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Altitude Sickness Prevention Tips
Ascend gradually to higher altitudes. Sleeping at a lower altitude the first night will
allow the body to begin the acclimatization process. If you can not gradually ascend because you are flying
directly to your altitude destination and you will be sleeping at an elevation of 8000 feet or above keep the
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Keep hydrated. For most people about an additional 48 ounces of water is sufficient. Avoid alcohol and tobacco or
other sedatives including, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and sleeping pills for the first 48 hours. These
depressants further decrease the respiratory drive during sleep resulting in a worsening of the symptoms.
At high altitude take it easy. Limit physical exertion the first day. Physical fitness offers no protection from
altitude illness. Everyone is susceptible. However, if you have had altitude sickness once, you are likely to have
it again.
Eat a high carbohydrate low fat diet.
Use the AMP while sleeping.
Take medication. Although drugs have various side effects, they can be effective and can be used in combination
with the AMP to accelerate the acclimatization process. Some oxygen canisters provide temporary relief.
Warning: Get medical help if the conditions worsen. People with heart disease or
respiratory problems are advised not to attempt trekking in high elevations; people traveling to high altitudes who
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Baseball: Errors hamper Gaels in loss to Xavier
The Shelton High baseball team committed seven errors en route to a 6-2 season-opening setback to visiting Xavier High of Middletown.
Coach Scott Gura's Gaels took a 2-0 lead with a pair of unearned first runs in the bottom of the first. Falcons' starter Sean Carroll committed a double error on C.J. Rizzo's two-out tapper in front of the plate, allowing Patrick Murphy, who opened the inning with a single, and Justin Lynch to score.
Xavier bounced with unearned runs in the top of second and third, two more on Nick Roy's two-run double in fourth and another pair in the fifth — when Shelton committed three more errors.
Lynch took the loss on the mound, allowing one earned run on five hits and striking out four. Carroll scattered two hits in four innings of work to notch the win for Xavier.
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How can an ordinary person actively fight against capitalism?
This will be very modest advice, I don't pretend to have a big answer. The first thing (although it's not that positive yet, but would still be a great thing) would be for people to become aware, to lose this protective attitude where they say "let's keep a little bit of happiness the way we are, let's keep the system the way it is". And it can be done gradually, we can gradually show that the fault is in the system itself. And this is the biggest strategy of today's ideology, to divide this.
Remember the financial crackdown of 2008. This is why I was deeply suspicious of this false anti-capitalism of you know, attacking those corrupted rich men. No, the problem is in the system. You know, individuals - I am an anthropological pessimist here - they were all the time corrupted and so on, but why is it that they are able to do it in the way they do it today? And then, the second thing - I am not such a big pessimist here - you know, all modest measures are not equal. There are some measures, political proposals and demands, which may appear modest, can really be too dramatic for the system. In the United States (though I am not naive when it comes to Obama), it was clear that his universal healthcare proposal, for the United States it was too much. Although it was possible in other countries (Canada has it, and most of Europe), but there it's too much for their ideology.
So my idea is that we must be aware that the system as such is doomed, and we have to be ready for some big ecological, social crisis. But it doesn't mean that you should just sit and watch pornography and masturbate till that point. The art is to pick up on specific struggles, and they are not the same in all countries. Like in the United States it was universal healthcare. We can be innocent about it and say that most developed capitalist countries have it, so what's the problem? But really, the system cannot integrated it. Because the trick of democratic capitalism is crucial: apparently formally it gives you all the choices, but many choices are de-facto prohibited. You cannot do it. So with capitalist democracy it's always that paradox. I give you the freedom to choose if you make the right choice. If we explore this space, many things can be done.


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TV Ratings: NFL Season Opener Brings Easy NBC Victory
The NFL season has officially begun.
NBC's Sunday Night Football opener on Thursday between Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers was heads and shoulders above the rest.
Sunday Night Football drew 26.9 million viewers, up 7 percent from last year's kickoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos. In metered-market households, which are time-zone adjusted, last night's 36-16 Seahawks victory was the third-highest-rated ever for a Thursday kickoff game with a 15.5 rating.
NBC easily won the night in all key categories, including total viewers and adults 18-49.
Even against football, CBS' Big Brother (6.4 million, 2.2) — with the second double eviction episode of the season — jumped 10 percent from last week's eviction episode.
ABC's reality fantasy competition The Quest saw a significant drop from Hour 1 to Hour 2 against football, from 1.9 million to 1.2 million.
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Following the success of our first site Prize Bingo in 2004, we launched our very own branded site - Loquax Bingo. The site features our little yellow lucky duck and it offers bingo players the chance to play 75 ball and 90 ball bingo as well as a variety of slots. Naturally we think it's fab and that you should all go and play there right now - but first a bit more about the site.
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Sanctuary State's Deported Alien Suspected in Kidnapping, Murder
Pennsylvania police arrested a previously deported criminal alien from Connecticut suspected in the murder of his wife, assault of another woman, and kidnapping his daughter. The entire State of Connecticut has been certified by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Police in the Keystone State arrested Oscar Obedio Hernandez, 39, after Bridgeport police issued an amber alert for his daughter, 6-year-old Aylin Hernandez. Police in his resident town of Bridgeport issued the alert after being called to his home. Upon arriving at the scene, police discovered the body of the child's mother, Nidia Gonzalez. Police suspect Hernandez for stabbing Gonzalez to death, the Hartford Courant reported. Another woman, said to be a friend, was also stabbed repeatedly. She is expected to survive her wounds, Fox News reported.
"He was removed from the United States by ICE officers in Hartford on Nov. 27, 2013," Shawn Neudauer, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman, said in a statement reported by the Courant. "He has prior felony convictions from 2002 for assault and threatening, as well as several misdemeanor convictions. ICE has placed an immigration detainer with the Bridgeport Police Department."
Following a months' long effort by Congressman John Culberson (R-TX), the DOJ certified the entire state of Connecticut as a sanctuary jurisdiction – making them ineligible to receive federal law enforcement grants. He said jurisdictions like Connecticut, California, and the other eight jurisdictions certified not to be in compliance with federal law, must "choose between protecting criminal aliens and receiving federal funds."
Just two days ago, Breitbart News' Warner Todd Huston reported Connecticut Governor Dannel Maloy sent a memo to law enforcement agencies advising them not to detain a criminal alien based on their immigration status. The sanctuary state governor insisted police should not treat immigration detainers as an official order or warrant. He continued, advising law enforcement officials to deny federal immigration authorities access to criminal aliens in their custody.
Hernandez was not unknown to local police. He had previously been served with a protective order from involving another woman who was not involved in this week's case.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, a convicted felon who was re-elected to his job after serving seven years in a federal prison after a 16-count corruption conviction, thanked the police for their rapid action to secure the missing girl.
Police in Pennsylvania spotted Hernandez' Hyundai about 300 miles from his Connecticut home. A state police trooper initiated a traffic stop, but Hernandez reportedly refused to yield. Other troopers soon joined the pursuit, according to the Courant.
Hernandez eventually lost control and crashed his car into a tractor trailer. The pursuing trooper crashed his vehicle into the rear of Hernandez' car, and another police vehicle struck the trooper's car. Aylin Hernandez suffered minor injuries in the crash, Fox News reported.
Immigration officials placed an immigration hold on Hernandez. Bridgeport officials have not indicated if they will honor the detainer. Bridgeport spokesperson Rowena White said Hernandez' immigration status "was not part of the conversation today." She called it a separate issue from the current investigation.
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MEXICANS: MURDER, RAPE, ROB, HOME INVADE, and SHOVE THEIR MEX FLAGS UP OUR NOSES!
70,000 American women raped by illegals.
The illegal broke into her place.
Using a claw hammer, he beat her, broke her neck and raped her!
Marilyn Pharis was 64 when she died from her assault.
According to a 2011 report from the Government Accountability Office, there are 70,000 sexual offenses attached to the incarcerated criminal alien population
SANCTUARY CITIES = NO LAWS APPLY TO INVADING ILLEGALS…. But Legals still get the tax bills for their welfare and crime tidal wave even if they voted Democrat!
The Justice Department's National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) claims that Latino street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
"Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."


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Toto, the high tech toilet, steals the show
You don't have to wait for the movie to preview the accommodating commode, either. TOTO, the company behind the pot, (the toilet itself is actually part of a high tech line called Neorest -- for the thoroughly modern resting you will do there?), has a virtual video game of a simulation on its site.
Offering a remote control for cleaning and drying functions, the Neorest 600 senses your presence and flips open its top. In fact, the simulation shows it flipping its lid and seat, raising the question of whether it can identify gender as well or whether it's likely to be every woman's worst domestic nightmare.
No doubt the movie will set the record straight on this, since the toilet becomes a must-see stop on the home tour for neighbors trying to keep up with the Joneses (who, if you've managed to miss the abundant publicity, actually are product pitchmen/women posing as super cool suburban neighbors with super cool toys).
In fact, Moore told starpulse.com that she covets a Toto toilet as well, almost as much as a banana seat bicycle.
Q. "Was there anything from the set of the Joneses you wanted to take home...?"
A: "...I'll be waiting for Toto to be sending us all a complimentary toilet."
This from the woman who taped a Spanish cava commercial during her honeymoon.
Bardessono, a new boutique hotel in the Napa Valley, Calif., wine country, cites the Toto-brand toilet among its environmental initiatives. On a recent visit, this intrepid reporter discovered the ones near the restaurant offer many of the extra cleaning and drying features. Staff say they have become quite an attraction for the bar crowd, with some guests disappearing for significant stretches of time.
TOTO USA wasted no time in greeting "The Joneses" opening with a news release titled "Has the Bathroom Become Our Modern Day Status Symbol." It suggests peaceful and tranquil bathrooms are increasingly being seen as an antidote to our fast-paced society -- and indeed the Neorest Suite (link above) does look very Zen.
"Creating a peaceful bathroom sanctuary can help introduce small luxuries into life and is sure to elevate one's mood and outlook," the release croons. It's hard to remember we are talking about fixtures for the most basic of human bodily functions and hygiene -- you know toilets, showers, sinks.
The release relies on industry figures about remodeling perhaps showing initial signs of recovery but neglects to mention that bathroom remodels dropped as a priority in that survey. At more than $5,500 apiece, it seems unlikely the company's top of the line toilets will fall within everyone's remodeling budget anyway.
TOTO, a century-old Japanese company that entered the U.S. market in 1989, does make it clear they have more traditional, and lower-budget offerings as well, including the one in the photo they provided above. Presumably offering just a hint of that of that coveted peace and tranquility?


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Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940). At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish–American War took him to the Philippines. Back in Minnesota, he became a police reporter for the Minneapolis Journal. While a World War I Army captain, Fawcett's experience with the Army publication Stars and Stripes gave him the notion to get into publishing, and his bawdy cartoon and joke magazine, Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, became the launch pad for a vast publishing empire embracing magazines, comic books and paperback books.[1]
The title Captain Billy's Whiz Bang combined Fawcett's military moniker with the nickname of a destructive World War I artillery shell.[2] According to one account, the earliest issues were mimeographed pamphlets, typed on a borrowed typewriter and peddled around Minneapolis by Captain Billy and his four sons. However, in Captain Billy's version, he stated that when he began publishing in October, 1919, he ordered a print run of 5,000 copies because of the discount on a large order compared with rates for only several hundred copies. Distributing free copies of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang to wounded veterans and his Minnesota friends, he then circulated the remaining copies to newsstands in hotels. With gags like, "AWOL means After Women Or Liquor", the joke book caught on, and in 1921, Captain Billy made the highly inflated claim that his sales were "soaring to the million mark."[3]
The book Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals notes:
Few periodicals reflect the post-WW I cultural change in American life as well as Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. To some people [it] represented the decline of morality and the flaunting of sexual immodesty; to others it signified an increase in openness. For much of the 1920s, Captain Billy's was the most prominent comic magazine in America with its mix of racy poetry and naughty jokes and puns, aimed at a small-town audience with pretensions of "sophistication".
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang is immortalized in the lyrics to the song "Trouble" from Meredith Willson's The Music Man (1957): "Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang?" Yet this is an anachronism, since The Music Man takes place in River City, Iowa, during 1912, seven years before the magazine's premiere issue.
The magazine often featured a picture of Captain Billy in uniform along with the comment, "This magazine is edited by a Spanish–American and World War veteran and is dedicated to the Fighting Forces of the United States and Canada." With its 64-page, saddle-stitched, digest-sized format, the humor publication soon saw a dramatic increase in sales. By 1923, the magazine had a circulation of 425,000 with $500,000 annual profits.
With the rising readership of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Fawcett racked up more sales with Whiz Bang annuals, and in 1926, he launched a similar publication, Smokehouse Monthly. The popularity of Whiz Bang peaked during the 1920s. It continued into the 1930s, but circulation slowed as readers graduated to the more sophisticated humor of Esquire, founded in 1933. It had an influence on many other digest-sized cartoon humor publications, including Charley Jones Laugh Book, which was still being published during the 1950s.
Captain Billy's success as a publisher prompted him to create the Breezy Point Resort[4] on Pelican Lake in Breezy Point, Minnesota. Since celebrity visitors came to the resort, Captain Billy had the road from Breezy Point into Pequot Lakes blacktopped at his own expense. His building program at the Resort included the construction of a massive lodge, planned to accommodate 700 people, using native Norway pines, some 70 feet (21 m) in length. Celebrities who stayed at Breezy Point included Carole Lombard, Tom Mix and Clark Gable.[5] The Fawcett House, Captain Billy's personal log mansion, is made available for public rental today. Decorated with elk and deer skins, Fawcett House[6] has ten bedrooms and eight baths. The living room has a cathedral ceiling, a loft, a bar and a large field rock fireplace.
Harry Truman was another Breezy Point guest. Edward McKim, a friend of Truman's since World War I, told of visits to the Resort in 1932 and Truman's success at the Breezy Point slot machine:
Captain Billy was quite a shot with a shotgun. He was on the American Olympic team at one time. He had some traps out there, so we did a little shooting with him. He had a couple of guests, one of whom was Dr. Joe Mayo, the son of Dr. Charlie Mayo. Dr. Joe was killed a few years later in an automobile accident. He was the brother of Dr. Chuck Mayo who just retired from the Mayo Foundation. We did a little trap shooting at that time, but we went up there almost every night for dinner. It was a 35 or 40-mile (64 km) drive. We stopped at a barber shop at Brainerd going up, and he hit the jackpot in a machine in the lower lobby of the hotel. Then he hit the jackpot up at Breezy Point the same night.
In some issues of Whiz Bang, Captain Billy wrote about his vacations in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Paris, along with items about his celebrity friends, including Jack Dempsey, Sinclair Lewis and Ring Lardner.
During the 1930s, Fawcett and his sons established a line of magazines which eventually reached a combined circulation of ten million a month in newsstand sales. True Confessions alone had a circulation of two million a month. However, during the World War II paper shortages Fawcett folded 49 magazines and kept only 14. Magazines published by Fawcett over the decades included Battle Stories, Cavalier, Daring Detective, Dynamic Detective, Family Circle, Motion Picture, Movie Story, Rudder (later merged with Sea), Screen Secrets, Secrets, Triple-X Western and True. Woman's Day, added to the line-up in 1948, had a circulation of 6,500,000 by 1965.
The flagship of Fawcett magazines was Mechanix Illustrated. It began in the 1920s as Modern Mechanics and Inventions, was retitled Modern Mechanix and Inventions, shortened to Modern Mechanix and then altered to Mechanix Illustrated before it became Home Mechanix in 1984. Acquired by Time Inc., it was retitled yet again to become Today's Homeowner in 1993.
The illustrator Norman Saunders became a Fawcett staffer in 1927 after doing some spot illustrations for Fawcett editor Weston "Westy" Farmer, and Saunders' first cover illustration was for the August, 1929 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. He continued to do covers for Fawcett into the 1930s, and when Fawcett opened Manhattan offices in 1934, Saunders and other staffers relocated in New York.
Larry Eisinger, the workshop and science editor of Mechanix Illustrated, spearheaded the national "do-it-yourself" movement as the editor-in-chief of Fawcett's How-To book series and special interest magazines. He created Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia and The Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia, which had combined sales of almost 20 million copies. In 1959 Electronics Illustrated was created for the hobbyist. It was merged into Mechanix Illustrated at the end of 1972.[7]
After the huge growth during the early 1930s, Fawcett Publications relocated its offices to both New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut in 1940. Corporate headquarters was in Greenwich, and the book publishing division, known as Fawcett World Library, operated out of New York City, at 67 West 44th Street.[8]
Wilford Fawcett's sons continued the expansion of the company after their father's death on February 7, 1940. That same year, the company launched Fawcett Comics, as recalled by circulation director Roscoe Kent Fawcett: "I was responsible, I feel, for Captain Marvel. I got us into the comic book business. I said, 'Give me a Superman, only have his other identity be a 10 or 12-year-old boy rather than a man.' I put Al Allard in charge of coordinating the project with some assistance from editorial director Ralph Daigh."
In 1939, Daigh put the project in the hands of Fawcett writer William Parker and Fawcett staff artist Charles Clarence Beck. The character they devised, Captain Marvel, was introduced in Whiz Comics #2 (February, 1940) and quickly caught on, moving into his own title, Captain Marvel Adventures, early in 1941. The success prompted spin-off characters, beginning with Captain Marvel, Jr. in 1941 and Mary Marvel in 1942. Fawcett's line of comics expanded with such colorful characters as Captain Midnight, Bulletman and Bulletgirl, Nyoka the Jungle Girl and Spy Smasher (who became Crime Smasher after World War II). The circulation of Captain Marvel Adventures continued to soar until it outsold Superman during the mid-1940s. Captain Marvel Jr. had such an impact on Elvis Presley that he borrowed the character's poses, hairstyle and lightning flash chest insignia, as described in Elaine Dundy's biography, Elvis and Gladys.[9]
Fawcett was also an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1945, the company negotiated a contract with New American Library to distribute their Mentor and Signet titles. This contract prohibited Fawcett from becoming a competitor by publishing their own paperback reprints. In 1949, Roscoe Fawcett wanted to establish a line of Fawcett paperbacks, and he felt original paperbacks would not be a violation of the contract. In order to test a loophole in the contract, Fawcett published two anthologies – The Best of True Magazine and What Today's Woman Should Know About Marriage and Sex – reprinting material from Fawcett magazines not previously published in books. When these books successfully sailed through the contract loophole, Fawcett announced Gold Medal Books, their line of paperback originals. It was a revolutionary turning point in paperback publishing. Fawcett's editor-in-chief was Ralph Daigh, who had been hired by Captain Billy in 1928, and the art director for Gold Medal was Al Allard, who also had been with Fawcett since 1928.[10]
Gold Medal's first editor was Jim Bishop, a former Collier's editor later known for his series of best-selling non-fiction titles: The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died and The Day Kennedy Was Shot. When Bishop left after a year, he was replaced by William Charles Lengel (1888–1965), a veteran magazine editor, agent, short story author and novelist (Forever and Ever, Candles in the Wind). In February 1951, former Hollywood story editor Richard Carroll signed on as an editor with Gold Medal. Carroll was once described as "the Maxwell Perkins of Gold Medal."
Another early Gold Medal editor was former literary agent Knox Burger, who recalled, "Through its Gold Medal series, Fawcett was able to give many now well-known authors a chance at book publication early in their careers – among them John D. MacDonald and Kurt Vonnegut. It also gave established writers like William Goldman and MacKinlay Kantor a chance to flex their creative muscles under pseudonyms."
Radcliffe graduate Rona Jaffe, who joined the company in the early 1950s as a file clerk, was promoted to an associate editor position. After four years at Fawcett, she left to pursue a writing career. Her best-selling 1958 novel, The Best of Everything, obviously drawn from her experiences at Fawcett and Gold Medal, was adapted for a 1959 film and a 1970 TV series. At the time of Jaffe's departure from Fawcett in 1955, the new associate editor who stepped in was Leona Nevler, formerly with Little, Brown but best known in 1950s publishing circles as the person who saw the potential of Grace Metalious' best-selling Peyton Place after picking it from the slush pile at publisher Julian Messner. During her 26 years at Fawcett, Nevler became the editorial director in 1972.
Beginning their numbering system at 101, Gold Medal got underway with Alan Hynd's We Are the Public Enemies, the anthology Man Story (102) and John Flagg's The Persian Cat (103). Writing about the demise of pulp magazines in The Dime Detectives, Ron Goulart observed, "Fawcett dealt another blow to the pulps when, in 1950, it introduced its Gold Medal line. What Gold Medal specialized in was original novels. Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps. Early Gold Medal authors included John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams and Richard S. Prather." Others were Benjamin Appel, Bruno Fischer, David Goodis, Day Keene, Dan J. Marlowe, Wade Miller, Jim Thompson, Lionel White and Harry Whittington.
Interviewed by Ed Gorman in 1984, MacDonald recalled, "In late 1949, I wrote a long pulp novelette. My agent, Joe Shaw, asked me to expand it. I resisted, but complied. I hate puffing things. Cutting is fine. Everything can use cutting. But puffing creates fat. Gold Medal took it for their new line of originals. It was titled The Brass Cupcake." Numbered as Gold Medal 124, The Brass Cupcake was John D. MacDonald's first novel.[11]
Gold Medal 129 was an unusual graphic novel experiment, John Millard's Mansion of Evil, an original color comic book story packaged as a paperback. Other 1950 Gold Medal originals included the Western Stretch Dawson by William R. Burnett and three mystery-adventure novels – Nude in Mink by Sax Rohmer, I'll Find You by Richard Himmel. After Donald E. Keyhoe's article "Flying Saucers Are Real" in True (January 1950) created a sold-out sensation, with True going back to press for another print run, Keyhoe expanded the article into a top-selling paperback, The Flying Saucers Are Real, published by Fawcett that same year.
Sales soared, prompting Ralph Daigh to comment, "In the past six months we have produced 9,020,645 books, and people seem to like them very well." However, hardcover publishers resented Roscoe Fawcett's innovation, as evidenced by Doubleday's LeBaron R. Barker, who claimed that paperback originals could "undermine the whole structure of publishing."[12]
With an increase from 35 titles in 1950 to 66 titles in 1951, Gold Medal's obvious success in issuing paperback originals revolutionized the industry. While Fischer, MacKinlay Kantor, Louis L'Amour, John D. MacDonald, Richard Matheson and Richard Prather were joining Gold Medal's roster of writers, other paperback publishers were soon asking agents for original manuscripts. Literary agent Donald MacCampbell stated that one publisher "threatened to boycott my agency if it continued to negotiate contracts with original 25-cent firms."
Prather had a bank account of $100 when his wife handed him a telegram from literary agent Scott Meredith on July 7, 1950 indicating his first sale. Although Prather's first novel was unsold, Gold Medal liked his second novel and his Shell Scott character enough to offer a four-book contract, and Prather's Case of the Vanishing Beauty soon set sales records.[13]
In 1950, Bruno Fischer's House of Flesh sold 1,800,212 copies. In 1951, Charles Williams' Hill Girl sold 1,226,890 copies, Gil Brewer's 13 French Street sold 1,200,365 and Cassidy's Girl by David Goodis sold 1,036,497.[14] Authors were attracted to Gold Medal because royalties were based on print runs rather than actual sales, and they received the entire royalty instead of a 50-50 split with a hardback publisher. Gold Medal paid a $2000 advance on an initial print run was for 200,000 copies. When a print run increased to 300,000, the advance was $3000.[15]
Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury paperback bestseller got a huge boost from Fawcett, as Spillane explained to interviewer Michael Carlson:
Now at that time you had to go through hardback. So I wrote I, the Jury and turned it in to E. P. Dutton. It had been rejected by four different publishers, saying no, no, this is too violent, too dirty ... and it was picked up by Roscoe Fawcett, Fawcett Publications. He was a distributor, doing comic books, but he saw the potential, and he went to New American Library, which was Signet Books, and he said "If you print this book, I'll distribute it." Now they can't get distribution, so it's a win-win thing for them, but they have to get it published in hardback, so they go to Dutton and say if you print this, we'll do the paperback. So now it's win-win-win, and they offer me $250, and I say no, I need a thousand dollars to build a house in Newburgh, so I get a $1,000 advance, which was unheard of. So Roscoe ordered a million copies, and that was unheard of! So somebody in his outfit says, oh, that wasn't what he meant, he must've meant a quarter million. So they bring out a quarter of a million at the wrong time, cause books sell great at Christmas time, but my book came out between Christmas and New Year, which is death, and it went straight to the top, because it was word of mouth, and it's sold out, and Fawcett says get the rest of them out, and the guy says there aren't any more and Roscoe says whaddaya mean, I ordered a million, and a guy got fired!
In 1952, when their contract with NAL expired, Fawcett immediately began doing reprints through several imprints. Red Seal started April 1952 and published 22 titles before it folded a year later. Launched September 1955, Premier Books offered non-fiction titles, such as The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet. Crest Books, which also started September 1955, spanned all genres with an emphasis on Westerns and humor, including Best Cartoons from True and Lester Grady's Best from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, and one successful Crest title was their movie tie-in edition of Robert Bloch's Psycho. The managing editor of Crest and Premier was Leona Nevler.
Between 1960 and 1993, Gold Medal was the exclusive American publisher of Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm spy novel series. In the early 1960s, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series got underway after Knox Burger contacted MacDonald: "At the request of Knox Burger, then at Fawcett, I attempted a series character. I took three shots at it to get one book with a character I could stay with. That was in 1964. Once I had the first McGee book, The Deep Blue Good-by, they held it up until I had finished two more, Nightmare in Pink and A Purple Place for Dying, then released one a month for three months. That launched the series."
After his retirement in 1972, Daigh recalled, "From our entrance into the paperback business, we paid authors at a more generous rate than had been the custom. In 1955, when we started the Crest line to reprint hardcover books, we extended this practice to what we offered for softcover rights. It caused quite a sensation in the trade when we paid $101,505 for James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed and later $700,000 for James A. Michener's The Source. Giving the author a bigger share of the pie paid off handsomely. However, I gather that the practice has been overdone in recent years and has led to some of the book industry's current troubles."[16]
Captain Billy and Claire Fawcett had four sons and a daughter: Roger, Wilford, Marion Claire, Gordon Wesley and the youngest, Roscoe. As a boy, Roscoe Kent Fawcett (February 7, 1913 – December 23, 1999) attended Minneapolis schools and was assigned tasks such as dusting furniture and beach cleaning at his father's Breezy Point Resort before he became a vice president and circulation manager for the family publishing company. After Captain Billy's death, his sons, including Roscoe Fawcett, managed the Breezy Point Resort for a short time before they sold it. However, Roscoe Fawcett also maintained his own private hunting retreat, the Tsawhawbitts Lodge (pronounced Cha-ha-bich), in Jarbidge, Nevada. This two acre (8,000 m2) riverfront bed and breakfast estate, now valued at $1 million, has 7,500 square feet (700 m2) of living area in three buildings—the seven-bedroom log house, the guest house with garage and shop, and the party house with full kitchen, bar and barbecue patio.
Roscoe Fawcett was a veteran of World War II, serving in the anti-aircraft division of the U.S. Army, and later was in charge of entertainment for Camp Haan in Riverside, California. He was married twice, had four sons and died at the age of 86 in Brainerd, Minnesota. One of his sons, Roscoe Fawcett Jr., became the publisher of American Fitness magazine.
Born in Minneapolis in 1912, Gordon Fawcett graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1934. He married Vivian Peterson in 1935 and moved to Los Angeles where he was Fawcett Publications' office manager. He held the title of secretary-treasurer when the company moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1940, and he was 81 when he died in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 16, 1993. Gordon Fawcett had four children: Vivian Creigh of Springfield, Vermont, and his three sons, Dennis of Greenwich; David of Stuart, Florida; and Gordon Jr. of San Diego. Fawcett Publications was very much a family affair, as indicated by a list of the company's stockholders: Claire Sue Bagg, James Wesley Bagg, Marion Fawcett Bagg, William Bagg, Gordon W. Fawcett, Helen Aline Fawcett, John Fawcett, John Roger Fawcett, Mary Blair Fawcett, Blair Redding Fawcett, Michael Blair Fawcett, Roger K. Fawcett, Roscoe Kent Fawcett, Marie F. Fawcett, Thomas Knowlton Fawcett, Vivian D. Fawcett, W.H. Fawcett, Jr., W.H. Fawcett III, William Blair Fawcett, Mrs. Virginia Kerr, Mira King, Gloria Fawcett Leary and Mrs. Eva Roberts. Internet consultant Travis Fawcett, living in San Diego, is the son of John Roger Fawcett. Wilford Hamilton "Buzz" Fawcett IV is an attorney in Washington D.C.[17]
Fawcett Publications had offices at 67 West 44th Street in Manhattan where vice-president Roger Fawcett liked to show visitors around the publishers' penthouse and serve them drinks dispensed through the gold penis of a nude male statue. Roger Fawcett felt a family history was needed, and in 1970, he began writing Notes on the Fawcett Family, although he ceased writing when he developed cancer.[18] PIPL: Travis Fawcett
A declining comics market in the 1950s, along with a major lawsuit (National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications), resulted in Fawcett folding its line of comic books. Lash Larue, Nyoka, Strange Suspense Stories and other titles were sold to Charlton Comics. In 1972, DC Comics licensed Captain Marvel, featuring him in new stories. In 1991, DC purchased the entire Marvel Family and related characters outright.
In 1970, Fawcett acquired Popular Library from Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation[19] and renamed it Fawcett Books. Fawcett Publications was bought by CBS Publications in 1977[19] for $50 million. When Ballantine Books (a division of Random House) acquired Fawcett Books in 1982 while Popular was sold to Warner Communications,[19] it inherited a mass market paperback list with such authors as William Bernhardt, Amanda Cross, Stephen Frey, P. D. James, William X. Kienzle, Anne Perry, Daniel Silva, Peter Straub and Margaret Truman. Fawcett also became the official home of Ballantine's mass market mystery program. The imprint stopped being used on new books at the beginning of the 21st century.
In 1987, Fawcett senior executive Peter G. Diamandis and a management team negotiated a $650 million leveraged buy out, then sold six titles to raise $250 million. Diamandis Communications, Inc. was then sold the next year to Hachette Publications for $712 million.[20]
An annual four-day festival held in Robbinsdale, Minnesota is Whiz Bang Days.[21] Robbinsdale's city celebration, recalling the glory years of Fawcett Publications, began during World War II. The original Fawcett Publications building, which remained standing in Robbinsdale for decades, was torn down during the mid-1990s. It was located at what is now the terrace for the restaurant La Cucina di Nonna Rosa's, at 4168 West Broadway Avenue.
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Long a jumping-off point for safaris for adventurers like Ernest Hemingway and Teddy Roosevelt, Nairobi remains the first stop for travelers ready to explore East Africa's many wildlife parks. A little more than one hundred years ago, the capital was a glorified water depot for British railway workers, but it is now home to imposing public buildings, grand hotels and expats from around the world. It is the best evidence of modernity in East Africa, and many first-time visitors are surprised by the city's skyline. It is one of Africa's largest capitals, and although some early architecture remains, most of the city is marked by modern office towers. Even with the relatively new influx of Western culture and business, the city still retains much of its charm. Hotels recall the elegance of times gone by, brilliant bougainvillea line the streets and the horizon bursts with lavender colors as the jacaranda blossoms.
The Nairobi National Museum is a good introduction to the history of both the capital and Kenya overall. Exhibits include fascinating reproductions of rock art and Richard and Mary Leakey's important archaeological discoveries. In the 1960s, the couple discovered the remains of early human ancestors at Lake Turkana, and their findings pointed to the Rift Valley as the likely Cradle of Humankind. The museum also showcases beautiful paintings by Joy Adamson and an intriguing collection of the country's colorful butterflies and birds. Visitors can even take guided bird walks from the museum, led by the knowledgable experts of the Kenya Museum Society.
Karen Blixen, author of ìOut of Africa,î made Nairobi her home from 1913 to 1931. Visitors today can visit the grand estate, where she once hosted lavish dinner parties for British royalty and carried on a passionate relationship with famous aviator Denys Finch Hatton. Exhibits include some of Blixen's treasured belongings and even some of the farm machinery that once cultivated the surrounding land for tea and coffee. More of her furniture and personal effects can be viewed at Nairobi's McMillan Library, and the estate offers magnificent views of the nearby hills, covered with euphorbia, also known as the candelabra cactus.
Another must-see sight in the capital is the Railway Museum, developed to preserve the records and relics of the area's harbors and railways. Children of all ages will especially enjoy the displays, and visitors can see Teddy Roosevelt's original rhino catcher from his 1908 safari and the carriage owned by Charles Ryall, an English railway man who was dragged out of the carriage window by a hungry lion. Other exhibits include rare posters and photos and silver service from the days of Nairobi's elegant overnight trains. Visit on the second Saturday of the month to take a ride on an authentic steam train.
Get in touch with Nairobi's wild side at the David Sheldrick Orphanage for Rhinos and Elephants. There, you can watch baby elephants bathe and play before they mature enough to be reintroduced to the wild. The experience is incredibly heartwarming and definitely a must-do while in the capital.
Immerse yourself in local life at the City Market, a vast jumble of activity, color and noise. Housed in a 1930s aircraft hangar, the market is loaded with stalls selling everything from traditional fabrics to exotic meats. Haggling is expected, so do not be shy about bargaining for the best price.
Nairobi Geographical Location
Nairobi is located in the southwest of Kenya adjacent to the east edge of the Rift Valley.
The population of Nairobi is approximately 3,200,000 and is the largest city in Kenya.
Nairobi Language
English and Kiswahili are the official languages of Kenya and are widely spoken however there are a total of 69 languages spoken in minorities throughout Kenya.
Nairobi Predominant Religion
- 45% Protestant
- 33% Roman Catholic
- 10% Muslim
- 10% Indigenous Beliefs
- 2% Other
The majority of the Muslim population lives in Coast Province while Christians primarily populate the western area of Coast Province.
Nairobi Currency
The Kenyan Shilling is the official currency of Kenya.
Nairobi Climate
Nairobi experiences consistently pleasant temperatures during the day and chilly evening temperatures. There are two rainy seasons in Nairobi, one in November and the other in April and May.
Nairobi Main Attractions
- David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
- Giraffe Center
- Nairobi National Park
Other Attraction in Nairobi
- Kazuri Beads Factory
- Nairobi National Museum
- Karen Blixen Museum
- Uhuru Gardens Memorial Park


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|Economist David Rosenberg.
David Rosenberg, market guru, has officially declared that the US economy is in a state of depression, and he sees the economic superpowers woes worsening.
On the heels of that bleak forecast, the statistics for existing home sales for July were released and the numbers were ugly. The weak housing market collapsed. Reflecting the worst slump in American history, existing housing sales had plummeted a stunning 27 percent and there's no sign on the horizon that sales will stabilize any time soon.
The bottom line, argues Rosenberg and others: the US economy has collapsed into another Great Depression.
Citing the period from 1929 to 1932 and the eerie similarities, Rosenberg said, "We may well be reliving history here. If you're keeping score, we have recorded four quarterly advances in real GDP, and the average is only 3 percent." The same happened during the early 1930s stock market rebound of 50 percent after the 1929 crash.
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You can't keep a good Pinky down, so Keyframe Digital stepped in to handle the second season of Pinky Dinky Doo, and Joe Strike has the scoop.
There are two Pinky Dinky Doos. The first is a seven-year old girl with a high-octane imagination and a yen for vocabulary-expanding storytelling; the second is her show: Pinky Dinky Doo, the latest preschool hit from New York City's Cartoon Pizza. But after a well received 26-episode initial season, production shut down and its production staff went their various ways; that was it for Pinky. Or was it…?
As any parent knows, an irrepressible child never stays silent for long, and Pinky's back in a second season of 26 new episodes (which started in September and are now playing twice daily on Noggin). This time around she and her friends have a larger world to play in, thanks to a switch from Flash to CG animation. Even so, CG hasn't given Pinky a swollen head (she already sports one on occasion in the series); she's still the same high-spirited -- and two-dimensional -- cartoon star as before.
Pinky began life eight years ago in bedtime stories spun by Cartoon Pizza's Jim Jinkins for his then four-year old daughter. "It wasn't pre-meditated as a kid's show," admits Jinkins. Like the eponymous star of his first hit series Doug, Pinky simply popped out of her creator's imagination. With the help of Sesame Workshop, the magenta-haired Pinky appeared in a series of children's books before making the move into animation. "The Workshop was a beautiful partner," Jinkins beams. "They didn't overhaul it, but saw it as natural literacy project."
With Cartoon Pizza's track record in children's TV highlighted by Doug, PB&J Otter, Stanley and JoJo's Circus; Sesame Workshop knew they were making a wise choice. Some 60 to 70 people animated Pinky Dinky Doo at an in-house Flash studio put together by Cartoon Pizza in the Workshop's offices. Even though Jinkins would have liked to make "a zillion Pinky Dinky Doos," the first order was for a mere 26 half hours, 52 12-minute segments in total. TV services programming to preschool viewers generally prefer twice as many, however -- enough to keep their audience watching the series until they grow out of the target age range.
One day Jennifer Monier-Williams, Sesame's VP of Global Television Distribution, got a call from CBeebies, the BBC's early childhood multiplatform service and one of the major players in launching Pinky Dinky Doo. "They said if there was interest [in a second season] they would come in; they were such big partners in the first go-round, you can't ignore that."
The complex process of getting everybody back on board and financing a second season began. ("I was full of anxiety when this happened," Monier-Williams admits.) Negotiations for a second season dragged on for a year-and-a-half while the window in which the shows needed to be produced was rapidly closing. Broadcasters were demanding a delivery date before they would commit to a series, one early enough so that the first season would still be on the air or fresh in their viewers' memories.
Cartoon Pizza brought a new player into the equation, a company they had been working with on other projects: Abrams Gentile Ent. (AGE). With such production partners as Sunbow, Gaumont and Saban on previous animated series, AGE was no stranger to children's entertainment. Company co-founder Anthony Gentile came up with a season two budget, along with a big chunk of said budget in exchange for licensing and merchandising rights -- and a promise to meet the Workshop's delivery dates. He had a particular company in mind to do the job: Keyframe Digital Prods., a Canadian pre-visual, vfx and animation studio.
"We'd done so much work with Abrams Gentile," says Keyframe's Darren Cranford, director of the 26 new episodes. "We're used to doing TV shows and turning around effects shots in a short time frame. They pitched us to Cartoon Pizza, who said, 'Let's see what they can do.'"
While Keyframe had animated an all-CG movie, several direct-to-video projects and a slew of commercials, they had yet to tackle an entire series. "It wasn't quite like jumping into the deep end," Cranford reflects. "Well, maybe like jumping into the deep end with floaters on." Clint Green, Keyframe's producer on the series, points out that the company has "quite a repertoire of animation behind us. So is it throwing us in the deep end in terms of a series? Yes, but in terms of animation, no; we knew exactly how we wanted to accomplish this. We've developed pipelines to get TV series effects work done, so we knew what we needed to do to make it work."
Season two of Pinky needed to be animated quickly, and, according to Cranford, Flash just wouldn't do. "We've used Flash here before, but on a project this size it's just too slow in terms of being able to move things about. You have to go down levels just to move an arm, then up to another level to move the elbow, then you have to redo the keyframes and tell it what kind of move you want to make. It's not a very artist-friendly system. We wanted to do some things we'd been experimenting with here."
Keyframe came up with an Autodesk 3ds Max-based production model for a CG version of Pinky. "We wanted something more rig based that would let an artist choose whether to use forward or inverse kinematics and lock their [characters'] feet to ground easily. When you rig a character it takes things to a whole other level; you can change costumes but keep animation, have a general character who you dress up with different skin, hair or sweaters and create a crowd of people. And you can put them in a 3D environment that your camera flies through like a pop-up book."
Keyframe did a quick test and showed it to Cartoon Pizza. The company liked what it saw, as did the people at CBeebies. "The first note we got from the BBC was: 'We love the new look,'" recollects Cranford. "That made it an easy sell for Sesame Workshop." But the biggest hurdle may have been the Jinkins family's "kitchen table focus group," where, according to Jinkins, his son saw the test and pronounced it "both cool and great."
"We had to do it our way" to get the episodes completed on schedule, says Green, "while keeping the visual style similar for the existing audience. We introduced the new look into the show very slowly. The characters still look 95% like they did in the first season, but we've added slight visual pluses in the way the camera moves through shots and more 3D elements in the background. We can have Pinky do things that would've been a lot more difficult in Flash."
When the virtual camera moves laterally through the scene, it creates what Green refers to as "parallax scrolling" -- a multiplane look that gives shots extra depth and the pop-up book effect Cranford describes. "The characters are still flat," Cranford adds. "We try not to rotate the camera around them, but have it go left or right or push through them. No matter which way it goes they'll always be facing camera.
"The beauty of all this is our pipeline our technical directors wrote at the beginning of production. It organized all the maps and created all the directories; we had automatic file check-in and check-out so no one could overwrite anyone else's files. New iterations were automatically labeled 'version 2' and the previous one dropped into an archive. The artists didn't have to worry about where to save things, all of that was done for them. All they had to do was concentrate on the animation. It sped the process up tremendously."
The no-hassles pipeline let Keyframe bring on and train new people with the greatest of ease, sometimes taking recent animation school graduates and putting them to work within two weeks. "We hired a woman who had only worked on paper [doing hand-drawn animation]. The only thing had to show her was where to find files, and make sure she ran time frames on bottom of her screen. Everything else was 'connect the arm and move it where you want. If you want new hand, look at the [onscreen] window;' we literally had a window full of hands she could choose from -- that's how easy we made the pipeline.
"To give you idea just how easy it was, we had a 'bring your kids to work day.' Darren brought his ninth grader son and his friend here. By the time they left, they were actually animating. It wasn't good animation, but they were able to understand the system."
For Monier-Williams, season two of Pinky Dinky Doo is "gorgeous, absolutely stunning. The show has always been a photo-imagery/animation mix, but this brings it a little deeper. Now the hardwood floors don't just have a 3D look, but you can see the wood grain in the floor and the sheen on it. When Pinky dances, she's not just moving right or left, she actually swings her hips and bends her knees. It's a much more fluid and richer look." The new look (together with a revamped website) has boosted the show's popularity; Monier-Williams speculates "we might wake up one day and all of a sudden we're producing season three" before quickly adding "but right now that's not in the cards."
Did the "beat the clock" pace of production and the R&D of developing the pipeline blow the season two budget into the stratosphere? According to Cranford, the reverse was true. "It boils down to how fast you can get them out and how few people you have on your labor force. By the end of the show, we had two teams of eight animators and we were putting out one show every 10 days."
Finished shots went into a queue for overnight rendering, followed by a morning screening of 'dailies.' Because the backgrounds in Pinky were for the most part two-dimensional artwork, computers that normally had to digest large amounts of geometry to create 3D images could render some shots in less than a second a frame.
"We shaved approximately three months off the production versus season one," Cranford boasts. "Cartoon Pizza had over 60 people working in Flash for three months longer than we were in production. We had a total of 30 people including management. Our overall budget was under $200,000 Canadian per episode. The Canadian dollar was 20% higher [than the U.S. dollar] at beginning of the deal. The week we started production it went 20 points below and didn't go back up until the week we finished -- it was like a bowl with us in the middle. We were never told the budget for season one but they had three months of additional labor to pay for." (Monier-Williams says the budgets for the two seasons were "almost the same. We had some greater efficiencies [in the second season] because the characters were already developed and the research already done, so there wasn't as much upfront investment in the second season.")
"This hadn't been done before, it was certainly something different," Cranford sums up. "The beauty of this is this is our pipeline. We can do other 2D series with it and it will work just as fine. They may not all fit in as easily as Pinky Dinky Doo did, but doing 2D like this is certainly the way to go."
Joe Strike is a regular contributor to AWN. His animation articles also appear in the NY Daily News and the New York Press.


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BlackBerry Storm (9530) Error: SIM Card Rejected
This error pops up when you lose CDMA (1XEV) connectivity in the US and the phone attempts to connect to a GSM network (you can duplicate if you force your Storm to GSM network technology) and you have a Global SIM card installed (and most of us do). The kicker is that the message "SIM Card Rejected" doesn't go away until your hard reboot - even after you've reconnected to the CDMA network.
So, if you're not using your Global SIM (if you are, call VZW and ask for Global Support - they can activate your SIM), you can just force CDMA only on the phone, do a battery pull, and you'll never see this again. I assume some future firmware update will handle this error better by making it go away once you're back on CDMA, but for now - this is what I had to do:
Good work appreciate it.
I achieved the same result by forcing CDMA as above, then just powering down the handheld and then turning back on. No battery pull required.
Thank you SO much. and thank you mike for the added info. i was hesitant to pull the battery and glad i didnt have to.
Any insights into syncing the Storm with Mac's Leopard 10.5 (using the new Mac Book Pro) and Entourage? Pocket Mac purports to have a new link to be be able to do it, but it didn't work for me.
Awesome! Great fix! Was driving me crazy!
Just got the error message this morning, rebooting now. thanks and Merry christmas!
Thanks for the help. This was happening to me every day and I couldn't receive e-mails after the message appeared. Seems to be fixed now as I've gone 2 days without a problem. Great Job!
Thank you for a nice, clean, straightforward answer to a vexing problem.
thanks a million…great info!!
Another THANKS! I know it wasn't causing any functional problems, but was making my OCD crazy!
Thanks for the help! It happened yesterday and I couldn't figure it out. I just switched over the network and rebooted and it took care of it…no need to take out the battery (for now anyway).
Thank you. saved me much time.
I went to verizaon and they pulled the battery out and looked at the sim card and booted it back up and of course it was off and said evrything was good. and it came on yet again. I didn't have any issues using my phone so I said whatever. Today I googled it and found this site and went ahead and fixed it….Thanks alot
Mucho thanks! Found that message annoying. Am also a bit OCD like a previous commenter.
Thanks for this valuable input – saved me about 1 1/2 h of holding for Verizon, then their tech support, then waiting to be transferred to RIM yet AGAIN. I'm about to return this thing, as I already had battery issues with one. This is my second one and now I'm getting this error, on top of USB cable problems (not being able to synch, erased EVERYTHING). Maybe returning this altogether would be the best option, b/c I'm not ready for the next awful thing to happen. Anyone else having serious issues, or is the phone working for you?
THANKS! I needed that too.
Thanks a bunch – worked like a charm! Much appreciated.
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My question involves an injury that occurred in the state of: Washington
We were involved in a hit and run a few weeks ago. Vehicle collided with our car, and then took off. We were able to follow them for a while, in a somewhat high speed chase, but they got away. During the "chase", we were on the phone with 911. We were able to describe the car, but it was a used car that was purchased more recently so there were no plates on it. We knew it was a used car because it still had the car lots plate frame filler thing, that says the car lot name and all.
During the chase an ambulance was dispatched to take care of one of the people in our car. They went to the ER, they have a history of injuries to their neck and brain, and were released at the end of the night with a concussion.
Talking to insurance, we are having issues. We were able to find the car that hit us on the dealers web site. We got the VIN number and everything from the site, then provided it to the police for the report. But insurance is saying that they may not be able to do anything.
So, what can we do??? I mean, how many hit and run incidents are people able to actually provide the VIN??? Shouldn't it be as easy as calling the car lot the vehicle was sold at, tell them the vehicle was involved in an accident and they need the new owners information, then go after them?
If they can't put the blame on the other car then our deductible applies and we have to jump through other hoops. We have a relatively low deductible, but it's the point of it and also to catch the people who did this!


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Hi Everyone.
Just a quick post to answer a couple of questions about my previous post.
Crafting with wax.
I had a blogging friend ask where I got my wax.
Well, most of us prim lovers have candles and/or tart burners.
Once we burn the candle or melt the tarts, we are left with the remaining wax.
*Yes, I know I need to clean that poor thing. :)
If you're like me, you hate to just throw the wax out, so, I don't.
I pour it into keeper jars or a wax melting pan.
Okay, most of the candles I buy are bakery scents, spices and such, so they all smell wonderfully together.
Most are browns or whitish color wax, so they can be mixed together without turning into a funky color.
But if you have multiple colors of left over wax, just use separate jars.
Now if your wondering, don't they loose their scent after being melted?
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No.
It depends on the quality of the candle and how long it was melted in the tart burner.
But if they do… Just pick up some matching candle scenting oil at Hobby Lobby or some place like that.
When the wax is melted just add a little oil to it.
Yummies it right up!
Okay, how to melt the saved wax….
I do it two way.
In the glass jars, you can microwave it.
I do it in 30 to 60 second intervals, melt it, pour, melt it, pour, over and over until the entire jar is empty or until I'm finished.
CAUTION though, the jar will get HOT to the touch, so use a small pot holder when removing it from the microwave.
The next way does take a little longer but it is the best for larger projects.
Just store used wax in a metal container.
I keep this wax melting can in a cabinet and store some of my used wax in it.
You don't need this specific type of container though, a used Metal coffee tin works too.
When you want to melt the stored wax, just double boil it.
What this means is, take a normal pan, fill it with water, and let it come to a boil.
Then place your metal container into the water.
The water doesn't need to cover the entire can to work, just the bottom to middle portion.
Careful when placing the can into the water, you don't want the boiling water to pour over the sides.
Also Caution because your metal container will get hot to the touch, even the portions not in the water.
So be sure to use dry pot holders when lifting it out.
And that's it…
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, isn't that the name of the game these days.
Oh, and one more quick question to answer.
The coloring…
To get a prim blackish color to the wax, just throw in some pieces of black crayons.
Also the prim brownish shade will happen when cinnamon is added. The hot wax melts the cinnamon and gives it a wonderful prim appearance.
Okay, I'm not the best at explaining things, but I hope this post helps.
If you have any questions, or if I missed anything, just drop me a message.


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Nadia was drawn towards art as long as she can remember, but started perusing that passion after earning her Bachelor of Public Relations. Since then, she has attended several art schools in Canada and Russia
"My style and technique are continuously evolving and are influenced by almost everything around me. Although I explore a wide variety of subjects, landscapes and florals are my main passion" – says Gurkova.
In October 2014 Nadia started teaching painting workshops for adults, which continue to this day. Now she teaches, paints, gets involved in community engaged projects. Her paintings are in many private collections around the globe, including Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus and Russia. To read artist's story and statement, click here.


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Listen to Real N*ggas (CDQ), the new track by Gunplay featuring Rick Ross which was dropped on Monday, July 16th, 2012. Gunplay's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and Real N*ggas (CDQ) will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since Gunplay debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.
Hear more of Gunplay on 187 Freestyle. If you dig this, visit Gunplay's profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
Is this a good combination? How do you feel about the production here?


text: asperity 851 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 Many aspects of human sensuality are very puzzling. Take celibacy, this can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by environmental factors. Whilst attending a Marriage Encounter Weekend, Bill and Mary listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other." He addressed the men, "Can you each name and describe your wife's favourite flower?" Bill leaned over, touched Mary's arm gently and whispered, "Self-raising, isn't it?" . And thus began Bill's life of celibacy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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We have come up with an elegant and classic look for our fun teacher and staff awards.
These fun teacher and staff awards are a great way to recognize, affirm and acknowledge their talents, skills, and capabilities. These could be given throughout the school year. It could also be given during faculty development and departmental meetings.
Blank templates are also provided if you want to add more awards.
The file is in powerpoint format. Use "TEXT BOX" to insert the award and the awardee. No school year or date is added since this could be used anytime during the school year.
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Early riser
Life Saver
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|Easy light gold eyes using Lorac's Unzipped palette!
|Easy light gold eyes using Lorac's Unzipped palette!
|On my cheeks is a touch of suede blush from sleek!
|Products used: Lorac Unzipped palette, Sleek blush, L'oreal Lucent Magique foundation, ZA two way powder, Revlon matte (for brows), Maybelline color tattoo, Maybelline brow drama, Lady Oscar eyeliner, Kiss me heroine superwaterproof mascara, Peripera gel eyeliner
|The look is super light and versatile and great to wear out in the day time! As usual I wasn't wearing any lip color!
|A simple bright faced look! Light yellow gold never goes wrong on lighter skin tones!


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July 29th, 1921 - February 17th, 2010
Mildred first came into the lives of the PLA two years before the PLA was even around. In 1992, RBCP picked her at random from a phone book and made a call to her from a pay phone in a movie theater, using a red box to avoid the long distance charges. RBCP pretended that he was an AT&T operator and that Mildred was making a call from a pay phone as Mildred insisted that she was Mildred Monday.
Mildred was pranked once or twice per year for the rest of the 1990's and always loved to proclaim that she was Mildred Monday, whether we were offering to reshingle her house, give her new siding or charge long distance calls to her. Her threats of shooting us in the hind end with a shot gun always seemed good natured and we imagine that the occasional prank calls gave Mildred something interesting to talk about with her friends and family. We're certain that her sons would disagree, though.
In 2008, after not calling Mildred Monday for about 10 years, RBCP recorded a song about Mildred and called her to play it for her, but she refused to listen to it since she was on her way out the door. We found out about Mildred's death about seven months after it happened and dedicated an entire Phone Show to her memory on 9/14/2010.
Below you'll be able to listen to songs about Mildred Monday and the prank calls from the 1990s to her. You can the original PLA announcement about our loss of Mildred. You'll be missed, Mildred Monday!
|Mildred Monday - a song by RBCP: This song was written by episode #16 of PLA Radio on March 15th, 2008. It features some classic old-school PLA characters, such as Dino Allsman, Jim Bayless and Mildred Monday. It's a parody of a 1980′s song called Manic Monday by The Bangles.
|Monday - a song by gnnr: This is a tribute song by gnnr, written shortly after we learned about Mildred's death. It's a parody of the 1960's song Yesterday by The Beatles.
|I am Mildred Monday: The original Mildred call from 1992 - Mildred gets a call from someone who claims to be her, trying to bill a phone call to New Zealand.
|Mildred didn't put a call through: This is another call where RBCP tries to get Mildred's permission to put through a long distant call.
|Mildred Doesn't Party: Weird Harold tries to invite Mildred to a party.
|I'm Mildred Monday Too: Shelly tries to convince Mildred that she's Mildred Monday too.
|You're Crazy: Zak tells Mildred that AT&T is really really pissed at her and she calls him crazy.
|Mildred's Roof: Bill from Pioneer Roofing calls to confirm an appointment with Mildred for her new roof and she threatens him with a shotgun. This call is taken from the PLA TV episode called Prank Calls with RBCP
|Mildred's Siding - Part 1: Mildred doesn't want no siding on her house.
|Mildred's Siding - Part 2: Gary calls back, insisting that Mildred lets him put pastel black siding on her house.
|Mildred's Siding - Part 3: Sylvia, a crossing guard at the local elementary school, tries to reason with Mildred about her siding.


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