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Robert Fisk – The Independent November 16, 2011
In Damascus earlier this month, Syrian state television asked me for an interview on events in Syria. With much trepidation, I accepted, promising the presenter he would not like all I said, but warning – a bit of Fisk blackmail, this – that any censored words would be relayed to readers of The Independent. The interview went ahead and I said that President Bashar al-Assad was "running out of time – fast". The Arab people, I added, could no longer be infantilised; there was clearly an armed insurgency under way in Syria to overthrow the regime – foreign correspondents must be allowed to visit Homs and other areas where a host of YouTube pictures show protesters being shot down. When I was told later that the translation had not been finished in time, I smiled with my usual cynicism.
But almost incredibly, the interview duly aired on Syrian state television – and to my utter astonishment, they ran the lot (they used near-perfect subtitling), including the remarks about Assad "running out of time – fast".
What happened? Did this have the President's approval? Or was the government – or some part of the dictatorship – trying to show that they were in no doubt about how serious the near-civil war had become? I don't know. And my Middle Eastern crystal ball broke many years ago. But I'll hazard a dangerous prediction: Assad's time is running out, fast – but don't believe the State Department and the Washington "tink thanks" (as I call them) and the EU or the Arab League. He ain't going yet.
Even the words of Jordan's King Abdullah this week were slightly bent by the press and television coverage when he supposedly told the BBC that Assad should "step down". What he actually said was that "if I was in his [Assad's] shoes, I would step down". Which is not quite the same thing. Far more important was that section of the interview – one of his best, by the way, and I'm not his majesty's fan – in which he said that if Assad stepped down, only to be replaced by the same "system" (ie the Baath party), the problem would not be ended. Too true. And running alongside King Abdullah's words, I thought, was the faint hope that perhaps Assad could still take the initiative and honour all his fine words (new constitution, political pluralism, real democracy, etc). Certainly, the West's pompous predictions of Assad's imminent demise – based more on YouTube than the reality on the ground – are hopelessly optimistic. True, there are deserters from the Syrian army. But you don't win revolutions with Kalashnikov AK-47s. Only the desertion of a tank unit or two plus generals – Libya-style – could have any chance of that. And so far, there is none. Assad is not Gaddafi.
Furthermore, Russia's military support is not going to end. Only nine days after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria, the joint director-general of the federal Russian service of military cooperation, Viatcheslav Djirkaln, said that there would be "no restrictions at all on arms deliveries to Syria". The Russians talk, of course, of "contractual obligations".
Nor is that surprising. The truth is that Russia was once Libya's only arms supplier; it was selling combat jets, frigates, tanks and anti-aircraft systems to Colonel Gaddafi after the West's 1974 arms embargo and had 3,500 advisers in the country. Its ships could refuel at the Tripoli naval base. Now it is associated with the dead and hated regime. Russia was 73rd on the list of nations to recognise the Libyan National Transitional Council.
So now the Syrian city of Tartous contains the only 24-hour port open to the Russian navy in the Mediterranean. Without Tartous, every Russian naval vessel in the sea would have to return through the Bosphorous to Odessa for every nut, screw and cigarette packet it needs. Friends, as they say, need each other.
Does the Arab League's threat of suspension really matter? I suspect not – but clearly the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem thinks very differently. He said that the league had taken "an extremely dangerous step" in threatening Syria and that US support for the league's decision was "incitement". Armour had already left Syrian cities, prisoners were being released, armed insurgents were being offered an amnesty. YouTube bounced back with video of a Russian-made armoured vehicle firing thousands of rounds down a Homs street and a photograph of a half-naked murdered Syrian, hands tied behind his back, lying in a Homs street. But murdered by whom?
One thing is now clear. Quite apart from the massive civilian casualties, even opponents of the regime now admit that Assad faces an armed insurgency. This may originally have been a myth promoted by the regime, but the monster has now been born. Anti-Assad activists now openly speak of "armed insurgents". Sixteen civilians were killed in Deraa three days ago. But 15 soldiers were killed on the same day in the same city. Who killed them? That's what we need to know.


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by jaw_belize, Nov 30, 2012.
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Never heard heard of him. OP is gay
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(CNN) -- When Anne Moyer told her best friend, Diane Ritchie, she was going to lose weight a few years ago, Ritchie politely replied, "Good for you. You'll have to let me know how it works out."
Clearly, Ritchie had heard this before. In fact, she could look in the mirror herself and see that her friend's history of starting and stopping diets with little success was similar to her own.
The stay-at-home moms had been close since meeting in 2006 when their husbands were stationed in the Navy in Chesapeake, Virginia. Ritchie's family was transferred to Chicago in 2009, and that fateful phone conversation about losing weight took place shortly before Christmas 2010.
Ritchie hung up and thought about her friend's pledge. She picked up the phone and called Moyer back.
"I'm doing it with you," Ritchie remembers telling Moyer. "I'm going to start the same day you do, and I'm going to start to figure this out."
They began January 6, 2011. Moyer weighed 336 pounds and squeezed into size 30 pants. Ritchie was 260 pounds and wore a size 24.
Leaning on each other as long-distance weight-loss "sponsors," the women would go on to lose more than 200 pounds the first year.
Big and beautiful
Their husbands always told them they were beautiful, no matter how big they got.
Both women loved to eat and didn't think about exercise. Before they knew it, they were obese.
Ritchie, 38, says she was chunky in high school, while Moyer, 42, was average size until she was about 20. Both women said their weight ballooned after their first pregnancies.
"I'd like to say it was some traumatic event," Ritchie says. "I had a lot of fun in my 20s and 30s and just didn't pay attention. Before I knew it, I was way up."
Moyer tells a similar story.
"I gained some, then I'd lose some, but I wouldn't lose all of it, and then I'd gain more than I lost. It just kept creeping up and up ... and then I just decided, "Well, this is me. I'm plus size."
Ritchie cooked healthy meals for her children but indulged on her own. Chicken without the skin removed, heavy pastas, wings and beer were all in frequent rotation. Moyer would make two 9-by-13 pans of white chocolate bread pudding at Christmas -- one for the family and one for herself.
Physical and emotional difficulties
Being obese took a physical toll on both women and their families.
For Moyer, just walking to the car from her front door caused her to break out into a sweat. If she went to one of her kids' sports games, she would watch from the car because the field was too far to walk.
"Say you go to Walmart -- I couldn't do both the grocery side and the regular side. I had to choose one side one day and the other side another day because I couldn't do the whole store and then get back out to the car, too."
Being overweight was also hard emotionally for Ritchie. Getting ready for military functions was torture. She would agonize over what to wear, needing her husband to hold her hand as she cried while getting dressed.
Her lowest point came in fall 2010 when a stranger at a gas station -- heavy himself -- made a nasty comment about the size of her rear end. Months later, the comment still stung.
The turning point
In 2010, Moyer developed sleep apnea, a disorder commonly associated with obesity in which breathing at night starts and stops. She was tired all the time, often fell asleep during the day and snored so loudly her husband had to sleep on the couch many nights.
"I thought, 'Oh my gosh, all the things I can't do anymore, and now I can't even sleep,' " she says.
Rather than go for more medical tests, she resolved to solve the problem herself.
That's when she called Ritchie. After Ritchie pledged to lose weight too, the women agreed to start in the new year. They began doing research.
Attainable goals
Moyer knew counting calories would work best for her. She used the iPhone app MyFitness Pal, which calculates how many calories to consume based on how much weight someone wants to lose per week. It adds calories back when you exercise. Moyer allowed herself to eat fruits and bread but cut out soda and enriched flour.
For the first year, she plugged every single thing she ate into the app.
Ritchie followed the South Beach Diet, a plan that encourages replacing "bad" carbohydrates and fats with "good" carbs and fats, lean protein and low-fat dairy. She ordered "The South Beach Diet Supercharged" book and two South Beach cookbooks, got rid of all the enriched flour and alcohol in the house, switched to whole grains and documented her meals and twice-weekly weigh-ins in a journal for the first eight months.
They set goals they thought they could meet. Ritchie sought to get below 200 pounds, while Moyer wanted to sleep through the night.
The first few weeks, it took all their willpower just to focus on their food.
"It was like I was coming down off drugs," Moyer says. "Headaches. I literally had the shakes. The first couple of weeks were just absolute torture."
Once they adjusted to the new eating plans, they started thinking about exercise. First, they walked. Three mornings a week, Ritchie took her 4-year-old to the mall, and they did laps together.
Moyer started with one block. She gradually added distance until she felt comfortable joining the YMCA.
They were both realistic about what they could manage.
"I didn't say, 'I need to walk for an hour.' When I first went to the gym, I did the elliptical, and I could only do it for 10 minutes," Moyer says. "And then I gradually would add to that time. Then I went to my very first group class, which I was absolutely terrified to do. I was constantly trying to push myself to do something more or longer or harder."
Eventually the women were running and working out regularly on machines and in classes.
It took losing 75 pounds to stop Moyer's snoring. By that time, she says she thought, "My gosh, if I could lose this, why don't I keep going?"
Some friends weren't supportive. Ritchie called them her "saboteurs" -- overweight pals who would try to tempt her into having "one bite" of cake, or who made her feel bad about spending her mornings at the gym instead of joining them for breakfast.
But Moyer and Ritchie always had each other.
The first month, they talked on the phone three times a day. Over the next several months, they would check in for twice-weekly weigh-ins and call whenever they slipped in their diets or needed to vent. They would treat each other to weekend visits in Chicago or Virginia, where they would marvel at how the other had shrunk.
When Ritchie moved back to Virginia last year, supporting each other became even easier. They live close to one another and work out together most mornings at the YMCA. Besides taking Zumba, abs, boot camp and weight-training classes, they're training for the Wicked 10K race in Virginia Beach.
And more than 280 pounds later, they still call each other when they fall off the wagon.
The payoff
Moyer no longer has to bring a chair for her kids' sports events. She's even able to play an entire parents-vs.-kids soccer game herself.
She also has a lot more friends. "Before, I had to be at home a lot because going out anywhere was hard on me," Moyer says. "And now, it's just like my world has expanded. I have more people and friends in my life now than I have in a long, long time."
And when Ritchie gets an invitation to a military ball these days, she's no longer self-conscious about how she looks.
Both Moyer and Ritchie say they're heard from friends and gym acquaintances who say they've inspired them.
"I had somebody come up to me a few months ago and she said, 'I see you here all the time. Sometimes I do not feel like coming in here and working out, but then I think, well you know that girl's going to be there, so I'm going to go too.' That's been icing on the cake," Moyer says.
The women know there's no end date. They say they will always be food addicts.
Moyer is a pound away from her original goal of 165 pounds but trying to get down to 154. She still uses her MyFitnessPal app and has calorie counts memorized for everything she eats.
Ritchie dropped 111 pounds in the first 10 months and at 149 pounds is now in maintenance mode. She still sticks to the major tenets of the South Beach Diet -- no enriched flour, light on carbs, heavy on protein and veggies. At parties, Ritchie will "taste" most things but fill her plate with healthier options.
She says it's been a healthy change for her whole family. Her kids have learned to eat pancakes with whole-wheat flour and no-sugar syrup as well as brown rice and couscous, and her husband has lost 40 pounds.
"I will always worry about getting heavy again," Ritchie says. "I am not saying I won't take a day off from the gym or eat food that is unhealthy, but I have to keep myself in check forever."


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'By the middle of the nineteenth century, gargantuan portions had become institutionalized and routine. Mrs. Beeton gibes the following as a menu for a small dinner party: mock turtle soup; fillets of turbot cream; fried sole with anchovy sauce; rabbits; veal; stewed rump of beef; roasted fowls; boiled ham; a platter of roasted pigeons or larks; and, to finish, rhubarb tartlets, meringues, clear jelly, cream, rice pudding, and souffle. This was food for six people."
The above, digestive-disturbing quote appears in Bill Bryson's amazing book, "At Home: A Short History of Private Life."
Ostensibly, this book is about the Victorian parsonage where Bryson and his family lived. It was an unexceptional place of unexceptional happenings. But suddenly, Bryson found himself caught up in the history of his home � more to the point, the particulars of the place � the bedroom, kitchen, drawing room, nursery, etc. How had each of these rooms come to be? How had hundreds of years shaped the home as we know it today?
"At Home" is one of the most delightful, incisive, exhaustively studied and truly humorous histories I have ever read. The book is not new. It was published three years ago. And why I never got around to writing about it I'll never know. (Maybe the Kardashians got in the way!)
The masterful aspect of this work is how the author segues from where he lives now, to the historical creation of each aspect of domesticity, how every room was initially conceived, who lived in them, who served in them. And the times in which each generation gestated � their attitudes, prejudices and licenses.
Author Bill Bryson accentuates, time and again, how long it took for what we today know as "modern life" and the home as we experience it, to evolve from the more or less civilized and clean ancient times of Crete, Greece and Rome. (The collapse of the Roman Empire, the onset of Christianity, which was not a smooth ride to heaven, as the Bible was rethought and rewritten, then the great plagues and their aftermaths. All this stunted the world for centuries.)
This is Mr. Byson's last word: "Today it takes the average citizen of Tanzania almost a year to produce the same volume of carbon emissions as is effortlessly generated every two and a half days by a European, or every 28 hours by an American. We are, in short, able to live as we do because we use resources at hundreds of times the rate of most of the planet's other citizens. One day � and don't expect it to be a distant day � many of those 6 billion or so less well-off people are bound to demand what we have and to get it as effortlessly as we got it. And that will require more resources than this planet can easily or even conceivably yield."


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The September Issues
- Najib Benouar
September is a big month in the print world of menswear. It sets the tone for the following season (and, effectively, the remainder of the year).
It also means the page counts are at their bulkiest—so many woolen things, so little time. And in our continued dedication to sussing it all out, we've thumbed through the 1,000-plus pages (we've thrown in the bonus round of Vanity Fair since they've weighed in on the year's best-dressed men) just for you.
Let's dig into the September issues, shall we...»


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YORK, PA - York College sophomore attack Andrew Gamble (Easton, Pa./Easton) was named the Capital Athletic Conference Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week as announced by the league office on Tuesday afternoon.
Gamble tallied a career-high six goals in the Spartans' 17-7 win at Muhlenberg on Saturday. Gamble notched three goals in the Spartans' big first quarter and two more in the second quarter as the Spartans took a 9-5 lead at the break. Gamble added another goal and an assist in the second half as the Spartans ran away from the Mules to earn the non-conference win. Gamble did his damage in ten shots on goal and 12 shots overall. He also had three ground balls in the win.
Gamble now has a team-leading nine points on seven goals and two assists.


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In the late 1960s, when restaurant meals were less common and restaurant hamburgers were an even bigger treat, my grandmother would pile us grandkids in her sedan and head to what she called a drive-in restaurant.
There, at an outdoor picnic table, we'd be treated to griddle-cooked hamburgers and frosty bottles of soda followed by ice cream cones. They'd run down our wrists in the heat of summer.
I was reminded of all this on the patio at the new Shake Shack in Boca Raton, where Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group encapsulates my childhood memory with a flawless restaurant experience. Shake Shack was born a dozen years ago as a summertime hot dog cart in New York's Madison Square Park. This is the third South Florida location after Miami Beach and Coral Gables, but you can find Shake Shacks in Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, along with London and Dubai.
Shake Shack operates with the kind of efficiency that comes from multiple locations and a training system that turns college kids into skillful "team members." Why can't more restaurants do the same?
The brand-new building on the east side of University Commons looks almost like a silo from the Glades Road side. Facing the parking lot, however, is a big patio with a menu board mounted on the wall. This is where the lines start and, yes, there have been nothing but lines since Shake Shack opened in April.
ShackBurgers ($4.85/single, $7.45/double) are made with vegetarian-fed, hormone-and-antibiotic-free Angus beef. The patties are cooked on a very hot griddle, topped with cheese and then placed on the softest Martin's potato roll before lettuce, tomato and mayo-based ShackSauce are added.
The ratio of bun to burger is perfect. The toppings complement instead of overwhelm each bite. But if you don't like the soft texture that comes from griddle cooking, this burger won't appeal to you. I like this one.
Unlike most burger restaurants, Shake Shack doesn't offer dozens of topping choices and relishes. There's a cheeseburger called SmokeShack ($6.30/single, $8.90/double) with Niman Ranch applewood smoked bacon, chopped cherry pepper and ShackSauce. The vegetarian 'Shroom Burger ($6.95) is excellent, with a crispy fried portobello mushroom filled with melted Muenster and cheddar cheeses that ooze as you bite. The Shack Stack ($8.95) is a combination cheeseburger/'Shroom burger. A basic hamburger costs $3.85, or $5.95 for a double patty.
I recommend looking at the menu online and writing down your order before arriving.
Aside from burgers, there are five hot dogs ($4-$4.40) — split and griddle-crisped — and I was reminded of how long it's been since I've had a Vienna all-beef dog when I was overwhelmed by salt. The dogs can be had Chicago-style or with sauerkraut or cheese sauce.
Crinkle-cut Yukon potato fries ($2.70) are the only side item, and they clearly are freshly fried.
Wash all this goodness down with a draft beer: the ShackMeister Ale ($5.50/15-ounce), made for Shack Shake by Brooklyn Brewery. Napa Valley's Frog's Leap Winery supplies the wine ($7.50-$8.50 per glass).
It wouldn't be right to come here and not indulge in frozen custard. Along with vanilla and chocolate, flavors of the day include black-and-white cookie and oatmeal crème pie. A single-dip cone costs $3.45, but you can create your own custard creations, called concretes, with such mix-ins as cheesecake blondie, fudge sauce and marshmallow sauce.
The Glades Donuts concrete ($4.25/half, $6.50/ regular) features vanilla custard, glazed caked doughnuts from the Sugar Monkey bakery in West Palm Beach, peanut-butter sauce and chocolate toffee. Five percent of sales goes to Boca's Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
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Shake Shack
1400 Glades Road, Boca Raton (also Miami Beach and Coral Gables)
561-923-0847, ShakeShack.com
Cuisine: Burgers
Cost: Inexpensive
Hours: Lunch and dinner daily
Reservations: Not accepted
Credit cards: All major
Bar: Beer and wine
Sound level: Moderate
Outside smoking: No
For kids: Highchairs
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Parking: Free lot


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Exclusive: TopGear gets up close with Martini racers
A great livery makes a car faster. This is a known fact. And since speed is good and more speed is better, it's no great leap of brain power to work out that the fastest cars also look the best. It's something to do with the engineering dictum that decrees that what looks right, is right. So there you go, an eye-smacking livery is a key component of any successful racing car.
God knows how the current crop of F1 teams is managing it. I mean the latest efforts of energy drinks, telecommunications, fuel and car companies to make their cars look good is, to be frank, mostly a dismal failure. But, boy, did they know how to do it properly back in the 70s and 80s. Booze and fags, that seemed to be the key.
And Martini arguably did it better than anyone. So, with the Italian drinks firm celebrating its 150th anniversary by taking a whole load of its historic racers down to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, we did our best pleading and managed to gather a few together in our very own studio to take some beautiful pictures and tell you a bit about them.
A bit of cherry-picking from the (utterly delectable) long list means we have two heroes each from the worlds of rallying, endurance racing and F1. We present them for you here in date order. And no, you can't have the Porsche 935/78. That one's mine, all mine.


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As stated, so long as the Statue is located near the stadium and is in a football-centric context, I have no issue.
Off-the-field stuff notwithstanding, he was the greatest player(next to Johnny U) in Baltimore history.
All that said......Good Riddance.
Ed Reed is more deserving of Praise.....
I'm not inclined to take away that he was a great MLB because of his off the field issues. Yes, he was bad, and perhaps he should be in jail, but that's not my call.
Joe Paterno had a statue.
Johnny Unitas, Ray Lewis and Cal Ripken Jr.
That's Baltimore.
Great Leader and Player. So far as we know he didn't bet on games or anything like it. So his on the field play was excellent and that is all that matters.
I dont know what happened off the field, and even taking the emotional and leadership qualities off the table - Ray Lewis in his prime was the the best LBer I have ever seen play football.
**** Stabby McStabbington and his statue
Maybe his statue will one day suffer the same fate that Joe Pa's did lol
Its going to be a killer statue
Well deserved. One of the greatest LBs and inspirational leaders the game has ever seen.


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Submission + - Deadly Bird Flu Recipe Raises Terror Fears
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Currently, H5N1 avian influenza virus — the strain commonly referred to as "bird flu" — rarely infects humans and does not spread easily from person to person. But the Guardian reports that the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has asked the scientific journals Nature and Science to publish redacted versions of studies by two research groups that have created forms of the avian flu that could easily jump between ferrets — typically considered a sign the virus could spread quickly among humans — fearing that the information could be used as a potential bioterror threat. "These manuscripts — which describe laboratory experiments that resulted in viruses with enhanced transmissibility in mammals – concluded that the H5N1 virus has greater potential than previously believed to gain a dangerous capacity to be transmitted among mammals, including perhaps humans, and describe some of the genetic changes that appear to correlate with this potential," says the Press Statement on the NSABB Review of H5N1 Research. But the journals are objecting to the request, saying it would restrict access to information that might advance the cause of public health. "Many scientists within the influenza community have a bona fide need to know the details of this research in order to protect the public, especially if they currently are working with related strains of the virus," says Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science magazine adding that the magazine's response would be "heavily dependent upon the further steps taken by the US government to set forth a written, transparent plan" to ensure the information can be used by scientists who request it."


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When a failed baseball player's (Matthew Bonifacio) ex-girlfriend (Julianna Gelinas Bonifacio) moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter (Destiny Monet Cruz), he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career. What follows is his earnest, awkward, and at times hilarious fight to become the father he never was. Directed by Matthew Bonifacio ("Lbs.") from a script by Bill Gullo ("+ 1").


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BSISD finalizes redistricting map
After three months of sometime-intensive effort, Big Spring Independent School District officials have a new voting-district map they believe will receive federal and public approval.
Trustees discussed the new map, which is designed to increase minority representation on the school board, during their Thursday meeting at the high school board room.
The major change brought about by the redraw is that BSISD will now have three voting districts that are predominantly minority in ethnic makeup and four with Anglos making up the majority. Currently, the school district has two predominantly minority districts.
Raul Marquez, chairman of the Redistricting Advisory Committee, told trustees the group tweaked the boundary lines of District 6 (represented by Board President Jeff Brorman) to increase its minority voting-age population.
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Interesting dog tag with what looks like some sort of battle damage. Must have been unpleasant for the fellow wearing it at the time. Probably 8th battery 161 Artillery regiment with 178 being the soldiers number. Interesting piece.
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Historically significant mug from the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement talks held in the abandoned Korean village of Panmunjom. United Nations met with North Korean and Chinese officials here to iron out a cease fire agreement. The cup has the seal of the United Nations Command Armistice Commission below which is impressed JSA PAN MUN JOM KOREA. JSA remains the Joint Security Area and remains the only place where North Korean and UN forces coexist and as one might imagine has been the scene of mu...
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Absolutely top notch NCO visor cap by a top notch maker. The shape is solid, the fabric is flawless. The only three points that I can consider even minor condition points condition are on the last three attached images; two small tears on the sweatband and a spot on the undercoating of the visor where finger contact has rubbed the tan finish a bit thin. Pekuros is a high end maker and their "Stirndruckfrei" advertises a nice snug fit. A cap that would fit in the most advanced collection.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1960 item #1321872
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This piece I believe to be a hagi-yaki mizuzashi. The glaze color and incised decoration shows a strong Korean influence owed to the Korean pottery tradition brought to Japan during the early 17th century occupation of Korea by the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The big (?) handles and knop (?) top are design elements often seen on chirashi. This particular form, however, does appear to be a mizuzashi (Water vessel used in the Tea Ceremony). The speckled, coarse body looks like Hagi clay. After s...
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Nice German trench art type sweetheart bracelet featuring 1914 Iron Cross. Bracelet is made out of a piece of a shell casing but well made with a hinge crisply working catch. Perhaps best of all is the catch plate which bears the engraving: S/L. SCHWESTER ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN FELDZUG 1914/15 HERBERT HEINMUTH which basically says this is a present for his sister commemorating the campaign of 1914 to 1915. Early on when war still seemed glorious and the young men were still innocent. Lovely piece...
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Very interesting paperweight that a lieutenant or one of his family members had made to celebrate his winning of the Iron Cross First Class. The EK1 was, of course, a prestigious valor award and earning this medal would likely be a highlight in a soldier's life. The bulk of this paperweight is the clear plastic composite in which we often see old coins or similar mementos suspended. On the bottom is what appears to be the newspaper announcement of the award given to Leutnant d. Res (Lieutenant o...
All Items : Cyberattic : Pre 1940 item #1321604
Very nice second pattern NSKK cap eagle. Nicely woven in aluminum wire thread on original backing. Fabric is a little warped from age but a very solid example.
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Very tastefully executed katana tsuba showing a Dragon in the Clouds motif. Attractive dragon with very fine detail contrasts very nicely with the plain surface of the majority of the tsuba. The front shows the dragon's head, one leg and tail. The reverse shows just one small body segment and about an inch away from that just two toes, supporting the idea the sometimes less is more. Large size measures 8.5cm from top to bottom, 8.0cm from left to right, about 4.5mm thick and weighs just about 5....
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Autographs : Historical : Pre 1940 item #1312426
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Very cool document with signatures from both Benito Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel III who of course was the King of Italy before and during the war. The letterhead to the document also adds the title IMPERATORE D'ETIOPIA as the Italians were very proud of this conquest as they began to flex their muscles in the colonial arena. Another point of interest are the stamps on the reverse. Both include the year date 1938 but the Fascists also started counting years again from the March On Rome. The XVI...
All Items : Cyberattic : Pre 1940 item #1312253
Very nice 40 year faithful service for civil service. Condition is excellent throughout. One side of the pin has a popped stitch. This is an easy fix if someone wants to do it but medal displays well as is. Nice example.
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Attractive American M1912 officer's cap. Nice clean cap with with good shape and a nice, period used look. Beside the wearer's left ear is a stretch of about 3 inches where the stitching is missing along the sweatband. This is not noticeable unless pulled at because the cap keeps its shape very crisply (Image 7). The maker logo in the silk lining is blurred and not readable (Image 4). Also, from left to right along the lining and just under the logo is some separation from solid use (Image 5). U...
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First Class Eastern People award in silver with original hinged award box. Both the medal and the impressed likeness on the top of the box are the variant without swords which are a good bit scarcer then the combatant version with swords. Condition is solid throughout as per images and the silver wash on the obverse of the medal remains solid. The back of the hinged pin is hallmarked 100 for the firm Rudolf Wachtler, Mittweida. Nice, hard to find cased medal.


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With some editing and clarifications from feedback here and elsewhere in the thread, it will probably be something I'm happy to either link to in the Class::InsideOut documentation or possibly even add as Class::InsideOut::Tutorial.
In Class::InsideOut::Manual::About, it says,
All other implementation details, including constructors, initializers and class inheritance management are left to the user
This suggests to me that maybe a Class::InsideOut::Manual::BestPractices would be helpful. After all, most prospective users of C::IO are probably familiar with using classic hashref-based classes, and it's easy to just stick with what you know ... unless there's there's some easy-to-follow guidelines that say, ``Look, if you just need to write some simple classes with some inheritance, your best bet might be to use modules X, Y, Z, and do it like so.''.
By the way, for double-word score, include some references to relevant chapters and sections in Damian's PBP (detailing where C::IO BP differ from PBP being the most important, IMO).
IMO, a doc like that would make it a no-brainer to start off your InsideOut-OOP life with C::IO.
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ROSLYN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK -- November 18, 2011 at 1:48 in the afternoon I stopped at EXXON MOBIL on 225 Willis Ave Roslyn Heights NY (dealer: **) for gas. I went inside the store and informed the cashier that I want 35.00 of gas on pump five I paid and signed the receipt. I began to pump the gas when the pumped stop at 30.95 I returned to the cashier and to informed him of the difference when he claimed "that he had already voided out the previous transaction and asked me to swipe my credit card again for the new charges of 30.95." I asked him twice for verification of the voided transaction in amount of 35.00 but he was unproductive with my request and refused to reply.
I immediately called my credit card company before signing the second receipt and was informed that there was no record of a voided transaction in the amount of 35.00 but that there were two charges from EXXON MOBIL in the amount of 35.00 and 30.95 pending. I informed the credit card representative to void out the 35.00 charge, and she asked to speak with the cashier at EXXON for verification to complete the void process, which he did. I should not be subject to this type of mismanagement of my money or time. Customer need to have a sense of value by the merchandise and that integrity should be the modeled of the organization and his/her employees.
This incident could have been avoided by keeping focused on relevant policy issues. No cashier should lie or negate to provide the necessary paperwork for a voided transaction. He was attempting to steal money from me by not voiding the previous transaction. Consumers should have a sense of loyalty and trust from the retailers that we do business with. The cashier did not have a name tag on but the SHIFT # is **. I am requesting compensation of 200.00 gas card for the infraction of the rules.
Went to get gas at a Mobil station last Sunday. Only had about 80 dollars in my checking account so I put $20 in. Come to find out that the station held $91 of my money until the $20 cleared. Needless to say I paid for parking and a few other things thinking that I still had about 60-65 dollars in my account. The amounts were small ranging from $1 to $6 dollars. Well all of these small amounts didn't clear and I was charged a fee to the tune of 30 dollars a piece.
What gives Mobil the right to hold 91 dollars when I only purchased 20 dollars worth of product. There was nothing stating this anywhere and no way I could have possibly known this was happening. What gives them the right to do this to unknowing customers. What recourse do I have to get my over draft fees back. Thank you.
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA -- I have two Exxon gift cards. I swiped one card at the gas tank. The tank said to check with an attendant. As soon as I entered the store, the cashier looked at me with disgust on her face and refused to assist me with the balance on my card. Now I don't know if she was able to or not. But she was extremely rude in her response to refusing to help me out. She wouldn't even allow me to finish what I had to say. It was like she already had her mind made up before I walked in the store.
So I asked why did she have an bad attitude with the customer (myself) seeking help. She began to raise her voice and continued stating that she cannot help me. So I decided to walk away instead of arguing. As I walked out I informed her that I would be complaining. She encouraged me to call and make a complaint and provided me with the # to complain. She was very arrogant and wrong. I have never been in a situation as such, so this particular incident ruined my entire day emotionally and psychologically. And I was never able to use my card because the only person that could help me refused with a bad attitude.
Exxon Mobil credit card, from Mastercard. If you use this card, there is a good chance your card will be denied when you're outside in the winter, cold, and miles away from the next gas station. This happened to me. When I called customer service, I got transferred to the Philippines and India. When I asked to talk to the supervisor, they were very rude to me. They cut me off and wouldn't let me finish talking. They were condescending. Their English was impossible to understand. They tried to say that my English was bad (even though I'm an English teacher born and raised in the US). They said my phone wasn't working - even though no one else has that problem.
Very, very very rude customer service. They also make you stay on hold for literally hours. Just to do simple things, I've been on the phone over 2 hours on hold. And they often just hang up on you when you ask for their employee ID #.
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Exxon today refused to sell me alcohol with my government issued residence card, stating that it's "company policy" not to accept residence cards as a valid proof of age. Considering that state law states that this is a perfectly valid form of identification. This company policy causes me to bring the ethics and morals of Exxon into question. This seems like just another form of racial profiling and discrimination.
Texas state law on this topic can be found here: **. It states the following: Texas state law does not require that a person over 21 provide any identification to purchase alcohol in Texas. There is nothing in the law that declares specific forms of ID as "valid" for an alcohol purchase.
However, a person who sells a minor an alcoholic beverage does NOT commit an offense if the minor falsely represents himself to be 21 years old or older by displaying an apparently valid proof of identification that: contains a physical description and photograph consistent with the minor's appearance; purports to establish that the minor is 21 years of age or older; and was issued by a governmental agency. The proof of identification may include a driver's license.
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- My 5'10" girlfriend, age 45, went to buy one can of beer... clerk demanded ID, but because her driver's license was expired refused to accept it (I was driving and I'm 60)... So, I go into store to buy the one can of beer and clerk says she can't sell it to me because now I'm just buying it for my girlfriend. Next day I call manager of store (**) and he says it's company policy and refuses to give any info on clerk or territory manager, but gives the "800 customer blow-off number" for me to get the number for the territory manager (because it's against policy for him to give the number to me).
I call the number, and **, ID# ** informs me that she cannot give me any number of management to call, but that she can "file" a complaint (like it would matter to them anyway). She also informed me that the clerk was following company policy!!!! Apparently no matter how old you are, Exxon policy assumes that their clerks are morons who can't act appropriately or reasonably for someone who obviously is over 21 and demands they annoy grown adults for a "current" ID. This is plain STUPIDITY!!!!!
LACEY, WASHINGTON -- Back when gasoline was costing us nearly four dollars a gallon, I told people the oil companies were ripping us off, and people said I was nuts. I told them that they had short memories because they could not remember the year before, when they were charging high prices, and people and states charged them with gouging the public. They protested to the government that they were not gouging, that their profit margin was so low, they were barely scraping by. Then, at the end of the fiscal year, they were trumpeting how they had made record profits, referred to by one oil company executive as obscene profits.
Now they have done the same thing once more, having found they can get away with it. We were paying around $4.00 a gallon for gas, and similar prices for other petroleum products. Heating oil went sky high, as did diesel fuel, jet fuel, and kerosene. Grocery prices went sky high high, because it took fuel in so many stages etc. Well, at the end of January, the oil companies dropped the other shoe. They were bragging in segments on CNN and Headline News that they had made record profits. They made those record profits by gouging everyone who used any kind of fuel.
Come on, Obama, you are making all this big talk, take these oil companies to the woodshed and give them the paddling they so richly deserve. They steal from the public and the government, then sit there with a sheepish grin and lie like a wet rug. Why haven't the oil companies been charged under the RICO laws for theft and perjury?
ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA -- On Saturday, Dec. 3, I went to my local Exxon gas station to fill up my car. When I put my card in the pump, it gave me a message saying "Please see cashier." I went inside and the clerk said that there was a problem, but to go ahead and fill up that the pump probably wasn't reading the card. So I filled up (over $26 worth) and went inside to pay. My card was rejected. I know that the card was good, as the bill had just been paid two weeks earlier by my mother who had come for a vacation and paid the bill for me and mailed the bill from my house.
After being embarrassed by the clerk who announced that the card "wasn't good" in front of the whole line of people, I had to pay cash. Luckily, I had $30 in my wallet. As soon as I got in the car, I called the 800 number on the back of the card, where I got a computer telling me that the last payment of $257 dollars had been received on Nov.20 and my available Exxon credit was over $1000 dollars. After going through the voice prompts, I finally got someone in a call center in (where else!) India, who gave me a set speech about how the card was not valid, although the expiration date is 04/07.
He then asked me what the card looked like. Well... it turns out that I have an old card and back in April of this year, Exxon mailed out new cards with the tiger in one corner and the Exxon Mobil logo on the other corner. HOWEVER, there had been a major computer glitch and thousands of people have not gotten their new cards, so all the old cards were deactivated as of Dec. 1. I was told that new cards would be issued within 7-10 business days, so I asked how was I supposed to buy gas in the meantime. I got another pat answer of "we will be sending out cards in 7-10 days and then you can buy gas."
I told him that was not good enough, and then he told me that if I called the 800 number every time I wanted to buy gas, they could authorize my current card to be valid. So I asked to speak to a manager, whereupon I got another Indian man named ** (yeah, all Indians are named **) who gave me the exact same speech and told me about the computer error (yeah, yeah, I heard it already...) and that in 7-10 business days they would send new cards.
I explained that I was very embarrassed in the gas station and would not accept 7-10 days, I wanted a new card sent overnight, or if they could authorize per time use on my card, to just authorize 14 extra days on my card. Nope... that was not doable. I am going to call back tomorrow and tell them that I will be cancelling my Exxon card and see what that gets me. I hope that anyone who has an Exxon card will check to see if it is valid before they use it, or else they might be surprised when they can't use it to pay for their overpriced gasoline!
Let's see how it works?
Breakdown of Gas Prices
When you pump $20 dollars into your tank, that money is broken up into little pieces that get distributed among several entities. Gas is just like any other consumer product: There's a supply chain and several groups who are responsible for setting the price of the product. The media can sometimes lead you to believe that the price of gas is based solely on the price of crude oil, but there are actually many factors that determine what you pay at the pump. No matter how expensive gas becomes, all of these entities have to get their slice of the pie.
Let's look at where your money goes when you pay for gas:
· Crude oil - The biggest portion of the cost of gas -- as of April 2007, that's about 50 percent -- goes to the crude-oil suppliers. This is determined by the world's oil-exporting nations, particularly the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which you will learn more about in the next section. The amount of crude oil these countries produce determines the price of a barrel of oil. Crude-oil prices averaged around $37 per barrel (1 barrel = 42 gallons or 159.6 L) in 2004 (Source: U.S. DOE). And, after Hurricane Katrina, some prices were almost double that. In May 2007, crude-oil prices averaged around $60 per barrel (1 barrel = 45 gallons or 159.6 L).
Sometimes, gas prices go up even though there is plenty of crude oil on the market. It depends on what kind of oil it is. Oil can be classified as heavy or light, and as sweet or sour (no one actually tastes the oil, that's just what they call it). Light, sweet crude is easier and cheaper to refine, but supplies have been running low. There's plenty of heavy, sour crude available in the world, but refineries, particularly those in the U.S., have to undergo costly retooling to handle it.
· Refining costs - The refining of crude oil makes up about 28 percent of the price of gasoline. To learn more about oil refining, read How Oil Refining Works.
· Distribution and marketing - Crude oil is transported to refineries, and gasoline is shipped from the refineries to distribution points and then to gas stations. The price of transportation is passed along to the consumer. Marketing the brand of the oil company is also added into the cost of the gasoline you buy. Together, these two factors account for about 8 percent of the price of gasoline.
· Taxes - Taxes, including federal and local, account for about 14 percent of the total price of gas in the United States. Federal excise taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon, and state excise taxes average 18.2 cents per gallon. There may also be some additional taxes, such as applicable state sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees. Add that to the state excise taxes, and it can average 27.4 cents. It could be worse. In Europe, gas prices are far higher than in America because taxes on gas are much higher. For example, gas prices in England have risen as high as $6.65 per gallon, with 78 percent of that going to taxes.
· Station markup - While it isn't represented in the diagram above, of course some of the actual money you spend at the pump does go to the service station. Service stations add on a few cents per gallon. There's no set standard for how much gas stations add on to the price. Some may add just a couple of cents, while others may add as much as a dime or more. However, some states have markup laws prohibiting stations from charging less than a certain percentage over invoice from the wholesaler. These laws are designed to protect small, individually-owned gas stations from being driven out of business by large chains who can afford to slash prices at select locations.
Gas prices also vary from state to state for several reasons. Taxes are probably the biggest factor in the different prices around the country. Additionally, competition among local gas stations can drive prices down. Distance from the oil refineries can also affect prices -- stations closer to the Gulf of Mexico, where many oil refineries are located, have lower gas prices due to lower transportation costs. There are also some regional factors that can affect prices.
World events, wars and weather can also raise prices. Anything that affects any part of the process, from the moment the oil is drilled, through refining and distribution to your car will result in a change in price. Military conflicts in parts of the world with lots of oil supplies can make it difficult for oil companies to drill and ship crude oil. Hurricanes have damaged offshore drilling platforms, coastal refineries and shipping ports that receive oil tankers. If a tanker itself is lost or damaged, or leaks its oil into the ocean, that will put a dent in the market as well.
The most recent surge in gas prices is due to several factors, including all of those listed above. However, a new reason emerged during the spring of 2007: legislation out of Washington to incorporate more ethanol into transportation fuels. There has been a call for enough increase in ethanol production to reduce daily oil imports by 1.5 million barrels by 2017. As the ethanol production increased refineries couldn't keep up the demand and had to import more oil. This added to the increase in price.
Unfortunately, the rise in prices may not be over. Several things could happen to keep driving up the price of gasoline: continuing tensions over Iran's nuclear talks, worse conditions in Nigeria or another active and devastating hurricane season [Source: The Washington Times].
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -- On Monday, June 11, 2001 at about 10:45 p.m., my girlfriend and I pulled up to pump 13 at your gas station to fill her tank as we always do (at your gas station). We selected gas and payment type and the clerk informed us over the intercom that we would have to pre-pay. We didn't think too much of this as it was night time. While my girlfriend was inside paying for gas, and as I waited outside for the pump to turn on, I noticed that an older man (probably in his mid 50's) pulled to a pump in the back, but wasn't forced to pre-pay. He was in no way impaired or disabled and also was paying with cash.
This irritated me enough, but when my girlfriend told me what one of the clerks said to another clerk inside (probably in training), I was outraged. When the older man pulled up to the pump, the one clerk said to the other, 'You don't have to make the old man pre-pay.' What have we inferred from this? Well, it seems that your Exxon chain doesn't value our patronage and the fact that we spend over a hundred dollars a month at your store. This must also mean that you don't care to have the patronage of the over 40,000 college students living in Gainesville. I will do my best to further your effort.
As of now, my girlfriend and I will use a different gas station and we will inform all of our friends of how you choose to treat young customers. If I deem it necessary, I'll also write letters to student newspapers and to 'The Gainesville Sun,' whereas a 3rd year journalism student I have contacts and can insure publication. If your business was looking for group to discriminate against in Gainesville, college students may have not been quite the best choice. You'd be surprised what a couple of college kids could accomplish. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident.


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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Buckeye Glory Hole?
PS Time to clean under the nails, Buckeye Finger.
2 comments:
- phil said...
That is SO realistic that it's freaking scary. Boy, a tUOS fan taking computer animation technology into the next century.
(wv: preskool - where this video was made.)
- October 13, 2010 10:50 AM
- Mikoyan said...
What the hell was that?
- October 13, 2010 12:48 PM
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This tab thing makes Slashdot front page and the following didnt? Windows 7 way hotter than Vista off the line, now more popular than all OS X versions [engadget.com]. Okay then...
How is this tab things news or interesting at all? Here is what Brittany Behrens a PM for the editor team said:
Hi Brien,
Thank you for logging this issue. Before making this change we solicited feedback on the decision to combine Tab Size and Indent Size from a wide variety of sources, including public blog posts and forum threads, and found that the vast majority of user feedback was in favor of combining the two. If its seriously impacting your code to have Tab Size always equal Indent Size, it is possible to write a short editor extension to override the Tools->Options dialog and set the two options separately. If thats something youd be interested in, please let me know and Ill see about posting sample code for how to do this.
Im resolving this issue as By Design because we intentionally combined these options for VS 2010, but please feel free to post again here if you have any further questions or comments and well be happy to help.
Thanks for trying Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and sending your feedback!
Brittany Behrens
Program Manager, VS Platform - Editor
(bolding above mine for emphasis)
Gee, the team solicited comments, did some research and made a change that people wanted. Of course, any change will make somebody unhappy.
Brittany even volunteered to give folks a simple editor extension to make the settings different for those that want it. My assumption is that anyone using Visual Studio is a developer and capeable of using such an extension, or writing it themselves. It is not difficult.
This tab thing makes Slashdot front page and the following didnt?
Windows 7 way hotter than Vista off the line, now more popular than all OS X
Of course id did; it's a developer tool so it immediately has street cred at
Everything else that has nothing to do with coding or Linux is immediately a 3rd rate info byte unworthy of these hallowed pages
This tab thing makes Slashdot front page and the following didnt?
Windows 7 way hotter than Vista off the line, now more popular than all OS X
It's kdawson's shift. He'll never post any article that's even mildly favorable of anything Microsoft related. However, if you can find a story that says some kid in Sweden doesn't like the Windows 7 box-colors, you've got yourself a kdawson front-pager!
They solicited input from each other and in a blog post that generated a handful of responses. They did this to eliminate "a class of bugs" in the new editor that was triggered by setting the two numbers to different values. Which means they had a bunch of bugs (probably due to confusion between the two settings in the code) and someone had the brilliant idea that the bugs will go away if they just crippled the editor in such a way that the bugs will never be triggered. They solicited input, very quietly, and did it. This also means that the workaround they offer (writing a fucking extension, for fucking crying out loud - what is this, emacs?) will trigger all those bugs because they didn't fix them.
Nice. I'm sure you'ld prefer to have something closer to the Windows core than this, but nice first post. If you're going to advocate it pays to have front billing.
Now if you're going to drive off course from source code formatting to operating system adoption I can be forgiven for also going wide afield.
How's that Window Mobile thing working out for you? Have they canned Roz Ho yet for the Danger debacle? Will she have to extrapeneur to a startup and bring back its corpse to prove her loyalty, or wil
Did you read the blog post [msdn.com] where they solicited feedback? It had 9 comments in total. Among them was this comment from the author of the blog (4th comment):
I assure you we won't be changing that option [tab vs spaces] any time soon
So they solicited comments on a blog that no one reads and immediately say they aren't planning to change anything when questioned. After saying they wouldn't be changing the option, no one complained. Wow, what due diligence.
This tab thing makes Slashdot front page and the following didn't?
Of course the tab thing made Slashdot front page. Some people here virtually LIVE in Visual Studio, and code indentation is a heavily entrenched basic function of coding that people get surprisingly fired up about. Even if this particular aspect of code indentation isn't going to effect people, it's just begging for a heated emacs level discussion.
Your article, on the other hand, basically confirms that people like Windows 7 more than Vista, and that Windows 7 continues the well known and understood tradition of Windows outselling OSX by a factor of 10 to 1. These are things we already knew. Also, the article you site isn't even the source of the information, but refers to a much better Ars Technica article, which itself gets the data from Net Applications. I wonder if you didn't link the Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] article directly because it claims that "Linux was the only operating system [in December] to show positive percentage growth in market share." Or maybe this one "When putting this into perspective across the whole year, though, we see that Windows was actually sliding steadily throughout 2009 (93.66 percent in January 2009), while both Mac OS (4.71 percent in January 2009) and Linux (0.90 percent in January 2009) have been gaining." Or maybe the fact that Windows XP continues to hold onto 2/3rds of the active Windows installbase.
Also, it might be nice to point out that you're work at Microsoft in the Windows org as a development manger. It would boost your credibility as a poster, and reduce potential conflicts of interest.
Visual Python anyone? Doesn't Python force tabbed spacing for scoping?
Ending sentence fragments with anyone, anyone? Does anyone like this convention, anyone? Can we just see it die horribly in flames, anyone?
Visual Python anyone? Doesn't Python force tabbed spacing for scoping?
1) You must mean IronPython.
2) There's no Visual Studio integration for the current (2.x) version of IronPython. There used to be one for 1.x, but it had the status of a "sample VS language extension".
3) Python requires indentation, but doesn't require tabs (though it supports them).
4) Because the consequences of mixing tabs and spaces are much more nasty in Python, tabs are generally considered anathema among people who write in it.
It seems to me that most editors jump to the current indent level when you press tab - or if not, they should. I can't imagine many people want tabs to really go eight spaces...
But this is why rather than using tab characters in code I've always felt editors should backfill with spaces instead of tabs (outside of editing makefiles of course!)
Tabs are news?
Have you no sense of responsibility to your audience?
For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors.
There are editors that don't let you define arbitrary tab widths? No, seriously -- I'm not sure I've ever seen an editor that didn't provide the option, generally along with the option to have the tab key insert spaces instead of tabs, thereby avoiding that issue and the inevitable problems that arise as tabs and spaces are mixed.
And if that doesn't work, there's this really newfangled tool called indent that you can use...
Plain and simple. If they standardized tabs with a quantity of space chars in all their editors then it is very, very good news. That's the only way to have consistency across all viewers/editors.
in cross-platform project is to force everyone to use spaces only.
The shit that happens to code with tabs that get edited on unix and windows and different editors make the text to travel towards the right side of screen at exponentially increasing speeds.
Add some retarded editors and direct copying of sources between unix and windows without going through source control system that converts line endings and you will also have empty lines being added as well.
The end result is 1/100 ratio between code and wh
It is really unfortunate the IDE's let people change the tab setting and even more unfortunate that IDE's like Eclipse and IntellJ come with it incorrectly set to 4 spaces. This has the effect of totally buggering the code when viewed in any context other than one with the same settings. Printers and most code viewers use an 8 character tab stop.
Yes things work fine if you forbid mixing tabs and spaces in indent but, in my experience this does not work in practice.
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This is a wonderful time of year to be in New Mexico. It is the time that the farmers are harvesting their Green and Red Chili Peppers. They set up large chili roasters on street corners all over town, and you can stop and have them roast you up a big bag of chilies. You can take them home, put them in smaller bags and freeze them. Then all year long you can enjoy Green Chili Soup, Chili Rellenos, Green Chili Hamburgers and home made Salsa. We would always buy at least a 50 pound bag. With all this chili roasting going on, the whole city was filled with the rich aroma of roasting chilis.
While the Green Chilies were roasted, the Red Chilies were woven together like in the picture above to make Chili Ristras. The red chilies were dried in the sun, and then the ristras were sold. Originally this was a method to preserve the peppers and allow you to use them year round. After they were dried, people would buy them, and then put in the kitchen or pantry as a source of peppers for the year. The thing is, they are such a beautiful color of red, it became a tradition to use them as decorations, and not just for eating.
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No. 15 Oregon defeats Illinois 71-64
No. 15 Oregon defeats Illinois 71-64Oregon guard Damyean Dotson (21) shoots the ball over Illinois guard Rayvonte Rice (24) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Portland, Or., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon's Mike Moser was happy to be home.
The senior transfer from UNLV played at Portland's Grant High School. He easily had the loudest cheering section Saturday night when he had 14 points and nine rebounds in the 15th-ranked Ducks' 71-64 victory over Illinois at the Moda Center, home of the NBA's Trail Blazers.
''It felt incredible - and even 10 times better because we won the game,'' Moser said.
Joseph Young, another transfer who came from Houston, added 14 points as Oregon improved to 9-0 in the school's best start since it won its first 13 games of the 2006-07 season.
''There's still some things we want to work on, but the undefeated part is real good,'' Moser said.
Tracy Abrams and Rayvonte Rice had 16 points apiece for the Illini (9-2). A transfer from Drake, Rice has scored in double figures in each of his games with Illinois.
The Illini had not lost to the Ducks in their four previous meetings.
''We came into this game with the mindset we were going to win,'' Abrams said.
Illinois led by as many as nine points in the second half, but Oregon rallied to a 58-54 advantage on Moser's layup and Young's short jumper.
The Illini responded with five consecutive points, retaking the lead on Nnanna Egwu's 3-pointer with 3:37 to go. The Ducks then took over for good.
Elgin Cook's layup put Oregon back in front, and Moser added a 3-pointer to make it 63-59. Johnathan Loyd's long jumper with 30 seconds to go helped the Ducks hold on for the victory.
Illinois coach John Groce said his team played well for the first 32 minutes.
''I just want us to be aggressive on both ends of the floor,'' he said. ''And I think we got a little tentative with 8 minutes to go.''
The Ducks were coming off a 115-105 overtime victory at Mississippi last Sunday. Oregon went into the game ranked fourth in the nation with an average of 91.4 points per game. The matchup with Illinois tested its defense.
The Illini's only other loss this season was a 67-64 decision against Georgia Tech on Dec. 3. Illinois bounced back with wins against Auburn and Dartmouth.
The game was tied at 32 at halftime. Abrams had 10 points at the break.
The Illini opened a 50-41 lead on Rice's layup, but Oregon's Jason Caliste made a jumper to tie it at 54 with 7:02 left.
''The pendulum really swung there the last 10 minutes,'' Oregon coach Dana Altman said. ''And a lot of that was because of our defensive energy.''
Moser, who helped lead Grant to an Oregon state title in 2008, averaged 14 points and 10.5 rebounds at UNLV as a sophomore but was hampered by injury as a junior. The 6-foot-8 forward completed a final course for his undergraduate degree at UNLV, clearing the way for him to play for the Ducks this season.
He's returned to form with Oregon and is averaging 14.9 points and 7.6 rebounds through the team's first nine games.
Young leads the Ducks with an average of 19.4 points. A talented shooter, he was Houston's top scorer with an average of 18 points but left the Cougars after his dad, the director of basketball operations, was asked to take a lesser position. Both father and son decided to leave the program.
Oregon successfully petitioned the NCAA for a waiver to allow Young to play immediately rather than sit out a season.
Oregon was again without guard Dominic Artis and forward Ben Carter, who are serving NCAA-mandated suspensions for selling team apparel. Both players were suspended through the Illinois game and they must donate the value of the apparel to charity.
Artis, a sophomore, averaged 8.5 points and 3.2 assists last season and was projected as a potential starter at guard alongside Loyd. Carter, also a sophomore, averaged 2.4 points and 2.3 rebounds. The two will be eligible to return Tuesday when the Ducks host UC Irvine.
''We're not going to start them right away,'' Altman said. ''We're going to work them in.''
The Illini have a connection to the Pacific Northwest in guard Ahmad Starks, who played last season at Oregon State. Starks transferred to Illinois in the offseason to be closer to his ailing grandmother, but the NCAA denied his hardship waiver and he must sit out this season.


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Can you speak to one of the other managers? Does Stacy report to them? Esp. the part about her demanding requiring one investment referral a day, when the manager only wants one a week? Maybe ask the manager under the guise of wanting clarification, and see what she says. And are the other managers aware of the stuff she's pulling, or do they just not care, and let her get away with it?As for the other stuff, I'd continue documenting. You never know when it may come in handy. And hard as it may be, I'd try and ignore, and not engage her at all (not saying that you do) when she's talking about everyone behind their backs. Hopefully, it will backfire on her someday.
Keep documenting and talk to Stacy's manager or your human resources department. Tell them when you were training new hires, she kept surprise auditing your drawers disrupting the training. Also she did not follow procedure on the ATM deposits. She falsely accused me of taking my mom's deposit through the drive through. You did an investment referral and she changed who got the referral to herself.Tell them that you welcome audits in general because of course the accuracy and quality of your work is very important, but Stacy is using audits as a weapon and not as a quality tool. Also, (I assume) the results of the audits to not warrant this close attention...Your results of audits are (perfect, within norms). Tell them that you have documentation on each of these incidents and what will be the next steps?
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8. Managing Cost And Complexity
IT is helping companies manage costs by moving them to the cloud, allowing them to get better information, faster and cheaper, according to the report. However, with increased opportunities for cost-cutting comes the need for an agile operating model to support the changes and increase collaboration internally and externally.
"It's not just the traditional move to best practice or best-in-class; this is about the fundamental paradigm cost cadence flexibility [that needs] to change as the tech industry moves to these new business models," Archer said.
As an example, as more companies move from a licensing model to purely SaaS, no one seems to have really figured out how to adapt the old models to the new cost paradigm. The top quarter of pure SaaS companies only show margins of 7 percent, while trade software is in double digits, he said.


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release of PAPI-C. It addresses a number of bugs and other issues that
have surfaced since the 4.1.0 release. See the software page to download the tarball.
This version fixes an issue in which 'make clean' would go into an
infinite loop searching for the doc directory. It also implements a
better mechanism for insuring that threads in linux kernels get their
own interrupts for perf_events. Various features are now enabled or
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Support for the perf-events interface built into recent linux kernels has been strengthened and broadened.
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|2012-05-19, 02:20
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Spinning Lotus
Join Date: Jul 2008
Look at how she acts after Ao finally makes a decision on his own. She treats him as one of the team, if not quite a friend. That was the point; to get him moving.
|2012-05-19, 12:58
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About Fleur's matter, I didn't find her behavior so strange. They are not playing with PSP, that's a real war scenario and people die. So she wants Ao would not underestimate the situation thanks to that apparent childish/friendly context Gen Blue is in. And looking how Ao's fights have been easy going so far, that's another mark taht could lead him to underestimate situations.
Ao has to prove his determination, so she asked that question. It is not a matter of friendship nor politeness, but trust. If she trusts him then politeness and friendship will come. Or so I think it's her reasoning there. Obviously the fact we are talking about teenagers can fool our perception of the matter. BTW, Elena didn't even give him a chance so far.
That how it could be, I don't know if they are pursuing that or her/their behavior is driven only by some previous comrade loss, as already mentioned, and very plausible.
Anyways, all in all I tend to agree with Reckoner's feeling about AO progression.
I mean I really enjoyed the first three episodes, with Ao, Naru and the gramps, but now the whole Gen Blue setting looks a bit plain. I don't know what it is yet. I have no problem with the all-girls crew, neither with Elena in particular. Neither with the Bruno's team, even if his death didn't affect me at all and I still don't understand why he did that. Not that it is relevant by now, but the way they showed us looked underwhelming.
Let's say that they don't shine in originality.
If I have to say anyways I'm glad that this time they put their efforts on the main characters instead of the supporting cast. So I can live with Gen Blue.
Surely I still can't take the fights seriously. I mean, each time Ao doesn't look to strive to accomplish his task. Even this episode, he mounted on his IFO and killed the monster of the day as it was a piece of cake.
Let's see how things will go now with the shapeshifter. Even if from what I got he doesn't look a direct threat for Ao yet.
By the way, don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying the show so far.
|2012-05-21, 02:04
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Okay I finally understood the sequence of events.
1. Sometime before in Myanmar Truth wipes out a drug operation of insurgents. Killing also government agents.
2. In Lima Peru Truth swindles the president leading to the collapse of the Peruvian economy. Probably Trapar is what is being sold off. Killing witnesses again. Truth takes the Eisenhower. IFO.
3. Truth spots the Scub burst and proceeds there.
4. It was Truth's Eisenhower that Team Goldilocks spot in the hurricane.
5. Truth attacks the Secret and is spotted by Ao.
6. Being vaguely aware of Nirvash after he crashes Truth spots Nirvash which he saw 10 years before.
Though I suspect Truth is a human form Secret. (The Truth is a Secret) He places neither allegiance to the Scub Coral or the Secret/G-Monsters.
Therefore he is a wild card. Who he works for? I don't know. Though the Peruvian president thought at first he worked for the Allied Forces... Then he became uncertain who he is really.
|2012-05-23, 01:34
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 37
Noblesse Oblige
Watching the sixth episode I do have to apologize at getting myself getting carried my way by speculating based on just one viewing.
I do find fascinating E7:AO because the plot is intricate, and the director & writers are building the story that is unique, and at the same time will be connecting with the one from the first series sooner or later; that or maybe is not that the stories between the original and sequel would be connecting, but the universes.
It's been about six years since I finished the original series, and I forgot very detailed stuff that happened around that time, which prompts me to seriously consider purchasing the whole first E7 TV series to rewatch it.
This puts me on the whole perspective that I do really need to rewatch as many times necessary the episodes for this sequel to catch on details that I might have missed or overlook the previous time.
Now, the thing is that I'm going to make clear is that I dislike "Truth"; don't ask for reasons as to why I disdain "it", because my despise for his character is instinctive.
Though, I do understand "Truth" is going to play some kind of role involving Ao.
Possibilities are countless, but he may let it slip about anything that would either have to do with Eureka, or the Nirvash, or the Scub Coral, or the Secrets.
Just like many of you guys out there, I initially thought that Truth is a sort of human-shaped G-monster ("Secret") without a leash, meaning he runs wild and rampages as he pleases; another reason why I despise him.
For the time being, I'm going to stick with that speculation about Truth until the next episode or a later one proves me wrong about him.
The thing is that with him around Generation-Bleu's vicinity the nightmarish body count will again skyrocket, because he's obsessing and chasing after Ao.
|2012-05-23, 11:40
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I have to say I think the lack of connection between this and the original series is starting to catch up to me a little by episode 06. I honestly have very little idea what is going on in this show anymore. Not really sure what this show needs to kick start it again, but getting the supporting cast a little more development might not hurt.
|2012-05-23, 15:17
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This time no trying to assimilate humans. But then there is the mystery of the G-Monsters/Secret. They seem out to destroy the Scub.
Spoiler for Nirvash, Gonzy, Scub Coral exodus.:
|2012-05-24, 16:39
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Senior Member
I have to be patient so answers come soon, especially the abilities of Ao. If he's truly Eureka's son, he should display more abilities than just pilioting the Nirvash. That's what I thought. That and more...Well back to Pokemon for me...
|2012-05-25, 04:00
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Naru will end up with Ao at the end, bet the farm on it. The universe of two is a central theme of E7.
Interesting, Elena having an idol alter ego. The surprising part is that Ivica didn't seem to know about Mirror.
|2012-05-25, 04:22
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Age: 36
Too lazy to post better impressions on this week's episode. I enjoyed it, and I love the direction things are moving towards, but I'll give these story developments another 2 weeks or so before debating more on them. I love how this episode plays really neatly into my pet theory about where the series might be going:
You know, considering how Generation Bleu is paying for and hosting the entire Miller and the Mirrors gig, you would think they should know more! Lol.
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Senate Bill No. 435
(By Senators Chafin, Yost and Wills)
[Introduced January 26, 2012; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §16-5C-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the conveyance of personal funds upon death of nursing home residents.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §16-5C-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§16-5C-18. Separate accounts for residents' personal funds; consent for use; records; penalties.
(a) Each nursing home subject to the provisions of this article shall hold in a separate account and in trust each resident's personal funds deposited with the nursing home.
(b) No person may use or cause to be used for any purpose the personal funds of any resident admitted to any such nursing home unless consent for the use thereof has been obtained from the resident or from a committee or guardian or relative.
(c) Each nursing home shall maintain a true and complete record of all receipts for any disbursements from the personal funds account of each resident in the nursing home, including the purpose and payee of each disbursement, and shall render a true account of such record to the resident or his or her representative upon demand and upon termination of the resident's stay in the nursing home.
(d) Any person or corporation who violates any subsection of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned in jail not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.
(e) Reports provided to review organizations are confidential unless inaccessibility of information interferes with the director's ability to perform his or her oversight function as mandated by federal regulations and this section.
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section or any other provision of law, upon the death of a resident, any funds remaining in his or her personal account shall be made payable by to the executor of the estate of said resident. If no executor or estate exists, the facility shall make the remaining funds payable to a funeral home for the burial expenses incurred by the resident.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill to ensure that the funds remaining in a resident's personal account after their death goes to paying for a decent burial, rather than reverting to the state as unclaimed property.
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SPIRIT LAKE - Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire was one of the few teams that were able to get in a game at the Spirit Lake Softball Tournament on Saturday.
The Titans won their second game of the season with an 11-7 win over Whiting.
Alyssa Hoffman earned the win on the mound. She gave up seven runs (two earned) on three hits with four strikeouts and seven walks.
GTRA had 15 hits led by Morgan McGrauth, who went 3-4 with two RBIs and Marly Bakken, who went 3-3 with two RBIs. Four other players had two hits. Sara Harris was 2-3 while Daisy Jordan, Cassy Hampson and Brooke Hoffman all were 2-4 with an RBI. Jackie Tonderum was 1-2 with two RBIs.
Last Friday, GTRA lost 13-1 to West Bend-Mallard in six innings.
Alyssa Hoffman took the loss, but only seven of the 13 runs were earned. She gave up 10 hits, struck out three batters and walked three.
Alyssa Hoffman also had the Titans' only two hits as she went 2-2 with a double.
Last Thursday, the Titans led 8-6 over Pocahontas area heading into the bottom of the fourth inning when the Indians erupted for 12 runs and ended up with a 19-13 win.
Alyssa Hoffman was again on the mound for GTRA with only eight of the runs being earned. She walked 13 batters and struck out one while giving up 10 hits.
The Titans had 10 hits led by Jordan who went 5-5 with an RBI. Hampson was 3-5 with two RBI and Harris was 2-3 with two RBIs. Also Brooke Hoffman was 1-3 with two RBIs and Marly Bakken was 2-5 with a double. Grace Skattebo was 1-2 and Alyssa Hoffman and McGrauth each went 1-3.
GTRA (2-11 overall) was on the road with a doubleheader against Corwith-Wesley-Luverne on Monday. The Titans are at Spirit Lake on Thursday.


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A paddle boarder had part of his hand bitten off as he tried to fight off a shark on the NSW north coast. A NSW Ambulance spokeswoman said the man, 29, had also suffered a deep gash to his thigh when he was attacked by what is believed to be a bull shark at Diamond Head, about 50 kilometres south of Port Macquarie, at 10.45am on Friday. An ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics arrived to find the man, who is believed to be from the central coast, with shark bites to his hand and thigh. It was reported the man was surfing with friends when a pod of dolphins came through the waves. About 10 minutes later, he was attacked.
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Conway resigns from Newcastle
Newcastle Knights chief executive Ken Conway has resigned due to restructuring of the club's business responsibilities under a new partnership agreement.
Conway was largely responsible for guiding the Knights back into a profitable business and increasing the size of the club's football department.
He leaves the club due to structural changes within the organisation over the past 12 months which handed responsibilities for sponsorship, marketing and other commercial areas over to the Wests Group as part of a new partnership agreement. Conway officially vacated his post yesterday after more than five years at the Knights.
Operations manager Stephen Crowe will assume a senior manager role in the meantime supported by an executive team of financial controller Phillip Blackford and communications manager Stephen Mount.


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I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the creation of a great cookbook. I submitted a recipe that my grandmother, Edna Alice Puckett Gailey, made often for our family Christmas dinners. The Geneabloggers has published this first edition with the leadership of Coleen McHugh of Orations of McOhodoy!
The book has 35 recipes submitted by 18 fellow geneabloggers from around the world, and has step-by-step instructions, with many stories about the recipes and the families who enjoyed them through the years.
GeneaBloggers has posted an announcement of the Cookbook's release and you can read about it here. Thanks to all of the great editors and our own special "techie" guru, Thomas, for putting together a great cookbook.
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Unwanted™ wrote:She looks so adorable, for me , she's the best Alice possible and Emmet too, the rest of the people dont fit ...
Ashley is small just like Alice , and she has that cute look, I think she will be a great surprise in the movie And her hair is so cute ....Lucky Jasper
Stormy wrote:Ashley Greene is a perfect Alice.
The hair, the pixie like features, everything is just how I pictured Alice before I knew what she was actually going to look like in the movie.
She is definitely who I would of cast as Alice if I was the person with that job
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CRYSTAL LAKE – The annual Crystal Lake Central High School art show is getting bigger this year as the school is teaming up with Prairie Ridge High School to showcase student pieces.
The two-school art show will provide for a larger event but will also bring the two Crystal Lake sports rivals together, Crystal Lake Central Art Teacher Kerry Parrish said.
"I'm hoping that the Central kids and the [Prairie Ridge] kids can come together instead of competing," she said. "There's so much competition with sports in our district. There isn't a venue where kids are coming together for one common goal. And that's why I think this is a big deal."
The showcase is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, with artwork displayed in the hallways, cafeteria and stairwells of Crystal Lake Central.
Hundreds of pieces will be shown from the two schools, including sculptures, digital photography, drawings and other pieces.
Emily Nofsinger, an 18-year-old senior at Crystal Lake Central, will have her series of drawings displayed, which detail different ways people communicate.
"My concentration was communication," Nofsinger said. "How we communicate, what we communicate, and what inhibits communication.
"I drew a punk girl with pink hair. It's about what people see and what she really is. I also drew a girl in a wheelchair. She wants to dance but she's inhibited from physical communication and her love for dance."
Nofsinger said she was hesitant when she first heard Prairie Ridge was joining Central's art show, but said she's excited about the collaboration.
"I'm excited for them to have the opportunity because they don't get to have art shows," she said. "I'm excited to see another school's work. It's going to be fun to see a different school and a different set of skills."


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This is a sexual act involving cumming on the insides of a girl ankles. Then proceed to push the feet together until they stick. When this is completed and both feet are stuck together slap her in the face and throw seaweed at her. This should give her the appereance of an angry mermaid
John: Hey man i angry mermaided this bitches ass last night
Gary: No way man! whered you get the seaweed?
John: Your momma gave it to me after I Boned her!
Gary: No way man! whered you get the seaweed?
John: Your momma gave it to me after I Boned her!
a sexual act in which two males and one female go scuba diving. While underwater each male releases into a chosen ear of the female. At this point the female descends to a lower depth in the water and releases the pressure from her ears. This creates cloudy water; therefore giving the appearance of an angry mermaid. This is a difficult maneuver to achieve; however if it is executed properly maximum pleasure can be attained.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/apple_iphone_brokers/
New iPhone offered for sale via unauthorised outlets
'Expect shortages', says man punting $1000 Jesus mobes
Posted in The Channel, 4th October 2011 09:26 GMT
An unauthorised market in Apple's next-gen Jesus mobe is emerging ahead of today's much anticipated launch with price tags that would reduce most desperate fanbois to tears.
Suppliers in Europe have been contacted by broker Rainbow Concepts Inc, peddling the 16GB model at $925 and the 32GB version for $1,025 with minimum order quantities set at 500 units.
Ron Cantor at Rainbow Concepts Inc, told broker customers that shipments of the new iPhone will be available from 15 October, some weeks after the official launch.
"These prices are a bit high because we have to pay a substantial premium for these units now; we are only making a small profit at these prices," he said in an email sent to brokers that was seen by The Reg.
Cantor talked up potential shortages - which cynics may say is a well tested method of hyping products - claiming that he will only be able to get hold of 8,000 units between now and the year's end.
"For the next few months it appears that it will be almost impossible to purchase the new iPhone 5 units anywhere," he said.
Cantor told El Reg he was sourcing the phones from an authorised distributor in the US but refused to name them, which is not surprising really as importing kit from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) is frowned upon by vendors.
In fact there are a number of instances where UK suppliers have lost out in court battles over the import of kit into the EEA without consent.
Apple did not respond to calls at the time of writing. ®