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September 22, 2005, 01:16:46 AM »
So my girlfriend and I have been getting more into board games over the past month, and we're dragging our friends in with us. We get together with a bunch of people a few times a week usually, which is good.
The problem is that I'd like to be able to play games when it's just me and her. Thing is, I'm not a great teacher, since I'm just learning how to teach rules, and she's a terrible student. If there's something she doesn't understand, she gets angry about it, and no amount of explaining makes her understand. Usually, she just has to read it out of the rulebook. Of course, this is magnified since most times, I haven't played the game myself, so my understanding of the rules is very limited as well.
I've tried getting her to read the rules on her own, but she doesn't because she doesn't like to. I've also tried just explaining the very basics, and then starting a game and explaining the rest as we go. What always seems to happen is that we come across a ruling that I have to consult the manual for, and upon clarifying the rule, she gets huffy saying that I should have explained that better and that knowing that would have made her play differently.
What's frustrating is that none of this is a problem when we're playing with other people. I suspect the problem is that she's very competitive, and doesn't want to lose a one on one game to me under any circumstances, but the result is that I'm extremely reluctant to play anything with just her, let alone try a new game with her.
Anyone else run into this? How about any ideas of how to teach rules better?
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i would play pretty crazy games and what i would always do was read the rulebook, go through each section giving the short and abridged yet complete version of what it said (you know what i mean - a rule book can take a full page to explain that to hit something with armor class 8 you must roll your fire value plus the die result better, minus x for cover etc etc etc - when it really takes 2 seconds to explain). dont leave anything out - when youre both learning together its even better because its not like youre trying to "screw her over" with technicalities. if youre the one with a somewhat better idea of the rules because you read them in a non-shorthand form, go first and since its a learning experience for both of you go through what youre doing piece by piece, then do the same on her turn - ie take the first couple of turns together because youll both learn that much better! remember the point of a game is to have fun. if you screw up a rule or arent sure, then either take moves back or ignore the rule for the rest of the game or play the way youve been playing - youll have more fun, and youll be able to play correctly the NEXT time, which is a lot more likely to happen if you both have fun and get it down together. i loved playing mechwarrior dark age, mutant chronicles and a bunch of other - we both had a blast! i WOULDNT recommend axis and allies, as most seem to hate the game
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September 22, 2005, 02:58:24 AM »
I suggest several things. I preface my remarks by saying that I'm sure your girlfriend is a fine humanitarian, frend to all creatures great and small, and a paragon of manners and several other innumerable good traits.
Find a store that allows games to be demonstrated or previewed before purchasing. Try to find the rules online before you buy the game even. You will be able to avoid some disasters that way, and some people just learn better when the gameplay is live and right in front of them.
Allow her some uhmm... rather... all input in which game you purchase, and in the fare for the evening. She might not find the game of the night as appealing as you did, but acquieced to it when she saw how happy or excited getting the game seemed to make you. She might be happy to play Monopoly for the 7.586,574.28 th time. because she is comfrotable with it. Why learn this new game to just kill the three hours of ennui when she already knows the way to Park Place?
I wish I could think of a less demeaning way to say stick to games with simpler rules, but simpler rules need less explination, and it seems it is those moments of explination where she tenses up.
I would find her behavior regarding not reading the rules and then becoming upset when she doesn't understand the rules as perplexing and irrational as you seem to do. I, however, am marrried, and through that, I have learned awhile back that you will see things that are a greater volume and a greater degree more perplexing and irrational, which will appear as you go. Prepare yourself for the notion that perhaps games are just not going to work out sans company to maintain the decorum.
And don't be afriad, either of you, to spend time in hobbies that might not include the other person. Heck, it might one day save both of your sanity to have such harbors while you collect your thoughts and recompose yourself.
If the idea was to find a hobby or activity to do together, there are options beyond books, movies, theater, meals, sports, games, and the usual socitial trappings.
Figure out what the real goal of your efforts truly is, and I bet the problem solves itself.
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The MUSC Hollings Cancer Center is a leading cancer treatment and research center in the Southeast. The Hollings Cancer Center's Comprehensive Breast Care Program is the most advanced in South Carolina. It is the state's only breast center accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centersand also affiliated with a National Cancer Institute cancer center.
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By Michael Aneiro
I wrote a Current Yield column on March 9 called "Gravity Pulling Junk ETFs Lower" about how a quirk of bond math augured long-term price losses for high-yield exchange-traded funds, even as those ETFs (namely the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) kept gaining.
To recap: with the average junk bond price over 105 cents on the dollar, the average bond's yield at that price is less than its coupon. Over time a bond's price gravitates toward par value, or the 100 cents that get repaid at maturity. So each year's yield basically consists of coupon income minus price depreciation. As for how this plays out in ETFs, I quoted Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors: "The price goes down even though the yield on the bond doesn't change. That to me indicates that the net asset values on the high-yield ETFs in particular should drift down."
That hasn't been happening. Like dividend-paying stocks that drop in value after their ex-dividend date, bond ETFs tend to gradually rise in price each month as the coupon payment accrues and then shed those gains when it's paid. Tchir says these price moves have grown distorted, and if you strip out this month-to-month cycle, investors have been propping up the long-term core price of these ETFs at levels that are unsustainable, saying these ETFs "really cannot go much higher because of the portfolio they hold."
Here's this month's tale so far. JNK went ex-dividend on April 1, paying a 21-cent dividend, and its price promptly fell from $41.11 to $40.88. By midday Tuesday, it had recouped half of that loss, when (other things being equal) it should take a half a month to see such a rebound. Same with HYG, which went from $94.34 to $93.77 on a 49-cent dividend, but promptly rose Tuesday to $94.18.
Sure enough, both ETFs have subsequently slipped back toward their more "natural" levels, with JNK most recently at $40.92 and HYG at $93.95. But the underlying pattern echoes what's gone on in recent months, with investors almost too eager to buy on technical dips, propping up long-term prices in the process and preventing any gradual decline. Tchir calls all of this "an inexplicable but tradeable phenomenon." Certainly one worth keeping an eye on.


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It's all over for New Zealand's Ben Townley. For a brief time, the only noise that could be heard at the national motocross championship finale in Taupo over Easter Weekend was that of a spanner dropping back into its toolbox.
A stunned silence fell over the venue as the circuit commentator interviewed Kiwi sports hero Townley ... the 28-year-old former world and New Zealand champion was announcing his sudden, shock retirement from the sport.
After a glittering 12-year international career that began in 2001 and yielded an MX2 Motocross World Championship title in 2004, a Supercross Lites East Coast title in the USA in 2007, back-to-back title wins at the NZ Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville in 2012 and 2013 and the national MX1 title last season, the Bay of Plenty rider stunned the large crowd at his hometown track with the revelation that he was retiring from full-time racing, that decision effective immediately.
Following the latest in a series of injuries that have frustrated Townley and caused the stop-start nature of his career, Townley decided "enough was enough".
"I've only smacked my head once previous to this latest spill, but it made me re-evaluate things. I believe concussion is taken too lightly in this sport anyway. But, with so many injuries, I was just sick and tired of the direction my career was taking. I told my Carlton Dry Honda team that I can't deliver the championships I promised them while I'm injured and, after this last fall, I realised I needed to take time off to fully recover.
"I left school when I was 16 and have been racing a long time now. It was a very hard decision to make and I have thought long and hard about it this week. I think it is the right decision," he said.
"Honda in New Zealand and Australia have been excellent and I'd love to continue my relationship with them. But, as to where I go from here ... I'm not going anywhere fast, to be honest. I want to do something completely different with my life now, with my wife and our two boys."
Townley's remarkable journey began when the then-16-year-old left Taupo in 2001 to take on the world in the fiery motocross cauldron of Europe. He spent the next five years there, winning the MX2 (250cc) world title in 2004 then finishing third in his debut season in the MX1 class in 2005.
Soon afterwards he shifted to the United States and, in 2007, stunned the world's best supercross racers when he won the East Coast Lites (MX2) title and finished an agonisingly close runner-up in the American MX2 motocross championships that same season.
"While I am retiring from full-time competition, I will still ride and race at selected events. One thing I have never done, which I'd like to try, is racing the annual Tarawera 100 (cross-country endurance race, near Kawerau). Perhaps I'll race that.
"Although I am retiring from full-time competition, I am not walking away from the sport. I love motocross and understand and accept that we can get injured. I am only 28 years old and I believe I still have a lot I can give the sport."


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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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I've been doing all of my pike fishing with 9s and 10s as well. As pike fly lines tend to have very short heads, you can often go up a line size without overloading the rod. Though I'm mostly using a 9 wt. rod, I'm nearly always throwing a 10 wt. line, in the process, getting the best of both worlds.
There are a number of relatively cheap, 9 wt. pack rods on the market (I have the six piece Cortland CL 8/9) that will do a decent job as a pike rod and store well in the canoe. On my first trip with the Cortland, I tossed a 10 wt. pike line exclusively for over two days and I found it stood up well, even when a big bruiser took a sudden dive by the boat and bent it deeply. Should've broke but it didn't.
|I was actually going to remark similarly to Mark and French Creek: 9-weight is really about the best rod weight to go with when chasing pike. You just never know when you're going to drift into the territory of some monster, and when he breaks you off or you can't effectively release him because you were using a rod without enough strength it will be quite upsetting.
It's about being able to release quickly!
I agree with FlyFishA. That's why I use a 9 Wt. I can enjoy the fight and still release the fish without exausting them. Pike may be big and look fearsome but they will exaust themselves as fast as any other fish.
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My pike fishing is done with 8, 9, or 10 weight rods, depending on the size of the flies being used, the amount of cover, and the size of the fish that I can expect to encounter.
FWIW, most of it is done with the 9 weight.
If you're worried about tiring yourself out, go to an 8'6" 8wt. or 9wt. The shorter rod does make a big difference over the course of a day. They're hard to find. T&T had a Vector saltwater series in 8'6" but they've been discontinued.
The shorter rod is also better to use out of a boat and has more leverage on big fish.
|It's not really a case of tiring yourself out by tossing streamers with a 7-weight, it's more a case of using a rod with enough backbone to subdue the fish prior to over-tiring it. When I was younger we used to trek up to Muskegon (Michigan) every couple of years to fish, and most of the pike that came out of those waters were far too large for a 7-weight to handle in any respectable amount of time. For those waters, an 8-weight would seem to be a much better rod for pike, as there's enough of a difference between the two sizes to enable faster landing and release. Additionally, the 8-weight will allow you to toss heavier lines and flies, and pike family members are always ready to nail something that looks massive. So the questions becomes, "How large are the average pike you expect to hook in to?".
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Hey guys, I'm getting ready to build a new fly rod for northern pike as I plan on traveling by canoe in the boundry waters this summer. Do you think I can get by with a 7 weight if I limit the size of the streamers I use or do I have to move up to an 8wt if I don't want to wear myself out. Mind you we have to travel light up there and there won't be a second rod. The reason I lean toward the 7 wt is it will get a lot more use around home than the 8 wt. Thanks for your input
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Serves 8 to 10
The soft grilled leaves of bitter radicchio respond well to the sticky-sweet acidity of good balsamic vinegar. It fills the mouth with bitter sweetness, a well-matched foil to grill-roasted leg of lamb. And the bacon makes it all better, because that's the great culinary virtue of smoky, fatty cured pork.
Preheat the grill to medium-low.
Whisk all the ingredients together in a small bowl.
Put the radicchio in a large bowl and drizzle with just enough vinaigrette to coat lightly, tossing gently.
Lay a slice of bacon on a work surface and wrap a radicchio quarter tightly in the bacon, starting from the bottom end and continuing to just shy of 1/4-in. from the top. Repeat with the remaining bacon and radicchio.
Put the radicchio quarters on the oiled clean grill grate and cook until crispy and golden on the first side, about 2 minutes. Turn and cook until crisp and golden on the second side, about 2 minutes, then turn and cook until crisp and golden on the third side.
Transfer the radicchio to a platter. Drizzle with the balsamic vinegar and olive oil, sprinkle with the chopped chives, and serve.
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I'm rather surprised that nobody hasn't started a thread about this already. E 7 will be 30 years after Jedi, 3 young new leads along with some familiar faces and filming will start this summer.
I'm rather surprised that nobody hasn't started a thread about this already. E 7 will be 30 years after Jedi, 3 young new leads along with some familiar faces and filming will start this summer.
Very interesting to hear....I would have loved to get a movie with Grand Admiral Thrawn.
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Looks like they put Carrie Fisher under the knife for this movie.
I am quite disappointed that they've just decided to reboot the plot of Grownups for SW. The children of Rebels and Imperials return to Yavin, Hoth, Endor, Tatooine to "settle the score, once and for all." Hilarity ensues.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Based on Luke / Leia being 19 in ANH, and Han being 29.... or Luke / Leia being 23 in ROTJ, Han being 33....
30 years after ROTJ
Luke / Leia will be 53 yrs old, Han 63.
Jaina Solo if in the film should be 25, if some EU like HTTE (Thrawn) is upheld. (Leia is 28 when she delivers twins)
Ben Skywalker would be 15 then.++
Allanah Solo, if existent, would be 1 year old.* Jacen Solo could still be alive before he turns to the Dark Side. Tenel Ka could be his girl, Allanah's mom.
Mara Jade could be alive but 52 years old. Rumors going around is that she is Ben Skywalker's mom. Doesn't mean she won't already be dead at this point in the timeline. (She is either 1 year younger, or 1 year older than Luke)
**In the EU, Luke marries Mara (Union - Dark Horse Comics) right before Jaina and Jacen start at Yavin IV's Jedi Academy when they are about 14-15. (Old Republic Jedi's were taken as padawans by aspiring masers when they were 13 - like when Qui-Gon took Obi-Wan).
* Dark Horse has ran with the successful Legacy series with ANIA Solo, who cannot be Jaina's descendent since her last name is Fel (married Soontir Fel's son Jagged).
ANIA Solo, must be descended from Jacen's orphan daughter Allanah Solo (raised by Han and Leia).'
Carrie Fisher suggested she'd be a grandparent in the movie, but she could have been joking. Still if Leia is 53, she might be a grandparent. If her kids started having kids 3 years earlier than she did.
++ Jesse Plemons is 28 years old.
Luke would have to have fathered Ben Skywalker when he was 25 years old.
Maybe Mara Jade will not be Ben's mother as rumored (regardless of whether they throw out most of the EU).
In the current EU, Luke doesn't marry until he's 38 years old, I believe.
STAR WARS WITH EVEN 6 (six) movies is boring. It's hard to watch the OT for me and the PT is getting old now, too. I think ROTS is the most watchable out of all 6, though I recently REALLY enjoyed ROTJ and love the Jabba and Endor sequences.
The books and comics, and that there was an organized continuity, kept SW alive for me or I would have DUMPED IT. BORED TO DEATH from it.
And it would have been meaningless like most Star Trek books became for me, if "this or that didn't really happen," and in one book Luke married Callista and in another, Mara.
Yes, there were bad books / ideas in there. Overall, the continuity combined to mean something - at least to me. And I find fault with people who want to take that away from me because they chose not to keep up with the EU for various reasons.
It WOULD be taken away from me if the films contradict the EU totally. Minor discrepancies in the Clone Wars and that Han married Leia in either "The Courtship of Princess Leia" or "The Glove of Darth Vader" junior reader series, doesn't change that Han married Leia instead of Jenny or Jessie, etc.
There are ways to do the new movies WIHOUT negating the EU.
OMISSIONS are not negations. If Luke had a wife named Mara who is dead by the new movie time, and his son is named Ben.
If Han has a daughter named Jaina - and maybe they don't mention whether she EVER had a twin brother.
Maybe Hasbro's not supposed to make any more figures of these characters right now because they don't know who the actors are who will soon forever define their look from now on.
Will Jennifer Lawrence be Jaina? Or will Chloe Moretz? Well, they'll sort of look different. But not too much at the 3 3/4" scale. But maybe all Jedi wear green Jedi robes like Corran Horn in the future and that hasn't been decided yet, so Disney doesn't want Hasbro to make an incorrect figure of Jaina - or flood the market with her character by putting out the X-wing and Jedi apprentice versions of her right now?
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news post about it the day it broke. JJB, the article you posted takes a lot of rumors as fact – we've heard nothing official about C-3PO or Chewbacca, and Adam Driver isn't confirmed – and the full crew was already confirmed on StarWars.com.
The timeline is something we all should've assumed – with strong hints (but remember, no official confirmation) that Mark, Carrie, and Harrison are going to be in the film, it makes sense that the same amount of time would have passed in the real world as in the SW galaxy. It's cool that there will be three "young" leads, as that follows the pattern of both the OT and the PT – so again, not exactly surprising news. And the other bit of news from the official article – that filming will start in May –*was already mentioned by JJ a while back. So while this all does technically qualify as "news," it'll be far more exciting when we get some new news.
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I hope Chewie will not be in it.
He was my first favorite SW character, and he will definitely be back for the Young Han Solo movie (between E3 and E4) - with a young Lando (the black male actor they are looking for) and surely Boba Fett (Danny Logan? I'd support that).
But we'll have more Chewie, just not in 7-9.
The NJO EU could still stand if Chewie wasn't dead. Lowbacca could fill in as a Wookiee for Han to play off of. That's Chewie's nephew and a Jedi for those who don't know. Han Solo would just love that (sarcasm).
Less time in the film timeline has passed than in real time, actually - TAC was 2007, right? 4 years after ANH would be ROTJ, and that would be 2011. Because of production time, ROTJ's 30th was 2013 (when Hasbro should have delivered us a sailbarge!!!)
And the actors are all playing their characters YOUNGER than their actual ages, which was always the case except for Carrie Fisher.
Harrison is something like 70+ and Han Solo would be 63. You can't really tell with people that age anyway. They all see increases on their health insurance premiums.
Adam Driver as the villain? He looks like a young Tarkin to me, actually. They could make him an alien, like a Chiss (Thrawn's species) too.
But his casting might not be for 2015's Ep. 7 but rather for a 'tween movie - maybe even as Tarkin?! He'd make a cool non-Force wielding Imperial.
With that movie coming in 2016 supposedly, Disney can create all kinds of casting rumors. For example, if Ewan, Hayden, Natalie, and Ian McDiarmid, plus Danny Logan come back for any movie, it might not be Ep.7.
So the Emperor is returning, might be true, technically, except that his return is to the movies, not the timeline post-ROTJ when he dies (or even his clone, Dark Empire, which is 6 years after ROTJ - while the movie is 30 years after).
I think Padme should have survived ROTS only to be killed (tragically) by Vader, later (without his knowledge that he finally did kill Padme since he wouldn't consciously do that). Then Leia could remember her mother. A tween-movie set after ROTS.
I hope Ewan McGreggor is in every Star Wars movie made now (that Obi-Wan could have a role in - tweenies and as a ghost in the sequels made up to look more like Alec Guiness since he does look like a younger version anyway - and Ewan was the best actor in the prequels - with Ian McDiarmid).
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By Ginna Parsons/NEMS Daily Journal
Like many of you, my family has started 2013 on a healthier note. Since Jan. 2, we've been upping our consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, shunning red meat and fatty pork (at least for now), and trying to make it to the gym regularly for 30 minutes of exercise.
So far, so good. Having my husband on board makes the going a whole lot easier. Daughter Mary, home still from Ole Miss, is always game to eat well. And son Patrick, bless his heart, had all four wisdom teeth removed last week, so he's mainly consuming chicken soup and Jell-O.
Over the course of a week, we've dined on chicken piccata, grilled tilapia, barbecued chicken pizza, gourmet Caesar salads and cheese-stuffed ravioli.
One night last week, Charlie sent me a recipe from work for a pan-seared salmon dish with green beans. I was already thinking about preparing salmon for dinner, so his email was welcomed.
When I got home to cook that evening, I asked him if he wanted me to roast the salmon or if he wanted to grill it. He said neither – the recipe called for pan searing it. I protested that I had never pan-seared salmon and he was going to be really sorry if I wasted $12 worth of fresh salmon, but he said he had every confidence in me.
I don't know if I'll ever roast or grill salmon again. It was that good. And pretty, too. Even without the glaze it was delicious. But the glaze does fancy it up a bit.
Pan Seared Salmon with Citrus Vinegar Glaze and Green Beans
4 (6-ounce) portions salmon fillets
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
1⁄2 cup dry white wine
1⁄2 cup balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 pound green beans, trimmed
Orange slices or lemon rind
Preheat a cast iron pan or heavy bottomed skillet over medium high heat. Brush the salmon fillets with oil. Season with salt and pepper. Cook salmon until just cooked through, about 3 minutes on each side.
While salmon cooks, bring wine, vinegar, citrus juices and brown sugar to a boil over high heat. Reduce glaze 3 or 4 minutes, until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in 1⁄2 teaspoon coarse black pepper.
In a second skillet, bring 1⁄2-inch water to a boil with green beans and pieces of orange and/or lemon rind. Cover the green beans and cook 3 or 4 minutes. Drain the beans and toss with a drizzle of oil (optional) and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle glaze over salmon fillets and serve with citrus green beans.
Serves 4.
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Been getting it randomly time to time. Not sure if it is just 'random' or something is up with it. Seems to happen more on garrosh and nazgrim.
Anyway, tanking casually on 14/14 H farm , pulled first boss and I got 370k vengeance on second white attack (?) . Then it kept dropping obviously and had around 200 k with 6-7 stacks and boss hitting me , pretty normal. But wtf is that random spike ? Happened on nazgrim 2 weeks ago also, had around 500k vengeance spike after first white hit after execute during berserker stance. Also happened on garrosh this week on pull , had around 450k on 3rd melee hit.
Are the bosses actually using crushing blow or is it totally random? And no, I am not sitting to get crit in my face or some other retarded shit like that.


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What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?
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|October 13, 2008
|Running time:
|21 minutes, 51 seconds
|Ray Liotta as Trevor
|Casey Alexander
Zeus Cervas
Steven Banks
|Supervising Producer:
|Paul Tibbitt
|Casey Alexander
Zeus Cervas
|Alan Smart
Tom Yasumi
|Vincent Waller
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|"The Battle of Bikini Bottom"
|"The Two Faces of Squidward"
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"What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season five. In this episode, SpongeBob develops amnesia and goes missing.
- Gary the Snail
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Norton
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Patrick Star
- Margie Star (mentioned)
- Sandy Cheeks
- Sandy's Robot (debut)
- Mr. Dollar (debut)
- Mrs. Dollar (debut)
- Wild Crab (debut)
- Sound Effect Fishes (debut)
- Harold "Bill" Reginald
- Jennifer Millie
- Dale
- Dave
- Monroe Timmy
- Perch Perkins
- Martin
- Tyler
- Purple construction worker
- Bob
- Abigail Marge
- Frankie Billy
- Fred
- Ivy
- Jimmy Gus
- Nazz-Mimi
- Sandals
- Old Man Jenkins
- Anchovy
- Nathiel Waters
- Nat Peterson
- Nancy Suzy Fish
- Norma Rechid
- Lisa
- Construction Foreman
- Orange Customer
- The Bubble Poppin' Boys (debut)
- Male Judge
- Brad
- Near Mint Comic Books Cashier
- Mayor
- Shubie
- Unnamed band
- Archie
- Photographer
- Frank
- Henry-Bart
- Orange Fish
- Green Shopper
- Female Judge
- Nurse
- One of Jim's Bodyguards
- Martha Smith (gray)
- Ballerina Whale
- Other New Kelpers
SpongeBob wakes up on a normal day, as usual. He looks out his window and sees the mailman riding by on his bike. He says "Hi" to the mailman. This causes the mailman to get distracted and a truck crashes into him. After that, SpongeBob wants to spend time with his friends; however, he ends up upsetting them: He accidentally breaks Gary's shell, crushes Patrick's cake, disturbs Squidward's beauty sleep, destroys Sandy's robot, and deep fries Mr. Krabs' money (and himself). SpongeBob decides to leave Bikini Bottom, as all his friends hate him (and cruelly call him "idiot boy"). As he leaves, he is scared by mysterious figures in the shadows. While he runs from the creatures, he falls off a cliff and bumps his head, and he gets a lump, and then his bundle hits him on his head knocking him unconscious. Back in Bikini Bottom, Patrick, who want to borrow some sauce for his milkshake, and Sandy find Gary who is huge and overweight and a note from SpongeBob, explaining that he has run away. They go to Mr. Krabs and Squidward who confirms that SpongeBob wrote this. Everybody is upset and guilty that SpongeBob is gone, with the obvious exception of Squidward, who is delighted.Meanwhile, SpongeBob wakes up with amnesia. A couple of fish give him a new name, "CheeseHead BrownPants," so that they can steal his possessions and take advantage of his amnesia. All SpongeBob has left is a bottle of bubble soap. He wanders around until he ends up in New Kelp City where he attempts to get a job. Each time he gets a job he uses his bubble blowing ability to help him, but this strikes fear into all the residents of the city. This activity attracts the attention of the Bubble Poppin' Boys and their leader, Trevor, who have scared the city into never blowing bubbles ever again. SpongeBob uses his ability to get rid of the gang and is rewarded by getting the position of mayor of New Kelp City.
Back in Bikini Bottom, Mr. Krabs is hoping for the return of SpongeBob so he can prepare his station, while Patrick and Sandy want their friend back. Squidward didn't know until Mr. Krabs offers him a reward of a Fabergé egg. He chooses his love of art over his hatred of SpongeBob and the trio see a newspaper stand showing news of SpongeBob's position as mayor, but when they go to New Kelp City to retrieve him behind Squidward's back, he can't remember them. They then manage to kidnap SpongeBob and return him to The Krusty Krab, but he wants to return to New Kelp City. Squidward, who didn't know again if SpongeBob stays or not slips on a greasy spatula and accidentally throws his egg onto SpongeBob's head. The impact gives SpongeBob his memory back, and Mr. Krabs, Sandy, and Patrick apologize for running him out of town. But even so, SpongeBob still wants to return to his position as mayor, because he feels bubble blowing needs to be commonplace in New Kelp City society. At that moment a news report comes on the TV saying that the bubbles in New Kelp City are causing mayhem, and he is being threatened by a thug. Upon hearing this, SpongeBob has second thoughts about going back to New Kelp City and decides to stay in Bikini Bottom till he's dead. And then finally, Squidward opens his head and he throws his brain in a trash bin.
|( ‣ ) Associated production music
|( • ) Original music
|( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
‣ Open and End Fanfare - Nino Nardini ["Ahoy, it's a SpongeBob SquarePants special!"]
‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Ahoy, it's a SpongeBob SquarePants special!"]
‣ Bubble Poppin' Boys - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [title card]
‣ Marching to Honolulu - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob wakes up]
‣ Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney [mailman hit by a truck]
‣ Dancing the Hula - Kapono Beamer ["Isn't life great, Gary?"]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Squidward wakes up]
‣ Dancing the Hula - Kapono Beamer ["...the best job..."]
‣ Sailor's Sting 3 - "He's already ten seconds late!"
‣ Dancing the Hula - Kapono Beamer ["...and of course, the bestest pet!"]
‣ Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"]
‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [Patrick's cake ruined]
‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Ooh."]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch ["Don't you ever wake me from my beauty sleep!"]
‣ ? [Sandy working on an invention]
‣ Fanfare (b) - Nicolas Carr [pan of robot]
‣ Crescendo Fin 10 A - Marcin Pospieszalski [robot's eyes light up]
‣ Exotic Sting - Nicolas Carr [robot dances]
‣ Dramatic Impact 5 - Ivor Slaney [SpongeBob spills water on the robot]
‣ Steel Licks (d) - Jeremy Wakefield [robot explodes]
‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [at the Krusty Krab]
‣ Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob crashes into pots, pans]
‣ The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White [Krabs in his office]
‣ From the Dead - Ronald Hanmer [Krabs falls into grease fryer]
‣ Drama Sting 1 - money fried
‣ Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob kicked out]
‣ Pua Paoakalani (b) - Kapono Beamer, Queen Lili'uokalani [SpongeBob's sad]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob leaves town]
‣ Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob hears something]
‣ Someone Coming - Raymond C. Jones [people making weird noises]
‣ Editor's Run Down (b) - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob falling off cliff]
‣ Editor's Run Down (a) - Dick Stephen Walter [SpongeBob falling off cliff]
‣ Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob's hit on the head]
‣ Closing the Door - Nicolas Carr [back at home...]
‣ Seaweed - Steve Belfer [Patrick knocking on SpongeBob's door]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford ["We ain't got time for that!"]
‣ Drama Link (b) - Hubert Clifford [Gary's huge]
‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [note from SpongeBob]
‣ O Makalapua (b) - Kapono Beamer [Sandy reads it]
‣ Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland [SpongeBob wakes up with amnesia]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford ["Bubbles?!"]
‣ Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [breaking news]
‣ West Side Rumble - Sam Spence ["Bikini Bottom is in a state of total chaos tonight."]
‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band ["Where the barnacles is SpongeBob?!"]
‣ Murder in Mind [#46] - Ronald Hanmer [Sandy and Patrick enter]
‣ Fates - Gregor F. Narholz [everyone's sad that SpongeBob's gone]
‣ What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor - Okko Bekker [group meeting]
‣ Bizarre Swing - John Cacavas [SpongeBob in New Kelp City]
‣ Surrender 6 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["I'm a jobless deadbeat?"]
‣ Surrender 8 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [SpongeBob getting hungry]
‣ Steel Licks (b) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Not a penny to my name."]
‣ ? - Nicolas Carr [Help Wanted sign at a bank]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford ["What do you think you're doing?!"]
‣ Steel Link (b) - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob kicked out]
‣ Skyscraper City - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob as a construction worker]
‣ Joe Cool - Nino Nardini ["I do not understand this!"]
‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [Sandy's sponge-tracking device]
‣ The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["Oh, you're saying this thing can actually find SpongeBob?"]
‣ Steel Sting (b) - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward destroys it]
‣ Goofy Conversation - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Krabs yells at Squidward]
‣ Angelic Choir - Jim Rattigan [Faberge egg]
‣ Tympup (c) - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Not so fast."]
‣ Joe Cool - Nino Nardini [SpongeBob wandering through the city]
‣ Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["We're just waiting in line for a new video game."]
‣ Dramatic Cue (a) - Ronald Hanmer ["You can't do that here!"]
‣ Harp Gliss 1 - Otto Sieben [SpongeBob blows a bubble]
‣ Dramatic Cue (b) - Ronald Hanmer [everyone runs away]
‣ Bubble Poppin' Boys - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Bubble Poppin' Boys introduced]
‣ Hit and Run - Sam Spence [they chase SpongeBob]
‣ Chase That Car - Laurie Johnson [SpongeBob falls]
‣ Hit and Run - Sam Spence [SpongeBob traps BPBs inside a bubble]
‣ Champions March [#7] - Harry Bluestone ["Do you realize what you've done?"]
‣ Movie Overture - Larry Hochman [SpongeBob appointed mayor]
‣ Patchy's Parched Blues - Nicolas Carr [Sandy, Patrick and Squidward looking for SpongeBob]
‣ Gator - Steve Belfer ["Oh, I knew I'd find you, buddy!"]
‣ Dramatic Impact 2 - Ivor Slaney ["SpongeBob's mayor of New Kelp City!"]
‣ Hail to the Chief (a) - Will Shaefer [SpongeBob's speech]
‣ Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["It's me, Sandy!"]
‣ Fight for Ol'Schaefer U. - Will Schaefer [SpongeBob and Patrick's tattoo]
‣ Hail to the Chief (a) - Will Shaefer ["I'm late for a meeting."]
‣ Sponge Monger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward driving the limousine]
‣ The Tip Top Polka/The Cliff Polka - Chelmsford Folk Band [at the Krusty Krab]
‣ Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield ["I'll just go back to my modest job as mayor of a major city."]
‣ Steel Licks - Jeremy Wakefield ["SpongeBob's leaving for real this time!"]
‣ Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - George Frideric Handel [Krabs gives Squidward the Faberge egg]
‣ Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Squidward slips]
‣ House of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [egg hits SpongeBob on the head]
‣ Botany Bay (b) - Robert Alexander White ["We're really sorry we ran you out of town."]
‣ Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [KNKC Special Report]
‣ Wahini Wobble - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]
- As of January 17, 2017, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 7.0/10 based on 170 ratings by users.[1] TV.com users give this episode a 7.3/10 based on 159 votes.[2]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob's WhoBob WhatPants?, Season 5 Volume 2, Complete Fifth Season, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
- Rather than the usual traditional SpongeBob theme playing at the beginning of the episode, instead the "SpongeBob SquarePants" parts have been altered to say: "WhoBob WhatPants."
- This is the second episode to have an alternate opening sequence. The first one is "Christmas Who?," the third one is "Truth or Square," and the fourth is "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!"
- This episode was advertised as "WhoBob WhatPants?"
- The DVD also uses this name.
- This is the second episode with a full character displayed on the title card. The first was Plankton and Mr. Krabs on the "Friend or Foe" title card.
- The title card has two quotations on the title. The episode itself doesn't have those quotations.
- This is the only episode longer than 22 minutes to be dubbed and broadcast in Welsh. However, it is split up into two parts.[3]
- Sandy appeared to be either MIG or TIG welding. However, she had no protective clothes on except for her head shield (especially dangerous as she is covered in fur), and her gloves appeared to be rubber instead of rawhide.
- When Squidward destroys the Sponge-Tracker, Mr. Krabs' nose swells up and explodes with a jet of water. Real-life crabs can do this, but instead, they squirt water from their eyes.
- This is the first time SpongeBob tries to get a job at a bank and a construction site. The second time will be in "Model Sponge."
- In "Texas," Sandy uses a handle to flush her tears out of her helmet. However, in this episode, she isn't seen using it.
- The reason why Sandy didn't use the handle is because she was too upset to see SpongeBob leave forever.
- Here are the things that SpongeBob did to get called "Idiot Boy:"
- He accidentally destroyed Patrick's mom's birthday cake.
- He disturbed Squidward's beauty sleep.
- He tripped over and splashed water on Sandy's robot, thus destroying it.
- He accidentally knocked Mr. Krabs' money into the fryer.
- This is the second time SpongeBob is mistaken for cheese. The first time was in Nicktoons Unite! when Timmy Turner first meets SpongeBob.
- In "New Digs," SpongeBob was one minute late and Mr. Krabs was okay with this. In this episode, he is not okay with SpongeBob being ten seconds late. He however, did say "don't do it again!"
- Bikini Bottom's population is revealed to have been 538 (SpongeBob crosses out the "8" before leaving, so the population was 537 for the duration of the episode).
- The mayor of New Kelp City was seen in the episodes: "Doing Time," "The Great Snail Race," and "Drive Thru." He has seen again in the episode "Safe Deposit Krabs" where he is at the grand opening of the Bank of Bikini Bottom Bank.
- Ray Liotta has been a voice actor three times: the first time as, Tommy Vercetti, the protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; the second time as the lead Bubble Poppin' Boy in this episode; and the third time as himself in the 2007 animated film Bee Movie.
- This episode, along with "Are You Happy Now?," "Can You Spare a Dime?," "Christmas Who?," "Have You Seen This Snail?," "Hide and Then What Happens?," "What's Eating Patrick?," and "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?" are the only episodes to end in a question mark.
- This is the first time SpongeBob appeared on a title card. SpongeBob will next appear on the title card as a drawing in "Oral Report", as a cutout in "Restraining SpongeBob" and in a close-up view in "InSPONGEiac."
- According to Patrick when Sandy was asking him where was SpongeBob, he said that he has been knocking on SpongeBob's door for 3 hours.
- While walking in New Kelp City, SpongeBob asks a random fish, "Is there something wrong with me?" After that, a hideous face of SpongeBob is shown, which has become an internet meme around YouTube. The fish is also the one who ordered the Monster Krabby Patty from the episode "All That Glitters."
- Nat is shown in Bikini Bottom and in New Kelp City.
- The handcrafted jewel encrusted ornamental egg was presumably a fake as jewels and diamonds are extremely hard and wouldn't break easily upon hitting somebody's head.
- Mr. Krabs reads SpongeBob's note without an eyesight problem, but in "Greasy Buffoons," he reads with glasses.
- Most of the citizens of New Kelp City are citizens of Bikini Bottom.
- Squidward's hatred for SpongeBob is clearly demonstrated in this episode, as he attempts to sabotage the search efforts, to the point where Mr. Krabs has to bribe him.
- This is the first time the "hallelujah" theme plays. The second was in "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation."
- Coincidentally, when this theme plays, both times it involves Squidward (first when Mr. Krabs closes the Krusty Krab to go on vacation and second when Squidward receives the jade egg).
- This is the second time that SpongeBob is homeless. The first time was "Home Sweet Pineapple."
- This is the second time Sandy said Mr. Krabs' name. The first time was "Karate Choppers."
- This episode premiered two years after "Bummer Vacation" premiered.
- All of the main characters appear in this episode except Sheldon J. Plankton.
- This is the only time SpongeBob is called "Idiot Boy."
- This is the first time Mr. Krabs gets deep fried golden brown. He would later get deep fried golden brown again in "Mermaid Pants".
- This episode takes place before "Sing a Song of Patrick" as all the members of the Unnamed band appear in this episode.
- This is Ivy's 50th episode appearance.
Deleted Scenes
- After Patrick says "Just a cake for my mom that I spent all day making, as he walks back into his rock, He turns around and looks back at SpongeBob and says "I'm gonna go back and make a 2nd birthday cake that my mother will like!"
- After Sandy's robot breaks, Sandy shows SpongeBob it's broken head.
- During the scene when the creepy people are scaring SpongeBob, a Scallop is shown crowing
- After SpongeBob says "Ooh, boy! That's quite a lump!" Then he says "I better not hit my head again. That might cause a concussion."
- After all the people run away from the bubble SpongeBob blew, he says "What could possibly be wrong with practicing the bubble arts? Seems like a harmless activity."
- During SpongeBob's speech, he says "I can't say that I blame you."
Cultural references
- The Bubble Poppin' Boys are a parody of The Burger Palace Boys in the original musical film Grease.
- The title of the episode may be a parody of the novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell, complete with the words "what" and "ever" being separate from each other.
- This episode's title may be also a reference to an old Cartoon Network short series Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?.
- After SpongeBob wakes up, the two hobos taking his clothes are similar to the two men in A Christmas Carol, and could be a parody of them.
- New Kelp City is a parody of New York City.
- Mr. and Mrs. Dollar could possibly be a spoof of Jack and Rose from the movie Titanic.
- In the first shot of Sandy, Patrick, and Squidward in the crowd in New Kelp City, there is a fish that has a similar outfit to Pee-wee Herman.
- There was a hole in the top of SpongeBob's water helmet; however, when he went back out into the water outside the treedome, you could still see the top of the water in his helmet despite the fact there was a hole in the top of the helmet.
- When Squidward says "You mean this can actually find SpongeBob?" his voice is out of sync with the animation.
- When SpongeBob puts his pants on, his shoes are put automatically on.
- When "Mr. Dollar and Mrs. Dollar" are in the grease, instead of sinking in and never coming back out, they crust and singe. This may have just been Mr. Krabs fantasizing, though.
- When the builder hides behind a pile of metal, a lot less of him shows than how tall he is, and the fish don't have knees.
- When the line of people are afraid of the bubble, it would have either floated upward or popped before it got to the front of the line.
- In a scene where Sandy pounced the door, Patrick landed on his milkshake, but his milkshake was intact, which is physically impossible unless it went up to his mouth.
- When Squidward is shown driving SpongeBob's limo, the front flag is missing.
- When Mr. Krabs kicked SpongeBob out of the Krusty Krab, he landed on the opposite of the Krusty Krab. However, that is where the Chum Bucket is supposed to be.
- After his bubble boat popped, it showed that SpongeBob was about to fall onto the sidewalk, but he landed on the street.
- Comcast claims this is season 6, episode 11.
External links
- What Ever Happened to SpongeBob? at the Internet Movie Database


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The rape of the Sabine women is a quintessentially Baroque work, with complex figure groups, intense dramatic action and powerful lighting effects. It tells the legend of how Rome, in its early days, had few women, and therefore no future. Scorned when they asked for brides from their neighbours, the Romans invited the Sabines to a great games event. As part of a preconceived plan, the young Roman men attacked their guests and carried away the young women. Sheldon Grossman described The rape of the Sabine women as:
one of Luca Giordano's most successful compositions [which] represents a highly refined and fully developed example of the high baroque style. The densely massed, closely spaced figural groups are caught in complex poses at a moment of intense action. There is dramatic movement in and out of the painting, from both sides, as well as diagonally into depth and across the surface. A powerful, rapid centrifugal force is set into motion at the hub of the composition, the central group of the Roman and the Sabine which, modeled on baroque or proto-baroque sculptural groups, forms a striking corkscrew pattern.
Giordano painted The rape of the Sabine women in about 1672-74, as one of four large works on the theme of violence and justice. The paintings were first recorded in 1751 in the Palazzo Vecchia (now Palazzo Romanelli) in Vicenza. Two of the other paintings, The massacre of the innocents and Christ's expulsion of the merchants from the temple, are in the Church of Sant'Aponal, Venice, and the third, The judgment of Solomon, was acquired by the Thyssen Museum, Madrid.
The four works were noted by the writer Charles-Nicolas Cochin in his Voyage d'Italie, published in 1758, as being among the most beautiful and vigorous works of Giordano. The Abbé de Saint-Non saw them in 1761 and described them as 'without fear of contradiction, the most beautiful works that Giordano painted'. Fragonard, who accompanied Saint-Non, made a fine drawing of The rape of the Sabine women.
adapted from Brian Kennedy, 'A quintessential Baroque painting: Luca Giordano's The Rape of the Sabines,' artonview no.22 Winter 2000 pp.9-12, by Christine Dixon


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The circa 1923 gas station building at 606 Fillmore Street was demolished on May 23 after a contractor working on asbestos removal said it had begun to collapse.
The building was included in the city's application for certified local government status as an example of the historic structures in the city and officials are concerned that its destruction jeopardizes the ability to offer tax incentives for preserving historic buildings.


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Bryan Hirsch, Senior Technical Consultant, Government Practice
Bryan Hirsch is the Senior Technical Consultant for the Government Practice at Acquia. In this position, he works with development teams at federal government agencies using Drupal to implement the Digital Strategy. Bryan works with members of a network of federal agencies using Drupal to start bi-monthly "Drupal4Gov Drupal Ladder" meet-ups, holding regular "learn sprints" and "issue sprints" to support in people federal agencies who want to share and release their code. Prior to Acquia, Bryan founded StartWithStripes.org, providing Drupal websites as a service to state legislative offices and city councilors, enabling state- and local-level elected officials with small IT budgets a platform for pooling the cost of software development and website maintenance.


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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released a statement to address the recent "unauthorized disclosure" of a U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order. The document requires Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with detailed telephone call records of millions of U.S.-based customers on a daily basis. In response, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has declassified selected details related to the "business records" provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
"The following important facts explain the purpose and limitations of the program:
- The judicial order that was disclosed in the press is used to support a sensitive intelligence collection operation, on which members of Congress have been fully and repeatedly briefed. The classified program has been authorized by all three branches of the Government.
- Although this program has been properly classified, the leak of one order, without any context, has created a misleading impression of how it operates. Accordingly, we have determined to declassify certain limited information about this program.
- The program does not allow the Government to listen in on anyone's phone calls. The information acquired does not include the content of any communications or the identity of any subscriber. The only type of information acquired under the Court's order is telephony metadata, such as telephone numbers dialed and length of calls.
- The collection is broad in scope because more narrow collection would limit our ability to screen for and identify terrorism-related communications. Acquiring this information allows us to make connections related to terrorist activities over time. The FISA Court specifically approved this method of collection as lawful, subject to stringent restrictions.
- The information acquired has been part of an overall strategy to protect the nation from terrorist threats to the United States, as it may assist counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be engaged in terrorist activities.
- There is a robust legal regime in place governing all activities conducted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which ensures that those activities comply with the Constitution and laws and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties. The program at issue here is conducted under authority granted by Congress and is authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). By statute, the Court is empowered to determine the legality of the program."


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Speakers: Ian Comisky, Philadelphia, PA,
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Ian Comisky, Blank Rome LLP, 1980 - Present, White Collar Crime Department. Mr. Comisky concentrates his practice in the areas of civil and criminal tax litigation, anti-money laundering compliance and complex corporate and commercial litigation. Mr. Comisky is the co-author of Tax Fraud and Evasion. Mr. Comisky represents both corporations and individuals in criminal tax investigations (both administrative and grand jury), tax litigation in the Tax Court, Claims Court and District Courts, jeopardy and termination assessment litigation, summons enforcement litigation, as well as responsible officer penalty and collection matters. Mr. Comisky graduated from the U. of Pa. Law School where he serves as an adjunct professor and was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
Bruce A. Zimet, a member of The Florida Bar since 1976, is a 1976 graduate of the Washington College of Law at the American University where he was a member of the Law Review. He began practicing in 1976 at the Broward County Public Defenders Office, where he tried numerous felony cases, including homicides. In 1978, Mr. Zimet became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida. He remained in the U.S. Attorney's Office for nearly six years, the final two years as Chief Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern Division (Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce). During Mr. Zimet's tenure he conducted major complex grand jury investigations and tried numerous high profile cases involving public corruption, sophisticated white collar fraud and financial crimes. Mr. Zimet also represented the United States before the Fifth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Zimet has been in the private practice of law in Ft. Lauderdale since 1983.
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I would be interested in what you Pro/experienced folks believe are some of the common mistakes you see with amateurs as far as them setting up puppy marks, and their expectations of puppy's performance.
1. Big stupid hunts
2. Enforcement of steadiness at the line
3. Breakdown and not making AOF.
4. Style
5. The armatures BB"s responsibility with regards to help.
I am talking about the dog who is in the yard, maybe in the middle of FF, orrr, the dog that is just coming out of the yard (puppy 8 -13 months)
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The great strength of such a party as the Progressive Party of South Africa must be would lie in the superior intellectual enlightenment of its members. I take it that it is not likely any large body of men will join such an organisation who have not the intelligence and culture which would enable them to think somewhat deeply upon social matters. I believe we should largely represent the thinking element in the community, whether our members were drawn from the labouring or wealthier class.
Such a body, with no narrow page: 124 personal ends to seek, will naturally desire the largest publicity for its views, and will also have the power of expressing them. Of such a party the main weapon is the Press. It will find one of its chief duties for many years in constantly raising and animating public discussion upon all questions, social and political, as they arise, and in unflinchingly enunciating its own views, and calling forth the enunciation of those of others—a function of paramount importance in a country where men often, even in private conversation, fear to speak above their breath, lest a bird of the air should carry it.page: 125
We shall make rich use of all the public journals in the country. But if the Progressive Party is to become a power which shall make itself felt, I believe its most powerful weapon must be the possession of a journal devoted entirely to its principles.
With a very few exceptions there is a generous attitude maintained in Colonial papers, and their columns are freely open to correspondents. We are rich in able and liberal editors, and our Press in many ways is in advance of other Colonial institutions. But the fact, which all who have been behind the scenes of Press life page: 126 in this country are aware of (and of which the public appears not to be aware!), is that no editor, however able and advanced, has, as a rule, an absolute control over his paper. In the vast majority of cases in the Colony, as in England, the newspaper is a property held by a larger or smaller number of shareholders; it is finally theirs, and should the editor himself be a large shareholder, he has yet not always an independent and free hand. A certain amount of liberty is granted him, and he may imagine himself independent; but when crucial commercial or political questions arise, at the page: 127 very moment when he would most desire to stand firm, and unqualifiedly to express his own views, those persons with whom the real and ultimate control rests may step in; and whether simply fearing that the commercial value of the paper may decline if an unpopular course be persisted in; or, immeasurably worse still, actuated by personal motives, may desire to use the paper for their own commercial or political benefit—then he may be required to alter his tone or remain silent.
No knowledge of the high principle and personal integrity of an editor can give the public assurance that personal influ- influences page: 128 ences may not be compelling him to modify his course. He is often but an able and highly accredited agent; and he may, under these circumstances, conscientiously feel that he is not justified in pursuing a course which would result in commercial loss to those whose property he manages. He may throw up his control (which is often impossible), or he must remain silent. Men who would be incorruptible before any conceivable species of bribe might, nay, almost must, be amenable to this pressure of circumstances and obligations.
If a paper is to represent undeviatingly and sincerely a page: 129 certain body of opinions, it is absolutely necessary either that it should be completely under the control of one man who is wholly devoted to the body of principles to be maintained, or it must be the property of an organisation representing these principles. Even in this case, were the shares held by members of the organisation, it would be necessary for them to safeguard themselves from the possibility of individual shareholders being induced to sell their shares to the persons, or emissaries of the persons, who would be interested in vitiating the standpoint of the paper.
It would be necessary to make page: 130 it impossible for any shareholder to dispose of a share without the consent of either the Executive Committee of the Organisation, or of all other shareholders, and for any individual shareholder to possess more than a certain limited number of shares. It would then be open only to the personal corruption of individual shareholders,—a contingency against which no foresight or caution can avail, but of which there would be little danger were the original shareholders carefully selected.
A paper safeguarded through one or other of these conditions is, I believe, absolutely essential page: 131 to the real success of a Progressive Organisation. Such a paper the Progressive Element in South Africa possessed when Saul Solomon had absolute control of the Cape Argus; and such a paper must yet be the rallying point of the Progressive Party in this country.
The third method by which the association could impress itself upon the country would be by the share it would take in political life.


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Hawaii Sand Festival & Sand Castle Competition
You'll find the Hawaii Sand Festival and Sand Castle competition at Hanalei, Kauai, at the beginning of August each year. Sponsored by local businesses, it's a genuine community-based event that is free to enter in the kids, youth, adult or team categories. The festival usually includes workshops with world-renowned sand artists and the BYO-spade and bucket accessibility makes this a great centrepiece to your family holiday. Add in kite-flying, a surf school and impressive prizes and it's a perfect day at the beach, followed by a balmy evening of local food and entertainment. Hanalei Bay usually has plenty of holiday home rentals close to the beach. This year's event is scheduled for August 10.
New Caledonia - The Foodie's Pilgrimage
New Caledonia is a paradise of classic French cooking with South Pacific ingredients. Walking through the markets for fresh fruit, fish, breads, pastries and cheeses, you'd almost be convinced you were in France if not for the balmy temperature.
Downloading Gabriel Gate's Bon Apetit, a guide to the best of New Caledonia's cuisine, is a good start on a DIY gourmet tour. Hire an electric bike to tour the morning markets, then soak up the sun beside the lagoon before hitting Noumea's surprisingly busy nightlife scene for dinner and drinks overlooking the water. L'Hippocampe at Le Meridien is widely regarded as New Caledonia's best restaurant, and a cooking class with their executive chef is a highlight. Take foodie friends and plan to indulge.
Fiji Family Heaven
For a luxurious family getaway that doesn't leave parents frazzled by the time you fly home, the Fiji Golf Resort & Spa at Natadola Bay, Fiji, offers plenty of grown-up treats (outstanding golf course, quality spas, pools for adults and families) but gets a special mention for its children's programme. Crab racing, weaving, cooking classes and learning traditional song and dance will entertain the kids and make for great storytelling at the end of the day over shared meals and stargazing. This is indulgent family time in the best way. Be sure to join the InterContinental Hotels' loyalty scheme and take advantage of discounts on food to put it a little closer within reach. The bonus: if you're not travelling with kids, you'll barely notice any.
Budget Beach Fale
Lalomanu's beach fale accommodation is about an hour out of Apia, Samoa, and delivers bang for buck in every respect, including proximity to Samoa's best natural water park, the To Le Sua Ocean Trench. Taufua Beach Fales are owned by a local family that has rebuilt steadily since the 2009 tsunami. You'll be supplied with mats, mattresses, pillows, linen and mosquito nets, in an open or closed fale that can house a group comfortably. Showers and facilities are shared, with meals in the restaurant depending on your booking option. You'll make friends with the staff quickly, who can advise you on what to see and do. A stop in Apia for snacks and supplies is recommended, otherwise there is a small family store at Lalomanu. Pack books, playing cards and ask for a guided walking tour. Hire snorkel gear or take your own. Local transport is easiest by pre-arranged fare (no fear of rip-offs) and drivers will happily wait while you explore. Go with friends for a "make your own adventure" holiday.
Adventureland in Tahiti
Spectacular Fautaua Waterfalls make Tahiti one of the few islands to visit in the rainy season. An intense hike is rewarded by a 304m drop of water into a rock pool, or a further hike to the smaller pool. Within close reach of downtown Pape'ete, you could join a guided tour to the falls or pay the US$7 to do it yourself. Then take a caving expedition through lava tunnels that start in a lush underground greenhouse, pass underground waterfalls and end outside at rockpools bathed in sunshine. Tahiti Tourism manages local guides, who are well-trained and equipped.


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I don't think we started a thread on these boards, but I do recall the thread on the swcollecting site (may it RIP). I thought i'd start one up and announce that season two is scheduled for DVD release on September 12th.
Seriously, late August/early sept is going to destroy me for DVD's: Lost (s2), Arrested Development (s3), My Name is Earl (s1) and the office (s2).
Not many extras have been announced, but i'll pass them along when i find them.