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Last summer, North Carolina slashed the amount of cash it gave to people after they lost their jobs and the state also reduced the number of weeks they could receive benefits. Within several months, the unemployment rate fell a few ticks and by November it fell to a five-year low.
Similar though less dramatic declines occurred in Georgia and South Carolina after they made benefits less generous starting in 2012.
Vindication for critics of extended unemployment benefits? Hard to say. It's the experience of just a few states and others have also witnessed sharp declines despite retaining more generous benefits. Indeed, the national unemployment rate has fallen by nearly 1 percentage point in the past year. Read: How end of extra benefits could send U.S. unemployment rate lower.
Still, it's worth taking a look at North Carolina's experience.
Here's the backstory. States can borrow money from the U.S. government to pay for regular unemployment benefits that usually last 26 weeks. North Carolina was hit particularly hard by the Great Recession and when unemployment soared, the state eventually found itself knee-deep in debt to the feds. Only the much larger states of New York and California owed Washington more money.
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory responded after taking office in 2013 by pushing a measure to cut weekly benefits to a maximum of $350 from a previous high of $535. And people could only draw benefits for 12 to 20 weeks instead of the normal 26. The law took effect July 1, 2013.
McCrory's goal was to curb the state's growing debt to the U.S. government and forestall the need to raise taxes on the local businesses to pay for benefits. He argued that higher taxes would only stifle hiring in a state struggling to generate new jobs.
His approach also appealed to many conservatives who believe generous benefits deter people from looking for work or accepting available positions that pay less. Independent economic studies support that view, though the added increase in the unemployment rate is viewed as small.
The move to cut state benefits caused even bigger hardship for the unemployed in North Carolina because it made residents ineligible to receive extra cash payments offered by the federal government. Washington requires states to pay a certain level of regular benefits to qualify.
As a result, some 70,000 North Carolinians lost out on extra federal benefits at the end of last June.
So what happened? North Carolina's jobless rate rose a notch to 8.9% in July and then began a steady descent: 8.7% in August, 8.3% in September, 8.0% in October and a preliminary 7.4% in November, according to U.S. Labor Department figures.
That's the lowest rate since late 2008, though monthly numbers are prone to sharp revisions.
Government data also shows that more than 22,000 North Carolinians found work since the cutoff and the number of unemployed sank by nearly 73,000 to 344,000.
What the data doesn't tell us, however, is what happened to all the people no longer classified as unemployed. While some found a job, others may have retired, ended up on welfare, moved in with family members, sought disability payments or fled to a nearby state with better benefits. We just don't know.
- Jeffry Bartash
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Also read: The real winners in the War on Poverty | Economists up view for jobs growth after ADP data


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One of the stranger crimes in America's rich criminal history took place just down the Thruway from us on Aug. 28, 2003.
On that date, a sad, pathetic-looking, recovering alcoholic pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells walked into a small bank branch just south of Erie, Pa., about 100 miles southwest of Buffalo, with a bomb locked around his neck.
Wells, 46, handed a teller a note, warning that if she didn't hand over $250,000, the bomb would go off.
"Do not cause panic," read the note, which had been written by the individuals who locked the collar bomb around Wells' neck. "Sounding any alarm will interrupt this action and guarantee injuries and death ... Involving authorities at this point will get this hostage and other people killed."
The teller didn't have access to anything approaching $250,000. She gave Wells a bag holding $8,702 cash. When Wells walked outside, bank officials called 911, and police responded immediately, detaining Wells in a nearby parking lot.
Wells begged the cops to let him go, so he could deliver the cash to the people who locked the bomb around his neck.
If he didn't get the money to them very soon, he'd be a dead man, Wells implored.
"I don't have a lot of time," he said.
He wasn't lying.
Shortly after those words passed from his lips, Wells was indeed a dead man. From somewhere nearby, apparently using a remote control device, someone set off the bomb, sending Wells to a grisly end.
It took nearly four years, but in July 2007, a task force headed by Jerry Clark, a wily and hard-working FBI agent, solved the crime. Members of the U.S. Attorney's office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives were also intimately involved.
The story of how they solved it took a lot of weird, strange twists and turns, and the tale is well told by Clark and his co-author, Palattella, an award-winning reporter for the Erie-Times News.
Strangely enough, the investigation turned up evidence that Wells was at least partly involved in the planning. The authors write that Wells knew the other conspirators and – very reluctantly – agreed to become part of the plot.
He just didn't plan on getting killed.
The book tells the story of the slovenly, demented, loosely organized cast of characters who plotted this caper – a crime that, for all the national publicity it got, has to be viewed as a failure on every level.
This gang was no slick "Ocean's Eleven," made up of cool dudes who look like George Clooney or Brad Pitt. There's no one in this case that could be portrayed by Julia Roberts. The Pizza Bomber players included the following:
• Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, a loud, opinionated woman who had a high IQ and numerous psychiatric problems. She was already notorious in Erie because, 19 years earlier, she had shot and killed a boyfriend and gotten away with it because of her mental health issues. She'd also had other scrapes with the law. When police went to her home after she killed her boyfriend back in 1984, they found the place to be unbelievably filthy and filled with four tons of spoiled food that she had fraudulently obtained from programs designed to help the poor. The authors say she'd also killed another boyfriend, which didn't come to light until after the Pizza Bomber crime.
• Bill Rothstein, another loud, obnoxious character who sometimes worked as a substitute shop teacher at a local high school. Obese and opinionated, Rothstein wore bib overalls, had some expertise in electronics and also lived in a filthy home.
• Ken Barnes, the operator of a grungy Erie crack house where, according to the authors, a prostitute entertained Brian Wells and other customers. According to police, Barnes' crack house was even more squalid than the residences of Rothstein and Diehl-Armstrong.
• Floyd "Jay" Stockton, a drifter and convicted sex offender who sometimes lived with Rothstein.
In the end, Diehl-Armstrong and Barnes went to prison for the Pizza Bomber case; Rothstein died of an illness before he could be prosecuted, and Stockton became a government witness.
That's about as much detail as I want to give away, but the tangled story strikes me as something that a skilled director such as Martin Scorsese could turn into a very interesting little movie. It should be noted that members of Wells' family have angrily disagreed with the notion that Wells had any willing contact with the plotters of this crime.
As a reporter who has covered crime in Buffalo for the past 35 years, I felt myself sympathizing with Palattella, who spent years trying to unravel the story. At one point, he gave Diehl-Armstrong his home phone number. She dialed that number again, again and again over the years, spending countless hours filling the off-duty reporter's ears with all kinds of theories, opinions and outbursts. I can only imagine what effect that had on him and his family life.
There's also a very interesting subplot here about jealousy among police agencies. The book raises some very serious questions about the Erie Police Department and some information that, according to the authors, it failed to provide to the task force.
I wish I could tell you that kind of thing never happens in Western New York police circles. I can't.
Pizza Bomber
By Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella
438 pages, $9.99 paperback original
Dan Herbeck is a veteran News reporter and the co-author, with Lou Michel, of "American Terrorist."

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The call for concept notes for the second phase of MFF India's Small Grant projects was announced in early June this year. 27 concept notes were recieved in answer to the call! A sub-committee of the NCB met to evaluate the concept notes in early August; 10 concept notes were shortlisted and later approved by the full committee at the 6th meeting of the MFF India NCB in New Delhi.
All 10 potential project partners were invited for a project proposal writing workshop, conducted by Dr. Don Mcintosh in late August. They were trained in preparing logical frameworks, activity based budgets, timelines and other project design tools. The final project proposals were recieved in early September; in the course of this process 2 projects were withdrawn by the project proponents.
5 projects will be contracted for implementation from early December 2011.
1. A community based restoration, plantation and conservation of mangroves in village Kantiyajal Bharuch, Gujarat towards the sustainable coastal zone - Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL - a Tata Power Company)
2. Seagrass resource survey and assessment in Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay, Southeastern India - Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute (SDMRI)
3. Stakeholder led management planning for Vembanad Kol backwaters, Kerala - Wetlands International - South Asia
4. An assessment of the past and present dsitribution of the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) across the Indian Peninsula - Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)
5. Commercially important gastropod shell resourcs and trade in India: Distribution, Status & Conservation Strategies - World Wildlife Fund (WWF), India
3 projects will be contracted for implementation from early 2012
1. Community stewardship in conservation, restoration and sustainable management of mangroves in Orissa coast - Action for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA)
2. Ecological assessment and education for conservation of mangrove community in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra - Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
3. Mangrove conservation and management: enahncing livelihood opportunities for mangrove dependant communities in Bhitarkanika Reserve Forest - Development Alternatives (DA)


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The following represents my individual understanding, as a voter, of some essential facts about the background to the referendum vote in Autumn 2014. Since I am not an expert in any of the subjects covered, my understanding may well be in error: it is undoubtedly simplified. I speak for no one but myself.
I have tried to exclude any personal value judgements from the details set out below – I believe them to be factual, and not coloured by personal beliefs or political orientation. I am happy to accept correction of factual errors, but please don't offer complex interpretation, since my objective is to contribute as an individual to my Voters in The Village initiative, and I want to keep it simple – but not simplistic.
I would ask particularly that you do not offer legal interpretations or views: almost everything to do with the referendum is contested by legal and other experts, all highly vocal – and in some cases abusive(!) – in their assertion of the absolute rightness of their particular perspectives.
The dilemma of the referendum voter will be how to decide between alternative legal, political and 'expert' views in deciding how to vote. Faced with conflicting views and interpretation of 'facts', ultimately the voter decision will be based significantly on belief and trust.
That's democracy - that's life …
In early 1706, Scotland and England were two independent kingdoms with the same monarch and had been since 1603. (If Scotland becomes independent, Scotland and England would again be two independent kingdoms with one monarch – the Queen will be retained as constitutional monarch, as will her lawful successors.)
Following negotiations between England and Scotland, a Treaty of Union was agreed on 22nd July 1706. The English Parliament then passed The Union with Scotland Act in 1706 and the Scottish Parliament passed The Union with England Act in 1707.
The two acts took effect on 1st May 1707, and both the Scottish and the English Parliaments united to become the Parliament of Great Britain based in the Palace of Westminster. (The two Acts are referred to as the Union of the Parliaments.
Ireland, the third kingdom, was not included in the Union. Ireland was legally subordinate to England (until 1784) but had its own Parliament. It asked to join the new Union of Scotland and England, but was refused. It eventually was accepted into the Union (The UK) on 1st January 1801
Ireland was partitioned into two parts on 6th December 1922 by The Government of Ireland Act of 1920, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, known as The Irish Free State.
For a very brief period, Northern Ireland was no longer part of The United Kingdom, but was given the right to opt out of the Irish Free state and did so on 13th December 1922. In 1937, The Irish Free state was renamed Ireland, then in 1949, The Republic of Ireland.
Wales was conquered by England in 1282, had a brief period of independence early in the 14th century, but then was re-conquered and under the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535-1532 became completely part of the English legal system and Parliament.
Scotland voted in a referendum for the creation of a Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Wales voted in a referendum for the creation of The National Assembly of Wales in 1999.
The Northern Ireland Parliament dates from home rule in 1920/22, and is now the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Northern Ireland Executive.
Scotland has certain devolved powers under the Scotland Act but many power are reserved to the Westminster Parliament (The UK Parliament). The Westminster Parliament is sovereign, i.e. only Westminster can devolve powers and only Westminster can amend the Scotland Act. Westminster can add devolved powers or revoke those already granted.
A referendum is a direct vote in which the total electorate is asked to accept or reject a direct proposal, usually one of major significance. It is direct democracy, as opposed to elective democracy, where elected representatives then vote on issue in on behalf of their constituents.
Referendums are binding in some countries – in certain circumstance they can be mandatory - but not in the UK. In the UK, a referendum is neither mandatory nor binding, but the result is usually respected by government.
Only two referendums have involved the entire UK electorate – The UK European communities membership referendum in 1975 and The UK Alternative Vote Referendum 2011
A devolution referendum for the creation of a Scottish Assembly was held in in 1977. The vote was 52% to 48%, with 63.6% of those eligible to vote (the turnout) casting their vote. This meant that 32.9% of the electorate had voted yes, and since a condition of the referendum was that at least 40% of the electorate must vote, The Scotland Act 1978, designed to introduce devolution, was repealed.
The Scottish Parliament Referendum – the devolution referendum – was held in September 1997. 44.87% of the electorate voted and 74.3% of those voting voted for devolution. This means that 33.34% of those eligible to vote voted for devolution.
A referendum on the independence of Scotland will be held in the autumn of 2014. Autumn 2014 starts on the 23rd of September. The earliest date for the referendum is therefore 23rd September 2014, and the latest date is 20th December 2014.
The referendum will be a consultative referendum and will not in itself bring about independence. The Westminster Government and the UK Prime Minister have already confirmed that if the Scottish electorate vote for independence, the UK government will accept this outcome and will negotiate with the Scottish Government on the terms of independence. The negotiations are likely to take years to finalise.
The Scottish Government has an anti-nuclear weapons policy, and if the Scottish electorate vote for independence, nuclear weapons systems – i.e. the Trident weapons system - will be removed from Scotland and Scottish waters.
The anti-nuclear policy extends to any defence alliance committed to nuclear weapons. An independent Scotland will withdraw from NATO, but liaise with NATO through Partnership for Peace, a non-nuclear alliance involving other European countries.
An independent Scotland would have its own defence forces and its own foreign policy, and will participate in appropriate alliances and coalitions with other countries as circumstances dictate.
An independent Scotland will be a member of the European Union, but will not join the euro: it will continue to use sterling as a tradable currency, and will operate in a currency union. The Bank of England is independent of the UK government and sets its own interest rates and policy. England, Wales and Northern Ireland will continue to accept the Bank of England in that role. Scotland will accept the Bank of England as the central bank in a currency union until such time as it decides to change to another currency. It is highly unlikely that this could happen within a decade.


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In terms of size and weight (165mm long and 94g respectively), the Zefal Air Profil Micro is about as 'mini' as they come, disappearing easily into a rear pocket.
Attached to the bike via the provided water bottle mount, the Air Profil is unobtrusive.
The light overall weight belies the fact that the Air Profil is made from aluminium throughout, with the sole exception of a plastic flip-lock lever. The all metal construction promises good reliability and in the hands, feels reassuringly sturdy and well made.
The plastic lever is stiff and locks the pump onto the valve with a positive action, creating a seal that easily withstands road tyre pressures and the inevitable tug-of-war of a roadside puncture.
The pump includes an o-ring between the handle and the main pump body to prevent water ingress when not in use. Rather niftily, the body features a second o-ring groove so you can slide the o-ring out of the way when pumping.
In lab conditions (my front room), approximately 200 strokes were needed to reach a pressure of 80-90psi, or enough to get home on. For a rated maximum pressure of only 100psi, the Air Profil works well and still feels remarkably comfortable at higher pressure.
The handle never feels like it's digging a hole in your hand, nor do you need super human strength to eke out those last few psi. That 100psi maximum is quite limiting though, in that most people will normally be riding pressures above that. As such, a puncture will always have to be inflated to full pressure back at home using a more appropriate track-style pump.
Really, the Air Profil works best as an emergency tool, used occasionally to get you home. You wouldn't want to rely on it if you had to use it regularly. For many road cyclists, that will do just fine.
What isn't fine though, is how the Air Profil has lasted in the longer term.
Despite its all-metal construction, the pump is now showing an alarming amount of play given that it has only been called into action a handful of times.
The handle in particular is very wobbly and is threatening to come off.
Admittedly, the pump hasn't been treated with the greatest respect, being thrown into the back of a car boot every weekend can take its toll, but a mini pump should be able to handle this abuse and still be functional at the end of it.
Light and cheap, but slightly worrying durability.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Zefal Air Pro Micro pump
Size tested: Black
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Zefal Air Profil Micro is a mini pump for those who want something as minimalist as possible without having to spend a fortune on fancy carbon items.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Barrel : Aluminium
Colours : Silver, blue, red, yellow, mat black
Connection : Reversible Presta / Schrader
Handle : Aluminium
Length : 165 mm / 6.5''
Mounting : Bottle cage mount
Pressure : 7 bar / 100 psi
Stem : Aluminium
Thumblock : Aluminium
Weight : 94 g (88g claimed)
Whilethe Air Profil felt solid and well made at first, it has developed a significant amount of play after only minimal use.
It seals well on the valve and gets tyres up to workable pressures easily for a mini pump. The 100psi maximum pressure is a little low, but it's attainable and should be enough to get you home.
It hasn't stood up to minimal use, developing a lot of play in the handle.
Very light and compact package given the metal construction and relatively inexpensive price.
The pump sits well in the hand when pumping. The force required to reach max pressure isn't prohibitive like on some other pumps.
Just under 20 pounds for an all metal pump is good value in these days of £40+ carbon competitors.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
In lab conditions the pump performed well, but has not held up well to typical mini pump abuse.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The light weight and compact form factor. The bombproof seal on the valve.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Despite the metallic construction, the Air Profil really hasn't held up well at all.
Did you enjoy using the product? So-so.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? No.
About the tester
Age: 20 Height: 190cm Weight: 70kg
I usually ride: Giant TCR Advanced 2 My best bike is: Canyon Ultimate CF7
I've been riding for: Under 5 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, sportives, mtb,
For 5 years, racing was my life and I went all the way from a newbie bonking after 40 miles, to a full-timer plying my trade on the Belgian kermesse scene. Unfortunately, the pro dream wasn't meant to be and these days, you're more likely to find me bimbling about country lanes and sleeping in a bush on the side of the road.


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How did you celebrate National Puppy Day? Probably not by performing what is obviously some sort of preamble dance to a ritualistic sacrifice with your pair of pygmy goats while listening to Hall & Oates "You Make My Dreams Come True," but this is America and people are free to choose their choices when it comes to crazy religious rites. Someone in Hollywood must be looking to cast a pygmy goat romantic comedy, and I can't imagine a goat couple with more microcosmic chemistry than Charlie and Lily. I bet that just a few days from now they'll be pressing their tiny hooves onto ink pads and stamping on the dotted line of a lucrative contract in order to become the next Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...of goats.
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My Blog: www.kalinumba.wordpress.com
My Daddy said my creative thinking is a sickness! And he was right! I can't live without doing some funny things. To watch tv is just wasted time for me. It is more comfortable for me to sit all night long playing with strange symbols on pieces of paper, needles, yarns and … designing. Or knitting. Sometimes;-)
My work is "I design because I can" work. I do it because i can. And it makes me happy. It is amazing to let the needles fly over the stitches.
My biggest mistake: I can't stop being creative! I get so many very friendly emails and I'm very proud of them. Thank you so much!! But if I am pregnant with an idea, then I'm a very grumbling person! The idea is in my head and I have to think about until the idea can be born. Most of the time I have more than twins in my head. So, thank you, Hubby, for being patient!
Why am I doing shawls? Can't I knit socks? Yes, I could. I always wear self-knitted socks. But a shawl has a great advantage over socks: it doesn't need a second half! It is just knitted in one piece- and I'm done! The second sock or the second arm of a sweater is soo boring! It is my thing to knit a shawl. It doesn't need to be a special size; I cast off when I think it is done. Try to do that with a sock!
And… shawls are glamourous. They bring a shine of feeling great to every situation of life. Try to drape a sock around your neck and feeling great!
And why "Kalinumba"?
When my son was 3 years old, he slid down a large slide. That was the first time for him and he was so proud-- the red cheeks, the grin from ear to ear. Actually, he wanted to shout out "Karramba!" or "Yippie!" or "Juhu!" From the mixture of these words, "kalinumba" came out of his mouth. Since then, his expression is for me the word for joy and fun. And perhaps a little luck in a small or even great cause.
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- General comment: Progress indicator? "How many steps do I have left?"
- It's not actually a linear flow so this might not make the most sense. We'll do a screencast so you see what I mean; tell me what you think after seeing it. --Duffy 19:11, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- If we have so many steps that a progress indicator becomes useful, I think we will have failed. Right now we have planned that you will see a maximum of four screens - welcome, network (maybe), first hub, second hub. --clumens 19:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- General comment: Why not have a help button on each screen that brings up more descriptive info?
- Put preupgrade here?
- Need to explain difference between upgrade & preupgrade
- Network twice?
- Yep, first time is the network for the installer, we list it in the 1st hub in case you change your mind and want to change how you set it up --Duffy 18:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Storage is in flux right now... (mo's comment)
Welcome and Language
- Can we use geo-location to suggest languages?
- We won't have a network connection this early, so it would be pretty difficult, wouldn't it? But we need to ask language up front so the user can read and understand the installer itself. --Duffy 18:46, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- We potentially might have a network connection. It could have been brought up via command line arguments, and we were talking about firing off a dhcp process as early as possible. We might be able to make a guess in some limited circumstances. --clumens 19:24, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- We won't have a network connection this early, so it would be pretty difficult, wouldn't it? But we need to ask language up front so the user can read and understand the installer itself. --Duffy 18:46, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Can language, keyboard, and time zone be a single screen?
- That's a lot of information for one screen. It would be a really tight fit. We're trying to model these after the GNOME upstream dialogs so that whether or not the user configures something in the installer or on the desktop, they have a similar experience and don't have too much trouble working with varying dialogs. That being said, we'll summarize the defaults we selected in the hub, you can read through them, and click down to any of the three dialogs you want to work with. So you may only have to click on one if you only need to adjust the default on one of them. --Duffy 18:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- How does this look with a server with 8 NICS?
- I think they would be listed out separately in the widget on the left, which does have the ability to scroll. What I'd like to ask you, is how many NICs do you potentially see on one system? Do we need some kind of filtering system to handle > 12 network devices, do you think? --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- The list box on the left should handle quite a few NICs. We can enable searching on it so you can type "/eth47" and have it jump down, similar to what you can do with any similar widget. --clumens 19:28, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- What about bonding adapters? bond0?
- We support what network manager supports. I don't know if NM supports this right now. --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Needs a skip button
- allow blinking lights on NIC if more than 1 NIC available
- Is this for a server case or for a desktop case? Is this something we can support or are we getting into poorly supported / proprietary driver territory here? --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- We added support for this in loader for large installations, where you might have a whole pile of NICs in a machine and want to be able to figure out which one you're looking at. Most every NIC should support it. --clumens 19:30, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Is this for a server case or for a desktop case? Is this something we can support or are we getting into poorly supported / proprietary driver territory here? --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Automatic" should be labeled with (DHCP)
- We could label it DHCP for RHEL, but I don't think it makes sense for Fedora / desktop. --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Hub #1
- Really need a scrollbar for this?
- Nope, and ideally it would stay that way. However, I put the scrollbar in the mockup just so you could see if there were a lot of modules, we *could* make it scroll. This becomes more important in firstboot where third parties may add more modules than one screenful could hold. --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Install destination / disk selection
- I don't actually follow this post-it - does this mean, 'install destination' should be renamed 'disk selection' ? --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps a visual cue to indicate screens you have not visited?
- Good idea! --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- are we sure we don't want to select all disks and enable some default autopart by default, making it possible to not visit the storage spoke? (from dlehman in IRC)
Software Selection
- GNOME 2 desktop
- Haha. Probably not though since there is no upstream for that. Although maybe allowing people to select GNOME shell fallback mode could be reasonable. In what context are you thinking? Also note that this is DVD install - for live media you won't have a desktop choice (you choose your desktop based on the live media you downloaded.) --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'd say that anything maintained to a level that it gets a "group" in comps (not really a group but I've forgotten the new comps terminology already) would end up in the left hand side of this screen. If that includes/excludes GNOME2, that's okay with me. --clumens 19:35, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- None (headless server)
- Good idea for RHEL. Probably not for Fedora, though; Fedora's more used as a desktop --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- This would be really easy to support by just including another entry on the left side. We'll probably have to do something, and that something may just be a minimal mode. We got a lot of requests for that in Fedora. Also see my previous comment. --clumens 19:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- For RHEL this will be based on products / will look different (mo note)
- visually make this a more interesting panel. desktop env icons
- well, icons for icons' sake isn't usually the best idea. :) Also for live media we won't have desktop envs. But yeh, having some better visuals here so you get what you're getting more quickly with your software selection might be nice. The problem is we don't have a ready set of icons for all these things, and if you add a custom repo there is no icon (although it could be cool to be able to stick an icon in a yum repo and have that picked up.) This could be a long-term nice-to-have but short-term it'll probably take more design time for icon design & such than we have. --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- What if I don't know what a yum repo is?
- earlier type-ahead filter box was on top
- Good catch, they should be consistent. --Duffy 18:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- does everyone see this kbd stuff? or is it an advanced thing I need to go out of my way to select? is it necessary to require everyone to see?
- Good point. It's definitely an opt-in screen, and if you are happy with the defaults you don't need to go through any screens but storage. I know it's hard to visualize the hub & spoke flow with pin up screens like this, so we'll put together a screencast to show how it works a bit better. --Duffy 18:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- [ ] Right Alt
- I think it is in the dialog but is scrolled of the mockup shot we have there. We'll make sure it's covered. --Duffy 18:58, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Date and Time
- Defaults based on Geo-IP - will this work in a corporate network environment?
- This came up yesterday, I am not sure. Chris? --Duffy 18:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- It depends on how the network is structured. If everyone's sitting on a 10.whatever network going out through one central point, we're likely to think everyone's in that central point's timezone. So no, this is not going to be perfect. However it's a good guess and we're providing all the widgets to allow you to modify. --clumens 19:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Install Source
- Grammar / install source reads like I'm installing the SRPMS
- Ahhhh good point. Needs better wordsmithing! --Duffy 19:05, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Allow user to add a KS file if missed it in the boot line on this screen
Storage Disks
- Cloud storage? (Gluster)
- Where is RAID or LVM config done?
- Further on under partitioning. (Otherwise you'll get the autopart defaults / BTRFS if all goes well) --Duffy 19:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Show unformatted disks first (if any?)
- Great idea! --Duffy 19:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Different icons for single disk, volume group, RAID, SSD, SAN
- How to install to RAID set?
- Further on under partitioning! --Duffy 19:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Storage Filter / Network Devices
- These only show up if you click "Add a disk" on #9-1-2
- I assume zSeries tab would only appear on Z
- absolutely right. --Duffy 19:07, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Gluster?
- not applicable? ?--Duffy 19:07, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Storage Sanity Check
- Can it shrink NTFS?
- I don't think so. :( It would be good if we could figure out that you have NTFS and let you know this. --Duffy 19:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- The word "cancel" is ominous. Con't tell implications. How far back in the sequence will I go?
- Good point! It'll just bring you back one screen to where you just were. Better language will hopefully help (although you'll see the screen you'll go back to underneath the lightbox, which may have been lost in the print out.) --Duffy 19:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Storage Partitioning
- Pink is capacity cost of adding features (mo note)
Hub #2
fuckinggreat idea
- list of common / frequent bugs
- printer configuration / avahi auto detect
- yes! --Duffy 19:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- IPA configuration / avahi autodetect
- yes! --Duffy 19:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- abolish Fedora GPL EULA!
- wait a minute...! --Duffy 19:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
User Details
- Perhaps show "password strength" here also? (weak, strong, etc.)
- or authenticate against Active Directory
- Option to enroll machine with an IPA environment?
- Could be possible? Not sure... sounds like a good idea though. --Duffy 19:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- You've got CAPS LOCK on warning


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DANVILLE, Va. – Casey Mann's RBI single in the eighth inning broke a 5-5 tie and lifted Guilford College past Averett University, 6-5, in a nonconference baseball game Wednesday. The victory gave Guilford (17-14) a split of the season series with the host Cougars (20-16).
John Macon Smith hit a two-run single in the Quakers' five-run third inning that gave the guests a 5-3 lead. The Cougars answered with a run in the fourth on Cody Moore's RBI single and tied the game in the seventh on a Kyle Newcomb sacrifice fly.
Guilford's Ben Anderson doubled to right with one out in the ninth and took third on Herc Ingels' grounder to short. Mann followed with his second hit of the game, an RBI single up the middle.
Rookie Lou Trosch gave up the tying run in the seventh, but threw a scoreless eighth to earn his third win of the year. Classmate Ryan Lindsay worked around Newcomb's two-out single in the ninth for his team-leading second save of the season.
Jordan Kidd had three hits for Averett. Moore finished with two hits and three RBI. Matt Mitchell (3-4) yielded 11 hits and six runs in eight innings.
The Quakers host Randolph-Macon College Saturday (4/7) for an Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheader that starts at noon.


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As far as biking battle scars go, Melissa Bisch's couldn't be more Chicago.
The 28-year-old Ravenswood resident said she was biking home from work on State Street Wednesday -- during Bike Week no less -- when she misjudged the height of a section of the street under construction. She took a nasty spill but the avid cyclist, who has ridden to and from work every day for the past year, got right back on and rode home.
When she arrived, she had only one injury: A bruise and a few scratches in almost the perfect shape of the Chicago flag.
"I guess Chicago just wanted to brand me as a legit Chicagoan," she said. She's been considering getting a tattoo of the Chicago flag for a while, she said.
The accident isn't her first, but even the most recent mishap that resulted in the Chicago-patriotic bruise isn't keeping her off the road. She's biked to and from work the rest of the week.
"I look forward to it every day," she said.


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PLYMOUTH - The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was back at full power Monday after crews repaired a steam leak discovered earlier this month.
The reactor had been operating at 20 percent power for much of last week as crews repaired a "feedwater heater turbine extraction steam leak," according to a statement from Entergy Corporation, the plant's operator. The company said the leak, which was discovered Aug. 15, posed "no threat to the safety of plant workers or the general public."


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It is reported the farewell party the town gave them was more like a funeral than a party, with more crying than laughing. When asked to speak Jody said, "I never thought I could love a place more than Cedar City or any people like I did the Cedar people, but I love Bluff and all of you just as dearly."
Before moving to Monticello, Jody got up in the night to check the children and saw a large snake coiled in the moonlight in the corner of a bedroom. She got a club and hit it as hard as she could. It jumped and writhed.
She retreated and got a long handled shovel and commenced to chop the snake to death. When she was sure it was dead, she went to bed. The next morning she told Sam and he was dumbstruck when he found his new leather horsewhip chopped to pieces.
In Monticello, Jody poured herself into her work and her new church calling, (First Counselor in the Stake Relief Society).
In late l908 she became very ill. She died February 10, 1909 in Monticello at age 56. No one knew what it was that took her, but she was racked with intense pain the last week of her life. Many said she simply wore herself out in the service of others.
It was her wish to be buried on cemetery hill in Bluff next to three of her children. The family started for Bluff in a terrible blizzard. Some of the drifts were 17 feet high and they had to drive 30 horses ahead to break a trail. The first day they made it to Verdure.
By the third day they made it to Blanding. It was so muddy there they had to switch from sleighs to wagons. On the fourth day they arrived in Bluff.
As they came down Cow Canyon, people lined the road. The Indians were in their best native dress and the Primary children were all dressed in white. Spring flowers and fruit tree blossoms were out.
Aunt Jody's funeral was one for the ages. She was laid to rest high above her beloved Bluff where she had known such joy and sorrow. She had come home and she was finally at rest. Who could measure the worth of a life like hers?
She spent her life completely dedicated to loving and caring for others.


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Royal Mail Marks Titanic Anniversary With Commemorative Sheet Of Stamps
|Published: 5th April 2012 09:30
Royal Mail is to release a special commemorative sheet of stamps to mark the centenary of the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage.
The sheet will be issued on 10 April, the day RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton to New York, and will feature 10 x 1st class stamps featuring a red Royalty Seal.
Then the world's largest passenger liner, RMS Titanic was built at the world famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and was regarded as unsinkable.
The Titanic's voyage began with her departure from Southampton at noon on
10 April 1912. She stopped at Cherbourg in France to pick up more passengers and mail before journeying through the night to Queenstown(Cobh) in Ireland.
There the Titanic picked up the last of the passengers and a further 1,385 sacks of mail, before setting off across the Atlantic early in the afternoon on 11 April.
However, four days into its historic journey and with 2,223 passengers on board, it hit an iceberg and sank within three hours.
Five postal clerks were among the 1,500 passengers who perished. Two British postal clerks, James Bertram Williamson and John Richard Jago Smith, based in Southampton, were working in the doomed ship's mail area along with three American postal staff.
The five men would have been kept busy sorting both the mail loaded on board and also letters posted by passengers in the Titanic's own posting boxes.
The Titanic's mail area was deep down in the ship on two deck levels. The mail was stacked along with first class luggage on the lower level and sorted just above on G deck. These two levels were connected by a companionway which continued up to F deck. When the Titanic struck the iceberg, the lower mail area was one of the first places to flood.
A report carried in The Times a few days after the disaster stated "All five completely disregarded their own safety when the vessel struck and began to carry the 200 sacks of registered mail to the upper deck. The report continues: "As the situation became more desperate they appealed to the stewards to assist them and continued their work to the last. All were lost."
A further quote from ship Steward Albert Theissinger, one of the 705 who survived the disaster says:" I urged them to leave their work. They shook their heads and continued at their work. It might have been an inrush of water later that cut off their escape, or it may have been the explosion. I saw them no more."
The bodies of the five postal workers were never recovered - nor was any of the mail aboard the Titanic.
The Titanic Commemorative Sheet comes in a fully illustrated presentation folder that tells the story of RMS Titanic, while each of the ten stamps features fascinating individual archive images of the construction and launch of the ship.
Philip Parker, Royal Mail stamps spokesperson said: "The history of the Titanic and Royal Mail are closely interlinked, as the ship was commissioned to carry mail and so the letters RMS (Royal Mail Ship) were used in the ship's name.
"As we mark the 100th anniversary of its maiden voyage, we hope that this Titanic Commemorative Sheet and the 10 images which accompany the stamps, will act as a poignant reminder of the incredible Titanic story which has been indelibly etched into our history."
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PORTSMOUTH — Officials at Portsmouth High School announce the top 10 seniors in the Class of 2012:
Josh Pfosi, son of Leigh and Frank Pfosi of Rye, is the valedictorian. College Acceptances: Tufts, BU, WPI, Northeastern, UNH. College Choice: Tufts. Major/Career Interest: Engineering/Physics. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I chose Engineering because I have always been drawn to the theory behind the technology that we use every day. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: NHS Executive Board, MSST (Mendum's Seacoast Sailing Team) Sailing Team. Honors and/or Awards: Various Academic Excellences. Work Experience: Volunteering as a Sailing Instructor, Dunkin' Donuts.
Nick Pfosi, son of Leigh and Frank Pfosi of Rye, is the salutatorian. College Acceptances: Boston College, Boston University, New York University, Fordham, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University. College Choice: Tufts University. Major/Career Interest: Cognitive Science, Biopsychology, Classics. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I learned to love Latin and language in school and have always had an interest in science (life science) and psychology. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: MSST Sailing, NHS Board Member. Honors and/or Awards: Various Academic Excellencies. Work Experience: Volunteer Sailing Instructor, Dunkin' Donuts.
Madeline Cole is ranked third in her class. She is the daughter of Steve and Ann Cole of Rye. College Acceptances: Bowdoin College. College Choice: Bowdoin College. Major/Career Interest: International Relations. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Student Council, National Honor Society, Amigos, Math After-School at Little Harbor, Adapted Aquatics, Rye Public Library Strategic Planning Committee, Rye Public Library Teen Advisory Board.
Honors and/or Awards: Academic Excellence: Honors Physical Science, Honors English, French III, Honors American Studies, AP French, AP U.S. History, AP Statistics. Work Experience: Lifeguard/Swim Instructor at Portsmouth Indoor Pool and Peirce Island Pool.
John "Jack" T. Williamson, III, son of John and June Williamson of Rye, is ranked fourth in his class. College Acceptances: Northeastern University, University of Pittsburg, University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics (Honors). College Choice: Northeastern University. Major/Career Interest: business, finance, law. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I enjoy the aspects of the financial world and debate various topics. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Student Council, 4 year Varsity Hockey, Senior Captain Hockey, 4 year Varsity Lacrosse, Senior Captain Lacrosse, 3 years JV/Varsity soccer and Senior Year Varsity Golf. Honors and/or Awards: Captain - Hockey, Captain - Lacrosse, Haven Medal Award Sophomore Year. Work Experience: Kitchen staff — Old Ferry Landing, golf caddy.
Gregory Tsougranis, son of Maria and Harry Tsougranis of Portmsouth is ranked fifth in his class. College Acceptances: Early decision, College of the Holy Cross. Major/Career Interest: Chemistry, Pre medicine. I am hoping to become a physician. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I am interested in helping others in the future. I have volunteered at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, shadowed doctors and attended a medical summer program at Johns Hopkins University. This has helped me realize that medicine is the field for me. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Captain of State- Champion Basketball team. Played 4 years of basketball at PHS. Class and School council Treasurer. Executive Board of National Honor Society. Executive Board of Interact Community Service Club. Portsmouth Regional Hospital Volunteer. St. Nicholas Greek School Teacher and Student. Received 4 Extra high school foreign language credits. Student for 13 years, Teacher for 4 years. Member of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church for 15 years. Sunday School student for 13 years. Volunteer French (at high school) and Math Tutor. Tutored algebra to elementary school students at Little Harbour. Fall Track- 2 years. Honors and/or Awards: Harvard Prize Book, NHIAA Scholar Athlete Award 4 years, Basketball Coach's award, Holy 3 Hierarch's Award for excellence in Greek Studies, helped Interact receive Rotary Presidential Citation.
Academic Excellence in: American Studies 1, Algebra 2 honors, Honors Precalculus, French 4, French 2, Psychology, English 9, Physical Education 1, AP Calculus.
Jun Li, daughter of Wenliang Li, Xie Ping of Portsmouth, is ranked sixth in her class. College Acceptances: New York University. College Attending: New York University. Major/Career Interest: Accounting/finance double major. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Ping pong, Tennis, NHS, Math Team. Honors and/or Awards: National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Honor
Yussra MT Ebrahim, daughter of Yasmin Alani and Mohammed Ebrahim of Portsmouth, is ranked seventh in her class. College Acceptances: UNH (only one I applied to). Major/Career Interest: biology � teaching (at the college level)
Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I love biology. It really interests me to know how the huge variety of life that surrounds us every day came to be and how it functions and what it does and is. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: with schools/community: teaching Islam and cartooning alone: drawing, writing poetry, cartooning. Honors and/or Awards: Book award from Smith College, Gold Key in drawing for Scholastic Art Awards Competition 2011. Work Experience: Teaching cartooning to children at the Portsmouth Public Library, Mary C. Dondero Elementary School, and the Portsmouth Housing Authority.
Susan Ann Harvey, daughter of Rebecca McBeath and Paul Harvey, Jr. of Portsmouth, is ranked eighth in her class. College Acceptances: Barnard (Early Decision). College Choice: Barnard College of Columbia University. Major/Career Interest: Biology. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? I have not decided what career path I will take but I have always been passionate about math and sciences. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Student Council President, Class of 2012 President, PHS Lacrosse, St. Johns Youth Group, National Honor Society, Peer Leadership, PHS Math Team, AMPED Math at Little Harbour, Amigos, St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program. Honors and/or Awards: Wellesley Book Award, HOBY New Hampshire Representative. Work Experience: Portsmouth Harbor Cruises, Babysitting
Macy Howarth, daughter of Amy and Mike Schwartz of Portsmouth, is ranked ninth in her class. College Acceptances: Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Simmons College, Gettysburg College, St.Lawrence University, Franklin & Marshall College, Marietta College, Dickinson College, UNH, Wheaton. College Choice: Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Major/Career Interest: Biology and Spanish, Genetic Counseling. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? Because I love genetics and Spanish, and genetic counseling is the bridge between doctors and patients. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: Band (piccolo), Crew (coxswain) , Horseback Riding, Spanish exchange to Costa Rica (2x) and Spain, St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program, NHS Board Member. Honors and/or Awards:
Dartmouth College Book Award. Work Experience: I work at my barn helping with lessons and I am a counselor for our riding day camp in the summer.
Emily Koester, daughter of Lori Loester of Portsmouth, is ranked 10th in her class.
College Acceptances: University of New Hampshire, Simmons College, Saint Anselm College. College Choice: University of New Hampshire. Major/Career Interest: Nursing. Why have you chosen this particular major/career field? My passion for biology and my experiences volunteering at Portsmouth Regional Hospital have driven me to pursue a career in nursing. While I perform various tasks at the hospital, my main role is to bring the book and magazine cart around the patient rooms. This interaction with patients has enforced my desire to be a nurse. Most Significant School and/or Community Activities: I have been horseback riding for 11 years and have owned my own horse, Blue, for 7 years. I spend most of my time outside of school caring for him. I have also been volunteering at the hospital every week for about a year. Honors and/or Awards: National Honor Society Work Experience: I worked at my barn for several summers teaching kids in the summer camp program how to ride and handle horses.
Portsmouth High announces top 10 seniors
PORTSMOUTH — Officials at Portsmouth High School announce the top 10 seniors in the Class of 2012:


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Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim a As String Dim B As String a$ = Text1.text 'Text to encrypt B$ = Text2.text 'Password 'encrypting text with a return to text1 Text1.text = Encrypt(a$, B$, True) 'true = Encrypt End Sub
Explanation : Command1 is a Command Button used to Encrypt text
Private Sub Command2_Click() Dim a As String Dim B As String a$ = Text1.text 'Text to decrypt B$ = Text2.text 'Password 'decrypting text with a return to text1 Text1.text = Encrypt(a$, B$, False) 'false = decrypt End Sub
Explanation : Command2 is a command button to decrypt.
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Function Encrypt(text As String, pw As String, type_of As Boolean) As String 'Declaring variables Dim x As Integer Dim i As Integer Dim a As Integer Dim text_chr As String Dim text_asc As Integer Dim pw_chr As String Dim pw_asc As Integer Dim fin As String Dim fin_chr As String Dim fin_asc As Integer 'if type_of = true then Encrypt 'if type_of = False then Decrypt Call percent(Picture1, 0) 'clear percent 'making sure there is text to encrypt and a password 'to go with it If Len(text$) = 0 Then Exit Function If Len(pw$) = 0 Then Exit Function x% = 1 'the X variable is the loop that goes through the password 'characters individually through the encrpytion processes 'X = 1 to set the loop at the first character For i% = 1 To Len(text$) 'start of encrpyt loop 'taking out characters from text to encrypt 'the single character text_chr$ = Mid(text$, i, 1) 'changing the character to its ASCII value to 'easily change the character for encrypting text_asc% = Asc(text_chr$) 'doing the same process with the password 'using the X variable pw_chr$ = Mid(pw$, x, 1) pw_asc% = Asc(pw_chr$) 'adding up variable to continue loop through different 'characters within the password x% = x% + 1 If x% > Len(pw$) Then x% = 1 'restarting password loop 'Case to check if the user is Encrypting or Decrypting the text Select Case type_of Case True: 'Encrypting 'adding the characters of both string and password fin_asc% = text_asc% + pw_asc% 'making sure the final_asc will equal a valid ASCII character If fin_asc% > 255 Then 'Character was an invalid character so we modify it 'to equal a valid character a% = fin_asc% - 255 fin_chr$ = Chr$(a%) Else 'character was valid;D fin_chr$ = Chr$(fin_asc%) End If Case False: 'Decrypting 'here we subtract the characters...does the opposite of 'what encrypting does to put it back in its 'original state, which is why it's called Decrypting fin_asc% = text_asc% - pw_asc% 'subtracting character values If fin_asc% < 1 Then 'checking for invalid character 'invalid character..fixing problem =) a% = fin_asc% + 255 fin_chr$ = Chr$(a%) Else 'it was all good. fin_chr$ = Chr$(fin_asc%) End If End Select 'End of case 'adding the final encrypted character to a string 'to be later shown in its final state at the end fin$ = fin$ & fin_chr$ 'thought i'd be mr. fancy pants by adding a little 'percentage bar =) Call percent(Picture1, CInt((i / Len(text) * 100))) Next 'continuing loop =) 'finalizing function to equal the final encrypted string Encrypt$ = fin$ DoEvents Call percent(Picture1, 0) End Function
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I think 210 was his highest wieght
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Discuss other upcoming Jim Carrey movies (not confirmed/rumours).
lol.........looks like he'll be having double cream on everything and gallons of icecream and doughnuts............lucky bugger!
I really don't want him to have a stroke fluffy... do you know how much everything is in just one donut? never mind the rest you mentioned.
Bah hum bug!!!!
McCarthy worries about gaining Stooges weight
Jenny Mccarthy fears boyfriend Jim Carrey's bid to become chubby Three Stooges character Curly will set her off on a doughnut diet. .
The actress/model has confirmed Carrey is preparing to get 'in shape' to play the larger-than-life Stooge, opposite Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro, and he has warned his toned girlfriend to be prepared to date a bigger Jim.
She says, "He said, 'You know, IŌĆÖm going to have to gain 40 to 50 pounds for this role.ŌĆÖ"
But McCarthy is thrilled: "I said, ŌĆśOh my God! I get to be dating Curly! That is the greatest thing ever.'"
The actress is only worried that she might join Carrey on his binges.
She tells news show Access Hollywood, "I hope I donŌĆÖt have sympathy weight - heŌĆÖs going to be eating doughnuts."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20090402/ten ... 0bd6d.html
Gainin' weight at his age is nothing fun.
Bah hum bug!!!!
It's something Jim said to me while we were talking. No he didn't say it was Jim-his name was Omar but every other personal details was of Jim. Plus his voice. Yes, he loves moving his hips.
Bah hum bug!!!!
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