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Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic]
Don't limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two.
You don't need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com's archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site.
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Absolutely Brilliant, writing my thesis at the moment and I am forever getting frustrated with irrelevant google results. I really did not know it worked this way. Thank you, saving me hours of irrelevant reading :)
I don't see the info graphic. I'm on an iPad. Do need my PC to see it?
People at work call me the google queen but, obviously, I have been a mere commoner. Thanks for this info which will help me live up to my designation.
Lol…that gave me an Internet Tourbus flashback from 2003
Wow, the article's graphics look like a bad copy off a mimeograph machine .
Much better and easier to read at the link provided at the bottom:
Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable]
Very helpful. Thanks.
The author of this infographic mistakenly assumes their readers are exclusively Mac users. I take offense to this.
Well according to the statistics he has, bigger part of the students use Macs, therefore his decision seems a good one. Though I disagree with that. I don't think Mac users are more common among students, but maybe it depends on where you are.
The infographic should note that Windows users can't screenshot with CTRL+Shift+3/4. Makes the infographic feel way outdated. Schools haven't favoured Macs in a couple decades.
While I realise the shortcuts for the two systems are essentially the same, you should appeal to the larger user base by using PC shortcuts not Mac ones.
I would like to know where he got that statistic from. But if I had to geuss I would bet hes a mac user as are most of his friends and therefore he pulled 70% out of his butt. lol
One more tip: it's quite easier to press "F6" (which works both for Linux and Windows on majority of browsers) to focus on address bar rather than pressing Comand/Ctrl + L. :)
there is an excruciating abundance of punctuation and syntax errors in the infographic…"the authors initials" and such…blegh.
İ tried the 'screenshot' command in Windows XP 'ctrl +shift+3 and it worked(in paint).However subsequent attempts to capture the screenshot, have ALL FAİLED.Any suggestions ANYONE,as to why?
LOL epic advice about Google searches and it's detailed in an un-indexable image. Smooth work.
I'm surprised no one has yet caught on to the oblique reference to Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail in the second example ("A report on the different air speed velocities of common swallows"). Here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4
Thanks ! its really helpful and using these tips make searching easy and fast that saves time
Thanks again!
This is very useful, thanks for the great post.
Absolutely great! Thanks a lot!
@TJ, glad someone else caught that.
Then when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with… a herring!!!
Thanks for the useful tips
It's good to know students have so much money to waste they can afford to buy a mac, perhaps they will study value for money next year!
google sucks, it use to be good not anymore, I rather have a slower os than otherwise using google
all of my security is firewalled against google…
someday people or the authorities are going to want to get something on you best place is google everytime you touch a key your being recorded, and the safeguards assuming there are any are miniscule and easily hackable.
It depends to the country you are staying, in other country they encourage the students to used mac with student discout. The only thing is you must prove that you are student by bringing you report card or school ID's.
@4G Reaper, Hahaha! …or should I say, Ni ni ni! :P
Try a librarian and do even better.
Nice style of presentation, I use google from last 6 year, but some point in this post are really great, thanks for the sharing……
great work
thankyou very much
very interesting this sight
Thanks a lot…LOL
Thank you, very helpful. Just one question: What planet do you live on where 70% of the students use Macs!? Everywhere I have been it is more like 99.99% of students use PC's. i{^_^}
"70% of college students use macs."
Wow, really?? Here I thought these kids were supposed to be smart.
This is an instance where the Mac technique doesn't work in Windows. To capture a screenshot of the entire desktop to the Windows clipboard, use the key. To capture just the active window, use + together. You can then paste the clipboard contents to a Word or Paint document.
Windows 7 and Vista have a feature called Snipping Tool that is more versatile than this approach, but I find the suits my own needs just fine.
(Or you could google "windows screenshots"…)
I guess this comment feature doesn't like things enclosed in corner brackets… must be a defense against hacking attempts. In my previous comment, please imagine I'd written PRINT SCREEN and ALT+PRINT SCREEN to capture the desktop and active window, respectively..
There is not a command key on the keyboard. Do you mean the Control key? (Ctrl)
very helpful…..google can be so calculative so helpful in search….
Thanks, Nice Information
awesome It will definitely help me a lot. I was afraid of searching on google by not getting results.
70 % of students use macs? Not in Kenya though we love PC's coz they cheaper. But the article was an informative read. Keep It Up.
You should mention how to index as well… just saying
this page is virtually unreadable on a Mac or a Wintel computer because it's a picture of a printed page, rather than a composed web page.
I'd trust Google more directly. They provide much more detailed advanced search beginning at http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190
lol @ monty python,,,good catch. +1
Great article thank you very much for taking the time.
i want more short-cuts!!!!!!!!!
I'm very likes articles so giving me learning…
Thank you for stumble's site for giving me many benefits.
thanks for the info….GOD BLESS..
Use ctrl +screenshot to take a screen shot than paste it (ctrl + v ) in paint so u can save it as jpeg ….
Graphics and colors kept me on the page to learn some great tips. Otherwise would have Stumbled right on through. Thanks.
The only thing I didn't know here was the use of tilde (~) to search related terms
Really helpful shortcuts to get valuable information and it will definitely going to reduce time and efforts,
Thanks again
this is very useful
thank you~
This is great thanks for shortcuts and made over search easy
Awesome stuff!! Simple understandable to the point!!


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The Chiefs returned to the top of the overall Super Rugby table courtesy of a four-try 34-21 win over a spirited Lions outfit on Saturday.
The Chiefs returned to the top of the overall Super Rugby table courtesy of a four-try 34-21 victory over a spirited Lions outfit in Pukekohe on Saturday.
It was the first time in twelve years that this rugby competition had headed south of Auckland to Pukekohe and the conference pace-setters put on a clinical performance in front of the supporters.
Home tries were scored by Aaron Cruden, Craig Clarke, Lelia Masaga and Brendon Leonard while the visitors crossed through replacement Cobus Grobbelaar (2) and Joshua Strauss. Neither kicker missed an attempt in front of the uprights.
Cruden was critical to the Chiefs' victory as his try, assist for Masaga and a faultless night with the boot meant he ended with a nineteen-point haul.
The success at ECOLight Stadium was also a milestone for the Waikato-based outfit as a ninth win in a row equals their most wins in a season.
Cruden dominated the opening quarter as he chalked up thirteen points from two penalties and a converted try following good work from Richard Kahui and Sam Cane.
Lock forward Clarke extended the lead to 20-0 running off a deft off-load from Sonny Bill Williams with Cruden again adding the extra two as the Lions looked second best.
Despite facing the best defensive side in the competition, the Lions were determined to score five pointers rather than penalties and turned down three shots at goal before being rewarded with their first try. It came from a penalty they kicked for the corner to set up a line-out drive from which Grobbelaar went over. Jantjies converted during a difficult opening.
The Chiefs almost had their third try on the stroke of half-time when full-back Andrew Horrell kicked through and a diving Masaga got a hand to the ball just as it rolled on to the dead-ball line. However, he was not to be denied by the TMO soon after the break when the influential Cruden chipped ahead from inside his own half and Masaga finished well under the posts.
Lions skipper Strauss then crashed over from another line-out but their joy was short-lived as Leonard slid in for the bonus-point score after the Lions had coughed up possession.
Another rolling maul saw replacement back-row forward Grobbelaar grab his second try of the game on 68 minutes, but the Chiefs finished the game stronger to return to the summit.
The scorers:
For Chiefs:
Tries: Cruden, Clarke, Masaga, Leonard
Con: Cruden 4
Pen: Cruden 2
For Lions:
Tries: Grobbelaar 2, Strauss
Con: Jantjies 3
Chiefs: 15 Andrew Horrell, 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Richard Kahui, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Brendon Leonard, 8 Kane Thompson, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Tanerau Latimer, 5 Michael Fitzgerald, 4 Craig Clarke (c), 3 Ben Tameifuna, 2 Hika Elliot, 1 Toby Smith.
Replacements: 16 Mahonri Schwalger, 17 Arizona Taumalolo, 18 Alex Bradley, 19 Scott Waldrom, 20 Tawera Kerr- Barlow, 21 Jackson Willison, 22 Maritino Nemani.
Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Deon Van Rensburg, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Alwyn Hollenbach, 11 Lionel Mapoe, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Ross Cronje, 8 Joshua Strauss (c), 7 Grant Hattingh, 6 Derick Minnie, 5 Ruan Botha, 4 Franco Van der Merwe, 3 Patric Cilliers, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 JC Janse van Rensburg.
Replacements: 16 Martin Bezuidenhout, 17 CJ Van der Linde, 18 Cobus Grobbelaar, 19 Jaco Kriel, 20 Tian Meyer, 21 James Kamana, 22 Michael Killian.
Referee: Ian Smith (Australia)


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Flames in review: Brent Sutter
Robert Cleave
April 12 2011 05:46PM
I wasn't particularly impressed with Brent Sutter's work last season, to be frank. The Flames took a significant step backwards in terms of their play, relying on shot suppression and Miikka Kiprusoff entirely too often on route to a 90 point season and 10th place in the Conference. Given that the Flames have just finished 10th yet again, it might be sensible to think that he wasn't much better this year, but there a few items of interest that suggest that he might have learned a few things over the course of the last two seasons.
George Johnson's piece earlier today in the Herald hints that big bro was sticking his fingers in places he shouldn't have, so the possibility exists that Brent never had a free hand until late December of this year. It's a bit sad if that's really so, obviously. It wasn't like Darryl should have concentrating on other matters, right?
Before we get too far gone, I'm of the belief that a coach can only do so much. He really can't make a goalie stop a puck, or help a forward hit the net with a shot, or assist a defenceman in their puck handling. If they could help with last last one in particular, I'm aware of a right-shooting Flames' defenceman with a 3.6M cap hit and a NMC that could use a bit of work.
In all seriousness, NHL players as elderly as most of the Flames have generally completed their development on a individual level, so the primary boost a coach can give is when he manages ice time in a sensible manner within the restraints of the available personnel. In other words, asking Mikael Backlund to play tough minutes in the manner of Manny Malhotra wouldn't make much sense, since Backlund would likely get lit up in that scenario. Horses for courses, and all that.
The overwhelming majority of NHL coaches do this stuff fairly readily, so even if a coach is a master of sensing a weak spot that could be exploited, the edge he might gain over other bench bosses is pretty slight as a rule, and you still need players that can take advantage of that sort of tactical nous. Randy Carlyle might be as good as there is at assessing a situational advantage, but having Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in his back pocket likely makes him look even sharper than he is.
Last year felt, at least to me, like a perpetual season of square peg/round hole stuff from Brent Sutter. He rolled Jokinen and Iginla out there as a regular duo until Jokinen was relocated at the beginning of February even as the pair scuffled along in an underwhelming fashion. The Flames almost never used their best EV forwards, Daymond Langkow and Rene Bourque, alongside Iginla absent a few occasions. The results were, as all of us witnessed, not the prettiest.
Sutter also paired Steve Staios with Jay Bouwmeester for the stretch run in the spring of 2010, relegating the clearly superior Mark Giordano to the third pairing contrary to the evidence on the ice. Those were just the most glaring examples of roster mismanagement in a year that also saw a curious desire to regularly use the fourth line for the ensuing faceoff after the opposition had iced the puck.
To add to my frustration, the Flames played a one-in forecheck almost without fail, and I think the numbers spoke for themselves. The club generated the 8th worst 5v5 shots/60 rate in the league at 28.3, and were barely above water in terms of shot differential, allowing 27.7/60 for a measly .6 edge.
You could make an argument that the Flames had better forwards this season, with the additions of Tanguay and Morrison bolstering the club, but since Daymond Langkow only played 4 games all year, most of that edge was wiped out. The club also had three acceptable top four defencemen for the majority of the season, which by my math would be roughly one short of the minimum requirement.
So, with a collection of question marks at his disposal, what did we see from Sutter? First, although Olli Jokinen had the toughest competition, the spread between Olli's 1st and David Moss' 7th was fairly tight, which suggests that Sutter never really settled on any clear hard-minutes option. I don't think that anyone watching would be too surprised by that, as the Flames did a lot of mix and match even before Morrison and Moss were hurt late in the year. I can't say I blame Sutter for juggling things, either, because absent Langkow or some other proven commodity, their weren't many palatable options available.
In terms of lines, it didn't take Sutter long to bust the Jokinen-Iginla-Tanguay line, and sensibly so. Simply adding Alex Tanguay to that duo wasn't the elixir required to make things work, and Jokinen found a safe haven working with Moss and Glencross through the middle of the year. The Flames used Brendan Morrison as the center between Iginla and Tanguay, and the trio survived, although they never really dominated the other team's better players at any point.
Matt Stajan, Nik Hagman and Rene Bourque bounced around more than the other expensive forwards, and the trio's indifferent results left the fanbase slightly on edge regarding their contributions. The Flames cut the cord on Ales Kotalik, at least in practical terms, as Sutter rarely utilized him before he was waived and sent to Abbotsford. Good riddance.
Tim Jackman and Mikael Backlund had the easiest go in terms of competition and ZoneStart numbers, and they performed well against those players, with fine outshooting performances. Using Backlund in a sheltered role was quite wise on Sutter's part. I get the desire to push the young man ahead, but he's still got a few things to learn at both ends of the ice, so a gentle beginning to his career was in order.
In terms of ZoneStarts, it was more of the same, as the Flames primary forwards were in a very tight range. Alex Tanguay finished the year with the easiest O-zone start % at 55.4, while Brendan Morrison's 50.7% was the toughest. In contrast, the Sedins were in the 70's while Manny Malhotra had a O-zone start % of 25.0, so you can see that unlike Vigneault or Quennville, Sutter didn't bury anyone in particular. Again, not having a proven tough minutes option likely made this choice the only acceptable one for the coach.
On defense, the early season trade of Ian White opened the door for a Regher-Bouwmeester pairing, which, like the team, appeared pretty decent until the last month or so. Mark Giordano was paired with Cory Sarich against second level comp, and Sutter was meticulous about sheltering Anton Babchuk, Adam Pardy and Steve Staios from difficult competition or ZoneStarts. Fairly reasonable, given the talents of the men at hand, and Anton Babchuk's wallet likely will owe Brent Sutter a round of thanks come July 1.
So, in terms of the things he could control, Sutter mixed his main forwards against the other team's better players in a slightly vain hope that some combination would take hold. It never happened, but as I mentioned, I get why he did it. He did hard-match his top defence pair, again for utterly rational reasons. The results?
Not openly terrible, all things considered. The Flames increased their 5v5 shots/60 to 29.8, 15th best in the league. The shots against number held in place, as the club allowed 27.5 shots/60, 4th best in the NHL. The differential of 2.3 shots/60 was 8th best in the NHL. Perfectly acceptable, really. More shots, a few less against, what's not to like?
Now, score effects do have their place, but thanks to Time on Ice, we can strip some of that clutter away. I ran the numbers for the top ten Western Conference teams earlier today, and although the full results will be the subject of another post, the Flames had the 5th best Fenwick (shots and missed shots) percentage when the game was tied of those ten teams, behind Chicago, San Jose, Detroit and Vancouver.
They had 52.0% of the Fenwick events when tied, which was an improvement from last year's 51.4. Fenwick when tied usually tracks fairly well with scoring chances when tied, which is why it's a good number to look at as a comparable, since we don't have scoring chance data from all the teams. With that in mind, I suspect that when Kent parses his numbers, the Flames will have out-chanced the bad guys by a reasonable margin.
Special teams are always harder to suss out, to my mind. The Flames had good percentages driving their PP, but they were a bit below average in terms of shots for, and well behind teams like Anaheim or San Jose, but again, talent has it's role to play in that scenario.
The Flames were in the middle of the pack in terms of shots allowed on the PK, and I didn't really like their game 4v5. Slow-footed D don't win many races to loose pucks, of course, and the Flames are bit challenged in that department at the moment, so I'm not sure what a coach could do to repair the problem.
I can't really hit Brent Sutter too hard for anything that happened this year. His brother left him a roster with many decent players, but no power vs. power option at his disposal, and his best EV forward played all of four games. His other best bet at EV, Moss, missed the last three weeks at a time where the club needed all hands on deck to have a prayer, so by the end of the year the team was in full scramble mode, and I'm not sure what any coach could have done to alleviate that problem.
Overall, I think Sutter corrected a few of his mistakes from 09/10. Not defaulting to Staios-Bouwmeester or Jokinen-Iginla after the early part of the year were positive moves, and I think he's handled Mikael Backlund's development nicely. Given his roster, I'm not sure he could have done too much more this year. I'm a hard marker, so I'll give him a gentleman's B for his handiwork, and if he's the coach next season, I'll have no major quibbles with that decision.
great work. brent was a different man without the gloom of his brother. one question that needs to be addressed is the extent of harm when the bosses kid was on the roster when clearly he didnt belong. i firmly believe brent wasnt given any option.
If Darryl was interfering with Brent that was definitely wrong of him. A GM should not get involved with coaching decisions. Brent made a smart move by putting Jokinen, Moss and Glencross together. That was a solid second line.
The mantra of winning two games out of three should have been implemented way before Dec. 23rd. If that was in their mind from let's say November there could have been a different outcome.
I would have like to have seen Karlsson get more starts to get him more comfortable in the back up role.
I look at all the firings as of late: DeBoer, Richards, Crawford, Clouston and the trend has been those teams have missed the playoffs two years in row. Somebody's gotta be held accountable in Calgary.
Unfortunately, the Flames ownership has the chance to blame Darryl for the problems.
"Hey look, we did poorly up until we fired Darryl, so he must be the problem. Let's roll with this next season!"
My vote is still for either Hextall or somehow to get Hakan Loob in on the equation.
The difference in the team with Darryl and without Darryl is palpable. I'm not going to slag Darryl because he did what he thought was best but clearly this team needed a change. It seems that Jay, being a polar opposite of Darryl is working for now.
The question that will remain unanswered is:
Would this team have made the playoffs if that change was made in October? November? Really we're talking about 2 more wins.
Going forward this team isn't a contender, however it's a playoff team. If only to lose in the first round. The problem is turning those first round picks into higher first round picks. Luckily Jay has agreed that more assets need to be committed to all levels of scouting.
Lets see what fruit that bears.
April 13 2011, 08:38AM
Keeping Iggy and Sex Panther together makes any coach look like a brain damaged monkey. It took Brent a really long time to give up on that experiment, but perhaps that wasn't his decision.
Either way, he'll get another year to prove he can coach men in the NHL.
As an aside, maybe Brent should put Hagman-Stajan-Bourque on a line. If they can get each other to play like they deserve their money then we'd have a pretty solid line. Otherwise they'd get relegated to minimal minutes, and keeping them together keeps them from dragging other players/lines down with them. Win win.
It is really hard to say whether Brent did a good job coaching or not, now that we know how much Darryl interferred with the coaching duties. It must be the organizational structure, President interferes with GM, GM interferes with the coach, coach has no one to interfere with and looks like an idiot...
Hopefully the coaching we saw that last half the year is the coaching we get next year!
Bad coaching is when you leave your second best shoot-out taker on the bench when you need to win "the most important game of the season".
April 14 2011, 01:58PM
Since the christmas break, the Flames were .500 against teams that eventually qualified for the playoffs. 9-9-7. They were a mighty 18-2-1 against non-playoff teams.
That's 27-11-8 for 62 points. Extrapolated over an 82 game season, that would be 110 points.
When I started investigating, this is not what I expected to find. I assumed that they weren't that good against other good teams.
If you believe Feast's presser comments from the other day, this is because their safety blanket (Darryl) was removed and they had to buy in to Brents system. They bought into the system, they were then successful. Ergo, the system works. If you believe Feast's presser comments from the other day.
April 15 2011, 08:36AM
@Robert Cleave
You are right. I did screw that up. 9-9-7 is wrong and 7-9-8 is right.
Even so, that's still better than what I thought they were against playoff teams.
Obviously, going .458 against playoff teams for half the season isn't going to cut it for a cap team, because they are golfing right now (somewhere very far south of here).


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Skip to comments.George Carlin attacks gambling in Vegas: Questions intelligence of tourists at MGM Grand
Posted on 12/12/2004 11:28:43 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Comedian George Carlin, 67, known for his shockingly obscene monologues got himself in trouble in Las Vegas recently but not because of his filthy mouth.
In the his last performance at the MGM Grand after four years before 700 paying customers, he reportedly said: "People who go to Las Vegas, you've got to question their f-----g intellect traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of f-----g moronic. That's why what I'm always getting here is these kind of f-----g people with very limited intellects."
But that's not the end of Carlin's performing in Vegas. He is scheduled to open in February at the Stardust Hotel.
A woman shouted, "Stop degrading us." Carlin replied by inviting her, in two words, to perform a sexual act upon him.
He said he was eager to get out of "this (bad word) hotel" and back east "where the real people are."
Carlin has been doing shtick like this for 40 years.
Carlin has suffered three heart attacks and undergone a number of angioplasties in recent years. He has also battled through cocaine addiction, a $3 million debt to the Internal Revenue Service that reportedly took him 15 years to pay off, and in 1997, the death of his wife of 36 years from liver cancer.
His current routine includes jokes about cancer, natural disasters and teen-age suicide.
''Right now somewhere around the world, someone is about to kill himself,'' Carlin declared earlier this month in a show at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island. ''Every 30 seconds there goes another guy.''
After pointing out that suicide was the third-leading cause of death for young men in the United States, Carlin suggested, ''You gals, if you want to be truly equal, you're going to have to start killing yourselves in greater numbers.''
In 1973, his ''Filthy Words'' routine was aired on WBAI in New York City, resulting in an obscenity charge by the Federal Communications Commission against the station, which resulted in a long legal battle that eventually made it to the Supreme Court. The court upheld restrictions on broadcasting obscenities at times when children were likely to be tuned in.
Lemme see if I got this straight -- A guy who is dumb enough to get himself addicted to a street drug and indebted to IRS for millions of dollars is calling other people stupid for dropping a few bucks on an entertaining weekend in Vegas? Did I get that right?
Carlin in very cynical, very liberal, but often also very funny. I tend to cut funny a lot of slack myself.
Anyway, gambling and drugs are both expensive entertainment. At least with gambling the drinks are free.
Carlin stopped being funny about 20 years ago. Think he's been suffering from senility for several years. As recently as the 80's, I thought he was a brilliant and thoroughly entertaining comedian. He's lost it all though. Too bad.
As long as you keep dropping money in that slot machine. Carlin has a point, I usually like casinos for one thing, cheap eats. I let the gamblers subsidize my dinner at them!
Two words? "F--- me?" "F------ me?" How else could he convey such a desire with just two words? It would seem almost necessary for the second word to be "me," which means the first must be a command. Maybe "suck this?" It seems like adding a finger-point would be cheating the two word limit.
Those don't sound at all graceful.
I mean, 3 words is easy to understand, "[verb] my [noun];" the number of constructions are almost limitless. But two words? The man is a master wordsmith, but I don't see how he could have done it.
Like most liberals and drug addicts the older they get the more they go over the deep end. He used to be great when he first started out. His humor was funny and related to true life experiences. But like most old worn out druggies and left wing wacko's they just can't hold it together. Thanks for the information, I won't be buying a ticket to any of his shows in the near future,.... I'll buy myself a drink instead.
If only I had a dime for every time George Carlin has sucked on an imaginary joint during his act.
You hit the nail on the head.
Think Monica.
As in "B--- me".
You aren't actually going to stipulate that he's wrong because he does it too? lol.. One can be a hypocrite and still be accurate. Difference is, if he didn't have some experience in it, he'd be excoriated for being green on the subject. Knowing something about it, he's excoriated for hypocrisy and being a traitor to the cause as it were.. lol. Proves that no matter the manner of greeting, if you walk into a pit of snakes with a camera crew, point, and say "look! Snakes!" the response will be "hissssssss"
Having heard Carlin a lot recently, I imagine the two words were "BL!W ME". It's a very native New York figure of speech. Carlin is a walking contradiction, like many bright individuals: his comedy has been at one and the same time brilliant, cerebral, stupidly vulgar, and personally off-putting, as if he's just pushing the envelope either for its own sake, or just out of personal discomfort. Its the equivalent of Linda Ronstadt turning one of her recent stage shows into a commercial for Michael Moore. The audience came to hear and see one thing, and they're given something else. They have a right to walk out, or yell up at him, like a woman in the audience did. I noticed a sea-change in Carlin starting about ten years ago on one of his HBO specials--a willingness to go farther and farther into making an audience uncomfortable , testing their own flexibility, almost to see if he could get away with it,bend them to his will, and still keep them loyal to him. Unfortunately, nothing that ever came from these forays into Xtreme Comedy ever proved to be very funny.
Hey, man, George was my supplier of imaginary joints for YEARS.
Think he's been suffering from senility for several years.
He blinks real hard; a sign the mind is downshifting gears.
The last time I really paid any attention to Georgie-boy was when he played Flip Wilson's side kick.
Like Atlanic City???
The first word was probably "Blow".
As the libs told us though, that is not a sex act.
So did John Edwards if you watched the VP debate.
"I imagine the two words were "BL!W ME"."
Yes, I'm sure that was what he said.
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"The Lenny Bruce Performance Film" does not catch Lenny as a polished joke teller. He has a frantic delivery of a number of his pieces that he had told countless times better in the past. Need I add that it comes from near the tragic end of his career?
Cheap shot.
Carlin is an arrogant, major-league-CLYMER.
An over rated 60's style humorist, Carlin is often not very funny at all, tending not to know where comedy ends and social commentary begins.
Carlin was funny...once...back in 1967 or so...
Carlin is right. Anyone who bets against Corporate (Casino) or State (Lotteries) odds is f'n stupid, imo.
He Said...." B!ow Me !"
I have seen Carlin three times (twice in Vegas) and his shows seem to follow a pattern. The first 25 minutes or so are side splittingly funny, he is a very funny guy. But, once he starts on his preachy, political "humorist" screed you might as well leave. It sucks.
Why? Teaching someone requires knowledge and or wisdom re the subject. What you're saying is that they've done so much damage you won't listen to them when they're right. That's a problem with you, not them. If Al Gore is right about something, can you admit it, admit it grudgingly or must you call him a liar and hypocrite because of your hatred of him? The central issue in this is not to pick on you, I'm just trying to get you to explore the possibility encapsulated in the notion that one can be at once right and hypocritical. You might also check your definition of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy isn't telling someone not to do something you've done. Hypocrisy is doing something you know to be wrong and then barbq-ing someone else for doing the same. The former is teaching from experience, the latter is duplicity.
I am a huge fan of Carlin... or I was until our last visit to Las Vegas. Plopping down my hard earned cash to spend an evening entertained by one of the funniest men I ever respected, I was horrified by what another poster has already put forth... first twenty five minutes were great but he kept looking in his notebook trying to remember what he was supposed to say... disconcerting but hey, it could be new stuff, enjoy!
The last hour of the show was nothing but ranting and raving about suicides, how we can offer suicides better ways, and all sorts of inane bitching. Nothing profound or insightful as you are used to hearing. Nothing hippy-dippy, nothing that either made you mad or made you pump your first in agreement. Nothing Carlin-ish about it. Just an old man using my hard earned money to fund his berating of society in a non-thoughtful, unproductive, un-funny way.
Needless to say, the opening act got a bigger response than Carlin did. When Carlin ended, you could have heard a cricket chirp. No one laughed, no one applauded... we all just mumbled to ourselves and started to file out. End of story.
So Mr. Carlin, as an educated person who doesn't go to Vegas to give my money away, why does it seem that that is exactly what I did the night I paid to see you non-entertain. Don't blame us. If you're tired of doing this, stop. If you can't stop as you need the money, then don't blame us, do us proud and do us right. I, for one, will not support your businesses anymore and would even go so far as to ask for my $140 back... fat chance eh?
David Rubin
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San Rafael Junior High honors Veterans each year on Veteran's Day. This year all of the Veterans were invited to lunch at the school before the annual program. The program began with a presentation of the American flag by the local Veterans. Tyson Roper led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance. The seventh grade choir sang the Star Spangled Banner. Madelyn Carter student body vice-president welcomed everyone. Ky Horrocks read the presidential proclamation honoring our Veterans.
Some of the students were selected to read their favorite quotes regarding freedom. These readers included: Shelby Allen, Jadceia Allred, Chrishie Burgess, Kayden Davis, Alyssa Garrett, Kaitlyn Gilson, Afton Grindley, Jake Jensen, Levi Jensen, Cheyenne Manzanares, Taijah Price, Thomas Sawyer, Sydney Timothy, Charlie Turner and Shelby Williams.
Madelyn Carter is a member of the Junior American Legion Auxiliary. She spoke to the audience about Veterans. She said the Veterans have given us our greatest gifts. The gift of freedom. They have risked their lives for us and we should thank them.
She said her family had the opportunity to visit the World War II memorial and while there an old man and his wife were there visiting too and Madelyn's mother went up to this man and told him thanks for his service to our country. She talked to the man for awhile. There are 23 million Veterans in our country.
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Importing / Exporting Virtual Disk Images with Virtual Box
By jtb on Jun 06, 2008
Virtual Box is amazing for an open source project. It comes close to VMWare in usability. Where it falls short is importing and exporting images. There's no support in the user interface for this. If you feel comfortable using the command line, you can export and import a disk image. Here's how,
To export:
- Shut down the VM
- Use the "VBoxManager clonevdi ..." CLI to copy the disk image. On my Mac this was at /usr/bin/vboxmanage
To import:
- Register the disk image: File>Virtual Disk Manager>Add
- Create a new VM, and use the disk image you added in step 1
The obvious problem is that the .vdi file is just a disk image. It doesn't capture the virtual machine. You must know the correct parameters to use when you create the VM in the import process or the disk image won't be able to run. It also doesn't capture the state of the virtual machine.
Vbox has a very nice snapshot feature. If one could import / export snapshots it would be perfect.


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|Posted by LonnythePlumber on July 27, 2004 at 23:59:40:
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: I recently replaced parts in the toilet tank on a Crane toilet, circa 1970, including the flush valve w/overflow tube. When water first entered the tank, it leaked from around the outside of the large plastic hex nut on the outside bottom of the tank which secures the flush valve. No amount of hand tightening has helped. I removed the flush valve,cleaned the porcelain around the large hole in the bottom of the tank, and put another rubber gasket on top of the tapered flush valve gasket, which had no effect on the leakage. The flush valve is seated directly on porcelain, which is in good shape around the lip of the hole. What should I try next??
Hand tightening is not tight enough. Usually another turn and a half but it depends. Do not pull the valve off center when tightening. It's hard to identify where this kind of leak originates. It could also be from the tank to bowl bolts or tank to bowl gasket. LonnythePlumber
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Skip to comments.Family of injured Giants fan asks for civility - (LA Dodger game beating)
Posted on 04/05/2011 2:55:54 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
The family of Giants fan Bryan Stow issued a call for civility among rival sports fans and asked people to help catch the two suspects.
At a news conference Tuesday outside County-USC Medical Center, where Stow remains in a coma due to a brain injury he sustained during a beating at the Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day, the family thanked the public for their support and prayers. Stow is a father of two and a paramedic who made a road trip from Santa Cruz to attend the game.
Stow's doctors also updated his condition, noting that even without sedation, he would be in a coma. They described his injuries as a severely fractured skull, which led to damage to both frontal lobes. Doctors removed the left side of his skull to allow his swollen brain to decompress.
"It's going to be a long recovery process," said Dr. Gabriel Zada, a neurologist who is treating Stow.
Bryan Stow's sister, Erin Collins, also thanked the people of Los Angeles for their support. "We know they weren't true Dodger fans," she said of the suspects.
Detectives also said they believe at least 100 people may have witnessed the attack. They and family members asked witnesses to come forward. Det. Jose Carrillo said he believes the two suspects may have assaulted three or four young men before beating Stow. The beating occurred in Parking Lot 2 at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night about 8:30 p.m. after the season opener while Stow was walking toward the taxi area.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to offer a $50,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of the suspects. The total reward is now $100,000.
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The civility train has left the station. Next stop, marxism.
We can only hope and pray someone comes forward.
"We know they weren't true Dodger fans,"
Raider fans?
Very restrained of them; personally, I'd be asking that they be strung up by their n*ts. For a start.
You are correct, I was in LA last week, it has moved into the lowest, most hopeless city I have ever seen, outside of places like Detroit and Oakland.
Downtown is a third-world country and so is 80% of the Valley.
Dodger Stadium is off the 110 Freeway north of downtown and probably has 50% illegal aliens and most young men are in gangs. It's an absolute no-go zone.
In Pasadena last year at the Rose Bowl someone got stabbed by another person just here to work.
The Liberals brought this into the US with a lot of complicit Graham/McCain types, it is killing CA and the nation.
Rodney King's plea has fallen on deaf ears
Sad situation, praying for him and his family.
I don't mean for my following comments to be a smear against all Dodger fans, there are just a few rotten eggs who are spoiling it for many, the Dodger organization included.
As a fan of a rival team that has beaten the Dodgers in the playoffs the past few years, I won't ever attend a Dodger game at Chavez Ravine. Coming on the heels of the events of the past few years. A couple of years ago, a guy was stabbed and now this.
It's unfortunate because I attended a few games in the mid to late '90s and the atmosphere was much different than now. Friendly ribbing and chatting about baseball, then.
Not saying this is reserved solely for the Dodgers, there are problems in stadiums across the country. And until the teams get serious about it and do something, count me out.
I won't endanger mine or my family's life because some thug who has no comprehension of civililty may do the same to one or all of us.
If I managed any sort of public venue, be it Dodger Stadium or a corner market, I'd install inexpensive surveillance cameras — some conspicuously visible, some not — all over the place, sending images cheaply to a remote server. This once would have been prohibitively expensive, but these days it's cheap ... cheaper than higher liability insurance. (Of course, if your venue IS big and lucrative, you'd spring for slightly better cameras, etc.)
I'm thinking of this because, Just Damn, wouldn't it be great to have some nice pictures of these two animals at Dodger Stadium? And of their getaway car, with a good image of its license plate?
Prayers for the poor victim of this senseless attack.
This is bad, and reminds me of the white truck driver beaten by black thugs during the post-Rodney King riots, who suffered permanent brain damage. Finally, some brave citizens stepped in to help him.
In this case, the witnesses did not step in and are not even speaking out afterward. Does this mean they support the Giants fans being beaten? Or anyone who fits a Giants fan "profile?"
Believe me, the racial aspects of this will NOT be discussed publicly in this city.
You may be right about the racial aspects, but consider that "southern" (California) Latino gang members, "Surenos," profess PARTICULAR hatred for Northern California Latino gangsters, "Nortenos." My point is that a Latino Giants fan might have been beaten even more quickly or severely. (Unimaginable ...)
My guess is that the Los Angeles Dodgers have a stronger interest than anyone else in getting this resolved quickly. As someone who has lived in the New York City area for most of my life and grew up as a fan of the Yankees, I can tell you that one or two incidents like this can depress attendance for decades.
Mr. Stow, in fact, has dark hair and a ruddy complexion from pics I saw. Maybe they thought he was a cholo too? But, I don't think we need to get too complex about this. The homies went to Chavez Ravine looking for some "action."
Which pretty much explains why soccer hooliganism is virtually non-existent today in the English Premier League, it's in the lower divisions, with cheaper tickets where it continues to be somewhat of a problem.
I wonder what happened to all the cell phone cameras that seem to pop up whenever something meaningless happens and it is worldwide in minutes.
Not saying he deserved to be injured but I find it hard to believe they just singled him out for no reason at all, above all other fans. I would doubt he wasn't a willing participant in some form and escalating the situation.
Otherwise we'd be seeing this occurring all the time to people that aren't drunk or getting verbal and obnoxious with fans of other teams. generally this doesn't happen to people that aren't getting 'into it' with other people.
This guy takes the cake for the lowest piece of sh!t in the food chain, as far as I'm concerned:
Major League Jerk Charged with Intentionally Vomiting on 11-yr.-old Phillies Fan
The act was totally sick, but there is a moral to this incident: Do NOT wear Giants apparel to Dodger Stadium.
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I wasn't aware that this was actually a specific thing going on in Philadelphia. Thanks for pointing that out.
I have been a Dodger fan for my entire life. But if the Dodgers don't step up and offer to help Stowe out with his medical bills, and figure out someway to make it less risky to attend a game in Chavez Ravine, I will not be a Dodger fan anymore.
The family of Giants fan Bryan Stow issued a call for civilityYup, that's the Santa Cruz mentality alright...Probably had something to do with why he got beat-up.
I dare say vomiting on someone is a hell of alot different than say; stabbing someone [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/man-stabbed-after-dodger-stadium-home-opener.html] or beating the hell out of a fan from an opposing team.
It goes on at almost every venue, I don't believe any team or sport is exempt.
I can tell you stories about incidents at New York Jets games that are unbelievable. I was interested in them as a Giants fan because the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority -- the owner of Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands where both teams play -- would impose restrictions on fans of both teams in response to the nonsense that was pretty commonplace at Jets games back in the 1980s.
One particularly troubling game was a Monday night game back in the late 1980s when the Buffalo Bills were one of the worst teams in the NFL but somehow managed to win a late-season game to knock the Jets out of the playoffs. People watching the nationally televised game were treated to the spectacle of seeing fans in the stands lighting garbage, clothing and souveniers on fire during the fourth quarter. The NFL actually threatened to impose a long-term ban on Monday night home games for the Jets over that one.
Without question, the most civilized fans I've ever met were in Minnesota. It must be something in the water, or maybe it's that culture of civility that the Upper Midwest is known for (I've heard the same thing about Green Bay fans). The Metrodome was one of the first major sports venues in the U.S. to enact a smoking ban (about 20 years ago). At first they were hesitant to do this because they feared even a small bit of controversy, but it turned out that the smoking ban was pretty pointless because nobody was smoking at Vikings or Twins games anyway. LOL.
Back in 1985 when the Blue Jays first made the playoffs they played Kansas City. Fans were wondering what kind of reception they would get but the general consensus was KC was very civilized as far MLB parks went. Not sure about now but that was the lowdown 26 years ago.
As a Phillie fan, I get to wear the millstone of shame of all the "classy" fans that came well before me. I understand that there are classless jerks no matter where one goes. It's a damn shame too, people pay good money for an enjoyable time. No one should have to put up with any of the garbage going on.
The Phillies fan puking on an 11 year old is disgusting and there is no excuse for it.
But what's going on at stadiums around the country and Chavez Ravine in particular are disturbing and go well beyond the pale.
What I found out in looking into this, although 3 years old, it is telling:
Ping to # 26.
I agree, I've often considered NASCAR as an option to take my son to vs. any of the ball related sports. I figure a more "conservative" crowd would be more interested in the race, the cars and the girls instead of acting like a$$es.
No, things have been bad at Dodger's stadium for a long time. A fan of another team was told by a cop he should take his hat off and turn his jacket inside out before he went into the men's room. If he didn't, he might not come out alive.
From the comments I read online from a local paper, the stadium is filled with Hispanic gangbangers. It is not safe to go there.
You need to get out more...Crime in most major cities in the Midwest like St. Louis, make LA look like a church picnic on a spring day..
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"As unfortunate as this situation is, I don't expect too any "snitches" to come forward.."
La Raza sticks together. Anyone who knows the culture knows that the police won't get any help even though plenty of people know who did it.
Dodger Stadium has essentially been turned into an extension of the California prison system.
"The Liberals brought this into the US with a lot of complicit Graham/McCain types, it is killing CA and the nation."
There was plenty of help from Dubya as well.
"My guess is that the Los Angeles Dodgers have a stronger interest than anyone else in getting this resolved quickly."
Then you don't know Frank McCourt, Dodger owner. The Dodgers demonstrated no interest in what happened, and even after the bad publicity began to overwhelm the LA airwaves they haven't done much.
Thus the "Graham/McCain-types" allusion.
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John D'Amico earned a BFA at CalArts in the early 1980s and went on to study business, architecture, and urban design. As a mid-career professional in the architecture and construction industry he returned to CalArts for an MA in Aesthetics and Politics in 2009. Like the NASA Galileo Missions that use the gravity of the inner planets to gain enough velocity for their long trips to the outer planets, John returned to CalArts to help catapult himself into the future. He is now a West Hollywood councilmember.
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Living room with satellite TV and dining-table. Smoking not allowed. Internet (Wireless LAN [WLAN]). 1 double sofa bed.
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Bath-room, hip bath/WC and bidet.
Other equipment: children's high chair, hair dryer, iron. Large, comfortable, cosy apartment house "St.Giles" from the 14th century, renovated in 2005.
House Equipment: lift, central heating system, washing machine (extra).
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Flat very large with plenty of space for several people. In the kitchen everything is from the stove on the microwave to the kettle were available, so that one in between which can make eating itself. Cleanliness is okay, have had cleaner sheets and linens. Location for 1a, directly, so get there fast in the city to all the sights on foot. Small disadvantage in Prague 1 is that there is hardly any parking. All are for local residents and also with car parks, it is very difficult there.
All in all I'd give for this property 8 of 10 points.
Wohnung sehr groß mit viel Platz für mehrere Personen. In der Küche ist vom Herd über die Mikrowelle bis zum Wasserkocher alles vorhanden, so dass man sich auch zwischendurch was zu essen machen kann. Sauberkeit ist okay, hatte schon sauberere Bettlaken und Bettwäsche. Lage dafür 1a, direkt in der City, so dass man zu alles Sehenswürdigkeiten zu Fuß schnell hinkommt. Kleiner Nachteil in Prag 1 ist, dass es kaum Parkplätze gibt. Alle sind für Anwohner und auch mit parkhäusern ist es dort sehr schwierig.
Alles in allem würde ich für diese Unterkunft 8 von 10 Punkte geben.
Unser Apartment war leider genau über einem Wirtshaus und wir durften die ganze Nacht den Gasthofbetrieb mithören. Deshalb überhaupt nicht Kinderfreundlich, wie in der Anzeige beschrieben. Unser Kleiner konnte sehr schlecht bei den Geräuschen bis tief in die Nacht Schlafen.
Positiv ist die zentrale Lage, aber leider keinerlei Parkplatzmöglichkeit.
Wohnung war sehr groß und geräumig und gut ausgestattet. Leider aber nicht sehr sauber. Notdürftig geputzt, Haare vom Vorgänger oder Vorvorgänger vorgefunden.
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nice little house in suburb of sorrento.
well equipped kitchen and cosy living room.
couldn't stay in the huge garden because of too many moskitos.
garden wasn't very clean at all.
the linen package, we extra paid for, was a joke.
The people were very friendly, the studio offered everything you needed, the bed was comfy and the location was good, just 350 m to the beach. You had your own terrace and parking lot, which was great. It is a very quiet location, good to calm down and relax. For two persons it is very big, I was scared, but of course most of people would enjoy that luxury of lots of space. The accommodation definitely is a great choice for that price!
The location of the apartment was great and the size was excellant plus with a private parking space in France unbelievable. Downside was cleaning fee per person when the floors were SO dirty that you wouldn'd want to walk on them without shoes on.
Danielle was very helpful. The house, next to her family's home was very clean and comfortable. The view of the mountains was wonderful. we highly recommend Landhaus Wegscheider to anyone interested in traveling to the Innsbruck area.
Fab apartment, fab views. All amenities on our doorstep, would highly recommend this apartment, will definitely be booking again. (unfortunately there are no English TV channels so bring a book)
Beautiful view of the Zugspitz from a private patio. Pleanty of room for two couples with 2 bedrooms. Beds very comfortable. Clean with friendly service.
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The Clone Wars version was only $10 more and included a Jedi Starfighter and five figures, two of which were new sculpts. I find it interesting that the link calls it a six-pack, since rumors say that it included figures that were taken out to be resold elsewhere.
Still, I guess $100 with free shipping isn't that bad. Thanks for the link!
Anyone notice how the Vintage Collection Amazon Pre-order for the TIE Interceptor says that it comes with seven figures?
Here's the TIE Interceptor. It doesn't come with any figures - I think whoever put these up on Amazon must have been confused by the box art, since there are six figures on the Slave I box and seven on the Interceptor, which are the numbers indicated in the listings. So maybe there weren't originally going to be more figures with the Slave I after all. Either way, Amazon needs to sort it out.
Yeah, thanks Mike for the tip. ;)
I think Amazon will change the titles to remove the multipack counts. I don't think these were ever planned to come with figures, but someone at Amazon saw the box art and got confused.
I preordered this thing when I saw it, not sure if I can justify $100 for it though, that's a lot of scratch for what's at most a $60 vehicle.
To me $50 for the TIE and $100 for Slave 1 is just a bit high. I think $35 for the TIE and $65 for Slave 1 would be fair, but I'm probably just living in the past with that idea. If I recall correctly I paid close to $99 for the AT-AT and that's probably my favorite vehicle. I'm (grudgingly) in for a TIE, but I just can't justify spending $100 on Slave 1 no matter how much I'd like to have it.
Ugh, $100 for a Slave I. Pass.
The actual vintage Slave I is going for about $80 on ebay. lol
rumor from a somewhat reputable source on Rebelscum that said there were going to be figures in the set at one point. This was before it was ever confirmed - publicly, we've always known it was only coming with the carbonite block, but obviously it takes a while to plan these items and things often change.
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Plague is a bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and their fleas. But via those fleas it can sometimes leap to humans. When it does, the outcome can be horrific, making plague outbreaks the most notorious disease episodes in history.
Most infamous of all was the Black Death, a medieval pandemic that swept through Asia and Europe. It reached Europe in the late 1340s, killing an estimated 25 million people. The Black Death lingered on for centuries, particularly in cities. Outbreaks included the Great Plague of London (1665-66), in which one in five residents died.
The first well-documented pandemic was the Plague of Justinian, which began in 541 A.D. Named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, it killed up to 10,000 people a day in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey), according to ancient historians. Modern estimates suggest half of Europe's population was wiped out before the plague disappeared in the 700s.
The cause of plague wasn't discovered until the most recent global outbreak, which started in China in 1855 and didn't officially end until 1959. The first breakthrough came in Hong Kong in 1894 when researchers isolated the rod-shaped bacillus responsible—Yersinia pestis. A few years later, in China, doctors noticed that rats showed very similar plague symptoms to people, and that human victims often had fleabites.
The animal reservoir for plague includes mice, camels, chipmunks, prairie dogs, rabbits, and squirrels, but the most dangerous for humans are rats, especially the urban sort. The disease is usually transmitted by the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis.
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Bubonic plague, the disease's most common form, refers to telltale buboes—painfully swollen lymph nodes—that appear around the groin, armpit, or neck. Septicemic plague, which spreads in the bloodstream, comes either via fleas or from contact with plague-infected body matter. Pneumonic plague, the most infectious type, is an advanced stage of bubonic plague when the disease starts being passed directly, person to person, through airborne droplets coughed from the lungs. If left untreated, bubonic plague kills about 50 percent of those it infects. The other two forms are almost invariably fatal without antibiotics.
Yersinia pestis is extraordinarily virulent, even when compared with closely related bacteria. This is because it's a mutant variety, handicapped both by not being able to survive outside the animals it infects and by an inability to penetrate and hide in its host's body cells. To compensate, Y. pestis needs strength in numbers and the ability to disable its victim's immune system. It does this by injecting toxins into defense cells such as macrophages that are tasked with detecting bacterial infections. Once these cells are knocked out, the bacteria can multiply unhindered.
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Plague still exists in various parts of the world. In 2003, more than 2,100 human cases and 180 deaths were recorded, nearly all of them in Africa. The last reported serious outbreak was in 2006 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, when at least 50 people died. The United States, China, India, Vietnam, and Mongolia are among the other countries that have confirmed human plague cases in recent years.
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