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PERGOLA - Attic under the skyscrapers
Size55 m²
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- Pets allowed
- Air conditioning
- Indoor fireplace
- Elevator in building
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|Via Angelo della Pergola, 20159 Milano, Italy
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Beautiful loft in "Old Milan" context of late nineteenth century. We are in one of the most vibrant and dynamic historic districts in Milan "l'Isola" (the Island). The district is one of the poles of the nightlife of Milan with the highest concentration of restaurants, pubs, happy hours and clubs in the city. We are also very close to Brera for turists looking for a more chic scene. A short walk take you to the Garibaldi Rail Station and only 5 minutes by taxi or 2 stops by subway to the Central Station.
In 10 minutes you can walk to Corso Como, just below the skyscrapers of the new business center where aperitifs are served in the most exlusive bars.
The apartment is on the top floor with elevator and consists of a large open space of 55 square meters with a sleeping area and double sofa bed, kitchen and a bathroom. The apartment is equipped with air conditioning and wifi for free
The metro station is just 100 meters for direct connection to all major points of the city
The propery is provided with an extra inflable matress to accomodate up to 5
House rulescheck-in after 02.00pm
check-out before 11.00
in case of difference need we can arrange other check-in check-out times
in case of one-night reservation requests do contact previously the host
For check-in later than 8.00pm an extra 10 euros fee will be charged
CHECK-IN: pick up of the keys by our office at the Central Station (where trains and buses from every Milan airport arrive)
CHECK-OUT: very easy, just leave the keys inside the apartment (no need to come back to our office)
We remind our guests the need to pay the city tax upon arrival: 2 euros per guest per night
per check-in oltre le ore 20.00 verrà richiesto un contributo di 10 euro
CHECK-IN: il ritiro delle chiavi presso il nostro ufficio in Stazione Centrale
CHECK-OUT: molto semplice: potrete lasciare le chiavi all'interno dell'appartamento
Ricordiamo ai nostri ospiti l'obbligo del pagamento della trassa di soggiorno da versare direttamente all'arrivo pari a 2 euro per persona per notte
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|$ 9 US per guest/night extra
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If everything went well, the apartment was immaculate happy again. The pizzeria and IE corner l 'Arcta or so I highly recommend.
Hat alles gut geklappt die Wohnung war tiptop gerne wieder. Die Pizzeria und IE Ecke l' arcta oder so kann ich sehr empfehlen.
Great appartment, really good communication and service from Filiberto and Marcello. Will visit again in the future.
The apartment is great: sufficiently equipped, well located and communicated. The only drawback I've seen are the difficulties of accessibility (third floor, no elevator and lots of stairs). The host, Filiberto, is a person with a nice, answered queries quickly and solved it brilliantly realized a minor inconvenience that we came. I recommend this apartment.
El apartamento está fenomenal: suficientemente equipado, bien situado y comunicado. El único inconveniente que hemos visto son las dificultades de accesibilidad (tercer piso, sin ascensor y con muchos escalones).
El anfitrión, Filiberto, es una persona de trato agradable, contestó rápidamente a las consultas que le realicé y resolvió estupendamente un pequeño inconveniente que nos surgió.
Recomiendo este apartamento.
sweet apartment, great area, everything available, nice communication, VERY HAPPY AGAIN!
süße Wohnung, tolle Gegend, alles vorhanden, nette Kommunikation, SEHR GERN WIEDER!
The appartment was as great as discribed on Wimdu's website. I definitely recommand Filiberto's appartment
The apartment is in a good location. By tram you go directly to the center and according to the "Duomo". In the apartment, everything was neat and even though we had arrived an hour earlier than planned, we did not have to wait long and the colleague of Filiberto was already there and gave us the keys. Plus it's very comfortable, find it perfectly four people place! :)
Die Wohnung befindet sich in einer guten Lage. Mit der Tram fährt man direkt ins Zentrum und entsprechend zum "Duomo". In der Wohnung war alles ordentlich und obwohl wir eine Stunde früher als geplant angereist waren, mussten wir nicht lange warten und der Kollege von Filiberto war schon zur Stelle und gab uns die Schlüssel. Außerdem ist alles sehr komfortabel ausgestattet, es finden perfekt vier Leute Platz! :)
Very nice apartment, good location with a very good restaurant at only 100m ("la Vigne") and it's very close to the metro station "Porta di Genova". The tenant was really friendly. Definitely a good address if you plan to stay in Milan.
The appartment is very tiny but nice, fully equiped and located in a walk distance to Piazza Duomo (the very center of Milan). Metro station Missori is also very close. This is a direct metro line to the central railway station Milano Centrale. This is a good choice of accomodation for those who plan to stay in Milan for several days, to travel to some other cities (for example, I traveled to Genoa for one day) and for those who like to cook breakfast or dinner themselves (pans, pots, cups, plates are available).
Everything was super geklappt.Gute communication. Apartment is close to the Metro.Nur 2 stops from the cathedral. Restaurant and supermarket all within walking distance.
Hat Alles super geklappt.Gute Kommunikation .Wohnung liegt nahe an der Metro.Nur 2 Stationen vom Dom. Restaurant und Supermarkt alles in Laufnähe.
The apartment was good value for money. We stayed in Milan for 3 days with 4 boys in the age of 24-27. The apartment was large enough, the beds were quite good. The location of the apartment is a few kilometres from the centre. There's a tram stop right in front of the apartment so everytime we decided to go to the centre we took the tram. It took about 15 minutes to reach the city centre and we didn't had to pay at all. Compared to the high prices of the hotels in Milan, I think this apartment is a very reasonable offer. You shouldn't expect too much luxury but the beds, TV, fridge and the bathroom were all good and that is what a man need, isn't it?
Our main goal of the trip to Milan was Il Derby della Madonnina. Although I have been a lot of matches through whole Europe, this was a special derby. So much passion from both sets of fans, really impressive!
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I often wonder why it is people need to identify the
I often wonder why it is people need to identify the "other" in ways that are about exclusion and inhumanity. It's an old, sad story, that has cost millions of lives and has produced such brutality and sadness. I know it's time to embrace again a clarity of vision and purpose that is about one's fellow man, this family of man, around the world. This video says it all.
It's an old message, this message of compassion. I am seeing this everywhere on the Web, namely, so many people working with the same heartfelt mission, to make this world a better place. For "crying out loud", let's Do IT!
I see, in my heart of hearts, in my fondest dreams, hands across the world. We can do it. We can do it now. If not now, then, when? Eliminate cruel and make a masterpiece out of our lives and create then, a master peace, as crewel is also for embroidery of the finest kind. And kind is for man kind, a mandate, a man date.
Life is a journey and I think the journey stops here, at the River. It's time to recognize why we're here and what this story is all about. Love is the answer. Love has always been the answer. Why should something this simple be so hard?

"For 'crying out loud,' let's Do IT!" That is the real
"For 'crying out loud,' let's Do IT!" That is the real challenge though, isn't it? It's not so much the understanding compassion, it's the practicing it on a day-to-day basis. This is why I find Ricard compelling. Stay tuned!

Hi Andy Dayton: Thanks so much for responding to me this
Hi Andy Dayton: Thanks so much for responding to me this DAY, following a deep discussion with a friend overseas about life's burdens and what we can do about this, individually and collectively.
It's nice to feel one isn't invisible in this vast sea of words.
In the Zohar, the Book of Splendor, a profound spiritual text, recently translated by Daniel Matt and others, there is repeated mention of: A River Flows Through it Out of Eden. We are meant to take note of this. There is a symphony that follows our days, running contrapuntally to all of our lives. To pick up the beauty of the strings, the percussion, the cymbals, this inchoate story, is to feel, deeply, that what is right is so clear in such videos as the ones above. If I were to characterize this video with a color I would say, violet, for that which is most spiritual.
I honestly believe this entire story is coded in the words we speak. Once you see it there is no going back. The keys are in the aleph bet. The letters.
Yes, words are so easy, and acts are so hard. Maybe the first ACT is over and now, it's time to move forward in the greatest act imaginable, to work, to truly work hard, to change this world in ways of peace, love, compassion.
And for this, we will need everyone. Anyone WILLing and able please apply.
Shakespeare: all the world's a stage...
maybe WILL was right and this is why we so feel his beautiful words.

My Irish grandmother knew well how to be compassionate.
My Irish grandmother knew well how to be compassionate. She practiced it every day from the moment she got up to go to early mass every morning, to the food packages she would make for the ailing neighbour, to the charity drives she helped organise to raise funds for children living in poverty. Since seeing Karen Armstrong's TED presentation last year, I have continually been thinking about my dear grandmother and how we tended to oversee the beauty and power of her actions because they were all expressed with grace and humbleness.

simply beautiful

simply beautiful

So true, so well spoken !

So true, so well spoken !

I think we sometimes forget that words *are* a way of
I think we sometimes forget that words *are* a way of acting. As with any action, words can be simply and empty gesture, but they can also inspire, move, and uplift--as Armstrong indicated in the interview when she said theology should be more like poetry. How we talk to and about one another affects what we and others do in the world.
And in that vein, I feel a need to speak carefully and compassionately about those who approach religion in more fundamentalist and extreme ways. I am often tempted to make *them* the other who needs to be defeated or overcome, but their emotional and spiritual needs are no less valid than mine, and don't they also carry the creator within them?

One thing that fairly leapt out at me from the SOF
One thing that fairly leapt out at me from the SOF interview was Armstrong's mention of creeds, which of course brought directly to mind the recent show featuring Jaroslav Pelikan.
Religions are forms of ethical alchemy: you behave in a compassionate way and this changes you. What keeps us from a knowledge of the divine--which has been called variously "God", "Nirvana", "Brahman", the sacred--what keeps us from this ultimate reality is our own egotism, our greed, that often needs to destroy others or denigrate others in order to preserve it's sense of self. Compassion makes us de-throne ourselves from the center of our world and put another there. And it's this, they all teach, that leads us into the presence of the divine. Not believing in creeds, not undertaking weird penances.
--Karen Armstrong
Religious faith needs creed. [Just] religious faith "in general," prayer addressed "To Whom It May Concern..," sentiment about some transcendent dimension otherwise undefined, has no staying power. It's OK to have that at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, when you're out with your friends somewhere. But in the darkest hours of life you've got to believe something specific. And that specification is the task of the creed. Much as some people might not like it, to believe one thing is also to disbelieve another. To say "yes" is also to say "no." Clarifying what the "yes" is, and what that "yes" implies for the "no", within the boundaries of a particular religious tradition and in relation to other traditions... That task of setting up the alternatives and then finding a way to say what it is we believe [is the function of the creed].
--Jaroslav Pelikan
If only SOF could have gotten these two together! Now THAT would have been a show!
Personally, I come down on Armstrong's side far more than Pelikan's. I look forward to reading more about Armstrong's views on compassion and how it can stand, in some sense, in opposition to creeds and fundamentalism.

Nice connection! Unfortunately, Jaroslav Pelikan passed
Nice connection! Unfortunately, Jaroslav Pelikan passed away in 2006, so it's a conversation that will never happen ... maybe you'll have to download the unedited interviews and cut together your own version ;).

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Why the ADY instead of IDY Bert?
Seems like they've done all the work of modding the oven... now all you have to do is find a used grill the same size, cut a hole in the bottom and mount your propane burner. Drop the nifty gadget on it and away you go.I think it could use some work on the underside of the dome - not enough air turbulence. Needs some vanes to push the air down.
I'm glad you guys are happy with your weber charcoal pizza oven. You'd get better results making an LBE IMO. You can have controlled and constant heat for as long as you have propane pumping through it. That means you aren't limited to one batch of charcoal briquettes.On a typical LBE and a 5 gallon propane tank you will typically get 15+ baking sessions, baking 3-4 pies back to back with a 20minute heat up (each time) to get 650F+. Sure you can reach 800F+ on the LBE but I'm not sure it's a balanced bake at those temps. YMMV. So on one tank, baking pies continuously back to back...well that equals A LOT of pies.Sure the weber charcoal oven works, but how well does it work? How even is the heat distribution top and bottom and how efficient is it....compared to the LBE? How many pies can you bake with one load of coals? How easy is it to refill the coals? Do you have to take the oven apart and handle the hots stone to do this?
I'll bet you could make some even better pies on that grill if you loose the NP dough and go with something better suited for the Weber heat output.
Thanks Bob, I hadn't thought of that, but it's definitely a good idea to experiment. What would you recommend, bearing in mind that I like a thin and fairly crispy pie with a nice puffed cornice.I do have a half sack of Caputo 00 left - so a blend might be the way to go until that is used up. Having said that, I love the extensibility of the 00 based dough.Do you know if a different make of 00 flour would be more suitable - is it only the Caputo 00 that has trouble browning at lower temperatures? I am in the UK, so have access to many different types of flour - but certainly not the same brands as you get in the US.Cheers,Alasdair


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Doris F. "Dee" Scalise
Doris F. "Dee" Scalise, 86, a resident of Warren Manor died peacefully Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at her residence.
She was born June 17, 1926, in Sykesville, Pa., to the late John and Ruth Buhite Foltz.
She was a 1944 graduate of Sykesville High School, then entered the state nursing school at Philipsburg, Pa., to take the three year course in cadet nurses training. She began her career as a registered nurse at Warren State Hospital, retiring in 1985.
She was a longtime Warren area resident. Doris enjoyed playing golf, bowling and was an avid reader. She was a member of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Conewango Valley Country Club, Jackson Valley Country Club, Blueberry Hill Golf Course and Lakewood Rod & Gun Club.
She is survived by her daughter, Jodee Andrews of Warren, Pa.; a son, Jon Scalise of Lakewood, N.Y.; three grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph P. Scalise "Papa Joe", who died Sept 17, 2011, whom she married Aug. 28, 1948, in Warren, Pa.; a sister, Roma Beaton; and a brother, Max Foltz.
Friends may call at the Donald E. Lewis Funeral Home Inc., 304 East St., Warren, Pa., on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, from 4-7 p.m. A funeral service will be conducted there Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at noon with Father Richard J. Toohey, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in St. Joseph Roman Catholic Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions may be made to the Italian-American Charity Inc., 3 Edgewood Drive, Lakewood, NY 14750; or St. Joseph Church Educational Center Fund, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., West, Warren, PA 16365; or a charity of one's choice. Email condolences may be sent by visiting www.lewisfuneralhomeinc.com.


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Associate Producer Phillip S. Plowden said Monday that he was totally pleased with his experience making the independent film "Dig Two Graves" in Southern Illinois last month.
"I would love to bring another one down there," he said from Chicago.
Photos from the Illinois Film Office got the crew interested in Southern Illinois, but research trips to the area sealed the deal. Local historian and author Jon Musgrave assisted in scouting locations.
"We had a script and we felt we could meet the needs of the script in your area," he said.
"Dig Two Graves" is described by publicity for the film as "one part gothic thriller, one part comedy."
It is the story of a young girl who is offered the chance to bring her beloved brother back to life if she takes the life of another. The title, "Dig Two Graves," is a reference to a Confucian proverb that warns, "When embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
The railroad tunnel — namesake of the town of Tunnel Hill and the Tunnel Hill Trail — has charmed bicyclers for years. For the movie, the 543-foot tunnel provides a different tone.
"We had need of a dark foreboding area where the main character would meet the moonshiners. The railroad tunnel at Tunnel Hill provided that location."
The square in Marion became a scene of revelry for the movie.
"The buildings and the clock tower in Marion Square were perfect for our carnival scene. We liked the circular town square," Plowden said.
Sometimes convenience figures in.
"Mermet Springs was a perfect location. Lots of parking and access to U.S. Route 45," Plowden said.
The state itself provides an incentive for film makers to shoot here.
"The Illinois tax credit for movie makers was a factor also," he said.
Southern Illinois not only provided a scenic backdrop for the film, it also served as a location for set construction.
"We built some interiors in a storage building at 900 Skyline Drive in Marion. They worked out fine," he said.
Their happiest surprise was the people of the region.
"Everyone was so accommodating. Mayors, police and people in general. A couple of farmers pulled one of our vehicles out of the mud. When you are shooting in a big city it is a little more buttoned up," Plowden said.
Working with the cast was wonderful, Plowden said, "Especially newcomer Sami Isler. We got to calling her 'one take Isler.' She just nailed it."
The cast includes Ted Levine from "Shutter Island" and "Silence of the Lambs," Danny Goldring from "The Dark Knight," Troy Ruptash from "Mad Men," and Isler, a 14-year-old newcomer and Oklahoma native.
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We should be sipping lemonade and humming, "Summertime," but the living isn't so easy when our elected officials can't agree on anything. I'm thinking at this rate, they wouldn't even know the first thing about grocery shopping, BOGOs or clipping coupons to save money. Thankfully, there's Shop Cheap and there's nothing controversial about bargains.
Here's what we like this week: In a word, produce.
Safeway has seedless grapes for 99-cents a pound; plums for 99-cents a pound and bell peppers 2/$1. New potatoes are 99-cents a pound green onions or radishes are 50-cents each.
Shop Friday-Monday and you'll get a pint of blueberries for $1.99. Other 4-day sale offerings include 8-piece Signature Cafe chicken for $5.99; Barilla pasta for 89-cents a box; BOGO Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Carving Board meats. A case of refreshe drinking water is $2.88; Classico pasta sauce is $1.49 and General Mills cereals are $1.88. Cooked salad shrimpmeat is $3.99lb and Ready Pac cut fruit bowls are $4.99.
Other stuff we like: Safeway Kitchen sandwich bread for $2 a loaf; BOGO Chips Ahoy! or Ritz crackers and BOGO Ruffles, too. Gallo Salame is $5.99 and Johnsonville smoked sausage or bratwurst is $2.99. Lucerne natural sliced cheese is $2.49; Eggo frozen waffles are $1.99 and Skinny Cow ice cream treats are $3.49.
The Friday only $5 specials last until Monday this week and they include Signature Cafe pizza; a 12-pack of Dannon Activia yogurt; Safeway select coffee and from the bakery a Raspberry Almond Bistro cake.
Raley's has mangoes for 39-cents each; white peaches or nectarines for $1.49lb; Roma tomatoes for 69-cents a pound; fresh limes are 6/96-cents and the green onion-cilantro-radish trio is 3/99-cents. Bell peppers are 50-cents each and sweet white corn is 5/$2.
Raley's 99-cent sale includes Barilla pasta; (Barilla pasta sauce is $2 a jar); Mission corn tortillas; Powerade and Larabars.
Tri tip roast is $2.99lb. Sunnyside Farms OJ is $2.38 for a half-gallon.
In the bakery, sweet or sourdough baguettes are $1.88; "dessert for 2" is BOGO and an 8-pack of cinnamon rolls is $3.59. In the deli, 8-piece fried chicken is $4.99.
Over at Save Mart, strawberries are BOGO and seedless grapes are 97-cents a pound. Sweet white corn is 4/$1 and peaches are 67-cents a pound. Cherries are $2.97lb; celery is 57-cents and iceberg lettuce is 97-cents a head.
The Save Mart weekend sale - Friday-Sunday - has cooked salad shrimp for $2.88lb; Minute Maid drinks for 88-cents and Nabisco cookies for $1.99.
Whole Foster Farms chickens are 99-cents a pound and Giants Alpine franks or smoked sausage is $3.99.
There's a Mix & Match sale (Kellogg's, Sunshine and Keebler) that's a little too complicated for my simple mind. All I know is you have to buy 6 of something to get the discount.
Coke products are buy 2, get 3 free (12-packs) and Sara Lee bread is BOGO.
Classico pasta sauce is $2 a jar; BEst Foods mayo is $2.59 and Crystal Geyser spring water is $3.33 a case. Sunnyside Farms large eggs are $2.50 for 18 and Minute Maid OJ is $3.99 in the 89-oz. jug.
In the bakery, baguettes are 99-cents each and in the deli, chicken tenders are $5.99 and potato salad is $2.49.
Save Mart continues to partner with Shell so that shoppers can earn discounts on gas.
Got to mention Henry's/Sprouts this week for their produce prices. Red seedless grapes are 88-cents a pound. Also 88-cents a pound are tomatoes, green beans; nectarines and Italian squash. For 88-cents each, you can get a bell pepper, a cantaloupe or a bag of baby carrots.
We also want to give a shout out to the Grocery Outlet. If you haven't been to one, it's the kind of store where you can stop for a couple of things or fill your cart for the week. They sent Shop Cheap samples this week and sample prices: Amy's Organic lentil soup for $1.49 a can; De Cecco Penne Rigate for $1.49 a box; Maranantha Dark Chocolate peanut spread for $2.99; Yorkshire Breakfast Tea for $2.49; Nature's Bakery vanilla fig cookie bar for 50-cents and Burt's Bees Milk and Honey Body Lotion for $2.49. These items can be found at most supermarkets but you'd pay twice as much. Grocery Outlet also carries the Lady Lee brand.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (April 3, 2014) – Hundreds of
UMES undergraduates took a break from their studies today to revel in formal
recognition from faculty and administrators for a job "well done."
university's 61st Honors Convocation attracted a capacity crowd to
the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts, where many audience members
had earned a coveted place on the dean's list during 2013.
those called on stage for special recognition were two scholar athletes on UMES'
championship bowling team and an international student who distinguished
himself as a math major.
Ukaivbe, who hails from Delta State, Nigeria, was named the Daniel J. Pinkett
Award in Mathematics winner, an honor that comes with a $1,500 cash award. The Pinkett
prize is named in honor of a math teacher at Princess Anne Academy, as the
university was known during the early 20th century.
who has a 3.63 grade point average, was unable to accept in person; he was in
Bridgeport, Conn., where he was an invited presenter at the Conference of the
American Society for Engineering Education. He plans to pursue a master's
degree in applied computer science at UMES.
professor who supported his nomination said Ukaivbe "has amassed a research
record well beyond that of his peers," which has included publication of articles
about b-spline interpolation, a highly specialize form of numerical analysis.
Junior Tatiana Munoz of Colombia, who will be away from campus next weekend attempting
to become an NCAA champion bowler, received the Award of Excellence as the top
student in School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. She is majoring in
rehabilitation services.
Award of Excellence winners were: senior Michael Taylor of Eden (School of Arts
and Professions), senior Chelsea Grainger of Gaithersburg, Md., (School of
Agriculture and Natural Sciences, and senior Paul Cecil of Severn, Md. (School
of Business and Technology).
Megan Buja of Rockford, Ill., the lone senior on the NCAA tourney bound team,
was singled out for departmental honors from the Department of Human Ecology.
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The state has inked a $2.4 million settlement with a medical-waste disposal company accused overcharging 1,000 New York publicly funded agencies, including several in the Rochester area, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.
Stericycle Inc., a national biohazard waste removal firm based in the Chicago area, used pricing software that since 2003had periodically raised prices without telling clients of the increases, Schneiderman said. The 18 percent price hikes deliberately were imposed in increments designed to avoid notice, he said.
The scheme was exposed by a Stericycle employee who filed a whistleblower complaint in a Chicago federal court. Schneiderman's office conducted a separate investigation in New York after learning of the federal complaint, he said. Agencies overcharged by the waste-disposal firm in New York included jails, volunteer ambulance companies, police departments, educational institutions and hospitals.
Some $820,000 of the settlement is to go to fully repay overcharged organizations. The four-figure and five-figure refunds are to be paid directly by Stericycle. The biohazard company also has agreed to stop imposing automatic price hikes.
Under the False Claims Act, the New York law Schneiderman invoked to spur the Stericycle investigation, Jennifer Perez, the former Stericycle worker who blew the whistle on the pricing scheme, is entitled to part of the settlement.
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Topic: nginx as a proxy/load balancer for mongrel_cluster in fromt of apache
I am trying to find more info on using nginx as a proxy/load balancer together with mongrel_cluster and apache1.3 (I know I could use 2.2 but it is a cPanel server, so need to stick with 1.3 for now). I have been using pound as the proxy but I have been told that nginx will do it better, use less memory and it will also handle the static stuff that mongrel is not so good at.
Will nginx really be much better than pound for this?
Hasn't mongrel gotten better at handling static stuff?
Anyone know of any how-to that covers the configuration in nginx (pound has a much simpler config, but then again it is not a server)?


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Category: Summer Reading EventCategory: Art & Music
Location: Curtis Gallery
Randi Bull's print exhibit is on view at the Library through September 15.
Randi likes everything about making a woodcut. It is Bull's decision to print only by hand without the help of a mechanical press that provides the strong impressions of her finished product. Randi's use of tools in the form of knives and gouges are simple. Her reuse of blocks shows Randi's resourceful inventiveness and adventurous use of the woodblock medium. By reconfiguring existing blocks, she can create multiple images in an infinite variety within an edition. Her love of wood comes from a childhood spent visiting family surrounded by acres of trees in her native Norwalk. Bull states, "It is the feel of cutting the wood, the white of the paper, the wonderful colors, and the luminosity that the white paper and the black key block produce. I like the shapes that materialize when you cut freely, both the shape that you cut out and the shape that remains. The logical or sometimes topsy-turvy solutions at times are quite different from the initial plan of colors. I love the mystery that arises when a print suddenly seems to work."
Paintings & Prints by Randi Bull is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, and runs through September 15. The curator of this exhibit is Laura Einstein.


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Fun. met up with James Montgomery from MTV News while they were at Lollapalooza to talk about their appearance at Stephest Colbchella '012 today and the upcoming 'Colbert Bump' they'll get from that. Click HERE to read the full article!
"Is that a real thing? It sounds like you're going to do coke with Stephen Colbert." - Jack Antonoff


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Registration for the Strange Fire conference is filling up fast, and we wanted to remind you that the early-bird pricing window closes at the end of the month. There are only a few hundred seats remaining and we don't want you or your friends and family to miss this great opportunity.
Recently we asked John MacArthur about who should attend Strange Fire. Specifically, we asked him if we ought to invite our charismatic friends to the conference. Here's what he had to say:
You can view this or any of our other Strange Fire media at the conference website. We look forward to seeing you in October and sharing in rich fellowship around the teaching of God's Word.
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I wish I could be there...I will miss it due to military training. I will get all the resources when available. God bless GTY.
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I am a former Charismatic and was in the movement for 20 plus years. I'm pleased that Dr. MacArthur is addressing the movement so aggressively, however, as we attack the unbiblical nature of charismata, we need to be very careful how we do this. I can tell you that most charismatics who are true believers will be difficult to persuade. Here is the reason why: the experiences they have remind them of things they read about in scripture so that they have validation in that. Now we non-charismatics would say that is not really possible, but they are not willing to part with the very pleasant feelings they get from the type of worship they have, and the belief that God is able to speak to them directly. They won't want to give this up. They would equate leaving this environment with being cut off from God.
When I was first confronted by my own examination of the sign gifts after years of being immersed in all the euphoria of charismatic services and experiences, I felt an accute sense of isolation. What would fill the void? How would I function? If there is no more direct speaking from God, how would I hear from Him? He would be silent. It was such an empty feeling at first. The problem was that I was so involved in a spiritual counterfeit, that I didn't know what the true walk with the God of the Bible was like.
As I began to explore authentic Bible doctrine it was as though the Lord Himself was pouring fresh water onto me and into me. I didn't know what I was missing all those years of being captive to a false view of what it meant to know God. When my husband and I went to speak to our pastor about how we were now convinced that the 'miraculous gifts' were not needed any longer, he wanted us to stay in the church. We felt compelled to leave over the doctrinal issue. We told him that 'Charismatic Chaos' explained so clearly what we now believed. He said he had read the book, and agreed with 95% if it! The reason he gave for not leaving the charismatic/pentecostal church was because he so loved the glorious feeling in his tongues experience that he worshiped God with.
My prayer is that any attempt to unveil the spurious nature of this type of worship will be guided by an understanding that so many truly love Jesus Christ and want to honor Him with their lives and their enthusiastic praise for His salvation. They derive so much satisfaction from the tongues, words of knowledge, binding of Satan, what all they perceive as biblical phenomenon, that they can't see themselves any other way. Please help them to understand that they are experiencing 'something,' but what is that 'something' if it's not real? What will take it's place?
I'd love to get the new book by the same name, somehow.
The Lord's blessings on the conference, I will be praying for this as we all should bathe it in prayer.
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Lois Begly,
I really appreciated your comment, and you have great wisdom and maturity. Thank you for sharing your story.
You may be interested to know that there's been quite a lot of research into religious experiences, including speaking in tongues. Few christians (let alone charismatics) are aware of this as it originates from secular academics. One hypothesis that I found particularly convincing is that speaking in tongues is associated with altered states of consciousness (hypnotic trances), which are induced by repetitive music. These produce extremely pleasant feelings, which can even become addictive. Your pastor's comments are totally consistent with this.
It was actually this research which caused me to reject charismatic beliefs. Biblical interpretation is something that can be argued over, and I didn't find either side of the cessationist / continuationist debate to have a particularly strong case. What tipped the balance for me was the fact that the natural explanation for charismatic experiences is far more convincing than the supernatural one. Once I realised this, pretty much everything found within the charismatic world made perfect sense. (I can say more about this if others would find it helpful).
I think one key reason for the popularity of the charismatic movement is the sorry state of conservative evangelicalism. When I became a christian many years ago, there were two evangelical churches in town. One was charismatic and one was not. Quite frankly, the charismatic church seemed to have all the love and all the joy. The people at the non-charismatic church were miserable, grumpy, and hard-hearted, and so who would not be drawn to the charismatic church? They may have been wrong about the gifts of the spirit, but the fruit of the spirit was also in evidence. Yes, that's my personal experience from the past, but it's a stereotype that has definitely has a lot of truth in it.
Things are a lot better now, and the culture within non-charismatic evangelicalism has improved considerably. The challenge is to continue this and allow the Lord to further reform us and our churches such that the life of the spirit and the joy of the Lord is visible to all. I pray that this conference will not only challenge charismatics, but also present a better way.
Hello David Smith. you stated: (I can say more about this if others would find it helpful).
It will be evry helpful to me if you would say more about this subject. Thanks!
Please elaborate on your research on the natural explanations for charismata.
I'm coming out of 27 years of pentecostal/charismatic teaching. Over the last 3 years, I've been studying reformed doctrine intensely and have found that the illumination of the Holy Spirit on the Word and the truth blows the experientia off the map.
Like you said, David, it is hard to confirm either cessationist or experientia application, but it is very obvious that most of what goes on in Charismatica is not biblical.
To Bjuster and James, I'll be glad to provide some further explanations, but it may take a few days due to other commitments. I appreciate both of you asking for my input and I'd ask you to pray that the Lord will give me clarity in what I write.
I would like to attend this conference. I left a Hindu belief system with all its signs and wonders, for Christ. I became born again in an AOG church in 1984 before the signs and wonders took over. The youth pastor laid hands on me and I did begin to speak in another language, much to my surprise. But within a year it became apparent that life goes on with or without tongues. I became pregnant with my daughter Rachel in the midst of my sinless so called life. The AOG Senior Pastor said that God (god) was very angry with me and that what I did and what I was about to deliver was not God's (god's) plan. So l left the church never to return again. Now I am a truth seeker. And know the love God has for all of us including my daughter Rachel.
Next chapter: The Charismatic movement reminds me of the Hindu experience I had. Especially the slain in the spirit, involuntary body movements and speaking utterances. I do hate that fact that this is in God's Holy Place, inside the believer, and I want to equip myself with as much armor to combat the "great apostasy". One thing we must remember, God is sending this great delusion among the believers, just as He planted the serpent in the garden of Eden. He keeps giving us chances to believe in the truth, but many still do not want to believe.
I look forward to the conference.
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2 . Why is the NBA better than your favorite sport?
3. Why is your college lamer and inferior to Johns Hopkins?
4. If you could poach any one animal to stuff and put on ur man cave, what would it be?
Bonus Option Question 5 . Name your favorite word to use instead of "kid" . (e.g. bro, dude, homie, man, etc ) OR What is the snottiest thing you've said or done to someone in the last 2 weeks?
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Database Sharding with CUBRID
posted 6 years ago in CUBRID Life category by Esen Sagynov
Hi everybody!
Our development team has just released the User Specs for the Sharding feature which we are going to implement this year in CUBRID. In this blog I will explain the overall plan and how the database sharding will work in CUBRID.
What is Database Sharding?
At this moment you might be wondering what database sharding means. For this, we also need to understand what database partitioning is and their difference.
In simple words, the database partitioning is a method of dividing (partitioning) the data between tables in a single database instance.
While the database sharding is a method of horizontal partitioning the data between tables in multiple machines. In this case, each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard.
Why Database Sharding?
There are three reasons why we want to provide the native support in CUBRID for database sharding:
- To enable horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
- To provide application scale-out.
- To minimize application code changes.
What is it like without database sharding?
Take a look at the following figure to understand the communication process which takes places between an application and a database without sharding.
On the back-end you have several servers with separate databases, each of which has a table. The tables share the common schema. Briefly, they are identical, but store different data based on how the developers hard coded in their application. Assume the following three simple conditions are stated in the application which determine where should the data be stored. Normally, a quite complex static hashing scheme is implemented to aid the application in determining the target database. For this case, let's look at the easy one for better comprehension.
- WHERE id <= 500,000, store in TBL 01 which is in DB 1.
- WHERE id > 500,000 AND id <= 1,000,000, store in TBL 02 which is in DB 2.
- WHERE id > 1,000,000, store in TBL 03 in DB 3.
In case the developers add a new database, here are the steps they need to perform.
- Add a database.
- Add a broker and specify the port.
- Update the application code to use the new port.
Every time we add a new database with a table and want our application start using it, we need to manually change the application code which explicitly instructs which database table to use. To access different databases, the application also needs to establish a new connection. As a result:
- There are too many connections between the application and brokers to access each DB.
- Troublesome to maintain the application code as it should be changed whenever a new DB is added.
What is it like WITH database sharding?
In case of database sharding, all we need to do is to:
- Add a database.
- Update the broker metadata directory.
Everything else will be performed by the database server and a special broker which will parse the SQL query, select the necessary shard and relay the request.
How will CUBRID differ from the existing solutions?
There are many other solution already out there which provide database sharding support for different database systems. You can see some of the distinguished ones in the table below.
Most of the solutions are developed on top of a particular database. They usually run as a middleware which needs to parse the queries to determine the target database. Once the database is known, the middleware passes along the request, and the database parses the SQL query again. Thus such solutions often slow down the overall performance of the database.
The solution which CUBRID is going to provide will leverage its native broker middleware. Thus, no extra layer will be added which would have hindered the performance. Normally when you install CUBRID, it creates a broker which parses the queries sent by the client applications and relays the request to the database.
In the new architecture CUBRID will create two brokers by default, one of which will serve for sharding purpose. This broker will parse the queries as it usually does, but to determine which shard is necessary to relay the request to, it will receive a shard key as a hint in the SQL query like:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE /* shardkey */ id = ? AND …
Then based on the information set in the metadata folder, the broker will communicate with the necessary database to fetch the data. If you need to explicitly instruct the application to request a certain database, all you have to do is to add a hint into your normal SQL query. Thus,
- Your application is not required to know where the table resides.
- You will have a single view to access all the databases.
- And, there will not be any performance overhead.
The database sharing with CUBRID will provide the following features.
- Up to 1024 Shards.
- Many Shard ID Generation Algorithm
- Extendible Hash/Range
- Or Composite (special purpose)
- Dynamic Binding Query
- Connection Pool for Shards
- Shard Targeted Query
- Generic Table (Not Sharded Table)
- Configurable Shard Metadata by SQL
- Retrieve Shard Configurations
- One or More Brokers
- Read Only Broker, Load Balancing
- High availability for each Shard
- Master/Slave DB
- Quick & Easy split a shard
- Support CUBRID/MySQL/Oracle as Shards
Do you think this is going to be a really nice sharding solution? What solution do you currently deploy in your environment? Please leave your comments below.


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e0y2e3 wrote:Dude, the opening scene at the conference table was pretty much the funniest thing I have ever seen on television, short of great standup (and George Fucking Carlin and Rodney Dangerfield suck you old farts).
And then that episode just kept hitting you left and right.
Effing great comedy right there.
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Banks aim to repackage trade assets for pensions
Special Report: Fund management quarterly: focus on regulation
As institutional pension funds, insurance companies and hedge funds scour financial markets for assets that offer attractive returns without exposure to high risks, banks are keen to attract interest in trade finance as an alternative asset class.
Banks need to generate more liquidity to meet the growing demand for trade finance globally through primary and secondary syndications of trade finance assets – as well as securitisations. They hope that the short-term nature of trade finance will be attractive to non-bank financial institutions as a viable low risk investment, while also easing potential pressure on their own balance sheets brought about by Basel III capital requirement rules.
Global trade growth slowed from 13.8% in 2010 to 5% in 2011 (and may fall slightly this year), according to the International Chamber of Commerce data. But it is expected to rise again in 2013 as global market conditions start improving and governments' efforts to encourage investment in the real economy take hold, prompting questions over how banks can continue to support demand for trade finance.
Michael Spiegel, head of trade finance and cash management corporates, global transaction banking at Deutsche Bank, said: "As global trade continues to grow, outpacing GDP, and banks face new regulatory requirements which require them to hold more capital, traditional trade finance players are unlikely to meet demand for trade finance on their own.
"This can only be achieved by creating additional liquidity through, for example, the use of new vehicles and by attracting new investors to this space."
A number of leading trade banks are already involved in collaborations by entering primary market club deals or syndicated deals with other banks for large, single-client trade financings. Many also claim that they are distributing trade assets in the secondary market to non-bank investors such as insurance companies and pension funds, although data on participation levels is still not readily available.
Anurag Chaudhary, managing director, global head of trade risk distribution at Citi, said: "There are possibilities for banks to collaborate with insurance companies and pension funds in the provision of trade finance as many of these groups are progressively exploring different avenues for short-term investment including trade assets."
Although trade finance assets as an investment medium are usually not rated by rating agencies – or tradable – there are moves to see if policy changes can be made to make this type of investment more advantageous for investors.
Chaudhary said: "For investors that understand trade finance and ask the right questions, they will get the benefit of an asset that offers low default rates and greater security."
The difficulty banks face is finding a deep enough pool of potential investors. Indeed, trade finance has not yet hit the radars of the UK's leading investment consultants, which boast as clients many of the world's largest and most sophisticated institutional investors. A number of consultants and pension funds contacted by Financial News said they were not aware of trade finance as an asset class.
Banks accept that more needs to be done to convince investors of the merits of trade finance. Spiegel said: "There is still an education process to go through. However, trade finance exposures that support the real economy have historically performed very well and seen low default/loss ratios. They are expected to yield a good return over net risk exposure and economic capital."
Deutsche Bank's trade syndication volumes have doubled in the past year, according to Spiegel, who added: "Our teams are already tapping into the spare liquidity of other banks, which do not have access to the primary trade finance market. We have also been talking to a much broader stream of potential investors for some time, including hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and money managers, to make sure that we can attract sufficient liquidity to meet demand for trade finance."
-- Paving the way for securitisations
The need to meet the growing demand for trade finance is not, however, the only reason banks are pursuing these partnerships. The capital constraints being placed on banks by Basel III are forcing trade banks to pursue additional avenues of raising liquidity for trade finance transactions – beyond primary and secondary syndications.
Martin Knott, head of trade, global treasury solutions Emea at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said: "Some banks are looking at the assets on their books and do this to release capital. Others do it to free up counterparty capacity. Many banks are also looking to offer trade finance assets to non-bank financial institutions as part of their overall relationship-building plans with these organisations."
One unintended consequence of Basel III is that trade finance could look less attractive for banks because of the requirement to hold back capital against trade finance loans.
This has led to an increased focus on securitisation structures, which enable banks to take trade finance deals off balance sheet by pooling together trade finance assets from varied and diverse credits into a special purpose vehicle, repackaging them and then selling them on to non-bank investors.
The challenge banks face is that, in the past, investors in other types of securitisations, such as mortgage-backed securities, have had "their fingers burned", according to Chaudhary, who fears "it may be a case of once bitten, twice shy".
Securitisation of trade finance assets is not new. Standard Chartered Bank, for example, completed its first synthetic securitisation of trade finance assets in 2007.
Joshua Cohen, global head of liability and risk-weighted asset management at Standard Chartered Bank, said: "Investors are interested because securitisation has provided them with access to an asset class, which was not previously available to them. It has also provided them with an investment in underlying assets that demonstrate very low default rates."
As well as safety and typically low double-digit returns, investors get geographic and industry diversity in a portfolio.
-- Multiple options
While non-bank financial institutional investors can gain exposure to trade finance by investing in securities backed by assets originated by one bank, other avenues are now opening up to them including investment in securities backed by a portfolio of trade finance assets originated by multiple banks.
Multi-bank platforms provide banks with a more efficient and cost-effective way of originating and funding trade finance assets. End-investors, meanwhile, benefit from access to more diversified and granular pool of funded trade assets.
Since its launch, Citi's multi-bank global trade programme has attracted participation from trade banks such as Santander, ING and Commerzbank.
Juultje van der Wijk, global head of trade finance services at ING, said: "Three top-tier banks contributing assets to the underlying trade asset portfolio ensures a diversified portfolio of high-quality, short-term, funded-dollar assets."


text:
Kyle Kinane reconsiders buying his own clothes back at thrift shops and hooking up at Medieval Times.
Uh, in recent memory,
I have nearly over-dosedon mail order Viagra.
- Woo!
- Because I was trying to keepup sexually with a woman
that like for me to wear abicycle helmet in the bedroom.
What for--To punch at.
And fiveWednesdays ago,
I got so drunk inChattanooga, Tennessee
that I left that citywith a tattoo of Jesus
with the words,"ramblin' gamblin' man"
written underneath it.
[audience laughter]
You guys wannahang out.
- Yeah.
- All right.
I, uh, really at this age,uh, it's really not a hobby,
it's just a drinkingproblem now.
I don't like-- I don't liketo address these things,
but there's signs, like,really like a couple weeks ago,
I pretended to take a cellphone call so I could go vomit.
[audience laughter]
The thing is,I didn't tell
the group of peopleI was with.
I wasn't,like, discreet.
I didn't just tell them,like, "oh, I'll be right back.
I gotta godo a thing."
No-- what I did is thatI just stood by friends,
took out my phone, looked atit, said this is important,
held it to my ear, and then,just barfed right there.
[audience laughter]
That's-that's not howyou create an illusion.
That's not howyou trick people,
but I'm notCriss Angel.
I do not possess theskills to mindfreak you.
[audience laughter]
And that's only second--That's only second place
in the all timegreatest standards
in me trying tocover up my disease.
Uh, the best wasa New Year's Eve
where I made itto number three
in the count-downof New Year's Eve
before I sunfloweredan entire bar.
Now, I don't know if youknow what sunflowering is.
Basically, where youare about to be sick,
then, uh, you decidethat you're going to stop
the unstoppable by puttingyour hand over your mouth.
[audience laughter]
Which-which as we allknow, always works.
Doesn't italways work?
I don't feelgood... burppp.
Oh, he doesn'twanna barf.
Okay-- let'sjust calm down.
No... no,all your doing
is your just taking what shouldbe a uni-directional insult
to whoever's rightin front of you
and then, just turning intothis pinwheel of disaster
for everyonearound you.
It's a thumb on a gardenhose-- That's all it is.
I don't feelgood-- BLAH!
I'm sorryeveryone here.
[audience laughter]
Oh, Jesus Christ--
I've-I've-I've presented
to myself throughbad choices.
So, that might be--
And I-and I buy clothesat thrift stores.
But the thing is, that'snot the trashy part.
The trashy part isI will try the stuff on
while I'm there.
You can't getcheaper than that.
You can't be...
I'm in there, I'll be,"Well, it's nice.
"I mean, I don't know ifit's a $1.85 nice, but--
"Helps bringout my eyes."
I've almost boughtmy own clothes bag
from a thrift store.
Have you donethat one yet?
Ya know, you're like,"Oh, this shirt's great.
"It reminds me of somethingI use to-- Oh, damn it."
[audience laughter]
I, uh-I uh... Thisis what I look like?
[audience laughter]
[cheering and applause]
Oh-ho, thanks--Yeah.
I know what I can and Ican't do in this world.
Ya know, with what-- I-I-I--This is what I look like.
I know what Ican and can't do.
I know that I can effectivelyhaggle down the price
of a replica civil warbayonet at a swap meet.
[audience laughter]
I don't even know whatI'm taking about, but this,
I can get that guydown to 20 bucks
just with eye contactand confidence.
I know Ican do that.
Nobody here's gonna besurprised if you see me
about to get in a fistfight with the night manager
of a Red Lobster over thetechnical start and end time
of Shrimp Fest.
[audience laughter]
Ya know?
If you see me marchin'around that lobby
rollin' up my sleeveslike, "God damn it, Doug.
Don't tell meyou can't make 'em,
tell me you won't make'em 'cause it's 11:58.
Just behonest with me.
[audience laughter]
That's what it is.
What's funin this world.
The best part of this worldis when you find out
what you can't do.
And the only way you findout what you can't do
is when you try doin'somethin' and you fail at it.
You can't bescared of that.
That process iscalled learning
and you can't be scaredof learning, ya know?
Embrace it--
That's just-- Make sure youtake the lesson from it.
Like, I learned that Ican not take off my shirt
and then look after two boysages three and one years old
at a family aquatic centerin East Lansing, Michigan
on a Tuesdayafternoon.
[audience laughter]
Nah, they weremy friend's kids.
I'm not a creep,all right.
I-I had a rightto be there.
He's got his kids there and,uh, we're doin' a thing
and he says to me...
he's says, "Kyle, can youlook after my children?
I'm gonna go to the carto make the lunches.
See, can you lookafter my children?"
Oh... that's heavy.
That's kind of silly youask somebody to look after--
So, I, ya know, tookout my most fatherly,
and responsiblevoice I said,
"[deleted] yeah, I'llwatch your kids, man.
I'll do it-- Yeah."
So, I'm thin-- they're kids,they got tiny brains,
they're easily manipulated.
They should be fine.
But then, 'cause he'sa responsible dad,
before he left, heslathered them down
with this SPF 8000, uh, suntan lotion or what have ya...
To protect themfrom the sun.
Effectively turnin' theminto two bars of prison soap
I gotta try to holdonto at this pool
and he just leaves.
He leaves and now I got theselittle slippery bastards that--
Now, the three yearold just hits the deck,
just slides right intothe deep end of the pool...
promptly starts sinking.
I get-- I kinda get ahold on to one year old,
but he's like abuttered jelly bean.
That thing just squirtsright out the other way.
Now, I gotta start runnin'around this family fun center
lookin' for these kids andI gotta start grabbin' 'em
and I'm grabbin' kids andI'm tryin' to grab one
and compare 'imto another one
'cause I kinda remember whatthey look like, ya know?
[audience laughter]
And the thing is,I didn't real--
People are real territorialabout their kids.
I didn't know that.
You can't just grab one andwalk with it for a second.
People are like,"Is that your kid?"
It's like, "No--Piss off, man.
"I'm doin' a thing."
Ya know, you gottahave a whole story.
You gotta have a wholereason or whatever.
I don't know.
So, like,I start callin'--
Now my friend, his kids--He's a smart guy.
He named his kids-- Hegave 'em smart kids names.
Named them, uh-uh,Malcom and Archer.
Two smartkid names.
So, now I've gotta runaround looking for a Malcom
and an Archer.
I gotta start callin'out, Malcom and Archer.
Now, people in thispool are gettin' nervous--
rightfully so becausethis does not have two kids
named Malcom or Archer.
[audience laughter]
If I do havetwo kids,
I probably don't give a[deleted] what they're doin'
'cause I'm going tobe a negligent father.
That's a given.
And if I-- if I do have kidsand I'm callin' 'em off
by their names,by those ages,
I probably have nicknamesfor them already,
like Millertimeand The Boss Man,
or somethin', like that'swhat I'm going to do.
So, yeah-- So, I'mrunnin' around.
I'm tryin' togather 'em...
Uh, Malcom... Archer.
I'm callin' thesekid's names.
I'm lookin' around...I'm takin' other kids,
comparin' emto other kids.
And now, people aregetting real nervous.
Now-now-now,the lifeguard--
He's got the whistle in themouth on the ready, ya know?
Because they'restartin' to put together
that this is aTuesday afternoon
and anybody thatlooks like this
does not have legal custodyof children on a weekday.
[audience laughter]
This is-- this is everyother weekend at best.
I have lostprivileges.
For certain.
two people that are like,"We're trying to have a baby."
That's some-- That'ssome secret Nazi [deleted]
right there.
Whenever you seetwo people, ooh--
It's already the two peoplethat are already creepy
and they, like, they sittoo close to eachother
at the bar and feedeachother nachos.
Like, umm-mm, we'rein love, hu-ew.
It's already sick.
Like, they're alreadygross, ya know?
But then, youhear 'em say,
"We're trying tohave a baby--" Uck.
"We're tryingto have a baby."
No--You're [deleted].
That's whatyou're doing.
But you're taking all thewonderful, beautiful, dirty
sticky, gross, great thingsabout sex-- Just all the...
oh, yeah, slap that,maybe put a finger.
Okay, no finger--no finger.
All right, okay.
[audience laughter]
I mean, I askedwhile I was doing it.
Okay, that was wrong--I asked while I was doing it.
Ask first, then do...with permission, okay.
Fair enough...fair enough.
That's how-- that's how youkeep the relationship alive.
But those people, they takeall that wonderful stuff
and they take all thatand they just wipe that away
and they justreplace it with,
"This is how we make littlepeople with our faces on 'em--
That's disgusting.
That's the most horrifyingthing in the world.
That should be furthestfrom your mind.
This is how we makelittle you's and me's.
Get outta here,you creeps.
How else are yougonna make a jerk?
That's what happens.
Those peoplealways have a jerk.
Mommy and daddysaid I'm special.
You're a jerk--get outta here.
[audience laughter]
I'm in my thirties, everybody'shavin' kids or uh, miracles.
Ah, it's a miracle.
It's alwaysa miracle.
I'm like, yeah,it's sex, right?
Then no...
then that's exactly whatsuppose to happen from that.
I spend all my timepreventing miracles.
That is what's happening.
I-- That-- Icall it a miracle
when a girl doesn'tget pregnant.
That's when I start gettin'spiritual, like,
"Really...nothin' at all?
Okay, all right--One for you, all right."
Moment in my defense.
I just scored one.
Really... nothin' at all'cause I dropped the package
pretty far up on the porchon that one last night.
I don't know.
Maybe I got somethin'wrong with the pipes.
I gotta go see thedoc or somethin'.
I don't know.
But it's like, atleast all my friends
are havingaccident babies...
like, at least,that's okay, ya know?
Like an accident kid, it'sgonna be an interesting person
that you'regonna raise.
'Cause it's like,you're just like,
"What-- you're pregnant?
Uh, all right [deleted],we'll keep it.
Put it in the corner,throw food at it,
see what happens."
Ya know, like, that's gonnabe an interesting person.
I was an accident baby--"Really, Kyle?"
Yeah... whocan believe it?
Um... I think at thispoint, I'm an accident adult
as far as myparents are concerned.
But uh, like, my dad--When I was a little kid,
my dad would feed me carrotsfor, like, weeks at a time
'cause it wouldturn my skin orange
and he thoughtthat was hilarious.
[audience laughter]
That's a goodstory, ya know?
No, I had to go to thepediatrician for a check up
and he told the doctorthis hilarious story
and the doctor said,"Stop doing that.
"You're poisoning him."
It's fun.
[audience laughter]
It's a funthing, ya know?
But that's how ya-- Buthe was still a cool guy.
Like, "Come over--I got an orange kid."
Ya know, that's how youkeep your friends around.
You're gonna keepyour friends that way
even if you have kids--You're like, "I don't know.
We justmess with 'em.
We turn 'em orange--Do weird [deleted].
Blow pot smokein their ears.
I don't know--works for the dog.
I don't know-- We'lltry a thing, ya know?
that I may be firstgeneration white trash.
[audience laughter]
- Woo!
- Now, that's not suppose tobe how white trash works.
It's suppose to be, yaknow, it's suppose to be
generations of bad decisionmaking that result in, like,
somebody just yellingswears at a truck.
Ya know, that's what--that's what that should be.
But now, my parentswere reasonable people.
They weresmart and tough.
Okay, I mean, my mom stolesome cats when I was younger
and my dad always cookedbacon with no shirt on.
I don't know whythat was a thing.
A-a lot of Saturday morningsof him just sitting there,
just like, in front of thestove just going, "dah, jeez!"
"Put a-put a shirt on, man--What are you doing?"
He's like, "Well,I get hot."
I'm like, "Yeah,you're gettin' burned.
That's the hottestyou can possibly be."
[laughter and applause]
But-but outsideof that, like,
decent people-decent people.
But this is theresult, ya know?
This is, like-like-- I'vemade choices in my life
that are just--
They're not-they'renot of good character.
[audience laughter]
As a young-- Andit started early too.
As a young man, I dated agirl for a whole summer once--
Couldn't stand her.
She had big boobs.
Stayed with hera whole summer...
put up with a lot of[deleted] because of that.
Just big boobs... that'snot a classy person.
That's not a nice guy.
I like to thinkI've changed.
I don't know.
[audience laughter]
But the thing is...
I dated this girland she says,
"Okay, we're gonna go ona double date and she--
And the doubledate was with her,
her mom, and hermom's boyfriend, Rick...
A fella that had a strongaversion to sleeves.
Didn't like 'em.
[audience laughter]
And the thing was, it wassleeveless Rick's birthday,
so he was callin'the shots.
S.R. says we're gonnago to Medieval Times.
[audience laughter]
Now, that scenario shouldbe the end of that story...
[audience laughter]
but the white trashpart isn't that.
The white trash partis that I got excited.
Medieval Times!
Come on!
How could you--Uh, listen, historically,
castles are notoriouslydifficult to penetrate.
All right?
There are moats, there aredrawbridges, there's hot oil...
maybe a dragon.
Not Medieval Times,
they want you tocome into that castle.
Take advantage ofthat opportunity.
They got their ownexit off the highway.
Go see a historicalmonument when you can.
[audience laughter]
I'm all workedup-- I'm excited.
We file in--We take our seats.
And this is the moment that,uh, the girl I'm dating--
This is whenshe decides
she's gonna spiceup the relationship.
Here... at theMedieval Times.
[audience laughter]
This is when she's gonnatake the initiative--
Sex it up.
She, uh, tries throwin' mean H.J. under the table.
[audience laughter]
Heej-- She's tryin'to throw me a heej.
[deleted] job, guys.
It's a [deleted] job.
[laughter and applause]
There's onlyso many ways
I can dress up the termfor ya, all right?
Tryin' to book me a room atthe hojo under the table here.
[audience laughter]
Now, thething is...
I already-- Okay,that's not classy.
It's not classy'cause we're sittin'--
We're out to eat--
It's not classy--You doin' this.
Not only is it not classy'cause we're sittin'
by your mom andsleeveless Rick,
but this isMedieval Times.
This is an arena--It's stadium seating.
It is tiered seating!
There's a guyright there!
Anybody with half way decentvision on the other side
of that thing is lookin'right at what's goin' on here.
But now, you're tryin'to do this to me
at Medieval Times when I'msurrounded by awesomeness.
Don't distractme with this.
There's a falconflying over head.
[audience laughter]
We got-- There's a grownman dressed like a knight
about to joustanother grown man!
Don't pester mewith this right now.
We gotta root forthe green knight.
I don't knowwhat happens.
He's a-- He needsour support.
We're in thegreen section.
I don't know whathappens if we win.
Maybe we geta free desert.
I don't want to find our bylosing to the red section.
They've been jerksall night over there.
[audience laughter]
Ya know?
There's noth-- There'snothin' worse than finding out
what you could've won becausethe losers got in your face.
Like, thereds are just--
"Oh, we got delicioushot fudge sundaes.
You shouldn't have beenmessin' around with the h.j.'s
'cause we got delicioushot fudge sundaes
like they hadin medieval times.
And furthermore,all you're doing is--
you're doin' something tome that I have perfected.
[audience laughter]
You're taking--
[cheering and applause]
You're taking something--
You're taking somethingthat I am fantastic at
and you're just making amockery of the whole effort.
[audience laughter]
It be the same thing,like, if I said to you--
If I was-- If I was,like, said to you listen
I know you know how to putyour makeup on perfectly,
but what say tonightI give it a shot, huh?
"You gotta getout there.
"Your vote counts."
Vote counts...
You don't know what you'revotin' for half the time.
You get there, I mean--You know who you're votin' for
who can affordTV commercials.
You gonna-- Like,the guys that, ya know,
the grown men and womenwho wanna run the country
and they spendbillions of dollars
to get a commercial that says,"That guys a jerk.
"Don't pick him."
And the other guy's like,"That guy's a dick.
"Don't pick him"--And you're like,
"Well, I'd rather havea jerk than a dick."
That's a good argument.
That's good-- Good politicalargument, ya know?
Ya know, but then you get thereand you get a giant sheet
and giant scan-tronsheet to fill out
and you're having flashbacksfrom high school, like,
"How much time's left?"
I don't know--A-A-A-B-B-B-C-C-C...
You don't even know--You don't even know
what you're votin'for half the time.
You get to votefor a Comptroller.
Anybody know whatComptroller does?
[audience laughter]
No-- But you getto pick one out.
That's a prettycrummy system.
"Uh, Victor'sa cool name.
I don't know,[deleted].
There you go-- Now, you'reComptroller, Victor.
Don't make melook stupid."
Uh, now, I know Icould probably fulfill
some sort of civicresponsibility
by researching eachcandidate and finding out
who's platform reflectsmy ideals the best,
but to hell with that...this is America.
It is my God-given rightto be loudly opinionated
about something I amcompletely ignorant of.
[audience laughter]
You know howthis goes.
[audience laughter]
Um, I'm-I'msittin' there--
It's just me--
It's one other guydown the bar, bartender.
And, uh-anduh, the tv's on.
It's, like, politicsor somethin' goin' on.
And uh, the guy down atthe end of the bar decides
that he's gonna startspoutin' off 'cause, ya know,
once you geta day buzz on...
"Oh, time to makenew friends."
So, uh...
So, he's starts goin' offand uh, he's starts talkin'--
he's addressing me,but I'm kinda try--
I'm tryin' toignore him.
And he's pointing atthe television, like,
"See,this is it, man.
"This is why yougotta vote, man.
"You gotta-- Every vote counts'cause if you don't vote,
"then this guy getsinto the other thing
"and then that lady movesover here and then--
"You gotta get out thereand vote, buddy.
"I'm tellin' you--you gotta vote."
And finally, I'm justlike, "Listen, man!
"Do you really thinkyou have your finger on
"the political pulseof a society
"if you're gettin'wasted at 3 o'clock
"in the afternoonon a Wednesday?
"I don'tthink you do.
"And second off, anybodythat doesn't already realize
"that all our predetermined,uh, ya know,
"all our elected officialsare just predetermined
"by a select committeeof the Illuminati
"and theLizard-People.
"Come on, man--This vote [deleted]!
"Get outta here--Don't give me this.
"'Every vote counts.'
"I've never been morehorrified of concept
"in my entire life."
Every vote counts?
That's terrifying...look around.
[audience laughter]
Your votes count.
Look at the peoplenext to you.
That doesn't scarethe [deleted] outta you?
[audience laughter]
Your vote-- Okay,let's put it this way...
My vote counts.
[laughter and applause]
That doesn't-- Thatdoesn't horrify you?
[cheering and applause]
I'm not qualifiedto pick out leaders.
When I wear headphones, Ithink I become invisible.
[audience laughter]
I get to pick outa president...
that's a bad system.
I stood in an airport urinalonce for 20 minutes
listening to Eddie Money'sgreatest hits on my Ipod
just twirlingmy pubic hair
like it wasa villain's mustache.
[audience laughter]
Just because.
Just to see if I couldmake it look like my penis
was gonna tie a woman tosome train tracks somewhere.
[audience laughter]
I had to get half way through"Two Tickets to Paradise"
before I was like,"You're in public!
"Get your [deleted]together, man!


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Fires shift with wind
THE LATEST: The blaze is 50 percent contained but flare-ups are still a worry. ON THE HORIZON: Strong gusts may force hundreds more to evacuate today.
By JAMAL THALJI
Published May 15, 2007
LAKE CITY - The firefighters battling the Bugaboo fire know it's one of the worst in Florida's recent history.
But Monday evening they stared down a new foe: the worst fears of Columbia County residents.
"We were hoping to come and spread good tidings, " said U.S. Forest Service incident commander Mike Quesinberry.
He couldn't, not with a sudden breach that afternoon of the southwestern fire line along the Osceola National Forest, just a few miles west of populated U.S. 441 N.
Blame the weather, which turned against firefighters after cooperating all weekend. Strong wind gusts most likely caused the breach, and weather conditions won't get any better today.
"New winds are coming, " said National Weather Service meteorologist Tony Edwards. "(Today) brings us another challenge. It will dry up and heat up."
The massive fire has consumed 108, 000 acres, blanketed North Central Florida and even the Tampa Bay area with thick smoke and could still threaten Lake City. Poor visibility has repeatedly closed Interstates 10 and 75.
Officials convened the town hall meeting Monday so those in charge of the emergency could explain to those most affected exactly what was going on. Hundreds attended with questions about the fire, evacuations and shelters, everyone trying to sift fact from rumor.
"It was sobering information, " said Lake City Council member Eugene Jefferson.
Especially this: If the fire reaches predetermined "trigger points, " which could happen today, authorities would scramble to evacuate hundreds more residents. Three hundred to 500 already have been asked to leave their homes along U.S. 441.
Firefighters on the ground and in the air raced to the breach. Helicopters were dumping thousands of gallons of foam ahead of the fire to keep it from the highway.
"We're trying to take the steam out of it so it doesn't hit the road, " said Florida Division of Forestry incident commander Sonny Greene.
"Jesus, " someone muttered in the audience.
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Humans have been working hard to save other humans from the fire. Sunday morning, they helped save some animals too.
Firefighters discovered an injured black bear, her paws badly blistered, guarding her cub along a fire line near Sand Hill Road. Mom was on the ground. The cub was 65 feet in the air.
"Of course the cub picked the tallest tree to climb, " said Karen Parker of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A bear capture team was quickly put together. They had no problem tranquilizing the mother. Saving the cub was the problem.
A bulldozer cleared the ground around the tree, then a bucket truck was brought out. They fired a tranquilizing dart, and wildlife officers caught the cub with an outstretched tarp when she fell to the ground.
Both were taken to the University of Florida Veterinary School. The cub is 3 months old and underweight -- just 7 pounds - but doing well.
"It's the momma we're worried about, " Parker said.
Momma is 18 years old, has lung damage and is in guarded condition. Turns out scientists had once been tracking the bear.
Does momma have a name?
"215, " Parker said.
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Ever since firefighters showed up on her front yard Thursday evening, Karen Hilgerson, her children, her grandchildren and her dogs have called the Days Inn off Interstate 10 home.
She doesn't need newspapers, TV or the Internet to get her information. She just goes to the twice-a-day news conferences next to the motel.
She gets information from neighbors and friends too. She'd rather not, though.
"You talk to one person and they make it seem like your house is in ashes, " she said. "You talk to the next person and your house is okay."
She had to book another day at the hotel Monday. That left her with just $11.
"And I still haven't made my car payment, " she said.
Officials reopened the Columbia High School shelter Monday. She'll talk to the Red Cross about what to do next.
At least Monday she worked a shift at Ruppert's Bakery and Cafe in downtown Lake City.
"It helps not to think about it sometimes, " she said.
Then her 19-year-old daughter Amber Tran chimed in. "Yeah, until she calls someone and says 'Have you heard any news?' "
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In the end, the firefighters at the meeting got a standing ovation. But one evacuated resident's frustration boiled over.
Donald Thomas, 59, said he used to be a forest ranger. He took the microphone and asked the fire commanders why they didn't use machines to log the forest and starve the fire of fuel.
Afterward, Quesinberry said that just wouldn't work. Humans and machines could never keep up with a fast-moving fire, he said.
But that wasn't good enough for Thomas. He questioned whether the commanders knew what they were doing. "You got to be knowin' what you're doin', " Thomas told the audience.
A few applauded. Most did not.
Fast Facts:
No smoke in bay area forecast
The bay area appears headed for a smoke-free week. Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Ruskin expect winds to shift to the northeast and blanket the northern Panhandle. But don't exhale too soon. "That doesn't mean other fires can't start, " forecaster Tom Dougherty said. "There's a whole lot of smaller fires in Florida, but we won't have that widespread area of smoke like we did a couple of times last week."
Wildfire update
236 Total fires burning as of Monday evening
165, 741 Number of acres burned
2, 349 Number of fires statewide since Jan. 1, burning 322, 848 acres
On the Web
For the latest on the wildfires and video from Lake City, visit state.tampabay.com.


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