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By Rob Kelly
Abou Diaby says he has "revenge to take over the time I lost" after making a successful return from injury this season.
The France international only managed 98 minutes of first-team action during the 2011/12 campaign, but has started all three of Arsenal's Premier League games this term.
The midfielder insists he was always confident he would prove his fitness and get back to his very best form for Arsène Wenger's side.
"I had some very difficult moments, some days when I was depressed when it was tough. But even then, I always kept faith," Diaby said in an interview with Le Parisien. "I always told myself that some people were in a worse position than me.
"When you see Eric Abidal [who has had a liver transplant], you think twice about yourself. I just had to get my body sorted.
"I am 26 and I am aware that I am at a key moment in my career. That's why it was so important that I came back this season. Last year I told myself, 'I am injured again, I am nearly 26 and I am at a key turn. Either, I take the turn well and I succeed, either I don't take it and it will become very, very difficult.'
"Now, I am careful about every detail, I leave nothing to chance. I am much more mature. I also had a full pre-season for the first time in ages. It's such an important season for me that I am working harder than ever to succeed.
"I have revenge to take over the time I lost but I want to prove to myself that I can go higher. I am getting to an age and to a time in my career where I need to show what I can do on the pitch in the long term.
"I don't want to miss out on anything. I know what my qualities are and I want to use them to go higher. I have played three games this season, I getting better but I can do more. Physically, I am only 70 per cent."
While Diaby admits there were difficult times during his recovery, he says that giving up was never an option for him.
"[When you have] a season without playing you're never sure of anything," he said. "I am usually calm but last season it started to play on my mind.
"Before, I was never apprehensive before a game after an injury. It was almost like I had never been injured. But last season, before the Fulham game, I was shaking on the bench because I was scared of getting injured again. It was incredible.
"All I wanted was to play again. I am born with a strong temper. I never give up. Maybe some people would have given up in my position but it was out of the question for me.
"It was my destiny, it was written [to come back]. I had to fight to put an end to all those injuries and to be able to express myself on a pitch again."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Vintage Chevrolet Corvette Cars
When Chevrolet introduced its sports car the Corvette for 1953, consumers were underwhelmed. Intended to compete with the small, lightweight European-made cars entering the American market, the Corvette was built with a fiberglass body, eschewing traditional steel. Unlike the competing Ford Thunderbird, the early 'Vette had a relatively weak six-cylinder engine and no option for a manual transmission. In 1955, the two-seater T-bird outsold the Corvette by 24:1.
But a year later, in 1956, the Corvette ditched its clunky bath-tub look, and became a true sports car and a convertible roadster, with curvy styling and excellent handling. The new Corvettes were only offered with a V-8 engine, producing as much as 360 bhp with optional fuel injection. The body of the '57s were the same, but a larger 283-cid engine and fuel injection gave it even more horsepower. In 1958, the Corvette exterior was altered to a less-attractive heaving body with four headlamps, but it didn't matter. The 'Vette had made name for itself as a performance sports car, and Chevy had a hit on its hands.
For model year 1961, celebrated General Motors design chief Bill Mitchell gave the Corvette its trademark "ducktail," and the 1962 model debuted the 327-cid small-block V-8 engine that became the standard for Corvettes through 1965. When Mitchell joined General Motors in 1958, he had invested his own time and money into making the Corvette a race car, a feat he achieved in 1959. His high compression 283-cid shark-shaped "Sting Ray" retired from the track after becoming the C-modified class national champion in 1960. Then, he set about turning the beautiful Sting Ray into a street-legal vehicle.
The mass-produced Corvette Sting Ray, perhaps the most attractive 'Vette ever designed, hit the market in the 1963 model year. It was offered as both a coupe and a convertible, with a top that could be stowed out of sight. Mitchell styled a sleek, angular fiberglass body with muscular haunches and a shorter wheelbase than before. Customers complained about the split rear window of the '63 Sting Ray coupe, prompting a redesign; for that reason, '63s are particularly collectible now. That year, sales broke 20,000 units.
The Sting Rays also featured independent rear-wheel suspension, an unusual trait for an American car, engineered by Zora Arkus-Duntow. In 1965, the performance got even better with the introduction of big-block V-8 engines, and it was the final year for fuel injection and the first year for optional disc brakes. Inspired by jet-fighter planes, the dashboard had a twin-cowled effect, and the ride was a charge: This 'Vette could go from 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds flat.
In the meantime, Mitchell continued to make stunning Corvette concept cars shaped like sharks, including the Mako Shark (1961), Mako Shark II (1965), and the Manta Ray (1969). The Mako design inspired the next generation of Sting Rays, issued for 1968, which also featured an even more dramatic "Coke bottle" styling defined by a narrow middle and outwardly curving fenders. Even though car lovers admit that this new generation of Sting Rays, with their larger, more begadgeted bodies, was an admirable successor, most 'Vette connoisseurs say nothing will ever top those early '60s Sting Rays. The new Sting Rays, made until 1984, had more buyers than ever: Nearly 40,000 sold in 1969. This Sting Ray also sold as a convertible until 1975, and was even produced in a targa roof T-top in 1968, but that style was quickly outlawed by U.S. safety regulators.
Thanks to new emissions laws in 1970, Corvettes saw their horsepower performance dip; but sales never flagged since "America's only true sportscar" was one of the few autos that ...
For model year 1984, the 'Vette was once again revamped with a sleek, aerodynamic and modern body. Characterized by clean lines, the new Corvette "muscle car" featured a hatchback and a removable roof panel as well as a whole new chassis and lightweight suspension. The latest generation, made until 1996, was one of the fastest cars on the road, able to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 6.6 seconds. Much too fast, indeed.
In 1986, Chevy brought back its Corvette roadster convertible for the first time in 11 years. Four years later, the new Corvette ZR1 upped the ante, elevated the 'Vette once again to super-car status, with its technically superior LT5 375 bhp engine that could reach speeds of 180 mph, and go from 0-60 mph in a measly 4.5 seconds. This "King of the Hill" model was the priciest car in the history of GM, with a sticker price of $59,000. The ZR1 disappeared in 1997 to make way for the new 'Vette generation. America's sport car races on, even today.
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ASUS Introduces World's First Intel Thunderbolt 2-Certified Motherboard
I have to admit that I barely understand Thunderbolt. This just popped up in one of my news sources, but looking at the date of the news release ... this is old news?
Since I am a bit of an Asus junky I guess I will have to read up on Thunderbolt.
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Well, if by old you mean a week old :P
I got caught up with things so I didn't post about it. I personally have no interest in Thunderbolt 1, so I certainly don't have interest in Thunderbolt 2, but when it comes down to it, I -really- don't like adopting the very first release of something like this. Remember when the first SATA 3 and USB 3.0 boards came out? Those connections got much faster with subsequent releases. I think this is just marketing at the moment. I don't see much use for TB among enthusiasts the the moment, so the bandwidth could be inflated 100x and it still wouldn't change anything.
Edit: Oh, and I am working on an ASUS Z87-EXPERT review atm... it has Thunderbolt. Aside from that, it's almost an identical board to the Z87-PRO. The premium? $40...
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It's a little tricky to explain to people the advantage of Thunderbolt over something like USB 3.0. If you look at base bandwidth, then at face value, there is little difference. Then add in the cost of active cables over Thunderbolt, the proprietary nature of the system, it's a very expensive version of firewire to most people and simply ignored. Why use TB when USB 3.0 is already universal and cheap?
I'm not an advocate of TB, but I can see the technical advantages of the system. First of all, in its simplest form, it's a PCIe cable; anything you can do with PCIe, you can do over TB. This means that TB can carry a USB 3.0 connection if you want it to. At the same time, it can carry DisplayPort, Ethernet, S/PDIF or even graphics... further still, it can carry all of these at the same time, limited of course by the total available bandwidth of the connection. It can also be daisy-chained. Mobile users got very excited over this, because it could mean that you could have a single cable that hooks up your laptop to a dock, which then provides all the I/O that you need, and possibly an external graphics card. Peak your interest?
So far though, all that's been released is a few NAS solutions, an incompatible monitor, and an incompatible Sony variation of TB... oh, and a very expensive dock by Belkin.
But you can hook up NICs, audio and other things to a USB 3.0 port, why pay more for the same? Well... there is a more fundamental difference too. USB 3.0 is a protocol which is interpreted and then sent over PCIe, like SATA, this means that you introduce a middleman in the connection, and thus, latency is significantly increased. TB is PCIe, so there is no latency overhead (well, very little), so nearly the full bandwidth is available.
TB has its place, but because it's locked-in and misunderstood, it'll remain expensive and underutilised. Pretty much like Firewire - which in itself, was a niche but technically superior protocol to USB. There's a reason why a lot of older Pro-Audio gear used Firewire instead of USB... latency, signal quality and power filtering.
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Yep, Thunderbolt offers some nice flexibility with interconnectivity with that PCIe-like capability. But it's locked in, under-utilized, and supremely over-expensive on cables while devices carrying it require their own premiums... it may catch on in the future after the costs drop to nothing and a wider array or newer devices begin using it, but until then USB 3.1 looks fine to me.
What's newsworthy about it is that if you want Thunderbolt 2 capability, you need a thunderbolt 2 capable device + controller. The Thunderbolt stuff on the market isn't going to cut it. It's a shame they couldn't make it a flexible design in channel configuration, then it wouldn't have been an issue or a need for TB2 in the first place.
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Van Heusen Leather Wallets and Belts
I look forward to the day when I can just pay for things with a wink, and lower or raise my pants with a nod. Despite how it sounds, those two thoughts are mutually exclusive. Anyway, until then ... wallets and belts.
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Love the helmet. Custom Mandos rock!
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Love the helmet. Custom Mandos rock!
iv been playing around with google earth a little
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and thanks for all the compliments yet again:)!
Very impressive....
some one mentioned "mando with horns" (cough lifeburn cough:D) which got my head spinning slightly came up with thies while playing mont&blade (which rocks!)
chainmail vest and kama, and the pattern on the left is the grey rim around the plates and face
wow...that is awesome Creon!!! I love the mando/medieval look...and that helmet is awesome...:cheers
That is some awesome custom work, ner vod! :D
hey all! iv been stationed close enough to home that i can work on my beskar'gam inb the weekends now :D and after looking through the forum at all of the fantastic builds iv gotten the inspiration to finish my build! :)
gotta get started, lots of work todo!
I noticed the piece on the bottom of the visor, kinda like a chin guard or something. Is there a template for that? If so could someone PM me. Cause it would be a bloody waste to custom fab that out of aluminum and find out there are templates. Haha, thanks
wow looks great mate cant wait too get mine done
Sorry stride, no templates. all made from scratch:P
thanks fallout!
Creon, I LOVE IT!!!!! Awesome work, man. :D And that new concept thing is really cool. I've always wondered what would happen is Mando's wore chain-mail. ;)
If mandos wore chainmail........... It would turn into a completely epic and amazing armour set............. LIGHTSABRE PROOF CHAIN-MAIL..... I love how this kit came out
:p stupid question here...isnt a mando flight suit designed to be a space suit too...how would chain mail protect the wearer from space vacume
maybe the chainmail goes on the outside...
x.x eh...i guess its all personal preference...what i might find somewhat pointless others might find cooll...best wishes with the chain mail kit...might do some follow ups on it just for the sake of seeing how it turns out
hi yall. started meddling with my old beskar that i never finished :P new ideas and designs. feels good to be working on it again
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ok so i ordered a belt with puches and a boba fett armor plate package from ebay. Cut the cod piece as you can see in teh pics. the white new lower circular form on the chest plate is actually the collar piece, and the lower abdominal (just above the belt) is the butt piece. attached the diamond on the right shoulder piece, and the middle shoulder pieces you can see is from the original Fett chest pieces. using the original back plate and abdominal plate. planning for original knee pads
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He was a college student in Tennessee who became interested in the Middle East. The young man decided he wanted to help people in Yemen and left to pursue volunteer work teaching Yemen children the English language. His visa expired, he was arrested and placed in jail. An FBI agent from his home town visited Abdulhakim Muhammad in jail and the young man asked for help to get out because he was being beaten up and tortured. The only concern of the FBI agent was to find out if the young man had connections to terrorists. When in doubt in America, 2009, just pursue the terrorist link and ignore human considerations. The young man eventually fell under the sway of Islamic jihadists, converted to the Muslim religion and returned to the United States as a different man. He had become radicalized.
One day, he grabbed a weapon and went out to shoot soldiers. He found himself in front of a recruiting center and killed a soldier who was on duty. Police claim he also went by the name of Carlos Bledsoe and had been arrested in Knoxville on weapon charges. Does anyone know what happened to Carlos Bledsoe to make him convert and assume a new name?


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Powerpoint: Making the Difficult Fonts More Readable
When putting together a document and using some more interesting fonts, I'm sure that you've run into the same thing that I have… the font is cool, what you want, but not very readable for some people.
The design of the font just makes it feel "squished" together.
For you and me, not a problem… after all we chose the font… but for some of our audience it just isn't going to work. The spacing of the characters is just too close together for them to easily read your message.
If they can't read it, why did you bother with all the work to make it?
Obviously you want them to be able to read your font, so we've got to find a solution.
Most people would choose another font – definitely a great option, but what if your heart was really set on the other one?
Is there no way to use it?
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends upon the look you're going for, but I do have a suggestion that may work for you.
Sometimes adjusting the spacing between characters will pull the difficult to read characters apart just enough to make it work, without you sacrificing your font choice.
In other words, a little bit of extra space between characters turns this:
into this:
Definitely a subtle difference, but for some people it makes all the difference.
OK, so now that we know what we're going to learn and why we are learning it, let's take a look at how to make it happen.
We need to get into the Font dialog box via the dialog launcher located in the bottom right corner of the Font group on the Home tab of the Ribbon. (FYI: Ctrl + D will open the Font dialog box too.)
Once there we need to be on the Character Spacing tab.
In the Spacing field, use the drop down list to choose Expanded.
(Obviously you could choose to work this whole tip the other way with the Condensed choice… but back to our purposes…)
To the right of that, there is a field for you to choose how far to separate the characters. It may take some playing around with this setting, to decide on your preference but there's a preview at the bottom to help you out.
Click OK when you're done.
Previously not so readable text just became more manageable.
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GPD: Enterprise man arrested after using girlfriend's debit card
Published: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 3:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 3:55 p.m.
Police arrested a Florida man accused of stealing his girlfriend's debit card and taking her car without permission, while she slept.
Roger Travis Aylor, 33, from Enterprise, was arrested and charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, misdemeanor marijuana possession, possession of drug equipment and knowingly driving on a suspended license early Monday morning, according to a Gainesville Police Department arrest report.
Aylor and his girlfriend of four weeks were passing through Gainesville and staying at the Gainesville Lodge Motel. The report said Aylor took off in his girlfriend's gray 2006 Ford Focus and made four purchases with the debit card totaling $168.25 during a four-hour period. Aylor was stopped by police after the girlfriend reported the stolen card and vehicle.
Aylor was stopped at 100 E. University Ave., the report said, and an officer smelled burnt marijuana in the car. The officer found a gram of marijuana in a pill bottle and a glass pipe in the car. Also, Aylor was found to have a suspended license.
He was in the Alachua County jail on Monday afternoon with a $5,000 bond.
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Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother, Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down the touch that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mothers deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come togetheronly to be torn apart as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds.
With grace and unflinching verisimilitude, Amy Greene brings her native Appalachia and the faith and fury of its people to rich and vivid life. Here is a spellbinding tour de force that announces a dazzlingly fresh, natural-born storyteller in our midst.
Read by a full cast.
©2009 Amy Greene ; (P)2009 Random House
"Amazing story"
This book was haunting. The depth of characters was rich.It was wonderfully read my numerous voices. I have been an audible customer for years and this was one of the best.
"i hate to waste money"
i have read a lot of classics in my life, this was not one of them. i kept waiting for something to elevate this book. the closest it came are the wonderful descriptions of the landscape. yes, that was great writing. but the endless droning on and on of one tragedy after another, one hopeless word after another got to be too much for me.
the most depressing book i ever read was L Assimoir by Zola. i cried my heart out at the end of it. for some reason i never made any kind of similar connection with these characters. they are not shallow. they simply have no redeeming qualities. from the beginning of the book to the last second i listened, i never smiled once. i never felt i was rooting for them, only watching their deterioration. i never felt any magic except for the color of the eyes of the horse.
i lived in a holler once for about a year and there was such poverty and tragedy there. that is true. but the people i met there were some incredibly funny, feisty, strong fighters. they would tell you their tragedy while preparing poke salad for you to eat and then end the whole thing with strawberries and a laugh.
maybe it is only the audio. but these people sounded like they should have been sitting in a psychologist s office, not hanging about in my ear. i really expected to like this book.
"At the very top of my favorites"
An amazing listen that I didn't want to end, but felt it ended perfectly. Well written and well executed, this is one of those rare books that was seamless as it went through the cast of characters, I felt I knew each one by the end, and I didn't get lost along the way! A huge fan of The Help, Bloodroot is right up there as my all time favorites since joining Audible, and my first review!
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"Excellent read"
This is a great first novel. The characters are very strong, the story is truly compelling and the warmth for the culture is obvious. I found myself missing the characters when I wasn't reading. It is, of course, a treat to have multiple readers and they all do a great job. There are some flaws that could have been edited out which is often typical of a first novel, but they just don't matter given the weight of the story and the breadth of the characters. One of my all time favorites.
"one of the best reads ever"
wonderful book read by this cast was pure entertainment. I hated when it ended. Thanks to all for an amazing experience. I've been doing audible books for years (originally on cassettes!) - this is truly one of the best.
"Super depressing with many loose ends"
I listened to this book based on its generally favorable reviews, but unfortunately is was a big waste of time. I trudged through the different story lines as they got more and more depressing because I thought the ending would have to connect all the subplots and character actions, but it doesn't. There are no characters that you can really root for or connect with. The only positive of this book were the different narrators. They were very good. Don't waste your time with this book.
"mixed emotions"
loved the narrators, wished for different ending. I wasn't able to listen at long periods of time, so it was hard for me to keep up with the characters hopping all over. I don't like writers going back & forth like that.
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I loved how there were no loose ends left hanging. The accents of the audio version's readers were best in Birdie and John. The others didn't sound authentic. Birdie and John's were PERFECT.
"Bloodroot is a great read or listen"
This book was a suprise. I didn't think I was going to like it. I was wrong. The story is one that finally makes a complete circle at the end. All questions about the charaters are interresting and engaging. I gave four stars for the performance because the actor that play Doug got on my nerves a little bit. I think it was mostly the way he said Doug. It kinda sounded dumb but other than that great. This book is in sections but again everything ties up in the end. Good story good performance good use of a credit.
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I love how the author wrote her characters in dialect and I give a lot of credit to the narrators who absolutely did an excellent job as well. The 'mountain-speak' dialect greatly enhanced my listening experience as it allowed me to hear, see, feel and almost taste the hauntingly bleak and riveting stories of each woman of the four generations of Lamb women in Bloodroot.
I will not hesitate to purchase more of Ms. Greene's books. If it/they are as good as Bloodroot then she has an eternal fan in me.
The narrators are absolutely fabulous. They bring the story to life in such a way that even I felt nostalgic for a place and people I have never seen. I truly would have gotten into a car and driven to Tennessee if I knew I could meet Ms. Greene's characters.
This book has stayed with me. It brought tears to my eyes as well as tender redeeming moments that made me smile. I was hypnotized by the author's vivid images of the stunning and wildly beautiful mountain-side as well as her descriptions of the poor and rundown lives of Tennessee's rural backwoods residents. The Lamb women are born into hard lives. Theirs are the voices of unschooled, poverty stricken women who live in squalor, who are accustomed to situations of drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. and who choose men who prove to be less than adequate husbands and fathers.I could not help being drawn to the elements of superstition, magic, spirits, the Lambs' family curses and their legacy as witches; and the beauty and tragedy of Myra Lamb with her 'haint blue eyes'. Myra is born with the 'gift''. She can commune with birds, horses and other wild creatures. One day a neighbor finds her asleep in the leaves with a kaleidoscope of butterflies covering her like a blanket. She seems almost ethereal but like any teenage girl, Myra falls. She meets the darkly handsome John Odom and she's willing to do whatever it takes to win him...even if that means resorting to a love charm she knows is taboo.
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Phoenix Cross Country Announces 2013 Schedule
By Justin Grones (@JustinGrones)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Green Bay men's and women's cross country teams will look to hit the ground running as the 2013 campaign is set to begin next weekend, cross country head coach Mike Kline announced on Friday. The Phoenix will compete in eight races on the year with three events held in Wisconsin.
The season gets underway next Saturday, Aug. 31, when Green Bay travels to the Chicago area to compete in the UIC Home Opener at Swallow Cliff. The women's team will begin its season with a two-mile run at 10 a.m., while the men's team starts the year with a 4.1 mile race at 10:30 a.m.
The Phoenix will then compete in consecutive meets in its home state, starting with the Wisconsin Open Cross Country Meet hosted by Wisconsin at the Zimmer Cross Country Course at The Ridges Golf Course. Green Bay will travel to Mequon the following weekend for the Falcon Invite at Concordia on Sept. 14.
After a few weeks off, the team will wrap up the 2013 regular season with meets at Notre Dame on Oct. 4 and at Bradley on Oct. 18. Green Bay will compete in the Horizon League Championships at Youngstown State on Nov. 2, with the men's team running an 8K race and the women's team a 5K. NCAA Tournament action begins just more than a week later with the NCAA District Regional in Madison on Nov. 15 and the NCAA National Championship hosted by Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind.
2013 Green Bay Cross Country Schedule
Aug. 31 at UIC Home Opener (Chicago, Ill.)
Sept. 6 at Wisconsin Open Cross Country Meet (Madison, Wis.)
Sept. 14 at Falcon Invite (Mequon, Wis.)
Oct. 4 at Notre Dame Invite (South Bend, Ind.)
Oct. 18 at Bradley Classic (Peoria, Ill.)
Nov. 2 at Horizon League Championships (Youngstown, Ohio)
Nov. 15, NCAA District Regional (Madison, Wis.)
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Per Mertesacker believes Arsenal will face a team in their own image when Schalke line up at Emirates Stadium tonight.
The German centre back rates his countrymen highly, and says that their style of football will make for an interesting Champions League contest.
"They are on a good run," Mertesacker told the Official Matchday Programme.
"I know their players quite well, as I played in the Bundesliga for more than six years. They have a few new players, like Ibrahim Afellay, and we know the kind of threat we'll see from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Jefferson Farfan.
"They're a good side technically and pass well - the way they play is similar to our own game, and that means it's going to be interesting. We're looking forward to this game because we have a good opportunity to strengthen our position in the group. Three wins out of three would look nice for us at the halfway stage."
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Finally, after 90 minutes of escalating drama in miserable conditions, RSL's match against Herediano ended. So did its attempt to advance in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Real Salt Lake and Herediano fought to a 0-0 draw Tuesday night at Rio Tinto Stadium, meaning the Costa Rican team advances thanks to a 1-0 advantage in the two-match aggregate.
With a sell-out crowd of 20,436 fans watching, Real Salt Lake dominated this game. After a 1-0 loss to Herediano on July 31, however, RSL needed to win by a specific margin 1-0 or by at least two goals to advance to the tournament's quarterfinals.
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|PLEASE don't leave your pup out of crate unattended! That could lead to serious injury or death of your pup. Grim is in his 5th month, and still will chew on rugs if he could get to them. We finally agreed on no rugs unless they could be placed behind a closed door. I don't mind if he puts his front feet (or whole body) on the bed or furniture, so we don't have that issue. The only time he puts his feet on the counter is if I'm making food for him, and I can't say as that bothers me, either. So I can't help you on that. Not thinking, I allowed him to jump up on me. Now we live near my MIL, and he's been trying to jump on her, too. So now we're undoing that one. I gave him a lot of latitude to just be an exploring, PITA pup. I wasn't like this with my previous dogs... just Grim. I find it annoying now that my (older) kids have been home during the holidays. It seems like they're getting annoyed with him and getting after him all day long for things that are mainly their fault. I'm much more laid back now than I was 20 or even 10 years ago with pups. I actually think that's helped a lot. Their puppy time is so short. I'd rather enjoy it than try to end typical puppy behaviors.
|She hasn't tried chewing on my rugs recently but continues to jump up on the bed/counter. She was improving on cable chewing but I spoke too soon. Last night in an unsupervised nap (a nap for me that is) she chewed up an Ethernet cable and attempted to chew through a laptop charger.
|You have a very cute puppy, she is in that chewing stage and does not know what to do with herself so that is how she is amusing herself. Like others have said, maybe try a kong stuffed with peanut butter, or anytoy that she can chew on and not destroy or break off and get choked on. Good luck with your little girl.
OOPs forgot to say when training clarity is important.
What is a 'down'
Cause for me, a 'down' is an elbows on the ground and flat.
That puppy is in a down.
When I want my puppy to stop jumping on me, or getting up on the counter, I do NOT want (or care) if my dog then does a 'down'. I want him off and/or away.
So if I have two completely different meanings for exactly the same word, I know I'm just adding more confusion do a puppy who already doesn't understand most of what I trying to communicate.
The command I use for getting my dog off the counter and off of me is, well it's 'Off' . NOT 'down'. So it's 'off' the counter, and 'off' of me, and 'off' the sofa.
Doesn't sound like she's having any trouble learning. Just a heads up many people here won't approve of your "love taps", not a fan myself, especially since she seems to be doing her side of the puppy/owner relationship well.
For the jumping up, it's a problem, but pushing her back down is why she takes it as play (I realize its difficult to avoid).
@both the jumping and carpet chewing, prevention is probably your best bet. Link reacts to me saying "down" when I see him showing signs of jumping, and his jumping has gotten better. Jumping will not go away quickly. With the rug, keep her away from rugs unless you're watching her, even if that means being crated more.
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What an adorable puppy!!!
Unfortunabely she also sounds 100% normal and bored bored bored. One of the many reasons I space my puppies out 5 years apart is because of the MAJOR LIFE CHANGE I have to do the first year (or so) from what used to be my normal life.
Free time is no longer something I have.
My time is no longer my own but instead I need to take out my calendar and add the 'dog time' . Scheduling the times to pack the pup in the car and socialize with other friends and their dogs. Sign up and attend puppy class to socialize and learn how to keep my puppy practically perfect. Arrange times to get OFF leash activites started (I off leash hikes in the woods, chuckit in large fields, romps with other dogs (many I met in dog classes!).
Your pup is just b o r e d and the best game in town is pestering you or chewing up stuff. I definitely make sure I have toys they can chew in each and every room so I can easily re-direct to what is ok to chew and I may also PLAY with the puppy and the toy for a bit.
There are also interactive toys you can fill with the kibble for their meal that can keep them busy for awhile. You may have to buy larger ones as they grow..
PUPPY CLASSES! EXERCISE OUTSIDE THE HOME! Play play play with your puppy.. Trick training.... http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...-training.html and http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...ng-tricks.html
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I've been lurking around for a few weeks but decided to sign up today. I got a new GSD puppy a few weeks ago and she's been doing well (mostly) so far but a few of her annoying behaviors I can't seem to curb. She will be 16 weeks on Jan. 7th.
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I got her right at 9 weeks old. Her worst problems from about 9-12 weeks were potty training and crying at night/during the day in her crate. She hasn't had an accident in a while and consistently goes potty right when we go outside. She usually doesn't cry at night and only a few minutes during the day if I have to put her up for a while.
1) Now that she's slightly larger she is starting to jump up on my bed/doors/counters with her front paws. When I push her off and say "NO/Down!" she thinks I'm playing with her and continues to jump up. This has been going on for about two weeks and I've tried giving her a job like "sit" or "get your toy" and usually she will sit or get her toy then jump back up. Anyone have some suggestions? When I get fed up with her jumping up (while I'm trying to shave for instance) I'll grab her muzzle and make her sit/stay with a VERY firm NO!!!! - that usually doesn't help either.
2) She also keeps chewing the fibers out of my rugs. There's a rug under her crate, by the back door, and at the foot of my bed that she CONSTANTLY pulls the threads out of. I've told her no no no no and NO and given her a toy instead but any chance she gets (especially if I turn my back and get on the computer or something) she's back at the rug pulling thread out. She isn't responding to the toy redirection, my verbal commands, OR my 'love taps'
Don't get me wrong she's a relatively good puppy and absolutely LOVES me. She's learned to sit/stay/come (sometimes) and is working on other things like calm down/lay down. I've used the reward system with her and also some "alpha dog" or whatever you may call it where I will smack her muzzle or when she was smaller I'd use her scruff if she repeatedly disobeyed. I'd rather go all reward system but she doesn't respond to some things for rewards like she does others.
ANYWAY, glad to be a new member and I look forward to digging up as much information as I can here. I've already read a lot but it seems like many of the replies are specific to certain circumstances so I posted my own thread.
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We know that online commerce is booming but it still accounts for a small slice of America's mall business. Undeniably, this $200 billion digital business (ComScore) is expanding scope daily.
If there was ever a digital demarcator, it is the soap business. When Unilever and P&G, the markets main consumer package goods companies, begin to sell soap on Amazon, and when Wal-Mart begins to ramp up its online business, leveraging its 4,000 stories and 158 warehouses as an online distribution network, then mall property owners possibly need to rethink their role in bricks and mortar.
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Malls are entertainment destinations. Always have been. We go to the mall for a movie or latte just as we bundled the family into the Buick 60 years ago to go shopping. But if Best Buy and Barnes & Noble leave the mall, what is left to attract the consumer? Hours of gizmo browsing and cook-book thumbing gone.
Browse-verse-buy business has whittled way the margins of many stores making Blockbuster and Gamestop digital road kill. It forced Target Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel and Kathee Tesija, Target's executive vice president of merchandising to cry uncle on "showrooming" in a memo to its suppliers in 2012.
However, muscling your supplier's prices down is a pharic victory. Even with the volume sales of Target and Wal-Mart know that they need to move some of their business into the cloud. During Wal-Mart's August 2013 earnings call it announced that eCommerce sales rose by 30 percent in two trailing quarters. Neil Ashe, Wal-Mart's CEO indicated its total online sales could pass $10 billion in fiscal year 2014. This is only two percent of the stores earning and only 12 percent of Amazon which sales totaled $61 billion in 2012 but it is a marked trend and a harbinger of the exodus of earns from the mall.
What incumbent stores presently have in their favor is inertia. The cloud and the mall are still not fluidly connected. Although each shopper is armed with a mobile computer which has the capability of scanning, sourcing and saving the consumer in every aisle, there are too many hurdles and friction between the idea of digital buying and the products within arms reach.
The mandate of any red blooded digital retailers is to eliminate this inertia.
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Apple's iTunes, Amazon and Paypal built their business on simplifying checkout: making sure that the act of buying does not get in the way of intent to buy.
One-click checkout or combining stored customer credentials with a simple password is the sole reason that these companies continue to grow their market share. Their UX team would tell you that every informational and graphic design is based on optimizing clicks to checkout. Each click makes a precipitous drop off and abandoned shopping carts litter the web.
But digital checkout demands trust and mindshare. Even online real estate barons such as Facebook have been unable to enter this market. Although "Social" and "commerce" seems natural allies, Facebook has not been able to delivered on its promise to leverage its millions of customers to shop cross-channel. The company launched Facebook Credits in 2009 and phased them out last year. "F-commerce" experiments abound. Remember Facebook + Amazon + P&G partnering in 2010 to change the world. Unilever followed suit launching a storefront on Facebook for its Dove brand. Retailers including JCPenney and Gamestop have attempted to monetize their Facebook community by opening stores inside the Facebook network. After underwhelming results they shut their virtual doors.
Apple and Amazon have proven that community plus one-click checkout works. These digital wallet holders started their business explicitly to sell stuff. And they are poised to remove the inertia from online shopping and with it the last refuge of the mall owner. Online shopping provides advantages with an endless aisle allowing for access to more sizes and categories. According to Nielson the average basket size is much larger for consumer package goods ($80 online to $30 offline) and beauty purchase ($30 online to $10 offline).
The question is that when the households put soap and diapers on their shopping list will they log into Amazon to buy Dove Body Wash 24 Ounce Bottles (Pack of 4) and Pampers Sensitive Wipes 7x Box?
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The last refuge of the American mall maybe a can of baked beans and fresh produce. If the household shopper wants to grabs a can for dinner tonight or smell the oranges and squeeze the melons before buying, then off to the store they will go. Grocery stores are big box convenience stores.
However, should mall owners that are grocery-anchored feel safe? Their clientele should come from a weekly shopping list.
Well, hold your Kraft peanut butter!
The traditional grocery retailers are faced with increased competition. In March, Wal-Mart opened grocery concept stores about a tenth of the size of their supercenters. With big box and online retailers entering the grocery space, specialty grocers capturing the "foodie culture" consumer and brands creating direct relationship with the consumer, perhaps this is not a safe bet for mall owners.
Google Wallet, ISIS and other phone wallets promise to make in-store shopping more digitally fluid, but what is the digital wallet never makes it to the mall. Online grocery shopping has grown five fold over the past eight years to $25 billion. Tablets devices have made shopping more leisurely and couch commerce has accelerated. With CPGs moving their diaper and detergent business into the mainstream online stores like Amazon, the inertia may soon come from the home.
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Since Tesco opened their virtual grocery store on the subway in Seoul, Korea two years ago, scan and shop on-the-go signage has become more common. While it is still a media gimmick, it has the potential of becoming a way of luring the shopper online. In every mall or transit hub America at least one brand has attempted to use the in-mall media to engage with the shopper and move them into their cloud store.
In CNET interviews with Zappos Labs' (an Amazon-owned online retailer) the Director, Will Young, confesses that his team sits around malls stalking shoppers. Their goal is to emulate these shoppers' behavior online. Young is asking "How can you make the digital experience feel like the in-store experience?"
Whether they succeed or not, there is no question that malls need to re-evaluate their passive media deals. When a brand buys signage on an ad impression basis but uses this media to poach customers then this signage perhaps should not be sold as an impression but as a "mini-storefront".
Mall owners nationally are holding strategy sessions to evaluate how technology is affecting their business. These stakeholders need to re-evaluate their real estate assets and start to see media as leasable square footage.
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Bucket is scratchbuilt using mat board for the core, fiberglassed inside, bondo-glass and bondo on the outside. raised surfaces were made with HIPS, keyslots are made from anti-theft thingies. Visor is Lexan sheet tinted with mirrored silver and 35% red.
For the dome I used the WoF templates, the tube is based on altered WoF templates, the visor, mandibles and band is my own work. Ears are my own as well, as are the not pictured RF's, the stalks are made from two layers of 1/8th inch HIPS and patterned after WoF (modded to suit my RF's).
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the stuff you mention won't really do that much. The undersized pulleys will free up a bit of horsepower but...
The 1.5 ratio rockers are pretty much standard to every engine. The air filter might help the engine breath better but you're not going to see any major increase in power. The carb plate is more for keeping the carb away from heat to prevent boilover. The ignition system will give you better spark but again, i don't know if you'll really notice it.
I think you're going to have to get into some real parts if you want more power. If you don't want to get into major engine rip down then start with a bigger carb or some better headers or maybe a better intake. If you want to do more then put in a bigger cam and get better heads.
No offense, but the stuff you suggested will give you minimal changes.
Cheap Horsepower
Hope I'm not repeating too many questions here but I put in a search for carb spacers and didn't come up with much and you guys sure seem to know your way around performance issues.
I've got a 350 hp L-82 thats a beautiful beast. I've got it in a 76 Toyota landcruiser FJ40 4x4. I gave an '80 Vette a good run for his money last night, boy was he stoked about not being able to blow me off. Anyways... I'm looking for cheap horsepower and I'm hoping you guys can yay or nay my ideas. Would these improvements be worth it? Not in any particular order.
1) Carb spacer 3/4 - 1" 4 hole?
2) 1:5 roller rockers
3) Jacobs ignition system
4) Power pulleys
5) K&N Air Filter
6) Edelbrock Injection system
Anything else I should consider?
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We here at the Stillman Inn have mastered "White Peach Leavender Jam". We put this on everything from toast to pancakes and oatmeal. We've also discovered the huge and great Farmers Market in Dubuque on Saturday Mornings. Lots of great produce, flowers and crafts but nothing can beat the Amish made Pumpkin Bread.
We also dabbled in fudge again this weekend for the guests. It was gone in no time!
White Peach Lavender Jam
2 Tbsp Dried lavender flowers or lavender extract
1/2 cup boiling water
4 cups fine chopped white peaches (8-9 medium)
2 Tbsp Lemon juice
6 cups granulated sugar
1 Pack liquid fruit pectin
Place lavendar flowers in a small bowl. Pour boiling water over flowers and steep 20 minutes. Strain and discard flowers. OR use 1 tsp lavender extract in 1/2 cup water.
Combine lavender water, peaches, lemon juice and sugar in very large stainless steel or enamel saucepan. Bring to a full boil over high heat and boil hard for 2 minutes. Stir in liquid pectin and boil 1 more minute. Remove from heat, skim off foam.
Ladle into prepared jars and process for 10 minutes.
Prepared jars means they have been boiled/sterilized. Check out a book on canning for details.
More great news – our second granddaughter is due tomorrow so she will be with us soon. Hopefully we will be free to both be there. If it's in the morning we plan on sending our guests to Otto's for breakfast! Hope they don't mind!
Enjoyed two great Garden Tours this weekend. Saturday was in Galena and Sunday was in Dubuque. Both were fabulous. If you have a GPS it's even more fun!!! Don't miss it next year. Sunday night we enjoyed the Drum & Bugle Corps Competition in Dubuque as well. What a busy weekend!
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Fall is coming so make your reservations soon. This is our busiest time so if you want to stay and in a specific room you can't book too soon now! The colors are wonderful around here and the big Craft Fair is the second weekend in October. This, and all weekends in October require a three night stay. I'm tellin' you it's busy and fun!
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There are no Premier League games this weekend, as World Cup qualifiers take centre stage - but GunnersGaming have priced up Arsenal players getting on the scoresheet for their respective countries.
Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are in the England squad for their home game against San Marino. The Three Lions are expected to win comfortably, with San Marino having scored only 19 goals in 22 years.
Walcott is priced up at 9/2 to net the opener and 9/14 to score anytime.
Oxlade-Chamberlain is yet to open his international account but can be backed at 11/2 to score first and 11/13 to net in the 90 minutes.
GunnersGaming have chalked up a 4-0 win for England as the most likely outcome at 7/2 while 5-0 is 11/2 and 6-0 a 10/1 shot.
Ireland play host to Germany at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, with the visitors clear favourites at 5/12.
Lukas Podolski will want to capitalise on Ireland's defensive injury problems and is priced up at 9/2 to score first, 13/10 to find the net during 90 minutes, and 25/1 to bag a hat-trick.
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kpk021 wrote:Here we go:
Most EXCELLENT!!!!
PathDaemon wrote:Wow. Amazing.
The worst I've done involved a disposable camera. I didn't faint, but it felt like needles were dancing on my hand.
I started to disassemble a CRT when I was young, but my parents made me stop :-(
How do you discharge one of those things, anyway?
I saw a cool way to make a do-it-yourself discharger. First find a three prong power cord, either from a no-longer used appliance, or from an extension cord. Cut off the two regular prongs, so all you have left is the ground prong. Strip the cord down a bit to expose the three wires inside the cord, you are interested in the black wire. Strip the black wire a couple of inches and wrap it around the base of the metal part of a screwdriver with a plastic handle, use electrical tape to hold it on. Now plug in your new one-prong cord. Your screwdriver is now a discharger and can be used to discharge the monitor before you work on it, simply touch the tip of the scredriver to the high-voltage part in the monitor, and it becomes instantly discharged.
RevJOnathan wrote: cpltrainer wrote:Very nice.... very nice, indeed....
I think I'm gonna cry
cpltrainer wrote:Very nice.... very nice, indeed....
I think I'm gonna cry
Woody1 wrote:Wootdedo taser experience: by woootdedo
What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer gun with a clip. For those of you who are not familiar with this product, it is a less-than-lethal stun gun with two metal prongs designed to incapacitate an assailant with a shock of high-voltage, low amperage electricity while you flee to safety.
Just for the record, since nobody else mentioned it...that was not a taser, it was a stun gun. A taser is similar to a stun gun in effect, but it looks like a gun and uses compressed gas to shoot barbed darts (basically a fish hook without the hook) up to about 15 feet until they lodge into your target. Said darts have tiny wires that connect all the way back to the battery in the gun that then reduces your assailant into a quivering mass of protoplasm.
The police in Portland (Oregon) all carry taser guns now, and they miss no opportunity to turn a suspect into a pile of shaking Jello with them. I'm a big fan too, because they used to use a lot of high-speed lead projectiles instead. Of course, when I watch Cops I usually chant "tase him, tase him, tase him" (in my best Beavis/Cornholio voice) throughout the show...so understand that I'm weird.
gimmaroon wrote: kpk021 wrote:Here we go:
Most EXCELLENT!!!!
thanks.... i haven't laughed this much in a long time... i figured what you where going to do, and what the result would have been at the begginning of the story, but the way you told it was hilariious. sitting there at the time, i would have probably done it anyway!! it's something that you just had to do!! Hahaha..LOL
lol a fun thread this is : )
kpk021 wrote: gimmaroon wrote: kpk021 wrote:Here we go:
Most EXCELLENT!!!!
I hope everyone saved it that wants it, since I forgot to bookmark the site I found it at. This thread got me looking for other taser stories and I found a forum somewhere in which someone used this taser emoticon thing.
I wonder what would happen if you got tased while wearing a grounding strap. Would it overload the strap and shock you, or would it work and absorb the electricity?
ccanni1028 wrote:I wonder what would happen if you got tased while wearing a grounding strap. Would it overload the strap and shock you, or would it work and absorb the electricity?
Try it, and let us know
I think I just wet myself
oblivious2living wrote:ahh man I had a simalar exsperiance with a crt monitor... disregarded the DO NOT TOCUH HIGH VOLATAGE sign and shicked myself with 200,000v at 10ma.... luckaly didnt go through my hear or I would of been gone... yeah I woke up wet on the ground in a puddle of god knows what... but man.... electricity hurts
When he was much younger than he is now (I hope) my experimental physics teacher apparently tried to repair a TV that had been unplugged, not knowing that they had rather powerful capacitors inside. He woke up shortly afterwards, across the room.
Well, here's the thing, instead of grounding to the actual ground (i.e. through your feet usually), it would just ground through the grounding strap, so it would really mess up whatever was between the taser and the ground strap.
"... here's one note of caution. There is no such thing as a one-second burst when you zap yourself. You're not going to let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor."
LOL... I saw that coming from a mile away... what a goober :)
Any one seen Wootdedo's pecans? The squirrels are forming a union "National Union of Tasered Squirrels" or NUTS.
This Squirrel Will Go Straight For The Nuts
KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Keene High School has a new weapon in the war against disorder and chaos in the hallways. Geoffrey Tuddle, the hall monitor, now has a helper--a trained flying squirrel named "Rocky."
Geoffrey Tuddle, hall monitor, sends "Rocky" his flying squirrel, after delinquent students.
The school obtained Rocky from Trainex, an animal training company that normally provides police departments with attack dogs.
"It's an experiment," said Richard Strong, school principal. "A parent on the board had a connection with this company. From what I understand it was originally trained as a back-up for cocaine-sniffing anteaters but they just flew too high. They were being phased out and we were able to get one at cost. We'll see how it works out."
Geoffrey Tuddle is pleased with the squirrel. "I know what you're thinking *snort*," said Geoffrey. "But, no he doesn't go straight for the nuts, *snark*."
Rocky is an exception to the "no pets at school" rule, as the 2-year-old flying squirrel is highly-trained and well-behaved. The spirited rodent soars through the air and identifies truant students by urinating on them. It only took a week for students to learn they couldn't mess with Rocky.
"Truancy and tardiness is down 60% over last year," exclaimed Strong.
If you're late for class, Rocky will make sure that you have that hall-pass. He'll snatch it out of a student's hand faster than you can say Secret Squirrel, and verify its authenticity by the special scratch-and-sniff aroma bar placed across the top.
"Rocky has sure made hall monitoring easier," said Geoffrey. "I was pretty good before Rocky, but now I'm unstoppable. You know, people think this job is just for geeks, but there's a lot to know. The creak of a washroom door, the subtle change in air pressure when someone opens the outside door next to Mrs. Williams' geography class, or even the reflections off of the school trophy case near the west wing, all are subtle clues that something is going down. And now, with Rocky's keen sense of hearing we can even pinpoint a locker opening from almost anywhere on the second floor."
The added fear of rabies also keeps the students in line.
Rocky enjoys almonds as a reward for work well-done. Geoffrey will also occasionally feed Rocky a chunk of a Milk-Bone dog biscuit as a special treat. "But only in special cases," added Geoffrey.
The other students avoid Geoffrey and his acrobatic hall detective. Mostly because they now fear Geoffrey as some sort of Animal Kingdom geek.
"He just used to be someone you could ignore," said Tammy Winters, a grade 10 student. "But now with that stupid rat-thing everyone goes out of their way to stay away from him."
"I wouldn't mind the squirrel so much," said another student, "but what's with that identification badge Geoff is wearing? What happened to the gay sash he had last year?"
Beggin' Strips
Beggin' Strips are bacon-shaped, bacon-flavored treats for dogs. In the commercial a dog runs around the house like a maniac shouting BACON, BACON, BACON, BACON, BACON! It's weird, because I do the exact same thing.
Beggin' Strips slogan is "Dog's don't know it's not bacon!" Newsflash: Dogs are retarded. Mine used to eat his own vomit, and wag his tail while he did it. I'll be the one to decide if this stuff tastes like bacon or not.
I know these snacks aren't made for human consumption, but while I was in the store the ingredients list looked pretty tame so I wasn't too concerned. Somehow I had missed one extremely dubious word sitting there all by itself. "MEAT". That's all it says... meat.
Meat is a pretty large umbrella. Beef is meat. Pork is meat. Horses, monkeys, and allegedly Arby's roast beef are meat. Even Rosie O'Donnell's ball sack is meat. Okay, maybe I've gone too far. I have no idea what that is they are serving at Arby's, but you get my point.
Alas, there is no turning back now. Despite the fact that I am a grown man with children, I'm off to go eat dog food. And what better way to have Beggin' Strips than in a Beggin', Lettuce, and Tomato Sammich!
I'm back. And I'm sad to report that I did not run around the house yelling "Bacon!" I did, however, run around the house yelling "Call 911!"
GodDAMN these are foul. Don't try this at home. I'm not sure it's safe, and I am sure your tongue may kill itself.
While they were a little too artificially colored red to pass for real bacon, I was pleased to see they were not all the same shape. Similar to slices of real bacon, they each have their own curvy and shriveled identity. (Just like my aunts and uncles.)
And somehow these Beggin' Strips also managed to smell just like bacon. Oopsie. Typo. I meant to say "the smoky puke of a thousand maniacs."
To put it simply, this is the devil's bacon. Even a healthy dose of bread, mayo, lettuce and tomato couldn't come close to masking the evil. The bitter nastiness literally got worse with every chew, and I was overcome by the urge to go in the backyard and eat grass until it was all out of me.
The following is a message to all dogs who read The Sneeze: First, sit. Sit! Good boy. Now listen to me. Beggin' Strips do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT TASTE LIKE BACON. You are all being played for chumps! Alright, now give me your paw. Okay, roll over! Good boy! Now go take a steamy dump in your master's shoe. Go on! Get!
In closing, the only silver lining to this dark dark cloud is I have figured out why so many dogs lick their own meanies. They are trying to kill the taste of Beggin' Strips. (By the way, it doesn't work.)
Sorry, acronyms won't work here after I've read this.
Oh my God, Laughing My Ass Off (and it's a sizable ass so that's saying a mouthful.) I never read this thread before.
I'm spent, there's cheap beer spewed all over my keyboard and monitor and my dog's looking at me as if I've lost my mindl.
Thanks for the revival.
You're killing me here.
wootdedo wrote:Beggin' Strips
Do you remember when those actually came out, like 25 years ago (maybe they were called something else then).
Anyway, Beef Jerky was like GOLD in our house, and I was coming up stairs to go to bed, dog following as I had the bacon treat with me. My sister, 7 years older than I and pretty bossy (Ah sisters!) she thought I had beef jerky in my hand. She yelled "that's mine, I bought it at the store", ran into the hall to intercept me. Well I don't now what came over me but I said "I don't care it's mine now" It was like I was somebody else for a minute. She grabed the two strips out of my hands, and shoved them into her face like a dog that just found a porterhouse cooked and unattended. She said "let's see you get them now baby" (I put on the pouty face). I walked into my room, slammed the door for effect, and started laughing. My parents heard the door slam and that is a major no-no in my house. So here comes my father ready to whip me. He yelled what was the matter. Perplexed at me laughing, I said the big sis just stole the dog treats and ate them all up. He was confused and left to her room and asked"did you just eat the dog treats?" She replied no, he had my beef jerky. He came back and asked for clarification. He left laughing and said to my mom, "you'd better go walk your daughter, I think she needs to go outside one last time tonight"
We laughed at her for weeks, and she never stole food out of my hands again.
Oh we got the dog her treats after a while, but she was watching sis as well.
That a good one Woody! Always best when siblings do it to themselves!
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They do smell tasty though, but not that desperate, yet...
Woody1 wrote:
They do smell tasty though, but not that desperate, yet...
Sometimes I forget who I am. Doh.
Where has Gimma been lately?
ahh... stories of stupidity... well, lets see, the worst I've done with electricity was one of those disposable cameras. arm was tingly for hours afterwards. Eating odd stuff? probably most unusual pet food was purina catfish food. bad tasting and bland at the same time. some of those moist canned cat foods smell pretty good to be honest. most unusual pet as food was a dog dinner in vietnam. the sliced roast was good (real similar to beef) but the sausage was kinda gristley and not too tasty.
Woody1 wrote:Wootdedo taser experience: by woootdedo
A friend of mine is fond of saying that my last words on this Earth will be something akin to, "hey y'all, hold my beer and watch this!"
By the way, has anyone seen my testicles? I think they ran away. I'm offering a reward. They're round, rather a nice size, kinda hairy, and handsome if I must say so myself. I sure do miss 'em. Sure would like to get 'em back
Are these yerz?
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That's cruel and unusual punishment!
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Oh I'm blinded!
Oh God, nightmares, the imagry, got to shake the image, Augh!!!!
Woody1 wrote:
Oh God, nightmares, the imagry, got to shake the image, Augh!!!!
Please tell me that's not Wootdedo! Shudder.
pooflady wrote:
Please tell me that's not Wootdedo! Shudder.
If it is, we have to have Goodwill drop of a care package, starting with a athletic supporter and a baseball cup.
Woody1 wrote:
If it is, we have to have Goodwill drop of a care package, starting with a athletic supporter and a baseball cup.
How about a tent?
pooflady wrote:
How about a tent?
I just want the image to go away. My eyes have screen burn-in. LOL!
Woody1 wrote:
I just want the image to go away. My eyes have screen burn-in. LOL!
I need a smiley that covers its eyes.
pooflady wrote:
I need a smiley that covers its eyes.
Thank you for stating the mA rating. People are extremely retarded about this. They think voltage is what shocks them, when you could hump a 500,000v fence if it has a 1mA or lower rating. 10mA is actually quite painful, at any voltage rating. It also depends if it is AC or DC.
If you were shocked by a CRT, then you are an idiot. You either thought you could open it and work on it, or you were even dumber and thought it would be funny to pee on it. A classmate was shocked by a CRT, he had worked on them before, and was very egotistical and thought he was an electrical genius. That was until he slipped. There was a loud noise, then a bang. We came into the room, and saw he had launched 20 feet back into a wall, leaving a huge impression on the wall. He of course passed out, but was lucky enough to live, as the amperage rating isn't extremely high.
A fatal amperage varies on body mass and location of the shock, but it is in the region of 70-80mA.
Oh, and also, tasers are a very low amperage rating, most are 3 mA. Now this isn't enough to flat out kill, and actually isn't very painful compared to other shocks (i have been shocked several times by several things, except for a crt monitor or computer power supply, i don't mess with death).
The thing with taser is that a sustained shock of over 2mA can fibrillate your heart, and a sustained shock from a taser could cause you to go into cardiac arrest. This is why several states are now banning use of tasers in the police department. There are now quite a few incidents of people that were directly tased by police officers that died anywhere from a minutes to a day or so later, because of the damage it causes to your body. This has yet to happen with remotely deployed tasers though (when the contacts are shot and hook onto the skin), I am not exactly certain why.
Be careful. If you get carried away with a taser, you could be laughing it up all day long, then suddenly go into cardiac arrest, wish isn't funny at all.
You obviously don't know what a grounding strap is for. Go look at the box. You use a grounding strap when working on low power, sensitive devices, such as computer motherboards, processors, ram, video cards. It is so that any static electricity built up in your body is discharged into some grounding object, usually a table or computer case, so it doesn't discharge into a delicate device, causing it to fry.
Never ever use a grounding strap when working on anything that is powered!
If you use a grounding strap and make contact with anything that is potentially hazardous, you can, and more than likely will cause more damage to yourself than if you weren't using it. A grounding strap is generally connect to your arm, most of the people I have seen using them, put them on their secondary arm (right handed put it on their left, and vice-versa). Electricity just looks for the shortest path to ground, so if you touch something with your right hand, that could possibly just give you a little tingle, that electricity now has a path, right across your vital organs, including your heart, then through your left arm and into the ground that you are strapped to.
In my experience, it is better to never use a grounding strap at all, than it is to use one. You can discharge static electricity by just touching a metal section of a computer case, or a stereo device that still has the power cord connected. These devices have the power cord's ground, so your body's static has a safe path to ground. Plus, since you aren't moving much at all, once you discharge, you aren't going to build up much more static, unless you are dumb enough to be sliding around on carpet with socks on.
So to answer your question(s): No, It wouldn't overload the grounding strap, since that isn't even feasible, grounding straps have no circuitry or fuses in them to overload, it is just a wire; Yes, it would work for what its for, but that is NOT to "absorb the electricity". You would greaten your chance of the shock being fatal by doing so, but, if you are dumb enough to try this, then it wouldn't really be that much of a loss.
I apologize for invading your forum up front, but feel this is worth while and will only take 15 seconds away from a chat.
Give the Gift of Site
Please donate any used pair of prescription glasses to help both children and adults that cannot afford clear vision, to see for the first time.
Not asking for money, just one pair (or as many as you can find laying around ) to help people that cannot afford to see.
I will post pictures and stories from the Sonora, MX mission I will be on in September off site to show you what your contributions meant to the people in need.
Please send them to;
Luxottica Retail
Attn: Woody1
4000 Luxottica Place
Mason, OH 45040
I appreciate woot for allowing this to post, and the person with the most pairs sent in by Sept 12th, (nudge factor coming, and send them all together please, so they can be counted) will get a package worth over $500 including a new Home Toshiba DVD Recorder and Dell 5.1 speaker set. This comes out of my pocket; this is just one of many, and I do mean many, charities I try to support.
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That's cruel and unusual punishment!
Imagine if this guy lived next to you...
Now that would be cruel and unusual punishment!
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