefore betrayal.
Davidson's photographs remind us that people's personal lives are mostly tedious. Everybody has dirty plates and families. Privacy protects us. Behind closed doors we shine our shoes and our personalities; we rest and then resume playing the roles of interesting people. We hide our worst selves, and our dullest: we would rather have people see us as bad than boring.
What is universal are chores, the failure to do them, and the desire to be looked at. From the way one girl turns her foot you can tell she has taken ballet. She is wearing church clothes; in another picture, a sign on a storefront church proclaims, "All are welcome!" Sunday devotional services meet at 12:30, and something abbreviated "W.P.W.W." gathers on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30.
A few of the buildings Davidson photographed still stand, but this church is gone. The northwest corner of the block has been cleared for a baseball diamond, and luxury condominiums now run along First Avenue up to 101st Street. In 2006, one of the new apartments on Lexington Avenue sold for $8.5 million dollars.
The protagonists of children's books are usually orphans. The family home is a prison that must be demolished before the book can begin. Only once they are freed from their cells and captors can the characters' adventure begin. Out of the cradle and into the boxcar, or boarding school; the best world is the one without parents.
My parents sold their house this fall. Like Davidson's subjects and storybook orphans, I am one of the lucky ones: I never have to go home again.
Elizabeth Gumport is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer from New York. She last wrote in these pages about Dawn Powell.
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