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Fellow Entrepreneur,
to the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Industry,
an industry that's literally growing by the day! I know
it because I've experienced it! And now you can too!
what is Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT)?
Also known as an ambulette service, NEMT is the transportation
of people in wheelchairs, stretchers or those ambulatory
who need assistance.
You'll transport people to and from medical appointments,
in and out of hospitals and nursing facilities,
or from residences to various medical appointments.
And here's the absolute best part…
two niche markets, the medical industry and the
elderly population, are not just growing, they're
exponentially booming!
seriously, if you have any kind of keen business sense
then these two statistics, the growth rate of the elderly
population and that of the medical industry, have got
to excite you and gain your interest!
let's discuss in further detail just why starting a
NEMT business is a great investment for ambitious, motivated
starters, rarely do entrepreneurs think of this kind
of business when looking for a business opportunity!
Everyone is focused on the get-rich-quick schemes and
no money down pie-in-the-sky dreams of riches!
Seriously, when was the last time you heard someone
say "I think I'm going start a NEMT business?" The fact
of the matter is you probably haven't! But, you probably
know someone, if not even yourself, that has started
some kind of "no money down" real estate gig or some
other online pie-in-the-sky dream.
So realistically, we're talking about a business opportunity
for which (1) your target market is booming, growing
faster than any real estate market or any other market,
and (2) not everyone knows about, let alone considers,
when looking to invest in a new business!
Another reason why this is a great opportunity is because
this is a service-based business. There are no products
to buy, store, ship or sell.
And when you follow my strategies for success people
will be looking for you. They'll be looking for your
business! They'll be seeking out your service instead
of you having to continuously chase and solicit customers!
As I did, and so many others, you can literally start
your NEMT business from your living room table, your
home office or garage! Because you're going to be traveling
into your community to transport your clients, you don't
need a high-priced, fancy office or an elaborate store
front to encourage business.
Think about it. What's cheaper or more cost effective?
Invest in a vehicle that goes out into and meets the
needs of your community or invest in real estate for
a retail business, a franchise, or some other traditional
business idea?
And when you're starting a business from home, it definitely
limits your overhead expenses….and limited overhead
expenses leads to a bigger "bottom line." That means
more profitability!
But now that we're talking about profitability, let's
really start to talk about making money!
are clients that typically pay "out of pocket"
for transportation to and from their medical appointments.
This will be a highly profitable source of revenue
for you!
are many transportation providers who ONLY transport
Private-Pay Clients because of the higher rates
of reimbursement. For them, pursing other sources
of revenue is simply not worth their time. They're
simply too busy cultivating their Private-Pay
about FREE healthcare?! Medicaid recipients not
only receive FREE medical benefits but, according
to Article 1915 of the Social Security Act, recipients
also get FREE transportation to and from their
medical appointments!
the good news for you, the transportation provider,
is that with Medicaid, depending on your State,
you can generate some seriously BIG reimbursement
checks that you'll love receiving in the mail…like
similar to Private-Pay transportation providers,
there are some NEMT providers that ONLY service
Medicaid clients! Why? Because in some counties,
the reimbursement rates are just that high!
Compensation Insurance:
reimbursement is for transporting people hurt
"on the job" who need to get to and from physical
therapy and related medical appointments. Workers
Comp is one of the few forms of insurance that
reimburses for NEMT and can be an awesome source
of revenue that also pays extremely well!
some transportation providers ONLY cater to Workers
Comp because the reimbursements are just that
profitable! Workers Comp is a great opportunity!
are awesome opportunity for your business because
they offer a wide variety of NEMT opportunities.
They provide you with Emergency Room discharges,
general discharges, transportation to and from
different treatment facilities and doctor offices,
dialysis centers, courier and delivery transportation
opportunities, and so much more.
Hospitals are an awesome source for which to secure
contracts and repeat business as they're ALWAYS
in need of transportation!
homes and independent living facilities are a
"staple" for this industry! Why? Because they
literally care for one of your most important
niche markets - the elderly population!
Like hospitals, nursing facilities can provide
you with some outstanding transportation opportunities!
You will transport residents to general medical
appointments, many regularly to dialysis treatments,
and more. You can even partner with the Activities
Departments to transport large numbers of residents
for special events!
There is probably no other source of revenue that
is more predictable and stable than dialysis clients.
Typically, most dialysis patients have to go to
dialysis three times a week. And these medical
appointments are mandatory! Hence, one of many
reasons why the NEMT industry IS recession-proof!
Private-Pay or Medicaid, dialysis patients are
always profitable because they offer volume and
regularity. Appointments are arranged every other
day and typically last between 3-4 hours. You'll
be able to plan and count on these transports
and reimbursements like clockwork!
Rest assured Non-emergency Medical Transportation
is not just for the elderly! There are students
of all ages that need your assistance. Did you
ever stop to consider, how do disabled students
get to and from school if they can't ride a typical
school bus?
a NEMT business, you can literally contract with
school districts and different organizations to
transport students of all ages!
This is a 320 Manual that you will download immediately
following your investment! There is NO waiting
on "snail mail!" You can start right now! This
Manual is NOT offered in stores.
often asked:
I have competitors in my area. Do I really have an opportunity?"
yes! You absolutely do! Let me tell you, if you have
hospitals, nursing facilities, dialysis centers, doctor
offices, and the like in your community then you instantly
have opportunity! It's staring you in the face!
Trust me, if you have competitors….they're NOT working
for FREE! If your competitors are busy making money,
the question begs, why aren't you? Why aren't you busy
cutting a slice of the profitable pie?
And think about this…
The further the transport in terms of distance and time,
the more money you'll make!
let me tell you from first hand experience. Transports
after hours, on weekends and holidays, they always generate
more money!
So, are you starting to see the BIG picture yet? And
trust me. I'm just scratching the surface! There are
so many other ways to make money in the NEMT industry
as you'll continue to learn in my ebook and newsletter.
The opportunities are wide and diverse!
And hopefully, you're starting to see why a NEMT business
IS recession-proof.
of other businesses that are market dependent. Consider
real estate for example. The real estate market has
been in the tank and every business associated with
this industry has been adversely affected in some capacity
at some point in time!
with the NEMT industry, it doesn't matter what the economy
is doing. Patients who have dialysis or radiation treatments
could care less if it's a "bull" or "bear" market! Whether
the market is up or down, patients have to get to and
from their medical appointments!
Likewise with hospitals, discharges, and more - when
it's time to go, YOU GOTTA GO!
don't forget the Tax Breaks:
on your legal structure, there are always
tax benefits to owning your own business.
But with a NEMT business, you'll have HUGE
depreciation costs because of your vehicles
and assets. You'll have further write-offs
and benefits to include possible handicap
tax credits.
easiest way to make money is to save money.
So take what the government gives you with
tax breaks and incentives!
although the NEMT industry is growing and is in high
demand, it's NOT a high-tech business. You don't need
a fancy degree or even prior experience to start and
be successful in the NEMT industry.
I started, I had NO prior NEMT experience…let alone
ANY business experience! My NEMT business was my very
first business!
unlike an ambulance service you do NOT need any
special life saving skills, equipment or training. When
you follow my strategies, you're going to be able to
do exactly as I did - start with one vehicle, follow
a "controlled growth" strategy, and systematically build
your business. In time, you're going to have more time,
money, and the ability to do whatever you want when
you want!
Remember, you're a service-based business. And because
you're literally going to be helping people, you WILL
become an asset within your community! You'll be helping
clients, hospitals, nursing facilities, doctor offices,
treatment centers and the like. You'll literally be
helping these facilities to accomplish their daily missions.
Think about it….
Without your service, how would doctors see their elderly
and disabled clients? How would these patients even
get to the doctors? How would hospitals empty their
beds to make room for new patients? Without your services,
their operation would come to a screeching halt!
the list goes on, and on, and on….
be a fixture within your community for which you can
literally leverage to further network and build awesome
friendships and partnerships!
remember. As a NEMT provider, you're charged with meeting
the transportation needs of your clients. That's it!
We're NOT doctors, nurses, nurses-aides or other. But
although we're just the transportation provider, we
do bring a great deal of help and assistance to our
clients! And honestly, bringing help to other does feel
are many elderly people sitting in nursing homes with
limited family and even fewer visitors. When you arrive
to take them to their medical appointments it is, in
many instances, literally their outing for day, week,
or month! And trust me, by providing these elderly people
with helpful and courteous service, service-with-a-smile,
it makes them feel special and makes you feel good!
you, when I was starting my business, I had no "How
to" manual to learn how to start my NEMT business! I
experienced a great deal of success…but it wasn't without
a lot of mistakes too - mistakes that cost me a lot
of money that you're going to be able to avoid!
know the NEMT industry! And if my strategies can work
for others, they can definitely work for you! I'll teach
you how to become an asset within your community. And
coupled with the dramatic increase in the elderly population,
your growth and opportunities are limitless!
let's be honest. There's not too many ebooks
on the market of this size and detail! And
to say I stand by this information and opportunity
is an absolute understatement! In fact, if
you have questions, call my office at (607)
343-3690! Seriously, we're here to help!
if you call after hours or if we're on another line,
just leave us a message. We'll call you back! We do
it every day! Again, we look forward to speaking with
you and answering your questions. Again, my office number
is (607) 343-3690.
to further prove the legitimacy of my ebook and to demonstrate
how much I stand by this opportunity I offer a full
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not totally satisfied with this information then please,
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your money!
think long-term! This is a business that's going
to last and continue to grow. This is a business
in which you can make BIG money and build a legacy.
You can keep it, sell it for profit or pass it
onto your heirs!
if you're like almost 80% of Americans, you've
contemplated starting your own business. But,
if you've only thought about starting your own
business and you can't find the right opportunity,
then look no further. I'm going to show you how
to generate millions of dollars in the world's
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now, it's about time for us to stop talking and
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There is no physical book to ship. There is no
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literally begin studying "How to Build a MillionDollar
Medical Transportation Company" immediately following
your investment!Who cares more about your financial
future more than you? Who
cares more about your success than you? The answer
is NO ONE!
The NEMT industry has been a phenomenal opportunity
for me and many others whom I've been blessed
to have the opportunity to work with. And it can
be for you too!
if you always do what you always did, you'll always
get what you always got! So, if you're not willing
to be decisive and take bold action then you can't
complain because nothing changes!
let me not forget the FREE-bees!
you invest in this best-selling ebook, I'm also
going to give you the following: ·
copy of "A New Opportunity for Additional
Revenue!" You'll definitely want to read
this! You're going to discover strategies
for keeping your vehicles moving around the
clock. And the more they're moving, the more
money you're making!
copy of "Secret Strategies for Financial
Success & Independence!" This will provide
you with some great insight and overall knowledge
and strategies for approaching business on
a grand scale!
copy of my "Transportation Industry Road
Map!" This will give you some great insight
on how to evaluate different options for how
best to enter your transportation market as
economically as possible!
copy of my "Shock Report!" A quick
read, but a great read providing some great
insider tips and strategies relevant to current
market situations!
This is a 315 page Manual that you will download immediately
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and watch videos, comments, and testimonials from others.
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materials regarding the home care industry can literally
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Nicki Minaj 's fiancé Meek Mill performed a fairly dramatic U-turn on stage on Wednesday when he APOLOGISED to his other half for slamming her close friend Drake online.
Uhoh, it seems someone was in the doghouse.
The rapper was performing in Virginia when he gave Nicki, who was on stage next to him at the time, a "special apology".
Meek hit out at Drake this week claiming he refused to promote Meek's recent album Dreams Worth More Than Money, despite featuring on it, because he was confronted about using other writers.
He tweeted: "Stop comparing drake to me too.... He don't write his own raps! That's why he ain't tweet my album because we found out! (sic)"
Meek continued to say he believes artists like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole "really know how to rap", but added he wouldn't have asked Drake to guest on his album if he had realised sooner that someone else wrote his lyrics.
Drake's later response was revealed in a direct message Hitman Holla decided to share, declaring: "I signed up for greatness. This comes with it."
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After apologising to Nicki however, Meek went on to stick by his original statements, later saying he's "upset as a fan" that Drake's verse on his album was apparently written by someone else.
Those claims just won't change then eh?
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Forged Through Fire (Hardcover)
War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 9781631491603, 480pp.
Publication Date: December 6, 2016
Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this provocative question, John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth trace the surprising ways in which governments have mobilized armies since antiquity, discovering that our modern form of democracy not only evolved in a brutally competitive environment but also quickly disintegrated when the powerful elite no longer needed their citizenry to defend against existential threats.
Bringing to vivid life the major battles that shaped our current political landscape, the authors begin with the fierce warrior states of Athens and the Roman Republic. While these experiments in "mixed government" would serve as a basis for the bargain between politics and protection at the heart of modern democracy, Ferejohn and Rosenbluth brilliantly chronicle the generations of bloodshed that it would take for the world's dominant states to hand over power to the people. In fact, for over a thousand years, even as medieval empires gave way to feudal Europe, the king still ruled. Not even the advancements of gunpowder--which decisively tipped the balance away from the cavalry-dominated militaries and in favor of mass armies--could threaten the reign of monarchs and "landed elites" of yore.
The incredibly wealthy, however, were not well equipped to handle the massive labor classes produced by industrialization. As we learn, the Napoleonic Wars stoked genuine, bottom-up nationalism and pulled splintered societies back together as "commoners" stepped up to fight for their freedom. Soon after, Hitler and Stalin perfectly illustrated the military limitations of dictatorships, a style of governance that might be effective for mobilizing an army but not for winning a world war. This was a lesson quickly heeded by the American military, who would begin to reinforce their ranks with minorities in exchange for greater civil liberties at home.
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Storybird is a tool to use for creative writing with students to create beautiful illustrated books. Storybird can be used on a computer or through a browser on an iPad. It is suitable for creating picture books or long-form (chapter) books or even poetry.
Storybird has hundreds of themed sets of illustrations freely available to use to illustrate a story. Here's a snapshot of just a few from a search for penguins:
Search for artwork to fit an existing story or browse the illustrations to inspire a new story. When the story is complete it can be shared free of charge via a link, embedding on a website, through social media or email; or for around $2 you can download a high-quality pdf for printing. There is even the option to have a proper bound book printed from around $15 and they do deliver to Australia.
Teachers can create accounts for their students and then monitor progress and provide feedback through the writing process. Students are able to view and comment on each others work in a safe online space.
Imagine how thrilled the children will be to share their beautifully illustrated stories with their families.
My story isn't going to win any prizes but it gives you a little idea of what is possible.
Here is some feedback about Storybird from teachers:


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SuperShort SciFi: The Story Of A Boy & A Dog
When I received the latest HubPages Weekly, I was astounded that Shadesbreath was interested in trying to promote scifi on HubPages. Although I can certainly understand that any type of fiction is outside the HubRealm, I figured, hey, what the heck. It certainly won't be easy Google bait but maybe there might be someone out there who might stumble onto it and appreciate some very short form scifi. I'd love to hear from anyone who actually reads this! If there are people out there who actually like to read this, I can do more! So let's give it a shot!
"Awww.... Oooh... errr.... Uh? Yawn! It's almost sunset. Did I ever sleep! Awww. Dyznee? Dyznee? Where are you? Dyznee? Come on boy! Dyznee! There you are! Dyznee! Oh look at you, Dyznee boy! Come here. Look at this ear. Or what's left of it. Oh Dyznee. It's not so bad. Your ear will heal and you still have one good eye. After last night we're both lucky to get back from the Si-t-i-all alive, let alone missing some bits. Come on Dyznee. Here. What is this stuff? I-a-ms. I thought that was supposed to be a can of soup. Oh well. It was in the big air bubble in the k-i-tc-he-n so it's not too badly rusted... you can see that it's got a picture of a dog on it. Hope it's not dog meat, Dyznee... wouldn't wanna make you into a cannibaldog! Here. Eat it all up. Hmmm. Not bad. Pretty tasty stuff this I-a-ms. Yeah. Be-ef flavour. Nice. I like it. I'm sure it doesn't have any dog bits in it. Be-ef. I bet be-ef wasn't nice and had gravy like this. This is better than be-ef, right, Dyznee? I-a-ms.Yum yum! Eat it all up, boy. Come on you have to build up your strength again. Hell, so do I... Something to drink? Cl-o-r-ox Bl-ea-che. What the hell is Cl-o-r-ox Bl-ea-c-he? UUUH! Smells too rotten to drink. Yuck. Must have gone bad. No Dyznee, I can see that you don't want any of that either. What about this thing... hmm... P-ea-rs. P-ea-rs... yeah. P-ea-rs. I had that before. It's really tasty, Dyznee, you want some? Yeah. P-ea-rs S-oa-p. Not bad at all. Yum. Nice stuff. I like this P-ea-rs S-oa-p. Smells good too. Goes real good with the Be-ef I-a-ms. Ummmm... yeah. That's a bit better. Hold on. Lemme try to get up.... AWWW... OUCH... DAMN! No way, Dyznee. Looks like my leg's broken. I aint gonna be swimming anywhere anytime soon. Damn. I was in so much of a hurry to get away from that fishface that I didn't even notice last night. OUCH. I notice now... Damn! Well, Dyznee, looks like it could be worse, huh? We got ourselves a good stash here. My leg will be perfectly fine by the time we get on the outside of all this food! Look at this! A full box of Ta-b-a-sc-o. That looks good. Yum yum! And look at this! To-m-at-o P-as-sa-ta. Remember when we had To-m-at-o? It was out of those rusted cans. Wasn't very good, huh, Dyznee. But this is in glass. It kept fine underwater for all those years. I'm sure it will be much better than those terrible rusted cans. I'm not bringing anything up from C-ry-s-ta-ll P-a-l-ac-e-ia anymore unless it's in glass. Look over here! R-as-p-be-r-ri-a J-am-a. What do you figure this is? Dunno. But over here! Two cases of B-al-sa-m-ic-c V-in-e-g-ra. That's gotta be some kind of wine. We can get drunk too, Dyznee! We can have a party. We'll just invite all the fish over and do the underwater boogie. You'll have to do all the boogieing, Dyznee, at least for a while until my leg gets better. Right Dyznee? Ah, you don't care about anything but your Be-ef I-a-ms, do you... Alright. I'll wait until you're finished... Hurry up boy since it's almost night. Good thing since I'm sweating my shorts off. If I had any shorts, anyway. Might cool down a bit tonight, I hope. Not like last night. That was too hot. I dunno if the heat wore me out more than the fight. Yeah. That fishface was a real animal wasn't he? Scaly green bastard. Never saw a fishface that strong. Damn near killed both of us. Those damn fishfaces are getting bigger and uglier every year. It's the damn air, Dyznee, I tell ya. Same damn air that made this ugly slimy thing grow on my chest here. Looks like I'm carrying a load of seaweed on my chest, huh? Guess if it grows to cover up my face I'll be a fishface too. That wouldn't be very nice, now would it Dyznee? You don't want me to be a fishface! But you know, Dyznee, I haven't felt real good for a few moons now. Especially when the wind comes out from the south, over from the M-ia-m-ee Lights. I get chills and start shaking all over even though I'm sweating in this heat. Dyznee? What is this? O-li-v-es. They're green. Do you think they went bad? They've got this red thing in the middle of them all. You figure they're worms, Dyznee? I dunno about this. Lemme try one first in case it's bad. Hmm. No. Not bad at all Dyznee. If those things are worms they are real tasty. O-li-v-es. Nice. Real Nice. I'm glad we have one, two, three, four. Four cases of O-li-v-es. Damn near drowned pulling them all up from down there at C-ry-s-ta-ll P-a-l-ac-e-ia all the way to up here. Got my arm caught in the metal of the C-ry-s-ta-ll P-a-l-ac-e-ia dome on the way up. Almost ran out of breath before I broke free. But it was worth it. Oh yeah. O-li-v-es. Yum. Want one? Nah. All you want is your Be-ef I-a-ms. I can see that. Well, eat away boy. We'll need our strength. Both of us will. That's for sure. Hold on, Dyznee. I wanna pull some of these cases over in front of that window there. Don't want any of those fishfaces to see us from the Si-t-i-all. Hey, Dyznee. Come and look at this! Isn't that a sight. You can still see a bit of the sunset and the M-ia-m-ee Lights are just as clear as in the middle of the night! Isn't that something. Look Dyznee! Look. Right through the red of the sunset, you can see the green of the M-ia-m-ee Lights! Look at that glow. Really amazing, isn't it, Dyznee? Red and green. Wow. Nice. Just like these O-li-v-es. Red and green O-li-v-es and a red and green sunset. Beautiful. My grampa told me that you couldn't always see the M-ia-m-ee Lights from here. The M-ia-m-ee had lights before the mushroom but they weren't so bright. And they weren't green. Grampa told me that there were three million people living in the M-ia-m-ee, all nice and dry. No, Dyznee, I dunno what a million is either. But it's lots. Lots of people. Not even the fishfaces can live in the M-ia-m-ee now. Nothing. Not even fish! Not even clams. Nothing at all. Grampa said that when he was born in J-u-pi-t-re Beach. Or something like that. I thought it was a planet, Dyznee, not a beach, but he said it was halfway between here and the M-ia-m-ee Lights. That was in the dry time. He said that when he was young he couldn't see the M-ia-m-ee Lights even from this J-u-pi-t-re Beach place. Then the mushroom happened. Grampa said you could see the big bright mushroom from there, and there was a big wind that blew down everything in that J-u-pi-t-re Beach. Then starting that night he said you could see the M-ia-m-ee Lights. Real bright. Then he said that it got hotter and hotter. Even hotter than now. Hard to believe that it could get any hotter than this, huh, Dyznee? And then the water came. And the dry time was over. He told me that he heard that there are towers like this one in some of the M-ia-m-ee and they are still dry, but nobody can get close enough to find out. Nobody can get anywhere close to any of the mushroom places, J-a-ck-s-on-vi-l-li-a, or T-a-mp-i-a or any of those. I loved it when Grampa would tell me all those stories. Grampa was a really nice old man. Tough old man, though. Really tough. See this? Broke this tooth on his thighbone. Toughest meat I ever ate. Real stringy and full of gristle. No, don't feel bad, Dyznee. I'm sorry you didn't get any of Grampa, but that was before I came here. I didn't even know you then. Hey, Dyznee? Remember when we first met? Yeah. It was raining really black rain that day. Stickier than usual. Yeah. You were here staying high and dry and you almost bit my hand off when I first swam up! But then we became friends. Good friends. Me and Dyznee! Dyznee The Dog. The best dog in all of Dyznee W-o-rl-d-ah. Named you after this place. And it's become our home. Together Forever. Me and Dyznee! I'm glad the dry people built this part with all the spiky towers and turrets all nice and high above the waves. Not much else sticks out of the water this far, except for all those strange things all the way to the south, like the white dimpled dome... but that's full of fishfaces... wouldn't wanna go there! I like it here in our turret. It's nice and high and dry. Wouldn't have done us any good if it was short and underwater like the rest of the buildings, would it, Dyznee? Not unless we were fish! Ha! That's a good one. Me and Dyznee being fish. Ha! Me and Dyznee The Dogfish! Hahaha. That's really fun... Hey, Dyznee? Did you hear that? Yeah. It was bubbles. I'm sure of it. Bubbles from underneath there. Ssshh. Dyznee. I'm gonna go check. It might be nothing. Or it might be fishfaces from their nest over in the S-pa-is M-au-nt-ai-in. Hope I can swim with this damn broken leg. Just stay here, boy. Guard the food. Don't let the fishfaces get it. I'll be right back, Dyznee. I love you, Dyznee. I'll be right back."
I-am an avid sci-fi buff. I want to read the rest! Good start! I agree with Shadesbreath that there could be more formatting to break it up for the flow of reading. However, so far, you have my attention...now I want the rest. =o)
Besided, I thought hubpages was a place to call home for writers,moey or not. If you can't kick off your shoes and let down your hair here, where else can you go to have a little fun? So, fiction may not sell a lot of google products....but if you had not put hyphens in Iams dogfood...you might have sold a lot of dog food! Do they let you be an affiliate at Iams? Just a thought. I haven't quite figured all the advertising out, yet. But i bet with a little thought you could get google's interest.
I want to read more. Please continue! Thanks! =o)
E una buona idea. Thumbs up Hal :)
This is like Hal Licino and HubPages meets Cormac McCarthy and _The Road_. lol. Interesting story, I like the idea. I'd say more paragraph breaks and maybe consider reworking the hyphenated spelling; I like the idea of him working through what's he's getting into a lot, but the hyphens are distracting.
Very cool idea, and I love how patient you were in revelealing where the story was taking place, that was a good decision and you pulled it off nicely. Thumbs up.
Parlo un poco Italiano, pero "es buena idea."
non capisco! Non lo so!
not a bad beginning. keep it going and we'll see where it leads.


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Joe Biden to the rescue?
This is a rush transcript from "The Five," October 9, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
ANDREA TANTAROS, CO-HOST: Well, in about 48 hours, Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden will square off for the one and only vice presidential debate at Center College in Danville, Kentucky.
Democrats are hoping and praying that Joe Biden will help turn things around for the Obama campaign. But can they count on Joe's track record?
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Stand up, Chuck.
Let them see you. God love you. What am I talking about? I tell you what? You make everybody else stand up, pal.
This is a big (EXPLETIVE DELETED) deal.
Thank you, Dr. Pepper, and thank you chancellor -- or Dr. Paper.
Unchain Wall Street.
They're going to put y'all back in chains.
How they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried for the last four years? How in the Lord's name can they justify?
TANTAROS: Whose campaign was he working for there? I got to tell you, if I had a keg party, Eric, Joe Biden is the one person I would look to, to help me save it if it were going down and no one was going to attend. But I don't know about rescuing the Democratic Party with a debate.
ERIC BOLLING, CO-HOST: Not -- I'm not sure it's going to change things a lot. But I will tell you, give him credit -- give Joe Biden credit. He's been studying. He spent the last few days, I guess six days, he's going to hole up somewhere in an undisclosed bunker somewhere.
But he'll be prepared. He'll know the numbers.
But here's the difference, though -- Paul Ryan understands numbers. Joe Biden will know the numbers. Paul Ryan understands them.
There's no comparison when you put two people together that know a topic. And one knows it and one understands it. Ryan will teach him a lot of things about the budget and the about the economy come Thursday night.
TANTAROS: Well, Dana, he should know the numbers, because he's been in office I think longer than maybe you and I have actually been alive.
But I do think that he has an advantage because as Eric points out, he knows the numbers and he was forced to defend his plans to his own party.
So, just like Romney, he gets out there without the filter of the media and he can explain them to seniors and --
DANA PERINO, CO-HOST: And he did very well in debate in the Democratic primary in 2008. He's a very -- he's a skilled politician, rarely held accountable for anything he says, which I can't explain.
But think about Ryan for a second. This guy won re-election seven times in a very moderate district in Wisconsin. He is a good retail politician. He's actually been very good out on the stump. Doesn't get a lot of coverage.
But Thursday night, I thin, when I get my milk duds and my popcorn ready, it will be a great night. It will fun no matter what.
TANTAROS: So, do you think, Brian, the bar is higher or lower, though? Because people go, oh, crazy Uncle Joe. But then at the same time, the pressure is on because Obama failed the other night so they are looking to Joe.
So, is it a high bar or a low bar?
BRIAN KILMEADE, GUEST CO-HOST: Really high. It's up to Joe Biden to stop the bleeding. And there is tremendous bleeding. And even after the jobs number which were positive for president, they are counting on Joe Biden not only to answer Paul Ryan's questions, but the ones that President Obama did not answer last week.
And that's the preparation that's taking six days. I am not sure he is up to it. On foreign policy, he's got the experience. Paul Ryan has got to step up, not to out-foreign policy him, but to show he is competent for Joe Biden to get inside the numbers, that Paul Ryan has been living with for 12, 15 years, that made him chairman as young guy jumping over the Republicans. That's going to too much to get out of by studying.
TANTAROS: Oh you're alive. I was going to call EMS unit for your vital signs.
BOB BECKEL, CO-HOST: No, no. First of all, it was the bleeding that got to me. I thought about that, which you said is terrible hemorrhage.
But, yes, Ryan has been delivering numbers on the wrong side. He is still a right winger and may get elected in moderate district.
I think Joe Biden -- you know, Joe Biden has been in politics for 35 years. You take one minute of the goof here and make it funny and say funny Joe. He is one of the skilled politicians in America. He's going to take this guy to the woodshed and I think he's going to expose these guys for what they are, which is a bunch of proposals that are shams.
BOLLING: Let me get something else too. I mean, the Obama campaign right now is in desperation mode. They're in panic mode right now. They saw a five-point lead turn in to three or four-point deficit. They need him to step up and do something to as Brian pointed, stop the bleeding.
TANTAROS: They also --
BOLLING: Stop the slide, at least.
TANTAROS: -- might be relying on the media now to jump up to and help them do their dirty work.
Take a listen, they're getting a little bit hostile in an interview that Paul Ryan had with one reporter, shows the media's fury.
REPORTER: This country has gun problem.
REP. PAUL RYAN, VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This country has a crime problem.
REPORTER: Not a gun problem?
RYAN: No, I mean, if you take a look at the gun laws we have. I don't think President Obama is proposing more gun laws. We have good, strong gun laws.
RYAN: We have to make sure to enforce the laws. We have a lot of laws that aren't properly enforced. We need to make sure we enforce these laws. But the best thing to prevent the violent crime in inner cities is bring opportunity in the inner city.
TANTAROS: OK. So we cut that, but it goes on where the reporter gets more and more hostile. Eventually the press secretary pulls it.
So, are we going to see the media step few the Obama campaign is flailing even more?
PERINO: Oftentimes we'll get good interview out of local media. But if they think they're going to win a Pulitzer Prize out of that, they're in trouble.
And in addition to that, here's the problem that Paul Ryan has. He's smarter than everybody else in the room. If it comes across as if he knows he's smarter than everybody else in the room, it can look smug or arrogant.
There is somebody else in politics with that problem.
So, I think --
TANTAROS: Does his rhyme with Morack Morama?
PERINO: But the thing -- I think that Ryan will -- he'll have a little bit of self-deprecating humor. He'll be a little bit differential to senior statesman Biden and he will kill him on substance.
BECKEL: I can't let you get away with saying this in panic mode. The bleeding is over. It's settled down now.
BOLLING: Really?
BECKEL: Yes. It has settled down.
TANTAROS: Settle down.
BECKEL: You think that somehow this thing is going to continue on and people are making up their mind.
BOLLING: Every day when you look at the poll.
PERINO: They're the ones who did the Big Bird ad.
KILMEADE: Let me just quote the great philosopher Seth Meyers. He said, "Is there anything more exciting than Joe Biden thinking it's up to him get the lead back? It's Tebow time."
BECKEL: It's not going to matter. That's the base. It's not going to matter one bit.
TANTAROS: By the way, if we can roll the tape from last week, our Bob Beckel said that last week's debate wouldn't matter at all either. We can take it with triple helping of salt.
And be sure to watch this Thursday. Our Kimberly will be covering the V.P. debate live from Kentucky.
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Candidates for the 2017 general election will have personal responsibility for ensuring they are eligible for office under the Constitution.
The Elections Office says it has made recommendations to bring clarity to the issue in light of the landmark ruling from Chief Justice Anthony Smellie which followed a constitutional challenge to West Bay legislator Tara Rivers's right to stand in the 2013 election.
However, Suzanne Bothwell, deputy supervisor of elections, said the ultimate responsibility lies with the candidates and that anyone hoping to run for office should "familiarize themselves with the Constitution."
She said the Elections Office would give advice and make recommendations, but where there was doubt, the candidates would make the final choice and risk the prospect of a legal challenge.
"The most we can do is interpret the law as the court has stated it," she said. "The onus is going to be on them to make sure they are qualified under the Constitution because if there are issues that arise, it is up to their peers perhaps to raise a petition in the Grand Court on that fact.
"The onus was and still is on the person putting themselves forward as a candidate to ensure they are qualified."
Education Minister Ms. Rivers faced a Grand Court challenge in 2013 after John Gordon Hewitt, whose wife Velma Powery-Hewitt narrowly missed out on election in West Bay, disputed her eligibility to stand.
Mr. Hewitt's petition to the Grand Court suggested that Ms. Rivers's candidacy fell foul of the residency requirements outlined in the Constitution which disbar candidates who have lived overseas for 400 days or more in the seven years prior to the election.
Ms. Rivers's lawyers successfully argued that she qualified for an educational exemption to the provision. They argued that the London law firm where Ms. Rivers spent three years training and working should be considered an "educational institution" and that she had never given up residency in the Cayman Islands.
Chief Justice Smellie ruled in her favor and Ms. Rivers has since filed a petition seeking to bankrupt the Hewitts for failing to comply with a court order to pay her legal costs of nearly $140,000.
Wesley Howell, supervisor of elections, said his staff would take advice from the chief justice on the implications of that judgment for candidates in 2017.
He said his office has also recommended changes to the Elections Law to help clarify the process. Ms. Bothwell said the Elections Office would consult with the attorney general of questions of eligibility of candidates.
"However, I think, moving forward, it may very well not be up to the Elections Office to say we are not going to accept your nomination," she added. "It may very well be put through, if there is an observation to be made, it may be made and then that is the risk the candidate will run. If he or she is successful and a potential issue comes after that, things will take its course."


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KELOWNA – Country music singer and songwriter Alan Jackson brings his unique combination of honky tonk and mainstream to Prospera Place this fall.
Jackson, 55, has more than 30 number one hits and won two Grammy's in his 25-year career. He will perform hits like Here in the Real World, Don't Rock the Jukebox and Chattahoochee in Kelowna Sept. 25.
His latest recording, the Bluegrass Album, is his 15th studio album and includes eight self-written songs as well as several covers.
Jackson's most recent music video, Blue Ridge Mountain Song, stars his daughter Ali.
Tickets for the show go on sale May 30 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased online.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Adam Proskiw at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-718-0428. To contact the editor, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-718-2724.


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my life
Limited Edition
I remember when we were in college and started dating. I didn't want anyone to see us together within the portals of Santo Tomas, except our friends. From Main Building, he crossed almost everyday in our building at St. Martin De Pores just to see and check if I'm okay. Bryan is a head turner (yes, until now) and I was the average Jane who's always been shy and boring. I could shut my mouth for hours and won't talk to you if I don't want to. The only thing I'm good at is to write silly scripts, but still get A+ grades because I had the best group mates who act so well. I never told my husband this, but he brings out the best in me. He believes in me. He is my fan. He always makes me feel beautiful. I know this is so highschool, but he almost brutally confronted someone who told my friend I was ugly (6 years ago) and that affected me for days (so never call someone ugly because I've experienced it and it's disheartening). He is my protector. He's my knight in white uniform who always surprises me with his art of chivalry.
Our relationship is not perfect. We have petty quarrels, especially when I'm about to have my period (blame it to the hormones!) but he almost mastered my moods and he can handle it very well. We've always been in a long distance love affair that sometimes, people find it foolish since physical presence is very important in a relationship. But we work on it because we want to and we love each other and that's more than enough reason. Besides, I don't see myself with anyone else and we know in our hearts that this is only temporary. We'll be together soon, no particular date but it will happen.
Oh by the way, my husband's turning 26 next month! I'm excited! Isn't he adorable? I miss his hair too! :D


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I seem to have gotten out of America just in time. Though the Swine Flu or H1N1 Flu as it now being referred to has seemed to have stabilized and is not the serious menace it is being hyped to be in the media, airline flights are beiing cancelled and travellers coming to Europe from the western hemisphere are being scruitnized intensely.
I don't want to underplay the concern that the World Health Organization is giving to a potential menace. A virus, which once took months and years to travel on this planet is now aided by the miracle of international jet travel. An airplanew becomes a vector or transmission.
The governments seem for the most part to be responding in a responsible and reassuring manner, while the media is behaving like a pack of hysterical lunatics, treating the virus the same way irresponsible way it treats every political and celebrity story; like a flash riot.
The conservative media in America has been given another legnth of rope to hang itself with as it goes full hog into an orgy of anti hispanic racist rhetoric.
What comes across most to me after a few weeks in America: People are afraid of health issues. They are being used as pawns by the insurance and drug corporations.
The idea of a system of assisted preventative health care is being touted as a step to socialism and socialism is being touted as anti American and a mere hop skip and jump to full blown communism.
To me, America is already in the grip of an epidemic. An epidemic that could be prevented and treated. I was horrifically amazed at the explossion of obesity that seems to be incrementally growing every time I go to the USA.
This epidemic is tragic because it also on a par with addiction. The addiction to highly refined foods, laden with sugar , starch and fat, packaged as snacks and fast food is as dangerous if not more so than heroin.
Heroin is illegal, but multinational corporations constantly bombard consumers with advertising and new product.
Can we define addiction?
- Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance: a drug used in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- An instance of this: a person with multiple chemical addictions.
- The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
First, the denial of a problem and evasion in dealing with it. Second, trying to deal with it is the cause of real physical discomfort. If a person addicted to over eating tries to stops they actually do experience many real forms of discomfort.
Obesity is a cause of the rising incidence of diabetes in populations that have up to now not been genetically disposed to it. It causes more heart attacks and cancer than smoking every did. That is just the tip of the mountain of health complications that arise from obesity.
Overweight people are less prone to exercise and are more prone to physical injuries.
I understand that obesity in many cases is caused by problems other than just over eating, but the epidemic that is destroying a large portion of America is preventable and like any other form of addiciton, in many cases requires outside intervention.
It is really tragic that the biggest epidemic in America is an addiction that is enabled by the biggest multinational corporations on the planet...And tragically, it is a fact that the present H1N1 flu virus has been traced by scientists this week to a virus identified in 1998 originating on American pork industry factory farms.
On Wednesday, Columbia University biomedical imformaticist Raul Rabadan comfirmed that six of the genes in the H1N1 Virus were definitely descended from the H1N2 and H3N2 swine viruses isolated in America in 1998. At the time, scientists identified the industrial pig farming techniques as incubators for the virus and warned of the potential for mutation and the possible leap from specie to specie.


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The Sounclick Player below contains music by Justin Spring, my frequent collaborator. I use them in the soundtracks of my Dreamstory videos.
I made the Dreamstories in the Player below
with poet/video artist Justin Spring.
Justin was responsible for the design, direction, filming, editing of the video as well as the mixing of the soundtracks.
They can be downloaded as free PDFs by clicking on the appropriate title above.
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If you have been thinking about giving up smoking, Hypnotherapy could help. Did you know that it has helped thousands of people kick the habit for good? Plus once you stop you may be able to smell and taste better which is definitely something to look forward to in addition to enjoying less coughs and colds. Cartersis Hypnotherapy Practice is based in Croydon & Clerkenwell London.
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Carrey's Twitter announcement Twit read "Jenny and I have just ended our 5yr relationship. I'm grateful 4 the many blessings we've shared and I wish her the very best!"
The news comes as a shock as the duo appeared to have durable bond. In fact as recently as Valentine's Day, Carrey has a plane sky-write "J hearts J" above their LA home.
He followed up on Twitter with "Jenny my Love, you've stolen my heart, my soul and of course anything you find in my pants."
Though a surprising break it seems to be amicable. McCarthy announcement Twit confirmed this. It read "I'm so grateful for the years Jim and I had together. I will stay committed to Jane and will always keep Jim as a leading man in my heart."


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blackview_admin wrote:Please tell me more about this bug or link a thread were somebody reported this.
Many users have problems with the three capacitive buttons whitch are not or bad responsive very often.
Sometimes they works correctly, but most of time i need to touch buttons many times to get a response ... the badest response is for back button !
It's not hardware problem because for all users bugs happen after ROM updates ... (like capacitive buttons drivers broken ?)
All solutions (Rollback ROM, factory reset, wipes, format, etc ... had been tested without success ...
The main screen of the phone is also a little laggy, but capacitive buttons are a pain !
Waiting solution is to use an app to get virtual buttons but this problem need a fix !


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Below I wrote a rather lengthy piece on why I feel of the 2012 Presidential contenders, Rick Santorum is the most dangerous for the military. Here is a short synopsis of why I feel that way but scroll down a few articles to see a fuller explanation of what Rick did to earn my ire.
In 1998 he (and Ted Kennedy) tried to screw disabled and disadvantaged retired enlisted by hiding an amendment in an unrelated bill requiring the Old Soldiers' Home to almost give away some property to Catholic University (CU). True Kennedy was the senior partner and member of the Armed Services Committee so was "leader" of the "screwing team" but Santorum was his enthusiastic partner in crime. The Home is where enlisted members with no other options can retire and get care. Funded by a small pay deduction that Congress refused to raise although demand remained steady, the Home had a large budget deficit. They had some undeveloped DC land so it decided to sell some to the highest bidder to raise funds to continue its worthy work. CU wanted the property but didn't feel like paying market price so got Santorum and Kennedy to sneak in the amendment forcing them to sell to CU for one-third its value. Outraged retired soldiers "outted" Santorum and Kennedy who quickly changed their tactics and gave CU the right of first refusal on any "high" bid which seriously depressed the bidding. In the end, Rick, Ted and CU still screwed the Old Soldiers – just not as bad!
If Rick were elected President, I expect the Military could look forward to routinely getting screwed. This is one Old Soldier that wouldn't look forward to that!


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Calvin Love at SXSW
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Cruised out with the crew for my first ever South x Southwest Music Festival. Special thanks to Ron Moon for many of these photos and much love to Stickelmaniac and Country Blake for helping out with some of the tasks.
SXSW is a crazy event to say the least. It's more erratic than a schizophrenic on bath salts. Unlike Coachella, where they actually herd the patrons into a gigantic caged in lawn and have you go nuts, at SXSW you land at the airport in Austin and basically your inside the festival. There's more people participating than there were participants of Hands Across America, and they are all in one relatively small city. The upside is that the quality of music is extremely high, from some of the best up and comers to the worlds most notable musicians all playing in mostly intimate settings. The only trouble is having the energy to actually walk the walk and wait the wait to get into anything you might be remotely interested in seeing.
However, that said, we did some incredible music. Including the trips first event, our family, Calvin Love. Calvin rocked the boat to say the least. Weather was perfect at the time of his show as he rocked it out while we floated across the river that divides the south side of Austin from the North. Special thanks to Calvin for the love. Check it out below.
Shouts out to Erica Fairchild. Worlds best dressed band manager. Erica crushes it regularly.


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The US Food and Drug Administration said its research shows that US rice is safe, but it will complete a larger study by year's end, the AP reported.
South Korea's Agricultural Ministry said that South Korea's Rural Development Administration will investigate, and imports and sales will resume if they determine the rice is safe, Bloomberg News reported.
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South Korea imports all its US rice from California. Consumer Reports found higher arsenic levels in rice from southern US states than from California.
Meanwhile, Democratic legislators Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Nita Lowey of New York introduced a bill in the House of Representatives on Friday that would require the FDA to limit the amount of arsenic that rice and rice-based products can contain, Reuters reported.
"This is not the first time we have been alerted to the dangers of arsenic, and quite simply we must do more to ensure that our food supply is safe," DeLauro said in a statement, Reuters reported.
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Long-time fireman and Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) instructor John Leonard passed away in January after a battle with cancer, and his co-workers at IFSI wanted to do something to memorialize him. They just didn't know what.
Burke and other IFSI staff ultimately decided to have a classroom podium made to honor Leonard, and that's when they turned to the F&S Mill Shop.
"They didn't really know what they wanted. They had all kinds of ideas," said Mill Foreman Andy Burnette, who built the podium with millworker Brad Ward. "They wanted to memorialize him so that when anyone walked in the room, they would see the podium and think of him."
The lectern is adorned with Leonard's firefighting equipment and tools, including his helmet, flashlight, radio, ax, and badge. Its diamond metal base, reminiscent of a fire truck, was created by the Sheet Metal Shop, and the Paint Shop provided a coat of clear lacquer for the podium.
"We've built lots of podiums all over campus, but never something as unique as this, especially when you know it's to honor one guy," Burnett said.
For his part, Burke said he couldn't be happier with the way the podium turned out.
"It's tremendous," he said "Those guys are such professionals. There were people over here who had tears in their eyes when they saw how well they made the podium. They are true craftsmen and did a great job."
When the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) ran into a problem with the display for its upcoming exhibit, it didn't have time to call the architects responsible for the show. Walter Wilson, KAM's design and installation specialist, had three days before the exhibit opened for the first-time ever, so he called F&S.
The night of Monday, Jan. 26, he and Mill Shop Foreman Andy Burnett exchanged initial e-mails, and Tuesday morning Wilson explained the problem and what he needed. Several of the pieces in the exhibit were supposed to be placed on melamine boards, but the boards that came as part of the show couldn't handle the weight and buckled. Wilson sent Burnett the measurements, and the Mill shop, using sturdier, medium density fibre board, was able to get 14 new boards sized, cut, over to the Paint shop, and back to KAM by Wednesday morning, about 24 hours before the exhibit, MetaModern, opened.
Not only were the Mill and Paint Shops able to get the work done in 24 hours, they completed it perfectly, which, in Wilson's experience, was particularly impressive on such short notice.
KAM is the first stop on a six-city MetaModern tour, so F&S' work is not only being utilized in Champaign, but will be seen throughout the country when the exhibit travels to Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and California.
It's not two centuries old, like the Paul Revere time capsule recently stumbled upon in Boston, but the unearthing of a 100-year-old box in the wall of the Lincoln Hall Gateway last month is still thrilling to Melvyn Skvarla.
A Facilities & Services planner and the university's campus historic preservation officer, Skvarla said he is always excited to see what is inside a time capsule -- especially a time capsule no one knew existed until early January.
"We knew there were time capsules under the Alma Mater, under a stainless steel monolith near Engineering Hall, and in the cornerstone of the original Lincoln Hall," Skvarla said, "but this was unexpected."
Contract workers from the Otto Baum Company found the artifact inside a cavity of the Gateway's walls while rebuilding the crumbling structure. The Gateway, located along Wright Street to the south and west of Lincoln Hall, was a gift from the Class of 1913 and was completed in July of that year.
"Gateways were very popular in the 1870s through the 1920s, especially around quadrangles," Skvarla said.
When F&S project manager Grant Colella opened the 8-inch by 6-inch handmade, copper box, he immediately knew it was a time capsule and handed it over to Skvarla for investigation. The capsule contained 13 business-type cards with names on them, along with a 1912 Lincoln wheat penny, an 1894 Indian head wheat penny, and a tag with the name of the metalsmith who crafted the box.
The name of the university's supervising architect, James McLaren White, was on one card. Other cards had the names of who Skvarla can only guess were Gateway committee members or employees of the Operations and Maintenance Department, the predecessor of F&S. Some of the cards had printed names on them, while others featured handwritten signatures. A Japanese name was even written on one card.
"I don't know if he was a student, or maybe was working for F&S," Skvarla said. "With so little documentation, it would take extensive research to find out who all those people were."
The original time capsule was replaced and sealed into the rebuilt Gateway's wall on Jan. 28. With it went a new plastic box that contained all the original items, plus several additional ones, including a written history of the capsule, a 2014 penny (2015 coins are not available yet), a 2014 Homecoming button, a photo CD of all the old and new items, and business cards with the names of those involved in assembling the 2015 box.
Because of the hand-signed cards and lack of other items, Skvalra guesses the insertion of the original time capsule was a last-minute addition to the Gateway, though he doesn't guess why.
"Everyone wants to be remembered," he said, "and that's fun and interesting to see."


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...in Calcutta, India, according to NORAD.
And I'm sitting here nursing what I hope is only a slight cold. Temperatures have been wildly variable here in recent days, which sets up the conditions that stop up my nose and set me to coughing and sneezing. Might get up to 75 today, but the temps still drop rapidly after dark. Right now, it's 52.
What I want to do is brew up a pot of green tea and go back to bed.
What I have to do is laundry and a little bit of clean-up in the apartment. Don't have the energy to do the kind of cleaning that needs to be done....
And, of course, I'll be following Santa, who is now in Taunggyi, Burma.
Speedy, ain't he?
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Happenes most the time when you go on trips or vacation out of town or somwhere like that.
These classrooms or other places act your crazyness til you see HIM (attractive person)
So your hanging out anywhere or like before went on trip this time could be with your friends. your friends and your eyes dont leave that starnger *.* hehe
We think we look amazing but end up lo kk k g werid haha.
All eyes. like an eagle watching its pray.
Stops us at our tracks 0.0
Anyone or anything thats in your way, will blown out of your way hehe
Forgets what ur going and focuses on them. maybe binoculars would be a better choice haha


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Florence Mars
Florence Latimer Mars, a self-described "WASP lady with eight great-grandparents buried in Neshoba County" was the author of Witness in Philadelphia, about the aftermath of the 1964 killings of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Earl Chaney. She earned the wrath of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) after speaking out as a white woman against the oppression of the black community and becoming an ally of the Council of Federated Organizations (CFO). She was targeted by the KKK after becoming a source for FBI agents investigating the killings and testifying before a federal grand jury. The KKK organized a boycott against the stockyard where she sold cattle, forcing it to close, and Mars was compelled to resign from leadership positions at the First United Methodist Church. In June 2005, Mars was in the courtroom when Edgar Ray Killen (a former KKK organizer), then 80, was found guilty of manslaughter regarding the civil rights workers case and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
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uFlix responds to Netflix VPN crackdown, promptly releases fix
Two days after announcing Netflix VPN crackdown was affecting its users, uFlix releases fix
By: Sean Ridgeley | Internet & Websites News | Posted: Jan 23, 2016 12:04 am
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Last week Netflix announced it would be cracking down on users employing VPNs to get around the company's geographic restrictions, and has since made good on that promise. However, VPN provider uFlix has demonstrated how futile those efforts may be, releasing a fix just days after informing its users they were affected by the new measures.
Before its announcement, Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt stated at this year's CES that going after VPN providers was "likely to always be a cat-and-mouse game."
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This one was doomed from the start, since it was done on Eurovision night. For anyone who's not come across Eurovision - lucky you - it's an annual knees up where tragically awful acts from European countries get to perform, and then every country votes. Usually for their neighbour. Hence why Azerbaijan (where?) won this year. It's a cherished cultural institution in Europe, because it's wonderfully naff and usually involves parties where everyone gets dressed up as a country and then proceeds to get blind drunk. Can you see why this was a bad idea?
As it happens I wasn't at a party last night - we stayed in with friends over - and I decided to do a mani/pedi to keep me occupied, because I'm a fidget who can't sit still in front of the television. So I did my toes first, whilst knocking back the ale (the pedi was even worse, by the way - I took Illamasqua Alarm off which stained my toes tomato, and then tried to put a nude over the top. Result: hot mess). By the time I got to the tips I was polishing with the kind of exaggerated comedy concentration normally only seen in five year olds. I did two coats, and then the takeaway arrived, whereupon I dinged them to hell and lost the bottle cap. Epic fail.
The next day, cracking hangover in tow, I tried to tidy it with a third coat and topcoat. This was the point at which Neurotic Cat had a minor breakdown and decided that if I didn't give her a cuddle that very moment, she would leave home. Then Kamikaze Kitten got jealous of the attention and jumped on my lap too. They then had a fight. Meanwhile, I'm holding my hands in the air like I'm directing traffic. Finally I kick them off and go to put topcoat on, but my seche vite has set like jelly and makes it even worse. I give up.
This is the result. The Polish is a gorgeous colour - a kind of dingy teal-blue with silver microglitter. It would probably be fine with two coats if those two coats hadn't been applied through beer goggles. I find the BL brushes a little fiddly because they're narrow, and the glitter in this means that the polish doesn't move very far, so thick coats are necessary. But it's lovely and I will definitely be trying it again under more auspicious circumstances.
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COLLINSVILLE — The Alton Redbirds came out ultra energized Friday at Vergil Fletcher Gym in Collinsville and it was enough to spark them to victory over the Kahoks.
Alton shot out to a 7-0 lead and befuddled Collinsville early with its pressure defense on the way to a 61-53 Southwestern Conference triumph.
With the win AHS improved to 8-1 overall and 3-1 in the SWC. The Kahoks slipped to 3-6 and 0-4 with the defeat.
"For stretches tonight defensively I thought we were outstanding," Alton head coach Eric Smith said. "The first couple minutes really set the tone and we sat down and guarded people. We looked really good for stretches on the defensive end.
"We kind of put them on their heels a little bit in the early part of the game with the intensity and the pressure we put on them. I think that was the biggest key and then in the second half we were a little tired."
Collinsville ended up outscoring the Birds in the second half 36-31, but it wasn't enough to overcome the 30-17 deficit at the break.
"When they were fresh they played with a lot of energy and we had trouble just getting it inside there early," CHS head coach Darin Lee said. "In the second half maybe they waned a little bit and they weren't as fresh and we were able to enter some offense and get it into our post players and they had trouble stopping (Emondre Rickman) once we got him the ball. We just didn't get him the ball enough."
Alton's Bryan Hudson, who scored a team-high 17 points Friday, thought the second half was more of story of what the Redbirds didn't do instead of the Kahoks' execution.
"I don't think it's necessarily what they did, it's what we did," Hudson said. "I think we just need to work on coming back out after halftime and getting that fire started again. I think that's our biggest problem."
But the third-quarter lull, which has kind of become a theme for Alton this season, was different on Friday according to Smith and he wasn't as concerned as he has been.
"I'm not as worried necessarily about the third-quarter lull or whatever it is because I think we still guarded people," Smith said. "We sat down and did a nice job with that, so if we don't score that's fine, but the other stretches we've had we didn't score and we didn't guard anybody."
A pair of free throws and a 3-pointer from Carlos Anderson and a bucket by Hudson put AHS ahead 7-0 at the 4:09 mark of the first quarter. After the 6-foot-8 Rickman, an Indiana State recruit, scored in the paint for the Kahoks, Anderson got a steal and a monster two-handed dunk to put the Redbirds up 9-2 with 3:11 to play in the first quarter.
When the buzzer sounded on the end of the first quarter Alton owned a 16-9 lead, but Collinsville mounted a 6-2 run to open the second quarter and trailed just 18-15 with 5:15 left in the half.
Alton ramped it up again though, stringing together a 10-0 run, highlighted by a 3-pointer from Darrius Edwards and a traditional 3-point play by Hudson, to go up 28-15. The Redbirds went into the locker room up 30-17.
After Maurice Edwards' slam and a Darrius Edwards bucket extended the lead to 34-17 to open the third quarter, the Kahoks began to piece it together.
Smith was impressed with what Collinsville brought to the table on Friday.
"They've got some really good pieces," Smith said. "They've got some kids that can shoot it, they've got some good bigs and I was fairly impressed with the way they played tonight."
Rickman exploded for eight of his game-high 18 points in the third quarter, dwindling Alton's lead to 45-36 by the end of the third quarter. Rickman was the only Kahok to reach double figures in the game.
"He deserves every recognition that he gets," Smith said of Rickman. "And they've got some pretty good kids that they put around him, so that puts a lot of stress and strain on what we're having to do. They've got two bigs and they can move guys in and out and we played Bryan a ton of minutes tonight. I was really pleased with what our kids did."
Collinsville kept chipping away, but could never get closer than three points in the fourth quarter, the last coming at 51-48 with 3:31 to play.
A big dunk by Anderson off a pass from Darrius Edwards and a steal and a slam by Maurice Edwards sparked Alton over the home stretch.
Altogether the Redbirds had four players in double figures, led by Hudson. Maurice Edwards, 12 points, Anderson, 11, and Isaiah Thurmond, 11, joined him.
The 6-7 senior big for the Birds believes he and his teammates are still putting it all together and when they do, watch out.
"Whenever we do it's going to be exciting," Hudson said. "I think we've got a chance to go somewhere this year."
As for Collinsville sitting winless through four SWC games, Lee believes his squad has seen the best four teams the conference has to offer.
"We've played the best four teams, so now we've got to get the next three before we play those teams again," Lee said.
Both the Kahoks and Redbirds are now idle until their respective holiday tournaments. CHS plays host to the Collinsville/Schnucks Holiday Tournament starting Dec. 26, while AHS heads to the Centralia Tournament on Dec. 29.
Alton 16 14 15 16 — 61
Collinsville 9 8 19 17 — 53
ALTON (8-1, 3-1) — Darrius Edwards 7, Carlos Anderson 11, Bryan Hudson 17, Isaiah Thurmond 11, Maurice Edwards 12, Lavonte Hobbs 3. 2FG — 15 3FG — 5 FT — 16 PF — 15
COLLINSVILLE (3-6, 0-4) — Anfirnee Wilkinson 9, Emondre Rickman 18, Nic Gonet 4, Harrison Wethers 7, Ronnie Midget 7, Sean Davis 4. 2FG — 17 3FG — 2 FT — 11 PF — 15


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Family Dollar (NYSE:FDO) reported a stronger first-quarter profit on a surge for consumables during the holidays, however its shares shed about 6% on Friday as sales missed expectations and the company warned the "extremely promotional" retail environment will continue.
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Sales for the first quarter ended Nov. 26 were up 7.6% to $2.15 billion from $1.997 billion a year ago. Net income increased 8.1% to $80.4 million, or 68 cents, compared with $74.3 million, or 58 cents, in the year-earlier period.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters on average were expecting revenue of $2.17 billion on a per-share profit of 68 cents.
Despite the mediocre performance, December comparable store sales were up about 4% due to higher traffic and customer transaction value, and management reaffirmed its earnings guidance for fiscal 2012, expecting earnings between $3.50 and $3.75 a share. Wall Street is looking for a fiscal profit of $3.65.
Sales were strong at the start of the holiday season and picked up in the final days before Christmas and remained that way through the week leading up to New Years.
"The environment continues to be challenging for our customers, and our experienced team remains focused on executing our long-term strategy," Family Dollar CEO Howard Levine said in a statement.
Family Dollar anticipates comparable sales up 5% next quarter with earnings between $1.10 and $1.18 a share. Analysts are looking for a profit of $1.14 a share.
The company says many trends seen last quarter, such as strong demand for consumables, are expected to continue this quarter. It plans to add 300 new food items, including about 100 private brands, in all stores starting in the second quarter.