text:
On the Colloquy: Perspectives on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Just in time for oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the online companion to the Northwestern University Law Review is pleased to feature an article by Professor Ellen Katz entitled Grutter's Denouement: Three Templates from the Roberts Court. Katz argues that while Fisher is widely expected to end the race-based affirmative action in higher education upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger a decade ago, it remains to be seen exactly how the Roberts Court – which has not been shy about voicing its hostility to race-based criteria in a variety of contexts – will express its condemnation. In particular, Katz identifies three very different ways in which the court may resolve Fisher, each based on one of the Court's previous approaches to disavowing precedent.
Earlier this year, the Colloquy featured an essay by Professor Allen Rostron entitled Affirmative Action, Justice Kennedy, and the Virtues of the Middle Ground. In his article, Rostron notes that critics have condemned the failure of Justice Kennedy – who often casts the decisive vote in ideologically charged chases – to establish clear rules of law through his opinions. Rostron argues that in Fisher, however, Justice Kennedy's irresolute nature may prove to be a blessing, in that it may help him accommodate the American public's conflicted feelings about racial preferences while simultaneously forcing serious thinking about how racial components of affirmative action can be phased out in a manner that will minimize disruption and bitterness.
Read these articles and more on the Colloquy.


text:
Today I noticed an interesting referral from a website called Jade. Jade describes itself as "The International Erotic Art & Literature Magazine for the Pleasure of Discerning Adults".
It looks rather intriguing, but I don't see any link there to UDoJ. I'll be perusing, and I thought my readers might as well. I see that they have a huge back-up of erotic literature submissions so I probably won't send anything, but I might subscribe, and I may add a link as well.
Anyone familiar with the site?
From whence came the art:
That image is titled main portal image (I'm sure it really has a better name than that), from the Jade front page.
Filed under: About, Art, Erotica, Images, Literature, Literature and Literotica, Photos, Sex, Erotica, Links, Literature and Literotica, Mysterious Jade

subset: commoncrawl


text:
On the Eve of World AIDS Day, a Look at Media Malfeasance
November 30, 2011
These are three headlines that ran on more than 1,800 news websites across the globe that seem to be blaming people with HIV for being "out of control:"
Few in US with HIV have virus under control
These headlines were ostensibly written to explain a new CDC study showing less than half of all people with HIV in the US have access to treatment. Not only that, but a meager 28 percent have viral load suppression, a key element to staying healthy and preventing the spread of HIV to others.
Why is the media blaming people with HIV for not being in better health with misleading headlines? Maybe in order to get more hits on their websites and sell more papers. A little reporting would have easily revealed some of the reasons why more people with HIV are not in treatment or don't have better health outcomes, for example, the economic crisis that's causing states to cut or drastically reduce eligibility for ADAP.
The state of Ohio was sued and forced to scrap a plan to reduce eligibility, and waiting lists for ADAP nearly reached 10,000 at one point in 2011. Right now they are still at 6,500. But it's not only ADAP.
The crisis in healthcare accessibility in the US means that people miss opportunities to be tested and may not be able to afford private insurance if they do not qualify for Medicaid. Even with healthcare, many people with HIV report they were dissuaded from getting tested by medical providers who decided they weren't "the type" to contract HIV.
Here in NYC we are facing major budget cuts in homeless services, housing, testing and prevention. These all prevent people with HIV from staying healthy and make many more people vulnerable to infection.
So while the media correctly reported that many people with HIV suffer from ill health, the fault is not those with HIV. By focusing media scrutiny on government officials, the public would be better informed about who's really "out of control."
Hats off to reporter Betsy McKay at the Wall Street Journal for the most accurate headline, which read: "Most With HIV In US Don't Get Necessary Care."
Join us at Zuccotti Park tomorrow, World AIDS Day, to demand a Financial Transaction Tax and New York State Millionaires Tax to fund universal access to AIDS treatment and critical support services for people living with AIDS, including housing.
Follow the Update blog on Twitter @housingworks.
This article was provided by Housing Works. It is a part of the publication Housing Works AIDS Issues Update. Visit Housing Works' website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
Add Your Comment:
(Please note: Your name and comment will be public, and may even show up in
Internet search results. Be careful when providing personal information! Before
adding your comment, please read TheBody.com's Comment Policy.)


text:
Universal Roof Racks Cross Bars 120cm Lockable
Universal Lockable Aluminium Car Roof Rack Cross Bar 1200mm
Featuring universal fitting system and adjustable fitting width, the rack is compatible with most vehicles on the market. Also it is worth to mention its sturdy construction made from aircraft grade alloy. Special engineered T slot channel allows for easy installation with enhanced strength and low air resistance. Unlike other common products on the market, this rack has closed bottom to reduce wind noise. Coming with a specialized Anti-theft security locking with independent keys, it is ideal for long road trip and off road adventure. Feel confident to load your gears on the roof with 90kg loading capacity. Note: This product is mainly designed to work with longitudinal mounts & raised rail.
Note: This product is primarily designed to work with longitudinal mounts and raised rails with a gap of a minimum of 30mm between roof and rails. Do not recommend to install this product on rain gutters, integrated or solid roof rails.
- Aircraft-grade Alloy Construction (prevents rust/corrosion/aging)
- Low wind noise/whistling
- Specialized Anti-theft security locking system-2 keys supplied
- Elliptical shape for reducing wind resistance
- Adjustable width to fit different vehicles with RAILS
- Available in 3 sizes (1350mm, 1200mm and 1120mm) for better fitting
- Will also fit many other large sized car/SUV/UTE/Canopy with raised roof rails (up to 106cm apart).
- Loading capacity: 90kg
- Graphite Alloy Construction
- Net weight: 1.42kg
- Maximum fitting width: 1060mm
- Dimension: 123cm x 5cm x 10cm
Note: The 4 special screws mentioned in the user manual for fixing extra accessories are NOT included.
Package Contents
- 2 x Aluminium Bar
- 4 x Mounting Holders
- 4 x End caps
- 2 x Keys
- 1 x Instruction Manual
Have a question or feedback about this item?
Please sign in to contact the consignment manager ({{auction.aucProductCode}})
{{bid.amount.toFixed(0) | currency:undefined:0}} (Max: {{bid.proxyamount.toFixed(0) | currency:undefined:0}})
Inspection: Inspection is not available for this item.
Items listed as 'Brand New' are generally unused and may still be in their original packaging, complete with manuals and accessories when provided. Please check the lot description for additional information on the condition of the item
You should take the Condition and the Lot Description into account when you place your bid as we do not offer refunds.
(*) Please note - The shipping weight is used to determine total freight cost. It is calculated based on weight & dimensions including packaging necessary to ship the item.
To get another P&H quote, start typing your suburb or postcode below and press Calculate.
to {{userShippingPostCode}}


text: Tips for Evaluating Your Corn Yields August 6, 2012 12:46 AM Tweet A kernel count puts farmers one step closer to an accurate yield estimate. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Boyce Thompson AgWeb Email Hot, dry weather won't be the only thing depressing yields this year. You need to get out in the field to make an accurate prognosis. Drought conditions have depressed corn yields in many parts of the country. That much is dead certain. But what will be much less obvious amid the carnage are the specific reasons corn plants didn't grow to their full potential, produced stunted cobs, or are missing many kernels. Agronomists at the recent Corn College events in Coldwater, Mich., presented the farmers in attendance with the tips they need to do proper forensic science on their corn crops. They also gave the audience plenty of sound advice to improve yields next year, when, as everyone hopes, conditions will be better. When asked if they could project their ear count today, only a few farmers raised their hands. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie told attendees that they need to be in their fields once a week, with a tape measure, shovel, hatchet, knife, planting schedule and historical data. "I'm a big believer in evaluating the situation, trying to figure out how much we might have over-sold," he says. "If we changed our corn program, and we aren't counting things, how do we know if we had success?" Everyone needs a regular, objective measure of crop progress, especially today. "I don't want my morning coffee with a bunch of depressed farmers to affect what I see in the field. You need to open your eyes and take an accurate appraisal of the situation." The drought won't be the only critical factor negatively affecting yield this year, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Missy Bauer told the group. Some corn plants may not have received proper care and feeding during their early stages. "I suspect this year we'll have some of the biggest swings—field to field, hybrid to hybrid—that we've had in years," she says. "You could have 100 bushel swings from one hybrid to the next, depending on the timing of stress." The secret to a high yield is stopping stress from the get-go, says Bauer, who strongly recommends using starter fertilizer. "It advances the maturity of the corn, sometimes by 5 to 7 days. At a minimum, it should include nitrogen, phosphorous, and zinc. You get a bigger, greener plant by advancing maturity from the get-go." There are many reasons why farmers would want to advance maturity, not the least of which is that plants will be in a better position to withstand early frost and dry conditions at harvest. They may also go through pollination sooner, improving the chances for big yields. The healthiest corn has the best root growth, and lateral seminal roots—not just main roots—are a key part of that equation, Bauer explained. Having four roots rather than two will dramatically affect the size of corn. "We see a lot of correlation between what seed roots look like and the final corn looks like," she says. Drought conditions no doubt prolonged pollination in many regions this year, depressing yield. "It's not super common, but I suspect we'll have some fields where this happened this year." Other yield may be lost because pests interfered with pollination. "We need a half-inch of silk at all times to get pollinated," Bauer says. "If you have silk clipping at 40% pollination, you need to do something. It's not such a big deal at 90%." In a typical year, Bauer points out that more kernels are lost after pollination. "After pollination, you get into R2 blister stage. If we get drought and heat stress during this stage—about 10 to 14 days after silking—we can lose lots of kernels." "This is a tricky thing. If you are out there and doing kernel counts, you might just count the yellow. You are going to lose the white ones. If you don't understand kernel abortion, you can dramatically over-count your yield." The key to any forensic process, Bauer says, is to know what stage your corn was at when you had bad weather. While hot, dry conditions will depress yields, so will poor planting techniques, says Ferrie. When the agronomist visits farms for inspections, he wants to see uniform growth, a picket fence of photocopied plants. It helps with root growth and pollination. He doesn't want to encounter double stalks, skipped spaces, or poor spacing, which usually occur because of planting irregularities. "Doubles usually do not produce a harvestable ear. With drought stress, we lose them both. Yet the plant continues to suck up water and nitrogen." Ferrie advised the farmers to weed out random uneven plants. He showed a picture of a row of corn, with two stalks in V5 development, bookmarking a stalk in V3. "Plants that are more than a collar behind are not going to put on an ear." Planting irregularities usually occur because planting equipment wasn't calibrated correctly or the planting process went too fast. Ferrie emphasized the need to set up and maintain planters properly, and to calibrate meters, aiming for target standard deviation of no more than 2 inches. But he finds that speed is the biggest problem. "You need to slow the planter down. You need to plant at 5 miles per hour, instead of 7, and follow it through to the end, even if you look over and see your neighbor has lapped you." It's all about ear count, Ferrie says. "In the end, the one with the most ears wins the game." See a photo gallery of farmers in the field at Corn College: See full coverage of this week's Corn College events at www.FarmJournalCornCollege.com. .................................... Thank you to the 2012 Soybean College sponsors: Agrotain, BASF, Great Plains Mfg., MANA, Novozymes, SFP, Precision Planting, Pioneer Back to news


text:
Education Calendar
Novalash Basic Training Class
March 1, 2014
About the Event
This is a 6 - 8 hour high intensity workshop. Course includes a theory section from a workbook discussing not only the basic technique but also science behind the technique, health and safety issues and some advanced looks. By the end of the lecture, students are required to take the theoretical part of the certification test. During the practical portion of the session, students will practice applying extensions to fake lashes as well as on live models. NovaLash keeps the class size small to ensure that each and every student in the class gets personalized advice and attention from the Trainer. If you ever feel like you need a refresher, there is no additional fee for re-taking the class with your original Trainer.
The NovaLash program places special emphasis on (theory) the science behind the procedure, safety, and advanced techniques that are guaranteed to produce longer-lasting lash applications. You will be sent your Training Manual prior to the class along with a pre-c


text:
Views: 714
I would say that to not believe in God or Jesus or christian mythology is kinda like not believing in Santa Claus...you don't have to argue with children about the existence of such folklore. Asking questions quite often has a more effective result. I love my southern friends and they wait for me to bless the food. It has the advantage of earthy appreciation for the food and for each other and I still put presents under the fake spruce tree for their children. I take no real pleasure in biting the head off the chocolate easter bunny. The chrisitian drug addicts do enough violence to cover all of us.
I also live in the bible belt. South Carolina has been called the "buckle" of the bible-belt. Anywho, there are plenty of those types here, and some do give out pamphlets while screaming "Good News, Good News", but that is few and far between. Even the "normal" christians think they are lunatics. You see it here and there, but it is not rampant and they are not all in-your-face..Some are, and can be avoided pretty easily. I have no interest in debating them as they are like talking to rocks anyway. I am in the consulting field (IT) and see/hear a lot of it in the offices I visit. It is their way and I do not let it bother me..no one tries to ask me about religion..if they did, I am sure I'd smile knowingly and move along.
I work with several bible thumping people who do not know I am an atheist, it doesnt come up. They can play their music and talk their talk when they want and I just steer clear.
I would seriously doubt you'd encounter anyone trying to exorcise the demons from your soul down here..the whole "birds of a feather thing.." you would probably go to places where those people would not be seen..
I did run into some guys preaching to people leaving a Metallica concert many years ago..that was kinda funny..
My relatives live just south of Greenville (the shiny Jebus fish on the buckle) in Fountain Inn. Fortunately the ones I always visit are all Atheist. Greenville is a nice city except in the summer when it's the sweaty armpit of the universe - early spring and late fall, however, is great . I'm pretty sure Memphis is also shitty in the summer .. but they do have to die for barbeque.
I don't see how you guys posting that living in the "bibble belch" is all so hunky-dory, that you hardly ever see the zealous, that peeps are pretty cool about their fraudulent belief system, etc, etc,.....
Do any of you ever leave the house? Tennessee...Gone wacky Says Cosmic Intelligences created Universe...The fuck what 350 years of science says. SC. Completely nuts. Virginia...shoving cold slivery dildos up va-j-j's without so much as a whimper of dissent. Some fucking culture of honor there, right? It's perfectly okay to let a strange man shove tools up your wife's vagina...just don't diss Jeebus! Fucking south...I am PRAYING for armeggedon every fucking day.
I can see a more secular lifestyle in the large metros like Memphis...but you cannot convince me that the folks in the "bibble-belch" are sane plain-truthers..Fucking evangelicals would just as soon kill you as save you from what I can see. Fuck em all!!!!
Atheists need to grow some balls.
Christians are like cats...they'd kill you and eat your eyeballs if they felt they could get away with it.
Read your fucking history books, dweebs. Start with Constantine and see if it gets any fucking better from there.
The south is not all bad. I grew up in Chicago area and now I live in N. Alabama and in a smaller type town is where I spend the majority of my time. The area is a very religious area and there is no pamphlet distribution that I have seen going on. As Moose said that is something that is looked at as nuts even by most religious down here. The most I have got was the typical "your an atheist" when they find out. Some look down their nose and some just talk behind your back about it however, I have not had any confrontational issues from it. From what I run into its also the stereotypical strong faith from what the pastor says and not actually knowing what is written.
So I would say if you want to live someplace beautiful that's not as cold as the north, come on down. Things move a little slower here, along with some of the peoples minds, however it can be entertaining in its own rite to watch. There is religion around every corner around here however 99% of the people I think are actually scared to confront someone of our position. Although I'm imagining that when the plates on the Mustang read ATH3IST in a couple weeks I might get some more questions.
Yes the BB can be a place of angst for atheist but Memphis has atheist and freethought groups.
You'll notice a difference between Boston & Memphis, particularly if you are outspoken. Outspokenness, on any subject, is barely tolerated in the US Southeast. I've split my life by bouncing between the High Rockies and my ancestral Appalachian home, and have never become comfortable with what I see as a disengenuous social attitude here in the South. It still turns my stomach to see the broad smile and hear the sing-song lilting accent saying something like "Well now y'all come visit just any old time", when I know damn well that's not what they really mean. Southern culture is a bit like Japanese culture in that most meaning is below the surface, communicated by vocal inflection and head tilt, and all very much context dependant. My brief experience with Boston culture suggests that it's more similar to the French, who just flat out say what they think and expect everyone else to be adult enough to deal with it.
In this day and time you'll likely just find yourself a bit lonely rather than actively opressed, and a city the size of Memphis almost certainly has groups of freethinkers needing just a lift of the blanket to find. There are still places where the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses to great cheering crowds, but these days they don't control much of public life, and mostly just occur in the more backward places, like Harmony, NC on 5/26/2012.
I survived the South of the 1960s; had a cross burned on my lawn and was nearly killed (still am half crippled) for being slightly different in a way that was never explained (maybe they just saw someone from Colorado as inherently Godless). While far from perfect, and still pretty damn bad in places, it's generally a lot better than that now.
Unless you find a like-minded community you probably won't be able to talk religion or lack thereof in any poductive way among random people. But it's not necessary to write off those who hold fundamentalist views, unless you just prefer being lonley. I find that intelligent people -- smarter than me -- tow the religion line because that's just what you do here if you intend to be socially effective. And most of them live as though they really believe it, though it seems to me more like the local sycophantic language pretention than firm belief.
Some of my Southern friends descend from families that have been here a dozen generations or more. Half of my family has been here for about a hundred. Those deep roots in a place mean something, and it's a hard task for reason alone to uproot them, and a fair question whether it should. My Cherokee Great Grandmother talked of a certain fever as derived from rabbits, while her Christian relatives invoked demons. It's likely that neither was completely right, and probable that one was more right than the other. But how things for the person with that fever worked out was usually more dependant on social norms than physical reality. I don't like it, but that doesn't make it less true. And I don't like Southern culture, but that doesn't make it less real. Ultimately, we have to figure out some good way of living where we are.
I just myself moved to Asheville NC and there's a church every other corner. If there's a holy war I think I'm screwed. :)
I'm an hour east of you. Heck, Asheville is the sort of place I go to get some distance from the crazy. I also saw my favorite Southern bumper sticker there; it read: "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity".
100% agree. I think you did join the wrong community. I'm guessing you have a hard time finding one that will have you anyway. In fact you sound like a child in every reply that you have made. Be gone back to whatever rock you crawled from.
© 2019 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: The Nexus Group. Powered by


text:
By Matthew Heimer
Most Americans of my generation have memorized the Preamble to the Constitution (a fact for which many of us can thank the 1970s television staple Schoolhouse Rock). But the Declaration of Independence. of course, is a thornier, longer and more ambitious text, one that eludes memorization but fires the imagination. For those who'd like a refresher on that fundamental charter on this holiday, here's a link to the Declaration of Independence home page on the website of the National Archives (you can read a transcript of the text and download images of the original). And here's a piece that ran today on NPR's Morning Edition, in which visitors to the National Mall read the Declaration aloud and talk about what it means to them.


text:
- 4 beds
- 3 baths
- $383,990 price
- 1092393 mls id
- Square Feet: 2,647 sqft
- Neighborhood: Tessera On Lake Travis 70'
Listing Description
No description available at this time.
- New Construction Yes
Subdivision: Tessera On Lake Travis 70'
- Price Range $289.3K - $483.5K
- Sqft Range 1,888 - 3,744
- Subdivision StatusActive
Subdivision Description
Tessera on Lake Travis is a new, 875-acre master-planned community located on the north shore of Lake Travis, just outside of Austin in Lago Vista. It is framed by Lake Travis to the south and the vast Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Preserve to the west and north. No other master-planned developments in Central Texas offers residents the amenities and advantages that Tessera does. None border Lake Travis, and none have been molded as carefully as Tessera to create the kind of community that all families will enjoy - from the earliest homesteaders to the last lucky few to buy homes here. The community offers new homes from the mid $200s by some of Austin's most highly regarded builders, backed by resort-caliber amenities and miles of hiking trails and greenbelts. Tessera is located within the acclaimed Lago Vista ISD, and offers convenient access to business, shopping and entertainment venues.
8016 Turning Leaf Cr. Lago Vista, TX


text:
12.09.12: The CCRI men's basketball team concluded their play in the Genesee Community College Cougar Classic by playing the Thunderwolves of Niagara County Community College on Sunday. The Knights defeated the Thunderwolves 77-73. With the victory the Knights improve to 6-4 on the season.
After the hard-fought overtime loss to the hosting Cougars the knights were able to quickly re-group and defeat the Thunderwolves of Niagara County CC by the narrow margin of 77-73. The Knights were paced by Co-Captain Desmond Williams (Torrington, CT) who scored a season-high 31 points to go with five steals. Williams' backcourt mate Co-Captain Bryan Yarce (Cranston, RI) returned to the Knights' line-up to dish out a game-high seven assists to help lead the Knights to victory. CCRI led 38-32 at the half and never trailed in the second half as they went on to win by the final score of 77-73.
Leading the way for the Knights was Co-Captain Desmond Williams with 31 points, including a sterling 13-14 from the free throw line, with five steals, five rebounds and three assists. Williams was helped by Co-Captain Bryan Yarce who dished out seven assists to go with five steals and five points. Also helping the Knights was Co-Captain Isaac Medeiros (Johnston, RI) with eight points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots, Co-Captain Steve Bevilacqua (Exeter, RI) added eight points, including two 3-pointers, Jerome Harris (Hartford, CT) with eight points, also with two 3-pointers and Rob Hazard (North Providence, RI) added six points with two 3-pointers.
Head Coach Rick Harris commented after the Classic: "Our best team defensive effort of the season today. It was nice to see our gang playing as one cohesive unit."
The Knights return to action Tuesday night at 6:00pm when they will travel to Haverhill, MA to play the Knights of Northern Essex Community College in a Region XXI none-league game.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
This page developed and maintained by CCRI Athletics. Send comments and suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Fashion Gold Plated Red Resin Drop Bubble Earrings Wholesale
Character: Each pair of resin drop bubble earring are made of asscher cut shinning resin bead, gold electroplating finished by high skilled worker, Perfect processing. wear the bubble earring with the bubble necklace are the perfect combination of fashion now.
1.Material: gold plated alloy, resin beads, nickel free
2. MOQ: 5Pcs, small order is available
3.OEM is welcome, pls contact us now.
4.Payment; TT/WU/Credit Card/MoneyGram
5.Delivery by DHL, TNT, EMS, Air Post etc.
6.Our products including: 925 Sterling Silver beads, high quality European glass beads, high class austrian and Czech crystal beads,fashion pendants,Basketball wives Earrings,Cute earphone jack plug, Handmade Bracelets,Pearl Jewelry, Silver Jewelry,Silver Jewelry Findings etc.


text:
Recap of Dreska and Darius' Dialogue
Dreska: ""Halt! Don't Move! Put MY chest down!" She turns to Darius: "Sir knight, I am willing to negotiate with you, particularly regarding the smithy I have recently acquired through conquest; a choice selection of weapons and equipment may be yours, but I do insist that your men DEsist from moving that chest at this present time!..."
Darius: ""What?! These are our lands, as I recall it*, and we bear no responsibility for the injustices these smiths have done to you, deeds for which we would have put them to the sword ourself and arranged a just recompense for you had you brought this issue to our courts, but us dragon knights shall not be threatened or bought with what's already ours. Thus, put down your claim on our gold and lands, or prepare to die! I have my honour and my duty to my King to live up to."
Dreska: ""Very well Darius. You may have your petty riches now; but this argument is not over yet. We shall settle it on an even footing, with equal armies by our sides. Be prepared dragon."
Dreska, Paladin of Leoncor stands on the bridge, surveying the carnage of the field with pangs of regret for her men (dead), and for the merchandise she was never able to procure. Certainly Leoncor--or at least more of my loyal men--would be willing to follow to to the field for this affront, she thinks.
As Dreska is lost in thought and prepares to leave for her kingdom on foot, Darius gives a quick nod to his archers bearing the treasure chest. They set down the burden and swiftly draw their bows...
...Death is swift. Dreska will not leave the field of battle, two arrows notched in her back.
As the archers approach, they look quizzically to their captain. "My lord, is this not a disgrace? Will we not be spelling war for Lucien and the subjects of Wyvar?" In answer to their questions, Darius leaps from his horse and procures one of the Barbarian javelins lying on the ground...
"There; the princess' death is none of our doing. When Leoncor comes to collect their dead, evidence will speak on behalf of the Hii'mboredagain. And here, leave your bows in the hands of the dead Drakhirri..."
Sometime later....
"Well done my good friend Darius! You have recovered the treasure! But I see your fellowship is somewhat thinned? You did not encounter resistance did you?"
"Alas my lord Lucien! As we attempted to cross the river, highwaymen from Ravenbane's ilk. Soon after, we were also accosted by Barbarians from the South...and it is with great sadness that we must report that the princess of Leoncor has also been slain."
"Dreska? Oh dear! What was she doing in this part of Wyvar?"
"Employing the Smith's from what I can tell; the Barbarians were merciful neither to her nor the craftsmen..."
"I see...well we will have to dispatch envoys to Leoncor to bear the news and employ a new family of smiths to take up residence here. But of that, later; let us return home..."
Photo of the Surviving Faction:
Final Kill Chart
Darius - 11 (2 heroes; 1 hovel; 10 gold) victorious
RavenBane - 4
The Smiths - 0
Barbarians - 5
Dreska - 6 (1 hero)


text:
Michelle sittin' pretty.
I had never heard of a rowhouse until this point of the trip, which if you didn't know is a large apartment building occupying a full city block, and they're everywhere here. The style of housing has been in use since the late 17th century, although a lot of Baltimore's old ones just stand vacant now. The one's pictured above were deffinetly nicer then some. They had porches and the nice window seats upstairs, but other rowhouses I saw were just giant flat sided cubes with a doorway every 15' or so.
Baltimore was interesting to drive around, but I have to say that I'm not totally convinced that it lives up to the allure of it's self-title of "The Greatest City in America". Baltimore was kind of in a state of despair, and actually kind of "ghetto" seeming. Half of the buildings I saw were boarded up, and for the most part the only places for it's residents to purchase food in the small neighborhoods are at crappy corner convenience stores. No one seemed to be working, and there were a lot of people just hanging out on their stoops eating chips and drinking cola all day. I don't actually want to offend anyone from Baltimore (since I hear it's full of violent criminals), so maybe it was just my dumb luck that these were the only areas of the city I was able to see while there ...
Also, everything is made of brick here. Mark's girlfriend Sandra was the one driving and she led us to believe that we'd be safer from the inside of her moving car. To understand why, here's a couple stats for ya. City Crime Rankings (12th Edition) ranks Baltimore second only to Detroit among the most dangerous American cities over 500,000 in population. According to crime statistics there were 269 murders in Baltimore in 2005. Though this is significantly lower than the record-high 353 murders in 1993, the murder rate in Baltimore is nearly seven times the national rate, six times the rate of New York City, and three times the rate of Los Angeles. Impressive ...
From the safety of Sandra's car we could see this peeling mural at some day care while moving 30 mph. I can only imagine little kids picking up the chips of paint during recess and putting them in their mouths as a pre-nap snack. Delicious.
A mini-person on a mini-bike.
One of the main highlights of the day trip to Baltimore was that we visited an abandoned house Mark and Sandra had discovered about a year earlier. The house is filled about four feet deep with municipal garbage, and then in the middle of it is a huge tree, happily providing shade to whoever wanders in. Almost a year ago, Mark put a tape sculpture of a baby on a branch of the tree and it was still there, just stretched to accommodate the tree's growth.
Inside the house.
The garbage-covered floor. Mark and I were fascinated by the shape this old phonebook had taken on.
There's that tape baby I mentioned. It's kinda hard to tell, but because Mark tacked it's hands together to keep it from coming loose, the tree actually grew over the last year and is starting to stretch the baby apart with it's girth. (Did I really just say "stetch the baby apart with it's girth?")
After touring the rowhouses and the abandoned apartment we headed towards Baltimore's waterfront, where I saw this passed out bum on a bench, mouth completely agape. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the dood totally had a donkey face.
The Inner Harbor is where most of the tourists are supposed to come when they want a positive impression of the city. From what I can remember, it's about a six-block section along the waterfront where they actually maintain the sidewalks and have stores and tourist attractions, like an aquarium and old Navy ships. It was quite the facade, and nothing like the neighborhoods we visited earlier.
Here's the National Aquarium in Baltimore. I was told that it was merely decent, especially compared to the Monterey Bay Aquarium which I had visited earlier in the cross country road trip.
I think this was called the USS TORSK. Pretty awesome.
Sadly, this is one of the photos taken on our trip that is the most accurate in representing the type of people we saw while driving across America. Bunch a funny looking fat asses around here ...
Ironically, after we cruised the Inner Harbor looking at old ships and fat people, we went to eat over at some pizzaria called Uno's to get our own grub on.
The service was pretty bad there (although I liked my pizza) and it literally took over an hour before we recieved our food. It did allow Mark and I to have lots of play time with our cameras and with the restaurant's crayon supply though.
This picture was taken before I added a "grill" and gold chain to the King of the Jews, but there you have it. I actually managed to hold onto this thing for the entire trip and as soon as I get a chance I think I might frame this bad boy. By the way Mark, it supposed to be INRI, not INRY. It stands for "Iron Nails Rammed In."
Red rocket in 3D!
Sandra likes to play with her food and made this Crayon Confetti Cake Crust.
After we ate it was time to take off and head back to D.C. for a couple more days. Here we wait for the elavator.
On our way out we saw our last reminder of how bitchin' Baltimore was. Sweet visor!
Like I said before, I wasn't totally impressed with Baltimore, but I was glad to visit for the day, and that Sandra and Mark drove us up to give the grand tour. They made things fun. I've been having a really hard time making myself return to the computer to write somthing up about the place though, so since then I've turned to my old friend Jenn Witte to see if she could offer any advice as to what I could write about. All she had to offer was this, "You could write about tea-bagging in Baltimore, as the great John Waters once did. Tea-bagging, beavers, sugar and laundromats." Although I'm familiar with each of those subjects, sadly, none of them came up during the day trip :(
Baltimore left me pretty winded, so the next day Michelle and I slept in a bit before heading out to see some more tourist attractions. We checked out a lot of museums around there, most notably the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Holocaust Museum was freaky. I didn't really learn much more than I already knew, but it was still interesting in a depressing, watching-bulldozers-move-dead-bodies-around kind of way. It's worth checking out if you're ever there. The building has a really neat design (especially the inside), and it's quite educational if you've got the time to hang around and watch all the videos and read all the exhibit's explanations. When you get there they even hook you up with a little identification card that tells the story of a real person who lived during the Holocaust. I got Robert Oelbermann, a man who co-founded the Nerother Bund youth group with his brother in 1919. Like other youth groups, it was aimed at getting young people closer to nature through camping and hiking. Appearently homosexual relationships were somtimes formed within the groups between it's members, and were commonly accepted. In 1936 though, the Hitler Youth movment tried to dissolve all independent youth groups, and then urged the members to join their own. Robert refused and was convicted under the Nazi-revised criminal code which outlawed homosexuality. He spent the next 5 years wearing a pink triangle on his concentration camp uniform, where he later died of unknown causes in 1941.
There's no cameras allowed, but I can also tell you that there's some really interesting exhibits inside that have some pretty crazy footage of the famous Nazi doctor, Fritz Klein. Pretty disturbing, I'll tell you what ... He's the dood who when asked how he could reconcile his actions with his ethical obligations as a physician, responded, "My Hippocratic oath tells me to cut a gangrenous appendix out of the human body. The Jews are the gangrenous appendix of mankind. That's why I cut them out." Ouch.
Almost equally as creepy, near Mark's house is the 33rd Degree Temple of The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The building is massive and very regal-looking and one day we noticed that they were offering tours. Never missing an opportunity to learn more about the world's largest fraternity/secret society/cult, we of course had to check it out. As it turns out, that particular temple ceased formal operation in the 1950's, and now it is mostly used as a visitor's center, except for special ceremonies and meetings that seldom happen. They even allow women to go inside!
Outside of the building is a set of old Sphinx statues, one with it's eyes wide open, one with it's eyes half closed. Somthing to do with wisdom and power, I think.
The tour was really weird. The 33rd degree is pretty much the highest honor in Freemasonry, so this temple was super-fancy and loaded with all of the Masonry symbolism ... two-headed eagles, squares and compasses, snakes, crosses, etc. etc. on every chair, curtain, lamp, slab of marble, and ceiling. There were even symbols in the architecture: pillars 33 feet high, ceilings 99 feet high, a huge dome that weighed 3,333 pounds, steps in increments of 3, 5, 7, and 9, etc.
The place was pretty over the top. There were two of these sculptures on either side of one of the inner doorways leading up to some temple meeting room, and appearently it took many many years before they could have them installed, because they were waiting until they could get 2 identical pieces of stone to carve. I guess if I were to have 2 huge, mega-heavy statues of an Egyptian person pulling their knees to their chest, I'd be picky too.
Here's some more of the weirdo imagery they use to decorate Everything.
The two-headed eagle carved into one of many many chairs, all made from wood that can only come from one certain specific forest.
I forgot what they said this room was used for, but as you can probably guess, it's gotta be for somthing strange and secretive.
Also, they had this freaky stained glass crypt that houses the remains of two Grand Master Freemasons, and inside of the crypt you can get a plaque with your name on it if you give over a million dollars to the Freemasons.
At one point of the tour our guide brought us into the library and just sort of let us loose for a while. I could tell no one taking the tour was expecting this, and there was deffinetly a few minutes of awkward wondering about going on. Their library was impressive though, open to the public, and even boasted miniature pewter sculptures of every Freemason who became a U.S. President, which is a lot of pewter.
This was also the point of the tour where you could load up on all the free Masonic propaganda pamphlets your heart could ever desire. I took the 3 coolest looking ones, plus one issue of the Scottish Rite Journal, featuring a cover shot of I11. Walter Ernest Webber, 33 Degree Sovereign Grand Commander, N.M.J.
Some fine reading ...
Here's another room in the Temple we visited, though it seemed to be under some sort of renovation. The place was huge, covered in Masonic and royal imagery, with tons of Bibles around.
Our tour guide mentioned that these huge purple curtins are more expensive to wash than to replace, so they just toss 'em when they're dirty. Throughout the tour, they never tell you what they actually do in Freemasonry. They do tell you that you don't have to be Scottish and don't have to be an actual bricklayer mason to be in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. They show you a short video that didn't answer any real questions about Freemasonry, and all of the books that they advertise for in the library are books that just speak well of Freemasonry. There is a lot of talk about how they are dedicated to God and public service though. Oh, and they love children. Creepy.
Anyway, we also made our way through the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden over at the National Mall. I took a few picture's for the hell of it. This one's of the "Four Sided Pyramid," made in 1997 by Sol LeWitt.
Here we have Tony Smith's "Moondog."
Alexander Calder's "Cheval Rouge (Red Horse)"
And Roy Lichenstein's "House I". That should give you an idea of what the big wigs are diggin' in D.C. ...
Moving on, we finally made it to the National Museum of Natural History.
The place is so awesome! And free! The museum's collections total over 125 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. It's also home to about 185 professional natural history scientists the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of the natural and cultural history in the world. Nerds!
The museum was fascinating. They had a huge gems and minerals section complete with the Hope Diamond, dinosaur bones, a zillion fossils, animal skeletons, and the extensive work of the best taxidermist in the country. I could have spent all day nerding out with Michelle. For some reason all the lighting in the place is super dim though, so most of my pictures came out kinda crumby. Hopefully these ones will do the trick.
T-Rex head!
I thought this diorama was pretty funny, the way all the different dinosaur species were placed right next to each other.
This mural was HUGE, and only served as a backround for a single small display case.
Here Michelle stands next to a bunch of petrified wood.
My favorite parts of the museum were the areas full of all the different types of animal skeletons collected by the museum.
Man and the Manlike Apes.
Running birds.
Arboreal birds.
This area was called the Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals, which displays preserved pelts of mammals throughout the world, some of which were collected by former president Theodore Roosevelt. Lots of deadness.
"Check your blood sugar, and check it often." hah!
This display was kinda weird ... From the other side you could see the antelope's tongue hanging out of it's mouth.
All the little kid's at the museum really liked this one.
There was also an area dedicated to the art produced by people who practice Sikhism. Sikhism being a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by the guru Nanak. Can you spot Ronald McDonald in this one? There's also some batman and power ranger action in there if you look hard enough.
Sikhism rejects caste distinctions, idolatry, and asceticism and is characterized by belief in a cycle of reincarnation from which humans can free themselves by living righteous lives as active members of society.
I think I liked this one the most.
Eventually our meter ran out of time and we had to take off and head back to Mark and Sandra's place. It's been a while since this part of the trip (2 months?) but I can assure you that a stop was most likely made to the Adams-Morgan District for either a giant slice of pizza, or falafal from some place with an Amsterdam theme. We had to have eaten down there atleast 5 or 6 times within the 4 days that we were there.
Later that night Mark and I decided to make a tape cast of my legs. The plan was to document the whole thing and post it on the FF, but I think we may of had a little too much to drink for that.
Meesh took care of my crotch.
Too much to drink, and too many bad pictures of me in Michelle's gym shorts ... As soon as they had me all taped up, they cut me right back out using scissors, bandage cutters, and some cutting sheers. That was actually a bit nerve racking, with people jamming sharp objects inbetween the tape and my skin, all at the same time in different places. We didn't do a very good job of documenting the process, but for a better tutorial of how this all works, check out Mark's other website, tapesculpture.org, or this video he recently made called "How Babies Are Made."
Drinks were consumed and Michelle practiced her retard faces.
Der ...
Duh ...
The next day we went out for some more site seeing, and stumbled upon this huge place. I don't think we ever figured out what it was, but it sure looked awesome from the outside. Anyone?
The Washington Monument, and the National X-mas Tree.
Another thing I figured you had to do in Washington, D.C. is tour the White House. Sadly, I guess President Bush has become so paranoid of getting whacked that you now have to schedule tours over a month in advance with your local congressman.
We walked past the White House so that I could throw rocks at it in frustration, but they didn't even have any rocks in the Presidential yard to throw, and you'd have to have a pretty good arm to reach it anyway. What gives?
For our last night in D.C. Mark took us out to visit the infamous Lincoln Memorial.
The dood is totally massive, standing 19 feet tall and 19 feet wide, made from 28 blocks of white Georgia marble. Some interesting trivia about the memorial is that it's creator, Daniel Chester French, purposely carved one hand clenched, and the other hand open. It is said that he had a hearing-impaired daughter, so he carved Lincoln's hands to sign the letters "A" and "L" in American Sign Language. Another weird fact is that on the north wall, Lincoln's second inaugural address is inscribed with the word "Future" misspelled as "Euture."
On our last day in D.C., the folks over at news media giant Reuters came to interview Mark about his sculptures and setting them up in the city. We were actually planning on taking off the day before, but once we found out we had the opportunity to see how a news interview goes down starring Mark, we couldn't pass it up.
Mark did did really well during the interview, and the cameraman Peter Fox was a total hoot. He was an older Irish[?] guy, who was wearing cowboy boots, had some hoop earings, and had a holster on his belt for his pack of cigarettes. He also had a big sweat mark on the ass-crack of jeans, which was quite amusing. You can also see the tape cast of my crotch in the background behind Peter.
Peter was obsessed with getting the perfect shots.
A few times he even tried to get Mark to fake setting up a sculpture, but Mark didn't want anything to seem contrived.
Peter on all four, propping his camera on a baby.
And here's the final product. Turned out slightly less cheesy than I was expecting. Nice job guys.
Anyway, after all that was taken care of we said our farewells to Mark and Sandra, and that afternoon we made a short drive over to the City of Brotherly Love ... Philadelphia. They have everything that is good there - water ice, Wawa iced tea, the Italian Market, pretzels, fake cheesesteaks, the Mütter Museum, etc ... You'll hear all about it once I get back to the computer and type somthing up for ya, which is hopefully a lot sooner than it took for me to put this trip update out (sorry for lagging in a major way) ...
Thanks again to Mark and Sandra for putting us up while we visited you in D.C., and thanks for taking us up to Baltimore for the day too. You guys were rad, and are totally welcome to visit us over here in Seattle if you ever do some traveling yourselves. I'd love to put you guys up and to show you around. Oh, and thanks for the rad tape sculpture of the longhorn's skull, Mark. It looks rad hanging from our bedroom door, and we've gotten lots of compliments on it too.
Again, all you readers can see a lot of Mark's stuff at xmarkjenkinsx.com, and occasionally here on FecalFace.com. Lemme leave you with a few images of Mark's stuff, and stay tuned for another blog about our summer USA road trip soon.
Gone Fishin'
Tuesday, 13 October 2015 11:39
I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io
SF Giants' World Series Trophy & DLX
Wednesday, 04 March 2015 17:21
I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.
Alexis Anne Mackenzie - 2/28
Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:21
SAN FRANCISCO --- Alexis Anne Mackenzie opens Multiverse at Eleanor Harwood in the Mission on Saturday, Feb 28th. -details
The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur
Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:34
When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes "creative" and everybody "a creative," then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what's the difference, after all? So "art" itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.
Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading
"Six Degrees" @FFDG
Friday, 16 January 2015 09:30
"Six Degrees" opens tonight, Friday Jan 16th (7-10pm) at FFDG in San Francisco. ~Group show featuring: Brett Amory, John Felix Arnold III, Mario Ayala, Mariel Bayona, Ryan Beavers, Jud Bergeron, Chris Burch, Ryan De La Hoz, Martin Machado, Jess Mudgett, Meryl Pataky, Lucien Shapiro, Mike Shine, Minka Sicklinger, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Alex Ziv.
In Wake of Attack, Comix Legend Says Satire Must Stay Offensive
Friday, 09 January 2015 09:59
"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. "How they react sort of shows how important that really is." Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on
Thursday, 08 January 2015 09:36
SF Bay Area: What Might Have Been
Tuesday, 06 January 2015 09:36
The San Francisco Bay Area is renowned for its tens of thousands of acres of beautiful parks and public open spaces.
What many people don't know is that these lands were almost lost to large-scale development. link
1/5/14 - Going Back
Monday, 05 January 2015 10:49
Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter @Park Life (5/23)
Friday, 23 May 2014 09:22
Opening tonight, Friday May 23rd (7-10pm) at Park Life in the Inner Richmond (220 Clement St) is Again Home Again featuring works from the duo Jacob Mcgraw-Mikelson & Rachell Sumpter who split time living in Sacramento and a tiny island at the top of Pudget Sound with their children.
Jacob Magraw will be showing embroidery pieces on cloth along with painted, gouache works on paper --- Rachell Sumpter paints scenes of colored splendor dropped into scenes of desolate wilderness. ~show details
NYPD told to carry spray paint to cover graffiti
Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:37
NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?
The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:39
Advertise Here
© 2015 FECAL FACE DOT COM Material published on FECAL FACE DOT COM online service is copyrighted by Fecal Face or its licensors, including the originating wire services. Such material is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and treaties. All rights reserved.
Users of the Fecal Face online service may not reproduce, republish or redistribute material found on the web site in any form without the express written consent of the copyright holder.
Material published on FECAL FACE DOT COM online service is copyrighted by Fecal Face or its licensors, including the originating wire services. Such material is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and treaties. All rights reserved.
Users of the Fecal Face online service may not reproduce, republish or redistribute material found on the web site in any form without the express written consent of the copyright holder.


text:
Andy Roddick is coming to play against the Orange County Breakers July 13 at the Bren Events Center on the UC Irvine campus. The marquee event featuring the former world No. 1-ranked player is among the dates on the Breakers' schedule that was released Wednesday.
The Breakers open the 38th season of Mylan World Team Tennis presented by GEICO on July 7 with a home matchup at the Bren Events Center against the Philadelphia Freedoms.
Roddick, who will play for the Springfield Lasers, was the top pick in the Mylan WTT Marquee Draft and returns to competitive tennis with Mylan WTT this summer for the first time since his final professional match at the 2012 U.S. Open.
The world's top-ranked doubles team Bob and Mike Bryan visit the Breakers on July 16 when the Texas Wild play in Orange County for the second time, the third in a four-match season series against the two teams. The Bryan brothers are Mylan WTT mainstays, suiting up for their 10th straight season and 11th overall. Earlier this year, the American twins won an all-time record 13th Grand Slam team title at the Australian Open.
The team has back-to-back matches against rival Sacramento (home on July 21 and away on July 22). Sam Querrey, currently ranked No. 23 in the world, is expected to join Sacramento for both matches. The Breakers wrap up the 2013 regular season on July 24 at home versus the Springfield Lasers.
The Breakers will play their seven home matches at the Bren Events Center, their indoor venue on the campus of UC Irvine.
The team is planning several themed promotions throughout the season. Among the theme nights are military appreciation, mascot birthday party, a celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Billie Jean King's historic Battle of the Sexes victory and charity affiliations. Breakers season tickets are now on sale.
For more information contact the Breakers office at (949) 205-9526 or email email@example.com or visit http://www.breakerstennis.com.
— From staff reports
2013 Team Schedule for Orange County Breakers
Home matches played at Bren Events Center on the campus of UC Irvine
Start Time: 7 p.m.
Sunday, July 7 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMS
Monday, July 8 TEXAS WILD
Wednesday, July 10 AT Sacramento Capitals (Mardy Fish-SAC)
Thursday, July 11 AT Texas Wild
Friday, July 12 AT Springfield Lasers (Andy Roddick-SPR)
Saturday, July 13 SPRINGFIELD LASERS (Andy Roddick-SPR)
Monday, July 15 SACRAMENTO CAPITALS
Tuesday, July 16 TEXAS WILD (Bryan Brothers-TEX)
Thursday, July 18 AT New York Sportimes
Friday, July 19 AT Philadelphia Freedoms
Saturday, July 20 AT Texas Wild (Bryan Brothers-TEX)
Sunday, July 21 SACRAMENTO CAPITALS (Sam Querrey-SAC)
Monday, July 22 AT Sacramento Capitals (Sam Querrey-SAC)
Wednesday, July 24 SPRINGFIELD LASERS
home matches in BOLD and ALL CAPS
Scheduled marquee players in parentheses
Subject to change


text:
32 Listings:
145 Sold:
Experienced staff, professional packaging of your business to secure highest return - we help you leverage value up getting the maximum amount of money for your business.
Confidential, Discreet Sales.
WE'RE HIRING: .Want to buy a business but haven't come across the right opportunity yet? Become a business broker for the leading VR Office
Tim Bullard
VR Lakes Business Group, Inc.
Dane County, WI
Liquor store doing 1.2 m sales per year . Store size 1,000 sqft . 2 apartment included in the property . Rental income 650 per month . Wont last long . Very high margins . Call AJ 9169950783 for more information .
Liquor store doing 1.2 m sales per year . Rent 3000 per month . Long term lease . Wont last long . Very high margins . Call AJ 9169950783 for more information .
Thank you for signing up for the BizBuySell bulletin.
Sign up for the BizBuySell Bulletin and get advice on:
You can opt out of the BizBuySell Bulletin at any time.
Business listed by:
Unknown Broker
Unknown Broker Company
Full name is required.
Get free alerts via email when new businesses are listed matching your Dane County Liquor Stores search criteria.
Reveal hidden alerts and unlock advanced features on search results and detail pages to help you find the perfect business.
Edge Members also get valuable insight into the buying process via our
video series, access to our advanced
business search agent, and more!
©2019 BizBuySell


text:
Tuesday 12th November
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh presents Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards at a ceremony in St. James's Palace today.
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester celebrates 40 years of the The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies today. The Duchess, Patron of the Association, is attending a festival organised by volunteers at Kensington Town Hall. The Association supports Decorative and Fine Arts Societies around the United Kingdom and gives its members opportunities to get involved in various arts projects and restorations.
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent visits the Isle of Wight today. The Duke is opening the new air ambulance helicopter pad at St. Mary's Hospital and meeting with members of Isle of Wight Scouting Groups. His Royal Highness also tours Marine Data Systems Limited and Milmega Limited, a recent Queen's Award for Innovation winner that makes high-power microwave amplifiers.
Wednesday 13th November
The Duke of Edinburgh visits the British Library today to see the library's Business and Intellectual Property Centre. Today Prince Philip also chairs the Grenadier Guard's Autumn Council Meeting at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visits Wrexham, Clwyd today for Racing Welfare's Charity Race Day. The Princess is President of Racing Welfare. Her Royal Highness is also attending events in London for The Hospital Club and the Carers Trust.
West Sussex welcomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester today. The Duke is opening a new gymnasium at Hazelwick School in Crawley; opening the new Adur Ferry Foot Bridge at Shoreham?by?Sea; and visiting the Sussex Inland Fisheries and Conservation Authority.
The Duchess of Gloucester is in Leicestershire. The Duchess is visiting Wyggeston's Hospital to mark its 500th year. Her Royal Highness is also visiting Sketchley Hill Menphys Nursery, a facility for children aged 2-5 years who have special educational needs.
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra visits the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London today. Princess Alexandra is Royal Patron of the School.
Thursday 14th November
Her Majesty The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visit Greater Manchester today. The Queen is opening the Co-operative Headquarters at Angel Square and visits The Factory Youth Zone, a charity for young people between 8 to 21 years that offers sports, arts and craft activities.
His Royal Highness Prince Harry is attending the South Pole Allied Challenge Departure Event at London's Trafalgar Square today as Patron of Walking With The Wounded.
The Princess Royal is attending events in London today. As Royal Patron of WISE, an organisation that inspires women and girls to follow careers in science, engineering and technology, Her Royal Highness is attending the WISE Annual Awards Ceremony at London's Science Museum. Princess Anne also attends a conference at Royal Geographical Society as President of World Horse Welfare.
The Duke of Gloucester is attending a charity dinner at The Savay as Patron of the London Playing Fields Foundation.
The Duke of Kent is attending The Institute of Advanced Motorists Annual Lunch at the Royal Automobile Club in London. His Royal Highness is Patron of the Institute.
Friday 15th November
Prince Philip is holding a dinner at Frogmore this evening for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award. Frogmore House is a royal retreat in the grounds of Windsor Home Park.
Princess Anne is visiting Birmingham and Edinburgh. As President of The City and Guilds of London Institute, The Princess Royal is visiting The Skills Show at the National Exhibition Centre. Her Royal Highness also visits the Serenity Midwifery Birth Centre at Birmingham's City Hospital as Patron of The Royal College of Midwives. In Edinburgh, The Princess is attending a centenary dinner at the National Museum of Scotland for The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, of which Her Royal Highness is Royal Patron.
Saturday 16th November
The Princess Royal is in Edinburgh for a second day. As Patron of Scottish Rugby Union, Her Royal Highness is attending a 'Captain's Run' training session at Murrayfield Stadium. The Princess is also attending a service at St Margaret's Chapel as Patron of the St Margaret's Chapel Guild.
photo credit: Alex Grant (alextakesphotos) via photopin cc


text:
202405 Hwy 6&21 Owen Sound, ONN4K 5N7
Open today 8am - 5pm
Open today 9am - 6pm
The Subaru Forester boasts an unbeatable combination of all-road/all-weather capability, superior reliability, advanced safety features, exceptional value and sheer driving enjoyment. The legendary Subaru symmetrical full-time AWD is augmented by X-MODE1, a system that offers added control when conditions are at their worst, and the Forester features crisp handling and a surprisingly comfortable ride. The two SUBARU BOXER engines available are lightweight, responsive, fun and frugal — the Forester delivers AWD fuel efficiency2 that is better than most FWD competitors. The passenger cabin is a spacious environment with excellent visibility, a high-quality feel and a versatile cargo compartment. All told, the 2018 Subaru Forester represents a refreshing combination of features that accommodates each and every direction your life may take.
Available with Subaru EyeSight®
Learn More


text:
The devoutly Roman Catholic founder of Domino's Pizza is suing the federal government over the mandatory contraception coverage in Obamacare. Tom Monaghan says that the health care law violates his rights to practice his religion, which does not allow the use of hormonal birth control.
Once intricately involved in day-to-day operations, Monaghan sold Domino's for $1 billion in 1998, and has devoted much of his time and money since to Catholic causes. He has said, "I want to die broke."
Currently, Domino's Pizza offers a health care plan to its eligible employees that excludes contraceptives and abortions. That isn't to say that they don't hire women that choose to use it or that have had abortions -- that would be discrimination. The company is simply not willing to pay for other people's lifestyle choices.
One of the most controversial parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama in 2010, and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012, is the mandate that requires employers providing health insurance to their employees include contraception coverage. This has sparked a backlash from various religious communities, which see the requirement as a violation to their religious freedoms.
Domino's Pizza is just one of the many companies nationwide taking action as the full implementation of Obamacare barrels down on us. Papa John's Pizza CEO John Schnattar has said that employers may have to cut employee hours to part-time status to avoid overwhelming costs. Applebee's put a hiring freeze in place to deal with the expected consequences of rising health care costs and penalties and fees.
So far, Obamacare supporters have argued that those opposing the law just don't understand that rich people have bottomless pockets and should feel honored to cut into their profits to provide "free" health insurance to the fry cooks rather than invest in new business to create new jobs and opportunities. But what about when it stops being about money and starts being about religion?
What's more important in this Domino's case? An American's right to practice his religion as he sees fit? Or a woman's 'right' to have her employer provide her with a health service that directly violates that religion? Our country needs to have a serious discussion on what constitutes rights because once we start saying it's someone's 'right' to have another person pay for their stuff, what else can our government do?
Do you think birth control coverage should be mandatory, regardless of religious violations?
Image via janetmck/Flickr


text:
When Jen announced this month's theme, I knew the three women I wanted to celebrate: my closest "Mom" friends. We met when my youngest daughter and their daughters were in kindergarten and we all hit it off immediately. My girls trust each one of these women and I know I can count on each of them if I need help with ANYTHING! Once a month we go out to dinner and another time during that month we all meet at the local Starbucks for coffee! I wanted to make them just a little something that told them what
they mean to me!!
I made three Rounded Wrap Up boxes from Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates line. If
you haven't tried these templates what are you Because of You. I am so in love with this set! Each box was made with Kraft cardstock (thank you Jen T, Jen d and Julee!). I used just one color of ink, dp and ribbon on each box. The colors are Hibuscus Burst, Lemon Tart and Summer Sunrise (Papertrey Ink). I stamped the word "Friend" on the top portion of the box with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The phrase, also from this set, was stamped in Memento Black then over stamped with the silhouette flowers from the set in the coordinating ink and finally cut out with Oval Nestabilities. I added some Angel Wings Shimmerz to each of the flowers and they are super shimmery in real life! The Hibiscus Burst flower was stamped off once to tone down the pink.
Here is a close up of the box. I will be tucking in a Starbucks Gift Card to each box along with a few chocolates! I'm sure they'll love them!
We can't wait to see what you come up with for this month's Project Parade! To play along, just make a project or card that fits your style and celebrates a woman in your life. Then just add a link to your creation to the Mr. Linky then just add a link to your creation to the Mr. Linky form IN THIS POST before 8PM Mountain on Thursday, May 14. Two random participants will be chosen and win a $25 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Have fun with this and good luck!


text:
Vulcan To The Sky Forum Is Now On Tapatalk
0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.
Flew over us having a walk on Skeggy beach this lunch time.
Me and My Son saw a Mink while waiting for His aged aching Grandad to get back to the Car outside a restaurant (does that count?)Admittidly, Grandad had been smacked in the Vulcan earier on
Should anybody pop in, whilst staying at my daugher's in Cinderford, yesterday Monday, 1400 hours, heard a fairly low jet engine, and emerging from the clouds was a Hawker Hunter, was I pleased?Apparently, according to Funtera, it belonged to the Dutch Hawker Hunter Foundation, registration G-KAXF. It came in from Holland but I couldn't find where it landed.
Are you sure about that?It's still there as far as I know, as is G-BWGL, which arrived just over a week earlier ( both are at HAS for maintenance )Granted I may have missed it, but I haven't heard it working St Athan or Cardiff since it arrived - the only ex-Mil that have done air-tests then departed recently are JPs & L-29sSWAG also hasn't reported it as having departed.


text:
Additional Academic Programs
One-Year Graduate School Opportunities
In addition to the Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering, we offer opportunities for those students who meet academic criteria to obtain their graduate degree.
Combined BS and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering (4 + 1 Program)
Combined BS and MS in Systems Science (4 + 1 Program)
The combined BS and MS degree program is available for students working towards their BS in industrial and systems engineering who have a GPA of at least 3.5 after five semesters (i.e., at the end of the fall semester in their junior year). Based on the MS program, there may also be additional requirements. This program typically allows the completion of the MS degree in one academic year beyond the BS degree. Students in the combined BS and MS program receive their BS degree after completing their undergraduate requirements. The MS degree is an excellent professional credential. Students must apply for admission to the Graduate School at the beginning of the spring semester in their senior year and should consult with their academic advisors about the program.
Watson Fast-Track Masters in Business Administration Combined Degree Program
The Watson School and the School of Management cooperate to offer a combined Fast Track BS-MBA program, which allows Watson students to earn an MBA in one additional year beyond the normal four-year BS degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Interested students should apply in their junior year, and can obtain more information from the Watson Fast-Track Masters in Business Administration combined Degree Program page.


text:
Bow Wow Sees A Crazy Lady In NYC Streets!
Bow in NY on way to stuio and spots a crazy woman going crazy on the taxi driver
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Grow your Business
50,000+ websites use MailMunch every day to get more leads and grow their businesses.
MailMunch captures leads from your website and converts visitors into life-long readers, email subscribers and customers.Sign Up Now
Create beautiful opt-in forms without writing a single line of code.
MailMunch is the all-in-one solution for your lead generation.
Lightbox that opens on any page and prompts the visitor to subscribe. Very high converting.
Learn more
Insert an embedded opt-in form anywhere on your page or sidebar using a simple code.
Learn more
A floating bar that can be added at the top or bottom of any page to increase subscribers.
Learn More
Politely slides up when the visitor scrolls your page. Less intrusive but very attention grabbing.
Learn More
A beautiful landing page that is optimized for leads. Share on Facebook or ad campaigns.
Learn More
50,000+ websites use MailMunch every day to get more leads and grow their businesses.
Here are the features that make MailMunch the most powerful customer acquisition and lead generation platform for marketers.
Choose from professionally designed themes that can fully match your website or blog.
Lightbox popups, top bars, slide-ins, embedded and more form types all-in-one place.
Mobile traffic is growing faster than ever. Our forms are fully optimized for mobile and tablet devices.
Build a hyper targeted and segmented email list by targeting pages or posts on your site.
Have the forms appear when a visitor opens your site, or when they are about to leave your site.
Get the right stats and take action. See whats bringing in the most conversions and improve.
Eliminate the guess work from your decisions and test different designs, headlines and content.
Seamlessly integrates with MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, and other services.
Get more email subscribers. Sign up for free.
Our customers simply love us...
"I installed MailMunch on my website without very high expectations. I only realized how powerful this is when it had a drastic effect on my conversions in less than a week. It gave my website visitors the last push that they needed to subscribe and convert, without being annoying.
My conversions increased by over 550%. If you have anything to do with internet marketing, I HIGHLY recommend MailMunch. It will make a huge difference to your business."
Sarah Lewis
MailMunch works out of the box with all major email marketing platforms including the ones below, and custom HTML form scripts.
MailMunch can be installed on ANY website, including but not limited to the following platforms.
Ready to get more subscribers? Sign up for free.


text:
NFIB Introduces Digital Edition of MyBusiness Magazine
Giving small business owners access to news and resources on computers, tablets and smartphones
Feb 15, 2013, 08:45 ET
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's small business owners depend on digital technology and mobile tools – and NFIB, the leading small business association, today launched a digital edition of its award winning MyBusiness magazine to give NFIB members more ways to stay informed about the ideas and issues impacting their businesses.
Each month, MyBusiness provides knowledge, tools and resources to help small business owners succeed. The digital edition is optimized for computers, tablets and smartphones, giving readers instant access to news and information.
"MyBusiness Magazine was created to foster a dialogue with NFIB members. With the introduction of the digital version, we're adding to that conversation with expanded storytelling capabilities that provide a richer experience for the readers," said Mark Garzone, NFIB Senior VP of Marketing.
In addition to providing small business owners with insight and advice, MyBusiness also serves as a channel for educating members on legislation pending in Washington, D.C., that will have a direct impact on their businesses and lives.
"We are excited to help NFIB provide MyBusiness readers with an interactive digital magazine experience. Readers can now access the magazine from any device, anywhere, mirroring the on-the-go, busy lifestyle of small business owners," said James Meyers, President and CEO of Imagination, publishers of MyBusiness.
About NFIB
Celebrating its 70th year, NFIB is the nation's leading small business association, with offices in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business. NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through a unique member-only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system. NFIB's mission is to promote and protect the right of members to own, operate and grow their businesses. For more information visit NFIB online.
Contact: Mary Embody


text:
Ode to Nashville
Words from the ones who make them.
"I belonged to Nashville before I belonged to anyone," said Carlile. "I knew Nashville was the mothership, that it was where my music came from when I was six years old and to get there was always my biggest dream, to even see the Ryman, to even see Broadway, was my biggest dream."
- Brandi Carlile, with The Tennessean February 9, 2019
"I feel like Nashville is this cool mix of up-and-coming, it feels very exciting, it feels fresh, it feels new. Because I'm from New York, I moved to LA and LA started to feel a little bland to me a little bit. You know, I love it? But there's something really exciting about Nashville. There's something about to come in a bigger way,"
- Bebe Rexha, with Sounds Like Nashville August 10, 2018
"Everytime I'm invited, I come," Jada said. "I get to hear great music, I get to kick it with great people, it's always a great night."
- Jada Pinkett Smith, with Fox 17 Nashville June 7, 2017
"A lot of young, cool people have moved here in the past six years," Lily told the magazine. "There are amazing chefs, a lot of new rock'n'roll bands and a lot of young families that have changed Nashville in an amazing way. It's still Nashville—it's still got its country music roots—but it's a fun place to be a part of."
"We go and watch music once a week," explains Aldridge. "It's so awesome that we live in Nashville and these special gigs happen where no one else can see them, and we can just go on a regular Tuesday night."
- Lily Aldridge, with The Edit August 6, 2015
"These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville—you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians."
- Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, with Revolver Magazine November 21, 2014
"...coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville."
- Sandra Bernhard, with the Nashville Scene October 16, 2014.
Sam Smith visited the TODAY show on October 15, 2014, and told Matt Lauer that his favorite place he's been in all his travels is: Nashville!
"I chose Nashville because No. 1 the musicianship is as good as it gets. Nashville is not about just banjos and fiddles. Its cellists and violinists and brass are equal to what I find in L.A. and London."
- Steve Schnur, worldwide executive for music and music marketing for Electronic Arts, with The Tennessean on October 17, 2014, on moving the bulk of EA's video game scoring to Nashville
"There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel. I have definitely come to call it my home, and have my favorite go-to spots. But most of all it's the people. The southern charm, and hospitality. And some great shopping never hurts. As fun as Music City is during the day, the real magic happens at night … The lights, the energy, the music, how could you not love this town?"
- Hayden Panettiere, with Neutrogena
"Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America."
- Paul Stanley of KISS, during KISS's Bridgestone Arena concert in Nashville July 16, 2014
"This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty."
- Katy Perry, at her Bridgestone Arena concert in Nashville June 27, 2014
"Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music — the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access."
- Jack White, to Nashville Scene
"There's an authenticity to the music and a truthfulness of the music right there in Nashville. It's not even really performed. Performing always has that like fourth wall that's a break between the audience and the actor but in Nashville, it's just kinda gone. You're just in the room with these people and it's all very honest and real."
- Charles Esten, at PaleyFest
"There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool."
- Trisha Yearwood, to CMT
"I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place."
- Justin Timberlake, to The Tennessean
"I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited."
- Taylor Swift, to the AP
"We felt like being back in Nashville we can make a different in the community, it's accepting and supportive in a way that you can do something really unique and awesome. There's a cross-pollination in arts forms and creativity. People can say 'you're a foodie and I'm a musician, how can we do something together? Let's create something cool.' And then it happens. The restaurants here rival a lot of those in L.A., hands down. It's because In Nashville you are inspired and feel the energy around you, the positive energy – which others want to be a part of."
- The Watson Twins, with Music City Eats
"It wasn't until I moved [to Nashville] that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here."
- Sheryl Crow, to the Chicago Sun Times
"Nashville, man. That's the place to be."
- Willie Geist, on TODAY
"...Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that."
- Sam Palladio, to Bello
"I love Nashville. I've been here so many times....oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun."
- Jimmy Fallon, to The Tennessean
"L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community."
- Sheryl Crow, to Wall Street Journal
It's a holy city for music"
- Hugh Laurie, to The Tennessean
"From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home."
- Maneet Chauhan, on opening her first restaurant in Nashville. Read the press release.
"One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other, Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess."
- Callie Khouri, with The New York Times
"Contrary to received wisdom, the world's most thriving independent music scene isn't clattering away in the rehearsal rooms of east London or propping up the dive bars of Brooklyn, it's in the heart of Tennessee - Nashville to be precise."
- NME Magazine
"My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly."
- Taylor Swift - on Good Morning America
"The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to."
- Connie Britton, star of new ABC drama "Nashville"
"My stay in Nashville is coming to an end, but I know I'll be back soon. In my week here I've discovered a group of artisans rooted in Southern traditions, each tackling his or her thing—be it food, fashion, or music—in a fresh, inspiring way. I've seen a place that embodies New South cool, mixing country and city, high and low."
- Bon Appetit
"I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. … I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots."
- John Oates
"Music City offers more than honky-tonk, with an indie rock scene that has The Black Keys, Karen Elson, and Jack White all calling this town home."
- Marie Claire
"It [Nashville] s basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City."
- Emmy Lou Harris
"The common word in Music City goes something like this: It's not just about the country anymore."
- Southern Living
It really is a town of all genres of music that are represented here and have been forever.
- Vince Gill
"Blame the ubiquitous hum of country music, but we fell hard for the Southern capital's rugged denim spots, indie record stores and– yep –vintage cowboy-boot dealers."
- Lucky Magazine, Jenna Gottlieb
"I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville."
- Lionel Richie
"Nashville may be best known as 'Music City', but its food and drink scene is starting to have just as much soul and rock'n'roll swagger."
- The Guardian, Rosie Birkett
"I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it's simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that's been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom."
- Joy Williams of the Civil Wars
"Nashville, Tennessee moves beyond its country roots and embraces a new, multifaceted role as one of our country's leading arts-and-entertainment cities."
- American Way
"You have a proximity of some of the best studios in the entire world; a proximity to some of the best musicians in the entire world; and some of the best songwriters in the entire world…It's kind of an easy call to come here."
- Paul White of the Civil Wars
"Nashville's youngest stylists are spinning fresh interpretations on the city, making an eclectic, fun stopover with dazzling shop finds, ingenious, even gusty cuisine and one of the nation's most impressive live music scenes."
- South Magazine
People think it (Nashville) is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios."
- Elvis Costello
"Where the ethos of community, culinary adventure and tattooed kitchen culture are coming together to define a new kind of Southern cooking that doesn't forgo its roots, but allows chefs to transcend them,"
- The New York Times
"Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville."
- Keith Urban
"Nashville, Tennessee, used to be just a city of ten-gallon hats and the Grand Ole Opry. Now it's the most electric spot in the South, thanks to a cast of transplanted designers, architects, chefs, and rock 'n' rollers."
"There's really no place like Nashville left….songwriters are still waking up every day, banging on guitars and pianos, staring at a blank piece of paper and coming up with what they think will be the next big hit. It's very unique, I can't think of another place in the world that's quite like it."
- Kix Brooks
"Nashville has long embraced its history as well as the newcomer looking to make a mark. And whether in music or in food, the new is informed by the old."
- The New York Times
"It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America."
- Nicole Kidman
"It's funny how certain cities get under your skin. I've been around, but there's something captivating about Nashville, Tennessee – a 'crazy town', as locals call it, bursting with culture, history and Southern charm (the kind of charm that prompts locals – easily the friendliest people I've ever encountered."
- Brisbane News


text:
Be the first to review this product
Honda CRF250RL Rally Full system Exhaust with muffler
Availability: In stock
How much is shipping / postage?. Read more...
Only registered users can write reviews. Please, log in or register
BIKERZBITS LTD. is a Motorcycle spare parts and accessories online-store based in Bangkok, Thailand.
We sell accessories as well as genuine Honda spare parts for all motorcycle and scooter models manufactured in Thailand and sold around the world.
We accept credit cards
We accept Paypal
We accept bank transfers
Shipping OptionsClick here
How To Tracka Shipment
Import DutiesCustoms, etc


text:
It's amazing how many people are writing Mitt Romney's political post-mortem since the passage of Obamacare. The analysis goes something like this: RomneyCare has a statewide individual mandate; ObamaCare has a national individual mandate; consequently, there's very little difference in the two programs.
In the short term, there is something to this analysis as a matter of politics, but it fails on the merits. Because it fails on the merits, I think it will ultimately fail as a matter of politics.
Why does it fail? Off the top of my head I can think of four hugely important distinctions between RomneyCare and ObamaCare. They are, in no particular order:
- RomneyCare was uniquely designed for Massachusetts; ObamaCare is a one-size-fits-all imposition on all states, regardless of their economic condition. Massachusetts is the third-wealthiest state in the United States. Moreover, even before state-level health care reform, 89% of its residents were insured. Do you think it's possible that a wealthy state with a low percentage of uninsured might have greater means to offer universal coverage? Consider this chart. Some much poorer states have up to 25 to 26% of their population uninsured. How much more will it cost to offer universal coverage in those states? Shouldn't they be free to work out solutions that fit with their economic reality?
- RomneyCare was enacted only after Mitt balanced the state budget. If you don't think this an important distinction, then you haven't been paying attention. Mitt enacted health care reform in a wealthy state, that he first rendered fiscally sound, to cover a modest amount of uninsured. Obama enacted his reform in a nation that is shattering deficit records to insure millions upon millions of uninsured with no money in the bank. How much conservative anger about ObamaCare is driven by fiscal concern? I know much of mine is. How can we possibly pay for this? Who could rationally think we can afford this reform in an era of record deficits?
- Mitt created bipartisan consensus while Obama rammed his reform down our throats and against the majority opinion of the American people. Had the President attempted a truly bipartisan reform, we likely would have had a bill, but it would have been far more modest, far less controversial, and it would not have broken the bank. There's a difference between leadership — which Mitt showed in Massachusetts — and the raw exercise of power, which Obama, Reid, and Pelosi demonstrated in Washington. How much conservative rage stems from the fact that we (and the rest of America) were essentially steamrolled?
- RomneyCare is constitutional; ObamaCare may very well prove to be an unconstitutional abuse of federal power. I know quite a few people are sneering at the multiple lawsuits challenging the federal individual mandate, but — like it or not — the states and the federal governments have different constitutional powers. States have a general "police power," which allows them to pass laws to advance the health, safety, and (traditionally) morals of the community. The federal government is limited to its enumerated powers. Constitutional critics of Obamacare ask a common-sense question: Where in the enumerated powers of the Constitution is the federal government empowered to require citizens to purchase a product from a private entity? I'm generally persuaded that the national individual mandate should not be constitutional, but I'm not necessarily persuaded that the Supreme Court will have the guts to invalidate the central provision of the largest social reform legislation of the last fifty years. At any rate, those who don't mind wonky legal discussions of the issue should read this.
Look, I know that there are some conservatives who believe that an individual mandate — in any context — is fundamentally wrong. I don't think a national individual mandate is right, but I do think it can work for some states. To say, however, that because Mitt Romney created state-level, bipartisan, popular plan in a state with a budget he balanced, he's somehow disqualified from the Republican nomination because Obama bastardized his ideas and rammed them down all our throats . . . well, I just don't buy that.
And neither should you.


text:
Ripley seniors Jacob Haynes and Casy Smith scored 14 points in a balanced blue and white offensive attack to lead the Vikings to a 55-33 victory over Ravenswood at Ripley Health Center.
Viking post man Chuck Sleboda celebrated his birthday in style on this night chipping in eight points and seven boards..
The game wasn't always pretty, with both teams committing a combined 44 turnovers.
With the score 25-18 in the second period, it was as close as the Red Devils would get on this night. Ripley slammed the door shut with a 19-5 run in the second half.
This is the first of two meetings of the prep teams. Ripley will travel to Ravenswood February 22.
Jake Martin led the Red Devils with 10 points. Please return for a complete game story on Tuesday in the Jackson Herald and here on our sports tab.


text: I installed 5 hp dl360 G5 servers with debian 6 and ispconfig 18.104.22.168 in a multiserver setup where a master and 4 mirrors all share all services and have master to master DB replication. I have two Zen Load Balancers setup to listen on two static IP's from my Comcast Business Class service. One listens for ns1 and the other listens for ns2. The 5 servers are behind the LB's on local ips 192.168.0.200-204. The LB's are porting all ports to the 5 servers and all web services and db services seem to be working fine. Web pages are getting served up and wordpress sites are finding and using db's just fine. When it comes to email, however, the services are somewhat skewed. The squirrelmail service can be accessed by going to the LB's ip address, but cannot authenticate on any un or pw. Squirrelmail can authenticate and send and recieve when going to it from one of the servers local IP's 192.*.*.200-204. Email Client can authenticate to receive from inside the network but not send. The client cannot authenticate from outside the network to send or recieve. I am at a loss as to what to do. Please help me in any way you can. I am attaching the mail.log from server 1. I will be happy to provide the logs from the other servers if necessary. Thanks for all your help.