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BEIRUT — Syrian rebels said Friday that they were close to surrounding an international airport outside the capital that the regime of dictator Bashar Assad has been using as a base to ferry troops and bomb rebellious cities.
Damascus International Airport is about 15 miles east of the heart of the city and government troops have been battling for days to keep it out of the hands of rebel forces. Clashes between government troops and rebels forced the closure of the airport road for the second time this week.
The rebels have survived punishing airstrikes for months in several cities throughout an uprising that has killed an estimated 40,000 people since it began in March 2011. The attack on the airport is the closet the rebels have gotten to the heart of the regime in Damascus.
Brigades for the Free Syrian Army, the outfit of deserters and others who have led the rebellion, said they were about a half-mile from the airport and holding their positions despite massive artillery fire from Syrian troops.
"The FSA has practically encircled the airport," Free Syrian Army spokesman Musab Abu Qatada said in a telephone interview.
Abu Qatada said the FSA has received information that most planes from the Damascus airport had been moved north to the city of Lattaquieh and that commercial flights were grounded. He said the rebels hope to take the airport soon.
"When it happens, the regime would lose its connection with the outside world," he said. "This would mean a significant military defeat."
His claims could not be independently verified. The clashes did force the suspension of commercial flights over the past week but an airport official said Friday the facility was still functioning. The official declined to be identified because he was not authorized to give official statements.
Syrian activist Mourad al Chami said more than 100 people had been killed in clashes this week in Syria, including in suburbs of Damascus and Deir al Zour in eastern Syria. He said clashes had erupted inside Damascus in the vicinity of the Yarmouk Palestinian camp.
Abu Qatada said some rebels were worried that the regime may resort to using chemical weapons to survive and that he has heard reports that Syrian troops had received gas masks.
He said phosphorus bombs have already been used on Daraya a few miles south of Damascus, "causing cases of asphyxia among the population."
Assad's foreign ministry has said it would not use chemical weapons and Assad has said he would continue to fight a rebellion he says is made up of terrorists backed by Western governments.
Rebels said taking the airport would cut into onto the military's resupplying chain. Iran and Russia have been accused by the United States of supplying Syria with weapons through the airport.
Also on Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon renewed a call for Syria to not use chemical weapons, saying the move would amount to an "outrageous crime" against humanity. George Sabra, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, called on Syrian soldiers to ignore any orders to use them.
"Any civilian or military Syrian, who implements or helps implement this crime will be held accountable as a traitor for this country and will be pursued on charges of committing genocide," he said at a news conference in Paris.
"The Syrian people will not forgive or have mercy on anyone who orders the use of weapons of destruction and anyone who participates in executing this crime," he added.
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After re-reading the last couple chapters I think there is a very real chance that Sangi is getting the Mera Mera Fruit..
This could be just because who he has fought but right now there seems to be quite a difference between Sangi/Zoro. Of course Zoro has always been stronger but now it seems like there is a much larger gap between Luffy/Zoro and Sangi/Franky seem much closer to each other in power.
That coupled with the fact Sangi has used Diable-Jambe in pretty much every fight means he's either being pushed to use it every time or he has some unknown technique that surpasses it, and thus now the diable-jambe uses less energy to use (I think this is a real possibility but I wouldnt bet my bottom dollar on it).
Idk, overall I think he could get it and not be stronger then Zoro, which in my mind makes it like a real possibility.


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We also know that BB was strong enough to be considered Commander level, in place of Ace. So Shanks on Roger's ship isn't the only benchmark.
If you're talking about BB taking down Tatch then he is, given he fought Tatch in a fight and not killed him in his sleep which is more likely.
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I still question that Cerberus DF. Why would Marco and that say 2 DF and not 3? If that was what Marco meant by "Atypical" then he should have been surprised when BB got the Darkness ability and not when he took WB's Quake. The Scar is unknown, could be a type of weapon. But BB was strong enough for Ace to respect as a possible 2nd Division commander, in place of himself. Meaning Ace would have been happy to be under BB. He must have been something else back then I guess.
Cerberus theory is too perfect.
1.) BB has never been seen fighting with anything but darkness and fists, yet Shank's scar, given to him by BB, is in the shape of a claw mark (3 slashes)
2.) BB is missing three teeth, has 3 guns, and 3 knives. Oda's style is all over this as a hint.
3.) Marco and other WB crew members clearly know there is something special about BB's body, so its likely they knew he was a zoan user before he killed thatch and ducked out.
BB waited for the darkness fruit because it allows him to overcome a weakness he knew he had, which is the lack of haki (making logias impossible for him). Stealing WB's ability simply makes him earth-shatteringly dangerous, which could make his word = law if played right.
and other theory form 4chan
but as XioaXioa Stated(and this is a fact)..he doesn`t eat 2 Df he eat yami yami no mi and stealFruit spirits inhabit the fruits.
You nab on the fruit, the spirit inhabits you.
You die, the spirit exits to reform another fruit.
GIVEN A PROPER COAT, you will trap said spirit in the body/deathbag.
Guess Blackbeard just got some of that coat and waited for said spirit exiting so he could suck it. Also, Ace is bagged.
WB power... and from sbs 49
Newgate & Thatch -> Names to -real- Blackbeard. He killed both of them and took both fruits.D: Question! "Whitebeard Edward Newgate," "Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach," "4th Squad Commander
Thatch." These three all appear to be based off the real-life 18th century Caribbean
pirate, Edward Teach (or sometimes Edward Thatch), aka "Blackbeard." Can you tell us more
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O: All three, yes. As a matter of fact, Whitebeard and Thatch just take his name, but Blackbeard
himself is completely modeled after the man. The real-life pirate called Blackbeard had
many names, and one of them was "Thatch." He also went by "Drummond" and "Thache."
He would braid his very long black beard and light smoking wicks hanging from his hat,
and with the six pistols and three swords he bore, must have been the very figure of the
Devil in battle. Countless stories exist of him shooting his own crew to teach them a
lesson, and so on. There are legends that he hid a great treasure, but it has never been
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Blackbeard is not going to gain any more fruit, unless a character named Drummond appears in the series.


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Flight DJ271 from Melbourne to Perth landing at 8.20am this morning will be the first Virgin Blue service to taxi to the airline's new home at Perth Domestic Airport.
The low fare carrier launched services to Perth a year ago, using the International Terminal as a temporary home to make sure the people of Western Australia had access to low fares.
Following months of negotiations, Westralia Airports Corporation have reached an agreement with the administrators of the facility, effectively paving the way for Virgin Blue to begin operating out of the Common User Terminal (former Ansett terminal).
The new facility offers Guests larger, more modern conveniences and more efficient processes, with the number of check-in desks doubled from 4 to 8, meaning shorter queues and faster check in during peak periods.
Virgin Blue will have the option to use an aerobridge during bad weather but will also use front and back stairs for people to board and disembark on sunny days in line with all other ports across the country. This will allow the airline to maintain its outstanding on time performance record.
The move from the International to the Domestic terminal comes just in time for Christmas travellers to enjoy and only days ahead of the launch of Virgin Blue's direct Perth – Brisbane services, beginning Thursday 12 December.
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Virgin Blue CEO, Brett Godfrey said, "People want low fares all year round, not just at off-peak times that suited the airlines in the past. By securing excellent facilities at a reasonable price, Virgin Blue can continue to offer travellers affordable airfares and outstanding service."
He added, "Today's move means we have more room to grow, more room to accommodate Guests comfortably and efficiently and more opportunities for low fares for the people of Western Australia. It's particularly timely given we are fast approaching one of the busiest periods of the year for travellers and they will now reap the benefits of a fantastic new terminal facility at Perth Airport."
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It seems to me rather contradictory that Jesus, who was so gentle at times (Matt. 19:13-15), would call some people fools. Yet, as recorded in the Gospels a number of times, our Lord used this derogatory term to describe those He spoke aboutespecially the Pharisees (see Matt. 23:17-19; Luke 11:39-40).
Jesus also used the word fool in a parable after warning a man about coveting (Luke 12:13-21). What made him foolish is not the fact that he built bigger barns to store his abundant harvest (vv.16-18). It would have been more foolish of him to leave it out in the fields where inclement weather would spoil it. Nor was he foolish because of his thought that this unexpected windfall was enough to last him a long time (v.19). After all, we are urged to follow the example of the ant in storing up the harvest (Prov. 6:6-8).
What made the man foolish? He left God out of the picture. He was called a fool because he failed to realize that his life was in Gods hands. While he was planning carefully for his comfortable life on earth, he failed to plan for eternity and store up treasures in heaven (Matt. 6:20).
Does your plan for the future have God in it? You wont want to be called foolish by Him in the end.
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Good evening, teen...*HUGS*...I think she gets up before the sun. Posting at this hour, from the right coast, is stretching her bedtime. LOL!
Hope you are doing well. We are set to surpass the old record for most snow in the next few days. *sigh* We are at 129 inches right now.
I am off for home, with one stop to get punch for my Mom. Back shorlty....
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Bigs! Did you run Beachie off? *snicker*
Hope all is well in paradise! *hugs*
Well, you posted and ran and I ran and then posted! :)
We're on a bit of a road trip and just got back from dinner with MIL (who is having surgery in the morning).
Have a great Friday if I don't make it to talk to you in the morning, Early Bird! :)
Permission granted & presence requested Conor! *Hugs*
Your in OKC?
I do hope MIL's condition is not serious & prayers up for her! *Hugs*
Hiya Teenie & hope all is well with you! *Hugs*
We are having the most lovely spring like weather!
Good evening Janie! *Hugs*
My goodness they are recruiting them early these day!:)
Wow, didn't think I was in the running tonight... Tanks!
I am! She has a very sore shoulder from a fall she took. She's to have surgery in the morning, but not sure how extensive it will be or how long she'll be needing help.
We'll find out more tomorrow!
Good evening Mayor & thank you for our Daily bread. May it nourish our souls! *Hugs*
So nice to see you!
Will you get to see Piper Jane?
Oh poor MIL! Falls are nasty business!
I do hope the news tomorrow will be positive Luvie.
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Evening Beach, Kathy.
I was born in the late 50s — gosh, I miss the innocence.
That little guy is adorable!
Is everything going well these days? (Or, as well as can be expected?)
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A sad day for me today...the one year anniversary of the loss of my husband.I am burning a special candle for him, as is the Jewish Custom. All my customers today remembered! I am very touched.
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She is in very good spirits and we hope for the best.
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At the recent Emery Town Council meeting, Emery Town Recorder Judi Riddle said that the bronze plaque for the veterans has been ordered and should arrive in five-six weeks.
Young people and ATVs was the next item discussed. Many young people and parents asked the council what had prompted the city to send a letter to several residents complaining of young people racing around town and ignoring traffic control signs. Councilman Eric Anderson stated that many young people in town drive as if they were the only ones on the road and the city is concerned that someone is going to get hurt. It is the city's wish to not have that happen.
One parent suggested a class in which the children could be taught the rules of the road and proper behavior in city streets. One young man from the town expressed his dismay at having been singled out when everybody rides around town. Numerous residents expressed ideas to help eliminate the problem with ATVs.
Riddle stated that the young man had not been singled out, and that he was doing a brave thing by coming to the meeting and expressing his opinions. All present stressed the need to work together to solve the problems.
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A business permit was approved for King Cole's Service, owned by Paul Riddle. This is a mobile mechanic service that will be working anywhere in the county and will go to the customer for any need that may arise. The truck and 28 foot trailer is equipped to do everything from major repairs to oil changes on vehicles.
Riddle announced that she and Mayor Mike Williams and Councilman Anderson will be going to the Utah League of Cities and Towns Convention in September. She asked if any of the other council members are planning to go.
Councilman Anderson gave a report on the July 24 celebration held in Emery. He said that approximately 500 dinners were served. He also stated that the parade was a great success and the entire celebration went well. "The turnout was a little higher than usual," he said.
During the citizen concern portion of the evening. Jo Sansevero, of the Emery County Economic Development Council handed out brochures for the economic summit to be held at the Museum of the San Rafael and sponsored by Emery County Economic Development on Sept. 14. She encouraged everyone to attend as there will be many breakout sessions that will be very informative. She also stated that the keynote speakers, Bob King and Jon Huntsman Jr., will be very interesting.
Councilperson Sitterud presented Sansevero with a check for $300, from the Southeastern Utah Off Highway Vehicle Club. This money was raised from the Emery Fun Run held July 24 and will be applied to the restoration project of Emery's Old Churchhouse.
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Before British soccer fans began booing Wayne Rooney at the World Cup, he was so popular that CrossStitcher magazine offered a pattern for fans to replicate his baby face. Too bad it looks just like Joran van der Sloot.
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Peru completes sweep over Canada in women's volleyball
LIMA, Peru – Subpar play at the end of sets continued to haunt Canada's national women's volleyball team on Saturday night as they lost to Peru 17-25, 25-14, 20-25, 25-20, 15-13 on Saturday night to complete a five-match series between the two world championship bound squads.
With the victory, Peru won all five matches in the series. Both Peru and Canada, ranked 17th and 24th in the world respectively, are currently tuning up for the FIVB women's world volleyball championships set for October 29 to November 14 in Japan.
In the deciding fifth set, Canada squandered a 9-6 lead to the delight of the 5,000 plus spectators in attendance.
"It was pretty disappointing for us not to finish," said Tiffany Dodds of Lucky Lake, Sask., who scored 11 points. "Again tonight we needed to be better at closing sets especially after the 20-point mark."
Still it was a drastic improvement on the three-set loss on Thursday.
"Our blocking was really good tonight and is continually improving," said Dodds. "If we can bring up other aspects of our game and make fewer mistakes we will be more successful."
Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., was the top Canadian scorer with 19 points.
""The match was a history of the whole week in Peru," said Canada's head coach Arnd Ludwig. "We did some really good things and at the end we made unforced errors. This week was good, we played against a very good team and we are very close to them."
Canada is the midst of an 18-day tour and closes out its trip with three matches against Costa Rica on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Costa Rica is also headed to the worlds.


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Two 24mm opposing pistons (that's almost an inch-per-piston) equates to downhill racing stopping power. In fact, those pistons represent a 19% increase in surface area over Formula R1 brakes. But, with the T One Disc Brake, big power doesn't mean heavy. The T One still weighs less than 340 grams (a number that rivals most XC brakes) making them an excellent choice for enduro riding as well.
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With Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft will continually deliver value by adding new capabilities year-round. These update releases will be aligned with core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers always have access to the best solution for building modern applications, company officials said. VS2012 Update 1 will offer new capabilities in four main categories, including added support of agile teams, continuous quality enablement, SharePoint and Windows development, and will be made available this month as a preview and later this year as a final release.
Microsoft has formally launched its flagship Visual Studio 2012 tools suite and has already announced an update for the product, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. At a Sept. 12 launch event in Seattle, Microsoft announced VS2012 before an audience of hundreds of developers in person and thousands more via Webcast. Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are the tools that form the backbone for developing not only on Windows 8, but all of Microsoft's platforms, company officials said. Meanwhile, Microsoft will be delivering VS2012 Update 1 by the end of this year as part of a new strategy to update its developer tools on a more rapid cadence, Microsoft said. "Visual Studio 2012 is the best development tool to enable developers to build 'modern apps' for connected devices," Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's developer division, said in an interview with eWEEK. VS2012 supports development on Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Azure and Windows Phone. Somasegar said Visual Studio 2012 has seen more than 600,000 downloads since its release to the Web, making this the fastest adoption of Visual Studio in Microsoft's history. This slide show looks at the release of VS2012 and some of the ancillary tools and promotions Microsoft is making available to developers.
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I read some comics during my youth. I never really got into them on account of the cost and the fact that I was one of those kids who did not really get an "allowance". The reason I mention this is because I think a lot of people who find interest in the fantasy fiction genre kind of get their start with comic books.
For me, it was something else entirely. Right around the time High School began for me a collectible card game called Legend of the Five Rings came about. It's a game about samurai and feudal civil war with a strong mix of the fantastic thrown in. Players take on the various factions and the decisions the players make over the course of the game's life have ramifications on the characters within.
With some urging from a friend of mine, I took up the Crane Clan, a group based on politics and art…in a game where brutal military force was the best option early on. Well, the champion of this faction was a character named Doji Hoturi. He was a samurai of refinement, arrogance, culture, and ultimately…a force for good.
Because the majority of other players disliked the Crane and especially Hoturi, the game itself turned on him. Hoturi was cast down, vilified, and hunted. Those who represented the Crane knew that Hoturi was a character who was getting a bad shake.
For three years we watched and waited. The story and the game played out and still we waited. In that time we learned the reasons why this plot had been hatchet against him and it made the character and story all the more tragic. The truth of the matter was that he had been made to suffer for inadvertently killing his own son, whom he was entirely unaware of.
The end of Hoturi's story results in his death, but not before accounts are settled, relationships reconciled, and his story is concluded.
It's the difference for me. It's the finalized story. The punctuation that makes the character relevant. I mentioned comics at the beginning of this. I actually loved the X-Men cartoon during middle school and later on during college I would eventually read all those comics I missed out on. In some ways they were very relevant still.
The difference is that those stories never really end. They drag on. They re-boot. They find a way to continue with the status quo and in doing so, nothing you read really has any lasting impact.
Hoturi's story mattered to me. It stuck with me far longer than any other exploit of a character because it was final, real, and the time invested reading and following mattered for something.
I think this has been something of a guiding principal for me over the course of writing and creating my own characters and story. There has to be a willingness to let characters go, to fail, to die because that's what makes them stay in your mind after they're story is gone or done.


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The award-winning concert saxophonist Ashu has established an extraordinary ability to communicate with audiences through his charismatic and moving performance style. His virtuosity continues to thrill listeners, and he has repeatedly defied convention by winning major competitions traditionally won by pianists and violinists. In his Washington, D.C., recital debut, Ashu performs works for saxophone and piano by Ibert, Rachmaninoff, Creston, Piazzolla, Debussy, and Demersseman. On Sunday, the concert begins at 7 p.m., and on Monday at 8 p.m.
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People from Boston love their music and apparently music loves Boston as well. In fact, there are quite a few bands and songs named after the city. You have the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Boston, Dropkick Murphys and even Aerosmith. Yes, the state of Massachusetts has the Cape and the Red Sox, but it's also worth noting that the city of Boston is well known for producing quite a few musical talents. Seeing that you're visiting us here at TakeLessons, we believe that you may want to add yourself to the ever-growing list of famous Boston musicians.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
WCMA at Night Postcard Drawings
As part of WCMA at Night this past Thursday, students made up their own LeWitt inspired drawing directions and had the option of following the directions created by others. In the gallery below, the directions come first, and the interpretation of those directions follows. You may find your own drawing or directions, and if not it may be included in another installment later in the week. Take a look!
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Just how long can the Herbalife (HLF) hedge-fund drama continue? Janney Capital Markets analysts John San Marco and Amy Babington argue this morning that it's going to be too long to recommending buying the stock.
The pair, who set a $44 price target and rate the stock "neutral," contend in a client note that "the point of maximum uncertainty [is] likely still in front of us." They argue that even though the health-products company gave what they call a "very solid" defense Thursday against Pershing Square Capital Management chief Bill Ackman's pyramid-scheme claims, that investors will continue to be perturbed, and the hedge-fund shorts will continue to press hard.
If Herbalife stays public — and CEO Michael O. Johnson pledged yesterday that it would — then the pair see an exit only through major changes to the business, or regulatory action:
[W]e expect the forceful opposition, constant public scrutiny, and the resultant volatility will only be stemmed by: 1) business model adjustments that are significant enough (liberalizing return policy further, liberalizing club operating policies, lowering S&H to market rates, proactively finding/removing purchase-based distributors such as Anthony Powell), or 2) regulator proceedings such as a formal FTC/SEC investigation (but even this has historically provided investors only temporary confidence in the model). Market participants have exhaustively, since May, been hyper-focused on what constitutes an "illegal pyramid scheme" – yet the absence of "bright line" regulations has never been more poignant than it has been the past three weeks.
Enough, in in their view, to force investors to look elsewhere.
Pershing, meanwhile, most recently vowed to keep pressing its case that the stock should fall to zero, including by introducing unspecified new lines of argument against the company.
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It's tough enough to refinance or take out a mortgage when you're the only borrower. But the process gets even more complicated when you're trying to take out a mortgage with your significant other.
Whether you're married or just own the property together, your significant other's financial stability directly impacts your ability to get a loan.
The solution is to manage the process before you even fill out a single mortgage application. Here's how to iron out some of the most common issues that come up for couples borrowing together, whether they're trying to refinance or take out their first mortgage.
Problem 1: Credit issues.
Your significant other may have a few nightmarish financial issues in his or her past. If you're trying to refinance and have already applied for a mortgage together, you may already know about them. But if this is your first mortgage, it's time to have a less-than-romantic discussion of what your credit reports look like.
Job loss, illness or unpaid debt can impact your partner's credit for a long time, so be sure to pull a credit report before trying to take out a mortgage or refinance. This will give you a good idea of whether you'll be able to qualify for a new loan, or if you and your partner should rectify credit issues before trying to refinance.
Keep in mind that a "good" credit picture isn't just a credit score of 780 and no debt. Lenders will look at a full credit report of your outstanding debts, income, assets and the current value of your property to determine whether or not you qualify for a loan, and pulling your own credit report ensures that you know what the lenders are seeing.
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Problem 2: One person is unemployed.
Getting good loan terms is highly dependent on income – just like it was when you took out your original mortgage. If your significant other has since become unemployed, you may not qualify for as large a loan as you would like. This is also true if your partner has unverifiable income or is now working as an independent contractor.
To avoid running afoul of newly enforced lender rules, build up your savings account before applying for your first mortgage or a refinance. This will make you a more desirable borrower for lenders who may otherwise be nervous about a drop in income.
You can also talk to your lender about having a good friend or family member co-sign on the loan. While this won't help with credit issues, it could have a positive impact on the loan terms you're offered even if income is an issue. Just be sure this move won't negatively affect your relationship with the co-signer.
Keep in mind that when you refinance, you're essentially taking out a new loan to pay off your old one. To make a refinance worth it, your new loan should have a lower interest rate, a shorter loan term, and a lower monthly payment. If you also keep a watchful eye on the costs of the refinance, you'll have what I call a home run refinance.
Problem 3: Your financial goals are different.
Whether you want to refinance your current loan terms to save money or take out a loan you can quickly pay off, you probably have certain financial goals in mind when thinking about a mortgage.
Make sure to discuss those goals with your significant other, and get on the same page before contacting your lender. If you want to pay off your mortgage quickly, you'll likely want to lock in a shorter loan term. This goal may directly conflict with your partner's goal of obtaining a lower monthly payment, since a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage may have larger payments than a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.
Even refinance goals that appear the same may in fact be different. Both you and your partner may want lower monthly payments, but each of you might have different ideas of how that monthly savings should be used. One of you may want to put that savings into a retirement account, while the other would prefer to save that money and put it toward home improvements.
Talk with a few different lenders about the long-term goals you and your partner have for the refinance. They can help you find the loan that works best for you, and suggest ways that you can each get a little bit of what you want.
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DescriptionIt's a warm and sunny day, and you're are having a drink at a lovely bar along the rivers of Venice. While you see little boats calmly go by, you're feeling at full ease. It has been a good holiday so far. While you're listening to the music which is playing, you slowly daze off and begin to daydream. The music keeps lingering in your dream. In your daydream you enter a sonic journey from where you are now, at the lovely bar in Venice, to a somewhat magical and surreal reality, to a reality you once saw in your dreams. You travel the same way back, and once back in Venice your daydream ends up on the dancefloor of a local club. You waken up, and you realize life is a great joy. Reason to dance. Yes, let's go dance tonight!
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OMG this totally cracked me up!!
Jimmy's a better dancer than Will
Fun, but you really gotta check out the Evolution of Hip Hop series with JT, by far the best on-going Jimmy Fallon sketch ever.
see now its been proven-white men can have rhythm
Jimmy Fallon is a scream here!!!!!
"Miss_P" that's exactly what I thought.
Jimmy just had better commitment.
Finally a video I enjoyed.
Loved it!
Jimmy's super cute, as usual.
I'm concerned – are overalls making a comeback?
Jimmy sure committed, but Will was smoother… aside from "The Carlton".
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The Vols are going to get some redemption for the last seven years on Saturday. RockyTop will be heard around the southeast... As long as getting a little love in the polls doesn't bite us
The Vols are going to get some redemption for the last seven years on Saturday. RockyTop will be heard around the southeast... As long as getting a little love in the polls doesn't bite us
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"Luck is the residue of design"- Branch Rickey
Alabama is Crimson....Roll Tide
Since this seems to be more of an SEC thread as opposed to a "college football" thread, i'll ask a question.... how do you guys think Missouri and A&M will do the next couple of years? Neither one of them won very often in the Big12 (one conference championship combined, I think) leads me to believe that they're both gonna beat the Kentucky's, Vandy's and both Mississippi schools and routinely get their collective asses kicked by the upper echelon of the SEC? Just sayin'......
I had a chance to talk with a group of TAMU students in Fort Worth a couple of weeks ago while attending the Texas Trophy Hunters show. I said to them, "welcome to the SEC". They stood up, shook my hand one by one and said, "glad to he there". I have no doubt that within three recruiting years that TAMU will be the Football Powerhouse within the state and a top ranked team!
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Everyone here in Missouri seems to think that they will do great with all the media exposure and prestige of the SEC, etc. I say it doesnt matter how much media coverage a team has, if they keep losing they will not attract anyone! Lose they will, best possible scenario is 6-6. Cool new uniforms and all but i do not think that this will be the shot in the arm they want it to be.
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I got your back Jacob. Geaux Tigers. I don't know why anyone would question Mett's arm, but that's cool...JC Copeland will run over a school bus.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to make a deal with diesel truck owners in the Chicagoland area: give up your truck, and the city will give you a voucher that covers around 60 percent of the cost of a new electric one.
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I think Rahm Emanuel's time would be better spent getting rid of the gangs and gang killings then worrying about air quality in Chicago.
One thing about commie libs, they love to spend other people's money. Cheap bass turds with their own though. The patriotic and "green" thing for this turd to do is pay for the first shipment of this junk out of his own pocket.
Let's go electric instead of natural gas. dupes.
Chi-Town is rich? Whoda guessed it?
Just get a team of Unicorns to pull the Trucks, problem solved.
lol... just thinking about the amount of electricity that would need to be generated to charge all of the batteries that it would take to move 500 tons of goods down the road for any length of time.
Hey... why stop there? why not electric trains?
I wonder to where the money trail will lead...
Clueless, but what do you expect from government.
It's only a matter of time until you are ordered to buy a Government Motors Mini-Volt (made in South Korea, naturally)
LMAO.... Has anything Chicago has done has ever been successful??
I see trucks all over Chicago pulled off to the side of the road — dead batteries..... and when it's freezing out — dying people.
^^ Hey... why stop there? why not electric trains? ^^
You are aware that trains are electric, right? They run diesel generators and use electric drive axles, the original "hybrid". Streetcars, subways, and the like are pure electric.
What I am waiting for is a tandem dumptruck, or snow plow that is all electric.
Or in North Korea, like this.
It's my understanding that diesel vehicles are very nearly pollution-free vehicles as is.
A very silly man.
I'm waiting on the first electric 747.
I suppose that could be done.
How long it lasts depends on the starting airspeed and altitude.
Batt A and Batt B switch position might not really matter.
You're correct.
After a few hundred miles, the battery A and battery bvswitch will not matter. :)
I guess putting "747" stickers on the Gossamer Albatross won't cut it for you?
I knew that, just never understood it, not being an electrician or an engineer or physicist. I always thought that when you convert energy from one form to another that there is a net loss and therefore it would make more sense to run them directly with diesel engines. Is it just not practical for some reason?
I'm dead serious and would appreciate any explanation offered.
Yes. Those would be diesel electrics. They use the same type system on some ferry boats. Probably not all that practical for a dump truck though.
A very silly man.
Yes, but it shows he "cares" and "feels" and isn't that the very definition of a democrat?
There's going to be a whole lot of unintended consequences for the Left coming very soon.
Rahm must think you can buy an electric powered 18 wheeler.
I think they have a gas engine. A diesel would be better though.
I think there is some energy savings in not having all the drive shafts, etc that would be necessary to drive the multiple wheels on a train locomotive. Also high torque at low speed is helpful on a train. And I assume there is no need for a transmission. But, I would never characterize the engine as 'electric'. Its power comes from a massive internal combustion engine.
I am sure you are correct.
I was just being snarky, and quite honestly big twin diesels rock on water.
And just how many electric alternatives are there that can equal the towing capacity and torque of a diesel truck?
they have electric trains ;) much easier to electrify the wire over the tracks and use the track as the ground/neutral when the train can't go anywhere the track doesn't.
Even diesel locomotives use electric motors.
electric motors produce a hell of a lot of torque. They make this torque at all speeds and do not need to shift.
Diesel trucks have 10-18 speeds for a reason. You need to keep the engine in the power band to keep things moving.
Read the wiki article if you want more in depth info.
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Hrm. What I'm wondering is, how well would an all-electric vehicle compare to a diesel when it comes to heavy work tasks - i.e. plows, heavy load hauling, etc.?
Electric motors certainly can provide torque, but I question whether they could perform the same task continuously for as long as a comparable diesel. It seems to me an electric's batteries are likely to be used up well before a diesel tank runs dry.
I also have to wonder about durability and maintenance costs. We've gotten pretty good with diesels these days. They start in the wintertime and the better engines are just about bulletproof with normal maintenance. I don't know how good these electrics are, but I think it's fair to ask how well an electric design will endure a Chicago winter compared to a diesel. I also think it's fair to ask how much more $$$ a business owner will have to spend on maintaining said vehicle.
Diesels, more than gas engines, have an optimum speed and >load< for best economy and perhaps a different speed for max power. But even gas engines have an innate speed at which they operate best. Also, using electric motors for train propulsion offers both incredible torque for starting, because they can handle brief overloads and also have the ability to use the electric motors as dynamic brakes...turning them into generators, the generators power giant resistors, generating heat, and serious braking power results. This means that the locos don't have to have such giant brake shoes...useful to help stop the whole train. Plus the traction motors can be reversed pretty easily without having to have a geared transmission on the diesel which of course would be massive given the torque and power involved. Furthermore, it is relatively easy to synchronize multiple motors to rotate at the same speed allowing multiple engines to be used in tandem, which makes it easier to match the no of locos to the particular load and the type and amount of uphill pulling the loco must perform. And finally, the ability to control everything electrically meant that fewer people were required to run the train, esp with multiple engines. This was all developed during the early-through-middle part of the last century to a fairly fine art, and it was universally determined by all mfrs and freight/PAX lines that the diesel-electric combo was the best, cheapest, and most flexible. So while you are correct that changing one kind of energy to another involves some losses, these things have been studied and tested to exhaustion and the diesel-electric came to be the chosen mode. Motors, at this point (and even 50 years ago) got to be pretty darn efficient in converting electrical energy into axle torque. Of course, some electric trains have overhead or third rail electrical supply and those don't need the diesel combustion engine.
Yes!!!...and when the Unicorns $hit...the kids will have an endless supply of M+Ms.....
They do make hybrid electric transit buses, but they're expensive and the advantages are minimal or dubious.
You could buy a lot of diesel fuel for the cost of the electric vehicles. When it comes time for new batteries, there will be real buyer's remorse.
Those will be some big ass M&M's.
They could rename them Mochelle & Moochelles...
There are motors that can do it and even exceed the torque of a diesel engine.
But there is no power source that will give a usable amount of power before recharge.
But an electric truck is much easier to start when its -30 in Chicago. The heater will kill the battery before your out of the parking lot but eh, that's just a technicality.
How bout a natural gas powered one? Those they do make.
they are stench mobiles. however, i rate that as a problem of
lesser importance than say removing the gangstas from control of the streets.
The reason is that it is much more cost effective to generate electricity and use electric motors to drive the wheels than to build a transmission and clutch to handle the power.
Diesel locomotives are typically 2000 to 6000 horsepower, but have a limited RPM range. They would need a lot more gears than a car which has a transmission with 3 to six gear ratios. And, the gears would need to be much larger than automotive gears to handle the loads. Transmissions also have internal losses. These are typically low, but even 1% loss of a few thousand horsepower is a lot of heat, which is where the power loss shows up.
DIESEL electric trains! And trains don't have batteries that catch fire when wet. The Rhamster ignores natural gas which already is running trucks all over the city. What a publicity seeking putz.
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