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… is from page 572 of Paul Johnson's 1991 book, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830:
Such clever and enterprising men came [from all over Europe in the early 19th century] to the British Isles because of the opportunities provided by its great wealth and, still more, by its free economic climate. The English universities might be comatose and the government indifferent to industry, but the law left the entrepreneur and the self-advancing artisan free to pursue their genius….
That was not the only advantage of the free climate. In early industrial Britain, qualifications, degrees, certificates, professional rules and trade conventions were swept aside by masters and men who were anxious to get on.

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Alien Plant Invader: Goatsrue
May 30, 2014 at 9:23 AM 0 Comments
Portland is breaking new ground, but in this case, it's not an honor we want! There are five known sites in Oregon where the invasive plant goatsrue is found, and three of them are here in the Portland area. The other two are not far away in Gresham and Sherwood.
This is how new invasive plant infestations start out, and we need your help to keep this one contained before it becomes a real problem.
Goatsrue (Galega officinalis) is a federally listed noxious weed and is one of the 100 most dangerous invasive plants according to the Oregon Invasive Species Council. The stem and leaves of goatsrue contain a poisonous alkaloid, galegin, which can cause serious health problems or even be fatal for people and livestock.
Like other invasive plants, goatsrue can negatively impact our local natural areas and streams, threatening our clean water resources. It reduces plant and animal diversity as other, often native, species are displaced by the goatsrue root fragments and large numbers of seedlings. Each plant has approximately 15,000 seeds that are dispersed by small mammals, birds, wind and water. The seeds may be viable for up to 30 years, so it's important that we catch each plant now!
Goatsrue is a perennial plant in the pea family, native to the Middle East. Plants have upright, hollow stems and can reach two to six feet tall. Goatsrue blooms from June to October with light lilac to dark purple pea-like flowers. Leaflets are arranged in pairs on a central stem. Goatsrue has a leaflet at the very end, instead of a climbing tendril like a garden pea plant would have. Later in the growing season, goatsrue produces straight, narrow, rumpled-looking pods.
Look-a-likes include perennial peavine (Lathyrus latifolius) and common vetch (Vicia sativa). Perennial peavine and common vetch are widely distributed in Portland, and do have climbing tendrils at the ends of their leaves. That's the easy way to distinguish goatsrue from these look-a-likes: goatsrue has an upright hollow stem and no tendrils.
Are you a landowner with a question about goatsrue, or suspect you have it on your property? We strongly encourage you to contact the City of Portland's Early Detection and Rapid Response Program. Please contact Mitch Bixby at 503-823-2989 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Visit this page for more information about goatsrue. King County also has information available.
(bottom 2 photos courtesy of King County)
Invasive species affect us all. They damage our forests, streams and rivers, and property. Nationwide, damages associated with invasive species are estimated to be $120 billion each year. In Oregon, the damage invasive weeds cause and the cost of controlling them total about $125 million each year. We know that it costs a lot less to control new invasive plants before they become infestations, so we need everyone's help. Find out more about the problems caused by invasive species and why Environmental Services works to stop their spread.
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Octomom Could Lose Her House
Octomom Nadya Suleman and her 14 kids may become homeless ... because she's fallen behind on mortgage payments to the tune of more than $450,000 ... this according to the person who holds the note on the property.
Octomom bought the La Habra, CA house in March, 2009. The seller, Amer Haddadin, transferred title to Octo's dad. In return, Octo and her dad were required to make monthly payments of $4,139 for one year. On March 10, 2010, a balloon payment of $450,000 was due.
A rep for Amer tells TMZ Octo hasn't paid the $450,000. And, he says, she didn't make the last $4,139 payment. He also says, she's been late on three other recent monthly payments. Amer says he "tried to handle this in a gentlemanly way" but unfortunately it's come to this.
Amer's rep says he intends to initiate foreclosure proceedings against Octomom.
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Just a friendly reminder that the monthly 4 hour Zazenkai for November is scheduled for this Saturday at 9pm Japan local time. Here is the general information link provided by Jundo: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=668
You should be able to find the time for your zone using the link above, but if you have any trouble (as I often do) please PM me and I'll help you figure it out.
Also, here's a link to the chant book:
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Hope to see some of you there!


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Binds when picked up
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Occasionally throws a nut at a player or NPC's head causing a stunned animation (does not actually hinder movement).
Pit-pattering footsteps; vocalizations (on-click)
Throws an acorn at nearby players, NPCs, and hunter pets, placing a stunned animation on them but doesn't actually stun them.
This pet is rewarded via the mail when your character completes the "Petting Zoo" achievement. To complete this achievement, your character must possess at least 100 unique vanity pets. Upon learning your 100th pet, you'll immediately receive this pet in your mailbox, sent by Dalaran's vendor, Breanni.
While the nut barrage ability is great against cocoon it was confusing to watch my toon getting dazed as I forgot that this pet chucks his nuts at you too. Amusing but not certain how easy this little fella is going to be to level to 25 considering I don't always want him to survive his battles.
Don't fish with your Nuts out, he does stun and interrupt your casts!
PvPing with Legs-Nuts-Willy. Always amusing if unproductive.
I named my Zongo. I like this squirrel quite a bit.
"Please put your Nuts away, they keep hitting me in the head. It's distracting." - Regularly heard in our raid groups :D Love this pet!
The second was how hilarious he is when he hits other people with his namesake. hahaha!
Thank you in advance,
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Finally some sun so I could snap some pictures! And the pictures were kind of rushed because my kids were anxiously awaiting a long scheduled play date with some friends we don't see often.
So here is another Mr. Roboto quilt. I originally made one for the store where I work a few months ago and (as you see in the post below) I am putting more kits together since we sold all of the originals.
This quilt is a little different. Instead of using the stripe as binding, I added it as a border. I love that colorful stripe!
And then, because the added border made the quilt bigger, I needed to piece the back.
Which I think turned out quite fun. And combined with that wonderful, whimsical robot fabric, it just doesn't get much cuter, if I do say so myself.
This quilt is going in my etsy shop. Probably tomorrow, because right now I need to bind the hexagon quilt while I watch a movie. If you are interested in kits for this one, email me and I can give you the store information if you want to order one.
And early next week I will be posting a tutorial on how to make these blocks. SUPER easy and very quick and fun. So come back, ya hear?


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The following details are ideas and comments expressed by David Nuescheler.
David was co-founder and CTO of Day Software AG, a leading provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, which was aquired by Adobe in 2010. He is now fellow and VP of Enterprise Technology at Adobe and also leads the development of JSR-170, the Java Content Repository (JCR) application programming interface (API), the technology standard for content management.
Further updates can also be seen on https://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/DavidsModel.
In various discussions I found that developers are somewhat at unease with the features and functionalities presented by JCR when it comes to content modeling. There is no guide and very little experience yet on how to model content in a repository and why one content model is better than the other.
While in the relational world the software industry has a lot of experience on how to model data, we are still at the early stages for the content repository space.
I would like to start filling this void by expressing my personal opinions on how content should be modeled, hoping that this could some day graduate into something more meaningful to the developers community, which is not just "my opinion" but something that is more generally applicable. So consider this my quickly evolving first stab at it.
Disclaimer: These guidelines express my personal, sometimes controversial views. I am looking forward to debate these guidelines and refine them.
I recommend not to worry about a declared data structure in an ERD sense. Initially.
Learn to love nt:unstructured (& friends) in development.
I think Stefano pretty much sums this one up.
My bottom-line: Structure is expensive and in many cases it is entirely unnecessary to explicitly declare structure to the underlying storage.
There is an implicit contract about structure that your application inherently uses. Let's say I store the modification date of a blog post in a lastModified property. My App will automatically know to read the modification date from that same property again, there is really no need to declare that explicitly.
Further data constraints like mandatory or type and value constraints should only be applied where required for data integrity reasons.
The above example of using a lastModified
Date property on for example "blog post" node, really does not mean that there is a need for a special nodetype. I would definitely use nt:unstructured
for my blog post nodes at least initially. Since in my blogging application all I am going to do is to display the lastModified date anyway (possibly "order by" it) I barely care if it is a Date at all. Since I implicitly trust my blog-writing application to put a "date" there anyway, there really is no need to declare the presence of a lastModified
date in the form a of nodetype.
The content hierarchy is a very valuable asset. So don't just let it happen, design it. If you don't have a "good", human-readable name for a node, that's probably something that you should reconsider. Arbitrary numbers are hardly ever a "good name".
While it may be extremely easy to quickly put an existing relational model into a hierarchical model, one should put some thought in that process.
In my experience if one thinks of access control and containment usually good drivers for the content hierarchy. Think of it as if it was your file system. Maybe even use files and folders to model it on your local disk.
Personally I prefer hierarchy conventions over the nodetyping system in a lot of cases initially, and introduce the typing later.
The way a content repository is structured can impact performance as well. For best performance, the number of child nodes attached to individual nodes in a content repository should generally not exceed 1'000.
See How much data can CRX handle? for more information.
I would model a simple blogging system as follows. Please note that initially I don't even care about the respective nodetypes that I use at this point.
I think one of the things that become apparent is that we all understand the structure of the content based on the example without any further explanations.
What may be unexpected initially is why I wouldn't store the "comments" with the "post", which is due to access control which I would like to be applied in a reasonably hierarchical way.
Using the above content model I can easily allow the "anonymous" user to "create" comments, but keep the anonymous user on a read-only basis for the rest of the workspace.
If you don't use clone()
, merge()
or update()
methods in your application a single workspace is probably the way to go.
"Corresponding nodes" is a concept defined in the JCR spec. Essentially, it boils down to nodes that represent the same content, in different so-called workspaces.
JCR introduces the very abstract concept of Workspaces which leaves a lot of developers unclear on what to do with them. I would like to propose to put your use of workspaces to the following to test.
If you have a considerable overlap of "corresponding" nodes (essentially the nodes with the same UUID) in multiple workspaces you probably put workspaces to good use.
If there is no overlap of nodes with the same UUID you are probably abusing workspaces.
Workspaces should not be used for access control. Visibility of content for a particular group of users is not a good argument to separate things into different workspaces. JCR features "Access Control" in the content repository to provide for that.
Workspaces are the boundary for references and query.
Use workspaces for things like:
Do not use workspaces for things like:
While Same Name Siblings (SNS) have been introduced into the spec to allow compatibility with data structures that are designed for and expressed through XML and therefore are extremely valuable to JCR, SNS come with a substantial overhead and complexity for the repository.
Any path into the content repository that contains an SNS in one of its path segments becomes much less stable, if an SNS is removed or reordered, it has an impact on the paths of all the other SNS and their children.
For import of XML or interaction with existing XML SNS maybe necessary and useful but I have never used SNS, and never will in my "green field" data models.
instead of
References imply referential integrity. I find it important to understand that references do not just add additional cost for the repository managing the referential integrity, but they also are costly from a content flexibility perspective.
Personally I make sure I only ever use references when I really cannot deal with a dangling reference and otherwise use a path, a name or a string UUID to refer to another node.
Let's assume I allow "references" from a document (a) to another document (b). If I model this relation using reference properties this means that the two documents are linked on a repository level. I cannot export/import document (a) individually, since the reference property's target may not exist. Other operations like merge, update, restore or clone are affected as well.
So I would either model those references as "weak-references" (in JCR v1.0 this essentially boils down to string properties that contain the uuid of the target node) or simply use a path. Sometimes the path is more meaningful to begin with.
I think there are use cases where a system really can't work if a reference is dangling, but I just can't come up with a good "real" yet simple example from my direct experience.
If a content model exposes something that even remotely smells like a file or a folder I try to use (or extend from) nt:file
, nt:folder
and nt:resource
In my experience a lot of generic applications allow interaction with nt:folder and nt:files implicitly and know how to handle and display those event if they are enriched with additional meta-information. For example a direct interaction with file server implementations like CIFS or WebDAV sitting on top of JCR become implicit.
I think as good rule of thumb one could use the following: If you need to store the filename and the mime-type then nt:file
/ nt:resource
is a very good match. If you could have multiple "files" an nt:folder is a good place to store them.
If you need to add meta information for your resource, let's say an "author" or a "description" property, extend nt:resource
not the nt:file
. I rarely extend nt:file and frequently extend nt:resource
Let's assume that someone would like to upload an image to a blog entry at:
and maybe the initial gut reaction would be to add a binary property containing the picture.
While there certainly are good use cases to use just a binary property (let's say the name is irrelevant and the mime-type is implicit) in this case I would recommend the following structure for my blog example.
/content/myblog/posts/iphone_shipping/attachments [nt:folder]
/content/myblog/posts/iphone_shipping/attachments/front.jpg [nt:file]
/content/myblog/posts/iphone_shipping/attachments/front.jpg/jcr:content [nt:resource]
In relational databases IDs are a necessary means to express relations, so people tend to use them in content models as well. Mostly for the wrong reasons through.
If your content model is full of properties that end in "Id" you probably are not leveraging the hierarchy properly.
It is true that some nodes need a stable identification throughout their live cycle. Much fewer than you might think though. mix:referenceable provides such a mechanism built into the repository, so there really is no need to come up with an additional means of identifying a node in a stable fashion.
Keep also in mind that items can be identified by path, and as much as "symlinks" make way more sense for most users than hardlinks in a unix filesystem, a path makes a sense for most applications to refer to a target node.
More importantly, it is mix:referenceable which means that it can be applied to a node at the point in time when you actually need to reference it.
So let's say just because you would like to be able to potentially reference a node of type "Document" does not mean that your "Document" nodetype has to extend from mix:referenceable in a static fashion since it can be added to any instance of the "Document" dynamically.
instead of:
-- blogId
-- author
-- postId
-- blogId
-- title
-- text
-- date
-- attachmentId
-- postId
-- filename
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U2's long-rumored new album has at least a tentative release date. The rockers hope to release "something" from the follow-up to 2009's No Line on the Horizon by September, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. told Irish broadcaster RTE.
"I'd say we will be finished by the summer — and hopefully we will have something released by September," Mullen is quoted as saying on RTE's The Dave Fanning Show. "Hopefully what we will be able to do is release September this year and shortly afterwards, release again. That's what we want to do."
What's more, the Guardian has picked up a report in the usually dodgy Sun in which Bono reportedly says the new album is tentatively titled 10 Reasons to Exist. The band is "in fine fettle" and "really want to make a new record," he's quoted as saying. The Sun has been accused of fabrication by just about everyone, but when the Guardian picked up its report that Paul McCartney would be fronting a reunion of the surviving Nirvana members, that's what actually happened.
U2's publicist didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Talk of U2's 13th studio album dates back to 2009, right around the release of No Line. Bono told Rolling Stone that he was planning "a sister release to No Line on the Horizon, a Zooropa to its Achtung Baby," that was supposed to see light within a year of Horizon. The singer confirmed a title (Songs of Ascent) and a first single ("Every Breaking Wave," which was dropped off No Line at the last minute), and said, "We're making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent."
As fansite @U2 points out, the Dublin foursome's U.K. label, Mercury Records, confirmed through a tweet last July that a new U2 album was scheduled for 2013. A month before that announcement, Bono appeared on an Irish late-night talk show and gushed about the band's recent recording time. "We've had the best three weeks in the studio since 1979," he said, adding that the group knew they had to do something significant for lucky number 13. "I think they [the other band members] are very aware that U2 have to do something very special to have a reason to exist right now."
That "something very special" might be a reference to U2's collaboration with Carl Falk, the co-songwriter of "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing," by U.K. boy band One Direction. Falk told the Sun in April 2012, "There's a long way to go but we are doing something with U2."
Bono, the Edge, Mullen, and Adam Clayton have also been busy with a number of other album-length projects — so much so that in 2010 the Guardian reported that U2 had a trio of unreleased albums, ranging in styles from traditional rock'n'roll to dance to the "meditative psalms" originally planned as Songs of Ascent. Bono admitted that despite being adventurous enough to try a "club-sounding" record, U2 hasn't really embraced digital culture. "We're not as 21st century as we think we are," he said. "We'd be putting out more new songs online, involving our audience in the choice, if we were really modern. [Instead] we're just sitting here arguing about them, except no one else knows about them."
Clayton, the band's bassist, spoke to Rolling Stone in June 2011 about the upcoming release, saying, "when the record is finished, we'll know what it is," in response to a question about U2's work with producer/Lady Gaga collaborator RedOne and the possibility of putting out Bono and the Edge's songs for the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical as an LP. Clayton continued, saying, "The work we did with RedOne was very, very exciting. But again, I'm not sure it was the essence of what U2 is good at, and U2 is very elastic, we can do many different things, but I think we have to get down to the essence of the band." He added, "I think that's what people like about us, and we have to do what we do best and we have to focus on that, and the work we did with Danger Mouse came closest to that. And we're curious. We want to be in the clubs and make pop music as well as the thing U2 does, and we did that thing with RedOne, but in the end, it doesn't feel like the right fit." Clayton also said that the band made "great progress" with Danger Mouse back in January 2012. (The Guardian identified the Danger Mouse tracks as belonging to U2's "rock album.")
Bono mentioned the Danger Mouse sessions in a 2010 interview with the Age, confirming that they had 12 songs with the New York producer. He also said, "At the moment that looks like the album we will put out next because it's just happening so easily." The arena-friendly frontman went on to confirm that the clubby material also featured work from EDM superstar David Guetta and the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am.
As for the Songs of Ascent, Bono said in an interview posted on the band's website in January 2012 (via @U2) that they haven't abandoned that project completely. "We're working on three albums at the moment and we haven't decided what order we're going to put them out but The Songs of Ascent have the kind of beautiful intimacy that we're speaking of now." That was a year ago, though.
All of this is to say that, at some point, there will be a new U2 album coming out and it might be titled 10 Reasons to Exist.


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The Seneca Wallace era in Green Bay might not last long.
Scott Tolzien entered the game at quarterback for the Packers after Wallace hurt his groin Sunday on the team's first drive against Philadelphia. Wallace was questionable to return, but he never made it off the sideline.
The injury bug extended to Wallace's teammates. Packers cornerback Casey Hayward hurt his hamstring, while center Evan Dietrich-Smith was assisted off the field with a knee injury. Both players were ruled out for the day.
It's been a rough tilt for injuries on both sides. Eagles offensive tackle Jason Peters returned from a head injury, but then he left with what appeared to be a serious leg/groin injury. Peters had to be helped off the field and did not return.
Linebacker Mychal Kendricks has a right knee injury and did not return. Safety Earl Wolff suffered a knee injury and did not return to the game.
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity football team won its third game in a row last weekend, pounding Easton, 41-8, on Homecoming to improve to 4-2 on the season.
One week after upsetting Queen Anne's, 34-31, on the Lions' homecoming game, the Seahawks had to avoid the same fate last Friday when it faced Easton on a day it welcomed back alumni with full festivities including fireworks displays. Easton had shown signs of life the week before with a 56-0 rout of Colonel Richardson, making the Warriors a somewhat scary opponent for Decatur on homecoming, but the Seahawks left nothing to chance, jumping out to a big first half lead and never looking back.
After a couple of early punts, Decatur got on the board with a 25-yard touchdown run by D.J. Kee. In the second quarter, it was Kee again, taking in a 75-yard touchdown run to increase the lead to 14-0. Kee scored again from 25 yards out just before the half to extend the Decatur lead to 21-0 at the intermission.
At halftime, Decatur quarterback Teron Tyre was named homecoming king amid a celebration including fireworks in front of the big home crowd. Early in the third, Tyre was all business as he completed a long Decatur drive with a one-yard touchdown plunge to extend the lead to 28-0.
Decatur's Jake Rites added another Seahawk touchdown on a four-yard plunge to make the score 35-0, and junior varsity call-up Tavon Mills took it in from 10 yards out for Decatur's final score to make it 41-0. Easton scored a late touchdown to avoid the shutout, but the domination was complete and Decatur rolled to the 41-8 homecoming win.
With the win, the Seahawks improved to 4-2 on the season and appear to be closing in on another berth in the state Class 3A-East playoffs although there is still much work to be done. Decatur faces the 1-5 Parkside Rams at home tonight, followed by another fairly easy game against 1-5 North Caroline next week at home in a rare Thursday night game. However, the Seahawks still have to face Wicomico, perhaps the best team in the Bayside Conference this year, on the road, before closing out the regular season on the road against Worcester County rival Snow Hill in the finale.


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The Three Tenors Grand Ball
An homage to Placid Domingo, José Carreras & Luciano Pavarotti
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Gala Dinner & Live Entertainment.
The Three Tenors Grand Ball takes place in the piano nobile of Palazzo Ca' Pesaro Papafava, an authentic 14th Century palace with an exclusive water entrance. Gothic windows overlook the alluring Misericordia canal. During the gala dinner, only candlelight and classical music illuminate the ancient rooms, whisking guests back to a time of enchantment.
Years ago, The Three Tenors, Plàcido Domingo, José Carreras & Luciano Pavarotti, created a worldwide phenomenon as they toured the globe.As an homage, our Three Tenors perform favorite arias,Broadway hits and traditional Neapolitan songs.
21:15 Welcome cocktail with gondoliers and traditional Venetian music
21:45 Seated candlelight gala dinner with Venetian cuisine, wine included. Chocolate fountain and traditional Carnival sweets
23:00 Arias, Broadway hits and Neapolitan songs with The Three Tenors
Midnight: Live music and dancing with closed bar
Dress Code: costume and mask. Tuxedo or tail coat with night gown and masks accepted
Cost: 320 € per person
After dinner : 125 € per person – from 11.00PM to 2.00PM
Our Atelier will be happy to assist you with costumes, masks and accessories.
Palazzo Ca'Pesaro Papafava – Calle Rachetta 3764 – Cannaregio, Venice.
The Palace is a 5-minute walk from Ca D'Oro vaporetto stop, or can be reached by its water door entrance which faces the Church of the Misericordia, allowing guests to arrive by gondola or taxi boat.
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Spring is no Picnic on Uranus
News story originally written on February 14, 2000
Do you like spring? It might be your favorite season. But if you lived on Uranus, spring would not be so great. It's very cold and stormy. Not exactly great weather to play in!
The temperature can reach -300 ° F and there are huge hurricanes! Even worse, it won't be summer until the year 2007!
Scientists just learned about Uranus' climate with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. And you thought it was cold during winter on Earth!


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American Pimp is a 1999 documentary that examines the pimp subculture in the United States.
- Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.
Sir Captain[edit]
- The street game is the only thing the white man can't control.
- Any man can kill, right? Any woman can be turned out.
- I ain't never took no square no where.
- Sex really don't mean that much to me, it really aint a part of my routine, them tricks, they can have sex better than i can ever have sex.
- I aint never hold a girl hand and take her to the movies, i aint never took no square no where, and i do not buy dreams, i sell em!
- I used to tell em you gotta sit down if you wanna know what it's about with me. Why? 'Cuz what I got ta tell ya is more powerful than a head-on collision doin' 90 miles an hour down a one way street. W-w-what is it? Ahhh…are you ready, girl? Yeah. I'm a muthafuckin' PIMP! Hahahahaha!
- My name is Rosebudd with two d's for a double dose of this pimpin'.
- Do you see these nails? I had nails, I sold these nails before I started pimpin too, I sold them to Revlon. Revlon bought my nails, they was like an inch long and I sold all 10 of them. They all used to grow like that because all I did was peel money and touch bitches. That's all I did, talk shit and swallow spit all day long.
- She a funky, once-a-month-bleeding, dirty-down bitch.
- Priests need nuns, doctors need nurses. So ho's need pimps.
- hoodrats acting like they know me!
KENNY RED[edit]
- If a ho don't have no instruction, she's gonna be headed for self-destruction, nam sayin?.
- I'll pimp a bitch in chilly cold blood.
- Kenny Red what's happening? Shit, the same old soup just reheated. You know the routine. A pimp do.
- First thing I do, I take me a shower, wash my face, brush my mothafuckin' teeth, I gotta do my hair and all that kinda mothafuckin' shit, you know nawmsayin'? I got to get dressed, I got to smell good and errthang. It take me 2 to 3 hours to get dressed cuz it's lights, camera, and action, you know what I'm sayin'?!.
- Ehhh This Kenny Redd I gotcha Bitch.
- People be sayin' that we be making hos do this and we be making hos do that, but we aint making hos do a goddamn mother fucking thang when they talkin' 'bout this pimpin. We just introducing them to this shit and making sure that they be doin' this mother fuckin' shit right.
- Love don't mix with this pimpin man what the hell you talkin' 'bout
- "Any bitch can get out there and sell some pussy. Yeah, yeah, she can get out there and sell some pussy all day long. But she don't know the ins and outs and the ins and outs and outs and ins.
Gorgeous Dre[edit]
- If there ain't another pimp in the country, there's gonna be some mothafuckin' hoes, hoe-in...
- Mary Magdalene was hoeing like a mothafucka in the Bible days... Jesus knew it!
Bishop Don Magic Juan[edit]
- It ain't easy, man. It might look glamour-like to ya, cuz ya see me riiiidin'...ya dig? Snakeskin down to tha flo', ya dig? Hat and shoes to match. Diamonds on fingers and watches on arms...It might look easy, but ya gon' hafta work some to get to this status...see ya at the top.
Fillmore Slim[edit]
- Pussy gon' sell when cotton and corn won't.
- you thought i was only 8 deep? im filmore mother fuckin slim! That's just my second string hoes, my benchwarmers!
- The momo you know, the motel."
- i dont think any other race has the charisma fo this pimpin.
- you got to put some of them 5s on top of some of them 6s on top of some of 8s on top of some of them 11s so a pimp can see his money grow.
External links[edit]
- American Pimp quotes at the Internet Movie Database


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Looking for HubHacks2 (Spring 2015)? Click here!
Mayor Martin J. Walsh made a commitment early in his first tenure to make processes like Permitting easier on Bostonians, from individuals hoping to start small businesses, to developers and contractors, to homeowners looking to make additions on their homes. In addition to a full review of the permitting application process and portal, Mayor Walsh, along with the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) and the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), is inviting IT developers and members of the Boston community to come together for HubHacks, the City's first-ever civic minded Hackathon.
At this in-person Hackathon, developers are invited to work together to attempt to solve a series of challenges that represent the most pressing pain points for those seeking permit applications. Teams can pick among four available challenges related to the permitting system of the City of Boston. On the second day, teams will present their solutions and those with the best ideas for each challenge will be recognized. The challenges include:
Which Permits Do I Need?: A single project may require multiple permits. Applicants need a clear, intuitive, and enjoyable guide that will help applicants identify the permits they need to start working!
What's my Address of Record?: Every project needs to be linked to an address in the City's master database. In the current system, finding your address is tougher than it should be. Our new online system needs a clear way to search addresses and suggest alternatives, getting it right the first time.
Can I Apply for that Permit Online?: With September 1st weeks away, developers will try their hand at a challenge to provide a very practical solution using the City's new API - creating a simple online and/or mobile application for Street Occupancy permits required to block space for a moving truck.
Where am I in the Approval Process?: Complex building projects can take months to review and permit, even if the process works correctly. Residents needs a clear way to track all permits associated with their project, which helps them understand how close they are to getting underway.
The schedule for the two days will be as follows, but is subject to change:
Saturday August 9th
9:30 a.m. - Breakfast available for participants
10:00 a.m. - Opening remarks from Martin J. Walsh, Mayor, City of Boston; Jascha Franklin-Hodges, CIO, City of Boston; & Matt Mayrl, Deputy CIO, City of Boston
10:30 a.m. - Brainstorm, Team Recruitment and Pitching
11:15 a.m. - Open Workshop Hours Begin
11:15 a.m. - Optional session on technical aspects, API, process documentation
11:45 a.m. - Optional session on process for RFP
*N.b., on-site food, snacks and beverages will be available from Brew and Gather throughout the day (Brew will close at 4 p.m.) Participants are able to work at District Hall as long as it is open (2 a.m.), but City staff and advisors will no longer be available on-site after 5 p.m.
Sunday, August 10th
9:00 a.m. - Open workshop hours begin, coffee available for all participants starting around 10. Additionally, Brew will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Noon - Advisors will be on site and available to consult or answer questions from teams.
2:00 p.m. - Submission deadline for teams to upload files to Challengepost site, teams on-site will then present their hacks. When all teams finish, challenge winners will be announced.
We want to extend our thanks to BattleHack: Boston, also the weekend of August 9th and 10th. Some participants at that event will be working to build hacks for the greater good of the city while also taking on our challenges. More information for hackers and developers of all sizes at BattleHacks.
Participants will be given access to detailed rules, requirements for submissions, and necessary files/APIs to create working Web applications that meet one of the above challenges.
Submissions should be functioning web or mobile apps that meet one of the four challenges presented.
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Happy happy days also because it's only a few more days until it's officially spring here - I can't wait for the warmer weather because apparently Sydney has officially had it's coldest August in many years. While I am waiting for the weather to warm up and to see how much bigger I get before I start making some breezy summer dresses I thought I would spend the next few weeks finishing off a few UFOs, but I will start planning by poring over the new BWOF mag. Plus someone raised a really good issue with me by email - I need to start thinking about clothing appropriate for nursing because I have been so focused on belly dressing that I hadn't thought beyond the birth but it is something now definately on my radar.
And finally it's all happy happy days because it's Friday evening, the weekend is upon us and I can see some op-shopping, some sewing and probably even cake baking for my husband's birthday on Sunday going on this weekend and I can ignore work stuff until about 9.30am Monday morning (even though I am usually in at work by 8am!)
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With a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors repealed the Noe Valley restriction, meaning restaurants need only conditional-use permits to open along the commercial stretch of 24th Street. The permit process requires a public hearing before the Planning Commission and public notification. A granted permit can be appealed to the Board of Supervisors.The final (procedural) vote is next week.
[SFE: New eateries in Noe Valley given green light]]
[NVSF: Update: Planning Commission Allows More Restaurants In Noe Valley]


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GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2.0)
Intel® X58 + ICH10R Chipset
- Unique On/Off Charge delivers the best recharging capability to iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
- 3x USB power delivery for greater compatibility and extra power for USB devices
- Supports new generation Intel 32nm 6-core processors
- Ultra Durable 3 Technology with copper cooled quality for lower working temperature
- Supports newest NEC SuperSpeed USB 3.0 with superfast transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps
- Provides newest Marvell SE9128 high speed SATA3 storage interface with superfast 6Gbps link speed
- Supports the newest Intel Core i 7 processors in socket LGA1366 with QPI 6.4 GT/s
- Revolution energy saving design with DES 2 featuring hardware based Dynamic 6-Gear switching
- Supports 3 channel DDR3 2100+ memory
- Scalable ability to both 3 way CrossFireX and 3 way SLI support for ultimate graphics performance
- Unique hardware control IC to provide more precision voltage control
- 100% 50,000 hour lifespan Japanese solid capacitors design
- Patented DualBIOS with dual hardware BIOS protection
- Supports Dolby Home Theater audio to create a stunning surround sound listening experience
- Blu-ray playback outputs supported by high quality 108dB SNR ALC889 HD audio
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Get Ready to Unleash the Power of 32nm 6 Core CPUsGIGABYTE's entire line of X58-based motherboards are ready to support the new generation of Intel 32nm 6-core processors, delivering the very best platform for multitasking, multimedia and high performance gaming.
IntroductionBased on the Intel® X58 chipset, the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R delivers all the killer next generation features that gaming enthusiasts and power users have been waiting for including GIGABYTE's 333 Onboard Acceleration features with support for USB 3.0, Serial-ATA Revision 3.0 (6Gbps) and a 3x USB Power Boost, as well as multi-GPU support for NVIDIA 3-Way SLI™ and ATI CrossFireX™ and support for Intel's high performance processors offering a high level of future CPU headroom for users wanting to maintain cutting-edge levels of performance. With the memory controller integrated directly into the processor die, the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R also supports triple channel DDR3 memory for blazing fast memory performance.
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The GA-X58A-UD3R was designed specifically to take advantage of the raw power of the next generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors and the Intel® X58 Express chipset, whose new evolution in computing architecture is able to deliver an amazing performance break through from past processor generations. Replacing the Front Side Bus is the new Quick Path Interconnect, or QPI, whose 25.6 GB/sec transfer rates (double the bandwidth of the 1600MHz FSB) eliminates the communication bottleneck between the processor and chipset. -
On/Off Charge TechnologyGIGABYTE On/Off Charge technology allows you to charge your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch regardless of whether your PC is on, in standby mode or even off. A derivative of GIGABYTE's highly acclaimed 3x USB Power feature, On/Off Charge enables devices to draw more current from GIGABYTE motherboard USB ports than standard USB ports allow, so that charging from your PC can be as fast as with a charger...more
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On/Off Charge USB portCharges iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch while PC Hibernates or even when shut down (off).
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R Obtains USB 3.0 Motherboard Certification OfficiallyThe GIGABYTE P55A-series motherboards support the latest generation SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology made possible through an onboard NEC uPD720200 host controller. With superfast transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps, users are able to experience an almost a 10x improvement over USB 2.0. Additionally, backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 assures users of long term use of their legacy USB 2.0 devices. The onboard NEC SuperSpeed USB 3.0 technology also provides new power management features that include increased maximum bus power and device current draw to better accommodate power-hungry devices.
SATA 6 Gbps SupportYet another onboard feature of GIGABYTE motherboards are Marvell's SE9128 chips for high-speed SATA Revision 3.0 compatibility, delivering superfast 6Gbps link speeds for twice the data transfer rates of SATA Revision 2.0 (3 Gbps). When used in RAID 0 (Stripe) mode, GIGABYTE motherboards offer even faster data transfer rates of up to 4x the speed of current SATA interfaces.
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Dynamic Energy Saver™ 2GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver™ 2 incorporates a host of intelligent features that, at the click of a button, utilize a proprietary hardware and software design to considerably enhance PC system energy efficiency, reduce power consumption and deliver optimized auto-phase-switching for the CPU, Memory, Chipset, VGA, HDD, and fans.
Cloud OCGIGABYTE Cloud OC is a free overclocking application that facilitates PC overclocking through any web browsing capable device such as a smart phone, iPad, iPhone, Netbooks or notebook PC. Being browser based, it connects via wireless Internet, Bluetooth or through an Ethernet cable, and its many functions are categorized into three tabs: Tuner, System Info and Control...more
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XHD (eXtreme HardDrive)-Accelerating hard drive performance with easeAccelerating system performance is made easy with the user friendly GIGABYTE eXtreme Hard Drive (X.H.D). GIGABYTE eXtreme Hard Drive (X.H.D) provides a quick and easy way to boost your hard drive performance simply by adding another hard drive.
Integrated Memory ControllerIntel® Core™ i7 Processors feature triple channel DDR3 support
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QPI , QuickPath InterconnectReplacing the role of FSB
Intel uses the QPI to connect internal components of Core™ i7 processors , and to connect the CPU itself to the Northbridge and banks of memory.
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Intel Turbo Boost TechnologyDynamically reroutes power to improve performance For situations when all cores are not needed for a particular workload, Intel Turbo Boost Technology powers down the idle cores and dynamically reroutes the power to the active cores, boosting their performance without wasting power. This allows the active cores to achieve significant overclocks.
Multi-display support with 3 way CrossFireX and 3 way SLI™Flexible graphics capabilities - Up to 3 VGA cards are supported for either 3 way CrossFireX™ or 3 way SLI™ action, delivering the ultimate in graphics performance for gaming enthusiasts who demand the highest frame rates without compromising on resolution.
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GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 design, featuring 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers which dramatically lowers system temperature by delivering a more efficient spreading of heat from critical areas of the motherboard such as the CPU power zone throughout the entire PCB. GIGABYTE's Ultra Durable 3 also lowers the PCB impedance by 50%, which helps to reduce electrical waste and further lowers component temperatures. A 2oz Copper layer design also provides improved signal quality and lower EMI (Electromagnetic Interference), providing better system stability and allowing for greater margins for overclocking...more -
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In addition, doubling the amount of copper lowers the PCB impedance by 50%. Impedance is a measure of how much the circuit impedes the flow of current. The less the flow of current is impeded, the less amount of energy is wasted. For GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 motherboards, this means total PCB electrical waste is reduced by 50%, which also means less heat is generated. 2 ounces of copper also provides improved signal quality, providing better system stability and allowing for greater margins for overclocking. -
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DualBIOS™ - Patented Dual Hardware BIOS ProtectionDualBIOS™ is a GIGABYTE patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when main BIOS has crashed or failed. Featuring 2 physical BIOS ROMs integrated onboard, GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ allows quick and seamless recovery from BIOS damage or failure due to viruses or improper BIOS updating. -
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OV-Alert LED4 sets of OV-Alert LEDs indicate the overvoltage level of the CPU, Memory, North Bridge and South Bridge to prevent component damage.
Visible Overclocking ReminderOC-Alert LED indicates the level of CPU overclock from low to high.
Visible Temperature ReminderTwo sets of Temperature Alert LEDs indicate the current temperature level of the CPU and North Bridge
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Friday, January 13, 2012
NZ General Synod delegates in danger if they go to Fiji
The recent lifting of one set of martial law restrictions on public meetings has been placed by more draconian ones. A member of GS speaking in a manner deemed offensive by soldiers present at the GS could be arrested and once arrested will have virtually no rights as there is no legal means to challenge the arrest.
It would be naive to think that an arrested NZer will simply be deported back to NZ. There is the possibility of beatings while in custody and some do not recover from those beatings.
Read here, here, here, and here and tell me I am wrong ... that all will be well and all manner of things will be well for our GS in July if it goes ahead in Fiji.
Before you write in to tell me if I am wrong, please also assess whether all will be well only if our members say the most anodyne, inoffensive, and non-confrontational words in the midst of one of the most repressive regimes in the world! Is that a price we wish to pay as a church for meeting in Fiji: the constraint of our freedom to speak plainly and prophetically to the world?
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- carl jacobs said...
It's highly unlikely that the Fijian Gov't would arrest a bunch of foreign nationals attending an international church meeting. It is an opportunity for that gov't to show a positive face to the world, even if that face is a mask. Arrests would simply turn a relatively minor event into a major international incident. Anyway, what benefit would these arrests purchase the regime?
No, it is far more likely that the Fijian gov't would smile, say nothing at all, and then punish after the fact those citizens who are associated with the church. The press is gone. No foreign nationals are involved. The reaction would thus occur "below the noise floor." But in Fiji, the point would be made loud and clear.
So, your last point is the critical point. Is there some purpose to this meeting that would require hanging your compatriots out to dry? If you have to speak glowing words about the host gov't to avoid having your brothers arrested and beaten and persucuted, then I wonder why the meeting should be held in such a location?
carl - January 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM
I think Carl's thought hits at the real and most likely danger and the one that must be considered in the name of love. It is not the visiting church that will face the dander but the church that stays.
It might be compared to the fallout from the overly enthusiastic visiting evangelist to gets up the nose of the locals. - January 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- Peter Carrell said...
Your sentiments and insights are appreciated, Carl and hogster.
I would like to point out a difference between an arrest in the middle of synod (=international incident etc, agreed) and an arrest out of synod, unseen, with no one admitting the whereabouts of the arrested person (=no international incident). In the latter case, note, no enquiries can have confidence that the military would admit to having made the arrest. There are NZers who have disappeared up there ... - January 13, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- Father Ron Smith said...
Peter, I think you are over-stretching the reality to say that the military rule in Fiji is one of the most repressive in the world - compared with whom, for instance, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda (against gays), Syria (against the Opposition), and Israel (against Arabs)?
However, I do get your point, that General Synod Members have to be warned against the possibility of reaction against the military. They are not likely, however, to suffer instant death for their sexual-orientation.
We are all in a very different situation from that of the New Testament times, when Christians were executed for their faith. That was real martyrdom. - January 13, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- carl jacobs said...
Just for the record, Arabs have full rights of citizenship in Israel, and Arabs generally try to get into Israel in an attempt to escape the corrupt gangsters who govern their lives. But it shouldn't have been necessary for me to make this post. Some subjects just shouldn't be used to grind ideological axes.
carl - January 13, 2012 at 1:34 PM
- Father Ron Smith said...
Carl. Who's grinding now? Perhaps you might think about the plight of Palestinian Christians, on the land of their birth.
- January 13, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Paul Powers said...
This thread is a source of some wonderful marketing slogans for the Fiji Visitors Bureau: "Come to Fiji! It's not as bad as Nigeria!" or "Fiji: More Gay Friendly than Uganda!"
- January 14, 2012 at 2:31 AM
- Father Ron Smith said...
Paul, perhaps you need to have lived in Fiji - amongst the Fijians, Indians, Pacific Islanders and other ethnic groups, as I have had the privilege of doing. Then your criticism of the people of Fiji might be a little more insightful, with a little more understanding of the unique situation that enabled Bainimarama to take charge.
- January 14, 2012 at 5:07 PM