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Earlier this month I asked readers to send in their travel tips, wishes and anecdotes that might help other travelers on their journeys in 2014. Today we share.
Earlier this month I asked readers to send in their travel tips, wishes and anecdotes that might help other travelers on their journeys in 2014.
Today we share.Breaking glad
Jeri Kladder of Columbus wrote about an experience that could have been devastating but that she converted into a positive travel adventure.
�In 2008, I broke both ankles on day three of a monthlong solo, independent trip to Greece, my first,� she writes.
But while the severe injury slowed Kladder, she decided to stay in Greece and �to rely upon the kindness of strangers, ala Blanche DuBois.�
�Although I couldn�t possibly do all I had set out to do, my experience turned out to be immensely soul-satisfying as I sat at little sidewalk cafes people-watching and chatting with shopkeepers, restaurant servers, park-bench sitters and any number of fellow travelers rather than tearing across the countryside.�
Kladder said she learned a lesson about herself that could easily apply to other travelers.
�The misadventure helped me realize that the best travel for me is the travel that helps me connect with people, not check off sites from a guidebook checklist.�Bagging fees
Mary Varckette of Westerville wrote with a tip that could save airline passengers up to $60 per flight.
Southwest Airlines and Airtran merged. Although Airtran still operates flights, including several from Port Columbus, domestic flights on either airline can be booked as a Southwest flight through the Southwest.com website.
And although Airtran charges for checked bags, the first two bags on Southwest fly free. So booking a flight through Southwest instead of Airtran saves $25 for the first bag and an additional $35 for the second, Varckette said.
And booking through Southwest allows fliers to earn points in the airline�s excellent frequent-flier program.Flocking together
Gretchen Gallucci of Worthington wrote with words of advice for older travelers who might be missing their family but who are fortunate enough to have some extra money.
What is �the best way to have adult children and their spouses spend time with you?� Gallucci asked.
�Plan and help pay for a vacation!�
Gallucci has visited France and Spain on a �girls� trip with her mother and daughter, Costa Rica with her children and their spouses, and several other destinations in Central and South America on medical mission trips.
Gallucci enjoys planning trips herself using travel guides by Rick Steves and Fodor�s, she said. (Her daughter, Maria Gallucci, is a co-author of the 2010 Fodor�s guide to Honduras.)
Gallucci�s post-retirement dream job, she said, would be helping other families plan vacations that allow them to really experience a country and not just the resort areas.Savoring spontaneity
Travel agent Susan Schneider said she learned the best travel advice from her parents, tips that have helped her be a better traveler.
�Be flexible � savor the delightful experiences that occur spontaneously,� said Schneider, leisure manager at Internet-based travel agency TS24.
Schneider remembered car trips with her parents and three siblings.
�Dad was very adventurous, always wanting to see what was over the next hill, and Mom was mindful that after a day in the car, four kids were eventually going to implode.
�Mom wanted a hotel reservation every night; Dad always wanted to wing it. They compromised and had the travel agent book rooms in major cities and resort areas � and none en route.�
Those half-planned, half-spontaneous trips taught her and her siblings to �embrace the unexpected� when traveling, Schneider said.


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It's going to be interesting to track the progress of J.B. Hunt Transport Services' new intermodal contract forged with Norfolk Southern Corp. last week. The deal is designed to accelerate the conversion of traditional truck traffic to truck-rail intermodal transportation – expanding a service designed to be competitive with truckload moves, offering both transcontinental and local intermodal service in the eastern half of the U.S.
"Our new services with J.B. Hunt will provide shared incentives to grow volume and revenues by converting substantial volumes of freight from highway to rail," said Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman. "We look forward to working with the J.B. Hunt team to offer high-speed premium services to domestic intermodal customers over our entire network, including our new Crescent Corridor route, from New England, northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania south to Memphis and New Orleans."
It may seem anathema to fellow truckers to willing fork over tonnage to their arch competitors in the transportation field, but J.B. Hunt has never played it that way. The carrier's late founder, Johnnie Bryan Hunt himself, willingly dove head first into the intermodal waters over two decades ago. He could clearly see the profit potential that others didn't in working with the railroads to provide joint freight service — buying rail capacity at wholesale prices, then selling it bundled with his truck capacity at retail prices, keeping his costs low as his trucks didn't have to run a lot of miles or burn a lot of fuel.
I've written about how Hunt's first stab at intermodalism wasn't a rousing success — and he'd pretty much retired by the time intermodalism finally came into its own for his fleet, along with dedicated contract carriage services. But it's a path that is shining brighter every day from the carrier's perspective, at least.
In the company's third quarter earnings report this year, Kirk Thompson, J.B. Hunt's CEO, said the carrier's ntermodal division continued to gain market share, with overall load volume growing at 9% during the third quarter this year versus the same period of last year – as well as outpacing the 5% growth in the first quarter and 8% growth in the second quarter in 2009.
Yet the carrier said eastern volume growth slowed during the third quarter as customers had ample truck capacity at substantially lower prices than a year ago, combined with fuel prices that were also 40% lower than a year ago.
"Still, our eastern volumes increased by 12% during the current quarter, while our transcontinental volume continued to rebound with 7% growth over the same quarter a year ago," said Thompson. "However, revenue declined despite the increase in volume as a result of three factors: an extremely competitive bid season, a 1% decline in the average length-of-haul from the comparable period and fuel surcharge revenue that was down more than $70 million from a year ago.
It's that "bid activity" during what Thompson called "this unique time in the freight economy" that is the major challenge – and is probably one reason why Hunt forged this new intermodal contract with Norfolk Southern, so the carrier could better balance short term market realities against long term strategic objectives.
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Americans in Tahrir: For Whom the Bell Tweets
Le 25-11-2011
They say war is hell.
But revolution is often a close second, as the frenzy of tear gassing, rock throwing and (if eyewitness accounts are accurate) live ammunition firing in and around Tahrir Square this week attest.
If Dante had access to 21st century GPS technology, Egypt's revolt would likely be pinpointed to coordinates within the nine circles of hell - somewhere between limbo and treachery.
Yet the arrest - and announced release - this week of three US university students amid the upheaval on Tahrir Square suggests that for the young and spirited, revolution is often adventure first, and hell, second.
Derrick Sweeney and Gregory Porter, both 19, and Luke Gates, 21, were on an exchange program at the American University of Cairo when they were detained for allegedly throwing firebombs from a rooftop during the riots.
At the time of their arrest, Egyptian officials said they confiscated a bag filled with empty bottles, a bottle of gasoline, a towel and a camera.
The students denied the accusations.
Egyptian prosecutors, after initially making noises about a continuing investigation, appeared to relent as the detention went viral on US social networks.
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American media, meanwhile, latched onto the story, depicting the students as youthful innocents abroad, driven by equal measures of patriotic fervour and an aversion to tyranny - in this case, that of Egypt's ruling military council and its geriatric generals.
The Washington Post, which interviewed Derrick Sweeney's father, described the son as possessing "the youthful vigor of a conservative 19-year-old" and a "belief in American freedom".
Derrick's mother, Joy, told CNN her son is "a very bright kid with a good heart who believes in all the people in the world...he wanted to learn more about the Egyptian culture."
At this point, you may be thinking: 'So what's wrong with a few idealistically driven American students abroad taking up the revolutionary cause of the moment? Especially since they happened to be in Egypt, at the heart of the action?'
Joining because it was there
Nothing, of course. Except that I suspect that these students' actions were more knee-jerk, and less noble, than meets the eye.
In other words, they joined the revolution because it was there. And so, as it happened, were they.
(It's the same reason I once marched in Moscow's May Day parade, bellowing out "hurrah!" to Mikhail Gorbachev as he inspected the marchers from atop Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square: the parade was there, and so was I.)
Ditto for Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old UCLA student who suddenly popped up on the rebel frontlines near Gaddafi's last stronghold of Sirte this past summer.
"It was the end of my summer vacation," he nonchalantly told the Abu Dhabi-based National newspaper. "So I thought it would be cool to join the rebels. This is one of the only real revolutions."
Jeon had flown on a one-way ticket from Cairo to Tripoli, then trekked overland 248 miles from the Libyan capital to Sirte.
He was briefly embraced by the rebels, who taught him how to wield an AK-47, before he segued from entertaining oddity to military liability - and was kindly sent packing back across the desert.
Hobnobbing with Trotsky
These flash-in-the-pan student revolutionaries stand in stark contrast to Americans of a bygone age, such as the Bohemian journalist-cum-Bolshevik-sympathiser, John Reed.
Reed, a Portland, Oregon native and diehard Communist, and his wife, Louise Bryant, spent months in revolutionary Russia, hobnobbing with the likes of Lenin and Trotsky.
The book he wrote about his experiences, Ten Days That Shook the World, became a bestseller in Soviet Russia (I still have a hardback Russian-language copy purchased during my student days in Moscow).
Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, inspired by the writer's sojourn on the frontlines of the Spanish Revolution, reflected a similar American infatuation with other nations' historic upheavals.
Reed's Russian interlude was a product of his deep ideological devotion to a cause, rather than just a patriotic adrenaline rush.
Hemingway used the character of Robert Jordan to convey his own ideas about the perfidy of Francisco Franco's fascist forces.
'I feel so reckless'
Reed once wrote: "In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt."
Compare this with a tweet posted by one of the now-freed US students, Luke Gates, shortly before his release: "It's only scary cuz I feel so reckless, live bullets."
Derrick's mother, Joy, has said she hopes her son turns his detention into a learning experience. "He's a writer, he will write about this experience."
If he and his Tahrir buddies are looking for a title for their revolutonary opus, may I humbly suggest: "Ten Tweets that Shook the World"?


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Weis changes way Kansas offensive staff operates as it tries to end off Big 12 losing streak
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Rotating players on the depth chart hasn't worked so well for Kansas this season, so now coach Charlie Weis is shaking up coaching responsibilities to jump-start his struggling team.
Weis announced Tuesday that he would change how the offensive staff operates. Quarterbacks coach Ron Powlus will be in charge of the passing game, tight ends coach Jeff Blasko will take over the running game and Weis will oversee the offense and help coach skill positions.
Weis also said he wants to receive input from the offensive coaches, and let their ideas form the base for the game plan rather than formulating the majority of it himself.
The first chance to showcase all the changes comes Saturday against No. 18 Oklahoma.
"I felt that I had to back off a little bit or else we're never going to get any better," Weis said. "What happens a lot of time when you have a veteran coach that's been running offenses for a long time, sometimes you hold in ideas because the head coach or offensive coordinator already has a bunch of them on his own."
In other words, Weis acknowledged that he needs a little bit of help.
Already, the offensive coaches are taking to the change.
"I think at times I was reluctant to open my mouth," Blasko said, "and now that I have the freedom to do so, I think it obviously helps."
The new coaching roles are just the latest idea Weis had to try and energize his struggling offense, which is 115th in the Football Bowl Subdivision at 305 yards per game. He made 13 personnel changes to his starting offense in the past month, not including changes due to injuries.
"This is a large volume of changes," he said, "but really we only have so many alternatives now. We're at the point now where we're not going to throw names in a hat and pick out five and that's where we go. We have to start settling down into what we're going to be."
Before fall camp, Weis harped about the Jayhawks' depth and even joked he could finally piece together a two-deep. Turns out it's not much of a laughing matter anymore.
Before Kansas (2-3, 0-2 Big 12) played TCU last Saturday, Weis made six non-injury related changes to his offense. He made another one this week as the Jayhawks prepare for Oklahoma (5-1, 2-1) on Saturday.
"It's a bigger concern if you aren't willing to do things to try to fix them," Weis said. "I think we have an obligation as coaches, especially me, to give every effort we have to explore alternatives we can to try to make things better."
The biggest areas of change have been at wide receiver and offensive line. In five games, Kansas started six different wide receivers at the two wide out positions, while Tony Pierson held down the flanker spot. But Pierson sustained a concussion against Texas Tech in early October, so Brandon Bourbon moved into a starting role.
Bourbon has 17 receptions, but the other six healthy wide receivers that have started this season have combined for just 18 catches.
Of course, it's hard for the wide receivers to excel if the offensive line doesn't give quarterback Jake Heaps enough time to locate open targets. It's also hard for the line to mesh when it keeps getting rearranged. Weis has used eight starters on the offensive line this season.
"Either they were in a position that they weren't there at first, or they weren't comfortable at that position at first," running back James Sims said. "But now everyone's in their position that they feel comfortable with."
Gavin Howard started at center for the first time against TCU. Pat Lewandowski started at left tackle, his position last year. Aslam Sterling started at right tackle.
Howard is Kansas' third center to start this year, and Heaps hopes he's the last.
"Center is truly an undervalued position and really gets the whole offensive line going," he said. "It sets the tone for up front, being able to run inside, being able to run outside, communication, all that kind of stuff."


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THE TEN Movie Teams That I Want to Join
In this months THE TEN, Marcus looks to become a new member of the team
Over the last months there's been a little bit of a comeback for movie teams. G.I. Joe brought back memories of comic book groups of experts brought together to get the job done and [/i]Inglorious Basterds[/i] reminded me just how much I love a group of misfits banding together to achieve their goals. So for this month's
THE TENI've compiled a list of some of my favourite movie teams that I'd like to be a member of.
'Suck in the guts guys, we're the Ghostbusters!'
Let's start with a movie team that I've loved since forever. The Ghostbusters, Ray, Egon, Peter and Winston are a group of 'experts' who after losing their meal ticket at their university fall into a bit of self employment in a field that's all their own—ghost busting.
Armed with proton packs on their backs and the Tobins Spirit Guide to let them know about the weird and wonderful Spirits, Demons and Gods they may face, this group represent teams that I love in movies, teams that are taking a bit of chance with something way beyond them but against all the odds become a team you just want to see succeed, especially when it comes to fighting a Marshmallow Man or a Warlord stuck in a painting.
The Ghostbusters are a team that I just want to go on more adventures with. With only two outings under their belts (though it has to be said I loved the animated TV show and had plenty of fun actually being a Ghostbuster in the recent game) the Ghostbusters are a team who are just fun to be around and with the promise of another movie on the way, (though seemingly with a new team being introduced and the existing Ghostbusters taking lesser roles) I can't wait to watch as they strap on those proton packs and go after them spirits for another round.
Uniform: A beige onesy and a proton pack.
'The bottom line is you've been spending a lot of time with this lady, Ron. You're a member of the Channel Four News Team'
The seventies San Diego news team that lived like Gods amongst men, Brian Fantana, Champion 'Champ' Kind, Brick Tamland, and of course their lead anchorman Ron Burgundy provide one of the greatest teams ever to grace our movie screens. With their manly attitude towards the world around them, each member brings something all of their own to the team's dynamic. Fantana brings the charm, Champ brings the attitude, Brick brings, well, a grenade, and Ron brings all of that and more.
Even with the arrival of Veronica Corningstone to the team causing a bit of disturbance in the news room, the Channel Four News Team overcome the limitations of having a woman on the team and carry on delivering the news to the San Diego-ans in ways that only they can. You stay classy San Diego
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a movie team that I just can't get enough of. With classic line after classic line thrown at us by a cast that feels absolutely on the ball, the Channel Four News Team are just a bunch that I want to see plenty more of. We had a nice chunk of new/alternative stuff in the Wake Up with Ron Burgundy lost movie but with an ongoing rumour that a sequel set in the eighties is being toyed with, I can only hope that we get to see the might of San Diego's finest news team grace our screens again.
Uniform: A fantastic suit.
'You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons.'
Danny Ocean's team of crooks have provided us with the infinitely cool side of movie teams. Taking down casinos, jewel thieves or businessmen, Ocean's band of men bring together a great cast of characters that thankfully Steven Soderbergh allows us to have plenty of fun with.
After enjoying the hell out of Ocean's Eleven and loving the interactions with the team much more than most generic Casino robbery movies, I was more than happy with the change of pace when Ocean's Twelve opted for more of a character based outing than a slick second robbery (I know I'm in the minority on this one). Allowing the characters to simply hang out with each other in Amsterdam and have oodles of fun around things like how old the team think Danny is, Linus's attempt to have a bigger part in the planning of the robbery and even Rusty's playfulness with his ex lover/detective Isabel was just a joy and as with all good team movies, watching these guys win in the end was a great tie up with the much under loved middle chapter.
In Oceans Thirteen, which combined the grand heist from Eleven and the character interactions from Twelve, took proceedings into even wilder and wackier directions. More costumes, more crazy tech and an even more complicated plan (which for the most part was easier to zone out to and just go with than trying to understand) all while keeping their cool. Ocean's team of crooks just make you wish you were cool enough to join and judging by how little some of the members have to do in some of the heists, I'm sure they could find something for me to do.
Uniform: A good suit and a good disguise.
'I think your Team Zissou ring might've caught me on the lip.'
Now Team Zissou are a team I totally want to join, if only to get the uniform, which consists of the light blue t-shirt and the red beenie hat. Hell I'd even just be an intern and we all know how badly they're treated by the captain.
Travelling the seas in the Belafonte and documenting the adventures above and below the ocean, Team Zissou are a bunch that are losing their credibility, mainly due to their leader Steve Zissou losing his love of the job. However with members like Ned Plimpton, Klaus Daimler and of course Zissou himself on board, this team is one that never has a moment that wouldn't be great to share. Whether it be the aboard the little yellow submarine for under water adventures with the weird and wonderful sea life, watching Zissou have shoot outs with pirates, having run ins with Alistair Hennessey or venturing out to places like Ping Island, Team Zissou is a great team to be in, even if it's only for the parties with Seu Jorge doing Bowie covers.
Uniform: A baby blue top and a bright red beenie hat
'These people are here to protect you. They're soldiers.'
Now this band of marines is a team that totally caught my imagination as a teenager. It was always fun playing as them in games or reading about them in comic books but nothing ever caught the greatness of Lieutenant Gorman's team who touched down on Alien infested LV-426 to investigate a missing colony in James Cameron's Aliens.
James Cameron took what are usually cannon fodder grunts in the genre and fleshed them out with personalities that make you invested enough to want to stick with them. When they wake up aboard the Sulaco, we are introduced to these marines as quite typical movie army guys. Masculine, smart mouthed, not taking the potentially horrific nature of the mission seriously, but slowly and surely these characters begin to shine. Kicks showing a more sensitive side, Hudson proving to be one funny dude and Bishop, the android who you're not quite sure about after Ripley's last mission all bring something to warm you to the team but it's when the Colonial Marines hit LV-426 that the movie geek in me makes me want to sign up.
For a start, what guy watching Aliens in their teens didn't want a Pulse Rifle? Just the sound those things make is enough to make me smile. Who didn't want to ride around in an APC or take a plummet in a drop ship? And when you put all of this up against one of the greatest monsters in movie history you have a team that begs for your attendance (on the proviso that you survive of course—in a very, very realistic Alien War type affair).
Uniform: Army gear and a pulse rifle
'In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.'
Everything about this secret federal agency in Guillermo del Toro's two Hellboy movies makes me want to join up. Not so much for the adventures that Hellboy, Abe Sapien and co. have outside of these concrete walls, but just for the stuff that goes on within them. I mean who doesn't want to hang out with a bunch of monsters, demons, and George Bluth? (OK, not exactly George Bluth, Jeffrey Tambor plays Tom Manning in the movies, but you get the idea).
In the first Hellboy we're introduced to Hellboy's living quarters, filled with trinkets and kittens and get glimpses of the library and a few other locations, but in Hellboy II, we actually get to hang out in the base for a while and it looks like a great place to work. Watching all the agents getting up to stuff, whether it be Hellboy's bickering with Johann Krauss by the lockers, seeing the weird and wonderful creatures they've brought in, or just getting drunk and singing love songs in front of the fire with Hellboy and Abe. Sign me up for the BPRD, I don't have to be an agent or anything, I'll just do the filing.
Uniform: If you're not a monster of any kind, just a suit will do.
'This Bellini is starting to look like a real Kapuchnik.'
Now this team of crooks are so inept, they don't even have a team name, but damn it I still want to join. For however much I enjoy the smoothness of Danny Ocean's team (who know what they're doing), it's the team in Welcome to Collinwood that I really want to be a member of.
Using the information provided by imprisoned and tricked Cosimo, the team come together to pull off the greatest crime of their lives (a Bellini), which involves cracking a safe in an empty house. Sort of led by Pero (though I'm sure every other member would claim to be the leader of team), this misfit bunch of crooks are constantly having new hurdles to get over. Members falling in love and wanting to be better people, a detective who knows they're up to something and an empty apartment that suddenly isn't all that empty.
I'd happily just hang out with this team. Getting 'How to Crack a Safe' lessons from Jerzy (played by George Clooney—one of my favourite roles of his), casing the joint with Pero and just sitting back and watching the arguments kick off with the rest of the team would just be as fun as watching the movie itself. Sign me up and I'll work out how to get the five hundred bucks for Jerzy.
Uniform: Whatever you can afford
'Remember, there is no 'I' in 'Team America'
Taking it to the terrorists has never been so much fun. Team America is a team who get the job done no matter the circumstances. They live hard, they play hard and the world is going to stay a safer place because of it.
With a base inside Mount Rushmore, this team of experts get their information from the super computer I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and race straight off to prevent terrorism from rearing its ugly head. Shooting first and asking question later (if at all) Team America is a team that makes me laugh more than they impress with their skills. With South Park creators Matt and Trey's comedy being something that always guarantees serious amounts of laughs with me and taking a fair swing at Michael Bay-esq action set ups, Team America really are a team that I could hang out with all day just to see what the hell they get up to next and whether it's corrupt world leaders or actors who become their next targets.
Uniform : Combat trousers, silver jacket, American flag
'These guys are trained to be ghosts... we taught them to do it for Christ's sake.'
When talking about movies teams, you can't really go too far without mentioning the Impossible Mission Force because the Mission Impossible set up from the TV shows really set the benchmark for teams of specialists coming together to get the job done.
Movie-wise, the Mission Impossible franchise continued this tradition on, showing off weird and wonderful tech, with equally insane missions for the crew to carry out. All led by Ethan Hunt who brings together a specially selected team to pull off the craziest of missions, along the lines of breaking into the Vatican, or totally sealed rooms in the CIA or parachuting from high rise to high rise in Shanghai.
Mission Impossible is probably the ultimate team experience, even if it isn't my favourite. I.M.F. has it all. Disguises, tech, planning, completing the impossible and getting the job done. The only apparent down side is that you literally can't trust anyone because seemingly everyone is a double agent.
Uniform: Depends on the mission but bring plenty of disguises.
'Goonies never say die!'
When I was a kid, this was the team I wanted to join. These kids were fun and when discovering the map for One-Eyed Willy's treasure, they became adventurers, without coming off as too Disney-fied safe. On top of that these kids had to deal with the crime family, the Fratellis, who are hot on their trail and the many booby traps that Willy has set to stop people getting to his treasure.
What with the combination of Chunk, Mouth, Data and Mikey as well as Mikey's older brother Brandon, a couple of older girls from his school and of course the only good Fratelli, Sloth, this team is many a kids dream team to join and when they succeed in their quest and save their families home from the evil eighties business tycoons, they just capture everything there is to love about movie teams.
Uniform: Anything really, but Superman t-shirts seem to go down well for new members.
So, there you have it—some of my favourite movie teams, all with their fair share of reasons to join up. If you have any more you want to share leave your comments below and join in the fun.
Editorial by Marcus Doidge
Bouncy X Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,931
this is just a tv show and i guess it isn't a team in the most literal way but being a big fan of Buffy, i wouldn't mind being one of the "Scoobies"...you know, minus the life threatening moments. and if they didn't want me, i could always head to L.A. and join a lawfirm for Team Angel....assuming L.A. is even still standing.
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
I would be a part of the Toy Story, Incredibles or Batman and Robin gang - assuming Robin will be in a cool Batman film that stars Christian Bale.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
There were a few superhero teams I wanted to join but couldn't think of any represented well enough on screen. I guess the Justice League from the animated series but they'd just plonk me on the Watchtower and get me to clean up
m@tt Member Join Date: October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 551
How about The Usual Suspects? Those guys make a pretty cool team.
BillWatkins Member Join Date: December 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 51
Neglecting the westerns? I'd like to be a part of The Wild Bunch or the Earp family.
shaneo6930 Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 175
Not a movie, but the team I want to join is the demon fighting Winchester Brothers from the show Supernatural. How cool would it be to go up against ghosts, demons, ghouls, (and their new advisary) Lucifer, while shooting the coolest looking guns, quoting latin, and having millions of fangirls drooling over you every week? Sign me up!
Required uniform: Perfect hair, at least 3 shirts, and a cool un-Fonzie like leather jacket.
As for movie teams, I think I'd like to join the Monster Squad. Helping out Frankenstein's Monster while battling Dracula and finding out that "Wolfman's got nards?" That sounds f-ing sweet.
Required uniform: Perfect hair, at least 3 shirts, and a cool un-Fonzie like leather jacket.
As for movie teams, I think I'd like to join the Monster Squad. Helping out Frankenstein's Monster while battling Dracula and finding out that "Wolfman's got nards?" That sounds f-ing sweet.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
I'm an adult and I still want to be apart of the Goonies. To be apart of I.M.F would indeed be an adventure. I also wouldn't mind joining Indiana Jones on an archeological dig. Archeology is all about teamwork. At least the real kind.
aldo Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Afghanistan Posts: 34
Reservoir Dog... or better yet an inglourious basterd. I also wouldn't mind crashing on the Lost island
BwayJ Member Join Date: February 2009 Location: United States Posts: 8
Planet Express all the way.
Simon Abrams Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 710
I only have one team: the French Resistance in TOP SECRET!
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stevepulaski Member Join Date: June 2009 Location: Niger Posts: 741
I wanted to be in Team America and Ghostbusters.
kingdbz93 Member Join Date: August 2008 Location: United States Posts: 61
Planet Express and one of the Inglourious Basterds (as long as i dont get chosen for the suicide missions)
King Banned Join Date: August 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 143
The Goonies is the best movie ever made
filmguy78 Member Join Date: February 2007 Location: United States Posts: 27
I'm with you on the Ocean's Eleven team! Hell yeah.
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1999: "A Judiciary With A Plan For Its Future"
Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard
January 13, 1999
There was a time when the best that could be said of Indiana's highly fragmented court system was that the people in it worked hard and honestly.
The challenges of the present era, however, require that we also work smarter. Indiana's judges approach their assignment of rendering justice with a muscular attitude about how we might act collectively to do a better job. The work Indiana judges do collectively becomes weightier with every passing year.
I want to tell you today about our ambitious plans for our own future.
Building a State-Wide Court System
First, there are many things the judiciary can do for itself to build a better system of justice.
The project that will do the most for individual citizens is the implementation of our new tool to assess the relative workload of each Indiana judge. We call it the "weighted caseload system" because it takes into account the caseload of each court, weighted by the differing amounts of time different types of cases require.
The disparities in the workload from one court to the next do much more than affect judges. They affect citizens who need a hearing on a child support order or a domestic violence problem and have to wait too long because they happen to find themselves in an overcrowded court.
The unevenness of the workload is something both the legislature and the courts need to address. Your committees, for example, have begun using the weighted caseload system as a way to decide which requests for new judges should be approved. We in the court system intend to use this tool to rearrange our local caseloads so that people will have more equal access to justice. This rearrangement of local assignments will affect every court in every county in every judicial district, and it will be carried out by local judges, as really it only could be. That method is central to our basic strategy for improving local courts: decisions made at the local level, not by the Supreme Court, decisions made by local judges acting cooperatively.
Our project for data processing is more daunting. Thirteen years ago we launched an effort to manage the mass of paper that is a part of Indiana's court system. We have now spent two years designing an Automated Information Management System (we call it AIMS) that will eventually require that information in every county court be stored in the same way so that all court computers can talk to each other and to entities in Indianapolis like the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and so that members of the public will have easy access to information about the status of pending cases, including their own. Creating this kind of public access may take five or ten years, but we are determined to begin.
We are also looking at ways to improve the venerable jury system. With the help of a substantial grant, the Citizens Commission on the Future of Indiana Courts will this year conduct surveys and hold public hearings to make sure the jury system can meet the needs of the next century.
We also realize we must continue to find ways to justify the public's trust in us. Led by Court of Appeals Judge Jim Kirsch, a broad-based working group is taking part in a nationwide effort to raise trust and confidence in the judiciary. Judge Kirsch will lead Indiana's team to Washington this spring for a national summit on this.
We are also determined to help people who are forced to come to court without adequate legal help. There are far too many citizens confronting legal problems who cannot afford a lawyer, and, fortunately, there is a strong impulse among practicing lawyers to contribute their time pro bono.
We intend to create committees in every judicial district to take better advantage of this willingness to contribute. The Supreme Court has recently appointed judges to lead the first two of these efforts, Judge William Davis in northwest Indiana and Judge David Dreyer in the district in and around Indianapolis. During 1999, we will extend this planning to every other region of the state using funds generated by our program of Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts.
On the criminal law side, we are rapidly improving public defender services in local courts, using legislation you gave us for the Indiana Public Defender Commission in 1993. Thirteen Indiana counties now have state-approved public defender systems and another twenty-some are in the pipeline. This year, the Department of Justice has invited us to tell the story of Indiana's progress at a national conference. And Indiana's effort has been noticed even overseas, as a new British book says "few states can match Indiana's initiative" in the public defender services.
Did we do this because Indiana legislators and judges have an affection for burglars? No, we did it because Indiana has believed since 1854 that people facing a loss of liberty should not go to court without a lawyer simply because they are too poor.
Mistake me not. Indiana is a place that is tough on crime. But, it is also a place that believes some people deserve a second chance and that we ought to do the best job we can at sorting out one from the other.
Our Own Capacity
A court system willing to take on those kinds of challenges is fairly serious about building its own capacity to act.
For example, we need to be better equipped to deal with the pervasive problem of drug and alcohol abuse. We are now in the midst of implementing legislation you gave us in 1997. We have court-annexed drug and alcohol programs in some fifty counties, and our determination to make them more effective ought to help us fight this sort of crime.
In addition, I believe much progress has been made in recent years in improving the working relationship between juvenile court judges and the child welfare caseworkers and deputy prosecutors who bring child abuse, neglect and delinquency cases to court. Such cooperation is good for children -- and good for taxpayers.
The most costly part of juvenile justice is the cost of placing children in foster care or specialized institutions. Our Judicial Center will now issue regular and detailed information about all facilities in Indiana that have space available, including the rates. And as you consider in this session changing the funding mechanism for the placements, you can count on us to do our part to hold costs down.
We are also determined to build our capacity to communicate. Within the last few months we have decided to take over our destiny with respect to the Internet, installing our own web server to be programmed for the work done by judges. We expect soon to use the Internet and e-mail for creating an electronic clearinghouse to allow judges to ask each other questions about problems they confront, and supply ideas and dialogue, post notices about meetings.
Shaping the Profession
We are also a judiciary determined to re-shape the future of the legal profession as a whole.
One of our objectives is to create more opportunity for minority and other disadvantaged students who aspire to join the profession. You've given us the best tool in the nation to do that, Indiana CLEO, the Conference for Legal Education Opportunity. The second class of CLEO is here in the balcony. Won't you welcome them?
We have also been asking new questions about what it should take to become an Indiana lawyer. Many of you will recall that about eight years ago we decided to add a separate test on ethics as a condition to obtaining a law license in our state. Now, we are about to redesign the bar examination itself.
We want Indiana's new lawyers to be people who know what the law is, but we also want them to be good problem solvers. To make it clear that we want lawyers who can effectively apply the techniques of lawyering to help answer people's particular problems, in 1999 we expect to add the National Performance Test to the battery of examinations one must master to receive an Indiana law license.
We will pursue that same objective by re-writing the rules on continuing legal education. During the twelve years since we adopted mandatory continuing education for lawyers and judges, brand new lawyers have been exempt from CLE for the first three years of their practice. Now, brand new lawyers will be sent to the sort of training that helps bridge gaps between what they learn in law school and what they need to know to help clients out in the real world.
Other Branches
Ours is a judiciary which has not been shy about asking the other branches for the tools we need to do justice.
In this year's session, for example, we hope the General Assembly will provide additional judges and magistrates in various places, in accordance with the recommendations of your Commission on Courts. It has been four years since you added to our workforce and we have thirty or forty thousand more cases in the meantime.
We are also ready to do something on family courts.
We suggest experiments with Family courts in three counties, and we ask in our budget for the money to make those experiments take wing. I am glad to say that the O'Bannon administration and the State Budget Committee have recommended the money to make this happen in 1999.
One more important thing that happened in 1998 was action on our proposal for a constitutional amendment to alter the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. We are very grateful for your virtually unanimous adoption of this amendment in last year's session. As you know, this proposal needs to be passed by this General Assembly before it can be submitted to the voters.
We also ask that you approve the recommendation of your Commission on Courts for a modest pay adjustment for judges and prosecutors. Since the last such raise in 1997, the other 35,000 full-time employees have had two raises. My first choice would be to change the way we make decisions about pay. Regular adjustments will make our work on pay bills less difficult for all of us.
We also need to solve the problem of judicial and legislative space that has been brewing now for thirty years. A few members of today's legislature were here during the 1971 session when the General Assembly voted by lopsided margins to construct a judicial building so that the legislative branch could occupy the space we now use in the State House. Even more of you were here in 1984 when the legislature voted for such a plan a second time.
The problems that led to legislation in 1971 and 1984 have not disappeared. They have become worse.
These are hardly just problems for public officials. They are problems for citizens who come here to attend hearings and cannot get in the hearing room, or come to visit their representatives and find there is no place to meet. It is a problem for a fractured Court of Appeals with some judges here and some a block away. It is a problem for a Tax court that has no courtroom. It is a problem for a Supreme Court, most of whose staff is across the street.
Most of you know how much I love this building and how important I think it is that the three branches regularly interact here in the State House. Still, it seems obvious that the present arrangement is utterly inadequate and that the Grubb plan, involving facilities across Ohio Street for both the judicial and legislative branches is the best option for the future. I say that future should begin in 1999.
In short, we believe that this is a moment chock full of opportunities to build a better society. The Indiana judiciary has made the decision that we can build a better court system, and we will throw our energies at making it happen.


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The only good thing about George Carlin's death on Sunday at the age of 71 -- and there is no good thing about George Carlin's death on Sunday at the age of 71 -- is that he has already given us such a rich body of thought, analysis, observation and truth that it will take us the rest of our lives to work through it all -- and even then, we probably won't be able to absorb or act on even a percentage of what he's said.
For example, before you put that Obama sticker on your car, think about why Carlin believed the American educational system can never be improved: "The owners of this country -- the big wealthy business interests that control things -- they've got the politicians; they're just put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice; you don't. They own you. They own everything. What they don't want is a population of citizens capable of critical thinking... It's against their interests."
Carlin, bless him, was dangerous. Yes, it was Lenny Bruce who set him free, and yes, at the same time Richard Pryor was doing the same thing in a different area. But these three giants told giant truths to an America that didn't really want to hear them.
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it," he said.
Carlin was fearless about religion.
On God: "Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty. crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a Supreme Being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude."
On abortion: "Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers... How come when it's us, it's an abortion, but when it's a chicken, it's an omelet?"
Which led him to the One True Commandment: "Keep thy religion to thyself."
Carlin was proud to play the jester -- to be the only person at court who could tell the king when he was making an ass of himself. In his last long interview, with Jay Dixit of the Psychology Today website, he talked about being a young comedian and recognizing himself in the writing of Arthur Koestler:
"The jester makes jokes, he's funny, he makes fun, he ridicules," Carlin said. "But if his ridicules are based on sound ideas and thinking, then he can proceed to the second panel, which is the thinker -- (Koestler) called it the philosopher. The jester becomes the philosopher, and if he does these things with dazzling language that we marvel at, then he becomes a poet too. Then the jester can be a thinking jester who thinks poetically."
Carlin had a poet's gift for language.
"He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light," Jerry Seinfeld said in a recent New York Times tribute. "He made you sorry you ever thought you wanted to be a comedian. He was like a train hobo with a chicken bone. When he was done there was nothing left for anybody.
Carlin credited his Irish heritage for this gift, and told Dixit that his grandfather, a New York City policeman "wrote out Shakespeare's tragedies longhand just for the joy it gave him."
Because he loved words, like George Orwell before him Carlin hated euphemisms. He knew that when we hide the truth behind language (including "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television," which led to the U.S. Supreme Court voting against the First Amendment) we would be lied to until our pockets are empty and we are all in our graves.
He recognized that Americans have become afraid of words, and because of this fear, are turning themselves into robots. He knew that we need those seven words, and many other, sometimes hateful words -- the "N" word, the "K" word, the "C" word, all the words -- out in the open where we can all see them, talk about them, criticize the ideas behind them, and scorn and reeducate the people who have those ideas.
As he pointed out, the words themselves aren't bad -- they're just words. It's the thinking behind them that must be addressed. To the end, Carlin rejected the idea that he was an angry man.
"I'm just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices," he said.
Damn, I'm going to miss him. We're all going to miss him.
A collection of Joyce Marcel's columns, "A Thousand Words or Less," is available through joycemarcel.com. And write her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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MONTREAL, QC – With their first ever Voyageurs Cup firmly in sight, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (ACC: 2W-0L-1D) earned a hard-fought 0-0 draw against Montreal Impact (ACC: 1W-1L-1D) at Stade Saputo in the first leg of the 2013 Amway Canadian Championship final on Wednesday.
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Highlights: Montreal Impact 0 - 0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Head coach Martin Rennie made five changes from last Saturday's starting lineup against LA Galaxy, with Brad Knighton, Jordan Harvey, Brad Rusin, Matt Watson, and Russell Teibert coming in for Joe Cannon, Young-Pyo Lee, Jun Marques Davidson, Camilo Sanvezzo, and Daigo Kobayashi.
It took just 30 seconds for the action to begin, as the opening minute of the match saw a Montreal pass picked off by 'Caps midfielder Teibert on the wing with the young Canadian crossing to Watson, but the Englishman's volleyed effort bounced harmlessly wide.
On 19 minutes, Montreal's Marco Di Vaio had a chance to give the home side the lead when he broke into the 'Caps end and sent a shot in on 'keeper Brad Knighton, but the North Carolina native was there to make the diving save.
Two minutes later, on 21 minutes, Patrice Bernier had another chance to net one for the Impact. Following a nice piece of attacking play from the Impact, Bernier sent a low shot in on goal, but the ball flew just wide of target.
In the 32nd minute, a few minutes of frantic play led to the 'Caps having another great chance to take the lead. Watson stole the ball and passed it to Alain Rochat, who fired a shot that was stopped by Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush. Soon after, Rochat had another opportunity when he headed a corner kick towards goal, but it was blocked off the line. The rebound then fell to Andy O'Brien, who tapped the ball towards goal before it was eventually cleared by the home side.
After a strong first half performance from the 'Caps, the two sides went into the break level at 0-0.
On 62 minutes, Andres Romero nearly broke in on goal, but Nigel Reo-Coker did well to track back and stuff the attack.
Two minutes later, Teibert had a chance for Vancouver on 64 minutes as he made some nice moves towards goal, reminiscent to his first professional goal last weekend against the Galaxy, but his swirving shot sailed left of the target.
On 74 minutes, Di Vaio had a great chance to open the scoring after former Whitecaps FC defender Jeb Brovsky made a short pass into the middle of the 18-yard box, but the Italian's shot was blocked by O'Brien.
Despite continued pressure by the home side late on, the first leg ended in a 0-0 draw. The two-legged final now heads back to BC Place on Wednesday, May 29 as the 'Caps look to hoist the Voyageurs Cup for the first time in front of their home crowd.
Next up, the 'Caps host Cascadia rivals Portland Timbers at BC Place this coming Saturday, May 18. Tickets remain for Saturday's match, as well as the ACC final second leg on May 29 and are available at ticketmaster.ca/whitecapsfc.


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As always, poll results depend a lot on how you ask the question. The latest Zogby poll finds that 52% of Americans supported Social Security reform, including private accounts, when they were told that private accounts could generate a higher rate of return than Social Security. (I've never liked talking about Social Security "rates of return," since the fact is that there isn't any investment, just payment of taxes.) Here are Zogby's key paragraphs:
"The thing that is compelling in this poll is that this is the response you get when you use a positive approach on Social Security reform," Mr. Zogby said. "If you use the 'Chicken Little, sky-is-falling' approach, then voters understand that something has to be done, but don't see the connection between personal accounts and fundamental reform of Social Security."
Among supporters, the most popular reason for supporting private accounts was, "It's my money; I should control it," Mr. Zogby said. "This was true for every group except African-Americans, who chose inheritability as their biggest reason for supporting accounts."
The poll's results suggested that Mr. Bush's proposal would be much more popular if he focused "on the points in this poll," Mr. Zogby said in an interview. "Nobody can understand or relate to the system's insolvency in 2043. But it wins a majority when the issue is raised as a matter of choice and as a positive opportunity," he said. "If it's pitted as just Social Security reform because it is becoming insolvent, that's not enough."
I thnk that's right. I've always thought that the worst way to sell Social Security reform is to talk about accounting.


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A solid Walnut wine cabinet with bureau and adjustable shelving. Exterior Walnut cylindrical cantilever hinges
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I established my cabinet-making business in 1981 and have been designing and making bespoke contemporary pieces to the very highest standards since then. I have been awarded five prestigious Guild Marks and have been commissioned to work for customers such as HRH Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones. My work has also appeared on several TV programmes.
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Obsessed: Jellyfish
I snapped these photos at the Baltimore aquarium last week. They might make a less expected addition to the shore kitchen (instead of one of these posters)
What do you think? Is it just too weird?
Anyone else with me on my particular obsession?
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It isn't weird at all! Your photos are fantastic! Frame those babies!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks but which one? I only really have a spot for one large print.Delete
Definitely the last one. Or maybe the middle one. Those would be my vote.Delete
The top two are my favorites. If you want to go more neutral, go with the first. If you want to inject more color, go with the second. You can't go wrong with any of them, though, seriously!Delete
These photos are beautiful. We don't see jelly fish on the west coast (of Canada) until the water is warm, and so they are a sign of summer. Just stay away from the red ones! No I don't think your obsession is strange. They jellyfish are so ethereal, so graceful, so fleeting.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ive never actually seen a jelly fish in the wild. Just at aquariums. I'm sure if I had every met one up close, I wouldn't be such a fan :)Delete
They're gorgeous! And you do have an octopus on your dresser, IIRC, so you obviously have a love of roundish sea creatures.ReplyDelete
Is there anyway you could work these photos ( or others) into your shore decor?Replies
Not just round ones - I like sea urchins and star fish and other sea creatures too. I'm indiscriminate :)Delete
Yes, the plan is to print one of these up as a large print and hang it in the kitchen but I can't decided which.
You should check out Jelly Fish Lake in Palau! I went there in September 2013, and you can snorkel right with MILLIONS of them! It's really incredible. In this lake, they have no nature predators, so they have evolved to have no defense system or stingers! Really fascinating! Google it!ReplyDeleteReplies
That is totally on my bucket list! Do you have photos? I'd love to see.Delete
Love them (even though I was stung pretty badly by an enormous creature off the coast of Maryland as a child). Go with the middle one - the color and composition are gorgeous!ReplyDeleteReplies
Gah! I'm sure if I was ever stung, I wouldn't appreciate their beauty at all!Delete
The middle one for sure! It's gorgeous!ReplyDelete
that first image is my favorite- amazing! i love the black and white! and we live in MD so have been there a couple times.... I just wish it was free like the national zoo! ;)ReplyDelete
Not weird at all! Jellies are beautiful. They are also so photogenic, they make me feel like I'm a rockstar photographer (which I'm not)! The Monterey Bay Aquarium had a spectacular exhibit last time I went.ReplyDeleteReplies
I had a hard time photographing these because its really dark in the jelly fish room, there were a ton of people in there and the reflection off the tank glass always gets in the way. I think I have to go to Monterey!Delete
Not weird! Jellyfish are amazing and your photos are beautiful.ReplyDelete
looove jellyfish and the pictures, but think you should stick to the last 2 images because the 1st one has a completely different feel and color scheme, maybe you could choose another one more in line with the last 2?ReplyDelete
The middle one for a pop of color b/c I think you mentioned you are going to use a pop of orange also!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. I'm not using any orange in the kitchen.Delete
Love jellyfish and how fun would they be in your place!ReplyDelete
Have you seen Jenny Andrews Anderson's [MFAMB] beautiful jellyfish paintings? The series was incredible and she accepts commissions. This one is a favorite of mine, titled 'Pedigreed'. http://mfamb.tumblr.com/post/67785403334/pedigreed-22-x-30-paperReplies
That's too funny - I was just researching vintage jellyfish printable art last night! Love them. They look ethereal but dangerous at the same time.ReplyDelete
Nope ... Not at all they are fascinating. I prefer them in B&W photos.ReplyDelete
Do you have these in your print shop? I'd love to be able to buy them and put them in my new apartment! There's something so peaceful about jellyfish swimming.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Ana - I dont now because I'm going to change print vendors shortly so I haven't been adding new stock but if you tell me which one you wanted and in what size and timeframe, I could put it up. Just drop me an email.Delete
Not feelin' it but the beauty of art is in the eye of the beholder so go for it!ReplyDelete


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News >> Browse Articles >> Fire & Rescue News
Top 25 Cities for Firefighters
Tania Khadder, Anna Hennings, Adam Starr, Alice Handley | FireLink
May 13, 2011
#25. San Diego, CA
Population: 1,266,731
Firefighter Salary: $63,000
Average Salary: $45,210
Cost of Living Rank (in a 1-100 list): 91
Average Commute Time: 23.4 minutes
Job Growth Rank (in a list of 372 Highest Growth Cities): 208
Unemployment Rate: 8.8
San Diego is a sunny surfers' paradise in Southern California. If wealth were measured by nice weather, San Diego would be the nation's richest city. Unfortunately, the recession has burned San Diego with a 3.8% increase in unemployment. Still, the city enjoys a mean income of over $45,000 and a top-25 ranking amongst the nation's best cities for job growth. So grab your board and your axes, because San Diego remains a promising place to work and even better place to play. Firefighters in San Diego should plan on being busy with the famous southern California wildfire season annually threatening homes and land.


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Must have been the users fault
as he wasn't holding it properly.
Mines the one with the Apple resistant coating
Some bloke's iPhone 4 has reportedly caught fire. Well, kind of. What appears to be a duff USB port - whether on the handset or the device it was connected to isn't known, the marks on the cable's connector suggest the former - caused the conflagration which scorched the phone and melted the dock cable's plastic surround. …
as he wasn't holding it properly.
Mines the one with the Apple resistant coating
Everytime they buy something from Apples walled garden they get burnt.
yeah, just jealous.
Class action lawsuit !! Compensation !!! Recall !!! Terrorism !! Knife crime !!!
Well, somebody had to start the hysteria-ball rolling :-).....
It's certainly not the first Apple device to get a little too toasty but given the number of iPhone 4 handsets sold so far one bursting into flames is little more than a statistical footnote. If it starts happening more frequently then it'll be a big deal but at the moment I'd suggest it's the least of their problems!
Flames because.. what else? :)
...a short in the cable, right at the connector. A dead short would presumably blow some kind of fuse internal to the i<device>, but a weak short would act like a miniature toaster.
Where's those bagels now?
iPhones don't have a USB port, they have a Dock connector and any number of accessories that plug into it, including a USB data cable. Are they suggesting that the USB Port on the aforementioned "bloke"s computer was to blame? How convenient.
Accept it clearly reads to anybody normal that apple have accepted the unit as faulty. Numpty
(see title)
"Are they suggesting that the USB Port on the aforementioned "bloke"s computer was to blame?"
Where do you think the power was coming from? The phone?
I bet all the Android fanbois are thinking "if it was running Android, it wouldn't have happened" lol
Uhhh, nope. Android is software, and this is quite clearly a hardware issue.
Only Mine didn't go on fire - but it was like a hot potato and refused to power up - ever again. Was replaced by local Apple Store, no questions asked - in fact they looked somewhat "knowing" and rather quick to make me happy and send me on my way...
Good job he can't get signal, otherwise it could have mutilated his face!
And it was said in those times that there would come a prophet, and that the people should not know him, but that his Jesus phone burn with a holy light.
...there would come a profit,...
a muppet could see that the connector melted and left a mark on the phone, not the other way around.
Unless the phone is capable of bursting into flames, melting nearby plastic and somehow repairing itself through nano-technology to appear like it suffered a minor heating.
Now theres a conspiracy for the Transformers fans !!
why isnt this story classed as ROTM?
Steve Jobs has always maintained that the iPhone was "hot stuff"
I'll get me coat...
"And it burns, burns, burns; the port of fire, the port of fire."
Mine's the one with the miniature CO2 extinguisher in the pocket.
Any machine I have ever used shuts down the USB port if it detects a short.
It's more likely to occur using a shitty mains charger.
that is all
...unless it happens to be a USB port of a mac
"the marks on the cable's connector suggest the former"
The end of the cable that was damaged doesn't really indicate where the fault was, just where it got hot.
I would have thought the most likely explanation is that it's a duff cable, or maybe a bit of conductive material like foil got stuck in the connector and shorted it out.
Please note that Apple have exchanged the phone as faulty.
...surely came with the phone.
Cables and the attached connectors are always denigrated in purchasing, just making an electrical connection is not enough. Support, and it's enemy, flexing are critical in the equation|incantations needed to make a proper cable.
Anyone that has made an RJ-45 or RJ-11 has a gut understanding of the problems involved. Good old AT&T; in the old days they were wonderful. Robber Barons are generally better than Greedy Carriers (tm.)
Did you know that in the USA there is a $1500 fine for selling an RJ connector with less than X microns of gold on it?
Are you throwing away "YOUR" gold?
If you are sure of the value of the fine, could you be bothered to dig up the value of X and an explanation of why it is a length, noting that microns are a unit of length? For that matter, how about the law governing the aforestated fine, evidence of which I cannot seem to find anywhere?
The word 'stunned' is what best describes the Apple hardware designers.
After a series of fires emanating from several models they have marketed in recent years you would have thought Apple would have designed in current limiting components.
Guess Jobs can't fix this latest with another software patch! And as they have already absolved the iCrap owner of fault that leaves only one entity ... Apple.
Maybe they should get HTC to design the iCrap5. They never seem to have fires or bad antennae.
"After a series of fires emanating from several models they have marketed in recent years you would have thought Apple would have designed in current limiting components."
Yeah, last time around the problem was limited to those who had their iPods under their pillows with their heads on top. That did a good job of preventing air circulation. Guess what? Bed clothes are usually pretty good insulators (for obvious reasons). Go back and check the articles about the fires - they were all caused in similar ways!
USB 2 only gives off 5V at 0.5A so that's 2.5W. Hardly enough to get warm let alone toast plastic.
I bet he's used one of those cheapo non-standard USB power chargers that like to supply a couple of amps for some reason. A disaster waiting to happen those things.
Short one out - see how warm they can get.
As long as the charger supplies 5VDC then the charger could be a Billion amps lol
Thats why you can have a 2KW PSU running an PC motherboard and not have to replace it when you decide that life is worth more than having 4 GPU's
... it's FireWire.
If we up the power by attaching this car battery that should boost the signal, right?
Is it supposed to get this warm?


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At Emmanuel College, we are proud to offer a number of great dining service options on campus. Our main dining facility, located in the Jean Yawkey Center, offers an all-you-can-eat buffet dining style with a wide assortment of foods rotating on a daily basis. Featured foods include: deli, grill, pasta, pizza, stir fry, salad, soups, fruit and cereal as well as a variety of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options, as well as treats from the dessert station.
For those looking to grab-and-go, the Atrium Café, located directly outside Marian Hall, offers express sandwiches and salads, snacks, coffee and items hot off the grill. The Muddy River Café, located on the first floor of the Administration Building, features a salad bar, panini sandwiches, hot subs, homemade soups and more.